Liquor shops reopened across the country in the non-containment zones after 40 days from Monday with people queuing up in large numbers, giving social distancing norms a toss at some places.
A video purportedly showed an ambulance stuck near the barricade while people were asking the police officials to let the ambulance go.
Cutting across party lines, chief ministers and others leaders urged the people to follow the self-imposed curfew from 7 am to 9 pm, noting that "social distancing" was key to breaking the chain of infection, as the number of coronavirus cases rose to 283 after 60 new cases were detected on Saturday, the highest so far in a day, and states like Maharashtra, Odisha and Bihar imposed partial lockdown till month end.
The students have been protesting against hostel fee hike. They had sought appointment with the Prez.
The hunt for a suitable residence for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal finally comes to an end with Urban Development Ministry allotting him a three-bedroom house at Tilak Lane in the Lutyen's zone.
Even as Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal remains adamant about not moving his AAP agitation to Jantar Mantar from Rail Bhawan over a demand for the suspension of 'errant' policemen and full control over the Delhi Police, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a public interest litigation filed against the agitation.
The Hussains, hailing from Madhubani district of Bihar, had planned to go shopping on Sunday, but fate willed otherwise.
This was a question posed by the Delhi high court on Tuesday as it dealt with a case of removing encroachments from around the 108-feet tall Hanuman statue in the Karol Bagh area of central Delhi.
A minor fire broke out in Shastri Bhawan in Central Delhi on Wednesday morning.
In a case of road rage, a person was beaten to death by occupants of a car in front his children after their vehicles collided in central Delhi's Turkman gate area on Sunday.
In the search, Rs 60 crore were found in 20 accounts of as many shell companies, an official said, adding the I-T team was scanning the records to trace the directors of these companies.
''Even without major reforms, with a business as usual scenario, and with current inflation trends, we should be clocking around 11 to 12 per cent nominal growth.' 'That is not happening and is a source of worry,' Rathin Roy tells Arup Roychoudhury.
''I have been saying for the last 25 years, to no avail naturally, that the only government asset that is politically unproblematic is land,' says T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
The protesters, including AAP MLAs and newly appointed Delhi convener Gopal Rai, alleged that the manipulation of electronic voting machines was killing democracy.
Two British women promise to alter the Delhi party landscape with their bespoke catering service
An unprecedented security arrangement, comprising Delhi Police and paramilitary forces, has been put in place in the national capital ahead of the arrival of the US President Barack Obama, who is on a three-day visit beginning on Sunday.
Shots were fired "accidentally" by a Delhi Police constable outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 7, Race Course Road residence in New Delhi on Wednesday night, sending security officials into a tizzy.
The rally, organised by Kisan Uday Abhiyan, led by Manveer Teotia, included farmers from Gautam Buddh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Aligarh and Meerut.
Volunteers of Aam Aadmi Party's youth wing demand the resignation of the external affairs minister in Lalitgate.
"You can change friends but not neighbours," Atal Bihari Vajpayee famously said this 15 years ago.
There will be no separate samadhis for VVIPs in Delhi as the government on Thursday decided to have a common complex for memorials of departed national leaders like Presidents, vice presidents and prime ministers. The Union Cabinet cleared a proposal to set up 'Rashtriya Smriti' along the Yamuna river in central Delhi in view of the paucity of space as around 245 acres of prime land in the national capital has already been occupied by separate samadhis.
The Delhi police have asked Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's office to organise programmes with large gathering at the secretariat instead of her residence in central Delhi citing security concerns.
The Metro stations which will remain closed are Pragati Maidan, Mandi House, Barakhamba Road, Rajiv Chowk, Patel Chowk, Central Secretariat, Udyog Bhawan, Race Course and Khan Market.
Organised by Left-wing farmers' and workers' outfits, the 'Mazdoor Kishan Sangharsh Rally', began from the Ramlila Maidan and culminated at the Parliament Street.
Five out of the ten metro stations in Central Delhi, that were closed down for an indefinite period in the wake of the death of the gangrape victim, were opened on Saturday afternoon.
Pulling down barricades, deflating tyres of government buses and stopping vehicles from plying -- supporters of India Against Corruption were on the wrong side of the law when they marched on the streets of Central Delhi on Sunday to protest on the coal block allocation issue.
Shivakumar's lawyers Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Dayan Krishnan opposed the ED's plea for custodial interrogation saying that he had joined the probe and never absconded.
A suspected terrorist from the Hizbul Mujahideen, who was recently arrested by the Delhi police, had planned a fidayeen strike in the city, sources in the police have revealed.
An FIR has been lodged against nine Delhi police personnel in connection with the gunning down of Manoj Vashishth in an alleged encounter at a restaurant in national capital, police said on Monday.
Vadra is expected to be questioned again on either Friday or Saturday.
Ten Metro stations in Central Delhi, which were closed down on Saturday for an indefinite period, will be out of bounds for the public on Sunday as well to prevent agitators from reaching India Gate to protest the death of the gang-rape victim.
Seven Metro stations in Central Delhi will remain closed on Monday as well, the Delhi Metro announced on Sunday night after protests continued near India Gate for the second day today over the gangrape incident.Pragati Maidan, Mandi House, Patel Chowk, Central Secretariat, Udyog Bhawan, Khan Market and Race Course will remain closed on Monday as well.
A major fire broke out in the electrical and electronics market in central Delhi's Chandni Chowk on Thursday evening, fire brigade officials said.
The incident was reported from Rajinder Nagar at around 2:45 am and the victim has been identified as Sanjeev Dhawan, who worked with the Ganga Ram Hospital, Devesh Srivastava, Additional Commissioner of Police (Central), said.
In Delhi this December, we understood how many others from Kashmir to Koodankulam have long felt, says Shivam Vij
Six Metro stations in central Delhi will be closed for most part of the day on Sunday, an apparent precautionary step following a call by erstwhile Team Anna to gherao residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari over the coal block allocation issue.
The national capital on Tuesday reeled under massive power cuts, with outages in some areas lasting for over eight to nine hours, resulting in inconvenience to people in the sweltering heat.People in certain localities of West Delhi even hit the streets, protesting long power cuts.
The death of a 14-year-old girl on Sunday raised questions about the manner in which the Delhi police treated rape and molestations cases.
A teenaged girl was allegedly molested by a conductor in a bus in New Delhi late Saturday night, close on the heels of the brutal gang-rape of a young woman.
Probing the activities of Iranian national Houshand Afshar Irani charged with bombing an Israeli diplomat's car on February 13, the Delhi police have traced two people, who had allegedly helped him in procurring female escorts, and interrogated them.
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