India ranked 10th in badminton
India recently achieved the 10th Rank in the Badminton World Federations maiden World Team Ranking. India made the top 10 rank in the first ever qualifying of a nation’s standing on the world stage. China expectedly occupied the top spot while most East Asian countries-Korea (2nd), Indonesia (4th) and Malaysia (6th) as well as Thailand (9th) were ranked above India.
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Arafura Games 2011
Apart form being awarded with ‘Best boxer’ title, boxer Pinki Jangra (51 kg) was the sole Indian pugilist who bagged the Gold medal at the Arafura Games held in Darwin, Australia from May 7-14, 2011. On the other hand, male boxers Vijendra Singh (81kg) and Akhil Kumar (56 kg) settle for bronze medals after losing in semifinals.
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Bhutia Retires
Arjuna Award and Padma Sri Awardee Baichung Bhutia has announced his retirement from inter-national football but he would continue to play for his club (Sikkim United). He scored 42 goals in 107 international appearances spread over 16 years. He made his debut as a substitute in the 1995 Nehru Cup in Calcutta. He was the most valuable player in 2008 AFC Challenge Cup held in Delhi. When he signed up to play for the English club Bury F.C. in 1999 he became the first Indian footballer to play professional football in Europe. He is also India’s most capped player, and in the 2009 Nehru Cup he received his 100th International cap.
Bhutia was the first Indian Athlete to boycott the Olympic torch relay in support of the Tibetan independence movement.
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Indira Goswami
She was an assamese editor, poet, professor, scholar and writer also called Mamoni Baideo, died recently. She was the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Jnanpith Award and was also India’s first Principal Prince Claus Laureate. She was noted for her novels which include The Moth Eaten Howdah of a Tasker, Pages Stained with Blood and the Man from Chinamasta.
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Bhupen Hazarika
Being a singer, poet, music director and lyricist, he was a doyen in Indian Music. He hailed from Assam and is known for writing strong lyrics with themes of communal harmony, universal justice and empathy. He was awarded with many awards and accolades notable being Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak Academy Award and Dada Sahib Phalke award. He died recently due to multiple organ failure.
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Shanti Tigga
35-year-old Sapper Shanti Tigga joined the 969 Railway Engineer Regiment of Territorial Army (TA) becoming the first woman jawan. “Women are allowed to join the armed forces only as officers in the non-combat units. But Tigga has earned the unique distinction of being the first lady jawan in the 1.3 million strong defense forces. Employed with the Railways as a points-man and posted at Chalsa station in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri ditrict, Tigga volunteered for the TA last year.
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Ustad Azizuddin
Music maestro Ustad Azizuddin Khan Affectionately called Baba among his disciples passed away recently. He was an illustrious member of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana. Some of his noted disciples include Malikarjun Mansur, Dhondutai Kulkarni and Shruti Sadolikar-Katkar.
The Jaipur-Atrauli gharana is a khayal-based stylized singing school founded by his grandfather Alladiya Khan in the late 19th Century. It is an offshoot of the Agra gharana. It gained prominence in the early half of the 20th Century.
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Binayak Sen
Human Rights activist Binayak Sen has been made member of the Planning Commission’s Steering Committee on Health , which will advise the panel on the Twelfth Five year Plan (2012-1017). He was released on bail from the Raipur jail recently. He is an Indian pediatrician and human rights activist convicted by Raipur sessions court on charges of sedition, currently serving life term.
He served as the General Secretary of the State Peoples Union for Civil Liberties’ (PUCL) committee for five years and as Vice President of the National Committee for three years.
In May 2007, Dr. Sen was accused of acting as a courier between the alleged Maoist leader Narayan Sanyal and Kolkata businessman Piyush Guha, and imprisoned for two years before getting bail on the directions of the Supreme Court. He is also one of the 2011 winner of the Bhartiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar.
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Tiger’ Pataudi
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, one of India’s greatest cricket captains ever, suffering from interstitial lung disease, a condition in which the passage of oxygen to the two lungs is less than normal, died recently. Pataudi was the youngest test Captain in the world till 2004. In 2004, Tatenda Taibu became the youngest captain in the Test cricket history when he led Zimbabwe in the first Test against Sri Lanka at Harare.
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Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)
The Central Vigilance Commission was set up by the Government in February, 1964 on the recommendations of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption, headed by Shri K. Santhanam, to advise and guide Central Government agencies in the field of vigilance.
CVC is conceived to be the apex vigilance institution free of control from any executive authority, monitoring all vigilance activity under the Central Government and advising various authorities in Central Government and advising various authorities in Central Government organizations in planning, executing, reviewing and reforming their vigilance work.
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