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The Delhi High Court asked a medical board of LNJP Hospital on Thursday to examine a 16-year-old rape victim and determine the feasibility of terminating her around 24 week old pregnancy.

The Ghazipur poultry market and others that were closed in Delhi as a precautionary measure in view of an Avian Influenza outbreak will be reopened, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said.

Activist Anna Hazare on Thursday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and reiterated his decision to launch "the last hunger strike" of his life on farmers' issues in Delhi by January end.

Delhi will have 81 sites where Covid vaccine will be administered. Of these the Covishield vaccine -- developed by the Oxford University -- will be given at 75 sites that would include government and private hospitals. Bharat Biotech's Covaxin will be given at six sites -- all of which are hospitals run by the Central government.

Four men have been arrested for allegedly duping people in Spain by posing as executives of Microsoft Corporation and providing them company-related services, the police said today.

SpiceHealth and government research institute CSIR-IGIB on Thursday started a genome sequencing laboratory at the Delhi airport to ensure early action against new variants of coronavirus that have emerged in countries like the UK. Samples of all international passengers, who undergo RT-PCR test on arrival at the Delhi airport and are found positive, will be sent to this genome sequencing lab.

Delhi's air quality turned "severe" on Thursday due to the prevailing "extremely unfavourable" conditions for dispersion of pollutants, government agencies said.

A duck which escaped the mass culling at the famous Sanjay Lake in Delhi three days ago had left the staff wondering what to do with it.

Delhi recorded 340 fresh COVID-19 cases and four deaths on Thursday, the daily fatality count dropping to a single digit after several months, even as the positivity rate slipped to 0.48 per cent.

Delhi has extended the "14-day quarantine" order on passengers arriving from the United Kingdom till January 31. The quarantine was placed following the spread of a highly infectious strain of the virus in the UK. India has so far logged 109 cases of the UK strain of the virus. Seven of them were detected in the last 24 hours.

The Delhi government will provide Rs 938 crore to three Municipal Corporations of Delhi (MCD) to pay up pending salaries of their employees, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced today and alleged that the BJP-led civic bodies have become "bankrupt" due to corruption by their leaders.

A fire broke out at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital this afternoon after which the blaze was brought under control in 15 minutes. Seven fire engines rushed to the spot after getting the call at around 1.25 pm today.

A group of seven masked men with arms allegedly barged into a jewellery shop and decamped with valuables after threatening the security guard in north west Delhi's Maurya Enclave Thursday morning, police said.

Residents of the national capital woke up to biting chill this morning after the winter temperature fell to 2 degree Celsius. The coldest day this season was on January 1 when the weather office recorded 1.1 degree Celsius.

A 25-year-old vegetable vendor was arrested for killing another man after a fight between them over extortion of money in east Delhi's Shakarpur area, police said on Thursday.

A 50-year-old man was shot dead at point blank range by two men in the latest instance of murder in broad daylight in Delhi.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said his government had made all preparations for the Covid-19 vaccination programme that rolls out across India from Saturday and that he had reviewed the situation. Delhi had received 2.74 lakh vaccines from the Centre, of which 1.2 lakh will be used for health care workers. Up to 2.4 lakh such personnel have, in all, registered for inoculation against the coronavirus, he said.

No Avian Influenza has been detected in the poultry samples sent from the capital's Ghazipur chicken market, Delhi Animal Husbandry Unit has confirmed.

Heavy rains continued to lash the national capital and nearby areas for the second consecutive day today, prompting Indian low-cost airline SpiceJet to share weather-related travel advisory on Twitter. Its urged passengers using it services to check the status of their flights, which may get affected due to bad weather.

The Municipal Corporation Teachers' Association in Delhi on Wednesday appealed to the state and the Union government to release the pending five-month salary to the employees, Senior Vice-President of the association Vibha Singh said.

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) Mumbai-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Superfast special train will run on all seven days from January 19, the Central Railway (CR) said on Wednesday.

A 50-year-old property dealer was shot dead allegedly by two unidentified bike-borne men in northeast Delhi's Jafrabad on Wednesday, police said.

The Delhi Police has made adequate security arrangements in the city for the smooth transportation of COVID-19 vaccines when the countrywide vaccination roll-out will begin later this week, officials said on Tuesday.

Bird flu: All four Delhi Municipal Corporations on Wednesday banned the sale of chicken in their respective regions, following confirmation earlier this week of bird flu cases in the national capital