India, Nov. 27 -- Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said he would write to the centre to rename "IIT-Bombay" as "IIT-Mumbai", to contain the political fallout of a remark made by a Union minister on Monday. Fadnavis's decision comes only hours after Raj Thackeray, chief of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), slammed Union minister of state for science and technology Jitendra Singh (BJP), for saying in a lighter vein, "As far as IIT-Bombay is concerned, thank God it still has this name. You have not changed it to 'Mumbai'. So that's another compliment to you. And also true for Madras. It remains IIT-Madras."

Singh had made the remark during a function at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-Bombay), one of the country's premier...