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Naktala
Naktala is a neighbourhood in South Kolkata in West Bengal, India. It is bounded by Ganguly Bagan to the north, Bansdroni to the west, Garia Crossing to the south and Baishnabghata Patuli to the east. History Previously forest, swampland and a peaceful rural area, dotted with ponds and the occasional dak bungalow (the erstwhile Dalgis bungalow) in between, Naktala is located by the Tolly's Nullah (Adi Ganga canal) connecting Kolkata to the Vidhyadhari River to the east. It has evolved with time from a sleepy to a bustling neighbourhood, burgeoned and prospered with the arrival of people from all over, mainly East Bengal after independence. The name is supposed to have originated from Nagtala (Nag meaning Snake, a place of snakes) according to one source and from Nak meaning Swarga (Heaven). Presently Naktala is an upmarket suburban area of Kolkata in the southern part of the city, in the vicinity of Tollygunge and Garia. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road connecting these two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naktala High School
Naktala High School is a school located at Naktala, Kolkata, India. The all boys school is affiliated with the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education for Madhyamik Pariksha (10th Board exams), and to the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education for Higher Secondary Examination (12th Board exams). The school was established in 1951. See also * Education in India *List of schools in India *Education in West Bengal Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty ... References External links * Boys' schools in India Educational institutions established in 1951 1951 establishments in West Bengal {{WestBengal-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road is an important road in South Kolkata that runs in a north-west to south-east direction. It connects the localities of Tollygunge in the north-west and Rajpur Sonarpur in the south through Garia. The road is narrow, but given its significance it carries a considerable amount of traffic throughout the day. Localities Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road (or N.S.C. Bose Road) starts from the Tollygunge Tram Depot crossing and passes through the localities of Ashoknagar, Ranikuthi, Netaji Nagar, Bansdroni and Naktala and touches Raja SC Mullick Road at Garia and from there passes through Rajpur Sonarpur touching the localities of Garia, Narendrapur, Harinavi up to the southern fringes of South Kolkata. It runs nearly parallel to the Tolly's Nullah all along from Bansdroni. Most of the localities along this road were former refugee colonies, for the huge number of people who had to migrate from erstwhile East Bengal (now Bangladesh) after the parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garia
Garia (Bengali:গড়িয়া) is a neighborhood in southern Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Jadavpur in the north, Bansdroni/Tollygunge in the north-west, Santoshpur/ Mukundapur in the north-east and Narendrapur/Rajpur Sonarpur in the south. It is on the banks of Adi Ganga. The southern part of the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass runs through the heart of the neighborhood. The area contains a prominent traffic junction from which a variety of public transport is available, making it a prime travel connection spot in South Kolkata. Etymology Garia may have received its name from ''kandelia candel'', a native mangrove tree species, which was called ''Guriya'' (Bengali: গুড়িয়া) in the Sundarbani dialect of Bengali. It is said that in ancient times the Sundarbans forest covered the area of present-day Garia and extended north all the way to Sealdah and that locals subsequently gave this area the name of Garia. Howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gitanjali Metro Station
Gitanjali is a station of the Kolkata Metro located in Naktala. It is named after the famous 'Gitanjali' or Song Offerings, a collection of 103 English poems, largely translations, of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. History Construction The station Structure Gitanjali elevated metro station is situated on the Kolkata Metro Line 1 of Kolkata Metro. Station layout Connections Bus Bus route number 80A, 228, SD5, S112 (Mini), S113 (Mini), AC6, S6A, S7 etc. serve the station. See also *Kolkata *List of Kolkata Metro stations *Transport in Kolkata *Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation *Kolkata Suburban Railway *Kolkata Monorail *Trams in Kolkata *Garia *E.M. Bypass *List of rapid transit systems *List of metro systems This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide. In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways, U-Bahn or undergrounds. , 205 cities in 61 countries have a metro system. The London ... Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bansdroni
Bansdroni is a locality of South Kolkata in West Bengal, India. The area is under Kolkata Municipal Corporation & it comes under Kolkata Police jurisdiction. History Bansdroni is a place of Art & culture. The place used to be a port during the 17th century when the Adi Ganga was the main flow of the Ganges into the sea Bay of Bengal. It was the gateway to a vast hinterland in South 24 Parganas. Bansdroni takes its name from 'Bangsho Dron' meaning a bamboo forest. Geography Police district Bansdroni police station is in the South Suburban division of Kolkata Police. It is located at Rainagar Health Centre, Madhyapara, Bansdroni, Kolkata-700070. Patuli Women police station has jurisdiction over all police districts under the jurisdiction of South Suburban Division i.e. Netaji Nagar, Jadavpur, Kasba, Regent Park, Bansdroni, Garfa and Patuli. Jadavpur, Thakurpukur, Behala, Purba Jadavpur, Tiljala, Regent Park, Metiabruz, Nadial and Kasba police stations were transferred from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdur Razzak (actor)
Abdur Razzak (23 January 1942 – 21 August 2017) (known as Razzak) was a Bangladeshi actor and film director. He was dubbed Nayak Raj Razzak (King of Heroes), a term introduced by Ahmed Zaman Chowdhury, editor of the magazine ''Chitrali''. Razzak won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actor five times for his roles in the films '' Ki Je Kori'' (1976), ''Ashikkhito'' (1978), ''Boro Bhalo Lok Chhilo'' (1982), ''Chandranath'' (1984) and ''Jogajog'' (1988). He was awarded the Independence Day Award in 2015 by the Government of Bangladesh. He acted in more than 300 Bengali and Urdu films and also directed 16 films. He is considered one of the greatest actors in Bangladeshi film industry. Early life Razzak was born in Naktala, South Kolkata. His parents Akbar Hossain and Nisarunnesa died at early ages. He joined the troupe ''Rongo Shobha Natya Dal'' led by Chhabi Biswas. In 1961, he went to Mumbai to get a diploma at the Filmalaya Film Institute. Communal violence in Calcu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tollygunge
Tollygunge (Bengali: টালিগঞ্জ; nicknamed 'Mini Mumbai' or 'Mini Bombay') is a locality of South Kolkata, in West Bengal, India. It is famed as the centre of the Indian film industry, known as Tollywood, Marathi Cinema, South Indian Cinema and Bollywood. History In the 18th century, Tollygunge, then called Rasa Pagla, was a jungle with garden houses of the Europeans located here and there. The Europeans, living in the central areas of old Calcutta, had a craze for villas far out in the sleepy villages, coming up as suburbs. It was renamed after Colonel William Tolly who made the dead Adi Ganga channel navigable in 1774. Tipu Sultan's sons settled down in the area after the Vellore Mutiny in 1806. The British extended their patronage to Tollygunge Club and Tollygunge Golf Club in the 19th century. In 1888, Ballygunge and Tollygunge formed a common ''thana'' when 25 new Police Section Houses were set up. In 1889, the suburbs of Calcutta were divided among 4 munici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasba, Kolkata
Kasba is a upscale and standard locality of South Kolkata, in Kolkata District, West Bengal, India. It is situated in the southern part of the city encircled by the Sealdah South section of the Eastern Railways to the west, Dhakuria and Haltu to the south, the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass to the east and the locality of Tiljala to the north. History 'Kasba' means hamlet in Bengali and that was what it was - a hamlet for the people working in the nearby leather and allied factories of Tiljala and Tangra and also for the people working in various capacities for the residents of their highly prosperous neighbouring locality of Ballygunge just across the railway track to the west. (Incidentally, the word 'kasba', which means the same in Hindi and Bengali, also means the same as the Arabic 'casbah'.) The locality is served by the Ballygunge Junction railway station on Sealdah South lines, giving a boost to its accessibility. The first breakthrough for the locality came with the const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panchasayar
Panchasayar is a neighbourhood of East Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Police district Panchasayar police station is part of the East division of Kolkata Police The Kolkata Police Force (KPF) is one of the two presidency police forces of the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata Police has the task of policing the metropolitan area (apart from Bidhannagar and New Town, which are served by the Bidhannaga .... It is located at Srinagar Main Road, New Garia Supermarket, Kolkata-700 094. Education Panchasayar Shiksha Niketan, a Bengali-medium co-educational institution, was established in 1988. Swagatam Halder, of Panchasayar Shiksha Niketan, topped the merit list of the higher secondary examination of the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Examination in 2016. Healthcare Peerless Hospital and B.K.Roy Research Centre, belonging to the Peerless Group, is a 400-bed multi-speciality hospital. References External links – it includes list of guest h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadavpur
Jadavpur is a southern neighbourhood of Kolkata in the district of Kolkata of West Bengal, India. Jadavpur is one of the important junctions in South Kolkata. Jadavpur University and a number of research institutes of national and international repute are located in Jadavpur. Etymology Jadavpur was named after Late Jadav Narayan Sarkar, zamindar of Sonarpur. History In 1862, "the Calcutta and South-Eastern Railway opened a line south-ward from what was then called Beliaghata Station to Port Canning." The line (now part of Sealdah South lines) passes through Jadavpur. In 1876, Dr. Mahendra Lal Sarkar, established the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, an institution for fundamental research in basic sciences, at Jadavpur, as an entirely private effort. Sir C. V. Raman carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering in this institute and it was first published by the institute in the Indian Journal of Physics. It earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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