The data by Central Pollution Control Board during the period showed improved air quality at several busy areas in Hyderabad even though the cold kept a steady grip
All along the main thoroughfares, national highways, many hoardings and banners have been set up extending Sankranti wishes by the BRS party leaders and workers.
The Chief Minister said Sankranti was celebrated by farmers to celebrate the occasion of getting harvested yields to the home and to thank the mother earth.
Every year, in addition to birds and other animals, even people receive severe injuries after coming in contact with kite flying threads that are laced with glass and metal manja.
The division bench of the Telangana High Court accepted the request of the State government to adjourn the MLA poaching case to after the Sankranti vacation.
The Forest department officials urged festival revellers to avoid using synthetic thread coated with glass manja that poses serious threat to the safety of animals, humans.