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MAJHI MUMBAI

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MAJHI MUMBAI The emblem of the ISPL team Majhi Mumbai has a tennis ball being bowled from a street of Mumbai supported by its name written in telescopic and cinema style. All these are placed above a blue shield. The shield refers to  protection, courage, heritage, authority and bravery; the tennis ball and road refers to street cricket of Mumbai and the colour blue symbolises serenity, calmness, trust, spirituality, calmness, wisdom, freedom, openness, intelligence and loyalty.

INDIAN SUPER LEAGUE

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INDIAN SUPER LEAGUE The Indian Super League (ISL) is India’s unrivalled football championship which kicked off on October 12, 2014. The inaugural winners of the league were ATK FC, while Chennaiyin FC were the winners of the second season. The league is co-promoted by Reliance, Star India and supported by the All India Football Federation (AIFF). India’s leading industrialists and celebrities from sports as well as the Indian film industry have heavily invested in the league’s eleven franchises based in the following cities: Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Goa, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Jamshedpur. The logo has an abstract football in orangish red and dark red made up of hexagons. There are eleven orange hexagons representing each of the teams and one of which is placed inside a dark red hexagon (can be) representing two teams from West Bengal. It is surrounded by its name as a semi-circular border supported by a pair of stars and the name of its promot

MAHA MUMBAI METRO OPERATION CORPORATION LIMITED

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MAHA MUMBAI METRO OPERATION CORPORATION LIMITED The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has established the Maha Mumbai Metro Operation Corporation Limited (MMMOCL) on June 10, 2019 to carry out the Operations and Maintenance of all the upcoming metro corridors in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). Its insignia has an emblem made up by three ‘M’s placed in an infinite loop depicting the metro rail route and the colour green makes it feel environment friendly. Below this its name in Hindi and English are written in blue colour.

LALIT KALA AKADEMI

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LALIT KALA AKADEMI To promote and propagate understanding of Indian art, both within and outside the country, the Government of India established Lalit Kala Akademi (National Akademi of Arts) at New Delhi in 1954. The Akademi has regional centres called Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendras at Lucknow, Kolkata, Chennai, Garhi in New Delhi and Bhubaneswar with workshop facilities in painting, sculpture, print-making and ceramics. It has sub centres in Shimla, Ahmedabad, Agartala and Patna. Since its inception, the Akademi has been organising national exhibition of contemporary Indian art with 15 national awards,. Every three years, the Akademi also organises Triennial India, an international exhibition of contemporary art in New Delhi. The Akademi honours eminent artists and art historians every year by electing them as Fellows of the Akademi. To propagate Indian art, the Akademi regularly participates in International Biennials and Triennials abroad and also organises exhibitions of works of a

NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART

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NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART The idea of a national art gallery was first mooted in 1949. It was nurtured carefully by Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru and Maulana Azad, bureaucrats like Humayun Kabir and an active art community. Vice president Dr S. Radhakrishanan formally inaugurated the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) on March 29, 1954. The choice of Jaipur House, one of the premier edifices of Lutyens’ Delhi, signified the envisaged high profile of the institution. Designed by Sir Arthur Bloomfield, as a residence for the Maharaja of Jaipur, the butterfly-shaped building with a central dome was built in 1936. It was styled after a concept of the Central Hexagon visualised by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Alongwith buildings designed for other princely potentates like Bikaner and Hyderabad, Jaipur House girded the India Gate circle. It has branches in Bangalore and Mumbai. Its collection of more than 1700 works by 2000 plus artists , which includes artists such as Thomas Daniell, Raj