Himalayas river-Iravati Some facts about Iravati River Originates – Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, India at an altitude of 14,000 feet (4,300 m) It flows through Barabhangal, Bara Bansu and Chamba districts turning to southwest and enter Jammu and Kashmir state then flows to the Pakistan Punjab province and meet into Chenab River course of […]
The Himalayas is a mountain in north of the Indian subcontinent. By extension, it is also the name of a mountain range which includes the Karakoram, Hindu Kush, and other ranges, less, extending from the Pamir Knot. Overall, Himalayas is the highest in the world and home to the world’s highest peaks, the Eight-thousandths, which […]
The Triple Frontier is a tri-border area along the junction of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, where the Iguazú and Paraná rivers converge. Near the convergence are the cities of Ciudad del Este, Alto Paraná, Puerto Iguazú, Misiones and Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná. This area is near Iguazú Falls and the Itaipu hydroelectric plant. Population The […]
In 1690, Job Charnok, an agent of the East India Company chose this place for a British trade settlement. The site was carefully selected, being protected by the Hooghly River on the west, a creek to the north, and by salt lakes about two and a half miles to the east. There were three large […]
The rent-roll of Akbar, a sixteenth-century Mughal emperor, and the work of a Bengali poet, Bipradaas, of the late fifteenth century, both make mention of the city’s early name being Kolikata, from which Kolkata/Calcutta are said to derive. There is lot of discussion on how the city got its name. There are different views on […]