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Feb 2023

Jul 02, 2024

Veteran Sri Lankan Politician & Tamil Leader Sampanthan Passes Away

R. Sampanthan, a veteran Sri Lankan politician and a moderate Tamil leader, who relentlessly pursued a life of peace, justice and dignity for Tamil nationals in the island nation, passed away, the Tamil National Alliance (NTA) announced. He was 91.
Sampanthan led the TNA from 2004 and became only the second Tamil to become the main opposition leader in the Sinhala-majority country.
He took office as the leader of the opposition in 2015 and was actively involved in the process of drafting a new Constitution until 2019.
A brilliant lawyer, Sampanthan entered Parliament for the first time in 1977 from the eastern port district of Trincomalee.

Jun 30, 2024

Senior Congress Leader Dharmapuri Srinivas Passes Away

Srinivas, the former erstwhile Andhra Pradesh Pradesh Congress Committee president, also served as a minister and a Member of Parliament. He was 76.
Born on September 27, 1948, Srinivas rose from the rank of the Youth Congress to become and MLA, Minister and the PCC chief twice.

Jun 27, 2024

Muchkund Dubey Former Foreign Secretary Dies

Former foreign secretary Muchkund Dubey died aged 90.
The veteran diplomat, considered an expert on disarmament and development cooperation, served as India's foreign secretary in 1990-91. He also served as India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh and Permanent Representative to UN Organisations in Geneva.
After retiring, he joined the JNU as a professor where he taught for close to eight years. Dubey also served as the president of New Delhi-based Council for Social Development (CSD).

Jun 26, 2024

Frank Duckworth, Co-inventor of DLS Method, Passes Away at 84

Frank Duckworth, one of the inventors of the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method, passed away. He was 84.
The Duckworth-Lewis method, devised by Duckworth and fellow statistician Tony Lewis, was introduced to determine results in rain-affected cricket matches. Lewis had passed away aged 78 in 2020.
The method was first used in international cricket in 1997 and was formally adopted by the ICC as the standard method for setting revised targets in truncated games in 2001.

Jun 25, 2024

UNGA President Honours India's Hansa Mehta on International Day for Women in Diplomacy

On the occasion of the International Day for Women in Diplomacy, United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Dennis Francis paid tribute to Hansa Mehta, a feminist leader, activist and diplomat from India, highlighting her pivotal role in shaping the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to be more inclusive.
Mehta is widely credited for successfully arguing against references to "men" as a synonym for humanity, and succeeded in changing the phrase, "All men are born free and equal" to "All human beings are born free and equal" in Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Hansa Mehta, a prominent Indian scholar, educator, social reformer and writer born on July 3, 1897, was a champion of women's rights.

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