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unusual facts about Tura, Meghalaya



ACTS Academy of Higher Education

ACTS has also founded the William Carey University in Shillong, Meghalaya.

Cathedral of Mary Help of Christians

The Cathedral of Mary Help of Christians is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shillong which covers the Khasi and Jaintia hills of Meghalaya.

Darwin Diengdoh Pugh

Darwin Diengdoh Pugh (12 January 1927 – 17 November 2008) was the first Khasi Chief Minister of Meghalaya state of Northeastern India.

DD North-East

DD North-East is a state owned TV channel telecasting from Doordarshan Kendra in Guwahati, Agartala, Kohima, Imphal, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Tura, Aizawl, Itanagar and Shillong.

Donkupar Roy

After a fractured mandate in Meghalaya's 2008 Assembly Elections, an alliance between his UDP and a handful of other parties stated claim to form the government under the banner of the Meghalaya Progressive Alliance, with Roy as Chief Minister.

E.K. Mawlong

As Minister incharge General Administration Department (GAD) in 1990-91, he met the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Jyoti Basu, to seek a plot of land in Kolkata for construction of the second Meghalaya House.

Eastern Panorama

Eastern Panorama is a monthly news magazine started in April 1992, by Dr. K. K. Jhunjhunwala from Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India.

Garo language

Garo, known by the people's own name for themselves, A·chik) is the language of the majority of the people of the Garo Hills in the Indian state of Meghalaya.

Haplogroup O-M95

Patrilines within Haplogroup O-M95 predominate among the Austroasiatic-speaking populations of South and Southeast Asia, such as the Khmer of Cambodia and the Khasi of Meghalaya in northeastern India.

Hinduism in India

The Hindus still form the majority community in most regions of the country, except the Valley of Kashmir, Punjab and three states in the North-East - namely Mizoram, Nagaland and Meghalaya.

Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council

The HNLC primarily operates in the Khasi Hills region, and has carried out a number of activities in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya.

Jaintia Kingdom

The Jaintia Kingdom extended from the east of the Shillong Plateau of present-day Meghalaya in north-east India, into the plains to the south, and north to the Barak River valley in Assam, India.

Kaveri Kachari

She, along with her husband Rajkhowa, deputy C-in-C Raju Baruah and Rajkhowa’s bodyguard Raja Bora were said to be surrenderd to the BSF on 4th Dec 2009 morning near the Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya.

Khanate of Sibir

These Mirzas organized loosely knit dominions, which were all under the nominal authority of the Khan of Tyumen and Sibir.

Islam was the professed religion of the Sibir Khanate; it was the religion of the ruling Khan of Tyumen and Sibir.

Mirzas also led the warriors of the Khanate of Sibir into battle and owed nominal allegiance to the Khan of Tyumen and Sibir.

Mawsynram

Mawsynram is located at 25° 18' N, 91° 35' E, at an altitude of about 1,400 metres (4,600 ft), 16 km west of Cherrapunji, in the Khasi Hills in the state of Meghalaya (India) .

Montserrat Tura i Camafreita

Except for the time she worked in Palamós, Tura has always lived in Mollet.

Nepenthes khasiana

Isolated populations are known to occur in the Jarain area of the Jaintia Hills and the Baghmara area of the Garo Hills, adjacent to the Khasi Hills region of Meghalaya.

Nizhnyaya Tunguska River

In 1927 the first steamship passed this rapids and it is considered to be the start of modern navigation on the river from Turukhansk to Tura.

North-Eastern Space Applications Centre

North-Eastern Space Applications Centre was set up with a joint initiative of DOS and NEC in September, 2000 at Shillong in Meghalaya, India.

Pnar

Pnar people, a tribe of Meghalaya state of India, also known as Jaintia or Synteng

Proletarskaya Kul'tura

In the summer of 1919, Rogozinsky's proposal to turn the Proletarian University into the Sverdlov Proletarian University - a proposal accompanied by restrictions in scope limited to creating a training school for government and party officials.

Protestantism in India

Protestants in India are a minority in a predominantly Hindu country, but form majorities in the north-eastern states of Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and sizeable minorities in Kerala and various east coast and northern states.

Raja Bora

On December 4, 2009, Bora with the group's chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa along with eight others, surrendered before the Indian authority near the Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya.

Raju Baruah

On December 4, 2009, Baruah with the outfit’s chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa along with eight others, surrendered before the Indian authority near the Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya.

Takhir Sabirov

His mother Mastona Sobir Zoda was the daughter of Duke Sobir-kaloni Tura-zoda of Samarkand (now part of the Samarqand Province, Uzbekistan), from the Duchy of Greater Khorasan, known as Tura-zoda, who were eminent members of Central Asia's Aristocracy.

Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral

In 1976, Richard Manuel and Van Morrison sang the song, as "Tura Lura Lural (That's An Irish Lullaby)", during The Band's farewell concert The Last Waltz.

TuRa Bergkamen

TuRa Bergkamen is a German association football club from the city of Bergkamen, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Tura, Hungary

Sándor Sára (b. 1933), film director and documentary film maker, the first leader of Duna TV

Tura, Krasnoyarsk Krai

Tura was the administrative center of Evenk Autonomous Okrug before the okrug was merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai on January 1, 2007.

Ultramarine Flycatcher

Also in the lower hills of Meghalaya and Nagaland, Khasi and Cachar hills, sometimes considered a third race; winter movements of this population is not known.

Wangala

Wangala (also known as Hundred Drums, Wanna, Wanna Rongchuwa) a harvest festival celebrated by the Garo tribe, who lives in Meghalaya, Assam in India and Greater Mymensingh in Bangladesh.

Will Tura

Will Tura's first hit was Eenzaam zonder jou (Eng, Lonely without you) in 1963, for which he wrote the melody, and Ke Riema the text.

Tura's first producer was Jacques Kluger, and later his son Jean Kluger.

In 2002 one of Tura's dreams came true, recording an album entitled De Mooiste Droom (Eng, the most beautiful dream) with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Williamson A. Sangma

He also made sure the Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBOSE), which he considered to be of prime importance, was in Garo Hills.

Zsámbok

Although Zsámbok doesn't have any railway stations, there are ones in Tura, Jászfényszaru, Sülysáp and Isaszeg not far away from the village.


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