Renowned Music Director Shantanu Mohapatra Passes Away
Legendary music director Shantanu Mohapatra passed away at a private hospital. He was 84.
Mohapatra has been associated with Odia music industry for almost 60 years. He has many firsts to his credits in the field of Odia music as a music composer.
He composed the first modern Odia ballad 'Konark Gatha' with lyricist Gurukrushna Goswami and sung by Akshay Mohanty.
He also worked with several Bollywood artists like Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd Rafi, Manna Dey, Usha Mangeshkar, Suresh Wadekar, Anuradha Paudwal, Usha Uthup, and Kavita Krishnamurthy.
Born in Mayurbhanj district in 1936, the legendary music director was a geophysicist (an IIT-Kharagpur alumnus) and worked with Odisha Mining Corporation.
Pierre Cardin Father of Fashion Branding Passes Away
French couturier Pierre Cardin, who made his name by selling designer clothes to the masses, and his fortune by being the first to exploit that name as a brand for selling everything from cars to perfume, died at the age of 98.
In a career spanning more than 60 years, Cardin drew scorn and admiration from fellow fashion designers for his brash business sense. He maintained that he built his business empire without ever asking a bank for a loan.
Cardin was the first designer to sell clothes collections in department stores in the late 1950s, and the first to enter the licensing business for perfumes, accessories and even food - now a major profit driver for many fashion houses.
Dec 30, 2020
Atanu Chakraborty Likely to be Next HDFC Bank Chairman
Former economic affairs secretary Atanu Chakraborty is set to be appointed as the next chairperson of India's largest private sector lender HDFC Bank. The appointment, however, is subject to the Reserve Bank of India's approval.
The board of HDFC Bank cleared Chakraborty's name for the position of part-time chairperson of the bank in its meeting. The incumbent chairperson of the board, Shyamala Gopinath, is set to retire on 1 January.
The appointment assumes significance as the private lender had recently undergone a leadership change, with its long time managing director and chief executive officer, Aditya Puri, retiring in October, and Sashidhar Jagdishan taking over.
Dec 29, 2020
Ramesh Chandra is New CBI Chief Information Officer
Senior Indian Information Service (IIS) officer Ramesh Chandra Joshi became the new face of the CBI for interactions with the media by taking charge as its chief information officer. The post was lying vacant since March.
Joshi was posted as the additional director general of the government's Press Information Bureau (PIB), from where he was picked for the high-pressure job at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Joshi who has handled crucial positions in the PIB and the erstwhile Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP), may bring a new outlook at the CBI, which does not have any presence on social media unlike the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and relies mostly on its spokespersons to communicate with the media.
Dec 28, 2020
Padma Shri Dance Historian Sunil Kothari Passes Away
Padma Shri dance historian and critic Sunil Kothari passed away after he suffered a cardiac arrest a month after testing positive for coronavirus. He was 87.
Hailing from Baroda, Kothari took to dancing in the 1940s.
He studied chartered accountancy, but could never stay off the dance circuit and was eventually pulled into it by the legendary Mulk Raj Anand, the editor of the art magazine "Marg."
It was Anand who first invited Kothari to edit an issue on Chhau among other masked dances of India.
The edition was published in 1968 and there was no looking back since.
RCP Singh Becomes New JD(U) President
Bureaucrat-turned-politician Ram Chandra Prasad Singh, better known by his initials RCP was chosen as the new president of the JD(U).
At the party's national executive meeting, Kumar proposed the name of Singh for the top post and it was then approved by other members.
The Chief Minister, who was re-elected as the JD(U) president in 2019 for three years, gave up the post in favour of Singh, its leader in the Rajya Sabha.
The man who prefers to keep a low profile was so far the general secretary (organisation) of the regional party.
The 1984-batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre has been with Kumar since his stint as the Railway minister in the government led by late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Dec 27, 2020
Arya Rajendran set to Become India's Youngest Mayor from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram
The CPI(M) has chosen 21-year-old Arya Rajendran as its Mayor candidate after the party's district committee and state committee sanctioned her candidature. She is a first-time councillor from Mudavanmugal division of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation.
Arya Rajendran is a B.Sc. Mathematics student and is the party's Chala area committee member. She will be the youngest Mayor of the country, and with this, the party leadership is expecting to have more educated women into the leadership role.
The name of a 23-year-old first-time councillor from Vanchiyoor division, Gayatri Babu had also come up during the discussion, but Arya was given the green signal as she is the state president of the "Balasangam", the party's children's wing and also the CPI(M) area committee member.
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