The air quality improved slightly from Tuesday, with the AQI at 294. However, large parts of the city remained enveloped in smog, and the overall air quality continues to be in the ‘poor’ category.

A chartered plane carrying Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party chief Ajit Pawar, flying from Mumbai, Maharashtra, to Baramati crash-landed at 8.45 am on Wednesday morning. As per repport, Pawar was headed to Baramati to attend a public rally for the Zilla Parishad Elections. Further details about the crash are awaited.

Indian politician Ajit Pawar, serving as the 8th Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, died in a plane crash on Wednesday (January 28), as reported by PTI. The politician was travelling with six others on the aircraft, which attempted to land in Baramati during a flight from Mumbai.