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Bolangir
Balangir also known as Bolangir, is a city and municipality, the headquarters of Balangir district in the state of Odisha, India. Balangir has one of the best cultural heritage in India. It is also known as one of the finest places for tourists in Odisha. Balangir municipality is divided into twenty-one wards. It is spread over an area of . Geography Balangir is located at . It has an average elevation of 383 metres (800 feet) above sea level. People from Balangir *Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo, Former Chief Minister of Odisha * Srinibash Udgata, Eminent Poet awarded Padma Shri by Government of India *Kailash Chandra Meher, Eminent Artist awarded Padma Shri by Government of India *Narasingha Mishra, Eminent Lawyer Twelfth Law Commission of Government Of India *Rasanara Parwin is a cricket player of India women's national cricket team. *Sam Pitroda, telecom engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker. Transport Airport The Jharsuguda Airport at Jharsuguda is the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolangir (Odisha Vidhan Sabha Constituency)
Bolangir is a constituency of the Vidhan Sabha in Odisha, India. This seats falls under Bolangir District of Odisha State in India. Bolangir seat is a unreserved seat of Odisha Legislative Assembly. This constituency includes Balangir block and Deogaon block. Elected Members Sixteen elections were held between 1951 and 2019. Elected members from the Bolangir constituency are: Election Results In 2014 election, Indian National Congress candidate Narasingha Mishra defeated Biju Janata Dal The Biju Janata Dal (; BJD) is a regional political party in the Indian state of Odisha founded and led by Naveen Patnaik, the current Chief Minister of Odisha and the son of former Chief Minister of Odisha Biju Patnaik, after whom the party i ... candidate Ananga Udaya Singh Deo by a margin of 12,254 votes. In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Ananga Udaya Singh Deo defeated Congress candidate Laxman Kumar Meher by a margin of 16,866 votes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balangir (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Balangir Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Odisha state in eastern India. Assembly segments Before delimitation in 2008, the legislative assembly segments, which constituted this parliamentary constituency were: Nawapara, Titilagarh, Kantabanji, Patnagarh, Saintala, Loisinga and Bolangir. Following delimitation, at present this constituency comprises the following legislative assembly segments: Members of Parliament *2019: Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo, Bharatiya Janata Party *2014: Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo, Biju Janata Dal *2009: Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo, Biju Janata Dal *2004: Jyoti Ranjan Kushal Biju Janata Dal *1999: Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo, Bharatiya Janata Party *1998: Sananda Kumar meher, Bharatiya Janata Party *1996: Sarat Pattanayak, Indian National Congress *1991: Sarat Pattanayak, Indian National Congress *1989: Balgopal Mishra, Janata Dal *1984: Nityananda Misra, Indian National Congress *1980: Nityana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo
Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo ( or, ସଙ୍ଗୀତା କୁମାରୀ ସିଂହଦେଓ) (born 3 December 1961) is an Indian politician and the wife of the titular Maharaja of Bolangir, an erstwhile princely state located in Odisha. She is the current Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Bolangir of Odisha and member of the BJP. She is a member of the National executive of the party. Background and family Sangeeta was born into the minor Rajput nobility of Rajasthan. Her natal family held an estate of five villages of which the largest was Kerote (or Kirot). Her father, Amar Singh, was a younger son and therefore he inherited little, but he entered government service, serving as an officer in the elite IPS. He retired as PR in-charge at the AIIMS, New Delhi. Sangeeta grew up in a middle class milieu and graduated from Delhi university with a BA in political science. In October 1985, and in a match arranged by their parents in the usual Indian way, Sangeeta was ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narasingha Mishra
Narasingha Mishra ( Odia: ନରସିଂହ ମିଶ୍ର ; born 23 December 1940) is a politician from Odisha, India. He was the Leader of Opposition in the 15th Odisha Legislative Assembly. He was the Deputy Leader of the Congress Legislature Party from 2004-2009. He was first elected to the assembly in 1990 and served as the Law Minister. He represents Balangir constituency from the Indian National Congress party. He has got 71598 votes while his main opposition candidate Arkesh Narayan Singh Deo from Biju Janata Dal got 66257 number of votes Background Narasingha Mishra (Narsing Mishra/Narasingh Mishra) comes from the small village of Chhatamakhna near Balangir in Odisha. His father, Yudhisthir Mishra, was a lawyer and a member of the Constituent assembly of India. Born into a family where politics was a part and parcel of the daily life, he joined politics at the age of 18 and was enrolled as a member of the Communist Party of India and continued as such until 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balangir District
Balangir District, also called Bolangir District, is a district situated in western Odisha state of India. The district has an area of , and a population of 1,648,997 (2011 census). The town of Balangir is the district headquarters. The composition of the land is predominantly rural. Other important big & small towns in Balangir district are Titlagarh, Patnagarh, Kantabanji, Loisingha, Saintala, Belpada, Tushra, Agalpur, Deogaon, Chudapali, Biripali, Bhalumunda, Bangomunda, Sindhekela, Turekela and Muribahal. History The district of Balangir is named after the headquarters towns of Balangir. This town was also the headquarters of the feudatory state of Patna since the 1880s. The district of Balangir is flanked in the northwest by the Gandhamardhan hills. Many hill streams traverse it. It is the land of Tantrik culture. It is also notable for having experimented in the republican form of Government that was overthrown by Ramai Deo. Etymology Ancient History Historically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo
Maharaja Sir Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo KCIE (31 March 1912 – 23 February 1975) was an Indian politician and the last ruler of the princely state of Patna in Odisha before Indian independence in 1947. He was the President of the Ganatantra Parishad political party from 1950 to 1962 and the President of the Odisha state unit of the Swatantra Party after its merger with the Ganatantra Parishad in 1962. He was the Chief Minister of Orissa from 1967 to 1971. Early life Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo was born to Raja Aditya Pratap Singh, the ruler of the princely state of Seraikela and Rani Padmini Kumari Devi. He was adopted by Maharaja Prithwiraj Singh Deo of Patna state. He studied in the Mayo College in Ajmer and the St. Columbia's College in Hazaribagh. He became the Maharaja of Patna state in 1924 and assumed full powers in 1933. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) in the 1946 New Year Honours list. In 1948, the princely state of Patna w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India Women's National Cricket Team
The India women's national cricket team, also known as Team India or Women in Blue, represents India in women's international cricket. It is governed by Board of Control for Cricket in India India made its Test debut in 1976, against the West Indies, and its One Day International (ODI) debut at the 1978 World Cup, which it hosted. India made its T20I debut in 2006, against England. The team has made the ODI World Cup final on two occasions, losing to Australia by 98 runs in 2005 and losing to England by 9 runs in 2017. India has made the semi-finals on three other occasions, in 1997, 2000, and 2009. India has also made the finals of the T20I World Cup on one occasion (2020) and the semi-finals on three occasions ( 2009, 2010, and 2018). India won a Silver medal in 2022 Commonwealth Games. India has won all the editions of Women's Asia Cup, except the 2018 edition. History The British brought cricket to India in the early 1700s, with the first documented instanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of India
The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, consisting of 28 union states and eight union territories. Under the Constitution, there are three primary branches of government: the legislative, the executive and the judiciary, whose powers are vested in a bicameral Parliament, President, aided by the Council of Ministers, and the Supreme Court respectively. Through judicial evolution, the Parliament has lost its sovereignty as its amendments to the Constitution are subject to judicial intervention. Judicial appointments in India are unique in that the executive or legislature have negligible say. Etymology and history The Government of India Act 1833, passed by the British parliament, is the first such act of law with the epithet "Government of India". Basic structure The gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kailash Chandra Meher
Kailash Chandra Meher (born 22 January 1954) is an Indian artist, inventor, and social activist. He is a painter of contemporary modern art paintings and traditional Tussar Pattachitra paintings of Odisha. He was a recipient of the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2013. Personal life and education Meher was born in an artist family in Sonepur town of Odisha state. He studied at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan and received a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan in West Bengal. He was trained in the art of Pattachitra painting initially by his father and subsequently under guidance of Bhagwat Maharana. His wife Smt. Laxmi Meher and daughter Manisha jointly received National award in 2005. Smt Meher had also received state award in 1990 while daughter Manisha got two state awards in 2001–2002. Both his sons Prakash and Jayanta got National Award in 2001. Career Meher worked as an art designer in the Weavers Service Centre in Bhu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of India
The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, consisting of 28 union states and eight union territories. Under the Constitution, there are three primary branches of government: the legislative, the executive and the judiciary, whose powers are vested in a bicameral Parliament, President, aided by the Council of Ministers, and the Supreme Court respectively. Through judicial evolution, the Parliament has lost its sovereignty as its amendments to the Constitution are subject to judicial intervention. Judicial appointments in India are unique in that the executive or legislature have negligible say. Etymology and history The Government of India Act 1833, passed by the British parliament, is the first such act of law with the epithet "Government of India". Basic structure The gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasanara Parwin
Rasanara Kephatulla Parwin (born 4 May 1992) is an Indian cricketer who plays as a right-arm off break bowler for the India national women's cricket team The India women's national cricket team, also known as Team India or Women in Blue, represents India in women's international cricket. It is governed by Board of Control for Cricket in India India made its Test debut in 1976, against the West ..., making her debut in the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup against the West Indies. References External links * 1992 births Living people People from Balangir Cricketers from Odisha Sportswomen from Odisha Odisha women cricketers Indian women cricketers India women One Day International cricketers India women Twenty20 International cricketers {{India-cricket-bio-1992-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odisha
Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of Scheduled Tribes in India. It neighbours the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal to the north, Chhattisgarh to the west, and Andhra Pradesh to the south. Odisha has a coastline of along the Bay of Bengal in Indian Ocean. The region is also known as Utkala and is also mentioned in India's national anthem, " Jana Gana Mana". The language of Odisha is Odia, which is one of the Classical Languages of India. The ancient kingdom of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka (which was again won back from them by King Kharavela) in 261 BCE resulting in the Kalinga War, coincides with the borders of modern-day Odisha. The modern boundaries of Odisha were demarcated by the British Indian government when Orissa Province wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
