The 525.590 km expressway will now have 86.600 km of its length in Gorakhpur-Kushinagar. “The alignment work is underway, and we expect to complete the survey by March,” says Lalit Pal, Project Director, NHAI.

Several monitoring stations across Delhi reported alarming pollution levels. Anand Vihar recorded an AQI of 445, ITO 403, Wazirpur 433, Rohini 424, and Patparganj 424, indicating widespread poor air quality across the city.

Jasjit Kaur is a 2012-batch IAS officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre. She has established herself as a strict and experienced administrator. However, a special court in Moradabad orders the seizure of her government residence due to a long-pending land acquisition compensation case.