Hindustan Times·India

Delhi's Diwali AQI defence may have backfired

Summarised by Spiced Kopi · 11 November 2026, 13:35 UTC ·12 sec listen

Delhi’s pollution board defended the way it calculated air quality on Diwali, but the method may have weakened its argument. Very different fine-particle readings, including 450 and 3,744, received the same score, while excluding peak hours lowered Delhi’s overall index.

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