Lucknow: Diwali celebrations left Lucknowites gasping for breath with alarmingly high air pollution levels, more than double compared to last year.

BENGALURU: With anti-cracker campaigns stepping up and cracker sales seen to have lost their sparkle, officials had expected a less polluted Diwali this year.

TRICHY: The city witnessed a slight increase in air and noise pollution levels on the night of Diwali compared to the previous year.

PM10 pollution was down, PM2.5 figures being worked out.

Hyderabad: Many Hyderabadis said no to crackers this Diwali, and this was reflected in the city’s pollution data for Sunday.

Chandigarh: Air pollution on Diwali was worse than last two years in the city as the safe level was breached at different sites, according to data released by the UT administration.

As residents celebrated Deepavali with enthusiasm and fervour, air pollution levels in the city crossed permissible limits on Saturday.

Concentration levels of harmful particulate matter were on average three times the standards.

Delhiites on Thursday inhaled severely poor quality air which had respirable pollutants up to nine times above the safe limit at certain places even as authorities warned of a "critically polluted"

Noida/Ghaziabad: The pollution levels have gone beyond proportional limits in Noida and Ghaziabad even before Diwali, an indication that it could reach "scary" heights once the festival gets over.