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Informative session about the important personality. Usain St. Leo Bolt, OJ, CD, OLY is a retired Jamaican sprinter, widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time. He is the world record holder of 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay. An eight-time Olympic gold medallist, Bolt is the only sprinter to win Olympic 100 m and 200 m titles at three consecutive Olympics (2008, 2012 and 2016). He also won two 4 × 100 relay gold medals. He gained worldwide fame for his double sprint victory in world record times at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which made him the first person to hold both records since fully automatic time became mandatory.

Bismillah Khan, often referred to by the title Ustad, was an Indian musician credited with popularizing the shehnai, a reeded woodwind instrument. While the shehnai had long held importance as a folk instrument played primarily schooled in traditional ceremonies, Khan is credited with elevating its status and bringing it to the concert stage. He was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 2001, becoming the third classical musician after M. S. Subbalakshmi and Ravi Shankar to be awarded Bharat Padm vibhushan.

List of important events from history on 21th August. This list is useful for students preparing for all competitive exams in India.

मुंबईतील पहिल्या सार्वजनिक आर्ट गॅलरीची अर्थात जहांगीर आर्ट गॅलरीची स्थापना 

इ. स. १८५७ मध्येच मुंबईत 'जे.जे. स्कूल ऑफ आर्टसारख्या संस्थेची स्थापना झालेली असली, तरी विसाव्या शतकाच्या पूर्वार्धाच्या अखेरपर्यंत या शहरात सार्वजनिक आर्ट गॅलरीची सोय झालेली नव्हती. १९४६मध्ये चित्रसंग्राहक व वैज्ञानिक डॉ. होमी भाभा, चित्रकार के. के. हेब्बर आदींच्या प्रयत्नांतून व सर कावसजी जहांगीर यांच्या पुढाकाराने अशा आर्ट गॅलरीसाठी मुंबईच्या फोर्ट भागातील म्युझियमच्या आवारातील जागा शासनाकडून उपलब्ध झाली आणि त्यानंतर ५ वर्षांनी त्या जागेत जहांगीर आर्ट गॅलरीची वास्तू साकार झाली. जानेवारी १९५२मध्ये या आर्ट गॅलरीचं समारंभपूर्वक उद्घाटन झालं.

Informative session about the important personality. Narendra Achyut Dabholkar was an Indian physician, social activist, rationalist and author from Maharashtra, India. In 1989 he founded and became president of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti. Triggered by his murder on 20 August 2013, the pending Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Ordinance was promulgated in the state of Maharashtra, four days later. In 2014, he was posthumously awarded the Padma Shri for social work.

Rajiv Ratna Gandhi was an Indian politician who served as the sixth prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to become the youngest Indian prime minister at the age of 40. Gandhi was from the politically powerful Nehru–Gandhi family, which had been associated with the Indian National Congress party. For much of his childhood, his maternal grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru was prime minister. Gandhi attended college in the United Kingdom. He returned to India in 1966 and became a professional pilot for the state-owned Indian Airlines. In 1968, he married Sonia Gandhi; the couple settled in Delhi to a domestic life with their children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. For much of the 1970s, his mother Indira Gandhi was prime minister and his brother Sanjay Gandhi an MP; despite this, Rajiv Gandhi remained apolitical. 

Sir Ronald Ross KCB KCMG FRS FRCS was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside Europe. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and laid the foundation for the method of combating the disease. He was a polymath, writing a number of poems, published several novels, and composed songs. He was also an amateur artist and natural mathematician. He worked in the Indian Medical Service for 25 years.

List of important events from history on 20th August. This list is useful for students preparing for all competitive exams in India.

जहाजबांधणीच्या विकासासाठी हिंदुस्थान शिपयार्ड लिमिटेडची स्थापना :

   जहाजबांधणीचं कार्य स्वातंत्र्यपूर्वकाळापासून करत आलेली सिंदीया कंपनी स्वातंत्र्यानंतर आर्थिक अडचणीत आल्यामुळे भारत सरकारने या कंपनीची विशाखापट्टणम् येथील गोदी ताब्यात घेतली व १ मार्च १९५२ रोजी जहाजबांधणी क्षेत्राला चालना देण्याच्या उद्देशाने सरकारने हिंदुस्थान शिपयार्ड लिमिटेड ही सार्वजनिक कंपनी स्थापन केली.

Informative session about the important personality. Sudha Murty is an Indian engineering teacher, author and a social worker. She is also the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation. She is married to the co-founder of Infosys, N. R. Narayana Murthy. Murty was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, for social work by the Government of India in 2006. Sudha Murty began her professional career in computer science and engineering. She is the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and a member of the public health care initiatives of the Gates Foundation. She has founded several orphanages, participated in rural development efforts, supported the movement to provide all Karnataka government schools with computer and library facilities, and established Murty Classical Library of India at Harvard University. Murty initiated a bold move to introduce computer and library facilities in all schools in Karnataka & taught computer science. She got the "Best Teacher Award" in 1995 from Rotary Club at Bengaluru (erstwhile Bangalore).

Shankar Dayal Sharma was the ninth President of India, serving from 1992 to 1997. Prior to his presidency, Sharma had been the eighth Vice President of India, serving under R. Venkataraman. He was also the Chief Minister (1952–1956) of Bhopal State, and Cabinet Minister (1956–1967), holding the portfolios of Education, Law, Public Works, Industry and Commerce, National Resources and Separate Revenue. He was the President of the Indian National Congress in 1972–1974 and returned to the Government as Union Minister for Communications from 1974 to 1977. The International Bar Association presented Sharma with the 'Living Legends of Law Award of Recognition for his outstanding contribution to the legal profession internationally and for commitment to the rule of law.

List of important events from history on 19th August. This list is useful for students preparing for all competitive exams in India.

पत्रकारितेच्या वाटचालीला दिशा देणाऱ्या पहिल्या 'प्रेस कमिशन'ची नेमणूक :

स्वातंत्र्यपूर्व काळात काही आघाडीची वृत्तपत्रं ब्रिटिश कंपन्यांच्या मालकीची होती, तर काही भारतीय उद्योगपतींच्या मालकीची होती. स्वातंत्र्यानंतर नवस्वतंत्र लोकशाही प्रजासत्ताक देशातील पत्रकारितेने 'चौथ्या स्तंभा'ची जबाबदार भूमिका निभवावी अशी अपेक्षा होती.. त्याच वेळी हा व्यवसाय मोठ्या वृत्तपत्र-उद्योजकांच्या एकाधिकाराद्वारे नियत होऊ नये; बहुविध विचार, अनेकविध दृष्टिकोन पुढे यायचे असतील तर लहान व प्रादेशिक वृत्तपत्रांना अशा संभाव्य एकाधिकारापासून संरक्षण मिळायला हवं, असं भारताचे पहिले पंतप्रधान जवाहरलाल नेहरू यांचं ठाम मत होतं. या पार्श्वभूमीवर, भारताच्या सूचना व प्रसारण मंत्रालयाने २३ सप्टेंबर १९५२ रोजी न्यायमूर्ती जे. एस. राजाध्यक्ष यांच्या अध्यक्षतेखालील पहिल्या 'प्रेस कमिशन'ची नेमणूक केली. या आयोगाकडे प्रामुख्याने मोठ्या वृत्तपत्र उद्योजकांच्या मालकी- व्यवस्थापन-नियंत्रणाचा पत्रकारितेच्या क्षेत्रावर कितपत प्रभाव पडतो, त्याचा अभ्यास करून सरकारला शिफारशी करण्याची जबाबदारी सोपवण्यात आली. त्याचप्रमाणे, पत्रकारितेचा दर्जा उच्च राहण्यासाठी उपाययोजनापर शिफारशी करण्याचंही कार्य या आयोगाकडे दिलं गेलं.

Informative session about the important personality. Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempts during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a troubled legacy. The honorific Netaji (Hindustani: "Respected Leader") was first applied to Bose in Germany in early 1942—by the Indian soldiers of the Indische Legion and by the German and Indian officials in the Special Bureau for India in Berlin. It is now used throughout India. Subhas Bose was born into wealth and privilege in a large Bengali family in Orissa during the high noon of the British Raj. The early recipient of an unusually Anglocentric education, his teenage and young adult years were interspersed with brilliant academic success, oversize religious yearning, and stark rebellion against authority. In a college in which his five brothers had preceded him, he was expelled for participating in an assault on a professor. He was also rusticated from the University of Calcutta, but after reinstatement 18 months later he managed to study blamelessly and excel academically. Sent to England at his father's urging to take the Indian Civil Service examination, he succeeded with distinction in the vital first exam but demurred at taking the more routine but clinching final exam. He cited nationalism to be a higher calling than the civil service. Returning to India in 1921 to join the nationalist movement led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, Bose at first worked with C. R. Das in Bengal. He flowered under Das's mentorship. He then followed Jawaharlal Nehru to leadership in a group within the Congress. The group was younger, less keen on constitutional reform, and more open to socialism. Bose rose precociously to become Congress president in 1938. After reelection in 1939, differences arose between Bose and Gandhi. The senior leadership in the Congress supported Gandhi, and Bose resigned as president, and was eventually ousted from the party.[20] In July 1940, Bose was arrested by the Bengal government over a small protest, and later kept housebound under a strict police watch. In mid-January 1941, he escaped from India in dramatic cloak-and-dagger fashion, heading northwestward into Afghanistan.