" !"#$% ./0"!"#$%# !"#$% #-#-. '()*+, (/+0 7.$," & &'N) * , 9& '& '' , : & : O&, *- * ' ) * 1/ / 23 456 1 70/ %% & ' ( "$')*"+, "$- s Delhi faced emergency Asituation second time in the season due to severe plus Air Quality Index (AQI) with !" # severe level. Drastic steps are value 540 on the National required to be taken by all con- Ambient Air quality Index cerned working in tandem (NAAQI) on Friday, the ruling and to cooperate with each Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said other as it is not an adversari- a final call on extending the al litigation,” the Bench said. odd-even scheme will be taken Additional Solicitor on Monday as the air quality is General ANS Nadkarni, expected to improve in next said as per Central Pollution appearing for the Centre, told two-three days. Control Board (CPCB), the the Bench that as per CPCB’s The road-rationing he Supreme Court on contribution of cars in pollu- study, odd-even scheme has no scheme, rolled out on TFriday said the odd-even tion was around 3 per cent and effect on reducing the pollution November 4, ended on Friday. vehicle rotation scheme of the odd-even was not a permanent level. Rohatgi countered this “We do not want people to face Delhi Government was a “half- solution to the problem. submission and said as per unnecessary inconvenience. baked solution” to the severe “This odd-even is also a study reports, the pollution The residents cooperated very pollution level in the national half-baked solution. You may level has reduced from five to much in implementation of the Capital as it is not effective in go for full odd-even without 15 per cent during odd-even scheme. There were 250-300 reducing pollution. any exemption,” the Bench scheme. challans every day, which are The apex court questioned told senior advocate Mukul “If exemptions are very less considering the pop- the exemptions given, includ- Rohatgi, who was appearing removed, it might reduce ulation. Air quality is predict- ing to two and three wheelers, for the Delhi Government. more. There are large number ed to improve over the next during the scheme and asked “We have seen that in spite of two wheelers in the city and two-three day. A final call on the Delhi Government as to of imposition of odd-even if we stop them (during odd- extending the odd-even whether it helped reduce pol- scheme the pollution is even scheme), the whole city scheme will be taken on lution. increasing in the city of Delhi will collapse,” he said, adding, Monday,” Delhi Chief Minister A Bench of Justices Arun and the NCR region and pol- “The real culprit is stubble Arvind Kejriwal said. Mishra and Deepak Gupta lution has reached to very burning”. The Central Pollution con- ! " trol Board (CPCB) has said the vehicle rationing scheme will 390 as a thick layer of toxic with value 475 recorded at November. not help in improving Delhi’s smog enveloped Delhi for the Real Time Ambient air quali- The situation may worsen air more than four per cent. fourth consecutive day. ty index of Delhi pollution due to a drizzle on Friday Forecasting on the air qual- All monitoring agencies Control Committee (DPCC). night, it said. ity for next three days, System recorded an AQI above 500 in Capital’s Mandir Marg record- A cloud cover and slow of Air Quality and Weather Delhi on Friday. Neighbouring ed AQI 650. wind speed due to a western Forecasting And Research Faridabad (450), Ghaziabad Najafgarh, Narela and a disturbance have been uncon- (SAFAR) said the air quality in (475), Greater Noida (445), few outer areas faced noxious ducive for dispersion of pollu- and Haryana in terms of stub- As many as 54,776 cases of Delhi may improve on Gurgaon (461) and Noida air with AQI above 500. tants, experts said. ble burning instances. stubble burning have been November 17. (474) too continued to reel Levels of PM 2.5 and PM 10 Gufran Beig, project direc- n the last couple of days, As per data compiled by detected since October 1 in If air quality data of mon- under severe air quality. were nearly eight times high- tor, SAFAR, said though the IPunjab witnessed an over 50- the Agriculture Ministry, the Punjab, Haryana and UP so itoring agencies are to be Air quality at different er than normal at several impact of stubble burning is fold decline in stubble burning number of stubble burning far. Of them, 46,221 incidents believed there is no significant places in Delhi also recorded locations. An AQI between expected to reduce on instances from 520 on cases has decreased from 792 were found in Punjab; 5,823 in improvement recorded in pre- hazardous level. Dwarka Sector 201 and 300 is considered November 16, high humidity November 12 to just 10 on on November 12 to 105 on Haryana and 2,732 in UP. vious week as levels of harm- 8 and Okhla phase-II were on “poor”, 301-400 “very poor” due to isolated light rains may November 13, while Haryana November 13. There was a decline of ful Suspended Particulate top with overall AQI 558 and and 401-500 “severe”. worsen the situation. had an over four-fold drop As per data, no stubble 12.4 per cent this year as com- Matters (SPMs) were recorded 688 respectively. Mundka, According SAFAR, drizzle “Drizzle (last night) from 68 to 16 instances. burning was detected pared to the last year till date. above 500 for Particulate Punjbai Bagh, Anand Vihar on Thursday night proved delayed the recovery and Uttar Pradesh registered Mahamayanagar, Jyotibaphule UP recorded 41.3 per cent Matter (PM) 10 and 300 plus and RK Puram recorded AQI counter-productive and led to hence, improvement in ar qual- about three-fold decline from have registered an overall Nagar and Varanasi while decline, Haryana recorded for PM 2.5. above 400. formation of secondary parti- ity is now expected only by 210 to 79. The latest figures on decline in the last two days but Agra, Hathras, Mahoba, Mau, 16.26 per cent decline and On Friday also, values of Air quality in Patparganj cles — a situation Delhi wit- November 17,” the SAFAR the basis of satellite imagery now has the dubious distinc- Jaunpur recorded one inci- Punjab recorded 9.3 percent both were recorded 582 and also breached severe category nessed in the first week of said. show that Uttar Pradesh may tion of being ahead of Punjab dent each of farm fire till date. decline of stubble burning. !$#% & investigation of such offences ! " covered under the provisions of " n what could be bad news for the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Ipaedophiles, the CBI has set the Protection of Children up an Online Child Sexual from Sexual Offences Abuse and Exploitation (POCSO) Act and the (OCSAE)Information Technology Act Prevention/Investigation Unit 2000 and under various other in the national Capital under its laws. Special Crime Zone to proac- “Rapid growth of the inter- uring his whirlwind tour tively check child porn and net and information & com- Dto Kolhan, Chief Minister associated crimes through munication tools over the past Raghubar Das attacked former detailed investigation. two decades has created unpar- Chief Minister Shibu Soren The newly-established spe- alleled opportunities for chil- and his family for looting and cialised unit will collect, collate dren and adults alike to learn plundering Jharkhand wealth. and disseminate information and explore the world around He accused Soren family of regarding publication, trans- them. Today, in many coun- looting the land of innocent the Sorens to tell people what ily which they should return mission, creation, collection, tries, these technologies are tribals of the State and asked they have done for welfare of toreal owners.Continued on seeking, browsing, download- ubiquitous — permeating every them to return the land to orig- tribals and claimed that they page 4CM: Soren’s to return ing advertising, promoting, aspect of our lives — personal inal owners. have only used people for vote looted land of tribals. exchanging, distribution of and professional, individual Addressing public meet- bank and filled their coffers. The Chief Minister later information relating to online and social. These technologies ings after BJP candidates Kunal Das said land of Sohrai posted a Tweet on the same child sexual abuse and exploita- have simultaneously created a Sarangi filed his nomination Bhawan in Ranchi and 50 and asked the Sorens to return ( )*+,-. * / ) * tion and probe related crimes. new dimension, wherein the from Bahragora and Menka acres of land in Pakur was ille- looted land. * 01/! /, The unit will also conduct sexual exploitation of children Sardar from Potka, Das dared gally acquired by Soren fam- Continued on page 4 #$% & '$ the ball to Central leadership didates as while selecting the who reached Ranchi today to said, “AJSU party is a political claiming that BJP parliamen- names of candidates the AJSU end the impasse had series of outfit, which has born with tary board will take the final party is going by caste config- meeting with State’s top BJP Jharkhand movement. We have call on alliance with AJSU uration. leadership including Chief to look into aspirations of peo- party. For instance, from Hatia Minister Raghubar Das, elec- ple who had fought for creation The six seats for which the party is fielded Bharat tion co in-charge Nand Kishore of a separate State.” On the issue AJSU party announced their Kashi Sahu with an aim to Yadav and state BJP organiza- of Mathur’s claim that AJSU candidates today includes, divide Sahu vote bank who are tional secretary Dharampal party seats demand has been Majhgoan (Nandlal Birwa), considered as traditional voters Singh and others.