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How Delhi is overtaking Beijing in air pollution

New Delhi: Think twice before taking a deep breath in New Delhi, where worsening air pollution has drawn comparisons with Beijing, the world's pollution poster child.On bad days in India's congested capital, the air is

India TV News Desk India TV News Desk Updated on: February 07, 2014 7:12 IST
how delhi is overtaking beijing in air pollution
how delhi is overtaking beijing in air pollution

New Delhi: Think twice before taking a deep breath in New Delhi, where worsening air pollution has drawn comparisons with Beijing, the world's pollution poster child.


On bad days in India's congested capital, the air is so murky it slows traffic to a crawl. Conversations are punctuated with rasping coughs. Weak bands of sunlight filter through a grainy sky.

Air monitoring sensors around the landlocked Indian capital have routinely registered levels of small airborne particles at "hazardous" levels in recent months -- three to four times New Delhi's own sanctioned limit, rivaling Beijing.

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