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Podrah
Podrah or Padmarajpur* (*as known in ancient times) is a neighbourhood of Howrah, South Howrah in Howrah district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. This area falls under the jurisdiction of Sankrail PS of Howrah City Police. It consists of many small localities like Shibtala, Barowaritala, Vivekananda Nagar, Natun Pally, Chunavati, Balaji Nagar, Halderpara, and Vidyasagar Pally. Podrah is a part of the Howrah Dakshin (Constituency No: 173) Vidhan Sabha Constituency. Podrah also a census town under Sankrail (community development block), Sankrail CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision. It houses one of the largest multispeciality hospitals in the district of Howrah, Westbank hospital, NH Multispeciality Hospital. HISTORICAL PLACES Podrah Mahakali Mandir, located at Podrah Barowaritala. It is been maintained by Podrah Barowari Samity (Estd. 1893). The organization maintains the 132 years old Maha Kali Mandir. It was the year 1893. Human history w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mourigram
Mourigram (also known as Maurigram) is a village in Sankrail (community development block), Sankrail CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. Location Mourigram is located between Podrah and Andul. Dhuilya is also adjacent to Mourigram. Culture and Education Mourigram is well-known to all for Indian Oil Corporation Limited. Beside this, also there are very few industry (economics), industries at Mourigram. The locality is somewhat economically stable but is deprived of its primary needs for development. Most people are educated and gentle. Most of them are businessman or Government Employees. There are few schools: Nimtala high school, Maria's day school, Oxford high school, St. Thomas school and a Law college. The nearest college is Prabhu Jagatbandhu College, which is affiliated to University of Calcutta. Mourigram is near to Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), with a ferry service co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Highway 6 (West Bengal)
State Highway 6 (West Bengal) is a State highways in India, state highway in West Bengal, India. Route SH 6 originates from Rajnagar, Birbhum, Rajnagar and passes through Chandrapur, Birbhum, Chandrapur, Suri, Birbhum, Suri, Purandarpur, Ahmadpur, Birbhum, Ahmadpur, Labhpur, Kirnahar, Kandra, Bardhaman, Kandra, Guptipara, Behula railway station, Behula Ketugram, Katwa, Nabadwip, Kalna, India, Kalna, Jirat, Saptagram (from here it is the old Grand Trunk Road), Chinsurah, Chandannagar, Bhadreswar, Hooghly, Bhadreswar, Baidyabati, Serampore, Rishra, Konnagar, Uttarpara, Bally, Howrah, Bally, Belur, West Bengal, Belur, Salkia, Shibpur, Podrah, Andul and terminates at its junction with National Highway 16 (India), NH 16 at Alampur. The total length of SH 6 is 266 km. Districts traversed by SH 6 are:Birbhum district (0 – 76 km)Purba Bardhaman district (76 – 169 km)Hooghly district (169 – 242 km)Howrah district (242 – 266 km) Road sections It is divide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westbank Hospital
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital (formerly known as Westbank Hospital), sister hospital of Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Howrah, is a multi-speciality hospital of Narayana Health on Andul road, Howrah, West Bengal. Its proximity to Kolkata makes it accessible to patients from the metropolis. The hospital has 150 beds in unit 1 and 250 beds in unit 2. The hospital was a subsidiary of Meridian Medical Research & Hospital Limited (MMRHL), a public limited company, which was acquired by the Narayana Health Narayana Health (formerly known as Narayana Hrudyalaya) is an Indian for-profit private hospital network headquartered in Bangalore. It was founded by Dr. Devi Shetty in the year 2000. It operates several hospitals and heart centres across m ... group, headed by renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty in 2014. The hospital was initially operated by MMRHL for 15 years. External linksOfficial Website References Hospitals in Kolkata Hospitals in West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sankrail (community Development Block)
Sankrail is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Howrah Sadar subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Andul Mouri (post office) is located at Sankrail CD Block is bounded by Domjur and Bally Jagachha CD Blocks in the north, Kolkata, across the Hooghly River, and Budge Budge I and Budge Budge II CD Blocks, in South 24 Parganas district, also across the Hooghly River, in the east and south and Uluberia I and Panchla CD Blocks in the west. It is located 10 km from Howrah, the district headquarters. Area and administration Sankrail CD Block has an area of 36.64 km2. Sankrail Police Station of Howrah City Police serves this CD Block. Sankrail panchayat samity has 16 gram panchayats. The block has 23 inhabited villages. Headquarters of this block is at Andul Mouri. Topography Howrah district is located on the west bank of the Hooghly. The Rupnarayan flows on the west and south of the di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bidhannagar Road
Bidhannagar Road is a Kolkata Suburban Railway junction station on the Sealdah–Ranaghat line. Its code is BNXR. It is linked to the Sealdah South lines via Sir Gurudas Banerjee Halt railway station. It is located in Ultadanga, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It serves Ultadanga, Kankurgachi, Salt Lake and other surrounding areas in Kolkata. Naming Under the initiative of former West Bengal Chief Minister Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the town was built by pumping the alluvium containing the Ganges' saline water to fill the low-lying areas, hence the name was made 'Saline Lake' or 'Salt Lake'. In 1972, under the leadership of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress was to be held in this 'Salt Lake'. Congress delegates from all over India kept coming through Ultadanga station of Indian Railways. Incidentally, at that time, i.e. in 1972 AD, the name of 'Salt Lake' town was changed to 'Bidhanagar' and 'Ultadanga railway station' wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajabazar, Kolkata
Rajabazar is a locality situated in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Geographically, it lies between CIT Road and APC Road, with the neighborhood developing around Narkeldanga Main Road, now renamed Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Sarani, which connects CIT Road and APC Road. Consequently, Rajabazar is positioned between Maniktala, Narkeldanga, and Sealdah. The locality boasts a prime location, with Sealdah Railway Station situated just a short distance from the Rajabazar crossing. Rajabazar is well-equipped with various civic amenities, including hospitals, colleges, schools, sanitation services, malls, gyms, shopping complexes, cinema halls, mosques, and temples. Notably, Dr. B.C. Roy Children's Hospital is located approximately 2–3 kilometers from Rajabazar. History Raja Ramlochun Ray Kolkata The bazaar was established in about 1842 AD on the land owned by Raja Ramlochun Ray, a small land owner, by Muslim merchants, businessmen, butchers and cattle traders from Bihar an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howrah Station
Howrah railway station (also known as Howrah Junction) is a railway station located in the city of Howrah, of Kolkata Metropolitan Area, West Bengal, India. It is the largest and busiest railway complex in India, as well as one of the busiest and largest train stations in the world. It is also the oldest surviving railway complex in India. Howrah is one of the five large intercity railway stations serving the Kolkata metropolitan area, the others being , , and Kolkata railway station. The first public train from the station was on 15 August 1854, on what is now the Howrah – Hooghly Main Line. At present, about 600 passenger trains pass through the station, serving more than 1 million passengers a day. Utilising its 22 operational platforms, the station handles a total of 252 Mail/Express trains and 500 suburban EMU trains daily; ten of the platforms are long enough to cater to trains with more than 24 coaches. Goods and parcel trains also originate and terminate here. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Trunk Road
Grand Trunk Road (formerly known as Uttarapath, Sadak-e-Azam, Shah Rah-e-Azam, Badshahi Sadak, and Long Walk) is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For at least 2,500 years it has linked Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent. It runs roughly from Teknaf, Bangladesh on the border with Myanmar west to Kabul, Afghanistan, passing through Chittagong and Dhaka in Bangladesh, Kolkata, Kanpur, Agra, Aligarh, Delhi, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Prayagraj in India, and Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Peshawar in Pakistan. The highway was built along an ancient route called Uttarapatha in the 3rd century BCE, extending it from the mouth of the Ganges to the north-western frontier of India. Further improvements to this road were made under Ashoka. The old route was re-aligned by Sher Shah Suri to Sonargaon and Rohtas.Vadime Elisseeff, p. 159-162The Silk Roads: Highways of Culture and Commerce/ref> The Afghan end of the road was rebuilt under Mahmud Shah Durrani. The road was considerabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ganges
The Ganges ( ; in India: Ganga, ; in Bangladesh: Padma, ). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The river rises in the western Himalayas in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Uttarakhand. It flows south and east through the Gangetic Plain, Gangetic plain of North India, receiving the right-bank tributary, the Yamuna, which also rises in the western Indian Himalayas, and several left-bank tributaries from Nepal that account for the bulk of its flow. In West Bengal state, India, a feeder canal taking off from its right bank diverts 50% of its flow southwards, artificially connecting it to the Hooghly River. The Ganges continues into Bangladesh, its name changing to the Padma River, Padma. It is then joined by the Jamuna River (Bangladesh), Jamuna, the lower str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garden Reach
Garden Reach is a neighbourhood of Kolkata in West Bengal, India. It is situated in the south-western part of Kolkata on the eastern banks of the Hooghly River. Localities within Garden Reach include Metiabruz, South Eastern Railway Colony, BNR Colony, Bandhabartala, Bartala, Badartala, Rajabagan and Santoshpur, Garden Reach, Santoshpur. History Nawab Wajid Ali Shah in Exile This area is connected to the history of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, eleventh and last King of Oudh, who after being ousted by the East India Company, made Garden Reach his refuge. Accompanied by his close relatives, musicians, cooks and animals from his menagerie, he came ashore at Bichali Ghat near Metiabruz on 13 May 1856. A year later when the Indian Rebellion of 1857 spread to Lucknow and the rebelling ''sepoys'' installed one of his sons to the throne of Oudh, Awadh, Wajid Ali Shah was imprisoned in Fort William, India, Fort William by the East India Company along with his Prime Minister, due to the fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
