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Jan 2023

Apr 13, 2023

India's Oldest Billionaire Keshub Mahindra Passes Away

Keshub Mahindra, the Chairman Emeritus of Mahindra & Mahindra and India's oldest billionaire, passed away at the age of 99. He had a net worth of $1.2 billion as per Forbes. He retired as the Chairman of Mahindra Group on August 9, 2012, and passed on his responsibilities to his nephew, Anand Mahindra.
Under his 48-year long tenure as Chairman, the Mahindra Group diversified from being solely an automobile manufacturer to expanding into other sectors such as IT, real estate, financial services, and hospitality. Keshub Mahindra played a crucial role in establishing strategic partnerships with global giants like Willys Corporation, Mitsubishi, International Harvester, United Technologies, British Telecom, among others.
Keshub Mahindra was born on October 9, 1923, in Shimla and earned his degree from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He joined the Mahindra & Mahindra Group in 1947 and eventually became its Chairman in 1963.

Apr 12, 2023

Former IAS Officer, Naresh Gupta Passes Away

Naresh Gupta, former IAS officer, who earned the reputation of being a firm Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), died. He was 72. Gupta retired from service in 2010.
Hailing from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, Gupta held postgraduate degrees in Mathematics and Gandhian Thought. Belonging to the 1973 batch, he served Tamil Nadu in many positions such as Sivaganga's first Collector (1985-86), Secretary to Governor (Bhishma Narayan Singh) (1991-93), Home Secretary (2001-02) and Member Secretary of the State Planning Commission (2002-05). But it was his stint as CEO, for about eight years in two spells (1998-2000 and January 2005-July 2010), that made him a prominent figure. There were occasions when he had openly differed with the ruling party of the day with regard to the way elections or byelections were conducted. He regarded the 2009 Lok Sabha elections as the most challenging. After his retirement, he was appointed a member of the Central Administrative Tribunal.

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.

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