Leading historian of modern India Vishwa Nath Datta, most celebrated for the pioneering work "Jallianwala Bagh", passed away. He was 94.
Professor Datta was in the tradition of those great scholars who were also great teachers. He trained an entire generation of students, each of whom made a seminal contribution to history as a subject and to the history of Punjab particularly.
Datta's writings opened up new vistas for understanding history. He examined the entire evidence of the Hunter Commission that was set up to look into the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
A Padma Shri, Datta's long career included his time as a contributor to The Tribune in which he started writing as a student at Lahore and went on to author "Off the Shelf", a well-regarded column for years.
Nov 28, 2020
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist Passes Away
Iran's most senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated near the capital Tehran.
Fakhrizadeh died in hospital after an attack in Absard, in Damavand county.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, has condemned the killing "as an act of state terror."
Western intelligence agencies believe Fakhrizadeh was behind a covert Iranian nuclear weapons programme.
"If Iran ever chose to weaponise (enrichment), Fakhrizadeh would be known as the father of the Iranian bomb," one Western diplomat had told in 2014.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is exclusively for peaceful purposes.
But news of the killing comes amid fresh concern about the increased amount of enriched uranium that the country is producing. Enriched uranium is a vital component for both civil nuclear power generation and military nuclear weapons.
Nov 27, 2020
Sudan's Former PM Sadiq al-Mahdi Dies
Leading Sudanese politician and former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi died from a coronavirus infection. He was 84.
Mahdi was Sudan's last democratically elected prime minister and was overthrown in 1989 in the military coup that bought former president Omar al-Bashir to power.
The moderate Umma Party was one of the largest opposition parties under Bashir, and Mahdi remained an influential figure even after Bashir was toppled in 1989.
IT Sector Visionary Faqir Chand Kohli Passes Away
Faqir Chand C Kohli, considered as the father of Indian IT industry, has passed away. Kohli, the founding chief executive of sector leader TCS, was 96.
It was JRD Tata's insistence that had got the young Kohli to join the Tata Group in 1969.
He pivoted first into management consultancy, and then over the next two decades, into software development, helping the organisation navigate multiple technology waves over two and a half decades by continually investing in people and staying relevant to customers.
Kohli stepped down as CEO of the business in 1996.
Nov 26, 2020
Diego Armando Maradona Passes Away
Argentine footballing legend Diego Armando Maradona died at the age of 60 years. Regarded by many as the greatest player to ever play the game of football, Maradona had recently undergone a brain surgery. Maradona suffered a massive heart attack and died because of it.
Maradona is most fondly remembered for winning the 1986 World Cup for Argentina with a stellar performance that captivated the hearts of millions of fans across the globe. In the same World Cup — Maradona scored, arguably, two of the most famous goals in football history in the quarter-finals against England.
Nov 25, 2020
The First and only Black Mayor of New York City, David Dinkins, Passes Away
David Dinkins, the first and only black mayor of New York City, passed away at the age of 93.
Dinkins was born on July 10, 1927, in Trenton, New Jersey. After serving in the US Marine Corps from July 1945 through August 1946, Dinkins enrolled at Howard University, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in mathematics in 1950.
He then received a law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1956 and started a career as a lawyer. He worked in private practice for almost 20 years, then switched to work as a government official, becoming New York City Clerk in 1975.
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