Damodar

/ ˈdæməˌdɑː /

noun

1. a river in NE India, rising in Jharkhand and flowing east through West Bengal to the Hooghly River: the Damodar Valley is an important centre of heavy industry

Example Sentences

Things got worse in 1962 after the Damodar Valley Corporation sacked her, forcing her into daily wage work.

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"It was revenge, plotted by the main accused - bakery-owner Anthony Paul - and executed with help from his banker friend Rajesh Damodar Bobhate who also goes by aliases such as Ravi Jain and Prasad Rao," the official said.

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Mahesh Manjrekar, a filmmaker and actor who starred in the 2008 British drama “Slumdog Millionaire,” plans to release a picture this year about Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a forefather of Hindu-nationalist thought who was charged as a co-conspirator in Gandhi’s killing.

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Damodar Dhakal, spokesman for Nepal’s Department of Survey, said the Nepali surveyors had used the Global Navigation Satellite System to get “the precise height” of the giant peak.

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"Before this, we had never done the measurement ourselves," Damodar Dhakal, spokesman at Nepal's department of survey, told the BBC.

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