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What Delhi did yesterday, America does today, said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday as his government claimed that the US adopted the model of convalescent plasma therapy for treatment of critically-ill coronavirus patients, taking a cue from the "Delhi Model" of battling COVID-19.

Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta on Monday wrote to social activist Anna Hazare, urging him to join his party's "mass movement" against the government led by AAP, which he alleged was the "new name of social, political and economic corruption".

A 22-year-old man has been arrested for reportedly causing severe injuries to a Delhi Traffic policeman recently when the latter signalled him to stop near a police picket in west Delhi, police said on Monday.

A former national junior wrestling champion was on Monday arrested for allegedly attempting to kill a man to avenge his uncle's murder in 1993.

Overcast conditions on Monday kept the mercury in check in the national capital which is likely to witness a spell of heavy rains between Wednesday and Friday, the meteorological department said.

Amid a rise in the number of coronavirus cases in the national capital over the last week, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Monday said the COVID-19 infection rate in the national capital is below 10 per cent even as experts attributed the increase to opening up of economy and patients from outside seeking treatment in New Delhi.

A Delhi Assembly committee on peace and harmony will initiate on Tuesday proceedings in connection with complaints about the Facebook's alleged "deliberate and intentional inaction to contain hateful content" in India, according to an official statement issued on Monday.

21-year-old man accused of murdering his employer over an argument on reduced wages during the Covid pandemic, has been arrested, Delhi Police said Monday

The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to Delhi government and others on a plea seeking to release the pension of retired teachers, who were teaching in schools run by the three Municipal Corporations in Delhi, in a timely manner.

Delhi recorded 1,450 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the city's highest single-day spike in August, taking the tally to over 1.61 lakh while the number of deaths rose to 4,300, authorities said.

The Metro rail service in Delhi should be resumed in a phased manner on an experimental basis as the coronavirus situation has improved, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal reiterated on Sunday, adding the national capital must be treated differently than other major cities where the Metro services have been halted because of the pandemic.

The Delhi Congress, after an "emergency" meeting on Sunday, demanded Rahul Gandhi's ascension as the party's national president without further delay.

Just before Independence Day, as part of its special series "Lost Generation" which focused on how children have been dropping out of online classes as many families can't afford smartphones, NDTV reported how 15 per cent of Delhi government school students have been untraceable as they haven't attended any online classes since April.

A 40-year-old jeweller and his two associates staged a fake robbery of 2.6 kg gold at his office in central Delhi in order to get bank loans worth Rs 61 lakh waived off, police said on Sunday.

The Delhi High Court has ordered the transfer of a batch of cases pending against 27 foreign nationals, who attended a Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi, to the Saket district court so that they are swiftly decided.

Frequent medical screening of all inmates, introducing immunity-boosting fruits in their diet and spreading awareness about the importance of personal hygiene are some of the steps taken by the Delhi Prisons Department to contain the spread of COVID-19 among prisoners, jail officials said on Sunday.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly posing as police officers and abducting and robbing two people in Delhi. Two of the accused -- Swapnil, 26, and Keshav Sehgal, 34, -- were arrested from a house in Ghaziabad's Loni area while their associate Ravi Sharma, 23, was caught in Rani Bagh, the police said on Saturday.

Nearly a third of Delhi's population has been exposed to Covid-19 and has developed antibodies, the city government said today, giving details of the second serological survey or serosurvey in the capital.

Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta on Saturday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of corruption saying that it is involved in turning black money into white.

Bloomsbury India on Saturday said it would not publish a controversial book on this year's Delhi riots after a massive outcry over a promotional event that included BJP leader Kapil Mishra, who is accused of delivering incendiary speeches that triggered the violence.

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has said that the foreign nationals, who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat event held in Delhi in March this year, were made "scapegoats" and allegations were levelled that they were responsible for spreading COVID-19 in the country.

Uttar Pradesh DGP Hitesh Chandra Awasthi today sounded an alert in the state following the arrest of a suspected ISIS terrorist in Delhi.

Achieving a great feat, doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital conducted a 3.5-hour operation on a 52-year-old woman and successfully removed a large ovarian tumour weighing 50 kg.

The Delhi High Court on Friday observed that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) report did not given a clean chit to anyone in the violence that took place at the Jamia Millia Islamia University in December last year. The report also stated that police action was not ''handled professionally.''

Delhi on Friday reported 1,250 new COVID-19 cases taking the total number of cases in the national capital to 1,58,604.