Delhi-NCR suffocates as AQI reaches ‘severe plus’ 500-mark
The air quality across Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, and Gurugram reached critical levels on Tuesday morning, as AQI reached the 500-mark, indicating 'severe plus' conditions.
The air quality across Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, and Gurugram reached critical levels on Tuesday morning, as AQI reached the 500-mark, indicating 'severe plus' conditions.
Fire officials confirmed that no injuries were reported in both incidents.
In a hit and run case, a 64-year-old woman died while another person was critically injured near Uttam Nagar Terminal in West Delhi early Sunday.
Following the implementation of anti-pollution measures under the Graded Response Action Plan's stage-III, enforcement agencies were seen in action across the city inspecting and monitoring vehicles over pollution norms and the violations with regard to the anti pollution plan.
Four people were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and 80 kg of cocaine worth around Rs 900 crores was seized from them in the West and Outerwest areas of the national capital.
Meanwhile, the Indian Meteorological Department issued an alert amid the bone-chilling cold.
Sunday morning is likely to witness dense fog at some places along with low temperatures, amid the cold wave condition in Delhi.
The minimum temperature on Friday was 3.9 degrees Celsius, the weather department said, adding it was the lowest so far in the season.
Identified as Akhil alias Maya, 28, the gangster, who was wanted in a shootout case of the Rajouri Garden area, has been absconding.
The Palam area recorded the maximum temperature at 15.2 degrees Celsius, five points below season's average
