The city originally known as Madras was officially renamed Chennai on July 17, 1996, by the Government of Tamil Nadu under Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. The renaming aimed to revert the colonial-era English name to the historically rooted Chennai, derived from Chennapattinam or named after the local Telugu chieftain Damarla Chennappa Nayaka
Chennai is the new name of which Indian city?
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