Page 7 - New Year

Additional police personnel, parking at Kartaviya Path to manage footfall

Anticipating a surge in footfall at Kartvaya Path here in view of the New Year celebrations, the local authorities will deploy additional police personnel and have created multiple parking sites to manage the crowd. The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Friday said all the arrangements have been made ahead of time to ensure that people can enjoy the New Year safely and the crowd does not pose any security problems. According to officials, Delhi Traffic Police has made elaborate arrangements at and around India Gate to regulate traffic -- both vehicular and pedestrian. In case of heavy pedestrian movement, vehicles may not be allowed to enter the C-Hexagon and India Gate area and diverted, the traffic police said in an advisory. Visitors are advised to use public transport as there is a shortage of parking space at India Gate, it said. "The number of people visiting Kartavya Path has increased. We have increased the deployment of officials from the health department, enforcemen

No exit from Rajiv Chowk metro station post 9 pm on New Year's eve

'To ease overcrowding on New Year's eve (December 31, 2022), exit from Rajiv Chowk metro station will not be allowed from 9 pm onwards'

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Madhya Pradesh govt issues security alert to ensure peace, communal harmony

After receiving inputs from the central agencies that communal harmony may be disrupted in the state around the New Year, the Madhya Pradesh government has issued a statewide security alert

Delhi to ring in New Year in chilly weather as IMD predicts cold wave

Cold wave and cold day conditions are predicted to wallop parts of Delhi on New Year's eve and the winter chill would intensify further in early January, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said. Cold conditions have abated in north India, including Delhi, for now under the influence of a western disturbance, characterised by warm moist winds from the Middle East. However, the minimum will start dropping again from December 31, meteorologists said. The minimum will drop to 6 degrees Celsius on Saturday and further to 4 degrees Celsius by Monday (January 2), the IMD forecast. On Thursday, the Safdarjung observatory, Delhi's primary weather station, recorded a minimum temperature of 7 degrees Celsius against 6.3 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, 5.6 degrees on Tuesday and 5 degrees on Monday. The maximum temperature is likely to settle around 23 degrees Celsius. Fourteen trains to Delhi were reported to be running late due to dense to very dense fog in other areas, a Railways

Karnataka makes masks mandatory in public places, increases Covid testing

State govt tells revellers to end New Year celebrations before 1 am; Centre readies for mock drills today

Himachal Police directs SPs, district police to manage tourists' rush

In view of festival season of Christmas and New Year, Himachal police authorities have issued necessary guidelines and directed SPs and other district police officials to make adequate arrangements

Noida cops tell mall, bar operators to step up security for X-mas, New Year

The Noida Police on Friday held a meeting with operators of shopping malls and bars to review security arrangements ahead of Christmas and New Year and asked them to ramp up preparations during the festive season. The police warned that they would take strict action in cases of drunk driving but also said this time in a novel initiative they would be arranging hired cabs with verified drivers to help tipplers reach home safe. According to industry estimates, nearly two lakh revellers are expected on New Year's eve and January 1 at shopping malls in Sector 18, the biggest market and revenue generator of Noida. The review meeting was held at the NEA Bhawan in Sector 6 in the presence of DCP Noida Harish Chander, Additional DCP Ashutosh Dwivedi and ACP Rajneesh Verma with representatives of malls like Gardens Galleria, DLF Mall of India, Radisson Blu, and bar operators in attendance. The meeting came a day after Police Commissioner Laxmi Singh visited the busy markets and malls in the

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May Gujarat always rise to heights of achievements: PM Modi on new year

Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished and greeted the people of Gujarat on the occasion of Gujarati New Year (Bestu Varas)

People ring in Bengali New Year with elan

Long queues were witnessed outside Kalighat and Dakshineswar temples since morning, with many people seen exchanging greetings as they waited for their turn to enter the shrines

Over 1 mn people made bookings with OYO for New Year celebrations: CEO

Over 10 lakh people booked for more than 5 lakh nights with hospitality chain OYO for New Year 2022 celebrations, generating bookings worth around Rs 110 crore over the weekend on its global platform, according to company Founder & Group CEO Ritesh Agarwal. In a social media post, he said 58 per cent bookings for the New Year's eve were made on the same day keeping the trend witnessed since December 2017 that reflected the "impulsive emotion and decision" related with travel. "Thank you to over a million people who booked more than half a million nights with us this New Years. For all of us at OYO, it was a busy NY (new year)," he wrote in his post on LinkedIn. He further said, "2021 booking was (the) highest among 90 pandemic weekends since April 2020 with total customer bookings globally on our platform worth (around) Rs 110 crore (USD 14.6 million) over the weekend." Agarwal said rooms booked on NY weekend of December 30-31 in 2021 stood at 5.03 lakh as compared to 1.02 lakh ...

China central bank to step up cash injection before Lunar New Year: Report

China's central bank is set to "timely replenish" liquidity shortfalls before the Lunar New Year holiday, the state-owned China Securities Journal said

Investors' wealth zooms by Rs 4.76 trillion in first 2 trading days of 2022

Equity investors' wealth jumped by Rs 4.76 trillion in the first two days of trading in the New Year, driven by optimism in the broader market.

Wall Street downplays worries in wishful start to 2022 amid Covid concerns

Wall Street's New Year optimism overpowered concerns about the coronavirus and inflation on Monday

Microsoft fixes bug that shut down work emails on New Year

Microsoft has fixed a bug that prevented people from sending work emails on the very first day of the New Year.

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Mumbai sees 12% rise in daily Covid cases while Gujarat and Karnataka also see an uptick in cases