With the financial assistance of the Global Affairs of Canada, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme launched an awareness programme about civil registration. The project coordinator, Shamim Akhtar, said it was the duty of every citizen to register the events of birth, death, marriage and divorce with the village council without delay. She said different types of interventions were afoot to promote the process of registration which included dissemination of information through all available means, imparting training to village council staff and provision of facilities required for the process in far-flung villages.

The TIME Magazine picked out 100 of the World’s Best Places. One among these is the Sunder Nursery that stands as a testimony of urban renewal and environmental development in the city of Delhi by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Sunder Nursery is a 16th-century heritage park complex adjacent to the Humayun’s Tomb, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Delhi. Aligned with the large entrance plaza of Humayun’s tomb, Sunder Nursery features a spectacular pedestrian Central Axis conceived in three parts, as a progression of formally arranged gardens around the heritage structures and merging at its end with the arboretum and water gardens.