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The government seems powerless to protect its citizens from this annual crisis, let alone prevent it. On Tuesday morning, the air quality in India's capital under a widely used index [...]

A heat wave has left water in short supply across India's capital region. The poorest are left to crowd around tankers to get whatever they can. Before the water tanker [...]

Byline: Kasha Patel Seasonal fires and a slew of air pollutants are obscuring skies across northern India, registering 'very unhealthy' air quality in New Delhi and causing schools to shut [...]

Schools shut down and residents were told to stay indoors as the government seems unable to avert an airborne calamity with multiple culprits that descends at the onset of winter. [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW DELHI -- New Delhi's government shut primary schools and banned polluting vehicles and construction work in an attempt to reduce the worst haze and smog of [...]

Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in Delhi on Thursday after the authorities warned of widespread flooding following days of torrential rains that have battered large swaths of [...]

Byline: Claire Parker, Christian Shepherd and Gabriela Martinez Unusually smoggy skies have upended life for millions of Americans this week as smoke from wildfires in Canada wafts over a large [...]

The return of smog season in India's capital has again left residents asking why nothing has changed. The answer may be largely political. A decade ago, the capitals of Asia's [...]

Toxic air in New Delhi and large parts of northern India this week has prompted school closures, traffic restrictions and political infighting. NEW DELHI -- This year's air pollution season [...]

Byline: Claire Healy and Niha Masih It happens every winter in India's sprawling capital: the cold air arrives, trapping the dust and other pollutants emitted by its 20 million residents. [...]

Byline: Ian Livingston and Kasha Patel For the second month in a row, temperatures in India and Pakistan are abnormally high because of a string of strong and prolonged heat [...]

Schools and factories close. India's Supreme Court blasts the government's do-nothing response. But Delhi residents continue to suffer from the bad air. NEW DELHI -- A thick blanket of noxious [...]

Schools and factories close. India's Supreme Court blasts the government's do-nothing response. But Delhi residents continue to suffer from the bad air. NEW DELHI -- A thick blanket of noxious [...]

Air pollution killed more Indians last year than any other risk factor, and Delhi is among the most polluted cities in the country. But the burden is unequally shared. Children [...]

Byline: Rick Noack Only a few years ago, the capitals of Asia's two biggest nations -- India and China -- were hovering around the same toxic air pollution levels. Today, [...]

Byline: Kenneth Dickerman;Lasse Bak Mejlvang Photographer Lasse Bak Mejlvang recently went to India to document the conditions of a country that has a large concentration of the most polluted cities [...]

Byline: Staff Abstract: And in New Delhi, social media is being used to combat the Indian capital's notorious air pollution. In Jinan, a city in China's Shandong province, local authorities [...]

One year after a record-breaking toxic haze blanketed New Delhi, prompting school closings, car pileups and flight delays, the smog is back and it's worse than ever. It has reached [...]

Byline: Vidhi Doshi NEW DELHI - As a thick, ghostly haze shrouded India's capital city, Juhi Dhaul and her family packed their bags and planned to leave town. 'My kids [...]

NEW DELHI -- The toxic haze blanketing New Delhi was so severe on Tuesday that politicians announced plans to close schools, flights were delayed and the chief minister of Delhi [...]

NEW DELHI -- For days, many in Delhi have been living as if under siege, trying to keep the dirty air away from their children and older parents. But it [...]

NEW DELHI -- For the first time ever, more than 1,800 public primary schools in India's capital will close on Saturday to protect children from exposure to dangerous levels of [...]

More than one million students will be out of school on Saturday in India's capital after the authorities decided to close public primary schools to protect children from exposure to [...]

Byline: Aseem Prakash;Nives Dolšak;Thomas Bernauer;Liam McGrath This week India's capital city, Delhi has been hit with extreme air pollution -- so extreme that the city's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal described [...]

NEW DELHI -- This megacity's modest effort to warn residents about unhealthy spikes in air pollution levels in real time may soon end, after a decision to first send the [...]

NEW DELHI -- For years, this sprawling city on the Yamuna River had the dirtiest air in the world, but few who lived here seemed conscious of the problem or [...]