Nabadwip Dham is 65 km from Bandel, 105 km from Howrah and 112 km from Sealdah on the Bandel-Katwa-Azimganj ( B. A. K Loop Line ) section of Eastern Railway.

In a Business Week cover story on Intel ’ s new processors, Dham was quoted as the general manager of 586 processor group.

Even at Intel, Dham took chances, such as his prescient decision to work on processors when he was done with being in R & D. By the time Dham quit Intel, he had already built a tremendous brand for himself.

Having Dham on the board was coup for the small chip maker which has been looking to make a mark in the microprocessor world.

Dham, with his partner, was extremely hands on in helping these companies in their day-to-day operations.

Dham and his wife Sadhana, who is also on the Board of Advisors, have also been long-time supporters of Home of Hope, a charity with a mission to provide the basic necessities of life to orphans and underprivileged children in India.

Also, there is Vinoba Bhave's Param Dham Ashram located on the banks of the Dhaam river.

Her Holy temple, also believed to be the home of Balaji is situated one kilometer from the main Salasar Dham Temple on the Lakshmangarh-Salasar Road.

Dham believes that Intel ’ s ability to “ focus and execute ” while maintaining full compatibility of application software with its previous generation microprocessors was the key reason for its success over dozens of these big competitors.

After spending a year at AMD post-acquisition, Dham joined another startup in April 1998 – Silicon Spice as its President and CEO.

Badrinath is also one of the four destinations ( with each destination being in different corners of the country ) of the longer Char Dham from which the Chota Char Dham likely draws its name.

While each of these sites is unique in its own fashion, inclusion in the Char Dham has, over time, caused them be viewed together in popular imagination and in pilgrimage practice.

Lakhisarai is a small town and it is famous for its ancient lord Shiva temple ( Ashok Dham ) and Vermilion ( Sindur ) factory.

The town has blessings of many religious mentors, it includes Dargah of Hazrat Nazmudin, Temple of Do-Janti Balaji Dham ( which is famous for its exterior hand made stone bricks construction and in-side Lord Sun painting ), etc.

For the consecration of the Dham Shri Jagadguru Sankaryacharya Swami Swarupananda Saraswati in the presence of the Chief Minister Shri Pawan Chamling and his wife Smt Tika Maya Chamling did the “ Pran Prastisha ” of the Dham.

The Dham has stay facility for the devotees at “ Yatri Niwas ” which can accommodate more than 90 people at a time.

The Dham has won the National Tourism Awards 2010-11 under the category of “ Most Innovative / Unique Tourism Project ” by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India.

( Ref: Business India 5 – 18 June 1995 ) In 1995, at the age of 45, after spending 16 years at Intel and reaching the top management of the company, Dham had a “ mid -­ life crisis ” and was itching to do something different.

Dham explains, “ The Internet protocol was being used mainly for data and delivering voice over the Internet, which was designed primarily for data transfer and was a tricky problem in terms of technology .” Dham redirected the company to build this new chip to support VoIP ( Voice over Internet Protocol ), among the first in the world at the time.

“ One of the biggest lessons I learnt was that it always helps to start defining your product with very early involvement with customers ,” said Dham.

There is a general belief amongst Hindus that no pilgrimage to the four principal pilgrim centres ( Char Dham ) namely, Badrināth, Jagannāth, Rāmeshwaram and Dwarka, would be complete without a blessing that comes from bathing in the holy Pushkar Lake.

* The Shree Raseshwari Radha Rani Temple at Radha Madhav Dham in Austin, Texas, USA, established by Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj, is one of the largest Hindu Temple complexes in the Western Hemisphere, and the largest in North America.

* Angrabari ( Amreshwar Dham ): It is a temple consisting of the deity of Lord Shiva, Ram and Sita, Hanuman and Ganesh.

The temple of Jagannath in Puri is regarded as one of the Char Dham ( sacred Hindu pilgrimage places ) in India.

* Ek Mukhi Datta Temple is newly constructed temple in Sahastradhara, Jalkoti, Maheshwar. It's also called " Shiva Datta Dham ". This temple is constructed in 30 acres of area. Temple area is approx 10000 sq.

It is one of the four sites in India's Chhota Char Dham pilgrimage.

It is well connected and in proximity to popular Himalayan tourist destinations such as Mussoorie, Nainital and Auli and the Hindu holy cities of Haridwar and Rishikesh along with the Himalayan pilgrimage circuit of Char Dham.

To this day, it is one of the four sites in the Char Dham pilgrimage circuit, the most important Hindu pilgrimage circuit in the Indian Himalayas.

Vinod Dham (: ਵ ਿ ਨ ੋ ਦ ਧ ਾ ਮ ) is an inventor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

In other words, the hardware is far ahead of the current computing requirements " said Dham.

Dham also believes that the model of outsourcing that is fairly large scale in IT services and software can be recreated in other value added knowledge sectors like finance, education, healthcare and legal.

Dham also donated to and is involved with TeachAIDS where an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the fields of education, public health, communications and medicine have been working together to develop pedagogically grounded, research-based, rich-media applications to promote HIV / AIDS prevention despite numerous social and cultural barriers.

Dham said the survival instinct is the critical factor underlying the success of Indians in Silicon Valley.

Vinod Dham is among a growing number of technology executives warning that the U. S. faces an engineer shortage.

The Chota Char Dham ( Devanagari: च ा र ध ा म ) ( literally translated as ' the small four abodes / seats ', meaning ' the small circuit of four abodes / seats '), is an important Hindu pilgrimage circuit in the Indian Himalayas.

An archetypal All-India pilgrimage circuit, the formation of the original Char Dham is credited to the great 8th century reformer and philosopher Shankaracharya ( Adi Sankara ).

In the original Char Dham, three of the four sites are Vaishnava ( Puri, Dwarka and Badrinath ) while one is Shaiva ( Rameshwaram ).

Hiroo Dham Singh ’ s guerilla warfare tactics helped Tibetans in driving away these Chinese marauders.

Hiru Dham Singh was also honored with the title of ‘ Pradhan ’ from the Government of Lhasa.

Located about ten miles from Rajkot, east of Kathiawar, it was called ‘ Vallabhi Dham ’ before it became Valla.

As a young graduate in 1971 Dham worked for Continental Devices India Limited, Delhi, one of India ’ s only private silicon semiconductor start-ups at the time which collaborated with Teledyne Semiconductor in California.

Dham says he was a keen observer of how Andy Grove built the strategy and the organisation for Intel ’ s success in the microprocessor business.

Dham, with his wide -­ ranging Intel experience, turned around NexGen ’ s strategy.

Having learnt that the opportunities for venture backed startups in India will likely revolve more around services required to meet the needs of India ’ s growing consumer class, Dham subsequently co-founded NEA-IndoUS Ventures a cross border India ­ focused fund in 2006 with New Enterprise Associates ( NEA ).

In 93 ’ Dham was named one of the top 25 executives in the US computer industry.

In 1 Jan ' India ’ s premier magazine India Today listed Dham among the Global Indian Achievers.

On 22 April 2011, Dham was given People Choice Award and Special Jury Award in the category of Science and technology by Times of India Group ’ s ‘ Light of India Awards ’; recognising Indian achievers abroad.