The DDMA discussed further restrictions such as closing dine-in facility in restaurants and scaling down seating capacity in Metro trains and buses, officials said. (PTI photo)Delhi News Updates: Restaurants and bars will be shut from tomorrow onward. Only ‘take away’ and home delivery to be allowed.
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Monday decided not to impose lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 and discussed further restrictions such as closing dine-in facility in restaurants and scaling down seating capacity in Metro trains and buses, officials said.
A DDMA meeting, chaired by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and attended by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, also discussed ways to strictly enforce existing restrictions to check rising cases of the coronavirus and its Omicron variant. It was discussed in the DDMA meeting that restrictions imposed in Delhi should also be imposed in National Capital Territory Region to prevent rise in cases. The city buses and Metro trains are permitted to operate with a 100 per cent seating capacity.
Kejriwal had on Sunday said the rapid speed at which the coronavirus was spreading in Delhi had been a matter of “deep concern”, yet added there was no plan to impose lockdown. There would be no lockdown if people wear masks, he had stated.
Delhi has not reported any new case of the Omicron variant for two days now, maintaining a tally of 513 infections so far, data showed on Monday. Meanwhile, the city recorded 22,751 new Covid-19 cases and 17 deaths on in the last 24 hours. The total positivity rate on Sunday went to 23.53 per cent. The number of active cases stood at 60,733 while over 10,000 people recovered.
Meanwhile, Covid-19 precaution dose for healthcare workers, frontline workers and persons aged above 60 with co-morbidities started rolling out in Delhi from Monday. According to Centre’s directions, the third dose will be of the same vaccine as the first two jabs and will be given to those who were vaccinated nine months ago. In another development, more than 300 Delhi Police personnel, including the Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch), have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said on Monday. Additionally, at least 750 doctors and hundreds more nurses and paramedics from the six major hospitals in Delhi are currently down with virus.
As per the data, a total of 141 Omicron patients have been cured and discharged so far.
Restaurants and bars will be shut from tomorrow onward. Only 'take away' and home delivery to be allowed.
The East Delhi Municipal Corporation’s ‘Corona Mitra’ helpline has received around 200 calls since its launch two days ago, with people calling to ask whether they should get tested after showing symptoms, or to discuss the anxieties in families that lost loved ones to the virus.
Nodal officer of the helpline, Dr Gladbin Tyagi, said the corporation typically advises people to get tested: “People who do not get themselves tested have a tendency to start venturing out after they feel better.”
He said they have also been receiving calls from people “who lost relatives in previous waves and are worried”. “They wanted reassurance that this version is milder and asked about any precautions they should take,” he said.
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Anil Mittal, Delhi Police Additional PRO said that over 1,129 police personnel have tested positive for Covid in the last 10 days. Most of them are in home isolation and recovering. They are all vaccinated.
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Monday decided not to impose lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19 and discussed further restrictions such as closing dine-in facility in restaurants and scaling down seating capacity in Metro trains and buses, officials said.
A DDMA meeting, chaired by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and attended by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, also discussed ways to strictly enforce existing restrictions to check rising cases of the coronavirus and its Omicron variant.
It was discussed in the DDMA meeting that restrictions imposed in Delhi should also be imposed in National Capital Territory Region to prevent rise in cases. Currently, dine-in facility in restaurants is allowed to operate at 50 per cent of their seating capacity. The city buses and Metro trains are permitted to operate with 100 per cent seating capacity.
Kejriwal had on Sunday said the rapid speed at which the coronavirus was spreading in Delhi had been a matter of 'deep concern', yet added there was no plan to impose lockdown. There would be no lockdown if people wear masks, he had stated. (PTI)
The District Disaster Management Authority in its covid-19 review meeting on Monday said restaurants will be asked to encourage people to go for takeaway and delivery options instead of dining-in. "It is better that people take the call themselves before livelihoods are affected," sources said.
Other discussion points were to have uniform restrictions in Delhi as well as NCR towns. The hospital bed capacity and mortality in Covid patients was also discussed in detail.
Several senior Delhi Police officers were asked to return their official vehicles after an audit found that they were still using them despite retiring or being transferred, The Indian Express has learnt.
This comes months after 535 police personnel attached with former commissioners, retired officers and judges were taken off from those assignments, following a similar audit of deployment of officers.
The latest audit, on vehicles with the Delhi Police, was conducted as part of Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana’s plan to strengthen staff and resources at all police stations and units. “The general administration department was asked to conduct an audit and they asked all districts and units to provide details of cars they are using,” a senior police officer said.
Manindra Agrawal, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at IIT Kanpur, talks about his prediction of the third wave peaking in Mumbai and Delhi in mid-January, projecting four to eight lakh cases a day in India and why he thinks this model is more accurate than others. This session was moderated by Amitabh Sinha, Resident Editor (Pune), The Indian Express.
Read the full interview here
Rains have finally stopped in Delhi with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting a drop in minimum temperature later this week.
Between 8.30 am on Sunday and 8.30 am on Monday, the Safdarjung weather observatory recorded 5.4 mm of rainfall. Till Sunday evening, the station had recorded 63.6 mm of rainfall this month. This is the highest amount of rain that the capital has seen in January in the last 26 years, according to the IMD. This is just short of 69.8 mm of rain that was recorded in January 1995.
Two consecutive western disturbances brought rainfall to northwest India since January 4. The rain subsided on account of the absence of high levels of moisture from the Arabian Sea, IMD said. High levels of moisture coming in from the sea had sustained the long wet spell over northwest and central India.
Healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) who have completed 9 months or 39 weeks from the date of second dose vaccination as registered on the CoWIN portal are eligible for precaution dose vaccination. Similar is the criteria for the persons aged above 60 with co-morbidities, and no medical certificate is required for eligible beneficiaries to avail precaution dose.
According to Centre’s directions, the third dose will be of the same vaccine as the first two jabs and will be given to those who were vaccinated nine months ago.
Asha Devi Kalyani, 82 , resident of East Kidwayi Nagar
My entire family was tested positive in the last wave and believe me, it was not easy. We went through a very rough phase. This time, I don't want to go through that pain. The cases will increase but get your vaccine, wear masks and have hope that everything will be over soon. I request everyone from youngsters to my age persons to get the vaccine and fight this virus.
NRS Kalyani, 84, says: It is sad and painful that another wave is coming but at the same time I am happy that the government has started the vaccination drive early and making all arrangements. I was tested positive earlier during the second wave and it was very scary. I request everyone to come forward and get the immunity booster.
As the Covid-19 rollout started on Monday, The Indian Express spoke with senior citizens who got their jabs.
Laxmi Narayan, 64, resident of East Kidwayi Nagar says, "I am feeling very much better. I tested positive in the first wave and I took both the (doses of the) vaccine. People should not fear and come out to get the vaccine. There is no pain and scare, just get vaccinated and wear mask. Nothing will happen, the corona will go and everyone will be safe."
Covid-19 precaution dose for healthcare workers, frontline workers and persons aged above 60 with co-morbidities started rolling out in Delhi from Monday.
Across the country, an estimated 1.05 crore healthcare and 1.9 crore frontline workers, and 2.75 crore comorbid people in the 60 plus age group would be administered the precaution dose according to schedule, Health Ministry said.
Delhi has not reported any case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus for two days now, maintaining a tally of 513 infections so far, data by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare showed on Monday. However, Rajasthan has shot past Delhi and recorded 156 Omicron cases in the last 24 hours.
Maharashtra continues to have the highest number of Omicron cases with a tally of 1,216 till Monday, the Union health ministry data also showed.
Delhi reported 48 new cases of Omicron variant on Saturday—the reports of genome sequencing in the Capital come back in bulk every two or three days
Amid an uptick in coronavirus cases, the Delhi government has taken action against 5,073 people for not wearing masks in public or work places. to p Covid-appropriate behaviour. According to official data, 61 FIRs were registered on Saturday against those not following Covid-appropriate behaviour and a fine of Rs.1.25 crores was collected from the violators.
The data stated that 5,073 people were challaned for violation of masks, 74 for not maintaining social distancing and 51 people were fined for spitting in public places in its 11 districts
Delhi's three municipal corporations -- North, East and South -- have sealed 24 liquor shops till December 31 and 113 such establishments were served notices for violating municipal laws or the master plan 2021, civic authorities have said. These shops were set up under the Delhi government's new excise policy, which came into force on November 17 last year, they said. Under the new excise policy, the Delhi government has privatised retail liquor sale, allocating 849 vends across the city through a tendering process. It has quit the retail liquor sale.
The Delhi health department has directed all private hospitals and nursing homes to ensure that their health care staff treating non-Covid patients maintain coronavirus appropriate behaviour and are routinely checked for the infection. The health care workers showing symptoms of COVID-19 should not be allowed to work till their RTPCR report is negative, it said. The directions come in view of a surge in Covid cases in ICUs, dialysis units and wards of hospitals.
The department said infected health care workers and undiagnosed infected patients are likely the reason behind the spread of the infection in these areas.
India on Monday recorded 1,79,723 fresh Covid-19 cases, pushing the active caseload to 7,23,619. The daily positivity rate stood at 13.29 per cent, while 146 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours.
Amid a surge in coronavirus infections in the national capital, more than 300 Delhi Police personnel, including the Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch), have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said on Monday.
"More than 300 police personnel have been infected. They belong to different units of the force and are under quarantine," said a senior police officer. The overall strength of the Delhi Police is over 80,000. Recently, Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana had issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for preventing the spread of the coronavirus among police personnel.
The restaurant industry is once again facing hardships with restrictions being imposed in the national capital due to a sharp spike in Covid cases fuelled by the omicron variant. Several owners pointed to e-passes acting as a hurdle in food delivery.
On Friday, the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) tagged the Chief Minister’s Office in a tweet and sought help in resolving the e-pass problem for the food and beverage industry. “We aren’t getting them, leading to severe harassment. We will be compelled to shut down delivery as well if this isn’t resolved right away.”
CM Arvind Kejriwal responded, saying to send him their contact details (to get the issue resolved.) (With Abhinav Rajput)
Delhi recorded 22,751 new Covid-19 cases and 17 deaths on Sunday. The total positivity rate on Sunday was 23.53 per cent. The city also reported 10,179 Covid recoveries. The number of active cases in Delhi as of Sunday evening are 60,733.
As Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Delhi, Swami Dayanand Hospital in East Delhi Municipal Corporation area has started a helpline called “Corona Mitra”.
Dr Gladbin Tyagi, the nodal officer, said that the hospital has also completed all preparations to deal with a third wave of the pandemic. He added that the helpline aims to help out Covid patients as doctors will be throughout the day for tele-consultation.
One thousand start-up ideas from government schools have been shortlisted from among 51,000 for the second round of Delhi’s Business Blasters programme.
As part of its “Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum”, the government had started the “Business Blasters” programme across all of its senior secondary schools in September, giving Rs 2,000 as seed money to Class 11 and 12 students to develop entrepreneurship ideas.
Through this programme, 51,000 start-ups had been designed by students across government schools. Following this, the top 3 teams from each school were to be chosen for the second round. For this, zonal-level panels were constituted comprising three zonal officials and teachers, one business coach or local entrepreneur, and one educational and vocational guidance counsellor to support students who were not selected.
After the public sector and offices, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has decided to go completely digital in its education sector by converting all the primary classrooms into ‘smart classes’ by 2022 end.
The NDMC has already developed secondary classes into smart classrooms and now it will convert all its classrooms into ‘smart classes’, including tablet-based classes in all secondary and higher secondary schools for assessment purposes.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that increasing cases are concerning but there is no need to be scared. He reiterated the need to wear masks and follow all covid-19 protocols to prevent it from spreading.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that covid cases are rapidly rising in Delhi and about 22,000 cases are expected in today's health bulletin.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday appealed to those who haven't gotten vaccinated to get their shots. "Those who haven't got vaccinated, please do so. It is not like the vaccine will protect you completely from disease, but it will save you from severe symptoms," he said.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that the District Disaster Management Authority has scheduled a meeting with the experts on Monday to discuss the ongoing coronavirus situation in the state.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday addressed a press conference and said that there will be no lockdown in the capital if people follow Covid-19 protocols properly. “We don't want to impose a lockdown, it is not our intention. We want to impose as few restrictions as possible so that people’s livelihoods are not impacted,” he said.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will address an important press conference today at 12 noon on Sunday.
Overnight rain in the national capital led the minimum temperature on Sunday to settle at 13.8 degrees Celsius, seven notches above normal, the India Meteorological Department said. The weather department said the city received 8 mm rainfall in the last 24 hours as recorded at 8.30 am while the relative humidity was 100 per cent.
The weatherman has forecast generally cloudy sky with light rain while the maximum temperature is likely hover around 18 degrees Celsius.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that he has recovered from Covid and is back in the service of the public. The CM had tested positive on January 4 and had isolated himself at home. He had mild symptoms. "I am back in your service after recovering from Corona," Kejriwal said in a tweet in Hindi on Sunday morning.Kejriwal had tested positive a day after holding a rally in Dehradun on January 3.
Delhi Police has arrested Anumkareshwar Thakur, 25 from Indore for allegedly creating an app where photos of Muslim women were uploaded with an intention to defame and harass them.
KPS Malhotra, DCP (Cyber Cell), said "Thakur was member of a trad- group on Twitter and the idea was shared to defame and troll Muslim ladies. He had developed the code for Sulli Deals app on GitHub. The access of GitHub was with all the members of the group. The photos of the Muslim women were uploaded by the group members."
Delhi witnessed a rainy day on Saturday, beginning in the early hours with thunderstorms and continuing into the evening. Take a look at pictures by Express photojournalist Praveen Khanna.
India recorded 1,59,632 fresh Covid-19 cases and 327 deaths, in the last 24 hours ending Sunday, 9 am. With 40,863 recoveries, the active cases in the country reached 5,90,611. The active cases account for 1.66 per cent of the total cases in the country. Meanwhile, the daily positivity rate stood at 10.21 per cent, according to the Union Ministry of Health.
According to the Union Ministry of Health, India's Omicron tally on Sunday reached 3,623, of which, 1,409 have either recovered or been discharged.
Delhi witnessed a rainy day on Saturday, beginning in the early hours with thunderstorms and continuing into the evening.
The Safdarjung weather observatory, which provides representative figures for the city, recorded 40.6 mm of rainfall in 24 hours between 8.30 am on Friday and 8.30 am on Saturday. Most of this rainfall was recorded in the early hours of Saturday. This is the highest 24-hour rainfall recorded in the past 22 years in January, according to scientists at the IMD.
The rainfall recorded on Saturday came second to the 46 mm of rainfall recorded on January 7, 1999. The highest 24-hour rainfall recorded in January last year was only 25.1 mm, while it was 16.8 mm in January 2020.
At least 750 doctors and hundreds more nurses and paramedics from the six major hospitals in Delhi are currently down with Covid-19. Although most of them have mild symptoms and are in home isolation, it has taken away a huge chunk of the workforce, resulting in hospitals having to curtail routine clinics and surgeries.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is worst hit, with nearly 350 resident doctors currently in isolation. “And, these are just resident doctors. Some faculty members and many nurses and paramedics have also tested positive,” said a resident doctor from the hospital.
The daily tally of Covid-19 cases crossed the 20,000-mark on Saturday, with the capital reporting 20,181 new cases of the infection. Delhi also scaled up testing further with 1,02,956 tests conducted on Friday as reported in Saturday’s bulletin.
Despite the government pushing up the number of tests, the positivity rate – proportion of total samples that return positive – has continued to increase reaching 19.6% on Saturday. In comparison, when Delhi last saw over 1,00,000 tests being conducted in a day – during a 10-day period in April last year – the positivity rate ranged from 4.9% to 15.9%.
The rise of the positivity rate has also been quite sharp during the current wave of infections. It shot up from less than 1% to 19.6% within 11 days; during the delta variant driven wave in April-May last year, it took 28 days for a similar increase, data shows.
Eleven doctors have so far tested Covid positive at Delhi's Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital where five patients infected with the Omicron variant are admitted. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, on Saturday, asserted the situation arising out of healthcare workers getting infected with coronavirus was not alarming.
Dr Suresh Kumar, the medical director of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, Delhi's largest medical facility, said, "Twenty-six of our staff members have tested positive (for COVID-19) till now. These include 11 doctors and the rest are nursing staff and safai karamcharis."
He also said five patients infected with the Omicron variant are admitted at the facility while 180 people have been discharged. About the deaths, Dr Kumar said fatalities have occurred among those who were comorbid and were old.
Seven more fatalities were recorded in Delhi on Saturday due to COVID-19 as the city clocked 20,181 infections in a single day, while the positivity rate rose to 19.60 per cent, according to data by the health department. (PTI)
Delhi recorded its highest rainfall in a day for January in 22 years on Saturday, yielding the city's best air quality in over two months even as the minimum temperature settled at 15 degrees Celsius, eight notches above normal.
The record rainfall led to waterlogging at several low-lying areas, including New Friends Colony, Pul Prahladpur, Ring Road and Mandawali among others.
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the Safdarjung Observatory, considered the official marker for the city, recorded 41 mm rainfall in a 24-hour period ending at 8.30 am on Saturday, the highest for the month of January in 22 years.
The highest single-day rainfall for January recorded in the city was 46 mm in 1999.
Delhi's Palam observatory received a record 47.6 mm rainfall in the span of 24 hours ending at 8.30 am on Saturday, its highest in a day for the month of January after 1995, when it had recorded 52.2 mm downpour, IMD data showed.
The weather station in Ayanagar recorded 49 mm rainfall from 8.30 am on Friday to 8.30 am on Saturday, Ridge 48 mm, Lodhi Road 42.2 mm and Najafgarh 42.5 mm. (PTI)
A 14-year-old boy, who left his home three months ago after falling into bad company, was found dead in west Delhi's Khyala area on Saturday, police said.
The Khyala police station had received an information regarding a body lying near NW Chowk, they said.
Police rushed to the spot and the deceased was identified as a resident of Raghubir Nagar, Khyala, they said. A murder case has been registered and the matter is being probed further, police said. (PTI)
The daily tally of Covid-19 cases crossed the 20,000-mark on Saturday, with the capital reporting 20,181 new cases of the infection. Delhi also scaled up testing further with 1,02,956 tests conducted on Friday as reported in Saturday’s bulletin.
Despite the government pushing up the number of tests, the positivity rate – proportion of total samples that return positive – has continued to increase reaching 19.6% on Saturday. In comparison, when Delhi last saw over 1,00,000 tests being conducted in a day – during a 10-day period in April last year – the positivity rate ranged from 4.9% to 15.9%.
The rise of the positivity rate has also been quite sharp during the current wave of infections. It shot up from less than 1% to 19.6% within 11 days; during the delta variant driven wave in April-May last year, it took 28 days for a similar increase, data shows. Read more
Over two lakh adolescents in the age group of 15-18 have been administered the first dose of vaccine against COVID-19 in the national capital, with the northeast district vaccinating the highest number of beneficiaries.
According to official data, there are 10.14 lakh beneficiaries in the 15-18 age group in Delhi. The inoculation exercise commenced on January 3 with 20,998 people getting jabbed. Northeast Delhi had recorded the highest figures on the first day and the trend has continued in the subsequent days.
Of the over 33,000 beneficiaries vaccinated on the second day of the exercise, 6,237 were from northeast district alone. Similarly, on January 5, 6,848 of the total 36,301 adolescents inoculated were from the northeast district.
As many as 55,979 people were vaccinated in the national capital on January 6, with northeast Delhi again taking the lead by vaccinating 8,199 beneficiaries. Another 8,012 people in the district were jabbed on Friday. (PTI)
DDMA grants permission to all devotees to visit gurudwaras in Delhi on the occasion of Prakash Purab to be held on January 9.
A day after two cab drivers were found murdered in the city and their belongings stolen, police on Saturday said two 19-year-olds have been arrested in the case.
Identified as Aakash, alias Akku, and Junaid of Anand Parbat area, the accused admitted during interrogation that they hatched the conspiracy to book cabs online and then murder and loot the drivers, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Central, Shweta Chauhan said.
Around 1 am on Friday, they booked a cab from the Kamal T-point. After travelling some distance, they strangled the driver to death from behind, took his mobile phone and dumped the body and the car at separate locations, Chauhan said. Thereafter, they booked another car around 6.45 am from Anand Parbat. They used the same modus operandi but disposed the driver's body and the car near the Ramjas ground before fleeing with his wallet and phone, the DCP said.
Police had begun investigation after the car was found parked with its driver lying unconscious inside it around 8.45 am on Friday. The man was taken to the RML Hospital, where doctors declared him dead, the police said. He was identified as Anil Yadav (48) of Mahavir Enclave. His mobile and wallet were missing. As police contacted his wife, she said Yadav had left home around 6.30 am for work, the officer said.
The body of the other cab driver, Chavvi Nath of Noida, was found in the Bharat Nagar area of northwest Delhi and his car at Gulabi Bagh, the police said.
As the police set up technical surveillance and obtained details of passengers who boarded the cabs, they zeroed in on the two accused and arrested them near the Zakhira flyover area, Chauhan said. (PTI)
A man has been sentenced to a five-year jail term for extorting money from a judge, in whose court he had worked as an assistant ahlmad, by threatening to kill her two children in 2007.
While awarding the jail term to Shiv Shankar Parsad Sinha, the court in Delhi said the incident affected the stream of justice and created a trust deficit among judges and support staff.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma said that before the incident, the convict, Shiv Shankar Parsad Sinha, had worked as an assistant ahlmad in the complainant Kiran Basal's court when she was a civil judge.
"Obviously, during that time he became aware of her family members and her vulnerabilities," the court said, noting, "The convict acted like an obdurate criminal by continuously texting threatening messages to the victim for extortion."
Sinha had demanded Rs 4 lakh from the complainant, then posted as a metropolitan magistrate in Tis Hazari District Court Complex, and had threatened to kill her children if the money was not paid. In a text message, the convict had threatened to kill Basal's entire family. (PTI)
Delhi reported 20,181 fresh Covid-19 cases, 11,869 recoveries and seven more deaths on Saturday. The positivity rate has gone up to 19.6% and there are 48,178 active cases.
The Delhi Fire Service has received from Germany a 32-metre turntable ladder machine, that will help its personnel operate safely in case of a blaze at high-rise buildings, after a delay of over two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The machine, armed with enhanced inbuilt safety features such as LED lights, water monitor systems and sensors, arrived on January 5 and has been stationed at the Connaught Place fire station, officials said.
The fully automatic turntable ladder with combined, simultaneous movements is an extremely useful vehicle for all firefighting and rescue operations, especially in high-rise buildings, said Delhi Fire Services Director Atul Garg.
He said the equipment was procured from Germany through the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation which "has the expertise to handle global tenders".
According to officials, the fire department has three hydraulic machines, but the turntable ladder, being mechanical and because of its inbuilt safety systems, is unlike the other equipment. (PTI)
A Delhi court has sought an action taken report (ATR) from police on a complaint filed by a 22-year-old woman who alleged that a head constable had raped her and used her in a ‘honey trap’ to arrest a wanted criminal.
On her complaint, Metropolitan Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasia has directed the station house officer (SHO) of Budh Vihar Police Station to file a report and listed the matter for February 19, 2022.
The woman has urged the court to summon the cop, try him for rape, causing miscarriage without her consent and attempt to murder and punish him in the interest of justice. (PTI)
A day after lodging an FIR against unknown persons for allegedly morphing a video of a cabinet meeting chaired by the Prime Minister by “superimposing” an audio over it to promote enmity between groups, the Cyber Cell of Delhi Police found out that the doctored video originated from a Pakistan-based server.
The Cyber Cell said they came across a video during social media monitoring which showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah with other ministers in a meeting. The video further showed a minister passing “objectionable remarks against Punjabis”.
DCP (Cyber Cell) KPS Malhotra said, “We analysed the video and found that a voice over from another video was superimposed on it. In reality, the video is of a meeting that took place on December 9 after the demise of CDS Gen Bipin Rawat. There was no discussion of any community or religion in that meeting. The old video has been morphed and was available on various news portals and social media platforms.” Read more
The Delhi Prisons Department has seized 19 phones, handmade sharp objects, cash and other items during a search at central jail number 13, officials said on Saturday.
According to officials, a raid was conducted in the jail by prison authorities on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.
Sixteen mobiles, include six android and 13 keypad phones, chargers, wire and handmade sharp objects and Rs 1,500 were seized, they said. (PTI)
A 41-year-old Taekwondo star-turned-gangster was arrested from southeast Delhi's Badarpur area for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to harm a police officer, officials said on Saturday. They said the accused Ajay Gurjar alias Bhai ji, a resident of Palwal district in Haryana, wanted to avenge the death of one Ankit Gurjar in prison and hence targeted the deputy superintendent of Tihar jail.
In August 2021, the recording of a phone call between two persons, one of whom the police earlier identified as Satender alias Satte, went viral. In the audio, Satte was heard asking the other person to arrange an AK-47 rifle to kill a rival gang member. They also spoke about harming the Tihar jail DSP. Ankit was found dead with multiple injuries on his body on August 4, 2021, in Central Jail Number 3, Tihar.
His family members had alleged that he was killed in connivance of jail staff. After Satender's arrest on August 17, police said they identified the person on the other side of the phone call as Ajay Gurjar. During investigation, the police learnt about Ajay's scheduled visit to the bus stand at Badarpur on Thursday evening and was nabbed, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Jasmeet Singh said.
Ajay is involved in more than 24 criminal cases, including murder, attempt to murder, extortion and assault in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Mumbai, police said. (PTI)
Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Vice-Chancellor Prof M Jagadesh Kumar is among the three names picked by a search-and-selection committee to become the next University Grants Commission (UGC) chairman. The two other frontrunners for the key post are Pune University Vice-Chancellor Prof Nitin R Karmalkar and Director of Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC) Prof Avinash Chandra Pandey, sources said. Read More
Delhi has not recroded any Omicron-related death to date, Health Minister Satyender Jain said. However, he added, that among the nine Covid-related fatalities recorded on Friday, most patients had comorbidities. (PTI)
Delhi Commission for Women Chief Swati Maliwal Saturday said she has tested positive for coronavirus and is feeling "terribly ill". "Tested positive for Covid. Feeling terribly ill with high fever. Have isolated myself. Request people who came in contact with me to get their RTPCR done," she said in a tweet. The 37-year-old asked people to stay cautious. "Despite so much work on ground, was able to evade Covid till now! Omicron is damn infectious. Everyone pl take precaution! (sic)" she added. (PTI)
Delhi is likely to record 20,000 Covid-19 cases today and the positivity rate is to be around 19 per cent, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said. The capital recorded 48 new Omicron cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 513.
The Gautam Buddh Nagar administration on Friday sealed the offices of two builders following lack of response to recovery letters issued by the Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (UP RERA). Officials arrived at the offices of Supertech in Sector 96 and GSS Buildcon Private Ltd in Sector 1, Greater Noida West to carry out the sealing procedures. Locks with government seals were placed on the doors to prevent the entry of employees. Read More
Five days after she went missing, a 21-year-old Dalit woman was found murdered on Wednesday night in Faridabad. Police arrested the accused man, a 53-year-old security guard, in the case on Friday night. According to police, the woman, hailing from Palwal, had come to visit her aunt. On December 31, she went to the market with her aunt to purchase household items. Her aunt, in the complaint, said after some time, she returned home and called an autorickshaw so her niece could go to another relative’s house. The next day, when they found out that she had still not reached, they filed a missing persons’ complaint. Read More
A ‘school of excellence’, a dedicated cycle track from New Moti Bagh to North and South Block, purchasing only e-vehicles for official use, and not imposing any new tax or increasing property tax for the upcoming financial year – these are among the plans proposed by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) in its annual budget for 2022-23 on Friday. In the education sector, taking a leaf out of the Delhi government’s initiatives, the NDMC has proposed to redevelop its school at Lodhi Road as a ‘World Class School of Excellence’ under which there will be two schools – Navyug Girls International School and NDMC Boys International School. “Once set up, the schools are expected to cater to more than 3,000 students,” said NDMC chairman Dharmendra. Read Gayathri Mani's report