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Delhi air pollution: Air quality drops to 'severe' again, farm fires major contributor

DNA Wednesday, 8 November 2023
Air quality in Delhi and its suburbs dropped to the 'severe' category again with smoke from post-harvest paddy straw burning in neighbouring states accounting for over one-third of the air pollution in the national capital.
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 Delhi's Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Wednesday held a meeting with a team from IIT Kanpur to discuss the possibility of artificial rainfall through cloud seeding to bring down the high Air Quality Index (AQI) in the city. After the meeting, the minister said that artificial rain could be used in...

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