India’s capital renews firecracker ban to combat pollution

NEW DELHI, Sept 11 (Reuters) – India’s New Delhi has reimposed a ban on firecrackers ahead of the Diwali festival to curb air pollution in the winter, when air quality reaches hazardous levels, the capital city’s environment minister said on Monday. Diwali

Many slums disappear from Delhi ahead of G20 summit

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – When residents of a slum cluster in New Delhi’s Janta Camp area heard that the G20 summit was to be held in the Indian capital, barely 500 metres (yards) from their homes, they expected it would benefit them