According to a recent report on pollution and health published in The Lancet Planetary Health, Air pollution was responsible for 16.7 lakh deaths in India in 2019, which is 17.8% of all deaths in the country that year. This is the largest number of air pollution-related deaths in any country.
Ridham Mamania, a 10-year-old champion skater from Worli, South Mumbai, Maharashtra has become one of the youngest Indian climbers to scale the Everest Base Camp (EBC) in the Himalayan ranges in Nepal.