Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (PTI)Delhi News Highlights: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said the yogshala programme will continue in the city despite L-G’s disapproval. Alleging the BJP has stopped the programme using political pressure on officers and bureaucrats, the Delhi CM said yogshala program had around 1700 attendees at 590 parks with some of them going through post covid complications. “I appeal to all the yoga teachers to continue the program. I will not the let the classes stop. Even if I will have to beg in streets to provide yoga classes to the people of Delhi, I will beg.” Kejriwal said.
Meanwhile, two persons lost their lives in a fire that broke out at a footwear factory in Narela on Tuesday morning. A call about the incident was made around 9.30 am. Delhi Fire Services said they rushed to the spot with 10 fire tenders. The fire has been doused now.
In other news, Delhi’s 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) was in the ‘severe’ category on Tuesday, according to data from the Central Pollution Control Board updated at 9.10 am. The national capital recorded an average AQI of 426 at 9.10 am. AQI between 401 and 500 is considered to be ‘severe’.
The Delhi High Court Monday upheld the life sentence and conviction awarded to a man who shot dead DU student Radhika Tanwar in South Delhi’s Dhaula Kuan in 2011.
Tanwar, who was 20 at the time, was shot on a foot-overbridge in Satya Niketan area of South Delhi on March 8, 2011. The deceased was a resident of Naraina village and a BA second-year student at Ram Lal Anand College. During investigation, it was found that Tanwar had been shot in her back by Vijay Saini, who “used to follow the deceased a few years prior to the incident”.
A division bench of Justice Mukta Gupta and Justice Anish Dayal observed that the prosecution had been able to prove the guilt of the appellant (Saini) beyond reasonable doubt and held that the death of the deceased was “clearly homicidal in nature caused due to firearm injury”, evident from the testimony of the doctor who conducted the post-mortem. Malavika Prasad reports
Prime Minister Narendra Modi would inaugurate 3,024 new flats for the economically weaker sections (EWS) at Kalkaji in South Delhi on Wednesday, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement Tuesday.
The PM would hand over the keys to some of the beneficiaries of the in-situ slum rehabilitation project at an event at Vigyan Bhawan, the PMO said.
“In line with the vision of the Prime Minister to provide housing for all, in-situ slum rehabilitation in 376 jhuggi jhopri clusters is being undertaken by Delhi Development Authority (DDA). The objective of the rehabilitation project is to provide a better and healthy living environment to the residents of JJ clusters, with proper amenities and facilities,” the PMO said. Read more
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday passed an order temporarily restraining HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt Ltd. and former coach of the national men’s and women’s hockey teams Sjoerd Marijne from publishing confidential information about certain hockey players stated in his book “Will Power”.
A single judge bench of Justice Amit Bansal said that he was of the prima facie view that the confidentiality clause stated in Hockey India’s Code of Conduct has been breached by the publisher seeking to publish certain portions of the book pertaining to certain players. He observed that grave and irreparable injury will be caused to the players if the portions in question come out in public domain. Read more
A notice for a fine of Rs 5 lakh has been issued to L&T for violation of the construction ban in Delhi, said Environment Minister Gopal Rai Tuesday.
After inspecting a construction site near Rouse Avenue, Rai said, “Construction material was lying uncovered. On inspecting the site, we found that stone cutting work was still happening here. L&T is doing work here. Complete violations of the orders of the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) were found here. A notice has been issued to L&T for a fine of Rs 5 lakh and they have been asked to stop the work.” Read more
"Kejriwal says that he will prepare for the next pollution wave but Delhiites kept asking for oxygen but he didn’t do anything," said BJP's national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia at a press conference on Tuesday.
He also claimed that Kejriwal was "playing with the health of the people", and told him to "resign if you can’t resolve the pollution problem."
Bhatia asked, "When central govt is providing the facility to states why nothing has been done by Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann," and called the two CMs "irresponsible leaders."
"It’s a criminal negligence on behalf of Kejriwal," he added.
The Supreme Court Tuesday listed for November 14 a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) seeking a judicial probe into the recent collapse of the suspension bridge over the Machchhu river in Morbi, Gujarat that resulted in the death of more than 130 persons.
Advocate Vishal Tiwari who filed the plea was mentioned before a bench presided by Chief Justice UU Lalit.
Responding to a query from the bench, the petitioner said he was primarily seeking a probe by a retired judge into the matter. He added that there are similar old bridges and monuments in different parts of the country and sought directions to the state governments to form committees to survey and conduct a risk assessment of these structures. Read more
UP CM Yogi Adityanath has arrived at a program near the GNIDA office to inaugurate various infra projects, notably the 85 cusec Gangajal water project for Greater Noida. Senior leaders including Pankaj Singh, MP Mahesh Sharma, and Jewar MLA Dhirendra Singh are present.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said free yoga classes wil begin in AAP-ruled Punjab and Gujarat if it wins the upoming assembly polls.
On Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar's letter to LG alleging he gave money to AAP leader Satyendra Jain as protection money, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said BJP is planting a fake, false and fabricated story to divert the attention from Gujarat Morbi Bridge Collapse. "Before the Punjab Election, they brought Kumar Vishwas. You people are only showing that He has conned many people by posing himself as PM, CM and big actors and personalities. How can you believe him. This is just BJP's tactics to divert people's focus from Gujarat Collapse." Kejriwal said.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said the yogshala programme will continue in the city. Alleging the BJP has stopped the programme using political pressure on officers and bureaucrats, the Delhi CM said yogshala program had around 1700 attendees at 590 parks with some of them going through post covid complications.
"I appeal to all the yoga teachers to continue the program. I will not the let the classes stop. Even if I will have to beg in streets to provide yoga classes to the people of Delhi, I will beg." Kejriwal said.
The Delhi HC has isued notice in Abhijit Iyer Mitra’s application seeking permanent injunction against Twitter after the platform suspended his account in connection with supreme court’s bail order to Alt News co founder Mohammed Zubair.
Mitra had tweeted that a TV journalist had furnished Zubair’s bail bond pursuant to which his account was banned and the tweet was deleted. He has sought a direction to twitter to reinstate his account and to the centre to take action against twitter under the IT rules.
The HC has also issued summons in Mitra’s main suit. His counsel has been asked to file an amended memo of parties, indicating only Twitter Inc as defendant.
Raghav Awasthi and Mukesh Sharma appeared for Mitra.
Awathi argued that Mitra is a fairly renowned public figure and a well respected defence analyst appearing in TV debates.
He argued that Mitra had posted something on twitter in July without disclosing any personal information. “merely for this my account was banned without following IT rules 2021,” awasthi said.
Senior Advocate Sajan Poovayya appeared for Twitter and said that the suit was filed three months after the tweet was made. Awasthi said that he moved three months later due to a death in his family.
Traffic stoppage is expected on Noida Expressway around 11 a.m when Pres Draupadi Murmu arrives at the India Expo Centre for Water Week
A fire broke out at a building in Narela around 9.35 am. Delhi Fire Services said they have sent 10 fire tenders to the spot. Atul Garg, DFS (Chief) said ' So far, 3 persons have been rescued. It is suspected that 2-3 more person are trapped'
The air quality in October this year has seen both extremes, oscillating between ‘good’ at the start of the month and ‘severe’ at the end.
The average AQI for the month of October this year was 210, worse than the 173 recorded in October last year, but better than the average AQI for the month of October from 2016 to 2020, going by data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Rainfall in October last year and this year has contributed to keeping the air relatively clean at the start of the month. Read More
In a major relief to both residential and non-residential property owners, Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Vinai Kumar Saxena recently launched a one-time scheme – called ‘Strengthening and Augmentation of Municipal Revenue for Infrastructure Development in Delhi’ (SAMRIDDHI). This will serve as a one-time property tax amnesty scheme for residents of authorised and regularised colonies in Delhi. Read the deatils of the scheme here
A total of 11,649 candidates have been upgraded to higher preference colleges and courses in Round 2 of allotments in the ongoing Delhi university admissions. Around 35,000 candidates had opted to be considered for "upgrading".
A woman trying to cross a road was run over by a bus in Central Delhi's Karol Bagh area Monday afternoon.
Delhi Police are conducting raids at the houses of the Wire's founder Siddharth Vardarajan and editor MK Venu in Delhi. After the FIR was lodged against them and other editors on the complaint of BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya, police will be checking their devices and collecting evidence w.r.t. the investigation. Police said nobody has been detained and the Crime Branch teams are only conducting raids.
The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Centre to file a “better and comprehensive affidavit” to show that it will ensure adequate security to former Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy at his private residence in the national capital.
The Centre’s counsel informed a single-judge bench of Justice Yashwant Varma that the government had filed an affidavit of compliance stating that a “joint security review” had been conducted and that the “day he moves to his private residence the entire security set up will also be moved along with him”.
Senior advocate Jayant Mehta, appearing for the BJP leader, submitted that till date no steps had been taken despite the assurance given by the Centre on September 14. Read more here
The per day liquor sale in Delhi during the Diwali weekend saw a 35 per cent rise as compared to the usual days and more than 48 lakh liquor bottles worth Rs 100 crore were sold between Friday to Sunday, said officials Monday.
According to a senior Excise Department official, the average sale on a usual day is around 11 lakh to 12.5 lakh bottles but as Diwali was a dry day, liquor sales rose to nearly 20 lakh bottles three days preceding Diwali. (Read More)
A case has been registered after two men allegedly died of suffocation while cleaning the septic tank of a house near Gurgaon’s Mohammadpur Jharsa village, police said Monday. No arrests have been made yet as the owner of the house is on the run.
The deceased have been identified as Dilip, 45, a sanitation worker, and Mohammad Shahabuddin, 29, a local tailor. According to the FIR lodged on the complaint by Dilip’s son Sorav, the accused Bhim took Dilip and Shahabuddin to his house on Sunday evening to clean the septic tank. “After reaching there, he left my father and Shahabuddin in the pit without any safety equipment. They were cleaning while he stood outside the pit. My father and Shahabuddin died due to the poisonous gas inside the pit,” the complainant said. (Read More)
Mohammed Zubair has filed a reply to a status report of the Delhi Police which claimed that he allegedly posts content on twitter that”triggers religious sentiment to remain trending on social media”.
Mohd. Zubair has said that he has not made any disclosure statement to Investigating Officer or any police officer during custody or investigation. He says that Delhi Police’s action of creating false disclosure statements to sustain probe is subversion of rule of law.
“I am a fact checker and I post content on social media debunking fake news, misinformation and disinformation of all kind, and my work is not limited to any particular kind of posts, nor do I post content for popularity or any other material gain,” Zubair has stated in his reply.
The matter was called for hearing before the Delhi HC, however it was adjourned to March 9, with time granted to Delhi Police to respond to Zubair’s reply. The Delhi Police in his status report said that they they will be analysing data recovered from the laptop siezed from Zubair’s Bangalore residence.
Zubair had moved the HC challenging the remand order passed by the trial court. He was granted bail in July; he has however argued before the HC that the laptop and other equipment seized by the special cell should be released.
The Delhi Police Special Cell has informed the Delhi High Court that the Twitter post made by AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair containing picture and words allegedly against a particular religious community was deliberate and “highly provocative”, enough to incite feelings of hatred among people, “detrimental for maintenance of public tranquillity in the society”. (Read More)
Senior BJP MPs Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, Manoj Tiwari and Hans Raj Hans have told a Delhi court that utterance of words like ‘scam/ghotala’ does not by itself constitute defamation while praying for discharge in a defamation case filed by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
Sisodia filed the case in 2019 against Tiwari, Hans Raj Hans, Verma, former MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa, and spokesperson Harish Khurana for alleging corruption of nearly Rs 2,000 crore in the construction of classrooms in Delhi’s government schools. (Read More)
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has decided to create a dashboard to display statistics pertaining to CT scans and MRI investigations being conducted at the institute in Delhi, officials said.
In an office memorandum, AIIMS director Dr M Srinivas said the move has been taken as part of efforts to boost transparency. “As a part of good governance and to increase transparency, it has been decided to create a web-based dashboard to display the statistics of CT scans and MRI investigations being conducted at AIlMS, New Delhi,” the memorandum said. (Read More)
Amid high pollution and poor air quality, the Delhi Fire Services have started sprinkling water at 13 hotspots in the city in a bid to reduce the health hazard it poses, officials said Monday.
This was after Delhi recorded air quality in the ‘very poor’ category and ‘severe’ category in a few areas during the weekend. With the increase in stubble burning in northern states, the situation will continue to be bad for days. (Read More)
The Delhi HC directs Centre to file a “better and comprehensive affidavit” to show that they will ensure adequate security to former Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy at his private residence.
The Centre submitted before the court that Swamy will be provided with six security personnel once he moves to his private residence. The Court said that the requisite infrastructure for personnel should be set in place before Swamy moves to his residence, and asked how will they ensure that the personnel has a place to sleep and eat in. To which the Centre said that in private colonies rotational security is provided where there isnt space for setting up sentry gates and other infrastructure.
The HC granted four days time for the Centre to put its reply on this issue. Swamy was directed by the HC on September 14 to vaccate his government accomodation within 6 weeks.
The two-day Chhath Puja celebrations concluded on Monday with devotees offering prayers to the rising Sun at several ghats in the national capital. After two years of Covid-induced restrictions, Chhath Puja saw a lot of enthusiasm among the devotees.
The Delhi government made 1,100 ghats for Chhath Puja across the city this year and a budget of Rs 25 crore was earmarked for the preparations for the festival. (PTI)
Delhi's air quality remained in the 'very poor' category on Monday morning and the city recorded a minimum temperature of 15 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season's average.
With pollution levels worsening, the Centre's air quality panel has directed the authorities to impose a ban on construction and demolition activities in the Delhi-NCR, except in essential projects, and other curbs under stage III of the Graded Response Action Plan.
GRAP is a set of anti-air pollution measures followed in the capital and its vicinity according to the severity of the situation.
It classifies the air quality in the Delhi-NCR under four different stages: Stage I - "Poor" (AQI 201-300); Stage II - "Very Poor" (AQI 301-400); Stage III - "Severe" (AQI 401-450); and Stage IV - "Severe Plus" (AQI >450). (PTI)
The Delhi transport department issued around 3.29 lakh pollution under control (PUC) certificates from October 14 to 26 after the Delhi government, considering the deteriorating air quality in the national capital, made these mandatory for vehicles to fuel their vehicles at petrol pumps
According to data shared by the transport department, the highest number of challans (32,474) were issued on the first day of the drive and the lowest on Diwali day (October 24). (Read More)
The Congress on Monday paid tributes to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary, with Rahul Gandhi saying he is carrying her love and values in his heart and will not allow the India for which she sacrificed her life to fall apart.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Sonia Gandhi and other senior party leaders offered floral tributes to Indira Gandhi at her Shakti Sthal memorial here. (Read More)
DU has released the second round of seat allocations for admissions to its colleges. Now, candidates can check their personal dashboards to find out if they have been allotted a seat or upgraded from their earlier allotted one.
According to the admission schedule released by the university, Round 2 of seat allocations was scheduled to be shared with candidates at 5 pm Sunday. When candidates logged into their admission portals, they were informed the allocation would be declared “after 10 pm”. However, candidates were still waiting for the declaration till at least 11:15 pm Sunday. (Read More)
The Delhi High Court recently dismissed the bail application of a man accused of allegedly raping his fiancé several times, holding a “mere engagement” does not mean he can sexually assault and threaten her.
A single judge bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma in her order of October 6 opined the allegations levelled by the woman were “serious in nature whereby she appears to have been sexually assaulted and raped on several occasions” by the man on the false pretext of marriage. (Read More)
- Plea by Sharjeel Imam seeking interim bail in a 2020 riots case involving allegations of sedition
- Plea by former BJP MP Subramanian Swamy claiming that in spite of an earlier assurance, the Centre has not made any security arrangements at the accommodation he would be residing in after vacating the government-allotted bungalow.