Ranchi (ind)

Ranchi

Ranchi ranks 6,269th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Gandia, Strand, London, and Bnei Brak. Memorable people born in Ranchi include Nirmala Joshi, MS Dhoni, and Deepika Kumari. Memorable people who died in Ranchi include Telesphore Toppo, and Birsa Munda. Ranchi has been the birth place of many religious figures, and cricketers and the death place of many religious figures, and politicians. Ranchi is located in India.

Ranchi is the capital city and also the largest district by population of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern Odisha, western West Bengal and the eastern area of what is present-day Chhattisgarh. The Jharkhand state was formed on 15 November 2000 by carving out the Bihar divisions of Chota Nagpur and Santhal Parganas. Ranchi is being developed as a Smart City because it was selected as one of the hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under PM Narendra Modi's flagship Smart Cities Mission. Read more on Wikipedia