Delhi Under Red Alert As Fog And Pollution Cloud Year-End Travel

Delhi woke up on Monday wrapped in a thick, disorienting hush. The kind that slows traffic to a crawl and turns runways into guessing games. By evening, the India Meteorological Department had escalated its warning from orange to red, flagging dense fog conditions severe enough to disrupt air, road, and rail movement across the capital and large swathes of north India. The alert remains in place until Tuesday afternoon, with visibility expected to stay dangerously low through the late morning hours.