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The mentioning of urgent matters is being done through the web link which is available from 9 AM to 10.30 AM on all working days. The matters listed in the district courts during this period will also be adjourned and the information will be uploaded on their website, the order said.

Delhi Congress president Anil Kumar said police detained him and party workers as they tried to go to Raj Niwas, which is Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal's official residence, to lodge their protest against the rising prices of petrol and diesel.

Price of petrol was increased by Re 0.05 and diesel by Re 0.13, a day after there was no change in the prices in the national capital yesterday.

ET has seen a copy of the petition, which has yet to be taken up by the court due to the lockdown. The petition alleges that, instead of stopping the accused, “the police personnel present facilitated the accused and lathi charged the innocent people asking for help”. When contacted, Mishra denied the accusations.

The LG's office represented by noted RTI activist Subhash Agrawal said the applications have been replied to or transferred to the concerned authorities after intimating the applicant.

After leading the Covid numbers for months Mumbai handed over that base crown to Delhi on Wednesday, when the overall case tally in the national capital crossed 70,000. This made it India’s worst hit city...

The locust swarms threatening crops in many states amid the coronavirus crisis have now reached the doors of the national capital. The locusts swarming areas in Haryana, bordering Delhi, could overrun the capital city any time, an official said on Saturday.

Nearly 2,000 beds, 10% of those with oxygen-support facility, have already been placed, and 170 doctors and 700 nurses and paramedics have registered to work at the facility, officials said.

The facility on the Radha Soami Satsang Beas campus in the Chhatarpur area will have two wings -- a COVID care centre where asymptomatic positive cases will be treated and a dedicated COVID healthcare centre.

The Delhi government is combating the pandemic by increasing beds for COVID-19 patients, raising the number of tests, providing oximeters and oxygen concentrators to patients in home isolation, providing plasma therapy, and through survey and screening, he said in a briefing.

Delhi University today postponed the online open book exams for final-year students by 10 days, which were scheduled to begin from July 1. The new datasheets shall be notified by examination branch on July 3.

The survey is expected to start by this week. A central government panel constituted under the directions of Shah has recommended complete sero-surveillance in the city to detect the trend of Covid-19 infection in the population of Delhi.

Delhi has also informed various foreign interlocutors that respecting and strictly observing the Line of Actual Control is the basis for peace and tranquillity in the border areas. The Indian Army has been patrolling all along the LAC, including in the Galwan Valley, for a long time.

A banquet hall in Daryaganj has become the first facility to be converted into a 100-bed emergency Covid-care centre. ?Daryaganj banquet hall in a new role

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said his government will set up ICU beds on a large scale at three state-run hospitals in wake of the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the national capital. The rise in number of cases is a matter of concern but there is no need to panic as the COVID-19 situation is "still under control", Kejriwal asserted.

Delhi CM also stated that the government has set up 3,500 beds for COVID-19 patients in hotels in last 10 days.

As part of the plan, the state government will initiate door-to-door screening of residents to check for fever and other symptoms, and comorbidities, officials said. “The team will make a list of people who are at high risk and will monitor them,” a senior health ministry official said.

Fuel prices hiked for the 20th straight day. Petrol and diesel prices at Rs 80.13/litre (increase by 0.21) and Rs 80.19/litre (increase by Rs 0.17), respectively in Delhi today.

Delhi has finally got its testing strategy right. These may be reflecting as higher positive numbers, which have pushed the national capital ahead of financial capital Mumbai but this will be paid back with fewer infections...

Shah said a house-to-house health survey will be conducted in containment zones across Delhi to improve contact mapping. The survey report will be available within a week, he said. At present, there are 241 containment zones across the city, according to officials, and aggressive contact tracing is needed in an equal number of buffer zones across these hotspots.

In a week marked by flip-flops by Delhi lieutenant-governor Anil Baijal on Covid-19 management, the capital has once again gone back to its old system of home isolation for asymptomatic and mild symptom Covid-19 patients after a check-up by medical team at home.

Senior advocate Rebecca John, representing Sharjeel Imam, argued that the trial court order ought to be set aside as the accused/applicant was not given notice of the application under Section 43D Unlawful Activities

Diesel price crosses Rs 80 mark in Delhi, currently at Rs 80.02/litre (increase by Rs 0.14). Petrol price in the national capital at Rs 79.92/litre (increase by Rs 0.16).

In the Capital, diesel is now priced at Rs 79.88 per litre while petrol prices remains at Tuesday level of Rs 79.76 a litre. This makes diesel the most expensive auto fuel in the basket for the first time in the Capital.

Delhi Govt releases fresh data on Covid-19 deaths. 344 deaths have been added to the total Covid death count, taking the number to 1,837. This number includes 93 fresh deaths in the last 24 hours.