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Informative session about the important personality. Dhondo Keshav Karve, popularly known as Maharshi Karve, was a social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare. He advocated widow remarriage and he himself married a widow. In his honour, Karvenagar in Pune was named after him & Queen's Road in Mumbai was renamed to Maharshi Karve Road. Karve was a pioneer in promoting widows' education. He founded the first women's university in India - SNDT Women's University. The Government of India awarded him with the highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in 1958, the year of his 100th birthday. The appellation Maharshi, which the Indian public often assigned to Karve, means "a great sage".
Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year. Born in British India, Khorana served on the faculties of three universities in North America. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966, and received the National Medal of Science in 1987.
List of important events from history on 9th November. This list is useful for students preparing for all competitive exams in India.
१९६७ मध्ये 'एआयआर'ने प्रायोगिक तत्त्वावर सर्वप्रथम विविध भारती सेवेतून जाहिराती अर्थात कमर्शियल्स प्रसृत करण्यात सुरुवात केली. त्याला चांगलाच प्रतिसाद लाभल्यावर एआयआर प्रसारण केंद्राचा 'व्यापार विभाग' अल्पावधीच स्थिरावला. प्रादेशिक बातम्या, राष्ट्रीय न्यूज', विविध भारतीवरून रंजनपर कार्यक्रम, अशा बहुविध अंगाने जनजीवन व्यापून टाकण्यात एआयआरला १९६०-७०च्या दशकात यश लाभलं.
Informative session about the important personality. Purushottam Laxman Deshpande or as P. L. Deshpande, was a Marathi writer and humorist from Maharashtra, India. He was also an accomplished film and stage actor, script writer, author, composer, musician, singer and orator. He was often referred to as "Maharashtra's beloved personality". Deshpande's works have been translated into several languages including English and Kannada.
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009. During eight years as vice president, Biden leaned on his Senate experience and frequently represented the administration in negotiations with congressional Republicans, including on the Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved a debt ceiling crisis, and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed the impending "fiscal cliff". He also oversaw infrastructure spending in 2009 to counteract the Great Recession. On foreign policy, Biden was a close counselor to the president and took a leading role in designing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011. In 2012, Obama and Biden were reelected, defeating Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. In 2017, Obama awarded Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction.
Edmond Halley FRS was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720. Halley encouraged and helped fund the publication of Isaac Newton's influential Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687).
List of important events from history on 8th November. This list is useful for students preparing for all competitive exams in India.
कृत्रिम उपग्रहाच्या साहाय्याने देशांतर्गत 'संदेश दळणवळण (सॅटेलाईट कम्युनिकेशन) शक्य व्हावे, यासाठी उपग्रहाकडे संदेश पाठवण्यासाठी व उपग्रहावरून संदेश ग्रहण करण्यासाठी आवश्यक असलेलं देशांतर्गत (डोमॅस्टिक) उपग्रहीय दूरसंचार भूकेद्र १९६७ साली अहमदाबादजवळील 'जोधपूर टेक्रा' या वालुकामय प्रदेशात उभारण्यात आलं. प्रायोगिक स्वरूपाचं असं हे भारतातील पहिलंच भूकेंद्र ठरलं.
Informative session about the important personality. Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength and frequency. This phenomenon, a hitherto unknown type of scattering of light, which they called "modified scattering" was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering. Raman received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science. Born to Tamil Brahmin parents, Raman was a precocious child, completing his secondary and higher secondary education from St Aloysius' Anglo-Indian High School at the ages of 11 and 13, respectively. He topped the bachelor's degree examination of the University of Madras with honours in physics from Presidency College at age 16. His first research paper, on diffraction of light, was published in 1906 while he was still a graduate student. The next year he obtained a master's degree. He joined the Indian Finance Service in Calcutta as Assistant Accountant General at age 19. There he became acquainted with the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), the first research institute in India, which allowed him to do independent research and where he made his major contributions in acoustics and optics.
List of important events from history on 7th November. This list is useful for students preparing for all competitive exams in India.
१९५० मध्ये, घटनेनुसार हिंदी ही राष्ट्रभाषा झाली व त्यानंतर १९६३ मध्ये 'अधिकृत भाषाविषयक कायदा' संमत झाला तरी शासकीय व्यवहारातील हिंदी भाषेच्या उपयोगाबद्दल वाद निर्माण झाले होते. १९६७ मध्ये यावर सर्वसंमतीने तोडगा काढला गेला व त्यानुसार अधिकृत भाषाविषयक कायद्यात सुधारणा केल्यावर १९६७ पासून शासकीय व्यवहारात हिंदी भाषेला इंग्रजीसोबत अधिकृत भाषेचा दर्जा प्राप्त झाला.
Informative session about the important personality. Tarabai Bhosale was the regent of the Maratha Empire of India from 1700 until 1708. She was the queen of Chhatrapati Rajaram Bhonsale, and daughter-in-law of the empire's founder Shivaji. She is acclaimed for her role in keeping alive the resistance against Mughal occupation of Maratha territories after the death of her husband, and acting as the regent during the minority of her son. In order to divide the Maratha onslaught, the Mughals released Shahuji, Sambhaji's son and Tarabai's nephew, on certain conditions. He immediately challenged Tarabai and Shivaji II for leadership of the Maratha polity. Shahu eventually prevailed thanks to his legal position and in part to the Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath's diplomacy and Tarabai was sidelined. She established a rival court in Kolhapur in 1709 but was deposed by Rajaram's other widow, Rajasabai, who put her own son, Sambhaji II, on the throne. Tarabai and her son were imprisoned by Sambhaji II. Shivaji II died in 1726. Tarabai afterwards reconciled with Chhatrapati Shahu in 1730 and went to live in Satara but without any political power.
Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje was an Indian revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist and Statesman who was among the founding fathers of the Ghadar Party. Khankhoje's earliest nationalist work abroad dates back to the time around 1908 when he, along with Pandit Kanshi Ram founded the Indian Independence League in Portland, Oregon. His works also brought him close to other Indian nationalists in United States at the time, including Tarak Nath Das. In the years preceding World War I, Khankhoje was one of the founding members of the Pacific coast Hindustan association, and subsequently founded the Ghadar Party. He was at the time one of the most influential members of the party. He met Lala Har Dayal in 1911. He also enrolled at one point in a West Coast military academy.
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