The Delhi civic body election dates will be announced on Wednesday. (File)Delhi Live News: The dates for the upcoming Delhi municipal elections will be announced on Wednesday. The State Election Commission (SEC) has already released guidelines for the civic body elections in the capital. As per the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) 2022, candidates will have to abide strictly by Covid protocols.
Delhi on Tuesday registered 177 fresh Covid-19 cases and two related fatalities, while the positivity rate stood at 0.51 per cent, the city’s health department data shows. The national capital’s cumulative case count has now reached 18,62,047, while the death toll climbed to 26,139, the latest health bulletin said.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police in their supplementary chargesheet filed in the Northeast Delhi riots UAPA case, has claimed that former JNU student Umar Khalid played a leading role in “drawing sinister communal objectives at the cost of human lives” by delivering a speech at an anti-CAA protest rally at Amravati in Maharashtra.
Neeraj Bishnoi (Express Photo: Tashi Tobgyal/File)
The dates for the upcoming Delhi municipal elections will be announced on Wednesday. The State Election Commission (SEC) has already released guidelines for the civic body elections in the capital. As per the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) 2022, candidates will have to abide strictly by Covid protocols.
The Delhi Police has booked a man for allegedly raping a woman at a five-star hotel in New Delhi last year. No arrests have been made in the case yet. The police on Wednesday said that they are yet to verify the accused’s details. It is alleged that he works with the Bihar sports department. Read more
The Delhi Police are on the lookout for a retired officer of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) who allegedly raped a 17-year-old girl at a hotel in the central part of the national capital.
The incident took place on Monday and the accused has been on the run since, the police said. According to the cops, the accused knew the victim and her family and on Monday, he had called the girl on the pretext of giving her a job. He took her to a hotel in the Karol Bagh area where he allegedly raped her, the police added. Read more
To provide ease of living to citizens, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated three air-conditioned community halls at Sectors 7, 8 and 15 in Delhi’s Rohini.
These halls can be utilised for social, cultural, religious, marriage ceremonies at affordable rates and are equipped with a library, gymnasium, party halls with pantry, senior citizen room and children playing areas (creche), lifts, parking areas, said a senior official of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA). Read more
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi launched an “empowerment app” called the AIIMS ICC on the occasion of International Women’s Day for its women employees, who feel unsafe in the hospital. The app has a panic button, which can be used to send a distress signal to the hospital security team. Read more
After schools reopened for students of all grades last month, authorities have been asked to intensify their implementation of the Parents Samvaad programme to engage parents in the children’s return to classes.
Last October, the Delhi government launched the Parents Samvaad programme under which every School Management Committee (SMC) member and parent volunteers, called school mitras, have been put in charge of staying in touch with parents of 50 students who reside in their locality or a neighbouring locality. Read more
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia Tuesday said India needs a “focused and dedicated approach to achieve the goals set by the National Education Policy 2020 and provide quality education to every child”.
He was talking to stakeholders from the field of education at “ThinkEdu Conclave”.
“Until the Kejriwal government came into power, ‘education’ was never the agenda of elections across the nation and now each state wants a government which can work towards the development of the education sector. Even political parties have started to give priority to education,” Sisodia said. Read more
Delhi on Tuesday registered 177 fresh Covid-19 cases and two related fatalities, while the positivity rate stood at 0.51 per cent, the city’s health department data shows. The national capital’s cumulative case count has now reached 18,62,047, while the death toll climbed to 26,139, the latest health bulletin said.
DCP Shweta Chauhan is the central Delhi’s first woman DCP in 45 years. In an interview, she spoke of sensitivity towards women’s concerns, scope for improvement of their safety in the national capital and initiatives for the same.
How has your journey been?
It’s been a very satisfying journey that has taught me important life lessons. As a young girl, I always thought of making a difference in society. By earning the right to wear this uniform, I have been able to do that. If I can be a role model to other women, I think I would have passed the baton. Read full interview