{"id":28196,"date":"2018-10-24T11:15:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28196"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:15:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:45:45","slug":"west-bengal-renames-itself-as-bangla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/west-bengal-renames-itself-as-bangla\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal renames itself as \u2018Bangla\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/west-bengal-assembly-passes-resolution-to-rename-state-as-bangla\/article24519509.ece\">West Bengal renames itself as \u2018Bangla\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The West Bengal Assembly passed a resolution to change the name of the State.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The proposal will change the name of the Sate as \u2018Bangla\u2019 in three languages- Bengali, English and Hindi.<\/p>\n<p>3. In 2016, the Assembly passed a resolution to change the name to \u2018Bengal\u2019 in Bengali and \u2018Bangla\u2019 in Hindi.<\/p>\n<p>4. However, the central government turned it down in 2017, objecting to having three names in three languages.<\/p>\n<p>5. For amending the name of the State, an amendment to the Schedule 1 of the Constitution will be introduced in Parliament, which has to approve it with a simple majority, before the President\u2019s assent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal renames itself as \u2018Bangla\u2019 News: The West Bengal Assembly passed a resolution to change the name of the State. Important facts: 2. The proposal will change the name of the Sate as \u2018Bangla\u2019 in three languages- Bengali, English and Hindi. 3. In 2016, the Assembly passed a resolution to change the name to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/west-bengal-renames-itself-as-bangla\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">West Bengal renames itself as \u2018Bangla\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704904705},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}