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Delhi News Live Updates: Heatwave alert on till Friday as temperature soars to 41 degrees in several parts of city

Delhi News Live Updates: Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is scheduled to meet Union Ministers in New Delhi today.

Delhi News Live Updates: According to IMD reports heatwave conditions are expected till Friday. (Source: Express Archives)

Delhi News Live Updates: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday forecasted a mainly clear sky with occasional sustained surface winds blowing at speeds between 10 to 20 kmph throughout the day. The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 41°C, while the minimum may settle near 26°C. According to a statement by the weather department on Monday, heatwave conditions are forecast till Friday. The minimum temperature is forecast to hover around 23 to 25 degrees Celsius till Thursday and gradually increase to up to 27 degrees Celsius by the weekend.

In other news, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is scheduled to meet Union Ministers in New Delhi on Tuesday, including Home Minister Amit Shah, Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil, and Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal. Returning from a personal trip abroad, Naidu’s visit aligns with his efforts to expand Amaravati into a “mega city” by merging nearby towns and acquiring an additional 30,000 acres for a proposed international airport, according to the TDP release.

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MCD mayoral elections 2025: The mayoral elections are set to be held on April 25. Ahead of the polls, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday has decided to stay out of the race, accusing the BJP of using intimidation and bribery to sway AAP councillors and secure a majority in the MCD, despite AAP’s earlier electoral win. Former Chief Minister Atishi stated that AAP refuses to engage in such tactics. Meanwhile, the BJP has put forward Raja Iqbal Singh as its candidate for mayor and Jai Bhagwan Yadav for deputy mayor.

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17:06 (IST) 22 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: AAP accuses Delhi BJP govt of halting pensions for widows, divorced women

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday accused the Delhi BJP government of discontinuing pensions for widows and divorced women, alleging that payments have been stalled for the past two months.

There was no immediate response from the BJP on the allegations. Addressing a press conference, AAP's Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj said, "Widows and divorced women have not received their pensions for the last two months. The BJP government is plotting to cut the pension of thousands of women who rely on this support."

Bharadwaj further alleged that the BJP's move is a deliberate attempt to dismantle social welfare schemes implemented by the previous AAP government.

"The whole country is fed up with listening to the unnecessary speeches of the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party," he added.

The confrontation between the BJP and AAP has intensified ever since the saffron party stormed to power in Delhi in February, ending AAP's decade-long rule in the national capital.

-PTI

16:46 (IST) 22 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: DJB starts work to desilt Wazirabad pond to increase storage capacity

Aiming to increase water production in the national capital, the Delhi Jal Board has started work to increase the storage capacity of the Wazirabad pond area.

Earlier this month, Delhi Water Minister Parvesh Verma visited the Wazirabad water treatment plant (WTP) and announced that the government is working on a project to carry out desilting of the Wazirabad pond in North Delhi district.

The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has now issued a tender, inviting companies to carry out the work at a cost of Rs 25 crore and remove 3.63 lakh cubic metres of silt from the pond. As per estimates, the desilting work will increase the water-holding capacity of the raw water pond by approximately 100 million gallons per day (MGD).

The Wazirabad barrage is the first point of interception of the Yamuna River in the national capital, where the DJB constructed one of the biggest WTPs in the city, having an average water production capacity of 138 MGD.

Over the past few years, Delhi's water production grew from an average of 927 MGD in 2020-21 to 990-1,000 MGD in 2024. However, the requirement of the city is around 1,290 MGD, as per the Economic Survey, which the DJB is yet to achieve. "The work will be carried out upstream of the river, starting from Wazirabad up to Ramghat, which is a distance of around 1 km. Usually, during the monsoon season, silt is carried away downstream, but this is legacy silt, which has accumulated over the years,” a DJB official said.

According to the Delhi government, the desilting process would be completed in two months, after which the pond would be able to store water at double its current capacity. During an earlier inspection, Verma drank treated water from the plant and assured that it was completely safe and drinkable.

"The Wazirabad WTP has a storage capacity of 220 MGD, but due to silt accumulation along a one-km stretch, it is currently holding only around 100 MGD," the water minister said. Verma also said that while Delhi receives adequate water from its neighbouring states, improvements were needed for storage infrastructure and leakage prevention.

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16:30 (IST) 22 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: Two held at Delhi Airport for smuggling foreign currency worth over Rs. 91 Lakh

Customs officials at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport have arrested two Indian nationals for allegedly attempting to smuggle foreign currency worth Rs 91.72 lakh out of the country, according to a press release.

The two passengers, who were scheduled to fly to Bangkok on Flight SG 87 on April 20 from Terminal 3, were intercepted based on specific intelligence.

A thorough personal and baggage search led to the recovery of € 96,000, concealed in their belongings.

The passengers reportedly admitted that the currency was intended for smuggling abroad.

Officials have seized the foreign currency under Section 110 of the Customs Act, 1962. The currency is liable for confiscation under Section 113 of the same Act, in conjunction with provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999. Both individuals have been arrested under Section 104 of the Customs Act and further investigation is currently underway.

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14:07 (IST) 22 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: 2 murders reported within hours in Delhi; police arrest 3 in the first case

Two separate incidents of stabbing were reported in Delhi within hours Monday in which two young men were killed and two injured. According to the Delhi Police, they have arrested three men in connection with the incident in Pul Prahladpur, and are trying to identify the attackers in the second case in Shahdara. In one case, a 21-year-old contractor was killed, and his brother and friend were critically injured over a minor dispute over a bidi in Pul Prahladpur. In the other, a 22-year-old man was stabbed to death in broad daylight near New Rasheed Market in Shahdara’s Jagatpuri area. According to the Delhi Police, they received a PCR call in the late hours of Monday reporting a stabbing incident near a public toilet in Pul Prahladpur. When the investigating officer (IO) and police staff reached the scene, they learned that a quarrel had broken out between neighbours.

According to initial details provided by the caller, Sohaib, 21, and Shehzad, the injured man, had already been taken to ESI Hospital in Okhla, where the first man was declared dead. Sohaib worked as a contractor, converting containers into offices and houses, said the police. Click here

13:07 (IST) 22 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: ‘Couldn’t believe my eyes and ears’: Delhi HC directs Ramdev to pull down all ‘Hamdard’s sharbat jihad’ ads

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali to immediately pull down all its advertisements referring to Hamdard’s popular drink Rooh Afza as “Sharbat Jihad.”

“I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears,” Justice Amit Bansal said in an oral observation.

Hamdard has moved the Court in a trademark disparagement suit against Patanjali. In a social media post advertising Patanjali’s summer refreshment drink, Ramdev contrasted it with Rooh Afza and claimed that the competitor’s profits are used “for building masjids and madrasas.”

The Court also directed Patanjali to file an affidavit within five days recording a statement by Ramdev that he shall not issue any such statements, advertisements, or social media posts in the future. Read

11:56 (IST) 22 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: HC reserves verdict in cases seeking quashing of FIR against Tablighi Jamaat members accused of spreading COVID-19

The Delhi High Court Monday reserved a verdict in a slew of petitions seeking quashing of 16 FIRs involving 70 Indian nationals associated with the Tablighi Jamaat who were accused of spreading COVID-19 in 2020.

Justice Neena Bansal Krishna reserved a verdict in the 16 First Information Reports involving the Indian nationals.

They were charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including criminal conspiracy, for allegedly housing foreign nationals in different mosques during the pandemic between March 24, 2020, and March 30, 2020. While 195 foreign nationals were named in the FIRs, however, in most chargesheets, they were not charge sheeted, or the cognisance of the chargesheet was refused by the magistrate court on principles of double jeopardy.

The Delhi Police’s Crime Branch initially instituted an FIR under Section 3 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, and IPC sections 188, 269, 270, 120-B, and 271, along with provisions of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, against seven Indians. Read

10:58 (IST) 22 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: HC refers to Draupadi, points out women ‘considered as husband’s property and its devastating consequences’

The Delhi High Court recently cited the example of the loss of Draupadi in a gamble that led to the war in the Mahabharata as an “absurdity of treating a woman as chattel”, while dropping adultery charges against a man.

In an order on April 17, Justice Neena Bansal Krishna set aside a sessions court order summoning a man, accused of continuing an adulterous relationship with the complainant’s former wife. The accused man was initially discharged by a magistrate court but was subsequently summoned by a sessions court after the magistrate court’s order was challenged by the complainant.

Relying on the Supreme Court’s landmark judgment in the case of Joseph Shine, Justice Krishna observed about adultery in the order, “What is clear, therefore, is that this archaic law has long outlived its purpose and does not square with today’s constitutional morality in that the very object with which it was made, has since become manifestly arbitrary having lost its rationale long ago and become in today’s day and age, utterly irrational.”

“The woman being considered as the property of the husband and its devastating consequences are well documented in the Mahabharata wherein Draupadi was put on stake in a game of gamble by none other than her own husband Yudhishthira where other four brothers were the silent spectators and Draupadi had no voice to protest for her dignity,” said Justice Krishna. Continue reading...

10:38 (IST) 22 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: Andhra CM Naidu to meet Amit Shah in Delhi today in push for Amaravati mega city plan

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is scheduled to meet Union Ministers in New Delhi on Tuesday, including Home Minister Amit Shah, Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil, and Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal. Returning from a personal trip abroad, Naidu’s visit aligns with his efforts to expand Amaravati into a “mega city” by merging nearby towns and acquiring an additional 30,000 acres for a proposed international airport, according to the TDP release.

13:21 (IST) 21 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: PM Modi on Civil Services Day event

Addressing an event organised on the occasion of Civil Services Day in Delhi, Modi said the holistic development of India means no village, no family and no citizen is left behind. "The policies we are working on today and the decisions we are making are going to shape the future of the next 1,000 years," he said.

Modi said India's aspirational society --? youths, farmers and women --? and its dreams are soaring to unprecedented heights. "To fulfil these extraordinary aspirations, extraordinary speed is essential," he said.

The prime minister said quality in governance is determined by how deeply schemes reach the people and their real impact on the ground.

In the past 10 years, he said, India has moved beyond incremental change to witness impactful transformation.

"India is setting new benchmarks in governance, transparency and innovation," he added.

12:20 (IST) 21 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: What the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act says on mayoral polls

As per the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, the MCD is required to elect a new mayor and deputy mayor for which elections are supposed to be held in April every year.

Apart from the councillor, 14 MLAs (nominated from parties in proportion to their representation in the Delhi Assembly), seven Lok Sabha MPs (all BJP) and three Rajya Sabha MPs (at the moment, all of them are from AAP) are going to be a part of the mayoral electorate.

In the previous mayoral elections, the BJP had only one nominated MLA. Given that their numbers in the Delhi Assembly have now increased, the number of elected MLAs who will be a part of the electorate during the upcoming mayoral elections will also see an increase.

12:16 (IST) 21 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: Recap of 2022 MCD polls which AAP won

In the 2022 MCD elections, AAP emerged victorious by securing a majority of 134 seats in the 250-member House. The BJP won 104 seats. The Congress secured nine seats and three seats going to independent candidates.

However, both AAP and BJP aggressively poaching rival councillors. Given that the anti-defection law does not apply to MCD councillors, frequent defections have significantly altered the composition of the House.

11:56 (IST) 21 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: AAP refuses to contest mayoral polls, Atishi tells why

AAP withdraws from filing nominations for the mayoral elections. “We have seen this throughout the country, be it goa, Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra — the BJP forms it’s government by breaking other parties. Even in Delhi, after expecting a defeat in the municipal corporation, the BJP proposed delimitation,” Atishi said.

“Despite us winning the MCD elections, they threatened and paid our councillors to join their party, which is why today they are in a majority at the MCD. The AAP does not believe in doing this, which is why we will not be fighting the mayor elections,” she added.

11:55 (IST) 21 Apr 2025

Delhi News Live Updates: BJP announces candidates for mayoral polls

Delhi BJP announces its candidates for the mayor elections scheduled for April 25 —

Mayor - Raja Iqbal Singh, currently the Leader of Opposition at the MCD assembly

Dy. Mayor - Jai Bhagwan Yadav, currently the leader of Deputy leader of Opposition at the MCD assembly.

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