Category: Leaders

** Gen Manoj Pande becomes first Chief from Corps of Engineers

Gen Pande is the most senior Army officer in the country and has spent most of his career serving along the northern borders facing China. This is significant as India’s two-year standoff with China remains unresolved.

Gen Manoj Pande, who was serving as the Vice Chief since February, took over as the new Army Chief from Gen MM Naravane on Saturday on his retirement. Gen Naravane had taken over as the Army Chief in January 2020, months before the standoff with China in eastern Ladakh began in May 2020.

Gen Pande will have a tenure of a little more than two years.

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** N. Sankar: An innings of understated achievement ends

The chairman of the chemicals-to-shipping Sanmar Group passed away on Sunday

N. Sankar, 76, chairman of the home-grown chemicals-to-shipping conglomerate Sanmar Group, passed away at his residence here on Sunday after a brief illness. He is survived by his wife Chandra, son Vijay Sankar, who is the Deputy Chairman of the $1-billion group, and a daughter Madhurika, who is a venture investor and writer.

The elder of industrialist K.S. Narayanan’s two sons, Sankar obtained a B.Sc.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the AC College of Technology and a master’s degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

A third-generation entrepreneur, Sankar started his career as a 21-year-old trainee at the group’s flagship chemicals company, Chemplast, in 1967, when his father was overseeing the business. At 26, he made his first entrepreneurial move by helming the acquisition of a major stake in Industrial Chemicals and Monomers, a carbide manufacturing company.

His stewardship of Chemplast, and the Sanmar Group as a whole, saw the group widen and enlarge its industrial and business footprint significantly. A pioneer in PVC manufacture, Sankar came up with some of the original choices for highly integrated manufacturing processes at various facilities of Chemplast.

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** PM Modi inaugurates museum to honour all Prime Ministers of country

Museum has been built at Teen Murti Estate, which was Nehru’s home for 16 years

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14 inaugurated the Prime Ministers’ Museum at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) complex here.

Mr. Modi said every government after Independence had contributed to reaching the heights the country had achieved so far. Every Prime Minister had tried to take the country forward, he added.

The museum built at Teen Murti Estate, which was Nehru’s home for 16 years, is spread over 10,491 sq. m. and cost ₹306 crore, according to a statement. Work on the museum started in October 2018 and no trees were felled or transplanted from the site, it said.

The building includes over 40 galleries on the lives and tenures of all former Prime Ministers, except Jawaharlal Nehru, as well as a sound and light show. Entry to the museum will require a ticket of ₹100 through online booking for Indians over the age of 12 years and ₹110 for offline. Foreigners will be charged ₹750 for a ticket.

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** Need seven lives to understand India: British High Commissioner Alex Ellis

History teacher and now leading career diplomat…British High Commissioner to India Alex Ellis, who has a long-standing connection with the country, on his love for all-things Indian…

He’s won the hearts of several netizens with his posts on food- masala dosae in Bengaluru, rasgulla in Kolkata and vada pav in Mumbai. British High Commissioner Alex Ellis, who took charge in early 2021, has been soaking in the varied local experiences that the country has to offer.

In Bengaluru on Tuesday, Ellis settles into the conversation, post a tumbler of steaming hot rasam, at the residence of the British Deputy High Commissioner for Karnataka & Kerala, Anna Shotbolt. 

** Former Chief Justice of India R.C. Lahoti dies at 81

He rose from a humble background and reached highest position of judiciary, says Law Minister

Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ramesh Chandra Lahoti died at a hospital in New Delhi on Wednesday, family sources said. He was 81.

Justice Lahoti was appointed the 35th CJI on June 1, 2004. He retired on November 1, 2005. He was a former independent director on the Board of directors of the Press Trust of India.

He was appointed as an arbitrator by the Government of India in the ₹20,000-crore high-profile tax dispute case with telecom major Vodafone.

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** India’s historic Road to 1000 released

The 520-page special collection with 1000 pictures is a tribute to the journey

Sportstar and The Hindu group released a Coffee Table Book, ‘Road to 1000’, at the 2022 Sportstar Aces Awards at The Taj Mahal Palace hotel here on Saturday.

The book is a 520-page, special collection with 1000 pictures to commemorate Indian cricket’s journey.

First to the milestone

On February 6, India played its 1,000th ODI against the West Indies in Ahmedabad, becoming the first team to record the feat.

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source: thehindu.com

** Meet Dr Soma of Moscow, he’s been helping evacuate Indian students from Ukraine

In the last 25 years since Madurai-born Somasundaram Subramanian became a doctor, he has built extensive contacts with educational institutions across the former Soviet republic and European Union.

Now, he wants to help students who wish to resettle and continue their studies

The Moscow-based cancer surgeon, educationist and philanthropist began working the phone lines to help evacuate Indian students and other citizens caught in the war zone.

He has worked extensively across the region these last 30 years, especially through the various non-profits he has initiated to fight cancer such as the Eurasian Federation of Oncology (EAFO) in Europe, the EAFO Educational Research Centre in Russia and the Eurasian Cancer Research Council (ECRC) in India.

He has founded the Eurasian Global Peace Mission which aims to offer emergency aid to anyone still left behind in Ukraine as well as resettlement support to students and expats of all nationalities, including Russians who have been expelled from some institutions in the Western nations. Affected persons can register on the website. Soma intends to help students to relocate to other institutions to continue their studies.

Madurai / Russia

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** ‘Green Triangle’ named after Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated in Madagascar’s capital as part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav

Indian Ambassador Abhay Kumar said Gandhi was the “greatest Pravasi” who returned to India from South Africa, led India’s freedom struggle and changed the lives of Indians.

As part of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ to commemorate India’s 75th year of independence, a “Green Triangle” named after Mahatma Gandhi was jointly inaugurated in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo.

Mayor of Antananarivo Naina Andriantsitohaina and India’s Ambassador to Madagascar Abhay Kumar inaugurated the green space on Wednesday at a special ceremony in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo.

** Army institutes Chair at USI in Gen Rawat’s memory

On the eve of General Bipin Rawat’s birthday, the army on Tuesday dedicated a chair of excellence in the late chief of defence staff (CDS)’s memory at the United Service Institution of India (USI), the country’s oldest think tank founded in 1870, the army said in a statement. Rawat, who was killed in a helicopter crash last December, would have turned 64 on Wednesday.

The aim of the Chair will be to conduct research on strategic issues pertaining to the armed forces, officials said

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** Midnight’s Daughters: Women who fought for the idea of India and her freedom

International Womens Day – Today – March 08th

Little-known stories of women who took to the streets during independence struggle.

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