Partly cloudy skies in Delhi on Monday. (Express Photo: Praveen Khanna)Delhi Live Highlights: Delhi is likely to record a maximum temperature of 41 degrees Celsius Tuesday, with cloudy skies and the possibility of thunder and lightning, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast for the day.
The national capital on Monday registered 377 new coronavirus infection and 1 death, according to data shared by the officials at the health Department. The positivity rate rose to 3.37 percent.
In other news, a fire broke out at a factory in outer Delhi’s Narela Monday night. Officials said that a group of labourers were initially trapped inside the factory but were rescued in time. According to the police, they received a call about the fire at 8.40 pm. Police staff and four fire tenders were rushed to the spot.
Delhi High Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of JNU PhD student Sharjeel Imam's bail plea in a sedition case to May 26.
Imam has approached the court with an application seeking interim bail, citing the recent Supreme Court order on Section 124A IPC.
Hearing a challenge against the provision, the apex court on May 11 stayed the pending trials, appeals and proceedings under 124A IPC. Imam, who is in detention in other cases also, in the Crime Branch case is accused of giving “inflammatory and instigatigating speeches” against the government on the issue of CAA and NRC, particularly at Jamia Milia Islamia University in December 2019.
Opposing an application seeking live streaming proceedings of the petitions seeking legalisation of same-sex marriages in India, the Centre has told the Delhi High Court that the plea was “aimed at creation of a dramatic impression of the proceedings and to win sympathy”. Read more
To meet his wife more than twice per month, as mandated in the jail manual, alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar went on hunger strike, demanding he be allowed to see his wife Leena Maria Paul, who is also lodged in Tihar jail, more often. Read more
Piyush Raizada (61) faintly recollected his father, Brij Mohan Lal Raizada, narrating a fond experience of a cinema in Calcutta, that convinced him of entering a similar business. Raizada was involved in an automobile business at that time and lived in Sitaram Bazar inside the Walled City. Read more