Unfortunately not new. This was already being reported on three years ago and as predicted it's only getting worse.

Naturally India can't solve this alone, because it's a global problem, but it definitely couldn't hurt to start taking pollution more seriously.

If India started taking the China path toward switching to electric and cleaning up its environment, the two of them combined would already make a big dent in the problem.

And even if the rest of the world doesn't reduce its carbon output, at least cleaning up the smog over the cities, as China did, can help mitigate some of the worst effects of climate change.