Meanwhile, the DDMA on Tuesday ordered closure of schools, colleges, cinemas and gyms with immediate effect and put various restrictions on the functioning of shops and public transport as a yellow alert was sounded under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) in the city due to the rise in Covid-19 cases. The night curfew will now be imposed from 10 pm (earlier 11 pm) to 5 am in the national capital.
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Even as Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Tuesday urged the resident doctors, protesting against the delay in NEET 2021 counselling, to call off their strike in the larger interest of the public, the doctors are likely to continue with their stir. FORDA president Dr Manish Kumar, confirming the same, however, said a final decision will be taken after a detailed meeting with FAIMA and other RDAs later today evening.
Following a detailed meeting with the delegation of the Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association (FORDA), the minister had said that all requisite steps are being taken by the government and a suitable reply with respect to the EWS report will be submitted to Supreme Court before the scheduled date of hearing on January 6.
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Resident doctors of Hindu Rao Hospital joined doctors from GB Pant Hospital and AIIMS, among others, in withdrawing their services to protest Monday’s police action against agitating doctors. Resident doctors’ association of AIIMS has decided to withdraw from all non-emergency work from Tuesday if no steps are taken by the government against the violence faced by doctors during their protest against delays in NEET-PG counselling. At the Safdarjung Hospital, chaos ensued as counters of the OPD were shut as doctors protested the action taken by Delhi Police on Monday night. Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) too called for its resident doctors’ association to withdraw from all work, including emergency services. The stir, led by the Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association, has been going on for several days, and FORDA also said that several of its members were “detained” when they tried to hold a protest march from Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) to Supreme Court.
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East Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal on Tuesday shared the latest details on the financial condition of the cash-strapped EDMC and alleged that the corporation is facing adverse economic conditions as the Delhi government has not released "due funds".
Aggarwal, Chairman of the EDMC's Standing Committee Beer Singh Panwar and Leader of the House Satyapal Singh presented the latest figures of the financial condition of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation in a press conference held at the corporation headquarters in New Delhi.
Aggarwal alleged that the corporation was "facing adverse economic conditions" as the Delhi government has not released funds, which he claimed was due to the EDMC. (PTI)
To discourage the usage of single-use plastic bags, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has started an initiative named ‘Vikalp’ in which shoppers can opt for cloth bags by paying Rs 20 at Vikalp stalls in markets. The money will be reimbursed after the bag is returned.
The South MCD has set up 22 such stalls in 14 markets including Green Park, Yusuf Sarai, Hauz Khas, SDA, Saket, Aurobindo Market, Greater Kailash, and Chitranjan Park Market. (Read more)
Delhi's air quality deteriorated to the “very poor” category on Tuesday due to low wind speed while the city's maximum temperature settled at 18 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season's average.
The 24-hour air quality index (AQI) of Delhi read 305 at 4 pm, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data.
However, the AQIs of its neighbouring cities -- Faridabad (300), Ghaziabad (286), Gurugram (283), Greater Noida (288) and Noida (274) -- were recorded in the 'poor' category.
“Light rain is likely today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday) due to western disturbance that may improve AQI further to upper end of 'moderate' or 'lower end of poor'. On 30th, 31st (December) and 1st (January) winds are likely to be low reducing ventilation of pollutants and AQI is expected to be within 'poor' category,” the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) said. (PTI)
The Delhi High Court has directed the SDMC, the DDA and police to ensure that its order to remove all illegal encroachers from the Kalkaji temple premises is implemented in accordance with the deadline fixed by it.
The court said the dharamshalas on the temple premises are expected to be catering to the devotees coming from outside Delhi and they are not meant to be permanently occupied by shopkeepers or their families.
The court order came while dismissing a plea moved by three people staying in the dharamshalas, seeking a direction to the authorities concerned to rehabilitate them prior to eviction or the demolition of the dharamshalas. The petition was filed pursuant to a September 27 order passed by the court, directing the removal of unauthorised occupants and illegal encroachers from the temple premises. (PTI)
Delhi reported 496 fresh Covid-19 cases and one death on Tuesday. The positivity rate has now gone up to 0.89%.
Following genome sequencing, 23 more Omicron cases have been detected in the city.
With the sudden rise in cases over the past week, the number of active cases in the city has gone up to 1,612—the figure was at 624 a week earlier.
Since the positivity rate has been above 0.5% since Sunday, the Delhi government on Wednesday said that restrictions under the yellow alert for Covid will be implemented in the city. Read More
The University of Delhi (DU) — which is among the most sought-after higher education institutions in the country — is witnessing a churn.
The new vice-chancellor, Professor Yogesh Singh, who assumed office in October, has come with new ideas to take the university to new heights and a strong resolve to implement them. Recently, he also finalised his new team and announced their names in an executive council meeting.
This makes for a very conducive time for the university to implement the futuristic and more inclusive National Education Policy (NEP) of 2020. The introduction of NEP in DU would not just be a coming-of-age step but also make the university commensurate with international standards. Read More
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) will hold its crucial meeting under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal at 4 pm on Wednesday to review the Omicron threat and discuss the Covid-19 pandemic situation in the national capital, according to an official notice. The notice issued by the DDMA on Tuesday said that the meeting will also take stock of the implementation of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) in the city due to the rise in Covid-19 cases.
Under the GRAP, the Delhi government on Tuesday sounded a yellow alert in the city.
The meeting will be held through video conferencing and attended by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, Health Minister Satyendar Jain, Chief Secretary Vijay Dev, NITI Aayog member V K Paul, Revenue Minister Kailash Gahlot, NDMA Joint Secretary, secretaries of health and home departments of the city government along with experts. The agenda of the meeting is to review the Covid-19 situation in Delhi and discuss preparations in the wake of rising Omicron cases. (PTI)
The Delhi Police has denied manhandling and use of force on resident doctors who held a protest march towards the Supreme Court on Monday over the delay in NEET-PG counselling. "The doctors claimed manhandling and use of force, I would like to clarify that no force/lathicharge was used. Delhi Police have the highest regard for doctors. A few policemen got injured, some police vehicles were also damaged," Suman Goyal, Additional Commissioner, Central Range was quoted as saying by ANI.
The officer said that some protesting doctors jammed the ITO junction at around 9.30 am on Monday and wanted to march towards the Supreme Court, but were stopped. The official further said that despite the ADGP and the Director General Health Services coming over to discuss the demands, the doctors wanted to march towards the apex court, following which, some of them were detained as a preventive measure. (ANI)
Delhi's Directorate of Education has issued order for schools to remain closed "till further notice". "However, online teaching, learning activities, examinations and related activities such as practicals, projects, and assignments etc. for classes 9 to 12 would be conducted as per schedule," it said.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, condemned the police crackdown during Monday's protest march of resident doctors over their demand to expedite NEET-PG counselling. The CM also urged PM Modi to find a solution to the issue at the earliest.
Intensifying their stir over the delay in NEET-PG 2021 counselling, a large number of resident doctors on Tuesday protested on the premises of Centre-run Safdarjung Hospital, even as police personnel were deployed to ensure maintenance of law and order.
The protest, a day earlier had taken a dramatic turn, as medics and police personnel had faced off in streets, with both sides claiming several persons suffered injury in the ensuing melee. A senior police officer said security personnel have been deployed on the premises of Safdarjung Hospital to maintain law and order amid the ongoing strike by the doctors.
Doctors chanted slogans like 'We want justice', and sought to bolster the morale of each other, after the face-off with the police on Monday went all the way to midnight as dramatic scenes were witnessed at the Sarojini Nagar Police Station. (PTI)
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Tuesday urged the resident doctors, protesting against the delay in NEET 2021 counselling, to call off their strike in public interest. (ANI)
Amid a rise in Covid-19 cases, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority on Tuesday ordered closure of schools, colleges, cinemas and gyms with immediate effect and put various restrictions on the functioning of shops and public transport as a yellow alert was sounded under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP).
The 'yellow' alert restrictions stipulate that shops and establishments of non-essential goods and services and malls will open based on odd-even formula from 10 am to 8 pm. The timing of night curfew imposed from Monday night has also been extended by an hour and it will now begin at 10 pm. The night curfew from 10 pm to 5 am will remain in force till further orders, stated the order issued by the DDMA.
The wards in Safdarjung Hospital remained completely empty as resident doctors continued to protest police inaction against agitating doctors on Monday. No new patients were being admitted and patients who were already admitted were also discharged.
Resident doctors of the Hindu Rao Hospital Tuesday announced withdrawing from all services including emergency services from today in protest again the police crackdown on doctors protesting delays in NEET-PG counselling.
A Delhi Police sub-inspector’s son was allegedly stabbed to death by his neighbours after an altercation over the cleaning of a drain near his house in Faridabad on Monday evening.
The deceased has been identified as Pankaj Nagar (26), a resident of Tigaon village. His father is a sub-inspector (SI) with the Delhi Police, said the police.
The incident was reported around 5 pm on Monday. The victim, the police said, had an argument about the cleaning of a drain and the flow of drainage water outside his house with six people from his neighbour’s family, following which they stabbed him with a knife. Read More
The Delhi High Court has directed WhatsApp to take down groups which are unauthorisedly and illegally circulating the online edition of the newspapers owned by Dainik Bhaskar Corp Limited.
“Plaintiff has made out a prima facie case and the balance of convenience also lies in favour of the Plaintiff. Further, an irreparable loss would be caused, in case an ex-parte order of injunction is not granted – restraining the infringing Defendants from illegally circulating and distributing the Plaintiff’s e-newspaper,” said Justice Sanjeev Narula in an order passed on December 24.
The publisher of Dainik Bhaskar and other newspapers has approached the High Court seeking directions to WhatsApp to block certain groups which are allegedly circulating its e-newspapers without authorisation. WhatsApp LLC, earlier in its response to a notice from DB Corp Ltd, had declined the request to block such groups and sought production of a court order. Read More
The counselling for admissions after the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for postgraduate medical courses (NEET-PG) has remained pending ever since the matter got caught in a legal wrangle in the Supreme Court.
A group of petitions challenged in the apex court the July 29 notification of the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) providing 27 per cent reservation for other backward class (OBCs) and 10 per cent quota for economically weaker sections (EWS) in the NEET-PG (All India Quota).
The matter was last heard on November 25 when the Centre, responding to pointed queries from the Supreme Court, said it would revisit the criterion that limits annual income at Rs 8 lakh to determine EWS for reservation benefits and sought four weeks to complete the exercise.
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Representatives of Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association (FORDA) will meet Union Health Minister at Nirman Bhavan in Delhi today over their demand to expedite NEET-PG counselling, ANI reported.
The representatives will also seek an apology for alleged police brutality during Monday's protest march.
Karnataka Association of Resident Doctors (KARD) has expressed solidarity with the doctors who were detained by the police in the National capital on Monday. At 6 pm, the members of KARD will take out a candle light march demanding the government to expedite the NEET-PG counselling.
The Aligarh Muslim University’s RDA released a statement condemning the police brutality, and calling it a “black day” in India’s democratic history. The association will continue to not provide OPD operations in protest.
The Maharashtra State Association of Resident Doctors condemned the attack, while the Jaipur Association of Resident Doctors held a protest today.
As per the plan, shops in markets and malls dealing with non-essential goods and services will be allowed to open as per the odd-even formula between 10 am to 8 pm, while one weekly market will be allowed per municipal zone at half the capacity of vendors. Shops selling essential items will remain open on all days.
Restaurants will operate at 50 per cent capacity between 8 am - 10 pm, bars will open between 12-10 pm also at 50 per cent capacity. Schools, educational institutions, cinemas, banquet halls, auditoriums, spas, gyms and entertainment parks will remain shut.
Delhi Metro and buses will be allowed to operate at 50 per cent capacity. Delhi government offices will call 100% grade I officers, while private firms will be allowed to call 50% staff between 9 am to 5 pm. Gyms and yoga centres will also shut. There will be a complete ban on social/entertainment/religious/political/festival-related gatherings. Sports complexes, stadiums (except national/international sports events), entertainment parks will shut down.
At marriages and funeral-related gatherings, 20 persons each will be allowed. But banquet halls will not be allowed to host weddings.
Doctors who have completed their MBBS degree and internship have to appear for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for postgraduate courses (NEET-PG) to study for a particular specialisation such as medicine or surgery. It was to be held in April but was further pushed to September when it was finally conducted. However, the counselling and admission process for the PG students, who work as junior residents alongside their training, could not begin due to a clutch of cases pending in the Supreme Court regarding the newly introduced quota for the economically weaker sections.
To make up for the shortfall, the existing doctors have been working between 100 to 120 – hour weeks at the height of the pandemic. The doctors say that they are exhausted and hence are demanding that the counselling be conducted at the earliest, especially with another wave of Covid-19 looming close.
The delays have also cost nearly 45,000 medical students one year of their education. They are still waiting to join the workforce.
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said a yellow alert will be implemented in Delhi. “Certain restrictions will be imposed as per the plan. I know everyone is tired of restrictions, but this is important and is being done for you,” he said after holding a high-level meeting to review the COVID-19 situation.
Kejriwal also urged people to follow guidelines and warned that markets will have to be shut entirely if there are large crowds.
Resident doctors of AIIMS Delhi staged a protest over alleged police action over doctors during Monday's protest march against delay in NEET-PG counselling. "We will not let them leave the hospital campus and block roads," ACP Safdarjung Enclave told ANI. At Delhi's GB Pant Hospital, patients lamented the lack of availability of doctors on the OPD. Services at Safdarjung Hospital's OPD resumed after a brief interruption as resident doctors staged a boycott. Resident doctors of Swami Dayanand Hospital, Dilshad Garden also decided withdraw from all non-emergency (OPD, wards, elective OT) services with immediate effect and from emergency services from December 29.
After an interruption in services due to a boycott by doctors at the Safdarjung Hospital, OPD services resumed.
In protest against the police action against doctors agitating against the delay in NEET-PG counselling, doctors will begin a march from the Safdarjung Hospital at 12 pm, which will conclude at the health ministry's office.
Chaos ensued at the Safdarjung Hospital, where counters remained closed as resident doctors hut the OPD and remained on strike in protest against the alleged violence meted out by Delhi Police when doctors were protesting the delay in NEET-PG counselling.
The mercury dropped by a notch in Delhi on Tuesday as the minimum temperature was recorded at 9.4 degrees Celsius, officials said.
On Monday, the minimum temperature stood at 10.4 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season's average while the maximum temperature was logged at 22.6 degrees Celsius, two degrees above normal.
The weatherman has forecast generally cloudy sky with light rain or drizzle later in the day, while the maximum is likely to settle around 20 degrees Celsius.
The air quality index (AQI) of Delhi was recorded in the 'poor' category (258) in the morning, data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) showed. (PTI)
Amid rising Covid-19 cases and the anticipation of a third wave, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has decided to make 49 civic services completely online. The NDMC has launched a 'single-sign-on' (SSO) facility using which the public can avail of all services at one place without multiple registrations.
The major objectives of this initiative is digitisation and the reduction of physical interaction between people amid Covid-19 threat. Earlier, people had to register multiple times to access various online services of the civic body. Now, they have to register just once and using the same login ID, can avail all 49 civic services.
Registration of birth and death certificates, payment of water and electricity bills, registration in school, pension-related queries are among the 49 online services.
A high-level meeting between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and senior government officials will be held on Tuesday to discuss the implementation of restrictions under the yellow alert of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP).
Delhi recorded 331 Covid cases on Monday at a positivity rate of 0.68%. One death was also reported.
According to GRAP, which was notified by the government in August this year, different restrictions are supposed to come into force if cases, positivity rate or hospitalisations increase beyond certain limits.
Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) called for its resident doctors’ association to withdraw from all work, including emergency services after Monday’s incidence.The protest was started with withdrawal from OPD services in November end by two national organisations – the Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association (FORDA) and FAIMA. The protest was slowly intensified to boycott even emergency work, following which on the insistence of the government the strike was paused for a period of one week.The strike was resumed again on December 17 as FORDA members withdrew from all services. “We remind the authorities that FAIMA and its associated RDAs have shown great restraint till now and not stopped emergency services. However, the government and the authorities have left us with no other option. It is time for all doctors to show unity and solidarity with our colleague who have been mercilessly handled, gheraoed, dragged, and detained… We hearby call for complete withdrawal from all healthcare services across the country from 8 am on 29/12/21,” read a release by FAIMA.
Resident doctors' association of AIIMS has decided to withdraw from all non-emergency work from Tuesday if no steps are taken by the government against the violence faced by doctors during their protest against delays in NEET-PG counselling.
AIIMS was the only big medical college hospital in Delhi where resident doctors hadn't withdrawn from work. Patient care remained affected at three Centre-run facilities -- Safdarjung, RML and Lady Hardinge hospitals -- and some of the Delhi government-run hospitals.
Resident doctors from Delhi’s major government hospitals, protesting repeated delays in NEET-PG counselling, Monday alleged that they were beaten, dragged and detained by the police during their march to the Supreme Court.
In response, Delhi Police registered an FIR under sections of rioting, causing obstruction in duty and damaging public property against the doctors. The FIR was lodged at IP Estate police station after a complaint was filed by a police personnel.
On the eleventh day of complete withdrawal from all routine and emergency services, the doctors decided to return their white coats to authorities as their demands were not being heard.
Over 2,500 resident doctors were detained at the Sarojini Nagar police station while they were marching towards the Union Health Minister’s residence. With no space within the police station, they stood outside.
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Winter break for students up to class 5 at Delhi government schools will be from January 1 to 15 and no online or offline teaching learning activity can be conducted during this period, the Directorate of Education (DoE) said on Monday.
However, it said that to help students consolidate their learning, the syllabus of the academic session 2021-22 covered, so far, is to be revised during this breakthrough assignments. "All the heads of Sarvodaya Vidyalayas are, hereby, informed that the winter break for pre-primary and primary classes shall be observed from January 1-15, 2022 and the online and offline teaching learning activities through worksheets, shall not be conducted during this period," an official order issued by the government said.
"However, in order to help the students to consolidate their learning, the syllabus of the academic session 2021-22 covered so far, is to be revised during this breakthrough assignments," it said. (PTI)
The city's COVID-19 case positivity rate remained above 0.5 per cent on the second consecutive day on Monday, with Delhi government officials assessing the situation before taking a decision on sounding a 'yellow' alert and imposing restrictions under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP).
Delhi on Monday recorded 331 COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day rise since June 9, and one death while the positivity rate mounted to 0.68 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. On Sunday, it recorded 290 cases with a positivity rate of 0.55 per cent and one fatality, according to officials figures. F
urther discussions on the situation will be held on Tuesday before a final call on sounding the 'Yellow' alert and imposing restrictions as per the GRAP is taken, said a senior Delhi government officer.
"Although COVID-19 cases are rising in Delhi and positivity rate has breached the 0.5 per cent mark but hospitalisations are very low and fatality rate is negligible. Any decision about implementation of 'Yellow' alert restrictions will be taken after further discussions," said the officer. (PTI)
BJP MP from West Delhi Parvesh Verma has demanded that December 26, the day Guru Gobind Singh’s four sons were martyred, be observed as Children’s Day, instead of November 14.
“The rightful owner of Children’s Day is the four Sahibzade of Guru Gobind Singh ji who sacrificed his life at a young age to protect the religion. Tribute to Sahibzada Zorawar Singh ji and Sahibzada Fateh Singh ji on their sacrifice day (sic),” Verma tweeted.
He said that he had raised the issue earlier too, and would once again write to the Prime Minister’s office in this regard. Read more
After staying in the 'severe' category for six days, Delhi's air quality improved to the 'poor' category on Monday following rains a day before, while the maximum temperature settled at 22.6 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season's average. The 24-hour air quality index (AQI) of Delhi read 283 at 4 pm.
The AQIs of its neighbouring cities -- Faridabad (260), Ghaziabad (212), Gurugram (250), Greater Noida (242) and Noida (226) -- were also recorded in the 'poor' category. The government's air quality forecast agency SAFAR said that the AQI improved on Monday "due to last night rain that scavenged particulate matter through wet deposition".
On Tuesday, winds are likely to be low, reducing ventilation of pollutants, with the AQI expected to be 'very poor', the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) said. (PTI)
Monday’s Covid-19 spike is the highest since June 9 when 337 cases were logged with a positivity rate of 0.46 per cent, while 36 deaths were also recorded on that day.
The number of cumulative cases on Monday stood at 14,43,683. Over 14.17 lakh patients have recovered from the infection. The spike in fresh cases in the last few days is being recorded amid a jump in cases of new Omicron variant of the coronavirus here.
Seven COVID-19 deaths were reported here in November this year, according to official data. Delhi had recorded four Covid deaths in October and five in September. A total of 48,589 tests -- 46,549 RT-PCR tests and 2,040 rapid antigen tests -- were conducted a day ago, the bulletin said. (PTI)
Delhi records 331 fresh Covid cases, highest daily count since June 9, and one death; positivity rate mounts to 0.68 per cent, say authorities. (PTI)
Delhi on Monday added six more deaths due to dengue to its official toll, taking the total number of fatalities due to the mosquito-borne disease this year up to 23.
This is the highest official death toll due to dengue in Delhi after the massive outbreak in 2015 that affected nearly 16,000 people and killed 60.
The six deaths, which were added to the toll, had occurred during the months of October and November. All the cases pertained to children with ages ranging from eight months to 15 years, according to information provided by the Municipal Corporations of Delhi.
In fact, among the 23 dengue deaths in Delhi this year, 15 were children. Read more
The Delhi Police has assured the Delhi High Court that adequate security would be provided to a liquor vend and its employees for ingress and egress to the outlet and no interference would be caused in its functioning.
The submission by the police was made during the hearing on a petition by owner of a liquor vend who sought direction to the authorities to take adequate steps so that the petitioner is in a position to run his outlet without any hindrance from unlawful protestors sitting outside the vend and damaging its premises.
Noting the stand of the police, Justice Rekha Palli disposed of the petition saying no further orders are called for.
"It is clarified that this order will, however, be subject to the continued validity of the liquor license in favour of the petitioner," the court said. (PTI)
A fire broke out at a footwear factory in outer Delhi's Mangolpuri area on Monday morning and spread to another adjoining unit, officials said. No injury or casualty has been reported so far, the Delhi Fire Service officials said.
"We received a call about the fire at around 9.05 am and rushed four fire tenders immediately. Since the fire also spread to an adjoining factory, so in total, our 20 fire tenders have been deployed at the spot," said Atul Garg, Director, Delhi Fire Service.
The fire has been brought under control, he said. The footwear factory which caught fire comprises basement, ground floor and two-storey building, according to the fire department. (PTI)
Days after a retired government school teacher died of cardiac arrest while trying to stop a carjacking, his family said he had stepped out to fill petrol in his WagonR so he could take his son for an exam the next morning when two men decided to steal the vehicle.
The incident took place on Thursday around 11 pm near G3S mall in Rohini’s Sector 11. The victim, Ramesh Chander Rana (65), tried to stop the accused by hanging on to the door. He was dragged on the road for a few metres before he collapsed and died. Read more
The sharp rise in the number of Covid cases reported in the city over the past week has not just brought back the night curfew to Delhi but is likely to bring in a slew of other restrictions as well.
A rapidly increasing positivity rate, alongside the threat of the high infection rate posed by the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus is pushing Delhi towards the “yellow” alert as per the Graded Response Action Plan.
Over the past month, the positivity rate has climbed from under 0.1% to 0.55% Sunday, when 290 cases and one death due to Covid was reported. The positivity rate was 0.43% Saturday. Read more
Schools in Delhi have been shuttling between opening and closing for primary and middle school children, but reintroducing cooked mid-day meals is not on the cards for now.
Last month, the Ministry of Education’s Department of School Education and Literacy had written to states and union territories, advising them to “resume provision of hot cooked meals to eligible students attending schools by adhering to prevalent Covid-appropriate protocols and social distancing norms as prescribed by the competent authority”. Read more
All the government officials engaged in emergency services, health workers, advocates, judges, media persons are exempted and will be allowed to travel during the night curfew which begins today, said the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).
Witnessing the increasing number of omicron and covid 19 cases, the Delhi Government announced a night curfew between 11 pm and 5 am starting Monday. Read more
A man has been arrested by the IT cell of the Noida police for allegedly defrauding a retired Army personnel of nearly Rs 6 lakh by hacking his phone and gaining access to his bank accounts. The accused is identified as Chetan Prakash, a Bikaner resident, said the police.
The victim, a retired colonel hailing from Noida, in the complaint registered in August alleged that he had received a call from the accused who had posed as a bank official. A link from an unknown number was sent to his cellphone claiming to contain a one-time password (OTP). Read more
Fire breaks out at a shoe factory in Outer Delhi's Mangolpuri area. Fire department received a call at around 9 am and around 20 fire tenders rushed to the site. No casualties reported so far.
There has been a sharp increase in the number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in the capital, which is likely linked to the spread of the highly mutated omicron variant. Delhi has so far reported the highest 142 cases of the new variant, followed by Maharashtra with 141 cases.
Delhi has reported 63 new cases of the new variant within a day.
With cases on the rise in Delhi, the number of active cases or those with a current infection crossed the 1,000-mark on Sunday. There were 1,103 persons with active infection in Delhi, of whom 230 were admitted to hospitals till Saturday night reported a day later in Sunday’s daily health bulletin.
The active cases is an important marker as these persons need medical care either at home, a Covid health centre, or a hospital depending on the severity of the disease.
As on Monday morning, there are at least 265 persons who have been hospitalised with Covid-19, all but seven of whom have been admitted to oxygen beds, as per government’s live-tracking Delhi Corona App.
With 290 new cases on Sunday, the positivity rate or proportion of samples that return positive crossed the 0.5% mark. If it stays above that on Monday as well, the first level of restrictions under the Graded Response Action Plan will kick in. At this level, Cinemas, banquet halls, auditoriums, spas, gyms and entertainment parks, gyms and yoga centres will be shut. All shops and malls with non-essential services will open as per the odd-even formula from 10 am to 8 pm.
A night curfew has already been implemented in the city.
Delhi on Sunday reported the highest daily Covid-19 cases since June 10 with 290 fresh cases and zero deaths reported, according to the city’s health department. The positivity rate climbed up to 0.55 percent. For the past few days, Delhi’s daily numbers have been increasing at an alarming rate with the Delhi government deciding to impose a night curfew from today, between 11 pm to 5 am.
As part of its special housing scheme, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has provided a facility for prospective buyers to visit sample flats in different localities. They will be assisted by an DDA official for the same.
On Thursday, the DDA launched its special scheme in which 18,335 flats are on sale in four categories — High Income Group (HIG), Middle Income Group (MIG), Lower Income Group (LIG) and Janta flats — at areas such as Jasola, Dwarka, Rohini, and Narela. Read more
Almost a month after the deadline to demolish two towers of a Supertech housing project in Noida, set by the Supreme Court, expired, the buildings are still standing.
On August 30, a bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah upheld a 2014 Allahabad High Court judgment which ordered the demolition of the two towers at Emerald Court, located in Noida Sector 93A. The SC ruled that the demolition had to be completed within three months. Read more