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unusual facts about Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati



2011 Santosh Trophy

Cluster I and V matches were played in Guwahati, Cluster II matches were played in Mangaldoi, Cluster III matches will be played in Shiv Sagar, Cluster V matches will take place in Tinsukia, while Cluster VI, VIII and VIII matches will be held in Nagaon, Bongaigaon and Korkrajar respectively.

2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup

India will have to choose six host cities from a shortlist of eight, they are New Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore, Kolkata, Kochi and Guwahati.

Army Public School, Narangi

Army Public School, Narangi is an Indian Army Public School in Narangi, Guwahati.

Battle of Itakhuli

Among the prisoners, the cousins of Raja Ramsingh were released, but the Bhatdhara Phukan, brother of the late Laluksola Borphukan who had abandoned Guwahati, was ghoulishly killed.

With the fall of Itakhuli, the Ahom kingdom quickly occupied the region up to Manas river, and set up administration under the Borphukan, with his headquarters at Guwahati.

Battle of Saraighat

The Battle of Saraighat was fought in 1671 between the Mughal empire (led by the Kachwaha king, Raja Ramsingh I), and the Ahom Kingdom (led by Lachit Borphukan) on the Brahmaputra river at Saraighat, now in Guwahati.

Though the Mughals managed to regain Guwahati briefly after a later Borphukan deserted it, the Ahoms wrested control in the Battle of Itakhuli in 1682 and maintained it till the end of their rule.

Lachit made Kaliabor, the old seat of the Borphukan, his base camp and advanced toward Guwahati along both banks of the Brahmaputra.

Black softshell turtle

Also, a population of these turtles was identified in the Kachapukhuri pond on Nilachal Hill, next to the Kamakhya Temple temple at Guwahati in Assam.

Burmese invasions of Assam

Chandrakanta fell back to Guwahati, and finally to Assam chaki, where he encountered Mingimaha Tilwa in June 1822.

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.

DD North-East

DD North-East is a state owned TV channel telecasting from Doordarshan Kendra in Guwahati, Agartala, Kohima, Imphal, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Tura, Aizawl, Itanagar and Shillong.

Guwahati Metro

On 11 January, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi held discussions with officials of Guwahati Development Department (GDD) and Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA), in which after detailed deliberations it was agreed by the Chief Minister that there is a need of urgently taking up the study of introducing metro rail and a bus rapid transit system (BRTS) in the city to arrest the chaotic traffic condition on the streets.

Guwahati–Lumding section

The Chittagong link had been constructed in response to the demand of the Assam tea planters for a railway link to Chittagong port.

The Guwahati–Lumding section is a broad-gauge railway line connecting Guwahati and Lumding.

Haj Committee of India

Further embarkment points were added which presently includes Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkatta, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Srinagar, Nagpur, Patna, Jaipur, Guwahati and Aurangabad.

Himanta Biswa Sarma

Sarma passed his High School Leaving Certificate examination from Kamrup Academy School, Guwahati in 1985 and joined Cotton College, Guwahati for further studies.He was General Secretary (GS) of Cotton College Union Society (CCUS) from 1991 to 1992.

History of Beltola

After completing his college education at Calcutta, Rajendra Narayan Dev joined the newly established Earl Law College at Guwahati, founded by Gyanadaviram Barua, son of noted Assamese writer Gunaviram Burua and maternal grandfather of famous actress of Hindi cinematic world Sharmila Tagore.

During Ahom reign, Beltola was a small kingdom, whose ruler assisted in the administration of the Borphukan in Guwahati, the Ahom Viceroy of Lower Assam and in maintaining relations with the communities of Khasi Hills.

Indian general election in Assam, 2004

Hazarika stood in Guwahati, and his election ought to reflect his personal popularity, rather than that of the party he had just joined.

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur

The institute started functioning from the Jabalpur Engineering College's campus in 2005 until its permanent campus was constructed.

For admissions to PG level courses, the GATE (for M.Tech. programs)/CEED (Common Entrance Examination for Design) scores of candidates are considered along with the CPI (or Equivalent Grading System, e.g. CGPA) maintained throughout the Graduate course undertaken by the student.

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati

Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati (IIIT, Guwahati, IIIT-G) is one of the 20 IIITs being set up by the Government of India in public-private partnership (PPP) mode.

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City

The Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City, Chittoor District Andhra Pradesh is one of the 20 new IIITs approved by the Central, State Government & Industry with an outlay of Rs 2,808.71 crore, during 2010.

Jayendra Saraswathi

Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai, Guwahati, Assam, are formed by him, as well as the Children's Hospital, Hindu Mission Hospital and Tamil Nadu Hospital.

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.

Lankeshwar Temple

Lankeshwar {(Pron: ˈlæŋˌkeɪʃwə(r)} Temple is an ancient Shiva temple on top of a hillock in the western part of the Guwahati city near Gauhati University campus.

Majitar

Although students from all over the country, mainly Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Guwahati lives there at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology.

Nalbari railway station

Several express trains stops in this station, some of them are Alipur Duar Jn-Guwahati Passenger, Alipurduar Lumding Express, Guwahati-New Bongaigaon Jn Manas Rhino Passenger, Kamrup Express, Kanchenjunga Express, Brahmaputra Mail etc.

National Power Training Institute

The one year Post Graduate Diploma Course in Thermal Power Plant Engineering was launched in 1996 recognised by AICTE, at its institutes in Badarpur, Nangal, Nagpur, Guwahati, Durgapur and Neyveli.

Okha railway station

There were trains to different destinations in India like Mumbai, Gorakhpur, Visakhapatnam, Guwahati, Rameswaram.

Rangiya railway station

It reached Katihar in 1888-89 and in 1909 it reached Amingaon on the banks of the Brahmaputra, which could be crossed by ferry to reach Guwahati.

Software Technology Parks of India

STPI has a presence in many of the major cities of India including the cities of Bangalore, Mysore, Trivandrum, Bhilai, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Pune, Guwahati, Noida, Mumbai,Nagpur, Kolkata, Kanpur, Lucknow, Dehradun, Patna, Rourkela, Ranchi, Gandhinagar, Imphal, Shillong, Nashik etc.

Supaatphaa

This period saw the ruthless power grab of Debera Borbarua and Laluksola Borphukan's abandonment of Guwahati and oppression via Sulikphaa Lora Roja.

Supangmung

Supangmung (reigned 1663–1670), also known as Chakradhwaj Singha (Assamese: স্বৰ্গদেউ চক্ৰধ্বজ সিংহ), was an important Ahom king under whom the Ahom kingdom took back Guwahati from the Mughals following the reverses at the hands of Mir Jumla and the Treaty of Ghilajharighat.

Taratarini Temple

The mythological texts recognize four major Shakti Peethas: Tara Tarini (Stana Khanda), near Berhampur; Bimala (Pada Khanda) inside the Jagannath Temple (Puri); Kamakhya (Yoni khanda), near Guwahati; and Dakshina Kalika (Mukha khanda) in Kolkata.

Technothlon

Starting on its journey with a participation of 200 students confined to the city of Guwahati, over the next 10 years Technothlon has expanded its reach to over 150 cities all over India and various centers abroad.

Tinsukia

The nearest airport is at Mohanbari, Dibrugarh which is about 40 km from Tinsukia with daily connection with Delhi, Guwahati and Kolkata.

Transport in Darjeeling

Indian, Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines are the three major carriers that fly to Delhi, Kolkata and Guwahati from Bagdogra.

United Liberation Front of Assam

One of the most popular Ulfa leader of all time, the late Heerak Jyoti Mahanta hailed from a place which is just a few kilometres from the state capital Guwahati.

Utpal Dutta

Utpal Datta is a National Film Award-winning film critic, long associated with Bismoi, an entertainment Assamese magazine, Rangghar- cultural monthly and Roopkar-Cultural Monthly and later joins the All India Radio Guwahati, where his book 24 Frames (2008), an anthology of articles on Indian cinema, was released as a radio program.


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