Virar is a city in Maharashtra, India, part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Virar is also a part of Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation in Thane district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Virar railway station is the northern-most railway station on the Western Line of Mumbai Suburban Railway.

Virar is located at 19°28′N 72°48′E / 19.47°N 72.8°E / 19.47; 72.8. It has an average elevation of 11 metres (36 feet). The climate of the city is tropical. During Summer,

The name Virar, as some believe, comes from the Indian philosopher Jeevan Virar. Some however argue that the name actually comes from the Goddess Eka-viraa (एकविरा). Just as Tunga Parvat becomes “Tunga-ar”, similarly “Vira” becomes “Vira-ar”.There is a huge temple of Eka-vira Devi on the banks of Vaitarna River at the foot hills Tunga Parvat, (this is now totally broken by the continuous raids of Mohamedeans and Portuguese in the last 400 years), where people used to conclude their “Shurpaaraka Yatra”, as described in the Puranas and local legends. There is a huge tank here dedicated to Eka veera Devi called “Viraar Tirtha”, i.e. “Eka- Viraa Tirtha”. Even today, on the west banks of Viraar Tirtha, one finds a carved stone about three feet long and nine inches broad. Below that is a group of female figures of the Yoginis of Ekaveera Devi. Nearby one can find a stone with a roughly cut cow and calf (Savatsa Dhenu), a symbol of Govardhana Math which symbolizes eternity or Moksha. Moving ahead near the foot of a knoll of rock are two cow’s feet (Go-Paad) roughly cut in rock.

Virat Kohli  pronunciation (help·info) (born 5 November 1988 in Delhi) is an Indian international cricketer. He is a middle order batsman, who can also open the batting. He can also bowl right arm medium pace. Kohli was the captain of the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia. He represents Delhi in first-class cricket and plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League. He also played for the West Delhi Cricket Academy. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut in 2008 and was part of the Indian team which won the 2011 World Cup. Despite being a regular in the ODI side, he only played his first Test in 2011.

Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi to Prem and Saroj Kohli. He has an elder brother, Vikash, and an elder sister, Bhavna. Virat attended school at Vishal Bharti and Savier Convent. Virat's father, Prem, worked as a lawyer and died in December 2006. Little is known of Virat Kohli's personal life.

The West Delhi Cricket Academy was created in 1998 and Kohli was part of its first intake. Kohli first came into the spotlight when he played for Delhi in a Ranji Trophy match against Karnataka on the day of his father's death. Choosing to stay and bat, he went on to score 90 runs. Mithun Manhas, the team's captain, remarked that "That is an act of great commitment to the team and his innings turned out to be crucial".

Ramesh Chandra Jain (mr:रमेश चंद्र जैन)(hi:रमेश चंद्र जैन) (born June 8, 1949) is a scientist and entrepreneur whose decades long career has spanned several universities and startup companies. He is best known for founding the company Virage and working on some of the early visual information retrieval systems. In addition, he was the founder of IEEE Multimedia.

He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Nagpur University, Nagpur, India and has a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, India.

An researcher, entrepreneur, and teacher, Dr. Ramesh Jain founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual information systems labs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego.

Also Chairman of ACM SIG Multimedia, he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia magazine and at present serves on the editorial boards of several magazines. He has been elected Fellow of ACM, IEEE, IAPR, AAAI, and SPIE. He has published over 250 research papers in scientific journals and conferences.