How breadbasket states pump toxic air into dense North India, year after year

Air pollution threw the Delhi NCR into a crisis during Diwali week. Government data shows that almost half of Delhi’s pollution stems from crop burning in states like Punjab and Haryana.

Air pollution threw the Delhi NCR into a crisis during the Diwali week. Smog shrouded the capital city with toxic air over 15 times the WHO’s safe limit for pre- and post-festival days.