Delhi weather: Light rain in parts of city, air quality ‘moderate’

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May 17, 2025 4:04 pm

Delhi weather: Several parts of Delhi and the national capital region received light rain on Saturday afternoon.

According to the India Meteorological Department, around 1 mm of rainfall was recorded in the city till 3 pm.

Central Delhi, Maharani Bagh, Mayur Vihar, Ghaziabad, and Noida were among the places that received light showers after a cloudy morning.

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Relative humidity was recorded at 55 per cent at 8:30 am.

The minimum temperature was 24.3 degrees celsius, 2.2 notch below the season’s average, the IMD said.

Earlier in the day, the department predicted a thunderstorm accompanied by rain. The maximum temperature is expected to settle around 42 degrees Celsius.

The air quality at 9 am was recorded in the “moderate” category with an Air Quality Index (AQI) reading of 183, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data showed.

According to the CPCB, an AQI between zero and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 to 100 ‘satisfactory’, 101 to 200 ‘moderate’, 201 to 300 ‘poor’, 301 to 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 to 500 ‘severe’.

The Delhi High Court has permitted AAP leader Jasmine Shah to withdraw his petition challenging a city government order restraining him from performing duties as vice chairperson of the Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi in 2022.

“Learned counsel for the petitioner seeks to withdraw the present petition. The same is accordingly dismissed as withdrawn,” said Justice Sachin Datta in an order passed earlier this month. The counsel for the Delhi government told the court that the petition did not survive as the clear stand of the authorities was that Shah had been rightly removed from the position.

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In his petition, Shah challenged the November 17, 2022, order issued by the director (Planning), Delhi government, on the lieutenant governor’s (LG) request to the then chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to remove him from the post of vice chairperson of the Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi (DDCD).

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