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Beas (other)
The Beas River is a river in the northern part of India. BEA Systems is an American software company. Beas or BEAS may also refer to: Places * Beas, Punjab, a town in Punjab, India * Beas, Spain, a town and municipality in Huelva province, Spain * Beas de Granada, a town in Granada province, Spain * Beas de Guadix, a municipality in Granada province, Spain * Beas de Segura, a city in Jaén province, Spain * Pong Dam, also known as Beas Dam, an earth-fill embankment dam on the Beas River * Sheung Yue River, also known as River Beas, in Hong Kong Other uses * Beas Sarkar (born 1979), Indian cricketer * INS ''Beas'', ships of the Indian Navy See also * Bea (other) * Beas Pind Beas Pind (sometimes Bias Pind) is a village in Adampur Mandal in Jalandhar district in the north-western Indian state of Punjab. It is the largest village in the Doaba region. Demographics As of the 2011 Census of India, the village has a popul ..., a village in Punjab, India * Bias (dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beas River
The Beas River (Sanskrit: ; Hyphasis in Ancient Greek) is a river in north India. The river rises in the Himalayas in central Himachal Pradesh, India, and flows for some to the Sutlej River in the Indian state of Punjab. Its total length is and its drainage basin is large. As of 2017, the river is home to a tiny isolated population of the Indus dolphin. Etymology Veda Vyasa, the author of Indian epic Mahabharata, is the eponym of the river Beas; he is said to have created it from its source lake, the Beas Kund. Before Veda Vyasa, the Vipasa river was known as Saraswati. Rishi Vashishta, the great grandfather of Vyasa tried to jump into this river from an overlooking hillock, to sacrifice his soul. He tied himself with several cords to drown himself. However, the river altered form to become a sandbed, saving him. And in this course, the cords got broken, so Vashishta named the river Vipasa, which means cord-breaker. On account of this incident, the great Rishi opted to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BEA Systems
BEA Systems, Inc. was a company that specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products which was wholly acquired by Oracle Corporation on April 29, 2008. History BEA began as a software company, founded in 1995 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It grew to have 78 offices worldwide at the time of its acquisition by Oracle. The company's name is an initialism of the first names of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott, and Alfred Chuang. All were former employees of Sun Microsystems, and launched the business in 1995 by acquiring Information Management and Independence Technologies. These firms were the largest resellers of ''Tuxedo'', a distributed transaction management system sold by Novell. BEA soon acquired the Tuxedo product itself, and went on to acquire other middleware companies and products. In 1998, BEA acquired the San Francisco start-up WebLogic, which had built the first standards-based Java application server. WebLogic's applic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beas, Punjab
Beas is a riverfront town in the Amritsar district of the Indian state of Punjab. Beas lies on the banks of the Beas River. Beas town is mostly located in revenue boundary of Budha Theh with parts in villages Dholo Nangal and Wazir Bhullar. Beas railway station is located on the boundaries of beas . And Budha Theh is a census town in Baba Bakala tehsil of Amritsar district. Geography Beas is centered (approx.) at . It is located on the G.T. Road (from Kolkata to Afghanistan), in the Amritsar district in Punjab state of India. The nearest city is Kapurthala () to the southwest. The holy and historical city of the Amritsar () lies to its northwest, and Jalandhar (38 km) is situated to its southeast. Radha Soami Satsang Beas The headquarters of Radha Soami Satsang Beas is located just north of Beas town. The town is known as Dera Baba Jaimal Singh and is located in the east. Every year, millions of Radha Soami followers travel to Beas to attend satsangs (discourses) ofte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beas, Spain
Beas is a municipality located in the province of Huelva, Spain. According to the 2005 census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ..., the village had a population of 4,162 inhabitants. Iglesia Parroquial de San Bartolomé Apóstol, lateral.jpg, Parish Church of St. San Bartolomé Apóstol Belen Viviente - Monumento al Belén Viviente.jpg, Monument dedicated to traditional Beas Living Nativity 1970 Demographics References External linksBeas- Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía Municipalities in the Province of Huelva {{andalusia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beas De Granada
Beas de Granada is a town located in the province of Granada, Andalusia, southern Spain. , the town had a population of 1050 inhabitants. The settlement is at a height of 1072 meters above sea level and therefore has good views of the sierra Nevada. It is within the Parque Natural de la Sierra de Huétor. History The town can be traced back to a crossroads during the time of the Romans and even under the Arabs it was only about 20 buildings. Notable people Alhambra Nievas Alhambra Nievas González (born 9 August 1983) is a former Spain women's rugby union international and a current rugby union referee. Nievas refereed the women's final at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2016 she also served as an assistant referee ... the Rugby Union player and referee was born here. References Municipalities in the Province of Granada {{Granada-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beas De Guadix
Beas is a riverfront town in the Amritsar district of the Indian state of Punjab. Beas lies on the banks of the Beas River. Beas town is mostly located in revenue boundary of Budha Theh with parts in villages Dholo Nangal and Wazir Bhullar. Beas railway station is located on the boundaries of beas . And Budha Theh is a census town in Baba Bakala tehsil of Amritsar district. Geography Beas is centered (approx.) at . It is located on the G.T. Road (from Kolkata to Afghanistan), in the Amritsar district in Punjab state of India. The nearest city is Kapurthala () to the southwest. The holy and historical city of the Amritsar () lies to its northwest, and Jalandhar (38 km) is situated to its southeast. Radha Soami Satsang Beas The headquarters of Radha Soami Satsang Beas is located just north of Beas town. The town is known as Dera Baba Jaimal Singh and is located in the east. Every year, millions of Radha Soami followers travel to Beas to attend satsangs ( discourses) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beas De Segura
Beas de Segura is a town located in the province of Jaén, Spain. According to the 2009 census ( INE), the town has a population of 5,591 inhabitants. Beas de Segura is a municipality and Spanish town located in the province of Jaén in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is included in the region of Sierra de Segura, with almost a quarter of its territory within the Natural Park of the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas6 and has an extension of 160.3 km², being a transition between the countryside and la sierra.7 In 2016, its municipal register registered a population of 5,380 inhabitants, 8 making it the most populated municipality in the region, as well as the center of influence of the bordering municipalities. The majority of its lands consist of agricultural areas dedicated mainly to the cultivation of olive trees, which is why it is integrated into the "Spanish Association of Municipalities of the Olive Tree of the province of Jaén" (AEMO) .9 Its exce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pong Dam
The Pong Dam, also known as the Beas Dam, is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Beas River in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India, just upstream of Talwara. The purpose of the dam is water storage for irrigation and hydroelectric power generation. As the second phase of the Beas Project, construction on the dam began in 1961 and was completed in 1974. At the time of its completion, the Pong Dam was the tallest of its type in India. The lake created by the dam, Maharana Pratap Sagar, became a renowned bird sanctuary. Background The idea for a dam on the Beas at the Pong site was first proposed in 1926 and subsequent surveys of the Indus River and its tributaries were ordered by the Punjab Government in 1927. Interest in the dam declined after the report deemed the project difficult because of flood waters. In 1955, geological and hydrological studies were carried out on the Pong site and an embankment design was recommended. In 1959, extensive studies were carried out and recomme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheung Yue River
The Sheung Yue River (; Hong Kong Hakka: ''Sung1ng2 Ho2''; also known as the River Beas) is a river in the northern New Territories, Hong Kong. Its sources are near Kai Kung Leng and Ki Lun Shan, where numerous streams flow into the river. It flows through Kwu Tung and Sheung Shui. It joins up with the Shek Sheung River and eventually empties into the Ng Tung River. Beas River Country Club is located near the river. The country club was a venue for the 2008 Olympic Equestrian events. See also *List of rivers and nullahs in Hong Kong The location of Hong Kong, adjacent to the coast, is not close to the system of major rivers in southern China, though the water to the west of Hong Kong is influenced by Pearl River. In 1,103 km2 of land, the territory is largely hilly with over ... References *2007. ''2007 Hong Kong Map''. Easy Finder Ltd. External links Rivers of Hong Kong Rivers of Hong Kong Sheung Shui {{HK-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beas Sarkar
Beas Sankar Sarkar (born 23 December 1979) is a One Day International cricketer who represents India. She represents Bengal Women in India's domestic league. She is a right-hand batsman and bowls right-arm medium fast and has played one ODI ODI may refer to: * Object Design, Incorporated, a defunct database software company * One Day International, cricket match * Open Data Institute, a UK not-for-profit company promoting open data * Open Data-Link Interface, an implementation of th .... References Living people 1979 births India women One Day International cricketers Indian women cricketers Bengal women cricketers East Zone women cricketers Sportswomen from West Bengal {{India-cricket-bio-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
INS Beas
The following ships of the Indian Navy have been named INS ''Beas'': * was a Type 41 launched in 1958, commissioned in 1960 and broken up in 1992 * is a guided-missile frigate A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat. The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ... launched in 2000 {{DEFAULTSORT:Beas Indian Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
