Dilli

A four-day cultural event celebrating 300 years of poet Mir Taqi Mir was held at the India International Centre in Delhi from February 15-18. ‘Meer ki Dilli, Shahjahanabad: The Evolving City’, organised by Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind), honoured the city’s rich poetic heritage and traced the ways in which the idea of Delhi as a political, cultural and civilisational hub has evolved through the ages. The different sessions, whose titles were taken from Mir’s poetry, had historians, artists, writers and scholars talking…

Delhi government's ambitious "Dilli Bazaar" e-portal that will enable shoppers across the globe to have a virtual tour of the city's key markets and shop on the lines of other e-commerce platforms, will go live in December with 10,000 vendors, an official statement said.Through Dilli Bazaar, the Arvind Kejriwal government aims to bring Delhi's markets to a “cutting-edge” digital platform where every Delhi-based trader will be able to display and sell their products to the world, it said.The government will bring over one…