It caused considerable damage and casualties, especially in and around town of Anjar, India.
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The 1956 Anjar earthquake occurred at 15:32 UTC on 21 July, which caused maximum damage in town of Anjar in Kutch, Gujarat, India.
Considerable damage also occurred in Bhachau and Anjar with hundreds of villages flattened in Taluka of Anjar, Bhuj & Bhachau.
He is the Minister of Transport, Legal & Legislative Affairs and Elections in the current Punjab Government.
Alfred William Begbie was a British civil servant in India.
Initially the term was used to apply only to steamship routes (as these were the only practical way of carrying communications between Great Britain and the rest of the Empire), particularly to India via the Suez Canal - a route sometimes referred to as the British Imperial Lifeline.
Amli, India, a town in the Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli
18 countries represented at the ministerial-level: Korea, Australia, Cambodia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Bamra, covering an area of 5149 km², was one of the Princely states of India during the period of the British Raj, and acceded to India on 1 January 1948.
The last governor, Muhammad al-Hasan Mushtaq, signed the document of accession to India August 15, 1947 and continued to rule the state that joined the Union of States of Vindhya Pradesh on April 2 of 1948 and remained as head of the state until December 31, 1949.
The Battle of Kartarpur was a 1635 siege of Kartarpur by the Mughal Empire and was the last major battle of Early Mughal-Sikh Wars.
Bengala is another name for the region of Bengal in modern India and Bangladesh.
3. Some people believe that the caste Bhanot originates from the people who were originally from the village 'Bhanot' in the Mandawar Mandal area in Alwar district in Rajasthan state of India.
Also people from places like Madhubani and Darbhanga talks with too much respect and never uses word Tum(तुम)(you) instead word aap(आप) is used to talk to everyone.
This included Sanger's tour of Scandinavia and the Soviet Union in 1934, How-Martyn's tour of India in 1934, and Sanger and How-Martyn's World Tour for Birth Control in 1935-1936, during which they spoke to numerous groups and organized birth control organizations in India, Burma, Malay, China, the Philippines, Japan, Hawaii, Canada, and the West Coast of the United States.
Brahmi is clearly attested from the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ashoka, who used the script for imperial edicts, but there are some claims of earlier epigraphy found on pottery in South India and Sri Lanka.
This simple plan was adopted by early Buddhists, sometimes adapted with additional cells for monks at the periphery (especially in the early cave temples such as at Ajanta, India).
After finishing college, he worked with humanitarian aid projects in the United Kingdom, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, India and Sweden.
He was born in Cossimbazar in West Bengal, where his father was governor of Fort William (1718 to 1723).
Cherukallayi is a revenue village which forms a part of Mahé municipality of Puducherry, India.
The main altar of the original church was obtained from one of the ancient, ruined churches of Diu.
The Dokham Chushi Gangdruk organization, a charity set up in New York and India with chapters in other countries, now supports survivors of the Chushi Gangdruk resistance currently living in India.
Federation Cup in India, known as the Coca-Cola Cup for the 1995-96 season
English cricket grounds are smaller than the largest in some other countries, especially India and Australia, but the best of them have been modernised to a high standard, and two new international grounds have been built in recent years.
The Dikhit, also known as Kinwar, are a Hindu Rajput clan found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
Diwan Sir Abdul Hamid (also known as Khan Bahadur Abdul Hamid) born in Jalandhar was Chief Minister of Kapurthala Princely State in India under the British Raj.
Apacbiotech PVT LTD is a Indian Cancer Research Center in Gurgaon.
Duvvuri Subbarao Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Andhra Pradesh and present Governor of Reserve Bank of India.
Elections in West Bengal, a state in India are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India.
The Fort St. Anthony of Simbor, Forte de Santo António de Simbor in Portuguese, also referred as Fort of the Sea or Fort of Pani-Kota, is located on a small island in the bay of Simbor, about 25 km east of Diu in India.
Major General Gemunu Kulatunge, RSP, USP, ndc, psc, Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment is a Sri Lankan general, who was the former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army.
"Agreement" is the term that has been coined into "Girmit", referring to the "Agreement" of the British Government with the Indian labourers as to the length of stay in Fiji and when they would be allowed to go back to India.
Gokula and his fellow farmers moved further, attacked and destroyed the Sadabad cantonment.
Kartarpur Sahib, established in 1594 by the fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan Dev ji, near river Beas, Jalandhar District, Punjab (India).
After one year, he was appointed as Chief of General Staff and then as Commandant of the National Defence College.
Hata, India, a town in Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India
HillTop School Dalhousie is a co-educational residential school in Upper Bakrota hills in Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh, India.
This was their most glorious period and their power and fame was even acknowledged by the Mughals, who were their contemporaries in North India.
In 1875, an eighteen-year old Parsi named Behramshah Nowroji Shroff left Surat (Gujarat, India) for Peshawar (now in Pakistan) in search of employment.
The plot is loosely connected to the documental stories published in Jim Corbett's 1944 bestselling book "Man-Eaters of Kumaon".
This competition was being judged by Geeta Kapoor, a Bollywood choreographer, Riteish Deshmukh, a Bollywood actor and Ashley Lobo, also a choreographer who owns the Danceworx Academy (1998) and The Danceworx Repertory Company (2001).
After a series of tasks and evaluations, a press conference will be held where the three finalists will be announced to the media in the presence of representatives of the organisers, facilitators and jury members.
By the 1990s, their imperatives increasingly highlighted a sense of rivalry, especially with China, and globalism, a desire to play a strong role in world affairs.
The protests from people living in the Moreh, Chorokhunou, and Molchan areas forced the Home Ministry to refer the matter to the Manipur government.
It is unique in that participants not only include IEA and OPEC countries, but also key international actors such as Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa.
From 2002 to 2007 he was the Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development Tourism & Fisheries in Punjab Government.
The Indian Central Public Works Department (CPWD) looks after it.
Statue is carved from a single stone fifty-seven feet high in 981 A.D., is located in Karnataka, India
Janardhan Singh Gelhot is an Indian sports administrator.
Major General Jayantha de S. Jayaratne, VSV, ndc, IG, SLA was a Sri Lankan general, who was the former Commander Security Forces Headquarters - Jaffna (SF HQ (J)).
According to the official website of the Jewish Community of Porto, it is ruled by the philosophy of Chabad Lubavitch and among its members one finds Jews from sources as diverse as Egypt, India, Russia, United States, Poland, Spain, Israel, Portugal, Mexico and Venezuela.
Kalakundi, India, a village in Dharwad district in the southwestern state of Karnataka, India
Kamalpur, India, and a nagar panchayat in Dhalai district in the Indian state of Tripura
Satana (comes in Nashik Dist part of old Khandesh province)
After Indian independence in 1947, Kshitish Mohan Lahiri's family migrated to newly formed state of West Bengal in India.
The Lalotra are a Rajput clan found mainly in the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
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The Lalotras were also found in Sialkot District, and these Lalotras immigrated to India at the time of the Partition of India.
There is a city named Lar, India in which most of the people have stated their tribe as Iraqi biradri.
India: The Vidhan Parishad (or Legislative Council) in seven of the twenty-eight Indian states (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh), the Vidhan Parishad serves as the upper house of a bicameral legislature
Between 1965 and 1970 he was the Principal of Dalhousie Tibetan School and between 1971 and 1988 he was the Principal of Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS) at Varanasi (Benares), and from 1988 to 2001 he was the Director.
The Lok Rajputs are Hindu caste found in the state of Rajasthan in India.
Chinnaswamy was the President of Board of Control for Cricket in India from 1977 to 1980 and Secretary from 1960 to 1965.
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Mangalam Chinnaswamy (March 29, 1900 - November 8, 1991) was a prominent Indian cricket administrator.
According to her friend, Pamela Cullen, Seton "had a fascination for India and as a young woman she had been introduced to India’s fight for independence by one of India’s greatest political figures, Krishna Menon, who was then a struggling lawyer in London. She also had family associations with India through her father, who had served as an officer in the Indian Army and been seriously wounded during one of the many uprisings of the period".
Marutha, India, a village in Nilambur taluk of Malappuram district
He has undergone training at College of Military Engineering, India; School of Military Engineering, Malaysia; Defence Services Command and Staff College, India; Engineer School, Fort Leonardwood, USA; College of Combat, India; Royal Military College of Science, UK; Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies, Hawaii, USA; and the National Defence College, India.
Model English High School (M.E.H.S.) is the one of the oldest school in Kalyan city.
MSc ndc psc was the former Chief of Defence Force of the Maldives National Defence Force and most senior military officer in the country at his time.
The Mori clan is one of 36 royal Rajput clans of India and falls in 24 Eka clans which are not divided further.
The Mundaka Upanishad is notable as the source of the phrase Satyameva jayate (3.1.6), the national motto of India, appearing in the national emblem having four lions.
He is also a graduate of the National Defence College, New Delhi.
Abdul Lateef was one of the first Muslims in nineteenth century India to embrace the idea of modernization.
Nazargunj (tr.: a place worth seeing) is an Indian princely state, originating in Purnea, in the state of Bihar.
Paharpur, India, a census town Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar
Panampilly Nagar is a residential zone in the city of Kochi in the state of Kerala, India.
Pariyon Se is one of the lesser known albums of Indian pop singer Sonu Nigam.
The Post Office of India of the British Raj entered into postal conventions with a few native states of India.
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Chamba issued a total of 120 stamps and 86 official stamps from 1885 till 15 April 1948 when it became part of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
Produced by Children's Film Society, India, the film was shot in a village called Honnapura situated near the town of Dharwad in South India.
To commemorate their visit, Jagat Singh renamed Dhameri as Nurpur.
According to a 2008 UNESCO report, the most representative Ramlilas are those of Ayodhya, Ramnagar and Varanasi, Vrindavan, Almora, Satna and Madhubani.
He was born in the Kheda district of Gujarat in India and had worked with Gandhi when he initiated satyagraha in Kaira District, in 1918, to secure suspension of revenue assessment on failure of crops, then went to Rangoon and London.
Sadanand Shetye is an Indian Kabaddi player belonging to the state of Maharashtra.
He was the third ruler of the Gupta Dynasty, who ushered in the Golden Age of India.
State Express Transport Corporation (Tamil Nadu) a state-owned Transport Corporation that runs long distance express services the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
Shahkot, India, a town and Nagar Panchayat of Jalandhar district, Punjab
The competition is open to any student in the between the ages of 8 and 14, who has at least one parent or grandparent who is of South Asian descent, or whose lineage can be traced to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and/or Sri Lanka.
It flows through the villages of Boiragi, Chakma, Yachakrai, Kutna Kami and the town of Borokathal.
It focuses on supplying textiles and accessories, manufactured in China, India and the United Arab Emirates, to markets in Russia.
Artist such as Usher Raymond, Outkast, India.Arie, and Raven-Symoné have started out performing on stage at the festival.
According to the Indian press American ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad accused Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf of knowing which guest houses in Pakistan Osama bin Laden, and other senior members of the Taliban and al Qaeda were being hosted.
Thimmasamudram may refer to any of the following places in Andhra Pradesh, India.
However, in 1961, following growing tensions between China and India, India sealed its northern border with Bhutan, prompting Bhutan to arrange an emergency meeting with the Government of India (GOI) and the CTA to deal with the Tibetans stuck in the country.
He was the only one of the four kuravars to visit the shrine at Tirukokarnam on the western coast of India.
V.N Purushothaman (9 April 1909, in Mahé, Kerala – 29 April 1990, at Pallur, Mahé, Kerala) was an Indian Congress leader.
P. Singaravelu (03-06-1959 to 07-12-2011) was an Indian politician.
The Vantia are a Rajput clan found in the state of Gujarat in India.
Money raised in the 40 Hour Famine in 2002 has helped people in countries such as India, Cambodia and Afghanistan.
He exclaimed: "Truly this is the work of spirits." He said: "I am 150 years old, and I have passed through numerous countries. There is virtually no country I have not visited. But even in India there is nothing comparable to the pure beauty of this monastery. Even the distant Buddha realms lack this." He chanted homage and placed his palms together in salutation for days on end.
The Yugal Bihar Saket Dham Mandir is a 200-year-old temple in Ayodhya Uttar Pradesh, India near the Sarayu River.
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It was relocated from India to Egypt in the middle of August 1939 and trained at Fayed in Ismailia Governorate on the Great Bitter Lake.
India then fell to defending champions Australia in the Challenge Round which was the 1966 Davis Cup finals.
The Pakistan military's information sources, the ISPR's spokesman Major-General Rashid Qureshi, claimed that the Parliament attack was a "drama staged by Indian intelligence agencies to defame the freedom struggle in 'occupied Kashmir'" and further warned that India would pay "heavily if they engage in any misadventure".
Aalim Muhammed Salegh College of Engineering or A.M.S College of Engineering is an engineering college affiliated to Anna University, India located in Muthapudupet, Avadi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Santel lost his World Light Heavyweight Championship to Gobar Goho of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India on 30 August 1921 in San Francisco.
The largest population of Barbodhians outside India is in Bolton, Greater Manchester, where the community settled in the 1950s and 1960s.
The school, managed by the North Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India, was upgraded to a high school by Rev. C. Mueller who came here to assist German missionary Hermann Gundert.
There were some contacts between Gnostics and Indians, e.g. Syrian gnostic theologian Bar Daisan describes in the 3rd century his exchanges with missions of holy men from India (Greek: Σαρμαναίοι, Sramanas), passing through Syria on their way to Elagabalus or another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor.
" She next appeared with Arnold Daly in "How He Lied to Her Husband," and a production of "The Gentleman from India," in Boston. In 1905 at the Hudson Theatre in New York she played Violet Robinson in George Bernard Shaw’s "Man and Superman," with Robert Loraine.
During this period, Duhm says that he found inspiration in the works of Nietzsche, Hegel, van Gogh, Rudolf Steiner, Jesus, Laozi, Prentice Mulford, and Teilhard de Chardin; and he spent time in the Aktionsanalytische Organisation (AAO) with Otto Muehl at the Friedrichshof community in Austria, and with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in India.
Ek Ghar (The House) is a 1991 Indian Hindi psychological drama film directed by Girish Kasaravalli with Deepti Naval, Naseeruddin Shah and Rohini Hattangadi.
This, along with the story of a young disabled man's sexual awakening as family life crumbles around him makes Sixth Happiness an interesting exploration of modern, urban India.
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902), Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India
Government Pharmacy college is a government run Pharmacy college located in Bangalore, India.
Gymnastics came of age in India, when at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Ashish Kumar won the first-ever medal in gymnastics for India, he also won a bronze medal.
The food originated in northern India mainly in Uttar Pradesh and in modern day Pakistani Punjab and Indian Punjab and usually in Uttar Pradesh and Pakistani Punjab it is eaten as a breakfast on weekends in cities like Lahore, Faisalabad and in many other cities.
The Hasdeo Thermal Power Station is a 840 megawatt (MW) coal fired power station at Korba in Chhattisgarh, India.
Mahatma Gandhi visited him in Himaitpur as did other leaders, to seek his views and draw inspiration for creating a new India.
This phenomenon of a large number of twin births is not unique to Igbo-Ora; it has also been observed in the town of Kodinji in India and Cândido Godói in Brasil.
The benefit of the underlying shares (like bonus, dividends etc.) would accrue to the depository receipt holders in India.
Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pontifical University of Philosophy and Religion, Pune, India
The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.
John Stuart Donald, former Chief Commissioner of the North West Frontier Province of British India
The film tells the story of Afanasy Nikitin (Oleg Strizhenov), a 15th-century, Russian trader who travelled to India (1466-1472), and falls in love with an Indian girl Champa (Nargis Dutt).
From February to September 2011, his work was exhibited at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of the group show Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art from India.
Kurli, Maharashtra, a village in Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra state, India
Cartagena Film Festival: Golden India Catalina Award; Best Screenplay for Kamchatka, 2003.
Marcel-Keyes was born in New Jersey and raised in suburban Maryland by Alan Keyes, and wife Jocelyn Marcel-Keyes who is a native of India.
Famous Muslims from Uttar Pradesh include the famous writer and poet Javed Akhtar, actress Shabana Azami, Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Maolana Dr. Kalbe Sadiq Vice President of Muslim Personal Law Board, actor and director Muzaffar Ali, Journalist Saeed Naqvi, Persian Scholar Dr. Naiyer Masud Rizvi, Governor Syed Sibtey Razi, historian Irfan Habib, politician Salman Khursheed and cricketer Mohammad Kaif.
Narangwal is a village in Ludhiana Punjab, India, where most of the Grewal clan live.
As of January 2012, there are about 10,000 Nigerians living and working in India but only 3,500 were registered with the Nigerian High Commission and they live in cities such as New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Jaipur.
Nilwande dam, also called as Upper Pravara dam, in the Indian state of Maharashtra is the second largest dam on the Pravara river.
Noorpur, Uttar Pradesh, a city and a municipal board in Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, India
National Remote Sensing Centre (formerly the National Remote Sensing Agency): A central organization of the government of India responsible for managing data from imaging satellites.
Van Huizen was voted as the world's best Goalkeeper in 1956 and played football for clubs such as the Negri Sembilan Indians Association (NSIA) and Seremban Rangers.
Among the contemporary people who hold the title Qalandar are Shams Ali Qalandar of Punjab, Pakistan, Hazrath MASOOM SHAH BABA in WestBengal state of India Dist Bardhman Memari Sarif Takhtipur Hazrath Syed Shah Mohammed Khalandar Shah peeranvaliallah al Qadri al maroof Javagal Baba at Javagal Shareef(Hasan Dist.) in Karnataka state of India, Shahbaz Qalander, Nathar Vali of Trichy, Baba Fakruddin of Penukonda India.
Sacred Heart Malankara Syrian Catholic Church or referred as S H Church is located in the village of Mylapra, near Pathanamthitta on the road side of the Main Eastern Highway in the Indian state of Kerala.
Football, hockey, volleyball, basketball, cricket, athletics, cross-country running, swimming, gymnastics, canoeing, cycling, horse riding, mountaineering, parasailing, trekking (hiking), obstacles course, rifle shooting, boxing, NCC,karate,music clubs, literary clubs, theater arts, elocution, photography, fine arts, craftwork, philately, aero-modeling, ship-modeling, Marching band, Choir
Prof. Nambisan obtained his Ph.D. in Management from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University and his MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, India.
Shanti Devi (11 December 1926 – 27 December 1987) was born in Delhi, India.
Sher Bahadur Singh is a politician in Uttar Pradesh, India and a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing Ambedkar Nagar district, sometimes written Ambedkarnagar, in Jalalpur.
Elected in 1991, the government of Narasimha Rao introduced economic liberalisation with the support of finance minister Manmohan Singh, the current prime minister of India.
Society for Education Action and Research in Community health (SEARCH), is an non-governmental organization in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, which works in the field of rural health services and research.
Squash Racquets Federation of India, the apex body for the squash racquet sport in India
Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute (SRMC & RI), now named Sri Ramachandra University (SRU), is a deemed university declared under Section 3 of the UGC at 1956, in Porur, Chennai, India.
Located in 9 countries such as India, Singapore, London, Colombo, Dubai etc., Tanla employees more than 300 telecom professionals and is listed in BSE and NSE in India.
The most recent survey was conducted in July 2008 in eight Asian countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines.
At some point during the reign of Pururavas-Aila (the first king mentioned in the line of lunar dynasty of Indian kings) Uttara Kuru and the Kurus of India could have belonged to the same Kuru Empire.
Besides the "Breeze', Volkswagen India, in collaboration with the IPL authorities, annually offers a special IPL edition at a slight premium.
The Chinese surname Zhu 竺, which originally meant "a kind of bamboo" and was later used for "India (abbreviating Tianzhu 天竺)" and "Buddhism", was adopted by many early Buddhist monks, such as the polyglot translator Zhu Fahu 竺法護 or Dharmarakṣa (c. 230-316).