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Three more farmers, who were part of the protests at the Delhi borders against the centre's new farm laws, have died, police said on Sunday.

The Haryana police and the protesting farmers on Sunday came close to a clash at the Rewari-Alwar border after hundreds of protesters started marching towards Delhi to join the main agitation against the centre's contentious agriculture laws.

Sixty-five people have been arrested from two illegal hookah bars in Delhi's Rohini after police raids. Coronavirus norms were also being violated at the bars, police said, saying social distancing was not followed at either establishment.

The farmers, who have been camping on the borders of Delhi for over a month in protest against the new farm laws, continued their agitation amid a downpour leading to waterlogging at the protest sites.

The GST department has unearthed Rs 831 crore tax evasion by an unregistered gutkha manufacturing unit in the national capital.

The national capital today woke up to a heavy thunderstorm and rain, the cloud cover bringing down the temperature to around 8 degrees centigrade in the morning. Yet, the biting cold seems to have turned some farmers camped in makeshift conditions around the city's border only more defiant. Far from shivering and quivering, they stood there bare-chested and raising the slogan: "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan".

A 60-year-old person has been arrested for allegedly heading a racket that had swindled at least Rs 2.5 crores from some 45 people under the garb of being a cryptocurrency promoter.

Residents of Delhi woke up to a cloudy sky with light rain over some places this morning. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) reported that Palam has reported 0.4 mm rainfall. Ridge, Ayanagar and Lodi Road has reported trace rainfall, it said.The light spell of rain in the national capital is attributed to the influence of the western disturbance.

Overnight rains in the national capital added to the miseries of farmers who have been camping on the borders of Delhi for over a month in protest against new farm laws, with the continuous downpour leading to waterlogging at agitation venues.

A 27-year-old man was beaten to death by a group of people in west Delhi's Raghubir Nagar, police said on Sunday.

Two contractual employees of power utility BSES were arrested for allegedly extorting money from a shopkeeper in south Delhi on the pretext that his meter was tempered, police said on Friday.

A 75-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh was found dead today at a farmers' protest site on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border. While the police probing the case, those at the site say a note written by the dead man, Kashmir Singh Ladi, has been found in which he has expressed his frustration over the stalemate in talks with the government over the new agricultural laws that the farmers want repealed.

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A major fire broke out at a showroom of Harley Davidson in west Delhi's Moti Nagar in the early hours of the morning today.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said the city is prepared to deal with the new mutant strain of coronavirus if need be. Concerns about the mutant strain from the UK -- said to be 70 per cent more infectious than the existing strain -- has spiked after the Centre announced this morning that six people returning from the UK have tested positive for it.

Three sites across the national capital have been selected for conducting a dry run for COVID-19 vaccination on Saturday, officials said.

A 57-year-old farmer on Friday died while protesting at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border against the three contentious agriculture laws enacted by the centre last year. According to local authorities, the farmer appears to have died from Hypothermia -- a life-threatening condition in which the body temperature suddenly drops -- triggered by the cold wave that has gripped the national capital and its surrounding areas.

A 28-year-old man died after the SUV he was driving crashed into the rear of a truck and caught fire in southwest Delhi's Mahipalpur area, the police said on Friday.

The Delhi High Court Friday directed forthwith release of a woman from children's home noting that she was a major and married a man with her free will.

A 60-year-old person has been arrested in Delhi for allegedly heading a racket that had swindled at least Rs2.5 crore from some 45 people under the garb of being a cryptocurrency promoter. He was held by the Economic Offences Wing of Delhi police on arrival from Dubai where he had fled to in 2018, setting up a new business altogether, after having defrauded people in India.

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Thursday asked pollution control boards of Delhi and NCR to take immediate and effective steps to curb air pollution.

Pollution levels in Delhi this December were the lowest in the last four years, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

The CISF has apprehended a man for allegedly carrying Rs 29 lakh "suspect" cash at a Delhi Metro station, officials said on Thursday.

Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera alleged on Thursday a scam in the distribution of bio-decomposer for preventing the burning of paddy straw in Delhi and demanded a CBI inquiry into it.