NEW DELHI: India’s capital New Delhi was enveloped in heavy, toxic smog Sunday – the worst levels in recent years – with flights diverted or delayed as politicians blamed each other for failing to tackle the crisis. Every winter, the megacity of 20 million people is blanketed by a poisonous smog of car fumes, industrial emissions and smoke from stubble burning at farms in neighbouring states. “Pollution has reached unbearable levels,” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted Sunday. In a tweet last week, Kejriwal called on the state governments of neighbouring Punjab and Haryana to take action. “Delhi has turned into a gas chamber due to smoke from crop burning in neighbouring states,” he tweeted.

Source: New Strait Times November 03, 2019 07:30 UTC