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Numbers would be written on pieces of paper and put into a matka, a large earthen pitcher. One person would then draw a chit and declare the winning numbers. Over the years, the practice changed, so that three numbers were drawn from a pack of playing cards, but the name "matka" was kept. [2] In 1962, Kalyanji Bhagat started the Worli matka.
The gambling game Satta Matka was created at the Bombay Cotton Exchange. Players would guess between one and three of the final digits of either the opening or closing price of cotton commodities as they were transmitted from the New York Cotton Exchange to the Bombay Cotton Exchange. Players that correctly guessed additional digits of the ...
Kalyan Junction is a major railway junction station on the central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network, lying at the junction of the north-east and south-east lines of the suburban Mumbai division of the Central Railway, 54 km (34 mi) north-east of Mumbai. It comes under top 10 busiest railway stations in India.
Satta, a genus of spiders in the family Lycosidae; Satta gambling, a form of betting and lottery; Swiss Air Traffic Control Technical Association, the association of Swiss Air Navigation Service (ANS) technical professionals; The Pali word for sattva, a sentient being in Buddhism; Mount Satta and Satta Pass, in Shizuoka, Japan
With a population of more than 700,000, Kalyan is a part of the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation established in 1983, with municipalities of Kalyan, Dombivli, Ambernath and 81 other villages. It was then one of the largest urban local bodies in Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and in the state, with an area around 209 km 2 (81 sq mi).
Mumbai Metropolitan Region (ISO: Muṁbaī Mahānagara Pradēśa; abbreviated to MMR and previously also known as Greater Bombay Metropolitan Area), [6] [7] is a metropolitan area consisting of Mumbai and its satellite towns in the northern Konkan division of Maharashtra in western India.
Kalyan-Dombivli is a twin city and it comes under Mumbai Metropolitan Region and it is a municipal corporation with its headquarters located in Kalyan in Thane district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It was formed in 1982 to administer the twin townships of Kalyan and Dombivli. Kalyan has a history of over 700 years. Kalyan is also a major ...
The 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections were held on 20 November 2024 to elect all 288 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.The turnout for the election was 66.05%, the highest since 1995.