Local public transport include city buses, cycle rickshaws and tempos. Siliguri has three important railway stations: 1. Siliguri Town - This is the oldest station in the area. Opened on 23 Aug, 1880 during the British Raj, this station used to be the terminus for the trains coming from Calcutta, and the starting point for the world-famous Darjeeling Himalayan Railway for journey to Darjeeling. 2. Siliguri Junction - This station opened in 1949, and used to be the point of departure of all trains to the north-eastern states, until the ...

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Table Tennis, Cricket, Taekwon-Do and football (soccer) are the three most popular sports here. People are football crazy and support the local Bengal clubs. The Kanchenjanga Stadium is the city's only outdoor stadium and matches are regularly held here. There is an indoor stadium at Deshbandhupara in the southern part of the city. This new stadium has facilities for Lawn Tennis and Badminton as well as a host of other indoor sports. However, the city is best known for being the training grounds for many Table Tennis players - specially Mantu Ghosh who was the Gold medal win ...

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The Chicken's Neck or Siliguri Corridor is a narrow stretch of land which connects India's north-eastern states to the rest of India. This 'isthmus' of land is only 21 km in width, with the countries of Nepal and Bangladesh lying on either side of the corridor. The city of Siliguri, which lies in the state of West Bengal, is the major city in this area (therefore the alternate name "Siliguri Corridor"). The city is the central node which connects Bhutan ...

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The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, nicknamed the "Toy Train", is a 60 cm narrow-gauge railway from Siliguri to Darjeeling in the state of West Bengal in India, run by the Indian Railways. It was built between 1879 and 1881 and is about 86 km long. The elevation level is from about 100 m in Siliguri to about 2200 m in Darjeeling. It is still to this day powered by a steam engine. A modern diesel engine is used for Darjeeling’s mail. Since 1999 the train ha ...

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Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা Bāṇlā) is an Indo-Aryan language of South Asia that evolved as a successor to the Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit languages. Bengali is the English word for the name of the language and for its speakers; in Bengali, the language itself is called Bangla (pronounced: IPA: < ...

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Daily newspapers in English, Nepali, and Hindi are available in Gangtok. The Nepali newspapers are printed locally, whereas the Hindi and English newspapers are printed elsewhere. The English newspapers include The Statesman and The Telegraph, which are printed in Siliguri, as well as The Hindu and The Times of India, which are printed in Kolkata and are received after a one-day delay ^{See also:}

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The southern urban areas have English, Nepali and Hindi dailies. Nepali language newspapers are locally printed, whereas Hindi and English newspapers are printed in Siliguri. English newspapers include The Statesman and The Telegraph which are printed in Siliguri, as well as The Hindu and The Times of India, printed in Calcutta, and are received with a day's delay in the towns of Gangtok, Jorethang, Melli and Geyzing. The Sikkim Herald is an official weekl ...

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The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a narrow gauge train with a steam locomotive is classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The route starts at Siliguri in the plains in West Bengal and traverses tea gardens en route to Darjeeling, a hill station at an elevation of 2,134 metres (7,000 ft). The highest station in this route is Ghum. The Nilgiri Mountain Railway, in the Nilgiri Hills in southern India, is also classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.^{See also:}

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The town is well served by the Northeast Frontier Railway, with two primary stations at New Alipurduar and Alipurduar Junction, connecting it to nearly the whole country. Lots of buses connect it to Jalpaiguri, the district headquarters and the neighbouring district town of Cooch Behar. It is also connected to Kolkata by the N.B.S.T.C. Rocket buses. The nearest airport is at Bagdogra, Siliguri. The local transportation is mainly served ...

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Dialectual differences in Bangla manifest themselves in three forms: standardized dialect vs. regional dialect, literary language vs. colloquial language and lexical influences. Bengali language - Literary forms. In Bangla, there exists what is known as Shadhubhasha (the elegant language; literally "language of sages"; also called Shuddhobhasha) and Choltibhasha (the current, or colloquial, language; literally "the current or running language"; also called Cholitobhasha or Ch ...

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For the purposes of consistent transliteration, the following Romanization scheme is used throughout this article along with other Wikipedia articles related to the Bengali language. The tables below correspond to the IPA transcriptions used above. Bengali language - Stress. Bangla words are virtually all trochaic; the primary stress falls on the initial syllable of the word, while secondary stress often falls on all odd-numbered syllables thereafter, giving strings such as [shô-ho-See also:

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Main article: Bengali grammar As a Head-Final language, Bangla follows Subject Object Verb word order, although word order variation is highly common. Bangla makes use of postpositions, instead of English-style prepositions. Determiners follow the noun, while numerals, adjectives, and possessors precede the noun. Yes-no questions do not require any change to the basic word order; instead, the low (L) tone of the final syllable in the utterance is replaced with a falling (HL) tone. Additionally optional particles (e.g. [-ki], [-na], etc.) are often encliticize ...

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There is no grammatical gender in Bangla. Adjectival morphology is light, while nouns and verbs are highly inflected. Bengali language - Nouns. Nouns and pronouns are inflected for case, including nominative, objective, genitive (possessive), and locative. The case marking pattern for each noun being inflected depends on the noun's degree of animacy. When a definite article such as -ţa (singular) or -gula (plural) is added, as in the table above, nouns are also inflected for number. Plural ver ...

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The average annual rainfall is 3160 mm and the average temperature ranges from 30.9 to 10.8 degrees throughout the year. The average relative humidity is about 82%. Transport. It is well connected by rail, road and air from any part of the country. One can avail train up to Jalpaiguri / Jalpaiguri Road / New Jalpaiguri Stn. By road it is well connected with rest of the country. Air travel is available up to Bagdogra ( Siliguri ) and from there it is well connected by a 58 ...

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The typical Bangla dictionary lists 75,000 separate words, of which 50,000 (67%) are considered tôtshôm (direct borrowings from Sanskrit), 21,100 (28%) are tôdbhôb (native Bangla vocabulary), and the rest being foreign (primarily English, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Portuguese, and French) borrowings and indigenous (non-Bangla) words. However, these figures do not take into account the fact that a huge chunk of these words are archaic or highly technical, minimizing their actual usage. The vocabulary used in modern liter ...

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The first evidence of Bangla literature is Charyapada or Charyageeti, buddhist hymns or dohas from the 8th century. Possibly the most prolific writer in Bangla is Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore dominated both the Bengali and Indian philosophical and literary scene for decades. His 2,000 Rabindrasangeets play a pivotal part in defining Bengali culture, both in West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is the author of the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh, both composed in Bangla. Other notable Bangla works of his are Gitanjali, a book of poems for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Litera ...

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Until the 18th century, Bangla did not have a well-documented grammar. Bangla existed as a collection of thousands of dialects. The first written Bangla grammar, Vocabolario em idioma Bengalla, e Portuguez dividido em duas partes, was written by Manoel da Assumpcam, a Portuguese missionary. Assumpcam wrote this grammar between 1734 and 1742 while he was serving in Bhawal. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian, is credited as being the first to write a Bangla grammar using Bangla texts and letters for illustration: A Gramma ...

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Main article: Bengali script Bangla is written in the Bangla alphasyllabary (also called syllabic alphabet or abugida), a Brahmic script similar to the Devanagari alphasyllabary used for Hindi, Sanskrit, and many other Indic languages. The Bangla alphasyllabary is a cursive script with 12 vowel characters and 52 consonant characters. As in all alphasyllabaries, every consonant in the Bangla script can come with what is called an "embedded" or "inherent" vowel sound. For example, the simple letter ম can represent ...

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The phonemic inventory of Bangla consists of 29 consonants and 14 vowels, including the seven nasalized vowels. An approximate phonetic scheme is set out below in IPA. ...

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