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4 unusual facts about Anand, Gujarat


Akshar Patel

Akshar Rajeshbhai Patel (born 20 January 1994 in Anand, Gujarat, India) is a cricketer who plays as an all-rounder for the Gujarat cricket team.

Angel School

In early 1980 there was no good English Medium School in and around Anand area and parents were compelled to put their children to Mt. Abu, Ooty or other places.

Animal husbandry in India

The National Dairy Development Board was established in 1965 under the auspices of Operation Flood at Anand, in Gujarat, to promote, plan, and organize dairy development through cooperatives; to provide consultations; and to set up dairy plants, which were then turned over to the cooperatives.

Premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri

He promoted the White Revolution – a national campaign to increase the production and supply of milk – by supporting the Amul milk co-operative of Anand, Gujarat and creating the National Dairy Development Board.


Adani Power

A few of them are 3300MW coal based TPP at Bhadreswar in Gujarat, 2640 MW TPP at Dahej in Gujarat, 1320 MW TPP at Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh, 2000 MW TPP at Anugul in Orissa and 2000MW gas based power project at Mundra in Gujarat.

Ahmed Shah I

Ahmed Shah I was a sultan of Gujarat's ruling of Gujarat from 1411 until his death in 1442.

Allcargo Logistics Limited

In 2007, it started two new CFSs at Chennai and Mundra ports (in Gujarat) followed by a second CFS at JNPT in the year 2012.

Amritraj

Stephen Amritraj (born 1984), American tennis player of Indian origin; son of Anand Amritraj.

Anand Aur Anand

Anand aur Anand is an Indian film from 1984 which is most famous for being the debut movie of both Dev Anand's son, Suneil Anand as well as of Natasha Sinha.

Anand Bhawan School

Anand Bhawan is a minority (catholic) educational institution situated in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India, founded in 1949 by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lucknow and run by the Institute of the Maids of the Poor, a religious and charitable society.

Anjaan

The song "Gourki Patarki Re" became a rage and set the stage for many more films with a resurgent Chitragupta and laying the foundation for the personal - and later - professional liaison between their respective sons Sameer and Anand-Milind.

Appuchi Gramam

Appuchi Graamam is a Tamil Sci-Fi film directed by Vi Anand an associate of AR Murgadoss.

Bamna

It is well known as the village of great poet and gem of Gujarat Umashankar Joshi, a Gujarati literate, once a President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.

Bhatia caste

Denzil Ibbetson, an ethnographer of the British Raj, noted that many were found in Sindh and Gujarat in the 19th century CE but that there were grounds to believe that they had migrated from Bhatner, Jaisalmer and the area then known as Rajputana (approximating to modern-day Rajasthan).

Cabir Maira

Cabir Maira is an Indian Television actor, currently playing the role of Anand Swami, the Head of SIU (RAW) in Life OK and Sphere Origins' Fiction, Suspense Thriller television series 2613.

Chikhodra

Chikhodra is also an important milk producer and contributor to the Amul Dairy in Anand.

Culture of Rajasthan

Saint Dadu Dayal was a popular figure that came from Gujarat to Rajasthan to preach the unity or Ram and Allah.

Datta Jayanti

The temples dedicated to Dattatreya are located throughout India, the most important places of his worship are in Karnataka,Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat like Ganagapur in Karnataka near Gulbarga, Narasimha Wadi in the Kolhapur district, Pithapuram in Andhra Pradesh near Kakinada, Audumbar in Sangli district and Girnar in Saurashtra.

Dravidian languages

Dravidian place-names along the northwest coast, in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, and to a lesser extent in Sindh, as well as Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Marwari, and to a lesser extent Sindhi languages, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.

Dude, Where's the Party?

Harishkumar S. Patel (Sunil Malhotra) is a geeky student from a small village in Gujarat, India who is attending the University of Houston, while living with his uncle (his father's best friend).

Faruqi dynasty

At the same time, after initial turmoil for succession caused due to the death of Mujaffar Shah, Bahadur Shah occupied the throne in Gujarat.

Fulay

Fulay, Nakhatrana, panchayat village in Nakhatran Taluka, Kutch District, Gujarat, India

Geography of Gujarat

Ahmedpur Mandvi Beach - Ahmedpur Mandvi Beach is situated on the coastline of the state of Gujarat and is one of the finest beaches in India.

Gujarati Shaikh

They played a key role in the early Islamic history of Gujarat, serving as courtiers and administrators for the Sultans of Gujarat and later Mughal rulers.

Hinduism in England

Some of the larger and more famous temples include the Swaminarayan Temple in Neasden, the Bhaktivedanta Manor (Hare Krishna) Temple in Letchmore Heath near Watford, the Balaji Temple in Birmingham, the Sanatan Mandir in Leicester, the Vishwa Hindu Mandir in Southall, the Murugan Temple in Manor Park and the Gujarat Hindu Society Krishna Temple in Preston.

Hubtown Limited

Hubtown was awarded the tender to redevelop bus stations in association with the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC), and is currently doing work in Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Surat and Vadodara.

INS Mangrol

INS Mangrol was an Indian Naval minesweeper, named after a port in the coast of Gujarat called Mangrol.

K. V. Anand

Anand applied for a full-time position as a photo journalist for India Today, a leading publication group in India, but failed to get the job offer.

Khoja

More particularly, it included certain groups, predominantly from Gujarat and Kutch, who retained strong Indian ethnic roots and caste customs while sustaining their Muslim religious identity under continual threats of persecution.

Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary

J. P. Dutta's Bollywood film Refugee is shot on location in the Great Rann of Kutch and other locations in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India.

Malik

- ul-Mulk (or ul-Molk): - of the kingdom; e.g. Malik Usman Khan, who served the Sultan of Gujarat as Governor of Lahore, received the title of Zubdat ul-Mulk 'best of the kingdom' as a hereditary distinction, which was retained as part of the style of his heirs, the ruling Diwans (only since 1910 promoted to Nawab) of Palanpur.

Manav Hatya

Manav Hatya is a Hindi Feature Film released in 1996 starring Akshay Anand, Madhuri Dixit, Shekhar Suman, Gulshan Grover, Sharat Saxena, Dr.Sriram Lagoo, Sunil Thapa, Arvind Deshpande among others.

Marine archeology in the Gulf of Khambhat

In May 2001, India's Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Science and Technology division, Murli Manohar Joshi, announced that the ruins of an ancient civilization had been discovered off the coast of Gujarat, in the Gulf of Khambhat.

Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital

Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital (MPUH), also known as Nadiad Kidney Hospital, is a not-for-profit Trust Hospital in Nadidad, Gujarat, established in 1978, and is the first speciality Urology Hospital in India.

National Dairy Development Board

Dr. Amrita Patel is the chairman of the National Dairy Development Board, Anand.

Palitana

In 1656, Shah Jahan's son Murad Baksh (the then Governor of Gujarat) granted the village of Palitana to the prominent Jain merchant Shantidas Jhaveri.

Parihar

Populations are found in Rajasthan, Saurashtra - Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.

Pidilite Industries

The company has manufacturing facilities at various locations in India, including Mahad (Maharastra), Vapi (Gujarat) Baddi (Himachal Pradesh) and Kala Amb (Himachal Pradesh).

Race Course

Race Course, Vadodara, an area on the western side of Vadodara City in the state of Gujarat in India

Ramesh Deo

In his long career, he has provided able support to stars like Amitabh Bachchan (Anand), Rajesh Khanna (Aap Ki Kasam), Shatrughan Sinha (Mere Apne) and many more.

Ravishankar Raval

In Gujarat, Kalaguru Raval made great efforts in the same direction and brought about the renaissance of Indian art.

Religious liberalism in Rajput courts

Jain temples ornamenting the landscapes of Rajasthan and Gujarat (including those at Mount Abu, Palitana and Osian) bear testimony to the support extended by Rajput rulers to the Jain tradition.

Sankara Eye Foundation

SEF initiates and drives community eye care activities in India by working with Sankara Eye Care Institutions (SECI), India, which runs the "Gift of Vision" rural outreach program through Sankara Eye Hospitals in Coimbatore, Krishnankovil, Bangalore, Shimoga, Guntur, Anand, Pammal and Silvassa.

Satyasraya

During his reign the Paramaras and Chedi, rulers of areas that are modern Gujarat and Central India reconquered the territory that they had lost to the Chalukyas earlier.

Shri Keshavraiji Temple, Bet Dwarka

Pushkarna Brahmin along with Bhatia devotees, mostly from Sindh, Rajasthan, Kutch, Gujarat and Punjab, visited Bet Dwarka to worship Lord Keshavraiji most often.

SPA London

The charity continues its aims of helping other charities including UK based charities such as NSPCC, Breast Cancer, and RNLI as well as forging links with charities in India such as the Rotary Eye Hospital in Navsari, Gujarat.

Sunni Bohra

Sunni Vohras/Bohras have large communities in the major cities of Gujarat such as Ahmedabad and Surat as well as in smaller towns such as Patan, Himmatnagar, Visnagar, Bhavnagar, Mahesana, Kadi, Kalol etc. and in Saurashtra, in Una, Veraval, Junagadh, Jetpur, Porbandar, Mangrol and Diu.

Sunni Vohras/Bohras have large communities in the major cities of Gujarat such as Ahmedabad and Surat as well as in smaller towns such as Patan, Himmatnagar, Visnagar, Bhavnagar, Mahesana, Kadi, Kalol, Anand, Mahemdavad, Umreth, Petlad, Vadodara, Borsad etc. and in Saurashtra, in Una, Veraval, Junagadh, Jetpur, Porbandar, Mangrol and Diu.

Uplift Humanity India

Most recently, it has been honored by Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, who has supported Uplift Humanity India's rehabilitation programs.

Vikramshila Express

Later on, when Mr. Nitish Kumar became the railway minister of India, he gave Vikramshila its own existence and since then Vikramshila Express uses to run from Bhagalpur to Anand Vihar on its own name.


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