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    continuously. Mr. Phileas Fogg attempts to go around the world in eighty days and so he covers the major points across the globe Paris¸ Suez‚ Bombay‚ Calcutta‚ Singapore‚ Hong-Kong‚ Yokohama‚ San Francisco‚ New York‚ Liverpool and then back to London. Apart from these major places Fogg also meets adventures in route. As the train from Bombay to Calcutta stops a little beyond Lothal‚ Fogg and his companions travel to Allahabad on elephants. Later‚ when the travelers are in America and are attacked

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    now capital of the Republic of Macedonia‚ but at the time part of the Ottoman Empire. On 10 September 1946‚ Teresa experienced what she later described as "the call within the call" while travelling by train to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith." She began her missionary work with the poor in 1948‚ replacing her traditional Loreto habit

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    first in the matriculation examination in 1911 from Assam Valley under Calcutta University and in 1913‚ astonishing everybody‚ secured first position in IA among the successful candidates of Bihar‚ Orissa‚ erstwhile Bengal and Assam under Calcutta University. Even though he could not shine in BA‚ contrary to his expectation‚ he did well in MA with a high second class in group ‘A’ and first class first in group ‘B’ from Calcutta University. It was a matter of national pride that Dr Kakoti received

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    Attention I. Someone once asked Mother Teresa how could they make a difference as she had to Calcutta‚ India. A. She simply said‚ “Find your own Calcutta.” 1. This meant to make a difference; a person shouldn’t try to change every problem in the world. But by focusing on one problem‚ a person’s effort could make all the difference. II. Homelessness in Denver is my Calcutta and help is made possible by many organizations‚ I would like to speak about one in particular

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    Northwest and center of the country are the most sparsely populated areas. The most densely populated places are cities in the northeastern part of india around the Ganges river‚ that leads to the sea‚ where the plains of Ganga are. These cities include Calcutta and Lucknow. Bombay‚ the most populated city in India‚ is located in the western coast of the country‚ in the Western Ghats. Another of the biggest cities‚ Bangalore‚ is located where the Penner and Palar rivers meet‚ in the south of India‚ in

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    age. His father‚ a deputy collector in British-ruled India‚ deliberately sent him to a Bengali school to instill a love for Indian values and life in young Jagdish. He was later sent to a hostel in an English school in Calcutta. After his graduation from Sr. Xavier’s College in Calcutta

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    were confined to the revenue court known as the mal adalat. He was to act as the judge in the Moffussil Diwani Adalat of the district. As the sole judge‚ he had full powers to decide all types of disputes. Appeals lay to the Sadar Diwani Adalat at Calcutta and further to the King-in-Council depending on the value of the suit. In order to assist the Collector in deciding civil cases‚ a Registrar was appointed in each adalat. The Collector was also given some magisterial powers. As a Magistrate‚ he was

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    History and development of Bengali journalism Bengal‚ especially Calcutta (presently Kolkata) was the cradle of journalism in India. The first newspaper of India Hickey’s Bengal Gazette was published in Kolkata in 1780. So were the first four non-English newspapers- in Bengali‚ Urdu‚ Hindi and Persian. Several language newspapers owe their birth to Kolkata in some form or the other; for example the Oriya types were manufactured in Serampore‚ a suburb of Kolkata. The year 1818 marks the

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    the founder of the Birla Group. He mover to Calcutta In the late 19th century and with it attached close ties to the freedom movement at the time. Birla’s grandfather Sheth Shivnarayan Birla‚ a member of the Marwari community from the westerly state of Rajasthan ...... was a traditional Marwari moneylender against pawned items AS A RESULT:- At the age of 13‚ G.D was already carving out a career as a trader and broker in Gunny and Hessian in Calcutta As a broker‚ GD had to call on many British

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