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  2. Hindustan (newspaper) - Wikipedia

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    Hindustan. Hindustan Dainik (or just Hindustan) is an Indian Hindi -language daily newspaper. According to WAN-IFRA, it ranked 13th in the world by circulation in 2016 and per the Audit Bureau of Circulations was 6th in India in 2022. [1] [2] [3] Madan Mohan Malaviya launched it in 1936. [4] It is published by Hindustan Media Ventures Limited.

  3. Haridwar - Wikipedia

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    UK-08. Sex ratio. 1.18 [2] ♂ / ♀. Website. haridwar .nic .in. Haridwar ( / hʌrɪˈdwɑːr /; local pronunciation ⓘ; Old name Mayapuri [3]) is a city and municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, India. With a population of 228,832 in 2011, it is the second-largest city in the state and the largest in the district. [4 ...

  4. Hindi media - Wikipedia

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    Hindi media refers to media in Hindi language and its dialects, across the Hindi belt in India, and elsewhere with the Hindi-speaking Indian diaspora. Hindi media has a two hundred-year history, with the first newspaper published in the language, Udant Martand , going to press in 1826, and the first novel, Pariksha Guru , published in 1882.

  5. Kanwar Yatra - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Kānvar ( or Kānwar/ Kāvaḍ) Yātrā is an annual pilgrimage of devotees of Shiva, known as Kānvarias (कावड़िया) or "Bhole" (भोले), to Hindu pilgrimage places of Haridwar, Gaumukh and Gangotri in Uttarakhand and Ajgaibinath, Sultanganj in Bhagalpur, Bihar to fetch holy waters of Ganges River. Millions of ...

  6. Hindustan - Wikipedia

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    Hindustan. Coordinates: 23°59′40″N 67°25′51″E. Alvin J. Johnson 's map of Hindostan or British India, 1864. Hindūstān ( pronunciation ⓘ) is the Persian name for India, broadly referring to the Indian subcontinent. [1] Being the Iranic cognate of the Indic word Sindhu, [2] it originally referred to the land of lower Indus basin ...

  7. Chandi Devi Temple, Haridwar - Wikipedia

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    1929 by Suchat Singh. Chandi Devi Temple, Haridwar ( Hindi: चण्डी देवी मंदिर, हरिद्वार) is a Hindu temple dedicated to Goddess Chandi Devi in the holy city of Haridwar in the Uttarakhand state of India. The temple is situated atop the Neel Parvat on the Eastern summit of the Sivalik Hills, the ...

  8. Haridwar district - Wikipedia

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    Haridwar district (pronunciation ⓘ) also spelled as Hardwar is part of Uttarakhand, India.It is headquartered at Haridwar which is also its largest city. The district is ringed by the districts Dehradun in the north and east, Pauri Garhwal in the east and the Uttar Pradesh districts of Muzaffarnagar and Bijnor in the south and Saharanpur in the west.

  9. Har Ki Pauri - Wikipedia

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    Har Ki Pauri, meaning the feet of Lord Vishnu (Hari), [1] is a ghat on the banks of the river Ganga and landmark of the Hindu holy city of Haridwar in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. [2] It is believed that it is the precise spot where the Ganga leaves the mountains and enters the plains. The ghat is on the west bank of Ganga canal through ...