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Madhav R. Bir (Madhav Ramkrishna Bir) was a Goa liberation activist and a politician from Goa. He was a member of Goa Legislative Assembly from Panaji. [1] Bir was married to Mitra Bir.
The Tripura cricket team is a domestic cricket team representing the Indian state of Tripura.
Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil is an Indian ecologist, academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, a research forum under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Science. He is a former member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and the Head of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) of 2010, popularly known as the Gadgil Commission. He is a recipient of the Volvo Environment Prize and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri in 1981 and followed it up with the third highest award of the Padma Bhushan in 2006.
Goa University is a public higher education institution, headquartered in the city of Panaji, in the Indian state of Goa. In addition to Panaji, it has a campus in Margao, Mapusa, Ponda, Old Goa and Vasco da Gama.
Amita Kanekar is a Goa-based writer and architectural historian, whose well-received debut novel A Spoke in the Wheel was published by Harper Collins Publishers and later again by Navayana. Kanekar's second book was a guidebook to Portuguese sea fort architecture of the Deccan, while her third was another novel, Fear of Lions, published by Hachette in 2019. She also writes essays and newspaper columns on architecture, history, and politics, and also teaches architectural history and theory at the Goa College of Architecture.
Mitra Bir was a freedom fighter and educationist from Goa, who was sentenced to twelve years in jail at the age of 22 when the region was a Portuguese colony. She later opened schools for girls at Margao, Verem, Kakora and other locations in Goa, as well as centres for adult and vocational education for women. She was married to the late Madhav R. Bir, a former member of the Goa assembly and Gandhian.
Nee Sneham is a 2002 Indian Telugu-language romance drama film directed by Paruchuri Murali and produced by Siddhanta Mahapatra. The film stars Uday Kiran, Aarti Agarwal and Siddhant Mohapatra. The film was a hit and well received by family audiences. The screenplay and music tracks of the movie are highlights and stood for the movie's success. The music given by R. P. Patnaik was critical for the movie. Uday Kiran was nominated for the second time for the Best Actor Award at filmfare for his excellent natural and emotional performance. It was remade in Odia as Mu tote Love karuchi (2007) and in Bengali as Premi (2004).
Nepali literature refers to the literature written in Nepali language. The Nepali language has been the national language of Nepal since 1958.
Golmaal Returns is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty, written by Yunus Sajawal and Farhad-Sajid and produced by Dhilin Mehta under the Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Limited banner. An adaptation of the 1989 Marathi comedy classic Pheka Pheki, which itself was inspired from the 1973 Hindi film Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar, it serves as the second installment in the Golmaal film series and features Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Shreyas Talpade in lead roles. The soundtrack has been composed by Pritam.
Madhav Bhattarai is a Nepalese writer and academic. He is chairman of the Nepal committee of astrologers. He earned his PhD in Sanskrit literature. He writes in Sanskrit and Nepali.
The Goa Konkani Akademi is an organization set up by the Government of Goa in 1986 to promote the Konkani in Goa. Its stated aim is to accelerate the pace of development of Konkani by encouraging writers, researchers, etc. and to bring Konkanis from all areas together.
Madhav Manjunath Shanbhag was an Indian lawyer and activist on behalf of the Konkani-speaking people. He was born in Karwar, in the state of Karnataka. With a few like-minded companions he travelled in all the Konkani-speaking areas, seeking to unite the fragmented Konkani community under the banner of 'one language, one script, one literature'. He succeeded in organizing the first Adhiveshan of All India Konkani Parishad in Karwar in 1939.
The All India Konkani Parishad is a national conference held in India. It is meant to support the Konkani people and Konkani language, and conducts various activities to achieve that goal, aided by local authorities
Shiroda is a village in Ponda Taluka in South Goa District, Goa, India. The village has a population of 14,112 based on 2001 census data.
The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP), also known as the Gadgil Commission after its chairman Madhav Gadgil, was an environmental research commission appointed by the Ministry of Environment and Forests of India. The commission submitted the report to the Government of India on 31 August 2011. The Expert Panel approached the project through a set of tasks, such as:
Sudin alias Ramkrishna Madhav Dhavalikar is an Indian politician from the state of Goa, and a senior leader of the MG Party. He is a six-term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly, representing the Marcaim constituency and former deputy CM of Goa.
Rajya Sabha elections were held in India on 21 July and 8 August 2017 as nomination contests by state legislators routinely for ten members of the Rajya Sabha across three states, replacing those who retired in July and August 2017. The State Legislatures which contribute in this six-year minor elections/nomination cycle are Goa, Gujarat and West Bengal. The mechanism is the single transferable vote (STV) among legislators, meaning nominations may be unopposed contests. The open ballot is used rather than secret ballot, allowing public scrutiny.
Deepak Madhav Dhavalikar, also known as Deepak 'Pandurang' Dhavalikar, is an Indian politician from the state of Goa. He is a two-term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly representing the Priol constituency. He is president of MGP and has played key role in keeping the party alive in Goan politics. He was Minister in Goa Government for the period 2012–2016.
Madhav Borkar is a noted Konkani poet, former station director of All India Radio and Konkani litterateur based in Goa, India.
Typewriter is an Indian horror drama web television series, directed by Sujoy Ghosh, which stars Purab Kohli, Palomi Ghosh, Jisshu Sengupta and Sameer Kochhar in the lead roles. The series is set in Bardez township of Goa, and revolves around a haunted house and a book that captures the imagination of a group of wannabe ghost hunters.