A Congress activist, wearing black clothes, carries raw vegetables during a protest march as part of party’s nationwide protest over price rise, unemployment and GST hike on essential items, in New Delhi. (PTI)Delhi News Live Updates: The Delhi Police on Friday detained more than 300 Congress protesters, including 50 Members of Parliament, from Lutyens’ Delhi, officials were quoted as saying by PTI. In light of the Congress party’s protests in the national capital, the Delhi police has issued an advisory with special traffic arrangements. While bus routes have been altered, the police has said some stretches, especially in central and south Delhi, are likely to see heavy congestion. The Delhi Police has enforced Section 144 across the city, except in Jantar Mantar.
Meanwhile, several Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Sachin Pilot and Shashi Tharoor, were detained on Friday amid the party’s nationwide protest on inflation, unemployment and GST on essential items. The police detained Priyanka while she was protesting with other Congress workers and leaders outside the AICC headquarters in Delhi.
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to the BJP to reach out to “deprived and downtrodden sections” in communities other than Hindus at a national executive conclave in Hyderabad last month, the BJP leadership in Delhi has started an outreach programme with a focus on Pasmanda (backward) Muslims in the national capital. The BJP will be holding a Pasmanda Muslim Senh Milan Awam Samman Samroh on Friday at the Ghalib Institute in Central Delhi, during which several Pasmanda leaders from the party would be present.
Security personnel at Parliament House during ongoing Monsoon Session, in New Delhi. (PTI)
Rebates and 'one-plus-one' deals will go away and past norms like 21 "dry days" are likely to return as liquor vends operated by the Delhi government open from September 1 under the old excise regime, officials said Friday.
However, for a better customer experience, there will be premium vends for high-end liquor and self-serviced stores where customers can pick up their favourite brands from the shelves, they said.
The four corporations of the Delhi government – DTTDC, DSIIDC, DCCWS and DSSC – have been entrusted with opening a total of 500 liquor vends by August 31. (PTI)
The Delhi University (DU) on Friday said it will organise a Tiranga rally next week to celebrate 75 years of India's independence under the 'Har Ghar Tiranga Abhiyan'. The rally will cover a distance of four kilometres and will see participation of teaching and non-teaching staff and students of the university, it said. (PTI)
Dealing with a woman’s application seeking interim bail for two weeks in a murder case to enable her to get her 8-year-old daughter admitted to a school, the Delhi High Court directed police to ensure her admission and asked the school principal to extend full cooperation. The child’s father is also an accused in the same case.
“Right to Education is a fundamental right guaranteed to every citizen under Article 21-A of the Constitution. A child must not suffer the consequences, on account of their parents having been in judicial custody for a crime which is yet to be adjudicated upon by the court. This court is duty bound to enforce fundamental rights of every citizen, and in this case right to education,” said Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma in an order.
The couple has been in judicial custody since July 11, 2021, in a case related to the murder of an old woman whose body parts were severed and found disposed of in a drain. The trial court had earlier dismissed the woman’s application for interim bail, saying her ground for bail cannot be termed “a compelling circumstance”. Read More
Delhi’s Sardar Patel Vidyalaya is in a celebratory mood after 23-year-old Tejaswin Shankar, a former student, bagged the bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games high jump event.
Sunil Kumar, who was Shankar’s coach at the school from class 8 onwards, said sweets have been distributed in the school multiple times since he bagged the medal with a jump of 2.22 m. Alumni of the school, too, have taken to social media with congratulatory messages.
With his win, Shankar became the first Indian to win a medal in the high jump event at the Commonwealth Games. After the Athletics Federation of India did not include him in the contingent for the games in Birmingham, he moved the Delhi High Court which asked the AFI to consider including him. While he was later told by the Indian Olympic Association that the organisers of the games had not accepted his entry, he was later given the go-ahead to participate. He arrived at Birmingham in the nick of time. Read More
Two men were arrested Thursday for allegedly molesting and threatening a woman at a Metro station in Delhi on May 3. The victim had also tweeted about the matter.
Police said the accused were identified as Luv Bagga (38), a senior manager in a company, and Shiv Om Gupta (24), an MBA student at Delhi University.
Police said a case had been filed at the Metro station under IPC sections 354 (assaulting woman with intent to outrage modesty), 354a (sexual harassment), 506 (criminal intimidation), 509 (word/gesture/act intended to insult modesty of woman) and 34 (common intention). Read More
Observing that e-commerce platform Flipkart was permitting third-party unauthorised sellers to use the original manufacturer’s brand name and images for their own listing without consent, the Delhi High Court has said such a feature cannot be allowed to be used or offered to the detriment of the owner of the brand or the person who has created the original product.
“Prima facie, the Flipkart platform is permitting other third-party sellers to ‘latch on’ to the best sellers in one particular segment of products, resulting in various third-party sellers misusing the plaintiff’s brand/mark,” said Justice Prathiba M Singh in an interim order, adding that such sellers can make similar products and sell them as original.
The court made the observations while passing the order in a suit filed by Akash Aggarwal, who sells women’s clothing on various retail e-commerce platforms including Flipkart, to restrain the shopping website from allowing any person or party to portray itself as ‘more sellers’ of goods offered by him. Read More
The Delhi High Court has said that an e-commerce platform permitting a third-party seller to “latch on” to the name or mark and product listings of another seller on its platform is “nothing but riding piggyback” and cannot be allowed.
Justice Prathiba M Singh said that “latching on” is a mode of encashing upon the reputation of another entity and the consent and authorisation of the brand owner as well as the listing owner would be required before such conduct is permitted.
The court's observations were made on a lawsuit by an online clothes seller against an e-commerce platform. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant's platform allowed third-party sellers to “latch on” to its product listings. (PTI)
The Delhi High Court Friday sought response of the Centre, Delhi government and other authorities to a plea alleging illegal construction of shops at Fatehpuri Masjid, a 17th century heritage building.
A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notice on the petition by an organisation and asked the authorities to respond within six weeks.
The court listed the matter for further hearing on November 14. The plea sought removal of several shops, which have been allegedly constructed illegally at the mosque in the walled city with the connivance of authorities. (PTI)
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Congress MPs including Rahul Gandhi along with the party's General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were detained at New Police Lines Kingsway Camp in Delhi. The party MPs had taken out a protest march against price rise from Parliament House. (Photo source: ANI)
As part of the 75th I-Day celebrations, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has announced free entry at all ticketed monuments starting today, till August 15. The free entry is valid for all Indian as well as foreign nationals at all protected monuments/sites across the country. Generally, the ticket prices for Indian citizens is Rs 15 whereas for foreigners, it goes up to Rs 200. Here’s a selection of ASI monuments in Delhi that can be visited free of cost over the next 11 days. Read more
Hearing a petition alleging that due to the lack of a ration card, a 31-year-old woman, who is suffering from aplastic anaemia, is not able to avail of financial assistance under the Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN) scheme for her treatment, the Delhi High Court Friday said that such a requirement defeats the scheme itself, and asked the Centre to respond to the plea.
“If you want to find out their family details, proof of residence, there are many other documents also. Why would be it imperative for her to have a ration card especially when the issuing authority has not given her one? In the absence of a ration card, she will not get insurance coverage. It defeats the scheme itself,” said Justice Yashwant Varma, during the hearing of a petition seeking direction to AIIMS for accepting the patient’s application for a grant of aid to enable her to get the requisite treatment. Read More
Three unidentified armed men allegedly robbed a jewellery shop at gunpoint in Gurgaon’s Sector 5 area on Thursday afternoon, police said, adding that the accused are yet to be arrested.
According to the police, the incident took place around 3 pm when the jewellery shop owner was alone in his shop located on Sheetla Mata Road.
Police said they have recovered CCTV footage of the robbery from a camera in the shop and are trying to identify the robbers. According to the police, after entering the shop, two accused jumped across the counter while the third accused closed the shop shutter. After a few minutes, the three decamped with gold and silver jewellery, and some cash, police said. (Read More)
Congress workers on Friday crossed police barricades while protesting and some have been taken in custody.
A man wanted for multiple cases of robbery across Delhi-NCR was arrested following an exchange of gunfire with Noida police after he allegedly tried to evade arrest late Thursday, police said. The accused has been identified as Vishal, who is in his 40s and is a resident of Jhilmil Colony in Delhi, police added.
On July 29, a chain-snatching incident involving a woman on her morning walk in Sector 29 was reported, police said. “The accused was identified by the CCTV footage recovered from that area. As per preliminary investigation, it has been found that the accused is known for committing robberies, including chain-snatching, across Delhi-NCR with four cases registered against him in Delhi and one in Noida,” said Ashutosh Dwivedi, additional deputy commissioner of police, Noida. (Read More)
RS MP Shaktisinh Gohil, during Congress protests on Friday said, "Our fight is against price rise and high expenses."
Congress workers and leaders raise slogans against Modi and price rise. Workers can be seen pressed up against the police baricades.
Light to moderate intensity rainfall is likely over many parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), including Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad and Sonipat this morning, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
An IMD forecast issued at around 9.12 am said a thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rainfall is likely to occur over Delhi-NCR in the next two hours.
Parts of the city received light rainfall early in the morning as well. The weather observatory at Palam recorded the highest amount of rainfall in the past 24 hours – 33.6 mm. The weather station at Aya Nagar recorded 27.8 mm. Safdarjung, which provides representative figures for the city, recorded only 0.8 mm over the past 24 hours. (Read More)
Congress leaders and party workers protest against price rise and unemployment outside the AICC headquarters on Friday.
Following complaints from commuters stuck in a traffic jam on Noida-Delhi road at Chilla border area early on Friday, Noida traffic police said that traffic movement was slow as Delhi traffic police were conducting checks at the border in light of security arrangements for Independence Day.
Commuters tweeted about the 45-minute traffic jam on Noida-Delhi road, tagging the official Twitter account of the Noida traffic police and Noida police, early Friday. A commuter also mentioned that an ambulance was stuck in the traffic.
The official twitter account of the Noida Traffic Police addressed these tweets and said that the movement of traffic was heavy due to checking conducted by Delhi Traffic Police at the border. “Traffic alert-Noida-Delhi Chilla border is being checked by @dtptraffic by installing barriers, traffic is moving slowly due to heavy traffic on the route. Traffic Helpline No.-9971009001,” the Noida traffic police tweeted, tagging the official Twitter handle of Delhi traffic police.