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Mashobra is notable for housing one of the two Presidential retreats in India. The other retreat is Rashtrapati Nilayam in Secunderabad. The president visits Mashobra at least once every year, and during this time his or her core office shifts to the retreat at Chharabra, in the vicinity of Mashobra. The building housing the retreat is a ...
Rashtrapati Niwas, previously known as The Retreat Building is the official summer retreat of the President of India near Chharabra, Shimla, in the state of Himachal Pradesh.
Chharabra is a small village situated approximately 8250 feet (2514 m) above sea level, 13 km from Shimla, India, on National Highway 22 (Hindustan-Tibet Road).. It has the summer retreat of President of India, the summer residence of Governor of Punjab, a five star luxury hotel, a boarding school, and a helipad, even though the population is less than 500 people (including boarding school ...
List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1940 Ship State Description Arlington: Canada: After departing Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, on 30 April, the 244-foot (74 m) bulk carrier sank in 600 feet (183 m) of water in Lake Superior 35 nautical miles (65 km; 40 mi) north of the Keweenaw Peninsula near Superior Shoal in the Copper Harbor, Michigan, area during a storm after her captain first ordered her to ...
A U.S. General G. O. Squier-class troop transport Aiken Victory, a Victory ship troop ship conversion, arriving in Boston with 1,958 troops from Europe, 26 July 1945 [4] Large numbers of troopships were employed during World War II, including 220 "Limited Capacity" Liberty ship conversions, 30 Type C4 ship-based General G. O. Squier-class, a class of 84 Victory ship conversions, and a small ...
The Jewel in the Crown is a 1984 British television serial about the final days of the British Raj in India during and after World War II, based on British author Paul Scott's Raj Quartet novels.
A fact from Mashobra appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 July 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the Presidential office of India operates from The Retreat at Mashobra in Himachal Pradesh, India at least once every year? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions ...
Mashobra, an "M" class ship built in 1920 In 1921 and 1922 BI took delivery of a final six "M" class ships, all with geared steam turbines. They were about 20 feet (6 m) longer overall (about 16 feet (5 m) longer registered) than earlier members of the class, and had a cruiser stern instead of a counter stern .