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Detailed explanation-1: -Synopsis. India’s first floating market will open in Kolkata this month.

Detailed explanation-2: -Row, Row, Row Your Boat Over 200 shops on over 100 boats, India and Kolkata’s first Bangkok-inspired floating market opened over the weekend at Patuli. Fruits, vegetables, fish and other produce are sold on the boats by vendors who moved out from the Patuli VIP market.

Detailed explanation-3: -Floating markets (chợ nổi in Vietnamese) have existed in Vietnam for many generations. Archaeologists have found evidence that extensive trading networks likely existed in Vietnam’s river deltas from as far back as 4,500 years ago.

Detailed explanation-4: -BSE Limited, also known as the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), is an Indian stock exchange. It is located on Dalal Street in Mumbai. Established in 1875 by cotton merchant Premchand Roychand, a Jain businessman, it is the oldest stock exchange in Asia, and also the tenth oldest in the world.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dal Lake floating market, Srinagar What also adds to its charm is the famous floating vegetable market that, till now, has been deemed the only one of its kind in India and the second in the world, according to the official website of Jammu and Kashmir Tourism.