When Jaipur s Maharaja Madho Singh was invited to attend King Edward VII s coronation in 1902, he chartered a ship for Rs 15 lakh for the journey.
He also carried 27,000 litres of Ganga
Betel nut, also called the areca nut, has become a great source of additional income for farmers in Bangladesh as the fruit native to South Asia and parts of east Africa is widely consumed in the country.
The story of Ram and Sita has been retold hundreds if not thousands of times, with its interpretations subject to the historical and political contexts in which they were conceived.
About 10,000 farmers across five districts, namely Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Gaibandha, Nilphamari and Rangpur, are benefitting from the production, use and sale of vermicompost, which is a natural fertiliser produced by decomposing organic material using earthworms.