ganges in English

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a river in northern India and Bangladesh that rises in the Himalayas and flows southwest for about 1,678 miles (2,700 km) to the Bay of Bengal, where it forms the world's largest delta. The river is regarded by Hindus as sacred.

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1. 1,099,647), capital of Bihar state, NE India, on the Ganges River

2. The Ganges delta is rising as a result of alluvial deposits.

3. Kolkata ( Calcutta ) is a linear city grown along the river Ganges.

4. Agriculture dominated the economic activity along the Ganges valley during this period.

5. The wet, tropical Ganges delta is one of the world’s leading rice- producing areas.

6. The mainstream of the Ganges in the delta is the Padma, in Bangladesh.

7. The delta of the Ganges and Brahmapootra Rivers measures over fifteen thousand square miles

8. On the delta are tidal jungles, the home of the Bengal tiger and the Ganges crocodile

9. Allahabad City at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, Uttar Pradesh, n central India

10. Its main rivers are the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Yamuna, as well as other tributaries.

11. The flora and fauna of this state is enriched by the river Ganges that flows through Bihar before

12. East of Porus' kingdom, near the Ganges River, was the powerful kingdom of Magadha, under the Nanda Dynasty.

13. 24 Set in the low-lying Ganges–Brahmaputra River Delta, Bangladesh sits in a perfect storm of climactic conditions.

14. In Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers, players use eight symbol dice to develop their province, gather goods, and sell them at the market; win over influential personalities in the palace; and sail up and down the Ganges River.

15. 26 Set in the low - lying Ganges – Brahmaputra River Delta, Bangladesh sits a perfect storm of climactic conditions.

16. Animals like the Ganges river dolphin which is just down to a few left, and it is also critically endangered.

17. Like the rest of the Ganges, the Bhāgirathi-Hooghly is considered sacred to Hindus, and its water is considered holy.

18. Map of A city plan from 1912 of Cawnpore, India, on the southern bank of the Ganges River

19. The Brahmaputra River Basin consists of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, which originates in Tibet and the Barak River starting in India

20. Pollution threatens not only humans, but also more than 140 fish species, 90 amphibian species and the endangered Ganges river dolphin.

21. But we can see the haze from fires and so forth in the Ganges valley down below in India.

22. Bengal is a region in the northeastern Indian Subcontinent, defined by the river delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers

23. The text notes that silk produced there travelled to neighbouring India via the Ganges and to Bactria by a land route.

24. Blumenbach’s class of Caucasians included most Europeans, Northern Africans, and Asians as far east as the Ganges Delta in modern India

25. Thereby, the reactive silica content in sediments of Ganges-Brahmaputra and Mississippi was identified using standard and modified operational analytical methods.

26. As of 1999, India tapped about 12% of the hydroelectric potential of the Ganges and just 1% of the vast potential of the Brahmaputra.

27. He might have been a son of Demetrius and one of his sub-kings in charge of the Paropamisade between Bactria and Indus-Ganges plains

28. Two species of dolphin can be found in the delta: the Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) and the Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica).

29. Bangladesh, country of South Asia, located in the delta of the Padma (Ganges [Ganga]) and Jamuna (Brahmaputra) rivers in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent

30. From the plain alluvial deposits of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra we used a modern express train in order to reach the submountains of the Himalaya.

31. The deities saw his vigor and virility, suggesting that... he squirt his sperms in Ganges, so that land around the river would be fertile.

32. Cawnpore definition: an industrial city in NE India, in S Uttar Pradesh on the River Ganges : scene of the Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

33. Chumru and the ryot Bestrode the third horse, and under the guidance of one who knew every path, they set out for the Ganges

34. Their numbers have now dwindled to a quarter of their numbers of fifteen years before, and they have become extinct in the Ganges' main tributaries.

35. Amrit Bhawan is a tranquil retreat with a private ghat and garden by the Ganges, located in the quiet neighbourhood of Kankhal in Haridwar (Uttarakhand).

36. The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin has a huge hydroelectric potential, on the order of 200,000 to 250,000 megawatts, nearly half of which could be easily harnessed.

37. Leadership in the Mekong Delta will provide lessons for Vietnam’s neighbors, as well as for the Ganges, the Okavango, the Mississippi and other complex delta systems.

38. Located on a 100 acre Maharaja’s Palace Estate, Ananda is surrounded by graceful Sal forests and overlooks the spiritual town of Rishikesh and the Ganges river valley.

39. Up to 500,000 people lost their lives in the storm, primarily as a result of the storm surge that flooded much of the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta.

40. HARPODON NEHEREUS picture by Colin Newman, Marshall Publishing Ltd Also called Bummalo, Bombay Duck is a marine lizardfish, Harpodon nehereus, from southern Asia, particularly abundant in the Ganges Delta and the …

41. It was the strongest tropical Cyclone to strike the Ganges Delta since Sidr of the 2007 season and the first super cyclonic storm to have formed in the Bay of Bengal since the 1999

42. The Importance of Cawnpore: Located on the Grand Trunk Road and Grand Trunk Canal and laying beside the river Ganges, Cawnpore was to become a vitally important garrison town, straddling key communication lines

43. One of the great rivers of the world, the Brahmaputra rises in the Himalayas and wends its way first east, then south, then west, until it joins the Ganges and spills into the great Bengal delta

44. Bengal definition is - historic region of the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent including the delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers; a province of British India 1937—47; divided 1947 between Pakistan and India (republic).

45. ‘Also called Bummalo, Bombay Duck is a marine lizardfish, Harpodon nehereus, from southern Asia, particularly abundant in the Ganges Delta and the Arabian Sea of western India.’ Origin Late 17th century perhaps from Marathi bombīl.

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47. 3 In the sixth century B.C.E., while Pythagoras and his followers in Greece were advocating the theory of transmigration of souls, Hindu sages living along the banks of the Indus and Ganges rivers in India were developing the same concept.

48. Situated on the banks of the river Ganges, the 12-acre complex of the Patna Collectorate contains within it a precious slice of history from a time when the city used to be a bustling trade centre for Europeans

49. Varanasi, a city of one million people that many pilgrims visit to take a "holy dip" in the Ganges, releases around 200 million litres of untreated human sewage into the river each day, leading to large concentrations of faecal coliform bacteria.

50. Self Blissing Yoga Retreat in Rishikesh Rejuvenate & relax with our 7 night/8 day yoga wellness holiday retreat in Rishikesh – India Rishikesh, the gateway to the Himalayas and important pilgrimage center is situated on the banks of the mighty Ganges, and imbued with a rich yogic tradition.