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Road signboards named after Mughal rulers defaced in Lutyens' Delhi
March 29, 2025 10:32 am
Black paint was sprayed on signboards of Shahjahan Road, Tughlaq Lane, Akbar Road, and Humayun Road and covered them with boards named 'Veer Savarkar Marg', 'Ahilya Bai Marg', 'Maharishi Valmiki Marg' and 'Balasaheb Thackeray Marg' respectively.
24 Akbar Road: From a home for young Aung San Suu Kyi to a centre of revival for Congress
January 11, 2025 1:22 pm
It “reunited” the Nehru-Gandhi links to the Mughals, even if only through a road named after the greatest Mughal emperor. The Nehrus were initially Kauls of Kashmir, who were invited to Delhi in 1716 by the Mughal king Farrukh Siyar
Renaming of cities is not about rewriting history —it's about killing memory
December 25, 2023 10:16 am
Those who resist it do so as an act of staking equal claim to public spaces, asserting themselves as citizens who cannot be erased from public life
Rename Akbar Road after late CDS Rawat: BJP media cell head
December 14, 2021 7:54 am
🔴 In all letter to the New Delhi Municipal Council, Naveen Kumar Jindal said, “You are requested that the memories of the country’s first CDS be instilled permanently in Delhi by renaming Akbar Road after General Bipin Rawat."
Delhi's Akbar Road 'renamed' Maharana Pratap road overnight, NDMC to probe
May 09, 2018 2:39 pm
The poster saying "Maharana Pratap Road" was pasted over the Akbar Road signboard leading off to New Delhi’s India Gate circle. However, no one has yet come forward taking responsibility for the act.
From 10 Rajaji Marg to 10 Akbar Road: Tale of two presidents, two bungalows
July 23, 2017 3:33 pm
Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma vacated 10, Rajaji Marg house after it was allotted as retirement home to former President Pranab Mukherjee and has shifted to bungalow at 10 Akbar Road, a single-storey Lutyens' mansion, a senior official said.
No proposal to rechristen any street, says Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu
May 19, 2016 5:58 pm
Changing the name of a road is not our priority nor we are considering such things, he said.
M Venkaiah Naidu says renaming of Akbar Road not on agenda, Congress attacks govt
May 19, 2016 4:40 am
Reacting to Singh’s letter, Naidu told The Indian Express, “It is not on my agenda. I am only concerned with development.”
44 HUDA plots go to 24, Akbar Road address; six to 10 Janpath
June 06, 2014 4:53 am
HUDA is currently investigating all instances of multiple allotments to individuals under its preferential schemes.
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Travelling through Delhi to capture signs of a regime change
May 18, 2014 9:37 pm
The Indian Express traveled through Delhi to capture signs of a power shift.
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