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PERSONS IN NEWS - November 2018

Nov 2018

Sep 01, 2020

India's First Female Cardiologist Dr. S. Padmavati Passes Away

India's first female cardiologist, Dr. S. Padmavati died due to COVID-19 at the National Heart Institute. Dr. S Padmavati was popularly known as 'God Mother of Cardiology'.
For her contribution to the field of cardiology in India, Padmavati was awarded Fellowship of the American College of Cardiology and FAMS. The government of India conferred her with Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan in 1967 and 1992, respectively.
Padmavati was born in Burma, now known as Myanmar, in 1917. She migrated to India in 1942 during World War II. She graduated from Rangoon Medical College and went overseas for higher education.
In 1962, Dr. Padmavati founded the All India Heart Foundation. Later, in 1981, she founded the National Heart Institute.

Pranab Mukherjee, Former President, Passes Away

Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee passed away at the age of 84 in Delhi. Mukherjee, who served as the 13th President of India, was hospitalised at the Army Hospital on August 10.
As India's President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee made Rashtrapati Bhavan even more accessible to common citizens. He made the President's house a centre of learning, innovation, culture, science and literature.
Pranab's career in politics spanned over five decades.
In 2017, Mukherjee decided not to run for re-election and to retire from politics after leaving the presidency due to health complications relating to old age. His term expired on July 25, 2017. Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012.
For his distinguished service to the nation, he was first awarded India's second highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan in 2008. In 2019, he was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna by the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind.

Aug 31, 2020

K. S. Bajpai: Doyen of Indian Foreign Policy Passes Away

Katyayani Shankar Bajpai, a doyen of Indian foreign policy and one of the key personalities behind burgeoning Indo-US ties passed away at the age of 92.
An Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1952 batch of officers Bajpai served as India's ambassador to the United States, China and Pakistan at the critical juncture in bilateral relationships.
Following his retirement, he was involved with several academic institutions in USA and was Chairman of National Security Advisory Board from 2008 to 2010.

Aug 29, 2020

Former Supreme Court judge A. R. Lakshmanan Passes Away

Former Supreme Court judge Justice A.R. Lakshmanan died at a private hospital in Tiruchi. His wife Meenakshi Aachi had died earlier this month, and he was in grief.
In 1990, he was appointed as a judge of Madras High Court and was elevated as Chief Justice of Kerala High Court in 1997. Thereafter, he served as Chief Justice of Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh High Courts till 2002.
Justice Lakshmanan was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court in 2002 and retired in 2007. He was part of the Bench that banned smoking in public places. Subsequently, he held the post of Chairman of the Law Commission and submitted 32 reports to the government on judicial reforms.
Justice Lakshmanan was associated with various clubs and sabhas in Chennai and in Karaikudi.

Veteran Assamese Singer Archana Mahanta Passes Away

Veteran Assamese singer Archana Mahanta passed away at a city hospital. She was 72. Mahanta had suffered a stroke in mid July and her condition deteriorated since.
She was the widow of renowned singer Khagen Mahanta — popularly referred to as 'King of Bihu' — and the mother of popular singer Angaraag 'Papon' Mahanta.
Along with her husband, Mahanta is credited with popularising Assamese folk music in her long singing career. The musical couple often performed together, singing many duet hits.

Aug 28, 2020

Guinness World Record: Illayaram Sekar Solves Six Rubik's Cubes Underwater in 2.17 Minutes

It is one thing to solve a Rubik's cube under normal circumstances, but completely another to hold one's breath and do this skill-intensive activity back-to-back while sitting underwater. Illayaram Sekar who holds multiple Guinness world records in cubing said that it took over a year of practice to get the breathing right while cubing at high speeds.
The latest feat is his sixth Guinness world record and his most special yet- Sekar has solved six Rubik's cubes in 2 minutes 17 seconds while being submerged in an enclosed glass tank. Sekar's latest record was successfully attempted in August, exactly six years after a similar attempt using five cubes by an American was recognised as a Guinness world record in 2014.
Working as a Rubik's cube trainer at a private school in Chennai, Sekar has many Guinness records to his credit. But the latest one stands out, as the Guinness team had themselves reached out to him and certified this record, after seeing media reports about the same. It is said that it takes a minimum of three months for Guinness to approve a record and announce it, but in Sekar's case, the team certified it, barely within six days of it being submitted.

Aug 27, 2020

Computer Pioneer Arnold SpielbergPasses Away

Arnold Spielberg, father of filmmaker Steven Spielberg and an innovating engineer whose work helped make the personal computer possible, died at 103.
Spielberg and Charles Propster designed the GE-225 mainframe computer in the late 1950s while working for General Electric. The machine allowed computer scientists at Dartmouth College to develop the programming language BASIC, which would be essential to the rise of personal computers in the 1970s and '80s.

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