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Sisodia, who also holds Finance portfolio, was presenting the status report of the Delhi government's Outcome Budget for the year 2021-21 in the House. Overall, 77 per cent people were satisfied with the services at Delhi government hospitals," Delhi CM added.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida departed from Delhi on March 20 after his two-day visit concluded. During his visit to India, he held bilateral talks with PM Narendra Modi over many international issues and investment plans. Japan will invest Rs 3.2 lakh crores in the next five years in India. This was PM Kishida’s first visit to India as the head of government.

The BSES has appealed to its over 46 lakh consumers and city residents to switch-off their electrical appliances and non-essential lighting fixtures from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm to observe 'Earth Hour' on Saturday. Earth Hour is a global environmental movement of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). It started in 2007.

"Those Learner's License whose validity is going to expire by March 31 has been extended for a period of 2 months i.e., up to May 31. Pls note that this is the last and final opportunity," Gahlot said in a tweet. He also attached a picture of the order issued by his department in this connection.

Former Jharkhand High Court judge Harish Chandra Mishra has been appointed as the Lokayukta of Delhi. Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Anil Baijal conferred oath to the former judge of Jharkhand High Court on March 23. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was also present at the swearing-in ceremony.

State-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) received revenues worth around Rs 13,439 crore from Delhi and Mumbai airports in the last five financial years, according to the civil aviation ministry. Under Public Private Partnership (PPP), Delhi and Mumbai airports were handed over to the private partners in 2006.

As per Union Health Ministry, 2,531 recovered in the last 24 hours but 67 persons lost their lives due to Covid. Meanwhile, active Covid case in the country further decline to 22,427 (0.05%) while daily positivity rate is now at 0.29%. So far, 4,24,75,588 persons have recovered from Covid while total death toll stands at 5,16,672.The last 24 hours saw a total of 6,61,954 COVID-19 tests being conducted in the country and so far, over 78.49 crore tests have been done. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has increased to 4,24,75,588, while the case fatality rate has been recorded at 1.20 per cent.India is seeing constant decline in new covid cases and fatality has also reduced significantly. Yesterday the Centre said that states and UTs no longer have to invoke the Diaster Management Act for Covid containment measures. India has also crossed another Covid vaccination milestone of 182 crore vaccinations yesterday.

Khalid, one of the accused in the conspiracy case, has been booked under the anti-terror law -- Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The riots broke out in northeast Delhi in February 2020 after clashes between anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) and pro-CAA protesters took a violent turn. The mayhem, which coincided with then US President Donald Trump's maiden trip to India, saw over 50 people lose their lives and over 700 injured.

"In 2021-22, Delhi's Gross State Domestic Product (calculated) on current prices was Rs 9,23,967 crore and in last five years it grew by 50 percent as compared to Rs 6,16,085 crore in 2016-17. This shows the strong position of Delhi's economy," Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal said in his address.

New Delhi ranks first in the world's most polluted capital city list. Of the 15 most polluted cities in Central & South Asia in 2021, 12 were in India.

Ranchi (Jharkhand), Mar 22 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav is being taken to the AIIMS Delhi from Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi on March 22 after his health condition worsened. “After the Medical Board reviewed RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav's health condition, it was found that he has issues in his heart and kidney. He is being sent to AIIMS Delhi for better treatment. The jail officials will decide (the date),” told RIMS Director Kameshwar Prasad. The Jharkhand High Court on March 11 differed the hearing on the bail plea of Yadav till April 1 in connection with a fodder scam case.

New Delhi ranks first in the world's most polluted capital city list. Of the 15 most polluted cities in Central & South Asia in 2021, 12 were in India.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) further said that the pilot aims to put in place the enabling regulatory and policy framework for all stakeholders much ahead of the actual deployment.

Best Group, which was allotted a 3.5 acre plot, has started the construction of 1.2 million sq ft of commercial and retail space and is already in touch with some global companies for leasing. ?The company that has acquired the land for Rs 500 crore plans to invest another Rs 400 crore in the construction of buildings.

Jaishankar who last visited Oman in December 2019 has kept in touch with Badr on the sidelines of international meetings. He met Badr twice in 2021 - August 2021 in Tehran on the sidelines of the oath taking ceremony of the new President of Iran and December 2021 in UAE on the sidelines of 5th Indian Ocean Conference. Both the Foreign Ministers also held a virtual meeting in December 2020.

India, the world's third biggest oil importer and consumer, ships in about 85% of its oil needs from overseas markets.

Doha-based Qatar Airways flight from Delhi to Doha on Monday made an emergency landing in Karachi, Pakistan. Accordingly, the Qatar Airways flight QR579 was diverted to Karachi after it declared an emergency due to the indication of smoke detected in the cargo hold.

A bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla issued notices to the Centre through the Ministry of Home Affairs, Delhi government and Delhi Police on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by an advocate and a law student.

A bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and Jasmeet Singh listed the appeals for hearing in May while asking the parties to file written submissions at least three days before the next date of hearing. The bench said the interim order of January 28, 2020, based on the statement of counsel for Ramdev that no contempt will be issued against the appellants, shall continue.

The Delhi High Court Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking recovery of "Rs 1 trillion" debt owed by Pakistan to India since the time of partition, alleging that the central government was not taking any steps to recover the amount. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla said it was a government policy matter and no directions can be issued by the court in this regard.

Doha-based Qatar Airways flight from Delhi to Doha on Monday made an emergency landing in Karachi, Pakistan.

New Delhi, Mar 20 (ANI): Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on March 20 met Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg in Delhi. Earlier, India and Austria held the sixth round of Foreign Office Consultations virtually and discussed various aspects of bilateral relations including political, economic, commercial ties as well as cultural and academic linkages.

Kishida arrived in the national capital on his two-day visit to India beginning today. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw received the Japanese Prime Minister at the airport.

"Today it is a beautiful park, but those who are not aware, may not believe that the plot of land was in a total mess, filled with dirt and encroached upon from various sides. Drug addicts from neighbouring areas would assemble here often and one can still find such anti-social elements across the fence of this park," said architect Kapil Aggarwal, who designed the park.

New Delhi, March 19 (ANI): Union Minister Piyush Goyal on March 19 virtually addressed the 5th edition of the Annual Launchpad-The Entrepreneurship Summit. During the event, he said “Many countries are learning from India. I'm told that a lot of our young boys and girls contribute immensely - whether in India or located in other parts of the world - to the IT ecosystem. Our exports from India itself on the IT and the whole related ecosystem will be probably US$ 150 Billion, probably by this year or latest by next year. Our target is to make this a Trillion-dollar industry.”