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While the optimum holding capacity of Delhi prisons is 10,026, there are 19,679 inmates in the jails at present. A large number of prisoners were released last year to decongest the jails.

The maximum temperature recorded in the city on Wednesday was 40.5 degrees Celsius. The IMD has forecast that it would fall to 38 degrees by Friday and would then rise again to around 41 degrees by Monday.

Nazim's lawyer Salim Malik told the court that he had been "falsely implicated in the matter by the police just because he and his brother Kasim (who is also an accused in the instant case) are “Bad Characters” (B.C) of the Dayalpur area."

Around 40 tractor-trollies, each with around 15 men and women from Amritsar's villages, set off for the national capital on Wednesday. They were not wearing masks when they began the journey.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal visited one such site in Rajinder Nagar on Wednesday. The site, operated by BLK Max, has the capacity to vaccinate around 3,000 people per day. This is expected to be scaled up in the upcoming days.

Overcrowded jails need the authorities’ urgent attention to check mass infections

Deputy CM Manish Sisodia had earlier written to Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to lend services of the Armed Forces to the state to help it set up, operationalise and run Covid health facilities with about 10,000 oxygen and 1,000 ICU beds.

On Wednesday, the city saw 20,960 new cases and 311 deaths due to Covid-19. The positivity rate was recorded at 26.37% after testing 79,491 people.

The new cases recorded in the city over just five days are 25,346 more than its stated active case count.

Officials at the crematorium said they receive 60-100 bodies a day, which is beyond their capacity of around 47 bodies a day.

Some thought that the IPL bio-bubble was "the safest place in India", but even this was breached by the the second Covid wave in India. BCCI officials have spoken about Varun Chakravarthy's hospital visit, but some other possible breaches have come to light too.

The medical equipment received is an aid for the people of India and therefore the same should be made available to and installed for use by the people, the division bench observed

DJB blamed Haryana government for reducing the amount of water released in the river, causing a dip in the level of Wazirabad pond and supply will affect parts of north, south, central and west Delhi apart from Cantt and NDMC areas.

The Supreme Court also directed the Centre to place a plan before it to explain how it will comply with its order on the supply of 700 MT of oxygen to Delhi.

The incident took place on Saturday evening during an IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad, the police said.

The police have so far detained one person in connection with the crime and are also probing the role of an Olympic medalist.

Additional DCP (Central) Rohit Meena said the accused have been identified as Manish Kansal (38), who was posing as housekeeping staff and Krishan Garg (26), who was posing as the health worker of South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC).

The court also said that the man could have "avoided the incident if he was innocent, but he did not make any effort to break open the door and to stop his wife."

Akbar had filed a defamation case against Ramani in 2018 after she levelled sexual harassment allegations against him. The trial court had acquitted Ramani in the case on February 17.

NCW Chairperson Rekha Sharma has set up a team, which she will head herself. The team was to visit Nandigram and investigate the matter but the plan has been stalled for the time being. The team requires RTPCR tests done to travel to West Bengal.

The petitioners said they are concerned by the “super spreading potential and threat” posed by the continuing construction at the project and the plight of the workers being exposed to the infection on a daily basis.

The surge in cases and deaths might be a result of patient migration from surrounding districts. A revamp of rural healthcare system is urgent.

Delhi Police has registered 113 FIRs and arrested 100 persons till date — 61 cases for duping people after promising to help them with vital drugs for Covid-19 and medical oxygen, and 52 cases against black marketing, hoarding or overcharging.

A 24-year-old contractual nurse at Moolchand Hospital was arrested for allegedly stealing Remdesivir injections from patients who died at their hospital during treatment and giving them to her friend, who was selling them at a higher price.

According to fire officials, they received a call around 11 pm about the fire in UK Nursing home. Eight fire tenders were rushed to the site.