Fazil Nagar town in Uttar Pradesh will be renamed Pawagarh. CM Yogi Adityanath announced the change to honor Jain Tirthankar Lord Mahavir. ...

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Jalalabad in Uttar Pradesh is now Parashurampuri. The Home Ministry approved the name change. Union Minister Jitin Prasada thanked the cent...

The Karnataka Cabinet decided to rename Ramanagara district as 'Bengaluru South', responding to local demand for association with 'Brand Be...

A proposal to rename Ramanagara district as 'Bengaluru South' gained momentum. The moment was led by Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Sh...

Everyone seems to think that by simply changing a name, everything changes. But calling a Burma 'Myanmar' or a pig 'bear' doesn't change th...

“The NOC is issued after seeking reports from field units of the Geographical Survey of India (GSI), Department of Post and the Ministry of...

Faizabad city is located about seven km from its twin town Ayodhya in Ayodhya district (earlier Faizabad district), and the Faizabad statio...

The Yogi Adityanath government also wants to rename Firozabad district as Chandra Nagar, Sambhal as Prithviraj Nagar or Kalki Nagar, Deoban...

The central government has given its consent for renaming of Allahabad as Prayagraj about 10 days ago, a home ministry official said.

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha in December, 2016, Minister of State for Law P P Chaudhary had said the old bill would have to be revis...

The ruling BJP has, however, justified the name changes across Uttar Pradesh, saying they are merely restoring older names and correcting h...

The move comes amid the growing clamour for starting Ram Temple construction in Ayodhya and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad teaming up with seers...

While renaming for political purposes was not uncommon even in the past, this scale of ‘religious’ renaming is been unprecedented.

Another section, however, welcomed the Uttar Pradesh government's move, saying it endorses the legacy of ancient Ayodhya and will enhance i...

The Farah Town Railway station in Mathura will now be known as the Deendayal Dham railway station, as per a notification issued by the UP g...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today renamed six townships in the state, officials said.