{"id":48979,"date":"2024-10-18T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/18\/delhi-chokes-as-air-quality-deteriorating-rapidly-aqi-drops-to-very-poor-category-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T11:00:20","slug":"delhi-chokes-as-air-quality-deteriorating-rapidly-aqi-drops-to-very-poor-category-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/18\/delhi-chokes-as-air-quality-deteriorating-rapidly-aqi-drops-to-very-poor-category-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Chokes as Air Quality Deteriorating Rapidly, AQI Drops to \u2018Very Poor\u2019 Category &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>Even though the city got relief from the heat wave in early October, pollution levels in Delhi have soared. Over the past few days, the Air Quality Index (AQI) has fluctuated from 250 to 300, placing many areas in the \u201cvery poor\u201d category. An orange warning has been issued across much of the city due to deteriorating air quality.<\/p>\n<p>At India Gate, AQI has dropped to 270, while in areas like Anand Vihar, it has plummeted to 339. This rising pollution is having a severe impact on public health, with many areas blanketed in smog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the key AQI readings across Delhi:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alipur: 308<\/li>\n<li>Anand Vihar: 346<\/li>\n<li>Bawana: 331<\/li>\n<li>Burari: 327<\/li>\n<li>Dwarka: 328<\/li>\n<li>Jahangirpuri: 354<\/li>\n<li>Mundka: 373<\/li>\n<li>Narela: 320<\/li>\n<li>Rohini: 362<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elevated levels of pollution pose serious health risks, especially for vulnerable groups. Officials recommend avoiding outdoor activities during peak pollution periods.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-118324006-331070-67123f62a919d\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=13.9.1#blog_id=118324006&amp;post_id=331070&amp;origin=pragativadi.com&amp;obj_id=118324006-331070-67123f62a919d&amp;n=1\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-118324006-331070-67123f62a919d\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] New Delhi: Even though the city got relief from the heat wave in early October, pollution levels in Delhi have soared. Over the past few days, the Air Quality Index (AQI) has fluctuated from 250 to 300, placing many areas in the \u201cvery poor\u201d category. An orange warning has been issued across much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download-99.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48981,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979\/revisions\/48981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}