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unusual facts about Raipur, Birbhum



2008 H5N1 outbreak in West Bengal

At least eleven districts of West Bengal, including Birbhum, Nadia, Murshidabad, Burdwan, Hooghly, Cooch Behar, Malda, Bankura, Purulia, Howrah, West Midnapore, South 24 Parganas and South Dinajpur are affected by bird flu.

The infection was caused by the H5N1 subtype of the Influenza A virus and occurred in at least thirteen districts, including Birbhum, Nadia, Murshidabad, Burdwan, Hooghly, Cooch Behar, Malda, Bankura, Purulia, Howrah, West Midnapore, South 24 Parganas and South Dinajpur and several new inclusion are reported daily.

Ambikapur, India

Jabalpur - Ambikapur Express, Ambikapur – Shahdol, Ambikapur – Surajpur – Anuppur – Bilaspur - Raipur - Durg Express and Bhopal – Chirmiri Passenger run from major cities Bhopal, Gwalior, Katni, Raipur and Jabalpur.

Bagbahara

:* Raipur: 110 km (Approximately) towards West Direction, Via Mahasamund-Raipur-Mana Road Route.

Bagri

Bagrinagar, a village in Raipur tehsil of Pali district, Rajasthan state, India

Banior

It is located 63 KM towards North from District head quarters Suri, Birbhum.

Chandrakar /chandraker

Purushottam Lal Kaushik (Chandrakar), Ex MLA Mahasamund, Ex Member of Lok Sabha from the Raipur and Durg Constituencies, Ex Central Minister.

Dhamtari

As a terminus of a narrow-gauge railway running 80 km (50 miles) north of Raipur on the main Bombay-Calcutta line of the Bengal Nagpur Railway, Dhamtari became a trade centre.

It is bordered by the Raipur District to the north, the Kanker and Bastar Districts to the south, the State of Orissa to the east and the Durg and Kankar Districts to the west.

Dhamtari district

Dhamtari district was officially formed on 6 July 1998 dividing the Raipur district currently the capital of Chhattisgarh along with Mahasamund.

Janjgir–Champa district

Janjgir is 43 km away from Bilaspur and 152 km from State capital Raipur through the road route.

Jungle Mahals

In 1805, Regulation XVIII was passed whereby the areas known as Jungle Mahals was separated from the jurisdiction of the Magistrates of the districts of Burdwan, Birbhum, Bankura and Midnapore and placed under a Magistrate of Jungle Mahals.

Kanji Morarji Rathor

He was closely associated with Ram Krishna Mission and served as President of Ram Krishna Mission, Raipur unit from 1968 till his death in 1989 and was also responsible for establishment of Ram Krishna Kutir at Amarkantak.

Kanker district

It lies between the two well developed cities of Chhattisgarh, Raipur (Capital of Chhattisgarh) and Jagdalpur (the district headquarter of the neighboring Bastar district).

It lies between the two well developed cities of Chhattisgarh namely Raipur (Capital of Chhattisgarh) and Jagdalpur (the district headquarters of the neighboring Bastar district).

Keroa

There are some reputed educational institute such as Raipur L.M pilot high school (now under Raipur

Manbhumi dialect

Tusu songs are sung by village girls during a month long observance of Tusu festival in villages of Purulia and some parts of Barddhaman, Bankura and Birbhum districts of West Bengal and parts of East Singhbhum, Saraikela Kharsawan, Bokaro, Dhanbad and Ranchi districts of Jharkhand.

Mohammad Mohammadullah

Mohammadullah was born at the village of Saicha under Raipur upazila in the District of Lakshmipur on 21 October 1921.

Naya Raipur

Located between National Highways NH-6 and NH-43, it is 17 km away in the south-east direction from the current capital Raipur; Swami Vivekananda Airport separates the old and new cities.

An imaginary circle of 50 km radius was drawn around Raipur and this massive area was divided into four quadrants.

Pithampur

Nearest airport is Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport at Indore, which is about 19KM or 40 minutes drive from Pithampur, with multiple daily connections and operators to Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmadabad, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Pune, Bangalore, lucknow, Kolkata, Jaipur, Bhopal, Raipur, and Jabalpur, Gwalior.

Raipur district

Raipur is the administrative headquarters of the district.

Raipur city had been the capital of the Haihaya Kings, controlling the traditional forts of Chhattisgarh for a long time.

Raipur Fish Hatchery and Training Centre

Raipur Fish Hatchery and Training Centre is a fish hatchery in Raipur Upazila, Lakshmipur District, Bangladesh.

Raipur, Birbhum

Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, a subsequent zamindar of Raipur, was elevated to the peerage as Baron Sinha, of Raipur, in 1919, becoming the first Indian member of the British House of Lords,

Rajendra Prasad Das

During his tenure with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Rajendra identified a 230 X 135 m site at Mahisdal located on the left bank of the Kopai River in Birbhum District of West Bengal for archaeological excavation.

Salwa Judum

On 25 May 2013, its founder Mahendra Karma, who had become a senior Indian National Congress party leader was killed in a Naxalite attack along with other party members in Darbha Valley of Chhattisgarh, 400 km south of Raipur and 50 km from Jagdalpur.

Timeline of the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

On the day before, over a dozen armed cadres of the group, with support from male colleagues, blocked traffic on the Antagarh-Koylibera Road in the Kanker district, near the city of Raipur.


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