Delhi Water Minister Parvesh Verma assured residents on Thursday that the BJP government is actively working to ensure a steady supply of clean water, asserting that the city's water crisis will soon be a thing of the past.
Party spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor Kapoor claimed that several social organisations on the pretext of providing free education or medical treatment are receiving financial aid from the government but failed to provide services to the common people.
Expressing concern over frequent power cuts in the national capital, Delhi Congress President Devender Yadav on Thursday alleged that the BJP government lacks a concrete plan to deal with the surge in power demand during the summer season.
Despite rising temperatures, Delhi’s air quality dropped down from ‘moderate’ to ‘poor’ with an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 217.
The fire officials said that the blaze first erupted in a single vehicle and then spread into the nearby parked vehicles that include two wheelers, three wheelers and cars.
Many senior citizens on the wrong side of 80 and 90 years who had been admitted into the SUM Covid Hospital during the first and second wave of the pandemic had also successfully turned the corner.
The semifinal round of the one-year-old contest was held online while the Grand Finale was held on Christmas day.
As per the forecast, the maximum and minimum temperatures will continue to hover around 21 and 7 degrees Celsius, respectively, throughout this week.
The tests conducted during the past 24 hours numbered 55,865 and the positivity rate shot up to 0.89 per cent from 0.68 per cent the day before, according to the latest health bulletin issued by the Delhi government.
"We did not use any force on the protestors. No canes were either used. In fact Delhi Police has highest regard for the doctors," Additional Commissioner (Central Range) Suman Goyal said.
