Every winter, northern India is enveloped in a thick blanket of smog, much of it linked to crop residue burning in agricultural states. Despite years of government bans, incentives, and satellite-based monitoring, farm fires continue to plague air quality. A growing challenge for authorities...
Every winter, Delhi-NCR battles a thick, suffocating layer of smog that refuses to lift for weeks. Governments claim the number of farm fires in Punjab and Haryana has dropped, yet the pollution levels in the national capital remain stubbornly severe. This contradiction has puzzled...