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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
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Topic: AQI

IMD predicts showers to continue through the day as rain hit Delhi in early hours of Thursday

Minimum temperature dropped to 23°C with humidity levels recorded 100% at 8:30 am, remarked India Meteorological Department. AQI of Delhi stood at 63, in ‘satisfactory’ category.

Delhi’s air was toxic for 56% of the days in last 5 years, AQI no reliable measure—CAG report

Report tabled Tuesday points at glaring gaps in pollution monitoring & data collection by agencies, says govt doesn't even record critical pollutants like lead.

Why so Gambhir & the Trump card

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Delhi recorded most number of clean air days in 2024 with ‘good-moderate’ AQI

According to Commission for Air Quality Management, 2024 saw a record 209 days with AQI below 200, even though the index slipped to dangerously high levels in some months.

Delhi air quality dips to ‘severe’, minimum temperature 2 degrees below normal

Out of 35 monitoring stations, 28 recorded AQI in the ‘severe’ category, while some breached the 450 mark, classified as ‘severe plus.’

Delhi air quality remains ‘poor’, thin layer of smog limits visibility

According to Central Pollution Control Board, Delhi's AQI was 224 at 8 am Tuesday, ranging between 254 and 214 in different parts of the national capital.

Delhi AQI improves, records ‘moderate’ after several weeks despite layer of smog

The overall Air Quality Index recorded in Delhi was 161, categorised as ‘moderate’ as of 8 am. However, a thin layer of smog engulfed the city with the winter having set in.

Delhi air quality improves slightly to ‘very poor’; schools ordered to shift to hybrid classes

At 7 am, air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 382, according to Central Pollution Control Board. Meanwhile, trains' movement continues amid smog near New Delhi Railway Station.

As north India gasps amid air pollution crisis, respiratory drug Foracort is country’s top seller

Foracort, which is sold in inhaler form, clocked sales worth Rs 75 crore in October, dethroning Augmentin, a broad spectrum antibiotic, and antidiabetic Glycomet-GP.

Delhi AQI at 424 today, dips from ‘severe plus’ to ‘severe’ category

13 trains are running late and 9 have been rescheduled as a thick layer of smog engulfs parts of the city.

On Camera

China will be more central to India now. Though an anti-US unity is premature

Even with the option of EU markets, China will have to be a significant part of India’s economic policy. But the difficult security relationship is an important complication.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.