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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 ...
v. t. e. The Government of West Bengal, also known as the West Bengal Government, is the principal administrative authority of the Indian state of West Bengal, created by the National Constitution as the state's legislative, executive and judicial authority. [1] The Governor acts as the head of state and is the highest nominal authority of the ...
Bengal tiger. The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies. [ 1] It ranks among the biggest wild cats alive today. [ 2][ 3] It is considered to belong to the world's charismatic megafauna. [ 4]
In India, Bengali is one of the 23 official languages. [ 51] It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and in Barak Valley of Assam. [ 52][ 53] Bengali has been a second official language of the Indian state of Jharkhand since September 2011.
West Bengal was ruled under the Delhi Sultanate from the 13th to the 14th century and the Bengal Sultanate from the 14th to the 16th century. In the 16th century, after the fall of the Bengal Sultanate, West Bengal came under the Mughal Empire . Murshidabad in West Bengal was the capital of independent Nawab Bengal (1717–1765).
Bengal[ a] ( Bengali: বঙ্গ, romanized : Bôṅgo, pronounced [ˈbɔŋgo] ⓘ) or endonym Bangla ( Bengali: বাংলা, romanized : Bāṅlā, pronounced [ˈbaŋlaˑ] ⓘ) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.
Kanyashree. Kanyashree is an initiative taken by the Government of West Bengal to improve the life and the status of the girls by helping economically backward families with cash so that families do not arrange the marriage of their girl child before eighteen years because of economic problem. The purpose of this initiative is to uplift those ...
The West Bengal Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in the Shibpur area of Howrah. Members of the Legislative assembly are directly elected by the people. The legislative assembly comprises 294 Members of Legislative Assembly, all directly elected from single-seat constituencies.