Dip in surgeries, delayed diagnosis, treatment: Cancer care hit since outbreak of pandemic
Two years of the pandemic have severely hampered cancer treatment, resulting in a delay in seeking care and diagnosis, surgeries being pushed back, and patients discontinuing treatment, said experts this World Cancer Day.
“When there is a surge, and related lockdowns or hospital closures for other treatments, patients who have already been diagnosed and are under treatment falter, miss schedules, and sometimes completely give up treatment. We have seen that compliance falls in such situations. Then, there are patients who have symptoms but do not or cannot seek timely care. By the time they are diagnosed, they are at advanced stages of cancer and the prognosis is poorer,” said Dr Prashant Mathur, director of ICMR’s National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research.
Mystery of 3,005 logs found buried at Delhi Golf Club remains unsolved
The Crime Branch’s probe into the alleged illegal cutting of trees at the Delhi Golf Club (DGC) appears to have hit a dead end, after the Forest Research Institute (FRI) in Dehradun said the number of trees that were cut down and their age can’t be determined based on the 3,005 logs found buried on the premises.
Members of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), All India Students’ Association (AISA) and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) protested at Delhi University’s (DU) North Campus on Monday demanding that the university be reopened for students and classes be conducted offline.
In an order last week, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) had permitted all educational institutions to reopen with 100% attendance while following Covid-appropriate behaviour. While Jawaharlal Nehru University, a central university like DU, reopened on Monday, a final decision on reopening the latter is still pending. Read More
DEFERRING THE hearing of a case seeking criminalisation of marital rape to February 21, the Delhi High Court on Monday granted the Centre two weeks to place its final stand on the issue before it and told the government that it does not gel with it as a court to keep the matter pending. The legal question has remained undecided before the court since 2015.
The government last week had urged the court to defer the proceedings in the matter to await the outcome of a consultative process with various stakeholders. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta reiterated the government request on Monday and said the legal question should not be treated merely a question of constitutional validity. Read More
Professor Ajay Kumar Dubey of the Centre for African Studies appointed new JNU Rector, just hours after the new VC Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit took charge. An office order in this regard has been issued by the Registrar, and the decision is likely to be ratified in an Emergency Executive Council meeting called at 4 PM tomorrow.
Activists of the Students' Federation of India have alleged they were detained from outside the DU VC office around half an hour ago.
However, a senior police official said students were removed, not detained. "A group of students were protesting outside the VC office. The staff called us to remove the students. They dispersed before we even reached. We haven't detained anyone," he said.
DEFERRING THE hearing of a case seeking criminalisation of marital rape to February 21, the Delhi High Court on Monday granted the Centre two weeks to place its final stand on the issue before it and told the government that it does not gel with it as a court to keep the matter pending. The legal question has remained undecided before the court since 2015.
The government last week had urged the court to defer the proceedings in the matter to await the outcome of a consultative process with various stakeholders. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta reiterated the government request on Monday and said the legal question should not be treated merely a question of constitutional validity. Read More
The Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) Monday said they have completed the expansion work at the Delhi Airport’s T1 arrival terminal. Domestic passengers at the airport will soon be able to experience the 800-square metre arrival hall with VIP lounges, galleries, better food courts and parking space.
Under the Phase 3A expansion project, the terminal has been built to cater to 100-140 million passengers per year. Currently, the terminal capacity is 60-100 million. Read More
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been granted a 21-day furlough by the Haryana government’s jail administration to meet his family in Gurgaon, officials said on Monday. Gurmeet Ram Rahim, who is in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail after being convicted in cases of rape and murder, has been granted the furlough from February 7 till February 27.
The dera chief will be released from jail on Monday after which he will go to his residence in Gurgaon. Pavneet Singh Chadha writes
Schools across Delhi reopened for senior students after more than a month on Monday, but the continuation of the ‘hybrid mode’ means that bus services and mid-day meals are not yet back.
Though schools have opened and closed several times since the start of the pandemic, at least for students in senior classes, bus services have not resumed. A handful of schools tried to reintroduce the service in November but could not do so because of repeated closures in that month and December. Read More
On Day 1 of reopening, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia interacts with students at a school in the capital. See more pics here
Delhi on Monday reported 1,151 new Covid cases, a drop from 1,410 on the previous day, and 15 fatalities with a test positivity rate of 2.62 per cent.
JNU VC Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit released first statement after taking charge. She said, “JNU will strive to implement NEP 2020″ as per the vision of the PM Narendra Modi and ‘the focus would be in constructing Indo-centric narratives’.”
The Supreme Court Monday refused to interfere with the Delhi High Court verdict which had dismissed a plea by Swami Chakrapani, who claims to be the national president of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM), seeking to direct the Election Commission to recognise the list of office bearers under his leadership and allow them to participate in assembly polls in some states.
"You are fighting amongst yourselves, what can be done," a bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and J K Maheshwari observed while hearing the matter.
"We find no grounds to interfere with the impugned judgement and order," the bench said.
The apex court passed the order on Chakrapani's plea against the September last year verdict of a division bench of the high court which had dismissed his appeal against a single judge order. (PTI)
The Supreme Court Monday refused to interfere with the Delhi High Court verdict which had dismissed a plea by Swami Chakrapani, who claims to be the national president of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM), seeking to direct the Election Commission to recognise the list of office bearers under his leadership and allow them to participate in assembly polls in some states.
"You are fighting amongst yourselves, what can be done," a bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and J K Maheshwari observed while hearing the matter.
"We find no grounds to interfere with the impugned judgement and order," the bench said.
The apex court passed the order on Chakrapani's plea against the September last year verdict of a division bench of the high court which had dismissed his appeal against a single judge order. (PTI)
Scores of students held a protest outside the office of Delhi University's vice-chancellor on Monday demanding immediate reopening of the campus, days after the Delhi Disaster Management Authority gave its nod to resumption of offline teaching in the capital.
The students hung an ''Out of Service'' placard on the gate of the VC office. The demonstration was organised by the Students' Federation of India (SFI). The SFI said over 400 students took part in the "gherao".
"The frustration of students is quite evident. You can see it on their faces, hear it in their voices. The VC must address the situation in the next two days or else we would have to break the locks on our classrooms ourselves," said Ankit Birpali, SFI Hindu College Secretary.
Other student and teacher organisations also extended support of the protest, claimed the student body. (PTI)
Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit will be the first woman Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University with the Ministry of Education (MoE) appointing her to the top post on Monday. Pandit is currently a political science professor at the Savitribai Phule University in Maharashtra. The 59-year-old Pandit is also an alumna of JNU where she pursued her MPhil as well as PhD in International Relations. "President Ram Nath Kovind, who is Visitor to the University, has approved the appointment of Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit as JNU Vice Chancellor. Her appointment is for a period of five years," a senior MoE official said.
Pandit began her teaching career from Goa University in 1988 and moved to Pune University in 1993. She has held administrative position in various academic bodies. She has also been a member of the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and Visitor's nominee to central universities. (With PTI)
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) has released the result of the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) and ISC exams 2022 on February 7. The result will be announced at 10 am. Students who appeared for the exam can check the result at cisce.org, results.cisce.org. The respective schools can also check the result of the students on the Careers portal of the Council.
This year, the council divided the academic year into two terms and separate exams at the end of both terms. The result declared will not categorise any student as pass or fail and will just indicate the marks that the student has scored in each subject. The student will be declared pass or fail only after the conduction of the second-semester exams.
The ICSE semester 1 exams were conducted from November 29 to December 16 while the ISC exams were conducted from November 22 and concluded on December 20. The first semester exams included multiple-choice questions. The second semester will be conducted in March-April 2022.
Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has declared ICSE and ISC class 10 and 12 Semester 1 results today. The result can be checked on cisce.org
Outgoing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) vice-chancellor and newly appointed University Grants Commission (UGC) chairman M Jagadesh Kumar Monday penned a farewell note to teachers, students and staff at JNU.Kumar wished them a bright future and said as the VC, he "tried to be available to all stakeholders".
Kumar's tenure was marked by a constant tussle between the administration and students and teachers.In a separate note, he welcomed the appointment of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) professor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit as the first female VC of JNU. "I am handing over the charge to her today and wish her success in her new role," he said.
At least 12 shanties were gutted after a fire broke out in Behrampur village near Sector 69 on Monday morning. Fire department officials suspect a short to be the cause of fire, while saying that no loss of life was reported. The officials added the incident was reported at 7.20 am, following which two fire tenders from the Sector 29 fire station were rushed to the sopt.
Delhi's Parliament Street and Tughlak Road police stations will soon be revamped to highlight their historical significance and connections to freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, officials said on Sunday.
The two police stations, which are drenched in multicolour lights every night, will soon have posters with quotes of Singh and Gandhi, reminding people about their contributions to the Indian freedom struggle. Police officials said the idea is to celebrate the two legends and create awareness among people about their history associated with the police stations. (With PTI)
Schools in the national capital will reopen for classes 9 to 12 from Monday after a spurt in COVID-19 cases had led to their closure in December, even as stakeholders debated the continuing of hybrid teaching and learning mode.
On Monday and Tuesday, the Air Quality Index (AQI) is likely to be in the ‘very poor’ category, and could improve on Wednesday with the expected rainfall, according to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) forecasting system.
Delhi will have a sunny day and clear skies throughtout the day on Monday with shallow fog in the morning. The IMD forecast indicates that the maximum temperature is likely to be 25 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature could be 6 degrees Celsius. Over the past 24 hours, the maximum temperature was 24.2 degrees Celsius, a few notches higher than the maximum temperatures recorded last week. The minimum temperature recorded early on Monday was 8.8 degrees Celsius.
Another western disturbance is likely to affect Northwest India from the night of February 8 and could bring overcast skies and light rainfall to Delhi on February 9, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Western disturbances are storms that bring winter rainfall. A western disturbance had brought rainfall, cloudy skies, and lower than normal daytime temperatures to Delhi last week as well.
Various students organisations will stage protests to demand the reopening of the Delhi University (DU), after the Delhi Disaster Management Authority's (DDMA) gave a go-ahead to resumption of offline teaching in higher educational institutions from Monday.
The student outfits said the campus has been closed for almost two years now and as a result, the "standard of education has gone down". Despite the DDMA giving a go-ahead to the reopening of higher educational institutions from Monday, the DU has not issued any notification for the reopening of the campus. Officials have said the university will open in a few days and they will formulate a strategy in this regard.
The student unions, including the right-wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the Left-affiliated All India Students' Association (AISA), have said they will protest against the DU authorities for not opening the campus immediately.
Authorities at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) permitted schools and centres to resume offline teaching and learning activities for students from Monday. On the other hand, Delhi University has issued an order stating that online teaching and learning activities will continue.
The new order from JNU comes after the Delhi Disaster Management Authority Friday allowed higher educational institutes to resume physical teaching and learning activities amid declining Covid cases in the national capital. Crucially, an education department official said that the requirement for institutes to maintain 50% of classroom or laboratory capacity at any given time will be done away with.
Meanwhile at DU, all non-teaching staff of departments and colleges have been asked to be present at their workplaces on all working days with immediate effect. “The online teaching and learning activities shall continue for all other academic programmes as per the notified Academic Calendar,” the order read.
While Delhi has been recording a consistent decline in the number of Covid cases and positivity rate for the past two weeks, the number of deaths has seen a slight dip over the past six days.
According to data from the government, in a period of nine days (January 26 to February 3), the city saw 256 Covid deaths. Of these, 70 were caused by the virus while the rest happened to test positive after being admitted to hospitals for another illness or had co-morbidities.
Between January 13 and February 3, the city saw 691 Covid deaths — 152 from the infection, 530 were incidental or had co-morbid conditions such as kidney, liver and respiratory diseases, diabetes, and cancer. Nine deaths were from other causes (admitted to RTA/ trauma/burn, etc).
The Delhi Police arrested two more persons, including an autorickshaw driver, in connection with the Shahdara rape-assault case.
On January 26, a young woman was abducted, allegedly gangraped by her neighbours, and paraded on the streets. The accused also allegedly assaulted the woman with weapons and blackened her face. Several videos of the incident went viral on social media where the family can be seen thrashing and harassing the victim inside their homes and on the streets.
Their motive was personal enmity. Police said the family held her responsible for the death of one of their relatives – a teenager who was allegedly stalking the woman and proposed to her, which she rejected. Read more
The strike by medical staff and doctors at the East Delhi Municipal Corporation’s Swami Dayanand Hospital, who have been protesting against salary delays for the past six days, ended on Sunday.
A senior official of the East MCD said a meeting was held with union officials of Group A, B, C and D employees and it was conveyed to them that if they return to work, then no disciplinary action would be taken against anyone and their demands would be considered sympathetically.
Post this, the official said, the unions decided that the strike should be ended immediately and staff return to work. Read more
Daily Covid cases in Delhi continued to decline, with 1,410 new infections being reported on Sunday. The positivity rate was recorded at 2.45 per cent. The city had reported 1,604 cases at a positivity rate of 2.87 per cent on Saturday.
With the number of cases declining at a rapid pace, hospital occupancy has also dipped. According to Sunday’s health bulletin, only 6.32 per cent of the 15,416 hospital beds were occupied.
Of the 975 suspected Covid patients admitted in hospitals across the city, 913 have been confirmed with the infection. Of these, 401 are admitted in the ICUs and 95 are in ventilator support. Read more
The Delhi BJP on Sunday symbolically "sealed" a liquor shop situated near a temple in Moti Nagar by putting a lock on the premises and demanded that the Kejriwal government shut all "illegal" liquor vends in the national capital. This comes two days after the state unit of BJP threatened to seal liquor vends situated in residential areas, near schools and religious places if the Arvind Kejriwal government fails to shut down these shops within the next 48 hours.
Addressing the media in front of the liquor shop in west Delhi, BJP's Delhi unit president Adesh Gupta accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of "supporting the liquor mafia. I want to tell Kejriwal that he should shut all the liquor shops that he has opened to benefit liquor mafia immediately," he said.
"If you will not take any action, the BJP workers and leaders would seal these shops situated near residential areas, religious places, schools," he warned. (PTI)
Authorities at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi permitted schools and centres to resume offline teaching and learning activities for students from Monday.
This comes after the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Friday allowed higher education institutes to resume physical teaching and learning activities amid declining cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the national capital. Read More
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said with the demise of singing legend Lata Mangeshkar, an era of music in India has ended. "The demise of 'swar kokila' of India Lata Mangeshkar is the end of an era of music in India. Her melodious voice will remain immortalised among us and in the entire world. I pray to God to give the departed soul a place at his feet," Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi.
Mangeshkar (92), one of the biggest music icons of the country, died due to multiple organ failure at a Mumbai hospital earlier in the day.
Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar has been shifted to another jail in Tihar while three officials, including two assistant superintendents, have been sent to the district lines of the jail headquarters after authorities found that one of them allegedly received Rs 1.25 lakh from Sukesh.
An initial probe revealed that instead of transferring the money directly, Sukesh allegedly sent it via a bank account of an inmate’s brother. Read More
To provide last-mile connectivity and curb pollution, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will purchase 1,000 electric scooters under its app-based scooter rental project for the general public that has been delayed due to Covid-19. The e-scooters will be set up in two phases at around 100 locations in the New Delhi area.
In the first phase, 500 e-scooter will be set up at 50 charging stations in a public-private partnership (PPP) model outside metro stations, bus stops, hospitals, railway stations and other public places from where people can rent them out for last-mile connectivity, said NDMC vice-chairman Shri Upadhyay. Tenders have been floated for the first phase, added Upadhyay.
A fire broke out inside the courtroom of an Additional Sessions Judge at Karkardooma court early on Sunday. No casualties were reported, but several court documents and furniture were gutted.
It is suspected that a short circuit near the courtroom led to the fire which later spread to the corridor. Officials said the fire spread to two different floors of the same court building and several teams were rushed to douse the blaze.
According to the Delhi Fire Services (DFS), they received a call around 3.25 am about a fire in court no. 52 at Karkardooma Court, CBD Shahdara. Twelve fire tenders were deployed and 50 firemen worked for over two hours to control the blaze.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will Sunday take out a march in all wards of Delhi demanding action against BJP councillor Manju Khandelwal for giving away land that was earlier used to dump waste to an NGO owned by her husband.
AAP senior leader and MCD In-charge Durgesh Pathak said the Bharatiya Janata Party leader is giving land to its members for free using non-governmental organisations as a medium. This is completely unethical, he said.
“All the three leaders of opposition and AAP councillors will raise awareness about the corruption throughout Delhi. The AAP had raised the matter during a North MCD session; forget about action, BJP leaders ran away from the discussion. The AAP will keep protesting against the BJP until action is taken against the accused,” he said.
The updated Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) guidelines might have done away with the 50 per cent cap for classroom learning but reopening directives continue to ask them to be cautious in the wake of Covid-19.
Education institutions in the city are allowed to reopen for students of classes 9 and above from Monday and for nursery to class 8 from February 14, emphasizing that the ‘hybrid mode’ of teaching-learning is to continue in schools. Hybrid mode essentially means that students will have the option not to attend offline classes and schools will have to arrange online classes for them. (More here)
The weather office has predicted dense fog conditions in the capital for Sunday. The maximum and the minimum temperatures are expected to settle around 21 and 8 degrees Celsius respectively.
The maximum temperature in the national capital was recorded at 19.5 degrees Celsius on Saturday, four notches below the season's average, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
According to the IMD, several parts of the city witnessed dense fog in the morning and the minimum temperature settled at 6.9 degrees Celsius, two notches below normal. The visibility at the Safdarjung observatory, which provides representative data for the city, was 100 metres at 8.30 am. Visibility at the Palam observatory was 50 metres.
The Delhi government has instructed all district magistrates to review Covid-related expenditure and procurement along with allied relief activities and submit a report at the earliest.
A report by the districts for 2019-20 and 2020-21, would include expenses on tentage, ex gratia, food, vehicles, civil defence volunteers remuneration and others and submitted to the Revenue department headquarter at the earliest, said an order issued earlier this week. It has also instructed all the district magistrates to seek financial sanctions adhering to procedures laid down in general financial rules, citing many such proposals were improperly drafted.
The district magistrates have also been instructed to seek timely administrative approval of competent authority before awarding work to bidders. (With PTI)
Most gym and spa owners in the national capital have said they will open their establishments from Monday ensuring that all COVID-19 protocols are in place and sanitisation of the premises is conducted properly. The Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) had on Friday announced the reopening of gyms after over a month of being shut on account of rising COVID-19 cases in the city.
The decision comes as a sigh of relief for fitness centre owners who have been staging protests and urging the government to allow them to resume businesses which have registered a major slump due to successive coronavirus-induced lockdowns. Owners of gyms in the city welcomed the state government's decision, saying it will help five lakh families survive the pandemic.
A 58-year-old man engrossed in his mobile phone slipped from a Delhi Metro station platform and fell onto the rail tracks, but was rescued by CISF personnel on patrol duty, officials said on Saturday.
The incident took place at platform no. 2 of the Shahdara metro station on Friday around 7.30 pm, they said, adding that the man sustained minor injuries.
"Constable Rothash Chandra of the CISF's quick reaction team acted swiftly and stepped down on the metro track and pulled the passenger out of the track, before arrival of the metro train. The passenger sustained minor scratches on the leg," a CISF spokesperson said. (PTI)
Most gym and spa owners in the national capital have said they will open their establishments from Monday ensuring that all Covid-19 protocols are in place and sanitisation of the premises is conducted properly.
The Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) had on Friday announced the reopening of gyms after over a month of being shut on account of rising Covid-19 cases in the city.
The decision comes as a sigh of relief for fitness centre owners who have been staging protests and urging the government to allow them to resume businesses which have registered a major slump due to successive coronavirus-induced lockdowns. (PTI)
The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has reiterated its push for industries in the National Capital Region (NCR) to switch to Piped Natural Gas (PNG) or biomass fuel.
In an order issued recently, the CAQM said that industries in the NCR which have not shifted to PNG or biomass fuel, despite the availability of natural gas infrastructure and supply, are to switch over completely by September 30, “failing which such industries shall be closed down and not permitted to schedule operations thereafter.”
Early in December, the commission had restricted operations of such industries not running on PNG or cleaner fuel to eight hours per day for five days a week, on account of deteriorating air quality in the NCR. These restrictions were in place till Friday, when the CAQM lifted them.
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Sir Ganga Ram Hospital has told the Delhi High Court that there are no laws or legal proceedings in the country to release frozen samples of an unmarried male to his legal heirs, in response to a petition seeking the release of a frozen semen sample of a 30-year-old, who died of cancer in 2020, to his parents.
“The sample is still kept cryopreserved at the centre of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and respondent is not in a position to release the semen sample to petitioner in the absence of any guidelines/regulations or directions,” the health institute told the court in response to the petition filed by a couple, who are in their 60s.
In June 2020, their son was diagnosed with cancer and other health problems. The patient was told by doctors that due to treatment, his capacity to produce sperm and its fertility level can deteriorate in future. The semen was subsequently preserved in the IVF lab at the hospital in June 2020. In September, he died.
In June 2020, their son was diagnosed with cancer and other health problems. The patient was told by doctors that due to treatment, his capacity to produce sperm and its fertility level can deteriorate in future. The semen was subsequently preserved in the IVF lab at the hospital in June 2020. In September, he died.
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Three men were arrested for allegedly robbing a tempo driver in northwest Delhi's Shalimar Bagh area, police said on Saturday.
The accused has been identified as Karan (18), Raghav (20) and Gulshan (25), all residents of Sahipur, they said, adding the three are childhood friends.
On Thursday, police received information about a person admitted to a hospital due to a stab injury, police said.
During enquiry, the injured person said he was going towards Madhuban Chowk from Badli in his tempo. He stopped his vehicle near a petrol pump in Haiderpur as it started raining, a senior police officer said. Three persons came on a scooter, threatened him with a knife and tried to rob him. When he resisted, one of them stabbed him in the stomach and others took away his mobile phone and wallet, Deputy Commissioner of Police (northwest) Usha Rangnani said.
The three then fled the spot, she added. (PTI)
With schools gearing up to reopen for classes 9 to 12 from Monday, authorities have inoculated 82 per cent of adolescents in Delhi with the first dose since the exercise to vaccinate them against coronavirus commenced on January 3.
According to official data, 8.33 lakh adolescents have received the first dose and 0.39 lakh have been jabbed with the second dose.
Delhi has around 10.14 lakh beneficiaries in the 15-18 age group.
According to officials, 95 per cent of government school students have been vaccinated, while 73 per cent of students of aided school students have received at least one dose. Sixty-two per cent of private school students have been inoculated with at least one dose. (PTI)
The Delhi government on Saturday announced that polling days in Uttar Pradesh would be paid holidays for the people from that state employed in the national capital so that they can exercise their franchise.
Polling in Uttar Pradesh would be held in seven phases starting on February 10. The second phase would be held on February 14, the third on February 20, the fourth on February 23, the fifth on February 27 and the final phase on March 7.
Counting of votes will be held on March 10.
According to a notice by the General Administrative Department of the Delhi government, the waiver applies to every person employed in any business, trade, industrial undertaking or any other establishment in the National Capital Territory of Delhi and entitled to vote in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. (PTI)
A 39-year-old manager of a warehouse was arrested from Rajasthan for allegedly stealing 590 LED TVs from his employers' godown here, police on Saturday said.
The accused has been identified as Dinesh Chittlangia, a resident of Nagaur in Rajasthan, they said.
On Tuesday, one Kamal Toshniwal had lodged a complaint regarding theft of 590 LED TVs from his godown in Sant Nagar, East of Kailash, police said. On technical surveillance of the billing system of the company, two e-way bills were found issued in the name of M/s SS Electronics, police said. It emerged that the manager of the complainant's company had issued these two bills and transported 590 LED TVs in two trucks to an unknown destination, they said. (PTI)
People travelling alone in private or commercial four wheelers will no longer need to wear masks, the Delhi Government said following a recent court hearing.
The decision came two days after the Delhi High Court questioned the government’s order that mandates wearing masks inside cars and called it “absurd”. The court said that the DDMA should look at several orders issued while relaxing Covid-19 protocols.
The matter was then discussed during Friday’s meeting. “The Covid-19 positivity rate has gone down substantially and a majority of the population has been vaccinated. Therefore, the DDMA after examining all the relevant facts related to the issue of penal provisions for not adhering to the covid protocol of wearing of mask at public places, decided that, in relation to the clause 3(h) (c) whereby not wearing of face mask/cover in all public places has been made an offence, the penalty under this provision of the said notification will not be applicable to a lone person in a self-driven four-wheeler vehicle,” the order issued by Delhi Health and Family Welfare department read.
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Delhi administered over 20,000 Covid-19 shots in children between the age of 15 and 17 for the last two days, showing an increasing trend after numbers had gone down in the last two weeks.
There were over 40,300 shots administered on an average every day (barring Sunday) during the first week of January when the drive was opened up, increasing to over 51,000 the next week. It then started dropping, falling to 29,000 in the third week, and 10,000 during the Republic Day week. Read more
A 35-year-old woman and her accomplice were arrested for allegedly killing her brother-in-law in Gurgaon on Friday.
Ikrar Husain (47), a driver working at a scrap yard in Sikanderpur and a resident of Delhi, was found dead in the busher near Khushboo chowk on Gurgaon-Faridabad Road on February 1. Autopsy revealed that he was strangled to death. Following the complaint of his brother, a case was registered at Sushant Lok police station. Read more
Dense fog caused poor visibility in parts of Delhi on Saturday morning. The visibility at the Safdarjung weather observatory was around 50 metres at 5.30 am.
The fog persisted at 8.30 am, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The visibility at Palam at 8.30 am was around 50 metres, while the visibility at Safdarjung had improved to 100 metres. When visibility is between 50 and 200 metres, fog is considered ‘dense’. Read more
At least 400 people, including a majority from the Ahir community, sat in an indefinite protest near the Kherki Daula toll on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway on Friday demanding the formation of an Ahir regiment in the Indian Army.
Leading the protesters, members of Sanyukt Ahir Regiment Morcha gathered around 11 am and later camped at a big tent on the under-construction Dwarka Expressway, culminating in traffic congestion for more than 40 minutes. Read more
With the decreasing number of infections, the Delhi government on Friday decided to reopen schools, colleges and gyms with strict Covid-19 protocols. Classes 9 to 12 will open in a phased manner while unvaccinated teachers will not be permitted to work, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority said in the order. The night curfew will continue in the capital but will begin at 11 pm instead of 10 pm.
Delhi continued to witness a decline in Covid-19 cases as the city reported 2,272 new Covid-19 cases and 20 deaths, as the positivity rate further dipped to 3.85 per cent. The city currently has 11,716 active cases.
The Delhi-NCR region felt tremors on Saturday morning reportedly caused by an earthquake measuring 5.7 magnitude recorded 395 km northwest of Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir, and 422 km northwest of Srinagar. More details are awaited.