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APPOINTED
Nabam Tuki
Nabam Tuki was
sworn in as the
seventh Chief
Minister of
Arunachal Pradesh.
He replaced Jarbon
Gamlin. Arunachal Pradesh Governor
JJ Singh administered the oath of
office and secrecy at the Raj Bhavan
in Itanagar.Gamlin had taken over aschief minister on 5 May 2011 following
the death of Chief Minister Dorjee
Khandu in a helicopter crash.
Arunachal Pradesh went through
political instability since July 2011
after a group of Congress legislators
led by Tuki revolted against Gamlin’s
leadership. Prem Khandu Thungan
(Indian National Congress) was the
first chief minister of Aruncahla
Pradesh.
Gurbachan Singh
Union Agriculture Commissioner
Gurbachan Singh was appointed
Chairman of the Agricultural Scientists
Recruitment Board for a seven-year
term until further orders or till he
attains the age of 65, whichever is
earlier. The Board is crucial to
recruitment of farm researchers andpolicy formulation.During the tenure of
Dr. Singh as Agriculture Commi-
ssioner, India achieved its highest
foodgrain production including a
record as pulses output, has assumedcharge of his new post.
Pulok Chatterjee
Senior IAS officer Pulok Chatterjee,
took charge as Principal Secretary to
the Prime Minister.A 1974 Uttar
Pradesh cadre officer, Mr. Chatterjee
replaces T.K.A. Nair, who has been
associated with Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh since 2004. Mr.Nair, a retired IAS officer of the 1963
batch, will hold the office of Adviser
with the rank and status of Minister
of State in the Prime Minister’s
Office.Mr. Chatterjee returns to the
PMO after a stint in the World Bank
as Executive Director. The PMO is a
familiar terrain to Mr. Chatterjee as he
was a Joint Secretary from 2004 to
2009. Mr. Chatterjee’s term will be
co-terminus with that of the Prime
Minister or till further orders.
D. Shivakumar
F i n l a n d - b a s e d
mobile phone
major Nokia
announced the
appointment of
Nokia India Vice-
President and
Managing Director D. Shivakumar as
the Head for India, the Middle East
and Africa (IMEA), one of the four
newly formed global sales regions
comprising around 90 nations.AsSenior Vice-President, Mr.
Shivakumar will relocate to Dubai,
which has been chosen as the hub for
the region, in January next year.
Sudhir Vasudeva
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has
cleared the appointment of Sudhir
Vasudeva as the Chairman and
Managing Director of Oil and NaturalGas Corporation (ONGC). Mr.
Vasudeva, 57, is now Director
(Offshore) in ONGC. The formal
orders for appointment of Mr.
Vasudeva, who was selected by
government appointed Public
Enterprise Selection Board (PESB) in
interviews on October 19 last year,
were issued by the Petroleum and
Natural Gas Ministry, officials in the
Ministry said. Mr. Vasudeva will head
ONGC till his retirement on January
31, 2014. The Prime Minister gave his
approval to Mr. Vasudeva’s
appointment after the Central
Vigilance Commission (CVC) gave
final clearance on all complaints
received against him.
S. V. Arumugam
S. V. Arumugam, Managing Director
of Bannari Amman Spinning Mills and
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Director of Bannari Amman Sugars,
has been elected chairman of
Confederation of Indian Textile
Industry (CITI) for 2011-12. The other
office-bearers are: Prem Malik,
management consultant for textiles
(Deputy Chairman), and MukundChoundhary, functional Director of
CLC Group (Vice-Chairman), says a
release.
Markandey Katju
Former Supreme
Court judge
Markandey Katju
was appointed as
the new chairmanof media
regulator Press
Council of India
(PCI). The
appointment of Justice Katju, who
retired from the apex court on 19
September 2011 was cleared by a
committee headed by Vice President
Hamid Ansari and included Lok Sabha
Speaker Meira Kumar. In exercise of
the powers conferred by the sub-
section (2) of section 5 of the Press
Council Act, 1978 (37 of 1978), the
Central Government notified notified
his appointment as the Chairman of
the Press Council of India.He
succeeded Justice G N Ray. Justice
Katju was first appointed a judge of
the Allahabad high court in 1981. He
was appointed as the Judge of the
Supreme Court in April 2006 and heretired on 19 September 2011. Katju
has written several books which
include publications such as Law in
the Scientific Era and Interpretation of
Taxing Statutes, among others. The
Press Council of India (PCI) is the
apex media regulator of the country.
The Press Council of India is a
statutory, quasi judicial body which
acts as a watchdog of the media. Its
chairman by convention is a retired judge of the Supreme Court.
Leszek Kucharski
The Table
Tennis Fede-
ration of India
a p p o i n t e d
Poland’s Leszek
Kucharski as
the Indian TT
coach on a one-
year contract.
Kucharski is to take over in
December 2011 at a salary of $6,000
per month including free
accommodation and internal travel
expenses. Kucharski had reached No
11 in rankings as a player and has hada successful career as coach in his
country. Those in the running were
Kucharski, Michael Hajek of the
Czech Republic and 1988 Seoul
Olympics bronze medallist Erik Lindh
of Sweden. Italian Massimo
Constantini was India’s TT coach
before Kucharski and his contract
expired after the Guangzhou Asian
Games in 2010.
Dutchman Robert Baan
The All India Football Federation
(AIFF) appointed Dutchman Robert
Baan as the Technical Director (TD)
for a period of two years.Baan has a
46-year experience in football
management and was involved in a
similar capacity with the Australia
Football Federation. Baan is one of the
most high profile coaches to haveworked in India having been an
assistant coach at PSV Eindhoven
from 1995-98 and also the TD at
Feynoord Rotterdam from 1998-
2004.He has also served as the TD of
the Netherlands youth team. He was
briefly appointed a caretaker manager
of the senior Dutch team for a match
against Cyprus back in 1981. He
performed a similar duty during
Socceroos’ 1-0 win over Nigeria in2007.
Bobby Jindal
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, won
re-election on 22 October 2011. He
is a member of the Republican Party.
Jindal won 66% of the vote with his
nearest challenger, Tara Hollis of the
Democratic party, got 18%. On 20
October, 2007, Jindal was elected
governor of Louisiana for the first
time. Bobby Jindal is the first Indian-
American to occupy the post of a
governor. His real name was Piyush
Jindal. He started calling himself
Bobby from an early age and
converted from Hinduism to
Catholicism as a teenager. He wasborn in Baton Rouge, the capital of the
southern state of Louisiana, to Indian
parents who had immigrated from the
Punjab. He is 37 years old. Louisiana
is a state located in the southern
region of the United States of
America. Its capital is Baton Rouge.
Gustavo Petro
Gustavo Petro was elected mayor of the Colombian capital, Bogota as
Colombians voted in local elections.
Petro won 32 percent of the votes.
His main opponent Enrique Penalosa
was the favoured candidate of former
President Alvaro Uribe. He could
manage only 25 percent of the votes.
Petro was a former guerrilla with the
defunct M-19 Movement. The 19th of
April Movement or M-19, was a
Colombian guerrilla movement. Afterits demobilization it became a political
party, the M-19 Democratic Alliance
(Alianza Democrática M-19), or AD/
M-19. The M-19 traced its origins to
the allegedly fraudulent presidential
elections of 19 April 1970.
Mittal & Jindal
The World Steel Association (WSA),
a premier global steel industry body,
on Wednesday elected Arcelor Mittal
Chairman Lakshmi Mittal and JSW
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Steel Vice-Chairman Sajjan Jindal to
its 15-member Executive Committee,
WSA said in a communiqué, reports
PTI from New Delhi.
Rubin D’Cruz
Rubin D’Cruz,
who was recently
removed as
Director of the
State Institute of
C h i l d r e n ’ s
Literature, has
rejoined the National Book Trust
(NBT) from where his services were
secured by the State government. Mr.
D’Cruz rejoined as Assistant Editor at
the NBT in New. Although the UDF
government had dispensed with his
services, it had informed the NBT
authorities that he may be reinstated
in his old post since the State
government had to dispense with his
services because of some technical
irregularities in his appointment. The
NBT has decided to reinstate him
treating his stint with the State Institute
of Children’s Literature as deputation.
Ashish Bagga
Ashish Bagga of India Today was on
Friday elected president of The Indian
Newspaper Society for the year 2011-
12 at its 72nd annual general meeting
here.He succeeds Kundan R Vyas of
the Janmabhoomi Group.K.N. Tilak
Kumar ( Prajavani ) was elected
deputy president, Ravindra Kumar
( The Statesman ) vice-president and
Rakesh Sharma (Aaj Samaj ) honorary
treasurer.V. Shankaran is the
secretary-general of the Society.
Kamalesh Sharma
Commonwealth Secretary General
Kamalesh Sharma was re-appointed
to the coveted post. The
Commonwealth Leaders agreed to re-
appoint him at the 21st
Commonwealth Heads of
Government Meeting (CHOGM) in
Perth in Australia. Sharma who served
as a veteran Indian diplomat was re-
appointed for a four-year term
beginning in April 2012.
Sarvjit Singh Dhillon
Bharti Enterprises on Wednesday
announced the appointment of Sarvjit
Singh Dhillon as Group Chief Financial
Officer (CFO) with effect from
January 1, 2012.
DEATH
Jagjit Singh
Veteran ghazal singer Jagjit Singh
passed away on 10 October 2011 in
Mumbai. He was 70. He was
admitted in Lilavati Hospital for more
than two weeks. The singer had
undergone an emergency surgery for
brain hemorrhage at the Hospital. The
veteran singer, popularly known as the
Ghazal King had gained acclaim
together with his wife Chitra Singh in1970s and 1980s. He had sung in
Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati,
Sindhi and Nepali languages.
Moreover, Jagjit Singh is the only
singer and composer to have
composed and recorded songs written
by former Indian Prime Minister Atal
Behari Vajpayee, in two albums,
Samvedna in the year 2002 and Nayi
Disha in the year 1999. Jagjit Singh
was awarded Padmabhushan, India’sthird highest civilian honour, in 2003.
Jagjit Singh was born to Sikh parents
in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan on 8
February, 1941.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, co-founder
of Apple Inc. died at
age 56 from pancreatic
cancer on 6 October
2011. Steve Jobs had
stepped down as
Apple’s chief executive. Steve Jobs
co-founded Apple in 1976 along with
Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak.
Steve also co-founded and was the
CEO of Pixar Animation Studios,
which created animated films. He
became a member of the board of
directors of the Walt Disney Company
in 2006, following the acquisition of
Pixar by Disney. After leaving Apple,
Jobs founded NeXT Computer in
1985. Steve Jobs was from
California, USA. Steve Jobs helped
create the Macintosh, one of the
world’s most influential computers.
He also reinvented the portable music
player with the iPod, launched the first
successful legal method of selling
Bhupen Hazarika
Legendary singer-
composer and
Padma Bhushan
awardee Bhupen
Hazarika died in
Mumbai on 5 November 2011.
Bhupen Hazarika was born on 8
September 1926, in Sadiya, Assam.
Hazarika studied at Cotton College
and then moved to the Banaras Hindu
University to complete his Bachelor in
Arts in 1944. He completed his MA
in Political Science and was honoured
with a doctorate by the Columbia
University in New York in the 1952.
He also received the Lisle Fellowship
from Chicago University, US to study
the use of educational projectdevelopment through cinema.He was
the chairman of the Sangeet Natak
Akademi from 1999-2004. He was
chosen as a member of the Assam
Legislative Assembly from 1967-72.
At the age of 12, Hazarika sang his
first song Biswa Bijoy No Jowan for
an Assamese film Indramalati . He
was involved with the Assamese film
industry ever since its inception. He
worked to bring tradition of Assamesemusic to a platform where the world
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could listen. Era Bat ar Sur,
Shakuntala, Loti ghoti,
Pratidhwani, Chick Mick Bijul,
Swikarokti and Siraj are some of the
Assamese films that were directed by
him. He lent his voice and composed
songs for the film.His soulful
compositions for Hindi films Rudali,
Chingaari, Daman introduced a new
dimension in Bollywood music. His
song Dil Hoom Hoom Kare from
Rudali is a legend. Legendary black
singer Pual Robenson inspired him to
compose his magnum opus O Ganga
behti ho kyon. Hazarika was a multi-
talented personality. He was a poet,
music composer, singer, actor,
journalist, author and filmmaker.He
had moved to Mumbai to work as an
artist with Indian People’s Theatre
Movement (IPTA) with music
composer Salil Chowdhury, actor
Balraj Sahni and a few others.
He was awarded the National Award
in 1975 for Chameli Memsaab. He
also won the Dada Saheb Phalke
Award in 1992. The legendary
composer was conferred the IndianMusic Director award for best music
Internationally for the film Rudaali at
the Asia Pacific International Film
Festival 1993 held in Japan.He won
President’s medal for his films
Shakuntala (1960), Pratidhwani
(1964) and Lotighoti (1967). He was
also awarded the Sangeet Natak
Akademi Award in 1987.
Srilal Shukla
Renowned litterateur Srilal Shukla died
at a hospital in Lucknow on 28
October 2011 following prolonged
illness. He was 86. Srilal Shukla wrote
Sooni Ghaati Ka Sooraj (1957),
Agyaatvaas (1962), Rag Darbari
(1968), Aadmi Ka Zahar (1972),
Bisrampur Ka Sant (1998), Raag
Viraag (2001) and many other novels.
His detective novel entitled Aadmi Ka Zahar was serialised in the weekly
magazine Hindustan. His works throw
light on the falling moral values of
society in post-independence era.
Raag Darbaari portrayed a feudal,
crumbling Shivpalganj- the archetypal
village of the Hindi heartland with its
politico-cultural tensions and
administrative neglect. Shukla delved
upon almost everything that was
decadent in the system, but stopped
short of making a moral statement.
English translation of his novel Rag
Darbari was published under the
same title in 1993 by Penguin Books.
The novel was also translated and
published by National Book Trust,
India in 15 Indian languages. A
television serial based on this novel
continued for several months on the
DD National in the 1980s.
He wrote many satires like Angad Ka
Paanv, Yahaan Se Vahaan, Meri
Shreshtha Vyangya Rachnayein
(1979), Kuchh Zameen Mein Kuchh
Hava Mein (1990), Jahaalat Ke
Pachaas Saal (2003), Khabron Ki
Jugaali (2005) and many more. Yeh
Ghar Mera Nahin, Suraksha Tatha Anya Kahaaniyan, Iss Umra Mein,
Dus Pratinidhi Kahaaniyan are his
short story collections. Mere
Saakshaatkaar (2002) and Kuchh
Saahitya Charcha Bhi (2008) are his
memoirs. Noted Hindi writer, Shrilal
Shukla was born in Atrauli village of
Lucknow district on 31 December
1925. He had graduated from
Allahabad University. He began his
career as a state civil servant(UPPCS) in 1949. Later on, he was
inducted into the IAS but in 1983 he
left the services and continued to
pursue his literary dreams. Shrilal
Shukla was presented the India’s
highest literary honour Jnanpith award
on his hospital bed by Uttar Pradesh
Governor B L Joshi on 18 October
2011. He was honoured with the
Sahitya Akademi Award for novel
Raag Darbari for the year 1969. He
was also a recipient of Vyas Samman
(1999), Lohia Sammaan (1994) of
Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthaan,
Sharad Joshi and Maithili Sharan
Gupta Sammaan of Madhya Pradesh
Government. He was awarded with
national civilian honour Padma
Bhushan in 2008.
Varghese Kakkanadan
Malayalam writer with George
Varghese Kakkanadan died in Kollam.
He battled cancer for over two years,
and was 76.Known simply as
‘Kakkanadan’ (pronounced Kaakkan-
aadan), he was one of the harbingers
of modernism in the genres of
Malayalam novel and short story. Heleaves behind a rich oeuvre, several of
his works landmarks in the history of
literary modernism in Malayalam.
Moving with ease from apocalyptic
visions to tantric imagery, he made his
works representative of an important
strand in the larger modernist trends
in arts, literature and culture in
India.Kakkanadan was a rebel, both in
life and literature. His rebellion
extended from his selection of themes
and use of subversive language to his
careful crafting of the philosophy of
angst into the writing. His was a world
of dark tones and darker people,
many of them social rejects. He often
spoke of the seamy side, the world of
puss and blood. Each of his works was
an act of rebellion against accepted
elitist social mores and codes. Sex,
like violence, was a leitmotif in many
of his works; at times as a resonant
chant, at others as an explosive
outpouring of raw human power that
transcends both the demonic and the
divine. He won the Central Sahitya
Akademi Award, the Kerala Sahitya
Akademi Award and other awards.
Bhagwat Jha Azad
Former Bihar Chief Minister Bhagwat
Jha Azad died. He was a six-timemember of the Lok Sabha from
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Bhagalpur, Bihar. He was a veteran
Congressman who served as the
Chief Minister of Bihar from February
14, 1988 and March 10, 1989.
However, a little before his death he
joined the BJP.Azad superceded the
boards of three apex cooperative
institutions namely Bihar State Co-
operative Bank, Bihar State Co-
operative Marketing Union and Bihar
State Co-operative Land Development
Bank.
Ramdayal Munda
Ramdayal Munda, Rajya Sabha
member, died of cancer at the Apollo
Hospital.He was 72. Born in 1939 at
Diuri village, Mr. Munda completed his
education from Ranchi University in
1957. He was also a Padma Shri
recipient. Mr. Munda took his Ph.D
from the University of Chicago.He
wrote a number of books on tribals
issues. His political life started when
he joined Jharkhand Vikas Dal as
president.He later joined the
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and moved
to the Congress and became a
member of its Working Committee.
Vishnudutt Nagar
Noted economist Vishnudutt Nagar
passed away after suffering a heart
attack at the ager of 82.
Nagar was born on December 16,
1930 at Chanchoda in Madhya
Pradesh’s Guna district. He played a
prominent role in the establishment of
an economics department at the
Vikram University at Ujjain. Nagar’s
analytic columns on the general budget
in national dailies were well received.
K H Ranganath
Veteran Congress leader and former
Karnataka minister K H Ranganath
who was suffering from kidney
disorder died in Bangalore on 18
october 2011. Ranganath, a six term
MLA from Hiriyura assembly
constituency in Chitradurga district,
was also a Lok Sabha member from
Chitradurga during 1984-89. He had
served in the ministries of late D
Devaraj Urs, Bangarappa and S M
Krishna.Ranganath was also the
speaker of the Karnataka state
assembly.
ACCUSED
Julian Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
lost his appeal in the High Court here
against attempts to extradite him to
Sweden over allegations of sexual
assault brought by two women.The
court upheld a magistrate’s ruling in
February this year that he be
extradited.The verdict was greeted
with outrage by rights activists, who
had gathered outside the court in large
numbers to demand his freedom.
They had fixed to the court’s iron
railings banners reading: “Free
Assange! Free Manning! End the
wars.”Mr. Assange, who denies the
allegations and believes that the case
is politically motivated, said he was
considering his “next steps.” He
would remain on bail under the same
highly restrictive conditions that were
imposed when he was arrested in
November last year on a European-
wide Swedish warrant.
Niira Radia
Niira Radia,Corporate lobbyist and
provider of public relations services for
the Tata group and Reliance Industries
announced her exit from the business
of communication consultancy. She
cited her personal priorities of family
and health behind taking the decision
after much consideration.Niira Radia
had been in news related to the 2G
controversy in the recent past when
leaked tapes of her conversations
appeared in the media. The 2G
spectrum controversy involved
officials in the government of India
illegally undercharging mobile
telephony companies for frequency
allocation licenses, which they would
use to create 2G subscriptions for cell
phones.
Sanjeev Bhatt
The suspended IPS officer, Sanjeev
Bhatt, who had implicated Gujarat
Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the
2002 post-Godhra riots, was arrested
here on Friday after a constable filed
an FIR against him.However,later
court granted him bail and he released
from the jail.
Yulia Tymoshenko
The legal team of the former
Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yulia
Tymoshenko, will next week file an
appeal against her seven-year jail
sentence, said one of her lawyers on
Wednesday. The opposition leader has
claimed the decision to jail her for
exceeding her powers in a gas deal
with Russia in 2009 was ordered by
President Viktor Yanukovych and the
conviction sparked international
outrage. A judge found Ms.
Tymoshenko guilty of exceeding her
authority in 2009 by making the state
energy company sign a 10-year gas
import deal with Russia that was
overly advantageous to Moscow.”The
court rules that Y.V. Tymoshenko
intentionally used her powers to
criminal ends,” he said. “The court
finds her guilty and sentences her to
seven years in prison.”
Jack Warner
A video showing former FIFA vice-
president Jack Warner telling
Caribbean officials how to deal with
cash gifts from Mohamed bin
Hammam was published by a British
newspaper on Wednesday. The Daily
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Telegraph posted footage of a May 11
meeting of the Caribbean Football
Union (CFU) on its website, which
shows Warner advising delegates how
to handle cash offered by bin
Hammam ahead of his ill-fated FIFA
election bid. Asian FootballConfederation (AFC) chief Bin
Hammam was later banned for life
amid claims Caribbean officials had
been paid $40,000 each at the
meeting. In the video, Warner can be
heard telling CFU delegates he had
not been in favour of bin Hammam
offering money at the meeting.
Mahipal Maderna
Rajasthan Water Resources Minister
Mahipal Maderna was dropped from
the Cabinet on 16 October 2011 after
an official recommendation sent to the
Raj Bhavan for his dismissal. He was
dismissed in the wake of allegations
about his involvement in a case of
mysterious disappearance of an
auxiliary nurse midwife, Bhanwari
Devi.Maderna, son of powerful Jat
leader and Congress veteran
Parasram Maderna could not be
persuaded to put in his papers,
following which Chief Minister Ashok
Gehlot decided to recommend his
sacking to the Governor.
The State government announced his
removal a day before a habeas corpus
writ petition filed by Bhanwari Devi’s
husband comes up for the next
hearing in the Rajasthan HighCourt.Maderna figures as an accused
in the first information report
registered for rape, kidnap and murder
of Bhanwari Devi, 36, who has been
missing from Jaliwada village in
Jodhpur district since 1 September
2011. Maderna faces charges under
Sections 376 (rape), 302 (murder) and
120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the
Indian Penal Code.Later he was
arrested and sent to jail.
Arunkumar
The Kerala High Court upheld the
government decisions to order a
Vigilance investigation into various
allegations levelled against V.A.
Arunkumar, son of Leader of the
Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan, and
withdraw an earlier order referring to
the Lok Ayukta a complaint against
him..Mr. Arunkumar, who was the
Additional Director of the Institute of
Human Resources Development
(IHRD), pointed out that the
allegations were raised by then Leader
of the Opposition Oommen Chandy
on the eve of the Assembly elections.
Yasin Malik
Violence broke out in Maisuma here
after the police detained JKLF
chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik for
taking out a rally against the death
sentence awarded to Afzal Guru.
Hasan Ali
The Supreme Court quashed the bailgranted to Pune stud-farm owner
Hasan Ali Khan by the Bombay High
Court in a money laundering case on
August 12.
HONOUR
Asha Bhosle
Legendary Bollywood playback singer
Asha Bhosle on 20 October 2011
entered the Guinness World Records
for the most number of single studio
recordings. Asha recorded up to 11000
solo, duets and chorus backed songs
and several others in over 20 Indian
languages since 1947.The 78-year-old
was conferred with the Guinness
honour at the Asian awards function
held in London.
Bhosle’s work includes film music,
pop, ghazals, bhajans, traditional Indian
classical music, folk songs, qawwalis,
and Rabindra Sangeets. Apart from
Hindi, she has sung in over 20 Indian
and foreign languages.The World
Records Academy, an international
organization which certifies world
records, recognised her as the Most
Recorded Artist in the world, inSeptember 2009.The Government of
India honoured her with the
Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2000 and
the Padma Vibhushan in 2008.
Oxford Scholarship
A Delhi University graduate, Hem
Borker, has become the 50th Indian
student to win the prestigious
Clarendon Fund scholarship to studyat Oxford.Ms. Borker, whose
research will examine Muslim identity,
gender and madrassa education, said
it had always been her “dream” to
study at Oxford.
VARIOUS
Namma Metro
Bangaloreans’ long wait for a datewith Namma Metro is finally over
with Union Urban Development
Minister Kamal Nath launched the
commercial services on Reach 1
between Byappanahalli and M.G.
Road on October 20.Bangalore Metro
Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL) got
the green signal from the
Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety.
As per the original schedule, Reach 1
should have been ready by March
2010. However, the dates were
postponed to December 2010, March
2011 and April 2011, by which time
both BMRCL as well as the
Government stopped announcing fresh
deadlines.
Panel Moots Helipads in
Sabarimala
Justice M.R. Hariharan Nair
Commission, which inquired into the
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Pulmedu stampede in Sabarimala, has
recommended that the government
regulate traffic through the Periyar
Tiger Reserve, prohibit sale of food
and construct helipads at Sabarimala.
The stampede, which occurred on
January 14, 2011, while pilgrims were
ascending the hillock, claimed 102
lives.
Herald Cable Network
HCN [Herald Cable Network] caught
offering to publish scripted political
interview as ‘news’ for Rs. 86,400. In
the conversations, the marketing
manager appears to confirm that
Raymond D’Sa [an aspiring candidatefrom Cortalim in south Goa] paid Rs.
2 lakh to get his ‘interview’ carried in
the Herald of October 20, the morning
of the conversation. Paid news is no
stranger to Goa, only this time it’s
drawing unfriendly attention. Those
are excerpts from recorded
conversations between Tulshidas
Desai, marketing manager of
OHeraldO (the Herald) and Goa-
based journalist MayabhushanNagvenkar.The journalist was pulling
off a sting posing as Bernard Costa,
a would-be candidate in the State’s
Assembly polls to be held early next
year.
Tawakkul Karman
Tawakkul Karman is known among
Yemenis as the “iron woman” and the
“mother of the revolution,” a motherof three who has long been an activist
for human rights and whose arrest in
January helped detonate a mass
uprising against the authoritarian
regime of President Ali Abdullah
Saleh. For the past eight months, the
32-year-old has been at the forefront
of the daily protests by hundreds of
thousands in the streets of Sanaa and
other Yemeni cities, demanding
Saleh’s ouster and the creation of ademocratic government.
Dr. B. G. Sidharth
This year’s Nobel Prize in physics
went to three astronomers for their
work demonstrating that “dark
energy” was propelling expansion of
the universe at ever-increasing
speeds. An Indian physicist claims
that he had proposed a similar theory
a year before the three astronomers
first announced their results in
1998.Dr B. G. Sidharth, director
general of B. M. Birla Science
Centre, had proposed the “dark
energy” model at the seventh Marcel
Grossman Conference in Jerusalem in
June 1997, and at another conferenceon quantum physics in Singapore a
year later. His research paper titled
“The Universe of Fluctuations” was
published in International Journal of
Modern Physics in 1998.Sidharth
asserts that it was only after his paper
was published that the other
researchers got their findings
published. “My theory was based on
physics and mathematical calculations.
The mathematical model that Ifollowed is called fluctuational
cosmology. On the other hand, the
model proposed by the Nobel winners
was based on observational findings
while studying a supernova,” he said.
Prashant Bhushan
Senior lawyer and Team Anna
member Prashant Bhushan was
violently attacked by activists of theShri Ram Sena and a previously
unknown outfit, Bhagat Singh Kranti
Sena, in his chamber located opposite
the heavily guarded Supreme Court
premises on Bhagwan Dass Road
here on Wednesday. The
organisations claimed that the assault
was in retaliation for his recent
statement on Jammu and Kashmir,
purportedly supporting the demand for
withdrawal of security forces and areferendum to gauge public opinion.
Inder Verma &
Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga
Attackers on Prashant Bhushan were
identified as Inder Verma, president of
Shri Ram Sena’s Delhi unit. He
purportedly revealed the name of
another assailant as Tajinder Pal Singh
Bagga, president of the Bhagat Singh
Kranti Sena.Tajinder had earlier
disrupted Arundhati Roy’s book
release, climbed on the bonnet of a car
in which Mirwaiz Umar Farooq had
arrived at the Foreign Correspondents
Club recently, and had once tried to
disrupt Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s
speech at a seminar in the Capital,said a police officer.
Bhanwari Devi
The Central Bureau of Investigation
has registered a case in the alleged
abduction of Bhanwari Devi, a
resident of Berunda in Rajasthan’s
Jodhpur district.The case, registered
on Tuesday at the request of the State
government, has sparked a
controversy, with allegations having
been levelled against a State Minister.
The case relates to the alleged
abduction of Bhanwari Devi, a folk
singer, who left for Bilada on
September 1 by bus for collecting the
payment for her car sold to a person
of Tilbasni. Her husband tried to
locate her by making repeated calls on
her cellphone, but she was
untraceable.
Irom Sharmila
Irom Sharmila Chanu known as the
Iron Lady of Manipur or Menghoubi
(the fair one) is a civil rights activist,
political activist, and poet from the
Indian state of Manipur. Since 2
November 2000, she has been on
hunger strike to demand that the Indian
government repeal the Armed Forces
(Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA),
which she blames for violence in
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Manipur and other parts of India’s
northeast.She was awarded the 2007
Gwangju Prize for Human Rights,
which is given for an outstanding
person or group, active in the
promotion and advocacy of Peace,
Democracy and Human Rights. She
shared the award with Lenin
Raghuvanshi of People’s Vigilance
Committee on Human Rights, a
northeastern Indian human rights
organization. In Addition the largest
monetary prize the first Rabindranath
Tagore Peace Prize was given to her
in 2010 by the New Delhi IIPM. She
was awarded the Sarva Gunah
Sampannah Award for Peace and
Harmony aka the 12th Signature
Women of Substance award (Assam)
also in 2010. she is the recipient of the
first Mayillama Award (Kerala). in
2010 she was awarded in absentia a
lifetime achievement award in
Bangalore.
World’s Cheapest Computer
Cum Access Device, Aakash
The World’s cheapest computer cum
access device, Aakash was launched.
Aakash is a part of the Indian
Government’s National Mission on
Education’s Sakshat Project. It is one
of the main agendas of the Mission
which aimed to link all higher
education institutions in India. Aakash
has three fold purpose of access,
equity and quality. It is designed to
revolutionize the education system inthe country. Open source materials
from IITs are to be created by
Aakash. The government’s endeavour
is to ensure that every student in any
part India has access to technology
and they can access lectures. The
software for the tablet was developed
indigenously by the Indian Institute of
Technology, Rajasthan. The device is
seven inch touch screen, equipped
with wi-fi Internet, media player, 3hours battery power and several other
multimedia applications. This device is
to be sold only through colleges and
universities.
Shanti Tigga
Another barrier has been broken inthe Army with a mother of two
becoming the first woman
ja wa n.Out per forming her male
counterparts in the physical tests, 35-
year-old Sapper Shanti Tigga joined
the 969 Railway Engineer Regiment of
Territorial Army (TA).Employed with
the Railways as a points-man and
posted at Chalsa station in West
Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, Tigga
volunteered for the TA last year.
Arjun Vajpayee
After an ascent of Mount Everest, 18-
year-old Arjun Vajpayee, on Tuesday
scaled the 8,163-m-high Mount
Manaslu in the western Himalayas.
He is the youngest person to have
climbed three 8,000-m peaks.
Fauza Singh
Fauja Singh, a 100-year-old runner of
Indian-origin, has set a Guinness
record of being the oldest person to
complete a full-distance marathon
here. It took Mr. Singh over eight
hours to cross the finish line, more than
six hours after Kenya’s Kenneth
Mungara won the Scotiabank Toronto
Waterfront Marathon on Sunday for
the fourth straight year. Mr. Singh was
the last competitor to complete the
course but entered the Guinness Book
of World Records. He accomplished
the amazing feat, becoming the oldest
person ever to complete a full-distance
42-kilometre marathon. Mr. Singh,
who only speaks Punjabi, also
surprised himself. He said he had set
a goal of finishing the race in about
nine hours.
Tagore in Lausanne
President Pratibha Patil with her Swiss
counterpart, Micheline Calmy-Rey,
after unveiling a bronze bust of Nobel
laureate Rabindranath Tagore at the
University of Lausanne in Switzerland
on Tuesday. Ms. Patil described
Tagore as a “goodwill ambassador” of
modern India. A Memorandum of
Understanding was signed between
the Indian Council for Cultural
Relations and the University to
establish Rabindranath Tagore Chair
on Indian Studies that will begin with
the teaching of Hindi.
Timothy Walsh
Timothy Walsh, author of the
controversial “superbug” study
published last year in British medical
jour na l The Lancet said he was
unapologetic about his work but
surprised at the reaction it had
provoked from the Indian government
and media.Professor Walsh, who
presented a paper on the NDM-1
(New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase1), the drug-resistant gene which he
named after New Delhi after tracing
it to hospitals in India, at the 1st Global
Forum on Bacterial Infections, said: “I
was chiefly responsible for naming the
gene as NDM-1 and I am profoundly
unapologetic about it.”
BOOKS
Looking Back Into the Future:
Identity & Insurgency in
Northeast India
“Looking Back Into the Future:
Identity & Insurgency in Northeast
India , “ by M.S. Prabhakara, veteran
jour na list and former Special
Correspondent of The Hindu and
Frontline in South Africa and northeast
India was released.The book,
simultaneously published in the United
Kingdom by Routledge, an imprint of
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the Taylor & Francis Group, is an
initiative of the think tank OKDISCD.
It consists of a selection of essays,
edit page articles and reports by Dr.
Prabhakara written in The Hindu ,
Frontline , Economic and Political
Weekly on questions of identity,
ethnicity, sovereignty and insurgency
in the northeast over the past three
and a half decades.
Pages from the Past —
A Journalist Looks Back
Pages from the Past — A journalist
looks back”, a compilation of articles
by veteran journalist K. P. Srivastava
written over past five decades, wasreleased here on Wednesday.Mr.
Srivastava, who retired as Chief Editor
from the Press Trust of India (PTI) in
1987, had also served as Information
Adviser to former Prime Minister
Chandra Shekhar. Releasing the book
at Press Club of India here, veteran
jour na list and columnis t Inder
Malhotra said Mr. Srivastava’s keen
observations as a political analyst
provide a deep insight into the politicsof the Nehru era. Mr. Srivastava, now
in his mid-80s, has recollected his days
as a journalist covering political
developments from the time of first
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru till
the advent of coalition era in Indian
politics.
Rival Prize
For more than 30 years, the BookerPrize (renamed Man Booker after its
takeover by the Man Group) has
enjoyed near cult status in much of
the English-speaking world but on
Thursday a group of prominent British
writers, literary agents and critics
announced a “rival’’ prize, “The
Literature Prize’’, amid a growing and
ill-tempered row over the quality of
this year’s Booker shortlist which has
been criticised for favouring
“readability’’ over literary merit.Theprize, to be launched next year,
promises to recognise “the best novel’’
written in the English language and
published in the U.K. in a given year
regardless of the nationality of the
writer — unlike the Booker which is
restricted to writers from the
Commonwealth countries.
Of a Certain Age:
Twenty Life Sketches
A fresh offering on the lives of 20
great personalities titled Of a Certain
Age: Twenty Life Sketches penned by
former West Bengal governor
Gopalkrishna Gandhi was released by
Penguin Books India in New Delhi.
Social activist and National Advisory
Council member Aruna Roy unveiled
the first copy of the book and
presented it to National Commissionfor Minorities chairperson Wajahat
Habibullah.The book carved out the
lives of prominent personalities ranging
from Jayaprakash Narayan to Jyoti
Basu, K. R. Narayanan to R.
Venkataraman to Pupul Jayakar,
Mahatma Gandhi to the Dalai Lama.
M. S. Subbulakshmi was another
character who found mention in the
book.
Controversially Yours
Former Pakistani Cricketer Shoaib
Akhtar’s autobiography, Controver-
sially Yours was launched.In the book,
the temparamental Pakistan speedster
questioned the abilities of some of the
India’s batting stalwarts like Sachin
Tendulkar and rahul Dravid. He
accused Tendulkar of being scared to
face his scorching pace on a slow
Faisalabad track. He claimed that
Tendulkar and Dravid were not
match-winners nor did they know the
art of finishing games.Akhtar also
spoke at length about politics in
Pakistan Cricket Board. He took a dig
at two former captains Wasim Akram
and Shoaib Malik.The 36-year-old
Akhtar, who had scalped 178 wickets
in 46 Test and 247 I wickets in 163
ODIs, said that Tendulkar and Dravid
who have together conjured over
56,000 international runs (over 33,000
by Tendulkar and over 23,000 by
Dravid) are not match winners.
Julian Assange’s Unauthorised
Autobiography
The WikiLeaks founder founder Julian
Assange’s unauthorised autobiography
was released by publishers
Canongate. Copies of the
unauthorised autobiography of
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange are
placed on display for sale in a
bookstore in Edinburgh, Scotland on
22 September 2011. The unauthorised
autobiography was released amid
heavy secrecy to stop the author from
seeking an injunction to block
publication.The book is based on an
early 70000-word draft of themanuscript written by Assange with
the novelist Andrew O’Hagan and
was shown to the publishers in March
2011.
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