{"id":41458,"date":"2019-11-05T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T12:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41458"},"modified":"2019-11-05T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T12:22:34","slug":"indias-top-court-calls-out-smog-inaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41458","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s top court calls out smog inaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>India&#8217;s top court has criticized authorities for not doing enough to curb <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/11\/04\/india\/delhi-india-smog-pollution-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">New Delhi&#8217;s dangerous levels of air pollution<\/a>, calling it a &#8220;blatant and grave violation of right to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/11\/04\/india\/delhi-smog-pollution-explainer-intl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thick smog<\/a> has blanketed the country&#8217;s capital in recent days, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/11\/03\/india\/delhi-flights-pollution-intl-scli\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">forcing flights<\/a> to be canceled and <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/11\/01\/asia\/delhi-pollution-schools-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">schools to be shut<\/a>. New Delhi, which is home to more than 18 million people, has declared it a public health emergency, with authorities halting work at construction sites and instituting new traffic controls limiting the number of cars on the road.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Delhi entered its 10th consecutive day of hazardous air pollution on Tuesday, according to air quality analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airvisual.com\/india\/delhi\" target=\"_blank\">IQAir AirVisual<\/a>, making it the longest string of severely polluted days for the city since records began in 2016.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)India&#8217;s top court has criticized authorities for not doing enough to curb New Delhi&#8217;s dangerous levels of air pollution, calling it a &#8220;blatant and grave violation of right to life.&#8221;Thick smog has blanketed the country&#8217;s capital in recent days, forcing flights to be canceled and schools to be shut. New Delhi, which is home to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}