NEW DELHI: The capital's air quality continued to hover in the very poor category on Monday, with an AQI of 301 recorded at 4pm, considered the day's standard reading when Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) releases its national bulletin for the 24-hour average AQI. However, hourly readings were not updated between 10:45 pm on Sunday and Monday noon — CPCB blamed it on a technical glitch — just after a similar AQI data blackout from Sunday noon to 10.45pm on both its website and its Sameer app. As a result, CPCB could shared its daily 4 pm bulletin at only 10:45 pm on Sunday. On Monday, CPCB data showed AQI stuck at 315 in the very poor bracket till noon when it was finally updated to 286 (poor). "Meanwhile, all 39 active stations kept on gathering data of all pollutants. H

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