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Delhi, the most polluted city in the world according to the World Health Organisation, was marginally better than last year, but the pollution in the capital is still nine times higher the day after Diwali than on a normal day. On Left, Right and Centre, we ask, should there be a law to ban or limit the sale of firecrackers or would this affect the very spirit of Diwali?<br \/>Watch more videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video?yt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video?yt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air and noise pollution levels touched alarming levels on Diwali despite all the advertisements and pleas by government, as well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-videos","8":"bn-entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Smoke-free Diwali: Should firecrackers be banned? 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