English Bazar (Bengali: ইংরেজবাজার), better known as Malda, called the Mango City, is a city and a municipality in Maldah district in the state of West Bengal, India. Malda is the fifth largest city (after Kolkata (Calcutta), Howrah, Asansol and Siliguri) in West Bengal. Malda is nominated for becoming a municipal corporation (both English Bazar municipality & Old Malda municipality), and is the second largest (after Siliguri) city in North Bengal. It serves as the district headquarters.

English Bazar is located at 25°00′N 88°09′E / 25.00°N 88.15°E / 25.00; 88.15. It has an average elevation of 17 metres (56 feet). It is located on the western bank of the Mahananda River. Usually the weather like much of Bengal is extremely humid and tropical. Temperatures can reach as high as 46 °C in the hot and dry months of May and June but can plummet to about 4 °C in the chilly nights of December and January.

As of the^[update]2011 census, English Bazar municipality had a population of 216,083 and the urban agglomeration had a population of 324,237. The municipality had a sex ratio of 877 females per 1,000 males and 14.9% of the population were under six years old. Effective literacy was 84.69%; male literacy was 85.44% and female literacy was 83.86%.

Charles Frazier Stanley (born September 25, 1932) is the senior pastor of megachurch First Baptist in northern Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder and president of In Touch Ministries. Dr. Stanley also served two terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1984 to 1986. Dr. Stanley has an evangelical, fundamentalist,dispensationalist theology.

Stanley was born in Dry Fork, Virginia, just nine months before his father died. Stanley grew up in rural Dry Fork in the outskirts of Danville. At the age of 12, Charles became a born-again Christian, and at age 14, began his life's work in Christian ministry. Stanley received his bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond. He later obtained his Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Fort Worth, Texas. Lastly, he received his Masters and Doctorate, both in theology – Th.M. and Th.D., respectively – from Luther Rice Seminary, in Florida (which later relocated to Lilburn GA).

Alanas Ibrahimas Chošnau (born July 11, 1974 in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Lithuanian singer and songwriter of Kurdish origin. He was a member of the former music group Naktinės personos. In 2003 and 2005 he won the Radiocentras Award as Male Performer of the Year. In 2008, Chošnau was the second most played solo artists of Lithuania.

Chošnau was born to a Lithuanian mother and Kurdish father in Vilnius, Lithuania. The family lived in Baghdad, Iraq until Chošnau's mother died in 1983. He then returned to Lithuania and was raised by his grandparents. Thus he grew up speaking the Arabic language and learned the Lithuanian language only later. The family was separated by the wars. In 1992, he created the pop music group Naktinės personos along with Aras Vėberis. In 1997, while on a tour across Lithuania, Chošnau crashed his car and severely injured his neck paralyzing his legs. He spent several months in a hospital, but fully recovered and returned to music. Naktinės personos disbanded in 2001 and Chošnau continued his career as a solo artist.