  The recent experimental data on $D^{+}-D^{0}$ and $D^{\ast\, +}-D^{\ast\,0}$
mass differences are used as inputs in the QCD sum rules to obtain new
estimates on the mass difference of light quarks and on the difference of their
condensates: $m_d -m_u =3\pm 1\, MeV$, $\langle\bar{d}d\rangle
-\langle\bar{u}u\rangle = -(2.5\pm 1)\cdot 10^{-3}\langle\bar{u}u\rangle$ (at a
standard normalization point, $\mu = 0.5\, GeV$).
