Delhi news live: AAP govt to pay Rs 50,000 per hectare compensation to farmers

Three men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a 22-year-old woman in southwest Delhi's Bindapur area, police said on Wednesday. Those arrested were identified as Ankit Gaba, Manish and Himanshu, they said. The incident took place in the early hours of Tuesday on Matiala Road and the victim was identified as Dolly Babbar. She was stabbed to death by the accused Gaba.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said an order has been issued for giving compensation of Rs 50,000 per hectare to farmers whose crops have been damaged due to untimely rains in the city. Revenue officials are conducting a survey of the damaged crops and it will be completed within two weeks. The compensation at the rate of Rs 50,000 per hectare will be provided to the farmers within two months, he said in a press briefing.

Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal transferred seven bureaucrats, with senior IAS officer Swati Sharma appointed as health secretary of the Delhi government, an official order stated. The Delhi government's Services department issued the transfer and posting order of these seven IAS officers of AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory) cadre where they have been given different responsibilities, according to the order dated October 18.

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has started the training of the first batch of operations and maintenance staff of Bangladesh's Dhaka Metro at its training academy at Shastri Park Depot. DMRC, in a press release on Tuesday, said that once sent for training in Hong Kong before the inauguration of Metro services in Delhi in 2002, it has reached a 'historical milestone by commencing the training of the first batch of operations and maintenance staff' of Dhaka Metro.

Petrol and diesel prices on Wednesday rallied to their highest ever levels across the country, as fuel rates were hiked again by 35 paise a litre after a two-day pause. The price of petrol in Delhi rose to its highest-ever level of Rs 106.19 a litre and Rs 112.11 per litre in Mumbai, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. In Mumbai, diesel now comes for Rs 102.89 a litre; while in Delhi, it costs Rs 94.92 a litre.

Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 20.3 degrees Celsius on Wednesday morning, two notches above the season's average, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said here. The humidity level was recorded at 82 per cent, it said. The weather department has predicted mainly clear skies during the day. The maximum temperature will settle around 31 degrees Celsius, the IMD said.

Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has imposed penalties of Rs 90 lakh after finding violations at 286 construction sites, so far, in the capital. Environment minister Gopal Rai said, under the ongoing anti-dust campaign, DPCC teams had visited 1,105 construction sites. “The norms were found to be followed at most sites. The sites where violation was found have been issued notices by the department and a fine of about Rs 90 lakh has been imposed,” he said, adding that all the teams have been instructed to submit daily reports.

Just over half the people in Haryana, or 54.2% of its population, have strictly adhered to social distancing norms — a study done along with the state’s third sero survey has inferred based on responses of people who the surveyors met. Among the rest, 28.7%, which translates to 3 out of 10 people, admitted to never following social distancing and 17.1% claimed they sometimes followed it by avoiding crowded places.

South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has claimed that in the past 10 days, it has sealed 35 eateries and guesthouses for running facilities in violation of norms. The action has been taken in areas under the south zone, including Mahipalpur, eateries near airport and Khel Gaon. The action came a few days after the civic body issued a closure notice to a restaurant at a mall in Khel Gaon for operating without a health trade licence. The restaurant was in the news last month for allegedly denying entry to a saree-clad woman.

A recent ecological survey has revealed that 1.4 million gallons of rainwater was harvested by the seven biodiversity parks of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) during the monsoon season between July and September this year. The survey was carried out by the staff of the biodiversity parks. The amount of water stored in surface waterbodies of four biodiversity parks is close to 1,100 million gallons. Officials at the biodiversity parks said that the survey was conducted for the first time to ascertain the role of these parks in conservation of water resources in Delhi.

To make the system of transfer of primary school teachers transparent, North Delhi Municipal Corporation has made the entire process online. Any teacher/principal will need to apply online and no physical application will be processed. They can select five schools each, and based on vacancies and on firstcome-first-served basis, a transfer will be approved to any of these schools. The policy, however, gives priority to people with genuine needs such as medical illness, physically challenged, women and widows.

Delhi recorded one death due to Covid-19 and 36 fresh cases with a positivity rate of 0.06% on Tuesday, according to data shared by the state health department. Five coronavirus-linked fatalities were reported last month — one each on September 7, September 16 and September 17, and two on September 28. Three fatalities due to Covid-19 have been recorded so far this month in Delhi, the previous two deaths being reported on October 2 and October 10, according to official data.