In Episode 1554 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains the science behind the hazardous air quality and why pollution is a year-round challenge.
Centre’s air quality panel has suggested online classes for Classes 6-9 and Class 11, besides recommending that offices in work at 50% capacity, with the rest working from home.
Following implementation of GRAP-III measures to mitigate the effects of air pollution and worsening AQI, Delhi Metro will add 20 extra trips Friday onwards.
Number of bad air days increased as compared to same period in 2023 & 2022, according to CSE. Local sources in Delhi & neighbouring areas responsible for this, it adds.
In UP & Himachal, International media notes, it's now mandatory for restaurants to publicly display names of owners & employees, a move seen as an attack on Muslim workers & establishments.
The increase in AQI levels comes after the Centre removed curbs including a ban on construction work on linear projects and the entry of polluting trucks in Delhi.
This agreement is not about Pakistan and Saudi Arabia looking Trump in the eye or Riyadh turning away from Washington. If anything, it could be termed as kosher proliferation.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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