Shiv Sena is a right-wing Marathi regionalist and Hindu nationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray. Shiv Sena's election symbol is the Bow and Arrow. It uses the saffron colour in its flag and a image of a roaring tiger.
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current prime minister of India since May 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a right-wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest serving prime minister from outside the Indian National Congress.
Anthony Stanislaus de Mello was an Indian cricket administrator and one of the founders of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He also helped launch the Asian Games as the chairman of the organising committee for the first Asian Games in Delhi.
The 1930 Far Eastern Championship Games was the ninth edition of the regional multi-sport event and was held from 24 to 27 May 1930 in Tokyo,Empire of Japan. A total of eight sports were contested over the course of the five-day event.
Ramesh Menon is an author,journalist,documentary filmmaker,and corporate trainer.
Navnirman Andolan was a socio-political movement in 1974 in Gujarat by students and middle-class people against economic crisis and corruption in public life. It is the only successful agitation in the history of post-independence India that resulted in dissolution of an elected government of the state.
The Nagar Brahmin is a Hindu Brahmin subcaste mainly from the Indian state of Gujarat.
Events in the year 2008 in the Republic of India.
The 2002 Gujarat riots,also known as the 2002 Gujarat violence,was a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The burning of a train in Godhra on 27 February 2002,which caused the deaths of 58 Hindu pilgrims and karsevaks returning from Ayodhya,is cited as having instigated the violence. Following the initial riot incidents,there were further outbreaks of violence in Ahmedabad for three months;statewide,there were further outbreaks of violence against the minority Muslim population of Gujarat for the next year.
Abhijit Bhaduri is an Indian author,columnist and management consultant. Bhaduri was Chief Learning Officer of the Wipro Group. Bhaduri is the author of three best-selling books- two novels of the 'MBA' Series- Mediocre But Arrogant,Married but Available and the management 'guide-book' Don't Hire The Best.
The Indian Hockey Federation was the administrative body of field hockey in India. Incorporated in 1925,it was under the global jurisdiction of the International Hockey Federation.
Times Now is an English news channel in India owned and operated by The Times Group. The channel launched on 23 January 2006 in partnership with Reuters. It is a pay television throughout India. Until 2016,it was India's most popular and the most viewed English news channel.
Shiv Nadar is an Indian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman emeritus of HCL Technologies and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades. In 2008,Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry. Nadar,nicknamed by friends as Magus,since the mid-1990s he has focused his efforts on developing the educational system of India through the Shiv Nadar Foundation. According to Forbes,He is the 3rd richest person in India and the 56th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$25.6 billion as of February 15,2023.
Selma Juliet Christina D'Silva is a former player for the Indian Women's Hockey Team. She represented India at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1982 Asian Games along with many other international tournaments. She has also been the captain for Indian Women's Hockey Team during the 1983 Woman’s World Cup Kuala Lumpur.
There have been several instances of religious violence against Muslims since the partition of India in 1947,frequently in the form of violent attacks on Muslims by Hindu nationalist mobs that form a pattern of sporadic sectarian violence between the Hindu and Muslim communities. Over 10,000 people have been killed in Hindu-Muslim communal violence since 1950 in 6,933 instances of communal violence between 1954 and 1982.
Deepa Malik is an Indian athlete. She started her career at the age of 30. She is the first Indian woman to win a medal in Paralympic Games and won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in shot put. She also won gold in the F-53/54 Javelin event at the para athletic Grand Prix held in Dubai in 2018. She is currently the world number one in the F-53 category. She has won accolades for her participation in various adventure sports. She is associated with Himalayan Motorsports Association (H.M.A.) and Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (F.M.S.C.I.). She has undertaken an 8-day,1,700-km drive in sub-zero temperatures which included a climb to 18,000 feet (5,500 m). It was –Raid De Himalaya. This journey covers many difficult paths including remote Himalayas,Leh,Shimla and Jammu.
Boria Majumdar is an Indian sports journalist,sports historian and writer. He was the co-writer of Sachin Tendulkar's autobiography Playing it My Way. He is currently banned for 2 years by the Board of Control for Cricket in India for threatening cricketer Wriddhiman Saha.
Subhash Verma is a retired Indian wrestler born on 15 July 1968 at village Malakpur,Baghpat,UP. Verma was trained at the Hanuman Akhara of Delhi. He was a very famous pupil of Guru Hanuman. He had won Bharat Kesari title 15 times in his career. Now he runs his own Akhara to train young wrestler for India.
Prem Nath Sahni (1916-1990) was an Indian administrator who played an active role in industry.,social life,administration,and sports of India for four decades. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1971 for his contributions to trade and industry.
