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Delhi School of Economics (दिल्ली स्कूल ऑफ इकोनॉमिक्स)
The Delhi School of Economics, commonly called DSE, is a school of the University of Delhi founded in 1949, whose economics department is among India's leading graduate schools.
Delhi Sultanate
Delhi Sultanate: five Turkic-Afghan dynasties (Mamluk, Khalji, Tughlaq, Sayyid, Lodi) ruling much of India from Delhi, 1206–1526, from Qutb al-Din Aibak to Babur's victory at Panipat.
Delhi Technological University
Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly Delhi College of Engineering and originally Delhi Polytechnic (1941), is a Delhi state university reconstituted by Delhi Act 6 of 2009, with a 164-acre Bawana Road campus, 21 UG and 36 PG programs, and NIRF 2025 Overall rank 62.
Delhi Transco
Delhi Transco Limited, also known as DTL, is the Delhi government's state transmission utility, formed on 1 July 2002 from the unbundled Delhi Vidyut Board, operating Delhi's extra-high-voltage grid.
Delhi University
Delhi University, formally the University of Delhi (Hindi: दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय), is a central university in Delhi, India, established in 1922, with about 90 colleges and over 600,000 students.
Delhi Urdu Akhbar
Delhi Urdu Akhbar (دہلی اردو اخبار) was a weekly Urdu newspaper of Delhi, founded by Maulvi Muhammad Baqar around 1837 and known as Akhbar-e-Dehli before 1840.
Delhi-6
Delhi-6 (दिल्ली 6), also called Delhi 6, is a 2009 Hindi musical drama by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra starring Abhishek Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor, set in Old Delhi pin code 110006, with A.R. Rahman music; it flopped at the box office.
Delhi-class destroyer
The Delhi-class destroyer (Project 15) is a class of three guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy, the first major warship class designed and built in India after independence.
Delhi–Amritsar–Katra Expressway
The Delhi–Amritsar–Katra Expressway, also known as the Delhi–Katra Expressway, is a 670 km greenfield expressway in India linking Delhi with Amritsar and the pilgrimage town of Katra.
Delhi–Meerut Expressway
The Delhi–Meerut Expressway is an 82 km access-controlled expressway connecting Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi with Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, cutting travel time to about 45 minutes.
Delhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System
The Delhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System, or Delhi–Meerut RRTS, is India's first semi-high-speed regional rail corridor, operated as Namo Bharat and fully operational since February 2026.
Delhi–Mumbai Expressway (दिल्ली–मुंबई एक्सप्रेसवे)
The Delhi–Mumbai Expressway (दिल्ली–मुंबई एक्सप्रेसवे) is an under-construction 8-lane access-controlled expressway in India connecting Delhi with Mumbai, India's longest at about 1,320 km, built to cut the journey from 24 hours to about 12.
Delhivery
Delhivery is an Indian third-party express logistics company, incorporated in 2011 and based in Gurugram, that delivers parcels and freight for e-commerce and other shippers across India.
Deli Auto (德力汽车)
Deli Auto (德力汽车) is a Chinese new-energy commercial vehicle manufacturer founded in July 2017 in Anyang, Henan, building electric and hydrogen trucks for last-mile urban delivery.
Deli Boys
Deli Boys is a Hulu crime comedy series created by Abdullah Saeed, starring Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh, and Poorna Jagannathan as Pakistani Americans running a drug-front deli empire; two seasons, 2025 to 2026, then canceled.
Deli Sultanate
The Deli Sultanate (Kesultanan Deli) was a Malay sultanate on Sumatra's northeast coast, founded around 1630, whose capital Medan became the center of Dutch colonial tobacco plantations.
Delia Derbyshire
Delia Derbyshire (1937–2001), Coventry-born British composer at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, realised the original 1963 Doctor Who theme from Ron Grainer's melody using tape and musique concrète; her archive of 267 tapes is held at Manchester.
Delia Milliron
Delia Milliron is a nanomaterials chemist who is chair of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, known for electrochromic smart windows and the 2023 MRS Medal.
Delia Owens
Delia Owens (born 1949) is an American wildlife scientist and author of Where the Crawdads Sing (2018). She researched lions, hyenas, and elephants in Botswana and Zambia for 23 years, co-authored Cry of the Kalahari, and remains wanted for questioning in a 1995 Zambia killing.
Delia Ramirez
Delia C. Ramirez is an American Democratic politician, the U.S. Representative from Illinois's 3rd congressional district since 2023 after two terms in the Illinois House.
Delia Smith
Delia Smith (born 1941, Woking) is an English cookery writer and TV presenter, author of How to Cheat at Cooking (1971) and the Cookery Course; over 21 million books sold, the 'Delia effect', and co-owner of Norwich City FC.
Delia W. Oppo
Delia W. Oppo is a paleoceanographer and emeritus research scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, an AGU Fellow known for reconstructing 2,000 years of Indo-Pacific warm pool temperatures.
Delian League
Delian League (Confederacy of Delos), founded 478/7 BCE under Athenian hegemony with treasury on Delos; an anti-Persian alliance of Greek city-states paying phoros tribute that evolved into the Athenian empire and dissolved in 404 BCE.
Deliang Chen
Deliang Chen (陈德亮) is a Swedish climatologist, a pioneer in climate downscaling who held the August Röhss Chair at Gothenburg before joining Tsinghua University in 2024.
Deliberative Assembly of Upper Peru
The Deliberative Assembly of Upper Peru (Asamblea Deliberante de Chuquisaca) was the assembly convoked by Sucre in 1825 that declared Upper Peru independent as Bolivia.
Deliberative democracy
Deliberative democracy: a model of democracy where legitimacy comes from public deliberation, implemented through randomly selected (sortition-based) citizens' assemblies, juries, and panels; the OECD tracked 716 such processes in 28 countries, 1979-2023.
Deliberative systems
A deliberative system is the network of venues and practices through which deliberation happens across a whole polity, an approach developed by Jane Mansbridge and John Parkinson.
Delicacies Destiny (珍馐记)
Delicacies Destiny (珍馐记, Zhen Xiu Ji) is a 2022 Chinese costume food light comedy from Huanyu Entertainment and Bilibili, starring He Ruixian as chef Ling Xiaoxiao and Wang Xingyue as Crown Prince Zhu Shoukui; 16 episodes, Disney+ overseas.
Delicacy
Delicacy: English noun for a rare or expensive food prized in a particular culture, and for fineness, fragility, tact, or precision; from Middle English delicasie, first recorded 1325–75.
Delicata squash
Delicata squash (sweet potato squash), a Cucurbita pepo winter squash introduced in 1894 by Peter Henderson & Co., with cream-and-green striped fruit, edible skin, and sweet flesh; revived by Cornell's 2002 AAS-winning Bush Delicata.