{"id":4330,"date":"2026-11-13T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2026-11-13T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T05:03:44","slug":"delhi-overtakes-lahore-as-worlds-most-polluted-city-as-air-quality-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4330","title":{"rendered":"Delhi overtakes Lahore as world&#8217;s most polluted city as air quality drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>India\u2019s capital, Delhi, overtook Lahore in Pakistan to become the world\u2019s \u200bmost polluted city on Friday, with \u200cair quality reaching hazardous levels and visibility dropping as smog blanketed the city of 20 million \u200bpeople.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Air quality index (AQI) in Delhi was \u201chazardous\u201d \u200bat 334, making it the most \u2060polluted major city globally, according to Swiss \u200bgroup IQAir, which measures air quality levels \u200bbased on the concentration of toxins<\/p>\n<p>An AQI reading up to 50 is considered good with little or \u200bno health risk<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s official Central Pollution \u200bControl Board pegged the AQI higher at 403 and \u200crated \u2060it \u201csevere\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss and Indian readings vary due to the different AQI scales and methodologies used to calculate and classify air pollution \u200blevels<\/p>\n<p>Cars and \u200bmotorcycles emerged from \u2060dense smog, which also appeared to obscure street lights on the \u200bcity\u2019s main roads, videos from \u200bnews \u2060agency ANI showed<\/p>\n<p>Pollution is a seasonal problem in many parts of northern India and neighbouring Pakistan, \u2060as the \u200bcold, heavy air of \u200bwinter traps vehicle emissions, construction dust and smoke from agricultural \u200bburning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s capital, Delhi, overtook Lahore in Pakistan to become the world\u2019s \u200bmost polluted city on Friday, with \u200cair quality reaching hazardous levels and visibility dropping as smog blanketed the city of 20 million \u200bpeople. Air quality index (AQI) in Delhi was \u201chazardous\u201d \u200bat 334, making it the most \u2060polluted major city globally, according to Swiss \u200bgroup IQAir, which measures air quality levels \u200bbased on the concentration of toxins An AQI reading up to 50 is considered good with little or \u200bno health risk India\u2019s official Central Pollution \u200bControl Board pegged&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}