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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicDelhi pollution

Topic: Delhi pollution

AQI soars to 413 in Delhi, toxic smog affects people and visibility

According to Central Pollution Control Board, air quality spiked to 'severe' levels in certain areas of NCR, with multiple parts of city witnessing alarmingly high pollution levels.

Delhi enforces PUCC-only fuel, bans non-BS VI and construction vehicles under GRAP IV

Teams of Transport Enforcement conducted strict vigilance on vehicles in the national capital as part of intensified measures to combat rising air pollution in Delhi-NCR region.

China drops an AQI guidebook as Delhi chokes, sparks online debate. Some say great, others say gyaan

Yu Jing, spokesperson of the Chinese embassy in India, in an X post shared the experience of combating air pollution in Beijing, once the 'smog capital of the world'.

India wasn’t always like this. Things have never been as bad as they are today

Was the system in India always so lax that politicians could watch citizens being poisoned, stranded, or burned alive and get away with it?

Delhi air quality improves marginally, AQI remain in ‘poor’ category at 269

In a post on X, the Chief Minister of Delhi stated that hundreds of sprinklers are being used to wash the city's Ring Road.

Anti-smog guns, mechanised road sweepers & sprinklers to be deployed across Delhi-NCR to curb pollution

In a meeting involving environment ministers from the states, led by Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, Manjinder Singh Sirsa added all 8000 km of roads in Delhi-NCR will be pothole-free & dust-free.

Delhi wakes up to dense smog, toxic air as AQI crosses 400-mark in most stations

Almost all monitoring stations in national capital recorded 'severe' air quality, with AQI of 405 in Anand Vihar, 403 in Ashok Vihar, 431 in Chandani Chowk, and 406 in Jahangirpuri.

Why won’t Modi fix Delhi’s airpocalypse?

The Prime Minister has never been shy about centralising authority. Surely, he should treat this problem the way that the leadership in Beijing treated China’s smog crisis over a decade ago?

Delhi’s air pollution is of its own making. Stubble burning not the main culprit, says CSE

While PM2.5 levels saw a clear improvement between 2018 & 2022, they have stabilised at a high-level with no reduction signs since 2021-22 onwards, CSE analysis mentions.

Delhi, a ‘lethal gas chamber with no escape’, and the debate over India’s big labour law shake-up

Global media also discusses a set of newly discovered photographs that shed light on the role played by women in India's civil disobedience movements.

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India’s most consequential decade & chronicling it as part of the dream team of journalism

You’d think the decade of 1985-95 is long over. Not really. The issues that erupted in that decade are still shaping Indian conversations.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.