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6 unusual facts about North Bengal


Budhagupta

The Damodarpur copper-plate inscription informs us that Pundravardhana bhukti (the present-day North Bengal) was ruled by his two viceroys (Uparika Mahararaja) Brahmadatta and Jayadatta.

Indranil Roychowdhury

The film follows an adolescent boy (Phoring) growing up in a back-of-beyond township in North Bengal.

Manihari

Before Farakka Barrage over the Ganges was constructed, people going to the Darjeeling Hills or North Bengal from Kolkata, used to travel by a Broad Gauge train to Sakrigali Ghat and then cross the Ganges by steamer.

North Bengal

Totopara (West Bengal) is a small village in Jalpaiguri district, and home to one of the last remaining ethnic tribes of the regions - the Totos.

Saidpur (Bangladesh) has the second airport of Rajshahi Division.

University of North Bengal

The university was established in 1962 with a goal to disseminate knowledge to fulfill growing socio-economic and technical manpower needs in the six North Bengal districts and the neighbouring state of Sikkim.



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2007 South Asian floods

In North Bengal, the floods have caused economic damage also estimated in the millions of U.S. dollars (at least Rs. 500 million); and in Siliguri, flash floods have wiped away at least 100 houses on a single night (28 July 2007).

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.

Sailendra Nath Roy

Again in September 2012 he pulled a Darjeeling Himalayan Railway locomotive with his ponytail in north Bengal for 2.5 metres (8.2 feet) in the town of Siliguri, West Bengal.

Sandhyakar Nandi

He was born in a Kayastha family of Vrihadvatu village near Pundravardhanapura in Varendra (North Bengal), Bangladesh.

Surajpuri language

Surajpuri (Surjapuri) is one of the eastern Indian languages mainly spoken in Bihar (Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Araria), north Bengal, eastern Nepal and north western Bangladesh.It has significant similarities with both Hindi and Bengali languages.