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.
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.
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, West Bengal, a census town in Malda district, West Bengal, 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.
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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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.
A notable user of an Anne Klein wristwatch is the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, the first woman to hold that post.
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
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.
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 its an undergraduate college in Bhangar, in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India.
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 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.
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).
On promotion to Lieutenant General, he commanded 33 Corps at Siliguri, West Bengal.
The diocese currently has jurisdiction over the corporation limits of Kolkata and the Districts of Hooghly & Howrah in the state of West Bengal.
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.
Harshabardhan is a successful black-marketeer dealing in timber who was born in Tezpur, Assam, migrates and lives in Ranaghat, West Bengal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ambedkar College, is an undergraduate college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Maharani Girls' High School is a Higher Secondary school for girls' located at Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
He managed to cross the border safely and joined the Mukti Bahini at Mehdipur under Maldah district in 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.
During March, 1983, he played against the touring West Bengal side, led by Indian test player Dilip Doshi.
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.
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.
Adra, Kharagpur, Chakradharpur and Ranchi divisions are located in the states of West Bengal and Jharkhand respectively.
Kotak Mahindra Bank in partnership with RuPay has rolled out an initiative for financial inclusion, where the dairy farmers across 75 cooperative societies of AMUL in regions of Burdwan and Hooghly of West Bengal will be able to get their payments directly into their account on the same day of sale of milk.
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 is a common name for localities in West Bengal, India.
Barrister Snehansu Kanta Acharya was a former Advocate General of West Bengal, India and a Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader.
Theatre Formation Paribartak is a group of theatres situated in the Howrah district of West Bengal, India.
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 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.
All Bengal Teachers Association, a teacher's movement in the Indian state of West Bengal
The AMU has established centres at Malappuram, (Kerala) and Murshidabad, (West Bengal) while the Kishanganj, (Bihar) centre has been allotted land, and a site has been identified for Aurangabad, (Maharashtra) centre.
This is known for railway stations which connects Gede, Ranaghat and Sealdah in Kolkata Suburban Railway system in West Bengal Railways.
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.
Basanti, South 24 Parganas, a town in Canning subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal
Baharampur, formerly known as Berhampore (also sometimes spelt Behrampore), a city in the 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.
Canning in West Bengal,India is thought to be named after him.
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.
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
Cossipore (also spelt Cossipur, Kashipur) is a neighbourhood in north Kolkata 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.
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
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, Bardhaman, a town and railway station in Bardhaman district in the state West Bengal of India
Nabgram, a town in Bardhaman district in the state West Bengal, India
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.
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, Malda, now known as Adina, ruins of a historic town in Malda District, West Bengal, India
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.
He became the Secretary of West Bengal State Committee of DYFI (1984-1991), and later as the All India Vice President of DYFI (1988-1991).
He served as the President of the Students’ Union of Surendranath Law College during the period when the semi-fascist terror struck the lives of West Bengal under the Congress(I) administration in 1970s.
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.
Born 24 October 1939 in Baj Baj, near Calcutta (now Kolkata) in Pargana (now 24 Parganas), British India (now in West Bengal, India).
Putatundu contested the Jadavpur assembly constituency in the 2011 West Bengal assembly election, running against incumbent Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya.
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.
After teaching in several colleges of Bihar, Siyaram Tiwari joined Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan (West Bengal), an institution founded by Nodel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and now a central university as a Reader in the Department of Hindi in January, 1976.In due course, he rose to the rank of Professor and became Head of the Department of Hindi as well as Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.
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.
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.
Vidyasagar Setu, commonly known as the Second Hooghly Bridge, a bridge in West Bengal, India linking Howrah to Kolkata
Vidyasagar University, in Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal, India
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.