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.
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).
Kendua, West Bengal, a census town in Malda district, West Bengal, India
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.
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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.
Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College or ABN Seal, earlier Victoria College, is a co-educational college in Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India.
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 is on the Grand Trunk Road or NH2, now part of the Golden Quadrilateral.
The school is organized by The Assembly of God Church of East India, which is a registered Society under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961, is recognized by the Department of Education, Government of West Bengal and is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi
Today, the production is concentrated in the towns of Tarakeswar and Bishnupur, Bankura, near Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Barobisha is the gateway to exotic locations like Newlands Tea Garden, Rasikbil migratory bird sanctuary (West Bengal), Kalikhola, Geylegphug, Phuntsholing(Bhutan)etc.
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.
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.
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, established in 1956, is an undergraduate college in Kolkata, west Bengal, India.
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.
-- plural in Queen's English convention used in India--> an alternative rock band from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
On promotion to Lieutenant General, he commanded 33 Corps at Siliguri, West Bengal.
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.
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, a state in India are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Kakarbhitta is the eastern terminus of Nepal's east-west Mahendra Highway at the country's eastern border with Darjeeling District, West Bengal state, India.
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.
Bidhan Chandra Roy, at that time the Chief Minister of West Bengal, conceived the idea in 1949 of building an underground railway for Kolkata to solve the problems to some extent.
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.
In 1922, in the village of Surul (now Sriniketan) adjacent to Santiniketan, West Bengal, he set up for Tagore an Institute of Rural Reconstruction.
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.
The coal from Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (Talcher and Ib Valley) and Eastern Coalfields Limited (Raniganj and Mugma) are transported to the load ports of Paradip (Orissa), Vizag (Andhra Pradesh) and Haldia (West Bengal).
Sir C. V. Raman worked at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, West Bengal, India during 1907 to 1933 on various topics of Physics making discovery of the celebrated effect on scattering of light in 1928, which bears his name and that brought many accolades including the Nobel Prize in 1930.
Subbarayan and another member – Suniti Kumar Chatterji from West Bengal – did not agree with its findings and added dissenting notes to the report.
Most of the songs he sang were written by Ramprasad Sen and Kamalakanta Bhattacharya, both of whom were Shakta poets of Bengal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Santoshpur is a common name for localities in West Bengal, India.
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).
The Sir J. C. Bose School of Engineering is an engineering college situated at Mankundu in Hooghly, West Bengal, India.
Barrister Snehansu Kanta Acharya was a former Advocate General of West Bengal, India and a Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader.
Surendranath Evening College, established in 1961, is an undergraduate college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Theatre Formation Paribartak is a group of theatres situated in the Howrah district of West Bengal, India.
In its journey, it passes through Indian States of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.
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.
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)
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.
All Bengal Teachers Association, a teacher's movement in the Indian state of West Bengal
This is known for railway stations which connects Gede, Ranaghat and Sealdah in Kolkata Suburban Railway system in West Bengal Railways.
Basanti, South 24 Parganas, a town in Canning subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal
On 4 February 2009 Former Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee inaugurated Birati Flyover named Manik Bandopadhyay Setu at Birati station.
He was born in Cossimbazar in West Bengal, where his father was governor of Fort William (1718 to 1723).
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.
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.
The Calcutta High Court is located in Kolkata, which has jurisdiction over the whole of West Bengal and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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.
Nirmal Bose, Senior Cabinet Minister government of West Bengal, Member of Parliament, President Indian Political Science Association
Jaynagar Mazilpur, a city and a municipality in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
It is mostly remembered today for the incident in 1979 when the newly elected Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) government of West Bengal forcibly evicted thousands of Bengali refugees who had settled on the island.
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’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.
The Indian Students Group included future stalwarts of India and West Bengal such as Jyoti Basu, Bhupesh Gupta, Snehansu Kanta Acharya (former Attorney General of West Bengal), Feroze Gandhi, V. K. Krishna Menon and many other famous figures of Indian politics.
Harendra Coomar Mookerjee (1877–1956), the Governor of West Bengal from 1951 to 1956
Nabagram, Bardhaman, a town and railway station in Bardhaman district in the state West Bengal of India
Nabagram Colony, a town in Hooghly district in the state West Bengal, India
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.
Nischintapur, South 24 Paraganas, a village in Kulpi Block, South 24 Paraganas District of West Bengal, India
Swami Prakashanand Saraswati was of the lineage of the great Vashnavite sage of West Bengal Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534).
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.
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.
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).
Saroj Mohan Institute of Technology, a co-educational private engineering college in West Bengal, India
He was closely associated with the former chief minister of West Bengal, Shri Jyoti Basu.
He graduated from Narendrapur, the flagship school of the Ramakrishna Mission system in West Bengal.
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.
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.
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.