Delhi News Live Updates: Delhi govt to provide houses, hostels to labourers

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday held a meeting with the Labour department and directed its officials to arrange houses and hostels for city's labourers. A decision was also taken to provide annual DTC passes to labourers for free travel and free coaching for their children, the Chief Minister's office said in a series of tweets. The government also plans to conduct skill development programmes for nearly 13 lakh workers in the national capital and will also be providing them with toolkits.

The Uttar Pradesh government constituted a two-member judicial commission headed by retired high court judge Rajiv Lochan Mehrotra to investigate the STF encounter of Umesh Pal murder case accused Asad and Ghulam in Jhansi.

ADTP BBMP Yelahanka Gangadharaiah's house is being raided over disproportionate assets. Cash, jewellery and other things found along with documents, said Lokayukta SP.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 on the Richter scale hit West Khasi Hills in Meghalaya on Monday morning.According to National Centre for Seismology (NCS), the tremors were felt around 7.45am at a depth of 5km.

Similarly, a three-member committee has been formed in the killing of mafia brothers Atiq and Ashraf in Prayagraj.

Active Covid cases in Bengal have swelled by over 10 times in the past three weeks, and three persons succumbed during Covid treatment in Kolkata on Saturday and Sunday, taking the death toll to eight in the city this month. From only 110 cases on April 1, the count has now crossed 1,000. On Sunday, the state had 1,301 active cases with 155 fresh cases being reported in the past 24 hours. The weekly positivity rate in Kolkata now stands at a high 22%, which was a little above 10% even a week ago. According to sources, only 69 out of the 1,301 cases are under hospital care.

The finance controller of Uttarakhand Civil Aviation Development Authority (UCADA), Amit Saini, was killed after being hit by a helicopter’s tail rotor blade while he was in the process of boarding the chopper on Sunday afternoon at Kedarnath.

Last month, a 29-year-old TV technician was murdered by his two colleagues, who were also his flatmates, after a dispute over parking a motorbike at their apartment’s parking space in Yelahanka. Police investigation revealed the technician and his alleged killers regularly fought as they faced difficulties in parking three motorbikes at the apartment’s small parking lot.Inadequate parking spaces, whether in public or private areas, is an issue that has the potential to snowball into something ugly, say police. From about 40 lakh in 2010, the number of vehicles in the city has gone up to more than 1 crore now, officials said, thereby compounding the crisis.

Fresh cases in Tamil Nadu dipped to 509 on Sunday from 519 a day earlier. The active cases also saw a marginal decrease to 3,671 compared to 3,676 the previous day.The state hea lth department said one Covid patient passed away on Sunday. The 66-year-old man from Pudukkottai was admitted to the Rajiv Gandhi Government and Medical College Hospital in Chennai with breathing difficulties on Saturday.

A 42-year-old man attacked at the funeral ceremony of a history sheeter at Old Washermenpet on Saturday died of his injuries on Sunday morning.The deceased has been identified as R ajasekar of Thiruvottiyur. Police said he had gone to the funeral of history sheeter Kumar alias Karuppu Kumar, who was murdered for revenge on Friday. Kumar had several cases against him, including a murder case. He was eliminated to exact revenge for the murder of another history sheeter, Venkata in 2013. Venkata's son Akash, who learnt of Kumar's release from jail, plotted his murder.