Delhi news live: Man arrested for raping minor in Ranjeet Nagar area

A Delhi court has granted bail to the directors of a real estate company accused of duping an associate professor of Rs 10 lakh after promising to give him a flat in one of its housing projects that had no approval from authorities.

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation's (SDMC) "gift a tree" scheme has received an "encouraging response" as more than 60 people have registered under the scheme within a span of three days since its launch, officials said. According to SDMC officials, the scheme was launched on October 19 and till Friday over 60 people had registered.

Faced with space constraints in many congested pockets of the city, discoms have come up with innovative solutions like pillar mounted and double-decker power substations to augment the power infrastructure, discom officials said. There are many areas in Delhi where discoms are facing challenges in network augmentation, primarily on account of non availability of sufficient space for installing and laying new power infrastructure, they said.

A 20-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping a minor girl in central Delhi's Ranjeet Nagar area, police said. The accused has been identified as Suraj, a resident of Raghubir Nagar, they said.

The national capital on Saturday recorded zero Covid-19 death and 40 fresh cases with a positivity rate of 0.07%, according to data shared by state health department. Five Covid fatalities were reported last month — one each on September 7, 16 and 17, and two on September 28, stated the official figures. Read more

A total of 17,362 doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered to the inmates of three jails in the national capital so far, the Delhi Prisons Department said on Sunday.

Waiting in serpentine queues outside Delhi Metro stations, most of which allowed entry only from a single gate, has been the biggest grouse of commuters in the last one year. Keeping the inconvenience faced by commuters in mind, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is opening more gates while ensuring social distancing in its stations. Read more

Delhi Police on Thursday registered a case on the complaint of a metropolitan magistrate of her bag being stolen from her car in southeast Delhi’s Amar Colony. Read more

Honouring 22 Dalit students of Delhi government schools who have scored more than 90% marks in Class XII with certificates and shields, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that he has vowed to fulfil Babasaheb Dr BR Ambedkar’s dream that every Dalit child should get the best education. Read more

Rentals of high-street retail are inching back to pre-Covid levels in Delhi-NCR on the back of revival in business, as rents in upscale Khan Market, South Extension and Connaught Place have risen 11-17 per cent during July-September compared to the previous quarter, according to Cushman and Wakefield.

A court has pulled up some police officials for creating fear in the mind of a man about his false implication and arrest in a case and asked why proceedings should not be initiated against them for their conduct. Complainant Zakir approached the court alleging that a police official of Delhi’s Dayalpur police station harassed him and his father and threatened to arrest the entire family without disclosing the contents of an FIR, a claim refuted by the police. Read more

A group of Afghan students at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), who had appealed to the varsity administration to allot supernumerary seats for Afghan nationals for PhD courses, said that the authorities had not responded yet to the request. Read more

Delhi government’s department of environment, which identified 150 pollution hotspots based on complaints received on the Green Delhi app in the past year, will review these after a month to see if there has been any improvement. The agencies concerned have been asked to focus specially on these locations. At the same time, 544 teams drawn from different departments have been constituted to conduct day and night patrolling against six major sources of pollution. Read more

East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has finalised a project for setting up a biomethanation plant adjacent to the slaughterhouse in Ghazipur to treat animal waste. As of now, the civic body dumps the paunch waste collected from the slaughterhouse at the sanitary landfill site in the area. Read more

The national capital is likely to receive light rain on Sunday. The minimum temperature was recorded at 19 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season's average, the India Meteorological Department said. The humidity was recorded at 82 per cent.

Annoyed over the noise created by his three pets, a 29-year-old resident of DLF Phase 3 allegedly beat a dog and a cat to death on Friday afternoon. He was about to kill his other cat but it was rescued by a neighbour. He was arrested on Saturday, police said. Read more

Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the city was “on the verge of winning the battle against dengue” and urged everyone to take part in Delhi government’s “10 hafte, 10 baje, 10 minute” anti-dengue campaign. Read more