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At least 13 killed in massive pile-up on Indian highway amid dense smog near Delhi

Thick fog and severe air pollution across northern India has sharply reduced visibility

The Independent UK

India Chokes Under Thick Smog: Viral Noida Video Highlights Delhi-NCR Air Crisis

Viral footage from Noida captures Delhi-NCR's smog crisis, with buildings vanishing in haze. AQI at 381 ('very poor') as GRAP-4 curbs construction and schools go online

International Business Times UK

Toxic smog overshadows Messi tour as pollution crisis threatens to embarrass India on world stage

Smog grounds and delays hundreds of flights, including those of Narendra Modi and Lionel Messi

The Independent UK

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Bad air, big crowd: Fans say seeing Messi was unmissable in a city used to breathing poison

Amid GRAP-4 restrictions and worsened air quality, thousands waited at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi to catch a glimpse of Lionel Messi at the concluding event of the footballer’s ‘GOAT India Tour’.

Newslaundry

Toxic smog blankets New Delhi plunging air quality to hazardous levels

Dense toxic smog blanketed India’s national capital Monday, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks.

Euronews

Flights disrupted and construction work banned after Delhi air pollution suddenly worsens

Indian capital’s air quality remains ‘severe’ for third straight day

The Independent UK

Dec 15, 2025: Severe AQI at AIIMS as GRAP-4 kicks in

Today’s Aaj Ka AQI comes from AIIMS Delhi, India’s flagship health institute directly impacted by worsening air quality .

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Toxic smog blankets New Delhi, disrupting travel and plunging air quality to hazardous levels

Dense toxic smog has blanketed New Delhi, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks and disrupting travel

The Independent UK

‘Not as grave as Nirbhaya’: What unfolded before sentencing in Kerala actor assault case

As the Ernakulam Additional Special Sessions Court heard final arguments before sentencing in the 2017 Kerala actor abduction and assault case, the courtroom became the site of a pointed debate over how accountability should be measured in a gangrape conviction. Both sides invoked the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder (Nirbhaya…

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Govt declares Delhi has had the lowest AQI in 8 years. Rahul Gandhi urges for a debate on pollution

Responding to the Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose's questions about the action that the Union government has taken to address the worsening air quality in the national capital, they claimed that "Delhi has observed the lowest average AQI in the past 8 years, i.e., from 2018 to 2025 (barring 2020…

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‘Nobody helped us’: The sole survivor of Goa club fire who lost husband, sisters

Among the 25 people who died in the massive fire at the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in Arpora, Goa, were four members of 40-year-old Bhavna Joshi’s family. Joshi, the sole survivor, was visiting Goa with her family when she lost her husband and three sisters that night.

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SC’s bail verdict pending, Delhi court grants Khalid interim bail for sister’s wedding

A Delhi court on Thursday granted interim bail to Umar Khalid, the former JNU scholar and political activist who has been incarcerated under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), among other charges, for his alleged role in a larger conspiracy related to the 2020 Delhi riots, according to LiveLaw.

Newslaundry

Press Club of India elections: Battle to reassert ‘democratic-secular values’ vs RSS influence

“We will not succumb to this attack. Today, the world should know what Hindustan is doing to Kashmir. The world should know that this is Modi’s India, not Gandhi’s,” declared Sheikh Abdul Rashid – then an independent MLA, today a sitting MP – his voice steady even as black ink…

Newslaundry

Vishwaguru delusions: India lacks the clout to shape a world in flux

At the end of a year of many setbacks for the Modi government’s foreign policies, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit aptly captured the Indian effort to find its centre of gravity in an era of massive geopolitical upheavals.

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The Guardian - UK

Look behind the pomp of Putin’s New Delhi visit. The India-Russia relationship has weakened

Modi voiced words of respect, but he is resisting an anti-western, anti-Ukraine stance, despite the foreign policy contradictions, says Chietigj Bajpaee, a senior fellow at Chatham House

Newslaundry

You can rebook an Indigo flight. You can’t rebook your lungs

A reiteration of the obvious is never wasted on the oblivious – Percival Everett, Erasure.I'm a man of contradictions, I'm a man of many moodsI contain multitudes– Bob Dylan, I contain multitudes. On December 6, I wrote a piece for Newslaundry explaining why India has been held hostage by a single airline: IndiGo. It went viral…

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Delhi CM rewrites pollution science at media summit. The follow-ups? Missing like the data

At the HT Leadership Summit, NDTV’s Padmaja Joshi sat down with Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, and then spent the next several minutes watching Gupta bench-press the limits of logic. What followed was a live demonstration of how confidently stated nonsense can still aspire to be policy.

Newslaundry

Dec 8, 2025: ‘Very poor’ air on Delhi’s busy roads

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited the ITO intersection in the national capital. The nearest CPCB monitor pegged the AQI at 326, or in the ‘very poor’ category. According to our air monitor, the AQI stood at 364, with PM2.5 at 204 and PM10 at 214.

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The Independent UK

Inside the university branded a ‘terror hub’ over links to deadly Delhi car blast

ON THE GROUND: Al Falah University students fear this prestigious medical institution could be shut down amid the fevered scrutiny since a high-profile suspected car bombing. Namita Singh reports from Faridabad

Newslaundry

Indigo: Why India is held hostage by one airline

It was October 1988. Me, my mother, and my younger sister were supposed to fly in an Indian Airlines flight, from Ranchi, in what was then Bihar, to Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, with an overnight stop at Delhi, to attend my father’s younger brother’s wedding.

The Independent UK

IndiGo chaos forces Indian government to cap price-gauging by other airlines

Government says airline has until end of this weekend to refund all customers affected by flight cancellations

The Independent UK

From bear hugs to oil: What were the key outcomes of Modi-Putin talks in Delhi?

India and Russia talk up their relationship and sign up to a plan to boost trade, but there are no concrete deals on key weapons purchases

Newslaundry

Hafta letters: Leaving Delhi, AQI, and subscription ideas

Curious cat

The Guardian - UK

Putin vows oil shipments to India will be ‘uninterrupted’ in defiance of US

Narendra Modi says energy security is ‘pillar of the India-Russia partnership’ as two leaders meet in Delhi

The Independent UK

Modi says India not neutral in Russia-Ukraine war as he rolls out red carpet for Putin in Delhi

India has a position, and that position is for peace, Modi tells Putin who is in Delhi for a two-day visit for the annual Russia-India summit

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