DEHRADUN: Under the leadership of chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, Uttarakhand has once again secured a major incentive grant from the central government, reflecting its performance and ongoing reforms in the mining sector. The union ministry of Mines has awarded Uttarakhand an additional incentive of Rs 100 crore under the Special Assistance Scheme for Capital…
The 350th Martyrdom Anniversary commemorations of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji are set to be held from November 23 to November 25. This includes a series of state-level events that combine spiritual observance with social and environmental initiatives. The closing day at Sri Anandpur Sahib will mark the completion (bhog) of the Akhanda Paath Sahib…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA has sparked a major political controversy after announcing that a foundation stone for a “Babri Masjid replica” would be laid in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on December 6, marking 33 years since the demolition of the disputed structure in Ayodhya. TMC MLA Humayun Kabir had said that the ceremony…
NEW DELHI: The fourth edition of the Kashi Tamil Sangamam, beginning December 2, will place a strong emphasis on enabling students from North India — particularly Uttar Pradesh — to learn Tamil through an expanded set of language-learning initiatives in Tamil Nadu. The ministry of education, announcing the programme on Saturday, said this year’s edition…
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AI image used for representation NEW DELHI: A new global analysis has reinforced what India has long believed: movement heals. An international meta-analysis published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology has found that yoga-based cardiac rehabilitation is as effective as standard rehabilitation for patients recovering from heart attacks — and may even help close…
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UP CM Yogi Adityanath (left), PM Modi with Italian PM Meloni NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interactions on the G20 Summit sidelines – including a brief exchange with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni and warm greetings with Brazil’s President Lula da Silva – alongside a vibrant cultural welcome by the Indian diaspora, highlighted India’s diplomatic…
On a humid monsoon afternoon in the early 1980s, in a village most Indians had never heard of, a Delhi artist stood silently before a mud wall. The village was Patangarh, deep inside the Mandla forests of Madhya Pradesh. The wall belonged to a modest Gond home. And on that wall, painted in earth pigments…
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![Millions in India’s capital face a persistent health hazard from air pollution, with sustained high levels of PM2.5 linked to severe respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological damage. This daily reality, especially during winter smog, significantly reduces life expectancy and disproportionately affects vulnerable populations, demanding systemic emission control. Delhi has become a breathing danger for citizens. Stop playing, running, exercising – and if possible, stop breathing!For millions who live in and around the capital, air is no longer an invisible backdrop to daily life. It has become a persistent health hazard — an omnipresent fog that coats lungs, corrodes hearts, clouds classrooms and wards, and quietly chips away at life expectancy. Winter’s seasonal smog is the headline, but the underlying crisis is year-round: sustained high levels of fine particulate matter and other pollutants that modern medicine and public-health studies now tie to respiratory disease, heart attacks, strokes, neurological damage, and adverse outcomes from pregnancy through old age.Why is there no AQI category over 500?On many winter days, the city’s daily AQI spikes into the ‘very poor’ to ‘severe’ categories, prompting emergency public advisories and activation of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) — a set of restrictions meant to limit emissions on the worst days. AQI categories and associated health impacts AQI Category AQI Range PM₂.₅ Associated Health Impacts 🟩 Good 0–50 0–30 Minimal impact. 🟨 Satisfactory 51–100 31–60 May cause minor breathing discomfort to sensitive people. 🟧 Moderately Polluted 101–200 61–90 May cause breathing discomfort to people with lung disease (e.g., asthma), and discomfort to people with heart disease, children, and older adults. 🟨🟧 Poor 201–300 91–120 May cause breathing discomfort on prolonged exposure and discomfort to people with heart disease. 🟥 Very Poor 301–400 121–250 May cause respiratory illness on prolonged exposure. Effects may be more severe for people with lung or heart diseases. 🟥🟥 Severe 401–500 250+ May cause respiratory impact even on healthy people; serious health effects for people with lung/heart disease. Impacts may occur even with light physical activity. Yashasvi Vasistha, 6 min Air Quality Index (AQI) categories and associated health impacts AQI Category AQI Range PM₂.₅ Associated Health Impacts Good 0–50 0–30 Minimal impact. Satisfactory 51–100 31–60 May cause minor breathing discomfort to sensitive people. Moderately Polluted 101–200 61–90 May cause breathing discomfort to people with lung disease (e.g., asthma), and discomfort to people with heart disease, children, and older adults. Poor 201–300 91–120 May cause breathing discomfort on prolonged exposure and discomfort to people with heart disease. Very Poor 301–400 121–250 May cause respiratory illness on prolonged exposure. Effects may be more severe for people with lung or heart diseases. Severe 401–500 250+ May cause respiratory impact even on healthy people; serious health effects for people with lung/heart disease. Impacts may occur even with light physical activity. @media (max-width:640px){ table[role=”table”] { font-size:14px; } table[role=”table”] thead tr { display:none; } table[role=”table”] tbody tr { display:block; margin-bottom:10px; border-radius:6px; overflow:hidden; } table[role=”table”] tbody td { display:block; padding:8px 10px; } table[role=”table”] tbody td:first-child { font-weight:700; } } India’s Air Quality Index (AQI) is not capped at 500, but values above that come under the same category of ‘severe’. The reason for the same is reportedly to avoid public panic and because the government believes that health impact is similar, if not same, at that level.International platforms like IQAir use different models without an upper limit and can display much higher values for the same pollution levels. India’s official index is calculated based on reference-grade monitors, while other platforms may use lower-cost sensors that can have different accuracy and calculation methods.Biology of harm: How polluted air attacks the bodyAir pollution is not a single poison but a mixture: fine particulates (PM2.5 and PM10), nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide, and complex organic compounds. Of these, PM2.5 — particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometres — is the most medically alarming.These particles are small enough to evade upper-airway defenses, lodge deep in the alveoli, cross into the bloodstream and travel to other organs, provoking inflammation, oxidative stress, and systemic damage.Over time, that damage accumulates; it raises the risk for heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, adverse birth outcomes and an expanding list of neurological and metabolic conditions.Dr. Kuldeep Kumar Grover, critical care and pulmonology head, CK Birla Hospital in Gurugram, explains how the current levels of air pollution in northern India significantly increase the risk of serious medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). “Exposure to asbestos over time raises the possibility of several cancers, including lung, bladder, and breast cancer, even for nonsmokers.””In the short term, people may experience headaches, more frequent respiratory infections, irritation of the eyes and throat, and breathing difficulties. Toxic air is estimated to reduce life expectancy in Delhi and the surrounding area by approximately eight years,” he added.Residents protest the conditions they are being forced to live in. Delhi resident Aashish Saxena has been experiencing the constant discomfort of breathing toxins. “I am sure I have lost atleast 10 years of my life because of Delhi’s toxic air. Apart from constantly coughing, I have a permanent headache throughout winter because of pollution. Since offices refuse to entertain WFH option, we are forced to commute through the deadly smog, which takes a severe toll on our health,” he says.Clinically, the short-term effects are visible in emergency rooms and outpatient clinics: spikes in asthma attacks, bronchitis, laryngitis, allergic conjunctivitis and chest pain. Longer term, sustained exposure shortens life expectancy and increases chronic disease prevalence across cohorts — especially among children, the elderly, pregnant women, and people with pre-existing conditions.Air pollution is as much a cardiovascular risk as it is a respiratory one. Fine particles and gaseous pollutants increase blood coagulability, raise blood pressure, and accelerate atherosclerosis, which translates clinically into more heart attacks and strokes on high-pollution days and higher baseline cardiovascular mortality overall.Big concern for pregnant mothers, babies and childrenWhat happens when expectant mothers inhale polluted air?”High pollution levels during pregnancy are connected with complications such as low birth weight, premature delivery, and stunted foetal development. The long-term health of the mother and child may be adversely affected by these effects,” explained Dr Grover.Children are disproportionately harmed. They breathe faster than adults, inhale more air per bodyweight, and their lungs and immune systems are still developing — which makes the same pollution dose more damaging. “As their lungs and immune systems are still developing, young children and infants are especially prone to the adverse effects of polluted air. worsening of asthma, recurrent infections, slower lung growth, and even impacts on brain development may arise from exposure,” he said. Pediatric clinics in Delhi report children with recurring cough, wheeze, reduced exercise tolerance, and increased hospitalizations for acute lower respiratory infections. The lifelong consequences can include reduced maximal lung function, higher lifetime risk of chronic respiratory disease, and neurodevelopmental harms that affect learning and behavior.Not a dystopian movie scene, not Chernobyl – this is DelhiDelhi breathes very poor air on 16 of 21 days in November.Manya Jain, an NCR resident, has developed breathing issues. “After 21 years in Delhi, I’ve lived through post-Diwali pollution every single year, but it never felt like it was hitting my body directly. This year is different — I’m genuinely struggling to breathe. I don’t step outside without a mask, and even then, the air feels toxic. I genuinely wish I could just leave Delhi for a few weeks,” she said.Hospitals across the capital have reported surges in pollution-linked cases. According to recent hospital and academic alerts, outpatient numbers for respiratory and related conditions rise sharply in the weeks after critical pollution episodes.Intensive-care units report more ventilator use and complicated recoveries from routine viral illnesses — the body’s capacity to heal appears reduced when a background of continuous particulate and chemical insult persists.Who’s most at risk — and why the poor suffer mostVulnerability is both biological and socioeconomic. The elderly, infants, people with chronic illness and pregnant women are physiologically more susceptible. But social factors compound exposure: low-income families often live in areas with higher traffic congestion or informal industries, have less access to mitigation (sealed homes, purifiers), and more often use biomass or polluting fuels for cooking and heating.Consequently, the poorest bear the highest health burden — even though the wealthier suffer too (through private costs such as purifiers, healthcare, lost productivity, or migration). The unequal burden makes clean-air policy also an issue of equity and justice.Personal protection: What can we do?At an individual level, N-95/FFP2 masks (properly worn) reduce inhaled particulate exposure, air purifiers lower indoor PM levels, and limiting outdoor activity on high-AQI days reduces risk.Here are doctor’s recommendations during high AQI readings:• Monitor local Air Quality Index (AQI) daily and avoid outdoor activities when levels are high • Stay indoors with windows closed during peak pollution hours • Use air purifiers, especially in bedrooms and living spaces • Avoid indoor sources of pollution such as tobacco smoke and incense • Maintain good indoor ventilation when outdoor air quality improves • Ensure children, elderly, and those with chronic illnesses use special caution during high-pollution periods But these measures have their own challenges:- mask fit and compliance vary- purifiers work only in sealed rooms- many workers (construction, street vendors, drivers) cannot avoid outdoor exposureExperts emphasise that while personal protective measures are sensible stopgaps, only systemic emission control reduces risk for whole populations.Delhi’s smog season has become an annual indictment: years of obvious causes, predictable weather patterns, and policy options that are known, yet action has been partial and often temporary. The science is clear, the clinics are ringing the bell, and the data is unambiguous: breathing in Delhi, for too many, is now a risk that begins before birth and clouds life’s final years.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosManipur Sangai Festival 2025- ThemeSangai Festival 2025 Opening CeremonyEx-VP Jagdeep Dhankhar Breaks Silence, Calls Out Narrative Traps With Cryptic Reference To His Past’This Is How Democracy Should Work’: Shashi Tharoor’s Truth Bomb on Cong After Trump-Mamdani MeetingChina Used India-Pak Hostilities For Real-World Weapon Tests And Global Arms Sales, Says US ReportRSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Warns Civilisations Will Fade But Hindus Endure While Calling For UnityIndia Urges Stronger Global Action At UN As Navy’s 520 Rescues Spotlight Arabian Sea InstabilityAt Indo-Pacific Forum, Pakistan Claims India Endangering Peace With War Rhetoric, IWT SuspensionBravery In The Sky: The Story Of Namansh Syal, Tejas Pilot Who Died During The Dubai Airshow DisplayAustralian PM Condoles Red Fort Attack, Saudi Bus Tragedy As He Meets PM Modi During G20 Summit123Photostories5 Signs your child may be struggling with depression and how you can helpMumbai’s Rs 100-Crore Footpath Revamp: What’s Changing on Key RoadsThe must-have vaccines every child needs: What parents shouldn’t skip9 gorgeous white animals that reflect nature’s elegance9 regional chicken dishes from across IndiaActor who lost 10 films overnight after a set accident with Amitabh Bachchan, went jobless for 6 years, is now…How Bengaluru’s Vande Bharat Sleeper Rake Aims to Transform Long-Distance TravelSmriti Mandhana’s relationship timeline: From the meet-cute to the grand proposalAlia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor’s top 5 parenting tipsHow Maharashtra’s upcoming pod taxis aim to fix daily commuter pain123Hot PicksDelhi AQI TodayBihar Minister List 2025Bihar CM Oath CeremonyGold rate todaySilver rate todayPublic Holidays NovemberBank Holidays NovemberTop TrendingPortland Trail Blazers vs Golden State WarriorsSavannah JamesMiami Heat vs Chicago BullsSophie CunninghamHow to get Vecna Skin in FortniteAdam FootePM ModiLebron JamesNBA CupCade Cunningham](https://vknewstoday.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1763812248_photo-600x400.jpg "Millions in India’s capital face a persistent health hazard from air pollution, with sustained high levels of PM2.5 linked to severe respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological damage. This daily reality, especially during winter smog, significantly reduces life expectancy and disproportionately affects vulnerable populations, demanding systemic emission control. Delhi has become a breathing danger for citizens. Stop playing, running, exercising – and if possible, stop breathing!For millions who live in and around the capital, air is no longer an invisible backdrop to daily life. It has become a persistent health hazard — an omnipresent fog that coats lungs, corrodes hearts, clouds classrooms and wards, and quietly chips away at life expectancy. Winter’s seasonal smog is the headline, but the underlying crisis is year-round: sustained high levels of fine particulate matter and other pollutants that modern medicine and public-health studies now tie to respiratory disease, heart attacks, strokes, neurological damage, and adverse outcomes from pregnancy through old age.Why is there no AQI category over 500?On many winter days, the city’s daily AQI spikes into the ‘very poor’ to ‘severe’ categories, prompting emergency public advisories and activation of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) — a set of restrictions meant to limit emissions on the worst days. AQI categories and associated health impacts AQI Category AQI Range PM₂.₅ Associated Health Impacts 🟩 Good 0–50 0–30 Minimal impact. 🟨 Satisfactory 51–100 31–60 May cause minor breathing discomfort to sensitive people. 🟧 Moderately Polluted 101–200 61–90 May cause breathing discomfort to people with lung disease (e.g., asthma), and discomfort to people with heart disease, children, and older adults. 🟨🟧 Poor 201–300 91–120 May cause breathing discomfort on prolonged exposure and discomfort to people with heart disease. 🟥 Very Poor 301–400 121–250 May cause respiratory illness on prolonged exposure. Effects may be more severe for people with lung or heart diseases. 🟥🟥 Severe 401–500 250+ May cause respiratory impact even on healthy people; serious health effects for people with lung/heart disease. Impacts may occur even with light physical activity. Yashasvi Vasistha, 6 min Air Quality Index (AQI) categories and associated health impacts AQI Category AQI Range PM₂.₅ Associated Health Impacts Good 0–50 0–30 Minimal impact. Satisfactory 51–100 31–60 May cause minor breathing discomfort to sensitive people. Moderately Polluted 101–200 61–90 May cause breathing discomfort to people with lung disease (e.g., asthma), and discomfort to people with heart disease, children, and older adults. Poor 201–300 91–120 May cause breathing discomfort on prolonged exposure and discomfort to people with heart disease. Very Poor 301–400 121–250 May cause respiratory illness on prolonged exposure. Effects may be more severe for people with lung or heart diseases. Severe 401–500 250+ May cause respiratory impact even on healthy people; serious health effects for people with lung/heart disease. Impacts may occur even with light physical activity. @media (max-width:640px){ table[role=”table”] { font-size:14px; } table[role=”table”] thead tr { display:none; } table[role=”table”] tbody tr { display:block; margin-bottom:10px; border-radius:6px; overflow:hidden; } table[role=”table”] tbody td { display:block; padding:8px 10px; } table[role=”table”] tbody td:first-child { font-weight:700; } } India’s Air Quality Index (AQI) is not capped at 500, but values above that come under the same category of ‘severe’. The reason for the same is reportedly to avoid public panic and because the government believes that health impact is similar, if not same, at that level.International platforms like IQAir use different models without an upper limit and can display much higher values for the same pollution levels. India’s official index is calculated based on reference-grade monitors, while other platforms may use lower-cost sensors that can have different accuracy and calculation methods.Biology of harm: How polluted air attacks the bodyAir pollution is not a single poison but a mixture: fine particulates (PM2.5 and PM10), nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide, and complex organic compounds. Of these, PM2.5 — particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometres — is the most medically alarming.These particles are small enough to evade upper-airway defenses, lodge deep in the alveoli, cross into the bloodstream and travel to other organs, provoking inflammation, oxidative stress, and systemic damage.Over time, that damage accumulates; it raises the risk for heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, adverse birth outcomes and an expanding list of neurological and metabolic conditions.Dr. Kuldeep Kumar Grover, critical care and pulmonology head, CK Birla Hospital in Gurugram, explains how the current levels of air pollution in northern India significantly increase the risk of serious medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). “Exposure to asbestos over time raises the possibility of several cancers, including lung, bladder, and breast cancer, even for nonsmokers.””In the short term, people may experience headaches, more frequent respiratory infections, irritation of the eyes and throat, and breathing difficulties. Toxic air is estimated to reduce life expectancy in Delhi and the surrounding area by approximately eight years,” he added.Residents protest the conditions they are being forced to live in. Delhi resident Aashish Saxena has been experiencing the constant discomfort of breathing toxins. “I am sure I have lost atleast 10 years of my life because of Delhi’s toxic air. Apart from constantly coughing, I have a permanent headache throughout winter because of pollution. Since offices refuse to entertain WFH option, we are forced to commute through the deadly smog, which takes a severe toll on our health,” he says.Clinically, the short-term effects are visible in emergency rooms and outpatient clinics: spikes in asthma attacks, bronchitis, laryngitis, allergic conjunctivitis and chest pain. Longer term, sustained exposure shortens life expectancy and increases chronic disease prevalence across cohorts — especially among children, the elderly, pregnant women, and people with pre-existing conditions.Air pollution is as much a cardiovascular risk as it is a respiratory one. Fine particles and gaseous pollutants increase blood coagulability, raise blood pressure, and accelerate atherosclerosis, which translates clinically into more heart attacks and strokes on high-pollution days and higher baseline cardiovascular mortality overall.Big concern for pregnant mothers, babies and childrenWhat happens when expectant mothers inhale polluted air?”High pollution levels during pregnancy are connected with complications such as low birth weight, premature delivery, and stunted foetal development. The long-term health of the mother and child may be adversely affected by these effects,” explained Dr Grover.Children are disproportionately harmed. They breathe faster than adults, inhale more air per bodyweight, and their lungs and immune systems are still developing — which makes the same pollution dose more damaging. “As their lungs and immune systems are still developing, young children and infants are especially prone to the adverse effects of polluted air. worsening of asthma, recurrent infections, slower lung growth, and even impacts on brain development may arise from exposure,” he said. Pediatric clinics in Delhi report children with recurring cough, wheeze, reduced exercise tolerance, and increased hospitalizations for acute lower respiratory infections. The lifelong consequences can include reduced maximal lung function, higher lifetime risk of chronic respiratory disease, and neurodevelopmental harms that affect learning and behavior.Not a dystopian movie scene, not Chernobyl – this is DelhiDelhi breathes very poor air on 16 of 21 days in November.Manya Jain, an NCR resident, has developed breathing issues. “After 21 years in Delhi, I’ve lived through post-Diwali pollution every single year, but it never felt like it was hitting my body directly. This year is different — I’m genuinely struggling to breathe. I don’t step outside without a mask, and even then, the air feels toxic. I genuinely wish I could just leave Delhi for a few weeks,” she said.Hospitals across the capital have reported surges in pollution-linked cases. According to recent hospital and academic alerts, outpatient numbers for respiratory and related conditions rise sharply in the weeks after critical pollution episodes.Intensive-care units report more ventilator use and complicated recoveries from routine viral illnesses — the body’s capacity to heal appears reduced when a background of continuous particulate and chemical insult persists.Who’s most at risk — and why the poor suffer mostVulnerability is both biological and socioeconomic. The elderly, infants, people with chronic illness and pregnant women are physiologically more susceptible. But social factors compound exposure: low-income families often live in areas with higher traffic congestion or informal industries, have less access to mitigation (sealed homes, purifiers), and more often use biomass or polluting fuels for cooking and heating.Consequently, the poorest bear the highest health burden — even though the wealthier suffer too (through private costs such as purifiers, healthcare, lost productivity, or migration). The unequal burden makes clean-air policy also an issue of equity and justice.Personal protection: What can we do?At an individual level, N-95/FFP2 masks (properly worn) reduce inhaled particulate exposure, air purifiers lower indoor PM levels, and limiting outdoor activity on high-AQI days reduces risk.Here are doctor’s recommendations during high AQI readings:• Monitor local Air Quality Index (AQI) daily and avoid outdoor activities when levels are high • Stay indoors with windows closed during peak pollution hours • Use air purifiers, especially in bedrooms and living spaces • Avoid indoor sources of pollution such as tobacco smoke and incense • Maintain good indoor ventilation when outdoor air quality improves • Ensure children, elderly, and those with chronic illnesses use special caution during high-pollution periods But these measures have their own challenges:- mask fit and compliance vary- purifiers work only in sealed rooms- many workers (construction, street vendors, drivers) cannot avoid outdoor exposureExperts emphasise that while personal protective measures are sensible stopgaps, only systemic emission control reduces risk for whole populations.Delhi’s smog season has become an annual indictment: years of obvious causes, predictable weather patterns, and policy options that are known, yet action has been partial and often temporary. The science is clear, the clinics are ringing the bell, and the data is unambiguous: breathing in Delhi, for too many, is now a risk that begins before birth and clouds life’s final years.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosManipur Sangai Festival 2025- ThemeSangai Festival 2025 Opening CeremonyEx-VP Jagdeep Dhankhar Breaks Silence, Calls Out Narrative Traps With Cryptic Reference To His Past’This Is How Democracy Should Work’: Shashi Tharoor’s Truth Bomb on Cong After Trump-Mamdani MeetingChina Used India-Pak Hostilities For Real-World Weapon Tests And Global Arms Sales, Says US ReportRSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Warns Civilisations Will Fade But Hindus Endure While Calling For UnityIndia Urges Stronger Global Action At UN As Navy’s 520 Rescues Spotlight Arabian Sea InstabilityAt Indo-Pacific Forum, Pakistan Claims India Endangering Peace With War Rhetoric, IWT SuspensionBravery In The Sky: The Story Of Namansh Syal, Tejas Pilot Who Died During The Dubai Airshow DisplayAustralian PM Condoles Red Fort Attack, Saudi Bus Tragedy As He Meets PM Modi During G20 Summit123Photostories5 Signs your child may be struggling with depression and how you can helpMumbai’s Rs 100-Crore Footpath Revamp: What’s Changing on Key RoadsThe must-have vaccines every child needs: What parents shouldn’t skip9 gorgeous white animals that reflect nature’s elegance9 regional chicken dishes from across IndiaActor who lost 10 films overnight after a set accident with Amitabh Bachchan, went jobless for 6 years, is now…How Bengaluru’s Vande Bharat Sleeper Rake Aims to Transform Long-Distance TravelSmriti Mandhana’s relationship timeline: From the meet-cute to the grand proposalAlia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor’s top 5 parenting tipsHow Maharashtra’s upcoming pod taxis aim to fix daily commuter pain123Hot PicksDelhi AQI TodayBihar Minister List 2025Bihar CM Oath CeremonyGold rate todaySilver rate todayPublic Holidays NovemberBank Holidays NovemberTop TrendingPortland Trail Blazers vs Golden State WarriorsSavannah JamesMiami Heat vs Chicago BullsSophie CunninghamHow to get Vecna Skin in FortniteAdam FootePM ModiLebron JamesNBA CupCade Cunningham")
Delhi has become a breathing danger for citizens. Stop playing, running, exercising – and if possible, stop breathing!For millions who live in and around the capital, air is no longer an invisible backdrop to daily life. It has become a persistent health hazard — an omnipresent fog that coats lungs, corrodes hearts, clouds classrooms and…
UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has directed all district magistrates to take swift and stringent action against illegal immigrants.Reiterating that law and order, national security, and social harmony remain his administration’s top priorities, he said no form of illegal activity would be tolerated.“The chief minister has directed…
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NEW DELHI: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday said the world would not exist without Hindus, during his visit to violence-stricken Manipur. Addressing a crowd, Bhagwat said that many civilisations had disappeared over time, mentioning Greece, Egypt, and Rome. Quoting Muhammad Iqbal’s famous line, “Kuch baat hai ki hasti mitti nahi hamari,” (There is something…
