The Indian Panorama

Tag: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  • India in history this Week-May 13, 2022, to May 19, 2022

    13 MAY

    1905 Birth of former President of India Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.

    1952 The first session of Parliament was called in independent India.

    1962 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan became the second President of the country.

    1978 The country’s first flag carrier INS Delhi was relieved

    1998 India conducted two more nuclear tests, regardless of the criticism and pressure around the world.

    2001 The death of RK Narayan, one of the biggest names in Indian literature.

    1648 Construction of the Red Fort in Delhi was completed.

    2000 Lara Dutta of India was elected Miss Universe.

    1956 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the spiritual leader who founded the Art of Living Foundation, was born.

    1918 The famous Bharatanatyam dancer T. Balasaraswati was born.

    14 MAY

    1992 India banned LTTE, a Sri Lankan rebel organization known as the Tamil Tigers. Apart from India, many other countries also banned the Tamil Tigers.

    1944 British troops captured Kohima in 1944.

    2001 Seven agreements in India and Malaysia.

    2010 Considering 22 between India and Russia in 2010 in defense, nuclear energy, space, science and technology, hydrocarbons, trade and investment etc.

    1923 Mrinal Sen, the famous producer and director of Indian films, was born.

    1981 Indian inventor and computer scientist Pranav Mistry was born.

    1943 Allah Baksh died during the British rule, was a zamindar, government contractor, freedom fighter fighter and politician.

    15 MAY

    1907 Birth of Sukhdev Thapar hanging on the noose hanging with Bhagat Singh and Rajguru.

    1967 Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit was born.

    1817 Birth of social reformer Devendra Nath Tagore.

    1242 Sultan of Delhi Muizuddin Bahram Shah’s army revolted and killed Sultan.

    1933 India’s’ First Army Commander in Chief Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa passed away.

    2005 Indian aircraft landed in Canada after 20 years.

    2008 Manjula Sood of Indian origin became the first Asian woman to become mayor in Britain.

    1923 Indian comedian Johnny Walker was born in 1923.

    1817 Eminent scholar and religious leader Devendranath Thakur was born in 1817.

    16 MAY

    2014 The demise of Indian industrialist Rustomji Homaji Modi.

    1911 Construction of Tallah Water Tank in Calcutta (now Kolkata) completed. It was called the world’s largest overhead water tank at that time.

    1960 Start of international telex service between India and UK.

    1975 Sikkim was incorporated into the Indian Union as the 22nd state.

    1996 Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in as the tenth Prime Minister of India.

    2008 The Supreme Court rejected the decision of the Kolkata High Court to ban the 27% OBC quota in postgraduate courses of central educational institutions.

    17 MAY

    1769 The East India Company imposed a variety of restrictions on weavers to ruin Bengal’s textile industry.

    1918 Birth of India’s famous industrialist and top member of Tata group, Russian Modi

    1987 Sunil Gavaskar retired from Test cricket.

    2007 The fourth round of the India-Pakistan Composite Dialogue commenced in Rawalpindi.

    2010 Promoting the country’s oldest traditional sports, Kabaddi, the Punjab government announced the hosting of the Kabaddi World Cup next month.

    2014 The death of CP Krishnan Nair, the famous hotel industrialist of India and founder of the ‘Hotel Leela Group’.

    1865 Celebration of World Communication Day started.

    2018 BS Yeddyurappa took the oath of office of Chief Minister of Karnataka for the third time.

    1980 A record of standing for 33 hours on one leg was set by VS Kumar Anand.

    1995 The Restricted Area Permit (RAP) was abolished by the three northeastern states of the country.

    18 MAY

    1912 The first Indian feature length film Sri Pundalik was released.

    1974 India became a nuclear power country with its first underground atomic bomb test in Pokhran, Rajasthan. The trial was named ‘Smiling Buddha’.

    2008 Indian-origin writer Indra Sinha was awarded the Commonwealth Award in 2008 for her book Animal People.

    1914 S. Tenth Governor of Reserve Bank of India. Jagannathan was born.

    1933 HD Deve Gowda, the twelfth Prime Minister of India was born.

    1966 India’s famous botanist Panchanan Maheshwari died.

    19 MAY

    1913 Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy was born, who later became the President of the country.

    1954 The National Film Board was formed by the government in the country.

    1969 Andhra Pradesh came under a terrible storm which took 608 lives. Not only this, around 20000 people were rendered homeless in this storm.

     1971         The first naval submarine station was built at Visakhapatnam.

    1980 TN Raina died when he was General of India.

    1992 Tennis player Leander Paes was awarded the Arjuna Award.

    1993 The government had decided to link the power with Indian Airlines.

    1904 One of the first industrialists of India, Jamsetji Nusrawanji Tata was killed.

  • India in history this Week-May 6, 2022, to May 12, 2022

    06 MAY

    1944          Gandhiji released from Aga Khan Palace in Pune.

    1967          Zakir Hussain became the first Muslim President of India.

    2010          Ajmal Amir Kasab, convicted for the 26/11 attack in Mumbai, was sentenced to death.

    1861          Motilal Nehru was born.

    1964          Khajan Singh, one of the famous swimmers of India, was born.

    1589          The great musician Mian Tansen died.

    1946          Eminent jurist, prominent parliamentary leader and trusted aide of Mahatma Gandhi, Bhulabhai Desai died.

    07 MAY

    1861          Rabindranath Tagore was born into a prosperous family in Calcutta. Tagore is the first person in Asia to receive the Nobel Prize.

    1907          The first electric tram car operated in Bombay.

    1973          The foundation stone of the new capital of Arunachal Pradesh was laid at Itanagar.

    1989          Diplomatic contact between Britain and Iran broke in 1989 after an Iranian fatwa against Indian-origin writer Salman Rushdie.

    2002          The International Religious Freedom Commission expressed serious concern over the violence in Gujarat.

    1889          Renowned freedom fighter and founder of ‘Hindustani Sevadal’ N. s. Hardiker was born.

    1880          The great Indian Sanskritist and scholar Pandit Pandurang Vaman Kane was born.

    08 MAY

    1933          Mahatma Gandhi kept 21 days fast against British rule.

    1929          Birth of India’s famous Thumri singer Girija Devi.

    1963          The centenary celebrations of the Indian Red Cross Society were celebrated.

    1954          The central government included Chandranagar in the state of West Bengal.

    2000          69-year-old Lord Swarajpal of Indian origin was appointed the vice-chancellor of Britain’s fourth-largest university in Britain.

    1895          Famous revolutionary and Gandhian activist of Orissa Gopabandhu Chaudhary was born.

    1916          Swami Chinmayananda, the famous spiritual thinker of India and world-renowned scholar of Vedanta philosophy was born.

    1915          India’s freedom fighter Amir Chand passed away.

    1915          One of the revolutionaries who fought for India’s independence, Bhai Balmukund, died on that day.

    1926          Famous historian Tapan Rai Chaudhary was born.

    09 MAY

    1540          King of Shishodia dynasty Maharana Pratap was born in Udaipur, Mewar, who struggled with Mughal Emperor Akbar for many years.

    1866          Freedom fighter, philanthropist, thinker and reformer Gopal Krishna Gokhale was also born on this day.

    2010          India’s Vandana Shiva was selected for the Sydney Peace Prize for women’s empowerment and environmental protection in developing countries.

    1653          The world-famous historical building and the Taj Mahal, one of the world’s wonders, was completed after 22 years of continuous work.

    1874          The first horse-drawn tram car started in Bombay (now Mumbai).

    1946          The first Satyagraha movement against the Portuguese rule started in Goa under the leadership of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia.

    1986          The first person to reach Mount Everest, Himalaya, Tenzing Norgay died in 1986.

    1998          Famous Indian Ghazal singer and actor Talat Mehmood died in 1998.

    10 MAY

    1526          After victory in the first battle of Panipat, Babur entered Akbarabad (Agra), the capital of erstwhile India.

    2002          India’s famous poet Kaifi Azmi passed away.

    1993          Santosh Yadav became the first female climber to reach Everest, the world’s highest mountain peak twice.

    1857          The first battle of freedom struggle started from the cantonment of Meerut.

    1857          Indian fighters started a revolt in Delhi from the British East India Company.

    1946          Jawaharlal Nehru was elected the leader of the Congress party in India.

    11 MAY

    1784          Treaty between the British and Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore.

    1951          President Rajendra Prasad inaugurated the newly constructed Somnath Temple.

    1962          Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was elected the President of India. He succeeded Dr. Rajendra Prasad.

    1998          India announced three nuclear tests at Pokaran in Rajasthan.

    2000          According to the population clock, India’s population reached one billion.

    2007          The Bahujan Samaj Party secured a majority in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and party leader Mayawati took over as the chief minister.

    1960          The first contraceptive pill market was made available in 1960.

    2005          In 2005, the World Bank appointed a neutral expert on the Baglihar project to settle Indo-Pak differences.

    2011          India and Pakistan agreed to start a bus service between Lahore and Amritsar.

    1918          India’s famous classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai was born in 1918.

    2002          Princess of Bhopal politics and India’s first female pilot Abida Sultan died in 2002.

    12 MAY

    1459          Rao Jodha founded Jodhpur.

    1666          Under the treaty of Purandar, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj reached Agra to meet Aurangzeb.

    1915          The revolutionary Rasbihari Bose left India aboard the Japanese yacht Sanuki Maru.

    1993          Famous Hindi poet Shamsher Bahadur Singh passed away.

    1921          The first National Hospital Day was celebrated.

    1926          Airship Norgay became the first vessel to fly to the North Pole.

    1949          Vijayalakshmi Pandit became the first foreign woman ambassador of independent India.