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dic_HOOGHLY Situated in between the industrially advanced district of Howrah and the resource-oriented district of Burdwan, the district of Hooghly offers a great scope for development of industries specially in the Cottage and Small Scale Industries Sector. Hooghly Division PWD has its jurisdiction over the entire district. Above all, there is the river Hooghly that offers transportation facilities at cheapest cost (60 miles approx.). www.cssiwb.org /all/dic_HOOGHLY.htm

About Hooghly Travel & Tourism, Travel Guide, Sightseeings, Tour Packages, Hotels, , West Bengal It was only after Kolkata was given prominence that the district of Hooghly lost its importance. About Hooghly : The heritage trail of West Bengal leads to the district of Hooghly, 47 km north of Calcutta. Hooghly : The Heritage District of West Bengal www.t2westbengal.com /place-info.php?place=491-Hooghly

Welcome to the Home Page of Chinsurah Another important place is the Bandemataram House on Joraghat, which was the residence of the great Bengali novelist and poet, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, during his tenure as the District Magistrate of Hooghly. The headquarters of the Hooghly district were removed to Chinsurah and housed in these barracks around 1896-97. The Imambara, a Shia Muslim pilgrimage, is located two kilometers away from the Church, on the banks of the Hooghly River. www.ksengupta.com /chinsurah/chinsurah_small_gallery.html

India: Storm - OCHA-01: 19-Mar-03 In the Hooghly district, 31,277 houses are fully collapsed and 35,000 partially. Cash, tarpaulins and contingency funds have been released to the affected districts, 27,000 tarpaulins have been distributed in Hooghly and 22,000 in Bankura. In the Bankura district, 6,852 houses are totally destroyed and 23,953 are damaged. www.cidi.org /disaster/03a/ixl54.html

Killing of Subhash Sahani, an alleged criminal in police encounter on 21.4.2003 at Belmuri, Dhaniakhali PS The place is under the jurisdiction of Dhaniakhali PS in the District of Hooghly. APDR also talked with the DSP (HQ), Hooghly over the phone and tried to contact the SDPO Chandernagore, who was also in the police force taking part in the operation but did not succed. The apprehension is particularly grave because we know how Bhikhari Paswan was subjected to enforced disappearance and the whole police and district administration fabricated and tampered records to protect the murderer police officials. www.pucl.org /Topics/Police/2003/subhash-sahani.htm

Open Directory - Regional:Asia:India:West Bengal:Districts Hooghly district is known for Bandel Church, Debanandapur, the birthplace of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, Joyrambati and Kamarpukur, the birthplaces of Sri Ramakrishna and Maa Sarada Devi. It is bounded by Midnapore and Hooghly district in the East, Purulia in the West, Burdwan in the North and again Purulia and Midnapore in the South. This district is located between Latitude N 24 o 50' and N 23o43' and Longitude E 88o46' and E 87o49'.The district got its present name in the early eighteenth century and its present shape in the latter half of the eighteenth century. dmoz.org /Regional/Asia/India/West_Bengal/Districts/desc.html

Mob goes on rampage after Hooghly accident- The Times of India Hooghly district superintendent Ajay Kumar said, “26-year-old Shyamali Chakraborty was on her way to her college when suddenly she was knocked down by a truck at Rabindranagar on G T Road. Rapid Action Force personnel were deployed to bring the situation under control. Traffic was thrown out of gear on G T Road. timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/455822.cms

Soccernetindia.com- Comprehensive coverage of National Football League - Hooghly wins Bengal State League In the tie-breaker Hooghly goalie Kamal Biswas effected a spectacular save to clinch the issue for his district. Hooghly edged out East Midnapore 3-2 in sudden death to clinch the second Konark Sheet State League title at the Bidhannagar Municipal Sports complex on Friday. After that it was Hooghly who dominated proceedings and struck twice in succession in 38th and 41st minute through Alok Barua and Sukumar Murmur respectively. www.soccernetindia.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=538

DISCOVER CHANDERNAGORE The administrative charge was handed over to Nirmalkanti Roychowdhuri, District Magistrate of Hooghly, serving as a representative of West Bengal Government. St Joseph's Convent has been on the banks of the River Hooghly and is a testimony to the pioneering work in the field of education. Then in 1687 the French Commander Deslandes started business at Bandel in Hooghly; but coming across many inconveniences he tried to shift to another place in Hooghly and failed to receive the permission of the Nawab to build a new firm at the very place obtained by Duplessis at Chandernagore. www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Paradise/4243/discoverchandan.html

Vivekananda Ashram, Hooghly, West Bengal It works in the village of Adisaptagram, in the district of Hooghly, about 50 km. The organization is running an ashram for 14 boarders and a day coaching center for poor children of the surrounding villages. The Vivekananda Ashram runs a boarding house for 14 children in grades 4 through 12. www.ashanet.org /uiuc/projects/va

Hoogli River - Network Live Hooghly on the east, the district of Howrah on thesouth and the districts of... Hooghly was founded by the Portuguese in 1537 and in 1651 became the first... Alongside the River Hooghly there is a concentration of factories which... hooghly.networklive.org

Kolkata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The east-to-west dimension of the city is narrow, stretching from the Hooghly River in the west to roughly the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass in the east, a span of roughly 5 km to 6 km. According to the 2001 census, 77.68% of the population in Kolkata is Hindu, 20.27% Muslim and 0.88% Christian. Almost all of Kolkata's daily refuse of 2500 tonnes is transported to the dumping grounds in Dhapa to the east of the town. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kolkata   (4620 words)

Hooghly district - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The district is bordered by Howrah District to the south, Bardhaman District to the north, and to the east by the Hooghly River. Hooghly is one of the districts of the state of West Bengal in India. The district is named after the Hooghly River. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hooghly_(district)   (4620 words)

Calcutta, India  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin Kolkata or Calcutta, city in eastern India and capital of Bangla State, situated on the banks of the Hugli River (Hooghly)(a tributary of the Ganges River). From March through September, Kolkata is hot and humid, with an average July temperature of 29° C (85° F); in the months of May and June the temperature may rise as high as 38° C (100° F). Kolkata was founded by the English East India Company in the late 1600s and named for Kalikata, a local rice-growing village with a temple of the goddess Kali. www.galenfrysinger.com /calcutta_india.htm   (2369 words)

"Urban Management in Darjeeling Himalaya: A Case Study of Darjeeling Municipality" -Mtn-Forum On-Line Library Document Darjeeling municipality in the inception was placed in the 1st Schedule along with Khulna, Haribagh, Muzzaferpur, Darbhanga, Bhagalpur in which the commissioners were appointed by the local government and also placed in the 2nd Schedule along with Burdwan, Hooghly, Nadia, Hazaribagh etc. in which the chairman was to be appointed by the local government. Darjeeling Town is situated on the district of Darjeeling, the northern mort district of the state of West Bengal. The district of Darjeeling although one of the least developed districts of the state in the economic term, however, is one of the sixth most urbanized districts in the state of West Bengal. www.mtnforum.org /resources/library/khawv03e.htm   (6428 words)

Hooghly River Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography The town of Hooghly is located on the river, in the district of the same name. The Hooghly River (alternatively spelled Hoogli or Hugli) is a distributary of the Ganges River in India. Looking For hooghly river - Find hooghly river and more at Lycos Search. www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Hooghly_River   (6428 words)

ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Flooded Road And Rail Cripple India Relief Effort Local authorities said all trains services around Murshidabad, Nadia, the industrial town of Kalyani and parts of Hooghly district -- all in West Bengal -- were suspended on Tuesday because parts of the tracks were under water. On Monday, hungry mobs attacked relief teams and looted trains carrying aid, forcing police to fire in the air to disperse an angry crowd at Nadia district, 150 km (95 miles) north of Calcutta. In the past 24 hours, the main highway connecting Calcutta to Murshidabad, the worst-hit district, has become completely flooded about 80 km (50 miles) from Calcutta, relief officials said. www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/1ab2b34df5aa24ebc125696600521bc7   (368 words)

Report by the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Theo van Boven - India On 24 July 1979, he was arrested in connection with a murder inquiry and detained at Khanakul Police Station, later remanded by the Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate to Hooghly District Jail, and transferred to the Dum Dum Central Jail 15 months later, where he is currently detained and awaiting trial. On 7 July 2004 at midnight, he was arrested without charges at his house by the police of Debra Police Station, Midnapur District, West Bengal, and died the same night. From 7 to 11 June 2003, she was held in a locked room at the house of a police officer of Dharmapuri Police Station (whose name is known to the Special Rapporteur) because she was suspected of stealing jewellery from his house. www.derechos.org /nizkor/torture/vanboven/ind.html   (8755 words)

Geography : Burdwan District Lying within Burdwan Division, the district is bounded on the north by Dumka (of Jharkhand), Birbhum and Murshidabad, on the east by Nadia, on the south by Hooghly, Bankura and Purulia and on the west by Dhanbad (of Jharkhand) districts. The Durgapur forests are continued in the Birbhum district beyond the Ajay while the forest area in the Asansol subdivision forms a part of the forest area of Dumka District of Jharkhand. Besides coal important minerals found in the district are iron ores, calcium carbonate, Abrasives, silica bricks and moulding sands, glass sands, building materials, Manganese, Bauxite and laterite etc. www.bardhaman.nic.in /geography.html   (8755 words)

The Hindu : National : Malda mangoes for London Celsius in the North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts, Mr. The first consignment of the delectable "Himsagar" variety of the fruit grown in Malda district left Kolkata this morning. To boost mango exports, a multi-purpose pack-house cooling chamber unit has been set up in Malda district at a cost of Rs 1.74 crores. www.hindu.com /2004/06/12/stories/2004061204971200.htm   (360 words)

VJADS: India's First Biggest Information Portal The main channel with in a West Bengal is the Bhagirathi named in its lower reaches the Hooghly river by the British taking off at the head of Murshidabad district, the Bhagirathi flows southwards into a sea past the port city of Calcutta. The hilly region in the north comprising the district of Darjeeling is cut through by deep gorges of the Teesta which flows from north to south between mountainous banks rising two to three kilometres above the stream. Still farther south are the Kansabati or Kasai and the Subarnarekha, the latter rising in the Orissa hills and striking the boundary between the states of Orissa and West Bengal. www.vjads.com /westrivers.htm   (360 words)

Guru-parampara - 2 Sri Raghunatha dasa took his birth in the village of Sri Krsnapura in the district of Hooghly. Born around 1460 AD in the village of Bannur in Mysore district, his father's name was Rallanna Sumati and his gotra was Kasyapa. Nityananda Prabhu was born on the thirteenth day of the bright fortnight of Magha (Feb.-March) in the village of Ekacakra in the district of Birbhum in 1395 Saka (1473 AD). www.veda.harekrsna.cz /encyclopedia/parampara2.htm   (10542 words)

Red Salute to Comrade Tapan Chakraborty It was March 15 He was elected the Hooghly district secretary of the Bengal Provincial Student’s Federation, the CPI(M)’s student wing, and a member of its Tribeni-Mogra Zonal Committee in mid-sixties. In the period of over-ground party work, apart from orgainsing peasants in Darjeeling district, Comrade Tapan made a breakthrough in the tough task of developing our trade union in tea gardens. Next year he took up political work among the peasantry and tea garden workers in Darjeeling district. www.cpiml.org /liberation/year_2002/april/homage.htm   (483 words)

Floods threaten West Bengal and Bangladesh "I have not seen such a high tide in the Hooghly during the four decades that I've been living in this area," said Samar Haldar, a resident of the low-lying Kalighat district of south Calcutta, one of the first places that was submerged. But it's worse now because the Hooghly is in spate and the rains are continuing," said R. Goldar, director of the Alipore meteorological office. CALCUTTA (AP) - Flood waters fed by late monsoon rains gushed over the banks of the Hooghly River, shoved aside sandbag barriers and inundated much of the 300-year-old city of Calcutta on Wednesday. www.bangla2000.com /News/Archive/International/9-28-2000/news_detail1.html   (483 words)

Kalarte. India tour. West Bengal The Hooghly (Ganges) River flows through this district, which borders Bangladesh on the east. This is a view of the River Ganges (Hooghly branch) at the Panchavati. Dakshineswar is a town just north of Calcutta, along the Hooghly River (a branch of the Ganges). kalarte.com /indiapix/wb-pix.html   (483 words)

Diamond Harbor In the wondrous state of West Bengal in the district of South 24 Parganas lies the spectacular spot of Diamond Harbor at the mouth of the river Hooghly. The river cruises are possible on the Hooghly River. The river Hooghly turns towards the south into the Bay of Bengal. www.indianvisit.com /travel_destinations_india/diamond_harbour.html   (483 words)

Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge These are the memoirs of four expatriate members of the management staff of the Dunlop factory at Sahaganj, District Hooghly, West Bengal, covering the years 1936-1965 and written in 1987. She recalls vividly childhood memories of the country, train journeys, people and servants and on her return, the background of her social and domestic life, and the changing patterns as she moved from district to district with her husband in his career. In 19th century it became District Headquarters, Regimental Headquarters and the place of early endeavours by Wesleyan missionaries. www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk /Handlist_D.htm   (483 words)

2004 Flood Archive West Bengal - districts: Murshidabad, Malda, Burdwan, Birbhum, Howrah, Hooghly, Nadia, North 24 Parganas Sumatra - Aceh - Aceh Jaya regency - Teunom, Sampoinit and Krueng Sabe districts. Bungkal river bursts banks after three days of heavy rain leaving 1 dead and 150 homeless. www.dartmouth.edu /~floods/Archives/2004sum.htm   (483 words)

Articles - Howrah On the west Howrah district is bordered by the Ghatal sub-division of Midnapore West district, and partly by the Arambagh sub-division of Hooghly district to the north-west, and the Tamluk sub-division of Midnapore East to the south-west. The Howrah District is surrounded by the Hooghly River and the Parganas districts to the east, on the north by the Hooghly district (Arambagh and Shrirampur sub-divisions), and to the south by Midnapore East district (Tamluk sub-division). www.foodiechocolate.com /articles/Howrah   (483 words)

DIC INDUSTRIES CENTRE Hemmed in between the river Hooghly on the East and the Rupnarayan on the West, intersected by the Damodar, the district consists of a flat alluvial plain. The surface soil in the Western part of the district, served by the rivers Rupnarayan and Damodar is sandy loam whereas nearer to the Hooghly, hard clay loam predominates. The District Howrah, lying on the west of the river Hooghly, is the smallest district in the State of West Bengal. www.cssiwb.org /all/dic_HOWRAH.htm   (1063 words)

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