Journalist Rana Ayyub. (Image: Rana Ayyub/Twitter)Delhi News Live: The Delhi High Court on Monday permitted journalist Rana Ayyub, who was stopped from flying to London from the Mumbai International Airport last week, to travel abroad. The court on Friday had asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to respond to her petition challenging the lookout circular issued against her by the ED which is probing her in connection with a case of alleged money laundering.
Delhi police have registered FIR against some people involved in spreading rumours on social media. FIR complaint contains the names of Twitter handles, said police. Yati Narsinghanand the head priest of Ghaziabad’s Dasna Devi Temple and an accused in the Haridwar hate speech case, Sunday exhorted Hindus to pick up arms and said that if India were to get a Muslim Prime Minister, “50% of you (Hindus) will change your faith in the next 20 years”. The event was organised by Preet Singh. He was arrested and currently out on bail.
Delhi reported 85 cases of Covid-19 and no fatality due to the infection, according to the city health department Sunday. The positivity rate in the national capital was 0.86 per cent, it also said. These results were an outcome of 9,829 tests on Saturday. The number of Covid-19 cases in the national capital has been declining since January 13, which recorded the highest number of cases at 28,867.
Journalist Rana Ayyub was stopped from flying to London from the Mumbai International Airport on Tuesday last week. The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Enforcement Directorate to respond to a petition filed by journalist Rana Ayyub against the lookout circular issued against her by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) which is probing her in connection with a case of alleged money laundering.
The ED earlier argued that it's an apprehension that she may not return back. The court observed that she has not been charged with siphoning of 1000s of crores. It added that her bank account has already been frozen.
A businessman and his friend were allegedly robbed at gunpoint in Delhi’s Shahdara, the police said Monday. The incident took place early on Sunday when the complainant and his friend were walking toward Yamuna Sports Complex, according to the police.
Police said they received a call around 6.13 am. The businessman, 29, alleged that two bike-borne men came near him and threatened him with a pistol. Other people walking near the sports complex screamed for help. The accused shouted at them saying they will kill the complainant if he doesn’t listen to them. Read more
B Bhaskar Rao, a 1990-batch Karnataka cadre IPS officer and a native of Bengaluru, joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) here on Monday after serving the police force for 32 years in various capacities.
He was welcomed to the party fold by senior AAP leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. AAP's Karnataka unit convenor Prithvi Reddy, election in-charge for the state and Timarpur MLA Dilip Pandey, organisation secretary Damodaran and other leaders were present on the occasion at the party headquarters here.
Rao, who was serving as the Additional Director General of Police (Railways), had resigned from the service in September last year, citing personal reasons. He demitted his office on Friday to join the AAP after the Karnataka government accepted his resignation and relieved him of his duties. (PTI)
A day after booking the organiser of the ‘mahapanchayat’ in Delhi and the speakers for inflammatory speech, the Delhi Police have registered an FIR against some people for spreading rumours on social media. In their FIR, they have mentioned the names of Twitter handles, the police said.
“Due legal action is being taken against those who are spreading rumors/misinformation using various platforms including through social media,” deputy commissioner of police (north-west) Usha Rangrani said.
A senior police officer said after taking legal opinion, they have lodged an FIR against some Twitter handles for posting some false messages. “Taking a suo moto cognizance, we have registered an FIR – mentioning about these twitter handles for spreading rumours,” the officer said.
On Sunday, DCP Rangrani had tweeted also, “Some of the reporters, willingly, on their own free will, to evade the restless crowd which was getting agitated by their presence, sat in PCR Van stationed at the venue and opted to proceed to Police Station for security reasons. Nobody was detained. Due police protection was provided.” (ENS)
Four months after he joined the Trinamool Congress, Ashok Tanwar, who quit the Congress in 2019, is likely to join the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Monday. An AAP spokesperson said that Tanwar will join the party in the presence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Tanwar, once considered a close aide of Rahul Gandhi, has also headed the Congress’ Haryana unit in the past, after leading the party’s youth wing. Buoyed by its success in Punjab, Haryana is among the major states where the AAP plans to contest the next Assembly polls.
On November 23 last year, Tanwar had joined the TMC in Delhi in the presence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee when she was visiting the national capital. Former JD(U) MP Pawan Varma and Congress leader Kirti Azad had also joined the TMC along with Tanwar. Read more
The Delhi High Court refused to grant more time to Indian classical artiste Rita Ganguly, who had challenged a single judge's decision directing her and others to vacate government allotted residences in the national capital by April end.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Navin Chawla said it will not grant even one more day and noted that the single judge was more than benevolent while granting two months' time to the artistes to vacate government accommodation.
As the court cautioned the counsel for the 81-year-old Ganguly that it will impose heavy costs on her, the lawyer sought to withdraw the appeal. (PTI)
Two men were booked for allegedly kidnapping two drivers in Gurgaon’s Bilaspur area on Saturday night. The police said a zero FIR in the case was initially lodged in Nuh on March 26 and was later transferred to Bilaspur police station.
According to the police, Savita, a resident of Ferozepur Mev in Nuh district’s Pinangwa, filed a complaint alleging that her husband Alijan and his associate Arshad, a native of Meerut, had gone to deliver a load from a private company in Bilaspur to Guwahati.
“My husband had told me that he would return in 2-3 days. On March 20, he called me from someone else’s number and said that he and Arshad were being held hostage in Bilaspur. We tried searching for them and with the help of a relative, we contacted the company’s foreman, who claimed to have held them hostage. I suspect the company’s owner and foreman are behind this. My husband’s life is in danger,” the complaint said. Read more
Parts of Delhi-NCR remained in the grip of a heatwave on Sunday, and similar conditions are on the forecast for isolated parts of the national capital and southern Haryana on Monday, as per the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The maximum temperature at the Safdarjung weather station is likely to be 39 degrees Celsius on Monday, and the IMD has predicted strong winds.
The air quality in Delhi was in the ‘poor’ category on Sunday with an AQI of 245, and it is likely to remain the same on Monday, according to a forecast issued by the air quality early warning system on Sunday. Read more
Petrol in Delhi will now cost Rs 103.81 per litre as against Rs 103.41 previously, while diesel rates have gone up from Rs 94.67 per litre to Rs 95.07, according to a price notification of state fuel retailers.
Petrol and diesel prices were on Monday hiked by 40 paise a litre each, taking the total increase in rates in the last two weeks to Rs 8.40 per litre. In all, petrol prices have gone up by Rs 8.40 per litre.
Rates have been increased across the country and vary from state to state, depending upon the incidence of local taxation. This is the 12th increase in prices since the ending of a four-and-half-month long hiatus in rate revision on March 22. (PTI)
Delhi reported 85 cases of COVID-19 and zero death due to the infection on Sunday, while the positivity rate stood at 0.86 per cent, data shared by the city health department showed.
The data pertaining to Sunday was shared on Monday morning. These cases came out of the 9,829 tests conducted on Saturday. With 85 fresh cases, the national capital's case count has increased to 18,65,300 while the death toll stands at 26,153.
The city reported 114 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday with a positivity rate of 0.71 per cent. On Friday, it had logged 131 COVID-19 cases and one fatality due to the infection, while the positivity rate stood at 0.57 per cent. (PTI)
Delhi Police has lodged an FIR against the organisers of a ‘mahapanchayat’ where anti-Muslim slogans were raised on Sunday, and also booked the speakers for inflammatory speech.
An ‘Early Warning System’ identifying children in potential distress by tracking their school attendance is helping authorities in the capital to intervene and identify solutions to keep them in school.
From the system’s introduction in September 2021 to February 2022, 1,600 children were brought back to school — at least for the immediate time being — after interventions through this tracking, according to records maintained by the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR). Read More
A differently-abled girl was raped allegedly by a man in her neighbourhood in Delhi, said police, adding that the accused has been arrested.
“The incident took place on Saturday when the man allegedly raped the girl. Later, she narrated her ordeal to her parents,” a senior police officer said.
Taking to Twitter, the Delhi Police said it has arrested the accused in a rape case. “On receiving the information, the police reached the spot and sent the girl for medical examination. Further proceedings continue,” it tweeted. Read More
Over 500 protests, demonstrations and sit-ins have taken place in the national capital in the first two months of this year, according to official data.
While a dharna or sit-in is a way of showing disagreement with something by refusing to leave a place, a protest is a strong complaint showing disagreement, disapproval or opposition, police said.
Using these definitions, the data stated that in January and February, there were 103 dharnas, 49 demonstrations and 349 protests in the city.
Of the total number of dharnas, 60 were political, 33 related to issues of labourers, five were youth or student programmes, and five were communal in nature, it stated.
Thirty demonstrations were political, 13 related to issues of labourers and six communal in nature. PTI
Yati Narsinghanand, the head priest of Ghaziabad’s Dasna Devi Temple and an accused in the Haridwar hate speech case, Sunday exhorted Hindus to pick up arms and said that if India a Muslim Prime Minister, “50% of you (Hindus) will change your faith in the next 20 years”. He was speaking at Delhi’s Burari ground, where around 200 people had gathered on Sunday to participate in a ‘Hindu mahapanchayat’.
The event was organised by Preet Singh, founder of the Save India Foundation. Singh was also one of the organisers of an event at Jantar Mantar last year when anti-Muslim slogans were raised. He was arrested by the Delhi Police in connection with that case and is currently out on bail. Narsinghanand, too, is out on bail in connection with the Haridwar case. Read More
Asthma, recurrent chest infections, breathing difficulties and other respiratory illness are common in families living in the shadow of Delhi’s tallest garbage mountain, Ghazipur landfill site, with frequent fires leaving them gasping for breath.
A regular issue in election manifestos and often the subject of political blame game, Ghazipur dumping yard has been a long-standing problem with residents around the area complaining of serious health hazards.
A fire at the dumping yard that broke out on March 28 could be doused over 50 hours, forcing the locals to stay indoors. While no casualty was reported in the blaze, a thick blanket of smoke engulfed the adjoining areas. Read More
The Delhi unit of the Congress staged a protest in east Delhi's Trilokpuri area against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government for constant rise in fuel and gas prices. The protest, part of the opposition party's "Mahangai Mukt Bharat" campaign, was led by Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee chief Chaudhary Anil Kumar.
The protesters raised slogans against the central government, holding it responsible for "sharp" increase in the prices of oil and natural gas. In the protest, agitators mocked the central government by garlanding cylinders and motorcycles.
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai will chair a multi-department high-level meeting on air pollution on Monday to plan a campaign against open burning of garbage, fires at landfill sites and dust pollution, officials said.
The meeting will be held at the Delhi Secretariat around noon and senior officials from the environment department, Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board, fire services, Public Works Department, Delhi Development Authority and municipal corporations will be in attendance.
Rai had on Wednesday directed the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to impose a fine of Rs 50 lakh on the East Delhi Municipal Corporation and take action against officials responsible for a massive fire at the Ghazipur landfill site. (PTI)
The minimum temperature in the national capital on Sunday settled at 19.3 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season's normal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
The weather office has forecast clear sky throughout the day and the maximum temperature is expected to settle around 39 degrees Celsius.
The weather department has predicted severe heatwave conditions at isolated places between April 3 and 6. A severe heatwave is declared if the departure from normal temperature is more than 6.4 notches, according to the IMD. The weather department attributed the unusual heat to the lack of rainfall due to the absence of active western disturbances over north India and any major system over south India. (PTI)