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Sir Edwin Lutyens designed the Viceroy House on Raisina Hill, renamed Rashtrapati Bhavan after independence, and it was completed in 1929.

The station, built as Victoria Terminus and designed by Frederick William Stevens, is the finest Victorian Gothic Revival building in India, with pointed arches, a ribbed central dome, turrets, stained glass, gargoyles and a stone figure of Progress on the dome.

The Victoria Memorial was designed by Sir William Emerson, then president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, after Lord Curzon proposed a memorial to Queen Victoria in 1901.

The Gateway of India at Apollo Bunder in Mumbai was raised to mark the landing of George V and Queen Mary in December 1911, the visit on which the Delhi Durbar was held and the transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi was announced.

The Aga Khan Palace stands at Pune in Maharashtra. It was built in 1892 by Sultan Muhammed Shah Aga Khan III, partly as famine relief work for the surrounding villages, and it mixes Italianate arches with wide Indian verandahs over five acres of built space.

New Delhi hosted the tenth edition of the Hockey World Cup in 2010 at the stadium named after Major Dhyan Chand, the same ground that had been built for the first Asian Games in 1951; Australia won that tournament.

Built in Uttar Pradesh near Delhi, the Buddh International Circuit held the Indian Grand Prix in 2011, 2012 and 2013, after which the race was dropped from the calendar; Sebastian Vettel won all three editions.

The Afro-Asian Games were conceived to bring together the medal winners of Africa and Asia, and the single edition that was actually staged was held at Hyderabad in 2003, mainly at the Gachibowli Stadium.

The forty fourth Chess Olympiad was held in 2022 at Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, the first time the event came to India and the first time it was held in Asia in several decades.

The 2018 Hockey World Cup was played at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, and the 2023 edition was shared between the Kalinga Stadium and the newly built Birsa Munda Stadium at Rourkela, both in Odisha.

England beat Spain in the final at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata to win the 2017 Under-17 World Cup, the first FIFA tournament of any kind staged in India.

India beat Sri Lanka in the final of the 2011 World Cup at the Wankhede, with Mahendra Singh Dhoni finishing the match with a six and Gautam Gambhir making the highest score of the innings.

The first three World Cups of 1975, 1979 and 1983 were all played in England, and the 1987 tournament, sponsored as the Reliance Cup, moved the event to the subcontinent for the first time; the overs were reduced from sixty to fifty, which has remained the standard since.

Delhi hosted the nineteenth Commonwealth Games in 2010, the first and so far the only time India has held them.

Appu was the cheerful baby elephant created as the mascot of the ninth Asian Games, and the figure became so popular that an amusement park in Delhi was named after it.

The first Asian Games were held at the National Stadium in New Delhi in 1951, after Guru Dutt Sondhi of India proposed a games for the newly independent countries of Asia in place of the older Far Eastern Games.

This scheme, launched in 2015 as a component of the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture, groups farmers into clusters, trains them in organic practice and certifies their produce through the Participatory Guarantee System of India, in which members of the group inspect one another's fields.

Endosulfan is an organochlorine insecticide that was sprayed from the air over state owned cashew plantations in Kasaragod for about two decades.

The Stockholm Convention lists chemicals that resist breakdown, travel long distances, accumulate in fatty tissue and harm health, beginning with the twelve named compounds often called the dirty dozen; DDT, aldrin, endrin, dieldrin and the dioxins are on that list, and DDT is allowed only in restricted disease vector control.

This Act, with the Insecticides Rules of 1971, sets up the registration of every pesticide before it may be sold, licensing of manufacturers and dealers, labelling and packing requirements and the appointment of insecticide inspectors and analysts.