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Rajeev Chandrasekhar With PM Modi (cropped)
Rājīv (Devanagari: राजीव, Bengali script: রাজীব) is a popular Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Nepalese male name, also spelt Rajeev, Rajive, Rajib, Rajeeb, Rajiva and Rajiba. It is said that the lotus flower (''Nelumbo nucifera''), though it grows in muddy water, doesn't accumulate the mud particles onto it; such is the quality described as ''rājīv''. Today, in several Indian languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Madheshi, Nepali, Assamese, Marathi and Kannada, ''rājīv'' is the word for "lotus flower or ''nelumbo nucifera'' In the '' Rāmāyaṇa'', Rāma's epithets include ''Rājīv-Lochan'', meaning "one whose eyes are like lotus flowers". Notable people named Rajiv, Rajive or Rajeev *Akshay Kumar, Indian-Canadian actor and martial artist (birth name Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia) * Rajeev, Indian Tamil language actor *Rajiv Anchal, film director *Rajive Bagrodia, American computer scientist *Rajiv Bapna, founder and director of Amkette *Rajeev Bikra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; in script: , , ) is an Indic script used in the Indian subcontinent. It is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental systems: alphabets, writing system), based on the ancient ''Brāhmī script, Brāhmī'' script. It is one of the official scripts of India, official scripts of India and Nepal. It was developed in, and was in regular use by, the 8th century CE. It had achieved its modern form by 1000 CE. The Devanāgarī script, composed of 48 primary characters, including 14 vowels and 34 consonants, is the fourth most widely List of writing systems by adoption, adopted writing system in the world, being used for over 120 languages, the most popular of which is Hindi (). The orthography of this script reflects the pronunciation of the language. Unlike the Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case, meaning the script is a unicase, unicameral alphabet. It is written from left to right, has a strong preference for symmetri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epithet
An epithet (, ), also a byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) commonly accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a real or fictitious person, place, or thing. It is usually literally descriptive, as in Alfred the Great, Suleiman the Magnificent, Richard the Lionheart, and Ladislaus the Short, or allusive, as in Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, Æthelred the Unready, John Lackland, Mehmed the Conqueror and Bloody Mary. The word ''epithet'' also may refer to an abusive, defamatory, or derogatory word or phrase. This use is criticized by Martin Manser and other proponents of linguistic prescription. H. W. Fowler noted in 1926 that "''epithet'' is suffering a vulgarization that is giving it an abusive imputation." Linguistics Epithets are sometimes attached to a person's name or appear in place of their name, as what might be described as a glorified nickname or sobriquet, and for this reason some linguists have argued that they should be c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajeev Khandelwal
Rajeev Khandelwal (born 16 October 1975) is an Indian film and television actor, singer and host. He started his career directing the television series ''Filmy Chakkar''. His break as an actor was as the lead in the television drama, '' Kahiin To Hoga'' (2003-2005). After this he acted in many television shows which include ''Time Bomb 9/11'' (2005), ''Sun Leyna'' (2006), '' Left Right Left'' (2007), and ''Reporters'' (2015). In 2008, he made his Bollywood debut with the film '' Aamir'' which proved to be a turning point in his career. After this he became part of many films like ''Shaitan'' (2011), ''Soundtrack'' (2011), '' Table No.21'' (2013), '' Samrat & Co'' (2015) among others. Khandelwal made his web series debut in 2018 with ALTBalaji's '' Haq Se''. In 2019, he appeared in another ALTBalaji web series ''Coldd Lassi Aur Chicken Masala'' opposite Divyanka Tripathi. Apart from acting he has hosted many reality shows, including '' Deal Ya No Deal'', '' Sacch Ka Saamna,'' ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raj Goyle
Rajeev Kumar Goyle (born June 9, 1975) is a Democratic politician from Kansas, who represented the 87th District in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. He was the 2010 Democratic nominee for . Early life, education and career Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Goyle and his parents resettled in Wichita, Kansas when he was 9 months old. His Indian parents, Vimal and Krishan Goyle, both doctors, immigrated to the United States from Bathinda in 1971. His mother is an obstetrician and gynecologist and his father is a cardiologist who operates the Goyle Clinic in Wichita. When he was 15, Goyle was an organizer in a community-wide recycling program that removed hundreds of pounds of garbage from the county landfill and led to a cleanup of the Arkansas River in downtown Wichita. As a reporter for the '' Wichita Eagle'', he worked with U.S.D. 259 to produce the annual ‘''back-to-school''’ issue and wrote a column on each high school in the city. At Wichita Collegiate Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajiv Gauba
Rajiv Gauba (born 15 August 1959; IAST: ) is a retired Indian bureaucrat and IAS officer who served as the Cabinet Secretary of India from 30 August 2019 to 30 August 2024. As of March 2025, he serves as a full time member of NITI Aayog, the Indian Government's apex public policy think tank. He served for five years as Cabinet Secretary making him longest serving cabinet secretary in history his tenure as the Cabinet Secretary of India has been extended 4 times by 1 year durations by the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) which is chaired by the Prime Minister of India. Education Gauba has a graduate degree and is a gold medalist in physics ( BSc) from Patna Science College, Patna University. Career In a career spanning over four decades, Rajiv Gauba has worked in several important positions in the Government of India, the Government of Bihar and the Government of Jharkhand. Prior to his appointment as Cabinet Secretary, i.e., the head of civil services in Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajiv Gupta (technocrat)
Rajiv Gupta is an engineer, a repeat entrepreneur and currently an executive at McAfee. Early life Gupta earned a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur around 1984. He received his Ph.D. in compiler optimization from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1990. He married a British woman, Debra and they have two children - Veda and Anya. He resides in Los Altos. Career Gupta joined Hewlett-Packard in 1990, and developed the IA-64 architecture, which HP called WideWord and Intel marketed as Itanium. From 1995 he developed a client utility project at HP Labs, which was an early example of a service-oriented architecture In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design. SOA is a good choice for system integration. By consequence, it is also applied in the field ... for Web services. He was co-creator and general manager of the E-spea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajiv Goswami
Rajiv Goswami (12 June 1971 – 24 February 2004) was an Indian activist and a former commerce student at the Deshbandhu College, Delhi University who came into prominence when he attempted self-immolation on 19 September 1990 to protest against Prime Minister V. P. Singh's implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendations for job reservations for backward castes in India. Goswami spearheaded a formidable movement against the Mandal Commission and his act of self-immolation led to larger protests and a series of self-immolations by college students throughout India. During Mandal commission agitation, the AIIMS intersection in Delhi was temporarily renamed by students to Rajiv Chowk in a celebration of his act. Subsequently, he was elected to the position of the Delhi University Students Union president. He later gave up active politics due to health problems and started his own business. In the following years he was frequently in and out of hospitals because of severe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian statesman and pilot who served as the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the Assassination of Indira Gandhi, assassination of his mother, then–prime minister Indira Gandhi, to become at the age of 40 the youngest Indian prime minister. He served until his defeat at the 1989 Indian general election, 1989 election, and then became Leader of the Opposition, Lok Sabha, resigning in December 1990, six months before Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, his own assassination. Gandhi was not related to Mahatma Gandhi. Instead, he was from the politically powerful Nehru–Gandhi family, which had been associated with the Indian National Congress party. For much of his childhood, his maternal grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru was prime minister. Gandhi attended The Doon School, an elite boarding institution, and then the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He returned to India in 1966 and became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajiv Dixit
Rajiv Dixit (30 November 1967 – 30 November 2010) was an Indian social activist who founded the ''Azadi Bachao Andolan''. His organisation promoted a message of ''swadeshi''-economics that opposed globalisation and neo-liberalism. In alliance with Ramdev, he formed the ''Bharat Swabhiman Andolan'' and its political offshoot, which combined the economic message with promotion of yoga and Ayurveda. Life and career In 1984, the Bhopal disaster, in which a gas leak from a pesticide plant owned by a multinational corporation resulted in thousands of deaths, led Dixit to question the role of such corporations in the Indian economy. His thinking on the subject was subsequently shaped by Dharampal, a Gandhian historian and thinker. In 1992, Dixit founded the trust, ''Azadi Bachao Andolan'' (Save Independence Movement), with the stated mission to "counter the onslaught of foreign multinationals and the western culture on Indians, their values, and on the Indian economy in general". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajeev Bikram Shah
Rajeev Bikram Shah () is a Nepalese politician. He was elected as a member of Constituent Assembly from second Constitutional Assembly election held on 19 November 2013 from Jajarkot Constituency No. 2. He is the president of Nepal Amateur Athletic Association. In the 2017 Nepalese legislative election he was candidate from Jajarkot constituency No. 1. See also * List of Nepalese politicians References 1968 births Living people People from Jajarkot District People from Kathmandu District Nepalese businesspeople Nepali Congress politicians from Karnali Province Members of the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly Members of the Provincial Assembly of Karnali Province {{Karnali-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajiv Bapna
Rajiv Kumar Bapna is the founder of Amkette, first-ever domestic manufacturer of floppy diskettes in India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since .... He completed his bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from the prestigious Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS-Pilani). After his brief stint at the Department of Electronics, he moved to the Middle East where he headed the technology division of Citibank for West Asian markets as the Vice-President of Information Technology. He returned to India in 1985 and started Amkette in 1986. Amkette later diversified into other hardware products including game controllers, EvoTV range, audio, wireless and other computer products. References External links A tribute to the people who have helped t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajive Bagrodia
Rajive Bagrodia is an Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Scalable Network Technologies as well as an emeritus professor of computer science at UCLA. Education and research Rajive Bagrodia received his Bachelor of Technology in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and his MA and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. As a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, his areas of research included wireless networks, mobile computing & communications, network simulation & analysis, and parallel & distributed computing. He led a research team in mobile computing and parallel and distributed programming and developed simulations systems such as Maisie, Parsec, and GloMoSim. This research was funded by The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Design of Mobile Adaptive Networks Using Simulation and Agent Technology(DOMAINS) project at UCLA. Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
