{"id":19580,"date":"2025-10-05T04:52:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19580"},"modified":"2025-10-07T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:54:04","slug":"willingdon-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/willingdon-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Willingdon Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Willingdon Island:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is among the most beautiful locations in the Kochi area of Kerala.<\/li>\n<li>This is a man-made island, named after <strong>Lord Willingdon who was a British Viceroy of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is among the biggest of its kind in India.<\/li>\n<li>It is also home to the <strong>Kochi Naval Base of the Indian Navy<\/strong>, the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology and the Port of Kochi.<\/li>\n<li>The island is connected to the mainland by the <strong>Venduruthy Bridge<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Who was Lord Willingdon (1931 &#8211; 1936)?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was the 22nd Viceroy and <strong>Governor-General of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major events during his tenure<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Introduction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/government-of-india-act-1935\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Government of India Act, 1935<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Second Round Table Conference,<\/strong> held in 1931, saw the participation of Gandhi as a representative of the Congress.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald introduced the Communal Award in 1932.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Poona Pact of 1932<\/strong> was reached between Gandhi and Ambedkar to address provisions related to fair representation of backward classes.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Third Round Table Conference<\/strong>, held in 1932, failed as neither Gandhi nor Congress attended.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an Archipelago?<\/h3>\n<p>An archipelago is an area that contains a chain or group of islands scattered in lakes, rivers, or the ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/economy\/logistics\/willingdon-island-a-delayed-restart\/article68878556.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Willingdon Island: A delayed restart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willingdon Island is among the most beautiful locations in the Kochi area of Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}