{"id":329863,"date":"2020-12-31T04:46:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T04:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329863"},"modified":"2020-12-31T04:47:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T04:47:08","slug":"night-curfew-in-delhi-on-dec-31-jan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/night-curfew-in-delhi-on-dec-31-jan-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Night curfew in Delhi on Dec 31, Jan 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-329141 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Delhi-traffic-police.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/Delhi-traffic-police.jpg 437w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/Delhi-traffic-police-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/>The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Thursday said that a night curfew will be imposed in the national capital on New Year&#8217;s eve to restrict the New Year celebrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The authority imposed a night curfew on December 31 and January 1 from 11 pm to 6 am and also from 11 pm of January 1 to 6 am of January 2 to ensure no further spread of coronavirus during New Year celebrations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Not more than five people can assemble at a public place. According to an order, no celebratory events and gatherings at public places are permitted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The order said after a detailed assessment of the situation in Delhi and considering the threat posed by the mutant UK strain of Covid-19 virus along with local incidents of coronavirus pandemic in the national capital, it is apprehended that gatherings, congregations and public celebrations of New Year pose a considerable threat of the spread of the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Punjab have also imposed night curfew to curb the spread of the coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Thursday said that a night curfew will be imposed in the national capital on New Year&#8217;s eve to restrict the New Year celebrations. The authority imposed a night curfew on December 31 and January 1 from 11 pm to 6 am and also from 11 pm of January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,13806],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329865,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329863\/revisions\/329865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}