CELEBRITIES & EVENTS OF THE DAY

Personality or Event of the day HAPPY NEW YEAR

December 31 - January 01 In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve, the last day of the year, is on December 31.  HAPPY NEW YEAR New Year's Eve is celebrated at evening social gatherings, where many people dance, eat, drink, and watch or light fireworks, and the like, to mark the onset of new year. Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day DELHI DURBAR OF 1877

January 01, 1877  held to designate the coronation and proclaim Queen Victoria as Empress of India The Durbar was the beginning of a great transformation for India where the campaign for a free India was formally launched Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day SATYENDRA NATH BOSE

January 01 - Birth Anniversary PADMA VIBHUSHAN 1954 An Eminent Scientist of India - initiator of God Particle Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day MOTILAL NEHRU

On January 01, 1923 He and others formed a Swarajist party on this day Lawyer, Freedom Fighter and Politician Father of the first Prime Minister of India Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day SHANTI SWAROOP BHATNAGAR

January 01 - Death Anniversary An Eminent Scientist of India Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was set up in 1947 under the chairmanship Father of Research Laboratories of India Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day KAMAL SINGH OBERH

January 01 Anniversary of becoming First Indian to skydive at South Pole On April 20, 2002, He also became The First Indian to skydive on two extremes poles of the earth Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day EDWIN LUTYENS

January 01 - Death Anniversary The Architect and Planner of New Delhi New Delhi is also known as "Lutyens' Delhi"   Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day SAM MANEKSHAW

On January 01, 1973  President of India conferred upon him the rank of Field marshal, a first, on 1 January 1973 The eighth chief of staff of the Indian Army in 1969  Under his command, Indian forces conducted victorious campaigns against Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 that led to the liberation of Bangladesh in December 1971 Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day QUEEN VICTORIA

(24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) On Jan 01, 1877, she was proclaimed Empress of India (though she had taken charge w.e.f. 1st May, 1876) Click the following to see more on this topic: CROSSWORD          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY

From January 01, 1800 -  It ceased to exist. It was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia. Click the following to see more on this topic: QUIZ

Personality or Event of the day FIRST KASHMIR WAR

Ended on January 01, 1949  It was fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Kashmir and Jammu from October 22, 1947 to January 01, 1948. It was the first of four wars fought between the two newly independent nations At the instance of United Nations, formal cease-fire was declared at 23:59 on the night of 1/2 January 1949. Click the following to see more on this topic: VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day INTERNET

On January 01, 1983 The ARPANET officially changed to using the Internet Protocol, thereby creating the Internet. On January 01, 1985 The Internet's Domain Name System was created on this day. Click the following to see more on this topic: CROSSWORD #01,   #02,   #03

Personality or Event of the day OZONE LAYER (MONTREAL PROTOCOL)

On January 01, 1989 The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer came into force on this day. Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD #01,   #02          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day KOLKATA (erstwhile CALCUTTA)

On January 01, 1989 The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer came into force on this day. Click the following to see more on this topic: CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY

January 01 An observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain Click the following to see more on this topic: QUIZ          VIDEOS