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Monday, February 2, 2026
TopicDelhi air pollution

Topic: Delhi air pollution

Delhi has too many actors to tackle air pollution. Beijing offers an alternative

India cannot simply copy Beijing’s political model, but it can adapt key governance principles.

Photos of the week: A Delhi demolition, and persimmons in plenty

New Delhi: From protests against a demolition drive near Faiz-e-Elahi Masjid at Turkman Gate inDelhi to Kullu’s persimmon revolution delivering lakhs in profit to...

Photos of the week: From anti-Bangladesh protest over Hindu man’s lynching, to a smoggy Delhi

In PhotosOfTheWeek, we bring you pictures clicked by ThePrint’s photojournalists, video journalists and reporters this past week.

Climate crisis in India is being normalised. Country’s poor are paying the price

The acceptance that this is just how things are now is worrying. That temperatures will rise, water will run out, air will choke us—and we will simply adjust.

Delhi’s air is making Nitin Gadkari sick. ‘If I live here for 2 days, I get throat infection’

Nitin Gadkari, Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi, Lieutenant General VG Khandare came together to launch Uday Mahurkar's new book at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.

No coal, no flavour—Delhi’s tandoor ban is hurting the chicken & the customers

Treating a small roadside tandoor as equivalent to an industrial burner is fundamentally flawed, said food historian Sadaf Hussain.

Average Malayali lives 10 yrs more than those in BJP-ruled UP, Bihar—CPI(M)’s Brittas on air pollution

In a candid conversation with ThePrint, CPI (M)’s Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas also talked about the Left’s electoral setbacks in Kerala local body polls.

Delhi’s air quality stays in ‘severe’ zone for 3rd straight day, calm winds & moisture to blame

The city also recorded its first spell of fog Monday. Visibility as low as 50 metres early in the morning disrupted dozens of flights across the region.

Singapore urges citizens in Delhi to ‘pay heed to’ GRAP curbs in its 1st ever air pollution advisory

The advisory comes as GRAP IV was invoked across Delhi-NCR after air quality plummeted to severe levels.

Delhi’s air is choking its sports events—cyclothons and marathons cancelled due to AQI

Organisers rescheduled the GSI Cyclothon to February 2026, citing hazardous air barely a day before the event. It’s only one of the many affected events of the season.

On Camera

India’s love-hate relationship with foreign capital holds it back. What Budget 2026 hints at

Reviewing Foreign Exchange Management rules is fine, but India needs to stop being so suspicious of foreign money to hit 10 per cent growth.

Andhra Pradesh missing from Budget spotlight, why Chandrababu Naidu’s still happy

Sitharaman in the 2026-27 Budget has shifted focus away from Amaravati and Polavaram. But TDP is confident about leveraging allocations to accelerate Andhra’s 'next phase of growth'.

10X Budget beef-up for Intelligence Bureau capex, after Pahalgam & Red Fort terror attacks

After lapses exposed by terror attacks at Pahalgam and Delhi's Red Fort, Centre has hiked Intelligence Bureau's expenditure for investments in long-term assets from Rs 257 cr to Rs 2,549 cr. 

Swiss report should now close Op Sindoor debate. Knowing when to stop the fight is key too

The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.