At 31.4 degrees Celsius, Delhi on Wednesday recorded the highest minimum temperature this year so far, according to the India Meteorological Department. Also, the city's air quality deteriorated to the upper end of the poor category due to the dust-carrying winds blowing from Rajasthan. A low-pressure system forming in the Bay of Bengal may lead to rainfall in the national …
After a couple of months of blue skies and clean air, smoky and hazy skies are back to haunt Delhi-NCR. "There is abundant evidence that exposure to air pollution increases our vulnerability to respiratory viral infections both in terms of transmission and the severity of the infection,” Avinash Chanchal, climate campaigner, Greenpeace India told PTI. Ravindra Khaiwal, Associate Professor, Environmental …