Indian States & UTs Quiz: Delhi GK

The Delhi Metro was the first metro and rail based system in the world to be certified by the United Nations for earning carbon credits, because its regenerative braking returns electricity to the grid each time a train slows.

It inserted Articles 239AA and 239AB into the Constitution, renamed the union territory of Delhi as the National Capital Territory of Delhi and gave it a legislative assembly and a council of ministers, with the arrangement coming into force in February 1992.

The Delhi Legislative Assembly has seventy seats, all filled by direct election, and the Council of Ministers may not be larger than a tenth of that strength, which means at most seven ministers including the Chief Minister.

At the Delhi Durbar held on 12 December 1911, King George V, who had come to India for his coronation durbar, announced that the capital of British India would be moved from Calcutta to Delhi.

After the 1911 announcement the two British architects planned the new capital, Lutyens designing the Viceroy's House, now Rashtrapati Bhavan, and laying out the central vista, while Baker designed the two Secretariat blocks on Raisina Hill and the circular Council House that became Parliament House.

Shah Jahan built the fort between 1639 and 1648 as the citadel of his new capital Shahjahanabad, and it was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2007.

He began the tower, of which only the first storey was raised in his lifetime, and it stands beside the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque he built in the Qutub complex.

The ruler of Amber and founder of Jaipur built the Delhi Jantar Mantar in 1724, the first of the five observatories he raised, the others being at Jaipur, Ujjain, Mathura and Varanasi.

The Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary lies on the southern Delhi Ridge, the last northern spur of the Aravalli range, and covers old mining land that has been restored to thorn forest.

The founder of the Tughlaq dynasty built Tughlaqabad in the early fourteenth century as the third of Delhi's historic cities, with massive sloping rubble walls on a rocky outcrop in the south of the present city.

Until then cases from Delhi went to the Punjab High Court, and a separate High Court for Delhi was set up in 1966 by an Act of Parliament, with jurisdiction that then extended over Delhi and for some years over other areas as well.

Shanti Van, the forest of peace, lies north of Raj Ghat on the bank of the Yamuna and marks the place where the first Prime Minister of India was cremated in 1964.