{"id":1025775,"date":"2026-08-03T08:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025775"},"modified":"2026-08-03T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:07:00","slug":"for-delhis-delivery-riders-every-downpour-means-more-orders-more-income-and-more-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/03\/for-delhis-delivery-riders-every-downpour-means-more-orders-more-income-and-more-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"For Delhi&#8217;s delivery riders, every downpour means more orders, more income and more danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first drops of rain had barely hit the streets when food delivery apps across Delhi began buzzing with fresh orders. As office-goers stayed indoors and families reached for their phones to order groceries, medicines and meals, Rahul Kumar of New Seemapuri zipped up his raincoat, logged into his app and headed out onto the roads that were fast disappearing beneath water. <\/p>\n<p>July has been a profitable month for gig business in the national capital, bringing above-normal monsoon rainfall fuelled by a few intense spells after a prolonged dry phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first drops of rain had barely hit the streets when food delivery apps across Delhi began buzzing with fresh orders. As office-goers stayed indoors and families reached for their phones to order groceries, medicines and meals, Rahul Kumar of New Seemapuri zipped up his raincoat, logged into his app and headed out onto the roads that were fast disappearing beneath water. July has been a profitable month for gig business in the national capital, bringing above-normal monsoon rainfall fuelled by a few intense spells after a prolonged dry phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025794,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025775\/revisions\/1025794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}