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Extend ban on UK flights till Jan 31: Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday urged the Centre to extend the ban on flights between India and the UK till January 31 in view of the extremely serious COVID situation in that country. The Centre has decided to lift the ban and start UK flights. In view of the extremely serious situation in […]
Moderate’ fog in Delhi, minimum temp rises to 14.4 deg C
“Moderate” fog in parts of Delhi lowered visibility to 300 meters on Thursday, even as the minimum temperature in the city rose to 14.4 degrees Celsius, the highest in around four weeks Visibility levels dipped to 300 meters at Palam and 500 meters at Safdarjung due to “moderate” fog, an official of the India Meteorological […]
Cyber, economic offences: Delhi Police to hire forensic experts
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 […]
442 new Covid-19 cases in Delhi, positivity rate dips to 0.55 pc
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 […]
High ammonia in Yamuna: NGT asks CPCB to identify sources
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 […]
Delhi gets rains for 3rd day on the trot
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 […]
3 more Delhi residents test positive for UK variant of Coronavirus
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 […]
Covid vaccination in Delhi: Over 500 centres in ph-1, facility being set up for 2-8 deg C storage
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 […]