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3 unusual facts about Gaya


Lete Island

16 kilometres long and 4 kilometres wide, located around 40 kilometres from the town of Gaya, Niger.

Maouri people

They are one of the major ethnic groups of Niger, and are concentrated around the Dallol Maouri (Maouri Valley) of the Niger River, extending from Matankari, near Niamey, to Gaya.

Tekari Raj

10,000 for the repair of roads in 1869 through the Collector of Gaya;


Aurangabad, Bihar

From parent District Gaya Sri K.A.H.Subramanyam was the first District Magistrate and Sri Surjit Kumar Saha was the then Sub-Divisional officer.

The history of Aurangabad is a part of history of the ancient Magadh which included the undivided district of Patna and Gaya(Ancient City and Ruled by many Gadhwal/Gahadwal also known as Suryavanshi Rajput .

Baku International Jazz Festival

The jazz acts appearing at the inaugural event in April 2005 included the Joe Zawinul Syndicate, Germany's Christoph Busse Trio and Russia's Yakov Okun Quarter, in a 14 day event that laid tribute to such Azerbaijani jazz predecessors as Rafig Babayev and his Gaya quartet as well as jazz pianist and composer Vagif Mustafa Zadeh.

Bihar Sharif

The town is well connected by road to major cities like Patna, Rajgir, Nalanda, Harnaut, Ranchi, Dhanbad, koderma, Kolkata, Gaya, Hazaribag, Jahanabad, Bakhtiyarpur, Barhi, Ramgarh, Jamshedpurnalandalakhisrijamui.

Dhanbad Junction railway station

A lot of people from adjoining districts like Bokaro,Koderma,Giridih come to Dhanbad early morning to catch the 'morning trains' to various destinations like Kolkata, Durgapur, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Patna, Burdwan and Gaya.

Fiji Hindi

The origin of the imperative suffix -o can be traced to the Magahi dialect, spoken in the Gaya and Patna districts, which provided a sizeable proportion of the first indentured labourers from Northern India to Fiji.

Gaya confederacy

Japanese publicists during the twentieth century looked to the controversial Nihonshoki, which claims that Gaya (named "Mimana" also "Kara" in Japanese) was a military outpost of Japan during the Yamato period (300-710).

Gaya polities exported abundant quantities of iron ore, iron armor, and other weaponry to Baekje and the Kingdom of Wa in Yamato period Japan.

Gaya–Mughalsarai section

When it was built, it was the longest bridge in India and was believed to be the second longest bridge in the world, short of the Tay bridge near Dundee.

Gayopakhyanam

Famous politician Tanguturi Prakasam played the role of Chitralekha and Arjuna and his teacher Immaneni Hanumantha Rao Naidu portrayed the role of Gaya.

Geodeung of Geumgwan Gaya

Geodeung of Gaya, also called Geodeung Wang, was the king of Gaya, a confederacy of chiefdoms that existed in the Nakdong River valley of Korea during the Three Kingdoms era, from 199 to 259.

Hindustan Dainik

They are spread across Delhi, Bihar (Patna, Muzaffarpur, Gaya and Bhagalpur), Jharkhand (Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Varanasi, Meerut, Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Moradabad, Aligarh, and Kanpur) and Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar, Haldwani).

Hote Hote Pyar Ho Gaya

Hote Hote Pyar Ho Gaya is an Indian Bollywood film directed by Firoz Irani, released on 2 July 1999.

Howrah Rajdhani Express

The train runs the first route, Grand Chord via Gaya, from Monday through Saturday (from Howrah), and the second route, Howrah-Delhi main line via Patna, on Friday.

Jhuk Gaya Aasman

Jhuk Gaya Aasman (English: The Skies Have Bowed) is a 1968 film directed by Lekh Tandon.

Kim Young-oh

Originally highly successful in South Korea, they tell of the adventures of Banya, a speedy, wild and savvy teen-age hero working for the Gaya Desert Post Office with its motto "Fast. Precise. Secure." with all the romance of the unstoppable Pony Express of the American wild west.

Lagda Ishq Hogaya

Lagda Ishq Ho Gaya is a Punjabi film starring Roshan Prince(making his acting debut), Shaveta & Rana Ranbir

Lalit Mohan Sharma

Lalit Mohan Sharma was born on February 12, 1928 in the village of Musi (Belaganj, Gaya, Bihar).

Malegaon

After having conquered local imagination with such cult spoofs as Malegaon ke Sholay, Malegaon ka James Bond and Supermen of Malegaon, the impoverished film-maker invaded national television with his second version of Malegaon Ka Chintu, Chintu ban gaya Gentleman, a mute comedy based loosely on Mr Bean.

Paharpur

Paharpur, India, a census town Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar

Phalgu

There is reference to the city of Gaya and the Phalgu in the Ramayana in which it says that Sita had cursed the Phalgu River.

Rafiganj train disaster

The accident occurred at 10:40 PM, when the Eastern Railway's high-speed, luxury Rajdhani Express train derailed on a 300-foot bridge over the Dhave River near the town of Rafiganj near Gaya.

Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya

Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya is a 2000 film directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar and starring Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala.

Ranchi Rajdhani Express

A separate Ranchi Rajdhani (Train no. 12439/12440) via Grand Chord route is also there via Bokaro, Gomoh, Gaya.

Reshma

In 2004, she recorded "Ashkan Di Gali Vich Mukaam De Gaya", which was used in the Bollywood film Woh Tera Naam Tha, and was also a hit record in India.

Sahana Devi

In 1922, she met Dilipkumar Roy in the Gaya session of the Indian National Congress and was deeply influenced by his musical style, though she retained a distinct way of her own.

Shergotty

Sherghati, also called Shergotty, subdivision-level town of the Gaya district in Bihar, India.

Sir Syed Memorial School

Sir Syed Memorial School is about 35 km from Gaya, at Karma, near Bhadeya in Barachatti block.

Vinodini Terway

This was a natural choice, due to the rail link between Gaya and Varanasi, both on the Grand Chord section of the Indian Railways.

She completed her school finals at Kanya Pathasala, the only school in Gaya in the early 1930s and 1940s to provide education to girls.

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.

West Bengal Sampark Kranti

This train takes a total transit time of 22 hours 45 minutes even in one of the busiest route of Indian Railway's Main Line (Delhi–Kanpur–Allahabad–Patna–Gaya–Howrah)because of the fact that the Sampark Kranti Express gets the benefit of electrified path, double line track and almost no stops outside West Bengal on its entire route.


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