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“People have made up their minds for parivartan. But parivartan is not only about change of governments. We will bring about ashol parivartan,” he said at the Dunlop Sahaganj Maidan. “Tolabaji (extortion) by TMC has reached such a high that one cannot even rent space without paying a cut. Bengal is in the grip of syndicates. People are getting poorer by the day even as the Trinamool is flourishing,” he added. “We took up the scheme to provide piped drinking water in each village to help women. We gave Rs 1,700 crore to Bengal for this project, but the state government has utilised only Rs 609 crore so far. Only nine lakh households have been benefited out of the targeted two crore,” he said. Women have been the focus of many of TMC’s recent campaigns and the state government’s social-welfare schemes.

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DNA Special: Why Mt Everest should be renamed after Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar

DNA Special: Why Mt Everest should be renamed after Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar We floated the idea of renaming Mount Everest to Mount Sikdar because the British robbed him of his credit and gave it to Sir George Everest. Share Updated: Jan 15, 2021, 06:39 AM IST Great Mathematician Radhanath Sikdar made history when he first measured the height of Mount Everest. However, when history was written, the achievements of Radhanath Sikdar were forgotten and that is why we will elaborate three points to let the world know about this great man s achievements and why Mt Everest should be renamed Mt Sikdar. Kenneth Mason, a famous professor at the Oxford University, shared an anecdote related to Mount Everest in one of his lectures. The lecture was titled Himalayan Romances .

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DNA Explainer : What is the calculated height of Mount Everest?

DNA Explainer : What is the calculated height of Mount Everest? In 1830, Sir George Everest became director of Survey of India. In 1831 he appointed Radhanath Sikdar a mathematician from WB to the post of Computer. Share Updated: Jan 13, 2021, 06:22 PM IST Indian mathematician and surveyor Radhanath Sikdar was probably the first person to identify that Mount Everest (then known as peak XV) was the world s highest peak as he was the first person to calculate the height of the mountain in 1852. However it was officially announced in March 1856. In 1830, Sir George Everest became the director of Survey of India and in the year 1831, he appointed Radhanath Sikdar, a mathematician from West Bengal, to the post of Computer in the Survey of India.

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DNA Special: All about Radhanath Sikdar, the man who measured Mount Everest for the first time ever

DNA Special: All about Radhanath Sikdar, the man who measured Mount Everest for the first time ever Andrew Scott Waugh considered Sir George Everest as his mentor and that s why he sent a proposal to rename Peak 15 mountain peak to Mount Everest. Share Updated: Jan 13, 2021, 11:20 PM IST Do you know why and how the world s highest mountain peak got its name Mount Everest? History has taught us that in 1856 the Royal Geographical Society named the highest mountain peak in the world as Mount Everest . It was named after Sir George Everest, who was the head of the survey and map-making organization Survey of India from 1830 to 1843. Sir George Everest died on December 2, 1866.

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