Smriti irani

 Smriti Zubin Irani is an Indian politician and former actress, fashion model and television producer. She has been Minister of Women and Child Development since 2019, and also Minister of Minority Affairs since 2022. 

Born: 23 March 1976 (age 47 years), New Delhi

Spouse: Zubin Irani (m. 2001)

Party: Bharatiya Janata Party

Children: Zoish Irani, Zohr Irani

Awards: STAR Parivaar Award for Favourite Patni, STAR Parivaar Award for Favourite Jodi, Indian Telly Award for Best Television Personality, more

Education: School of Open Learning, University of Delhi, Holy Child Auxilium School

Parents: Smt. Shibani Bagchi, Shri Ajay Kumar Malhotra.

She previously served as Minister of Human Resource Development (2014 to 2016), Minister of Textiles (2016 to 2021), and Minister of Information and Broadcasting (2017 to 2018).[2][3] She was the youngest minister (at age 43) in prime minister Narendra Modi's second ministry in 2019.[4]

Smriti Irani

Smriti

Irani in 2023

Union Cabinet Minister, Government of India

Incumbent

Assumed office

26 May 2014

6 July 2022 – Incumbent

Ministry of Minority Affairs

31 May 2019 – Incumbent

Ministry of Women and Child Development

5 July 2016 – 7 July 2021

Ministry of Textiles

18 July 2017 – 24 May 2018

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

26 May 2014 – 5 July 2016

Ministry of Human Resource Development

Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

Incumbent

Assumed office

23 May 2019

Preceded by

Rahul Gandhi

Constituency

Amethi

Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha

In office

19 August 2011 – 23 May 2019

Preceded by

Pravin Naik

Succeeded by

Jugalji Mathurji Thakor

Constituency

Gujarat

National President of the BJP Mahila Morcha

In office

24 June 2010 – 24 April 2013

Preceded by

Sumit

Succeeded by

Saroj Pandey

Personal details

Born

Smriti Malhotra

23 March 1976 (age 47)[1]

New Delhi, India

Political party

Bharatiya Janata Party

Spouse

Zubin Irani (m. 2001)

Children

3

Residence

Mumbai

Occupation

Politicianformer actress

She has been a member of parliament since 2011, serving in the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat from 2011 to 2019 and since 2019 serving as a member of the Lok Sabha from the Amethi constituency in Uttar Pradesh. A prominent leader within the Bharatiya Janata Party, she was the National President of the BJP Mahila Morcha (the party's women's wing) from 2010 to 2013. In the 2019 elections she gained the Amethi constituency by defeating opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, then-president of the Indian National Congress, whose family members had represented the constituency for much of the previous four decades. Irani has a diverse family background, with her paternal family including Punjabi and Maharashtrian heritage while her maternal family has a Bengali heritage, and she speaks several Indian languages.

Major vibhuti dhoundiyal

 Maj Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal hailed from Dehradun in Uttarakhand and was born on 18 Dec 1987. Son of Shri OP Dhondiyal and Smt Saroj Dhondiyal, Maj Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal had three sisters and was the youngest among his siblings.

Dhoundiyal studied at the St. Joseph's Academy in Dehradun till Class 10 and moved to Pine Hall School for Classes 11 and 12. He completed his B.Sc from DAV PG College before joining the Indian Army. “He was passionate about joining the Army since childhood,” said his friend.

Who is the wife of Major Vibhuti Dhoundiyal?

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Major Vibhuti Dhoundiya

On 17 February 2019, when the input of the presence of a terrorist group in a village was received, Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal planned a Battalion level operation. During the search, the officer was fired upon by terrorist hiding in a cow shed resulting in multiple gunshot injuries to him. Despite being severely injured, the officer maintained his tactical composure and retaliated against terrorist fire. Exhibiting utter disregard for his personal safety, the officer crawled closer to the cowshed in line of fire to bring down effective fire on hiding terrorists. Subsequently, when terrorists moved out of the cowshed firing indiscriminately, the officer fired on fleeing terrorists facilitating the elimination of one terrorist. The officer succumbed to his injuries at the operation site while fighting with terrorists. The terrorist eliminated was identified as a foreign terrorist , responsible for an IED attack on security forces.

 

For displaying conspicuous bravery and unparalleled courage resulting in the elimination of one terrorist Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal is recommended for the award of “Shaurya Chakra (Posthumous)”.

Satish Dhawan

 He was a popular professor at the Indian Institute of Science, (IISc) located in Bangalore. He is credited for setting up the first supersonic wind tunnel in India at IISc. He also pioneered research on relaminarization of separated boundary layer flows, three-dimensional boundary layers and trisonic flows.

Prof. Satish Dhawan was an Indian rocket scientist who was born in Srinagar, India and educated in India and the United States. He is considered by the Indian scientific community to be the father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India and one of the most eminent researchers in the field of turbulence and boundary layers.

He succeeded Vikram Sarabhai, the founder of the Indian space programme, as Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 1972. He was also the Chairman of the Space Commission and Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Space. In the decade following his appointment he directed the Indian space programme through a period of extraordinary growth and spectacular achievement.

Even while he was the head of the Indian space programme, he devoted substantial efforts towards boundary layer research. His most important contributions are presented in the seminal book Boundary Layer Theory by Hermann Schlichting.

T.N seshan

 

T. N. Seshan

Former Cabinet Secretary of India

Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan was an Indian civil servant and bureaucrat who served with the Indian Administrative Service. After serving in various positions in Madras and in various ministries of the Central Government, he served as the 18th Cabinet Secretary of India in 1989.

Born: 15 December 1932, Thirunellayi

Died: 10 November 2019, Chennai

Previous offices: Chief Election Commissioner of India (1990–1996), Cabinet Secretary of India (1989–1989)

Spouse: Jayalakshmi Seshan (m. 1959)

Full name: Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan

Education: Harvard University (1968), Madras Christian College, Govt Victoria College, B.E.M. Higher Secondary School.

On 15 December 1932, the man who is said to have cleaned up elections in India, former Chief Election Commissioner Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan was born in Tirunellai, Palakkad District in Kerala. He identified more than a hundred malpractices in the electoral process and reformed the election process in India. This article helps you understand the life of one of the most well known Civil Servants.

Former Chief Election Commissioner Tirunellai Narayanaiyer Seshan, who cracked the whip on money and muscle power in elections and proved to be a nemesis for political parties, died in Chennai around 9.15 pm on Sunday, November 10. He was 87. His wife, Jayalakshmi, had died on 2019.

Ajit doval

 Born: 20 January 1945 (age 78 years), Pauri Garhwal

Spouse: Aruni Doval (m. 1972)

Education: Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University (1967), National Defence College, Rashtriya Military School Ajmer

Awards: Kirti Chakra

Children: Shaurya Doval, Vivek Doval

Parents: Gunanand Doval

Organization founded: Vivekananda International Foundation.

Ajit Kumar Doval KC, PPM is the National Security Advisor of India to the Prime minister Narendra Modi. He was Intelligence Bureau chief and Indian Police Service officer from Kerala cadre. He previously served as the director of the IB in 2004–05, after working for a decade as the head of its operation wing.

He was part of the team which sent to Kandahar, Afghanistan for negotiations to release passengers of hijacked aeroplane IC-814. He was later appointed on the post of, director of the Intelligence Bureau. The 2016 Surgical strike on Pakistan was part of Ajit Doval's 'offensive defence strategy'.

Dr Jai Shankar Prasad aiyer

 Jaishankar was born in Delhi, India to prominent Indian strategic affairs analyst, commentator and civil servant K. Subrahmanyam and Sulochana Subrahmanyam. He has two brothers: the historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam and the IAS officer S. Vijay Kumar, former Rural Development Secretary of India.

Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (born 9 January 1955) is an Indian diplomat and politician serving as the Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India since 30 May 2019, became the second ever diplomat to be appointed as External Affairs minister, after Natwar Singh.[1] He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 5 July 2019. He previously served as the Foreign Secretary from January 2015[2][3] to January 2018.[4]

S. Jaishankar

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Jaishankar in 2023

30th Minister of External Affairs

Incumbent

Assumed office

30 May 2019

Prime Minister

Narendra Modi

Preceded by

Sushma Swaraj

Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha

Incumbent

Assumed office

5 July 2019

Preceded by

Amit Shah

Constituency

Gujarat

31st Foreign Secretary of India

In office

28 January 2015 – 28 January 2018

Prime Minister

Narendra Modi

Preceded by

Sujatha Singh

Succeeded by

Vijay Keshav Gokhale

Ambassador of India to the United States

In office

1 December 2013 – 28 January 2015

President

Pranab Mukherjee

Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh

Narendra Modi

Preceded by

Nirupama Rao

Succeeded by

Arun Kumar Singh

Ambassador of India to China

In office

1 June 2009 – 1 December 2013

President

Pratibha Patil

Pranab Mukherjee

Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh

Preceded by

Nirupama Rao

Succeeded by

Ashok Kantha

High Commissioner of India to Singapore

In office

1 January 2007 – 1 June 2009

President

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Pratibha Patil

Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh

Succeeded by

TCA Raghavan

Ambassador of India to the Czech Republic

In office

1 January 2001 – 1 January 2004

President

K.R. Narayanan

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Prime Minister

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Succeeded by

P.S. Raghavan

Personal details

Born

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

9 January 1955 (age 68)

New Delhi, India

Political party

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Spouse(s)

Shobha Jaishankar (deceased)

Kyoko Jaishankar

Children

3

Parent

K. Subrahmanyam (father)

Relatives

Sanjay Subrahmanyam (brother), S. Vijay Kumar (brother)

Alma mater

St. Stephen’s College, Delhi (BA),

Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA, MPhil, PhD)

Occupation

Civil servant, diplomat, politician

Awards

Padma Shri (2019)

He joined the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1977 and during his diplomatic career spanning over 38 years, he served in different capacities in India and abroad including as a High Commissioner to Singapore (2007–09) and as Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2001–04), China (2009–2013) and the US (2014–2015). Jaishankar played a key role in negotiating the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement.

On retirement, Jaishankar joined Tata Sons as the President, Global Corporate

The first president of Africa

 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.

Born: 18 July 1918, Mvezo, South Africa

Died: 5 December 2013, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa

Children: Zindziswa Mandela, Zenani Mandela, Madiba Thembekile Mandela, Makaziwe Mandela-Amuah, Makgatho Mandela, Makaziwe Mandela

Spouse: Graça Machel (m. 1998–2013), Winnie Mandela (m. 1958–1996), Evelyn Mase (m. 1944–1958)

Awards: Nobel Peace Prize, Bharat Ratna, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Sakharov Prize, Congressional Gold Medal, Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Nishan-e-Pakistan.

What is Nelson Mandela known for?

Nelson Mandela is known for several things, but perhaps he is best known for successfully leading the resistance to South Africa's policy of apartheid in the 20th century, during which he was infamously incarcerated at Robben Island Prison (1964–82). He won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1993, along with South Africa's president at the time, F.W. de Klerk, for having led the transition from apartheid to a multiracial democracy. Mandela is also known for being the first black president of South Africa, serving from 1994 to 1999.