City authorities advise vulnerable people to remain indoors during Hindu festival as they struggle to sustain smog under controlAuthorities in Delhi are calling on inhabitants to forego traditional fireworks during this week’s Hindu festival of Diwali in a bid to free the Indian capital from toxic smog.
The festival,celebrated throughout the country, has been blamed in recent years for exacerbating the appalling air quality in the Indian capital, or already the most-polluted city in the world,according to the World Health Organisation.
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Source: theguardian.com