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Pregnant women's request for COVID-19 test should be met immediately and the its results be declared quickly, the Delhi High Court told the AAP government on Wednesday.

Even so, the recent depredations of the Delhi Police, their absolute disregard for truth, justice, and due process, represent something qualitatively different. That, in the country's capital today, a non-violent, peace-loving, citizen cannot expect fair treatment from the so-called custodians of the law merely because of her religious or political affiliation, is a chilling marker of how degraded our democracy has become.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has directed Delhi Health Secretary to share a detailed analysis of factors behind all COVID-19 deaths in the national capital in the last two weeks.

Delhi recorded 2,008 fresh coronavirus cases on Tuesday, taking the tally in the city to over 1.02 lakh, while the death count from the disease mounted to 3,165, authorities said.

A 24-year-old alleged sharpshooter of the Hashim Baba gang has been arrested after a brief exchange of fire with police in east Delhi's Shahdara area, officials said on Tuesday.

The Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested the owner of a spa for allegedly releasing a dog to attack her employee who asked for pending salary in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar area, officials said.

At a time when the world is facing its biggest social, economic and health challenge in decades - the coronavirus pandemic - children across the globe are coming forward to do their bit, ensuring that the innate compassion for fellow humans remain intact even in the face of adversity.

Amid reports of heartburn in the BJP over the recent expansion of Madhya Pradesh cabinet, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday refused to commit any timeline for allocation of portfolios to the 28 new ministers, who took oath on July 2.

A 106-year-old man from Delhi, who was a four-year-old during the 1918 Spanish Flu, has survived COVID-19 and recovered faster than his son, who is in his 70s, at a coronavirus facility in the national capital, doctors said.

Suspended AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain was allegedly in contact with Pinjra Tod members and JNU students Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita to hatch a "well planned and deep rooted conspiracy" to cause widespread riots in northeast Delhi in February, the Delhi police has said in its chargesheet filed before a Delhi court.

A doctor, who was allegedly helping accused and convicts in getting bail or released from custody despite suspension of his licence, has come under the scanner of the Delhi High Court which directed the police to conduct an inquiry into the allegations of issuing fake medical certificates.

Monuments across the national capital reopened Monday amid relaxations from the coronavirus lockdown with Covid safety measures in place. Though the government has restricted the number of visitors to ensure social distancing, the reopening offers hope to tourist guides who have had no source of livelihood since the lockdown was imposed late in March. However, as Delhi's coronavirus figures crossed the 1 lakh-mark, staff at some the monuments NDTV visited said the number of visitors was not even a tenth of the pre-lockdown times.

The number of coronavirus in Delhi crossed the 1 lakh mark on Monday evening.

Sporadic, light rain kept the mercury in check in the national capital on Monday precipitation is likely in the city over the next few days, the Met office said.

Bengaluru has seen a 15.7 per cent increase in new coronavirus cases over the past three days, data showed on Monday, compared to 2.6 per cent in Delhi and 1 per cent in Mumbai

A 24-year-old man allegedly faked his own abduction here to extort Rs five lakh from his uncle to apparently fund his sister's wedding, police said on Monday.

Qutub Minar, Humayun's Tomb and a host of other centrally-protected monuments in Delhi were reopened for visitors on Monday after being shut for over three months due to the COVID-19 crisis, officials said.

The Delhi High Court Monday sought the AAP government's reply on suggestions for setting up a helpline for nurses to complain against private hospitals for failing to providing N-95 masks and PPE kits as also considering compensation to those who die attending to COVID-19 patients.

An alert Delhi Police constable came to the rescue of two transgender women after bike-borne men opened fire at them, an official said on Sunday.

The Delhi government on Sunday instructed all health care facilities to carry out compulsory rapid antigen detection testing of patients with ILI symptoms, patients admitted with SARI and other high-risk individuals who visit their facilities.

The first female plasma donor in the national capital said more women should donate their "antibody-rich" plasma and contribute towards the fight against coronavirus pandemic.

A 1,000-bed hospital for COVID-19 patients in Delhi has been constructed and commissioned by the Defence Research and Development Organisation or DRDO in a record time of less than two weeks.

A door-to-door survey to screen the national capital's population for coronavirus "may not be suitable" at this juncture, said a report jointly prepared by the AAP administration, Union Ministry of Health, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and NITI Aayog.

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal inaugurated a 10,000-bed COVID care centre in the Chhatarpur area of the national capital today.

A woman was badly injured after she was run over by a speeding east Delhi's Ghazipur area on Friday, police said. The driver, Joginder, who is an official with Delhi police, was later arrested, police said.