Delhi gets shrouded in dense fog as cold wave grips the city
Delhi was shrouded in dense fog as a cold wave gripped the city on Saturday morning. As the harsh winter continued many homeless people were seen staying at night shelters.
Delhi was shrouded in dense fog as a cold wave gripped the city on Saturday morning. As the harsh winter continued many homeless people were seen staying at night shelters.
The air quality in the national capital plummeted to the ‘severe’ category, with an average AQI of 401 recorded at 7 a.m. on Tuesday despite a spell of light rain
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the states falling in the National Capital Region to constitute teams of officials from police and revenue departments to ensure strict enforcing of the measures under Stage 4 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to combat and curb air-pollution in the national capital.
According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the air quality in India's capital, Delhi, has plummeted to hazardous levels, with the average Air Quality Index (AQI) recorded at 448 at 7 A.M. on Thursday.
According to the Central Pollution Control Board's (CPCB) daily AQI bulletin, Delhi's index value on Tuesday at 4 pm was 433, based on the average of the past 24 hours.
The increasing pollution in the city has escalated concern among the residents, who claimed that they are having difficulty breathing.
He also accused Kejriwal, who is also the national convener of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), of being busy in holding road shows in the poll-bound Chhattisgarh despite the Delhiites being affected with the pollution.
Hospitals in the Delhi-NCR region have reported a rise in cases of eye irritation, prolonged coughing and throat infection after the air quality in the region worsened with a slip to the 'severe' zone in several parts.
The national capital on Sunday continued to reel under "very poor" air with the average AQI rising to 327, according to the Central Pollution Control Board bulletin.
According to the SAFAR-India, the overall air quality in the national capital is in the 'poor' category with an AQI of 286.
