Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said his government is gearing up to fight a possible threat of the Omicron variant of coronavirus and has prepared 30,000 oxygen beds and also ramped up oxygen supply and storage facilities The chief minister held a meeting with government departments to review the preparations to deal with […]

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The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought the Centre’s response on a plea seeking live streaming of proceedings on petitions to recognise same-sex marriages under the special, Hindu and foreign marriage laws. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh granted time to the Centre’s counsel to take instructions on the […]

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Dengue cases in Delhi this season has jumped to over 8,200, with more than 6,700 of those being recorded in November alone, according to a civic report released on Monday On November 17, the city had recorded a total of 5,277 dengue cases, making it the highest number of cases of the vector-borne disease recorded […]

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The Delhi government on Sunday launched the ‘Business Blasters’ programme, a first-of-its-kind televised event that will give students of classes 11 and 12 of schools run by it an opportunity to present their start-up ideas to investors and obtain investment capital to take them to the next level. The show will include students’ business ideas, […]

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The national capital recorded a minimum temperature of 10.3 degrees Celsius on Monday morning, normal for this time of the year, the India Meteorological Department said. The relative humidity at 8.30 am stood at 69 per cent, it said. The maximum temperature will settle around 27 degrees Celsius. The maximum temperature will settle around 27 […]

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Air pollution levels in Delhi worsened on Friday morning due to unfavourable meteorological conditions — low temperature and slow wind speed — and the air quality index read 403 at 9 am, which falls in the severe category Low temperatures and slow surface winds allow accumulation of pollutants. The city’s 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) […]

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The body of a 40-year-old man was found in a garments factory after a fire broke out in Geeta Colony here on early Thursday morning, police said. The deceased was identified as Sanju who hailed from a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahar district, they said. There was no visible burn injury on the victim”s body, […]

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The Delhi University  on Wednesday announced cut-offs for its second special drive to fill up vacant seats with the minimum required marks, seeing a steep decline in the range of two per cent to nine per cent at some colleges. Before this, the university had announced a cut-off under a special drive on November 13. […]

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