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Delhi News Updates: News portal, The Wire has filed a complaint against its researcher, Devesh Kumar, at the Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police, A day after the Delhi police registered an FIR against its founder and editors in connection with the Meta stories. The stories, subsequently retracted, had reported that BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya used his special privileges at social media giant Meta to take down over 700 posts. On Friday, Malviya had submitted a complaint to the Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) against the portal for alleged cheating, forgery, and criminal intimidation.
Meanwhile, Delhi’s overall air quality recorded ‘very poor’ on Sunday morning with the air quality index (AQI) showing 367 at 9.30 AM. The relative humidity at 8.30 am was 70 per cent, the India Meteorological Department said. Amid worsening pollution levels in the National Capital, the Centre’s air quality panel on Saturday directed authorities in the National Capital Region to immediately implement curbs under stage III of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP). The restrictions include a ban on construction and demolition activities except for essential projects concerning national security, defence, railways and metro rail among others.
The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) also said that the authorities might impose restrictions on the plying of BS III petrol and BS IV diesel four-wheelers in the NCR considering the worsening air quality. Delhi’s 24-hour average air quality index stood at 397 at 4 pm, the worst since January. It was 354 on Thursday, 271 on Wednesday, 302 on Tuesday and 312 on Monday (Diwali). GRAP is a set of anti-air pollution measures followed in the capital and its vicinity according to the severity of the situation.
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