Delhi photos

People at India Gate during the evening amid smog and cold weather conditions in New Delhi. Delhi’s air quality index (AQI) continued to remain in the “severe” category on November 7 for the third consecutive day after entering the red zone for the first time this season on November 5.

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Morning walkers amid smog and cold weather at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on November 1. Delhi is experiencing a fall in minimum temperature in the range of 3-5 degree Celsius below normal since October 31, which has brought the city closer to its first early November “cold wave” in at least 30 years.

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A man crosses a railway track at Nizamuddin on a hazy morning in New Delhi on October 30. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), this October was the coldest Delhi has experienced in 58 years, with the mean minimum temperature for the month settling at 17.2 degrees Celsius.

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A man looks on to a large crowd of shoppers at Sadar Bazar in New Delhi on October 28. With coronavirus (Covid-19) cases on the rise in Delhi, thousands of people are thronging the city’s prominent markets for festive shopping weeks ahead of Diwali, while compromising social distancing norms.

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A man instructs children during a football training session on a hazy morning in New Delhi on October 29. Delhi’s air quality was at its worst this season on October 29 as winds heavy with toxic smoke lingered low over the city, Reuters reported.

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A view of a crowded Sadar Bazar with people flouting social distancing norms, as the festive season nears in New Delhi, on October 28. According to the Indian Health Ministry’s daily health bulletin, Delhi recorded 5,673 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on October 28. This is the highest single-day figure recorded in Delhi until now.

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A volunteer holds up a placard at a traffic junction as part of the “Red Light On, Gaadi Off” initiative against air pollution, at Barakhamba road crossing in New Delhi on October 23.Apart from this, the Delhi government, in early October, started spraying bio decomposer, developed by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), on crop stubble to turn it into manure.

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A comparative view of India Gate on August 22 (left) and October 22 (right) highlighting Delhi’s annual deterioration of air quality closer to winter. Delhi’s air quality slipped to the far end of the “very poor” zone on October 23, raising a belated alarm among the city’s pollution monitoring and enforcement agencies.

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A large crowd is seen amid the coronavirus outbreak in New Delhi on October 19. Delhi on October 21 reported 3,686 new infections, the highest in 26 days, as the number RT-PCR tests continued to rise, touching a new single-day record.

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A faculty member makes arrangements to address students arriving with queries during the admission process for the academic year 2020-21, at Ramjas College in New Delhi on October 12. Admission season has begun at Delhi University (DU) but amid the ‘new normal’ triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic and without the usual campus buzz.

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Dust from construction activity polluting the air around Dhaula Kuan in New Delhi on October 7. The national capital witnesses a spike in the levels of air pollution almost every year during winter due to various conditions including construction activity and the stubble burning in neighbouring states. A seven-point action plan for combating pollution Delhi was announced by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal earlier this week.

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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla conducts proceedings during the opening day of Parliament’s monsoon session amid the coronavirus pandemic at Parliament House in New Delhi on September 14. On the first day of the delayed session, 359 members were present, of which nearly 200 were seated in the Lok Sabha chamber and a little over 30 were seated in the visitors’ gallery, HT reported.

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A Violet Line metro train passes by Lotus Temple as services resume under Unlock 4 guidelines in New Delhi on September 10. Delhi on September 9 reported over 4,000 cases of Covid-19 infection for the first time since the outbreak --taking the capital’s tally past 200,000 and making it the only city in India to breach this mark.

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A health worker wearing PPE coveralls seen inside an enclosed kiosk at AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) in New Delhi on September 8. The Delhi government commissioned a record 54,517 tests for coronavirus disease on a day which led to the registration of 4,039 new cases in the city on September 9.

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A Yellow Line metro train leaves a station following resumption of operations by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in New Delhi on September 7. After being shut for 169 days due to Covid-19, the Delhi Metro on September 7 resumed services, opening limited corridors to passengers, while ensuring that social distancing norms were adhered to.

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Delhi Metro’s Yellow line running between the Arjungarh to Ghitorini Metro Station, in New Delhi on September 7.

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Two rickshaw pullers enjoying a tête-à-tête in Old Delhi’s Chatta Sheikh Mangloo against a backdrop of shuttered store fronts marked with O and E, indicating the opening of shops in markets on an odd-even basis during the waning days of the full lockdown in the capital during the month of May.

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“Delhi’s oldest beacon of history, Qutub Minar where every child went on a school picnic, looks as forlorn and desolate as the lone cyclist pedalling during the first two weeks of the lockdown,” says Parul Sharma, the author of “Dialects of Silence: Delhi Under Lockdown.”

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A worker cleans a metro train coach at Rajiv Chowk Metro Station during a press preview of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s (DMRC) preparedness ahead of metro services resuming in New Delhi, on September 3. The Delhi Metro is all set to resume operations on September 7, after being shut for more than five months due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

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An illustration of the novel coronavirus seen on a slide at a testing centre in New Delhi on September 1. With day-on-day coronavirus cases breaching the 2,000-mark for the third time in a week, Delhi recorded 2,509 new cases on September 2, the highest since July 3 according to the Delhi government’s numbers.

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People in a crowded marketplace at Pandav Nagar following the reopening of weekly markets in the national capital on August 26. Covid-19 cases in Delhi are increasing, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal acknowledged on August 26 at an emergency meeting, where a decision was made to double the number of daily tests from current levels to around 40,000 per day in an effort to catch and isolate more infections.

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A water level meter seen in river Yamuna at Old Iron Bridge in New Delhi on August 25. For the first time in 2020, water levels of the Yamuna have risen to as much as 204.38 metres and close to the river’s warning levels of 204.5 metres.

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A health worker in PPE coveralls collects a swab sample from a woman to test for Covid-19 infection at Adarsh Nagar in New Delhi on August 20. Delhi saw its biggest spike in Covid-19 cases on August 22 where 1,412 cases were reported in the report shared by the health ministry.

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A rainbow over India Gate in New Delhi on August 21. A streak of continuous rain spells in August has brought Delhi’s Air Quality Index (AQI) to below 60 which falls under the ‘satisfactory’ category according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)’s scale.

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A health worker sprays disinfectant as a precautionary measure at Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre in New Delhi on August 17. Almost 30% of 15,000 people surveyed in the Capital had antibodies for the Sars-Cov-2 virus, according to the second serological survey that suggests approximately 1.2 million people more may have silently contracted, and recovered, from Covid-19 between July and early August.

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A man walks under the umbrella at Vijay Chowk on a rainy day in New Delhi on August 13. Delhi witnessed the heaviest rain spell this monsoon season after recording 99.2 mm rainfall, the maximum in the city, during the 24-hour period ending at 8:30am on August 13, PTI reported .

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A health worker shows COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits in New Delhi on August 2. Active cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Delhi dropped below the 10,000 mark for the first time in over two months on August 4, the same day that the number of daily deaths also touched a two-month low — highlighting progress made by the Capital in its fight against the pandemic.

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Beds being prepared at the 450-bed Burari Hospital for Covid-19 patients in New Delhi on July 25. The national capital now has less than 11,000 active cases of Covid-19, a number that is the lowest since June 1, according to data by the Delhi government from July 28. Delhi now also has 42% more beds than it had a month ago, suggesting it is amply prepared in case of a resurgence of cases.

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Patients in a yoga class at the CWG village COVID-19 Care Centre near Akshardham in New Delhi on July 24. Delhi posted 1,075 new Covid 19 cases on July 26, taking the total number of coronavirus virus cases recorded so far in the capital past the 1.3 lakh mark but also managed 1,807 recoveries at the same time.

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Newly elected members of the Rajya Sabha seen at Parliament House during an oath taking ceremony in compliance with social distancing norms on July 22 in New Delhi. Forty five of the sixty one newly elected members of the Upper House were administered the oath of office in a ceremony between sessions of the Parliament against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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