Tipu Sultan

Tipu Sultan, also known as Tipu Sahab or the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India and a pioneer of rocket artillery. Tippu Sultan, also called Tippu Sahib or Fateh Ali Tipu, byname Tiger of Mysore, sultan of Mysore, who won fame in the wars of the late 18th century in southern India. Tippu was instructed in military tactics by French officers in the emplo.....

Rani of Jhansi

Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, was an Indian queen, the Maharani consort of the Maratha princely state of Jhansi from 1843 to 1853 as the wife of Maharaja Gangadhar Rao. She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and became a symbol of resistance to the British Raj for Indian nationalists. Rani Lakshmibai was born in the town of Varanasi into a Marathi Karhade Brahmin fami.....

Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was the 3rd prime minister of India and was also the first and, to date, only female prime minister of India. Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the 1st prime minister of India. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Con.....

Emil Škoda

Emil Ritter von Škoda was a Bohemian engineer and industrialist, founder of Škoda Works, the predecessor of today's Škoda Auto and Škoda Transportation. Emil Skoda was one of the engineers who laid the foundations for the prosperity of heavy industry in the Czech lands in the early twentieth century. He was born, the son of a physician who was active in politics, in Pilsen (Plzeň) in wester.....

Ranjan Gogoi

Ranjan Gogoi is a former Indian Judge of the Supreme Court of India who served as the 46th Chief Justice of India for 13 months between 2018 and 2019. He was nominated to Rajya Sabha by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020. Ranjan Gogoi (born 18 November 1954)[6] is a former Indian Judge of the Supreme Court of India who served as the 46th Chief Justice of India for 13 months between 2018 a.....

Soichiro Honda

Soichiro Honda was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer. Honda Soichiro, a Japanese industrialist and engineer who was the founder of Honda Motor Company, Ltd. Honda began working as a mechanic in Tokyo at age 15 and si.....

Jean le Rond d’Alembert

Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation is named after him. Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alemberts formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation is named after him. The wa.....

Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza is an Indian professional tennis player. A former doubles world No. 1, she has won six Grand Slam titles in her career. From 2003 until her retirement from singles in 2013, she was ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as India's No. 1 player. [9:53 pm, 14/11/2021] +91 95351 00349: In her singles career, Mirza had notable wins over Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vera Zvonareva, and Marion Ba.....

Ashok Gadgil

Ashok Gadgil Is Faculty Senior Scientist and was Director of the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division for 2010-2015 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley......

R. Vidyasagar Rao

Ramaraju Vidyasagar Rao was an Indian government administrator and a Telangana activist. He was the Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Water Resources, Central Water Commission. After the formation of Telangana State, he was appointed as the Advisor on Irrigation to the Government of Telangana. Ramaraju Vidyasagar Rao . After the formation of Telangana State, he was appointed as the Advisor on Irr.....

Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, social democrat, politician, and author who was a central figure in India during the middle third of the 20th century. He was a principal leader of the Indian independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian independence activist, and subsequently, the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in India.....

Eva Zeisel

Eva Striker Zeisel was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships Eva Striker Zeisel was a Hungarian-born industrial designer whose career in ceramics began as a student at the Hungarian Royal Academy of Fine Arts. .....

P. Susheela

Pulapaka Susheela, popularly known as P. Susheela, is an Indian playback singer associated with the South Indian cinema primarily from Andhra Pradesh for over six decades. She is one of the greatest and best-known playback singers in India. Pulapaka Susheela has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as well as by the Asia Book of Records for performing a record number of songs in .....

The Lord Rayleigh

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM, PC, PRS was a British scientist who made extensive contributions to both theoretical and experimental physics. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies." Rayleigh provided the first theoretical treatment of the elastic.....

Salim Ali

Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Sometimes referred to as the "Birdman of India", Salim Ali was the first Indian to conduct systematic bird surveys across India and wrote several bird books that popularized ornithology in India. Salim Ali, was one of the very first scientists to carry out systematic bird surveys in India and abroad. His research work is consi.....

Abul Kalam Azad

Maulana Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad was an Indian independence activist, Islamic theologian, writer and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. Following India's independence, he became the First Minister of Education in the Indian government. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was one of the foremost leaders of Indian freedom struggle. He was also a renowned .....

Anil Kakodkar

Anil Kakodkar is an Indian nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer. He was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the Secretary to the Government of India, he was the Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay from 1996–2000. Anil Kakodkar (born on 11th November, 1943) joined the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in 1964, following the one year post graduate .....

Andrei Tupolev

Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev was a Soviet aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering aircraft designs as Director of the Tupolev Design Bureau. Tupolev was an early pioneer of aeronautics in Russia and served as a protégé of Nikolay Zhukovsky. Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev, one of the Soviet Union’s foremost aircraft designers, whose bureau (see Tupolev) produced a number of military bombers.....

Surendranath Banerjee

Sir Surendranath Banerjee was one of the earliest Indian political leaders during the British Rule. He founded a nationalist organization called the Indian National Association, through which he led two sessions of the Indian National Conference in 1883 and 1885, along with Anandamohan Bose. Sir Surendranath Banerjea, , one of the founders of modern India and a proponent of autonomy within the Br.....

Chewang Norphel

Chewang Norphel is an Indian civil engineer from Ladakh, who has built 15 artificial glaciers. He has earned the nickname Ice Man. Falling in the rain-shadow area of the Himalaya, Ladakh is a cold, mountainous desert. During winter, temperature drops below the -30°c mark. Annual average rainfall is 50 mm. Dearth of water is the most important problem. The only source is glacier water from the mou.....

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