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Delhi govt starts ‘Sugamya Sahayak’ scheme for disabled persons

Delhi govt starts ‘Sugamya Sahayak’ scheme for disabled persons

To avail the benefits under this scheme, the applicants must have a disability of 40 per cent or more, as…

January 12, 2024

At 3.9 degrees, Delhi shivers at season’s lowest minimum temperature

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said it is the lowest minimum temperature in the last five years

January 12, 2024

The changing fortunes of Nai Sarak’s calendar market

Amid shifting trends, political campaigns, and global exports, the once-ubiquitous paper calendar grapples with digitisation, changing consumer preferences and the…

January 12, 2024

Against all odds, Shalakha keeps Delhi afloat in women’s boxing

The 31-year-old was the lone bright spot for Delhi in recent women’s nationals, despite her age and below-par facilities 

January 11, 2024

MCD sanitation workers announce ‘chakka jam’, threaten to sit on hunger strike if demands not met

The workers have announced to stage a "chakka jam" (strike) across Delhi and stop sanitation work in the national capital…

January 12, 2024

Fog in parts of Delhi, minimum temperature settles at 7.1 degrees

A spokesperson for the railways said that fog impacted the schedule of "24 trains approaching Delhi" due to low visibility

January 11, 2024

Bus conductor suicide exposes DTC staff’s travails

Rahul Pawar’s death has prompted employees and their union head to come forward and speak of the atrocities faced by…

January 11, 2024

Delhi Brotherhood Society to establish school in Sonipat

The society, which established the St. Stephen’s College in the late 19th century, is setting up a school at Rai in…

January 10, 2024

A Dalit comedy group, the Press Club of India and a failed show

'Blue Material' alleges the event was scrapped due to its performers' caste bias but the club insists it received complaints…

January 11, 2024

Delhi’s winter power demand reaches all-time high amid ongoing cold conditions

According to real-time data from State Load Dispatch Centre, the peak power demand was 5,611 MW

January 10, 2024