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PTI -January 6, 2021

The Delhi Police is planning to hire forensic experts for assistance in detection of cyber and financial frauds, as well as in collecting evidence from the crime scene, officials said. These experts will be hired in the categories of forensic general, forensic digital, forensic accounting, forensic psychological, forensic chemical, biology and physics, they said. A […]

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PTI -January 6, 2021

The active cases tally on Tuesday dropped to 4,562 from 4,689 the previous day Delhi recorded 442 fresh COVID-19 cases and 12 new fatalities on Tuesday, while the city’s positivity rate came down to 0.55 per cent, authorities said. The infection tally in the city stood at over 6.27 lakh and the death toll mounted […]

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PTI -January 5, 2021

The NGT appointed Yamuna Monitoring Committee has asked the CPCB to identify point sources of pollution leading to high levels of ammonia in the river in Delhi and submit a report by 10 January The directions from the two-member green panel came after the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) alleged that Haryana has not yet stopped […]

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PTI -January 5, 2021

The rains, under the influence of a strong western disturbance, come on the back of a “severe” cold wave that gripped Delhi in the run-up to the New Year Sporadic rains lashed the national capital for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, even as the minimum temperature rose to 13.2 degrees Celsius, six notches more […]

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PTI -January 5, 2021

Three more Delhi residents have tested positive for the new Coronavirus strain as a result of door-to-door medical check-up of people who have recently arrived from the United Kingdom an official said on Monday With this, seven residents of the national capital have so far been found infected with the new Coronavirus variant that has […]

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PTI -January 4, 2021

Work is underway in full swing to set up centres for Covid-19 vaccination in the national capital with 500 such units to come up in the first phase, even as the storage facility is getting equipped with freezers to hold vaccines in a temperature range of 2-8 degrees Celsius. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on […]

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PTI -January 2, 2021

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Saturday said COVID-19 vaccine will be provided to people in the national capital for free once it arrives, and asserted that the city government has made preparations for the vaccination drive. Interacting with reporters during his visit to a facility in Daryaganj as part of a dry run exercise […]

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PTI -December 28, 2020

A cold wave is likely to grip parts of Delhi over the next four days as frosty winds from the Himalayas have started blowing towards the plains, weather department officials said on Monday. The minimum temperature in the national capital settled at 5.6 degrees Celsius as against 6 degrees Celsius on Sunday. The India Meteorological […]

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