Talking about the Tablighi Jamaat congregation, Agarwal said, "If the Tablighi Jamaat incident had not taken place and we compare the rate of doubling -- that is in how many days the cases have doubled, we will see that currently it is 4.1 days (including Jamaat cases) and if the incident had not taken place and additional cases had not come then the doubling rate would have been 7.4 days."
Congress leaders have hit out at the BJP governments at the Centre and in Karnataka, questioning its timing.
Four students and two teachers were on Tuesday injured when a school bus collided with a chartered bus and overturned at a traffic signal in R K Puram in south Delhi. The mishap took place at 7:10 am when the bus of G D Goenka Public School, carrying approximately 25 students, was ferrying children to school. Both the buses were speeding when the mishap took place, according to the police.The injured were rushed to Safdarjung Hospital.
Amid outrage over the brutal rape of a four-year-old girl in north west Delhi, police said they have questioned over 100 people.
Expressing deep concern over the recent act of violence against doctors, Vardhan stated that incidents of assault on doctors are reported from different parts of the country and this leads to sudden strike by doctors, gravely affecting the healthcare services.
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The autopsy report conducted on Padmapriya, wife of Udupi Member of Legislative Assembly Raghupathi Bhat, has confirmed that her death was due to suicide by hanging. The police are trying to ascertain the reason behind Padmapriya's suicide.The police are now questioning Bhat's childhood friend Atul Rao, who allegedly took Padmapriya to New Delhi. The Bhats and the Raos have been hurling accusations at each other ever since Padmapriya went missing.
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A 23-year-old student of Jawaharlal Nehru University attacked a woman friend inside a classroom with an axe, leaving her severely injured before taking his own life by consuming poison and slitting his throat on Monday.
'Among Dalits, the Valmikis were the biggest voters of the BJP.' 'They now feel Yogiji has failed them in Hathras.'
Former PM Manmohan Singh and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi also paid their tributes.
The residents of Delhi on Friday woke up to dense fog with minimum temperature settling at 12 degrees Celsius, five notches above normal.
'Ever since the UPA came to power, barring making statements that they are committed to fighting terrorism, it is not being said in actions,' says senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj.
'Why the victim of Unnao gangrape case was not given security keeping in mind an earlier incident of Unnao? What action has been taken on the police official who refused to register an FIR? What steps are being taken by the government to stop crime against the women, which take place on a daily basis?'
At least 33 people have been killed in flash floods in Bihar till Tuesday evening and 25.71 lakh people are affected in 16 districts of the state.
Following is the chronology of events in the sensational 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case in which four death row convicts were hanged Friday morning.
Software engineer Manjunath Kalmani died in New Delhi after a six-year-long survival on ventilator support following a gruesome accident in the United States that left him paralysed.
The mystery over the death of Padmapriya, wife of Karnataka BJP MLA B Raghupathy Bhat, deepened on Monday with the legislator accusing his friend of "coercing" her even as the state Home Minister maintained that it was a case of suicide after kidnap.
There was no relief for the national capital, with the mercury crossing the 44C mark in some parts of the city.
According to a recent RTI query, UP tops the list for most jailbreaks.
Kasuri, who drove straight from the airport to Safdarjung Hospital to see Pakistanis injured in the train blast, said he had come here on a "mission to improve relations" between the two countries and "carry forward" the peace process.
Among the Pakistani victims, five are male and two female.
The national capital battled weather conditions in the "red category" as the maximum temperature recorded at the Palam observatory was 46.1C,
It is believed that the crop residue burning in the nearby states of Punjab and Haryana are contributing to polluting the air.
Resident doctors of AIIMS and Safdarjung have joined the strike.
Mahajan has been charged with consumption of drugs and harbouring other offenders.
The weatherman has predicted rainfall throughout the day with the mercury settling at 19C.
Swirling waters inundated 12 districts in the state.
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The Safdarjung and Lodhi Road observatories recorded one millimetre and 0.7 mm of rainfall respectively.
The meteorological department has forecast more rains through the day and relative humidity at 100 per cent in Delhi.
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A Dalit girl, who was set ablaze after an attempted rape, died after struggling for survival for twelve days at a hospital in Bhubaneswar, triggering public protests and demands for the resignation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Students of five leading medical colleges in the New Delhi on Wednesday decided to go on a strike in protest against reservation of seats in elite educational institutions.
Students of five leading medical colleges in the New Delhi on Wednesday decided to go on a strike in protest against reservation of seats in elite educational institutions.
Issuing a travel advisory, the health ministry also called for passengers with travel history to China, Hong Kong, Republic of Korea, Japan, Italy, Thailand, Singapore, Iran, Malaysia, France, Spain and Germany to undergo self-imposed quarantine for a period of 14 days from the date of their arrival, and their employers to facilitate work-from-home for such employees during this period.
The students have been protesting against hostel fee hike. They had sought appointment with the Prez.
Opposition political parties hit out at the UP government, questioning its seriousness in curbing crimes against women.
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