This move aligns with India’s broader efforts to decolonize its military, following past changes like renaming Rajpath to ...

The new name comes from a fort in Maharashtra that was a stronghold of the Maratha Navy. It is part of a move towards ...

It had been a symbol of colonial rule and expansion. In this monumental step towards decolonisation, a formal announcement is ...

Long before there were air ambulance companies like CareFlight, and TV shows like 'China Beach' and 'M*A*S*H,' Valérie André ...

In an effort to shed colonial influences, the Indian Army has renamed the Eastern Command headquarters in Kolkata from Fort William to 'Vijay Durg'. Additionally, other structures within the fort have ...

Senegal distances itself from colonial past, following trend sweeping across West and Central Africa since 2022.

by the French colonial army. On the morning of December 1, 1944, soldiers of the Tirailleurs Senegalais, an army unit that fought in France’s war against Nazi Germany, had been protesting ...

Fenkil operation, which saw the liberation of the strategic port city of Massawa, was a three-day battle that began on 8 February and ended on 10 February1990. It demonstrated, once again and in the ...

In a bid to move away from the colonial legacy, the Indian Army has renamed Eastern Command headquarters Fort William in Kolkata as 'Vijay Durg', a Defence official said on Wednesday. In a decision ...

Gate has been renamed as Shivaji Gate, Kitchener House as Manekshaw House, and Russell Block inside the fort as Bagha Jatin Block ...

The renaming of Fort William to Vijay Durg by the Indian Army could be a strategic blunder in West Bengal, stirring ...

Kolkata: The renaming of the nearly 250-year-old Fort William — the only fort in the world where not a single shot was ever ...