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Delhi govt says it needs to train the staff first. Mohalla clinic doctors worried about safety, say they don’t have adequate protective gear and space to conduct Covid tests.

Signboards and announcement stations on Covid-19 safety norms will be placed inside stations as Delhi Metro plans to resume operations on 7 September.

70% of all Covid deaths in India have been reported from five states and union territories: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka. 

Tata Consultancy will be responsible for installing smog towers, which are air purifiers, while National Buildings Construction Corporation will construct them.

The top court also restrained any court from granting any stay on removal of encroachments in the area and said there shouldn't be any kind of political interference.

Doctors differ on when the Metro should ideally resume services, but agree that basic preventive measures will go a long way. They also don't expect to see a repeat of June's spike.

The accused have been charge-sheeted for conspiring to create disaffection against govt, promoting enmity among different religious communities & committing subversive activities.

During a meeting of Delhi Disaster Management Authority, the lieutenant governor asked officers to prepare detailed SOPs to introduce 'testing on demand' facility in the city.

The main reason being advanced against deferment is that any further delay in conducting the JEE will put IITs at a disadvantage because the number of students will double up.

Delhi, which was testing around 20,000 samples a day, saw its daily tally drop to around 14,000 tests on 31 August. The positivity rate increased to 9.4% from 8.5% last week.

Investigators had sought seven days police custody of Imam to probe the case lodged under the anti-terror law.

Around 2 lakh drivers working for the cab services have given the strike call starting Tuesday as their appeals have not led to any action by the government.

Delhi legislative assembly committee on peace and harmony says it has found Facebook ‘prima facie guilty of a role in the violence’, will summon its officials.

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So remote is Chak Shila, located in Delhi's Yamuna Khadar area, that villagers don't feel the need to wear masks or gloves. At any rate, access to food & water overshadows other issues.

One weekly market will function from 4pm to 10pm per day in every municipal zone, with not more than two buyers allowed simultaneously at each stall.

The clinic at Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital is designed to manage myriad symptoms of ‘long Covid’, and has treated 60 patients since opening on 20 Aug.

In an interview, ILBS director Dr S.K. Sarin says the surge in Delhi should be seen as a serious wake-up call, adding that rise to 2,000 daily cases will be worrisome.

Japan has also joined the dispute against India at WTO over import tariff hikes imposed on information and communications technology in 2019.

Doubling testing capacity could be easy given that Delhi has been largely conducting antigen tests, but labs say a crunch in resources will make this possible only to an extent.  

Titled 'Delhi Riots: Conspiracy Unravelled', the 150-page book alleges that ‘radical’ Islamic groups instigated the riots. It’s set for release in early September.

The court asked Railways to consider the feasibility of issuing confirmed tickets at subsidised rates at least 5 days before the second round of exams in September.

Health Minister Satyender Jain wrote to MHA Secretary Ajay Bhalla, alleging officials are being threatened and intimidated to not double Covid tests.

Dhaka also wants ‘special treatment’ that India accords to Nepal & Bhutan but under the framework of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.