Greater Noida was the countrys third-most polluted city on Thursday, with an air quality index (AQI) of 412 under the severe category. The air quality in Noida and Ghaziabad also deteriorated from Wednes-day and remained in the very poor category.

The surge in Covid-19 cases in Delhi continued on Thursday with another single-day peak being recorded at 5,739 cases, a day after 5,673 cases had been reported.

Delhi recorded its coldest night in the month of October in 26 years on Thursday when the minimum temperature dropped to 12.5C, three notches below normal.

Air quality in the capital entered the severe range for the first time this winter season, with an AQI of 401 in the early hours of Thursday before returning to the very poor category in the evening.

Delhiites need to be extra cautious this season as early dip in temperatures may also lead to spurt in dengue cases, public health experts from municipal corporations have warned.

Covid-19 cases in Delhi broke all previous records and climbed further up on Thursday to reach a single-day high of 5,739 since the pandemic broke out.

Noida police is now investigating the death of a 26-year-old man as a murder case after it emerged that he died of a gunshot injury and not in a road crash, officials said on Thursday.

A 21-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by two men after he objected to an outsider visiting their colony in south Delhi's Tigri Extension, police said on Thursday.

Hundreds of people from the Gujjar community on Thursday staged a protest at the Delhi-Noida-Directway (DND) flyway demanding justice for Aman Baisla, who was found dead at his home here last month. Following the protest, there was a traffic snarl stretching over 2 km.

A 21-year-old woman, admitted at Fortis hospital in Sector-44 on October 21 due to breathing problems, was allegedly raped by a man when she was unconscious during the treatment from October 21 to 27.

A man who allegedly duped as many as 14 people by selling them cars through online sale-purchase platform OLX and later stealing the vehicles using their GPS locations has been arrested by Noida police.

The three-week long protest and an indefinite hunger strike by the resident doctors of the North municipal corporation of Delhi run hospitals has ended after the pending salaries of a majority of the healthcare workers were credited to their accounts.

Sector 51 RWA has written to UPPCBs regional officer in Sector 1 over untended collection of dry leaves by Noida Authority horticulture department in the sector parks, dust pollution due to dumping of Yamuna sand at gate number 11 and violation of NGT rules on use of gensets.

The man who allegedly provided country-made pistol to Touseef, accused of murdering a 21-year-old woman in Ballabgarh, has been arrested from Haryana's Nuh district, Faridabad police said.

At a time when health workers are apprehensive about a spike in the number of Covid cases, the district administration has decided to focus on three parameters: average positivity rate, daily number of symptomatic patients and number of patients shifting from home isolation to hospitals. The health department will start tracing at least 25 contacts per Covid patient from Wednesday, following UP additional chief secretary (health) Amit Mohan Prasads directive.

As the 1,500-strong crowd had assembled there without permission, police reached there to control the situation.

Touseef, the main accused in the shooting of a college student in Faridabad on Monday afternoon, had been pressuring the woman, Nikita, for a meeting and she kept turning him down, police said. Two days before the incident, he visited the college in a bid to meet her but failed to do so. Police said CCTV footage from last week captured him at the institute talking to some students, who are yet to be identified.

Around 65% households in Delhi-NCR have one or more individuals who are experiencing pollution-related ailments, and 79% residents want a ban on cracker sale this time, a survey conducted by LocalCircles says.

The city on Wednesday recorded the highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases since the outbreak of the pandemic, with 5,673 cases in 24 hours. It is also for the first time that the 5,000-mark has been breached.

A 21-year-old tuberculosis patient has alleged she was sexually assaulted while on ventilator support in the intensive care unit (ICU) of Fortis Hospital.

President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday suspended the services of Delhi University vice-chancellor professor Yogesh Tyagi with immediate effect on the charges of grave misconduct, dereliction of duty, abuse of power and lack of commitment. A day earlier, he had given his consent for an inquiry against Tyagi.

The schools in Delhi will remain closed till further orders, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia announced on Wednesday. According to an earlier order, the schools were to stay shut till October 31.

Delhi's daily coronavirus infection tally crossed the 5,000-mark for the first time on Wednesday as the national capital witnessed a sudden spike in cases in the past few days.

Doctors of North Delhi Municipal Corporation-run hospitals who have been agitating for the last several days over their pending salaries called off their stir on Wednesday, officials said.

Two members of an interstate arms syndicate were arrested by the Delhi Police's Special Cell and 19 pistols seized from them, police said.

The accused have been identified as Omon Benson, who hails from Nigeria, and Johnson Usaro, a native of Kenya, and both of them were currently staying in Greater Noida, the police said.

Faridabad deputy commissioner Yashpal Yadav on Wednesday met the family members of a 21-year-old girl who was shot dead in Ballabgarh on Monday and said the security arrangements have been made for the family.

157 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Gautam Buddh Nagar on Wednesday, while 155 patients recovered in the past 24 hours. The total number of confirmed cases in the district on Wednesday reached 17,292.

With the number of Covid-19 cases on the rise, parents of children attending schools in Delhi have welcomed the government's decision to keep schools closed till further notice.

The Delhi government is all set to launch the 'Red Light On, Gaadi Off' campaign in all the 272 wards here from November 2 in a move to reduce pollution in the national capital.

A 35-year-old man allegedly hanged himself to death at his rented accommodation in south Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur, police said on Wednesday.

Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, who led the delegation, said MLAs and mayors also requested the LG to intervene on the issue of payment of dues including Rs 10,000 crore property tax from the Delhi government.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Haryana Police on Wednesday reached the residence of the 21-year-old woman who was shot dead by a man in Ballabgarh earlier this week.

Faridabad MP Krishan Pal Gurjar on Wednesday met the family members of the 21-year-old student who was shot dead by a man in Ballabgarh.

All schools in Delhi will continue to be closed till further orders in view of the Covid-19 situation, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia announced on Wednesday.

Work in three shifts round-the-clock with over 180 workers is under way to expedite the construction of the 4.5km six-lane Aghapur elevated road near Bhangel. By Tuesday, 1012 foundation pillars were completed.

Almost two months after the fatal attack by carjackers on Amity student Akshay Kalra, seven people were arrested on Tuesday, including five members of a Ghaziabad-based gang. The accused were traced through Akshays Creta, which was kept in a vacant plot used in Ghaziabads Vaishali. A bid to sell the vehicle led cops to the gang, which had been approaching some scrap dealers in Haryana and Meerut.

A tattoo artist identified as Naresh Chetiwal (36) allegedly died by suicide on Tuesday night.

Nikita Tomars father Mool Chand Tomar has alleged that Touseef was harassing her for several months and she had filed a molestation complaint against him in September.

At 4,853, the capital recorded the highest single-day Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, breaching the 4,000-mark for the fourth time in the last five days. The number of containment zones also crossed the 3,000 mark for the first time with 3,032 such pockets.

A BCom final-year student was shot in the head from point-blank range by an alleged stalker outside her college in Faridabad on Monday afternoon.

A 45-year-old woman and her daughter, 15, were killed and three other members of the Delhis Karol Bagh family were injured when their car overturned after hitting scraps of tyre lying on Yamuna Expressway in Mathura early Tuesday morning.