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Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy declared Hyderabad safer than other metros, highlighting its advantages over Delhi's pollution, Bengaluru's traffic, and Mumbai/Chennai's flooding. He affirmed the Musi Riverfront development will proceed, emphasizing its necessity for urban improvement and economic growth, promising compensation for displaced families. Reddy stressed the project's importance for future generations.

With Delhi enveloped in smog, city residents find it out of bounds.Whether it is businessmen who have to reschedule visits or residents stuck in the capital, people are being inconvenienced.

The smog emerged as a major cause of concern at the Delhi cabinet meeting on Wednesday, but the Delhi CM put the onus on neighbouring states.

Met officials have warned of smoggier weather on Diwali as a second spell of low visibility is expected to set in by Monday.

Both Punjab and Haryana governments have rubbished claims of Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit that the smog enveloping the national capital is due to paddy stubble on fire in the two states' fields.

The Delhi-Haryana rivalry is never more clearly on show than when the issue being addressed has anything to do with pollution.

For several years now, pollution in Indian cities has reached levels that are genuinely hazardous, with the situation this year being particularly dire.

New Delhi, Nov 15 () Delhi remained blanketed by a thick smog for the fourth consecutive day on Friday as unfavourable weather hampered dispersion of pollutants, with improvement in air quality expected only by Sunday.

Schools running under the three municipal corporations of Delhi have been ordered to be closed on Saturday in view of the heavy smog, the worst the national capital has faced in 17 years.

Even though visibility improved on Thursday with the dense smog thinning out past noon, Delhi’s air quality showed no signs of improvement for the third straight day. The AQI rose from 478 the previous day to 486 on Thursday — the highest this winter — as the capital continued to ‘choke’. While the situation visually seemed better than the past two days, actual pollution levels at all monitoring stations remained alarming.

A new analysis of the winter pollution levels in Delhi-NCR says that while the seasonal average was higher than the previous winter's, the severity and duration of smog episodes were lower. The number of days with "severe" and "very poor" levels of PM2.5 concentration has been comparatively lower this winter but the number of days in the "poor" category has increased.

Understandably, the toxic air, which is being compared to a gas chamber, is making everyone cough, causing throat irritation and even spreading viral infections.

The 58-year-old later went on to share a “magical” photo of his concert on Instagram, which he captioned, “New Delhi, India, you were incredible tonight. In this photo, if you look carefully you can see my shadow silhouetted in the dust and smoke of the venue over the audience. I’ve never seen that before. Magical India. Namaste.”

With the air quality hovering close to the 'severe plus' category in Delhi, several flights from the national capital to Goa were delayed due to low visibility in Delhi.

The Centre Monday told the Supreme Court that work for installation of smog tower at Anand Vihar in east Delhi has started and soil samples have been taken for examining the structural stability.

A Delhi think tank has released a report called “Fixing Delhi’s Pollution”. It says that paddy should be substituted by crops such as pulses and vegetables in Haryana and Punjab in order to control emission from crop stubble burning.

Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover are back in Mumbai after their short trip to Delhi, where they met Karan's family.