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Kanpur
Kanpur (Cawnpore) City on the River Ganges, Uttar Pradesh,
n India. Kanpur was ceded to the British in 1801, and became a frontier post. During the
Indian Mutiny, the entire British garrison in Kanpur was massacred. The city is now a major industrial and commercial centre. Industries: chemicals, leather goods, textiles. Pop. (2001) 2,532,138.
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Killing Kanpur Government apathy towards infrastructure is stifling industrial growth in the city, once known as the Manchester of the East, and turning it into a virtual graveyard of big and small units
Newspaper article from: India Today; 12/4/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...passing by the gates of Elgin Mill in Kanpur's Civil Lines area. Dozens of labourers...referred to as the Manchester of the East-Kanpur is now a graveyard of industries. In...Minister of State for Home and MP from Kanpur Sri Prakash Jaiswal had visited Elgin...
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Lucknow & Kanpur: Against all odds ; Despite negative perceptions about law and order and poor infrastructure, two cities from Uttar Pradesh Kanpur and Lucknow rise buoyed by positive consumer and investor sentiment. Do they denote a glimmer of hope for the rest of UP?
Newspaper article from: Business Today; 9/7/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...multiplexes. Another man who chose a UP city Kanpur over Mumbai threeand-a- half years...operations at a local tannery in Unnao, off Kanpur. His reasons, though, are completely...final years of his school education and Kanpur is the only city after Kota that provides...
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Kanpur cops to get a canine boost
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 4/28/2008; 474 words
; ...at the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) Kanpur 37-battalion and is serving the Kanpur zone for the last six months, is a member of...started when it was two years old and prior to the Kanpur posting, it was pressed into service at the...
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Pure Energy Signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for Fuel Cell Development.
M2 Presswire; 12/5/2006; 700+ words
; ...Understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for Fuel Cell Development(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...Understanding (MOU) with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur ("IIT Kanpur"), located in Kanpur, India for the development...
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Kanpur on nation's air map from September 20
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 9/16/2007; 436 words
; ...again from September 20. The residents of Kanpur, especially the industrialists, are...bring the city on the national air map. Kanpur was on the air map in 1984 when Indian...But after a few months flights from Kanpur to Delhi were abandoned without giving...
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J-K police rescues child from inter-state kidnappers' gang of Kanpur.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 6/28/2009; 700+ words
; ...an inter-state gang of kidnappers of Kanpur within three days of the incident. The...had been kidnapped by one Ajay Kumar of Kanpur, who had been staying in Bulgam village...alleged kidnapper Ajay Paul, a resident of Kanpur, had been staying in the village Bulgam...
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A Ph.D student commits suicide in IIT Kanpur campus
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 11/7/2006; 581 words
; ...brought to you by the Hindustan Times Kanpur, Nov 7 -- In a bizarre incident a Ph...IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Kanpur committed suicide on Monday. A suicide...with the Kalyanpur Police Station in Kanpur said that Abhilash body was being sent...
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Virus spreads in Kanpur, babus fight losing battle
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 8/26/2008; 468 words
; ...Spreading its lethal presence beyond Kanpur Dehat, the mystery virus has begun playing havoc in other districts of Kanpur division. Kannauj has reported 51...Farrukhabad in as many days. The deaths in Kanpur Dehat continue to mount with 11 more...
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Train traffic goes haywire at Kanpur Central
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 6/9/2006; 461 words
; NEW DELHI, India, June 9 -- KANPUR CENTRAL Railway Station witnessed a heavy...The trains were being run via Aligarh and Kanpur route. However, due to the sudden rush of the trains at Kanpur Central Railway station, the movement of...
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Vendors' strike in Kanpur hit revenues of mobile companies.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 10/9/2007; 582 words
; Vendors' strike in Kanpur hit revenues of mobile companies Kanpur, Oct 9 (PTI) Mobile companies, including Vodafone...distributors of recharge coupons and new prepaid connections in Kanpur. The strike was called by the Kanpur Telecom Distributors...
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Kanpur
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Kanpur ( Cawnpore ) City on the River Ganges, Uttar Pradesh, n India. Kanpur was ceded to the British in 1801, and became a frontier...the Indian Mutiny , the entire British garrison in Kanpur was massacred. The city is now a major industrial...
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Murthy, N. R. 1946–
Book article from: International Directory of Business Biographies
...of Mysore, BTech, 1967; Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, MTech, 1969. Family: Son of Nagavara Ramarao and Padmavathamma...degree at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. During the 1970s he worked for a computer company in Paris...
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Uttar Pradesh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...804 sq mi (240,363 sq km), N central India. The capital is Lucknow . Other important cities are Allahabad , Bareilly , Kanpur , and Varanasi . The most populous state of India, it was formed in 1950 by merging the United Provinces and the small former...
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Sir Henry Havelock
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Afghan War (1839), and the Sikh Wars (1843-49). During the Indian Mutiny , Havelock recaptured (July, 1857) Cawnpore ( Kanpur ) from the rebels, but he was too late to save the British population from massacre. In Sept., 1857, he relieved Lucknow...
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Ghaziabad
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...tapestries, glassware, pottery, vegetable oil, paint and varnish, heavy chains, and typewriter ribbons. It is on the Delhi-Kanpur railroad, and many workers commute to New Delhi from there. The city was the scene of fighting during the Indian Mutiny...
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