books on the city of Delhi- among which Nayantara Sahgal’s This Time of Morning occupies a pre-eminent position. It belongs to the period of the birth of the nation India and yet another re-birth of the city of Delhi as its capital. Marked by violence and dislocation of the partition on the one hand‚ and establishment of government machinery and national culture on the other‚ study of this period is indispensible to any exploration of Delhi’s foundations and culture. Government Delhi of Sahgal’s is characterized
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India International Trade Fair begins in Delhi Aakriti Sawhney Aakriti Sawhney Aakriti SawhneyAakriti Sawhney ‚ Hindustan Times New Delhi‚ November 15‚ 2011 First Published: 17:31 IST(15/11/2011) Last Updated: 00:57 IST(16/11/2011) | An Afghani stall selling wallets and mobile cases at the Afghan pavilion at the India International Trade Fair (IITF). Keeping its annual date with Delhi‚ the 31st India International Trade Fair (IIFT) kicked off at Pragati Maiden on Monday. The fair‚ which has a
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Introduction Air is the ocean we breathe. Air supplies us with oxygen which is essential for our bodies to live. Air is 99.9% nitrogen‚ oxygen‚ water vapor and inert gases. Human activities can release substances into the air‚ some of which can cause problems for humans‚ plants‚ and animals. There are several main types of pollution and well-known effects of pollution which are commonly discussed. These include smog‚ acid rain‚ the greenhouse effect‚ and "holes" in the ozone layer. Each of these
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Until the 1920s‚ the Old Delhi Railway Station served the entire city‚ and the Agra–Delhi railway line cut through what is today known as Lutyens’ Delhi and the site of the India Gate on Kingsway (now Rajpath). Eventually the line was shifted to run along the Yamuna river‚ and when that route opened in 1924‚ the construction of the memorial site could begin. The New Delhi Railway Station was opened in 1926‚ ahead of the inauguration of the city of the same name in 1931.[1][2] The 42-metre tall
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design of several laboratories for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. His early projects for the ATRIA (Ahmadabad Textiles Industries Research Association) and the headquarters for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research‚ New Delhi (both 1954)‚ demonstrate the austere simplicity of the Bauhaus style. Kanvinde set up a private practice with the architect Shaukat Rai (b 1922) in 1955 and designed numerous institutional buildings‚ housing and industrial complexes for both the government
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The Red Fort Of Shahjahanabad. Delhi: Oxford University Press‚ May 2005. Caute‚ Lieven De. Heterotopia and the City. Routledge Publications‚ July 11‚ 2008. Dalrymple‚ William. City of Djinns. New Delhi: Penguin Books‚ 2004. —. The Last Mughal. Breat Britain: Bloomsbury Publishing‚ 2006. Dr. William Koehle‚ Professor Madhu C. Dutta. "The Raj versus the Republic: The Legacy of Lutyens." 2001. Foucault‚ Michel. "Of Other Spaces‚ Heterotopias." 1967. Frykenberg‚ R.E. Delhi Through the Ages. Oxford University
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Indian Institute of Foreign Trade NEWSLETTER NO. 15 JUNE 2012 RESEARCH Seminars/Workshops/Symposium • Dr. K. Rangarajan‚ Professor & Head – Kolkata Centre‚ attended the Material Management Day at Indian Institute of Materials Management on 26 April 2012 and delivered the key note address on the MM Day Theme – “Building SCM Competency for Global Challenges”. • Dr. K. Rangarajan who is also Chairman‚ Research in Strategic Management Forum of India attended the 15th Annual Convention of SMFI
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Bhagat. ‘The Axis of Hindu Consciousness in A.K.Ramanujan’s Poetry’‚ Indian English Literature Volume IV. ed. Basavaraj Naikar. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors‚ 2003. p. 5) The poem ‘Self-Portrait’ identifies this problem precisely when it suggests that the self is ‘more an absence than a presence’ (Dharwadker‚ Vinay. ‘Introduction’‚ Complete Works‚ Delhi: OUP‚ 1995‚ p. xxxiii) In the poem ‘A Copper Vat’ the memory plays the role of confusing the essential self: Seen just In passing
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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Swachh Bharat Date 2 October 2014 Location India . New delhi Organised by Narendra Modi Government of India Participants Anil Ambani Sachin Tendulkar Ruby Yadav Salman Khan Priyanka Chopra Yog Guru Baba Ramdev Kamal Hassan Mridula Sinha Shashi Tharoor Arvind Kejriwal The team of TV series Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah Amitabh Bachchan Hrithik Roshan Aamir Khan Swachh Bharat or Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Campaign Clean India) is a national
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ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF DELHI SULTANATE The Sultanate period brought to India new styles of art and architecture which were soon absorbed into the existing set up. A number of factors were responsible for events to move in such a direction. The existing Indian styles and the new ideas had many common features‚ which allowed them to adapt to one another. For instance both the temple and mosque had large open courtyards. Also many temples were converted in mosques by the foreign invaders‚ and this
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