Delhi news live: Man loses entire family in house fire in Old Seemapuri

Traffic remained affected on the Major P Shree Kumar Marg on Tuesday after the formation of a deep pothole on the stretch, causing inconvenience to the commuters. Taking to Twitter, the Delhi Traffic Police said "only one lane on both carriage ways is available for to and fro movement of traffic" due to formation of the pothole. (PTI)

Maharashtra minister Sanjay Bansode on Tuesday visited two Delhi government schools to understand the model of education in the national capital, according to officials. The two schools visited were Kautilya Government Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya, Chirag Enclave, Greater Kailash and School of Excellence, Kalkaji. (PTI)

Ministers in the Arvind Kejriwal government and speaker and deputy speaker of the Delhi assembly will participate in the 'Red Light on, Gaadi Off' campaign starting Wednesday to sensitise people about vehicular pollution. (PTI)

A plea has been moved before the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the Centre to examine the possibility of labelling “all items” used by the public, including home appliances and apparel, as “vegetarian” or “non-vegetarian” based on their ingredients and “items used in manufacturing process”. Justice Rekha Palli Tuesday directed that the plea, which is filed by Ram Gaua Raksha Dal — a trust working towards the welfare of cows, be listed for hearing on November 11 before a bench dealing with public interest litigations. (PTI)

A DDMA constituted panel has recommended reopening schools for classes 6 to 8 in Delhi with 50 per cent student strength as it noted that there has been no reported instances of increased local transmission of Covid-19 due to reopening classes 9 to 12, according to minutes of a DDMA meeting. (PTI)

National Commission for Scheduled Castes Chairman Vijay Sampla on Tuesday said the Haryana government has released half of the compensation amount to the next of kin of a Dalit man, who was lynched at a farmers' protest site at the Singhu border. On October 12, Lakhbir Singh was lynched, his hand chopped off and his body tied to a metal barricade at the protest venue at Kundli near the Delhi-Haryana border, a gruesome incident being blamed on a group of Nihangs. (PTI)

His elder brother was scheduled to get married in November and his father's retirement was due in March 2022. But the family's plans for the future have been reduced to cinders after a fire in their east Delhi home killed his entire family while they were sleeping, says Akshay Kumar. The 22-year-old is the sole survivor from the fire that ravaged their Old Seemapuri home in the early hours of Tuesday, killing four people. (PTI)

All household water connections in Delhi will now be provided by the Delhi Jal Board itself, without any role of intermediaries, water minister Satyendar Jain Tuesday said. Jain, who chaired the 158th board meeting of the DJB, said the Delhi government is committed to laying sewer lines in all housing colonies within three years. (ANI)

The air quality in the national capital was in the 'moderate' category on Tuesday but may get pushed to the 'poor' zone over the next three days because of an increase in stubble burning, authorities said. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, Delhi's 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) stood at 139. It was 82 on Monday and 160 on Sunday. (PTI)

The mercury in the national capital settled at 28.8 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, officials said. The relative humidity was recorded at 53 per cent, according to the India Meteorological Department. The mercury rose by a few notches in the national capital on Tuesday, with the minimum temperature settling at 19.2 degrees Celsius, the officials said. (PTI)

A Delhi court has refused bail to a 58-year-old Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) employee in an alleged murder case, considering the nature and gravity of accusations against him. As per the Delhi Police, the incident happened on the intervening night of September 5 and 6, 2021 in front of Valmiki Temple in Delhi's Shahdara area, where two men sustained severe injuries and were declared 'brought dead' to the hospital. (PTI)

The Department of Women and Child Development (WCD) of Delhi has warned of action against officials who proceed on leave without prior approval of the secretary. The department had issued an order on February 13 last year, directing all its officers working as deputy directors or higher to not avail leaves without prior approval of its secretary. (PTI)

The body of a 25-year-old man was found hanging inside a room at an empty plot in south Delhi's Neb Sarai area on Tuesday, police said. The deceased, Sameer Khan, a resident of Sangam Vihar area, used to work as a driver earlier but had been unemployed for some months and was looking for a job, they said. Prima facie, it appears to be a case of suicide but no suicide note was recovered from the spot and the exact cause of death will be ascertained only through a post-mortem examination whose report is awaited. (PTI)

A 21-year-old man was arrested for allegedly duping people from across the country of Rs 1.34 crore on the pretext of providing raw herbal spurge oil for profitable business, police said on Tuesday. The accused, Sonu Nagar, a resident of Gautam Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, worked at a mall in Noida. He was under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate team, they said. (PTI)

The chorus for reopening the Delhi University campus has grown louder with several teachers and students demanding resumption of offline teaching as the Covid-19 situation has normalised in the national capital. The university, however, plans to tread a cautious path and is awaiting guidelines from the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA). (PTI)

People should not be misled by online health service aggregators and blood samples should go only to the accredited labs for accurate results, the Delhi High Court said on Tuesday expressing concern on the issue. (PTI)

The special admission process of Delhi University began from Tuesday after incorporating some stringent terms and conditions in the merit list. This process is for those students who were eligible to take admission on the basis of first, second or third cut-offs but could not submit applications due to some reason. (IANS)