There was also no fresh incident of violence and there is a heavy deployment of security personnel
A day after Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh was detained for trying to enter Uttar Pradesh, his son Jayant Chaudhary managed to give police a slip and bypassed the tight security arrangements at the state border in Meerut.
The city's air quality index will fluctuate between the higher end of the "poor" category and the lower end of the "very poor" category, it predicted.
'The most important thing is that medical aid reaches people whenever required.'
In comments that could stoke a controversy, Congress leader Rashid Alvi on Thursday said that communal riots in Muzaffarnagar have left Gujarat far behind.
It is believed that the crop residue burning in the nearby states of Punjab and Haryana are contributing to polluting the air.