Delhi New Live Updates: Sharpshooter of Jitendra Gogi gang arrested after encounter with police

The family of the Haryanvi singer, whose body was found on Monday, had last spoken to her on phone around 8. 30pm on May 11. She had told them she was preparing to go to sleep. DCP, Dwarka, Shankar Choudhary, said the two men, Anil and Ravi, had hatched a plot to kill her. She had earlier filed a rape case against Ravi and that could be the possible motive. Read more here

Four months after India allowed precautionary doses of Covid-19 vaccines for the fully-vaccinated, uptake remains low. In Delhi, for example, data shows less than 7% of the 18-plus population has taken the precautionary dose, also called booster dose, as of May 24. A similar trend is being observed in other states, especially in rural settings. Union health ministry data on May 24 said less than 3. 3 crore people had taken their precautionary dose across India.

Delhi will have to wait for a few more weeks before the excise department of the city government gets down to work and formulate a scheme for home delivery of liquor.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi claimed on Tuesday to have released one month’s salary for all its employees and a month's pension, having created a fund of Rs 432. 8 crore for this purpose. Read more here

Three youths, including two brothers, from Delhi drowned in the Ganga near the ITBP camp in Shivpuri area of Tehri Garhwal on Tuesday after they entered the water for a bath.