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Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa Sunday said he will meet Home Minister Amit Shah during the day to discuss state politics and finalise candidates for the upcoming by-polls as he arrived in the national capital on a day-long visit.

A court in the national capital pulled up the Delhi Police for allegedly arresting a man illegally in a theft case and demanding money from his sister for helping in bailing him out, saying the case appeared to have been solved "just to solve it".

Delhi became the first state today to announce its schedule for Covid-19 vaccination for health care workers, who will be inoculated in the phase 1 of the vaccination drive that will begin on January 16. "Health care workers will be vaccinated in the first phase only in hospitals," Arvind Kejriwal's government said today. Bengal said it would give the vaccine for free to everyone in the state. The Centre has announced January 16 as the day for rollout of the long-awaited vaccine, which got the drug regulators' approval last Sunday.

A man, who was involved in theft cases from Delhi, Punjab and other parts of the country, used the money to buy expensive cars, and also for "charity work" has been arrested in the national capital, police said. The man was also going to contest Zilla Parishad elections in Sitamarhi, his native district in Bihar, officials added

Delhi's minimum temperature dipped to 7.8 degrees Celsius on Sunday, as cold winds from snow-clad Western Himalayas swept through the plains, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

A 40-year-old farmer from Punjab's Fatehgarh Sahib - one of tens of thousands who have been protesting against the centre's agriculture laws for nearly two months now - died by suicide at Singhu on the Delhi-Haryana border on Saturday after consuming a poisonous substance.

Amid renewed buzz that the much-awaited expansion or reshuffle of his cabinet was likely this month, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa will leave for Delhi today.

Ahead of Republic Day, Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava on Saturday reviewed security arrangements and took stock of anti-terrorism measures, officials said.

Three recreational parks and the famous Sanjay Lake in Delhi were closed by authorities on Saturday amid an avian flu scare in the city as several birds were found dead on their premises in the last couple of days, officials said.

With the anxiety of bird flu or avian influenza spreading fast, people are not buying eggs and chickens much, which gave a fresh blow to the poultry industry.

Eleven people were detained for allegedly defacing two Aurangzeb Lane signboards in Lutyens' Delhi on Saturday, the police said.

The Delhi government today banned the import of live birds into the city and set up a 24-hour help line in the wake up fears of an outbreak of avian bird flu in several states of the country. There have been no reports of the disease within Delhi itself, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today.

Police have recovered a highly decomposed body of a woman from near a drain in east Delhi's New Ashok Nagar area, officials said on Saturday.

The average minimum temperature in Delhi in December was the second-lowest in 15 years, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has searched the premises of Sonear Industries Ltd and its Directors at five locations in New Delhi after booking them in a fraud case of Rs 168.73 crore at Punjab National Bank, officials said on Monday.

The Delhi High Court, hearing a Public Interest Litigation on Friday, issued notice to several social media organisations and media houses for the alleged disclosure of the identity of the victim of Hathras rape case.

The Special Cell of the Delhi Police has arrested a 24-year-old illegal arms supplier, officials said on Friday.

A last-minute revision of coronavirus testing and isolation rules, including seven days' mandatory institutional quarantine even for those with negative RT-PCR tests, led to chaos at Delhi's Indira Gandhi Airport on Friday

More than 60 children, 13 of them girls, have been rescued from two factories in the national capital where they were employed as virtual bonded labourers for nearly two years.

A team of government veterinarians today began a probe into the unexplained deaths of several crows in a park in Delhi Mayur Vihar locality. The investigation comes at a time when some states like Kerala have reported avian flu and culled hundreds of chicken and ducks to control the disease's spread.

An Air India flight from UK has landed in Delhi with 246 passengerson board amid concerns about a mutant fast-spreading strain of the coronavirus that emerged in Britain.

A 44-year-old man was arrested for allegedly posing as a senior bureaucrat and an assistant professor at AIIMS in Delhi to cheat people, police said on Thursday.

One person was killed and three others were injured after a portion of the roof of a house collapsed in southeast Delhi's Sarita Vihar area on Thursday, police said.

As the COVID-19 situation improved in the national capital, the Delhi government on Thursday ordered re-opening of the medical colleges under the Government of National Capital Territory with immediate effect.

Suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain gave fake bills of workforce supply to launder money for fuelling riots in north-east Delhi, the police told a Delhi court in its second supplementary chargesheet.