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1939 In India
Events in the year 1939 in India. Incumbents * Emperor of India – George VI * Viceroy of India – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow Events * National income - 31,845 million * World War II breaks out and political dead lock in India * 2 January – The Muslim League at Patna disapproves the Federation scheme which has already been disapproved by Congress. * 29 January – Subhas Chandra Bose is reelected president of Congress at Bombay (a victory for opponents of Federation). * 22 February – Thirteen right-wing members of the working committee, including Pandit Nehru, resign from Congress. * 3 March – In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India. * 12 March – Congress at Tripuri passes a resolution of adherence to the party of Gandhi. * 29 April – S. C. Bose resigns as president of Congress and is succeeded by Rajendra Prasad. * 1 May – New Congress working committee announced. * 3 May – S. C. Bose announces the format ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jambuwantrao Dhote
Jambhuwantrao Bapurao Dhote (1939 – 18 February 2017) was an Indian politician. Known by his supporters as ''The Lion of Vidharbha'' & He is son-in-law of veteran Congress leader late Ramrao Adik . Dhote left Congress soon, and founded Vidharbha Janta Congress (VJC) Party on 9 September 2002. He was elected to Maharashtra Assembly 5 times. He was elected from Yavatmal in 1962 and 1967 elections as a Forward Bloc candidate, and in 1978 as Congress member. He was Member of Parliament from Nagpur (Lok Sabha constituency) in 1971 to 5th Lok Sabha, defeating his Congress rival. When Indira Gandhi split Congress in January 1978, he joined her Congress(I) party. He was elected for second time from Nagpur in 1980 to 7th Lok Sabha as a Congress candidate. He died on 18 February 2017 due to a heart attack in Yavatmal Yavatmal ( is a city and municipal council in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarters of Yavatmal District. Yavatmal is around 90&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arun Joshi
Arun Joshi (1939–1993) was an Indian writer. He is known for his novels ''The Strange Case of Billy Biswas'' and ''The Apprentice''. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel '' The Last Labyrinth'' in 1982. His novels have characters who are urban, English speaking and disturbed for some reason. According to one commentator, "The shallowness of middle class society is not for him a point of rhetoric, intended to show off his own enlightened superiority, but a theme to be explored with actual concern." Life Arun Joshi was raised in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, where his father A C Joshi was Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. On returning to India, he began working at Delhi Cloth & General Mills, North India's first textile factory and among the earliest joint-stock companies of the country, as chief of its recruitment and training department. He married Rukmini Lal, a daughter of a shareholder. He resigned from D.C.M. in 1965 while continuing to be the executiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 In India
Events in the year 2021 in India for real time basis. Incumbents Government of India State Governments Events January.. * 1 January – India begins its two-year tenure (2021–22) as a non-permanent member of the UNSC. * 2 January – India approves two coronavirus vaccines, Bharat Biotech's "Covaxin" and the Oxford/AstraZeneca "Covishield", for emergency use. Experts raised questions over the efficacy of Covaxin and a lack of transparency in trials. *3 January - Former India national cricket team, Indian national cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly suffered a mild cardiac arrest. Social media criticism rose against Adani Group, Adani Wilmar Group's Fortune Edible Oil brand's healthy heart advertisement campaign of which Sourav Ganguly, Ganguly is a brand ambassador. The company pulled down the advertisements featuring Ganguly following the criticism and trolls. *4 January - Instant messaging app WhatsApp announced a new amendment in their privacy policies and data sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mythili Sivaraman
Mythili Sivaraman (14 December 1939 – 30 May 2021) was an Indian women's rights and trade union activist. She was a co-founder of All India Democratic Women's Association and leader in the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Through her writings and activism she brought attention to the Keezhvenmani massacre of 1968 and the Vachati mass rape cases of 1992. She led efforts to drive women's empowerment, particularly of women from the disadvantaged communities, and trade union and labour activism. She was a contributor to ''Economic and Political Weekly'', and wrote for publications including ''Mainstream'' and the ''Radical Review''. Biography Sivaraman was born on 14 December 1939 in Kakinada in present day Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. She completed her higher education from the Syracuse University in the United States. She worked as a research assistant in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN (between 1966 and 1968). During this time she was involved in research rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 In India
Events in the year 2022 in India. Incumbents National government State governments Events January * 1 Jan – Vaishno Devi Temple stampede, Around 2:15 AM in near the Gate No. 3 of Vaishno Devi Temple, due to a scuffle between two groups of pilgrims the place becomes congested and people started suffocating. Due to the melee, 12 people were crushed to death and 16 others injured. * 4 Jan – **List of chief ministers of Delhi, Chief ministers of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal tested positive for Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2. Netizens trolled him on Social Media as he is not wearing mask in his political rallies in Chandigarh and Patiala. ** Vishal Kumar Jha (in Bengaluru) and Shweta Singh (in Uttarakhand) are arrested by the Mumbai Police, in connection with the Bulli Bai app, which targeted women of Muslims, Muslim Community by putting their doctored images in an online auction. * 5 Jan – Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi's convoy stuck i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in India as well as the List of first-level administrative divisions by population, most populous country subdivision in the world – more populous than List of countries and dependencies by population, all but four other countries outside of India (China, United States, Indonesia, and Pakistan) – and accounting for 16.5 percent of the population of India or around 3 percent of the total world population. The state is bordered by Rajasthan to the west, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi to the northwest, Uttarakhand and Nepal to the north, Bihar to the east, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand to the south. It is the List of states of India by area, fourth-largest Indian state by area covering , accounting for 7.3 percent of the total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mulayam Singh Yadav
Mulayam Singh Yadav (22 November 1939 – 10 October 2022) was an Indian politician, a socialism, socialist figure and founder of the Samajwadi Party. Over the course of his political career spanning more than six decades, he served for three terms as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and also as the Minister of Defence (India), Union Minister of Defence in the Government of India. A long-time parliamentarian, he was a seven-time Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Member of Parliament representing Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency, Mainpuri, Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency, Azamgarh, Sambhal Lok Sabha constituency, Sambhal and Kannauj Lok Sabha constituency, Kannauj constituencies in the Lok Sabha, a ten-time member of the Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), Legislative Assembly, member of the Legislative council, Legislative Council and the Leader of the Opposition, Leader of Opposition several times as well. Yadav was a prominent figure of his time in Uttar Pradesh polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 In India
Events in the year 2023 in India, during which it became the world's most populous country. Incumbents National government State governments ... Events January * 1 January ** Death of Anjali Singh, Anjali Singh is killed while riding her scooter in Delhi. ** Kashmir conflict: Four civilians are killed and six others injured when two terrorists 2023 Rajouri attacks, open fire against Hindus, Hindu people's homes in Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Jammu and Kashmir. * 2 January ** Protests are reported in some parts of Jammu and Kashmir in response to the previous day's quadruple killing. ** The Supreme Court of India upholds the legality of the Government of India, government's decision to Legal tender#Demonetization, demonetise all Indian 500-rupee note, ₹500 and Indian 1000-rupee note, ₹1,000 banknotes of the Mahatma Gandhi Series in 2016. ** 2023 Rajouri attacks, Rajouri attacks: Two children are killed and four other people are injured by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malay Roy Choudhury
Malay Roy Choudhury (29 October 1939 – 26 October 2023) was an Indian Bengali poet, playwright, short story writer, essayist and novelist who founded the Hungryalist movement in the 1960s. Early life and education Malay Roy Choudhury was born in Patna, Bihar, India, into the Sabarna Roy Choudhury clan, which owned the villages that became Kolkata. He grew up in Patna's Imlitala ghetto, which was mainly inhabited by Dalit Hindus and Shia Muslims. His was the only Bengali family. His father, Ranjit Roy Choudhury (1909–1991) was a photographer in Patna; his mother, Amita (1916–1982), was from a progressive family of the 19th-century Bengali Renaissance. His grandfather, Laksmikanta Roy Choudhury, was a photographer in Kolkata who had been trained by Rudyard Kipling's father, the curator of the Lahore Museum. At the age of three, Roy Choudhury was admitted to a local Catholic school, and later, he was sent to the Rammohan Roy Seminary Oriental Seminary. The school w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subramanian Swamy
Subramanian Swamy (born 15 September 1939) is an Indian politician, economist and statistician. Before joining politics, he was a professor of Mathematical Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is known for his Hindu nationalist views. Swamy was a member of the Planning Commission of India and was a Cabinet Minister in the Chandra Shekhar government. Between 1994 and 1996, Swamy was Chairman of the Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade under former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao. Swamy was a long-time member of the Janata Party, serving as its president until 2013 when he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has written on foreign affairs of India dealing largely with China, Pakistan and Israel. He was nominated to Rajya Sabha on 26 April 2016 for a six-year term, ending on 24 April 2022. Family and education Subramanian Swamy was born on 15 September 1939, in Mylapore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, to a family which haile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 In Pakistan
Events from the year 2021 in Pakistan. Incumbents National government Provincial governments Events January and February * 2 January ** 23 year-old Usama Satti was shot to death in his car by Islamabad Police. ** Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was arrested in Lahore, on terrorism-financing charges. * 3 January - Machh attack * 5 January - The Supreme Court ordered that the Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj Samadhi temple in Teri, Karak District, be rebuilt by the government after it was destroyed by a mob in December 2020. * 9 January – A massive blackout strikes Pakistan, leaving as much as 90 percent of the country without electricity at its height as officials rush to restore power. * 11 January - 9 countries appointed new ambassadors to Pakistan: Nepal, Tapas Adhikari; Belarus, Andrei Metdlitsa; South Korea, Sush Sangpyo; Cuba, Zener Javier; Mali, Dianguinadit Yaya Doucoure; Ireland, Ms Sonya McGuinness; Sierra Leone, Alie Kamara; Cambodia, Ung Sean; Kosovo, Ilir Dugo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
