Rank 9 | Lucknow, India | Average level of particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution: 86.2 (Image: PTI)
As a key organisation man of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bhupender Yadav was, so far, strategising to further the national interest of the party, but, as the new environment minister of the country, he would now have to balance India’s priority to sustainable development with the global initiatives on climate change. It may be a sheer coincidence, but around the time Yadav took charge as a cabinet minister of the Modi government last week, the Group of 20 (G20),...