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The dense fog that lasted for nearly 11 hours on Sunday hit flight and rail operations in the Capital leaving thousands of passengers waiting for hours, airport and railway officials said.

Visibility dipped below 200 metres at 12.30 am and was zero for nearly seven-and-a-half-hours between 3am and 10.30am — leading to around 400 flights being delayed at the airport, 10 getting diverted and at least 20 getting cancelled, officials said.

The cascading effect of delays continued till the evening even though sunlight improved visibility for five hours, from 12pm to 5pm.

Munawwar Rana, the famous Urdu poet and author, breathed his last on Sunday after a prolonged illness. He took his last breath at the age of 71. Following a deterioration in his health, he was admitted to a private hospital in Lucknow on Thursday. His daughter, Sumaiya Rana, had informed that he was on a ventilator, and his condition was critical. It is reported that Munawwar Rana was shifted to the ICU when his health deteriorated further, and unfortunately, he succumbed to the illness.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal asking him to appear before it on January 18 for questioning in the money laundering probe related to irregularities in the Delhi excise policy 2021-22, people familiar with the development said on Saturday. Kejriwal had last week skipped ED’s third summons.

Media had reported on January 4 that the ED would reissue the summons to the chief minister but his repeated disregard of the summons was scuttling their probe into the case.

In his response to the ED’s third summons, which he termed as “illegal”, Kejriwal had said he was ready to cooperate but that the agency’s intention was to arrest him and stop him from election campaigning.

The Trinamool Congress is no longer interested in initiating fresh talks with the Congress regarding the seat sharing arrangement for the Lok Sabha polls this year as part of the INDIA bloc.

A veteran leader of the party and also a senior member of the West Bengal Cabinet said that the party supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was of the opinion that further talks with the Congress were useless on two grounds.

The Delhi High Court recently held that foreigners cannot claim the right to reside and settle in India stating that their fundamental rights are limited to protection and liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.

The court observed: “Fundamental Right of any such foreigner or suspected foreigner is limited to the one declared under Article 21 of Constitution of India i.e. Fundamental Right for life and liberty and there is nothing which may suggest that his liberty has been curtailed in an illegal or unlawful manner.”