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The Lahori Gate is the main entrance to the Red Fort in Delhi. The fort is approached through a covered street flanked by arcaded apartments called the Chhatta Chowk. Situated on the western wall of the fort, the gate received its name because it led to the city of Lahore, (Present Day Pakistan). The secondary entrance is the Delhi Gate.
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.
New Delhi (/ ˈ nj uː ˈ d ɛ. l i / ⓘ, [6] Hindi: [ˈnəiː ˈdɪlːiː], ISO: Naī Dillī) is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Sansad Bhavan, and the Supreme Court.
There are eleven administrative or revenue districts in Delhi, India, all of which fall under the Delhi division. [1] [2] Each of these district is headed by a District Magistrate (DM) also called Deputy Commissioner (DC), [3] [4] [5] who reports to the Divisional Commissioner who is ex-officio Director of Civil Defence, Inspector General of Stamps and Registration and Additional Chief ...
Govt. of New Delhi "Urban agglomerations/cities having population 1 million and above" (PDF). Provisional population totals, census of India 2011. Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
7, Lok Kalyan Marg (7LKM), formerly 7, Race Course Road, is the official residence and principal workplace of the Prime Minister of India. [1] [2] Situated on Lok Kalyan Marg, New Delhi, the official name of the Prime Minister's residence complex is Panchavati.
Shastri Bhavan is a government building in New Delhi. The building is named after India's second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri . This large sprawling building houses several Ministries of the Government of India.
Grace Morley was the first director of the National Museum, New Delhi, who earlier played an instrumental role as the founding director (1935–58) of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). [12] She joined the National Museum on 8 August 1960 and continued to hold its charge for six more years. [13]