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Temples And Legends Of Bengal - Birbhum ( Introduction) Bolpur is 99 miles from Howrah by road and 24 miles by train from Khana junction of the Eastern Railway. Supur, the neighboring village of Bolpur has a temple of Surath- eshwar Siva, which is said to have been regularly worshipped by the legendary Surath Raja. Only four miles to the north east of Bolpur at a village Shain there is a cold water spring known as Muni Kunda. www.hindubooks.org /temples/bengal/birbhum   (227 words)

Poush Mela, West Bengal, shantiniketan, fairs and festivals of india, poet Rabindranath Tagore,Turismo en la ... Direct rail link was established between Kolkata and Bolpur and the journey was reduced to 136 km. Although real estate is booming, still the place is comfortably swathed in green and with not much auto mobile traffic (walking or cycling is the common mode of commuting), Shantiniketan offers a welcome weekend getaway, any time throughout the year and specially during its festive days. Bolpur, 2km ahead of Shantiniketan, is the nearest town and railhead from Kolkata. www.indiaprofile.com /fairs-festivals/poushmela.htm   (1540 words)

leistung The town of Bolpur (picture l) is situated approximately 180 km north-west of CaIcutta in the Indian State of West Bengal. A subcontractor from Bolpur with casual labourers from the region was responsible for the construction of drilling platforms and the preparation of large mud pits for well-drilling (picture 4). Drilling and Well-Construction 3.1 Exploration and pilot boreholes and geological Interpretation The technological ohjective in the drilling component of the Bolpur water supply project was to explore and to exploit potable ground-water from aquifers within fluviatile, non-consolidated Sediments of tertiary and quaternary age. www.celler-brunnenbau.de /bilder/leistung01gb.htm   (6066 words)

The Telegraph - Calcutta : Bengal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Justice Barin Ghosh passed the order this afternoon after it was told that the Bolpur police did not help the state electricity board carry out an order of the pollution control board to disconnect power supply to the market. Roy told the court that in 1990, the district land and land revenue office in Birbhum leased the plot to him. When Roy approached the force with the order, the Bolpur police allegedly misbehaved with him and told him that it had not received any instruction to evict the settlers. www.telegraphindia.com /1040401/asp/bengal/story_3073162.asp   (498 words)

Santiniketan Santiniketan is a small town near Bolpur in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, India, and approximately 180 kilometres north of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). Situated in the midst of paddy fields along the Sriniketan bypass, seven kilometres from Bolpur, the BITM Santiniketan campus looks desolate and there's hardly any transport connecting the college to the nearest town. Shantiniketan is 2 kms from Bolpur by cycle rickshaw. www.santiniketan.com   (799 words)

Small town West Bengal - No Place As Home - BootsnAll Travelogues His scrawny neck disappeared into the ground, his body was motionless, as if dead, then as we watched his right arm came up and scratched his bum for a while. Bolpur isn't the middle of nowhere town that it appears, however. The university grounds were indeed pleasant, the museum of Tagore's life was so inspiring I bought a few of his books (currently proving hard going, I must confess), and Gari and I chatted to a boy going to school there. blogs.bootsnall.com /dw/archives/004544.shtml   (617 words)

The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation Santiniketan, March 27: From antique smuggling to burglaries, the crime graph in and around the abode of Rabindranath Tagore has taken a sharp upward curve over the last two years, notwithstanding claims by the Visva-Bharati University authorities that Santiniketan is a “crime-free zone”. Senior police officials, now in Bolpur to trace the criminals who cleaned out the Rabindranath Memorial Museum, are questioning the logic of the university authorities for not bolstering security around Bichitra, the building that housed the Tagore treasures. Eleven to 15 burglaries are recorded every month at Bolpur police station compared to about four or five two years ago. www.telegraphindia.com /1040328/asp/nation/story_3055645.asp   (355 words)

Kolkata getaways business travel to India Bolpur, the railway station for Shantiniketan is 141 km from Howrah Station with fast trains taking about 2.5 hours fro the trip. Shantiniketan is 3 km from the Bolpur Station. The most common form of transport from the Bolpur Station to Shantiniketan is cycle-rickshaw, unless one has ordered a car in advance. www.pickyourtrip.com /kolkatagetaways.htm   (822 words)

The Hindu : National : Somnath's daughter teased in train Bolpur (West Bengal) : Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee's daughter Anusila Basu along with other women members of her cultural troupe were teased by unidentified persons on the Malda-Howrah Intercity Express. Basu and her troupe were returning to Kolkata from Bolpur when some youth entered the first class compartment and started teasing them and asked them to vacate their seats. She then called her father who was at Bolpur over the mobile phone. www.hindu.com /2006/01/24/stories/2006012403961300.htm   (186 words)

Shantiniketan, Travel to Shantiniketan, Shantiniketan Hotel, Shantiniketan Tourism,Shantiniketan Travel Guide, ... Shantiniketan : Bolpur is situated on the Sahebgunj loop line of Eastern Railways. From Bolpur by bus or train go to Ahmedpur on the eighth day and then board a narrow gauge Ahmedpur-Katwa train (time 6-45, 11-52, 16-22, 20-30) and get down at Labhpur, see Fullara. On the ninth day from Bolpur- Nanur, Ketugram and Uddharanpur may be visited and then by crossing the Ganges Kat-wa may easily be reached. www.seemyindia.com /west-bengal/west-bengal-shantiniketan.htm   (632 words)

Operation Smile United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) The medical team worked out of Bolpur Sub Division Hospital and consisted of plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, a speech pathologist, dentist and other medical professionals. Bolpur - 15th September - 24th September 2005 The medical team worked tirelessly at Bolpur Sub Division Hospital to evaluate and treat patients suffering from various facial deformities. www.operationsmile.org.uk /smi_globalmcare.asp   (1630 words)

Samit's Trains Pages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Arnab Sengupta and Saibal Bishnu, due to reasons beyond control, had to cancel their participation on the eve of the trip, leaving only Saurab and I to fend for ourselves. Of course it stopped at every station on the way and there were quite a few, the most important being Bolpur, where most of the crowd got down there. Heaving a sigh of relief at being able to move our feet, we waited the as the train passed the two in between stations, arriving at Ahmadpur about 45 minutes late, at 11.37. www.irfca.org /users/samit/amp-kwae.html   (1754 words)

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - HER WORLD So I went, in the long train that goes to Bolpur, jaunting lazily through miles of what I gathered was a green countryside. And at the Bolpur station, as I sat waiting for the train, I discovered the love of a mother in an old woman. He soon disclosed that he was the Stationmaster at Bolpur. www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030504/herworld.htm   (3256 words)

Amit Hazra - Poverty and Politics : Some Empirical Observations - AnthroBase The second section is based on fieldwork in Bolpur, Birbhum district where I examine the way in which local and state politics lead to errors in 'counting' poverty. In the historic 'tryst with destiny' speech made by Jawaharlal Nehru on the eve of India's Independence, the nation was reminded unequivocally that "ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity" is the basic task of nation-building that lies ahead. On the other hand, the government official intends to keep the number of beneficiaries as low as possible (as per the verbal instruction of the boss) so that the government's expenditure be kept as low as possible. www.anthrobase.com /Txt/H/Hazra_A_01.htm   (2772 words)

About us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) About Us RTC, Bolpur established in 1984, is NABARD's principal Training Institute for Primary Lending Institutions in the Eastern, North Eastern Zone, Chattisgarh and a part of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. RTC, Bolpur, was set up primarily to undertake this responsibility in this region. Bolpur, which houses Shantiniketan and Vishva Bharati, Central University, is a small town - 150 Kms away from Kolkata. www.nabard.org /org/rtc_bol.htm   (767 words)

[No title] Trains connecting Bolpur with Howrah/Sealdah (Calcutta) are 3015/3016 Howrah-Bolpur Shantiniketan Exp, 3133/3134 Sealdah-Mughalsarai Exp, 3071/3072 Howrah-Jamalpur Exp, 2557/ 2558 Kanchenjunga Exp., 335/336 Vishwabharati Fast Pgr., Shantiniketan Exp., Danapur Fast Pgr. Kendubilwa (42 kms): Buses ply from Bolpur railway station. The second popular sea resort of West Bengal is Bakkhali, situated only 132 km away from Calcutta, It is quiet and charming. www.100megspop3.com /binugeorge/west_bengal/west_bengal2.html   (1057 words)

The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) The hammer-sickle-star symbol and the name of the candidate are on almost all the walls in the village. Voters in the urban areas of Bolpur and Santiniketan, the hub of Rabindranath Tagore's dream institution Viswa Bharati, are all praise for Chatterjee's development work in the constituency. At Nurpur village in Bolpur, a group of 40 women have found jobs for themselves. www.the-week.com /24may09/statescan_article1.htm   (1760 words)

:: Santiniketan ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Bolpur has become more service-oriented, as the Munsiff's Court, Registration Offices, Police Stations, Health Centres and Banks are drawing more people from the hinterland. It is expected that with increase in population and further urbanisation, Bolpur is likely to become a centre of improved services to its hinterland. A Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Amartya has set up Pratichi, the occidental window, an educational trust in Santiniketan, to improve the primary and secondary school systems in India. www.bengalambuja.com /housing/santiniketan/page7.htm   (142 words)

SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Santiniketan is located at a distance of 2.5 kms from the town of Bolpur in Birbhum district, West Bengal. The railway station Bolpur (Santiniketan) is at a distance of about 150 kms from Kolkata and about 50 kms from Barddhaman on the Barddhaman – Sahibganj loop line of the Eastern Railway. If you are prepared to pay the expenses yourself, we can help you in getting accommodation in select hotels in Bolpur town. members.tripod.com /historycongress3/local.htm   (716 words)

No sign of Buddha’s reforms in Bolpur The villagers, mostly Muslims, make a living by slogging on the fields, but that is clearly not enough to make ends meet. The situation is no better at Mouligram in the Sriniketan block of Bolpur. We last saw Somnath Chatterjee (sitting MP from Bolpur) during the floods in ’99,’’ said Bhabesh Laha, a villager. cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=180592   (480 words)

STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA LTD v. COLLECTOR OF CENTRAL EXCISE, BOLPUR [1997] INSC 210 (20 February 1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Salt Act, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as `the Act') is brought by the appellant-assessee on being aggrieved by the decision rendered by the Customs, Excise and Gold (Control) Appellate Tribunal (CEGAT for short) dismissing the assessee's appeal against the order in original passed by the Collector of Central Excise, Bolpur. In the result, the appeal is allowed, the judgment and order of the CEGAT is set aside, the impugned demands pursuant to both the notices dated 21.11.1980 and 23.11.1981 and the consequential adjudication thereon as confirmed by the CEGAT are quashed and set aside. six lakhs deposited by the appellant pursuant to the order of the CEGAT will have to be processed by the Collector of Central Excise, Bolpur in accordance with law and in the light of the decision of this Court in Mafatlal Industries Ltd. vs. www.austlii.edu.au /~andrew/CommonLII/INSC/1997/210.html   (3245 words)

About Santiniketan : Santiniketan the Story, Santiniketan The nearest station is Bolpur, 4 kms away from Purbapally. Trains connecting Bolpur with Howrah/ Sealdah are: Howrah-Bolpur Santiniketan Express, Sealdah-Mughalsarai Express, Howrah-Jamalpur Express, Kanchenjunga Express, Visva-Bharati Fast Passenger, Santiniketan Express, Danapur Fast Passenger, Tarapith Passenger, Rampurhat Inter City Express and Ganadevata Express. A small station to the north of Bolpur station. www.bengalambuja.com /housing/santiniketan/page8.htm   (211 words)

Khéjur-gur The railway station of Bolpur, which serves the Shantiniketan area, is about 4 hours short of Calcutta. Early in the morning Bolpur station is deserted. Dawn light filtering through the horizon of this flat land presented a different picture from that of the hills. www.palmsociety.org /public/english/chamaerops/043_1.shtml   (450 words)

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Election 2004 - HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) With CPI (M) upbeat on revival of the third front in forming a secular government at the Centre, party stalwart and candidate for Bolpur Lok Sabha seat Somnath Chatterjee on Saturday said his party will not join such a government and instead extend issue-based support to it. Chatterjee, who has held Bolpur seat since 1981 after his 1984 defeat in Calcutta South constituency against then Congress candidate Mamata Banerjee, is hopeful that more Left candidates would win and it would influence post-poll politics to keep BJP-led NDA out of power. Though his main opponent in Bolpur, Nationalist Trinamool Congress candidate Dr Nirmal Maji, is a relative newcomer in politics and a first-time contestant from Bolpur, Chatterjee is not taking any chances. www.hindustantimes.com /2005/May/22/6996_724826,0016005500010002.htm   (508 words)

Burdwan: 14 persons killed in two bus accidents. Burdwan: 14 persons killed in two bus accidents. Thirteen persons died and 35 critically injured when a private bus plying between Asansol and Salar toppled today morning near Bolpur, Birbhum. The accident happened when a front wheel of the fast moving bus burst. www.bardhaman.com /news/news_bdn_290404a.htm   (187 words)

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Fake painting racket busted at Bolpur The racket was busted by the SDPO, Bolpur in a night-long raid at a lodge and the residence of an ex-Armyman. The antiques had similarity with those which were stolen from Rabindra Bhavan along with Tagore’s Nobel medallion, the police said. Police laid a trap, disguising two sub-inspectors of Bolpur police station as prospective buyers along with a foreigner. cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=205771   (271 words)

LETTER FROM GANDHIJI TO SAROJINI NAIDU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Gokhale just when I left for Bolpur that you had lost your father. I said to myself then that I would write to you on reaching Bolpur. But no sooner did I reach Bolpur than I had to retrace my steps to visit the desolate home of the Society. www.mkgandhi.org /Sarojini/letter01.htm   (190 words)

Santiniketan - The Home of Laureates Uttarayan is the complex where Rabindranath lived, has a museum and art gallery. Visva Bharati University is the University at Santiniketan, 2 km from the nearest railway station Bolpur, is now a centre of international studies and culture. Sriniketan, a centre for traditional handicrafts like batik (on leather, cloth and silk), pottery, weaving kantha embroidery and dokra tribal handicrafts is situated three kilometers from Santiniketan. www.howtoadvice.com /Preview/Aurtxun   (395 words)

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