Delhi minister Satyendar Jain. (File)Delhi News Today Live Updates: The Delhi High Court on Saturday dismissed Satyendra Jain’s plea challenging the trial court’s order transferring the hearing of the alleged money laundering case from one judge to another. Jain had moved the high court last month challenging the September 23 order of the Principal District and Sessions Judge Vinay Kumar Gupta, who transferred the money laundering case to Special Judge Vikas Dhull from Special Judge Geetanjali Goel, who was hearing his bail plea.
Meanwhile, a fire was reported on Saturday at Global Foyer Mall on Golf Course Road in Gurgaon. According to the Fire department, the fire was reported at a restaurant on the first floor of the mall around 6.15 am. A short circuit is suspected to be the cause. No injuries have been reported.
From today onwards, the Delhi government’s automatic subsidy on electricity bills is coming to an end. Delhi residents now have to “opt in” if they want to continue getting a subsidised bill. The Delhi government started the free electricity scheme in 2019. Under the scheme, consumers who use less than 200 units of power per month do not get charged any money at all in their bill. If you use more than 200 units, a bill is generated for all the units used, and not on consumption over 200 units. Those who use up to 400 units get a subsidy of 50% up to Rs 800.
The Ghaziabad police arrested a man Friday for allegedly killing his wife and daughter with a shovel over a domestic dispute. The accused was identified as Sanjay (42), a resident of Nandgram. The police said he was caught while trying to escape Ghaziabad on a bus.
The police said they received information that two bodies were found in a house in Nandgram around 12.30 pm Friday. When they reached the spot, they identified the deceased as Rekha (36) and Tashu (15). Senior officers in the area examined the scene and the bodies were sent for post-mortem. Read More
The Delhi high court on Saturday dismissed Satyendra Jain’s plea challenging the trial court’s order transferring the hearing of the alleged money laundering case from one judge to another.
Five people were rescued after a fire broke out in a pub at Global Foyer Mall in Gurgaon’s Golf Course Road on Saturday morning, fire department officials said. No persons were injured in the incident which is suspected to have been caused by a short circuit, they added. The fire has been brought under control.
Sources said the fire was reported at 5.40 am, following which at least ten fire tenders and a hydraulic crane were pressed into service. A fire department official said the blaze was reported at La La Land Brew Pub on the first floor of the mall. “At the time of the incident, the staff at the pub were making preparations to do an inventory,” the official said.
“A glass pane on the second floor was broken open and five people, who were stuck inside, were rescued with the help of the hydraulic crane. Cooling operations are continuing. No injuries have been reported,” he added. Read More
Nearly two weeks after an 11-year-old boy was allegedly sexually assaulted by three minors in Northeast Delhi, the police said he succumbed to the injuries at the Lok Nayak hospital on Saturday morning.
The Delhi Police apprehended two of the juveniles in connection with the case but they were released by the Juvenile Justice Board after their parents signed an ‘undertaking’. The accused, aged 12 and 13, have been temporarily released on grounds of age and insufficient medical evidence in the case. Read More
From today onwards, the Delhi government’s automatic subsidy on electricity bills is coming to an end. Delhi residents now have to “opt in” if they want to continue getting a subsidised bill.
The Delhi government started the free electricity scheme in 2019. Under the scheme, consumers who use less than 200 units of power per month do not get charged any money at all in their bill. If you use more than 200 units, a bill is generated for all the units used, and not on consumption over 200 units. Those who use up to 400 units get a subsidy of 50% up to Rs 800.
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A fire has been reported at Global Foyer Mall on Golf Course Road in Gurgaon. Several fire tenders have been rushed to the spot.
Due to spells of rains, the national capital's Air Quality Index (AQI) settled mostly under the 'moderate' category in September, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data showed. An AQI between 101 and 200 falls under the 'moderate' category.
According to data, September's monthly average AQI has increased by 24 per cent in comparison to 2021, which was recorded at 78. Meanwhile, the average AQI in September 2020 stood at 118 and 111 in 2019.
"General AQI in September predominantly remains poor. However, rainfall triggers dip in AQI to 'satisfactory' and 'good' categories. September and October are the transition months. Hence, the AQI starts deteriorating," former head of CPCB's air lab, Dipankar Saha said.
Awareness campaigns must be started during the AQI transition periods, he added. (PTI)
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Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has again written to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal pointing at the "unwarranted delay" in permitting the felling of trees and their translocation, saying this has stalled several critical development projects in the city, officials at the LG Office said on Friday. Saxena also raised the issue with Kejriwal during the weekly meeting on Friday evening, they said.
Fifteen major projects involving the felling of trees and translocation of over 8,000 trees are stalled as the government is yet to give permission, they claimed. The Delhi government, for its part, said it will “look into the matter”.
According to the officials, the LG has in his letter highlighted the wastage of public money and cost overruns due to “such unwarranted delay” and has stressed the need to fix accountability. (PTI)
Delhi Commission For Women chairperson Swati Maliwal has written to the Central Bureau of Investigation seeking its intervention on the issue of the availability of child porn on Twitter.
The commission said it has identified 14 more tweets, apart from the ones it has already flagged, involving children in sexual activities. In a letter to CBI Director Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, Maliwal has sought his urgent intervention by registering an FIR and the immediate arrests of those involved in the crime.
On September 20, the DCW chairperson had summoned Twitter India policy head and the Delhi Police Cyber Cell over tweets depicting pornography and rape videos of women and children on the micro-blogging site. Some of the accounts engaging in such acts appeared to be running a racket, wherein they sought money for providing pornographic and rape videos of children, she had said. (PTI)
The first semester of undergraduate students of Jawaharlal Nehru University will begin on November 7, a varsity official said on Friday. The varsity began the registration process on Wednesday for admission to its undergraduate programmes through the Common University Entrance Test (CUET).
"The registration process that started on September 27 will conclude on October 12," the official said.
This year the university has opted for CUET for admission to undergraduate programmes. The university offers around 10 UG courses mostly BA (Honours) in Foreign Languages and a total of 342 seats in various schools and disciplines. (PTI)
Images from the site of demolition drive of encroachment in Grand Omaxe in Noida’s Sector 93b.
Delhi Metro operations on the Blue Line will be curtailed during the first half on October 2 due to planned maintenance work on a section of the corridor, officials said on Friday. The busy line connects Dwarka Sector 21 in Delhi with Noida Electronic City, and also branches off to Vaishali from Yamuna Bank station.
"To undertake the scheduled track maintenance work between Yamuna Bank and Akshardham section on the Blue Line i.e. Line-3/4 (Dwarka Sec-21 to Noida Electronic City (NEC)/Vaishali), train services on the morning of 2nd October 2022 (Sunday) will be regulated," the DMRC said in a statement.
There will not be any direct train service from Noida Electronic City station to Dwarka or Dwarka Sec-21 stations from the start of revenue services till 2 PM, officials said. (PTI)
Trees were uprooted using bulldozers as the Noida authority carried out demolition drive in Grand Omaxe in Noida on Friday.
Several trees have been cut down in front of the Tyagi home in Grand Omaxe in Noida’s Sector 93b.
Bulldozers have been temporarily stopped. A lawyer and resident Pankaj Garg is on the spot demanding relevant documents from the authorities for the demolition drive in Grand Omaxe in Noida’s Sector 93b. He and others are demanding that the bulldozers exit the area.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday stayed an order of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) directing broadcasters Star India, Sony and Sun TV to submit information pertaining to the content on their over-the-top (OTT) platforms to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Justice Yashwant Varma, who was hearing the petitions wherein the broadcasters had challenged a September 20 TDSAT order that upheld TRAI’s direction asking them to furnish a “detailed architecture” indicating which media (satellite, fibre or any further media) is being used to deliver content of linear channels to the broadcasters’ OTT platforms or third-party OTT platforms, listed the matter on March 3, 2023. Read More
In a bid to reduce pollution from diesel generators used on Diwali, Ramlila and other occasions, BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) have started providing temporary electricity connections to the people under the ‘Tatkal’ scheme.
Through the ‘Tatkal’ scheme, a consumer will be able to get a temporary connection the same day they apply and complete the requisite commercial formalities. Normally, it can take up to seven days for a temporary connection.
The connection will be made available for the pujas, Diwali melas, Ramlilas and weddings. Read More