Delhi recorded its coolest May in 13 years with both the average maximum and minimum temperatures staying below normal on most of the days of the month.
In a strange case, a 40-year-old man died while three others were injured after they were bitten by honey bees in Rabupura's Failanda village.
Conducting examinations has become a bone of contention between educational institutions and students. Even as a debate is raging over holding the Class XII board exams, Delhi University and other institutions have announced that exams will be conducted in June.
Delhi government on Tuesday permitted home delivery of Indian and foreign liquors.Conducting examinations has become a bone of contention between educational institutions and students. Even as a debate is raging over holding the Class XII board exams, Delhi University and other institutions have announced that exams will be conducted in June.
Restrictions under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) in Gautam Buddh Nagar have been extended in the district till June 30.
Rain accompanied by winds and thunderstorm lashed parts of Delhi-NCR late on Monday. Some parts of the national capital witnessed light rain early on Tuesday as well.
The capital on Monday reported 648 fresh Covid-19 cases — the lowest in two-and-a-half months — and 86 deaths. The positivity rate fell below 1% (0.99%) the first time since 0.90% recorded on March 19.
Delhi High Court on Monday allowed private unaided schools in the capital to levy the annual charges and the development fee from students who have been since 2020 paying only the tuition fee.
Union housing and urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri slammed opposition parties and claimed they had roped in activists for creating a “false narrative” around the Central Vista project. Sixty former bureaucrats who have raised objections to the project were also the target of the minister’s ire as he dubbed them “padhe likhe murkh” (educated fools).
The capital is likely to receive the first consignment of the Russian vaccine against Covid-19 — Sputnik V — next month, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Monday.
Retorting to Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s comment that the national capital was exhausting its vaccines too soon, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said that he aimed to save people’s lives, not vaccines.
A government official admitted at the peak of the current surge in Delhi, Covid testing began declining, apparently because the manpower engaged in conducting tests themselves became infected. To manage future waves, the Rockefeller Foundation has suggested developing a cafeteria approach to testing i.e. making available a diverse portfolio of tests with clear guidance.
A 19-year-old youth was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly performing car stunts in front of Govindpuri police post. A video of the incident was uploaded on social media a couple of days back and since then, it has been widely shared.
The civic bodies are aiming at completing these work in the next three months before a predicted third wave of Covid-19. East Delhi Municipal Corporation, which will set up a children’s ward at Swami Dayanand Hospital, will pick up renovation work at its ward numbers 4 and 5. These two wards will have 90-100 beds.
The doctors have asked hospitals to keep adequate stock of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and steroids such as methylpred. “We are asking hospitals to stock up on these medicines so that there is no last-minute rush. We have seen that as cases start to increase, important medicines used in the treatment of Covid become unavailable and are sold in the black market. This often happens because we are not ready for the sudden surge. There was a shortage of remdesivir during the first and second wave. If it happens again, it would be unacceptable,” said a senior health department official.
Aam Aadmi Party MLA Atishi on Sunday alleged a “vaccine scam”, claiming the central government was not providing vaccines to state governments inoculating people for free but giving sufficient supply to private hospitals and even five-star hotels immunising people at high rates. She said people are getting vaccinated at private hospitals as shortage persists at govt hospitals.
On Sunday, 78 Covid-19 fatalities were recorded in the capital over the past 24 hours with the figure dipping to two digits for the first time since April 13.
The UP government on Sunday announced that the lockdown in the state would be changed into night curfew for 12 hours on weekdays.
The Haryana government on Sunday extended the lockdown across the state by more than a week till June 7. In an order issued on Sunday, the government said though the positivity rate had come down, the restrictions must continue to bring down the fatalities.
Neha Sharma (name changed) was frantically searching for an oxygen cylinder as her husband was sinking when she came across a number on a WhatsApp group.
Delhi has already received nearly seven times more rainfall this month than what is considered normal for the month. While the normal is 19.7mm, this May’s figure stands at 144.8mm, aided by western disturbances and a strong spell as an aftermath of cyclone Tauktae.
The Ghaziabad administration held a meeting with representatives of private hospitals in the city on Saturday and urged them to help boost the vaccination drive by holding paid camps.
Delhiites are likely to get relief from the soaring temperature with IMD predicting “very light rain” or “thundershowers” from Monday to Wednesday. A met official said: “A fresh western disturbance is expected to impact the region, which will lead to the formation of thundery development on Sunday, with ‘light rain’ till Wednesday".
The Delhi Commission For Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has identified 32 children who were orphaned during the Covid-19 pandemic in the national capital.
In what could prove helpful in coping with the expected third wave of Covid-19 infections, the intensity of which might be worse than the current one, Delhi’s Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC), set up on May 5 to enable data-led Covid policy analysis and response, could be modified to be more robust.
The 52-year-old owner of a dental clinic was allegedly stabbed thrice by a patient who demanded that he be examined out of turn as he had a pain in his tooth. The incident happened on Saturday afternoon at Kansal Dental clinic on Railway Road in Dadri. Ajay Ghosh was busy attending to patients in his clinic when Zubair (24) walked in and demanded that he be attended to first as he had a severe pain in his tooth.
A protocol advisor to a European country’s embassy in Delhi and four others were arrested for illegally running a casino in Sushant Lok-1.
Days after he accused a local BJP politician of allegedly assaulting him, the saffron outfit’s district general secretary attempted suicide at his home by consuming sleeping pills on Friday evening. Monu Garg (30) had lodged an FIR against the party’s former Jewar mandal president Sanjeev Sharma.
Delhi Disaster Management Authority on Saturday issued an order permitting operations of manufacturing/production units within closed premises in approved industrial areas and construction activities within their work sites from Monday (May 31) 5am onwards. The lockdown has, however, been extended till June 7 (5am).
Fresh Covid-19 cases in Delhi fell below 1,000 for the first time since the second wave began and the positivity rate too declined to 1.2%, indicating a turnaround in the city's situation. A total of 956 fresh cases were reported on Saturday.
A Delhi court on Saturday remanded Olympic wrestler Sushil Kumar and another accused person, Ajay Kumar Sehrawat, to four days in police custody, saying that the initial days of investigation were important to ascertain facts related to the murder of a young wrestler at Chhatrasal Stadium.
Having learnt a lesson from the oxygen crisis recently, city hospitals are in talks with oxygen plants on installing production facilities in their premises in preparation for the expected third wave of Covid infections. TOI spoke to several hospitals some of which claimed to have floated tenders and are looking at the technicalities of oxygen generation at the hospitals.
Delhi will receive 5.5 lakh Covid vaccines for the 18-44 age group from the central government in June, deputy CM Manish Sisodia said, even as he accused the Centre of “vaccine mismanagement”.
It is Delhi's second drive-through vaccination centre. The below 45 group will also be allowed to get the shots at this facility once the vaccination shortage is over. Currently vaccination for the 18-44 age group is on hold in Delhi government due to shortage of vaccines.
Kejriwal had on Friday said the process of lifting the lockdown gradually in the capital will begin from Monday, starting with resumption of construction activities and reopening of factories for a week.
According to the AIIMS professor, the unlocking process is a welcome step. However, he said, on the basis of the results of sero survey, constant monitoring of the population and immunising people by inoculating Covid vaccines is also necessary to help bring back things to normalcy.
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the national capital recorded around 900 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours and stressed that if new infections continue to decline, more activities will be allowed to open up in the city.
After Delhi government unveiled plans for restricted reopening of the city, traders are unhappy to hear that markets will remain closed.
The national capital reported about 900 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. This is the first time the daily figure went below the 1,000 mark during the second Covid-19 wave, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday.
Businessman Navneet Kalra, accused in a oxygen concentrator black marketing case, committed a white-collar crime and earned profits by selling medical devices at exorbitant prices to those on death beds, the Delhi Police told a court on Saturday.
Union culture minister Prahlad Patel has accused chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of using the national flag as a “decoration” during his televised press conferences.
Delhi Police’s Crime Branch has made two more arrests in the murder case of a wrestler in which two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar is the prime accused. The two have been identified as Rohit Karoria and Vijender, who are also wrestlers.
Spanish American chef and restaurateur José Andrés was inspired by DC Central Kitchen, a ‘community kitchen’ in the US that prepared meals for the homeless in Washington DC. As a young chef in a mega city, he felt helping people fight hunger was very important. In 2010, he started his own not-for-profit World Central Kitchen (WCK) that provides meals to people battling natural disasters across the world.
Delhi needs to be prepared to handle around 45,000 Covid-19 infections daily with 9,000 patients needing hospitalisation in the “worst-case scenario” of a third wave hitting the capital hard, a report by IIT-Delhi says.
Delhi recorded 1,141 new Covid-19 cases on Friday from 71,853 tests with a positivity rate of 1.59%.
Empty streets, markets without shoppers and all entertainment within the house make for a good strategy against Covid-19. But there were some who depended for their lives on people being out on the roads. Delhi’s beggars and homeless people are struggling amid the lockdown.