Sonia Gandhi is an Indian politician. She is the longest-serving president of the Indian National Congress,a social democratic political party,which has governed India for most of its post-independence history. She took over as the party leader in 1998,seven years after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi,her husband and a former Prime Minister of India,and remained in office until 2017 after serving for twenty-two years. She returned to the post in 2019 and remained the President for another three years.
The Birla family is a family connected with the industrial and social history of India.
Birla Corporation Limited is an Indian-based flagship company of the M.P Birla Group,founded by Ghanshyam Das Birla in the late 1910s and carried on by Madhav Prasad Birla.
Suresh Kalmadi is an Indian politician and senior sports administrator. He is a former member of the Indian National Congress. He was a member of parliament from Pune until May 2014. He is alleged to have been involved in corrupt practices in relation to the 2010 Commonwealth Games during his tenure as president of Indian Olympic Association and chairman of Commonwealth Games 2010. He was charged with conspiracy,forgery,misconduct and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and later arrested for the same in April 2014,but as has yet not faced trial. In December 2016,the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) named Suresh Kalmadi as its lifetime patron. However,he refused to accept the post until he was able to clear his name.
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian businessman,chairman and managing director of Reliance Group. The Reliance Group was created in July 2006 following a demerger from Reliance Industries Limited. He led several stocks listed corporations including Reliance Capital,Reliance Infrastructure,Reliance Power and Reliance Communications.
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media Limited,an entity controlled by the Birla family,and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia,the daughter of K. K. Birla.
Amar Singh was an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was the general secretary of the Samajwadi Party and was a member of the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian parliament. On 6 January 2010,he resigned from all the posts of the Samajwadi Party and was later expelled from the party by its chief,Mulayam Singh Yadav,on 2 February 2010.
Krishna Kumar Birla was an Indian industrialist of the Birla family.
Subhash Chandra Goenka is an Indian billionaire media baron. He is the chairman of the Essel Group,an Indian media conglomerate and founded Zee TV in 1992. He was also the chairman of Zee Media but resigned as Director and Non-Executive Chairman of the company on 24 May 2016. He was elected to the Upper House of the Indian parliament for the Haryana state in the 2016 Rajya Sabha election,as an independent candidate supported by legislators from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Kumar Mangalam Birla is an Indian billionaire industrialist,philanthropist,and the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group,one of the largest conglomerates in India. He is the chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology &Science,Pilani and ex-chairman of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. According to Forbes,he has an estimated net worth of US$19.6 billion,as of March 2024 making him the 7th richest person in India.
Rahul Bajaj was an Indian billionaire businessman. He was the chairman emeritus of the Indian conglomerate Bajaj Group. He was awarded the third-highest civilian award in India,the Padma Bhushan,in 2001.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a junior minister in the incumbent Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics and Information Technology of India. He is also an entrepreneur,technocrat and a member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha from BJP representing Karnataka. He served as National Spokesperson of BJP and was vice-chairman of the Kerala faction of the BJP-led coalition National Democratic Alliance.
Birla Institute of Technology &Science,Pilani - Dubai is a private technical research university and a constituent college of Dubai International Academic City. It became the international campus of BITS Pilani in 2000,making it the second campus established. It is the first Indian university to have an overseas campus. The institute is backed by the Aditya Birla Group and is one of the first six institutes to be awarded the Institute of Eminence status in 2018.
Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian economist,politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) serving as the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs of the Government of India since 2019. She is a member of the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament,representing Karnataka since 2016 and previously represented Andhra Pradesh from 2014 to 2016. Sitharaman previously served as the 28th Defence Minister from 2017 to 2019,thereby becoming India's second female defence minister and the second female finance minister after Indira Gandhi,and the first full-time female minister to hold each of those portfolios. She served as junior minister in the Modi ministry between 2014 and 2017,holding successive positions,first for her dual appointment as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and the Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs from May to November 2014,and then as the Minister of State for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry from May 2014 to September 2017,before being elevated to senior posts within the Union Cabinet.
Loreto House was established in 1842 in Kolkata,by the Sisters of Loreto belonging to the institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the oldest and the first Loreto institution to be established in India and was one of the few all-girls Catholic schools of that time.
Jubilant FoodWorks Limited is an Indian food service company based in Noida,which holds the master franchise for Domino's Pizza in India,Nepal,Sri Lanka and Bangladesh,for Popeyes in India,Bangladesh,Nepal and Bhutan,and also for Dunkin' Donuts in India. The company also operates two homegrown restaurant brands called Ekdum! and Hong's Kitchen. Jubilant FoodWorks is a part of the Jubilant Bhartia Group,owned by Shyam Sunder Bhartia and Hari Bhartia.
Birla Institute of Technology &Science,Pilani is a deemed university in Pilani,Rajasthan,India. It focuses primarily on higher education and research in engineering and sciences. BITS Pilani is one of the first six institutes in India to be granted Institute of Eminence status. According to 2012 data,BITS Pilani has an acceptance rate of 1.47%,making it one of the most exclusive technical universities in the world.
Ananyashree Birla is an Indian singer,songwriter and entrepreneur. Since her debut single in 2016,Birla has reached more than 350 million combined streams and collaborated with artists including Sean Kingston,Afrojack,and Mood Melodies. Birla is the first Indian artist with an English-language single to go platinum in India;five of her singles have achieved platinum or double platinum status.
The 17th Lok Sabha was formed by the members elected in the 2019 Indian general election. Elections,all across India,were conducted in seven phases from 11 April 2019 to 19 May 2019 by the Election Commission of India. Counting started officially on the morning of 23 May 2019 and the results were declared on the same day.
The Jubilant Bhartia Group is an Indian conglomerate with interests in pharmaceuticals,food services,agribusiness,energy,and other services. It was founded in 1978 by Shyam Sundar Bhartia and Hari Bhartia and is headquartered in Noida,Uttar Pradesh.
