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A Delhi court has granted bail to an accused in a case related to north east Delhi riots in February, saying silence of the witnesses about the incident for two weeks casts "serious doubt" on their credibility.

Doctors and frontline healthcare workers at Delhi's Covid-dedicated Hindu Rao Hospital - run by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) - have threatened to withdraw their services within 48 hours in protest against non-payment of salaries for almost 4 months.

An 18-year-old man was beaten to death allegedly over his friendship with a woman following which two people, including her brother, were arrested and three others detained, police said on Friday.

Eight people including prominent activists Anand Teltumbde, Gautam Navlakha and Delhi University associate professor Hany Babu were named by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday in a chargesheet into the 2018 violence in Maharashtra's Koregaon Bhima.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Ram Vilas Paswan residence in New Delhi to pay his last respects to the Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) leader who died yesterday.

There will be no poster outside the houses of COVID-19 patients under home isolation in the national capital, official sources said on Thursday.

A solution to stubble burning has been found by scientists, a liquid which turns it into manure for fields, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today while talking of the national capital's plans to curb pollution in the backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak.

There is political will to implement bold steps to tackle pollution in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said at ''Daring Cities 2020'' conference on Wednesday, asserting the odd-even scheme by his government brought down pollution in India's national capital by about 15 per cent.

A Delhi court Thursday granted bail to an accused in a case related to north east Delhi riots in February, saying though a video footage showed him carrying a stick, his behaviour was not aggressive.

With 2,726 new cases, Delhi's COVID-19 tally crossed the three-lakh mark on Thursday, while the death count due to the disease mounted to 5,653 with 37 fatalities recorded in the last 24 hours.

A Supreme Court-mandated pollution control authority on Thursday said stricter measures to fight air pollution will come into force from October 15 in Delhi and its neighbourhood as part of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP).

Three members of the "Lifafa gang" were arrested in the national capital for allegedly robbing commuters after offering to drop them off at very low fares, police said on Thursday.

Somewhere in south Delhi, an elderly couple sells home-cooked meals from a tiny stand, making just enough to buy for the next day's menu. They have done this for 30 years. Last night, their story went viral, moving thousands of people, including celebrities, cricketers and even companies.

In a major relief to city restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Delhi government on Wednesday said that these establishments will be allowed to operate round-the-clock and requirement of tourism licences will also be removed.

Air India on Wednesday announced that it will start operating additional flights from New Delhi to Sydney between October 10 and 14, amid the central government's ''Unlock 5'' phase.

A crematorium for dogs was on Wednesday inaugurated in south Delhi's Ghitorni by the area's mayor, officials said.

Six people, including a minor, sustained burn injuries after a cooking gas cylinder caught fire at a house in Sanjay Colony in south Delhi's Bhati Mines area on Wednesday, officials said.

A 28-year-old security guard was arrested in connection with a case in which an engineer was duped of approximately Rs 28 lakh on the pretext of being given a job opportunity, police said on Wednesday.

A Delhi court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to a 32-year man for killing an 11-year-old child after kidnapping him in 2009, saying the act was "cruel and gruesome" and did not deserve leniency.

That there exists a deep class, caste, and religious bias in how justice is administered in India has long been known. But even by our always abysmally low standards, the recent behaviour of the police and the state administration in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh has been unprecedented.

The national capital's air quality was recorded in the 'poor' category for a brief period this morning, according to the Central Pollution Control Board.

An 11-year-old lioness, who had been paralysed for nine years, died at the Delhi zoo on Tuesday after developing "pulmonary-renal complications", according to officials.

From revamping infrastructure to meet COVID-19 guidelines to preparing an "effective" time-line for completing syllabus, schools in Delhi-NCR are taking several steps to resume formal classes in a safe environment when they reopen after nearly six months.