While Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has called the Centre’s move as an insult towards Kannadigas, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann said that the Central government was suffering from an anti-Punjab syndrome”.
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NEW DELHI, Sep 11: The old name of New Delhi’s ceremonial boulevard — Rajpath — has been scraped off the signages mounted around the periphery of the India Gate hexagon, after its rechristening to ‘Kartavya Path’. The move comes after the area’s civic body recently issued a notice approving the renaming of the historic road at its special meeting on September 7. Signages around the India Gate hexagon are mounted on stainless steel-made unipoles with horizontal plates bearing white text […]
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IN 1933, the Maharaja of Bhavnagar, Krishna Kumar Sinhji, presented New Delhi a stadium. It was only two years since New Delhi had been inaugurated as the new national capital by Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India. In true subjugated-Maharaja style, bowing to the mighty colonial power, the stadium was named Irwin Amphitheatre, sometimes referred to as Irwin Stadium. It was inaugurated by Lord Willingdon, who had replaced Lord Irwin as the Viceroy.
Lord Willingdon, a patron of sports, had a pavilion at the Feroze Shah Kotla cricket stadium named after him. Mumbai’s super-exclusive Royal Willingdon Sports Club still carries his name.