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9 unusual facts about Chandigarh


A Vedic Word Concordance

Since 1965, the institute has been incorporated in the Panjab University, Chandigarh as the Vishveshvaranand Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies (VISIS).

Arzu Rana Deuba

She also obtained her Ph.D in organizational Psychology in 1990 from Punjab University India.

Bazigar language

Speakers are scattered across the country, but the principal block of speakers are south of Chandigarh in adjoining areas of the states of Panjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh.

C. P. Ramanujam

He quit his post at Mumbai in 1965 after a bout of illness and secured a tenured position as a Professor in Chandigarh, Punjab.

Geological Survey of India

Saketi Fossil Park is 5 km from Kala Amb, (its 85 km from Chandigarh, 65 km from Ambala, 22 km from Nahan, 110 km from Dehradun)

K. K. Aggarwal

Aggarwal obtained his engineering degree in electronics and communication from the Panjab University in 1968 and M.Sc.-engineering in advanced electronics from the Kurukshetra University in 1971.

Leo Stan Ekeh

He later went to India for his university education, where he received a bachelor's of science degree in economics from Punjab University.

Ralph Uwazuruike

He holds degrees in Political Science from Punjab University, India, and Law from Bombay University, India.

Satinder Sartaaj

Satinder Sartaj concentrated on his sufiana musical career having done his M. Phil in Sufi music singing and later a Ph.D in Sufi singing (gayan) from Panjab University, Chandigarh.


AIESEC Chandigarh

AIESEC Chandigarh has expansions is nearby cities of Patiala and Dehradun.

Baghel Singh

When Sukarchakia Misl (of Maharaja Ranjit Singh) won the territory of Gujranwala, and the areas of Ravi and Chenab Doab and Ramgarhia Misl won the areas of Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Bhangi around Lahore, and Kasur, Karor Singhia Misl declared their ownership of territories now including Ambala, Karnal, Hissar, Rohtak, Chandigarh, etc.

Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh

Bilaspur lies on National Highway -21 also known as Chandigarh-Manali NH-21 highway.

C. M. Gupta

After serving as the director of Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India for five years and director, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow for over ten years, he is currently working as distinguished biotechnologist at the Central Drug Research Institute.

Chandi Mandir

Chandi Mandir (Hindu, Mandir: "Temple") is a Hindu temple near Chandigarh, India, dedicated to Chandi, the goddess of power.

Chandigarh Bandra Terminus Superfast Express

The 22451 / 22452 Chandigarh Bandra Terminus Superfast Express is Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that runs between Chandigarh and Bandra Terminus in India.

Dell International Services

Dell International Services is the support and services division of Dell Inc., the large American computer hardware company, with operations in India (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh), Europe (Bratislava, Bucharest, Dalian), Latin America (Panama City, Brazil, San Salvador), Africa (Morocco), Canada (Edmonton) and the Philippines, (Quezon City).

Economic Times

The Economic Times (est. 1961), an Indian English-language financial newspaper published from 11 cities daily (Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Ahemedabad, Nagpur, Chandigarh, and Pune)

ET Chandigarh also known as The Economic Times Chandigarh (est. 2004), an English-language Indian newspaper

Femina Miss India Chandigarh 2013

The winner of Femina Miss India Chandigarh vies in Miss India.

Geeta Vadhera

35 exhibitions have been held by Geeta in diverse locations such as Paris, Tours, Bonn, Nice, Canberra, Singapore, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, New Delhi.

High-speed rail in India

Six corridors have already been identified for technical studies on setting-up of high-speed rail corridors: DelhiChandigarhAmritsar, Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Hyderabad-Kazipet-Dornakal-Vijayawada-Chennai, HowrahHaldia, Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam-Thiruvananthapuram, Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna.

India–Pakistan cricket rivalry

India and Pakistan qualified for the first semi-final in Chandigarh, India, and the Indian government invited the Pakistani prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to watch the match along with his Indian counterpart, Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Indian states ranking by fertility rate

All the four South Indian states Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka as well as Goa, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Sikkim, and Tripura, and the union territories of Delhi, Lakshadweep, Daman and Diu, Andaman and Nicobar and Chandigarh, registered a low fertility rate below the crucial 2.1.

Jeev Milkha Singh

Singh was born in Chandigarh, India to Indian Olympic athlete Milkha Singh and Nirmal Kaur, former captain of the Indian women's volleyball team.

Mere Dad Ki Maruti

The film is set in Chandigarh, where a wedding is about to take place at the Khullar House, and father Tej Khullar (Ram Kapoor) has bought a new Maruti Ertiga car as a wedding gift for his daughter & would-be son-in-law.

Mohan Meakin

New breweries were built during the seventies and eighties at Chandigarh, Madras, Nepal and Kakinada near Hyderabad.

Nek Chand Saini

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin, USA owns the largest collection of Chand's work outside of Chandigarh.

Ramesh C. Deka

Ramesh C. Deka has helped many other centres in India in developing the facility of doing Cochlear implant surgery and rehabilitation of the deaf persons, such as in Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh ; Railway Hospital, New Delhi, Army & RR Hospital, New Delhi.

Rana Bhagwandas

He was on a private visit to Amritsar, Ropar and Chandigarh with Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday, another judge of the Pakistan Supreme Court and his wife.

Standard of living in India

The longest duration of supply was 12 hours per day in Chandigarh, and the lowest was 9 hours per day in Rajkot.

Swaraj Mazda

Established in 1983, Swaraj Mazda Limited, an Chandigarh, India based automobile company, is owned by the Sumitomo Corporation of Japan and Punjab Tractors Limited of India, with a technical collaboration with Isuzu and Mazda of Japan.

Takamasa Yoshizaka

Whilst in the office he worked on a number of projects including: site supervision at the Marseilles Unité d'Habitation, a Law School in Chandigarh and Nantes-Rezé Unité d'Habitation.

Tata Marcopolo

Tata Marcopolo products are currently being used or inducted in several Indian cities as part of the local transports fleet like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Mysore, Kolkata, Chennai, Lucknow, Kanpur, Chandigarh, Pune, South Kanpur, Kochi, Madurai, Hyderabad, Thane, Trivandrum etc.

Visa policy of India

Currently visas on arrival may be obtained at international airports of Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram and the list will be expanded with more airports like Goa, Gaya, Chandigarh and Amritsar.

Zirakpur

For the specialized health requirements, the town depends on the super speciality institutes in the region like the GMCH-32 Chandigarh, the PGIMER Chandigarh, Government Medical College, Patiala etc.


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