When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Darbuk–Shyok–DBO Road - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darbuk–Shyok–DBO_Road

    The Darbuk–Shyok–DBO Road traverses the historic winter route, also called the Zamistānee route, used by the trading caravans between Leh and Yarkand. Whereas the summer route would cross the Ladakh Range through the difficult Sasser Pass to reach the Shyok River valley, the winter route used to go via the banks of the Shyok River when the water flow would be much reduced and the frozen ...

  3. Shaikhs in North India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaikhs_in_North_India

    Many Shaikhs from North India are descended from Arabs, and adopted 'Shaikh' as their last name through marriage or their job. In Frontier Regions , Punjab of Pakistan, or Kashmir , the title shaikh was given to those who had descended from upper caste natives such as the Brahmins , Kayasthas and Rajputs .

  4. North India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_India

    North India has the state with highest GDP per capita in the Indian Union was Goa in 2021. Other North Indian states which follow are Haryana and Gujarat. North India also has the state with the highest GDP in India which is Maharashtra. [162] Chandigarh has the highest per-capita State Domestic Product (SDP) of any Indian union territory. [163]

  5. List of national highways in India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Highways...

    On 28 April 2010, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways officially published a new numbering system for the National Highway network in the Gazette of the Government of India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientation and the geographic location of the highway.

  6. Iraqi Biradari - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Biradari

    India: Iraqi Biradri from the native places in eastern U.P. are settled in many cities among others,Ethnic communities in Kanpur, and Ethnic communities in Kolkata are mentioned. People of the aforementioned community from Lar, Uttar Pradesh in Deoria district, a known historic center of the community, carry the surname, Lari.

  7. Sheikhupur, Badaun - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikhupur,_Badaun

    Sheikhupur is an area near Badaun, a city in the north-central Uttar Pradesh state of northern India. It is inhabited by Faridi branch of Farooqi Sheikhs. In the reign of Emperor Akbar the Farooqi Sheikhs became connected with the Mughal Empire.

  8. List of bridges in India - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_India

    Another main feature of the bridge is its 29 m (95 ft) width with 6 road lanes for a single plane axial suspension. [ 44 ] The Arrah–Chhapra Bridge held the record for the longest total extradosed span length in the world when it was inaugurated in 2017, with 16 pylons and 1,920 m (6,300 ft), surpassing the well-known Twinkle Ibigawa Bridge ...

  9. Nashya Shaikh - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashya_Shaikh

    The Nashyas trace their origin to the indigenous communities of Koch people of northern West Bengal, though some of them are also from Mech community. Their conversion to Islam is said to have taken over two to three centuries, and the Nashya still retain many cultural traits of their pre-Islamic past.For instance the reverence of pirs was a continuation of their previous beliefs.