Summertime pollutants include wind-blown dust, fossil and dirty fuels, vehicular emission, industrial activities, construction dust, ground-level ozone and biomass burning.
Both Potassium Bromate and Potassium Iodate are banned in European Union and China and is considered "hazardous", said Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), who also the co- authored the Report On Bread.
Terming the upcoming climate change conference in Paris as "important", a noted green economist today claimed that the summit's failure would "dramatically increase" the risk of global environmental catastrophe.
RV Kanoria believes Land Acquisition Bill cannot be dealt in bits and pieces as it is a big sentimental issue and will affect lives of majority of Indians as agriculture still remains the primary occupation of the people of this country.