The trend of more children between the ages of 15 to 17 years being vaccinated during the second week of February has been reversed this past week. (Express Photo by Amit Mehra)Delhi Live News: On Sunday, national capital administered 7,544 Covid-19 vaccines, this is the lowest number of shots or vaccination rate in a day this month. Immunisation usually remains at a low on weekends, but last Sunday number of shots administered were 95,000 as per CoWIN portal data.
As many as 66 buildings, including restaurants, bars, cafes, office complexes and other structures will face electricity and water supply cut by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) after they failed to conduct a safety audit and submit the report to the civic body.
Three days after a student died by suicide, the Faridabad police have arrested the school’s headmistress on the charge of abetment of suicide. The student studied at a private school and his mother said her son was harassed over his sexuality and highlighted how authorities ignored their complaints. The police said they had found a suicide note on Friday in which the teenager allegedly blamed his school and “higher authorities”.
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Delhi administered 7,544 Covid-19 vaccines on Sunday, and while immunisation usually goes down on the weekend, this is the lowest number of shots given in a day this month. More than 95,000 shots were given last Sunday, according to data from the government’s CoWIN portal.
The trend of more children between the ages of 15 to 17 years being vaccinated during the second week of February has been reversed this past week, with more people from the age group 18-45 years taking the shot. There were 23,672 shots given on average every day in the age group of 18 to 45 years during the week that ended on February 27 as compared to 19,355 shots being given to those between the ages of 15 and 17 years. Read more
A 28-year-old man was shot dead by unidentified persons in South Delhi's Gautam Nagar area early on Monday, police said.
The deceased has been identified as Shivam Pandey. He was in jail from 2016 till 2021 in connection with a murder case, they said.
Police said that Pandey came out on interim bail due to Covid-related guidelines.
"Around 3 am, a PCR call was received regarding an incident of firing in Gautam Nagar area. A case has been registered and personal rivalry is suspected to be the motive behind the murder," Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Benita Mary Jaiker said.
The officer, however, said that all angles are being probed. (PTI)
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will disconnect the electricity and water connections to about 66 private buildings, including restaurants, bars, cafes, office complexes, for not conducting a safety audit and submitting a report to it.
These private buildings are situated mostly at Connaught Place, Central Market, Khan Market and other places of the New Delhi area and the Lutyens’ zone.
According to the officials, after the Arpit hotel fire incident that claimed about 17 lives, the NDMC directed a safety audit of all the private buildings. Read more
Delhi High Court's Chief Justice D N Patel on Monday administered oath of office to Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain, Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma, Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta, and Justice Neena Bansal Krishna . Their appointments were notified by union government last week. (ENS)
Three employees of a CNG pump in Sector-31 here were hacked to death by some people early on Monday, police said.
The incident occurred around 2:40 am and they were attacked with sharp weapons. The deceased are Bhupendra, Pushpendra and Naresh, all natives of Uttar Pradesh, they said.
Police said a search has been launched to apprehend the miscreants. (PTI)
A 44-year-old businessman has been arrested by the Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing for allegedly cheating half a dozen people on the pretext of selling them properties at Vasant Kunj and nearby places. Police said the accused, Dhiraj Prasad, is an MBA graduate from Punjab and runs four companies.
Police called him a serial offender as he has six cases registered against him, including a case being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
According to police, in the present case, a man named Vishal Sharma alleged that Prasad introduced himself as the director of JMD Techinfra and gave a deal of a plot at Vasant Kunj. The complainant made a payment of Rs 1.52 crore but later found that the property was with another company. He alleged that the accused forged documents and cheated him, police said. (Read More)
The Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi (DDC), in collaboration with World Resources Institute India, is set to launch a step by step ‘Residential Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Guidebook’ to simplify and enable the adoption of EV charging in all types of residential areas in Delhi on Monday.
After launching the guidebook, Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot will also inaugurate two EV chargers at Vasant Kunj pockets B and C that have been installed under the Delhi government’s single-window facility.
The inaugural event will also be attended by DDC vice-chairperson Jasmine Shah, heads of BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL), United RWAs Joint Action (URJA), and the Federation of CGHS Dwarka Limited and other senior government officials who will discuss ways to promote EV charging in residential areas. (Read More)
With training and working at VIP routes, Metro, markets, airports and railway stations for hours every day, the Canine Squad follow a disciplined routine under the Crime Branch of Delhi Police. The dogs will soon be deployed in all ranges in the capital to do more tracking, detection and investigative work, officials said Sunday.
The Delhi Police’s dog squad currently has 64 trained dogs — German shepherds, Labradors, Belgian Shepherds and Golden Retrievers. Out of the 64, 49 dogs are experts in explosive detection and 13 are tracker dogs. They will soon be sent to different police stations to help local police in conducting market checks and investigative work. (Read More)
Delhi logged 484 fresh Covid-19 cases and three deaths on Sunday, while the positivity rate stood at 0.95 per cent as of Sunday evening. The total Covid-19 case count in the city has climbed to 18,59,634.
The Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi, in collaboration with World Resources Institute, India, will on Monday launch the ‘Residential Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Guidebook' to simplify and enable the adoption of EV charging in all types of residential areas in the city, an official statement said.
The document guides residential societies in understanding the importance of EV charging, details the processes involved in planning, installing and managing EV charging stations in the parking space of the societies, the statement on Sunday said.
The document also addresses some of the common concerns (such as lack of space, capital investment, power load management etc.) and shares the best practices for RWAs, it added. On the occasion, Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot will also inaugurate two EV chargers at Pockets B & C, Vasant Kunj, installed under the Delhi government's single-window facility.
The statement said that through the guidebook, the Delhi government seeks to encourage all residential societies, planned colonies, DDA flats, Cooperative Group Housing Societies, government housing societies and employer housing to join hands with it in promoting electric vehicles by adopting EV charging in their residential societies. (PTI)
The Delhi Police has installed a digital e-kiosk at the Parliament Street police station here to smoothen the public-police interface and facilitate citizens, officials said on Sunday.
According to them, the e-kiosk will enable people to easily lodge complaints in a contactless mode. The e-kiosk has a message from the Delhi Police commissioner It has several options and people can look up information on districts and various police stations. They can lodge complaints by themselves, the police said. People can also get information on religious places, petrol pumps, post offices, banks, graveyards, milk booths, hospitals and metro stations among others.
With the help of the kiosk, people can also see e-FIRs, report cybercrimes, and lodge complaints of vehicle theft. It will also facilitate tenant verification, they said.
Citizens can avail the online complaint registration facility. For that, they have to scan a QR code given on the screen. The kiosk has information regarding senior police officials of various districts. (PTI)
A 25-year-old member of the Sonu Dariyapur gang who was wanted in a 2021 case of attempt to murder was arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police, officials said on Sunday.
The accused, Prince alias Sunny, was involved in the attempt to murder case registered at Mohan Garden police station which falls under Dwarka jurisdiction, they said.
A reward of Rs 20,000 was declared on his arrest, police said.
According to police, On August 29, 2021, Prince, his father Amit Tuli and mother Taruna Tuli had a quarrel with the complainants during which Prince fired a shot at the victim, critically injuring him.
During the course of investigation, both the accused Amit Tuli and Taruna Tuli were arrested by the local police but accused Prince evaded his arrest and was on the run for more than six months, said Rajeev Rajan Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell). (PTI)
Ninety per cent of adolescents in the age group of 15 to 18 years in the national capital have been administered the first dose of vaccine against COVID-19 since the launch of the drive on January 3, according to official data. Until February 24, 54 per cent of them have even received the second dose of the vaccine, the data presented during a meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) earlier this week mentioned.
This means 9.13 lakh adolescents have been administered the first dose of the vaccine while 5.44 lakh of them have received the second dose. According to the data, vaccination in this age group has been the highest in Southwest district of Delhi with 1,22,717 adolescents having received the first dose, followed by Northwest (1,17,560) and West (93,251). (PTI)
In view of the reduction in coronavirus cases in Delhi, teachers and other staff of the city government's education department who had been put on Covid duty, have been asked to report back to their parent department on February 28, according to an official order issued on Saturday. On Friday, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), chaired by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, had decided to withdraw all restrictions from Monday, reduce the fine for not wearing masks from Rs 2,000 to Rs 500 and resume physical classes in Delhi schools from April 1.
In view of the reduction in Covid cases, and further relaxations in restrictions by the DDMA, the services department has ordered to 'stand relieve forthwith all ad hoc DANICS, Gr-I, Gr-II, Gr-III, Gr-IV (DASS) officers/officials' who have been deployed by services department or substituted by administration departments for COVID-19-related duties in various departments of the Delhi government, the order said.
In view of the above, the competent authority is pleased to direct all teachers, IT assistants, and DEOs of Directorate of Education (DoE) who have been deployed on Covid duty in revenue department or are still working on Covid duty in revenue department, to report back on February 28 to their parent school or branch of DoE where they were physically posted, without waiting for any formal relieving from their present place of deployment, it said. (PTI)
Delhi Transport department has directed that no objection certificates (NOCs) will be issued for de-registered 10 to 15 years old diesel and above 15 years old petrol vehicles for other states barring restricted areas there as per NGT directive. An order issued by Transport department on Friday also stated that no NOC will be issued for diesel vehicles older than 15 years from their first registration and such vehicles will be scrapped only.
The National Green Tribunal(NGT) in its order on July 27, 2016, had directed the states to identify the areas where the dispersion of air is higher and vehicular density is least, to pave for registration and running of old vehicles there. The green court had also directed that vehicle which are more than 15 years old would be deregistered and then gradually other vehicles would be deregistered from 15 years to 10 years respectively. (PTI)
With lifting of all restrictions by authorities after fall in Covid cases, from Monday onwards Delhi Metro will allow passengers in standing position in trains. On Friday, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), chaired by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and attended by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, decided to withdraw all restrictions from Monday, reduce the fine for not wearing masks from Rs 2,000 to Rs 500 and resume physical classes in Delhi schools from April 1.
In view of the latest guidelines issued by the DDMA on Covid management, announcing lifting of all prohibitions or restrictions imposed earlier, Delhi Metro services will now be available with revised norms from Monday, the DMRC said. Read more
The Delhi Police traffic unit prosecuted more than 300 buses and impounded at least 19 under the Motor Vehicles Act between February 22 and February 25 for plying without a proper permit. The police officials said most of these buses had contract permits or all-India tourist permits but were violating the norms by taking passengers from different routes and changing destination points.
The police said they had received information about the violation and conducted checking in all ranges in Delhi. A total of 323 buses were tagged as “daggamar” and prosecuted, said the police. Read more
K Satchidanandan(75) fondly remembers that moment in 1972 when a poem of his, The blind man who discovered the sun, appeared in the Sahitya Akademi’s bi-monthly journal, Indian Literature. He was a 26-year-old poet living in Kerala and writing primarily in Malayalam, and to be published by the Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi was a recognition at a national level he had been striving for. “Sahitya Akademi held a place of pride in the world of Indian literature. There was no comparable institution at that time,” said Satchidanandan. “Every Indian writer wanted to be connected to it in some way or the other.”
Two decades later, Satchidanandan got the opportunity to be the editor of the same journal. By then he was a leading modernist poet in Malayalam. He had also been a professor of English Literature at Christ College in Irinjalakuda for the last 25 years. The choice to move to Delhi, leaving behind the life and fame in Kerala, was a fearful one, he recounted. But then the prestige of being associated with the Sahitya Akademi, and editing a journal with such a wide readership, was alluring enough for Satchidanandan to take up voluntary retirement from his job and move to a life of what he calls ‘near anonymity’ in Delhi. “You would be surprised to know that the salary offered by the Sahitya Akademi then was less than that I was being paid by the college,” he said laughing. “But still this was an opportunity I was not willing to give up.” Read more
Overnight rain in parts of the national capital brought down the minimum temperature to 12.1 degrees Celsius on Sunday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The relative humidity recorded at 8.30 am was 89 per cent, it said.
The weatherman has predicted partly cloudy sky during the day, while the maximum temperature is expected to settle around 25 degrees Celsius. On Saturday, the maximum temperature in the national capital was at 23.8 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season's average, while the minimum temperature settled at 13.4 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season's average. (PTI)
In order to provide safety to sanitation workers and stop sewer deaths, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has constituted a sanitation rsponse unit (SRU) for technical and managerial interventions during sewer cleaning. The main objective of this unit is to eliminate accidents and fatalities that occur when the workers enter the sewers without proper personal protective equipment (PPEs), training and non-adherence to security protocols.
“The unit wil work under the name emergency response sanitation unit (ERSU) and it will be a professional, well trained, motivated and appropriately equipped establishment for the maintenance and management of sewers and the workers,” said an official. Read more