NEW DELHI: Delhi continued to reel under a severe air pollution crisis on Sunday morning, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) recorded at 439 at 7 am, according to data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).The situation worsened overnight, with the AQI at 432 at 10 pm on Saturday, remaining in the ‘severe’ category,…
NEW DELHI: Air quality in Delhi deteriorated on Friday, with the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) recorded at 311, placing it in the ‘very poor’ category, according to data from the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) SAMEER app. The decline in air quality came amid chilly winter conditions in the national capital, with pollutants lingering…
Russia’s barrage on Kyiv has resulted in massive power loss for the capital, leaving over 2,600 residential buildings without electricity in these chilling winters, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without proper heat. The temperature in the Ukrainian capital has been hovering around zero degrees Celsius.Kyiv’s mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, updated on the situation of the…
NEW DELHI/KULLU: A sharp cold wave tightened its grip across north India on Sunday, with snowfall in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, and northeastern Himachal Pradesh, while scattered rain and dense fog pushed down temperatures across the plains of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.IMD has forecast continued snowfall, rain and fog…
NEW DELHI: The upcoming winter (Dec-Feb) is likely to be colder in most parts of central India (Madhya Pradesh, north and east Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat) and parts of adjoining northwest (Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, east and southeast Rajasthan, and west and south UP) and peninsular India (Telangana), with below normal day and night temperatures…
The TOI correspondent from Washington: In what appears to be a tectonic shift in American foreign policy and world order, US President Donald Trump has openly embraced China as a functional equal, heralding a new duopoly that jettisons Washington’s decade-plus view of Beijing as an existential threat, while leaving other powers like EU, Russia, India,…