NEW DELHI: Delhi's air quality was recorded in the "poor" category on Sunday despite an "unusual improvement" due to increased wind speed, favourable for dispersion of pollutants, authorities said.

NEW DELHI: The capital’s air quality index on Wednesday notched 373 in the ‘very poor’ category — same as Tuesday.

PATNA: Air quality in Patna continued to deteriorate for the third consecutive day on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: If no crackers are burst in the NCR this Diwali, the air quality will be “very poor”.

System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) said the coming 10 days are expected to see a sharp deterioration of air quality in Delhi-NCR.

The air quality in the national capital worsened on the third consecutive day when the Air Quality Index was recorded at 258.

The quality of air in the national Capital has deteriorated once again with pollution level going up after witnessing a few days of ‘good’ air quality.

The Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded at 159, over four times more than last Tuesday, according to the Centre's System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research Institute (SAFAR).

Found in ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ category during first six months this year