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Thana, Maharashtra
Thane (; also known as Thana, the official name until 1996) is a metropolitan city in Maharashtra, India. It is situated in the north-eastern portion of the Salsette Island. Thane city is entirely within Thane taluka, one of the seven talukas of Thane district; also, it is the headquarters of the namesake district. With a population of 1,841,488 distributed over a land area of about , Thane city is the 15th most populated city in India with a population of 1,890,000 according to the 2011 census. Located on the northwestern side of the state of Maharashtra, the city is an immediate neighbour of Mumbai city and a part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Etymology and other names The ancient name of Thana was . It appears as in early medieval Arab sources. The name Thane has been variously Romanised as Tana, Thana, Thâṇâ, and Thame. Ibn Battuta and Abulfeda knew it as KukinTana; Duarte Barbosa as TanaMayambu. Before 1996, the city was called 'Thana', the British spelling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Indian Cities
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Thane (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Thane Lok Sabha constituency (formerly, Thana Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. Assembly segments At present, after the implementation of the President of India, Presidential notification on delimitation on 19 February 2008, Thane Lok Sabha constituency comprises six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These segments are: Members of Parliament In 1952 and 1957, this Thane area contributed two members to Lok Sabha. *1952: Govind Dharmaji Vartak, Indian National Congress *1952: Anant Savalaram Nandkar, Indian National Congress (ST) *1952:Choithram Gidwani, Choithram Partabrai Gidwani, PSP *1952 (by-poll): Yashwantrao Martandrao Mukne, Indian National Congress (ST) *1957: Shamrao Vishnu Parulekar, Communist Party of India *1957: Laxman Mahadu Matera, Communist Party of India (ST) In 2008, the Delimitation Commission of India split the seat into Thane and Kalyan Lok Sabha constituen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thane Taluka
Thane taluka is a taluka in Thane district of Maharashtra state in Konkan division. Thane taluka consists of three municipal corporations—Mira-Bhayandar, Thane and Navi Mumbai—and also few small villages. These three cities lies respectively on northern, north-eastern and eastern boundaries of Mumbai. Thane district Until 31 July 2014, Thane was the country's most populous district with a population of over 12 million. On 1 August 2014, the talukas of Mokhada taluka, Mokhada, Jawahar taluka, Jawahar, Talasari taluka, Talasari, Vikramgadh taluka, Vikramgadh, Wada taluka, Wada, Dahanu taluka, Dahanu, Palghar taluka, Palghar and Vasai taluka, Vasai were separated from the erstwhile Thane district to form a new district Palghar district, Palghar. The talukas Thane, Bhiwandi taluka, Bhiwandi, Kalyan taluka, Kalyan, Ulhasnagar taluka, Ulhasnagar, Ambernath taluka, Ambernath, Murbad taluka, Murbad and Shahapur taluka, Shahapur were retained in Thane district. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salsette Island
Salsette Island is an island in Konkan division of the state of Maharashtra on India's west coast. Administratively known as Greater Mumbai, the city district of Mumbai, Mumbai Suburban District, Mira Bhayander and a portion of Thane lie within it, making it very populous and one of the most densely populated islands in the world. It has a population of more 20 million inhabitants living on an area of about . Location Salsette is bounded on the north by Vasai Creek, on the northeast by the Ulhas River, on the east by Thane Creek and Mumbai Harbour, and on the south and west by the Arabian Sea. The original seven islands of Mumbai, which were merged by land reclamation during the 19th and early 20th centuries to form the city of Mumbai, are now practically a southward protruding peninsula of the much larger Salsette Island. The island of Trombay that was to the southeast of Salsette is today part of Salsette as much of the intervening swamps have been reclaimed. It contains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
List Of Renamed Indian Cities And States
Since India gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, names of many cities, streets, places, and buildings throughout the republic of India have been systematically changed, often to better approximate their native endonymic pronunciation. Certain traditional names that have not been changed, however, continue to be popular. States or provinces * East Punjab to Punjab (change effective from 26 January 1950; state later trifurcated into modern-day Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966; Chandigarh became a Union territory and the shared capital city of Punjab and Haryana) * United Provinces to Uttar Pradesh (change effective from 24 January 1950) * Andhra State, the Telugu-speaking part of Madras Presidency, attained statehood on 1 October 1953. Three years later, Hyderabad State was invaded and combined with Andhra State and it was renamed Andhra Pradesh on 1 November 1956. * Travancore–Cochin to Kerala (change effective f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumbra-Kalwa (Vidhan Sabha Constituency)
Mumbra-Kalwa Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (Assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in Western India Western India is a loosely defined region of India consisting of its western part. The Ministry of Home Affairs in its Western Zonal Council Administrative division includes the states of Goa, Gujarat, and Maharashtra along with the Union te .... Members of Assembly Election results 2009 2014 2019 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mumbra-Kalwa (Vidhan Sabha Constituency) Assembly constituencies of Thane district Assembly constituencies of Maharashtra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovala-Majiwada Assembly Constituency
Ovala-Majiwada Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. Overview Ovala-Majiwada constituency is one of the 18 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Thane district. Ovala-Majiwada is part of the Thane Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Mira Bhayandar, Kopri-Pachpakhadi, Thane, Airoli and Belapur in Thane district. Members of Legislative Assembly Election results 2009 2014 2019 See also * Majiwada * List of constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ovala-Majiwada (Vidhan Sabha Constituency) Assembly constituencies of Thane district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kopri-Pachpakhadi (Vidhan Sabha Constituency)
Kopri-Pachpakhadi Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha, Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. Overview Kopri-Pachpakhadi constituency is one of the 18 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in the Thane district, Thane City. It comprises part of the Thane Municipal Corporation and part of Thane tehsil of the district. Kopri-Pachpakhadi is part of the Thane (Lok Sabha constituency), Thane Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Mira Bhayandar Assembly constituency, Mira Bhayandar, Ovala-Majiwada Assembly constituency, Ovala-Majiwada, Thane Assembly constituency, Thane, Airoli Assembly constituency, Airoli and Belapur Assembly constituency, Belapur in Thane district. Members of Legislative Assembly Election results 2009 2014 See also * Kopri * Pachpakhadi * List of constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha References {{DEFAULTSORT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thane (Vidhan Sabha Constituency)
Thane Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (Assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra, India. It is one of the six assembly seats which make up Thane (Lok Sabha constituency). Thane is near Mumbai. Members of Legislative Assembly Election results 2019 2014 See also * Thane Thane (; also known as Thana, the official name until 1996) is a metropolitan city in Maharashtra, India. It is situated in the north-eastern portion of the Salsette Island. Thane city is entirely within Thane taluka, one of the seven taluk ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Thane (Vidhan Sabha Constituency) Assembly constituencies of Thane district Thane Assembly constituencies of Maharashtra Year of establishment missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidhan Sabha
The State Legislative Assembly, or Vidhan Sabha, or also Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in the states and union territories of India. In the 28 states and 3 union territories with a unicameral state legislature, it is the sole legislative body and in 6 states it is the lower house of their bicameral state legislatures with the upper house being State Legislative Council. 5 union territories are governed directly by the Union Government of India and have no legislative body. Each Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is directly elected to serve 5-year terms by single-member constituencies. The Constitution of India states that a State Legislative Assembly must have no less than 60 and no more than 500 members however an exception may be granted via an Act of Parliament as is the case in the states of Goa, Sikkim, Mizoram and the union territory of Puducherry which have fewer than 60 members. A State Legislative Assembly may be dissolved in a state of emergency, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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