The Delhi High Court on Monday said accepting the new privacy policy of social messaging app WhatsApp was a 'voluntary' thing and one can choose not to use or join that platform if one did not agree with its terms and conditions.
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Even the value of scrap has gone down in these times. And scrap is more difficult to find these days too. Ask 29-year-old Lutfun Nisha, a rag-picker in north-west Delhi, where about a fifth of the national capital’s population resides. “If I do not find garbage, I cannot sell anything to the scrap dealer. Before the lockdown, I used to sell it for Rs 35-40 per kg. Now, the rate has dropped to Rs 10 per kg,” said Nisha.
‘Entry into Delhi is a law and order issue. Who should be allowed entry and on what conditions are all determined by the police. We cannot be the authority to decide it,’ says CJI Bobde.
After administering shots to over 4,300 healthcare workers on the opening day, vaccination teams across the national capital started to give vaccines to more medical staff.
A petitioner had sought removal of the voice of the megastar from the caller tune on the ground that the actor himself, along with some family members, had been infected by the virus.
Delhi schools opened on January 18 for classes 10 and 12 with strict COVID guidelines. Tamil Nadu government released SOPs as schools will reopen on January 19
Addressing a press conference at the Singhu border protest site, union leader Yogendra Yadav said, "We will carry out a tractor parade on the Outer Ring Road in Delhi on Republic Day. The parade will be very peaceful. There will be no disruption of the Republic Day parade. The farmers will put up the national flag on their tractors."
