When MCDs fail to fulfil their duties

According to the latest data by Praja foundation, in SDMC five councilors scored an “F”, while both in NDMC and EDMC – three had fared poorly. Patriot takes a look at the districts under these lowest scoring MCD’s jurisdiction to find the reason behind their mismanagement   Several councillors from each of Delhi’s three municipalities […]

Capturing Qawwali’s sufi connect 

Dedicated to Qawwali practitioners, IIC presents an exhibition of photographs titled ‘The Qawwali Photo Project – An Untold Story’ Unfolding through the eyes of photographers Dinesh Khanna, Mustafa Quraishi and Leena Kejriwal this show documents Qawwals like never before. The practitioners are photo-documented with their performance art, their lives and their association with the Sufi […]

Events of the week

Tribute to migrants What: Paying an ode to migrants and their footprints that lie scattered across the world, here is an audio visual exhibition titled, ‘Kaalpadukal: Songs of the diaspora’. Curated by Shafeena Yusuff Ali,  it’s a digital exploration of the modern-day migrant, as told through the strokes of 16 gifted digital artists from South India. Designed as […]

Dengue cases break 6 year record; highest since 2015

The number of dengue cases in Delhi this season has crossed 5,270, the highest in the national capital in a year since 2015, according to a civic report released on Monday Nearly 2,570 fresh cases of the vector-borne disease were logged in the city in the last one week. However, no fresh fatality was reported. According […]

17 injured as LPG cylinder catches fire in northwest Delhi

Seventeen people sustained burn injuries after a domestic gas cylinder caught fire and exploded in a shanty in northwest Delhi on Sunday The incident took place in the Lal Bagh area of Azadpur and the fire department received a call about the blaze around 10 am, they said. Seventeen people were injured in the explosion, but […]

Former child labourers in Delhi fight against odds, now off to college 

On this Children’s Day, here’s taking a look at the never-ending horrors of child labour in the Capital — and how some children have battled it out to create a future of worth   It may be over 10 years since, but Imtiyaz Ali remembers everything about those two months he spent as a child […]

Covid vaccination: ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ campaign begins in Delhi

A campaign to carry out house-to-house Covid-19 vaccination of people who are yet to take a dose and those whose second shot is overdue got underway in the national capital on Friday The central government had recently launched a month-long Har Ghar Dastak campaign to ensure no person is left behind in the vaccination exercise. According […]

Smog tightens grip on Delhi-NCR

The layer of eye-stinging smog lingering over Delhi-NCR thickened on Friday, giving an orange tint to the sun and lowering visibility to 200 metres at several places in the region reeling under hazardous pollution levels since early November Delhi has recorded severe air quality on five of the last seven days after Diwali. According to an […]