Personality or Event of the day JANA GANA MANA

On January 24, 1950 It was officially adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the Indian National Anthem Written in highly Sanskritised Bengali, it is the first of five stanzas of a Brahmo hymn composed and scored by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore It was sung for the first time in Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress on Dec 27, 1911 Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day BHIMSEN JOSHI

January 24 - Death Anniversary Bharat Ratna (2008) One of the Greatest Hindustani Classical Vocalists of India Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day Dr. HOMI J. BHABHA

(Oct 30, 1909 - Jan 24, 1966) PADMA BHUSHAN Father of the Indian Nuclear Programme He earned world-wide fame for deriving correct expression for probability of scattering positrons by the electrons, a process now known as Bhabha Scattering. Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS

Personality or Event of the day INDIRA GANDHI

On January 24, 1966 She was sworn in as 3rd Prime Minister of India Third and the only woman Prime Minister of India Masterminded and implemented a state of emergency from 1975 to 1977 Assassinated by her own Sikh guards after the Blue Star Operation Click the following to see more on this topic: PROFILE          CROSSWORD          QUIZ          VIDEOS