Delhi News Live Today, DU Cut off list, Delhi Covid News: Most seats in top courses like Economics (H), BCom (H), English (H) were filled up after the first cut-off list was released on September 30.
Delhi News Live Updates: The Delhi University today will release the third cut-off list for its undergraduate admissions. Based on the first and second cut-offs, the university has so far admitted over 48,000 students after receiving over 1.8 lakh applications. The total number of seats in all DU colleges that are open for admissions is 70,000.
Most seats in top courses like Economics (H), BCom (H), English (H) were filled up after the first cut-off list was released on September 30.
In other news, in a case where a man was brutally lynched and strung up at the Singhu border on Friday morning, police said a preliminary probe suggested that the Nihangs killed a 35-year-old Lakhbir Singh, a Dalit Sikh resident of Cheema Kalan village in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district, because they suspected him of desecrating the Guru Granth Sahib — a claim the police said had not yet been corroborated.
Meanwhile, Delhi recorded 26 fresh Covid-19 cases and zero deaths with a case positivity rate at 0.04 per cent, the city’s health department said. So far in October, only 2 deaths were registered in the national capital. Currently, there are 327 active cases.
Delhi news live today: DU third cut-off list to be out today; City records 26 fresh Covid-19 cases, zero deaths; case positivity rate at 0.04 per cent; Police likely to make arrests in Singhu border lynching case; follow this for live updates
Delhi recorded 26 fresh Covid-19 cases and zero deaths with a case positivity rate at 0.04 per cent, the city’s health department said. So far in October, only 2 deaths were registered in the national capital. Currently, there are 327 active cases.
The Delhi University today will release the third cut-off list for its undergraduate admissions. Based on the first and second cut-offs, the university has so far admitted over 48,000 students after receiving over 1.8 lakh applications. The total number of seats in all DU colleges that are open for admissions is 70,000.
Police near the site where the body was found at the Singhu border on Friday. (Photo: Amit Mehra)
In a macabre incident that cast a shadow on the ongoing farmer protest at Singhu on the Delhi-Haryana border, a man’s hand was chopped off before he was killed and the body tied to a metal barricade, allegedly by a group of Nihangs, at the protest site early Friday.
Police said a preliminary probe suggested that the Nihangs killed 35-year-old Lakhbir Singh, a Dalit Sikh resident of Cheema Kalan village in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district, because they suspected him of desecrating the Guru Granth Sahib — a claim the police said had not yet been corroborated.
Second wave of Covid-19 in Delhi fuelled by Delta, highlights challenge of reaching herd immunity
The severe outbreak of Covid-19 in Delhi in 2021 showed not only that the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is extremely transmissible, but that it can infect individuals who had previously contracted a different variant of the coronavirus, said a team of international scientists writing in Science.
SARS-CoV-2 had spread widely throughout India in the first wave, with initial results from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) finding one in five (21 per cent) adults and one in four (25 per cent) in the 10 to 17 year adolescent bracket infected.
To counter namaz in open, Gurgaon residents show up with mic, sing bhajans
For the fourth consecutive week, a group of residents Friday objected to namaz being offered in the open at Gurgaon’s Sector 47 as police shifted the prayer site by 100 metres from its original spot.
Prayers were offered amid heavy police presence as at least 70-80 people, carrying placards, raised slogans and tried to march towards the site. Police created a security cordon and stopped them.
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