Delhi-NCR News Live Updates: Delhi HC seeks Centre's stand on challenge to provisions of surrogacy law

The Delhi HC Friday sought the Centre's stand on a petition challenging the exclusion of a single man and a married woman having a child from the benefit of surrogacy as a reproductive choice as well as the requirement of the exercise being an altruistic surrogacy only. A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Sachin Datta issued notice on the petition by Karan Balraj Mehta, a single unmarried man, and Dr. Pankhuri Chandra, a married woman and a mother of one child.

The city is likely to get respite from the heat at least for five more days, according to the the India Meteorological Department (IMD).There was a slight dip in daytime temperature on Thursday even as the sky remained clear with ample sunshine. The maximum temperature settled at 33.8 degrees Celsius — eight notches below the normal. Similarly, the minimum temperature dropped to 22.5 degrees Celsius— four notches below the season’s normal. The Met has attributed the drop in temperature to high moisture content in the atmosphere which has kept the temperature under check.

The Court also ordered to confiscate his four properties (ANI)

The court will pronounce the sentence order in the disproportionate assets case in which he is convicted. (ANI)

A video of Shahrukh Pathan, an accused in northeast Delhi riots, has gone viral wherein he can be seen receiving a rousing welcome in his locality in northeast Delhi when he was granted a four-hour parole to meet his ailing father.The video is said to be of May 23. READ MORE

Traffic congestion reported on NH-48 near Iffco chowk towards Delhi due to breakdown of a vehicle: Gurugram traffic police

Schools have become the unlikely beneficiaries of the state government's campaign in April to take down loudspeakers installed without permission at various public places and sites of worship.The owners of some of these loudspeakers have over the past few weeks donated the devices to educational campuses that operate on tight budgets, cajoled by the police, which has been playing the role of a "facilitator". So far, loudspeakers have been handed over to the authorities of 70 schools in NCR (13 in Noida, 57 in Ghaziabad). READ MORE

Travelling in autorickshaws and taxis is set to become costlier soon with a fare revision committee set up by Delhi government last month recommending a hike.“The increase deliberated upon is not very high and will be around Re 1 per km in case of autorickshaws. The fare of taxis, however, might go up by 60%,” said an official.

Traffic will remain affected today at Subramanian Bharti Marg, Mathura Road and W-Point due to special traffic arrangements, tweets Delhi traffic police

We stay here on rent and do our household chores on our own. We get very less time to do our proper workouts here, due to which we face many injuries. Parks & roads are available to walk dogs, said another athlete, Abhishek (ANI)

Frustrated over financial crisis, a 38-year-old woman from south Delhi’s Mehrauli staged her abduction to get Rs 3 lakh from her brother. Delhi Police traced the woman from a hotel in Agra and arrested her on charges of extortion.Police said, at about 11 pm on Tuesday, her brother came to Mehrauli police station and informed the cops that his sister, who works at a BPO, was abducted and he was receiving extortion calls and messages from her number.