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Gagan
Gagan may refer to: Given name *Gagan Bhagat, Indian politician and member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly * Gagan Biyani, Indian American serial entrepreneur, marketer, and journalist *Gagan Singh Bhandari, Nepalese General *Gagan Bulathsinghala, Sri Lankan air officer *Gagan Chandra Chatterjee, Indian classical violinist * Gagan Dosanjh (born 1990), Indo-Canadian soccer player * Gagan Harkara, Bengali Baul poet * Gagan Khoda (born 1974), Indian cricketer * Gagan Malik, Indian actor *Gagan Malik (cricketer) (born 1976), Indian cricketer * Gagan Mohindra, British politician *Gagan Narang (born 1983), Indian shooter and Olympian * Gagan Sikand, Canadian politician and MP *Gagan Ajit Singh (born 1980), Indian field hockey player *Gagan Thapa (born 1976), Nepali politician and government minister *Gagan Ullalmath Adaveeshaiah Puttaveeraswamy Gagan Ullalmath (Kannada: ಗಗನ್ ಉಳ್ಳಾಲಮಠ, born 8 January 1992), popularly known as Gagan Ullalmath, is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Narang
Gagan Narang (born 6 May 1983) is an Indian sport shooter, supported by the Olympic Gold Quest. He won the bronze medal in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle Event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with a final score of 701.1 on 30 July 2012. Early life and background Gagan was born to Bhimsen Narang and his wife Amarjit, in a Punjabi Hindu Arora family in Chennai on 6 May 1983. His father is a retired chief manager of the Air India. Gagan's family hail from the Simla Gujran village of Haryana's Panipat district. However, his father's job assignments made them to shift from Panipat to Hyderabad, where he was brought up. He did his schooling from the Gitanjali Senior School. He attained his Bachelor of Computer Application degree from the Hyderabad's Osmania University. He took to shooting when his father presented him an air pistol in 1997. He went about perfecting his shooting skills at the backyard of his home in Begumpet. According to his father, Gagan showed early sparks of his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Thapa
Gagan Kumar Thapa (born 19 July 1976) is a Nepali politician and youth leader, who is the current General Secretary of the Nepali Congress. He is currently serving as a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives, Nepal from Kathmandu since 2008, and is currently in its Parliamentary Committee on Education and Health. He served successfully as the Minister of Health and Population of Nepal from 2016 to 2017. He was elected for the first time as a Member of the First Constitutional Assembly from 2008 elections from proportional representation. From the 12th General Convention of the Nepali Congress, became Central Committee Member of the Nepal Congress. He won the 2013 elections as a Member of the Second Constitutional Assembly following the failure of the first assembly to promulgate a constitution, serving as the Health Minister from 2016 to 2017. He won in 2017 for the 2nd time from Kathmandu 4. He won for third time from the same constituency in 2022. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Malik
Gagan Malik is an Indian actor and Buddhist activist. He won the Best Actor Award in the World Buddhist Film Festival organised by the United Nations for his role as Lord Buddha in '' Sri Siddhartha Gauthama''. Malik is known for his leading role as lord Rama in '' Ramayan.'' Early life and modelling career Malik was born and brought up in a Jat family in Delhi, India. His father is a businessman from New Delhi, India. He has three elder brothers and a sister. He was educated in Hansraj school Central in Delhi. In his childhood, his mother used to read the epic ''Ramayana'' to him. When he was young, he used to participate in his colony Ramleela and he have always played the character of Ram in it. Prior to his acting debut, Malik played first class cricket in India. He also played cricket for the Ranji Trophy team in Delhi. After twelve years of cricket he moved to acting. Malik has vast experience in TV commercials (''Times of India'', ''Skoda'', ''Birla Sun Life Insurance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GAGAN
Gagan may refer to: Given name *Gagan Bhagat, Indian politician and member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly * Gagan Biyani, Indian American serial entrepreneur, marketer, and journalist *Gagan Singh Bhandari, Nepalese General *Gagan Bulathsinghala, Sri Lankan air officer *Gagan Chandra Chatterjee, Indian classical violinist * Gagan Dosanjh (born 1990), Indo-Canadian soccer player * Gagan Harkara, Bengali Baul poet * Gagan Khoda (born 1974), Indian cricketer * Gagan Malik, Indian actor *Gagan Malik (cricketer) (born 1976), Indian cricketer * Gagan Mohindra, British politician *Gagan Narang (born 1983), Indian shooter and Olympian * Gagan Sikand, Canadian politician and MP *Gagan Ajit Singh (born 1980), Indian field hockey player *Gagan Thapa (born 1976), Nepali politician and government minister *Gagan Ullalmath Adaveeshaiah Puttaveeraswamy Gagan Ullalmath (Kannada: ಗಗನ್ ಉಳ್ಳಾಲಮಠ, born 8 January 1992), popularly known as Gagan Ullalmath, is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Biyani
Gagan Biyani (born May 30, 1987) is an Indian-American serial entrepreneur, marketer, and journalist. He was a co-founder of Udemy, an online education company, and was co-founder and CEO of Sprig, a food delivery company. Life and career Biyani was born to Indian parents in Fremont, California. Early career Biyani attended University of California, Berkeley, and received a bachelor's degree in economics. He began his career working at Accenture before transitioning into technology entrepreneurship and journalism. As a journalist, he covered mobile applications and technology at TechCrunch. While there, he wrote a number of investigative journalism pieces, including one about a PR firm that was writing fake reviews on the App Store. He broke the story in TechCrunch. According to ''The New York Times'', the findings led to an FTC investigation and Biyani's findings were quoted by the FTC's official documents. Udemy In 2009, Biyani co-founded Udemy, one of the first MOOC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Harkara
Gaganchandra Dam ( bn, গগনচন্দ্র দাম; 1845–1910), mostly known as Gagan Harkara ( bn, গগন হরকরা), was a Bengali Baul poet after the tune of whose famous song " Ami Kothay Pabo Tare" (কোথায় পাবো তারে) Rabindranath Tagore composed " Amar Shonar Bangla", the national anthem of Bangladesh. In 1975 Bangladeshi pundit Ashraf Al Minar claimed that Rabindranath Tagore copied Gagan Harkara's works. Early life and background He resided at Kasba village in Kumarkhali Upazila in Kushtia in present-day Bangladesh. As he was a postman at Shelaidaha Post Office in Kumarkhali, people used to address him as "Harkara"; in Bengali, "Harkara" stands for "postman". He was used to delivering and collecting letters from Rabindranath Tagore during his (Tagore's) days in Shelaidaha. Tagore wrote over him many times in his letters, accumulated in ''Chinnapatra'' to Indira Devi. It was Tagore who first published Harkara's song in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Dosanjh
Gagandeep Dosanjh (born 1 November 1990) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder. Club career Youth Born in Abbotsford, British Columbia to Pavinder and Gurpal Dosanjh, both Indian immigrants from Punjab. Dosanjh started his career in the USL PDL with the Abbotsford Rangers in 2007. He then joined the Whitecaps U-23 where he stayed until 2010. While with the Whitecaps U-23, Dosanjh went on loan to Energie Cottbus U23 side in the Oberliga. Then, in 2010, Dosanjh joined the University of British Columbia where he played for the UBC Thunderbirds of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport leagues. In his first year with the side he helped lead the team to the Canada West title. Individually he earned a Canada West first team all-star selection and CIS Championship tournament all-star selection. In 2012 Dosanjh lead the Thunderbirds to 2012 CIS Championship where he scored four goals in three games. He also earned the UBC Thunderbirds Bus Phillips Memorial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Mohindra
Gagan Mohindra (born 7 April 1978) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the member of Parliament (MP) for South West Hertfordshire since the 2019 general election. Early life Mohindra was born into a Punjabi Hindu family in 1978. Mohindra's parents were both from Punjab, India, and immigrated to the United Kingdom before Mohindra was born. His paternal grandfather served in the British Indian Army. Mohindra was raised as a Hindu. Mohindra read Mathematics at King's College London and worked in financial services, before founding the Chromex Group four years after graduating, where he worked until 2015. The last filed accounts of the company show liabilities of £1.4 million. Political career Mohindra was elected as councillor for the Grange Hill Ward of the Epping Forest District Council in May 2006, and has served as a councillor for the Chigwell and Loughton Broadway division on Essex County Council since 2017. He continued in these roles, unpaid, after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Ajit Singh
Gagan Ajit Singh (born 9 December 1980) is an Indian former field hockey player who played as a forward. He was the captain of the India national under-21 team that won the 2001 Junior World Cup. He was a member of the Indian senior national team that played at two Olympic Games — 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens. Biography Gagan Ajit Singh was born on 9 December 1980 in Firozpur, a city in the Indian State of Punjab. His father Ajit Singh was also an Olympian and played for India at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. His uncle is another Olympian Harmik Singh. Gagan Ajit was educated at the Union Academy Senior Secondary School and Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. Singh trained in hockey at the Government Arts and Sports College in Jalandhar in 1995. In 1997, he was selected by New Delhi's Air India Hockey Academy to compete in the junior national tournament. Singh scored 26 goals and emerged as the tournament's top-scorer. He captained the side in 1999. Singh made his sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gagan
William Gagan (born in 1981) is an American photojournalist from San Francisco, California. He attended Redwood High School (Larkspur, California) and graduated in 1999. He then went on to pursue a bachelor's degree in communications at Dominican University of California which he received in 2003. In September 2011 he joined the Occupy Wall Street movement as a live streamer and journalist embedded within the movement. He made his entrance into the public spotlight when he snuck into Syria over the border of Turkey on a fact-finding mission in early 2012. Despite his success crossing into Syria and traveling with the Free Syrian Army he received much criticism and praise alike for his mission. Gagan primarily reports using social media and technology, but has since moved to photography and videography working for organizations such as Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 2012–13 as a member of Operation Zero Tolerance, filming the TV show Whale Wars for Animal Planet. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Chandra Chatterjee
Gagan Chandra Chatterjee was a North Indian classical violinist of the Senia Gharana who is known for inventing the ''gatkari'' style of North Indian classical violin. Early life and training Gagan Chandra Chatterjee was born in Allahabad on 1890. He learnt Hindustani classical music on sarod from the Senia gharana master Ustad Keramatullah Khan. However, he chose a different instrument for expressing the music he learnt. He could accurately play the ''gatkari'' styles of sitar and sarod on the violin and spent the rest of his life with this instrument. He also learnt from Lachhmandas Munimji, a well-known harmonium player, and Pran Krishna Chattopadhyay, a well-known dhrupad singer. Career Gagan Chandra Chatterjee played extensively in music conferences of his time. He recorded a few classical tracks accompanied by piano in which he is credited as 'G.C. Chatterjee'. Style Prior to him, Hindustani classical violinists used to play by mimicking vocal Hindustani classical mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Sikand
Gagan Sikand is a Canadian politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Greater Toronto Area riding of Mississauga—Streetsville from 2015 to 2021. He served as a member of the Liberal Party. Background Sikand attended the University of Toronto. He completed an Honours B.A. with a double major in crime and deviance and philosophy with a minor in anthropology. He obtained an LLB Law degree from Brunel Law School in London, England. He worked for the provincial office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs. Born in Toronto, he has lived in Mississauga for over 30 years and in the riding of Mississauga-Streetsville for 29 years. Politics In the 2015 federal election, Sikand ran as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Mississauga—Streetsville. He defeated Conservative incumbent Brad Butt by 4,171 votes. He is a backbench supporter of the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Justin Pierre James Trudeau ( , ; born December 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
