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Roy Villa at Darjeeling after Restoration. Roy Villa is a four storied building situated at Lebong Cart Road, Darjeeling, West Bengal.The building holds a special significance in being the Death place of Sister Nivedita, the disciple of Swami Vivekananda who died on 13 October 1911.
State Bank of India (SBI) is an Indian multinational public sector bank and financial services statutory body headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.It is the 48th largest bank in the world by total assets and ranked 178th in the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations of 2024, being the only Indian bank on the list. [11]
Raj Bhavan used to be the Governor's House during the British era. It was served as the summer residence of the Governors of Bengal. The permanent residence of the Governor was at the Belvedere Estate in Calcutta. However, during the hot summer time, the Governor used to shift his residence to Darjeeling, along with the whole office.
Sterling Holiday Resorts Limited (known as Sterling), was incorporated in the year 1986 and is a leading hospitality company. Since 2014, Sterling Holiday Resorts Limited has been an integral part of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. and is a 100% independently managed subsidiary of Thomas Cook India Limited (TCIL). .
Taj Mahal Palace Hotel c. 1908. The company was founded by Tata Group founder and industrialist Jamshedji Tata. [8] He incorporated Indian Hotels Company Limited in 1899 and registered in 1902. [9]
The hotel started out as boarding house for bachelor British tea planters in Darjeeling, in what was then British India, were built in 1841 and opened up as a Boarding House in the late 1880s. It was acquired by Tenduf La, a Sikkimese of Tibetan descent, who turned it into a hotel with the name Windamere.
The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration is a semi-autonomous council for the Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal state in India.The GTA was formed in 2012 to replace the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council, which was formed in 1988 and administered the Darjeeling hills for 23 years.
The chairperson of the State Bank of India is the chief executive officer of India's largest scheduled commercial bank and the ex-officio chair of its Central Board of Directors. Since its establishment in 1955 by the government of India , the State Bank of India has been headed by twenty-seven chairpersons.