25 MCD-run schools to get revamp: L-G
Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena Saturday said that to upgrade teaching, technological and physical infrastructure, 25 schools run by the MCD have been identified to be modified as a pilot project.
Saxena visited Nagar Nigam Pratibha Vidyalaya in H-Block, Ashok Vihar, along with officials of the MCD, the Raj Niwas said in a statement. The visit was to carry forward his “agenda of taking the MCD and the institutions under it to newer heights,” it said.
Ensure uninterrupted supply of sanitary napkins in schools, Delhi HC tells govt
The High Court Wednesday directed the Delhi government to ensure uninterrupted supply of sanitary napkins for students under Kishori Yojana scheme at its schools.
The division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subaramonium Prasad was told by the government counsel that as an interim arrangement, the heads of all government schools have been empowered to purchase sanitary napkins from the government e-markets to ensure the distribution to each girl student enrolled in classes VI to XII from July.
The Delhi High Court Thursday dismissed a petition seeking suspension of Delhi minister Satyendar Jain from the cabinet since he has been in custody in a money laundering case since May 30.
“We know our limitations. We have to obey the statutes, rules and notifications. We cannot travel beyond that,” said the division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad during the hearing.
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The counsel representing petitioner Dr Nand Kishore Garg, a former BJP MLA, at the outset of the hearing submitted that there is a constitutional vacuum when it comes to such a situation, and there is no law which prescribes suspension of a minister. Read more
The Delhi Police have arrested a Nepali man for allegedly killing his friend for refusing to return his phone after making a call.
Deputy commissioner of police (central district) Shweta Chauhan said the accused has been identified as Surendra Chand, 42, and the victim as Prithvy Pal Verma, 40. “On May 2, the police got information that a person having head injury was lying in West Patel Nagar. He was admitted to the RML hospital where he died on May 9 during treatment. During the postmortem, it was revealed he had multiple head injuries. The deceased used to work as a waiter at weddings, parties etc” she said. Read more
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia inaugurated a new centre of excellence in artificial intelligence at Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT) Wednesday. Read more
The Gurgaon police have arrested a man for allegedly trying to murder his former classmate in IMT Manesar after she refused to marry him. The 19-year-old woman told the police that the accused had been stalking her. Read more
A Class XII school girl was allegedly stabbed in the chest and stomach by a neighbour on Thursday morning in West Delhi’s Tilak Nagar area, police said, adding that the girl survived the attack and is currently undergoing treatment at a local hospital. Read more
The level of small and hazardous airborne particles known as PM2.5 in Delhi in March and April this year was the highest for these months from 2019 onwards, according to data on air pollution this summer from NCAP Tracker, which compiles air quality data to track progress under the National Clean Air Programme. Read more
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) conducted public meetings in Tigipur and Mohammadpur-Ramzanpur villages to answer people’s queries and clear doubts regarding the land pooling policy on Wednesday.
Issues pertaining to the land pooling policy, the proposed amendments, the consortium formation modalities, the External Development Charge (EDC) issue, the 60:40 division of land, and the ground-level implementation of the policy were discussed at the public meetings held on Saturday, the DDA said in a statement. Read more
Aam Aadmi Party MLA Akhilesh Tripathi has been booked for allegedly assaulting two men in Delhi, the police said Wednesday.
Ashok Vihar police station received a PCR call at around 4.30 pm Wednesday about the assault, the police informed. Usha Rangnani, DCP (Northwest), said: “While conducting a local enquiry, we found that AAP MLA from Model Town, Akhilesh Tripathi, assaulted two men identified as Guddu Halwai and Mukesh Babu. The men sustained injuries and were taken to BJRM hospital.” Read more
Light rainfall is likely in Delhi on Thursday, going by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast.
The maximum temperature could be around 37 degrees Celsius. After a warm and sultry day on Wednesday, when the maximum temperature settled at 38.6 degrees Celsius, there was no respite at night. The minimum temperature recorded early on Thursday was 30 degrees Celsius, two degrees above the normal for this time of the year. Read more
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday said the Aam Aadmi Party will approach the courts to get the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections conducted, accusing the Centre of purposely delaying the same. Addressing the Assembly, he said that when the Bill to unify the MCDs was passed, the Centre had assured that a delimitation commission would be formed, following which elections will be held. But the panel was yet to be formed, he said. “They don’t want elections to be conducted. This is against democracy.”
The MCD polls, originally scheduled for April, were put off hours to go for the election schedule to be announced, after the Centre announced its plan to merge the three civic bodies in the city.
AAP claims the Centre is delaying the civic elections as it fears a loss. The party just won an Assembly bypoll in Delhi handsomely, and before that, swept the Punjab elections. AAP is expecting both the results to fuel its chances in the Capital, which has a substantial Punjabi population. Rajinder Nagar, where it won the bypoll, also has a large population from the state. Read more
More than three months after ex-Congress councillor Ishrat Jahan was granted bail by a lower court in the larger conspiracy case of Northeast Delhi riots, the Special Cell of Delhi Police has challenged the order before the Delhi High Court stating that the trial court ignored the statements of protected witnesses which “attributed specific and definite role” to her “not only in conspiracy but also in terror financing”.
Observing that “she was neither physically present in Northeast Delhi for riots nor was she part of any group”, the lower court granted bail to Jahan on March 14 in the case. She had been in custody since February 2020 and is the only UAPA accused in the case to have been granted bail by the trial court. The court had noted that “as per the chargesheet and statement of witnesses, accused Ishrat Jahan is not the one who created the idea of chakka jam”. Read more
More than four months after a 16-year-old student of a private school in Faridabad died by suicide with a police complaint by his mother alleging that he was harassed over his sexuality and the school ignored her complaint, the boy’s mother Wednesday alleged laxity in the police probe saying that police was delaying the investigation and was yet to file a chargesheet in the case. Police, however, said the probe was ongoing and denied allegations.
“I have been running pillar to post for the past four months trying to expedite the investigation. My son was subjected to prolonged bullying and sexual harassment. He was blindfolded, stripped and sexually assaulted multiple times in the school washroom. Despite sharing evidence, police have not added sections of POCSO or made any more arrests,” said the boy’s mother, who worked as a teacher in the art department of the same school. Read more
According to the regional meteorological center of New Delhi, light rain is expected at isolated places in the city.
Delhi is likely to witness a generally cloudy sky with the maximum temperature at around 36 degrees Celsius and the minimum at 28 degrees.
“Photography is no longer an art, it used to be,” says Rajkumar Kapoor, owner of Madanjee & Co, a camera store in Chandni Chowk’s ‘camera market’. One of the oldest camera stores here, it was founded in Peshawar by Kapoor’s grandfather, who shifted it to Delhi after Partition and established it in Chandni Chowk in 1955. After his grandfather, the store was owned by Kapoor’s father, and now Kapoor. Like Madanjee & Co, many stores in the camera market have existed since the 1950s, and the ownership has been passed down generations. What was earlier around six stores grew to over 200 now, all packed together.
While the stores display old manual analog cameras, most of their work now deals with repairing and selling digital ones. All surviving shops have adapted with time to the technological shift in photography – from black and white film to colour to digital. A recent revival in film photography has sparked a wave of mostly young customers coming to the market, seeking to repair old cameras which belonged to their parents and grandparents. Read more
A month after a 21-year-old law student was molested at the Jor Bagh Metro Station by a man who allegedly followed her and exposed himself to her, the accused has been arrested by the Delhi Police and booked under charges of sexual harassment and stalking. The accused, Manav Aggarwal (40), a resident of DLF Phase-1 in Gurgaon, allegedly fled to Nepal after the incident and was evading arrest, police said.
The Delhi Police Wednesday said they scanned CCTVs from 163 Metro stations to identify and trace the accused. Several raids were conducted in the month-long operation to zero in on the accused.
On June 2, the woman, also a Gurgaon resident, was travelling from Gurgaon to Delhi on the Metro when the accused approached her on the pretext of enquiring about an address. She helped him and later got down at Jor Bagh Metro station. The accused then followed her, and while she was sitting on the platform waiting for her cab, he again approached her and asked her to verify an address. Read More
Delhi reported 600 fresh Covid-19 cases and one death today. City's positivity rate stood at 3.27 per cent.
The High Court Wednesday directed the Delhi government to ensure uninterrupted supply of sanitary napkins for students under Kishori Yojana scheme at its schools.
The division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subaramonium Prasad was told by the government counsel that as an interim arrangement, the heads of all government schools have been empowered to purchase sanitary napkins from the government e-markets to ensure the distribution to each girl student enrolled in classes VI to XII from July. Read More
Observing that it will not permit the shifting of the tusker to South Africa, the Delhi High Court Wednesday directed the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) and Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) to conduct an inspection of the National Zoological Park to report about the living conditions of the African elephant living in the national capital since 1998.
“We will not permit you to take the elephant to South Africa. We will not permit that. It is our property. Don’t worry we will look after him properly,” said the court.
The division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad said the CZA and AWBI, after joint inspection, shall submit a detailed and exhaustive report with respect to the elephant as well as the area in which he has been kept. Read more
The Chhattisgarh police early on Wednesday visited the residence of Zee News anchor Rohit Ranjan for the second time, but found it locked. Ranjan was arrested by the Noida Police on Tuesday after hours-long questioning, and was later released on bail.
Ranjan had anchored the show where a misleading video of Rahul Gandhi, linking his comments on an SFI attack at his office in Wayanad to the killing of a tailor in Udaipur over remarks on the Prophet, was aired on July 1. Read More
Congress leader Tarvinder Singh Marwah, who was an MLA for three terms in the Delhi assembly, joined the BJP here on Wednesday and slammed his former party's leadership for allegedly ignoring longtime members and promoting courtiers.
Speaking to reporters at the BJP headquarters, Marwah was unsparing in his attack on the Congress leadership and cited a few incidents to slam Sonia Gandhi and
Rahul Gandhi, whom he derisively referred to as "queen" and "king".
He also urged the members of G23, a ginger group within the Congress which seeks overhaul of the party's organisational apparatus, to join the BJP. (PTI)
Special big opening and closing ceremonies will be conducted during the Delhi Shopping Festival, CM Arvind Kejriwal said.
The country's top artists and dancers will be invited to perform during these 30 days. About 200 concerts and entertainment events will be conducted.
Special food walks will be organised. Hotels association and organisations will be kept in the loop to make arrangements for people visiting Delhi from different states and abroad.
The festival aims to boost the economy, create opportunities for traders and businessman and will generate thousands of job opportunities.
Nearly a month after a 21-year-old law student was allegedly sexually harassed by a man at Jor Bagh Metro station, the Delhi Police arrested the accused in the case.
The woman is resident of Gurgaon. The accused approached her inside the metro and later followed her. He molested her while she was booking a cab from the metro station.
Heavy discounts on all products from clothes, foods to household items will be given during the shopping festival, CM Arvind Kejriwal announced. Separate programs for entertainment of elders, children, youngsters, will be organised. About 200 different types of programs and events will be organised during this period.
Kejriwal pointed out that the festival will generate revenue as well as jobs in high numbers.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the plea of a TV news anchor, facing several FIRs in some states for playing a doctored clip of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, seeking protection from coercive action for the alleged offence.
“List it tomorrow,” a vacation bench of justices Indira Banerjee and J K Maheswari said when senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, appearing for the TV anchor, sought an urgent hearing of the plea in view of registration of several FIRs against him in many states for telecast of the clip.
“This man was arrested yesterday by UP police at Noida and released on bail as the offence invoked was bailable, “ he said, adding that the anchor made an error in one of the shows and apologised for that and the news was taken back. (PTI)
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that a 30-day Delhi Shopping Festival will be organised from 28 January to 26 February next year.
"This will be the biggest shopping festival in India. We are starting it now. I expect that in a few years, we will make it the biggest shopping festival in the world," he said.
Citing a CAG report which said the Delhi government was running in profit, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the numbers were the "biggest proof of its honesty". AAP's honesty has deprived the opponents of their sleep, he said.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled in the Assembly on Tuesday said the Delhi government has had a revenue surplus from 2015-16 to 2019-20. It, however, mentioned that the Delhi government was able to maintain the revenue surplus largely because the pension liabilities of its employees were being borne by the central government and the Delhi Police's expenditure was borne by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
"This is the CAG report. It says the Delhi government is running in profit since AAP came to power. This is the biggest proof of honesty of AAP. This honesty has deprived our opponents of their sleep," Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena invited suggestions from the public to improve the MCD's poor financial health and also urged people to "honestly pay" their property taxes and dues to make the civic body financially stable.
The LG said between financial years 2019-2020 and 2021-22, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) cash deficit stood at Rs 2,756.32 crore. The past financial mismanagement and non-payment of property taxes by most residents have led to the current financial crisis, Saxena said on Twitter.
The national capital witnessed a warm and humid morning on Wednesday as the city's minimum temperature was two notches above the normal, even as the weather office predicted light rain in the city.
The minimum temperature was 29.4 degrees Celsius, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. "There will generally be cloudy sky with possibility of light rain during the day," an official said.
The weather office said the relative humidity at 8.30 am was 74 per cent and that the maximum temperature during the day is likely to hover around 37 degrees Celsius.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he will make a "big and important" announcement at 12 pm on Wednesday.
Earlier, citing a Comptroller and Auditor General report which said the Delhi government was running in profit, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the numbers were the "biggest proof of its honesty". AAP's honesty has deprived the opponents of their sleep, he said.