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Protests called "Women, Reclaim the Night" were held in Kolkata and other cities around India on 14 August. [76] [77] [78] The goal of the protest has been described as "For Women's independence on the midnight of independence", noting that the protests continued through India's Independence Day on 15 August. [79] [80]
Permanent Mission of India v. City of New York, 551 U.S. 193 (2007), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court construed the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to allow a federal court to hear a lawsuit brought by the City of New York to recover unpaid property taxes levied against India and Mongolia, both of which own real estate in New York.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York enjoined the city of Sherrill and Madison County from taxing the tribal property. [4] [5] Both the city of Sherrill and Madison County appealed the decision to the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. The Circuit Court affirmed, holding that the lands at issue fell within the federal ...
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756.
In the mid-1980s, Bombay overtook Calcutta as India's most populous city. In 1985 Rajiv Gandhi referred to Calcutta as a "dying city" because of the political decline of his party. [32] [33] The city's economic recovery gathered momentum after economic reforms in India introduced by the central government in the mid-1990s.
Sutanuti was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) in India, along with Gobindapur and Kalikata. Sutanuti was set up along the banks of the Hooghly river , which is a tributary of the Ganges river .
Kalikata was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in India. The other two villages were Gobindapur and Sutanuti. Job Charnock, an administrator with the British East India Company is traditionally credited with the honour of founding the city. He settled in the village of Sutanuti.
Oneida Indian Nation of New York State, 470 U.S. 226 (1985), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning aboriginal title in the United States. The case, sometimes referred to as Oneida II , was "the first Indian land claim case won on the basis of the Nonintercourse Act ."