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For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited the India Meteorological Department on Lodhi Road. 

On August 16, a quiet village in Madhya Pradesh witnessed the beginning of one of India’s worst medical tragedies in recent years. Seventeen children lost their lives after consuming a cough syrup laced with toxic industrial chemicals. The investigation led to Tamil Nadu’s Kancheepuram district, where Sresan Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer…

It's been two years since the Gaza War began on October 7, 2023.

कटक के दरगाह बाज़ार इलाके में दो दिनों के बीच हिंसा की दो अलग-अलग घटनाएं सामने आईं. पहली झड़प शनिवार को देवी दुर्गा की मूर्तियों के विसर्जन जुलूस के दौरान हुई. जिसमें कई लोग घायल हो गए. 

न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री हिंदी का सफर आठ साल पूरे कर चुका है. आप सबके सहयोग से ही ये मुमकिन हो पाया है. बीते न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री हिंदी ने लगातार उन कहानियों को सामने रखा, जिन्हें इस देश की मेनस्ट्रीम मीडिया अक्सर नज़रअंदाज़ करती रही या सत्ता के दबाव में उसका सच छिपाती रही. आज…

It began quietly on a rainy August afternoon in Madhya Pradesh. It was around 3 pm on August 16, when six-year-old Divyansh Yaduvanshi developed a fever. His temperature read 100 degrees Fahrenheit – mild enough to seem harmless, yet enough to worry his father, Prakash Yaduvanshi, a small farmer from…

In 2018, Delhi bade farewell to its last thermal power plant. Before this, the other two had wound up their operations in 2009 and 2015. The closures were meant to stop toxic gases spewing from their stacks from worsening the city’s air quality.

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visited the Hauz Khas metro station, the largest metro facility in the national capital. The nearest air quality monitoring station pegged the AQI at 148 or in the moderate category.

Eleven years after India launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the Union government’s flagship rural sanitation programme, it has missed its target of ‘Sampoorn Swachhata’ by 2024-25, exposing gaps in waste management, untreated sewage, and behavioural change that challenge the sustainability of India’s sanitation progress.