Debabrata Bandyopadhyay | |
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MP of Rajya Sabha for West Bengal | |
In office 19 August 2011 –18 August 2017 | |
Succeeded by | Manas Bhunia |
Constituency | West Bengal |
Personal details | |
Political party | AITC |
Debabrata Bandyopadhyay (born 1931) is a Member of Parliament representing All India Trinamool Congress in the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal. He was Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank and had retired from the ADB from December 1991. [1]
He had studied B.A. with Honours in Economics at Presidency College at Kolkata and completed M.A. (Economics) at University of Calcutta at Kolkata. [2]
Gostha Behari Pal was an Indian footballer who played primarily as a defender. Nicknamed "the Chinese wall",Pal was the first captain of the India national team,played during the 1920s and 30s.
Ballygunge is a locality of South Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is one of the city's most affluent neighbourhoods.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was an Indian writer in the Bengali language. His best known works are the autobiographical novel Pather Panchali,Aparajito (Undefeated),Chander Pahar and Aranyak.
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Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay was an Indian Bengali-language writer. He was actively involved with Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. The creator of the Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi,Sharadindu composed stories of a wide array of varieties including:novels,short stories,crime and detective stories,plays and screenplays. He wrote historical fiction like Kaler Mandira,Gourmollar,Tumi Sandhyar Megh,Tungabhadrar Teere,Chuya-Chandan,Maru O Sangha,Sadashib series and stories of the unnatural with the recurring character Baroda. Besides,he composed many songs and poems.
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Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay was an Indian novelist who wrote in the Bengali language. He wrote 65 novels,53-story-books,12 plays,4 essay-books,4 autobiographies,2 travel stories and composed several songs. He was awarded Rabindra Puraskar,Sahitya Akademi Award,Jnanpith Award,Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. He was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 and posthumously nominated in 1972.
Debabrata Das is an Indian cricketer who plays domestic cricket for Bengal and the IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). Das first came to prominence as the member of the Indian Under-19 team in 2005. One of the older members of the Indian U19 World Cup squad which was defeated by Pakistan in the 2006 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup final,this right-handed batsman only broke into the team during the Afro-Asia U19 Cup in November 2005. He obviously did enough to impress the selectors as he played in every match and scored 156 runs in his six innings to date. However,he was unable to make the transition to the senior national team despite good performances for Bengal in the domestic one-day competition.
Dalhousie Athletic Club is an Indian professional sports club based in Kolkata,West Bengal,best known for its football section. It was established in 1880,during the British rule in India. Dalhousie has competed in the Premier Division of Calcutta Football League for a long time.
Sudip Bandyopadhyay is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament. Sudip Bandyopadhyay has been a member of the Lok Sabha for five terms,serving in the 12th,13th,15th,16th,17th,18th Lok Sabhas. He represents the Kolkata Uttar constituency of West Bengal and is a member of the Trinamool Congress political party. He is the Leader of Trinamool Congress in Lok Sabha.
Jayanta Bandyopadhyay,is a researcher,analyst and author. He is now a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation,Kolkata. He is a Former Professor of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. An internationally renowned professional on public interest research,mountain environment and water governance in south Asia,Bandyopadhyay has authored sixteen critically acclaimed books and monographs,in addition to 150 papers and articles. He has delivered invited lectures in many parts of the world.
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay is an Indian scientist specializing in computational biology. A professor at the Indian Statistical Institute,Kolkata,she is a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner in Engineering Science for 2010,IInfosys Prize 2017 laureate in the Engineering and Computer Science category and TWAS Prize winner for Engineering Sciences in 2018. Her research is mainly in the areas of evolutionary computation,pattern recognition,machine learning and bioinformatics. Since 1 August 2015,she has been the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute,and she would oversee the functioning of all five centres of Indian Statistical Institute located at Kolkata,Bangalore,Delhi,Chennai,and Tezpur besides several other Statistical Quality Control &Operation Research Units spread across India. She is the first woman Director of the Indian Statistical Institute. Currently she is on the Prime Ministers' Science,Technology and Innovation Advisory Council. In 2022 she was given the Padma Shri award for Science and Engineering by the Government of India.
Bandhan Bank Ltd. is a banking and financial services company,headquartered in Kolkata.
Pradip Bhattacharya is an Indian politician. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from the state of West Bengal. He is a leader of the Indian National Congress.
Siddhartha Roy is an Indian structural biologist,biophysicist,former director of the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology and the former director (officiating) of Bose Institute. Widely known for his studies on bacteriophage lambda and protein synthesis,he is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. In 1999,the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,for his contributions to Biological sciences.
Dwijen Bandyopadhyay was a veteran Bengali actor and theater personality from West Bengal,India. He worked onstage from the 1970s. Bandyopadhyay has also been a professor in the department of Drama at Rabindra Bharati University from 1996 to 2014.
Debabrata Goswami FInstP FRSC,is an Indian chemist and the Prof. S. Sampath Chair Professor of Chemistry,at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is also a professor of The Department of Chemistry and The Center for Lasers &Photonics at the same Institute. Goswami is an associate editor of the open-access journal Science Advances. He is also an Academic Editor for PLOS One and PeerJ Chemistry. He has contributed to the theory of Quantum Computing as well as nonlinear optical spectroscopy. His work is documented in more than 200 research publications. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry,Fellow of the Institute of Physics,the SPIE,and The Optical Society. He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE,has been awarded a Swarnajayanti Fellowship for Chemical Sciences,and has held a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship. He is the third Indian to be awarded the International Commission for Optics Galileo Galilei Medal for excellence in optics.
Debabrata Mukherjee is an Indian mountaineer and explorer from West Bengal. He was the oldest,first civilian Indian to climb Mount Everest from the North Col. He is also the first person to cross Chaukhamba Col from Badrinath to reach Gangotri.
The Trades Cup is an Indian football tournament held in Kolkata and organised by Indian Football Association. Incorporated in 1889,it is the second oldest football tournament in Asia and the oldest in Kolkata. It is the traditional curtain raiser for the Kolkata football season.