While weather conditions played a role, pollution further worsened the situation, earning Delhi the dubious title of the world's most polluted capital, according to IQAir. Similar conditions have ...

"In these trying times, there is an urgent need for divine intervention in the form of rain," he concluded. Meanwhile, Lahore ...

The air quality index is alarmingly high in Pakistan and India. This week, smog has drastically reduced visibility, obscuring ...

Every year, as the seasons change, a familiar pattern emerges in Hanoi. The air grows thick with fine dust, and with it, an ...

According to IQAir's data, the Air Quality Index of Lahore stood at 1136. The hospitals in the city are over crowed with ...

Thick smog shrouded New Delhi and other cities around South and Southeast Asia as air pollution levels soared Thursday. Air ...

India's government banned non-essential construction in New Delhi, the world's most polluted capital, and urged residents to avoid burning coal for heating, to ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called on the nation to offer Namaz-e-Istisqa (prayer for rain) for much-needed rainfall ...

Toxic smog obscured India’s famed monument to love, the Taj Mahal, as well as Sikhism’s holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in ...

Pakistan ’s smog situation has gone from bad to worse as air pollution rose to a record in Lahore. Sensors tracked by the ...

The AQI readings a day earlier showed more than 1,000 by Swiss IQAir, a different metric to map air quality across the world.

On Wednesday, Swiss-based monitoring organisation IQAir reported AQI levels in certain areas of Delhi as high as 1,133, ...