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Sanitation workers clean up firecracker debris littering a street on the morning after Diwali celebrations, in Rishikesh. | Photo: PTI
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Firefighters at the site after a fire gutted at least a dozen shops in the historic Nehru Market on Sunday night, in Jammu. | Photo: PTI
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A security official walks near Rashtrapati Bhavan amid a thick layer of smog as air quality deteriorates, in New Delhi. A thick grey haze hung over Delhi on Monday morning, a day after Diwali, reducing visibility and pushing the city's Air Quality Index (AQI) to 370 -- almost in the 'severe' category. | Photo: PTI/Salman Ali
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Motorists drive with their headlights on amid dense smog on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo: PTI
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A layer of smog engulfs the city skyline, in Noida. | Photo: PTI
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Commuters move along a smog-filled street a day after the Diwali festival, in Amritsar, Punjab. | Photo: PTI/Shiva Sharma
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A view of final preparations at a Ganga ghat ahead of the upcoming Chhath Puja festival, in Patna, Bihar. | Photo: PTI
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People feed seagulls along the Yamuna river, in New Delhi. | Photo: PTI
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A woman worships a cow during ‘Gai Tihar’, third day of the five-day Nepali festival of Tihar (also known as Diwali), in Kathmandu, Nepal. | Photo: PTI/Abhishek Maharjan
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Police personnel inspect the wreckage of a passenger bus after it veered off the Lucknow-Agra Expressway, near Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Three people were killed and over 40 others injured. | Photo: PTI
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An aerial view of the Atal Path after a thick layer of smog engulfs an area, a day after the ‘Diwali’ festival celebrations, in Patna. | Photo: PTI
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A vendor walks amid a thick layer of smog, near Sangam in Prayagraj. | Photo: PTI
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Women perform rituals on the Somvati Amavasya, in Prayagraj. | Photo: PTI
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Prashanth Palakurthi, 64, a retired entrepreneur, at the NFL match between New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers, at Gillette Stadium, in Foxboro, Massachusetts, US. | Photo: PTI/Vijay Joshi
