Short answers, pulled from the story.
One persistent story attributes the city's founding to a king named Dhillu who built it in 50 BCE and named it after himself. Another legend suggests the name derives from a Prakrit word meaning loose referring to an iron pillar with a weak foundation that required moving.
The Qutb Minar stands as a UNESCO World Heritage Site completed during the reign of Sultan Iltutmish between 1211 and 1236. Its height reaches approximately 72 meters and serves as one of the earliest extant mosques in India alongside the Quwwat-al-Islam mosque.
In 1911 it was announced that the capital would transfer from Calcutta to Delhi and this formal transfer occurred on the 12th of December 1911. The new capital officially became the capital of independent India after gaining independence on the 15th of August 1947.
During the partition of India around five hundred thousand Hindu and Sikh refugees migrated to Delhi from West Punjab while approximately three hundred thousand Muslim residents left for Pakistan. This demographic shift transformed Delhi from a Mughal city into what many describe as a Punjabi one with the population increasing by 285,000 through migration alone in 2001.
Shelly Oberoi serves as the current mayor of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi since 2023. The legislative assembly consists of seventy constituencies with seven Lok Sabha seats representing the area.
Air pollution causes approximately ten thousand five hundred deaths annually within the region and reduces life expectancy by almost ten years for an average resident. Fine particulate matter PM2.5 levels reached one hundred fifty-three micrograms per cubic meter making it the highest recorded anywhere.