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India21
  • New Delhi is the capital city of India. (nyxcrossword.com)
  • This picture taken on October 19, 2017 shows Indian people using firecrackers celebrating Diwali Festival despite the ban imposed by the Supreme Court of India to control the air pollution in New Delhi. (cnn.com)
  • I know the toxic air currently blanketing not only Delhi but much of north India, has received coverage internationally. (christinepemberton.me)
  • New Delhi, November 13 (IANS) The prevalence of diabetes is rapidly increasing in India. (morungexpress.com)
  • New Delhi, November 11 (IANSlife) Diwali, the festival of lights, is celebrated with great enthusiasm and joy across India. (morungexpress.com)
  • A woman works on the fields next to a construction site of a bridge on the field on the Yamuna floodplains on a smoggy day in New Delhi, India, November 9. (slideserve.com)
  • A man works outside his house on the fields on the Yamuna floodplains on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, November 9. (slideserve.com)
  • Pushpa, 18, daughter of TotaramMaurya, washes clothes using handpump water near their house on the field on the Yamuna floodplains on a smoggy day in New Delhi, India, November 9. (slideserve.com)
  • Cows graze in a park amidst the morning smog in New Delhi, India, November 7. (slideserve.com)
  • Pramod Kumar, 23, a construction worker, sits on a bed in his house near a field on the Yamuna floodplains on a smoggy day in New Delhi, India, November 9. (slideserve.com)
  • Pramod Kumar, 23, a construction worker, plays cricket with his friends on a ground next to his house near a field on the Yamuna floodplains on a smoggy day in New Delhi, India, November 9. (slideserve.com)
  • A ragpicker segregates garbage at the Ghazipur landfill site amidst the morning smog in New Delhi, India, November 8. (slideserve.com)
  • People and vehicles are seen on a road amidst the morning smog in New Delhi, India, November 8. (slideserve.com)
  • A man walks across a field amidst the morning smog in New Delhi, India, November 9. (slideserve.com)
  • Delhi is the largest city and capital of India. (geosfera.info)
  • It is located in the north of the country and is one of the four administrative territories of India known as the National Capital Territory of Delhi. (geosfera.info)
  • Beijing has long been notorious for its smog - but statistics show that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have worse air by far. (blogspot.com)
  • SO2 forms sulfate aerosols that caused the Great Smog of London in 1952 and has been responsible for smog episodes in China and India. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the 5G telephony services in the country at the 6th India Mobile Congress at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. (tribuneindia.com)
  • A crow sits on a barricade in front of India Gate amidst smog in New Delhi, November 3, 2019. (trust.org)
  • New Delhi [India], September 30 (ANI): General Anil Chauhan along with his father Surendra Singh Chauhan on Friday paid tribute at the National War Memorial in the national capital before officially taking over the post of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) since his appointment on September 28. (pakistannews.net)
Great Smog of London1
19524
  • Its smog, like 1952 London. (chasingrapture.com)
  • As late as 1952, the so-called Great Smog covered London with a thick toxic layer of pollution, bringing the city almost to a standstill for days, not unlike the situation in Delhi now. (blogspot.com)
  • In December 1952 a dense, choking, particle-laden fog settled on London and didn't budge for four days. (nybooks.com)
  • Davis notes similar tragic incidents in Liège, Belgium, in 1930, where a "killer fog" trapped heavy pollution and killed dozens, and in London in 1952, while debate still raged over the exact cause of the events in Donora. (reason.com)
Toxic5
  • Sri Lanka cancelled Saturday's training session in India's capital with a pall of toxic smog engulfing the megacity just days before it hosts their World Cup clash against Bangladesh. (yahoo.com)
  • In few places is pollution more pertinent than India's most populous city, Delhi, where residents are bracing themselves for peak crop-burning season and the annual Hindu festival of Diwali, both of which add to a thick, toxic smog cast over the city. (cnn.com)
  • But he's been stuck at home with no pay for more than 10 days because of a ban on building work aimed at easing a toxic smog over the city. (slideserve.com)
  • Friday (3rd of November), Delhi woke up to a thick layer of toxic smog, as the IQAir put the city's air quality index (AQI) at 611 in the 'hazardous' category. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • Apart from Delhi and Mumbai, residents of many other cities in the North are also breathing toxic air. (mainstreamweekly.net)
Delhi's1
Annual smog1
  • New Delhi is regularly ranked as one of the most polluted cities on the planet, with its annual smog problem blamed for hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year. (yahoo.com)
Beijing7
  • Artist Michael Pinksy captures the smog of Beijing, New Delhi, Sao Paulo and more. (hypebeast.com)
  • A pedestrian walks on a footbridge in heavy smog in Beijing, China, 15 October 2018. (cnn.com)
  • In China, there was a smog alert for a five day period at the end of November for the 30 cities surrounding Beijing. (travel-ideas-hints-and-help.com)
  • The population size of Beijing and Delhi is comparable. (iasparliament.com)
  • Delhi, Beijing, and other cities follow the three stages in dealing with urban air pollution as a long-term task. (iasparliament.com)
  • Smart cities' such as New York, London and Beijing provide more space for public transport and mixed land use spatial planning minimising travel. (iasparliament.com)
  • The problem of Beijing and Delhi, as transit centres is there is no specific peak-hour traffic. (iasparliament.com)
Thick2
  • Even the private cars all seem to be black or white and what little colour that moves is smothered in thick smog. (broaderhorizons.com)
  • While today's environmental debates in the developed world typically concern hard-to-detect chemicals and subtle or hypothetical health effects, a century ago in London one could see the pollution, thick and brown in the air, and feel it in the lungs. (reason.com)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi1
  • NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the stone laying ceremony of Ram temple at Ayodh. (francenews7.com)
World's most polluted2
  • Delhi, a city of 20 million people, is the world's most polluted capital. (slideserve.com)
  • The World Health Organisation categorises Delhi as the world's most polluted city, with visibility often limited to little more than a hundred metres. (broaderhorizons.com)
PM2.54
  • Concentrations of PM2.5 decreased in all cities except London and Paris but the declines were nowhere near enough to meet WHO guidelines, the paper said. (trust.org)
  • Later, secondary pollutants and particulate matter (primarily PM2.5) leading to smog, become the main focus for control with a regional coordination mechanism. (iasparliament.com)
  • Air pollution in Delhi and NCR peaked at 20 times the permissible level of PM2.5 (a measure of airborne particles with a diameter of less than 2.5 microns). (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • This year Air pollution in Delhi and adjoining areas of the national capital peaked at 20 times the permissible level of PM2.5 (a measure of airborne particles with a diameter of less than 2.5 microns). (mainstreamweekly.net)
Diwali2
  • I have had a low grade headache every single day since I got back to Delhi on Diwali weekend. (christinepemberton.me)
  • Riding out of Delhi was a baptism of fire, in the full on Diwali build up traffic. (chasingrapture.com)
India's1
  • In the wake of the pollution spike, India's Supreme Court ordered a stop to stubble burning in the states around Delhi. (blogspot.com)
REUTERS1
  • LONDON (REUTERS) - A tyre problem that nearly cost Lewis Hamilton a record seventh British Grand Pri. (francenews7.com)
National Capit1
  • New Delhi resides within the National Capital Territory of Delhi (otherwise known as the metropolis of Delhi). (nyxcrossword.com)
Dust3
  • A task force led by the country's Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has recommended a ban on all construction activities in the Delhi-NCR region for 10 days beginning November 1 to reduce dust as air quality is expected to deteriorate. (cnn.com)
  • So the smog, and the dust combined together called for wrapping material around my face as a mask at all times while riding. (chasingrapture.com)
  • The roof 'garden' was of course covered in dust and smog but it but it had lovely views if rather awful coffee. (stuartfreedman.com)
Severe2
  • Severe smog levels are expected to persist beyond Monday's match for several more weeks, with authorities ordering school closures on Friday. (yahoo.com)
  • Due to a similar(albeit less severe) incident that occurred in a nearby valley in 1911 that killed off many cattle, many farmers in the Meuse Valley fled to the hillside during the first two days of the smog, reducing livestock casualties and likely saving the lives of several farmers as well. (wikipedia.org)
Dense1
  • At the other are the quieter parliament buildings and the presidential palace of Rashtrapati Bhavn, hidden behind a high fence and dense smog. (broaderhorizons.com)
Jaipur1
  • Although this is therefore supposed to be high season in these parts, outside of Delhi/Agra/Jaipur there were in fact very few foreign tourists so nothing is crowded. (broaderhorizons.com)
Mumbai4
  • World Cup organisers this week banned fireworks at matches in Mumbai and Delhi to avoid worsening air pollution levels in both cities. (yahoo.com)
  • Unlike Mumbai, where Arabian sea breezes to clear the air, Delhi is land locked and takes a few weeks for returning to normalcy. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • This year authorities woke up too late and Delhi and Mumbai have banned entry of big vehicles, put-up air purifiers at major locations, temporarily closed thermal power plants and banned constructions and open burning. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • Besides, Union government's allocation lakhs of crore rupees annually for construction of highway road network crisscrossing Delhi to Mumbai to Chennai. (mainstreamweekly.net)
Premature deaths1
Rajasthan2
  • After a whirlwind stopover in London, I was officially en route to Delhi, which was start and end to an almost 3-week adventure in Rajasthan. (lesliwoodruff.com)
  • As per the CPCB data of Wednesday, seven other cities are worse than Delhi with an AQI of 414, Hanumangarh in Rajasthan. (mainstreamweekly.net)
Worse1
  • The coffee shop for me was Delhi - a Delhi that for better and worse is disappearing fast. (stuartfreedman.com)
Centre2
  • The National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the Supreme Court asked the Centre and Delhi government to come out with suggestions to control air pollution. (iasparliament.com)
  • Land Securities , which owns the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent as well as the Piccadilly Lights in central London, will spend £135 million towards environmentally friendly replacements in their buildings to stay in line with government targets. (wemeanbusinesscoalition.org)
Angeles1
Cows1
  • Until as recently as 2008, as many as 40,000 sacred cows freely roamed the streets of Old Delhi in the north of the city, blocking traffic and doorways into shops and cafes. (broaderhorizons.com)
China2
  • Most urban districts of the Chinese capital and other parts of northern China have been hit by smog which sent the air pollution index to "hazardous" levels in cities like Baoding and Shijiazhuang on Monday (Oct 15). (cnn.com)
  • in China the smog has cleared from their mega-cities and they can see the stars. (typepad.com)
Haze1
  • Smoke from farmers burning crop stubble, vehicle exhaust and factory emissions combine every winter to blanket Delhi in a choking haze, a public health crisis that has persisted for decades. (yahoo.com)
Streets2
  • In a bid to revive the lost heritage of National Capital, Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has approved a proposal which will pave the way for trams to ply on the streets of Delhi. (indiantollways.com)
  • Back in Delhi, the The Times reports Head Waiter Gopal Singh as saying, "If this place closes, our families will land on the streets. (stuartfreedman.com)
City7
  • For example, the most smog-plagued city in Latin America is Mexico City, which is located in a highland "bowl" that traps industrial and vehicle pollution. (nyxcrossword.com)
  • First, we hear from NPR's Eyder Peralta in Mexico City, then Anthony Kuhn in Seoul and reporter Shalu Yadav in New Delhi. (kacu.org)
  • Delhi is now the second most polluted major city in the world, according to air quality tracker AirVisual, second only to Lahore in Pakistan. (cnn.com)
  • Mexico City is one of the most overcrowded cities in the world, with a cloud of smog hanging over it all the time. (geosfera.info)
  • The city of Delhi has a rich history of more than 2 thousand years. (geosfera.info)
  • The city is about 50 kilometers southeast of London and has a population of about 62,000. (geosfera.info)
  • We were told to focus on providing the best services to the people, get rid of corruption and create a blueprint for making Delhi into a world class city," said a councillor. (indiantollways.com)
Days1
  • If I fall sick, everything will fall apart,' said Pramod Kumar, 23, a limestone worker at construction sites in Delhi, who also complained of not having worked for days. (slideserve.com)
Problem1
  • In this episode, the big problem really seems to have been the agricultural burning," assistant professor Thomas Smith of the London School of Economics told the BBC. (blogspot.com)
Emissions1
  • Two major problems- vehicular emissions and burning of paddy stubbles after harvesting in agrarian belt surrounding Delhi are to be addressed immediately. (mainstreamweekly.net)
Levels1
  • Delhi chokes usually around this time of the year as air quality falls to dangerous levels due to burning of crop stubble in the states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttara Pradesh that borders New Delhi. (mainstreamweekly.net)
Bangladesh1
  • But the cancellation comes a day after Bangladesh also called off their own training in Delhi, citing health risks from the smog. (yahoo.com)
Major1
  • Ozone (O 3 ) is another air pollutant which is a major component of photochemical smog which is formed from NOx, VOCs and oxygen in the presence of sunlight and heat. (biologydiscussion.com)
Quality1
  • I honestly don't know where to start, to try and describe to you the extent of the awful air quality we are condemned to breathe here in Delhi. (christinepemberton.me)
Times1
  • The Delhi government has at times given some compensation to construction workers when bans are enforced but it has not done so this year. (slideserve.com)
Firm1
  • Now that findings from the prototype are what we expected, we will start speaking to the government authorities about further installation," Amit said on a video call from New Delhi, revealing that the firm has also spoken to potential buyers in countries from Uzbekistan to France and New Zealand. (fanaticalfuturist.com)
People2
  • In 2002 a more thorough analysis concluded that the "Great Smog" had killed 12,000 people, most of them over forty-five or very young. (nybooks.com)
  • By the 1990s, many people in the US and other wealthy countries thought that sun-blotting soot and smog were hazards safely surmounted in the onward march of progress, concerns of a past era like polio or cholera. (nybooks.com)
North3
  • My route plan was taking me from Delhi, north east to Jim Corbett National park. (chasingrapture.com)
  • The capital of the United Kingdom London, the capital of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is located in the south-eastern part of England, on both banks of the Thames River, 80 km from its confluence with the North Sea. (geosfera.info)
  • The area north-west of Delhi shows a highly unusual concentration of fires, Prof Smith points out. (blogspot.com)
Government1
  • Vehicular traffic will be restricted in the area", said a senior Delhi government official, adding the proposal was approved last week. (indiantollways.com)
Back2
  • His belief in using the whole animal dates back to his childhood in London, the youngest of three kids in a family that didn't have a lot of money. (knkx.org)
  • I have the pleasure to report that on a recent assignment back in Delhi, I again sampled the delights of the Indian Coffee House on Baba Karak Singh Marg that I wrote about some time ago . (stuartfreedman.com)
Time1
Sources1
  • The tram service will connect the stretch linking Red Fort with Fatehpuri Masjid and will run alongside wide footpaths," according to sources, techincal partners like Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (DMRC) would be roped in for implementation of the trams project. (indiantollways.com)