When did the company that repaired Grand Trunk Road from Calcutta to Delhi end?
1799
Title: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road
Passage: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road (formerly known as Aurangzeb road) is a road in New Delhi's Lutyen's bungalow zone in Delhi, India. It lies at the north - east end, stretching from the 'Taj Mansingh Hotel' at the roundabout of Mansingh Road, Shahjahan Road, Humayun Road, Prithviraj Road and a road to Khan Market in the north - east. At the south - west end it stretches up to the crossing at Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Marg and Safdarjung Road junction. Abdul Kalam road is home to several Indian billionaires such as ArcelorMittal's LN Mittal, KP Singh of DLF and Max Healthcare's Analjit Singh.
Title: Grand Trunk Road
Passage: In the 1830's the East India Company started a programme of metalled road construction, for both commercial and administrative purposes. The Grand trunk road, from Calcutta, through Delhi, to Peshawar (present - day Pakistan) was rebuilt at a cost of £1000 / mile, and a Public Works Department, and the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee founded, to train and employ local surveyors, engineers, and overseers, to perform the work, and in future maintain it and other roads.
Title: Deepak Nayyar
Passage: Deepak Nayyar (born 1946) is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Chairperson of the Board of Governors of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) New Delhi. He has taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), and the New School for Social Research, New York City. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi from 2000 to 2005.
Title: Salhawas, Rewari
Passage: Salhawas is a village in Rewari district, Haryana, India. It is about from the Rewari-Delhi road via Garhi Bolni road and Delhi-Ajmer Expressway.
Title: Kathipara Junction
Passage: Kathipara Junction is an important road junction in Chennai, India. It is located at Alandur at the intersection of the Grand Southern Trunk Road, Inner Ring Road, Anna Salai and Mount-Poonamallee Road. Kathipara flyover is the largest cloverleaf flyover in Asia.
Title: Dutch East India Company
Passage: The United East India Company, sometimes known as the United East Indies Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; or Verenigde Oost - Indische Compagnie in modern spelling; abbreviated to VOC), better known to the English - speaking world as the Dutch East India Company or sometimes as the Dutch East Indies Company, was a multinational corporation that was founded in 1602 and became defunct in 1799. It was originally established as a chartered company to trade with India and Indianized Southeast Asian countries when the Dutch government granted it a 21 - year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade. The VOC was an early multinational corporation in its modern sense. In the early 1600s, by widely issuing bonds and shares of stock to the general public, the VOC became the world's first formally listed public company. In other words, it was the first corporation to be ever actually listed on an official stock exchange. The VOC was influential in the rise of corporate - led globalization in the early modern period. With its pioneering institutional innovations and powerful roles in world history, the company is considered by many to be the first major modern global corporation, and at its height was the most valuable corporation ever.
Title: Montezuma's Ferrari
Passage: Montezuma's Ferrari is the second novel in Burt "BS" Levy's series about a 19-year-old New Jersey gas station mechanic growing up and coming of age while being sucked into the glamorous, dangerous world of open-road sports car racing during the 1950s. The story begins just a week after "The Last Open Road" ends. In the book, Buddy Palumbo, the main character, repairs cars at the Sinclair gas station he works at in Passaic, New Jersey, and races all over the Eastern, predominantly Northern, United States and Mexico.
Title: Jangpur
Passage: Jangpur is a Cheema village in Ludhiana District in Punjab, India. It has a population of approximately 2400 people, most of whom are engaged in agricultural work. The village is located approximately eighteen kilometres southwest of Ludhiana, and two kilometres from Grand Trunk Road.
Title: Plat, Wisconsin
Passage: Plat was an unincorporated community and is now a neighborhood in the village of Richfield, Washington County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located at the intersection of Plat Road and Monches Road. It is 2 miles from the towns of Erin and Merton and from County Trunk Highway Q (County Line Road) and the Waukesha County and Washington County division.
Dutch East India Company Grand Trunk Road