The Howrah Bridge

The Howrah Bridge

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Howrah Bridge is a cantilever bridge with a suspended span over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. It is still popularly known as the Howrah Bridge.

Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking the two cities of Howrah and Kolkata (Calcutta). On 14 June 1965 it was renamed Rabindra Setu after the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Indian and Asian Nobel laureate. The bridge is one of four on the Hooghly River and is a famous

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