Delhi

City and Union territory of India

Delhi, 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, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders with the state of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions. The NCT covers an area of 1,484 square kilometres (573Ā sqĀ mi). According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11Ā million, while the NCT's population was about 16.8Ā million. Delhi's urban agglomeration, which includes the satellite cities Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Noida in an area known as the National Capital Region (NCR), has an estimated population of over 28Ā million, making it the largest metropolitan area in India and the second-largest in the world.

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The 'rat-hole' miners, summoned to the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand, played a crucial role in manually clearing the last stretch to rescue the trapped workers...
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In a blow to the Delhi government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Centre to go ahead with its decision to grant a six-month extension to Delhi chief..
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Former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has moved the Supreme Court seeking a review of its order denying him bail in the corruption and money..
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By March 2025, the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah railway routes, recognized as the two most bustling, will be fully integrated with the Kavach anti-train..
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Munna Qureshi, 29, is a rat-hole miner employed by a trenchless engineering services company in Delhi that cleans water and sewer systems.
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The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it intends to extend Delhi chief secretary Naresh Kumar's tenure by six months and as and when the occasion..
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After consecutive setbacks caused by the auger machine's failure, a team of 'rat-hole' miners from Rockwell, a Delhi-based private company, was deployed to..
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President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday received her new voter ID card from Delhi's Chief Electoral Officer P Krishnamurthy at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here...
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Delhi Police arrests five operatives of designated terrorists Arshdeep Dalla, including Rajpreet Singh alias Bomb and Virender Singh alias Vimmy. They were..
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Sixteen flights that were supposed to land in Delhi were diverted on Monday evening after heavy rains and lightning affected the operations in the Indira Gandhi..
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Senior engineer from Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur division of South East Central Railway (SECR) left shocked after being transferred to the Northern Railway (NR) zone..
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A Vistara flight from Kolkata to Delhi was diverted to Lucknow due to escalating air traffic congestion at the Delhi airport on Monday. The airline announced the..
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The rain brought respite to Delhiites fighting air pollution.
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The national capital has recorded 10 severe air quality days this November so far.
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Before their Mumbai and Delhi gigs, the Texas-bred/New York-based music collective Snarky Puppy discusses their musical mixtape, assembling a crew of 20..
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The Court of the Chief Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities has punished officials responsible for a four-year delay in updating the category of a Mahanagar..
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Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva has written to central probe agencies and Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena, seeking an investigation into alleged..
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On Sunday, the nation's capital saw a high of 26.4 degrees Celsius and a low of 10.4 degrees Celsius-both slightly below the season's average.
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The air pollution in the National Capital continues to be in the 'very poor' category, with an overall Air Quality Index (AQI) recording of 393.
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Defence minister Rajnath Singh and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal paid tributes to the victims of the Mumbai terror attack on its 15th anniversary. Singh..
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The Court of the Chief Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities has punished officials responsible for a four-year delay in updating the category of a Mahanagar..
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Additional Sessions Judge Ravindra Kumar Pandey while passing judgement in the case, directed that the sentence of the four accused will run consecutively.
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Rahul Gandhi claims Congress punctured BJP's tires in poll-bound Telangana and will do the same in Delhi. He reminds Chandrasekhar Rao that Congress built the..
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Former Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy withdraws his petition seeking constitution of an expert committee to examine the transfer of a Rs 48,000 crore..
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A man in Pune died after his wife punched him on the nose when he refused to take her to Dubai for her birthday celebration. The incident occurred in their..
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A man in Pune died after his wife punched him on the nose when he refused to take her to Dubai for her birthday celebration. The incident occurred in their..
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Terrorists garnered local patronage and operated with impunity in a part of Telangana right under the noses of police until the National Investigation Agency..
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With no sign of abatement of the turf war between the Centre and the Delhi government and a new front opening over the selection of the chief secretary of the..
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Air India will launch a non-stop service between Delhi and Phuket, Thailand's popular island destination, using an A320neo aircraft. The service, starting from..
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Delhi has been witnessing a gradual increase in AQI levels after a marginal improvement on Sunday. The city's Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 401.
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar travels to Delhi for routine eye check-up, triggering speculation due to timing of RJD chief Lalu Prasad's visit. Nitish's visit may..
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A delegation of Mizoram NGO Coordination Committee (NGOCC) has gone to Delhi to meet Election Commission officials and request a reschedule of the counting of..
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The Delhi High Court has granted opposition parties and the Central Government more time to respond to a petition seeking to restrain them from using the acronym..
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The air in Delhi-NCR dipped into the 'severe category' on Wednesday, from 'the 'very poor' category a day earlier, as per the Central Pollution Control Board.
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The Election Commission has issued a notice to the Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over derogatory social media posts targeting Delhi Chief..
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The top court directed it to provide Rs 415 crore for the project within two months.
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The Supreme Court has criticized the Delhi government for not providing funds for the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridors to Alwar and Panipat. The..
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