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In a huge relief to the residents of the national capital, the Delhi government on Wednesday decided to continue providing free food grains to underprivileged residents of Delhi.

Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has threatened to carry out “suicide bombings” in Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh, and Gujarat to take revenge for the ”insult” of Prophet Muhammad by two now-suspended functionaries of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Schools in Delhi will be allowed to reopen from Monday, as COVID-19 cases decline once again in the Indian capital, meanwhile, the country's COVID-19 deaths have surpassed 500,000.

To keep Delhi’s air quality under check, only CNG-run and electric vehicles will be allowed entry into the city from November 27, while all the petrol and diesel transports will remain banned till December 3.

India has directed six coal-fired power plants located around Delhi to shut down until the end of this month as part of measures to clean some of the worlds dirtiest air, as a cloud of smog has enveloped the city and its suburbs for nearly two weeks.

Terming the air pollution in New Delhi and neighbouring areas an "emergency situation", Indian Supreme Court today suggested the authorities take immediate measures including putting the capital under lockdown along with stopping vehicle movements.

The national capital today recorded 24 positive cases of Covid-19 out of 53,624 tests done across the city. The positivity rate was 0.04 per cent, according to the Delhi government’s latest health bulletin.

Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi informed on Sunday that more than 25 per cent of the youth in Delhi has been vaccinated with a single dose of Covid-19 vaccine while the primer dose immunisation among the age group of 45+ years has reached 50 per cent.

Delhi has been under strict lockdown since April 19 and with continuous decline in daily cases.

Flagging the acute shortage of Covid-19 vaccine doses in the national capital, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Monday said that Delhi has only one day’s Covaxin stock left and its Covishield doses will last for just three to four days.

The Royal Thai Embassy in New Delhi has asked Thai people in India to return to their homeland In view of the Covid-19 situation there. Flights are available for Thais to travel to Thailand on May 8 and 15, the embassy posted on its Facebook page on Monday.

Amid the acute shortage of Covid-19 essential drugs and widespread reports of their sale in the black market, the Delhi government has ordered to form a special task force (STF) to crack down on hoarders of such medicines.