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Bhubaneswarଭୂବନେଶ୍ଵର is the capital of the state of Orissa (ancient Kalinga). The city is a properly planned city with wide roads and many gardens and plantations. It is sometimes called the Temple City because of the its over 600 temples that can be found throughout the city. To the east are the famous Sun temple of Konark and the Jagannath temple of Puri. The Lingaraj temple of old Bhubaneswar, built in the 11th century, is another temple noted for its ancient history. The Khandagiri and Dhauligiri, situated on the outskirts of the city, carry monuments of inhabitions of buddhist monks in the time of King Ashoka. Another such monument is the Shantistupa, which was built as a symbol of peace at the site where the great Kalinga War took place between Emperor Ashoka and Kalinga (the old empire of Orissa). Orissa (ଓଡ଼ିଶା) is a state situated in the east coast of India. ...
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A sugarcane plantation at Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, 2005 A plantation is a large tract of monoculture, as a tree plantation, a cotton plantation, a tea plantation or a tobacco plantation. ...
The word temple has different meanings in the fields of architecture, religion, geography, anatomy, and education. ...
The Konark temple, widely known not only for its architectural grandeur but also for the intricacy and profusion of its sculptural work, is situated on the west coast of Orissa, India. ...
Puri is also city in the Indian state of Orissa, which is famous for the Jagannath temple located there. ...
Statues of Buddha such as this, the Tian Tan Buddha statue in Hong Kong, remind followers to practice right living. ...
Emperor Ashoka (a possible picturisation) Ashoka the Great (also Asoka, Aśoka, pronounced as Ashok-uh, not Ashokaa) was the ruler of the Mauryan empire from 273 BC to 232 BC. A convert to Buddhism, Ashoka reigned over most of the Indian subcontinent, from present day Pakistan to Bengal and as...
Emperor Ashoka (a possible picturisation) Ashoka the Great (also Asoka, Aśoka, pronounced as Ashok-uh, not Ashokaa) was the ruler of the Mauryan empire from 273 BC to 232 BC. A convert to Buddhism, Ashoka reigned over most of the Indian subcontinent, from present day Pakistan to Bengal and as...
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The 2nd century capital of the Kalinga Kingdom is said to be the fortified city of Sisupalgarh, near modern Bhubaneswar, of which only ruins remain.
The city has offices of Satyam, Infosys, and STPI. Satyam Computer Services Ltd. ...
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Education
The more notable among the numerous educational institutes - Utkal University
- Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology
- College of Engineering and Technology
- Xavier Institute of Management (http://www.ximb.ac.in)
- BJB College
- College of Basic Sciences and Humanities
- Institute of Physics (http://www.iopb.res.in)
- Maharshi College
- Ramadevi Women's college
- Regional Research Laboratories
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India is subdivided into 28 states, 6 union territories and a National Capital Territory. ...
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Agartala is the capital of the Indian state of Bangladesh border. ...
Aizawl is the capital city of the state of Mizoram in India. ...
Bangalore (ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು in Kannada) is the capital city of Karnataka. ...
Bhopal, marked in red, lies in central India. ...
Chandigarh is a city in India that serves as the capital of two states: Punjab and Haryana. ...
Chennai (சென்னை in Tamil), formerly known as Madras, is a city on the east coast of Southern India. ...
Daman may mean: Daman and Diu, a formerly-Portuguese territory of India Daman, a philosopher of ancient Greece This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Dehradun (देहरादून) is a capital city of Uttaranchal state of India nestled between the Himalayas and Shivaliks ranges. ...
Dispur is the capital of Assam, a state in northeast India. ...
Gandhinagar is the capital of Gujarat State, India. ...
Gangtok is the capital and largest town of the Indian state of Sikkim. ...
Hyderabad (హైదరాబాద,حیدراباد), the 5th largest metropolis of India [1], is the capital of the state of Andhra Pradesh. ...
Imphal is the capital of Manipur, India. ...
Itanagar is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh. ...
Old city of Jaipur, India Jaipur (जयपुर) , also popularly known as the Pink City, historically sometimes rendered as Jeypore, is the capital of Rajasthan state, India. ...
Kavaratti is an island in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep off the coast of the state of Kerala. ...
Kohima is a small hill town which serves as the capital of Indias north eastern border state of Nagaland. ...
Kolkata (Bengali: কলকাতা), formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, and once the most-populated city in India, although now overtaken by Mumbai (Bombay). ...
Lucknow is the capital city of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. ...
Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the most populous Indian city. ...
New Delhi ( नई दिल्ली ) is the capital of India, and is part of the National capital territory of Delhi. ...
Panaji or Panjim is the capital and largest city of Goa state in south-western India. ...
Patna is the capital of the state of Bihar, in north-eastern India. ...
Pondicherry (पॉंडिचेरी in Hindi), currently undergoing a name change to Puduchery, is the name of a union territory and its capital in the south of India. ...
Port Blair is the largest town in the Andaman Islands and the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory of India. ...
Raipur is the capital city of the state of Chhattisgarh, India. ...
Ranchi is the capital of Jharkhand. ...
Shillong is the capital of Meghalaya, one of the smaller states in India. ...
Shimla Shimla (शिमला) is the capital of Himachal Pradesh and a hill station in North India. ...
Silvassa is the capital of the Indian Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli sandwitched between the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. ...
Srinagar is a city in Jammu and Kashmir, India, in the Western Himalayas. ...
Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala Indian Coffee House Thiruvananthapuram or Thiruvanathapuram (formerly known as Trivandrum) is the capital (population - 889,191 (2001)) of the state of Kerala, India. ...
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