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Dec 2018

Oct 22, 2020

Former Home Minister Nayani Narasimha Passes Away

Former Home Minister Nayani Narasimha Reddypassed away at the age of 86. He was a trade union leader and a founder member of State unit of Hind Mazdoor Sabha, one of the five national trade unions.
He was diagnosed with pneumonia when he was admitted to Apollo Hospitals on October 13 after he complained of breathlessness. The oxygen levels in his body were found to have dropped sharply.
Mr. Narasimha Reddy was born into an agricultural family in Neredugomma village near Devarakonda in erstwhile Nalgonda district. He joined politics attracted by the socialist ideology of Ram Manohar Lohia. He was Janata Party MLA twice from Musheerabad constituency in combined Andhra Pradesh in 1978 and 1985.
He plunged into the separate-Telangana movement after K. Chandrasekhar Rao floated the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in 2001. He was actively associated with all the party activities ever since.
After the formation of Telangana State in 2014, he was made Home Minister by Mr. Rao. He also handled the subjects of labour and employment. As he was not a member of the Assembly, Mr. Narasimha Reddy was inducted into the Cabinet of Mr. Rao as a Member of the Legislative Council. He was denied party ticket to contest Assembly elections in 2018.

IAF's First Woman Commissioned Officer Dies

Wing Commander Dr. Vijayalakshmi Ramanan (retd), the first woman commissioned officer of the Indian Air Force, passed away at the age of 96.
Born in February 1924, she did her MBBS and later was commissioned in the Army Medical Corps in August 1955, and was seconded to the Air Force with effect from the same day.
She served as a gynaecologist at various Air Force Hospitals. Ramanan was promoted to the rank of Wing Commander in August 1972, and honoured with the Vishist Seva Medal five years later. She retired in February 1979.
Her husband late K. V. Ramanan was also an Indian Air Force officer.

Oct 19, 2020

Acclaimed Carnatic Vocalist P S Narayanaswamy dies

Padmabhushana Vid. Shri Puliyur Subramaniam Narayanaswamy, one among the finest gurus of carnatic music in India, passed away at his residence.
A winner of many awards and titles, including the Padma Bhushan, and Kalaimamani from the Tamil Nadu government, Narayanaswamy was a torch bearer of the Semmangudi Tradition, evolving a style of his own with 'Manodharma Sangeetham'.
A fine concert musician, P. S Narayanswamy stood apart as a performer due to his repertoire of compositions he learnt from his Guru Semmangudi Sreenivasa Iyer.

Oct 18, 2020

Seema Mustafa New President of Editors Guild of India

Seema Mustafa, the Editor of The Citizen, has been elected as president of the Editors Guild of India.
The announcement came after the results of an online election held earlieron this monthe were declared.
In the same election, Hardnews editor Sanjay Kapoor was elected as general secretary. Anant Nath, the Editor of The Caravan, was elected unopposed as Treasurer.
Mustafa succeeds Shekhar Gupta, the Editor-in-Chief of The Print, while Kapoor and Nath will take over from A. K. Bhattacharya, the Editorial Director of Business Standard, and Sheela Bhatt, the Contributing Editor of Rediff.com, respectively.

Oct 17, 2020

Rajkiran is New Chairman of IBA

Indian Banks' Association (IBA) said Union Bank of India's MD and CEO Rajkiran Rai G was elected as Indian Banks' Association's (IBA) chairman for the term 2020-21.
Rajkiran Rai succeeded Rajnish Kumar as the IBA Chairman after Kumar recently retired as SBI Chief.
In June, the government had extended Union Bank of India's CEO Rajkiran Rai's term by another two years until his retirement on May 31, 2022.
Rai had taken over as the CEO of the Mumbai-based lender on July 1, 2017.
Dinesh Khara of State Bank of India has been appointed as the Deputy Chairman of IBA.

Vishal V. Sharma India's Next Permanent Representative to UNESCO

Vishal V. Sharma has been appointed as the next permanent representative of India to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Sharma has succeeded Jawed Ashraf.
A communication specialist in the BJP, Sharma had been officer on special duty in the early years of the Modi regime when he was the Gujarat chief minister.

Jyothi Pradhan CEO at Kurl-on

Mattress and home comfort brand Kurl-on appointed Jyothi Pradhan as chief executive officer.
A post-graduate in both computer science engineering, and management from California, Pradhan joined Kurl-on's leadership team in July last year as head of corporate strategy in charge of digital transformation in the company.

Oct 16, 2020

Malayalam Poet and Jnanpith Award Winner Akkitham Passes Away

Renowned Malayalam poet and Jnanpith award winner Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, who is said to have heralded modernism in Malayalam poetry, passed away. He was 94.
Popularly known as Akkitham, his ''Irupatham Noottandinte Ithihasam'' (Epic of the 20th Century) is considered as one of the first truly modernist poems in Malayalam literature. A popular verse - ''Velicham dukhamanunni, thamasallo sukhapradam'', which is roughly translated as "light brings sorrow, my child, darkness is bliss" is like a proverb for Keralites. It is also interpreted as "worldly knowledge is pain my child, ignorance is bliss."
He penned around 45 books, comprising poetry anthologies, plays and short stories including ''Balidarsanam'' (The Vision of Bali), ''Arangettam'', ''Nimisha Kshetram'', ''Idinju Polinja Lokam'', ''Amrita Ghatika'', and ''Kalikkottilil'' and many more.

Former New Zealand Captain John Reid Passes Away

The International Cricket Council (ICC) condoled the demise of former New Zealand skipper John Reid, who passed away at the age of 92.
Reid, a hard-hitting batsman and pacer, appeared in a total of 58 matches for New Zealand in the longest format of the game. He had played 34 of those Test matches as captain and notched up 3,428 runs and 85 wickets in the format from 1949 to 1965. He was considered an extraordinary fielder.
Reid's record as the captain was unique because he not only led New Zealand to their first victory after 26 years in Test cricket when the team defeated the West Indies in Auckland in 1956 but also to their maiden success abroad when New Zealand won two Tests on a tour of South Africa in 1962.

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