Indian Navy’s Aerobatic Plane Crashes in Hyderabad: 3 Killed
Region: IndiaOne of the four planes in the Indian Navy’s aerobatics team crashed, during an aerobatic air show, into the thickly populated New Bowenpally civilian area of Hyderabad city killing both Commander S.K.Maurya and co-pi... more
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Maoist Violence Unabated: Attack Kills 21 Cops in Bengal
Region: IndiaMaoist violence is going on unabated in West Bengal in spite of some success claimed by central government sponsored ambitious paramilitary action plan, “Operation Green Hunt”, lunched to flush out terrorist fr... more
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Hindi is not the National Language of India: Gujarat High Court
Region: IndiaDelivering a judgment recently on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), the Gujarat High Court dismissed the claim by the petitioner that Hindi is the National Language of India. The High Court Bench which included Chief Jus... more
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CBI Arrests Satyam Audit Head for Fabricating Books of Accounts
Region: IndiaV.S. Prabhakar Gupta, Senior Vice-President cum Global Head of Audit cell of Mahindra Satyam (erstwhile Satyam Computers) was today (21st Nov’09) arrested by Central Bureau of Investigation on charges of fabricating ... more
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Supreme Court Delivers Landmark Ruling on Divorce in Foreign Courts
Region: IndiaDelivering a landmark ruling covering a grey area which remained untouched so long, the apex court on Friday, the 13th November said that any marriage dissolved by a foreign court will be equally valid in India. It is... more
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India Buys Gold, Buries Past Shame
Region: IndiaBurying past shame of 1991, when India had to pledge 67 tons of Gold to Bank of England and Union Bank of Switzerland to raise some $600 million to supplement a poor Foreign Exchange Reserve of $1.2 billion- barely good fo... more
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IIT Kharagpur to Open Medical School in Partnership with US University
Region: IndiaIndia’s oldest IIT is all set to open an in campus Medical School in collaboration with California University, San Diego and would offer Bachelor, Masters, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral degrees along side its Engineerin... more
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Four Soldiers in Indian President’s Bodyguard Convicted of Rape
Region: IndiaFour soldiers of Army’s Cavalry Regiment on duty as President’s bodyguard were convicted for raping a 17-year-old girl at Budhha Jayanti Park on 6th Oct’03. The victim is a Delhi University student who al... more
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Mamata Banerjee Needs Land for Railways
Region: IndiaTurning table on Mamata Banerjee, the Left Front Government of Bengal decided to acquire and hand over 320acres of firm land to Mamata Banerjee’s railway ministry for laying tracks in different districts of West Beng... more
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India: New Income Tax Code to ‘Boost Savings’ is on the Anvil
Region: IndiaFinance minister Pranab Mukherjee along with his predecessor P.Chidambaram released a new Income Tax Code in New Delhi on 12th Aug’09, which seeks to simplify and replace the 48-years-old Income Tax Act 1961. The mos... more
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Born on 6th Nov,1947 in East Pakistan (Presently Bangladesh), migrated to India along with parents at age one. Brought up in West Bengal province of India. Graduated with Physics Honors from Scottish Church College of Calcutta and later did Master of Technology from Calcutta University securing first class fifth position in electrical engineering. Served automobile giant M/S Hinduthan Motors Limited from 1971 to 1996.
I have interest in science and technology, law, social science, politics, religion and work as a social worker also. I can fluently read, write and speak Hindi, English and Bengali apart from a couple of local dialects. I am holding the post of Managing Secretary of a Govt. Aided Higher Secondary School for past 17 years having student strength of 800 plus and President of a local Citizen's Forum.
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