The number of COVID-19 patients under home isolation in the national capital has steadily fallen to 11,541, registering a drop of 50 per cent in the last 15 days, according to official figures.
A top official of the Delhi government's Directorate of Information and Publicity (DIP) has gone missing, leaving behind a note stating that he was going on his own will, police said on Friday.
Leaders and workers of the BJP's Delhi unit and the party's frontal organisations on Friday staged protests near residences of ministers of the Kejriwal government over the municipal corporation funds issue.
The national capital recorded 2,385 new COVID-19 cases on Friday with over 71,000 tests being conducted, even as the positivity rate stood at 3.33 per cent, authorities said.
The ED has arrested a cryptocurrency trader in connection with its money laundering probe linked to an online Chinese betting scam case that is estimated to be over Rs 1,100 crore, the central agency said on Friday.
Delhi's air quality 'poor', likely to improve with light rain, winds on Business Standard. Delhi's air quality was recorded in the poor category and is likely to improve significantly over the next two days due to a predicted increase in the wind speed and light rain
Delhi's air quality remains 'very poor' - Air quality in the national capital is still in the 'very poor' category, even though stubble burning in neighbouring states has come down substantially. In Airport terminal 3, the Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded 312 (very poor), on Mathura road 326, according to the SAFAR-India website. Delhi has recorded ‘very poor’ air quality based on monitoring stations here. “Pollution is always an issue for Delhiites. As a citizen, we need to create less pollution and try to avoid personal vehicles and use public transports,” a local said.
What makes Delhi's early December weather surprising is the fact India is witnessing the La Niña this year, a weather phenomenon over the Pacific that is expected to usher in a colder-than-normal winter.
New Delhi, Dec 11 (PTI) The Department of Telecom has granted state-run telecom company BSNL licence for 20 years effective from February 29, 2020, to provide mobile, fixed-line, satellite and other communication services across India, including Delhi and Mumbai. Another state-run PSU MTNL provides telecom services in Delhi and Mumbai and BSNL currently serves the rest of the country. "The licence shall be valid for a period of 20 years from the effective date of this licence unless revoked...Effective date of this licence shall be February 29, 2020," the agreement signed between BSNL and the DoT on December 10 said. The government approved a long-pending plan of merging the 34-year-old loss -making telecom company Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited in October 2019. According to the annexure of the agreement, BSNL has been authorised to cover "local areas served by Delhi, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Noida and Gurgaon telephone exchanges" and also "local areas served by Mumbai , New Mumbai and Kalyan Telephone exchanges''. Both BSNL and MTNL have been synchronising their operations since 2012. MTNL started providing basic telecom service in 1986 in Delhi and Mumbai.The government granted MTNL licence to provide mobile services in October 1997. MTNL has 33.37 lakh mobile and 30.3 lakh landline customers while BSNL mobile subscriber base stood at 11.88 crore and landline customer base was 77.4 lakh at the end of September 2020. The story has been taken from a news agency Get more Companies News and Business News on Zee Business.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao left for New Delhi by a special flight from Begumpet airport on Friday on a three-day visit to the national capital.
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