{"id":347377,"date":"2026-01-02T02:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347377\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:17:09","slug":"messi-india-visit-focuses-attention-on-delhi-smog-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347377\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi India visit focuses attention on Delhi smog crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20251224 Air pollution in New Delhi\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleCaption_featureArticleCaption__eXLkj\" data-trackable=\"caption\" style=\"display:block\">People walk\u00a0through New Delhi&#8217;s haze on Nov. 13. The Indian capital\u00a0has long been dogged by pollution that worsens toward\u00a0the end of each year: One estimate suggests breathing the city&#8217;s air for a day in December is as harmful as smoking six cigarettes. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7 FeatureArticleTag_featureArticleTag__Icbk9\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/policy-asia\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Policy Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleSubhead_featureArticleSubhead__9P3Jq\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mod=\"false\">Delhi chief minister slated as efforts to cut pollution fail to make impact in first year in office<\/p>\n<p>KIRAN SHARMA<\/p>\n<p>January 2, 2026 06:00 JST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People walk\u00a0through New Delhi&#8217;s haze on Nov. 13. The Indian capital\u00a0has long been dogged by pollution that worsens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[26962,459,26481,1397,77970,308,134349,90,107011,56,54,55,65913],"class_list":["post-347377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-attention","tag-crisis","tag-delhi","tag-environment","tag-focuses","tag-india","tag-messi","tag-science","tag-smog","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}