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Chadha, who is also the vice chairman of Delhi Jal Board, said authorities received nine SOS calls from hospitals over oxygen shortage on Thursday and 5.1 MT of the life-saving gas was provided to these healthcare facilities.

As on Day-111 of the vaccination drive (May 6), 23,70,298 vaccine doses were given. Across 18,938 sessions, 10,60,064 beneficiaries were vaccinated for the first dose and 13,10,234 beneficiaries received their second dose of vaccine.

Of the 19,333 oxygen-supported beds for coronavirus patients across Delhi, only 2,170 were vacant around 10:45 am on Friday, according to the Delhi Corona app.

The meteorological department had forecast generally cloudy skies with possibility of light rain or drizzle in the day.

According to official records, there were 50,742 COVID-19 patients in home isolation in Delhi till Sunday, while 20,136 were being treated in hospitals.

He said states like Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka and West Bengal are still showing an increase in daily infections.

The third and the largest phase of vaccination, under which beneficiaries in the 18-45 age group will be given jabs against coronavirus, will begin here on Monday. Around 90 lakh people in this category will be eligible for the jabs.

A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli directed the government to book those persons found hoarding or black-marketing medicines and equipment related to COVID-19 and be brought before the court for taking independent contempt action against them.

India's cumulative recoveries surged to 1,56,84,406 with 2,99,988 recoveries being reported in a day. Ten states account for 76.09 per cent of the new recoveries.

In this raid, that was conducted on the orders of the Hon’ble District Judge, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi, large quantities of fully-packaged fake Phoenix automotive headlamps were recovered from the dealers.

However, the start of lockdowns from Q2 2020 stalled the momentum and transactions have declined even as markets gradually re-opened in H2 2020.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed pleas by social media platforms, Facebook and WhatsApp, challenging India's competition regulator CCI's order directing a probe into WhatsApp's new privacy policy.

After much deliberation and research, Ather has begun its operations in Delhi and hopes to clock twice the number of sales compared to any other city in the country. We can also expect to see new variants of Ather 450 being launched next year.

Already, 15.8 tonnes of wheat has been procured so far and payment has been made to farmers, he said, adding that the procurement plan was decided in consultation with the state government.

Over the past few days, with the national capital recording upwards of 4,000 cases on Sunday, several air travellers have been complaining that COVID-19 prevention norms like wearing face masks and observing social distancing are being ignored.

Delhi recorded a minimum of 11.7 degrees Celsius on Saturday, which is the lowest in the month of April in at least 12 years, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

It has urged the Delhi government to expedite the announcement of the policy details and implement recommendations of a Group of Ministers in toto "for the health of the revenue and trade as well as interest of the consumers."

Puducherry Election 2021: If the BJP is given a chance by the people, the separate identity of Puducherry will be lost, claimed Narayanasamy.

IPL 2021: Shreyas Iyer has been ruled out of the IPL after injuring his left shoulder during the recently-concluded India-England ODI series.

Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17, 2014.

The government had in another similar matter told the court that it cannot foot the bill in 2020-21 as it had done last year as the amount was over Rs 100 crore.

BSES discoms have urged its consumers to switch off lights for one hour starting from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm on Saturday, they said.

Pollutants PM 2.5 and PM 10 also remained high in the air of the five immediate neighbours of Delhi, according to the air quality index (AQI) maintained by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

GoAir was also the first airline to operate morning flights to-and-from Srinagar.

He said the Centre's intention is clear, as it has done nothing to shut down polluting thermal power plants and brick kilns operating in neighbouring states.