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Ratna Debnath

Ratna Debnath is an Indian politician who won the Panihati seat in 2026. Her career began after her daughter's death in 2024.

Ratna Manikya

Ratna Manikya (রত্ন মাণিক্য) was a ruler of Tripura in northeast India who reigned from 1464 to 1489, taking the throne with the Sultan of Bengal's help.

Ratna Pathak Shah (रत्ना पाठक शाह)

Ratna Pathak Shah (रत्ना पाठक शाह), Indian film, TV, and theatre actor; Maya Sarabhai in Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, Buaji in Lipstick Under My Burkha; Motley member, NSD-trained, daughter of Dina Pathak, wife of Naseeruddin Shah.

Ratnagiri (रत्नागिरी)

Ratnagiri (रत्नागिरी) is a Konkan coastal district of Maharashtra on the Arabian Sea, headquarters Ratnagiri town; 1.6 million people (2011), famed for Alphonso mangoes, cashew, fisheries, Ganpatipule temple, Tilak's birthplace, and proposed 17,200 MW nuclear projects.

Ratnagiri district (रत्नागिरी जिल्हा)

Ratnagiri district (रत्नागिरी जिल्हा), a Konkan coastal district of Maharashtra on the Arabian Sea, known for Alphonso mangoes, laterite hills, 167 km coastline, nine tahsils, and 2011 population of 16.15 lakh.

Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Ltd

Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Limited (RGPPL) is an Indian power generation company, formed in 2005 to revive the abandoned Enron Dabhol project, now a subsidiary of NTPC.

Ratnagiri Power Plant

The Ratnagiri Power Plant is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station at Jaigad in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, India, owned by JSW Energy and supplying the state grid since 2010.

Oct 20, 2026

Ratnagiri rasa

Ratnagiri rasa is a herbo-mineral Ayurvedic formulation of the rasa shastra tradition, prescribed principally for fever, combining calcined mercury, sulfur, gold, mica, and other minerals with plant ingredients.

Ratnakara

Ratnakara (रत्नाकर), also called Rajanaka Ratnakara Vagisvara, was a ninth-century Sanskrit poet of Kashmir, best known for the Haravijaya, the longest extant Sanskrit court epic.

Ratnakirti

Ratnakirti (रत्नकीर्ति) was an Indian Buddhist scholar at the Vikramasila monastery-university, active in the first half of the eleventh century, a pupil of Jnanasrimitra best known for ten Sanskrit works on logic, epistemology, and metaphysics.

Oct 21, 2026

Ratnapura District

Ratnapura District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka; capital Ratnapura city, gem-trade center. Area 3,275 km2, 2024 census population 1,145,138, wettest district at 4,000-5,000 mm rain, Kalu and Walawe river basins.

Ratnasimha (रत्नसिंह)

Ratnasimha (Ratan Singh, Rawal Ratan Singh), last Rawal-branch Guhila ruler of Mewar at Chittor, reigned 1302–1303, attested by the 1302 Dariba inscription; defeated in Alauddin Khalji's 1303 siege of Chittor.

Ratnavali

Ratnavali (रत्नावली) is a four-act Sanskrit natika, or court romance drama, attributed to King Harsha of Kanauj, telling of the Simhala princess Ratnavali and King Udayana.

Ratner's

Ratner's was a kosher dairy restaurant at 138 Delancey Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, founded in 1905 by Jacob Harmatz and Alex Ratner and run by the Harmatz family until its 2002 closing, famous for blintzes, onion rolls, and surly waiters.

Sep 27, 2026

Ratnesh Sada

Ratnesh Sada is an Indian Janata Dal (United) politician who has represented Sonbarsa in the Bihar assembly since 2010 and serves as Bihar's Disaster Management minister.

Ratnik (Ратник) (program)

Ratnik (Ратник, Warrior) is Russia's modular future infantry combat system: 6B47 helmet, 6B45 body armor, Strelets communications, fielded from 2014–2015 with about 300,000 sets delivered; its announced Sotnik successor stalled.

Ratnins

The Ratnins (रत्निन्, "jewel-bearers") were the high functionaries of the later Vedic royal household, including the royal priest, chief queen, and commander-in-chief, at whose houses the consecrated king offered sacrifices during the Rajasuya ceremony.

Oct 21, 2026

Ratoon flower garden

Ratoon flower garden (宿根花卉园, perennial flower garden) is a specialized perennial-flower display garden in Beijing's China National Botanical Garden, with a 0.9-ha IBCAS South Garden collection of ~600 taxa and a 1.44-ha North Garden formal garden built in 1980.

Sep 29, 2026

Ratooning

Ratooning is an agronomic practice of growing a new crop from the stubble and roots of a harvested crop without replanting, used mainly on sugarcane.

Sep 19, 2026

Ratos de Porão

Ratos de Porão is a Brazilian crossover thrash band formed in 1981 in São Paulo, credited with inaugurating the crossover style in Brazil and still active after four decades.

RATP Group

RATP Group, also known as Groupe RATP, is the French state-owned urban transport group created in 1948 that operates the Paris region's metro, bus, tram, and suburban rail services.

Ratqa and Lower Fars oil fields

Ratqa, also called South Ratqa, is a heavy oil field in northern Kuwait, where the Lower Fars reservoir holds up to 15 billion barrels of oil.

Oct 10, 2026

Ratramnus

Ratramnus, also recorded as Rotramus, was a ninth-century Benedictine monk of Corbie whose Eucharist treatise, burned in 1050 and misattributed for centuries, was consulted by King Charles the Bald.

Oct 3, 2026

Ratri Ke Yatri

Ratri Ke Yatri (रात्रि के यात्री) is a Hindi anthology web series directed by Anil V Kumar, streaming on Hungama Play and MX Player since 21 July 2020, with five standalone stories set in red-light areas and a second season released 11 October 2022.

Rats in New York City

Rats in New York City: brown rats (Rattus norvegicus), estimated at about 2 million by a 2014 study, debunking the one-rat-per-person myth; managed through 311 reporting, Health Department inspections, rat mitigation zones, containerization, and the rat czar.

Ratsasan (ராட்சசன்)

Ratsasan (ராட்சசன்), also Raatchasan, is a 2018 Tamil psychological crime thriller directed by Ram Kumar, starring Vishnu Vishal and Amala Paul, about a rookie cop hunting a serial killer of school girls; a hit remade in Telugu.

Ratt

Ratt (RATT), formed from Stephen Pearcy's San Diego band Mickey Ratt and reestablished in Los Angeles, is an American glam metal band whose 1984 album Out of the Cellar and hit "Round and Round" defined the Sunset Strip sound; seven studio albums through Infestation (2010).