A health workers taking a swab sample for Covid-19 testing, in New Delhi. (Express Photo by Praveen Khanna)Delhi Live News: Delhi reported 460 fresh Covid-19 cases and two deaths on Friday. With 56,984 Covid-19 tests conducted on Friday, the positivity rate dropped to 0.81 per cent.
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Friday decided to lift all Covid-19 restrictions in the capital, including the night curfew and 50 per cent capacity rule at restaurants and bars. The restrictions are likely to be lifted from Monday onwards.
A 16-year-old student of Delhi Public School, Greater Faridabad died by suicide by jumping off the top floor of a building, with a police complaint by his mother, a teacher at the same school, alleging that he was harassed over his sexuality and the school ignored her complaint. Police said they also found a purported suicide note at the student’s residence in which he blamed his ‘school’ and ‘higher authorities’ there.
Delhi reported 460 fresh Covid-19 cases and two deaths on Friday. With 56,984 Covid-19 tests conducted on Friday, the positivity rate dropped to 0.81 per cent.
Parents and friends of Indian students stranded in Ukraine Friday gathered near Shantipath to protest outside the Russian Embassy, demanding that the students are brought back by the Indian government at once. However, they were stopped from assembling outside the Embassy.
In the evening, a delegation of three was allowed by ACP Suma Madda to submit a memorandum at the Ministry of External Affairs, provided the crowd disperse. (Read More)
With sirens going off through Thursday, third-year medical student from Kharkiv National Medical University Yashdeep Bidhan took refuge in a metro station near his residence. He was among thousands of people, including children, who slept fitfully at the metro station through the night.
When things seemed calm at 8 am, Bidhan ventured out. “I came back home. I wanted to charge my phone.” Within a couple of hours, he heard a loud boom and his windows started shaking. He rushed back to the metro station immediately.
“We could hear echoes of the blasts inside. One of my friends, who was at another metro station, saw a shell right outside when he was heading home in the morning. The university should have allowed us to leave earlier,” he said. Third and sixth year students of medical universities in Ukraine were scheduled to have an offline examination which, if they missed, they would have to repeat a year. (Read More)
Schools in Delhi have welcomed the decision to move classes completely offline but also say that it should happen earlier than April 1.
On Friday, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority decided that schools may do away with the hybrid mode of teaching-learning and move completely offline from April 1, which will coincide with the start of the next academic session. More than two years after the start of the pandemic, this will be the first time that Delhi will be looking at taking this crucial step towards ‘normalcy’.
With the reopening of schools in February, schools were still required to obtain parental consent from students attending offline classes and parents had the option of not sending their children. While most schools are welcoming the decision to move completely offline, they are also questioning why it has been scheduled for more than a month later. (Read More)
Taking note of the damage being done to trees by government agencies while carrying out works on public roads, the Delhi High Court Friday issued notices in a contempt case to the CEO of BSES Rajdhani Power Limited, Engineer-in-Chief of the PWD, other officials of the forest department, and the SHO of Chittaranjan Park police station.
“No messing around the trees anymore! How can you take the city back 20 years? Left to me, I would have given the directions for the filing of FIRs against these officers apart from contempt proceedings. It is absolutely callous. It is criminal. The damage is immense,” said Justice Najmi Waziri, while hearing a case alleging that roots of trees have been dug up and excavated at Bipin Chandra Pal Marg last month.
The court was hearing a petition filed by the New Delhi Nature Society through its advocate Aditya N Prasad. (Read More)
A 16-year-old student of Delhi Public School, Greater Faridabad died by suicide by jumping off the top floor of a building, with a police complaint by his mother, a teacher at the same school, alleging that he was harassed over his sexuality and the school ignored her complaint.
Police said they also found a purported suicide note at the student’s residence in which he blamed his ‘school’ and ‘higher authorities’ there.
Sube Singh, the Faridabad Police spokesperson, said, “The boy studied at DPS and lived with his mother, a teacher at the same school. Last year, two children made lewd remarks against him. His mother complained about this to the principal but the authorities did not do anything. We have been told that after this, the student went into depression and was also seeking treatment. Because of the lockdown, the school was shut and the boy was at home. When the school reopened, the boy started going again because of the board exams. He felt he was being tortured (mentally). He also requested a school teacher to help him with a subject, but the teacher did not show any sympathy and also accused the student and his mother of troubling her unnecessarily.” (Read More)
Parents and friends of Indian students stuck in Ukraine have been stopped before Shantipath. They are being asked to vacate the spot and are not being allowed to protest. Police reached the spot to detain them.
A 25-year-old member of a Mewat-based gang of robbers was arrested from south Delhi's Malviya Nagar area, police said on Friday.
Yunus alias Badri is a resident of Mewat district in Haryana, they said.
Police received a tip-off that he would be coming near Shivaji Park Bus Stand on Press Enclave Road on Thursday evening and a trap was laid, a senior police officer said.
Yunus was cornered and asked to surrender, but he took out a pistol and fired at the police team. He was nabbed after a brief scuffle, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Jasmeet Singh said. (PTI)
The Education Committee of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has asked its education department officials to ensure that no student comes to its schools in "religious attire".
SDMC's Education Committee Chairperson Nitika Sharma has written a letter in this connection to the Director Education (SDMC).
In the letter, Sharma asked the education director to instruct all zonal officials to not allow students in SDMC primary schools in "religious attires" and ensure that schoolchildren come to their respective institutions in the prescribed dress code only.
The SDMC's move comes days after a parent in the Tukhmirpur area of northeast Delhi alleged that her daughter was asked by the teacher at the government school to remove her headscarf.
Sharma said attending classes wearing religious attire will instil a sense of "inequality" among students. (PTI)
Two brothers were shot dead by unidentified assailants in Khor village in Pataudi Friday morning, the police said, adding, the preliminary probe has found that at least 15 gunshots were fired.
The deceased have been identified as Paramjit Thakran and Surjit Thakran. The police said the deceased were reportedly involved in liquor and wine contracting businesses. Paramjit is a former zila parshad in Pataudi, said the police.
According to the police, the murders were reported around 9 am Friday. The duo suffered multiple wounds and was rushed to a private hospital in Gurgaon where both were declared brought dead. (Read More)
A Class 10 student of DPS School has died by suicide in Faridabad. As per police, in a suicide note, the boy said that he was taking extreme step due to harassment by school authorities and school children.
According to the new DDMA rules, only physical classes will be held from April 1 onwards. Online class will be discontinued.
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has decided to lift all Covid-19 restrictions in the city, including the night curfew, and 50 percent in restaurants and bars lifted. Schools to do away with hybrid mode from 1st April.
While workers have begun dismantling the walls of the Supertech twin towers in Noida which were slated to be demolished, the entire demolition itself could still take a while.
On August 30, the Supreme Court had ordered the demolition of the twin towers within three months, for having violated regulations on the distance between buildings, which also has a bearing on fire safety. The expenses for the demolition are to be borne by the developer. Read more
A deputy superintendent of Narnaul jail, who was accused in an extortion and corruption case, allegedly died by suicide at his relative’s house in Gurgaon on Thursday evening. The deceased, Kuldeep Hooda, a native of Rohtak, had been absconding.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court had earlier on Thursday dismissed the anticipatory bail pleas of Hooda and jail superintendent Anil Kumar, who are both accused in the Narnaul jail bribery case. Read more
Owing to repair work, the Delhi traffic police has asked commuters to avoid the Modi Mill flyover stretch that connects Kalkaji Mandir, Sukhdev Vihar, CRRI, Badarpur and the surrounding areas. “The repairing work for rehabilitation and strengthening of Modi Mill flyover (half carriageway including loops on Kalkaji Mandir loops to Sukhdev Vihar Metro Side) is in progress from February 22. The traffic will ply on half the carriageway of the flyover and will remain affected during repair work. Hence, the commuters are advised to avoid this route and take alternative roads,” the traffic police said. Read More
A deputy superintendent of Narnaul jail, who was accused in an extortion and corruption case, allegedly died by suicide at his relative’s house in Gurgaon on Thursday evening. The deceased, Kuldeep Hooda, a native of Rohtak, had been absconding. The Punjab and Haryana High Court had earlier on Thursday dismissed the anticipatory bail pleas of Hooda and jail superintendent Anil Kumar, who are both accused in the Narnaul jail bribery case. Read More
Although lower than the numbers seen in January, more vaccines were administered on Thursday in New Delhi as compared to the day before. There were 53,225 shots given in Delhi on Thursday, according to the government’s CoWIN portal.
Almost 49 per cent of all the shots were administered for people between the ages of 18 to 45 years, whereas almost 37 per cent were for children between the ages of 15 and 17 years. Read more
The CBSE Term II Class X and XII practical examinations will begin from March 2, the board informed via a notification.
According to a notification issued earlier, the theory examinations will begin on April 26 and the date sheet for these will be issued. Through a new notification, schools have been asked to conclude the practical exams 10 days before the date of the last examination of the respective grade. Read more