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New Delhi: Air quality in the national capital is likely to improve on Friday with an increase in wind speed due to a fresh western disturbance and a dip in farm fires, the Ministry of Earth Sciences' air quality monitor SAFAR said on Wednesday. It is likely to affect northwest India in the next two days, leading to an increase in the wind speed by Friday," SAFAR said. On Wednesday, the air quality index is likely to deteriorate at night but will stay in the 'severe' category. At 3.30 pm, Delhi's overall air quality index read 454. According to weather experts, a fall in the temperature and wind speed led to the accumulation of pollutants..