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Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu and is India's fifth largest city. [1] It is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal . With an estimated population of 12.05 million (2024), the 383-year-old city is the 31st largest metropolitan area in the world.
1817: Madras Literary Society is founded. 1819: Madras Eye Infirmary, later the Egmore Eye Hospital, is established. [38] 1826: Board of Public Instructions is founded. 1831: First census in the city is taken (population: 39,785). 1832: Madras Club is founded. 1834: First survey school is inaugurated; later develops as an engineering college.
Bangladesh co-hosts the ICC Cricket World Cup with India and Sri Lanka. 5 September: India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute. [42] 2012: 18 January: Bangladesh Army claimed to have foiled a coup d'état attempt. 24 November: Garments factory fire at Tazreen Fashion factory in Ashulia kills 117. [43] 2013 ...
Japan became a major aid provider to the new country. Although Israel was one of early countries to recognise Bangladesh, [167] the government in Dhaka strongly supported Egypt during the Arab-Israeli War of 1973. In return, Egypt gifted Bangladesh's military with 44 tanks. [168] The Soviet Union supplied several squadrons of MiG-21 planes. [169]
[291] [292] The Spectator, founded in 1836 was the first English newspaper in Chennai to be owned by an Indian and became the city's first daily newspaper in 1853. [293] The first Telugu journal printed from Madras was Satya Doota in 1835, and the first Tamil newspaper, Swadesamitran , was launched in 1899.
Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) [2] is a local government for the City of Chennai in the Chennai Metropolitan Area of Tamil Nadu, India.Inaugurated on 29 September 1688, under a royal charter issued by King James II of England on 30 December 1687 as the Corporation of Madras, it is the oldest municipal body of the Commonwealth of Nations outside Great Britain.
The port around 1870. Although the settlement of Madras did not form until after the mid-17th century, the region surrounding the present-day port remained an important center for military, administrative, and economic activities since the 1st century CE under various South Indian dynasties, namely, the Pallava, the Pandya, the Chola and the Vijayanagara empires. [11]
The Independence of Bangladesh was declared on 26 March 1971 (After midnight 12 am, 25 March) at the first watch by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Then it was read out at first M.A Hannan and then by Major Ziaur Rahman , on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Radio Station on 27 March, 1971. [ 8 ]