As the temperature in the city dropped even further, there was a pinch in the air Wednesday morning. Setting the record for the lowest temperature this season, the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Santacruz station recorded a temperature of 15.8 degrees Celsius. While the temperature in Santacruz was 2.2 degrees below …
Read More »New Delhi, shrouded in mist, gasps for breath
A veil of haze hung over most of the city throughout Sunday as Delhi continued to receive a heavy load of pollutants from the agricultural fires that ravaged neighboring Punjab and Haryana, turning the city’s air into a toxic cocktail of particles. ultrafine microscopic and gaseous emissions. For the fourth …
Read More »Delhi: blame game breaks out as bad air worsens
Top Union ministers and Delhi governments traded blame on Thursday when the city’s air quality was downgraded to “very bad”, a stark replay of how the crisis unfolded in recent years when about 30 Millions of people are exposed to dangerous levels of pollution in the run-up to winter. Delhi’s …
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