| Name(s) |
AYESHA JHULKA |
| Date of
Birth |
July 28, 1972
in Srinagar, India. |
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Identity |
Indian film
actress. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- She made her Hindi film acting
debut in 1983.
- Her first major role was in 1990
in the film Meet Mere Mann
Ke, and her next release
was a Telugu film, Neti
Siddhartha.
- She is the daughter of
Wing Commander Inder Kumar Jhulka,
an Indian Air Force Officer.
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| Name(s) |
BABA BUJHA SINGH |
| Date of
Birth |
Not known |
| Date of
Death |
July 28, 1970 |
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Identity |
Indian
revolutionary leader. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was an activist of the
Ghadar Party and
later became a key leader of the
Lal Communist Party.
- He later became a symbol of the
Naxalite movement
in Punjab.
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Commemorations |
- The Punjab state headquarters of
the Communist Party of India
(Marxist-Leninist) Liberation in
Mansa is known as Baba Bujha
Singh Bhavan.
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| Names |
Chaudhary Charan Singh |
| Date of Birth |
23 December 1902 |
| Date of
Death |
29 May 1987 - Noorpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. |
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Profession / Traits / Activities |
Indian Politician and the 5th Prime MInister of India |
| Special Achievements
/ Events |
- He served as the Prime Minister of India from
28 July 1979 until 14 January 1980.
- He entered politics as part of the Independence
Movement.
- After independence he became widely known in the 1950s
for opposing and winning a battle against Nehru's
socialistic and collectivist land use policies.
- He was the leader of the Bharatiya Lok Dal,
a major constituent of the Janata coalition.
- In July, 1979 he was sworn in as Prime
Minister with the support of just 64 MPs.
- He holds the record of the sole Prime Minister of India
who did not face the Loksabha even for a single day.
- The day before the Lok Sabha was due to meet for the
first time the Indian National Congress withdrew
their support from his Bharatiya Lok Dal
Government. So he resigned and fresh elections
were held six months later.
- As a leader of the Lok Dal in opposition till his death
in 1987, when he was succeeded as party president by his son
Ajit Singh.
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Commemorations |
- His memorial in New Delhi was named Kisan Ghat.
- The Amausi Airport in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh is also
called as Chaudhary Charan Singh International
Airport after him. The university of Meerut city
in Uttar Pradesh, India, is also named after him (Chaudhary
Charan Singh University).
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| Name(s) |
CHARU MAJUMDAR |
| Date of
Birth |
1918 - Siliguri, Bengal
Presidency, India (exact date not known) |
| Date of
Death |
July 28, 1972
(while in the lock-up) |
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Identity |
A communist
revolutionary from India. |
|
Date-wise Events |
- 1967:
A militant
peasant uprising took place
in Naxalbari, led by his
comrade-in-arms Kanu Sanyal.
This group would later become
known as the Naxalites.
- April 22, 1969
(100th birthday of Vladimir Lenin):
He broke
away from the militant group and formed the All
India Coordination Committee of
Communist Revolutionaries
which on this day founded the Communist Party
of India (Marxist–Leninist)
- with Majumdar as its General
Secretary.
- July 16, 1972: He was captured from his
hide-out on this day.
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General |
- Born in a progressive
landlord family in Siliguri in 1918,
he later joined the militant
Naxalite cause.
- During the mid 1960s he
organized a leftist faction in
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))
in northern Bengal.
- Eight articles written by him
during the course of this uprising -
known as the Historic Eight
Documents - have been seen
as providing their ideological
foundation: arguing that
revolution must take the path of
armed struggle on the pattern of the
Chinese revolution.
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| Name(s) |
DHANUSH
- Full name: Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja |
| Date of
Birth |
July 28, 1983 |
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Identity |
Indian film actor,
producer, lyricist, and playback singer best known for his work
in Tamil cinema. |
| Awards
and Accolades |
- Best Actor award
at the 58th National Film Awards for
his performance in Aadukalam (2010).
- He has won 3 National
Film Awards and 7
Filmfare Awards.
- In 2011, he won the
National Film Award for
Best Actor for the movie
Aadukalam and in the same
year, he received
international attention for
his song "Why this Kolaveri
Di", which went on to
became the most viewed
Indian song in YouTube.
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| Name(s) |
DULQUER SALMAAN |
| Date of
Birth |
July 28, 1986 |
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Identity |
Indian film actor
and businessman known for his Malayalam films. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He made his debut
with the Malayalam film Second Show
(2012) and later starred in the film
Ustad Hotel (2012) which won the
National Award for Best Popular
Film.
- He was awarded with Filmfare
Award for Best Male Debut
and SIIMA Award for
Best Male Debutant for the
performance in the film Second Show
and nominated for Filmfare Award for
Best Actor for his performance in
Ustad Hotel.
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| Other |
He is the son of film actor
Mammootty. |
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| Title |
ELECTRIC LIGHTING |
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Date-wise Events |
July 28, 1879
- This day marked the first public
demonstration of the electric lights in Calcutta, India.
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| Title |
FINGER PRINT |
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Date-wise Events |
Jul-28, 1858
- First use of the finger printing was made by William Herschel
of the Indian Civil Service at Jangipur in India. |
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| Name(s) |
Hiren Bhattacharyya |
| Date of
Birth |
July 28, 1932 |
| Date of
death |
July 04, 2012 |
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Identity |
Indian Assamese
Poet |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- One of the best known poets
working in the Assamese language.
- He had innumerable works
published in Assamese and achieved
many prizes and accolades for his
poetry.
- He is known as Hiruda among his
fans.
- Prem aru Rodalir Kobi (Poet of
Love and Sunshine) is his other name
in the Assamese literature.
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| Name(s) |
HUMA QURESHI |
| Date of
Birth |
July 28, 1986
- in Delhi, India. |
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Identity |
Indian actress who
mainly works in Hindi cinema. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- She worked as a theatre actor
and model before beginning her film
career.
- After starring in several
theatrical productions, she moved to
Mumbai and signed a two-year
contract with Hindustan Unilever to
appear in television commercials.
- Soon thereafter she succeeded in
signing up for film acting.
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| Name(s) |
JAGDISH RAJ KHURANA |
| Date of
Birth |
1928 (Date
not known) |
| Date of
Death |
July 28, 2013 |
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Identity |
Indian Actor |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- A Bollywood actor who holds a
Guinness World Record record
for being the most type-cast actor.
- He played a police
inspector in 144 films.
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| Name(s) |
MAHASHWETA DEVI |
| Date of
Birth |
January 14, 1926
- in Dhaka - now in Bangladesh. |
| Date of
Death |
July 28, 2016 |
|
Identity |
Indian social
activist and writer. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- Her father, Manish
Ghatak, was a well-known
poet and novelist of the Kallol
movement, who used the pseudonym
Jubanashwa.
- Ghatak's youngest brother was
noted filmmaker Ritwik
Ghatak.
- Her mother, Dharitri
Devi, was also a writer and
a social worker.
- She joined the Rabindranath
Tagore-founded Vishvabharati
University in Santiniketan and
completed her B.A. in English, and
then finished an M.A. in English at
Calcutta University.
- She later married renowned
playwright Bijon
Bhattacharya, who was one
of the founding fathers of the IPTA
movement.
- In 1948, she gave birth to
Nabarun Bhattacharya,
one of Bengal's and India's
leading novelists, whose
works have been noted for their
intellectual vigour and
philosophical flavour.
- She got divorced from Bijon
Bhattacharya in 1959.
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| Awards
and Accolades |
- 1979: Sahitya Akademi
Award (Bengali) – Aranyer
Adhikar (novel)
- 1986:
Padma Shri
- 1996:
Jnanpith Award – the highest literary
award from the Bharatiya Jnanpith
- 1997:
Ramon Magsaysay
Award – Journalism,
Literature, and the Creative
Communication Arts
- 1999: Honoris causa
– Indira Gandhi National Open
University (IGNOU)
- 2006:
Padma Vibhushan
– the second highest civilian award
from the Government of India
- 2010: Yashwantrao Chavan
National Award
- 2011: Bangabibhushan
– the highest civilian award from
the Government of West Bengal
- 2012: Hall of Fame
Lifetime Achievement Sahityabrahma
– the first Lifetime Achievement
award in Bengali Literature from
4thScreen-IFJW.
- 2014: 1st Mamoni Raisom
Goswami National Award for
Literature constituted by Assam
Sahitya Sabha and sponsored by
Numaligarh Refinery Limited, Assam.
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| Name(s) |
SACHIN
Ramesh TENDULKAR |
| Date of
Birth |
April 24, 1973 |
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Identity |
Former cricketer of India -
the world's greatest
cricketer ever. |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
He scored 100
international centuries. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
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He scored his much awaited 100th international hundred
on 16 March 2012, at Mirpur against Bangladesh in
the Asia Cup. He became the first person in history to
achieve this feat. Incidentally, it was Tendulkar's first
ODI hundred against Bangladesh.
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He became the first cricketer to score 10,000 runs in one
day international cricket, while playing against Australia
at Indore. He completed this target in his 266th match.
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Apr-20, 2002 - he hit his 29th test century
equalling the record of Donald Bradman.
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Highest run scorer in ODIs, Highest runs scorer in Test
Cricket, Most number of hundreds in ODIs - 49,
Most number of hundreds in test cricket - 51, Most
number of man of the match in ODIs, Highest run scorer in
World Cup (2560) with an average of 56.95, Man of
the tournament in Cricket World Cup 2003, He is the only
player to have scored a century in all his debus in Raji Trophy,
Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy. These constitute a few of a avery
long list of records made by him.
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He is considered as the Virtual God of Cricket in India
His world record of scoring 100 centuries that might take a century
to break.
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Awards & Accolades |
Recipient of BHARAT RATNA, the highest civilian
honour for a citizen of India.
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Other |
Presently he is also a Member of the Rajya Sabha of the
Indian Parliament. |
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| Name(s) |
SUBHASH AGARWAL |
| Date of
Birth |
July 28, 1947 |
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Identity |
Indian professional
player and coach of English billiards and snooker. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- A National Snooker
Champion of India.
- He is the brother of the
late World Snooker Champion Om
Agarwal, and a protégé of
Anglo-Indian champion Wilson Jones.
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and Accolades |
Arjuna Award in 1983. |
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| Name(s) |
Tarimala (T.) NAGI
REDDY |
| Date of
Birth |
February 11, 1917 |
| Date of
Death |
July 28, 1976 |
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Identity |
A communist
politician from Andhra Pradesh, India. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was jailed
in 1940, 1941 and 1946 as a result
of his political activities.
- He revolted against his father
who was a landlord and
donated his land of over 1000 acres
to landless labourers.
- Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
a two-time Chief Minister of Andhra
Pradesh and the sixth President of
India was Nagi Reddy's
brother-in-law.
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| Title |
WORLD HEPATITIS DAY |
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Date-wise Events |
July 28, Every Year |
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Objective |
To raise global
awareness of hepatitis — a group of infectious diseases known as
Hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E — and encourage prevention,
diagnosis and treatment. |
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Description |
- Hepatitis affects hundreds of millions of people
worldwide, causing acute and chronic disease and
killing close to 1.4 million people every year.
- World Hepatitis Day is one of eight official
global public health campaigns marked by:
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Health Day
- World Blood Donor Day
- World Immunization Week
- World Tuberculosis Day
- World No Tobacco Day
- World Malaria Day and
- World AIDS Day
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| Title |
WORLD WAR - I (TREATY OF VERSAILLES) |
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Date-wise Events |
June 28, 1914: Assassination
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of
Austro-Hungarian empire, in Sarajevo, Bosnia
July 28, 1914: Begining of the World War - I, when
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
See the
ww-I timeline attached
November 11, 1918: Armistice day; fighting ceases at 11am
May 07- June 28, 1919: Treaty of Versailles drafted and
signed
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Description |
- It was a Global warfare involving
Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, China
and off the coast of South and North AmericaBut centred in
Europe.
- A small conflict became a
big warfare and soon Germany, Russia, Great
Britain, and France were all dragged into the war.
- Despite the death of millions of soldiers
in brutal conditions, neither side had gained any
advantage.
- Angered by attacks upon its ships in the Atlantic,
USA also declared war on Germany in April,
1017.
- In November, 1917, Russia pulled out of the war because
of the Bolshevik Revolution at home.
- A deadly outbreak of influenza, in
1918, took heavy tolls on soldiers of both sides.
- Eventually, the governments of both Germany and
Austria-Hungary began to lose control.
- The fighting ended in the late fall of 1918, after the
member countries of the Central Powers signed armistice
agreements one by one. But the final end of the war was
achieved only after signing of the treaty of
Versailles.
- Germany, under the Treaty of Versailles, was
severely punished with strict sanctions.
- Some historians believe that the excessive
punishment of Germany had actually actually planted
the seeds of World War II, rather than
foster peace.
- India Gate in New Delhi was built as a
War Memorial to commemorate the
death of 90,000 Indian soldiers, who were killed in
the North West Province during the First World War and the
Afghan Fiasco of 1919.
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