People cross railway tracks on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, November 3, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's capital New Delhi was wrapped in a thick layer of toxic haze on Friday and some schools were ordered closed as the air quality index (AQI) plummeted to the "severe" category.
New Delhi again topped a real-time list of the world's most polluted cities compiled by Swiss group IQAir, which put the Indian capital's AQI at 640 in the "hazardous" category on Friday, followed by 335 in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
