Delhi-NCR news live: Delhi court to hear Nikita Jacob's bail plea on March 9 in toolkit case

The Budget Session of the Delhi assembly to be held from March 8 to March 16.

A Delhi court on Tuesday granted time to Delhi Police to file a reply on social activist and lawyer Nikita Jacob's anticipatory bail plea in the "toolkit" document case related to the ongoing farmers' protest. A bench of additional sessions judge Dharmender Rana of the Patiala House Court said that it would hear Jacob's plea on March 9 along with the anticipatory bail plea of another accused Shantanu Muluk.

A man was injured after he lost control of the car and went on to hit a tree on a divider near Saket on Monday night, the police said. According to the police, the accident took place at around 10 pm after the driver, Tushar lost control of the car hit a tree on the divider while trying to save another vehicle.

Ghazipur border, which remained closed since January 26 following the Republic Day violence, was on Tuesday reopened for vehicular movement. However, the movement is allowed only for those entering Uttar Pradesh from the national capital. READ MORE

Heavy traffic in the carriageway towards Peeragarhi from Punjabi Bagh due to the tyre burst of a cluster bus near Peeragarhi Chowk, tweets Delhi Traffic Police.

A man was stabbed to death while his brother was critically injured when they objected to three men allegedly driving a motorcycle negligently in Bindapur near Dwarka on Sunday night. Police have arrested the three men and have recovered the knife used in the crime. The three accused have been identified as Piyush Sharma alias Kaku (19), Sandeep Sharma (31) and Shiv Narayan (32). According to police, information was received around 1 am on Monday from a hospital that two men—Suraj Prakash Singh (30) and his brother Chandan Parkash Singh (28)— had been admitted with stab wounds. After the cops reached the hospital, Suraj told them that when he and his brother were walking back home, a man known in the area as Kaku brushed past them on a motorcycle.

The capital recorded 175 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, while the positivity rate rose to 0.44% against 0.34% recorded on Sunday, stated the data shared by Delhi health department. Another fatality pushed the death toll to 10,911, the authorities said, adding that infection tally currently stood at 6,39,464. RREAD MORE

Delhi reported the first case of Covid-19 on March 2 after an east Delhi businessman who had returned from Italy a week earlier tested positive. Within days, more people who had travelled to countries struggling with the outbreak proved positive for Covid too, leading to a health and social crisis. The scare wasn’t unfounded. Little was known of the novel coronavirus, so no treatment was available for the disease. To reduce the risk of infection, healthcare workers had to use personal protective equipment (PPE) when attending to Covid patients, a precaution hitherto limited to rare cases of highly infectious diseases. READ MORE

It was Day One of the Covid vaccination for the elderly, but it seemed they could hardly wait. No vaccine hesitancy was evident as despite the window being open for only a few hours, the vaccination sites saw high enthusiasm, heavy rush and long queues. READ FULL STORY

It was love at first sight for Sidharth Malhotra and Simran when they saw each other across their terraces a few years ago in southwest Delhi. Sidharth had returned from Dehradun after passing his Class IX from a school there, while Simran had completed her Class X from Kendriya Vidyalaya in Janakpuri. What started with bunking school to watch movies and smoke marijuana eventually turned them into drug addicts. Their habit soon made them quit school and take to crime to fund drug procurement. READ MORE

As wind speed picked up in the region, the capital recorded a slight dip in mercury levels at 29 degrees Celsius on Monday— two notches above normal. This is the first time in over a week that the maximum was below the 30 degrees mark. The minimum temperature on Monday was 11.8 degrees Celsius — one degree below normal. READ MORE

With the exercise to vaccinate senior citizens and those in the age group of 45-59 years with comorbidities having started on Monday, residents’ welfare associations (RWAs) in the city have also got into action. They circulated the messages from the district magistrates’ offices, organised door-todoor visits to help senior citizens register themselves on the Co-Win portal, assisted in resolving technical glitches in filling information and even arranged transport facilities at some places. READ MORE