{"id":48858,"date":"2019-11-04T09:47:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T01:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48858"},"modified":"2019-11-04T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T01:57:02","slug":"authorities-use-air-purifier-to-protect-taj-mahal-from-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48858","title":{"rendered":"Authorities use air purifier to protect Taj Mahal from pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, Nov 4 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Authorities in India&#8217;s Uttar Pradesh state have placed an air purifier at the Taj Mahal to protect the iconic Mughal-era monument in Agra from toxic pollution that has hit northern India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The air purifier vehicle deployed at the famous tourist attraction by the state&#8217;s pollution control department has a capacity to clean 1.5 million cubic metre air in eight hours within a 300-metre radius, Indian media reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 17th century white marble monument, located around 220 kilometres from New Delhi, was built by the emperor Shah Jahan&nbsp;between 1632 and 1654&nbsp;for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taj Mahal for decades has been at the centre of various environmental concerns arising from industrial fumes, dust, and&nbsp;excrement by&nbsp;swarms of insects breeding in the sewage-filled Yamuna river behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays Agra and Delhi are among many north Indian cities in the grip of a dangerous air pollution, which is many times worse than the threshold level considered harmful for human health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Delhi state government on Sunday asked people to avoid outdoor physical activities as air pollution recorded this year&#8217;s worst level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This followed an order on Friday to suspend construction work and shut schools until Tuesday in the national capital region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Nov 4 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Authorities in India&#8217;s Uttar Pradesh state have placed an air purifier at the Taj Mahal to protect the iconic Mughal-era monument in Agra from toxic pollution that has hit northern India. The air purifier vehicle deployed at the famous tourist attraction by the state&#8217;s pollution control department has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":38395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48858"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}