Amid the ongoing season of promises in the wake of the upcoming assembly polls in the National capital, Congress, on Friday, promised to build Chhath Puja, like the ones built in the ‘Maha Kumbh’, on the Yamuna banks, which will be declared a separate district.
In its effort to implement the directives of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) in view of the coming assembly election, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Friday stated that it has removed 1.24 lakh posters, banners, hoardings, and small boards across 12 zones. This brings the total number of items removed to 3.89 lakh so far.
As per the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the minimum temperature in the national capital stood at 6 degrees Celsius at Safdarjung while Palam registered 7.6 deg C.
Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta on Friday launched a scathing attack on former Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal after he vowed to provide funds for hiring private guards by the Resident Welfare Association (RWAs), calling it as an “election stunt”.
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi on Friday, citing sources, claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party's Chief Ministerial face for the upcoming polls is going to be Ramesh Bidhuri, who is the saffron party's candidate from Kalkaji assembly seat.
There are around 1,000 pollution checking centers in the state authorized by the state transport department.
An expert panel of DCGI has recommended granting emergency use authorisation (EUA) to Bharat Biotech's Covaxin for children aged 2 to 18 with certain conditions.
Overall, the seropositivity was found to be 76.3 per cent in the state in the Covid-19 serosurvey conducted in September with a sample size of 36,520. In the first round of serosurvey, the positivity rate was found to be eight per cent and in the second round of sero survey it was 14.8 per cent.
One person has been arrested for allegedly stabbing to death a person after a scuffle in Nehru Nagar.
The number of single-day Covid-19 cases came down sharply to 15 on Monday from 32 on Sunday.
