Kejriwal arrived in the city on Wednesday late evening, and met the leaders of AAP's Chandigarh unit.
(File)Delhi News Updates: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday wrote a letter to Lt Governor Anil Bajaj, requesting him to allow Chhath Puja celebrations in the national capital. “Neighbouring states like Haryana, UP and Rajasthan have allowed Chhath puja celebrations with Covid-19 protocols,” the letter said.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police is investigating the role of the Pakistan-based terror suspect held in Laxmi Nagar, in terror strikes and bombing cases in Delhi and Kashmir from 2009-2017. A senior police officer said an NIA team, which was investigating the 2011 Delhi High Court bombing case, has interrogated him to ascertain his role in the case: “Ali has identified one of the convicts in the bombing case and said he worked with him. We spoke to NIA and their officers interrogated Ali.”
A Delhi court pulled up Delhi Police officers over lack of coordination and their “confused conduct” in connection with a Northeast Delhi riots case. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat Tuesday directed that a copy of the order be sent to Special Commissioner of Police, Division- I (Law and Order), to ensure better coordination between police officers and prosecution and for effective prosecution of riots cases.
With social gatherings restricted and a ban on the sale, storage and use of crackers, Ravana effigy makers in the city say that their sales have been poor for a second consecutive year.
“The business is down. Unless there is a prior booking, we are only making smaller effigies of five or ten or 20 feet size. Bada order nahi mila iss bar (Did not get orders for larger effigies this year). In the last month, I have sold only one 30 feet effigy. There is a restriction on social gatherings and the scale of Ramlila in the city is not what it used to be during the pre-pandemic time,” said Rinku Raj, a bamboo chick maker, who has been making effigies in Sector 14 since 2014.
“In the last two days, the demand has picked up from villages at Manesar, Pachgaon, Nathupur and some residential colonies, but revenue is considerably lower than earlier,” added Raj.
CBSE will release the date sheet of its first-term board exams, which are scheduled for November-December, on October 18.
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation will have to plant 150 trees within ten days on the eastern side of the Blind School flyover towards Panj Peeran graveyard for not complying with an order directing it to file a status report in a contempt case, the Delhi High Court has said in an order.
The court has passed similar orders in at least three cases since earlier this month and ordered the plantation of trees in different areas of Delhi as a cost against state agencies or officials for not filing replies in time to the litigations filed by citizens.
Over 43,000 trees have been planted in the Central Ridge alone in the past two years by the Forest Department pursuant to the court orders in which the parties were asked to plant trees or pay the cost for buying the trees. More details here.
A Delhi court has framed charges of rioting and arson against nine accused in a February 2020 riots case, saying that it would be a “miscarriage of justice” to throw out the prosecution's case merely because the statements of the public witnesses were recorded after a delay.
According to PTI, Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat said that the delay in recording statements of the witnesses by the police was not deliberate or contumacious and was occasioned on account of the situation which prevailed in Delhi's northeast area during and after the alleged rioting.
The nine accused were allegedly part of the unlawful assembly and caused damage, looted properties worth crores of rupees, burnt a large number of houses, shops, schools, and vehicles on February 25, 2020, as per the police. It relied on the statements of four public witnesses.
Over a month after the economic offences wing of Gurgaon police had arrested three persons for allegedly conning several aspiring cricketers in return for a spot in domestic, state and IPL cricket teams, the cops on Wednesday held two more persons, including a cricketer from West Bengal who had played at the U-19 level, in the case.
The arrested have been identified as Danish Mirza and Anurag, accused of taking Rs 4 lakh from an aspiring cricketer by offering him a spot as a bowler for an IPL team through their ‘connections’, said the police. Read more
Six days after a 21-year-old fourth year college student was shot dead allegedly by another student near the parking area of SGT University in Budhera, the police Thursday said they have arrested the shooter.
Pankhil alias Lucky, a law student, was arrested by the crime branch in Sector 10. Preliminary probe has found out that he has a criminal background. Read more
Quashing a case of stalking and sexual harassment against a man on the basis of the settlement arrived between him and the victim, the Delhi High Court has directed the person to do community service at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital for a month from October 15. It also imposed a cost of Rs 35,000 on the accused. Read more
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal writes to LG Anil Baijal, who is the Delhi Disaster Management Authority chairperson, requesting him to grant permission to hold Chhath celebrations in the city.
The Gurgaon police on Thursday busted a fake call centre operating from a building on Golf Course in sector 69. The police said the call centre used to con Canadians and Australians by forcing them to purchase gift cards after threatening to block their social security numbers.
The police have booked three people, who were allegedly running the call centre, though no arrests were made since no one was found at the premises at the time of a raid. Read more
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday met former prime minister Manmohan Singh, who has been admitted to the AIIMS here after complaining of weakness following a fever, and enquired about his health.
'Singh's condition is stable,' a doctor at the hospital said. In a tweet in Hindi, Mandaviya said that he met former prime minister Manmohan Singh at AIIMS, New Delhi and enquired about his health. The health minister wished Singh a speedy recovery. ---PTI
Two doctors were allegedly harassed and assaulted by a group of people inside Kuber Hospital and Urology Centre in Northwest Delhi’s Pitampura area Wednesday after a newborn baby died when an emergency C-section was performed on a woman, said the police.
The police said the assailants were the family members of the woman who had come to visit her. Enraged by the death of the baby, they attacked the doctors, said the police. Read more
The Delhi BJP will launch ‘Jhuggi Samman Yatra’ Friday on the occasion of Vijayadashami to reach out to slum dwellers in the city ahead of the corporation polls. Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta said that in the first phase of the campaign, BJP workers will cover 33 Assembly segments between October 15 and November 29.
The campaign will begin from Moti Nagar Assembly constituency, he said. Read more
The Delhi Prisons Department suspended 30 Tihar jail officials and terminated the services of two contractual employees for allegedly colluding with former Unitech promoters Ajay Chandra and Sanjay Chandra inside the jail.
The Chandra brothers have been accused of violating jail norms and running an underground office with the help of jail staff. Read more
ne person died and four others were injured after a bus fell from a flyover in Ghaziabad on Wednesday night. According to officials, the private bus was ferrying passengers to Noida when the incident took place. The injured persons are currently being treated in a nearby hospital, police said.
“We received information that a bus has toppled from a flyover at Bhatia Mod. Prima facie, it appears that the bus lost control. There were few passengers in the bus. One person died due to fatal injuries and other have been rushed to the hospital. Further investigation is pending,” said a senior Ghaziabad police official. Read more
Delhi on Wednesday recorded 31 new cases of and zero deaths, the city’s health department said. The positivity rate stood at 0.05 per cent. The cumulative tally for Covid-19 cases in the national capital has now climbed up to 14,39,283, while the death toll is at 25,089. So far in October, only 2 covid-related deaths have been recorded and there are 338 active cases in the city.
Days after a nine-year-old boy went missing from his home, his body was found inside a plastic bag in a neighbourhood in Dwarka.
Police said his family lives in Uttam Nagar and they had lodged a complaint Monday stating that the boy was missing. On Wednesday afternoon, his body was found inside a house in Uttam Nagar with injury marks on neck and other parts. Read more
The Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry at AIIMS has launched a dental health education app for children to help them develop good oral health practices.
The “Healthy Smile” app is a bilingual app—developed through the AIIMS intermural research grant—has features such as a musical 2-minute brushing timer with “motivational songs”, brushing demonstration videos, preventive dental care tips, oral care tips for pregnancies, and FAQs. Read more
The South MCD is yet to reinstate around 500 contract teachers who lost their jobs over the past few months even as the North MCD has re-hired 667 teachers that it had removed.
The issue has become latest flash point between AAP and BJP with AAP leader Atishi saying that Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia will now try to get them their job back under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). Read more
A day after a was arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell from East Delhi, police said they have written to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to join the probe. The man, Mohd Ashraf Ali, was arrested Monday night from Laxmi Nagar’s Ramesh Park where he was allegedly living under a false name. Read more
Three students from Afghanistan who have completed their Master’s from JNU this year are requesting the University to create supernumerary seats for foreign students in PhD programmes on “humanitarian grounds” to ease the continuation of their study and stay in India.
The three students have been recipients of ICCR scholarships and have written the JNU entrance examination to PhD programmes and are awaiting the results. Read the full report here.
Delhi on Wednesday recorded 31 new cases of Covid-19 and zero deaths, the city’s health department said. The positivity rate stood at 0.05 per cent. The cumulative tally for Covid-19 cases in the national capital has now climbed up to 14,39,283, while the death toll is at 25,089.
In the last few years, B.A. (Honours) Political Science has emerged as one of the most popular draws for students seeking admission in undergraduate programmes at Delhi University. It is reflected in the high cut-offs for the programme across colleges and seats being filled to capacity early. In this year’s admissions, two colleges—Hindu College and Ramjas College—had a 100% first cut-off for the programme and 10 colleges had a first cut-off of 99% or above. Admissions for unreserved seats in the programme closed in 13 colleges. Last year, it was one of the courses for which Lady Shri Ram College for Women had set a 100% cut-off and the highest first cut-off of 2019 was for B.A. (Honours) Political Science at Hindu College. Read the full report here.
North East Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari has written a letter to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and said that had his government been serious about holding Chhath puja, it would have asked for directions from the Union health ministry in September itself before announcing the ban. Read more
The Greater Noida Authority (GNIDA) has launched a ‘Dastak’ Abhiyan’ to carry out measures against communicable diseases.
GNIDA has formed 36 teams that will be involved in spraying and fogging in the target areas to prevent diseases like malaria, dengue among others. Read more
The Delhi High Court has sent a 16-year-old ‘rape survivor’ to a government shelter home and handed the custody of her child to his biological father, who is accused by the teenager’s family of rape.
The court last month granted bail to the accused, a 19-year-old Hindu, after the minor girl, a Muslim, gave a statement that it was a consensual relationship and that she had married him out of her own will and that there was no coercion. The order was passed on Wednesday in the bail application moved by the accused through his counsel Dushyant Yadav. Read more
The Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) sub-committee for operationalization of Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) has decided that from October 15, restrictions that are usually imposed when the air quality in the NCR region hits the very poor category, will be imposed from Friday itself.
At present, the AQI in Delhi and adjoining regions is in the moderate category, which is between 100 and 200 on the CPCB’s Air Quality Monitoring scale. Read suggestions
The Delhi Police arrested a 21-year-old man, who allegedly fired bullets outside PVR Cinemas in Delhi’s Saket last Thursday, from the Mukundpur area with a pistol on Tuesday.
The accused, Nikhil Wadhwa (21), went to a kiosk outside PVR Saket late on October 7 and fired at two men. The police said nobody was injured and Nikhil has been booked for attempted murder. Read more
As part of its emphasis on ‘digital governance’, the CBSE has introduced an integrated payment system (IPS) for disbursing various payments to its functionaries.
The system has been developed to pay honorariums of approximately 10 lakh faculty members who are involved in the conduct of public examinations such as the board examinations and the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET), and around 10,000 principals and administrators appointed for inspection of schools for affiliation and upgrade. Read more
Over the past two months, the Delhi government and the municipal corporations have come out with stringent guidelines for spas in the city, including the requirement that massage therapists and clients be of the same gender, a move which spa owners and workers termed restrictive and discriminatory.
Civic body officials estimate that there are between 2,000 and 2,400 spas and massage parlours operating across the city, of which only half have licenses while others operate illegally. Read more
n a bid to reduce the pressure on Delhi’s landfills, the North and East MCDs will only collect segregated waste from households under its jurisdiction starting November 1. North MCD commissioner Sanjay Goel said: “After November 1, we will initially stop collecting waste that is not segregated. Later, we will impose fines on violators.” Read more
Delhi’s air quality has dipped over the past week, going by data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Stubble burning, meanwhile, appears to have begun over parts of Punjab and Haryana, going by fire spots mapped by NASA. However, the data from Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) indicate less number of fires this year in Punjab and Haryana compared to the same period over the last five years, indicating a delayed stubble burning season.
Delhi on Tuesday recorded 34 new cases of Covid-19 and zero deaths, the city’s health department said. The positivity rate stood at 0.06 percent. The cumulative tally for Covid-19 cases in the national capital has now climbed up to 14,39,252, while the death toll is at 25,089.
At CR Park’s Kali Mandir, the pandals and the idols were just as ornate as ever. However, instead of walking around, visitors could only enter in a line, pay their respects, and leave in a line.
Boundaries to ensure that visitors come and go in a line along with a separate entrance and exit were in place, while sanitisers were at the entry point.
Driving licences and vehicle registration certificates in Delhi will soon be equipped with QR codes to allow for linking and validating the information with the Sarathi and Vahan web-based databases. Read more
The Delhi Police’s Crime Branch has initiated a probe against 32 Tihar jail officials and former promoters of Unitech Ltd Sanjay Chandra and Ajay Chandra for allegedly “colluding” inside the jail, said police Tuesday.
Police have booked them under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the IPC. Read more
Two women activists of the All India Students’ Association have alleged they were manhandled and their clothes pulled by the Delhi Police on October 10 during a protest outside the Home Minister’s residence against the Lakhimpur Kheri violence.A protest called by several women’s and student organisations at the Police HQ will be held Wednesday demanding that personnel responsible be punished. Read more