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3 unusual facts about Kalyan


Callian

Callian referred during British time, is present day Kalyan.

Kalyan minaret

The Kalyan minaret is a minaret of the Po-i-Kalyan mosque complex in Bukhara, Uzbekistan and one of the most prominent landmarks in the city.

Model English High School

Model English High School (M.E.H.S.) is the one of the oldest school in Kalyan city.


Adhir Kalyan

In 2005, Kalyan moved to London to pursue his acting career where he gained roles in the BBC series Holby City (series 8) as Arjmand Younis, in Spooks (series 5), and on the Irish network RTÉ One in Fair City as Ramal Kirmani.

Dhamankhel

State transport buses are available for Junnar from the Shivajinagar bus stand of Pune, Kalyan ST bus stand in Thane district and from the Mumbai Central bus stand of Mumbai.

Gokulamlo Seeta

Kalyan has every weakness that a rich and careless youth can have, and Baburao (sudhakar) helps him in all his activities.

Jui Gadkari

Jui Gadkari was born in kalyan a small town near Mumbai in a Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu family to father Ketan Gadkari who is a Play Writer, a rhythmist and also works in MTNL and Mrs. Netra Ketan Gadkari who too works in MTNL.

Kalyan Jewellers

T.S. Kalyanaraman in 1993 started the first jewellery shop named Kalyan Jewellers in Thrissur with the capital of Rs 75 lakh.

Kalyan Mukherjea

Kalyan Kumar Mukherjea (1943–2010) was an authority on Indian classical music, particularly the Senia Shahjahanpur Gharana (school) of Sarod.

Ladhana

Dr Natthan Singh: Jat Itihasa (Hindi), Jat Samaj Kalyan Parishad, Gwalior, 2004

Liberhan Commission

Appointed by former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao two weeks after the demolition on 6 December 1992, to ward off criticism against his government for having failed to protect the mosque, the commission in August 2005 finished hearing its last witness Kalyan Singh – who was Uttar Pradesh chief minister at the time of the demolition and was dismissed soon after.

Lilatai Pradkar

Besides establishing in 1975 the Vanabasi Kalyan Ashram for Women in Raigarh to offer vocational training, she recognized the need of tribal girl students to have boarding and lodging facilities and so she started 1990 the Nivedita Vanabasi Kanya Chhatravas.

Mohammed Alim Khan

After four days of fighting, the emir’s citadel (Arc) was destroyed, the red flag was raised from the top of Kalyan Minaret, and the Emir Alim Khan was forced to flee to his base at Dushanbe (in present-day Tajikistan), and finally to Kabul, Afghanistan, where he died in 1944.

Parama Veera Chakra

Parama Veera Chakra is a 2011 Tollywood patriotic film directed by veteran Dasari Narayana Rao and produced by C. Kalyan under the Teja Cinema banner.

Power star

Pawan Kalyan, a Telugu film actor popularly referred to as Power Star Pawan Kalyan

Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust

This NGO runs Drop-in Centres in Mumbai Central, Kurla, Kalyan, and Bhiwandi as well as a Community Care Centre at Charni Road for people in critical need and a therapeutic community at Arthur Road Jail.

Vadodara railway station

As Western Railway in Mumbai has changed over to the AC system in February 2012, WCAM locos have been transferred to the Kalyan shed.


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