New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that the vaccination drive against coronavirus will be carried out at 81 centres across the national capital from January 16, on four days in a week. Arrangements are in place to vaccinate 100 person daily at each of these 81 centres, ensuring inoculation of over 8,000 […]
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We’ll provide free Covid vax if Centre doesn’t: Kejriwal
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced that his AAP government will provide free Covid-19 vaccine to city residents if the Centre “failed” to do so. Kejriwal made the announcement amid preparations for the world’s largest vaccination drive, to be launched across the country on January 16 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kejriwal […]
Delhi govt fully prepared for Covid vaccination: Kejriwal
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said his government is fully prepared to initiate Covid-19 vaccination. The vaccine’s first doses may arrive in the national capital any time after getting the Central government’s approval. Addressing a virtual press briefing, Kejriwal said everyone is waiting for the vaccine even as the number of Covid-19 […]
3rd Covid wave in Delhi brought under control : CM
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that the national capital has fought a war against Covid-19 pandemic and the third wave has now been brought under control. Noting that the patients were lying on the streets and corridors of hospitals when New York had reached its Covid-19 peak, Kejriwal said: “It was […]
Kejriwal tears copies of farm laws in Delhi Assembly
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and MLAs of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday tore copies of the new farm laws during a one-day special session of the Delhi Assembly called to discuss the farmers’ protest. Supporting the famers’ protest and demanding the repeal of the laws, Kejriwal said, “We refuse to […]
AAP will contest UP Assembly polls in 2022, announces Kejriwal
New Delhi: After forming the government in the national capital thrice and emerging as the main opposition party in Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday announced it will contest the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election in 2022. AAP’s national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal made the announcement here in a digital press briefing. […]
AAP alleges CM Kejriwal in ‘house arrest’, police denies
New Delhi: The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi on Tuesday alleged that the Delhi Police has put Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal under house arrest, a day after he visited the agitating farmers at the Delhi-Haryana Singhu border, a charge denied by the force. In a tweet, the AAP from its official Twitter handle said, […]
Kejriwal, Sisodia asked to appear in defamation case ‘without any failure’ on Dec 3
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav have been asked to appear before the Delhi court on December 3 in connection with a criminal defamation case. The trio had moved an exemption application on November 25, which Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey duly allowed […]
After Kejriwal’s proposal, LG caps gathering at functions to 50
New Delhi: Acting upon the proposal sent by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Delhi Disaster Management Committee (DDMA) on Wednesday decided to reinforce the restrictions on gatherings at marriage related events, imposing a cap of a maximum of 50 persons. The decision came a day after Kejriwal wrote to the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Anil […]
COVID-19: Delhi markets may shut, only 50 people in capital weddings
New Delhi: In the backdrop of a third wave of Covid-19 in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced that markets may be shut as a precautionary measure and only 50 people will be allowed in weddings not 200, as per strict norms to curb further spread of the Coronavirus. Kejriwal was speaking to the […]