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Delhi’s toxic air spikes after Diwali firework frenzy

A pedestrian crosses a road near the Indian President’s house amid heavy smog in New Delhi on November 8, 2018. (MONEY SHARMA/AFP/Getty Images)

By: Keerthi Mohan

Indian police arrested hundreds of revellers after a frenzied night of festival fireworks turned city air toxic nationwide on Thursday (8) despite a preemptive court ban on the smog-fuelling party. More than 300 people were arrested in Delhi, the world’s most polluted major city, where the supreme court had restricted public fireworks to two hours in the evening and insisted on use of cleaner “green” firecrackers to mark the Hindu festival of Diwali. But the choking capital’s 20 million residents largely ignored the court’s ruling and staged a free-for-all night of colourful, deafening pyrotechnics that left the megacity’s air more…

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