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6 unusual facts about west Bengal


Chatrak

A scene of the film with explicit frontal nudity and cunnilingus, featuring Paoli Dam and Anubrata Basu, was leaked on the Internet in 2011, causing uproar in India, especially in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state, where the film was mainly shot.

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

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.

Snehansu Kanta Acharya

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

TrueRoots

TrueRoots' most recent documentary production, 'Songs from the Little Road', focuses on the folk art and culture of the Indian state of West Bengal.


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.

Ananya Express

It covers a distance of 2,141 km at an average speed of 60 km per hour, travelling through the Indian states of Paschim Banga (West Bengal), Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Anne Klein

A notable user of an Anne Klein wristwatch is the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, the first woman to hold that post.

Bahirgachi

Bahirgachi Halt is a village and small railway station (Halt) in Nadia district of West Bengal, India.

Barobisha

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

Battle of Tukaroi

The Battle of Tukaroi was fought on March 3, 1575 near the village of Tukaroi now in Balasore District between Midnapore and Jalesar, West Bengal between The Mughal Empire and the Sultanate of Bangala and Bihar.

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).

Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College

Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, established in 1956, is an undergraduate college in 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).

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.

Hanumappa Sudarshan

Dr. Sudarshan, after graduation, he joined the charitable health institutions of Ramakrishna Mission which took him to the Himalayas of Uttar Pradesh, Belur Math in West Bengal and Ponnampet in Karnataka as part of the job.

Harshabardhan

Harshabardhan is a successful black-marketeer dealing in timber who was born in Tezpur, Assam, migrates and lives in Ranaghat, West Bengal.

Hijli Detention Camp

Hijli Detention Camp, located in Hijli, beside Kharagpur, (a part of former Hijli Kingdom), in the district of Midnapore West, West Bengal, India, was significant in the struggle against the British Raj in the early 20th century.

Himalayan wolf

They were captured in the wild and are now being preserved in the trans-Himalayan region of India, at the Darjeeling Zoo in Shiwalik Hills on the lower range of the Himalaya in West Bengal, and in the Kufri Zoo with Kufri Himalayan National Park located in Himachal Pradesh province.

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.

Kathgola

It is located about half a km South-East of Mahimapur (modern Nashipur), a town in West Bengal, India just north of Murshidabad, the capital of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa during the reign of the Nawabs of Murshidabad.

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.

Kolkata Metro Line 2

Line 2, also known as East-West corridor of the Kolkata Metro is a rapid transit system under construction which will serve Kolkata, Salt Lake and Howrah in the Indian state of West Bengal underneath the Hooghly River.

Laxmi Ratan Shukla

Shukla was born in Howrah, West Bengal, India and did his schooling at Shree Hanumaan Jute Mill Hindi High School and the Don Bosco High & Technical School, Liluah.

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.

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.

Maulana Azad College

Maulana Azad College is an government administered liberal arts college, located in central Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Medha Patkar

Though she is a past employee of Tata Empire, Patkar also played a pivotal role in driving out the Tata Nano plant from Singur, West Bengal, ostensibly due to insufficient benefits to locals and use of fertile land for industry.

Metallosticha plumbeifasciella

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

P. Subbarayan

Subbarayan and another member – Suniti Kumar Chatterji from West Bengal – did not agree with its findings and added dissenting notes to the report.

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.

Radha Gobinda Chandra

When he was in grade 6 at school they used to had a textbook called Charupath from where he read an inspiring prose on Astronomy and Cosmology by Bengal writer Akshay Kumar Datta.

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.

Rugby union in Bangladesh

Bangladeshi rugby's history may be discontinuous, but it dates back to the Bengal Presidency, when East Bengal (future Bangladesh) and West Bengal (now in India) were politically united.

Salugara Monastery

The Great International Tashi Gomang Stupa, 6 km from Siliguri, West Bengal, India, includes a one hundred foot stupa built by Kalu Rinpoche, a Tibetan Lama.

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.

Santoshpur

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

Shakti

A commonly accepted list of Shakti peethas and their famous temple complexes includes: Jwalaji (Himachal), Tara Tarini (Berhampur, Orissa), Katyayani (Chattarpur, Delhi), Kamakhya (Assam), Kali at Kalighat (Kolkata, West Bengal), Naina Devi (Himachal), Guhyeshwari Temple Devi (Kathmandu, Nepal), Vishalakshi Temple (Varanasi).

Surendranath Evening College

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

Webel Mediatronics Limited

Based in West Bengal, India, it has in the last 10 years developed and commercialized a host of systems for visually impaired, cerebral palsy-affected, hearing handicapped, and autistic persons.

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).


see also

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.

Bahirgachhi New

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

Bajitpur Upazila

The place is well-known to Bangladeshis and people of West Bengal for being the ancestral home, birthplace, and the place of growing up and sadhana of Swami Pranavananda Maharaj (1896–1941), the yogi, spiritual leader and Hindu revivalist leader who founded the Bharat Sevashram Sangha.

Charles Feake

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

Dharmapala Kamboja

which however seems to be far-fetched, many other scholars say that Kamboja of Chidambram inscriptions is this Dharampala of Kamboj lineage who was ruling in Dandbhukti-mandala of west Bengal during early 11th century and was therefore a contemporary of Rajendra Chola.

Dhatrigram

After partition of India, many skilled weavers of Dhaka came and settled in West Bengal around Shantipur in Nadia district and Ambika Kalna of Bardhaman district, both traditionally renowned centres for hand-woven fabrics.

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.

Halsey Ricardo

He designed several buildings, of which the best were the Howrah Station, gateway to Calcutta, situated in the twin city Howrah, district Howrah, West Bengal, India (1901; with a glowing exterior of brick and coloured tiles), and Debenham House in Holland Park (1905–8), completely faced with impervious glazed materials, even the roof-tiles.

Harinavi

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

Joynagar

Jaynagar Mazilpur, a city and a municipality in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal

Jyoti Basu

Sumon K Chakrabarti, the national affairs correspondent for CNN-IBN, said in his blog that during Basu's tenure as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, the state saw continuous industrial decline.

Kashipur

Chak Kashipur is a census town under Nadakhali police station of Alipore sadar subdivision in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal

Kulgachia

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.

Lexmark

The firm's corporate and research and development (R&D) offices are located at the headquarters in Lexington with additional R&D facilities located in Boulder, Colorado; Kansas City, Kansas; Cebu, Philippines; and Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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.

Nabagram

Nabagram Colony, a town in Hooghly district in the state West Bengal, India

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.

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.

Pandua

Pandua, Malda, now known as Adina, ruins of a historic town in Malda District, West Bengal, India

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.

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.

Santhal people

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

Santosh Dutta

Another milestone in Dutta's career was playing Gopal Bhar in the movie of same name, Gopal Bhar being a humorous character known for centuries in India, particularly the state of West Bengal.

SMIT

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

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.

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 Setu, commonly known as the Second Hooghly Bridge, a bridge in West Bengal, India linking Howrah to Kolkata

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.

West Bengal University of Technology

West Bengal University of Technology provides courses in IT, Engineering, Management, Commerce, Hospitality, Journalism & Mass Communication, Biotech and Health Sciences.

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.