NEWS
By Edward Lee and Edward Lee,SUN STAFF | March 4, 1998
The president of State University of New York at Delhi was named president of the 5,081-student Howard Community College yesterday, replacing Dwight A. Burrill, who resigned in September.The Columbia institution's third president in its 28 years, Mary Ellen Duncan will be the school's first female leader. A former Catonsville Community College administrator, she is expected to assume the $120,000-a-year post July 1."We are excited," said David A. Rakes, who chairs the board of trustees and announced the appointment before about 200 students, faculty and administration officials at the Student Activities Center.
NEWS
By Andrew Robinson | March 19, 1997
NEW DELHI -- The topic is ''virtual communities,'' the speaker a Silicon Graphics rep, the setting a ''CyberCity'' exhibition. A slick multi-media presentation and a large-screen video projection of the speaker flank the platform. The whole scene is brightly illuminated by an overhead chandelier. In the audience, hundreds of corporate delegates and local journalists hang on every word.You might think this country of 900 million was truly on the brink of the Information Age. But without a special back-up generator, there might be no CyberCity exhibition at all. Because India, which Bill Gates calls the next ''Software Superpower,'' is running short of the one thing that makes electronic data communications possible -- electricity.
TOPIC
By G. Jefferson Price III | September 26, 2004
DELHI, India - Notes from a railway aficionado visiting India. An anniversary occurs here Tuesday. It seems hardly worth remembering or noting in the pantheon of India's history, but there is some metaphoric poignancy in the event. One hundred and 10 years ago, on Sept. 28, 1894, in the time of the British Raj, a mail train traveling through the Saranda jungle, near Goilkera, about 220 miles from Calcutta, hit an elephant. The train was knocked off the tracks. The elephant was killed.
NEWS
By New York Times News Service | December 13, 1992
NEW DELHI, India -- After a week of savage sectarian riotin in dozens of cities and towns set off by the demolition of a 16th-century mosque by Hindu militants a week ago, India struggled toward calm yesterday, with far fewer reports of deaths and injuries trickling into the capital.Still, spasms of sectarian conflict erupted, raising the number of people killed in six days of Hindu and Muslim strife above 1,100. In Bombay, which was one of the cities hardest hit by the violence, police again opened fire on stone-throwing mobs, but yesterday there were no reports of deaths.
NEWS
By STEPHEN G. HENDERSON and STEPHEN G. HENDERSON,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | May 3, 2006
DELHI, India-- --Cardamom. Indigenous to India, this astringent spice has a name that sounds like a mental reminder of something you really must do before Mother's Day. "Note to self: Send flowers or, at the very least, a cardamom." This somewhat-punishing pun occurred to me one afternoon a few weeks ago as I jostled along on the back of a bicycle rickshaw and my hardworking driver pedaled me deep into the ever-narrowing streets of Old Delhi, India. A chaotic warren of atmospheric alleys, this was once the walled city of Shahjahanabad, a Mughal capital founded in the mid-17th century.
TRAVEL
By Nicole Leistikow and Nicole Leistikow,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | December 14, 2003
As my year of writing and volunteering in Delhi was drawing to a close last July, the weather approached inferno status (highs of 113 degrees, lows in the upper 80s). I slept in sweaty dread of the moments when the lords of Delhi's electric grid would cut power to my neighborhood and I would wake to the last pathetic turns of my ceiling fan. Motivated by a very unspiritual but focused craving for cooler weather, I fled with two friends from the baking Indian plain and headed for the hills of Dharamsala, 370 miles north and 5,000 feet above sea level, when the Himalayas would be wearing their best face: misty, with mingled rain and sun. Since 1959, when the 23-year-old Dalai Lama escaped to India from Tibet across stark mountain passes, Dharamsala has been home to the Tibetan government-in-exile and thousands of refugees.