City’s air quality likely to be ‘very poor’ today
The Hindu
The air quality in the city deteriorated to the higher end of the “poor” category on Thursday and is expected to worsen to the “very poor” level on Friday, official data showed. The effect of stubble
The air quality in the city deteriorated to the higher end of the “poor” category on Thursday and is expected to worsen to the “very poor” level on Friday, official data showed. The effect of stubble burning has increased and is likely to further go up.
“As predicted by SAFAR, the AQI is now forecasted to degrade to the very poor category by tomorrow and likely to remain so till the next day,” government-run monitoring agency SAFAR (System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research) said in a statement.
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.