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Gorkhaland. West Bengal has one autonomous district council, the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, which adopted its own emblem in October 2014.The emblem is a circular seal featuring a locomotive of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a woman picking tea leaves, a rhododendron flower and mountain peaks of the Himalayas surrounded by the name of the authority and two pairs of crossed Kukri ...
At the time of its creation in 1947, the state of West Bengal was divided into 14 districts—Bankura, Birbhum, Burdwan, Calcutta (Kolkata), Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Hooghly, Howrah, Malda, Midnapore, Murshidabad, Nadia, West Dinajpur and 24 Parganas. [ 3] Cooch Behar district was a princely state named Koch Bihar till 20 August 1949, when the ...
West Bengal celebrates many holidays and festivals. Throughout the Bengali calendar, many festivals are celebrated. Durga Puja is solemnized as perhaps the most significant of all celebrations in West Bengal. [1] Here is a list of the main festivals of West Bengal.
The culture of West Bengal is an Indian culture which has its roots in Bengali literature, music, fine arts, drama and cinema. Different geographic regions of West Bengal have subtle as well as more pronounced variations between each other, with Darjeeling Himalayan hill region and Duars showing particularly different socio-cultural aspects ...
Kolkata, West Bengal: Manufacturing Medium & light engineering 7 Antrix Corporation: 2010 Department of Space: Bangalore, Karnataka: Manufacturing Medium & light engineering 8 Balmer Lawrie & Company: 1972 Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas: Kolkata, West Bengal: Services & Manufacturing Medium & light engineering Miniratna Category - I 9
This is a list of the symbols of the states and union territories of India. Each state and union territory has a unique set of official symbols, usually a state emblem, an animal, a bird, a flower and a tree. A second animal (fish, butterfly, reptile, aquatic animal or heritage animal) sometimes appears, as do fruits and other plants, and there ...
The West Bengal Legislative Assembly ( IAST: Paścima Baṃga Vidhāna Sabhā) is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in the B. B. D. Bagh area of Kolkata, the capital of the state. Members of the Legislative assembly are directly elected by the people. The legislative assembly comprises 294 Members of ...
The State Emblem of India. West Bengal has come under President's rule on four occasions, all between 1968 and 1977. With over 23 years in office, Jyoti Basu of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is India's third longest-serving chief minister. Basu's successor Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, who served for over 10 years.