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Kurukshetra (Hindi pronunciation: [kʊrʊkʃeːtɾə], pronunciation ⓘ) is a city and administrative headquarters of Kurukshetra district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is also known as Dharmakshetra ("Realm of duty") and as the "Land of the Bhagavad Gita ".
Kurukshetra has been celebrating Gita Mahotsav (Gita Jayanti). For long it was known as Kurukshetra Utsav. In 2016, the Haryana Government decided to give it a global fervor and organised annual International Gita Mahotsav at Kurukshetra from 1 December to 11 December. The Gita Jayanti was celebrated on 10 December as per the traditional calendar.
Map of assembly constituencies in Haryana. The Haryana Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of Haryana state in India.. The seat of the Legislative Assembly is at Secretariat Building in Chandigarh, the capital of the state.
Nardak is a title of the Kurukshetra from the words "Nirdukh", meaning the "painless". [16] Nardak is the high tract, hence a sub-region of bangar (unflooded) region of Yamuna river. During the Vedic era, it was part of Kuru janapada, hence presently has many Mahabharata era tirthas which are part of the wider 48 Kos Parikrama of Kurukshetra.
Map of districts of Haryana grouped by division. Haryana, with 22 districts, is a state in the northern region of India and is the nation's eighteenth most populous. [1] The state borders with Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north and Rajasthan to the west and south.
Haryana, India has at least 61 functional universities, including eight central university (five Institutes of National Importance (INI), one AIIMS, two general universities and one deemed university), 22 state universities, two public universities, eight deemed universities (four public and four private) and 21 private universities.
Kurukshetra is one of the 10 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Haryana state in India. [1] This constituency covers the entire Kurukshetra and Kaithal districts and part of Yamunanagar district. Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat was initially Kaithal Lok Sabha seat and till 1977 its headquarters was also Kaithal.
The system of competitive entry (based on merit) gave access to higher education in these institutions. Such an institution was established in 1963 in Kurukshetra as a joint enterprise of the Government of India and the Government of Punjab, India as the Regional Engineering College, Kurukshetra (REC Kurukshetra). In 2002, all the Regional ...