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.
Nov 24, 2020
Prof. Imran Ali Joins Global List of Highly Cited Researchers 2020
Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) Professor Imran Ali of the Department of Chemistry has secured the coveted title of Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) 2020 released by the USA's Web of Science, Clarivate Plc. Moreover, previously he received the number one position among scientists in India and 24th in the World in the field of Analytical Chemistry by a group of scientists from the University of Stanford, USA.
HCR 2020 identifies researchers who "demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade." Their names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year on the Web of Science citation index.
The HCR 2020 'who's who' list includes 6,167 researchers from 60 different countries. The list includes 26 Nobel laureates.
Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Passes Away
Former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi died from post-COVID complications.
Gogoi was the Chief Minister for terms. He became Chief Minister for the first time in 2001.
Gogoi was the MLA from the Titabor assembly constituency since 2001. He was also a six-time parliamentarian and a Union minister twice.
Gogoi, an active leader of the Assam unit of Bharat Yuvak Samaj, joined the Congress in 1963 and since then had been a party loyalist, pledging his support to Indira Gandhi, her son Rajiv Gandhi and then Sonia Gandhi. He also served the party as AICC general secretary and joint secretary in the 1980s, and headed the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee twice from 1986-90 and again from 1996 to 2001.
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