What’s next23 November 2026: The Supreme Court hears the case on vehicle pollution in Delhi and three neighbouring States on 23 November.
Photo: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainMissing hourly readings can make the official air quality index look better than the air really was, an analyst at the research group CREA said.
Photo: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainThe city average was 370 on 9 November, and forecasters expect several days of severe air. The Supreme Court will take up vehicle pollution on 23 November.
Photo: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainThe city average was 384 at 7 a.m., with Punjabi Bagh, RK Puram and Bawana near 450. Experts expect Monday to be worse.
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Only BS-VI, CNG, LNG and electric vehicles registered elsewhere may enter during the pollution season. Reports differ on whether private cars are covered.
Photo: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainThe AQI of 369 was the worst Diwali-eve reading since 2016, and forecasters expect it to turn severe on Deepavali. Stage III curbs are in force across the NCR.
