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- India reported 23,285 new COVID-19 cases and 117 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry.
- The certificates issued against COVID-19 vaccination in the poll-bound West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala and Puducherry will no longer carry PM Narendra Modi’s photo.
- The Delhi High Court has said that filing fake cases of sexual harassment “is becoming a trend”.
- Delhi HC directed Delhi Police to provide protection to a 23-year-old lesbian woman who was forcibly married off by her family in 2019.
- Delhi received light showers today morning, thereby bringing respite from the recent rise in temperatures. Meanwhile, India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted isolated light to moderate rainfall over the national capital till today evening.
- BJP alleged a “scam” in the Delhi government’s procurement of new DTC buses. AAP leader and Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot refuted it and said that the government saved ₹225 crore in the process.
- Three policemen have been suspended in UP’s Kanpur for “laxity” following the death of an alleged 13-year-old gangrape victim’s father a day after he filed a police complaint.
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