Delhi civic body official says audit needed and ‘distorted internal dynamics, repeated complaints of mismanagement of funds from the library compelled MCD to restrict funding’.
Hazrat Shah Waliullah Library, built as a one-room sanctuary during the 1987 riots, is bursting at the seams with thousands of Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, and English books.
Murty Classical Library of India works on translation & publication of Indian classics. Academics were allegedly dismissed by chair of oversight board, Harvard prof Parimal Patil, in January.
The Community Library Project holds BR Ambedkar as its inspiration. It has become a refuge for children with literary passions seeking knowledge and acceptance.
The library at India International Centre has digitised nearly 9,434 items from its unique and rare collection of books and materials, some dating back to 17th century.
Khuda Bakhsh library is an ‘Institution of National Importance’ according to Parliament. Now, Nitish govt's plan for elevated road suggests knocking down its historic Curzon Reading Hall.
With free wifi, computers and books, the Delhi Police Public Library in R.K. Puram aims to provide an environment that is conducive for studying for slum children.
Residents of the hilly Mothakkara village in Kerala’s Wayanad district had no easy access to books at the library. Then Radhamani took matters into her own hands.
The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.
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