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42 unusual facts about Patna


Abhayanand

Abhayanand did his schooling from St. Xavier's High School, Patna and St. Michael's High School, Patna.

Assam Rifles

During this time, the most notable action occurred in 1917 when columns of the Assam Rifles were despatched to Patna, to restore law and order in the riot-torn city.

Bharat Bhari Udyog Nigam

Flash information: The administrative control of M/s Bharat Wagon & Engg Co Ltd (BWEL), Patna, a central PSE and subsidiary of Bharat Bhari Udyog Nigam Ltd (BBUNL) is transferred from the Department of Heavy Industry, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises to the Ministry of Railways w.e.f 13 August 2008 (AN).

Bigha

Near the capital, Patna, 1 Bigha is equivalent to 20 Kattha each worth 1361 ft2((126.44 m2).

Catalyst Institute of Management and Advance Global Excellence

Catalyst Institute of ,,m,m, Management and Advance Global Excellence (CIMAGE) is a college located in Patna, Bihar, India.

Central University of Bihar

It operates from a temporary campus on the grounds of Birla Institute of Technology, Patna.

Chanakya National Law University

Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) is an autonomous law school located in Patna, Bihar, India.

Dhanbad Airport

The airport last saw scheduled commercial operations in the '80s, when Vayudoot operated services to Patna, Kolkata and Ranchi until 1987.

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.

Great Cities of the Ancient World

The work is a study of the ethnology, history, geography, and everyday life in such famous ancient capital cities as Thebes, Jerusalem, Nineveh, Tyre, Babylon, Memphis, Athens, Syracuse, Alexandria, Anuradhapura, Rome, Pataliputra, and Constantinople.

Gumla district

Many objects of archeological importance obtained from this place has been placed at Patna Museum.

Indian Institute of Technology Patna

The Indian Institute of Technology Patna (abbreviated IIT Patna or IITP) is an autonomous institute of education and research in science, engineering and technology located in Patna, India.

Jacob Christiaan Pielat

From at least 1720 he was captain and charged with the military accompaniment of goods from Patna to the Dutch factory in Hugly in Dutch Bengal.

K. B. Sahay

Krishna Ballabh Sahay popularly known as K. B. Sahay was born on 31 December 1898 at Sheikhpura in the Patna district of Bihar.

He belonged to Hazaribagh and is survived by his sons and grandchildren who continue to dwell in the areas surrounding Hazaribagh - Tilaiya, Giridih, Patna and Delhi.

Manmohan Ghose

In 1893, after his father's death, Ghose returned to India and took a series of teaching posts at Patna, Bankipur, and Calcutta.

Maulana Azad College of Engineering and Technology

Maulana Azad College of Engineering and Technology (MACET), Patna, is an engineering institute in the city of Patna, Bihar, India.

Nagasena

According to this legend, the Emerald Buddha would have been created in India in 43 BCE by Nagasena in the city of Pataliputra (today Patna).

National Institute of Technology, Patna

The National Institute of Technology Patna (NIT Patna), formerly Bihar School of Engineering and Bihar College of Engineering, is a public engineering institution located in Patna in the Indian state of Bihar.

Opium Wars

The monopoly began in earnest in 1773, as the British Governor-General of Bengal abolished the opium syndicate at Patna.

Padshahnama

A manuscript of the Padshahnama is also with the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library, Patna, India.

Patliputra Junction

The Pataliputra Junction railway station was built in 2012 on Bailey Road near Rukunpura.

Patliputra Junction, station code PPTA, is the railway station serving the capital city of Patna in the Patna district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Patna, East Ayrshire

Fullarton's father had worked as an employee of the British East India Company, and the town is named after the city of Patna in India.

Promode Gogoi

He was a member of the central secretariat of the CPI and was reappointed to its national executive days before his death at the Patna congress of the party.

R.P. Sharma Institute of Technology

The campus of RPSIT is spread over 10 acres of land situated on West Bailey Road near Saguna Road in Danapur.

R.P. Sharma Institute of Technology (RPSIT) (formerly Patna Institute of Technology) is an engineering and management college in Patna, the state capital of Bihar.

Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences

The Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (RMRIMS), which is located at Agam Kuan, Patna, Bihar, India is a permanent research institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi and an autonomous body of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.

Rajendra Nagar Terminal railway station

It is located in Rajendra Nagar in Patna and is in the Danapur railway division of the East Central Railway zone of the Indian Railways.

Rajendra Nagar Terminal, station code RJPB, is the railway station serving the capital city of Patna in the Patna district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Renukoot

Renukoot has a railway station which is connected to major cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Jammu, Ranchi, Patna, Jabalpur, and Bhopal.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Buxar

The diocese covers an area of 11,311 km² of the Patna state, comprising the districts Buxar, Bhojpur, Bhabua, and Rohtas.

Rupnagar district

Minutely carved and polished stone discs with a figure and motif associated with the cult of the Mother goddess of fertility have also been unearthed in the excavations from Taxila (now in Pakistan), Patna in the state of Bihar and other Mauryan sites.

Sanjaya Lall

Lall was born in Patna, Bihar, India, and graduated from Patna University in 1960 with a BA in economics, receiving the Gold Medal for ranking first in the university.

Shah Alam II

Prince Ali Gauhar successfully advanced as far as Patna, which he later besieged with a combined army of over 40,000 in order to capture or kill Ramnarian a sworn enemy of the Mughals.

In the year 1760 after gaining control over Bihar, Odisha and some parts of the Bengal, the Mughal Crown Prince Ali Gauhar and his Mughal Army of 30,000 intended to overthrow Mir Jafar and Imad-ul-Mulk after they tried to capture or kill him by advancing towards Awadh and Patna in 1759.

Mir Jafar also implored the aid of Robert Clive, but it was Major John Caillaud, who dispersed Prince Ali Gauhar's army in the year 1761 after four major battles including Battle of Patna, Battle of Sirpur, Battle of Birpur and Battle of Siwan.

Meanwhile Mir Qasim's relations with the British began to worsen he initiated reforms that withdrew many of the advantages enjoyed by the British East India Company, he also ousted Ramnarian a sworn enemy of the Mughal Empire and created Firelock manufacturing factories at Patna with the sole purpose of giving advantage to the newly reformed Mughal Army.

Sir Charles D'Oyly, 7th Baronet

In the following years, the posts he held, were the Government and City Collector of Customs in Calcutta (1818), the Opium Agent of Bihar (1821), the Commercial Resident of Patna (1831) and lastly the Senior Member of the Board of Customs, Salt, Opium and of the Marine (1833).

St. Xavier's College, Patna

The Jesuits first came to Patna in 1919, and in early 1930 was approached to set up a school in the city of Patna.

In July 2009 classes began at its temporary location of St. Xavier’s College Campus (opposite St. Michael's High School, Digha).

Tarumitra

Robert Athickal from St. Xavier's School, Patna and students from few schools under the leadership of Anindo Banerjee, a class IX student from Loyola High School, Patna, that this movement came into existence in 1988.


Amardeep Jha

Amardeep Jha (born Patna, India) born in a Maithil Brahmin Family is an Indian film actress and a television personality.

Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2010

First information reports were filed against the head of the RJD, Lalu Prasad Yadav, and his wife Rabri Devi for violating the Election Commission of India's model code of conduct for having brought their own security personnel into the polling booth in Dinapur of Digha constituency in the provincial capital Patna.

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.

Bihari literature

Ramesh Chandra Prasad Sinha is a novelist from Patna, Bihar, and is the first Indian to translate the Iliad and Odyssey into Hindi.

Blame It On the Game

Blame It On the Game is the second studio album by American former rapper Passion released on March 23, 1999 through Select-O-Hits and her own label, Yo Playa Patna Records.

Boring Road

Boring Road (Hindi: बोरिंग रोड), also known as Boring Canal Road, is one of the most important thoroughfare in Patna, India, starts from the corner of Patna Women's College as an intersection to Bailey Road near Patna High Court.

Christopher Webb Smith

From 1827 Smith had been based in Arrah, some 40 miles from Patna, and it is likely that he met Sir Charles D'Oyly there.

Company style

Leading centres were the main British settlements of Calcutta, Madras (Chennai), Delhi, Lucknow, Patna and the Maratha court of Thanjavur.

Daltonganj

It is connected to Bhopal and Jabalpur of Central India (Madhya Pradesh) by Jabalpur - Howrah Shaktipunj Express (Daily) and Bhopal - Howrah Bhopal Express (Weekly/Monday), Varanasi by the Intercity Express and Patna by the Palamau Express.

Friends of Tribals Society

In December 2010 the State Bank of India donated money to purchase teaching materials for 150 one-teacher schools in the Patna area.

Gandhi Maidan

Several movements were launched on the Patna Lawns during the Indian freedom struggle, the most important being the Champaran movement and the Quit India movement of 1942.

High-speed rail in India

Six corridors have already been identified for technical studies on setting-up of high-speed rail corridors: DelhiChandigarhAmritsar, Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Hyderabad-Kazipet-Dornakal-Vijayawada-Chennai, HowrahHaldia, Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam-Thiruvananthapuram, Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna.

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).

Maulana Mazharul Haque Arabic and Persian University

Maulana Mazharul Haque Arabic and Persian University Patna or simply MMHAPU was established under the provisions of the Bihar State Universities Act.

Moin-ul-Haq

For his immense contribution to the field of sports and as a mark of honour, the then Bihar Chief Minister Abdul Ghafoor in the 1970s renamed Patna's Rajendra Nagar Stadium as 'Moin-ul-Haq Stadium', after the icon's death.

Pataliputra

), adjacent to modern-day Patna, was a city in ancient India, originally built by Magadha ruler Ajatasatru in 490 BCE as a small fort (Pāṭaligrama) near River Ganges.

Patna Dental College

Patna Dental College is an institution for Dental science and is a part of the Patna University, Patna, Bihar, India.

Patna Dental College was established by the Government of Bihar by Dr R.P. Lall on September 9, 1960 in the premises of Patna Medical College and Hospital.

Patna Municipal Corporation

The main area covered is Gaighat area, Dundi Bazar area, Mahatma Gandhi Setu road area, New Bypass road area, Patna Ghat and Maal Godam.

Patna New City

Bihar State Road Development Corporation Ltd (BSRDCL) has announced to take up the construction of 21.5 km stretch from Digha to Didarganj at in Patna on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode.

Patna rice

The seeds of Patna rice were taken to America, grown in Carolina and exported to Britain before the American Civil War.

Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo

Maharaja Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo (31 March 1912–23 February 1975) was an Indian politician and the last ruler of the princely state of Patna in Odisha before Indian independence in 1947.

Shakeelur Rahman

He studied at Patna University, where he gained a B.A. with First Class Honours, an M.A. with First Class Honours (awarded the Patna University Gold Medal) and a D.Litt.

Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st Baronet

He subsequently transferred back to the Civil Service, becoming chief at Patna in 1763 and a member of the Bengal Council from 1766 to 1769; he was mentioned as a possible Governor of Bengal in 1771, but Warren Hastings was appointed.

SS Patna

It's a fact that at least two groups White Fathers (second and fourth caravan from Zanzibar) have travelled on the real SS Patna from Algiers to Aden on their way to Zanzibar, on the way to the later Heart of Darkness.

In the Alien 3 novelization by Alan Dean Foster, The "rescue" ship that Bishop II arrives in is called the Patna.

St. Xavier's High School, Patna

The hardwork and the generosity of Missouri, Chicago and Detroit provinces, raised Patna mission soon to a vice-province and then in 1962, to an independent province.

Syed Sultan Ahmed

Sir Syed Sultan Ahmed, KCSI (1880–1963, Patna, Bihar, India)

Wat Phra Kaew

Continuing with the legend of the saint Nagasena of India, after remaining in Pataliputra (present day Patna) for three hundred years, the Emerald Buddha image was taken to Sri Lanka to save it from a civil war.

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.