It has three Railway Stations as Nabadwip Dham ( NDAE ), Bishnupriya ( VSPR ) of Howrah Division and Nabadwip Ghat ( NDF ) of Sealdah Division.

Important express trains which has stoppage at Nabadwip Dham are15643 UP / 15644 DN Puri-Kamakhya Express15959 UP / 15960 DN Howrah-Tinsukia-Dibrugarh Kamrup Express13141 UP / 13142 DN Sealdah-New Alipurduar / Haldibari Teesta Torsha Express13164 UP / 13165 DN Sealdah-Barauni-Katihar-Saharsha Hatey Bazare Express13145 UP / 13146 DN Sealdah-Radhikapur Radhikapur Express13011 UP / 13012 DN Howrah Maldah Intercity Express13421 UP / 13422 DN Nabadwip Dham-New Frakka Express15721 UP / 15722 DN New Jalpaiguri-Digha Paharia Express12517 UP / 12518 DN Kolkata Guwahati Garib Rath Express.

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.

It has a diverse culture, and includes the Hindu pilgrimage centers of Char Dham, Haridwar, Mathura, Allahabad and Varanasi, the Buddhist Mahabodhi Temple, the Sikh Golden Temple and the Muslim pilgrimage destination of Ajmer, as well as world heritage sites such as the Valley of flowers, Khajuraho, Bhimbetka Caves, Qutb Minar and the Taj Mahal.

Dham has over the years been a Board member and an advisor to dozens of private and public companies.

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

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.

Since the 1960s, the importance of the Chota Char Dham as both an actual destination and an object of the national Hindu religious imagination has grown considerably.

Buoyed by " religious tourism " and by the rise of a conservative Hindu population compelled by sites that speak to the existence of an all-India Hindu culture, the Chota Char Dham has become an important destination for pilgrims from throughout South Asia and the diaspora, particularly Bengalis, Marwaris, Oriyas, Marathis, Gujaratis, Delhites and people from Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

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.

Hundreds of Bhils were shot dead at the Mangarh hillock where they were holding a peaceful meeting by the Mewar and Sirohi forces. The place has become sacred and is better known as the Mangarh Dham.

Around 1680, a prominent family member Hiroo Dham Singh went to Kailas Mansarovar for pilgrimage.

These two along with Badrinath and Kedarnath form the Chota Char Dham, a holy pilgrimage for the Hindus.

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 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.

Doing this at front end, Dham said, more than paid for itself by avoiding most revisions in later stages.

Dham could have hewed to a safe course and stayed at Intel for the rest of his career.

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.

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.

Dham convinced the NexGen management to explore what appeared to be a perfect synergy for merging the two companies -­ NexGen had a product but no factories and process technology, AMD had a factory and advanced technology but no product.

With demand for communications-related chips then growing at 20 % per annum, Dham and Silicon Spice's three MIT grad co-founders wanted a piece of the pie.

Meanwhile, Dham learnt from dealing with several customers that there was an emerging need for developing chips that could effectively transfer voice over the Internet.

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.

In a little over two years ( in August, 2000 ), Dham sold Silicon Spice to Broadcom for a whopping U. S. $ 1. 2 billion in an all stock deal.

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 ).

Dham was profiled at the Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas in 2007, organised by the Ministry of Overseas Affairs of the government of India ; a high recognition for Global Indian Luminaries including Amar Bose, Indra Nooyi, Vinod Khosla, Arun Sarin, Lakshmi Mittal.

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

Salasar Balaji or Salasar Dham in India is a place of religious importance for the devotees of Hanuman.

* 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.

He entered the Dham without Lord Vishnu's permission and saw that the Lord was resting at that time.

According to Hindu mythology, goddess of prosperity and wife of Lord Vishnu, Maha Laxmi also witnessed the whole incident, as she was also present in the Dham at that time.

Dham completed his graduation in Electrical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering in 1971 at the age of 21.

Dham played an instrumental role in the launch of K6 – the " Pentium killer " processor at rival AMD.

( 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.

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

Dham was awarded the NRI Achievement Award at the NRI Global Summit in Oct 2009 by the NRI institute, a New Delhi-based nonprofit.

Originally, the appellation Char Dham referred to a pilgrimage circuit encompassing four important temples — Puri, Rameshwaram, Dwarka, and Badrinath — located roughly at the four cardinal points of the subcontinent.

After the 1962 war between India and China, however, accessibility to the Chota Char Dham improved, as India's short-lived efforts at Himalayan expansionism required massive road building and other infrastructure investments.

The idol was sent to Salasar and was consecrated at the place presently known as Salasar Dham.

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.

“ 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.

* Dham on cell phones usage and its future: “ There is nothing except maybe Excel spreadsheets that you can ’ t do on a cell phone.