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In the immortal words of the great philosopher and kabootarbazi-convicted Daler Mehndi: Main dardi, Rab Rab kardi, ki loki kende chui-mui, chui-mui, chui-mui.

For today’s episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited the Arun Jaitley Stadium in central Delhi. The stadium is one of the venues of the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup. The Indian men’s team is scheduled to play a match against Namibia at the stadium tomorrow.

A magistrate court in Gujarat, on Tuesday, February 10, has sentenced investigative journalist Ravi Nair to one year of imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5000 in a criminal defamation case filed by Adani Enterprises Limited. Ravi is an independent journalist, who has consistently reported on corporate monopoly and…

Delhi’s population is now estimated at 3.4 crore. The city’s fire service, however, runs on just 3,312 sanctioned posts, and even those are far from filled.

Adani-owned NDTV appears to be heading toward another round of layoffs, with employees across departments being put on performance improvement programmes.

Annual day functions are usually chaotic, crowded affairs — too many parents, too many performances, too many speeches squeezed into one evening.

Himanta Biswa Sarma has stirred another controversy. This time, an AI-generated video shared by the Assam BJP – showing the chief minister firing at men wearing skull caps – has triggered a police complaint and petitions before the courts, even though the party later deleted the post.

Social media giants Instagram, Facebook, and X have blocked access to a parody animation by The Wire. The outlet’s Instagram account was also blocked in India for nearly two hours.

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent.

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry went to Rajghat, where the AQI was pegged at 168, or in the moderate category, as per the nearest air monitoring station.

On paper, the capital’s air seemed to be improving.