Kiran Bedi is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development.
Tihar Prisons, also called Tihar Jail, is a prison complex in India and one of the largest complex of prisons in India. It has 9 functional prisons spread over more than 400 acres. Run by Department of Delhi Prisons, the prison contains nine central prisons, and is one of the three prison complexes in Delhi. The other two prison complexes are at Rohini and Mandoli with one and six central prisons respectively. Tihar prison complex is located in Janakpuri, approximately 3 km from Tihar village in West Delhi.
Om Prakash Chautala also known as O.P. Chautala is an Indian politician who has served as the 7th Chief Minister of Haryana from the Indian National Lok Dal. He is the son of 6th Deputy Prime Minister of India, Chaudhary Devi Lal. He holds the record for being the oldest prisoner of the Tihar Jail of Delhi, before his release in 2020. He was the chief minister of Haryana for record four times.
Tihar is a five-day spiritual & cultural Hindu festival of Diwali celebrated by Nepalis as well as by the Indian Gorkhas inhibiting Sikkim state and Gorkhaland Territories.
Kumbanad is a town located in the Koipuram Town Panchayath Along with Pullad. It is part of Thiruvalla Taluk of Pathanamthitta district in the State of Kerala. It is an important town situated on T.K. Road, equidistant from Eraviperoor and Pullad; which are at a distance of 3 km.
This is a list of properties on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Michigan.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted October 18, 2024.
There are over 1,600 buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Kansas listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas. NRHP listings appear in 101 of the state's 105 counties.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mackinac County, Michigan.
Vasna (Borsad INA) (sometimes spelled Wasna) is a town and an Industrial Notified Area of the Borsad municipality in Anand district in the Western Indian state of Gujarat.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hamilton County, Ohio.
Ashok Nagar is a neighborhood in the city of Delhi. It constitutes a part of the Tilak Nagar assembly constituency as well as the West Delhi parliamentary constituency. The area was known as Tihar Village 2 before being renamed as such. It is an authorized neighborhood today, and the government of Delhi plays a role in its development.
Dr. Vartika Nanda is an Indian prison reformer and media educator. She has experience of the industry and academia and has dedicated her life to the cause of prison reforms. She is the recipient of Stree Shakti Puraskar, the highest civilian honour for female empowerment in India for her work in media and literature. Her name entered Limca Book of Records twice.
The Kingdom of Nri was a medieval polity located in what is now Nigeria. The kingdom existed as a sphere of religious and political influence over a significant part of what is known today as Igboland prior to expansion, and was administered by a priest-king called an Eze Nri. The Eze Nri managed trade and diplomacy on behalf of the Nri people, a subgroup of the Igbo-speaking people, and possessed divine authority in religious matters.
Lakshmi Puja or Lokkhi Pujo is a Hindu occasion for the veneration of Lakshmi, the Goddess of Prosperity and the Supreme Goddess of Vaishnavism. The occasion is celebrated on the amavasya in the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar month of Ashwayuja or Kartika, on the third day of Deepavali (Tihar) in most parts of India and Nepal. In Odisha, Assam, Bengal this puja is celebrated five days after Vijaya Dashami.
Eze Nri Òbalíke is the 15th recorded Eze Nri of the Kingdom of Nri in modern-day southeastern Nigeria. He is said to have ruled from around the year 1889 till 1936.
The Igbo calendar is the traditional calendar system of the Igbo people from present-day Nigeria. The calendar has 13 months in a year (Afọ), 7 weeks in a month (Ọnwa), and 4 days of Igbo market days in a week (Izu) plus an extra day at the end of the year, in the last month. The name of these months was reported by Onwuejeogwu (1981).
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dayton, Ohio.
Know India Programme abbreviated as KIP is a government initiative by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India for the Indian diaspora between the age group of 18 to 30 years. It was launched on 8 January 2014, on the occasion of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in New Delhi. The purpose of the Know India Programme is to help Persons of Indian Origin youths familiarize with their roots and contemporary India and provide them an exposure to the country of their origin. From 2016, six KIPs a year are being organised.
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