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Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta, leader of Opposition in Delhi assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri and other Delhi BJP functionaries are going to start a 'Jhuggi Yatra' from Friday in a bid to connect with slum dwellers ahead of the 2022 municipal polls. Gupta said the party functionaries would be holding dialogue with people living in various slums during the course of ‘Jhuggi Yatra,’ which will be starting from Moti Nagar. "We will be talking to head of the jhuggis, women besides other people there, listen to their problems like that of water, sewer and other basic infrastructural problems, and try to resolve them to their satisfaction," he further added.

Delhi woke up to a slight chill in the air on Friday as the minimum temperature settled at 18.6 degrees Celsius, a notch below normal for this time of the year, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. According to the weather office, it is likely to be a clear, sunny day with the maximum temperature reaching up to 34 degrees Celsius. The relative humidity was recorded at 68 per cent at 8.30am.

The lieutenant governor has extended the validity of a notification issued in March last year on the Delhi Epidemic Diseases COVID-19 Regulations, 2020, according to an official notification. The notification was issued by the authorities on March 12, 2020 in exercise of the powers conferred under the relevant sections of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897. Delhi's first COVID-19 case was reported in early March 2020 and since then, it has seen multiple waves, particularly the last one in April-May, which was brutal.

South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) on Thursday launched its smart parking mobile app and smart card for payment of parking fees at all its surface and multi-level parking lots. The facility is likely to start at four-five parking lots by this weekend. The system aims to help people track locations, find vacant spaces at each parking lot, pay money online and use the SDMC smart card for payment of parking charges. Officials said that the entire system would be monitored to check overuse of parking space and overcharging from the users.

After being duped of lakhs of rupees on pretext of a government job, a man started cheating people in the same manner with the help from his friends. They recently duped a group of youths promising job in the Railways. One of the youths even did a training for two months where he was taught how to check tickets in trains, police said. According to DCP (New Delhi) Deepak Yadav, the accused have been identified as Sunil Kumar, Dayanand Saraswati, Sukhraj and Amar.

The city recorded its first Covid death in four months on Wednesday. The patient was a 67-year-old woman who had visited a private hospital in Sector 62 for a check-up after she had chest pain. She was admitted on October 10 and she passed away the following day. But the death was added to Wednesday’s tally, officials said. The last Covid death in Gautam Budh Nagar was recorded on June 13.

Delhi recorded zero Covid-19 death and 28 fresh cases with a positivity rate of 0.05% on Thursday. The number of cumulative Covid cases in Delhi stood at 14,39,311 on Thursday. A total of 61,012 tests, including 44,932 RT-PCR and 16,080 rapid antigen, were conducted a day ago, the bulletin said.

More than 94 per cent of 66,900 applicants in Delhi have got their e-learning licences at their doorstep through faceless service delivery in the last two months, the Transport department said on Thursday. Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot thanked Delhiites saying they were accepting the "huge" change.

The standing committee of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation on Thursday approved the new guidelines proposed by the civic body for operation of spas and massage centres, which includes a ban on cross-gender massage. East Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal had given an anticipatory approval to the new policy late September. On Thursday, the EDMC panel approved this proposal, which will now go to the EDMC House for the final nod, officials said.

Two Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel died after being run over by a Shatabdi Express train while they were on patrolling duty in east Delhi's Anand Vihar railway station area, officials said on Thursday. The incident took place near a drain in Anand Vihar at 12.40 am on Thursday, they said.

The Delhi Congress on Thursday held a protest outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence here against the government's decision to not allow Chhath Puja celebrations at public places, a party statement said. "If the Delhi government could allow the opening of all other activities, including religious functions, denying permission to hold the Chhath Puja, the most important religious festival of Poorvanchalis, was a retrograde step," said Delhi Congress president Anil Kumar, who led the protest.

Delhi Police have arrested four men for allegedly cheating people on the pretext of providing them jobs in railways, officials said on Thursday. The accused have been identified as Sukhraj Singh alias Love Singh (29), Dayanand Saraswati (34), Sunil Kumar (32) and Amar Kumar (36), they said.

Traffic will remain diverted along some routes and entry of vehicles prohibited on some others in Noida on Friday in view of the Dussehra celebrations, the Traffic Police said on Thursday. The diversions and prohibition will remain in place from 3 pm till the end of the celebrations on Friday night at Noida Stadium in Sector 21A, the police said in a public advisory.