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From GRAP to green dreams: How Delhi plans to chart a path to year-round clean air

While it may take some time for Delhi to achieve cleaner air, the city can envision a future where clean air prevails, fostering a healthier populace and a more sustainable urban environment

Delhi-NCR air climbs to hazardous levels once again as ban on firecrackers goes up in smoke

Realtime air monitoring platforms on Monday morning pegged the air quality index (AQI) above 500, with some places touching as high as 900. Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium recorded an AQI of 910, Lajpat Nagar 959 and Karol Bagh 779 at about 6 am

Smoggy City: Why Mumbai’s air quality is going the Delhi way

Mumbai’s bad air is becoming a cause of concern every year. Experts say a number of factors, including more construction and vehicular emissions, are behind the coastal city’s air woes

AQI at Delhi’s Anand Vihar touches 999 again. How hazardous is this for health?

An AQI of 999 means hazardous pollutants in the air, including particulate matter and Carbon Monoxide, have increased to appalling proportions. Even healthy people can develop respiratory issues when air quality plunges to the ‘severe’ category. But what makes Delhi's Anand Vihar so vulnerable?

How Mumbai's air pollution is sending people to respiratory ICU

'Maximum City' Mumbai's air pollution crisis is taking a serious toll on its people. Cases of respiratory conditions like COPD, asthma, inflammation, and tuberculosis have risen across all age brackets. This has led to a hospital to set up a special Intensive Respiratory Care Unit

Delhi remains shrouded in toxic smog, air quality severe for 6th consecutive day

A blanket of toxic smog has engulfed Delhi and surrounding cities with schools being shut and the stricter odd-even rule set to make a comeback after four years. The overall air quality index (AQI) in Delhi was recorded at 418 this morning and the situation isn't any better in Noida and Gurugram

With Delhi choking on toxic smoke, HERE are key decisions taken by AAP to combat air pollution

A suffocating blanket of toxic smog continued to cloak Delhi today, prompting doctors to raise concerns about the growing number of respiratory and eye ailments among children and the elderly

Blanket of toxic haze covers Delhi as air quality dips to ‘Severe Plus’

The Centre has put the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) into effect at its highest level in Delhi and surrounding cities, where the air quality has remained in the ‘Severe Plus’ category

GRAP Stage 4 implemented in Delhi-NCR as air quality worsens

The Air Quality Commission has stated that Stage IV measures will be implemented in addition to the restrictions already in place under Stages I to III

Delhi air pollution: Centre defers stricter curbs, points to declining AQI

Delhi’s 24-hour average air quality index stood at 468 on Friday which falls in the “severe plus” category, a stage at which all emergency measures, including a ban on polluting trucks, commercial four-wheelers, and all types of construction, are mandated to be initiated and enforced in NCR