Ever since it reopened following the Covid-induced lockdown, Delhi University’s Hansraj College has stopped serving non-vegetarian food. Students The Indian Express spoke to said non-vegetarian food was not being served in the canteen or the hostel, where roughly 200 students live.
Delhi University had first shut down and switched to online classes in March 2020 when the national lockdown was announced at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and resumed physical classes on February 17, 2022.
A third-year History Honours student said they had not been given any particular reason for the move.
A 24-year-old trainee ticketing agent of British Airways was arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly making a hoax bomb call to the SpiceJet call centre when its Pune-bound flight was about to depart from the capital Thursday.
Police said a few minutes before a Delhi-Pune SpiceJet flight was about to depart from IGI Airport around 9.30 pm, information was received at the airline’s call centre regarding a bomb in the flight. The CISF control room was informed and the aircraft was parked at an isolation bay. After the luggage of passengers was checked by CISF, no suspicious item was found. Thereafter, the airline lodged a complaint with the IGI Airport police station and a case was lodged.
