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Smog-ridden New Delhi extends schools shutdown till Nov 10

 Published: 14:39, 5 November 2023

Smog-ridden New Delhi extends schools shutdown till Nov 10

Authorities in the smog-ridden Indian capital New Delhi on Sunday extended an emergency school closure by a week, with no signs of improvement in the megacity’s choking levels of pollution.

Every autumn New Delhi is blanketed in acrid smog, primarily blamed on stubble burning by farmers in the neighbouring agrarian states.

The city is regularly ranked as one of the most polluted on the planet, with its annual smog blamed for hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year.

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