Was like entering gas chamber: Priyanka on returning to Delhi from Wayanad
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Was like entering gas chamber: Priyanka on returning to Delhi from Wayanad

Deccan Chronicle  

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has returned to Delhi from Kerala's Wayanad after contesting the Lok Sabha bypoll, said coming back to the national capital was like entering a "gas chamber" and called for "putting our heads together" and finding a solution for cleaner air.The Congress general secretary said Delhi's pollution gets worse every year. "Coming back to Delhi from Wayanad where the air is beautiful and the AQI is 35, was like entering a gas chamber. "Delhi's pollution gets worse every year. We just have to do something about it," Priyanka Gandhi said.Priyanka Gandhi has made her electoral debut from Wayanad polling for which took place on Wednesday.She has thanked people for exercising their franchise and said they are an inspiration for her to work even harder as well as keep fighting for the ideals the nation was built on.A bypoll was necessitated in the hill constituency after Rahul Gandhi, who won the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in the general elections held earlier this year, vacated it after he also won from the Rae Bareli constituency.

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CNN  

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The Hindu  

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India Today  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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New Indian Express  

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CNN  

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India Today  

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India Today  

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New Indian Express  

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‘Like entering a gas chamber’: Priyanka Gandhi on Delhi AQI after returning from Wayanad
1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Like entering a gas chamber’: Priyanka Gandhi on Delhi AQI after returning from Wayanad

Hindustan Times  

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra returned to Delhi on Thursday after the Wayanad bypoll in Kerala, describing the experience as “like entering a gas chamber” due to the capital’s deteriorating air quality and high AQI levels. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra noted the stark contrast in air quality between Wayanad, where the AQI is a low 35, and Delhi, where severe …

Delhi engulfed in toxic smog, flights hit, hospitals see rise in patients with breathing issues as AQI remains severe
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Delhi engulfed in toxic smog, flights hit, hospitals see rise in patients with breathing issues as AQI remains severe

Hindustan Times  

A dense layer of toxic smog covered Delhi and several cities surrounding the National Capital Region on Thursday, disrupting flight operations and train schedules. Several residents have complained of cough and breathing issues even as hospitals continue to see a steady rise in patients reporting air pollution-related health issues. Dr Arvind Kumar, Chest Onco Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Medanta Hospital, …

Delhi Air Quality: It was like entering a gas chamber says Priyanka Gandhi on returning to Delhi from Wayanad
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Delhi Air Quality: It was like entering a gas chamber says Priyanka Gandhi on returning to Delhi from Wayanad

The Hindu  

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has returned to Delhi from Kerala's Wayanad after contesting the Lok Sabha bypoll, said coming back to the national capital was like entering a "gas chamber" and called for "putting our heads together" and finding a solution for cleaner air. The Congress general secretary said Delhi's pollution gets worse every year. Coming back …

AQI in Delhi: Priyanka Gandhi says returning to national capital feels like ‘entering a gas chamber’
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

AQI in Delhi: Priyanka Gandhi says returning to national capital feels like ‘entering a gas chamber’

Live Mint  

AQI in Delhi: Following her return to Delhi after the Wayanad bypolls on Wednesday, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the National Capital felt "like entering a gas chamber.” She made her electoral debut from the constituency in Kerala, previously represented by her brother Rahul Gandhi. “Coming back to Delhi from Wayanad, where the air is beautiful and the …

Delhi air pollution: Priyanka Gandhi compares national capital's condition with Wayanad's AQI of 35
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Delhi air pollution: Priyanka Gandhi compares national capital's condition with Wayanad's AQI of 35

India TV News  

Congress leader and candidate from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday raised concern over rising air pollution levels in Delhi. Taking to X, she said that coming to Delhi was like entering a gas chamber adding that air quality in Wayanad was beautiful and the AQI was 35. Earlier today, Congress leader Mumtaz Patel blamed the Delhi …

India’s capital New Delhi shuts all primary schools as air quality worsens
1 month, 3 weeks ago

India’s capital New Delhi shuts all primary schools as air quality worsens

Al Jazeera  

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Toxic smog smothering India's capital smashes WHO limit
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Toxic smog smothering India's capital smashes WHO limit

Raw Story  

Residents of India's capital New Delhi choked in a blanketing toxic smog Wednesday as worsening air pollution surged past 50 times the World Health Organization's recommended daily maximum. That is more than 53 times the World Health Organization recommended daily maximum of fine particulate matter -- dangerous cancer-causing microparticles known as PM2.5 pollutants that enter the bloodstream through the lungs. …

Delhi Air Pollution: A Scenic Victory for Nature
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2 months, 1 week ago

Delhi Air Pollution: A Scenic Victory for Nature

The Hindu  

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ABP News  

A day after Swiss firm IQAir revealed that Delhi would be the world's most polluted capital city in 2023, Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena wrote to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday, urging him to take concrete steps on this front and accusing the state government of a "lackadaisical approach" to improving the city's air quality. In his letter to Chief …

Clean air as a poll guarantee
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Clean air as a poll guarantee

Hindustan Times  

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Delhi struggles to breathe easy as air turns toxic
1 year, 1 month ago

Delhi struggles to breathe easy as air turns toxic

The Hindu  

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‘Gas chamber’ Delhi needs action, not posturing, L-G says as air quality worsens
1 year, 1 month ago

‘Gas chamber’ Delhi needs action, not posturing, L-G says as air quality worsens

The Hindu  

Saxena on Thursday took on the Delhi government over the deteriorating air quality, saying the city needs action, “not mere posturing”. Mr. Saxena’s comments came on a day when Delhi’s air quality index deteriorated to the ‘severe’ category from ‘very poor’ registered a day earlier. In response, the Aam Aadmi Party, in a statement, said the Delhi government has taken …

‘Like breathing poison’: Children in India’s Delhi hit hard by smog
1 year, 1 month ago

‘Like breathing poison’: Children in India’s Delhi hit hard by smog

Al Jazeera  

Crying in a hospital bed with a nebuliser mask on his tiny face, one-month-old Ayansh Tiwari has a thick, hacking cough. Delhi regularly ranks among the most polluted major cities on the planet, with a melange of factory and vehicle emissions exacerbated by seasonal agricultural fires. “Wherever you see there is poisonous smog,” said Ayansh’s mother Julie Tiwari, 26, as …

New Delhi air pollution: Choking smog shutters schools and shrouds Cricket World Cup
1 year, 2 months ago

New Delhi air pollution: Choking smog shutters schools and shrouds Cricket World Cup

CNN  

CNN — A throat-searing blanket of smog has enveloped New Delhi, forcing schools to shut and disrupting the Cricket World Cup as officials rush to contain a pollution crisis that has become an annual occurrence in the Indian capital. “We have been in Delhi for over 15 years now, but each year makes it tougher to stay on because it …

'Solving Delhi's air pollution problem little difficult but…': Gadkari's advice
2 years, 2 months ago

'Solving Delhi's air pollution problem little difficult but…': Gadkari's advice

Hindustan Times  

Amid the political slugfest over Delhi's ‘very poor’ air quality, Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday admitted that solving the air pollution problem is a little difficult but not impossible. “Solving Delhi's pollution problem is a little difficult but not impossible. On Monday, the Delhi government decided to reopen primary classes from November 9 and revoke the order asking 50 …

What will finally save us from toxic air isn’t democracy
2 years, 2 months ago

What will finally save us from toxic air isn’t democracy

Live Mint  

It is that time of the year when toxic smog makes it hard to see the faces of the rich and sophisticated in the national capital region, but I can assure you they look like losers for having to live here. Yet, it is hard to keep real India out of their citadels, especially when seasonal wind patterns ensure that …

Delhi air: India’s capital wakes up to ‘gas chamber’ of toxic smog
2 years, 2 months ago

Delhi air: India’s capital wakes up to ‘gas chamber’ of toxic smog

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Indian capital’s Air Quality Index touched 418 on …

Delhi Gas Chamber Season 6 just dropped. Are you ready?
2 years, 2 months ago

Delhi Gas Chamber Season 6 just dropped. Are you ready?

India Today  

Pratiksha, a single mother, had her heart in her mouth as she waited for medical help while helplessly watching her only child, a five-year-old boy, struggle to breathe. Many other families underwent similar situations in Delhi as Tuesday's air pollution levels entered the severe zone, something that had happened for the first time this winter on Saturday. On its part, …

'Stay indoors': Doctors flag spike in respiratory problems as Delhi turns into gas chamber
2 years, 2 months ago

'Stay indoors': Doctors flag spike in respiratory problems as Delhi turns into gas chamber

India Today  

As the air quality deteriorates in the national capital region, there has been a spike in patients with respiratory problems. Patients with respiratory problems have increased to 25 per cent, i.e every fourth or fifth patient at OPD has respiratory related issues, whether it's common cough or bronchitis. There have been cases of relapse of asthma after two good years …

Bad air: Ad hocism won’t work anymore
3 years ago

Bad air: Ad hocism won’t work anymore

Hindustan Times  

It’s December in Delhi, and as the city is blanketed by a brown soup of air pollution again, a familiar storyline is playing out. Questions are raised about whether air pollution could be harmful, even cause death, with the Union government responding that there is too little evidence on the health impacts of air pollution. Persuaded by the visibly deteriorating …

Here's why it is easier to put up a smog tower, but difficult to curb air pollution in Delhi
3 years, 1 month ago

Here's why it is easier to put up a smog tower, but difficult to curb air pollution in Delhi

Firstpost  

If we want to reduce air pollution in Delhi, our focus has to be on reducing coal and biomass burning and tackling land degradation and desertification in Delhi-NCR, and in neighbouring states. What we burn the most, pollutes the most | | 2019-20 | Pollution potential Coal and lignite 1,045 High Biomass for cooking 500 Highest Petroleum products 240 Medium …

Delhi’s Smog Tower Before Diwali Is Only for Optics, Science Be Damned
3 years, 4 months ago

Delhi’s Smog Tower Before Diwali Is Only for Optics, Science Be Damned

The Quint  

The Chief Minister of Delhi has inaugurated India’s first-ever smog tower in the heart of the city to help combat rising air pollution in the national capital. For a city that has been bogged down with smog every winter, being proactive, getting technology to fix the problem shows the government in the right light. These quick-fix solutions continue to find …

Vehicular Emissions, Toxic Waste & Industrial Smoke: New Delhi's Air a Perennial Crisis of its Own Making
4 years, 1 month ago

Vehicular Emissions, Toxic Waste & Industrial Smoke: New Delhi's Air a Perennial Crisis of its Own Making

News 18  

Thousands of families who live near a smouldering waste landfill in a northern corner of India’s capital have boarded up their doors and windows because they say the air outside is so toxic that they would be coughing all day. Delhi has blamed farmers burning crop stubble in the neighbouring states for its sickly air, and the federal capital’s chief …

Delhi is Choking: As Capital Turns into Gas Chamber, Twitter Gets Flooded With Post-apocalyptic Memes
4 years, 1 month ago

Delhi is Choking: As Capital Turns into Gas Chamber, Twitter Gets Flooded With Post-apocalyptic Memes

News 18  

Following the yearly crop burning rituals, the air quality in the national capital has fallen to new lows in November, reducing the visibility and subsequently increasing the pollutants in the air that the residents are breathing every minute. A tale of the same city: Picture on the left was taken on 1st September and the one on the right was …

Delhi residents turn to oxygen bar as toxic smog engulfs city
5 years, 1 month ago

Delhi residents turn to oxygen bar as toxic smog engulfs city

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy As air pollution shot up …

Delhi Pollution: What Can We Do About the Gas Chamber We Live In?
5 years, 2 months ago

Delhi Pollution: What Can We Do About the Gas Chamber We Live In?

The Quint  

I’m going to start today with a little story – in 2018, China built a 328-foot tower, dubbed the world’s biggest air purifier. In November 2019, Beijing’s pollution level, which had consistently been high, stayed below 200 on the Air Quality Index. In New Delhi at the same time, pollution levels crossed 999 on the Air Quality Index. For context, …

Delhi pollution: Unsurprisingly, sales of masks, air purifiers go up by 70 percent
5 years, 2 months ago

Delhi pollution: Unsurprisingly, sales of masks, air purifiers go up by 70 percent

Firstpost  

With Delhi air pollution reaching catastrophic levels, it’s not surprising that sales of air purifiers have shot up. A report by Business Standard has confirmed that manufacturers of pollution masks and air purifiers have witnessed a spike from 30 to 100 percent in sales as compared to the same time last year. According to the report, Hindware is expecting twice …

Priyanka Chopra claims it’s hard to shoot in Delhi smog, says ‘We are blessed with air purifiers and masks, pray for the homeless’
5 years, 2 months ago

Priyanka Chopra claims it’s hard to shoot in Delhi smog, says ‘We are blessed with air purifiers and masks, pray for the homeless’

Hindustan Times  

Actor Priyanka Chopra has raised concern and disappointment on the air pollution in Delhi, saying how it is not possible to shoot under such conditions. As the actor is shooting for her next —The White Tiger in Delhi, she expressed concern for Delhiites and especially those who are “homeless”. “It’s so hard to shoot here right now that I can’t …

AAP asks why Prakash Javadekar cancelled 3 environment meetings before Delhi pollution hit hard
5 years, 2 months ago

AAP asks why Prakash Javadekar cancelled 3 environment meetings before Delhi pollution hit hard

India Today  

Pollution levels in Delhi dipped on Monday and moved from the "severe" category "very poor" category but the political blame game over who will take responsibility for the man-made hazard continues unabated. Atishi said, "Why did environment minister Prakash Javadekar cancel three meetings of the ministry to discuss the air pollution situation ahead of this situation?" A day after pollution …

India's New Delhi hits 'unbearable' pollution levels, equivalent to smoking 33 cigarettes a day
5 years, 2 months ago

India's New Delhi hits 'unbearable' pollution levels, equivalent to smoking 33 cigarettes a day

ABC  

Air pollution in New Delhi and surrounding towns has reached the worst levels so far this year, with authorities in the capital having declared a public health emergency and ordered the closure of schools. Key points: New Delhi's Chief Minister said pollution levels had reached "unbearable levels" Particulate matter in the air hit 900 PM 2.5 — way over the …

Toxic smog forces flight cancellations, diversions and delays as worst air pollution this year hits Delhi
5 years, 2 months ago

Toxic smog forces flight cancellations, diversions and delays as worst air pollution this year hits Delhi

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Toxic smog forced dozens of …

CMs urge Centre to convene urgent meeting as North India turns into gas chamber
5 years, 2 months ago

CMs urge Centre to convene urgent meeting as North India turns into gas chamber

India Today  

Amid a blame game over failure to check toxic haze that has enveloped the national capital and neighbouring areas, the chief ministers of Delhi, Punjab and Haryana on Saturday called for urgent intervention by the Centre to draw a joint plan with them to address the "serious" situation. Sisodia's remarks came on a day Javadekar alleged that Chief Minister Arvind …

‘Gas chamber’: Arvind Kejriwal blames crop burning in neighbouring states for pollution in Delhi
5 years, 2 months ago

‘Gas chamber’: Arvind Kejriwal blames crop burning in neighbouring states for pollution in Delhi

Hindustan Times  

Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said that Delhi has turned into a “gas chamber”, blaming stubble burning in neighbouring states for pollution in the national capital. Kejriwal’s comment came even as the national capital recorded the highest level of pollution this season on Friday morning with the Air Quality Index value hovering at 459 at 8 am. At an event to …

10 Memes That Explain How Delhiites Felt About Breathing Becoming a Sport After Diwali
5 years, 2 months ago

10 Memes That Explain How Delhiites Felt About Breathing Becoming a Sport After Diwali

News 18  

On Monday, just a day after the nation celebrated Diwali, the SAFAR Delhi’s overall air quality index stood at 506. In other words, Delhi’s air quality, which was poor to begin with, has now become “hazardous.” Even if we keep the numbers aside for a bit, it’s obvious how bad the air quality is even if you step outside for …

Air may be clean now, but need to plan ahead
5 years, 4 months ago

Air may be clean now, but need to plan ahead

Hindustan Times  

People all across North India have been telling me with great relief about the clean air these days. India can begin to work on its air pollution problem and roll out NCAP innovatively because public outrage is currently contained. Second, a clear message should be spread that people should step out and exercise now, because when, later in the year, …

Delhi's Air: A Grim Smog Threat, a City Under Siege
7 years, 1 month ago

Delhi's Air: A Grim Smog Threat, a City Under Siege

CNN  

Delhi is under severe air pollution, with residents experiencing debilitating health issues due to the thick white haze. The city government has implemented emergency measures such as suspending all civic construction projects, closing schools, and banning truck traffic. However, practical considerations are taking precedence over health concerns, with journalists and doctors warning residents of the long-term health implications of breathing …

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