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Renaming Delhi
Jun 20 2009, Vijay

The former Chief Election Commissioner and now the Union Sports Minister Manohar Singh Gill started playing a new Khel[game] by sparking a new debate for naming Delhi as Dilli.

New Delhi which was anciently also known as...

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