| Name(s) |
General A.S.
(Arun Shridhar) VAIDYA |
| Date of
Birth |
January 27, 1926
- Alibaug, Maharashtra, India. |
| Date of
Death |
August 10, 1986
- Pune, Maharashtra, India. |
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Identity |
13th Chief of Army Staff (CoAS)
of the Indian Army |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- In 1965, the then Lt. Col.
Vaidya was in command of the Deccan
Horse. During the time he was
instrumental in saving the Command
Trucks and fleeing Divisional
Headquarters through his tanks
through an encirclement by Pakistan
Army's 6th Armoured Division at the
Battle of Chawinda which resulted in
destruction of Pakistan's 1st
Armoured Division and heavy loss of
Pakistani lives. For this he was
awarded the Maha Vir Chakra.
- In 1984, General Vaidya designed
and supervised Operation
Blue Star.
- Operation Bluestar was a
military operation ordered by Indira
Gandhi, then Prime Minister of
India, against Sikhs commanded by
Shabeg Singh (AVSM and PVSM) under
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Chief of
Damdami Taksal, in June 1984 at the
Golden Temple
complex.
- He was shot dead by extremists
in Pune.
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| Name(s) |
Acharya BALDEV
UPADHYAYA |
| Date of
Birth |
October 10, 1899 |
| Date of
Death |
August 10, 1999 |
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Identity |
Indian Hindi, Sanskrit scholar,
literary historian, essayist and critic.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He wrote numerous books,
collections of essays and a
historical outline of Sanskrit
literature.
- He is noted for discussing
Sanskrit literature in the Hindi
language.
- Earlier books related to
Sanskrit literature were often
written either in Sanskrit or in
English.
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Awards and Accolades |
- Certificate of Honour, Awarded
by Zakir Hussain, President
of India 1968.
- Kalidas Sahitya Ratna,
Ujjain, 1982
- Vishva Sanskrit Bharati
Award, U.P. Sanskrit Academy, 1983.
- Padma Bhushan
Awarded by Giani Zail Singh,
President of India, 1984.
- Umaswami Award, Kunda Kunda
Bharati Ch. Trust, New Delhi, 1994.
- Mahamahopadhyaya,
1997.
- Rama Krishna Dalmiya Sri
Vani Award, Ramkrishna
Dalmiya Trust, New Delhi.
- ..... and many more.
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| Name(s) |
DIPTAYAN GHOSH |
| Date of
Birth |
August 10, 1998 |
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Identity |
A Chess player from Kolkata,
India. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He became the under-10 Asian
champion at the 2008 Youth Chess
Championship in Tehran, Iran, and is
a student at the Goodricke National
Chess Academy at Kolkata.
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| Title |
Indian SPACE PROGRAM -
Rohini Satellites |
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Date-wise Events |
- August 10, 1979 - Rohini Technology
Payload (RTP) was a 35 kg experimental spin
stabilised satellite and was launched on this day.
- July 18, 1980 - RS-1,
also a 35 kg experimental spin stabilised satellite, was
successfully launched on 18 July 1980. It was the first
satellite successfully launched by the indigenous launch
vehicle SLV.
- May 31, 1981 - RS-D1
was a 38 kg experimental spin stabilised satellite and was
launched on this day. The launch of the SLV was a partial
success as the satellite did not reach the intended height
and thus it only stayed in orbit for 9 days.
- April 17, 1983 - RS-D2
was a 41.5 kg experimental spin stabilised satellite and was
launched successfully into the targeted orbit.
- April 19, 1990 - RS-D2
satellite: After having served its purpose during its
mission life of 17 months and having had an orbital life of
7 years, the satellite reentered the Earth atmosphere on
this day.
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Objective |
Space Exploration |
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Description |
- The Rohini series consisted of 4 mostly experimental
satellites, all of which were launched by the Satellite
Launch Vehicle (SLV) and three of which made it successfully
to orbit.
- The RTP satellite contained instruments to monitor
the launch vehicle. It did not achieve its intended orbit as
the carrier rocket SLV was only 'partially successful'.
- RS-1 provided data on the fourth stage of SLV. The
satellite had mission life of 1.2 years and an orbital life
of 20 months.
- The RS-D1 satellite carried a solid state camera for
remote sensing applications (Landmark Tracker) and performed
to specifications.
- The RS-D2 satellite's smart sensor camera took
over 2500 pictures. The camera had the capability to take
pictures both in visible and infrared bands.
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| Name(s) |
K.C.
(Krishna Chandra) PANT |
| Date of
Birth |
August 10, 1931-
Nainital District, Uttar Pradesh, India. |
| Date of
Death |
November 15, 2012
- Delhi, India. |
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Identity |
Indian politician |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1962 - Elected to the Lok Sabha for the
first time.
- 1967 - Elected to the Lok Sabha for the
second time.
- 1971 - Elected to the Lok Sabha for the
third time.
- 1989 - Elected to the Lok Sabha for the
fourth time.
- 1978 - He was elected to the Rajya
Sabha.
- 1979-80 - He was the
leader of the Rajya Sabha.
- 1998 - He left the Indian
National Congress party in 1998 and later on
joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- February 02, 1999 - He took over as
deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India during
the premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
- June 17, 2004 - He relinquished the
post of deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India.
- April 11, 2000 - Under his tenure, the
National Population Policy with the objective of Population
Control, was constituted on this day.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- Pant was Union minister with
cabinet rank holding important
portfolios like Defence, Finance,
Steel and Heavy Engineering, Home
Affairs, etc.
- He was the first chairman of the
Advisory Board on Energy.
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| Name(s) |
Manali Kallat
(M.K.) VAINU BAPPU |
| Date of
Birth |
August 10, 1927 |
| Date of
Death |
August 19, 1982 |
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Identity |
Indian astronomer |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He jointly discovered an
important phenomenon in stellar
chromospheres - what came to be
known as the Wilson-Bappu
Effect.
- The observatory
at Kavalur in Tamil Nadu, India, is
named after him as 'Vainu
Bappu Observatory'.
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| Name(s) |
PHOOLAN DEVI |
| Date of
Birth |
August 10, 1963 |
| Date of
Death |
July 25, 2001 |
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Identity |
Indian dacoit and
later a politician. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- February 14, 1981 - She and her gang
gunned down 22 high caste Thakurs at Benmail village in
Uttar Pradesh as and by way of her gang rape earlier. This
event came to be known as Behmai massacre.
- July 25, 2001 - She was gunned down on
this day just in front of her house after she returned from
the Parliament.
- August 14, 2014 - The court sentenced
Sher Singh Rana, the main accused for her murder, as and by
way of a revenge for the Behmai massacre, to a life in
prison and a fine.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- Popularly known as "The
Bandit Queen".
- She evaded capture for two years
after the massacre, before she and
her few surviving gang-members
surrendered in 1983.
- She was charged with forty-eight
crimes, including multiple murders,
plunder, arson and kidnapping for
ransom.
- After eleven years pending
trial, the state government headed
by Mulayam Singh Yadav of the
Samajwadi Party withdrew all charges
against her, and Phoolan was
released in 1994.
- She then stood for election to
parliament as a candidate of the
Samajwadi Party and was
twice elected to the Lok Sabha
as the member for Mirzapur.
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Commemorations |
The 1994 film Bandit Queen
is based on her life. |
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| Name(s) |
PURUSHOTTAM DAS
TANDON |
| Date of
Birth |
August 01, 1882 -
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. |
| Date of
death |
July 01, 1962 |
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Identity |
Indian Freedom
Fighter and a Politician |
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Date-wise
Events / Works |
- 1899: He was a member of Indian
National Congress since his student days in 1899.
- July 31, 1937 - He became the Speaker
of the Legislative Assembly of the present-day Uttar
Pradesh.
- 1946: He was elected to the Constituent
Assembly of India.
- June 12, 1947 - The Congress Working
Committee met and passed a resolution accepting the
Partition of India.
- June 14, 1947 - When the Resolution for
acceptance of Partition of India came up for ratification,
he strongly dissented.
- August 10, 1950 - He ceased to be the
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the present-day Uttar
Pradesh.
- 1952: Elected to the Lok Sabha of the
Indian Parliament.
- 1956: Elected to the Rajya Sabha of the
Indian Parliament.
- 1961 - Decorated with BHARAT
RATNA Award.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was customarily given the
title Rajarshi.
- He is widely remembered for his
efforts in achieving the
Official Language of India status
for Hindi, despite
resistance from many quarters.
- He also remained
President of Servants of the People
Society (Lok Sevak Mandal),
a social service organisation
founded by Lala Lajpat Rai,
in 1921.
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| Name(s) |
PANDIT RAGHUNATH
PANIGRAHI |
| Date of
Birth |
August 10, 1932
- Koraput, Odisha, India. |
| Date of
Death |
August 25, 2013
- Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India. |
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Identity |
Indian classical singer and
music director |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was a noted singer of the
Gita Govinda, a work composed by the
12th-century poet, Jayadeva, that
describes the relationship between
Krishna and Radha and other the
gopis (female cow herders).
- He devoted his life in promoting
the works of Jayadeva and the cult
of Lord Jagannatha.
- His wife, Sanjukta Panigrahi,
was a legendary Orissi performer and
composer.
- He formed the 'Sanjukta
Panigrahi Memorial Trust',
in 1999, to promote the cause of
Odishi dance.
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Awards and Accolades |
- He earned the title "Sur
Mani" in 1968.
- He received the central
Sangeeta Natak Academi Award
, 1976.
- He was honoured with
Padma Shri in 2010.
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| Name(s) |
SURESH
PARSHOTTAMDAS DALAL |
| Date of
Birth |
October 11, 1932 |
| Date of
Death |
August 10, 2012 |
|
Identity |
An Indian Gujarati poet,
essayist, litterateur and editor. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He served as the Head of
the Gujarati Department at
SNDT Women's University.
- He also was the
Vice-Chancellor at Maharaja
Sayajirao University of Baroda.
- He had been a "National
Lecturer" for the UGC.
- He has also been a member of the
Advisory Board of Gujarati
Sahitya Academy from 1983
to 1987.
- He is also the editor of the
Gujarati poetry journal Kavita and
literary quarterly Vivecana. He has
been awarded with several other
awards including the Gujarat
Government Award 5 times.
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Awards and Accolades |
- 2005 Sahitya Akademi Award for
Gujarati language for his poem
Akhand Zalar Vage.
- He has been awarded with several
other awards including the Gujarat
Government Award 5 times.
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| Name(s) |
TANGUTURI PRAKASAM
PANTULU |
| Date of
Birth |
August 23, 1872 |
| Date of
Death |
May 20, 1957 |
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Identity |
Indian politician and freedom
fighter |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
August 10, 2014 - The Andhra Pradesh Government
issued an order on this day declaring his Birth
Anniversary as State festival. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- Former Chief Minister of the
Madras Presidency, and subsequently
became the first Chief Minister of
the new Andhra State, created by the
partition of Madras State along
linguistic lines.
- He was also known as Andhra
Kesari (literally, the "Lion of
Andhra").
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| Name(s) |
Pandit VISHNU
NARAYAN BHATKHANDE |
| Date of
Birth |
August 10, 1860 |
| Date of
Death |
September 19, 1936 |
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Identity |
Indian musicologist |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
September 01, 1961 - The Post and Telegraph
Department of India paid homage to Bhatkhande by releasing on
this day a commemorative stamp containing his portrait. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He wrote the first
modern treatise on
Hindustani Classical Music.
- During earlier times, the art
had undergone several changes,
rendering the raga grammar
documented in scant old texts
outdated.
- Ragas used to be classified into
Raga (male),
Ragini (female),
and Putra
(children).
- Bhatkhande reclassified
them into the currently used
Thaat system.
- He noted that several ragas did
not conform to their description in
ancient Sanskrit texts. He explained
the ragas in an easy-to-understand
language and composed several
bandishes which explained the
grammar of the ragas. He borrowed
the idea of lakshan geet from the
Carnatic music scholar
Venkatamakhin.
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| Names |
Varahagiri Venkata Giri
(V.V. GIRI) |
| Date of
Birth |
August 10, 1894 |
| Date of
Death |
June 23, 1980 |
|
Profession / Traits / Activities |
Indian Politician -
fourth President of the Republic of India from
24 August 1969 to 24 August 1974. |
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Works |
A writer and a good
orator. He has written books on 'Industrial Relations' and
'Labour problems in Indian Industry'. |
| Developments / Events |
- He served as Acting President of India from 3
May 1969 to 20 July 1969, before
getting elected.
- Initially, he was general secretary and then president
of the All-India Railwaymen's Federation
and twice serving as president of the All-India
Trade Union Congress.
- In 1934, he became the member of the Imperial
Legislative Assembly, a legislature for India
created by the Government of India Act 1919 from the former
Imperial Legislative Council, implementing the
Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms.
- He became Minister of Labour and Industries
in 1937 for the Congress Party government formed by
C. Rajagopalachari in the Madras Presidency.
- In 1942, he returned to the labour movement as part of
the quit India movement and was
imprisoned by the British.
- After independence, he was first appointed high
commissioner to Ceylon.
- He was elected for 1st Lok Sabha from Pathapatnam Lok
Sabha Constituency and served as Minister of labour
until resigning in 1954.
- He served successfully as Governor of Uttar
Pradesh (1956–1960), Kerala
(1960–1965) and Mysore (1965–1967).
- He was elected as the third Vice President
of India in 1967.
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| Awards &
Accolades |
Bharat Ratna, in 1975 |
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| Title |
WORLD POPULATION
DAY |
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Date-wise Events |
July 11 every year |
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Objective |
It seeks to raise
awareness of global population issues. |
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Description |
- The event was established by the Governing Council
of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was
inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day
on July 11, 1987.
- World Population Day aims at increase in people's
awareness on various population issues such as the
importance of family planning, gender equality,
poverty, maternal health and human rights.
- August 10, 2000
- On this day, the world population reached 6
billion mark according to
www.ibiblio.org world
population tracker.
- The world population (as of
January 01, 2014)
is estimated to be 7,137,661,030.
- Jansankhya Sthirata Kosh (JSK) in India
is doing every effort to draw the attention of the Media and
the masses towards the issues of Population Stabilization.
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