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	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Kolkata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kolkata is the theatre capital of India, and the festival is organized by the Nandikar group, one of the most dynamic and talented Indian theatre groups.
		Kolkata (Bangla: কলকাতা), is the proper Bengali language name for the city formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, and was once the most populous city in India.
		Kolkata is among those cities in India where the gap between rich and poor is huge and this gap is expanding day-by-day.Kolkata is also one of the cheapest metros in India to live in.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kolkata (1518 words)

	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.
		Almost all of Kolkata's daily refuse of 2500 tonnes is transported to the dumping grounds in Dhapa to the east of the town.
		According to the 2001 census, 77.68% of the population in Kolkata is Hindu, 20.27% Muslim and 0.88% Christian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kolkata (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).
		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.
		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).
	www.galenfrysinger.com /calcutta_india.htm (2369 words)

	Kolkata - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kolkata (Bangla: কলকাতা), formerly known as Calcutta is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal and is situated on the east bank of river Hooghly.
		Kolkata was the home of luminaries like Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, Mother Teresa, and Satyajit Ray, and is often referred to as the "cultural capital of India" as well as "the city of processions" and "the city of joy".
		According to the 2001 census, 77.68% of the population in Kolkata are Hindu.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Kolkata (4944 words)

	Kolkata District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kolkata is an administrative district of the Indian state of West Bengal.
		The area is under the administration of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
		Its capital, the city of Kolkata one of the largest and important Indian cities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kolkata_District (111 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kolkata
		During the British colonial era in the period from 1700-1912, when Kolkata was the capital of British India, Kolkata witnessed a spate of frenzied construction activity of buildings largely influenced by the conscious intermingling of Gothic, Baroque, Roman, Oriental and Islamic schools of design.
		Kolkata is the only city in India to have a tram network (see Tramways in Calcutta) and till 2003, the only underground metro railway in the Indian subcontinent.
		Kolkata and Mumbai are the only two cities in India to where the honorary designation of the Sheriff still exists.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kolkata (1956 words)

	Kolkata, India
		Kolkata is located in the eastern part of India at 22°82′ N 88°20′ E.
		Kolkata's skyline was European in form; in content it was Indian; thus earning the appelation of the City of Palaces.
		Kolkata has an eminent place in the history of American diplomacy as one of the oldest American Consulates anywhere in the world, and the oldest in India Link.
	creekin.net /c4161-n85-kolkata-india.html (1962 words)

	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Agropolitan districts, according to this definition, are relatively small and the population within such a district can reach the centre within a few hours.
		The district of Kolkata, which is the capital of the state, is almost completely a metropolitan area, and 99.78 per cent units of this district were found to be located in the metropolitan area.
		Kolkata is surrounded by three districts, namely, Howrah, North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas and one can always expect strong metropolitan influence on these surrounding districts.
	www.epw.org.in /showArticles.php?root=2002&leaf=07&filename=4740&filetype=html (5949 words)

	Kolkata
		Kolkata is located in the eastern part of India at 22В° 82вЂІ N, 88В° 20вЂІ E. It has spread linearly along the banks of the river Hooghly.
		Kolkata had to pass legislature a few years back to ban fireworks which break the 65 decibel sound limit, as ambient noise levels were going upto 90 decibels and more in parts of the city.
		Kolkata was the orignal headquarters of IBM Corporation in India before shifting to Bangalore on its return to operations in the country.
	www.archaeologics.com /Forensics-ItoM/Kolkata.php (9075 words)

	Oberoi Hotels & Resorts: Kolkata: Location & Access
		Kolkata airport is 22 kilometers from the hotel, a 45 minute drive by road.
		Kolkata is well connected to New Delhi and Mumbai with daily domestic flights operated by Jet Airways, Sahara Airlines and Indian Airlines.
		Kolkata is well connected by rail from all parts of the country.
	www.oberoihotels.com /india/kolkata/oberoikolkata/travelguide/location.asp?leftinfo=11&leftitem=1 (244 words)

	cent37-2k1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ahmedabd-II in the district of Ahmedabad (excluding the City taluka and Daskroi taluka), Dasada taluka in the district of Surendranagar, districts of Kheda, Anand, Gandhinagar, Banaskantha, Mehsana, Patan and Sabarkantha, of the State of Gujarat.
		Surat-II in the districts of Valsad, Navsari and Dang of the State of Gujarat, in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and in the Territory of Daman of the Union Territory of Daman and Diu.
		Chennai-II in the district of Chennai (excluding Fort-Tondiarpet taluk), in the areas comprising Thiruperumbudur taluk of Kancheepuram district, and the district of Tiruvellore (excluding the taluks of Pollipattu and Tiruttani and the Minjur firka of Ponneri taluk and Madhavaram firka of Ambattur taluk), of the State of Tamil Nadu.
	www.cbec.gov.in /cae/excise/cx-act/notfns-2k1/cent37-2k1.htm (1256 words)

	Calcutta Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1883, Surendranath Banerjea organised a national conference - the first of its kind in nineteenth century India - led to Kolkata becoming a centre of the Indian independence movement, especially revolutionary organisations.
		The city elects 5 representatives to the Lok Sabha (India's lower house) and 24 representatives to the state Legislative Assembly..
		Kolkata has six local FM stations: AIR Kolkata, Radio Mirchi (98.3 MHz), Red FM (93.5 MHz), Aamar FM (106.2 MHz), Gyan Vani (105.4 MHz), and Power FM (107.8 MHz).
	www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/Calcutta (3884 words)

	User talk:Dwaipayanc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		P.S. - there is note that Kolkata's name change was seen as a political ploy - you'll need a citation there.
		I put a message regarding the positioning of the "History of the name" information for the Kolkata article in its FA nom, just to draw attention to it.
		As long as it's mentioned in the History of Kolkata, nobody will object in FA as long as you mention that the =History= is a summary of main events, and the event itself requires the addition more detail, which is unnecessary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User_talk:Dwaipayanc (2271 words)

	Are we ready for urban disaster mangement? Application of GIS in fire service management —A case study in Kolkata
		Details of all the roads, lanes, by lanes of all the 141 wards of Kolkata which includes their width, length, parking status, footpaths, net carriage way.
		The entire information is kept in layered form and attached to a digitised map of Kolkata which can be used at point of time for any plan of action regarding Fire Service Management.
		A close look in the analysis of data in the Central Business District of Kolkata was really of concern.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /application/urban/overview/urbano0029pf.htm (813 words)

	A Deeper Shade of Red (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, Naxal sympathisers in Kolkata say that those arrested from the city are "many layers removed" from the leaders and the "action squad".
		While the mass movement supporters are trying to organise farm labourers and tribals to seek economic concessions from the state Government, the Andhra loyalists are spearheading annihilation squads in their fight against the establishment.
		The election was entirely one-sided, with a few hundred booths in the district recording less than 10 votes for the Opposition out of the 500-odd votes polled.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0702/116.html (990 words)

	Application of GIS in flood hazard mapping: a case study of Gangetic West Bengal, India
		Eastern part of the district Bardhaman, Murshidabad, Hoogly, Howrah, Western part of North 24-Pargana and most of the Nadia and Kolkata constitute the administrative entity of these three river basins.
		Due to unavailability of information in and around Kolkata urban mass district Kolkata, Howrah and North 24 Pargana have been excluded from the current study.
		Source of this data was the District Statistical Handbook of West Bengal, 1998.This variable was assigned the name as ‘evacuation’.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /application/natural_hazards/floods/ma03138.htm (896 words)

	A Deadly Passage to India
		In Kolkata’s Sonagachi district, a grassroots sex workers’ collective called the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) has held its 30,000 members’ HIV rate below 10 percent for the past decade, even as the rates among other cities’ sex workers has topped 50 percent.
		She was barely 13 when a neighbor in her village brought her to Kolkata on the pretext of finding her a job and sold her for $30 to a brothel keeper.
		Because this district’s prostitutes work in their huts, the kids are essentially homeless from dusk until midnight.
	www.blackherbals.com /a_deadly_passage_to_india.htm (1794 words)

	Broadway Hotel, Kolkata - Some plain speaking.... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We're not going to push the fact that Broadway Hotel is unique in providing clean and home-like accomodation with an extremely reasonable ROOM TARIFF on a 24 hour check out basis, catering to travellers in the Budget Segment.
		Either you've heard about Kolkata and definitely want to visit or would rather run in the opposite direction.
		Remember, Kolkata is more than just a City, she's a thought process, she's a lifestyle.
	business.vsnl.com /broadway/aboutus.html (170 words)

	Articles - Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is situated on the east bank of the River Hooghly in the southeastern portion of the state.
		Located close to the city is the Sundarbans National Park - the largest man-grove forest in the world - and the international boundary with Bangladesh.
		Often styled as the "cultural capital of India", "the city of processions", and "the city of joy", it has also been home to the Bengali film industry, Indian cricket and football, and such luminaries as Satyendra Nath Bose, Rabindranath Tagore, Subhash Chandra Bose, Mother Teresa, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Amartya Sen.
	www.bronzebass.com /articles/Calcutta (397 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Hope comes to Sonagachi
		It was sundown and Sonagachi, the famous `pleasure' district of Kolkata, was just about waking up for yet another night.
		Apart from the bed in the seedy rundown quarters of Chanda and others in her trade, this clinic too is a melting pot for the buyers and sellers of sex in Sonagachi.
		And it is the success stories scripted by such clinics and the gritty women of Sonagachi that turn this infamous zone of Kolkata into a role model for the rest of India and perhaps the subcontinent.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /life/2004/06/04/stories/2004060400020100.htm (1263 words)

	Welcome to Department of Consumer Affairs, Government of West Bengal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In every district the Directorate is taking steps to organise competition of various types in high schools, colleges and the general public to propagate awareness of consumer rights and duties.
		Out of this, the best will be brought up to the District level in further competition and from there to the state level.
		Systematically meetings are being held jointly by the Director and the LM traders, merchants organisations and Chambers of Commerce in Kolkata and district to propagate the idea of consumer rights and general awareness.
	kolkata.wb.nic.in /consumers/archive_news.htm (642 words)

	The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily
		Kolkata: Steeped in superstition, a farmer in a West Bengal village resorted to exorcism to cure his ailing daughter but the fl magic rituals only ended up killing her.
		Ashok Bag of Ranghat village in North 24 Parganas district adjoining Kolkata beat his seven-year-old sick daughter with a broomstick believing she was possessed, police said yesterday.
		The girl was earlier taken to an exorcist and subjected to some bizarre rituals that worsened her condition.
	www.thepeninsulaqatar.com /Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=India&month=August2005&file=World_News2005081815528.xml (229 words)

	Cinema of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tamil film industry is based in the Kodambakkam area of Chennai, South India, and hence is sometimes called 'Kollywood'.
		'Tollywood' is a metonym for the Bengali film industry, long centered in the Tollygunge district of Kolkata (Calcutta).
		The Bengali industry is notable for having nurtured the director Satyajit Ray, an internationally renowned filmmaker and a winner of many awards, among them the Bharat Ratna (India's highest civilian award), the Legion d'honneur (France), and the Lifetime achievement Academy Award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cinema_of_India (1359 words)

	CPM leader 'sells off' woman- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		KOLKATA: Shabina (name changed), a nursing attendant and CPM activist, had hoped one of her party leaders would get her a better job.
		In Kolkata, she got in touch with CPM secretary Anil Biswas a week ago.
		"He rose to prominence when CPM Kolkata district secretariat member Bablu De was in charge of the central Kolkata party zone.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/952603.cms (420 words)

	Poison of the past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For more important gatherings like the CPI-M's Kolkata district plenary his absence would not be noticed.
		The time has come for someone to pluck up the courage to tell him that it does not lie in his mouth to talk of corruption and other evils when the party is desperately wanting to remove the poison of the past.
		The Kolkata district plenary might have addressed more immediate and urgent issues like the ongoing power crisis, the delayed development projects and the unending tussle over hawker evictions.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0102/205.html (481 words)

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		Kolkata is also known as the cultural and intellectual capital of India due to high literacy, intellectual personalities and high density of quality educational institutions.
		Kolkata is a city with people of liberal thoughts, innovative thinking and parallel thinking.
		It is located in the busiest central business district of Kolkata, just behind the famous Writers Building.
	www.design2please.com /about-us.html (579 words)

	rediff.com: Forty-six killed in bus accident near Kolkata
		At least 46 passengers were killed on Monday when a tourist bus overturned on Ghatakpukur road near Kolkata.
		Sunderbans Development Minister Kanti Ganguly said rescue operations were going on to extricate the bodies from the bus, which was on its way from Ghatakpukur in South 24 Parganas district to Kolkata.
		Besides Ganguly, the district magistrate and superintendent of police were supervising the rescue work.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/may/27beng.htm (110 words)

	Wooed by the West
		But the 1999 Nift Kolkata graduate wants to tread the overseas markets cautiously. "Several stores have approached me but I will try to avoid the middle market stores as much as I can," he adds.
		The film industry is already tapping him for business and, recently, he created the dresses for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film 'Black'.
		His clothes are sold at Carma and Ogaan in Delhi, Espee and Intrigue in Kolkata and Origins and Oorja in Hyderabad.
	www.rediff.com /money/2004/oct/06betterlife.htm (300 words)

	Tata \| Media releases \| Tata Teleservices launches telecom services in Kolkata
		Having earmarked an investment of over Rs 250 crore, the company is all geared up to mark its presence in the Kolkata circle.
		With this launch, Tata Indicom services are now available in the four metros of Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai in addition to the 775 other key cities and towns across the country.
		Tata Indicom is committed to providing customers an unmatched quality of service, a host of value added benefits, and last but not the least, honest and transparent telecom services”.
	www.tata.com /tata_teleservices/releases/20050128.htm (1396 words)

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