The Meghalaya government has directed the state pollution control board to conduct a comprehensive audit of industrial units in Byrnihat, following a report by Swiss firm IQAir ranking it as the most ...

Shillong, Mar 18 (UNI) The Meghalaya government has launched an urgent audit of industrial units in Byrnihat following reports identifying it as the most polluted town globally in IQAir’s World Air ...

A statement issued by Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said that as per data generated from four manual ambient air quality monitoring stations of the MSPCB, Byrnyhat's average PM2.5 concentration ...

The IQAir report also shows that only 17% of the world's cities have air quality acceptable to the World Health Organization (WHO). SHILLONG, Mar 17: Byrnihat, an industrial township on the border of ...

Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K. Sangma on Thursday informed the state Assembly that he has written to his Assam counterpart for a joint action plan to combat pollution at Byrnihat while contesting ...

Byrnihat, an industrial town on the Assam-Meghalaya border, has been declared the world's most polluted city, according to the IQAir World Air Quality Report 2024. The report recorded Byrnihat's PM2.5 ...

Guwahati: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Thursday mentioned that poor air quality in Byrnihat “may be attributed to industrial and other activities along the Assam side.” Recently, the ...

Swiss air technology company IQAir's 2024 World Air Quality Report, which was released earlier this week, has said that residents of Byrnihat in Meghalaya breathe the most toxic air in the world.

Byrnihat, consistently India’s most polluted city since 2023, seems to be caught between two States. An industrial town straddling the Assam-Meghalaya boundary, Byrnihat is about 30 km from ...

town located on the inter-state boundary. The World Air Quality Report 2024 released by Swiss air quality technology company IQAir has topped Byrnihat as the world’s most polluted town in India. In a ...