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Andhra Pradesh Bhavan
Andhra Pradesh Bhavan, popularly known as AP Bhavan, is a Government of Andhra Pradesh owned property in New Delhi. It has accommodation, canteen and auditorium in the premises. AP Bhavan is located on a 19.84 acres of land in New Delhi. It has suites for the Governor and the Chief Minister apart from other rooms. History AP Bhavan belongs to the state of Andhra Pradesh, when the state was formed by the Government of India. The AP Bhavan came into being in 1956 after merging major portion of Hyderabad state Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ... with erstwhile Andhra state on linguistics basis. References External links Official website {{Coord, 28.618, 77.226, display=title Government of Andhra Pradesh State governments' houses in Delhi Official residences in In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India Gate
The India Gate (formerly known as the All India War Memorial) is a war memorial located near the Rajpath on the eastern edge of the "ceremonial axis" of New Delhi, formerly called duty path. It stands as a memorial to 84,000 soldiers of the British Indian Army who died between 1914 and 1921 in the First World War, in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. 13,300 servicemen's names, including some soldiers and officers from the United Kingdom, are inscribed on the gate. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the gate evokes the architectural style of the memorial arch such as the Arch of Constantine, in Rome, and is often compared to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the Gateway of India in Mumbai. Following the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1972, a structure consisting of a black marble plinth with a reversed rifle, capped by a war helmet and bounded by four eternal flames, was built bene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
