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  2. Matka gambling - Wikipedia

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    He arrived as a migrant in Bombay in 1941 and initially did odd jobs such as masala ferriwala (spice seller) to managing a grocery store. In the 1960s, when Kalyanji Bhagat was running a grocery shop in Worli, he began the first rudimentary form of matka gambling by accepting bets based on the opening and closing rates of cotton traded on the ...

  3. Gambling in India - Wikipedia

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    Further, online gambling is a banned offence in the state of Maharashtra under the "Bombay Wager Act". Only three states, Goa, Daman and Sikkim, allow casinos. There are two casinos in Sikkim called Casino Sikkim and Casino Mahjong and ten in Goa, of which six are land-based and four are floating casinos that operate on the Mandovi River. The ...

  4. Kalyan Rural Assembly constituency - Wikipedia

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    The constituency comprises parts of Thane taluka that is Ward nos. 6 & 7 of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation and Ward nos. 6 & 7 of Thane Municipal Corporation, parts of Kalyan taluka that is ward nos. 31 to 34, 51 to 56, 66, 67 and 69 to 77 of Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation and Nilje and Hedutane sajas of Kalyan revenue circle. [2]

  5. Kalyan Assembly constituency - Wikipedia

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    Kalyan Vidhan Sabha Seat no longer exists, after the redrawing of Assembly constituency borders in 2008. It was one of the 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra state in India. . Since 2008, Kalyan has been split into three Assembly constituencies: Kalyan East, Kalyan West and Kalyan Rur

  6. Postal Index Number - Wikipedia

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    The PIN system was introduced on 15 August 1972 by Shriram Bhikaji Velankar, an additional secretary in the Government of India's Ministry of Communications. [1] [2] [3] The system was introduced to simplify the manual sorting and delivery of mail by eliminating confusion over incorrect addresses, similar place names, and different languages used by the public.

  7. Kalyan - Wikipedia

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    Kalyan is a subdivision of Thane district. Kalyan and its neighbouring township of Dombivli jointly form Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation, abbreviated as KDMC. It is a founding city of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Kalyan is the 7th biggest city in Maharashtra and 29th in India.

  8. List of talukas of Maharashtra - Wikipedia

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    The table below lists all the talukas (tahsils/tehsils) of all the thirty-six districts in the Indian state of Maharashtra, along with district-subdivision and urban status information of headquarters villages/towns, as all talukas are intermediate level panchayats between the zilla parishad (district councils) at the district level and gram panchayats (village councils) at the lower level.

  9. Kalyan Lok Sabha constituency - Wikipedia

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    Kalyan Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian Parliament) constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India.This constituency was created on 19 February 2008 as a part of the implementation of the Presidential notification based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002. [2]