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Old Delhi. / 28.66083°N 77.23000°E / 28.66083; 77.23000. Old Delhi ( Hindustani: Purani Dilli) is an area in the Central Delhi district of Delhi, India. It was founded as a walled city and officially named Shahjahanabad in 1648, when Shah Jahan decided to shift the Mughal capital from Agra. [ 1]
Delhi, [a] officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its right bank, Delhi shares borders with the state of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions.
Tihar Prisons, also called Tihar Jail and Tihar Ashram, is a prison complex in India and one of the largest complex of prisons in India. It has 9 functional prisons spread over more than 400 acres. [ 2][ 3] Run by Department of Delhi Prisons, the prison contains nine central prisons, and is one of the three prison complexes in Delhi.
Delhi has been an important political centre of India as the capital of several empires. [ 1] The recorded history of Delhi begins with the 8th century Tomar Rajputs kingdom. It is considered to be a city built, destroyed and rebuilt several times, as outsiders who successfully invaded the Indian subcontinent would ransack the existing capital ...
Parliament House ( ISO: Saṁsada Bhavana ), in New Delhi is the seat of the Parliament of India. It houses the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, which are lower and upper houses respectively in India's bicameral parliament. As part of India's Central Vista Redevelopment Project, a new parliament building was constructed in New Delhi.
hide. Delhi–Vadodara-Mumbai Expressway. Delhi–Mumbai Expressway in red. Route information. Maintained by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Length. 1,350 km (840 mi) Existed. 594 km 12 February 2023 ( Sohna – Dausa) 2 October 2023 (Dausa-Sawai Madhopur) (Bhanpura Interchange-Thandla Interchange) [ 1 ] February 2024 (Vadodara ...
Historic map of Delhi(Indraprastha), in 1863 [5] Indraprastha today. In Pali Buddhist literature Indraprastha was known as Indapatta. The location of Indraprastha is uncertain but Purana Qila in present-day New Delhi is frequently cited [ a ] [ 6 ] and has been noted as such in texts as old as the 14th-century CE. [ 7 ]
Chanakyapuri ( Sanskrit: चाणक्यपुरी, romanized : Cāṅakyapurī) is a neighbourhood and diplomatic enclave established in the 1950s in New Delhi, India. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It is also a sub-division of the New Delhi district and plays host to the majority of foreign embassies in New Delhi. Chanakyapuri, meaning "city of Chanakya ...