Human Interest

Delhi Polls: Auto drivers demand stands, insurance and subsidies

Delhi Polls: Auto drivers demand stands, insurance and subsidies

As elections approach, autorickshaw drivers are demanding better provisions, improved working conditions and health care facilities

January 7, 2025

False promises, freezing nights: Delhi shelter board’s claims exposed

The number of tents set up by the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board is far less than the claim of 230 by the government body

December 20, 2024

AIIMS patients’ attendants suffer smog, freezing cold

Overcrowding and unsafe night shelters near the city’s premier facility leave families, including those children, out in the lurch

December 6, 2024

Delhi | We are being punished for the fault of civic agencies: shop owners

The decision of the authorities to shift coaching hubs out of Mukherjee Nagar and Old Rajinder Nagar has not gone…

August 9, 2024

UPSC aspirants boxed in pigeonholes at sky-high rents

Monopoly of brokers, who charge exorbitant rent for tiny rooms without ventilation, is forcing civil services aspirants to live in…

August 9, 2024

Delhi: Fate of night shelter, which doubles as recovery centre for homeless, hangs in balance

DDA’s plan to beautify the Yamuna floodplains may have spelled the end of the Geeta Ghat recovery shelter had the…

July 24, 2024

Delhi: Lack of supply leads to soaring prices of vegetables

Prices of tomatoes and potatoes have nearly quadrupled over past few days due to incessant rain, which has severely impacted…

July 18, 2024

Delhi: Displaced Yamuna farmers scramble for shelter

Over 15,000 residents of the Yamuna floodplains’ stretch from Mayur Vihar Phase-1 to the Yamuna River Bridge rendered homeless after…

July 12, 2024

Delhi Rains: Mother gives birth to one, mourns death of other

Spread across their six feet by four feet rented room in North East Delhi’s New Usmanpur, the parents of Salman…

July 4, 2024

Sanitation worker at JNU ends life; delayed payments to blame: family

His dues had been delayed by over three months, says victim's family; JNU says the employee's salary was paid regularly

May 28, 2024