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7 unusual facts about West Bengal


1962 in Pakistan

Bengali is mostly spoken in the erstwhile province of East Pakistan, as well as in India's West Bengal province and the disputed territory of Tripura, which is the Bengalis referred to as the Chittagong Plains of East Bengal.

Kaloula assamensis

Kaloula assamensis (Assamese balloon frog or Assam narrowmouth toad) is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal in northeastern India.

Kendua

Kendua, West Bengal, a census town in Malda district, West Bengal, India

Rabindranath Tagore's political views

These views crystallised in his experimental school at Santiniketan, (শান্তিনিকেতন, "Abode of Peace"), founded in 1901 on the site of a West Bengal estate inherited from his father.

Rizwanur Rahman

He won this post without contest due to an active support from the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, and also alleged financial support from Ashok Todi.

Santoshpur

Santoshpur is a common name for localities in West Bengal, India.

Snehansu Kanta Acharya

Barrister Snehansu Kanta Acharya was a former Advocate General of West Bengal, India and a Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader.


2006 West Bengal train disaster

The 2006 West Bengal train disaster was a fatal suspected terrorist explosion on a train travelling between New Jalpaiguri and Haldibari that occurred on November 20, 2006, when the train was in a remote part of West Bengal State, India.

Aadhaar

The Census Operations territory for enrollment includes Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Assam, etc.

Ananta Mandal

Born in Chakdaha, a small town in Nadia district, West Bengal, Ananta graduated in graphic design and applied arts from the Government College of Art & Craft (Calcutta University) in 2007.

Andal, Bardhaman

Andal is on the Grand Trunk Road or NH2, now part of the Golden Quadrilateral.

Bangladeshis in India

Before its partition, internal migration was commonplace within British India, including movement between the region which is now Bangladesh and the regions of Assam and West Bengal.

Barobisha

Barobisha is the gateway to exotic locations like Newlands Tea Garden, Rasikbil migratory bird sanctuary (West Bengal), Kalikhola, Geylegphug, Phuntsholing(Bhutan)etc.

Behala

Former President Ms. Pratibha Patil laid the foundation stone of Joka to BBD Bagh Metro Rail Project in presence of Central Finance Minister and Governor of West Bengal in September, 2010.

Bhangar Mahavidyalaya

Bhangar Mahavidyalaya its an undergraduate college in Bhangar, in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India.

Biswajit Saha

He then got chance in the U-19 district team of Hooghly where his performance helped him to get call from the West Bengal School team.

Boiga cyanea

The green cat snake, Boiga cyanea, is a species of nocturnal opisthoglyphous snake found in India (Sikkim, Darjeeling & Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nicobar Islands), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand (incl. Phuket), Myanmar, West Malaysia, and parts of China (Yunnan).

Camling language

The Chamling language is used by small communities in the Sagarmatha Zone, Khotang District, Bhojpur District and scattered areas in Udayapur District and a few more districts of eastern Nepal, the southeastern neighbour Indian state of Sikkim, the hill city of Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal and the kingdom of Bhutan.

Cassini's Division

-- plural in Queen's English convention used in India--> an alternative rock band from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Chiromantis simus

Chiromantis simus (common names: Assam Asian frog, Assam tree frog, Annandale's tree frog, Annandale's pigmy tree frog) is a species of frog in the Rhacophoridae family found in Bangladesh and northeastern India (in Assam, Mizoram, and West Bengal states).

Deepak Kapoor

On promotion to Lieutenant General, he commanded 33 Corps at Siliguri, West Bengal.

Dichelyne alatae

Dichelyne alatae is a species of nematode, described on the basis of the worms recovered from the intestine of the whiting, Sillaginopsis panijus from the estuary of the Hooghly River at Kalyani, West Bengal, India.

Diocese of Calcutta of the Church of North India

The diocese currently has jurisdiction over the corporation limits of Kolkata and the Districts of Hooghly & Howrah in the state of West Bengal.

Dwarkanath Tagore

Tagore's company managed huge zamindari estates spread across today's West Bengal and Odisha states in India, and in Bangladesh, besides holding large stakes in new enterprises that were tapping the rich coal seams of Bengal, running tug services between Calcutta and the mouth of the river Hooghly and transplanting Chinese tea crop to the plains of Upper Assam.

Elections in West Bengal

Elections in West Bengal, a state in India are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India.

Ganges shark

The Ganges shark, as its name suggests, is largely restricted to the rivers of eastern and northeastern India, particularly the Hooghly River of West Bengal, and the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Mahanadi in Bihar, Assam, and Odisha, respectively.

Goodearth Publications

Indore; state guides to Assam, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand; and district / site guides to Bhimbetka and Bhojpur, Bastar, Chanderi, Gwalior, Bhoramdeo, Sirpur,

Indian community of London

Many members of London's Indian community can trace their ancestry to the Indian states of West Bengal , Punjab , Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajastan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar.

Indian states ranking by fertility rate

All the four South Indian states Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka as well as Goa, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Sikkim, and Tripura, and the union territories of Delhi, Lakshadweep, Daman and Diu, Andaman and Nicobar and Chandigarh, registered a low fertility rate below the crucial 2.1.

Jai Balaji group

The Group has been promoted by Kolkata based businessmen and includes nine Iron and Steel making plants in Durgapur, Raniganj and Liluah in West Bengal; Rourkela in Orissa; Durg in Chhattisgarh and Saraikela in Jharkhand.

Jalpaiguri

Jalpaiguri lies in the middle of the vast fertile plains(Terai)south of the Himalayas,watered by innumerable rivers and rivulets rising from and flowing down the Himalayas.On a clear sunny day,Mount Kanchenjunga is visible from the city itself.The city lies on the banks of the Teesta river which is the second largest river in West Bengal after the Ganges.

Kisari Mohan Ganguli

Sometime in early 1870s, Pratapa Chandra Roy, with Babu Durga Charan Banerjee, visited Ganguli at his home in Shibpur in Howrah West Bengal requesting him to take up the translation project, which he took up after initial reluctance and a second meeting, when extensive plans were drawn, and the copy of a translation by Max Muller was left behind, made some thirty years ago, which on study Ganguli found to be literal and lacking in flow.

Kshitish Mohan Lahiri

After Indian independence in 1947, Kshitish Mohan Lahiri's family migrated to newly formed state of West Bengal in India.

Leonard Knight Elmhirst

In 1922, in the village of Surul (now Sriniketan) adjacent to Santiniketan, West Bengal, he set up for Tagore an Institute of Rural Reconstruction.

Lepcha people

The Lepcha people themselves do not have any tradition of migration, and hence they conclude that they are aboriginal to the region, currently falling under the state of Sikkim, Darjeeling District of West Bengal, eastern Nepal and the southwestern parts of Bhutan.

Maharani Girls' High School, Darjeeling

Maharani Girls' High School is a Higher Secondary school for girls' located at Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.

Metallosticha plumbeifasciella

It was described by Hampson in 1896, and is known from India (including Kolkata, in West Bengal, the type location).

Mohiuddin Jahangir

He managed to cross the border safely and joined the Mukti Bahini at Mehdipur under Maldah district in West Bengal.

Pogose School

Among them are Chief Ministers Profullah Chandra Ghosh (of West Bengal) and Ataur Rahman Khan (of East Bengal), as well as first Bengali doctorate Nishikanto Chatterjee and the first Indian Doctor of Science Aghornath Chatterjee, who was the father of Sarojini Naidu.

Rajabhatkhawa

Rajabhatkhawa is a small town situated just outside the Buxa Tiger Reserve in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, India.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta

The Archdiocese of Calcutta currently covers the Districts of Bankura, Howrah, Hooghly, Kolkata, Paschim Medinipur, Purba Medinipur and North 24 Parganas in the State of West Bengal.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the metropolitan province of Calcutta covers only the state of West Bengal.

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.

Santali cinema

Santali cinema has its presence in the states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Orissa, parts of Nepal, Jhapa District &Morang District, where the Santhal people live.

Sir J. C. Bose School of Engineering

The Sir J. C. Bose School of Engineering is an engineering college situated at Mankundu in Hooghly, West Bengal, India.

Surendranath Evening College

Surendranath Evening College, established in 1961, is an undergraduate college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

V.G. Deshpande

In early 1964, Deshpande called for on the Indian and Pakistani governments to initiate a population exchange, transporting the Hindu minority of Pakistan to India and expelling the Muslims of West Bengal and Assam to Pakistan.

West Bengal Sampark Kranti

In its journey, it passes through Indian States of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee was born on December 29, 1844 at Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the present-day state of West Bengal in an upper middle class Bengali Hindu Kulin Brahmin family of considerable social standing.His ancestors belong from the village named Baganda situated in Hooghly district.

Yousuf Rahman

His best effort in one day cricket came against Dilip Doshi's West Bengal side, at Dhaka (in 1983).


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1513 in India

Jiva Goswami, writer of philosophical works on the theology and practice of Bhakti yoga, Vaishnava Vedanta and associated disciplines is born in Ramakeli in the district of Maldah, West Bengal (dies 1596 or 1598)

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.

ABTA

All Bengal Teachers Association, a teacher's movement in the Indian state of West Bengal

Bahirgachhi New

This is known for railway stations which connects Gede, Ranaghat and Sealdah in Kolkata Suburban Railway system in West Bengal Railways.

Berhampore

Baharampur, formerly known as Berhampore (also sometimes spelt Behrampore), a city in the state of West Bengal

Birati

On 4 February 2009 Former Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee inaugurated Birati Flyover named Manik Bandopadhyay Setu at Birati station.

Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning

Canning in West Bengal,India is thought to be named after him.

Charles Feake

He was born in Cossimbazar in West Bengal, where his father was governor of Fort William (1718 to 1723).

Government of West Bengal

The Calcutta High Court is located in Kolkata, which has jurisdiction over the whole of West Bengal and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Jalpaiguri

Nirmal Bose, Senior Cabinet Minister government of West Bengal, Member of Parliament, President Indian Political Science Association

Kashipur

Cossipore (also spelt Cossipur, Kashipur) is a neighbourhood in north Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal

Khurshid Eqbal

He received his secondary education from Jagatdal Chashma-i-Rahmat High School in 1979, and graduated from Rishi Bankim Chandra College, Naihati, West Bengal in 1982.

Krittivasi Ramayan

Extant manuscripts are presently stored in universities such as the University of Calcutta, Visva-Bharati University, Rabindra Bharati University, Jadavpur University, University of Burdwan, North Bengal University, in West Bengal.

Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs

It also coordinates visits by international human rights and humanitarian agencies; coordinates with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on matters relating to transnational crimes; coordinates government level Bhutan-India meetings on border management and security; coordinates Border District meetings with Indian states of Assam and West Bengal; and liaises and coordinates on national security issues with the Royal Bhutan Police and Dzongkhag Administrations.

Mohit Banerji

Mohit Banerji’s formative years were spent in West Bengal, having been educated at Midnapore Collegiate School followed by tertiary undergraduate study at the University of Calcutta.

Mookerjee

Harendra Coomar Mookerjee (1877–1956), the Governor of West Bengal from 1951 to 1956

N K Raghupathy

With 40 years of service, teaching and research, he worked in West Bengal Secretariat and Government of India secretariat and finally as chairman of Staff Selection Commission from 2009 to 2013.

Naihati

Of over a million refugees who entered West Bengal in 1950 alone settled mostly in squatter colonies between Naihati and Sonarpur on the east bank of the Hooghly and between Mogra and Uluberia on the west bank.

Nayachar

The island inhabited by few fishermen, has shot into the larger public view as the proposed site of the major chemical hub initiated by the erstwhile Left Front alliance led West Bengal Government.

Nazim Shirazi

The West Bengal team won the match by an innings and 42 runs with Doshi taking 12 wickets.

Nischintapur

Nischintapur, Howrah, a village in Howrah District of West Bengal, India

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.

Paharia Express

This train was inaugurated by the then Railway Minister India and now Chief Minister of West Bengal Ms. Mamata Banerjee on 5 October 2009.

Prakashanand Saraswati

Swami Prakashanand Saraswati was of the lineage of the great Vashnavite sage of West Bengal Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534).

Priyanath Chattopadhyay

The Saturday Times Education and Career program is launched by Lord Swraj Paul, Baroness Sandy Verma, Former Minister of West Bengal Government Subhash Chakrabarty and lots of other dignitaries from House of Lords, House of Commons and Government of West Bengal in Kolkata.

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.

Red Terror

The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal in November 2007 was called "Red Terror" by critics of the actions by the local administration alluding at the Communist Party of India ruling in West Bengal.

Regional Research Station

This Research Station is located beside the Gazzole–Hili State Highway in the Mouza of Majhian under Balurghat Block in the District of Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal with 23º 57′ N and 87º 10′ E. River Atreyee is flowing in the western side of the station.

Samir Putatundu

Putatundu contested the Jadavpur assembly constituency in the 2011 West Bengal assembly election, running against incumbent Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya.

Sankari Prasad Basu

He was born in Howrah, West Bengal, and studied at the Howrah Vivekananda Institution.

Santhal people

Edward Duyker Tribal Guerrillas: The Santals of West Bengal and the Naxalite Movement, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1987, pp.

Second Anglo-Maratha War

On December 17 1803, Raghoji II Bhonsle of Nagpur signed the Treaty of Deogaon in Odisha with the British after the Battle of Laswari and gave up the province of Cuttack (which included Mughalbandi/the coastal part of Odisha, Garjat/the princely states of Odisha, Balasore Port, parts of Midnapore district of West Bengal).

SMIT

Saroj Mohan Institute of Technology, a co-educational private engineering college in West Bengal, India

Srikumar Rao

He graduated from Narendrapur, the flagship school of the Ramakrishna Mission system in West Bengal.

Tangon River

After originating in West Bengal, it passes through Panchagarh District, Pirganj in Rangpur District, Bochaganj in Rajshahi District and Biral in Dinajpur District in Bangladesh before it flows through Kushmandi and Bansihari community development blocks of Dakshin Dinajpur district in West Bengal.

Typhlops diardii

Found in India (Jalpaiguri-West Bengal,as far west as Dun Valley in Assam), Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula, Nias Island, Sumatra, Web Island (off northwest Sumatra), Bangka and Borneo.

Uluberia

Of over a million refugees who entered West Bengal in 1950 alone settled mostly in squatter colonies between Naihati and Sonarpur on the east bank of the Hooghly and between Mogra and Uluberia on the west bank.

Uttarpara

It has the United Spirits Distilliery, Shalimar Wire Products, Hindustan Motors which is the only vehicle plant in West Bengal which manufactures the car Ambassador.

Vidyasagar

Vidyasagar University, in Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal, India

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.

Willemina Ogterop

She donated three works of art to India, two of which can be found on public display: the woodcarving "Satyagraha" in the National Gandhi Museum in New Delhi and a stained glass plaque depicting a poem in Sanskrit by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, which is in the Tagore Museum at Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, Bolpur, West Bengal, India.