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34 unusual facts about Delhi


Abdul Hakim Ansari

Born at Farid Abad near Delhi on July 29, 1893, his father was Hafiz Abdur Raheem and his mother Syeda Umat-ul-Aisha.

Amrita Cheema

She went to Britain after obtaining a first class B.A. and M.A. degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

Anupam Sud

Sud studied at the College of Art, Delhi from 1962 to 1967, during the same decade that Somnath Hore was retooling and revitalizing the college’s printmaking department.

B. M. Shah

Shah was also a well regarded Sanskrit teacher at St. Columba's School, Delhi for several years, before he became Director, National School of Drama (New Delhi).

Bega Begum

Before starting, she made arrangements for building at her own cost her husband's mausoleum at Delhi.

Daryaganj

Netaji Subhash Road that begin from Delhi Gate and goes towards the historic Red Fort, Jama Masjid and Chandni Chowk, passes through middle of the area, which are short walk away.

David UU

In 1980 he settled in North Vancouver where he lived until finally moving to a farmhouse near Delhi, Ontario in 1992 where he died in May, 1994.

Delhi Ridge

In 1993, parts of north Delhi, central Delhi, south West Delhi and south Delhi covering 7,777 hectares was declared a reserve forest.

Delhi Times

Delhi Times is a supplement magazine circulated with the Times of India in New Delhi, Delhi.

It also serves as a lifestyle magazine for readers in Delhi.

Delhi, Colorado

Delhi was the location of one scene in the 1973 film "Badlands" with Martin Sheen.

Delhi, Louisiana

Charles and Sam Wyly, businessmen who endowed Wyly Tower of Learning at Louisiana Tech.

Charles A. Marvin, judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second District from 1975 to 1999; worked as news editor at Delhi Dispatch c.

Delhi: A Novel

Some parts of the novel were also published in the Evergreen Review and The Illustrated Weekly of India.

Dyal Singh College

Dyal Singh College, Delhi, a college of University of Delhi, established in 1959, and is situated in Delhi.

ILUG-Delhi

In the months of June, July and August 2006, a bio-informatics workshop was run in collaboration with JNU Bio Informatics Centre, to develop FOSS solutions in Bio-Informatics field and to nurture talent in FOSS tools and languages.

Jagan Nath Kaul

After completing his master's degree in economics Kaul began his professional career with the city of Delhi, rising to the positions of chief of probation services and assistant director of social welfare.

Kartar Singh Duggal

Duggal had been a member of many literary and cultural centres including being the President of Punjabi Sahitya Sabha (Punjabi Literary Society), Delhi.

Mahmood Khan Durrani

Captain Durrani was presented with his George Cross by Field Marshal Lord Wavell in 1946 at a special investiture ceremony held at the Red Fort, Delhi.

Melville de Mellow

He is remembered for his high quality reports and commentary on various events in independent India, the most notable of which is a seven hour broadcast of Mahatma Gandhi's funeral in Delhi.

Mir Khalil ur Rehman

In 1940, when he was still a student, he started a newspaper for Muslims in pre-partition Hindustan fighting in World War II in Delhi.

Natasha Rastogi

She skipped the clichéd course in drama/acting and broadened her artistic vision by doing bachelor's in art from College of Art, Delhi.

Nehru Park

Nehru Park, Delhi (established 1969), at Chanakyapuri, in New Delhi

Nickiesha Wilson

In the Delhi Commonwealth Games 2010, she won bronze medal in 400m hurdles on October 10.

Nigel Hankin

They featured sights such as hidden bazaars and Hankin's walk and talk through Coronation Park.

Percival Spear

An accomplished historian of modern Indian social history, he taught at both Cambridge University and St. Stephen's College with great distinction.

Rajmohan Gandhi

He attended St. Stephen's College, New Delhi, India.

Robin Raina

The foundation is presently carrying out the largest private charity home building initiative in the Indian sub-continent, in terms of building 6000 homes, free of cost, for the slum dwellers of Delhi.

Salil Oberoi

Oberoi is a Rhodes Scholar and an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi, where he studied Economics between 2001 and 2004.

Sanadhya Brahmin

Sanadya Brahmin or Sanadh Brahmin, or Sanah Brahmin or Sanidya Brahmin are a community of Brahmins, living prominently in Delhi,Western Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh area of India.

Sanjay Jain

He obtained his PhD in Economics from the Princeton University in 1995, M.A. in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1989 and B.A. (Honours) in Economics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi in 1986.

Sasural Genda Phool

On the other hand, Ishaan Kashyap(Jay Soni) is a young software engineer, who lives with his extended family in Delhi-6.

Utpal Banerjee

He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India and obtained his Master of Science degree in Physical Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Valson Thampu

Valson Thampu is an Indian educator, Christian theologian, who is the present Principal of St Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Delhi, since 2008.


7 Welcome to London

Twenty-five-year-old Jai, portrayed by Asad Shan, leads an impoverished life in Delhi with his humble Punjabi family who he constantly struggles to support.

Allan Watkins

During that tour, Watkins battled his way to a nine hour long, unbeaten 137, in Delhi, his best Test score.

Alyssa Mendonsa

Alyssa Mendonsa (born c. 1990 in Delhi) is an Indian playback singer who has made her debut in the film Karthik Calling Karthik with the song "Uff Teri Adaa".

Anugraha Narayan Tiwari

Was given additional duties of Chairman of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), Kolkata, and Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) New Delhi, in different spells in the same period, while still holding the main responsibility of Special Secretary Power.

Ashok Mitra

He taught at the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East in Bangkok, Thailand before returning to Delhi in 1961.

Asoka Handagama

Novel in the form, this minimalist film travelled all around the world, was critically acclaimed at more than 50 international film festivals, and won numerous awards in Singapore, Chonju, Delhi, Houston, Bangkok and Tokyo.

Babyji

In Babyji, Dawesar paints a Delhi of crime, rape, dirt, blackouts, backwardness, residual colonialism, domestic violence, and arranged marriages, a city where promising young people often see their only option as going to the United States, thus contributing to the brain drain and setting in motion a vicious circle.

Baghdad Central Station

The station was built by the British to designs by J M Wilson , a Scot who had been an assistant to Lutyens in New Delhi and who subsequently set up a practice of his own in Baghdad .

Balharshah railway station

With the completion of the Kazipet-Balharshah link in 1929, Chennai was directly linked to Delhi.

Ber Sarai

The nearest road is an undivided and wide link between the Outer Ring Road and other areas of outer Delhi, such as Vasant Kunj.

Bharat Gupt

Bharat Gupt, A retired Associate Professor in English, who taught at the College of Vocational Studies of the University of Delhi, is an Indian classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst, and newspaper columnist.

Bhaskaracharya Tripathi

He has received many awards, including the Nirjhariṇī Award by the Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Academy for his work Mṛtkūṭam kāvyaśatam, the Paṃ jagannātha Award by the Delhi Sanskrit Academy, the Cārūdeva śāstrī award for his work Saṃskṛta jīvanam, Madhya Pradesh Sanskrit Academy's Bhoj Award for Bāla rāmāyaṇam and the Vachaspati Award by the K. K. Birla Foundation for Sāketa saurabham.

Company style

Leading centres were the main British settlements of Calcutta, Madras (Chennai), Delhi, Lucknow, Patna and the Maratha court of Thanjavur.

Deepak Parvatiyar

In September 2001, Deepak shifted his base of New Delhi and was Eenadu's political correspondent covering the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and its biggest coalition partner, the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Delhi Stock Exchange Association

The Delhi Stock Exchange is well connected to 50 cities with terminals in North India.

Gadarpur

Gadarpur is well connected with big cities like Haridwar, Dehradun, Rudrapur, Delhi, Moradabad etc.It is located on national highway NH-74.

Garden of Five Senses

The Garden of Five Senses is a park spread over 20 acres, in Saidul Ajaib village, opposite Saket, near the Mehrauli heritage area in Delhi, India.

George Russell Clerk

He thus worked as an Assistant to the President in Rajputana and Delhi, before being posted as Political Agent at Ambala and subsequently at Ludhiana in 1839 and Lahore in 1840.

Guneet Monga

In 2003, Monga intern with a production coordinator in 2003 in Delhi, and after receiving her mass communications she started career as production coordinator for international productions, most notably Vic Sarin's Partition (2007 film).

High-speed rail in India

Six corridors have already been identified for technical studies on setting-up of high-speed rail corridors: DelhiChandigarhAmritsar, Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Hyderabad-Kazipet-Dornakal-Vijayawada-Chennai, HowrahHaldia, Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam-Thiruvananthapuram, Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna.

History of Ranchi district

Later Jahangir, the son of Akbar sent his forces under the leadership of the Governor of Bihar, Ibrahim Khan and captivated the forty-fifth Kokrah chief, Durjan Sal to Delhi and later to Gwalior for a period of twelve years.

Jama Masjid, Delhi

The Jama Masjid's floorplan is very similar to the Jama Masjid, Fatehpur Sikri near Agra, but the Jama Masjid in Delhi is the bigger and more imposing of the two.

Janardan Dwivedi

On 6 June 2011, during a press conference in Delhi he criticized Swami Ramdev and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Jaypee Group

2012–Yamuna Expressway-New Delhi NOIDA -Agra Express eight-lane highway.

Kadambari Murali

She studied at Carmel Convent in Delhi’s Diplomatic Enclave before studying at Hindu College, University of Delhi for a BA (Hons) degree in Political Science.

Landmark quiz

The 20th edition of the Landmark Quiz was held in 6 cities Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Chennai.

Madhavan K. Palat

National Defence University, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi.

Majri

It connects Sewagram Junction towards Nagpur-Delhi and Wardha Junction towards Ahmedabad on north-west direction, Chandrapur and Balharshah towards Kazipet-Chennai-Hyderabad on south-east direction, and Majri Khadan, Wani, Rajura, Pipalkutti, Adilabad and Mumbai on east direction.

Malaudh

Sardar Badan Singh was an invitee to the Delhi Coronation Durbar held in December 1911 to commemorate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India and received Delhi Durbar Medal 1911.

Manoj Srivastava

Manoj Srivastava aka Robbin was born and brought up in old Delhi, south of the famous Jama Masjid as the eldest of three brothers.

Nalini Ambady

A native of the state of Kerala, India, Ambady did her schooling at the Lawrence School, Lovedale, and joined college at the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi.

Naya Kashmir

The actual writing of this memorandum took place in "Delhi Hotel" at Lahore and at Mr.Bedi's residence at Model Town Lahore.

Paap

When Lama Norbu, a senior lama from the monastery has a dream that the Buddhist teacher, Rinpoche has been reborn, he sends Kaaya to Delhi to bring him back to the monastery.

Param Vir

Born in Delhi into a family life permeated with Indian classical music, Param Vir's strong interest in music developed as a teenager when attending a Roman Catholic secondary school and had informal lessons from composer Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, then resident in India.

Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta

He went to Delhi and joined as a Professor in English at the Hindu College, University of Delhi.

Renukoot

Renukoot has a railway station which is connected to major cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Jammu, Ranchi, Patna, Jabalpur, and Bhopal.

Sarabjit Singh

The Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh took up Sarabjit Singh's case with the Pakistan High Commissioner Aziz Ahmed Khan and urged him to convey Delhi's hope that Islamabad would treat the matter as a humanitarian issue.

Shaikh Sama'al-Din Kamboh

The mazar of Hazrat Shaikh Sama'al-Din is located in Delhi where the Zubairies of Panipat used to assemble every year for offering Fateha in pre-independence days.

Shakti

A commonly accepted list of Shakti peethas and their famous temple complexes includes: Jwalaji (Himachal), Tara Tarini (Berhampur, Orissa), Katyayani (Chattarpur, Delhi), Kamakhya (Assam), Kali at Kalighat (Kolkata, West Bengal), Naina Devi (Himachal), Guhyeshwari Temple Devi (Kathmandu, Nepal), Vishalakshi Temple (Varanasi).

SKP Engineering College

The College is approved by the AICTE, New Delhi and currently affiliated to the Anna University, Chennai.

Sonia Vihar

Delhi Transport Corporation provide bus services to Sonia Vihar from Mori Gate 258, New Delhi 258A and from NOIDA 33A(which is a rarity) are the DTC bus routes to Sonia Vihar.

Sufi saints of Aurangabad

JAN ALLA SHAHI - A sect founded at Jalna by Jan Mohammed, who was born at Sinnur near Delhi in H. 1030.

Sunita Godara

She became the national marathon champion first time in 1984 by winning Delhi Marathon She won medals in the Penang and Kedah marathons.

Tata Marcopolo

Tata Marcopolo products are currently being used or inducted in several Indian cities as part of the local transports fleet like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Mysore, Kolkata, Chennai, Lucknow, Kanpur, Chandigarh, Pune, South Kanpur, Kochi, Madurai, Hyderabad, Thane, Trivandrum etc.

Visa policy of India

Currently visas on arrival may be obtained at international airports of Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram and the list will be expanded with more airports like Goa, Gaya, Chandigarh and Amritsar.

World Association of Nuclear Operators

December 2008 - The Governors decide to postpone the 67th Governing Board meeting planned for Delhi, India following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

WorldMark

Some of their renowned landmark buildings include ITC Green Centre, ITC Royal Gardenia, Grand Hyatt, Maurya Sheraton, Corporate offices in Delhi NCR of Ranbaxy, Microsoft & Ericsson etc.

Zeyaur Khan

Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, Research on insect-plant interactions in cotton