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100 unusual facts about India


Ahmed Shiyam

He is a graduate of the prestigious National Defence College of India, and completed his Infantry Officer Advance Course at Fort Benning, USA and is the first Maldivian graduate from the Command and Staff College in Quetta, Pakistan.

Aimol people

Aimol are a people in India, settled in different regions in different districts of Manipur and some in Assam and Nagaland.

Alfred Hallett

He became the manager of sales and design after the war for the New Egerton Woollen Mills (established in 1880) in Dhariwal, Punjab, which produced woollen worsted and hosiery of all kinds.

Alfred William Begbie

Alfred William Begbie was a British civil servant in India.

All-Red Route

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

Amli, India, a town in the Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli

AMPL-class interceptor boat

The vessels have been based at various Indian coast guard station such as Mandapam, Mangalore, Visakhapatnam, Okha, Chennai, Kochi and Goa, and one boat was leased to Mauritius in 2001.

Annamacharya

Annamacharya was born on Vaishakha Shuddha Pournami in the year Sarwadhari (May 9, 1408) in Tallapaka, a village in current day Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Antu

Antu, India, a town in Pratapgarh District, Uttar Pradesh, India

Arjun Ray

He holds a master's degree in Defence Studies from the University of Madras, and he has attended the Higher Command Course and the National Defence Course at the National Defence College, New Delhi.

Ashish Kumar Dubey

Martyr Major Ashish Kumar Dubey was born on 8 July 1973 in the Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Aurangabad district, Bihar

Blocks: Madanpur, Kutumbba, Daudnagar, Aurangabad, Barun, Obra, Deo, Nabinagar, Haspura, Goh and Rafiganj

Baker Nagar Sundrasi

Baker Nagar Sundrasi or simply Sundrasi is a village near cb ganj in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Bamra

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.

Baoni State

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.

Bengala

Bengala is another name for the region of Bengal in modern India and Bangladesh.

Bhanot Rajputs

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.

Bihari hindi

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.

Brahmic scripts

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.

Buddhist architecture

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).

Callian

Callian referred during British time, is present day Kalyan.

Care Highway

After finishing college, he worked with humanitarian aid projects in the United Kingdom, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, India and Sweden.

Chryshantha De Silva

General De Silva is a graduate of the Staff College, Camberley and the National Defence University of Indonesia.

Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) is an Indian association that promotes business enterprises for Dalits.

David Barbour

Sir David Miller Barbour (1841–1928) was a senior administrator in India, Finance Member of the Indian Viceroy's Council under Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, writer on monetary issues, and Irish loyalist.

Denis Perera

General Deshamanya Joseph Everard Denis Perera, VSV, FCMI, ndc, psc, SLE (10 October 1930 - 11 August 2013) was a Sri Lankan general, military engineer and a diplomat who served as Commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 1977 to 1981.

Dependency theory

The improvement of India's economy after it moved from state-controlled business to open trade is one of the most often cited (see also economy of India, Commanding Heights).

Dikhit

The Dikhit, also known as Kinwar, are a Hindu Rajput clan found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

Diwan Bhai Abdul Hamid

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.

Dor Rajputs

Dor Rajput (also known as Doda) are a Hindu Rajput clan of India.

Duvvuri

Duvvuri Subbarao Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Andhra Pradesh and present Governor of Reserve Bank of India.

Edmund Drummond

Edmund Drummond (17 January 1814 – 10 January 1895) was a British civil servant in India.

Epaisa

Started in India, the mobile application works as a point-of-sale system and terminal used by independent businesses including restaurants, salons, boutiques, grocers and other retailers.

Far East

The term was popularized during the period of the British Empire as a blanket term for lands to the east of British India.

Fort St. Anthony of Simbor

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.

Francisco de Melo da Gama de Araújo e Azevedo

The Field Marshal Francisco de Melo da Gama de Araújo e Azevedo (May 16, 1773 - January 17, 1859 in Quinta da Garrida, Parish of St. João da Ribeira Ponte de Lima, Portugal) was a field marshall of the Portuguese Army and Governor of Diu in Portuguese India between March 21, 1821 and January 1840

Gokula

Gokula and his fellow farmers moved further, attacked and destroyed the Sadabad cantonment.

Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury

After one year, he was appointed as Chief of General Staff and then as Commandant of the National Defence College.

Hata

Hata, India, a town in Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India

History of Tripura

This was their most glorious period and their power and fame was even acknowledged by the Mughals, who were their contemporaries in North India.

India: Kingdom of the Tiger

The plot is loosely connected to the documental stories published in Jim Corbett's 1944 bestselling book "Man-Eaters of Kumaon".

India's Dancing Superstar

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).

India's Great Driving Challenge

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.

India's Open-Economy Policy

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.

International Energy Forum

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.

Jafarabad State

Jafarabad was a tributary princely state in India, in the Kathiawar Agency under the suzerainty of the Bombay Presidency.

Jagmohan Singh Kang

From 2002 to 2007 he was the Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development Tourism & Fisheries in Punjab Government.

Jai Prakash Narayan National Park

The Indian Central Public Works Department (CPWD) looks after it.

Jayantha de S. Jayaratne

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)).

Jewish communities of Portugal

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.

Joaquim Goes

Goés, from the region of Goa along the Indian west coast, was earlier part of the National Institute of Oceanography at Dona Paula.

Kafila

Kafila.org is a group blog where members post opinions on current affairs, mostly related to India.

Kalyanasundaranar

Within the years 1954–1959 he became active in the film industry of southern India.

Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies

The cooperation of the KazISS expanded and included Asian partners in China (Shanghai Institute for International Studies), India (Jawaharlal Nehru University) as well as Russia (the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation).

Khandesh

Satana (comes in Nashik Dist part of old Khandesh province)

Kolitha Gunathilake

Abeywickrama is a graduate of the National Defense College, the Air Command and Staff College, Air University.

Kshitish Mohan Lahiri

After Indian independence in 1947, Kshitish Mohan Lahiri's family migrated to newly formed state of West Bengal in India.

Lalotra

The Lalotra are a Rajput clan found mainly in the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

Lobsang Tenzin

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.

M. Chinnaswamy

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.

Madhavan K. Palat

National Defence University, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi.

Marie Seton

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".

Mendaka Samarasinghe

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

Model English High School (M.E.H.S.) is the one of the oldest school in Kalyan city.

Moosa Ali Jaleel

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.

Mori Rajputs

The Mori clan is one of 36 royal Rajput clans of India and falls in 24 Eka clans which are not divided further.

Mumbai College

this can refer to any of a number of academic institutions in Mumbai, India, including

Mundaka Upanishad

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.

Nalin Seneviratne

He is also a graduate of the National Defence College, New Delhi.

Nawab Abdul Latif

Abdul Lateef was one of the first Muslims in nineteenth century India to embrace the idea of modernization.

Nawanagar State

On June 19, 1959, the boundaries of the district were enlarged by the inclusion of the adjoining Okhamandal, and the district was renamed Jamnagar.

Nepalese handicrafts

Prior to the establishment of British regime over India and entering a peace treaty with Tibet in 1904 AD, Nepal was interpreted as the main route to Tibet for external trade with other countries.

Official languages of Puducherry

4.Malayalam: It is also an official language of Puducherry but used only when communicating within Malayalam district (Mahé).

P. B. Premachandra

Premachandra graduated of the Air Command and Staff College, Air University in 1996 and in 2004 he attended National Defence College, New Delhi.

PCOE

Parshvanath College of Engineering, an engineering college located in Thane (west) in Maharashtra state of India, and affiliated to the University of Mumbai.

Postage stamps and postal history of the postal convention states of India

The Post Office of India of the British Raj entered into postal conventions with a few native states of India.

Ramlila

According to a 2008 UNESCO report, the most representative Ramlilas are those of Ayodhya, Ramnagar and Varanasi, Vrindavan, Almora, Satna and Madhubani.

Rushyendramani

Rushyendramani (Telugu: ఋష్యేంద్రమణి) (b: January 1, 1917 - d: August 17, 2002)a trained singer, dancer was a famous stage/film actress and playback singer from South India.

S. B. Patel

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.

Sacred complex

The aspects of great and little tradition as put up by Redfield were applied to an Indian context.

Samudragupta

He was the third ruler of the Gupta Dynasty, who ushered in the Golden Age of India.

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Samudragupta, ruler of the Gupta Empire (c. 335 – c. 375 CE), and successor to Chandragupta I, is considered to be one of the greatest military geniuses in Indian history.

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He ruled for about ten years in the north-central India with son as an apprentice Pataliputra, near modern day Patna in Bihar state of India.

Sangat

Sangat, India, a city in Bathinda district in the Indian state of Punjab

Shanti Devi

Shanti Devi (11 December 1926 – 27 December 1987) was born in Delhi, India.

Shri Keshavraiji Temple, Bet Dwarka

Pushkarna Brahmin along with Bhatia devotees, mostly from Sindh, Rajasthan, Kutch, Gujarat and Punjab, visited Bet Dwarka to worship Lord Keshavraiji most often.

Suhaib Ilyasi

Suhaib Ilyasi (born 8 September 1966) is a producer, director and the host of India’s first reality TV show, India's Most Wanted.

Sumli

It flows through the villages of Boiragi, Chakma, Yachakrai, Kutna Kami and the town of Borokathal.

Surjit Singh Rakhra

He is Minister for Rural Development & Panchayat in the present Punjab Government.

Taliban guest house

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.

Thiek

Thiek is one of the numerous pahnams or sub-tribes of the Hmar tribe of India.

Thimmasamudram

Thimmasamudram may refer to any of the following places in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Tibetan diaspora

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.

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Tibetan emigration happened in two waves: one in 1959 following the 14th Dalai Lama's self-exile in India, and the other in the 1980s when Tibet was opened to trade and tourism.

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According to Nawang Thogmed, a CTA official, the most oft-cited problems for newly migrating Tibetans in India are the language barrier, their dislike for Indian food, and the warm climate, which makes Tibetan clothing uncomfortable.

V. P. Singaravelu

P. Singaravelu (03-06-1959 to 07-12-2011) was an Indian politician.

William Henry Hoare Vincent

In 1887 he joined the Indian Civil Service, rising to vice-president of the legislative council of India and a member of the Council of India from 1923 to 1931.

World Vision Australia

Money raised in the 40 Hour Famine in 2002 has helped people in countries such as India, Cambodia and Afghanistan.

Yugal Bihar Saket Dham Mandir

The Yugal Bihar Saket Dham Mandir is a 200-year-old temple in Ayodhya Uttar Pradesh, India near the Sarayu River.


A G Noorani

He is the author of a number of books including: 'The Kashmir Question', 'Badruddin Tyabji Ministers' Misconduct', 'Brezhnev's Plan for Asian Security', 'The Presidential System', 'The Trial of Bhagat Singh', 'Constitutional Questions in India' and 'The RSS and the BJP: A Division of Labour' (LeftWord 2000).

Aalim Muhammed Salegh College of Engineering

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.

Ad Santel

Santel lost his World Light Heavyweight Championship to Gobar Goho of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India on 30 August 1921 in San Francisco.

Advenella kashmirensis

Advenella kashmirensis is a chemolithotrophic mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, bacterium from the genus of Advenella which was isolated from the soil of a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir in India.

Alfred Comyn Lyall

Lyall's ideas regarding the development and organisation of society in India were developed principally during the time he spent working in the Central Provinces, Berar and Rajputana between 1865 and 1878.

Basel Evangelical Mission Parsi High School, Thalassery

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.

Buddhist influences on Christianity

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.

Click Asia Summit

The speaker lineup comprised various experts in the field of online and social marketing from across the globe, including Dr. Shashi Tharoor (Indian Parliament), Bingham Willis, Lucy McCabe (Ogilvy & Mather, Singapore), Nick Decrock (Yento!, Belgium), Aditya Anupkumar (Saatchi & Saatchi, India), Namrita Sehgal (Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, India), Ramon Vullings (new shoes today, Netherlands), and Ankit Fadia (eSecure Solutions, India).

Cox's Bazar District

Cox's Bazar is named after Captain Hiram Cox, an officer of the East India Company, who was assigned with the charges of the current day Cox's Bazar and its adjacent areas.

Dieter Duhm

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.

Femina Miss India Chandigarh 2013

The winner of Femina Miss India Chandigarh vies in Miss India.

Firdaus Kanga

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.

Gaya–Mughalsarai section

When it was built, it was the longest bridge in India and was believed to be the second longest bridge in the world, short of the Tay bridge near Dundee.

George F. Fitzpatrick

George Fitzpatrick married Phyllis Sinanan, sister of Mitra and Ashford Sinanan, uniting the Fitzpatrick family with another prominent political family of Trinidad (see Ashford Sinanan, Ambassador, Leader of the Opposition, Democratic Labour Party (DLP), West Indies Federation, Founder of the West Indian National Party (WINP) and High Commissioner to India.

Government Polytechnic Amravati

The institute is approved by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi & Government of Maharashtra has awarded an academic autonomy to the institute since 1995.

Greenwood High International School

The majority of graduates attends university for their higher education either in India or around the world including ivy league universities,IIT etc.IB Diploma is well accepted by Indian universities including UGC, AICTE and MCI.

Halwa poori

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.

Hasdeo Thermal Power Station

The Hasdeo Thermal Power Station is a 840 megawatt (MW) coal fired power station at Korba in Chhattisgarh, India.

Hemayetpur

Mahatma Gandhi visited him in Himaitpur as did other leaders, to seek his views and draw inspiration for creating a new India.

India–Panama relations

Also, cooperation over IT & E-Governance, cyber security and training, and Indian space agency ISRO's proposed TTC station in Panama were discussed.

Indian cricket team in England in 2011

In winning the series by more than two clear matches, England took India's place at the top of the ICC Test Championship, while India dropped to third place.

Indian Institute of Astrophysics

The Institute has a network of laboratories and observatories located in various places in India, including Kodaikanal (the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory), Kavalur (the Vainu Bappu Observatory), Gauribidanur, Hanle (the Indian Astronomical Observatory) and Hosakote.

Indies

The extensive East Indies are subdivided into two sections (from a European perspective), archaically called Hither India and Further India.

Jervis B. Webb Company

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 Donald

John Stuart Donald, former Chief Commissioner of the North West Frontier Province of British India

Jujjavarapu

Most of the people with this last name live in the west godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Kaz Rahman

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.

Ludwig Hans Fischer

A pupil, at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, of Eduard von Lichtenfels in painting, of Louis Jacoby in engraving, and of William Unger in etching, he completed his studies traveling in Italy, Spain, North Africa, Egypt, and India, and afterwards settled in Vienna.

Maharaja College, Jaipur

Maharaja College is a college in Jaipur in Rajasthan state in India .

Marcelo Figueras

Cartagena Film Festival: Golden India Catalina Award; Best Screenplay for Kamchatka, 2003.

Mohan Singh Oberoi

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, one of India's highest civilian awards, in 2001.

Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital

Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital (MPUH), also known as Nadiad Kidney Hospital, is a not-for-profit Trust Hospital in Nadidad, Gujarat, established in 1978, and is the first speciality Urology Hospital in India.

Muslims of Uttar Pradesh

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.

Narym River

Modern descendents of the ancient Alats are Alats in the Altai, and Khalaches and Khalajes in the northern India and eastern section of the Iranian plateau.

Nigerians in India

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

Nilwande dam, also called as Upper Pravara dam, in the Indian state of Maharashtra is the second largest dam on the Pravara river.

Noorpur

Noorpur, Uttar Pradesh, a city and a municipal board in Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, India

O. roseus

Odontamblyopus roseus, an eel goby species found in muddy-bottomed coastal waters along the west coast of India

Odhavram

Manji Jeram took the leadership to build Kutchi Ashram in Haridwar and started with a large personal donation and roamed whole India to collect monies from rich families of his community as well Patidar, Bhanushali, Mistri and other communities of Kutch.

Paul Jarvis

He bowled with good pace, and took four wickets in two Tests in a losing cause, as well as securing the man of the match award for taking 5 for 35 against India in Bangalore.

Qalandar

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.

Satish Nambisan

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.

Sher Bahadur Singh

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.

Socialism in India

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.

Sourabh Vij

Born in New Delhi, Vij won his first medal at the 2004 Commonwealth Youth Games, where his mark of 18.45 metres brought him the shot put gold medal (India's second athletics gold of the competition along with Hari Shankar Roy).

SRFI

Squash Racquets Federation of India, the apex body for the squash racquet sport in India

The Adventures of Blinky Bill

The animals he rescued were Ling Ling the Panda, Slippery the Seal, Yoyo the Monkey, Princess Penelope the Poodle, Leo the Lion and Tico Toucan (who originally works for the Circus Bros.) They went to Antarctica, the African Plains, China, the Amazon Rainforest, India and Paris.

The Mystery of the Blue Diamond

Tintin in India: The Mystery of the Blue Diamond, is a 1941 Belgian theatre piece in three acts written by Hergé and Jacques Van Melkebeke.

Wall gun

Bolt action wall guns firing metallic cartridges were used in India and China in the late 19th century.