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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday visited two hospitals in Delhi to enquire about the health of the policemen injured in the violence that broke out during the farmers' tractor parade in the national capital on Republic Day, officials said.

The Singhu border near Delhi remained tense for most of Thursday as the police brought in earthmovers to block several roads in the area and right-wing activists raised slogans against the tens of thousands of farmers camping there since November.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today slammed Union Minister Prakash Javadekar over his "disgraceful and desperate" attempt to shift blame for the violence that broke out during the farmers' tractor parade in the national capital on Republic Day.

Traffic jams were reported around Delhi's border with Uttar Pradesh on Thursday night as the police blocked roads and tried to remove farmers from the Ghazipur protest site.

The Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB) has notified increase in the number of vacancies in the special education teacher post.

The entry and exit gates of all metro stations including Lal Quila and Jama Masjid are open, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) informed on Thursday.

Farmers protesting at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Ghazipur have been asked to end their protest and vacate the roads. The Ghaziabad administration, which gave the order, plans to clear the road by tonight, sources said.

Cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir, a vocal critic of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, on Thursday accused the Aam Aadmi Party chief of siding with those responsible for the Republic Day violence in the city during a tractor parade by farmers protesting the centre's new agricultural laws.

Delhi Police's probe into the unprecedented violence during a tractor rally by farmers on Republic day is now focused on finding those involved in planting a Sikh religious flag at the Mughal-era Red Fort. Tuesday's tractor rally went rogue as protesters forced their way inside the fort complex and placed a flag. Several teams of Delhi Police's special cell or anti-terror unit are scanning through footage of violence at the iconic fort complex to identify those who hoisted the flag there. Actor-activist Deep Sidhu, whom farmers have accused of being responsible for the unprecedented violence during the Republic Day tractor rally, has been named in a case filed by the Delhi Police, sources told NDTV. A handful of farmer leaders have also been named in the 25-plus cases filed by the police since Tuesday evening. The cases will be probed by a special investigation team. The police has issued look-out notices against farmer leaders and others named in FIRs. Their passports too will be seized to prevent them from travelling abroad.

People in the national capital woke up to yet another foggy morning on Thursday, as the air quality remained in the "very poor" category.

An earthquake of magnitude 2.8 was reported near New Delhi, India on Thursday morning, according to India's National Center for Seismology.

Maharashtra Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis took a swipe at the Uddhav Thackeray-led coalition government (MVA) over the delay in development of a Metro car shed in Mumbai - a subject the former allies have often sparred over since parting ways in 2019.

An earthquake of magnitude 2.8 was reported near New Delhi, India on Thursday morning, according to India's National Center for Seismology.

The Delhi Police on Wednesday issued a notice to farmer leader Darshan Pal over the violence during the farmers' tractor rally on Republic Day, asking why legal action should not be taken against him.

The Congress party has alleged that the violence during the farmers' tractor march on Republic Day in Delhi was due to barricading on the pre-agreed route as well as tear-gassing and lathi charging by the Delhi Police.

Delhi is moving towards herd immunity from coronavirus, with 50 to 60 per cent of people in one district having developed antibodies to the virus, the latest round of sero-survey has found, sources said. Herd immunity is what the authorities are trying to achieve with the vaccination programme, in which a critical mass of immune people can stop the spread of the virus by breaking the chain of transmission.

A Delhi court Wednesday granted bail to a 24-year old man in five cases related to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February last year, saying there was a serious doubt on the credibility of two police witnesses.

More than 25 cases have been registered over the violence during Republic Day's tractor rally, the Delhi Police said today. The police have detained 200 people in connection with the violence that erupted in several areas of the city as farmers deviated from the fixed time and route and entered the heart of the city.

A policeman was attacked with a sword in Delhi in clashes during a farmers' tractor protest that went rogue on Tuesday.

In view of the falling number of COVID-19 cases in the national capital, the Delhi health department has decided to resume surgeries, OPDs and other medical services at all city government-run hospitals, according to an official order issued on Wednesday.

The national capital reported 96 cases of COVID-19 with nine deaths in the last 24 hours, government data shows. Some 212 people also recovered in this duration.

Several key roads in central Delhi and entry to Metro stations in the Old City have been closed in view of heightened security a day after violence that broke out during protesting farmers' Republic Day tractor rally that left one dead and at least 85 policemen injured.

The Delhi Police have filed 15 cases in connection with the violence that took place in the national capital on the nation's 72nd Republic Day. Unprecedented chaos and violence ensued in Delhi on Tuesday as the tractor rally by farmers - protesting against the centre's three contentious farm laws passed in September - went off the designated course and rolled into the heart of the national capital.

A day after a farmers' tractor rally on Republic Day that dissolved into chaos and violence after protesters forced their way into Delhi, the farmer leader who knocked down the first barricade has denied any role in the Red Fort breach. Satnam Singh Pannu blamed the ruling BJP of organizing the Red Fort violence to tarnish the farmer protests.

Delhi's minimum temperature rose to 5.4 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, though it was still three notches below normal, the India Meteorological Department said.