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Two persons allegedly belonging to banned terror outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) have been arrested after a brief exchange of fire in the north-west Delhi area, police said.

Metro services have resumed in select cities of the country today, with protective measures against the coronavirus. Only asymptomatic people are allowed to board trains and stations at containment zones will stay shut.

Two men were arrested for allegedly misbehaving with and threatening a couple on Outer Ring Road in west Delhi after a purported video clip of the incident became viral on social media, police said on Friday.

The Delhi Commission For Women on Sunday said it has rescued a teenage girl from central Delhi's Rajender Nagar, who had been trafficked to the national capital as a 9-year-old and was allegedly raped multiple times.

After oscillating between the "good" and "satisfactory" categories for one-and-half-month, the national capital's air quality dropped to the "moderate" category on Saturday.

The Narcotics Control Bureau on Sunday said to have busted an international heroin smuggling module in Delhi with the arrest of seven people, including two foreigners. The bureau said the value of the seized and investigation-linked contraband is around Rs 48 crore in the international market.

Delhi residents experienced a humid day on Sunday with the maximum temperature in the national capital settling at 35.5 degrees Celsius, just a notch above season's normal, a meteorological department official said.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today kickstarted his government's 10-week mass awareness campaign against dengue by checking his house for stagnant water."The people of Delhi have once again started the war against dengue," tweeted the chief minister, as he shared picturesas part of thecampaign.

Within 24 hours of a car being allegedly stolen from east Delhi, its owner received a challan from traffic police for speeding on NH-10 in the national capital.

There has been a rise of 80 per cent in the number of home isolation cases of COVID-19 in the national capital in the last 16 days, and parallely the containment zones count too has spiralled up to 976 over the same period, according to official data.

A 22-year-old man, who was arrested for reportedly assaulting and robbing a pilot at gunpoint on IIT flyover in southwest Delhi, has been charged under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, police said on Saturday.

A man who had aborted his theft attempt after leisurely trying every trick in the book to discreetly open the vault of an automatic teller machine (ATM) in New Delhi's popular commercial area of Karol Bagh has been caught by the police.

The famous Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi will open after over five months on Sunday, but there will be no Qawwali evenings at the shrine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the dargah's caretakers said.

Heavy rain with thunderstorms hit the national capital on Saturday evening, bringing respite from the humidity. The downpour, however, also triggered waterlogging in several parts of the city.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today attributed the rising Covid cases in the national capital to the increase in number of tests. He said that his government has launched a counter-attack on Coronavirus by doubling the number of tests to trace more people who may have contracted the infectious disease which has infected over 1.85 lakh people in the city-state.

All schools in Delhi will continue to remain closed till September 30 in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, but students of senior classes will be allowed to visit their institutions for taking guidance from teachers from September 21, the Directorate of Education (DoE) said on Friday.

Weather update: Delhi, parts of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are likely to get thunderstorm with moderate rainfall today, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.Some parts of the national rain today saw very heavy rainfall earliertoday.

At least 10,000 people visited two popular highway restaurants in Haryana's Murthal that have been sealed now after 75 employees were found infected with coronavirus, officials have said. A massive contact-tracing work is going on to identify possible infected people, but it is a huge challenge to find them, officials said.

A Delhi court has dismissed a bail application of an accused in a case related to murder of a local resident during the communal violence in north east Delhi in February.

The Delhi government's proposal to reopen liquor bars - that have been shut for over six months because of the coronavirus pandemic - has been approved by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, sources said.

Road accidents in Delhi came down by 14 per cent in 2019 when 226 lesser people were killed in the crashes in comparison to 2018, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data.

A 21-year-old student was arrested for allegedly harassing a woman by creating multiple fake profiles of her on social media platforms and posting obscene messages on it, police said on Thursday.

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Delhi increased by around 50 per cent in a month, with the city witnessing a marked uptick in new cases, according to government data.

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the removal of nearly 48,000 slum dwellings located in safety zones along 70 km of railway tracks in Delhi, adding that it would not accept "political interference" in the matter