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The National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital is the apex institute of ophthalmology in the country, established in 1978 and expanded to 250 beds in 2006. In 2014, Mohammed Nasim, minister of health, expressed annoyance with the Dhaka North City Corporation for opening a cattle market near the hospital. [2][3]
The Bangladesh–India border, known locally as the Radcliffe line (IB), is an international border running between the republics of Bangladesh and India that demarcates the six divisions of Bangladesh and the Indian states. Bangladesh and India share a 4,096-kilometre-long (2,545 mi) international border, the fifth-longest land border in the ...
Retrieved 25 September 2024. His latest release Kalki 2898 AD featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan and Deepika Padukone, among others, became one of the highest-grossing Indian films with a collection of over Rs 1,200 crore approx worldwide. ^ Rawal, Sugandha (17 July 2024).
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
The Indian mainland contained 71 Bangladeshi enclaves, which in turn contained 3 Indian counter-enclaves. A joint census in 2010 found 51,549 people who were residing in these enclaves: 37,334 in Indian enclaves within Bangladesh and 14,215 in Bangladeshi enclaves within India. [3][6] The Prime Ministers of India and Bangladesh signed the Land ...
1998. Amartya Sen (Kolkata , West Bengal , India) India. Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for fundamental contribution to the welfare economy. 2006. Muhammad Yunus (Chattogram district, Bengal, now Bangladesh) Bangladesh. Muhammad Yunus and his founding Grameen Bank jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for the ...
The Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP) was created in 1995 by Dr. Geoffrey Tabin and Dr. Sanduk Ruit with a goal of establishing a sustainable eye care infrastructure in the Himalaya. HCP empowers local doctors to provide ophthalmic care through skills-transfer and education. From its beginning, HCP responds to a pressing need for eye care in the ...
Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; [5][6] both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages. [7][8][9][a] Languages spoken by the remaining 2.31% of the ...