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Aug 2019

Dec 03, 2020

MDH Owner 'Mahashay' Dharampal Gulati Passes Away

The owner of MDH spices, Dharampal Gulati, passed away. He was 97.
Dharmpal was born on 27th March 1923 in Sialkot (Pakistan). A school dropout, who moved to India after the Partition, he had opened his first store in Delhi's Karol Bagh.
According to the company's website, MDH spices are not just popular in India but are also exported to the United States of America, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, South East Asia, Japan, U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia. The company has its own offices in London (U.K.) and a state of art manufacturing unit at Sharjah (U.A.E.).
MDH is the second largest leader in the Indian market with 12% market share, following S. Narendrakumar's Everest Spices.

Dec 02, 2020

Gujarat Rajya Sabha MP Abhay Bharadwaj Passes Away

The Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat, Abhay Bharadwaj, passed away in Chennai hospital following the post-COVID-19 complications.
Bharadwaj was a prominent lawyer and was elected to Rajya Sabha in June this year. He tested coronavirus positive in August, after attending party meetings and a roadshow in Rajkot.
He had unsuccessfully contested the Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections in 1995 as an independent candidate from Rajkot West.
He was also a member of the 21st Law Commission of India and contributed towards legislation like Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 and Uniform civil code.

Dec 01, 2020

Leading Historian V. N. Datta Passes Away

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.

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