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unusual facts about Chavand, Maharashtra



Ajit Pawar

These allegations were made by a Maharashtra bureaucrat, Vijay Pandhare, and caused Anjali Damani to request Pawar's resignation as a minister.

Angria Bank

In 2008, Maharashtra state Finance Minister Jayant Patil announced a Rs 50 million initiative to explore Angria Bank to determine the feasibility of further marine tourism in the area.

Ashok Chakra Award

2009 – Tukaram Ombale (Maharashtra Police assistant sub-inspector) – Around midnight, a wireless message was flashed that two terrorists were moving towards Marine Drive in a car and Ombale immediately positioned barricades to block its passage.

Babasaheb Bhosale

Bhosale was first elected to the Maharashtra State Vidhan Sabha (state assembly) in 1980 as a representative of Nehru Nagar, which is located near Kurla suburb in Bombay.

Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi

The party leader is Hitendra Thakur, a former Independent member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly, Baliram Sukur Jadhav of the BVA, backed by Hitendra Thakur, was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha in 2009 and declared unconditional support to the UPA government.

Belunki

Belunki is small village near Khadakewada in Kagal tehsil, Kolhapur district, Maharashtra, India.

Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary

Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary was created in the Ambegaon and Khed talukas of Pune District, in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra in order mainly to protect the habitat of the Indian Giant Squirrel.

Boys' Town Public School

Boys' Town Public School, in Nashik, Maharashtra, India, is one of the oldest English medium schools in the region.

Buddha's Birthday

Though the birth of Birth of Buddha is Nepal Buddha Purnima or Tathagata is celebrated in India, especially in Sikkim, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bodh Gaya, various parts of North Bengal such as Kalimpong, Darjeeling, and Kurseong, and Maharashtra (where 6% of total population are Buddhists) and other parts of India as per Indian calendar.

Devaki Pandit

1986 - Maharashtra State Award for "Best Female Playback Singer" (Film Ardhangi)

Devipada

Devipada is a densely populated area in East Borivali, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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.

Elora, Ontario

Gilikson named the community after his brother's ship, which was itself inspired by the Ellora Caves near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.

Fiat India Automobiles

FIAT has a manufacturing plant at Ranjangaon, Maharashtra, which has an installed capacity to produce 100,000 cars and 200,000 engines, besides aggregates and components.

Gagangiri Maharaj

Shri Gagangiri Maharaj (Marathi: गगनगिरी महाराज) was born as Shripad Patankar at Manadure Village in Patan district of South Maharashtra.

Gavandi

The Gavandi are a Muslim community found in the state of Maharashtra in India.

Himayatnagar

Himayatnagar, Maharashtra: A tehsil of Nanded District in Maharashtra, India

Jama Mosque, Furus

Jama Masjid Mosque is the oldest, major and prevalent mosque in Furus, in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, India.

Jasuben Shilpi

Her sculpture works have been installed in Indian states like Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttarakhand.

Kailashnath Temple, Ellora

Kailashnath Temple, also Kailash or Kailāsa or Kailasanath Temple, is a famous temple, one of the 34 monasteries and temples known collectively as the Ellora Caves, extending over more than 2 km, that were dug side by side in the wall of a high basalt cliff in the complex located at Ellora, Maharashtra, India.

Kaleidoscope Festival, Sophia College

Sophia College for Women, located on Pedder Road (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) holds an annual intercollegiate festival called "Kaleidoscope", sometimes referred to as K-scope by the young.

Kavikulguru Institute of Technology and Science

Kavikulguru Institute of Technology and Science (K.I.T.S) is an engineering college affiliated to the Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University and situated in the city of Ramtek, Nagpur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Kelane

Kelane is a small village in Khed, in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra State in India.

Khando Ballal

For the performance shown during the tough times at Gingee, Rajaram gave him the vatan of Dabhol in the konkan area of Maharashtra.

Konkani in the Roman script

Konkani is a language that is spoken by 3.6 million speakers mostly on the western coast of the Indian states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala.

Kumbhoj

The former name is apparently free from Iranian or Paisaci influence since Maharashtra location was far removed from the north-west division of ancient India.

Kurli

Kurli, Maharashtra, a village in Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra state, India

Laxman Mane

His autobiography Upara (उपरा) brought to the attention of the public in Maharashtra the problems of nomadic tribes arising out of their social and economic conditions.

Legislative council

India: The Vidhan Parishad (or Legislative Council) in seven of the twenty-eight Indian states (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh), the Vidhan Parishad serves as the upper house of a bicameral legislature

Maharashtra Institute of Medical Education and Research

Maharashtra Institute of Medical Education and Research (MIMER) is located in Talegaon, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Manora

Manora, Washim, a taulka in Washim district of Maharashtra, India

Mhapan

Mhapan is a village surrounded by hillocks in Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra, India.

Miraj Senior

Maraj Senior was a Maratha princely states of British India, under the southern division of the Bombay Presidency, forming part of the southern Mahratta Jagirs, and later the Deccan States Agency.

Mohammad Fazel

Mohammed Fazal, Governor of Maharashtra from October 10, 2002 to December 5, 2004

Mundaje

Among them are the Chitpavan Brahmins who migrated from the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra and in the later years Shetty, Naika, Muslims, Kochi Christians, Havyaka-Karhada-Shivalli Brahmins.

Narayan Rane

He supervised the debut of his two sons- Nitesh and Nilesh in Maharashtra's political arena as his political heirs.

Nilwande Dam

Nilwande dam, also called as Upper Pravara dam, in the Indian state of Maharashtra is the second largest dam on the Pravara river.

Nira

Nira, Maharashtra, a town in southwestern Maharashtra state in India

Padalda

Padalda, popularly known as shree krishna temple, in taluka Shahada in Nandurbar district, Maharashtra, India.

PMC Vidya Niketan School

These schools are famous for their success in Middle school and High school scholarship exam held by Maharashtra government.

Poona College

The Poona College of Arts, Science and Commerce is a Muslim minority academic institution in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Prithvi Shaw

Shaw was born in Thane, Maharashtra, and enrolled aged three in the Virar cricket academy by his father.

Shyamchi Aai

Shyamchi Aai is an autobiography of Sane Guruji belonging to a Brahmin family in Konkan region of rural Maharashtra during British Raj.

Society for Education Action and Research in Community Health

Society for Education Action and Research in Community health (SEARCH), is an non-governmental organization in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, which works in the field of rural health services and research.

Sudanipur

Ubaid Azam Azmi s/o Shaikh Shamim Ahmed (Urdu Poet, Bollywood Lyricist, Prosody Scholar & ex. Special Executive officer Govt. of Maharashtra)

Tractors in India

In 2000, John Deere set up production in a joint venture with Larsen & Toubro Ltd in Sanaswadi, in a rural area near Pune, Maharashtra.

Vidyapeeth Highschool Kolhapur

Vidyapeeth Highschool Kolhapur, is a Marathi school located in the southern city of Maharashtra - Kolhapur.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

In India, she served as governor of Maharashtra from 1962 to 1964, after which she was elected to the Indian Lok Sabha from Phulpur, her brother's former constituency from 1964 to 1968.

Villages in Jamkhed taluka

There are around 88 villages in Jamkhed tehsil of Ahmednagar district of state of Maharashtra.

Wani

Wani, Maharashtra, a city and a municipal council in Yavatmal district in the Indian state of Maharashtra


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