Breaking News March 4: 531 cases filed, over 1600 arrested or detained over Delhi riots

The Delhi Police has registered 531 FIRs and arrested or detained 1,647 people in connection with the communal violence in northeast Delhi, an officer said on Wednesday.

Forty-seven of the cases were registered under the Arms Act, the officer said.

According to police, the police control room (PCR) did not receive any calls of rioting in the past seven days. (PTI)

According to a statement issued by Paytm, one of its employee has tested positive for coronavirus. (PTI)

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Wednesday said it would increase the frequency of cleaning on its premises in view of the coronavirus outbreak.

DMRC has also issued Do's and Dont's in both English and Hindi regarding the virus. (PTI)

After the President rejected Nirbhaya convict Pawan Gupta's mercy plea, the Delhi government on Wednesday moved a city court seeking fresh date for the execution of four Nirbhaya case convicts. "All legal remedies of Nirbhaya case convicts exhausted, nothing survives now," the government told the court.

Rahul Gandhi along with other Congress leaders heads towards riot-hit areas in Delhi to meet victims

Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case: Delhi court to issue new death warrant to convicts on Wednesday at 2pm. This is the fourth time that a death warrant will be issued to the four convicts.

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Officials have said Tihar will move court for fresh date of execution of Nirbhaya case convicts after the rejection of mercy plea of Pawan Gupta.

President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four men facing the gallows in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, officials said on Wednesday.

The mercy petition of Pawan has been rejected by the President, a Home Ministry official said.

Union minister Harsh Vardhan has urged the Delhi government to take preventive measures in wake of coronavirus outbreak.

The High Court has declined to entertain a plea seeking direction to NHRC to assess the health of death row convicts in the Nirbhay case.

Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day amid opposition protests over Delhi violence

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15 Italian tourists have tested positive for coronavirus; AIIMS has confirmed. More tests will be, however, conducted for confirmation. Twenty-one Italian tourists and three Indian tour operators, were on Tuesday sent to an ITBP quarantine facility in Delhi for suspected coronavirus exposure.

Samples of six Noida residents taken for suspected coronavirus have tested negative, news agency PTI has reported.

The Meghalaya government on Tuesday lifted the ban on mobile internet services in two Jaintia Hills districts after improvement in the situation, officials said.

Mobile internet and messaging services were withdrawn in six districts of the Khasi and Jaintia Hills region following clashes between tribal and non-tribal groups, which

US President Donald Trump spoke to deputy Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and discussed progress towards achieving peace in Afghanistan, the White House has said, the first known call between an American president and the militant group.

The historic telephonic conversation took place a day after the Taliban ended the partial truce amidst renewed violence in the war-torn country, raising doubt over the intra-Afghan negotiations that are scheduled to begin on March 10.