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35 unusual facts about Kolkata


1995 Nehru Cup

1995 Nehru Cup was held in Kolkata,this is the third time kolkata hosted Nehru Cup.

Asutosh Museum of Indian Art

Asutosh Museum of Indian Art is an art museum located in the main campus of University of Calcutta on College Street, Kolkata (previously Calcutta), India.

Benjamin F. Bonham

Later the Tennessee native served as United States Consul General in Calcutta, India.

Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College

Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, established in 1956, is an undergraduate college in Kolkata, west Bengal, India.

Calcutta Times

The Calcutta Times is a free supplement circulated with the Times of India published by the Times Group in Kolkata (formally Calcutta) region.

Cassini's Division

-- plural in Queen's English convention used in India--> an alternative rock band from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Deshbandhu College for Girls

Deshbandhu College for Girls is a women's college located in Kolkata.

Digambar Mitra

Raja Digambar Mitra (1817 - 1879) was one of the leading Derozians and first Bengali Sheriff of Kolkata.

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The son of Shib Chandra Mitra of Konnagar in Hooghly district, he was educated at Hare School and Hindu College and was one of the leading disciples of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.

East Calcutta Girl's College

East Calcutta Girl's College, established in 1992, is the women's college in Kolkata.

Eastern Naval Command

The Eastern Navy fleet is distribute among its bases at Kolkata, Paradip, Tuticorin, Kakinada and Chennai on the east coast, and in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Edmund F. Baroch

Ed and Dorothy traveled several times with Mother Teresa domestically and internationally and Ed has volunteered his time in Mother Teresa's "House for the Dying" in Kolkata (Calcutta) India.

Ganendranath Tagore

He was a student of Hindu School and when Calcutta University introduced the Entrance examination in 1857, he and Satyendranath Tagore passed out in first division.

Gil Langley

Langley played his last Test match against India at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in November 1956 and retired from first class cricket a month later after scoring a century for South Australia against New South Wales at the Adelaide Oval.

Gostha Paul

He moved to Kolkata when he was an infant and lived there till his very last days.

Harish Chandra Mukherjee

Son of Ramdhan Mukherjee, the family hailed from Sridharpur in Bardhaman district but he was brought up in his maternal uncle’s place at Bhowanipur in Kolkata.

Hooghly-class fuel barge

Hooghly-class of fuel barge are series of service watercraft being built by Hooghly Dock & Port Engineers Ltd, Kolkata (HDPEL) for the Indian Navy.

India national rugby union team

Rugby Union in India dates back to a scratch match or two played in Kolkata and Madras during the visit of MS Galatea in 1871.

Indrapuri Studio

Indrapuri Studio is a film and television studio located in N.S.C Bose Road, Tollygunge, Kolkata.

Jatindramohan Tagore

The son of Hara Kumar Tagore (1798 – 1858) and grandson of Gopi Mohan Tagore, one of the founders of Hindu College, he belonged to the Pathuriaghata branch of the Tagore family.

Karam Apnaa Apnaa

Gauri and Samar take the three children and migrate to Kolkata.

Karima Shapandar

Neal was looking for his brother, Sanjit, who had gone missing while researching some mysterious disappearances in Calcutta.

Netaji Nagar Day College

Netaji Nagar Day College is an undergraduate liberal arts college in Kolkata, India.

Online book rental in India

Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata and Ahmedabad have small start-ups with a few thousand books in their collections.

Perfect Relations

The firm has company-owned offices in 14 major cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad.

Praja Party

As the Nikhil Banga Praja Samiti, in its second phase, the party added a new way of Bengal politics by activating the people of Calcutta's rural hinterland with the slogan of "Land to the tillers!".

Ramanath Tagore

Ramanath Tagore (archaic spelling: Roma Nath Tagore) was one of the leading social figures in 19th century Kolkata (then Calcutta).

Ramkamal Sen

When Hindu College was established in 1817, he was a member of its committee.

Sahayak-class hopper barge

The Sahayak class of hopper barge is a pair of yardcraft built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE), Kolkata for the Indian Navy.

Salim Baba

The film follows Salim Muhammad, a 55-year-old man who lives in Kolkata with his wife and children.

Satish K. Tripathi

In Calcutta, after graduating from Banaras Hindu University, Tripathi gained experience in working with computers at the Indian Statistical Institute.

Shahid Minar

Shaheed Minar, Kolkata, a monument in Kolkata that was erected in 1825 by Major-general Sir David Ochterlony

Tanima Sen

In 1985 she acted in a play named Baluchari which was staged at Star Theatre, Kolkata and continued for 500 shows.

The Ann Sothern Show

Katy's boss, Mr. Macauley was transferred to the Bartley House hotel in Calcutta, along with wife Flora.

The Namesake

Moving between events in Calcutta, Boston, and New York City, the novel examines the nuances involved with being caught between two conflicting cultures with highly distinct religious, social, and ideological differences.


1950 Barisal Riots

The Ansars, the police and the Muslim mobs refused to allow them to flee to Agartala or Kolkata.

2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup

India will have to choose six host cities from a shortlist of eight, they are New Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore, Kolkata, Kochi and Guwahati.

Ad Santel

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

Antara Dev Sen

Antara Dev Sen was born in Kolkata, India, the first daughter of Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen and novelist Nabaneeta Dev Sen.

Anushilan Samiti

Kolkata and, later, Dhaka were the two major strongholds of the association.

Ashoknagar Kalyangarh

Buses from Habra Bus Terminal are directly connected to Naihati, Maslandapur, Madhyamgram, Bangaon, Barasat, Nagarukhra, Kalyani, Basirhat, Kolkata, Bagdah, Chakdah, Bagjola, Digha, Durgapur, Bandel, Baruipur, Howrah, krishnanagar, Barasat, Alampur, Dattaphulia, Nimta, Sodepur, Duttapukur, Jagulia.

Asit Kumar Saha

Asit also managed the Indian Wrestling team at the 1987 South Asian Games held in Kolkata, India.

Bangabasi College

Bangabasi College has common sports ground and a beautiful pavilion on the Kolkata Maidan for cricket, football, hockey, volleyball, lawn tennis, badminton, and athletics.

Barasat Stadium

Barasat Stadium, officially known as Vidyasagar Krirangan, is a football stadium located city in Barasat on the outskirts of Kolkata, West Bengal.

Bardhaman

The city is situated 1100 km from New Delhi and a little less than 100 km north-west of Kolkata on the Grand Trunk Road (NH-2) and Eastern Railway.

Bengal famine of 1770

In the 17th century the then-English East India Company had been given a grant of the town of Calcutta by the Mughal Prince Shah Shuja.

Budhaditya Mukherjee

In 1995, he started recording on the surbahar (bass sitar), first as a two-part series (Brilliance of Sound) for Beethoven Records in Kolkata (ragas Yaman and Marwa), then raga Komal re Asavari for RPG/HMV on Tribute to My Father, My Guru (STCS 850362).

Carbonated water

Carbonated water was introduced in the latter part of the 18th century, and reached Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), India in 1822.

Ceratizit

In 1996, Instrument AG in Bulgaria was incorporated in Plansee Tizit while, at the same time, collaboration got underway with Siel to form Siel Tizit Ltd. in the Indian city of Kolkata.

Dhanbad Junction railway station

There is a bus stand just outside the railway station, where buses are available to nearby cities like Kolkata, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Bokaro, Asansol and Durgapur are easily available.

Dipankar Bhattacharya

He studied in Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur near Kolkata and stood first in Higher Secondary Examination in 1979.

George Gilbert Swell

After passing the Bachelor of arts examination from the Scottish Church College, Kolkata, he took his Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Calcutta in 1945.

Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata

Heritage Institute of Technology was set up on the eastern fringes of Kolkata in 2001 by a group of industrialists hailing from the flourishing Information Technology, Electronics and related industries around Kolkata, and some public figures.

Hooghly district

The district of Hooghly derived its name from the town of Hooghly situated on the west bank of Hooghly River about 40 km north of Kolkata.

ICGS Rajdhwaj

ICGS Rajdhwaj (ICGS refers to Indian Coast Guard Ship) is a Rajshree-class inshore patrol vessel (IPV), and the last in the series of eight IPVs designed and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders Engineers, Kolkata for the Indian Coast Guard.

Joka

Joka, Kolkata, a locality in South West Kolkata, India, the home of IIM Calcutta

Kashipur

Cossipore (also spelt Cossipur, Kashipur) is a neighbourhood in north Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal

Koderma railway station

Koderma has a rail connectivity with the other major parts of the country such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Nagpur, Pune, Guwahati etc.

Kolkata Riverfront Beautification Project

A Ferris wheel named Kolkata Eye or Kolkata Merina will be probably constructed on the banks of Hooghly River.

Methodist High School, Kanpur

The school is run and managed by the Methodist Church in India, which also runs a number of schools and colleges in India such as the I T College, Lucknow UP, the Lucknow Christian College, the Calcutta Boys' School and the Calcutta Girls' High School, Kolkata and the Baldwin Boys High School and Baldwin Girls High School, Bangalore, to name a few.

Nabarun Bhattacharya

Anubis, the ancient Egyptian deity guarding the gate between life and death, also comes to facilitate in a mass, almost biblical exodus of the dogs from the city of sin, that is, Kolkata, which is about to experience a massive earthquake as a part of the cosmic punishment.

Neiphiu Rio

He was awarded The Mother Teresa Millennium award, for his outstanding leadership and contributions tp politics in Kolkata in the year 2007.

Priyadarshini-class patrol vessel

Priyadarshini-class patrol vessels (also referred to as Jija Bai Mod 1 class) are a series of 8 mid-shore fast patrol boats, built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Kolkata and Goa Shipyard Limited, Vasco da Gama, Goa for Indian Coast Guard between 1991 and 1998.

Qatar Airways

The airline has launched 22 new destinations since 2010, with nine more destinations announced: Ankara, Aleppo, Bangalore, Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hanoi, Montreal, Nice, Phuket, São Paulo, Shiraz, Kolkata, Medina, Oslo, Sofia, Stuttgart, Venice and Tokyo.

Rasikendra Nath Nandi

Apart from his scholarly activities, he established schools for spreading of modern education in Pabna and in Agarpara (near Kolkata), where he died in 1962.

Renukoot

Renukoot has a railway station which is connected to major cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Jammu, Ranchi, Patna, Jabalpur, and Bhopal.

Salim Group

The proposal for a bridge across the Hooghly River from Raichak to Kukrahati, which will connect Haldia to Kolkata, has been hanging fire for many years.

Samuel Lilly

He was appointed by President James Buchanan as consul general of the United States to British India, with residence in Calcutta, from January 3, 1861, and served until July 4, 1862, when he resigned.

Sanmarg

Sanmarg is a well known popular Hindi daily published from Varanasi which was later published from Kolkata, Burdwan, Ranchi, and Bhubaneshwar.

Saroo Brierley

The journey eventually ended at the huge Howrah railway station in Kolkata when someone opened the door to Saroo's prison and he fled.

Sathyamangalam

The nearest airport is Coimbatore International Airport, which is 65 km by road, which has regular flights to New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Sharjah and Singapore.

Shunyo E Buke

After making Waarish Ganguly made this second feature film and this film did well in Kolkata and was appreciated in few film festivals.

St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School

Himachal Som '61 (former Indian Ambassador to Italy, father of Vishnu Som, NDTV anchor) and husband of Dr. Reba Som, Director of Indian Council for Cultural Relations' Rabindranath Tagore Centre in Kolkata.

Tehatta

Tehatta is around 42 km north from the district town Krishnanagar and 140 km north from the state capital Kolkata.

Tirur railway station

Though no trains originate from this station, trains halting at the station connect the town to prominent cities in India such as Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Coimbatore, New Delhi, Mangalore, Pune, Jaipur, Jammu Tawi, Okha, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and so forth.

Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring

Meanwhile, in the basement, a wizard named Chip is making a magical potion, using these ingredients: warts from a bullfrog, one stick of butter, and milk from a cow that lives in Kolkata, India.

Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni

The specific name, andersonii, is in honor of Scottish zoologist John Anderson, who worked in India 1864-1886 and was the first curator of the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now called Kolkata).

Unish-Kuri

Unish-Kuri, which literally means "nineteen twenty", targeted at teens and young adults, is one of the youngest fortnightly magazines published from ABP Ltd, publishers of Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph, of Kolkata, India, that took off as a new division, or wing of Anandamela, the 33-year-old children's magazine published in Bengali.

Vidyasagar

Vidyasagar Setu, commonly known as the Second Hooghly Bridge, a bridge in West Bengal, India linking Howrah to Kolkata

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee was born on December 29, 1844 at Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the present-day state of West Bengal in an upper middle class Bengali Hindu Kulin Brahmin family of considerable social standing.His ancestors belong from the village named Baganda situated in Hooghly district.

Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

YSS's headquarters, Yogoda Satsanga Math, is situated in Dakshineswar, in the state of Kolkata with branches in Dwarahat, in the state of Uttarakhand, and Ranchi, in the state of Jharkhand.