Kolkata, the Glossary
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.[1]
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- 1690 establishments in the British Empire
- 1690s establishments in India
- Capitals of Bengal
- Cities and towns in Kolkata district
- Indian capital cities
- Populated places established in 1690
- Port cities in India
- Subdivisions in Kolkata district
Aajkaal
Aajkaal (pronounced) is a Bengali newspaper which is one of the principal newspapers published in Kolkata, India.
Abanindranath Tagore
Abanindranath Tagore (Bengali: অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 August 1871 – 5 December 1951) was the principal artist and creator of the "Indian Society of Oriental Art".
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Abanindranath Thakur Sarani
Abanindranath Thakur Sarani (formerly and popularly known as Camac Street) is a one-way road in Kolkata, India.
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ABP Ananda
ABP Ananda (formerly Star Ananda) is a free to air Bengali news channel based in Kolkata, West Bengal owned by ABP Group.
Academic art
Academic art, academicism, or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.
Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
The Academy of Fine Arts, in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is one of the oldest fine arts societies in India.
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Adda (South Asian)
An adda (আড্ডা) is a term in Bengali referring to when several individuals 'Hangout'.
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Administrative divisions of West Bengal
The Indian state of West Bengal is divided into five administrative Divisions, namely.
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Agri Horticultural Society of India
The Agri Horticultural Society of India was founded in 1820 by William Carey on Alipore Road, Kolkata.
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AH1
Asian Highway 1 (AH1) is the longest east-west route of the Asian Highway Network, running from Tokyo, Japan via Korea, China, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Iran to the border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul where it joins end-on with European route E80, running all the way to Lisbon, Portugal.
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Air pollution in India
Air pollution in India is a serious environmental issue.
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AJC Bose Road & APC Road
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road (earlier known as Lower Circular Road) and its continuation northwards called Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road (earlier known as Upper Circular Road), are together the longest and the most important north-south thoroughfare in Kolkata, India.
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Aliah University
Aliah University (AU; جامعہ عالیہ) is a public state university in New Town, West Bengal, India.
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Alipore
Alipore is a neighbourhood of South Kolkata, in Kolkata district, in the Indian state of West Bengal.
All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health
All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (AIIH&PH) is a pioneering Indian institute for research and training in public health and allied sciences in Kolkata.
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All India Radio
All India Radio (AIR), also known as Akashvani, is an Indian state-owned public radio broadcaster founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and one of Prasar Bharati's two divisions.
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Alluvium
Alluvium is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings.
Alstom
Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets.
AM broadcasting
AM broadcasting is radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions.
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Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (born 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher.
Anandabazar Patrika
Anandabazar Patrika (আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা) is an Indian Bengali-language daily newspaper owned by the ABP Group.
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Anandalok
Anandalok (আনন্দলোক) is a Bengali film magazine published by the ABP Group from Kolkata, India.
Anandamela
Anandamela, Anondamela, or Anondomela (Bengali: আনন্দমেলা) is a children's periodical in the Bengali language published by the ABP Group from Kolkata, India.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India.
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Anemia
Anemia or anaemia (British English) is a blood disorder in which the blood has a reduced ability to carry oxygen.
Anganwadi
Anganwadi is a type of rural child care centre in India.
Anglo-Indian people
Anglo-Indian people are a distinct minority community of mixed-race Eurasian ancestry with British paternal and Indian maternal heritage, whose first language is ordinarily English.
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Anil Kumar Gain
Anil Kumar Gain FRSS FCPS (1 February 1919 – 7 February 1978) (also spelt Anil Kumar Gayen) was an Indian mathematician and statistician best known for his works on the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient in the field of applied statistics, with his colleague Ronald Fisher.
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Anthropological Survey of India
Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) is the apex Indian government organisation involved in anthropological studies and field data research for human and cultural aspects, working primarily in the fields of physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, while maintaining a strong focus on indigenous populations.
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Aparna Sen
Aparna Sen (Ôporna Shen) (born 25 October 1945) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema.
Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Arjun Atwal
Arjun Singh Atwal (born 20 March 1973) is an Indian professional golfer who has played on the Asian Tour and the European Tour and is the first player born in India to participate in and win the U.S.-based PGA Tour.
Armenians in India
The association of Armenians with India and the presence of Armenians in India are very old, and there has been a mutual economic and cultural association of Armenians with India.
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Art film
An art film, art cinema, or arthouse film is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience.
Ashutosh Mukherjee
Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (anglicised, originally Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, also anglicised to Asutosh Mookerjee) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician.
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Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh is a non political and non profit research organisation registered under both Society Act of 1864 and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh.
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Assam
Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Asthma
Asthma is a long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.
Atin Ghosh
Atin Ghosh is an Indian politician who is serving as a sitting member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Kashipur-Belgachhia constituency since 6 May 2021.
Auto rickshaw
An auto rickshaw is a motorized version of the pulled rickshaw or cycle rickshaw.
Avant-garde
In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.
B. B. D. Bagh
Binoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh, shortened as B. B. D. Bagh, formerly called Tank Square and then Dalhousie Square (1847 to 1856), is the administrative, financial and commercial region and one of the central business districts of Kolkata, capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Babu (title)
Babu is a historical title of royalty and nobility used by rulers and chieftains in the Indian subcontinent.
Bagbazar
Bagbazar (also spelt Baghbazar) is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Ballygunge
Ballygunge is a locality of South Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Bandhan Bank
Bandhan Bank Ltd. is a banking and financial services company, headquartered in Kolkata.
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Bangladesh Liberation War
The Bangladesh Liberation War (মুক্তিযুদ্ধ), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence and known as the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was an armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in East Pakistan, which resulted in the independence of Bangladesh.
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Chatterjee) (26 or 27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist.
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Baranagar
Baranagar is a city and a municipality of Kolkata (Calcutta) in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata and Baranagar are cities in West Bengal.
Barasat
Barasat is a city and a municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata and Barasat are cities in West Bengal.
Barisha, Kolkata
Barisha is a residential and very old locality of Kolkata (Calcutta) in West Bengal, India.
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Barrackpore
Barrackpore (also known as Barrackpur) is a city and a municipality on the northern fringe of Kolkata and situated in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata and Barrackpore are cities in West Bengal.
Bartaman
Bartaman Patrika is an Indian Bengali daily newspaper published from Kolkata, West Bengal, India, by Bartaman Pvt.
Baruipur
Baruipur is a town and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Basement (geology)
In geology, basement and crystalline basement are crystalline rocks lying above the mantle and beneath all other rocks and sediments.
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Battle of Buxar
The Battle of Buxar was fought between 22 and 23 October 1764, between the forces of the British East India Company, under the command of Major Hector Munro, and the combined armies of Balwant Singh, Maharaja of the Banaras State; Mir Qasim, Nawab of Bengal; Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh; and Shah Alam II, Emperor of the Mughal Empire.
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Battle of Plassey
The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company, under the leadership of Robert Clive, over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757.
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Baul
The Baul (বাউল) are a group of mystic minstrels of mixed elements of Sufism and Vaishnavism from different parts of Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam's Barak Valley and Meghalaya.
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Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean.
Beguni
Beguni is a common Bengali snack originating from the West Bengal region of India.
Behala
Behala is a locality of South West Kolkata in district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Beighton Cup
The Beighton Cup (also known as the Coal India Beighton Cup for sponsorship reasons) is a field hockey tournament organized by Hockey Bengal (formerly the Bengal Hockey Association).
Belgharia
Belgharia is a locality in Kamarhati Municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Belghoria Expressway
Belghoria Expressway is a four-lane (including Dakshineswar to Rajchandrapur extension) long grade separated tolled expressway in the North Suburban fringes of Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Bengal
Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.
Bengal cricket team
In India, the Bengal cricket team represents the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) in domestic competition.
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Bengal famine of 1943
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a man-made famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.
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Bengal Renaissance
The Bengal Renaissance (Bāṅlār Nôbôjāgôrôṇ), also known as the Bengali Renaissance, was a cultural, social, intellectual, and artistic movement that took place in the Bengal region of the British Raj, from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.
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Bengal School of Art
The Bengal School of Art, commonly referred as Bengal School, was an art movement and a style of Indian painting that originated in Bengal, primarily Kolkata and Shantiniketan, and flourished throughout the Indian subcontinent, during the British Raj in the early 20th century.
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Bengali cuisine
Bengali cuisine is the culinary style of Bengal, that comprises Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam's Karimganj district.
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Bengali Hindus
Bengali Hindus (translit) are an ethnoreligious population who make up the majority in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Jharkhand, and Assam's Barak Valley region.
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Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
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Bengali literature
Bengali literature (Bangla Sahityô) denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language and which covers Old Bengali, Middle- Bengali and Modern Bengali with the changes through the passage of time and dynastic patronization or non-patronization.
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Bengali Muslims
Bengali Muslims (বাঙালি মুসলমান) are adherents of Islam who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis.
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Berger Paints
Berger Paints India Ltd is an Indian multinational paint company, based in Kolkata.
Bhadralok
Bhadralok (bhôdrôlok, literally 'gentleman', or 'well-mannered person') is Bengali for the new class of 'gentlefolk' who arose during British rule in India in the Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent.
Bhai Dooj
Bhai Dooj, Bhai Tika, Bhaubeej, Bhai Beej, Bhai Phonta or Bhratri Dwitiya is a festival celebrated by Hindus on the second lunar day of the Shukla Paksha (bright fortnight) of Kartika, the eighth month of the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar or the Shalivahana Shaka calendar.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (abbreviated as BSNL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Department of Telecommunications, which is part of the Ministry of Communications, Government of India with its headquarters in New Delhi, India.
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Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company based in New Delhi. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, as well as the Channel Islands. Currently, Airtel provides 5G, 4G and LTE Advanced services throughout India. Currently offered services include fixed-line broadband, and voice services depending upon the country of operation.
Bhowanipore
Bhowanipore (also Bhowanipur; ভবানীপুর) is a neighbourhood of South Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Bhutan
Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia situated in the Eastern Himalayas between China in the north and India in the south.
Bidhannagar
Bidhannagar, also known as Salt Lake City is a satellite city of Kolkata in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Bihar
Bihar is a state in Eastern India.
Biharis
The Biharis or Bihari people are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryans who speak the Bihari languages.
Biju Patnaik Airport
Biju Patnaik Airport is an international airport serving Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha, India.
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Bipradas Pipilai
Bipradas Pipilai was a 15th-century poet.
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Birla Corporation
Birla Corporation Limited is an Indian-based company of the M.P Birla Group, founded by Ghanshyam Das Birla in the late 1910s and carried on by Madhav Prasad Birla.
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Birla Planetarium, Kolkata
The Birla Planetarium (officially M. P. Birla Planetarium) in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is a single-storeyed circular structure designed in the typical Indian style, whose architecture is loosely styled on the Buddhist Stupa at Sanchi.
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Birth control
Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy.
Black Hole of Calcutta
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring, in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756.
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Bose Institute
Bose Institute (or Basu Bigyan Mandir) is a premier public research institute of India and also one of its oldest.
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Botanical Survey of India
Botanical Survey of India (BSI) located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Britannia Industries
Britannia Industries Limited is an Indian multinational food products company, which sells biscuits, breads and dairy products.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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British Library
The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.
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Buddha's Birthday
Buddha's Birthday or Buddha Day (also known as Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima, and Buddha Pournami) is a primarily Buddhist festival that is celebrated in most of South, Southeast and East Asia, commemorating the birth of the prince Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Gautama Buddha and founded Buddhism.
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Buddhadeb Dasgupta (11 February 1944 – 10 June 2021) was an Indian filmmaker and poet best known for his Bengali-language films like Bagh Bahadur, Tahader Katha, Charachar and Uttara.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Budge Budge
Budge Budge is a town and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Bureau of Indian Standards
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the National Standards Body of India under Department of Consumer affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Government of India. It is established by the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016 which came into effect on 12 October 2017.
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Business Line
Business Line, known as The Hindu Business Line, is an Indian business newspaper published by Kasturi & Sons, the publishers of the newspaper The Hindu headquartered in Chennai, India.
Business Standard
Business Standard is an Indian English-language daily edition newspaper published by Business Standard Private Limited, also available in Hindi.
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C. V. Raman
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 188821 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering.
Cable television
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.
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Calcium oxide
Calcium oxide (formula: CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound.
Calcutta Boys' School
The Calcutta Boys' School is an independent private day school located in Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal.
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Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (popularly known by its abbreviation CC&FC, or CCFC) is an Indian professional multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Calcutta Cup
The Calcutta Cup is the trophy awarded to the winner of the rugby match between England and Scotland played annually in the Six Nations Championship.
The Calcutta Football League (CFL) is a ladder-based football competition in the Indian state of West Bengal, organised by Indian Football Association (WB) as part of the state leagues.
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Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India.
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Calcutta Mathematical Society
The Calcutta Mathematical Society (CalMathSoc) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and education in India.
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Calcutta Polo Club
Calcutta Polo Club is a polo club located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Calcutta Racket Club
The Calcutta Racket Club is a squash and racquet club in Kolkata, India.
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Calcutta Rowing Club
The Calcutta Rowing Club (CRC), located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, was founded in 1858 and is one of the oldest rowing clubs of its kind outside the United Kingdom.
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Calcutta South Club
Calcutta South Club is a historic lawn tennis club and tennis training centre in Kolkata, India.
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Calcutta Stock Exchange
Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE) is an Indian stock exchange based in Kolkata, India.
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Calcutta Tramways Company
Calcutta Tramways Company (CTC) was a state-run company that operated trams and buses in and around Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) in West Bengal, India.
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Candidate (degree)
Candidate (Latin: candidatus or candidata) is the name of various academic degrees, which are today mainly awarded in Scandinavia.
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Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.
Carrom
Carrom is a tabletop game of Indian origin in which players flick discs, attempting to knock them to the corners of the board.
Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.
Census of India
The decennial census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011.
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Central Board of Secondary Education
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is a national level board of education in India for public and private schools, controlled and managed by the Government of India.
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Central business district
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business center of a city.
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Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute
Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI) is a Kolkata-based National Research Institute under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India.
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Central Park (Kolkata)
Central Park situated in Salt Lake is a public urban park.
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Centre for Civil Society
Centre for Civil Society (CCS) is a non-profit think tank based in New Delhi.
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Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) is a social science and humanities research and teaching institute in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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CESC Limited
The Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC) is the Kolkata-based flagship company of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, born from the erstwhile RPG Group, under the chairmanship of businessman Sanjiv Goenka.
Chand Sadagar
Chand Sadagar (Assamese: চান্দ সদাগৰ, Bengali: চাঁদ সদাগর) was an Indian sea merchant of Champaknagar in Eastern India.
Chandimangal
The Chandimangal is an important subgenre of mangalkavya, the most significant genre of medieval Bengali literature.
Chandraketugarh
Chandraketugarh, located in the Ganges Delta, is actually consists of a cluster of villages in the 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, about north-east of Kolkata.
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Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India. Kolkata and Chennai are Indian capital cities, metropolitan cities in India and port cities in India.
Chhath
Chhath is an ancient Hindu festival, native to the Indian subcontinent and of heritage to the Indo-Nepalese.
Chikungunya
Chikungunya is an infection caused by the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV).
Chitpur
Chitpur (or Chitpore) is a neighbourhood in North Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Chowringhee
Chowringhee (also Chourangi) is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Chowringhee Road
Chowringhee Road (also spelt Chourangi Road), located in the Chowringhee neighbourhood of Kolkata, is the arterial road running from the eastern fringes of Esplanade southwards up to the crossing with Lower Circular Road (AJC Bose Road), in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christians
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.
Chuni Goswami
Subimal "Chuni" Goswami (15 January 1938 – 30 April 2020) was an Indian professional footballer and first-class cricketer.
Cinema of West Bengal
Cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood or Bengali cinema, is an Indian film industry of Bengali-language motion pictures.
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City of Joy
City of Joy (La Cité de la joie) is a 1985 novel by Dominique Lapierre.
City proper
A city proper is the geographical area contained within city limits.
Coal India
Coal India Limited (CIL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Coal, Government of India.
Code-division multiple access
Code-division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies.
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College Street (Kolkata)
College Street (কলেজ স্ট্রিট) is a 900 metre long street in Central Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Commercial area
Commercial areas in a city are areas, districts, or neighborhoods primarily composed of commercial buildings, such as a strip mall, office parks, downtown, central business district, financial district, "Main Street", or shopping centers.
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Commissioner of the Kolkata Police
The Commissioner of the Kolkata Police (formerly Commissioner of the Calcutta Police) is the head of the Kolkata Police.
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Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India.
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Commuter rail
Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns.
Company rule in India
Company rule in India (sometimes Company Raj, from lit) was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.
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Consulate General of the United States, Kolkata
The Consulate General of the United States of America in Kolkata represents the interests of the United States government in Kolkata, India and nearby surrounding areas.
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Cossipore
Cossipore (also spelt Cossipur, Kashipur) is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Court of Small Causes
In Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi cities, the Small Causes Court is responsible for adjudicating matters related to civil cases.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
Cricket Association of Bengal
The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) is the governing body for cricket in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Crime in India
Crime in India has been recorded since the British Raj, with comprehensive statistics now compiled annually by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), under the Ministry of Home Affairs (India).
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Cultural capital
In the field of sociology, cultural capital comprises the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech, style of dress, social capital, etc.) that promote social mobility in a stratified society.
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Culture of Kolkata
The culture of Kolkata concerns the music, art, museums, festivals, and lifestyle within Kolkata.
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Cycle rickshaw
The cycle rickshaw is a small-scale local means of transport.
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Cyclone Aila
Severe Cyclonic Storm Aila (JTWC designation: 02B) was the second named tropical cyclone of the 2009 North Indian Ocean cyclone season.
Cyclone Amphan
Super Cyclonic Storm Amphan was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in Eastern India, specifically in West Bengal and Odisha, and in Bangladesh, in May 2020.
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Dainik Statesman
Dainik Statesman is a Bengali daily newspaper run by The Statesman group with its central office being The Statesman House at Chowringhee.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.
Demographics of India
India is the most populous country in the world with one-sixth of the world's population.
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Demonym
A demonym or gentilic is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place.
Dengue fever
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by dengue virus, prevalent in tropical and subtropical areas.
Department of Home and Hill Affairs
The Department of Home and Hill Affairs, popularly known as the Home Department, is a West Bengal government department.
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Der Spiegel (website)
() is a German news website.
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Desh (magazine)
Desh (দেশ) is a Bengali language literary magazine published by the ABP Group from India on the 2nd and the 17th of every month.
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Dhaka
Dhaka (or; Ḍhākā), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. Kolkata and Dhaka are capitals of Bengal.
Dhakuria
Dhakuria is a neighborhood of Kolkata (Calcutta) in West Bengal, India.
Dhapa, India
Dhapa is a locality on the fringes of East Kolkata, India.
Dhoti
The dhoti, also known as veshti, mardani, dhotar, jaiñboh, or panchey, is a piece of cloth arranged around the legs to resemble trousers.
Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels.
Direct Action Day
Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using violence to intimidate non-muslims and their leadership for a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India.
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Directorate of Ordnance (Coordination & Services)
Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), consisting of the Indian Ordnance Factories, now known as Directorate of Ordnance (Coordination & Services), was an organisation, under the Department of Defence Production (DDP) of Ministry of Defence (MoD), Government of India.
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Divisions of Kolkata Police
Kolkata Police is divided into nine administrative divisions.
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Diwali
Diwali (Deepavali, IAST: Dīpāvalī) is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions.
Doordarshan
Doordarshan (abbreviated as DD) is an Indian state-owned public television broadcaster founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and one of Prasar Bharati's two divisions.
Dover Lane Music Conference
The Dover Lane Music Conference is an annual Indian classical music festival held in the month of January at Nazrul Mancha, an outdoor auditorium in south Kolkata.
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Dr. B C Roy Post Graduate Institute of Paediatric Sciences
Dr.
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Dum Dum
Dum Dum is a city and a municipality in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata and Dum Dum are cities in West Bengal.
Durga Puja
Durga Puja (ISO), also known as Durgotsava or Sharodotsav, is an annual festival originating in the Indian subcontinent which reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess Durga, and is also celebrated because of Durga's victory over Mahishasura.
Durga Puja in Kolkata
Durga Puja is an annual festival celebrated magnificently marking the worship of the Hindu mother goddess Durga.
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Earthquake zones of India
The Indian subcontinent has a history of devastating earthquakes.
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East Bengal
East Bengal (পূর্ব বাংলা/পূর্ববঙ্গ Purbô Bangla/Purbôbongo) was a non-contiguous province of the Dominion of Pakistan.
East Bengal Club
East Bengal Club, commonly referred to as East Bengal, is an Indian professional multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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East Bengal FC
East Bengal Football Club, commonly referred to as East Bengal, is an Indian professional football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal that competes in the Indian Super League (ISL), the top flight of the Indian football league system.
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East India
Eastern India is a region of India consisting of the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal and also the union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
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East Indian Railway Company
The East Indian Railway Company, operating as the East Indian Railway (reporting mark EIR), introduced railways to East India and North India, while the Companies such as the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, South Indian Railway, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway and the North-Western Railway operated in other parts of India.
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East Kolkata Wetlands
The East Kolkata Wetlands (officially known as East Calcutta Wetlands) (22 0 27’ N 88 0 27’ E), are a complex of natural and human-made wetlands lying east of the city of Calcutta (Kolkata), of West Bengal in India.
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East Pakistan
East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, covering the territory of the modern country Bangladesh.
Eastern Command (India)
The Eastern Command is one of the six operational commands of the Indian Army.
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Eastern Metropolitan Bypass
Eastern Metropolitan Bypass (also known as E.M. Bypass or EM Bypass) is a long six to eight-lane major bypass road on the east side of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Eastern Railway zone
The Eastern Railway (abbreviated ER) is among the 19 zones of the Indian Railways.
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Economic and Political Weekly
The Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) is a weekly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all social sciences, and is published by the Sameeksha Trust.
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Economic liberalisation in India
The economic liberalisation in India refers to the series of policy changes aimed at opening up the country's economy to the world, with the objective of making it more market-oriented and consumption-driven.
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Economic stagnation
Economic stagnation is a prolonged period of slow economic growth (traditionally measured in terms of the GDP growth), usually accompanied by high unemployment.
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Economy of India
The economy of India is a developing mixed economy with a notable public sector in strategic sectors.
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Eden Gardens
Eden Gardens is an international cricket stadium in Kolkata, India.
Education in India
Education in India is primarily managed by the state-run public education system, which falls under the command of the government at three levels: central, state and local.
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Ei Samay Sangbadpatra
Ei Samay Sangbadpatra is a Bengali-language daily newspaper from The Times Group.
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Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Fitr (lit) is the earlier of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid al-Adha).
Emami
Emami Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata.
Esplanade, Kolkata
Esplanade is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata, located at the heart of city with being the city's Central business district.
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Ethnic communities in Kolkata
Kolkata, India, is largely inhabited by the ethnic community of the native Bengalis (both Ghoti and Bangal origin) respectively.
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Eveready Industries India
Eveready Industries India Ltd. (EIIL) (originally known as Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL)) is an Indian company that manufactures and markets batteries and lighting products.
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Exide Industries
Exide Industries Limited (Exide) is an Indian multinational storage battery manufacturing company, headquartered in Kolkata, India.
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Expressways of India
Expressways are the highest class of roads in India.
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Field hockey
Field hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalkeeper.
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, more commonly known by its acronym FIFA, is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal.
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Financial centre
A financial centre (financial center in American English) or financial hub is a location with a significant concentration of participants in banking, asset management, insurance, and financial markets, with venues and supporting services for these activities to take place.
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Firhad Hakim
Firhad Hakim (1 January 1959) is an Indian politician serving as the current and 38th Mayor of Kolkata.
Foreigners Registration Office
The Foreigners Registration Office (FRO) is an Indian government agency responsible for administering foreigner registration and immigration related functions for visitors to India.
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Fort William, India
Fort William is a fort in Hastings, Calcutta (Kolkata).
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Fosroc
Fosroc is a British manufacturer of specialised construction chemicals that cater to a range of sectors including commercial, industrial, residential, marine and infrastructure.
French East India Company
The French East India Company (Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was a joint-stock company founded in France on 1 September 1664 to compete with the English (later British) and Dutch trading companies in the East Indies.
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Frequency modulation
Frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.
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Gajan (festival)
Gajan or Shiva gajon is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly in the Indian state of West Bengal and Bangladesh.
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Ganashakti
Ganashakti Patrika (1967-present) is an Indian Bengali daily newspaper published from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Gandhi Jayanti
Gandhi Jayanti is an event celebrated in India to mark the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Ganesh Chaturthi
Ganesh Chaturthi (ISO), also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi or Vinayaka Chavithi or Vinayagar Chaturthi, is a Hindu festival that tributes Hindu deity Ganesha.
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Ganges Delta
The Ganges Delta (also known the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the Sundarbans Delta or the Bengal Delta) is a river delta in Eastern South Asia predominantly covering the Bengal region of the subcontinent, consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
Garden Reach
Garden Reach is a neighbourhood of Kolkata in West Bengal, India.
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd, abbreviated as GRSE, is one of India's leading shipyards, located in Kolkata.
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Garia
Garia (Bengali:গড়িয়া) is a neighborhood of South Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.
General Post Office, Kolkata
The General Post Office, Kolkata is the central post office of the city of Kolkata, India, and the chief post office of West Bengal.
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Geological Survey of India
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) is a scientific agency of India.
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George Turnbull (engineer)
George Turnbull was the Scottish engineer responsible from 1851 to 1863 for the construction of the first Indian long-distance railway line: Calcutta to Benares up beside the Ganges river, 541 miles (871 kilometres), (601 miles including branches).
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Gobindapur, Kolkata
Gobindapur was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Calcutta in late 17th century.
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Goitre
A goitre, or goiter, is a swelling in the neck resulting from an enlarged thyroid gland.
Golden Quadrilateral
The Golden Quadrilateral (Svarnim Chaturbhuj; abbreviated GQ) is a national highway network connecting several major industrial, agricultural and cultural centres of India.
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Golf Green
Golf Green is a neighbourhood located in the southern part of Kolkata, in West Bengal, India.
Gondwana
Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.
Goutam Ghose
Goutam Ghose (also spelled Gautam Ghosh; born 24 July 1950) is an Indian film director, actor, music director and cinematographer who works primarily in Bengali cinema.
Government College of Art & Craft
The Government College of Art & Craft (GCAC) in Kolkata is one of the oldest Art colleges in India.
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Government of West Bengal
The Government of West Bengal, also known as the West Bengal Government, is the principal administrative authority of the Indian state of West Bengal, created by the National Constitution as the state's legislative, executive and judicial authority.
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Governor-General of India
The governor-general of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the viceroy and governor-general of India, commonly shortened to viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the Emperor/Empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Monarch of India.
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Graffiti
Graffiti (plural; singular graffiti or graffito, the latter rarely used except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view.
Grand Hotel (Kolkata)
The Grand Hotel, now known as the Oberoi Grand, is situated in the heart of Kolkata on Chowringhee Road.
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Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..
Gross metropolitan product
Gross metropolitan product (GMP) is a monetary measure of the value of all final goods and services produced within a metropolitan statistical area during a specified period (e.g., a quarter, a year).
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Group theatre of Kolkata
The group theatre of Kolkata refers to a tradition in theatres in the Indian city Kolkata, which developed in the 1940s as an alternative to entertainment-oriented theatres.
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GSM
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets.
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Gujarati language
Gujarati (label) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people.
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Gujarati people
The Gujarati people, or Gujaratis, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who reside in or can trace their ancestry or heritage to a region of the Indian subcontinent primarily centered in the present-day western Indian state of Gujarat.
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Haldia
Haldia is an industrial port city in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata and Haldia are cities in West Bengal and port cities in India.
Haldia–Raxaul Expressway
The Haldia–Raxaul Expressway is a 650 km (400 mi) planned and upcoming green field access controlled expressway in West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar.
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Hathway
Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd, formerly BITV Cable Networks, is an Indian cable television and broadband service provider based in Mumbai.
Hawkers in Kolkata
Hawkers in Kolkata numbering 275,000 generated business worth 87.72 billion (around 2 billion USD) in 2005.
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Health insurance
Health insurance or medical insurance (also known as medical aid in South Africa) is a type of insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses.
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Hicky's Bengal Gazette
Hicky's Bengal Gazette or the Original Calcutta General Advertiser was an English-language weekly newspaper published in Kolkata (then Calcutta), the capital of British India.
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High courts of India
The high courts of India are the highest courts of appellate jurisdiction in each state and union territory of India.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Hindustan Ambassador
The Hindustan Ambassador is an automobile that was manufactured by Indian manufacturer Hindustan Motors from 1957 to 2014, with improvements and changes over its production lifetime.
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Hindustan Copper
Hindustan Copper Ltd. is a central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Mines, Government of India.
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Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi.
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History of the Jews in Kolkata
The history of the Jews in Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, in India, began in the late eighteenth century when adventurous Baghdadi Jewish merchants originally from Aleppo and Baghdad chose to establish themselves permanently in the emerging capital of the British Raj.
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HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.
HIV/AIDS in India
HIV/AIDS in India is an epidemic.
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Holi
Holi is a popular and significant Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love, and Spring.
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Hooghly district
Hooghly district is one of the districts of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Hooghly River
The Hooghly River (Anglicized alternatively spelt as Hoogli or Hugli) or popularly called Ganga or Kati-Ganga in the Puranas, is a river that rises close to Giria, which lies north of Baharampur and Palashi in Murshidabad.
Howrah
Howrah (alternatively pronounced as Haora) is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata and Howrah are cities in West Bengal.
Howrah Bridge
The Howrah Bridge is a balanced steel bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India.
Howrah district
Howrah district is a district of the West Bengal state in eastern India.
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Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Human sex ratio
The human sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population in the context of anthropology and demography.
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Hungry generation
The Hungry Generation (ক্ষুধার্ত প্রজন্ম) was a literary movement in the Bengali language launched by what is known today as the Hungryalist quartet, i.e. Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury and Debi Roy (alias Haradhon Dhara), during the 1960s in Kolkata, India.
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IATA airport code
An IATA airport code, also known as an IATA location identifier, IATA station code, or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter geocode designating many airports and metropolitan areas around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
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IIEST, Shibpur
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, abbreviated as IIEST Shibpur is a public technological university located at Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal, India.
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Ilish
The ilish (Tenualosa ilisha) (translit), also known as the ilishi, hilsa, hilsa herring or hilsa shad, is a species of fish related to the herring, in the family Clupeidae.
Imperial Japanese Army
The (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan.
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Imphal Airport
Imphal Airport, officially renamed as Bir Tikendrajit International Airport, and formerly known as Tulihal International Airport, is an international airport serving Imphal, the capital of Manipur, India, located 7 km south from the city centre.
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Incheon
Incheon (or Inch'ŏn; literally "kind river"), formerly Jemulpo or Chemulp'o (제물포) until the period after 1910, officially the Incheon Metropolitan City (인천광역시, 仁川廣域市), is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi to the east.
Incredible India
Incredible India (stylized as Incredıble!ndia) is the name of an international tourism campaign launched by the Government of India in 2002 to promote tourism in India.
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Independence Day (India)
Independence Day is celebrated annually on 15 August as a public holiday in India commemorating the nation's independence from the United Kingdom on 15 August 1947, the day when the provisions of the Indian Independence Act, which transferred legislative sovereignty to the Indian Constituent Assembly, came into effect.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
India at the Olympics
India first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a lone athlete Norman Pritchard winning two medals – both silver – in athletics and became the first Asian nation to win an Olympic medal.
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India Government Mint, Kolkata
The India Government Mint, Kolkata was first established in 1757, and was located in a building next to the Black Hole in the old fort – where the GPO (General Post Office) stands today.
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India men's national basketball team
The India men's national basketball team represents India in international men's basketball.
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India national cricket team
The India men's national cricket team represents India in men's international cricket.
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India Today (TV channel)
India Today (formerly Headlines Today) is a 24-hour English language television news channel based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh that carries news, current affairs and business programming in India.
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India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway
India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway (IMT Highway), long route, is a 4-lane highway under construction under India's Look East policy that will connect Moreh, India with Mae Sot, Thailand via Myanmar.
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Indian Army
The Indian Army is the land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces.
Indian art
Indian art consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk.
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in basic sciences under the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. Established on 29 July 1876 by Mahendralal Sarkar, a private medical practitioner, it focuses on fundamental research in basic sciences.
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Indian Centre for Space Physics
The Indian Centre for Space Physics (ICSP) is an Indian non-profit research organisation dedicated to carrying out advanced research in astronomy, astrophysics and space science.
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Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) is an examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, a private board designed to provide an examination in a course of general education, in accordance with the recommendations of the New Education Policy 2020 (India), through the medium of English.
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Indian Chinese cuisine
Indian Chinese cuisine, Chinese Indian cuisine, Sino-Indian cuisine, Chindian cuisine, Hakka Chinese or Desi-Chinese cuisine is a distinct style of Chinese cuisine adapted to Indian tastes, combining Chinese foods with Indian flavours and spices.
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Indian classical music
Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent.
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The Indian Football Association, abbreviated as IFA, is the organisation that administers association football in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Indian independence movement
The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.
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Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) is a biomedical research centre in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) is a public business school headquartered in New Delhi, Delhi, India.
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Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta or IIM-C) is a public business school located in Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management
The Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management (IISWBM) is a Autonomous business school in Kolkata, India.
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Indian Institutes of Engineering Science and Technology
Indian Institutes of Engineering Science and Technology (abbreviated as IIEST) was a planned group of academic institutions in India for research and education in engineering, originally proposed by the Government of India in 2007 to meet the increasing demand for technological and scientific workforce in the industrial and service sectors of India as well as the growing need for qualified personnel in research and development.
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Indian Institutes of Management
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are Centrally Funded Business Schools for management offering undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and executive programmes along with some additional courses in the field of business administration.
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Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research
Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) are a group of autonomous institutions established by the Government of India through the Ministry of Education for teaching and research in natural science and to provide collegiate education in basic sciences integrated with research at the undergraduate level.
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Indian Museum
The Indian Museum (formerly called Imperial Museum of Calcutta before independence) is a massive museum in Central Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Indian National Association
The Indian Association was the first avowed nationalist organization founded in British India by Surendranath Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose in 1876.
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Indian natural history
Natural history in the Indian subcontinent has a long heritage with a recorded history going back to the Vedic era.
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Indian Penal Code
The Indian Penal Code (IPC) was the official criminal code in the Republic of India, inherited from British India after independence, until it was repealed and replaced by Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) in December 2023, which came into effect on 1 July 2024.
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Indian Premier League
The Indian Premier League (IPL), also known as the TATA IPL for sponsorship reasons, is a men's Twenty20 (T20) cricket league held annually in India.
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Indian Public Health Association
Indian Public Health Association shortly IPHA is a professional health organization working for the cause of Public Health in India since 1956.
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Indian Railways
Indian Railways is a statutory body under the ownership of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India that operates India's national railway system.
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Indian Science Congress Association
Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) is a premier scientific organisation of India with headquarters at Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Indian Standard Time
Indian Standard Time (IST), sometimes also called India Standard Time, is the time zone observed throughout the Republic of India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.
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Indian Statistical Institute
Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a public research university headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indian Super League
The Indian Super League (ISL) is the men's highest level of the Indian football league system.
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Indo-Gangetic Plain
The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the North Indian River Plain, is a fertile plain encompassing northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including most of modern-day northern and eastern India, most of eastern-Pakistan, virtually all of Bangladesh and southern plains of Nepal.
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Indo-Islamic architecture
Indo-Islamic architecture is the architecture of the Indian subcontinent produced by and for Islamic patrons and purposes.
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Indo-Pakistani war of 1971
The Indo-Pakistani war of 1971, also known as the third India-Pakistan war, was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 December 1971.
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Indo-Saracenic architecture
Indo-Saracenic architecture (also known as Indo-Gothic, Mughal-Gothic, Neo-Mughal, in the 19th century often Indo-Islamic style) was a revivalist architectural style mostly used by British architects in India in the later 19th century, especially in public and government buildings in the British Raj, and the palaces of rulers of the princely states.
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Infant mortality
Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's first birthday.
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Informal economy
An informal economy (informal sector or grey economy) is the part of any economy that is neither taxed nor monitored by any form of government.
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Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
The Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK) is an autonomous research institute dedicated for development studies and related subfields in Bidhannagar, West Bengal, India.
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Institutes of National Importance
In India, Institute of National Importance (INI) is a status that may be conferred on a premier public higher education institution by an act of the Parliament of India for such institutions which, "serve as a pivotal player in developing highly skilled personnel within the specified region of the country or state." Institutes of National Importance receive special recognition, higher autonomy, and direct funding from the Government of India.
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Institution of Engineers (India)
The Institution of Engineers (India), the IEI, is a national organization for engineers in India.
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Intangible cultural heritage
An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill considered by UNESCO to be part of a place's cultural heritage.
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Integrated Child Development Services
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is a government program in India which provides nutritional meals, preschool education, primary healthcare, immunization, health check-up and referral services to children under 6 years of age and their mothers.
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International airport
An international airport is an airport with customs and border control facilities enabling passengers to travel between countries around the world.
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International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages.
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International Association of Public Transport
The International Association of Public Transport (Union Internationale des Transports Publics; UITP) is a non-profit member-led organisation for public transport authorities, networks and operators, policy decision-makers, scientific institutes and the public transport supply and service industry, that works to advance sustainable urban mobility.
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Internet Protocol television
Internet Protocol television (IPTV), also called TV over broadband, is the service delivery of television over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
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Iran men's national basketball team
The Iran national basketball team is controlled by the IR Iran Basketball Federation.
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar; lit; 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891) was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
ITC Limited
ITC Limited is an Indian conglomerate company, headquartered in Kolkata.
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University (abbr. JU) is a public state funded research and technology university with its main campus located at Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Jagaddhatri
Jagatdhatri or Jagaddhatri is an aspect of the Hindu goddess Durga, worshipped in the Indian state of West Bengal and other states like Odisha and Jharkhand.
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a polymath with interests in biology, physics, botany and writing science fiction.
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Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
Jamini Roy
Jamini Roy (11 April 1887 – 24 April 1972) was an Indian painter.
Jatra (theatre)
Jatra (origin: Yatra meaning procession or journey in Sanskrit) is a popular folk-theatre form Bengali theatre, spread throughout most of Bengali speaking areas of the Indian subcontinent, including Bangladesh and Indian states of West Bengal, Assam, Odisha and Tripura As of 2005, there were some 55 troupes based in Calcutta's old Jatra district, Chitpur Road, and all together, is a $21m-a-year industry, performed on nearly 4,000 stages in West Bengal alone, where in 2001, over 300 companies employed over 20,000 people, more than the local film industry and urban theatre.
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Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City is the second-most populous, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
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Jessore Road
Jessore Road is an International road connecting Shyambazar through Dum Dum in Kolkata, India to Jessore in Bangladesh.
Jharkhand
Jharkhand is a state in eastern India.
Jhulan Goswami
Jhulan Nishit Goswami (born 25 November 1982) is an Indian former cricketer.
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Jio
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (d/b/a Jio) is an Indian telecommunications company and a subsidiary of Jio Platforms, headquartered in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra.
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Jitiya
Jitiya (also called Jivitputrika) is a three-day-long Ancient Hindu festival which is celebrated from the seventh to ninth lunar day of Krishna-Paksha in Ashvin month.
Job Charnock
Job Charnock (–1692/1693) was an English administrator with the East India Company.
Joka, Kolkata
Joka is a locality in South Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Jorasanko
Jorasanko is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India.
Jorasanko Thakur Bari
Jorasanko Thakur Bari (Bengali: House of the Thakurs; anglicised to Tagore) in Jorasanko, North Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is the ancestral home of the Tagore family.
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of California Press on behalf of the Society of Architectural Historians.
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Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
Jute Corporation of India
The Jute Corporation of India Limited (JCI) is central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.
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Kali
Kali (काली), also called Kalika, is a major Hindu goddess associated with time, change, creation, power, destruction and death in Shaktism.
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Kali Puja
Kali Puja (ISO), also known as Shyama Puja or Mahanisha Puja, is a festival originating from the Indian subcontinent, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali.
Kalighat
Kalighat is a locality of Kolkata (Calcutta), in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India.
Kalighat Kali Temple
Kalighat Kali Temple is a Hindu temple in Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali.
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Kalighat painting
Kalighat painting, Kalighat Patachitra, or Kalighat Pat (Bengali: কালীঘাট পটচিত্র) is a style of Indian paintings which originated in the 19th century.
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Kalikata
Kalikata was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in India.
Kallol
Kallol (কল্লোল) refers to one of the most influential literary movements in Bengali literature, which can be placed approximately between 1923 and 1935.
Kalpataru Day
Kalpataru Day also called Kalpataru Diwas or Kalpataru Utsav is an annual religious festival observed by monks of the Ramakrishna Math monastic order of Hinduism and lay followers of the associated Ramakrishna Mission, as well as the worldwide Vedanta Societies.
Kalyani Expressway
Kalyani Expressway is an under construction (as of 2024), 4-6 laned, tolled expressway which connects Kolkata with Kalyani.
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Karachi
Karachi (کراچی) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh. Kolkata and Karachi are former national capitals.
Kasba, Kolkata
Kasba is an upscale and standard locality of South Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India.
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Kati roll
A kati roll (sometimes spelt kathi roll; কাঠি রোল) is a street-food dish originating from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam (কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম,; 25 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, writer, journalist, and musician.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Khardaha
Khardaha is a city and a municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata and Khardaha are cities in West Bengal.
Kirtan
Indian harmoniums and ''tabla'' drums (a common and popular pairing), in Kenya (1960s) Kirtana (कीर्तन), also rendered as Kirtan or Keertan, is a Sanskrit word that means "narrating, reciting, telling, describing" of an idea or story, specifically in Indian religions.
Kolkata Book Fair
The International Kolkata Book Fair (formerly Calcutta Book Fair) is a winter fair in Kolkata.
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Kolkata Derby
The Kolkata Derby (locally known as "Boro Match") is the football match in Kolkata, between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan.
Kolkata district
Kolkata district (formerly known as Calcutta district) is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Kolkata International Film Festival
The Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) is an annual film festival held in Kolkata, India.
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Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) are a professional franchise cricket team representing the city of Kolkata in the Indian Premier League.
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Kolkata Metro
The Kolkata Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Kolkata and the wider Kolkata Metropolitan Region in West Bengal, India.
Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is the statutory planning and development authority for the Kolkata metropolitan area in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Kolkata metropolitan region
Kolkata Metropolitan Area (abbreviated KMA; formerly Calcutta Metropolitan Area), also known as Greater Kolkata, is the urban agglomeration of the city of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is the local government of the Indian city of Kolkata, the state capital of West Bengal.
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Kolkata Police
The Kolkata Police (Bengali: কলকাতা পুলিশ, IAST: Kolakātā Pulisa, officially Kolkata Police Force, formerly Calcutta Police Force till 2001) is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within the metropolitan area of the city of Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Kolkata Race Course
Kolkata Race Course is a horse race venue in Hastings, Kolkata, India.
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Kolkata Suburban Railway
The Kolkata Suburban Railway (colloquially called Kolkata local trains or simply locals) is a set of suburban and regional rail services serving the Kolkata metropolitan area and its surroundings in India.
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Kolkata TV
Kolkata TV is a 24-hour Bengali news channel launched by SST Media in 2006.
Kona Expressway
Kona Expressway (part of NH12, not to be confused with Kona Highroad or NH117) is a 4 lane (with 2 service lanes) grade-separated, tolled expressway in the suburban fringes of Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Konkani people
The Konkani people are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to the Konkan region of the Indian subcontinent who speak various dialects of the Konkani language.
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Krishna Janmashtami
Krishna Janmashtami, also known simply as Krishnashtami, Janmashtami, or Gokulashtami, is an annual Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu.
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Kunming
Kunming is the capital and largest city of the province of Yunnan in China.
Kurta
A Kurta word comes from Urdu, and its Persian root is kurtah, "a collarless shirt." A kurta is a loose collarless shirt or tunic worn in many regions of South Asia, (subscription required) Quote: "A loose shirt or tunic worn by men and women." Quote: "Kurta: a loose shirt without a collar, worn by women and men from South Asia" and now also worn around the world.
Kushinagar International Airport
Kushinagar International Airport is an international airport serving Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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La Martinière Calcutta
La Martinière (informally known as LMC) comprises two independent private single-sex schools for day scholars, with a few boarders, located in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India.
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Lakshmi Puja
Lakshmi Puja is a Hindu occasion for the veneration of Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity and the supreme goddess of Vaishnavism.
Lalbazar
Lalbazar is a neighbourhood in Central Kolkata, earlier known as Calcutta, in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Languages of India
Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages.
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Larsen & Toubro
Larsen & Toubro Limited, abbreviated as L&T, is an Indian multinational conglomerate, with interests in industrial technology, heavy industry, engineering, construction, manufacturing, power, information technology, military and financial services.
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Leander Paes
Leander Adrian Paes (born 17 June 1973) is an Indian former professional tennis player.
Left Front (West Bengal)
The Left Front (Bengali: বামফ্রন্ট) is an alliance of left-wing political parties in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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License
A license (US) or licence (Commonwealth) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).
Life expectancy
Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.
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List of capitals of India
This is a list of locations which have served as the capital city of major historical empires in the Indian subcontinent as well as the modern day nation of India since 1858.
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List of children's museums in India
The following is a partial list of children’s museums in India.
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List of cities by GDP
This is a list of cities in the world by nominal gross domestic product (GDP).
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List of cities in India by population
The following tables are the list of cities in India by population.
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List of cities in West Bengal by population
This is a list of urban agglomerations and cities (those not included in the urban agglomerations), with a population above 100,000 as per the 2011 census in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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List of diplomatic missions in India
This is a list of diplomatic missions in India.
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List of diplomatic missions of the United States
The United States has the second most active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023).
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List of districts of West Bengal
The Himalayas lies in the north of West Bengal and the Bay of Bengal is at the south.
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List of emperors of the Mughal Empire
The emperors of the Mughal Empire, styled the Emperors of Hindustan, who were all members of the Timurid dynasty (House of Babur), ruled over the empire from its inception in 1526 to its dissolution in 1857.
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List of India national cricket captains
This is the list of captains of Indian cricket team who have lead the team in at least one international cricket match.
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List of largest cities
The United Nations uses three definitions for what constitutes a city, as not all cities in all jurisdictions are classified using the same criteria.
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List of mayors of Kolkata
The Mayor of Kolkata is the chief executive of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, one of the civic authorities in the Indian city of Kolkata.
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List of metropolitan areas in Asia
Asia is one of the world's fastest-growing continents, with increasing urbanisation and a high growth rate for cities.
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List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India
India is a country in South Asia and is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the most-populous country with more than 1.4 billion people, home to nearly 17.5 percent of the world's population.
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List of people from Kolkata
List of notable people from Kolkata.
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This is a list of shopping malls in India, sortable by name, location, year opened and gross leasable area.
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List of suburban and commuter rail systems
This is an alphabetical listing of cities and countries that have commuter or suburban railways that are currently operational and in service.
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List of tallest buildings in Kolkata
This list of tallest buildings in Kolkata enumerates high-rise buildings and skyscrapers in Kolkata and its metropolitan area.
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List of tourist attractions in Kolkata
Kolkata (also known as Calcutta) is currently the third-most populous metropolitan city in India after Mumbai and Delhi.
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Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha.
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport is an international airport serving Guwahati, the largest city of North-East India in Assam, India.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Loreto House
Loreto House was established in 1842 in Kolkata, by the Sisters of Loreto belonging to the institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Lux Industries
Lux industries, previously known as Biswanath Hosiery Mills, is an Indian underwear company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Madhyamgram
Madhyamgram is a town and a municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata and Madhyamgram are cities in West Bengal.
Maha Shivaratri
Maha Shivaratri is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of the deity Shiva, between February and March.
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Mahavir Janma Kalyanak
Mahavir Janma Kalyanak is one of the most important religious festivals in Jainism.
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Maheshtala
Maheshtala is a city and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Maidan (Kolkata)
Maidan (ময়দান) is a large urban area containing vast urban green space, parks, playgrounds and several public venues in the center of Kolkata, India.
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Makar Sankranti
Makar(a) Sankranti, also referred to as Uttarayana, Makar, or simply Sankranti, is a Hindu observance and a festival.
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Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.
Malnutrition
Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems.
Maniktala
Maniktala is a residential area of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India.
Maoism
Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China.
Marathi people
The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक, Marāṭhī lōk) or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, Marāṭhī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India.
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Marble Palace (Kolkata)
Marble Palace is a palatial nineteenth-century mansion in North Kolkata.
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Marwari people
The Marwari or Marwadi (Devanagari: मारवाड़ी) are an Indian ethnic group that originate from the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India.
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Marxism
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal (MAKAUT, WB), formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) is a public state university located in Haringhata, West Bengal, India.
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Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata
Medical College, Kolkata, also known as Calcutta Medical College, is a Government medical college and hospital located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Megacity
A megacity is a very large city, typically with a population of more than 10 million people.
Meghnad Saha
Meghnad Saha (6 October 1893 – 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist who helped devise the theory of thermal ionisation.
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873) was a Bengali poet and playwright.
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Millennium Park (Kolkata)
Millennium Park is a public park in Kolkata, situated along the Strand Road on eastern shore of Hooghly River for a stretch of 2.5 km, near Fairlie Ghat opposite to the Railway Club.
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Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) is the department of the New Zealand Government responsible for supporting the arts, culture, built heritage, sport and recreation, and broadcasting sectors in New Zealand and advising government on such.
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Ministry of Defence (India)
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) (romanized: Raksha Mantralay) is charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the Indian Armed Forces.
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Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (West Bengal)
The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of West Bengal is a Bengal government ministry.
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Mishti doi
Mishti doi (মিষ্টি দই) is a fermented sweet doi (yogurt) originating from the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent and common in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam's Barak Valley, and in the nation of Bangladesh.
Missionaries of Charity
The Missionaries of Charity (Congregatio Missionariarum a Caritate) is a Catholic centralised religious institute of consecrated life of Pontifical Right for women established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.
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Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)
Mohammedan Sporting Club is an Indian football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Mohun Bagan AC
Mohun Bagan Athletic Club is an Indian professional multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Mohun Bagan Ground
Mohun Bagan Ground, also known as Mohun Bagan–Calcutta FC Ground, is a football stadium located in Maidan, Kolkata, just opposite Eden Gardens.
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Mohun Bagan Super Giant
Mohun Bagan Super Giant, commonly referred to as Mohun Bagan, is an Indian professional football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Monsoon
A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.
Monsoon of South Asia
The Monsoon of South Asia is among several geographically distributed global monsoons.
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Mother Teresa
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu,; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen (14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and a few Hindi and Telugu language films.
Muharram
Muharram (translit) is the first month of the Islamic calendar.
Mukundaram Chakrabarti
Kabikankan Mukundaram Chakrabarti (কবিকঙ্কণ মুকুন্দরাম চক্রবর্তী) was a 16th-century Bengali poet who is best known for writing the epic poem Chandimangal, which is considered one of the most prominent works of Mangalkavya, one of the most important sub-genres of medieval Bengali literature.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Kolkata and Mumbai are Indian capital cities, metropolitan cities in India and port cities in India.
Municipal corporation (India)
A municipal corporation is a type of local government in India which administers urban areas with a population of more than one million.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Nadia district
Nadia is a district in the state of West Bengal, India.
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Nandalal Bose
Nandalal Bose (3 December 1882 – 16 April 1966) was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism.
Nandikar's National Theatre Festival
Nandikar's National Theatre Festival was started in 1984.
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Naples
Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. Kolkata and Naples are capitals of former nations.
National Highway 12 (India)
National Highway 12 (NH 12), previously NH 34, is a National Highway in India which runs entirely in West Bengal.
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National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Kolkata
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Kolkata (NIPER Kolkata) is an Indian public pharmaceutical research university, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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National Insurance Company
National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) is an Indian public sector insurance company owned by the Government of India and administered by the Ministry of Finance.
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National Law Universities
National Law Universities (NLU) are public law schools in India, founded pursuant to the second-generation reforms for legal education sought to be implemented by the Bar Council of India.
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National Library of India
The National Library of India is a library located in the Belvedere Estate, Alipore, Kolkata, India.
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Navajivan Trust
Navajivan Trust is a publishing house based in Ahmedabad, India.
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Nawabs of Bengal
The Nawab of Bengal (বাংলার নবাব) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India.
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Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups known as Naxalites or Naxals (a group of communists supportive of Maoist political sentiment and ideology) and the Indian government.
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Neighbourhoods in Kolkata Metropolitan Area
The major municipal areas which are a part of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority or KMDA Kolkata conurbation are:.
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
Nepali language
Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia.
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Nepalis
Nepali (also Nepalese; नेपाली) are the citizens of Nepal under the provisions of Nepali nationality law.
Netaji Indoor Stadium
The Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Indoor Stadium is an indoor sports arena in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is an international airport serving Kolkata and the Kolkata Metropolitan Region.
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New Alipore
New Alipore is an upscale and standard locality of South Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
New Barrackpore
New Barrackpore is a city and a municipality in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata and New Barrackpore are cities in West Bengal.
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New Town, Kolkata
New Town (a.k.a. Rajarhat New Town) is a planned Satellite city of Kolkata located in both North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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News18 Bangla
News18 Bangla is a 24-hour Bengali news channel owned by Network 18, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries.
Nitrogen dioxide
Nitrogen dioxide is a chemical compound with the formula.
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Niyogi Books
Niyogi Books is an independent publishing house based in New Delhi, India, that focuses on illustrated non-fiction books across art, architecture, travel, history, food, and culture.
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.
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Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.
North 24 Parganas district
North 24 Parganas (abv. 24 PGS (N)) or sometimes North Twenty Four Parganas is a district in southern West Bengal, of eastern India.
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Northeast India
Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country. It comprises eight states—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura (commonly known as the "Seven Sisters"), and the "brother" state of Sikkim.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
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Obesity
Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health.
Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
Odia language
Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ, ISO:,; formerly rendered as Oriya) is an Indo-Aryan classical language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha.
Odia people
The Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ), formerly spelled Oriya, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to the Indian state of Odisha who speak the Odia language.
Overpass
An overpass, called an overbridge or flyover (for a road only) in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries, is a bridge, road, railway or similar structure that is over another road or railway.
Overseas Chinese
Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
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P. K. Banerjee
Pradip Kumar Banerjee (23 June 1936 – 20 March 2020) was an Indian professional footballer who played as a striker for the India national football team.
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Pakistan Movement
The Pakistan Movement was a political movement in the first half of the 20th century that aimed for the creation of Pakistan from the Muslim-majority areas of British India.
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Pakistani Instrument of Surrender
The Pakistani Instrument of Surrender (translit) was a legal document signed between India (alongside the Provisional Government of Bangladesh) and Pakistan to end the Bangladesh Liberation War and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
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Panchayat samiti
Panchayat samiti or block panchayat is a rural local government (panchayat) body at the intermediate tehsil (taluka/mandal) or block level in India.
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Panipuri
Pani puri is a deep-fried breaded hollow spherical shell, about in diameter, filled with a combination of finely diced potato, onion, peas, and chickpea.
Pankaj Roy
Pankaj Roy (31 May 1928 – 4 February 2001) was an Indian cricketer who played in 43 test matches, including once as captain.
Para (Bengali)
Para is a Bengali word (পাড়া) which means a neighbourhood or locality, usually characterised by a strong sense of community.
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Parallel cinema
Parallel cinema or New Indian Cinema, is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema.
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Park Street, Kolkata
Park Street, is a famous thoroughfare in downtown Kolkata, India.
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Parsis
The Parsis (singular: Parsi) or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism.
Particulates
Particulates or atmospheric particulate matter (see below for other names) are microscopic particles of solid or liquid matter suspended in the air.
Partition of Bengal (1905)
The first Partition of Bengal (1905) was a territorial reorganization of the Bengal Presidency implemented by the authorities of the British Raj.
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Partition of Bengal (1947)
The Partition of Bengal in 1947, also known as the Second Partition of Bengal, part of the Partition of India, divided the British Indian Bengal Province along the Radcliffe Line between the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.
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Partition of India
The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.
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Pashtuns
Pashtuns (translit), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are a nomadic, pastoral, Eastern Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. They historically were also referred to as Afghans until the 1970s after the term's meaning had become a demonym for members of all ethnic groups in Afghanistan.
Pearson Education
Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc.
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Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.
Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V., commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891.
Pohela Boishakh
Pohela Boishakh (পহেলা বৈশাখ)) is the Bengali New Year celebrated on 14 April in Bangladesh and 15 April in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand and Assam (Goalpara and Barak Valley). It is a festival based on the spring harvest—which marks the first day of the new year in the official calendar of Bangladesh.
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Political violence
Political violence is violence which is perpetrated in order to achieve political goals.
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Population
Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area.
Port Blair
Port Blair is the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India in the Bay of Bengal.
Port of Kolkata
Port of Kolkata or Kolkata Port (Bengali: কলকাতা বন্দর), officially known as Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port (formerly Kolkata Port Trust or Port of Calcutta), is the only riverine major port in India, in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, around from the sea.
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Postal Index Number
A Postal Index Number (PIN; sometimes redundantly a PIN code) refers to a six-digit code in the Indian postal code system used by India Post.
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Prafulla Chandra Ray
Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray, CIE, FNI, FRASB, FIAS, FCS (also spelled Prafulla Chandra Rây and Prafulla Chandra Roy; প্রফুল্ল চন্দ্র রায় Praphulla Chandra Rāy; 2 August 1861 – 16 June 1944) was an Indian chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist.
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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS (29 June 1893– 28 June 1972) was an Indian scientist and statistician.
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Precipitation types
In meteorology, the different types of precipitation often include the character, formation, or phase of the precipitation which is falling to ground level.
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Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
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Presidency division
Presidency division is an administrative division within the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Presidency University, Kolkata
Presidency University, Kolkata (formerly Presidency College, Kolkata) is a public state university located in College Street, Kolkata.
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Press Trust of India
The Press Trust of India Ltd., commonly known as PTI, is the largest news agency in India.
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Primary sector of the economy
The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining.
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Proscenium
A proscenium (προσκήνιον) is the metaphorical vertical plane of space in a theatre, usually surrounded on the top and sides by a physical proscenium arch (whether or not truly "arched") and on the bottom by the stage floor itself, which serves as the frame into which the audience observes from a more or less unified angle the events taking place upon the stage during a theatrical performance.
Provisional Government of Bangladesh
The Provisional Government of Bangladesh (অস্থায়ী বাংলাদেশ সরকার), popularly known as the Mujibnagar Government; also known as the Bangladeshi government-in-exile, was a provisional government that was established following the proclamation of independence of East Pakistan as Bangladesh on 10 April 1971.
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Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Pulled rickshaw
A pulled rickshaw (from Japanese) is a mode of human-powered transport by which a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two people.
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Punjabi language
Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India.
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Purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.
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Purushottam Publishers
Purushottam Publishers is an independent publishing house and media company headquartered in Baranagar, West Bengal, India, publishing K-12 school textbooks, academic research and career guidebooks for University and College level and General books of various genre.
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PwC
PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited is a multinational professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand.
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Quaternary
The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
Rabindra Jayanti
Rabindra Jayanti (রবীন্দ্র জয়ন্তী) is an annually celebrated cultural festival, prevalent among Tagorephiles (people who love Tagore and his works) around the world, in remembrance of Rabindranath Tagore's birthday anniversary.
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Rabindra Sangeet
Rabindra Sangeet (রবীন্দ্র সঙ্গীত), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Indian and also the first non-European to receive such recognition.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.
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Racket (sports equipment)
A racket or racquet is an item of sporting equipment used to strike a ball or shuttlecock back-and-forth in games such as tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball and padel.
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Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Raja Ram Mohan Roy (22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was an Indian reformer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent.
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Rajabazar, Kolkata
Rajabazar is a locality situated in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Rajarhat
Rajarhat is a neighbourhood of Kolkata under the jurisdiction of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989.
Rajpur Sonarpur
Rajpur Sonarpur is a city and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute
Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, formerly Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University or simply Vivekananda University, is an education institute deemed-to-be-university headquartered at Belur, West Bengal, with campuses spanning multiple states in India.
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Raman scattering
In physics, Raman scattering or the Raman effect is the inelastic scattering of photons by matter, meaning that there is both an exchange of energy and a change in the light's direction.
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Ramsar Convention
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands).
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Rapid transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas.
Rasgulla
Rasgulla (literally "syrup filled ball") is a syrupy dessert popular in the eastern part of South Asia.
Ratha Yatra
Ratha Yatra, or chariot festival, is any public procession in a chariot.
Realism (arts)
Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.
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Recorded history
Recorded history or written history describes the historical events that have been recorded in a written form or other documented communication which are subsequently evaluated by historians using the historical method.
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Religion in India
Religion in India is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices.
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Renaming of cities in India
The renaming of the cities in India started in 1947 following the end of the British imperial period.
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Republic Bangla
Republic Bangla (stylized as R. বাংলা) is a free-to-air Indian Bengali-language news channel, launched on 7 March 2021, by Arnab Goswami's Republic Media Network.
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Republic Day
Republic Day is the name of a holiday in several countries to commemorate the day when they became republics.
Reserve Bank of India
The Reserve Bank of India, abbreviated as RBI, is India's central bank and regulatory body responsible for regulation of the Indian banking system.
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Revolutionary movement for Indian independence
The Revolutionary movement for Indian Independence was part of the Indian independence movement comprising the actions of violent underground revolutionary factions.
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Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, (20 June 1760 – 26 September 1842) was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator.
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Rickshaw
Rickshaw originally denoted a pulled rickshaw, which is a two- or three-wheeled cart generally pulled by one person carrying one passenger.
Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh (31 August 1963 – 30 May 2013) was an Indian film director, actor, writer and lyricist.
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Ritwik Ghatak
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (4 November 19256 February 1976) was a noted Indian film director, screenwriter, actor and playwright.
Robert Clive
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency.
Rock music of West Bengal
Rock music of West Bengal originated in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Rowing (sport)
Rowing, often called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars.
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Royal Calcutta Golf Club
Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC) in Kolkata, India was established in 1829 and is the oldest golf club in India and the first outside Great Britain.
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Royal Calcutta Turf Club
The Royal Calcutta Turf Club (RCTC) is a horse racing organisation which was founded in 1847 in Calcutta, British India (now Kolkata).
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Rugby union in India
Rugby union in India is a minor sport.
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Rupa Company
Rupa & Company Limited, d/b/a RUPA, is an Indian clothing company which makes knitted garments.
S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
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Sabarna Roy Choudhury
Sabarna Roy Choudhury was a Zamindar family of Mughal Bengal.
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Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) is an institution of basic research and training in physical and biophysical sciences located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, India.
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Sailen Manna
Sailendra Nath Manna (শৈলেন মান্না; 1 September 1924 – 27 February 2012), known popularly as Sailen Manna, was an Indian football player who represented the India national team between 1948 and 1956.
Salt Lake Stadium
The Salt Lake Stadium, officially known as Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK), is an all-seater multi-purpose stadium located in Salt Lake City, Kolkata, with a capacity of 68,000 spectators.
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Sananda (magazine)
Sananda is a Bengali fortnightly women's magazine published by the ABP Group from Kolkata, India.
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Sandesh (confectionery)
Sandesh (সন্দেশ Shôndesh) is a dessert, originating from the Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, created with milk and sugar.
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Sangbad Pratidin
Sangbad Pratidin is a daily Indian Bengali newspaper simultaneously published from Kolkata, Barjora and Siliguri.
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Sankar (writer)
Mani Sankar Mukherjee (commonly known as Sankar in both Bengali and English-language literature) is an Indian writer in the Bengali language, who also served as the Sheriff of Kolkata.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Santoshpur, Kolkata
Santoshpur is a neighbourhood of Southern Kolkata in West Bengal, India.
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Saptahik Bartaman
Saptahik Bartaman is a Bengali language weekly magazine published by Bartaman Pvt.
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt as Sarat Chandra Chatterjee and Saratchandra Chatterji; 15 September 1876 – 16 January 1938), was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century.
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Sari
A sari (sometimes also saree or sadi)The name of the garment in various regional languages include.
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Satellite television
Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location.
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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer.
Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose (1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician.
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Science City, Kolkata
Science City, Kolkata is a science centre and science park in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Seating capacity
Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law.
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Secondary sector of the economy
In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing.
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Sepoy
Sepoy, related to sipahi, is a term denoting professional Indian infantryman, traditionally armed with a musket, in the armies of the Mughal Empire and the Maratha Army.
Sessions Court
A Sessions Court or even known as the Court of Sessions Judge is a court of law which exists in several Commonwealth countries.
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Shakespeare Sarani
Shakespeare Sarani (earlier Theatre Road) is a street running in the central business district of Kolkata, India, from Park Circus to Chowringhee Road (Birla Planetarium).
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Shalwar kameez
Shalwar kameez (also salwar kameez and less commonly shalwar qameez) is a traditional combination dress worn by men and women in South Asia, and Central Asia.
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Shanty town
A shanty town, squatter area or squatter settlement is a settlement of improvised buildings known as shanties or shacks, typically made of materials such as mud and wood.
Sheriff of Kolkata
The Sheriff of Kolkata is an apolitical titular position of authority bestowed for one year on a prominent citizen of Kolkata (Calcutta).
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Shipping Corporation of India
The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) is a public sector undertaking that operates and manages vessels servicing both national and international lines.
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Shobhabazar
Shobhabazar (also spelt Sovabazar; শোভাবাজার) is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district, in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Shyambazar
Shyambazar is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Sify
Sify Technologies Limited (formerly Satyam Infoway) is an Indian information and communications technology (ICT) company providing telecom services, data center services, cloud & managed services, transformation integration services, and application integration services.
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Signal Books
Signal Books is a British book publisher.
Sikhism
Sikhism, also known as Sikhi (ਸਿੱਖੀ,, from translit), is a monotheistic religion and philosophy, that originated in the Punjab region of India around the end of the 15th century CE.
Sikhs
Sikhs (singular Sikh: or; sikkh) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.
Sikkim
Sikkim is a state in northeastern India.
Sino-Indian War
The Sino–Indian War, also known as the China–India War or the Indo–China War, was an armed conflict between China and India that took place from October to November 1962.
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Sinthee
Sinthee or Sinthi is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India.
Siraj ud-Daulah
Mirza Muhammad Siraj-ud-Daulah (1733 – 2 July 1757), commonly known as Siraj-ud-Daulah or Siraj ud-Daula, was the last independent Nawab of Bengal.
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Sister city
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
Slum
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty.
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Socialism in India is a political movement founded early in the 20th century, as a part of the broader movement to gain Indian independence from colonial rule.
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Sodepur
Sodepur or Sodpur is a locality in Panihati Municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Solar irradiance
Solar irradiance is the power per unit area (surface power density) received from the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of the measuring instrument.
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Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (natively spelled as Gangopadhyay; born 8 July 1972), also known as Dada (meaning "elder brother" in Bengali), is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer.
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South 24 Parganas
South 24 Parganas (Pron: pɔrɡɔnɔs; abbr. 24 PGS (S)), or sometimes South Twenty Four Parganas and Dakshin 24 Parganas, is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Alipore.
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South Eastern Railway zone
The South Eastern Railway (abbreviated SER) is one of the 19 railway zones in India.
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South Point School
South Point is a higher-secondary co-educational private school located in Kolkata, West Bengal and affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education, consisting of three organisations – South Point School (Nursery to Class V), South Point High School (Classes VI to XII) and South Point Education Society (administrative authority).
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Squash (sport)
Squash, sometimes called squash rackets, is a racket-and-ball sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow, rubber ball.
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Squatting
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.
St. James' School (Kolkata)
St.
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St. Xavier's Collegiate School
St.
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State Bank of India
State Bank of India (SBI) is an Indian multinational public sector bank and financial services statutory body headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
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States and union territories of India
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.
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Statesman Vintage & Classic Car Rally
The Statesman Vintage & Classic Car Rally is an annual vintage car rally in New Delhi and Kolkata and the oldest, continuously-run such event in India and the sub-continent.
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Strand Road, Kolkata
Strand Road, also referred to as The Strand, is a major thoroughfare in downtown Kolkata, India.
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Subrata Bhattacharya
Subrata Bhattacharya (সুব্রত ভট্টাচার্য; born 3 March 1953) is an Indian football manager and former professional footballer.
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Sulfur dioxide
Sulfur dioxide (IUPAC-recommended spelling) or sulphur dioxide (traditional Commonwealth English) is the chemical compound with the formula.
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Sunfeast Open
The Sunfeast Open (named after sponsor Sunfeast of ITC Limited) was an annual WTA Tour tennis tournament that was started in Kolkata in 2005.
Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William
The Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Calcutta, was founded in 1774 by the Regulating Act of 1773.
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Sutanuti
Sutanuti was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) in India.
Suzerainty
Suzerainty includes the rights and obligations of a person, state, or other polity which controls the foreign policy and relations of a tributary state but allows the tributary state internal autonomy.
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (IAST: Svāmī Vivekānanda; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna.
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Tamils
The Tamils, also known as the Tamilar, are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry mainly to India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, to the union territory of Puducherry, and to Sri Lanka.
Tapan Sinha
Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen.
Tata Communications
Tata Communications Limited (previously known as Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited) is an Indian telecommunications company.
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Tata Consumer Products
Tata Consumer Products Limited is an Indian fast-moving consumer goods company and a part of the Tata Group.
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Tata Steel
Tata Steel Limited is an Indian multinational steel-making company, based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand and headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Tata Teleservices
Tata Teleservices Limited along with its subsidiary Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited is an Indian internet services provider and IT services company headquartered in Mumbai, India.
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Tea Board of India
The Tea Board of India is a state agency of the Government of India under the control of Ministry of Commerce and Industry, established to promote the cultivation, processing, and domestic trade as well as export of tea from India.
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Telephone numbers in India
Telephone numbers in India are administered under the National Numbering Plan of 2003 by the Department of Telecommunications of the Government of India.
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Telugu people
Telugu people (తెలుగువారు|Teluguvāru), also called Andhras, are an ethno-linguistic group who speak the Telugu language and are native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Yanam district of Puducherry.
Tertiary
Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.
Tertiary referral hospital
A tertiary referral hospital (also called a tertiary hospital, tertiary referral center, tertiary care center, or tertiary center) is a hospital that provides tertiary care, which is a level of health care obtained from specialists in a large hospital after referral from the providers of primary care and secondary care.
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Tertiary sector of the economy
The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The 42 (Kolkata)
The 42 is a residential skyscraper in Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal, India.
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The arts
The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation.
The Asian Age
The Asian Age is an English-language Indian daily newspaper with editions published in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.
The Asiatic Society
The Asiatic Society is a Government of India organisation founded during the Company rule in India to enhance and further the cause of "Oriental research" (in this case, research into India and the surrounding regions).
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The Economic Times
The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper.
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The Financial Express (India)
The Financial Express is an Indian English-language business newspaper owned by The Indian Express Group.
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The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
The Indian Express
The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by Ramnath Goenka with an investment by capitalist partner Raja Mohan Prasad.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Statesman (India)
The Statesman is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper founded in 1818 and published simultaneously in Kolkata, New Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneswar.
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The Telegraph (India)
The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982.
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The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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The Tribune (India)
The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and Gurugram.
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Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.
Tibetan people
The Tibetan people are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tiretta Bazaar
Tiretta Bazaar, also known as Chinatown, is a neighborhood near Lalbazar in Central Kolkata.
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Titular ruler
A titular ruler, or titular head, is a person in an official position of leadership who possesses few, if any, actual powers.
Todar Mal
Raja Todar Mal (1 January 1500 – 8 November 1589) was an Indian minister, economist, and military commander who served as the Finance Minister (Diwan-i-Ashraff) of the Mughal empire during the reign of Akbar I. He was also the Vakil-us-Sultanat (Counsellor of the Empire) and Joint Wazir.
Tollygunge
Tollygunge (Ṭaligonj; nicknamed 'Mini Mumbai' or 'Mini Bombay') is a locality of South Kolkata, in West Bengal, India.
Tollygunge Club
The Tollygunge Club (Bengali: টালিগঞ্জ ক্লাব), popularly called Tolly Club, is a country club in India, located in Tollygunge in south Kolkata.
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Total fertility rate
The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of their reproductive life.
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Trade union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.
Trams in Kolkata
The tram system in Kolkata, the capital city of the Indian state of West Bengal, operated by West Bengal Transport Corporation (WBTC) after Calcutta Tramways Company (CTC) was dissolved, is the oldest tram network operating in India, and oldest operating tramway in Asia.
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Trap rock
Trap rock, also known as either trapp or trap, is any dark-colored, fine-grained, non-granitic intrusive or extrusive igneous rock.
Treaty of Allahabad
The Treaty of Allahabad was signed on 16 August 1765, between the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II, son of the late Emperor Alamgir II, and Robert Clive, of the East India Company, in the aftermath of the Battle of Buxar of 22 October 1764.
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Trinamool Congress
The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal.
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Tropical savanna climate
Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories Aw (for a dry "winter") and As (for a dry "summer").
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UCO Bank
UCO Bank, formerly United Commercial Bank, is an Indian public sector bank, and financial services statutory body headquartered in Kolkata.
Ultadanga
Ultadanga is one of the most crowded junctions in North Kolkata.
UN/LOCODE
UN/LOCODE, the United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations, is a geographic coding scheme developed and maintained by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
Underweight
An underweight person is a person whose body weight is considered too low to be healthy.
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
UNESCO established its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage with the aim of ensuring better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance.
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Union territory
A union territory is a type of administrative division in the Republic of India.
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Unish-Kuri
Unish-Kuri is one of the youngest fortnightly magazines published from ABP Ltd, publishers of Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph, of Kolkata, India.
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.
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Universal Immunisation Programme
Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) is a vaccination programme launched by the Government of India in 1985.
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University College London
University College London (branded as UCL) is a public research university in London, England.
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University of Calcutta
The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata
The University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Kolkata is a private university located in New Town, Kolkata.
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University of Minnesota Press
The University of Minnesota Press is a university press that is part of the University of Minnesota.
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Upendranath Brahmachari
Rai Bahadur Sir Upendranath Brahmachari (উপেন্দ্রনাথ ব্রহ্মচারী; 19 December 1873 – 6 February 1946) was a prominent Indian physician and scientist.
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Urban planning
Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility.
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Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.
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Varanasi
Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world. Kolkata and Varanasi are former capital cities in India and metropolitan cities in India.
Varanasi–Kolkata Expressway
Varanasi–Kolkata Expressway, also known as Varanasi–Ranchi–Kolkata Expressway, and NH-319B, is an approved long, six-lane, greenfield access-controlled expressway, which will connect the spiritual city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh with the capital of West Bengal, Kolkata, through the capital of Jharkhand, Ranchi.
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Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) is a premier research and development unit of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.
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Vasant Panchami
Vasant Panchami, also rendered Vasanta Panchami and Saraswati Puja in honour of the Hindu goddess Saraswati, is a festival that marks the preparation for the arrival of spring.
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Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
The Victoria Memorial is a large marble monument on the Maidan in Central Kolkata, having its entrance on the Queen's Way.
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Videocon Telecom
Videocon Telecommunications Limited, formerly Videocon Mobile Services, was an Indian cellular service provider that offered GSM mobile services in India under the brand name Videocon.
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Vishvakarma Puja
Vishvakarma Puja, also rendered Vishvakarma Jayanti, is a Hindu observance dedicated to Vishvakarma, the architect of the gods.
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Vodafone Idea
Vodafone Idea, in acronym Vi, is an Indian telecommunications company with its headquarters based in Mumbai and Gandhinagar.
Volume!
Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies (subtitled in French: La revue des musiques populaires) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal, created in 2001, and "dedicated to the study of contemporary popular music".
Wage labour
Wage labour (also wage labor in American English), usually referred to as paid work, paid employment, or paid labour, refers to the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer in which the worker sells their labour power under a formal or informal employment contract.
West Bengal
West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.
West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education
The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) is an Indian autonomous examining authority, which is responsible for conducting examinations for standard XII for both government and private schools affiliated to this board.
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West Bengal Fire Service
The West Bengal Fire Service is the state owned service that provides firefighting, rescue and emergency medical services to the state of West Bengal, India including the city of Kolkata.
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West Bengal Legislative Assembly
The West Bengal Legislative Assembly (IAST: Paścima Baṃga Vidhāna Sabhā) is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS or NUJS or NLU Kolkata) is a National Law University (NLU) located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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West Bengal State Electricity Board
West Bengal State Electricity Board (WBSEB) was a state government electricity regulation board in West Bengal in India.
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West Bengal Transport Corporation
West Bengal Transport Corporation (WBTC) is a West Bengal state government undertaken corporation.
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Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.
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Women's Tennis Association
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis.
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World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Writers' Building
The Writers' Buildings or Mahakaran, often shortened to just Writers, is the official secretariat building of the state government of West Bengal in Kolkata, India.
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Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Finance is a media property that is part of the Yahoo! network.
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Zamindar
A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal ruler of a zamindari (feudal estate).
Zamindars of Bengal
The Zamindars of Bengal were zamindars (hereditary landlords) of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent (now divided between Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal).
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Zee Media Corporation Limited (abbreviated as ZMCL; formerly Zee News Limited) is a news broadcasting company based in Mumbai, India.
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Zoological Survey of India
The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), founded on 1 July 1916 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of the Government of India as a premier Indian organisation in zoological research and studies to promote the survey, exploration and research of the fauna in the country.
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Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism (Din-e Zartoshti), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion.
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1737 Calcutta cyclone
The 1737 Calcutta cyclone, also known as the Hooghly River cyclone of 1737 or the Great Bengal cyclone of 1737, was the first super cyclone on record in North Indian Ocean and is regarded as one of the worst natural disasters in India.
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1864 Calcutta cyclone
On 5 October 1864, most of the areas of Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), India was inundated and destroyed by a tropical cyclone.
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1981 ABC Championship
The 1981 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Men were held in Kolkata, India.
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1981 census of India
The 1981 census of India was the 12th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872.
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1987 Cricket World Cup
The 1987 Cricket World Cup (officially known as the Reliance Cup 1987 for sponsorship reasons) was the fourth Cricket World Cup.
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1991 census of India
The 1991 census of India was the 13th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871.
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2001 census of India
The 2001 census of India was the 14th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871.
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2011 census of India
The 2011 census of India or the 15th Indian census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration.
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2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Assembly election was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2011 to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly as the term of the incumbent government was about to expire naturally.
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2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup
The 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the 17th FIFA U-17 World Cup, a biennial international football tournament contested by men's under-17 national teams.
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4G
4G is the fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology, succeeding 3G and preceding 5G.
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See also
1690 establishments in Asia
1690 establishments in the British Empire
1690s establishments in India
- Kolkata
Capitals of Bengal
Cities and towns in Kolkata district
- Kolkata
Indian capital cities
- Agartala
- Aizawl
- Amaravati
- Bangalore
- Bhararisain
- Bhopal
- Bhubaneswar
- Chandigarh
- Chennai
- Dehradun
- Dispur
- Gandhinagar
- Gangtok
- Hyderabad
- Imphal
- Itanagar
- Jaipur
- Jammu
- Jammu (city)
- Kohima
- Kolkata
- List of state and union territory capitals in India
- Lucknow
- Mumbai
- Naya Raipur
- New Delhi
- Panaji
- Patna
- Ranchi
- Shillong
- Shimla
- Thiruvananthapuram
Populated places established in 1690
- Apolo, La Paz
- Cúa
- Caucagua
- Consolación del Sur
- Elkridge Landing
- Imlaystown, New Jersey
- Kolkata
- Markhalivka
- Merry Hill, North Carolina
- Port Elgin, New Brunswick
- Port Jervis, New York
Port cities in India
- Alang
- Alappuzha
- Balasore
- Bhadrak
- Bharuch
- Bhavnagar
- Brahmapur, Odisha
- Chennai
- Cuddalore
- Haldia
- Kakatpur
- Kakinada
- Kandla
- Kanhangad
- Karaikal
- Karwar
- Kendrapara
- Kochi
- Kolkata
- Kollam
- Kozhikode
- Krishnapatnam
- Lothal
- Machilipatnam
- Mahuva, Bhavnagar
- Mangalore
- Mormugao
- Mumbai
- Nagapattinam
- Navi Mumbai
- Panaji
- Paradeep
- Porbandar
- Puri
- Ratnagiri
- Surat
- Thayannur, Kasaragod
- Thiruvananthapuram
- Thoothukudi
- Udupi
- Veraval
- Vijaydurg (town)
- Visakhapatnam
Subdivisions in Kolkata district
- Kolkata
References
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