Korea`s captain Jongeun Kim (center) celebrates her goal with her teammates, during the Field Hockey World Cup match against Japan in The Hague, Netherlands on Thursday.

The danger of air-pollution

Rahul Goswami :During the winter months especially, the anti-pollution face mask in China is as essential as the mobile phone. For all of the last decade, grim statistics of coal emissions and readings of airborne particulate concentrations have become commonplace in China, as much inside the country as outside.The appalling levels of air pollution in the People’s Republic – together with widespread environmental degradation and the exposure of human and animal populations to chemicals and pesticides – are said to...

8 Mar 2015, 12:00 am