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A car got stuck after a road caved in Dwarka's Sector 18 due to incessant rain in the National Capital. It was later pulled out with the help of a crane. No injuries reported: Delhi Police.

A court in Delhi on Tuesday acquitted a man of rioting, dacoity, and other charges in a case of ransacking and looting a shop during the north-east Delhi riots in February last year. Calling it a “clear-cut” case of acquittal, Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat said there was no identification of the accused, and the testimonies of the witnesses were completely contradictory to each other.

The Mumbai-New Delhi Rajdhani Express will now run with Tejas-type Smart Sleeper coaches. The Tejas rakes are equipped with modern features. These high-tech coaches have Bio-Vacuum Toilets, Air-Suspension Bogies, CCTV cameras and much more. Coaches are provided with “ergonomically designed interiors, berths with fire resistant silicon foam, for the comfort and safety of passengers,” according to the Western Railway. (ANI)

The bench directed CBI to file its enquiry report within four weeks, holding that the matter was a serious one as one of the parties has either forged the document in question and or is not telling a complete truth. The case will be heard again on September 6.

Nitin Gadkari said bids for remaining 163 kms length have been received/ invited and these balance works are likely to be awarded in the current financial year.

After several parts of Delhi-NCR received incessant rainfall on Monday morning, waterlogging had hit vehicular movement in Gurugram, Noida and Delhi. Parts of Delhi, Gururam and Noida received light to moderate rain accompanied by thunderstorms in the early hours of Monday. As per the IMD, thunderstorms with light to moderate intensity rain occurred over and adjoining areas of most places of Delhi-NCR

The Delhi government ordered the closure of Sarojini Nagar’s Export Market until further orders for violating COVID norms. The decision comes to prevent the market from becoming a COVID-19 super spreader. The market associations of Sarojini Nagar have called a meeting today.

As per the policy document, the state component of the goods and services tax (SGST) would be refunded to buyers of all EVs in Rajasthan between April this year and March 2022. Moreover, buyers of electric two- and three-wheelers would be given additional cash subsidies between Rs 5,000 and Rs 20,000 depending on the size of the battery equipped.

Reopening of terminal 2 at Delhi airport, where flight operations are happening only from Terminal 3, is a proof of rebound of domestic passenger traffic in India. Domestic traffic had taken a huge hit during the second wave with daily passenger numbers falling to 30,000 during the middle of May from a high of 300,000 passengers a day.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday alleged that the Centre has been interfering with the work of the Delhi government through the lieutenant governor, and described it as "murder of democracy". He said the city government has decided that its panel of lawyers will be public prosecutors in court matters related to the farmers' protest and it comes under the purview of the Delhi government only.

The high court had on May 27 issued notice and sought responses of the Ministry of Health and Delhi government on the plea by NGO Manav Awaaj Trust which has contended that presently families only receive news about the death of a patient or demand for deposit of hospital charges.

A thick layer of toxic foam was seen floating on the surface of the river Yamuna at the Kalindi Kunj area in the national capital on July. According to environmentalists, the reason for the frothing could be the release of certain gases when reacting with few specific bacteria. The froth was a common thing in the Yamuna but has increased in the last five-six years.

The order shall remain in force in the national capital for a period of 32 days from Friday till August 16 for security reasons, officials said.

"After the June 28 incident, we asked the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to conduct a feasibility survey for constructing a safe passage for wild animals on the Pali-Surajkund road. The DMRC has suggested constructing an underpass," a forest department official said.

World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday warned the world about the 'early stages' of COVID-19 third wave amid Delta surge. "Unfortunately...we are now in the early stages of a third wave", he said. On Wednesday, the head of WHO said that Delta variant's spread, along with increased social mobility and the inconsistent use of proven public health measures, is driving an increase in both case numbers and deaths.

Google Cloud, with its new cloud region in Delhi NCR and the recently signed Reliance Jio deal, is looking to recover ground it has ceded to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure in India.

Delhi started receiving monsoon rains from July 13. Heavy rains led to waterlogging in parts of the national capital. The city will continue to receive rainfall this week according to predictions by the India Meteorological Department. (ANI)

This comes days after a three-member committee formed by Lt Governor Anil Baijal said in its report that it found no "infirmity" in the procurement of 1,000 buses by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC). However, it flagged several lapses in the annual maintenance contract (AMC) of buses.

Senior advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan, representing Mufti, submitted that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has file a compilation of judgements relied upon by them but the agency is yet to file a short note of submission on the facts of a money laundering case, as per the court's earlier direction.

Petrol was at Rs 69.59 a litre at the start of last fiscal year on April 1, 2020 in Delhi.

A key desire of political parties drafting the new constitution in 2015 was to prevent political instability. Unlike in other parliamentary democracies such as India and the UK, Article 76 of the Nepalese constitution made it extremely difficult for a sitting prime minister to dissolve the house.

According to officials figures, till July 6, Delhi had recorded 1,656 mucormycosis cases, including 952 active cases. The number of active cases of COVID-19 on July 6 stood at 833.

The court was hearing a petition by three people claiming to be Bangladeshi nationals who seek to be repatriated to their country.

Several streets of Delhi were heavily waterlogged following downpour on July 13. Children were having fun at RK Puram’s Som Vihar area. Delhiites got respite from heat after rain spell. (ANI)

In its April-June 2021 quarterly report, PropTiger, said that sales in primary markets of Delhi-NCR increased to 2,828 units during April-June 2021 from 1,886 units in the year-ago period.