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The controversial chairman of the National Trust has resigned amid a growing revolt among members over his 'woke' policies. Tim Parker's decision to quit was announced just 24 hours after a highly critical motion at this year's AGM said the membership had no confidence in his leadership and demanded his resignation. Members, ministers and MPs had grown increasingly frustrated with Mr Parker's chairmanship, which critics said he used to take the 126-year-old charity in a 'politically correct' direction.  Last September, the Trust published an sensational 115-page report which 'blacklisted' 93...

BBC News By Geeta Pandey image captionRajpath has been a huge draw for Delhi residents and tourists over the decades Rajpath (King's Avenue), in the centre of the Indian capital, is to Delhi'ites what Central Park is to New Yorkers, or the Champs-Elysees to Parisians. The manicured lawns on either side of the wide ceremonial boulevard are a place for thousands to gather to soak up the winter sun or have an ice-cream on summer evenings. But the 3km (1.8 mile)-long road, stretching from Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace, at one end to the India Gate war memorial at the other, now rese...

Many Indians are horrified that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is rebuilding the capital's historic center in a pandemic. But debate among politicians, architects and heritage experts runs deeper still.

Apollo. Preview and subscribe here.  While campaigning for re-election in 2019, the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi observed that he hadn’t been able to win over the ‘Lutyens world’, at the same time reminding voters that he was a man of the people, the son of a tea-seller rather than a member of the political, social and economic elite. The ‘Lutyens elite’, a group that Modi and his supporters also call the ‘Khan market gang’ – referring to a high-end shopping centre frequented by Delhi’s upper-middle classes – has become a pejorative shorthand, equivalent to the lab...

The employees of the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant and Tea Garden, which was gutted in last week’s wild fire, are bracing for the impact the destruction will have on their livelihood.