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West Bengal to review road names, Suvendu Adhikari rules out Mughal, Pathan referencesWest Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced a committee to review road and area names in Kolkata, vowing to remove those honoring...- Delhi's 'urban oasis': 90-acre Lodhi Garden turns 90Lodhi Garden, Delhi's cherished green sanctuary, marks 90 years since it was established as Lady Willingdon Park in 1936. This 90-acre expa...
- Indian Army renames 246 roads and buildings to shed colonial-era legacyThe Indian Army has renamed 246 roads, buildings, and facilities across its military establishments to shed colonial-era names. These asset...
- Indian Army drops colonial-era names, renames 246 roads, buildings and facilities nationwideThe Indian Army is removing colonial names from 246 roads, buildings, and facilities. This initiative honors India's heroes and military tr...
- Bengal, geo-indicate your global credSome bright spark wearing his think-tank has suggested a solution that involves putting one's mouth where one's money intends to be. And fo...
- Part of a road in Canada to be renamed to honour 1914 Komagata Maru incidentThe Abbotsford City Council voted unanimously last week to rename a portion of South Fraser Way to Komagata Maru Way, local newspaper, the ...
- Cabinet nod to rename national institute on water after Syama Prasad MookerjeeIt is envisaged as a premier institute to develop capacities in states and Union territories in the field of public health engineering, dri...
- Mamata Banerjee asks mayor to rename Kolkata road, park after Pranab Mukherjee"I will ask Bobby (Firhad Hakim) to name a road, even if small, and a small park in remembrance of Pranab Mukherjee," Banerjee said.
- Govt highlights steps taken in 8 years to free country of 'colonial mindset'The government said the move is part of a continuous and conscious effort by the prime minister to shed the baggage of colonial legacy and ...
- India is streets ahead of US and Russia when it comes to renaming roadsLong before New Delhi’s Aurangzeb Road leapfrogged three centuries to become Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Road, the street on which the US consulat...
- Now Mamata Banerjee re-christens projects named after Left leader Jyoti BasuIn just 2 months after those protests, West Bengal government in West Bengal appears to be on a mission to re-christen state projects, and ...
- India should join BRI for mutual interest: Chinese diplomatIndia boycotted the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) held from May 14 to 15. The meeting was attended by 29 world leaders, including Pakistan Prim...
- Delhi's Park Street renamed after Sheikh Mujibur RahmanNDMC decided to rename the Park Street of Delhi after Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a day before PM Sheikh Hasina arrives on a...
- As recent demands in Mumbai show, battles over station names never seem to endMost notably there was the Sena’s renaming of Victoria Terminus as Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. Now Kolis want to go after other stations ...
- With its Big Ben-replica, Kolkata joins notable replicatorsWest Bengal's neighbour Sikkim has reproduced the Char Dhams, 12 Jyotirlings and the Shirdi Sai Baba temple to tap the huge pilgrimage tour...
- An emperor like Aurangzeb who is a byword for bigotry belongs in the past'In modern Berlin there is nothing named after Adolf Hitler. Yet, the gruesome memory of the Third Reich is kept alive through commemoratio...
- The subtle and not-so-subtle politics of naming roads and streetsIt’s been 45 years since the then-Left Front cheekily renamed the street outside the US Consulate in Kolkata after Ho Chi Minh.
- Landmark names: Queen Elizabeth II deserves to be hailed as London’s Big BehenTourists can expect to be bewildered when it comes to the monikers of landmarks in India, especially those with a colonial provenance.
- Congress colluding with CPI-M to attack Trinamool: Mamata Banerjee''In West Bengal, the CPI(M) and the Congress are working together. Our partymen are being attacked at places like Keshpur and Garbeta,'' B...
- Strong opposition to renaming of BhopalThe MP government's plan to rename the state capital from Bhopal to Bhojpal appears to have run into rough weather with people from various...
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