BSE Limited, also known as the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), is an Indian stock exchange and is the leading stock exchange under the ownership of Ministry of Finance, Government of India.It is located on Dalal Street in Mumbai.Established in 1875 by cotton merchant Premchand Roychand, a Jain businessman, it is the oldest stock exchange in Asia, and also the tenth …

The Bombay Scottish School, Mahim (BSS or BSS Mahim), popularly known as Scottish, is a private, Christian co-educational day school located at Mahim West in Mumbai, India.The institution was established in 1847 by Scottish Christian missionaries under the name Scottish Female Orphanage. Bombay Scottish School, Powai is an affiliate of this institution.. The …

The Civil Services refer to the career government civil servants who are the permanent executive branch of the Republic of India. Elected cabinet ministers determine policy, and civil servants carry it out. . Central Civil Servants are employees of the Government of India. The agencies with the most personnel are with the Central Secretariat Service and Indian Revenue Service (IT …

Description. The Star of Bombay is a 182 carat (36.4-g) cabochon-cut star sapphire.According to Southern Jewelry News, "The Star of Bombay sapphire belongs to the mineral species corundum.Pure corundum is colorless, but trace amounts of transition elements like vanadium or chromium result in different colors in the crystal. The Star of Bombay’s violet-blue color is …

The East India Company, which was incorporated on 31 December 1600, established trade relations with Indian rulers in Masulipatam on the east coast in 1611 and Surat on the west coast in 1612. The company rented a small trading outpost in Madras in 1639. Bombay, which was ceded to the British Crown by Portugal as part of the wedding dowry of Catherine of Braganza …

Revenue, Bombay: 1843 13 Revenue Commissioners, Bombay: 1842 17 Indian Slavery (Abolition) Act: 1843 Sales of land for Revenue Arrears: 1845 1 Boundary-marks, Bombay: 1846 3 Boundaries: ... Coal India (Regulation of Transfer and Validation) Act: 2000: 45 Immigration (Carriers’ Liability) Act: 2000: 52 Central Road Fund Act:

The sport of cricket was introduced to the Indian subcontinent by sailors and traders of the English East India Company in the 17th and 18th centuries. The earliest known record of cricket in India dates from 1721 and the first club had been founded by 1792. In the 1886 and 1888 summer seasons, the Parsees cricket team toured England. In the winter of 1889–90, a team of English …

The pre-independence era in India saw discrimination between the lives of foreigners (English) and Indians with higher premiums being charged for the latter. [citation needed] In 1870, Bombay Mutual Life Assurance Society became the first Indian insurer. [citation needed] At the dawn of the twentieth century, many insurance companies were founded.

The Seven Islands of Bombay (Portuguese: Ilhas de Bom Baim) were 16th-century Portuguese colonial possessions lying off the Konkan region by the mid-west coast of India ... Charles II leased Bombay and adjacent islets to the East India Company in 1668 for £10 per year. By 1845, the islands had been merged ...

General Insurance Corporation of India Limited abbreviated as GIC Re is a central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Finance, Government of India.It was incorporated on 22 November 1972 under Companies Act, 1956. GIC Re has its registered office and headquarters in Mumbai.It was the sole nationalised reinsurance company in the Indian …