LIVE: Jammu imposes night curfew due to rise in number of COVID-19 cases

Delhi: Environment Minister Gopal Rai holds a high-level meeting to ensure the implementation of Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region & Adjoining Areas directions to check the air pollution. Environment Department, PWD, Police, Traffic Police, MCD officials are present at the meet.

Air pollution | Delhi Environment Min Gopal Rai holds a high-level meeting to ensure the implementation of Commission for Air Quality Mgmt in National Capital Region & Adjoining Areas directions. Environment Dept, PWD, Police, Traffic Police, MCD officials are present at the meet pic.twitter.com/rl0YXFTzJW

— ANI (@ANI) November 17, 2021

Jhansi: Akash Ganga team of the Indian Air Force (IAF) skydives from MI-17. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will inaugurate the three-day 'Rashtra Raksha Samarpan Parv' here.

#WATCH | Akash Ganga team of Indian Air Force (IAF) skydives from MI-17, in Jhansi.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will inaugurate the three-day 'Rashtra Raksha Samarpan Parv' here. pic.twitter.com/iV3r01QSaP

— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) November 17, 2021

Jammu: Night curfew has been imposed due to rising COVID-19 cases. The district administration has imposed a curfew under section 144 CRPC from 10:00 PM to 06:00 AM in the territorial jurisdiction of the district from today.

Affidavits in Supreme Court over air pollution

Centre to SC in Affidavit: Not asking Central government employees to work from home as normalisation is returning after a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of vehicles used by the Central government is a minuscule fraction of the total vehicles in Delhi, stopping them from plying would not make much impact towards improving the air quality of Delhi.

Punjab Govt to SC in Affidavit: Will give Rs 100/quintal of paddy stubble to farmers for not burning it. Police and Fire Tenders will be deployed to douse farm fires.

Haryana Govt to SC in Affidavit: Industries except those running on PNG/CNG/Cleaner fuel have been ordered to be closed till November 30. Two Thermal Power Plant units in Panipat (total capacity of 450 MW) will be closed down till November 30.

Punjab: A 'jatha' at the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) gets ready to cross over to Pakistan to pay obeisance as Kartarpur Sahib Corridor reopens.

Punjab: #KartarpurSahibCorridor reopens from today. A jatha at Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) ready to cross over to Pakistan to pay obeisance.

Visuals from Amritsar. pic.twitter.com/5eTyYO7tdg

— ANI (@ANI) November 17, 2021

COVID-19: India has recorded 10,197 new cases, 12,134 recoveries and 301 deaths in the last 24 hours. The country's active caseload has now declined to its lowest in 527 days and currently stands at 1,28,555. 

#Unite2FightCorona#LargestVaccineDrive

https://t.co/DfmejHbu9J pic.twitter.com/rGOKrLvzRB

— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) November 17, 2021

Punjab: The Kartarpur Sahib Corridor will be reopened today (November 17). The Corridor which provides rare visa-free travel from India to Pakistan and vice versa for pilgrims to pray at Holy Gurudwara Darbar Sahib was closed since March last year in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the occasion, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi informed that the state cabinet will be part of the "Jatha", which will visit the historic shrine in Pakistan on November 18. 

My cabinet will pay obeisance at Sri Kartarpur Sahib as first delegation on Nov 18 after reopening of #KartarpurCorridor ahead of Parkash Purab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji. Also, thanks to the PM @narendramodi ji & HM @AmitShah ji for fulfilling demand of 'Nanak Naam Leva Sangat'.

— Charanjit S Channi (@CHARANJITCHANNI) November 16, 2021