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Environment

India: Workers face health risks in world’s ‘most polluted’ city

A general view of the industrial estate of Bhiwadi in the western Indian state of Rajasthan [File: B Mathur/Reuters]

Indian traffic policeman Surendar Singh waves away clouds of dust and smoke as he unbuttons his shirt to show a small box bulging out of his chest.

“It literally keeps me alive,” said Singh, 48, showing the implanted cardiac defibrillator device that detects when his heart rhythm goes dangerously awry and delivers a shock to restore it to normal.

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