New Delhi, Nov. 27 -- A day after the pollution monitoring agency withdrew Graded Response Action Plan Stage 3 (GRAP-3) measures, Delhi's air quality worsened again, with the city's average AQI rising by nearly 50 points to 377 on Thursday, pushing residents back into the deeper end of the 'very poor' air.
On Wednesday, the air quality readings for Delhi stood at 327, according to the Central Pollution Control Board's (CPCB) 4 p.m. national bulletin with particulate matter, PM 2.5, and PM 10 as the lead polluting agents.
Degrading air quality in the city could be attributed to the calm winds. In the past 24 hours, air flow in the national capital was low with wind speeds gusting up to 6 km per hour, according to the data from the India Me...