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10 unusual facts about Bhopal


Anjali Gupta

On 11 September 2011, Anjali Gupta was found hanging at a relative's home in Bhopal.

Barkheda

Barkheda, Bhopal, a locality in the Bhopal city of Madhya Pradesh, India

Brown Rock Chat

It is considered to be monotypic although Walter Koelz suggested a new subspecies ruinarum in 1939 based on a specimen from Bhopal.

Dharti Pakad

Mohan Lal, a cloth merchant from Bhopal, also had the nickname of Dharti Pakad for contesting elections against five different Prime Ministers and losing the deposit in all these elections.

Islamnagar

Islamnagar, Bhopal, village and former fortified city near Bhopal, India

Mangalgarh

Mangalgarh, Bhopal, a village in the Berasia tehsil of Madhya Pradesh, India

NyooTV

NyooTV’s parent company AKG Technologies Inc. was founded in January 2009 with offices in Philadelphia and Bhopal.

Postage stamp separation

The finest gauge ever used is 18 on stamps of the Malay States in the early 1950s, and the coarsest is 2, seen on the 1891 stamps of Bhopal.

Scared Sacred

Scared Sacred is an award winning feature length documentary that takes viewers to many of the places in the world that have experienced great suffering in recent years including Bhopal, Hiroshima, Israel and Palestine.

Trinity Times

Trinity Times, is a trimonthly private newsletter of the Trinity Campus, a private Engineering college located on the outskirts of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.


Agmark

In addition to the Central AGMARK Laboratory (CAL) in Nagpur, there are Regional AGMARK Laboratories (RALs) in 11 nodal cities (Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Kanpur, Kochi, Guntur, Amritsar, Jaipur, Rajkot, Bhopal).

Agra–Bhopal section

Agra Cantt., Gwalior, Jhansi and Bhopal are amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway.

The Agra–Bhopal section is a railway line connecting the 16-17th century capital of the Mughals, Agra and Bhopal, capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Ambikapur, India

Jabalpur - Ambikapur Express, Ambikapur – Shahdol, Ambikapur – Surajpur – Anuppur – Bilaspur - Raipur - Durg Express and Bhopal – Chirmiri Passenger run from major cities Bhopal, Gwalior, Katni, Raipur and Jabalpur.

Amethi

It has many direct trains connecting with major cities like Delhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Dehradun, Haridwar, Allahabad, Varanasi, Kolkata, Puri, Bhopal, Mumbai, Bangalore, Jammu and many more.

Bangalore Rajdhani Express

Train service 22693/22694 has 7 halts in either direction at Sri Satya Sai Prasanthi Nilayam, Dharmavaram Junction, Secunderabad Junction, Kazipet Junction Nagpur Junction, Bhopal Junction and Jhansi Junction.

Train service 22691/22692 has 11 halts in either direction at Sri Satya Sai Prasanthi Nilayam, Dharmavaram Junction, Anantapur, Raichur, Sedam, Secunderabad Junction, Kazipet Junction, Nagpur Junction, Bhopal Junction and Jhansi Junction.

Bhopal School of Social Sciences

The Bhopal School of Social Science (popularly known, among the Bhopal crowd as BSSS) is located in the city of lakes, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

Bhopal State

In the Berasia tehsil of Bhopal, the rebel leaders Shajaat Khan Pindari and Jahangir Muhammad Khan raised a small force consisting of 70 sepoys.

Bhopal Agency was formed as an administrative section of Central India, consisting the Bhopal state and some princely states to the northeast, including Khilchipur, Narsingarh, Raigarh, and after 1931 the Dewas states.

Carbaryl

The former process was carried out in Bhopal, which ultimately ended in disaster.

Chengannur

By rail, Chengannur is well connected to major cities in India like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bikaner, Mangalore, Bhopal, Guwahati, Nagpur, Jammu and other major cities of the country.

Daltonganj

It is connected to Bhopal and Jabalpur of Central India (Madhya Pradesh) by Jabalpur - Howrah Shaktipunj Express (Daily) and Bhopal - Howrah Bhopal Express (Weekly/Monday), Varanasi by the Intercity Express and Patna by the Palamau Express.

Dandupur

Many people from this village are now in America, Britain, the middle east and in various places in India as Lucknow, Hardoi(A district in Uttar Pradesh), Delhi and Bhopal.

Faiz Mohammad Khan

When Ahamd Shah Durrani and his massive army of 150,000 began their campaign to eliminate the renegade Marathas, Sadashivrao Bhau organized his Maratha brigands and marched northwards to Panipat, while on his way he passed through the territories of Faiz Mohammad Khan the Nawab of Bhopal, and invited him to a meeting.

Although Mamola Bai managed a successful administration, she collected taxation and defended the territories of Bhopal.

Guna, India

Towns Shivpuri and Kota are located in north and the cities Vidisha, Bhopal, and Rajgarh lie to the South.the eastern boundary of district define by Sindh river.

Gwalior Junction railway station

Gwalior Junction is linked with many industrial and important cities of India by direct trains like New Delhi, Bhopal, Lucknow, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Jammu, Agra, Bhubaneshwar, Ahmedabad, etc.

Indore - Bhopal Intercity Express

The Bhopal-Dahod Passenger trains is a daily service which runs between Bhopal Habibganj railway station of Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh and Dahod town in Gujarat.

Kalol

It is also connected with Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Ratlam, Ujjain, Indore, Bhopal and Jabalpur through Jabalpur - Somnath Express and Indore Gandhinagar Shanti Express trains.

Koderma railway station

Koderma has a rail connectivity with the other major parts of the country such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Nagpur, Pune, Guwahati etc.

Kollam Junction railway station

Trains from here connect the city of Kollam to major cities of India, including New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Indore, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Madurai, Vizag, Jammu, Howrah, Guwahati, Madgaon, Hubli, Ahmedabad, Gwalior, Nagpur, Pune, Kota, Bhubaneshwar, Gorakhpur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Vijayawada, Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore and Mangalore.

Kurwai State

Diler Khan was a contemporary and cousin of Nawab Dost Muhammad Khan of Bhopal.

Lalmani Misra

After his death in 1979 his son Dr. Gopal Shankar Misra, internationally renowned Vichitra Veena artiste and Professor, Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, B.H.U., Varanasi was working on the remaining volumes, aided by hand-written notes by Lalmani Misra when on 13 August 1999 he succumbed to heart-attack at a five day function organised in memory of his father at Bhopal.

A book on essays written by Dr. Misra -- Sangeet Aur Samaj (Music and Society) were edited by his daughter Dr. Ragini Trivedi and published by Madhukali Prakashan, Bhopal in 2000.

Mori Rajputs

Of late, they have remained as smaller royal states and jagirdars in central India in the present state of Madhya Pradesh; they are presently settled in Wadhwan Dhar, Ujjain, Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Narsinghpur and Raisen.

Muztar Khairabadi

He served as a judge in the states of Tonk and Gwalior, but fled to Bhopal after losing the support of the Maharaja of Gwalior.

Nitel

An RPG Group company based in Bhopal State in India, working in telecom infrastructure

Prasanna

He has directed plays for National School of Drama (Repertory Company, NSD), Ninasam, Rangamandal-Bhopal, Rangayana and worked with many theatre organizations of India.

Pushpa Devi Singh

She was educated at St. Joseph's Convent, Sagar and Maharani Laxmibai College, Bhopal and Vikram University, Ujjain.

Raxaul

There are direct trains to Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad(Proposed extension of Hyderabad Darbhaga Express), Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Siwan, Sonpur, Hajipur, Lucknow,Darbhanga, and many cities.

RBI Bhopal

Following the 9/11 attacks in New York in 2001, RBI Bhopal requested the Disaster Management Institute to conduct evacuation drills for high rise buildings.

The office of the Banking Ombudsman for Madhya Pradesh is also located in the premises of RBI Bhopal.

Renukoot

Renukoot has a railway station which is connected to major cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Jammu, Ranchi, Patna, Jabalpur, and Bhopal.

Sanskaar Valley School

The Sanskaar Valley School is a boarding school/college located in Bhopal City in M.P

Satinath Sarangi

Barn, S. Mulay, S. Sarangi; The Bhopal Gas Disaster twenty five years later British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada, Sambhavna Trust Clinic, Bhopal, India 2009-A-246-ISES Minneapolis, November 1–5, 2009

St. Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal

Founded in 1956 by the Indian Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambery, an order founded at Chambéry, France in 1812, it is administered by the Sisters of St. Joseph's Convent, Idgah Hills, Bhopal.

Tamil Nadu Express

This train runs via Vijayawada, Warangal, Ballarshah, Nagpur, Itarsi, Bhopal, Jhansi, Gwalior, Agra Cantt and Hazrat Nizamuddin to reach New Delhi station.