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PERSONS IN NEWS - October 2021

Oct 2021

Apr 10, 2023

Droupadi Murmu Becomes Third President to Fly a Sortie on a Sukhoi Fighter Jet

Droupadi Murmu became the third President and second woman President to fly in a fighter aircraft. Former President Pratibha Patil flew in the Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet in 2009 from the Pune air force base.
The aircraft by Group Captain Naveen Kumar, CO, 106 Squadron, was flown at a height of about two kilometres above sea level at a speed of about 800 kilometres per hour covering the Brahmaputra and Tezpur valleys in 30 minutes time.

Prof Debashis Chatterjee Re-appointed as Director of IIM Kozhikode

The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Board of Governors (BoG), re-appointed Prof Debashis Chatterjee as the Director of the Institute for a further period of five years, as per IIM Act 2017. Prof Chatterjee's current tenure began in June 2018 after IIM Kozhikode became the first IIM to appoint its own Director autonomously.
Prof Chatterjee has been a Senior Professor and Dean (International Relations) at IIM Lucknow and Director General of IMI Delhi. He taught leadership classes at Harvard University and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), Calcutta, Lucknow, and Kozhikode.
He was also instrumental in admitting more than 50 per cent women in the flagship Post Graduate Programme, a feat twice achieved by IIM Kozhikode. He has been awarded the Fulbright Fellowship twice for Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral work at Harvard University.

Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor of Nazis, died

Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who tried Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labor and concentration camps, has died. He had just turned 103 in March.
Ferencz died Friday evening in Boynton Beach, Florida, according to St. John's University law professor John Barrett, who runs a blog about the Nuremberg trials. The death also was confirmed by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
Born in Transylvania in 1920, Ferencz immigrated as a very young boy with his parents to New York to escape rampant antisemitism. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Ferencz joined the U.S. Army in time to take part in the Normandy invasion during World War II. Using his legal background, he became an investigator of Nazi war crimes against U.S. soldiers as part of a new War Crimes Section of the Judge Advocate's Office.

Apr 07, 2023

Jharkhand Education Minister Jagarnath Mahto Passes Away

Jharkhand Education Minister Jagarnath Mahto passed away.
Jagarnath Mahto was a veteran JMM MLA from Dumri constituency in Giridih and was actively involved in separate statehood movement, led by Shibu Soren.

Apr 04, 2023

Former High Court CJ Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan Passes Away

Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan former Chief Justice of the Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Calcutta High Courts, passed away in Kochi.
He received his law degree from Kolar Gold Fields Law College, Kolar. He enrolled as an advocate in 1983 and started practising in Thiruvananthapuram. Later, he shifted to the High Court of Kerala.
He was appointed as a Judge of Kerala High Court in 2004 before taking charge as Chief Justice of Calcutta, Telangana, Hyderabad and Chhattisgarh High Courts. Besides being a judge in Kerala High Court from 2004 to 2017, he also held the office twice as acting chief justice.

Apr 03, 2023

Former India Cricketer Salim Durani Passes Away

Former India cricketer Salim Durani passed away. He was 88.
Durani played 29 Tests for India and took 75 wickets, with the best bowling figure of 10 for 177. With the bat in hand, he scored 1202 runs with the highest score of 104 against West Indies in 1962.
The former all-rounder was famous for his heroic performance in India's series victory against England in 1961-62. He scalped eight and ten wickets in the Kolkata and Chennai Tests to guide India to a 2-0 series victory.
Dropped for four seasons from 1967 to 1970, Durani was recalled to the Indian team for the 1971 tour of the West Indies, where he was chiefly instrumental in India's historic first series win there. He did not disappoint when skipper Ajit Wadekar tossed the ball to him; he dismissed left-handers Garry Sobers and Clive Lloyd, and India notched up a win in the Port of Spain Test and the series itself.

Noted Author Sara Thomas, Passes Away

Noted author Sara Thomas died due to age-related ailments. She was 88.
She is a two-time recipient of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi award.
Her noted work 'Narmadipudava' won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi award in 1979. She was also awarded the academy's award in 2010 for overall contribution to Malayalam literature.
Seventeen novels and over 100 stories written by Thomas are an asset to Malayalam literature.
Four of her works have been made into feature films in Malayalam.
Her second novel 'Muripadukal' was made into a movie titled 'Manimuzhakkam' in 1976, which won several national and state awards.

Mar 30, 2023

Ranveer Singh New as Brand Ambassador of Star Sports

The Walt Disney Company India-owned channel Star Sports signed Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh as its brand ambassador.
This association makes the first actor to be associated with Star Sports, a development that reflects the growing synergy between sports and entertainment in India. Singh, in his role as 'sutradhaar' for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will be involved in creating a stream of content which will bring alive narratives from the past, present, and future of the league.
Singh's collaboration with Star Sports is a significant move for the brand. It aims to leverage Singh's popularity and his love for sports to connect with diverse audiences which haven't yet formed a deep relationship with sports.

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