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24 unusual facts about Thane


Alpha Academy Thane

Alpha Academy is a play school located at Waghbil, off Ghodbunder Road in Thane, Maharashtra, India.

Base, Maharashtra

Base (बासे) is a small village about 50 km from Thane city in India.

Bengal Nagpur Railway

The opening of the Mumbai-Thane line in 1853 marked the beginning of railways in India.

Convergys

Convergys has approximately 89,000 employees in 70 customer contact centers and other facilities in India (New Delhi, Pune, Thane, Hyderabad, and Bangalore), the Philippines (Manila, Cebu City, Davao City, Baguio City, Santa Rosa and Bacolod), Vietnam, Indonesia, United States, Canada, Costa Rica, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

Dunbar Castle

In the 10th and early 11th century the Norsemen made increasing inroads in Scotland, and in 1005 there is record of a Patrick de Dunbar, under Malcolm II, engaged against the Norse invaders in the north, at Murthlake, a town of Marr, where, alongside Kenneth, Thane of the Isles, and Grim, Thane of Strathearn, he was slain.

Hiranandani Foundation School, Thane

Hiranandani Foundation School Thane is a school located in the Hiranandani Estate in the state of Maharashtra Thane, India.

Jordanus

Ill-luck detained them at Thane in Salsette Island, near Bombay; and here Jordanus' companions (the four martyrs of Thane) were killed on April 7, 1321.

KC College of Engineering, Thane

K C College of engineering (KCCOE) is a private engineering college located in Thane, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Khambhra

Ranchhod Pachhan Rathod of village was one of the pioneers, who jumped into Railway Contract lines in 1852-54 and worked in first railway lines between Bori Bunder & Thane.

Kopineshwar Mandir, Thane

Kopineshwar Mandir is among the most revered patron temples in Thane city & is a must visit for any devotee/ tourist coming to Thane.

Kunabi Sena

Kunabi Sena is a political party in based in Thane District in the Mid-North Konkan or Maharashtra Konkan in Maharashtra state.

Mamta Prabhu

Mamta Prabhu is an alumnus of the S. E. S. high school and junior college, Thane.

New Horizon Scholars School

The school provides bus service for the student to travel regularly from in and around Airoli and other areas including Vashi, Mulund, Bhandup, Vikroli, Powai, Thane and Mumbra.

P. S. Pasricha

In 1974, he served as additional Superintendent of Police (crime) in Thane, where took stringent action against smugglers and feared criminals.

P.E.Society English Medium High School and Junior College

P.E.Society English Medium High School and Junior College(PES) is a school in Thane, a suburb near Mumbai in India operated by the People's Education Society.

Prithvi Shaw

Shaw was born in Thane, Maharashtra, and enrolled aged three in the Virar cricket academy by his father.

Rishabhadatta

He constructed rest-houses, gardens and tanks at Bharukachchha (Broach), Dashapura (Mandasor in Malva), Govardhana (near Nasik) and Shorparaga (Sopara in the Thana district).

Shyamchi Aai

In 2012, the play was for the first time translated to English and performed at Kashinath Ghanekar auditorium in Thane.

Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School

Sulochanadevi Singhania School is a high school in Jekegram, Thane, India, close to the city of Mumbai.

Sri Lankan jackal

On the Asian mainland, the Sri Lankan jackal occurs in the whole southern part of the Indian peninsula, from Thana near Bombay in the northwest southwards through the Western Ghats, Mysore, the Eastern Ghats and Mandura.

St. John the Baptist High School, Thane

John the Baptist High School and Junior College is a Catholic school in the central suburbs of Mumbai, Thane, India.

Tata Marcopolo

Tata Marcopolo products are currently being used or inducted in several Indian cities as part of the local transports fleet like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Mysore, Kolkata, Chennai, Lucknow, Kanpur, Chandigarh, Pune, South Kanpur, Kochi, Madurai, Hyderabad, Thane, Trivandrum etc.

Thane

The cultural fabric of Thane is predominantly Maharashtrian, although, like its neighbouring city Mumbai, it has a cosmopolitan culture as well.

Vasant Vihar High School

Vasant Vihar High School (VVHS)is a private, co-educational, day school located at Vasant Vihar in Thane, Maharashtra, India.


Bartlett L. Thane

In a Draft Registration Card completed in September 1918, Thane listed his permanent address as the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

Bassein

Vasai, a city in Thane District, Maharashtra, India; known as Bassein during Portuguese rule.

Brahmarshi Prem Nirmal

After working for about 2 years with Applied Electronic Limited (Aplab) company in Thane, Maharashtra, and one more year in Hybrid Electronics, Mumbai, he started his own business of manufacturing SMPS and invertors, Nirmal Power Systems.

D. R. Kaprekar

Kaprekar received his secondary school education in Thane and studied at Fergusson College in Pune.

Govinda sport

In 2012, one of Mumbai's leading Govinda groups, namely the Jai Jawan Govinda Pathak from Jogeshwari, had made an entry into the Guinness World Record and the Limca Book of Records by forming a human pyramid of 9-tiers (43.79 feet tall) at the Dahi Handi event held in Thane.

Great Burstead

It is understood that at first he set up his wayside preaching cross by a well near the road between Tilbury (another of his establishments) and Chelmsford, having converted Ebba, the Thane of Great Burstead.

Jawhar District

The Thane district is under proposal to be divided and a separate Jawhar District be carved out of existing Thane district with the inclusion of the northern tribal talukas of Thane district which include Palghar, Vada, Vikramgad, Jawhar, Mokhada, Dahanu and Talasari talukas in the proposed Jawhar district.

Jordanus

Jordanus, escaping, worked some time at Baruch, in Gujarat, near the Nerbudda estuary, and at Suali (?) near Surat; to his fellow-Dominicans in north Persia he wrote two letters — the first from Gogo in Gujarat (12 October 1321), the second from Thane (24 January 1323/4) describing the progress of this new mission.

Katkari people

Many very small Katkari hamlets are now spread throughout the region, including Khalapur, Sudhagad, Karjat, Pen and Panvel talukas in Raigad district and various talukas in Thane district, right up to the outskirts of Mumbai.

Kavesar

Kavesar is now part of Thane city, Maharashtra, India, nearly 7 kilometers from Thane railway station.

Kherwadi Social Welfare Association

In 2008, the YP Movement formalized its Rural Programs by purchasing a building at Wada in the tribal belt of Thane District with sponsorship from the Tobaccowala family.

Kim Elton

From 1995 to 1999, Elton represented the 3rd District, which encompasses the portion of Juneau on the mainland from Thane to Juneau International Airport, in addition to Douglas Island.

Little Flower High School Thane

Little Flower High School is a convent school located at Pokharan Road No. 2 near Upvan Lake in Thane, Maharashtra, India.

Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering

From Nerul or Panvel Railway Station: By Nerul/Panvel-Thane Harbour Train (get down at Koparkhairane Railway Station) approximately 15 minutes from Nerul and 40 minutes from Panvel.

Nahur

It is suitably located with Mulund and Bhandup on either sides, and within touching distance of both Airoli (New Bombay) and Thane.

Odell Castle

The land where Odell Castle stood was originally owned by Levenot, a thane of King Edward the Confessor.

PCOE

Parshvanath College of Engineering, an engineering college located in Thane (west) in Maharashtra state of India, and affiliated to the University of Mumbai.

Robert Sheaffer

Interviewed by the Toronto Sun Newspaper December 20, 2010, Sheaffer is asked by columnist Thane Burnett to debate UFO enthusiast Chris Rutkowski to "debate the known realities".

Skybus Metro

Cities such as Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pondicherry, Pune, Ranchi, Shimla, Thane etc. are considering Sky Bus although the system has not been adopted anywhere.

Tatvajnana Vidyapeeth

Tatvajnana Vidyapeeth (informally known as "Vidyapeeth") is a philosophical university set up in a tapovan style in Thane, near Mumbai.

Thane Baker

Walter Thane Baker (born October 4, 1931 in Elkhart, Kansas) is a former American athlete and winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a new world record of 39.5 seconds.

Vashi Bridge

The Vashi Bridge, also known as Thane Creek Bridge, is a bridge, built across the Thane Creek that connects the city of Mumbai to the Indian mainland at Navi Mumbai.