Kolkata: The renaming of the nearly 250-year-old Fort William — the only fort in the world where not a single shot was ever fired — to Vijay Durg by the Narendra Modi govt found little favour ...
The Indian Army has decided to rename its Eastern Command headquarters Fort William in Kolkata as 'Vijay Durg' as part of the Modi government's decolonisation efforts. Italy calls for 'immediate ...
While three of these faced River Hooghly, on whose banks the Fort stands, the others overlooked open land what was then known as the Glacis. This open land is today called the Kolkata Maidan," the ...