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The office of the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir is vacant with no elections held since the former state was reorganized in 2019. Only one of the incumbents is a woman — Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, who is serving since 20 March 2011 (for 13 years, 87 days), having the longest continuous incumbency. Kerala 's Pinarayi Vijayan (aged 79 ...
The first East India House on the site was an Elizabethan mansion, previously known as Craven House, which the Company first occupied in 1648. This was completely rebuilt in 1726–29; and further remodelled and extended in 1796–1800. It was demolished in 1861. The Lloyd's building, headquarters for Lloyd's of London, was built on the site of ...
The East India Company ( EIC) [ a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [ 4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the South and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of South Asia and colonised ...
August 2, 2024 at 9:38 AM. Ancient Papal Palace Uncovered at VaticanArtur Debat - Getty Images. The remains of an ancient structure that may have once housed the papacy were discovered in Rome ...
Holden Village is located in the Cascade Range in Washington, in the Wenatchee National Forest. [3] [4] [5] Inaccessible by car, visitors (volunteers, guests, and through-hikers) generally take a ferry up Lake Chelan from Chelan or Fields Point Landing to Lucerne where they board a Village bus which takes them up an 11-mile (18 km) gravel road through a set of 12 switchbacks, and into Holden ...
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) -Free speech organizations welcomed the news of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's release from jail in Britain but said the U.S. case had still set a bad precedent for ...
July 29, 2024 at 2:49 PM. Mark Makela. Wireless providers including T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon have faced a string of lawsuits in recent years from women who allege retail employees stole intimate ...
December 21, 1965. One Hanover (formerly known as India House, Hanover Bank Building, and New York Cotton Exchange Building) is a commercial building at 1 Hanover Square, on the southwestern edge of the square, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It was the site of the United States' first cotton futures exchange, the ...