Delhi woke up to hazardous smog and severely reduced visibility on Saturday morning as the air quality index (AQI) reached 420, plunging back into the "severe" category. Many areas within the city reported dangerously high pollution levels,

AM shows a concerning trend, with numbers indicating severe pollution in several localities: Anand Vihar - AQI: 458 (Severe)  Ashok Vihar - AQI: 456 (Severe)  Bawana - AQI: 457 (Severe)  DTU - AQI: 418 (Severe) Dwarka - AQI: 433 (Severe) IGI Airport - AQI: 396 (Very Poor) Jahangirpuri -  AQI 462 (Severe) 8.

At 6 am on Saturday, the CPCB recorded Delhi’s AQI at 419, which placed it back in the ‘severe’ category.

Delhi faces a severe environmental crisis as the AQI hit hazardous levels in multiple areas. Delhi Police enforced vehicle checks and a ban on older diesel vehicles to combat air pollution, which has been critically impacting residents’ health.

With the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) reading 422 at 6 AM on Saturday, Delhi was once again engulfed in a dense layer of poisonous haze as the air quality fell into the "Severe" category. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB),

People in Delhi woke up to a hazy morning with a minimum temperature of 11.3 degrees Celsius as the air quality remained in the "very poor" category recording an overall AQI of 373. Out of 38 monitoring stations in the city,

Delhi Air Pollution: "These measures may be adopted by ministries/departments/organisations as per their functional requirements ensuring that it should not have an adverse impact on efficiency and productivity in any manner,

A minimum temperature of 10.2°C, two degrees below normal, was recorded in the national Capital on Thursday compared to 11.2°C a day earlier and 12.3°C on Tuesday