Delhi News Live Updates: Temperature rises to 7.4 degrees Celsius this morning, two days

Delhi News Live Updates Today, December 13: The city will witness mainly clear skies, becoming partly cloudy towards evening or night.

delhi winters Shallow fog in the morning is on the IMD forecast for the rest of the week as well. (Express Photo)

Delhi News Live Updates Today: Two days after recording this year’s lowest temperature at 6.5 degrees Celsius, three degrees below normal, Delhi’s temperature rose to 7.4 degrees Celsius Wednesday morning, according to the forecast released by the India Meteorological Department (IMD). Parts of Delhi-NCR witnessed shallow fog as well. The city will witness mainly clear skies, becoming partly cloudy towards evening or night. A maximum temperature of around 25 degrees Celsius is expected through the day.

Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hit Delhi’s streets kicking off the ‘Shukriya Modi’ programme on Wednesday. The programme will be held in each of the party’s 14 organisational districts, and will entail gathering signatures in support of and expressing gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi from women belonging to the Muslim community. The initiative, according to sources, will allow the party connect it with its ongoing outreach among Pasmanda Muslims and its recent thrust on “women power” for 2024.

In other news, with new rules restricting all sorts of protests within the Jawaharlal Nehru (JNU) campus, former JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) presidents have expressed disappointment and concern over the move, stating that “the very meaning of a democratic campus has come under attack”. According to the JNU Chief Proctor Office manual approved by the Executive Council on November 24, any kind of demonstration within the 100-metre radius of any academic or administrative building at JNU can now lead to a penalty of up to Rs 20,000 or rustication and expulsion from the campus for two semesters

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Delhi News Live Updates: ‘Tantamount to killing the university’: Ex-JNU Students Union presidents on protest curbs; Only 1,732 marriages registered each month: Delhi sees weddings galore, not as many registrations; and more. Follow this space for the latest updates from Delhi-NCR.

Despite the onset of winters and consistent dip in temperature, with the Capital recording the season’s coldest morning Monday, the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) has launched its winter action plan for 2023-24 only last week, almost a month late as compared to previous years when the plan was implemented starting mid-November.

As part of the plan, which will remain in force till mid-March next year, pagoda tents are set up across the capital to house the city’s homeless population during the cold, winter nights. Read more here.

For a city that sees lakhs of weddings every year, Delhi seems to be less enthusiastic when it comes to getting them registered. According to Revenue Department data, between January 1, 2019, and November 30, 2023, a total of 1,17,690 applications were received and 1,02,245 marriages were registered.

The figure is abysmally low as the Capital witnesses 3 to 5 lakh weddings between October and February only — considered peak wedding season — every year. The lackadaisical attitude towards marriage registration is despite the act being compulsory in the Capital following a Supreme Court order.

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First published on: 12-12-2023 at 11:20 IST