Speaking to ANI, Rai said that the issue of pollution persists not only in Delhi but the entire north India and cannot be resolved only if the national capital becomes active.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was scheduled to attend the 'Diwali Milan' program on Friday has arrived at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) central office in the national capital.
A thick layer of smog veiled the national capital on Thursday morning and the air quality was recorded in the 'severe' category in several parts of Delhi.
Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party chief Virendraa Sachdeva on Wednesday said that the Aam Aadmi Party government's actions against Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar are coming out of the frustration as the top bureaucrat of the national capital is investigating cases against Chief Minister Arvind Kejr
"It is a multimodal economic corridor that incorporates multiple networks of shipping, railways, and roadways and will also include electricity cables, high-speed data cables, and a hydrogen pipeline," Sitharaman said, addressing the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue 2023 here in the nationa
Amid the deteriorating air quality in the national capital, BJP MP Gautam Gambhir alleged that the Delhi government has done nothing to tackle air pollution in the past nine years.
Thanking Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for making the national capital a gas chamber, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla asserted that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is silent on the internal causes of Delhi's pollution.
The air quality in the national capital continued to remain in the 'Severe' category as the city woke up once again to smog, limiting visibility on Tuesday, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi paid floral tribute to former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary at Shantivan in the national capital on Tuesday.
Despite a blanket ban on fireworks in the national capital owing to runaway pollution and worsening air quality, revellers across the city engaged in bursting firecrackers with abandon on Diwali night.
Delhi received the most anticipated gift on Diwali day, as the national capital recorded the best air quality with a 24-hour average Air Quality Index (AQI) of 218 today, which was the best in at least three weeks.