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The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to grant any interim relief to Hockey India against Central Information Commission (CIC) order dated December 13, 2021, relating to disclosing certain information.

Delhi lieutenant general Anil Baijal had on Monday said bars and restaurants in the state will be shut for dine-in facilities in view of increasing Covid-19 infections.

In an industry first, India's three largest IT services firms announced their December quarter results on the same day. A look at the key takeaways from the announcements.

"Deliveries are not sustainable for existing operational costs. Even on Malcha Marg, we are hardly getting any business. Most restaurants are looking at shutting down and won't open for deliveries or takeaways," said Sukhija who is also the head of the Delhi chapter of National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI).

On the loss suffered due to previous waves, Sourabh Tiwari, owner of Sushant Travels said, "We are not able to come out of the two shocks that we got in the first two waves, we used to get Rs 30,000-40,000 bills even from the closed properties. We have to give salaries to the staff as well. We incurred huge losses. Amid a surge in the COVID-19 cases, the Central government on Friday announced a seven-day mandatory home quarantine for all international arrivals in the country.

Despite rising COVID cases in the national capital, the positivity rate is stagnant at around 25 per cent, said the Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on January 12.

A Covid-19 cluster has been identified at IIT-Madras, with 58 people, including 17 students, testing positive on campus between January 5 and 9. Seems Covid cases have stabilised in Delhi, soon we will see a decline: Health min Satyendar Jain on whether the current wave has peaked. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan writes to chief secretaries of all States/UTs for taking immediate measures to ensure optimal availability of medical oxygen at health facilities. In his letter, Union health secretary says that States/UTs should have buffer stock of medical oxygen sufficient for at least 48 hrs at health facilities providing in-patient care; asks to ensure proper functioning of PSA plants and availability of sufficient oxygen concentrators. Here are the other details:Active case: 9,55,319Daily positivity rate: 11.05%Confirmed cases of Omicron: 4,868

42 BJP staff members test Covid positive at the Delhi office. Meanwhile, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital of Delhi conducted a study on the Omicron variant which shows that the virus is mutating but the disease severity is mild.

Delhi logged 23 COVID-19 fatalities and 21,259 cases while the positivity rate rose to 25.65 per cent, according to data shared by the health department here on Tuesday. A total of 2,209 Covid patients are in hospitals. Of them, 84 are on ventilator support, the government data showed. The city currently has 74,881 active cases of which 50,796 are in home isolation.

The advisory noted that Delhi has witnessed an upsurge in COVID-19 deaths since last week and 70 fatalities have been reported from medical facilities since the last week of December.

The official said that several flights got delayed by 5-15 minutes due to dense fog. Passengers are requested to contact the airline concerned for updated flight information, any inconvenience is regretted.

Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar admitted to ICU after testing positive for Covid-19. She has mild symptoms, told her niece Rachna to ANI News Agency. All private offices in Delhi shall be closed, except those which are falling under the exempted category; work from home shall be followed, said DDMA today in its revised guidelines. India today registered 1,68,063 new COVID-19 cases, 6.4% lower than the previous day. Around 277 people succumbed to COVID-19 during the same period, taking the tally to 4,84,213, informed health ministry on Tuesday. Currently, the active caseload of the country stands at 8,21,446 cases, which is 97,827 more than yesterday.Around 69,959 people have been recovered so far in the last 24 hours. The recovery rate also stands at 96.36%, according to the data by the Union Health Ministry. The Omicron tally in India also climbed to 4,461 cases reported in 28 states with Maharashtra remaining to be the worst-hit state with 1,247 Omicron cases, followed by Rajasthan with 645 cases and Delhi with 546 cases.

According to data shared by the jail authorities, 66 inmates -- 42 in Tihar and 24 in Mandoli jail -- had tested positive for COVID-19 till Monday. Among the 48 infected staffers, 34 are from Tihar, six from Rohini jail and eight from Mandoli jail.

All private offices in Delhi shall be closed, except those which have been exempted, the DDMA said in its revised guidelines

The petition has been filed by journalist Qurban Ali and former Patna judge and senior advocate Anjana Prakash. Sibal, while mentioning the issue before a bench led by CJI NV Ramana, said the country was going through difficult times. Satyameva jayate had been replaced by shastrameva jayate, he claimed.

New Delhi, Jan 10 (ANI): As India entered Omicron-driven third wave, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital Medical Director informed of receiving 187 patients from Omicron through genome sequencing. “Since December 2, we have received 187 patients from Omicron through genome sequencing. 180 patients have been discharged and now we have only 7 patients admitted to Omicron,” said Dr Suresh Kumar, MD, LNJP.

In its affidavit filed last year, the Centre urged the court to dismiss the petition with costs and claimed that it has "adopted a balanced approach on cannabis" by empowering the State governments to "permit, control and regulate the cultivation of any cannabis plant, production, manufacture, possession, transport, import inter-state, export inter-state, sale, purchase, consumption or use of cannabis (excluding charas) for medical, scientific and industrial purposes".

The court questioned as to why the exception from the offence of rape granted to a married couple had remained in the legislature for several years in spite of developments suggesting the contrary and remarked that "one of the possible reasons" was the wide scope of Section 375 of Indian Penal Code which included even a single act of "unwilling sex" as rape.

About 1,000 Delhi Police personnel have tested positive for COVID-19, the Delhi Police informed on Monday. In the Delhi Police Headquarters, all those who have tested positive for COVID-19 have been advised to stay in home isolation, sources said.

A trade deal could help increase this further and will play a key role in our ambition to double trade with India by 2030, the UK government said.

Urging the government to permit weddings with at least 200 guests in attendance or with 50 per cent capacity of the venue, the stakeholders said they will follow Covid-appropriate guidelines.

The beneficiaries will receive a precautionary dose of the same vaccine they took 39 weeks ago. They will have to book a slot using their existing Cowin account.

The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Monday decided not to impose lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19 and discussed further restrictions such as closing dine-in facility in restaurants and scaling down seating capacity in Metro trains and buses, officials said.

A DDMA meeting, chaired by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and attended by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, also discussed ways to strictly enforce existing restrictions to check rising cases of the coronavirus and its Omicron variant.

The area is 24 kms from the airport, 8 kms from the nearest railway station and 2 kms from the Noida link road.. The price range of properties here is between Rs 8000 per square feet and Rs 14,000 per square feet.