Air quality worsens in New Delhi every winter as farmers burn crop residue in nearby states and cooler temperatures trap the smoke, which mixes with pollution from vehicles, construction activity and industrial emissions. Pollution levels often reach 20 times higher than the World Health Organization’s safe limit.

On Sunday, Delhi's air quality was "severe" with official index readings over 450 across several monitoring stations. Readings below 50 are "good."

Una densa mezcla tóxica de niebla y humo cubrió el lunes la capital nacional de India, llevó los niveles de contaminación

In the hours between, the 30 million residents of India’s capital region trudge along with chronic headaches and itchy eyes, symptoms of this rising superpower’s failure to provide its people with a most basic need: breathable air.

Delhi government said that the polluted air can cause respiratory effects in healthy people and seriously affect the health of those with heart or lung disease.

When Vladimir Putin’s plane touches down in New Delhi this week, he will be met with the pomp and ceremony reserved for one of India’s most steadfast partners. Yet his host, Prime Narendra Modi, is simultaneously forging a deep strategic relationship with a key global rival: the United States.

Lionel Messi receives a rousing welcome at a packed Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi during the final leg of his GOAT India Tour 2025, delighting fans and children on the pitch.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting India to strengthen economic and bilateral ties. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed him in New Delhi.

Controversy thus surrounded the inception of the new capital. “In retrospect,” Liddle writes, “one could probably say that the path to New Delhi as the capital of independent India, finally achieved in 1947, was being laid, though the protagonists at the time could not grasp its significance.”