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AAP candidates were leading in four wards as the counting for municipal bypolls began on Wednesday morning, election officials said.

As votes are counted for Delhi civic body bypolls for five wards, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party this morning won one ward - Kalyanpuri - with over 7,000 votes. The AAP has gained comfortable lead in three other wards - Rohini, Trilokpuri, and Shalimar Bagh - while the Congress is leading in Chauhan Bangar.

The New Delhi Municipal Council, which covers the high-security Lutyens'' zone of the national capital, was ranked number one in the Centre's ''Municipal Performance Index'' in the ''less than a million population'' category.

Ahead of the assembly polls in four states and a union territory, the Election Commission has started a vaccination drive against the coronavirus at its headquarters in Delhi.

A 22-year-old man was killed while another got seriously injured after a speeding car rammed into another car in Dwarka in Delhi in the early hours of Thursday, police said.

Curtain came down on ''Metroman'' E Sreedharan's 24-year long career with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation as he wore the DMRC's outdoor uniform one last time on Thursday ahead of his political journey with the BJP.

Two people were arrested and a juvenile was apprehended for allegedly robbing an auto-rickshaw driver at knife point in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar area, police said on Thursday.

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday took his first dose of COVID-19 vaccination at AIIMS in Delhi.

A criminal, who was lodged in a jail in Punjab, has been arrested by the Delhi Police's Special Cell on Thursday in connection with an alleged conspiracy to kill Kashmiri activist Sushil Pandit.

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and his wife, Mala Bhagat, took their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the Tirath Ram Shah Hospital on Thursday, officials said.

The Delhi government Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that an action plan has been prepared to ensure seismic stability of buildings in the national capital in which structural safety audit of government and private buildings will be conducted in a phased manner.

A 27-year-old man working at a chemist shop in Delhi was arrested along with a colleague for allegedly trying to extort Rs 2 crore from a businessman and threatening him, posing as a gangster lodged in Tihar prison.

Two men escaping after allegedly committing a burglary in south Delhi were arrested by a police team when they stopped for urinating in public, an official said on Wednesday.

Taken away for alleged cruelty meted out to them, a Delhi court has handed back the custody of two Golden Retriever dogs to their owner saying it would be "unjustified to deprive him of the companionship and custody of his pets".

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday pulled up a petitioner for using "Tom, Dick and Harry" in the petition and said such language is not permissible in pleadings before the court.

The Delhi Assembly's Budget Session will begin from March 8, with the budget likely to be presented on March 9, officials said on Tuesday.

A Delhi court has directed the police to collect all CCTV footage of the alleged vandalism of Delhi Jal Board (DJB) office in December last year and conduct an investigation in an impartial manner to unearth the truth.

Voting is on for the bypolls to five municipal wards in Delhi, results of which are likely to have an impact on the 2022 civic elections.

The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued certain guidelines to be followed upon resumption of physical court hearings from March 15, including that visitors and advocates shall maintain social distancing as per government norms.

The national capital recorded a minimum temperature of 15.3 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, two notches above the season's average, the India Meteorological Department said.

A court in Delhi on Tuesday granted a week's time to the Delhi Police to file reply to the anticipatory bail plea of Nikita Jacob, a co-accused along with Disha Ravi in connection with allegedly being involved in sharing a "toolkit" on social media related to the farmers' protest.

It's a day most Delhiites would like to erase from their memories but March 1, 2020, the day the city reported its first case of COVID-19, is seared into Rohit Datta's memory.

A 21-year-old man was arrested for allegedly cheating people on the pretext of redeeming their credit card points in east Delhi's Preet Vihar area, police said on Tuesday.

The Delhi High Court on Monday came down heavily on police over a vigilance inquiry report filed after a Jamia Millia Islamia student - arrested in May in a case linked to last year's riots in the national capital - said his confessional statement was leaked to media. Asif Iqbal Tanha had petitioned the court and alleged media trial.