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Delhi Shuts Schools, Mulls Curbs on Cars Over Dirty Air

  • City records third straight day of world’s most noxious air
  • Northern Punjab state seeks to curb crop stubble burning
India Gate amid heavy smog in New Delhi on Nov. 3.

India Gate amid heavy smog in New Delhi on Nov. 3.

Photographer: Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images

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India’s capital city is shutting schools and considering curbs on private cars as air quality remained hazardous for the third consecutive day.

“We are shutting primary schools in Delhi from tomorrow till the air quality improves,” Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said at a briefing Friday. The government is also considering some restrictions on plying of private cars, where it allows vehicles with license plates ending with odd and even numbers to run on alternate days, as part of steps to help lower vehicular pollution.