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Nehru Centre Library is located on the first floor of the Discovery of India building. It has about 25,000 books on various disciplines like religion, philosophy, social sciences, astronomy and allied sciences, arts and architecture, literature, history, geography and biographies.
The centre is named after India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1977, the centre started with the 'Light and Sight' exhibition, and then in 1979 a Science Park was built. On 11 November 1985 it was opened to the public by Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India. [2] [3] Nehru Science Centre, Worli
The Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi is situated on the grounds of Teen Murti Bhavan, previously known as 'Nehru Memorial Museum and Library', earlier the official residence of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and now a museum in his memory. In 1964, the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund was set up to promote his ideas and it undertook ...
He was the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow at the King's College, Cambridge during 1983–1984. [ 21 ] Rao has been working as the National Research Professor holding the positions Linus Pauling Research Professor and Honorary President of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research ...
The Centre for Contemporary Studies was set up in this building as a new unit in 1990. View of Rashtrapati Bhawan from the entrance porch of Teen Murti Bhawan. To commemorate the Foundation Day of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, it organises an annual lecture on 1 April, called the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Foundation Day Lecture.
Main commercial centre, Nehru Place, South Delhi, India. Nehru Place is a large commercial centre in Delhi, India.Although its importance as a financial centre has declined in recent years, Nehru Place is still a prominent commercial area in South Delhi and houses the headquarters of several Indian firms and rivals with other financial centres in the metropolis like Connaught Place, Bhikaji ...
Lord Mountbatten swears in Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of India on 15 August 1947. There were members from Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Parsi communities represented in India's first ministry. There were two members from the Dalit community represented as well. [3] [4] Rajkumari Amrit Kaur was the only female Cabinet ...
Charles Correa, a Roman Catholic of Goan descent, was born on 1 September 1930 in Secunderabad. [2] [3] He began his higher studies at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.He went on to study at the University of Michigan (1949–53) where Buckminster Fuller was a teacher, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1953–55) where he obtained his master's degree.