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The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the AAP government for response to a plea asserting that its New Excise Policy 2021 restores the "Zamindari" system abolished by the Constitution and facilitates a monopolistic cartel.

In the nearly two decades of privatisation of power distribution in the national capital, discoms have helped save around Rs 1.2 lakh crore primarily by cutting down aggregate technical and commercial losses, officials said on Tuesday.

The Delhi Police has busted a hookah cafe and arrested two brothers for allegedly running the place illegally without licence and serving hookah to customers in south Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur area, officials said on Tuesday.

The Delhi government has proposed new guidelines to control dust pollution which will involve installation of three real-time monitors and CCTV cameras at every construction site larger than 20,000 square metres.

A private facility in Delhi has been reporting a rise in the number of cases of rickets since last year and children from affluent families too are getting afflicted by the disease, the hospital authorities said on Tuesday.

A 21-year-old woman attempted suicide by jumping in front of a Delhi Metro train here on Tuesday, officials said.

Delhi on Tuesday reported 50 new coronavirus cases and 4 deaths, according to data shared by the health department.

Tis Hazari Court in Delhi has issued notice to singer Yo Yo Honey Singh on a case filed by his wife Shalini Talwar under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act.

The Delhi High Court Tuesday disclosed that at present its collegium was already considering the names for making recommendations for appointment of judges for the high court and it will hear on September 30 a plea in this regard.

Delhi Police told a court in Delhi on Tuesday that the death of 21 COVID-19 patients in Jaipur Golden Hospital in April was not caused due to oxygen shortage, a claim which contradicts the hospital's stand.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted implying that the ravaged Delhi girl must also be treated with the same respect accorded to the sport stars. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he will meet the 9-year-old's family tomorrow.

TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday said women face harrowing experiences every day, with not much being done by the Centre to change the situation for better.

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav and Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav met in New Delhi on Monday.

A two-year-old girl, who weighed nearly 45 kg and was bound to the wheelchair, was operated upon for removal of a part of her stomach at a private hospital in Delhi.

A 40-year-old man was arrested from west Delhi's Subhash Nagar for allegedly being hired by a money lender to kill a person over a monetary dispute, police said on Tuesday.

The helper of a canter truck was injured after the vehicle was hit allegedly by a dumper truck near the IIT flyover on Tuesday morning, police said.

A lawyer who has filed a contempt action plea in the Supreme Court against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for appointing Rakesh Asthana as the Delhi Police chief has sought an urgent hearing of his petition.

The national capital reported 51 new COVID-19 cases, 95 recoveries and zero deaths, while the positivity rate stood at 0.09 per cent, according to data shared by the health department on Tuesday.

The Delhi government has received around 35,000 suggestions till now on whether schools should reopen or not, and it seems that most residents want a return to in-person classes, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said today.

The Delhi Police has busted a fake call centre in the national capital and arrested 12 people, including three women, for allegedly cheating people based in the US and Canada by posing as tech support team staff of e-commerce giant Amazon

A nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered and her body forcibly cremated by her attackers in Delhi. The police have detained a priest in the case along with three others and investigations are on.