Delhi Weather News: Light to moderate rainfall is on the weather forecast for the city for the entire week, the IMD said. (Express Photo by Amit Mehra)Delhi News Live Updates (July 26): Delhi Tuesday is expected to receive light rainfall with minimum and maximum temperature likely to settle at 26 degrees and 36 degrees Celsius respectively. Light to moderate rainfall is on the weather forecast for the city for the entire week, the IMD said.
After installing around 1.33 lakh CCTVs across streets and colonies in the city under Phase 1, the Delhi government is going to install 35,000 more cameras every 100 metres on busy roads to increase safety of pedestrians and commuters. As part of Phase 2, the cameras will be installed on stretches, measuring 1,400 km, under the jurisdiction of the Public Works Department (PWD).
With minimal political pressure till the civic body polls are conducted, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is using it as a window to increase taxes and improve its finances. The latest is an increase in trade and storage licence fee by 15% — applicable for general trading, warehouses, showrooms, godowns, and cold storage, among others — every three years, which was announced two weeks ago.
(Clockwise from top left) Jamna (62), Jyoti (27) and Nisha Sharma (32)
An exodus of liquor vendors from nine zones in the city has led to the shutting down of 176 liquor shops in the national capital between June and July this year.
Amid allegations of corruption and impropriety in the implementation of the new liquor policy in Delhi, which has set off a war of words between the L-G and the AAP government, the excise department has been dealing with a larger problem that could impact revenue collection. Read more
After installing around 1.33 lakh CCTVs across streets and colonies in the city under Phase 1, the Delhi government is going to install 35,000 more cameras every 100 metres on busy roads to increase safety of pedestrians and commuters.
As part of Phase 2, the cameras will be installed on stretches, measuring 1,400 km, under the jurisdiction of the Public Works Department (PWD). Officials said work on the second phase is in progress and will be completed by December. Read more
A person with an ‘ectomorph’ body type and bikers riding either a dilapidated or high-end motorbike in a zig-zag manner with only the front rider wearing a helmet — these are some of the things Delhi Police personnel have been told to keep an eye out for to identify snatchers and robbers.
A circular issued by Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana on July 18 outlines “Operation Hawk-Eye”, which was launched in Delhi’s Outer North police district with the “objective to curb street crimes, snatching and robbery”. Read more
Everyone in the Sharma family in Delhi was waiting to see Jamna (62) and her daughter Jyoti (26) as the duo were set to leave the country in a week. Most of them had not met Jyoti, who works as a primary school English teacher in Hong Kong and came to India a month ago, in years.
On Monday morning, when they were preparing for a gathering, a call from police and locals in Outer Delhi left them shocked. Read more...
A fire broke out in Outer Delhi’s Ranhola area on Monday in a factory godown. The Delhi Fire Service dispatched 12 fire tenders to control it.
Visuals at the site show firefighters navigating thick smoke, with a large part of the godown reduced to rubble. Police beat staff had also reached the spot. The DFS said that a call was received around 3.50 pm about a fire in Vikas Nagar. No casualties were reported, they added. Read more...
In response to a petition challenging the alleged stopping of prayers since May at a mosque in South Delhi, the Centre Monday told the Delhi High Court that the masjid situated adjacent to the eastern gate of the Qutub Minar is a protected monument. According to rules, prayers are allowed at its protected sites only if they were “functioning places of worship” at the time the Archaeological Survey of India took charge of them.
The oral submission was made by a counsel representing the central government before the bench of Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri. Advocate Kirtiman Singh also told the court that a Saket court is presently hearing a matter involving the mosque in question, and sought time to seek further instructions in the matter. Read more...
Dozens of medical students who returned from Ukraine with the outbreak of war are in the middle of a hunger strike in the capital, demanding that they be allowed to complete their degrees in Indian universities.
These students returned to India in March and have been attending their classes online, even completing a semester remotely. However, with the war raging on, a section of students is trying to raise the pressure to be accommodated in Indian universities. Read more...
Three men were arrested from Gujarat’s Ahmedabad for allegedly cheating people by luring them to buy packaging material in bulk and keeping the advance payment without delivering. The accused were identified as Ahmedabad residents Jitendra Kumar Chauhan (35), Parmar Dilipbhai (47) and Pawar Shyam (44), who was previously involved in an alleged cheating case in Jammu and Kashmir. Know more...
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The last date to apply for diploma programs and BA in digital media and design at Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University is July 27, the varsity said on Monday. (PTI)
Three women were killed and two others, including a one-year-old baby, were injured after their speeding car rammed into a stationary Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus at a depot in Outer Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar Monday morning. Read more...
In reference to the recent murder of a DSP in Nuh, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar said, "Strict action will be taken against illegal mining. No culprits will be spared."
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar formally inaugurates smart e-beat system in Gurgaon. The new smart beat system is expected to help the police to increase police visibility in public places, monitor criminals and help in improving police response time and help in reduction and detection of crime, as per Gurgaon police.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday termed as "unjust" the Delhi government's move to terminate over 800 Anganwadi workers for staging a strike seeking a raise in honorarium, and demanded that they should be immediately reinstated.
The lives of 884 Anganwadi workers in Delhi turned upside down after they were abruptly terminated for staging over a month-long strike demanding a raise in honorarium and respectable working hours.
These workers comprising several single mothers were issued termination notice on March 14 against their 39-day demonstration.
Attacking the AAP-led Delhi government, Gandhi said it had increased the honorarium of the MLAs a few days ago.
"But, taking an unjust step, the government sacked more than 800 Anganwadi workers demanding a respectable honorarium. Asking for a good honorarium for hard work is not a crime," the Congress general secretary said in a tweet.
These Anganwadi workers should be immediately reinstated, Gandhi demanded. (PTI)
The Union Ministry of Law and Justice has written to Delhi Police to take action against unknown people for allegedly issuing fake appointment letters for jobs in Delhi district courts. The police said the appointment letters were issued in the name of the law ministry and several such letters were found being issued in the Delhi-NCR region.
A case was registered by the New Delhi district in the matter and a first information report (FIR) was lodged last week by an additional secretary-level officer at the Tilak Marg police station.
In the FIR, the complainant alleged that the department received fake appointment orders for “lower-level posts in the district and subordinate courts in Delhi”. The same orders were circulating on social media and the accused forged orders in the name of the department of justice at the law ministry. Officials said that the matter was raised earlier too and they contacted Delhi Police in 2020 to help with the fake appointment orders. Read more
Two labourers were killed and one was injured after a soil cave-in led to the collapse of a boundary wall at an under-construction plot in Begumpur Khatola in Gurgaon’s Badshahpur area Sunday evening, the police said.
According to officers, the incident was reported around 5.15 pm on Sunday when some construction labourers were working in the basement area of the plot. “The plot shared a boundary wall with a scaffolding company. As the basement was being dug, soil caved in and three labourers got buried underneath the soil. They were rushed to Civil Hospital where two were declared dead. The third labourer was referred to a private hospital where he is undergoing treatment,” said a police officer. Read more
The Delhi government plans to construct public electric vehicle charging stations in at least 10 existing cluster bus depots in the national capital in a bid to push the people to shift to e-vehicles.According to officials, the Delhi Transport and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DTIDC) has begun the preliminary work for the installation of public EV charging stations in these bus depots.Officials said: “As per the plan, the Delhi government has decided to install charging stations across different bus depots and parking lots of metro stations. By September, we have a target to install 100 charging stations for which work has started already.” Read more
Light rainfall is likely in Delhi Monday and overcast skies and rainfall are on the forecast for all days of the week ahead in the Capital, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
While light rainfall is likely on Tuesday as well, light to moderate rainfall is a possibility on Wednesday and Saturday, the IMD also said. Moderate rainfall is on the forecast for Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, added the IMD.
With intermittent rainfall in parts of the city, the air quality in Delhi remained in the ‘satisfactory’ category over the weekend. Read the full weather forecast here
Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) is set to install LED smart screens at six major intersections which will broadcast information about the weather and social slogans to commuters at a quick speed, officials said Sunday.
The LED screens will be installed at Pari Chowk, Alpha Commercial Belt, Greater Noida Authority Office, Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, Dadri Railway Station, and Knowledge Park II which receive maximum traffic, modelled on the smart screen installed at ITO Delhi, said officials.
Social slogans on water conservation, sanitation, and security would be heard and displayed on these screens for 15 minutes every hour and GNIDA has put out the Request For Proposal (RFP) for their installation, they added. Read more here
Two Kanwariyas were injured after being hit by a bus in Delhi’s Shahdara while they were on the way to Haridwar, said the police Monday. They added that the driver, identified as Sompal, has been taken into custody.
The injured pilgrims have been identified as Mayapuri residents Rohit, 22, and his nephew Golu, 12. Rohit works with the Civil Defence.
R Sathiyasundaram, DCP (Shahdara), said, “The Kanwariyas were struck on the Shahdara flyover by a UP Roadways bus which was travelling to ISBT. They were then taken to the Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, where they are under treatment for their injuries.” Read more here
The Delhi government will host the fourth Delhi Electric Vehicles (EV) Forum on August 10 where the ‘Charging Infrastructure Action Plan for Delhi’ will be launched.
Delhi’s Electric Vehicle policy was put in place two years ago and since then, the share of EVs in the total vehicles purchased has been increasing. Read more