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Bal Al Bahr
Bal may refer to: * Bal (surname), a Dutch, Indian, and Turkish surname * Bal, Iran (other) * Bal, Zira, a village in Punjab, India * ''Bal'' (film), a 2010 Turkish film * Bäl, a settlement on the Swedish island of Gotland * 8678 Bäl, a main belt asteroid * Bal, Cornish for mine, as in Bal maiden * A ground-launched version of the Russian Kh-35 anti-ship missile * A slang term for Balboa (dance) * Balboa High School (California), San Francisco, US People with the given name * Bal Bahadur K.C. (born 1953), Nepali politician * Bal Dani (1933–1999), Indian cricketer * Bal David (born 1972), Filipino basketball player * Bal Dhuri, Indian theatre actor * Bal Dixit, American businessman * Bal Gosal (born 1960), Canadian politician * Bal Kadbet (1925–2010), Indian cricketer * Bal Kudtarkar, Indian radio personality * Bal Narsingh Kunwar (1783–1841), Nepalese Kaji and governor * Bal Gopal Maharjan, Nepali football coach * Bal Chandra Misra, Indian politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bal (surname)
Bal is a surname of Dutch language, Dutch, Indian, Turkish language, Turkish or Polish origin. In Dutch, ''bal'' means "ball" and the name sometimes is metonymic (e.g. indicating a ball player), but primarily appears patronymic surname, patronymic after a short form of the name Baldwin (name), Baldwin.Bal at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. In Turkish, ''bal'' means "honey", and could have a metonymic occupational origin from e.g. a beekeeper. Polish surname originated in the XVth century with Jan I Bal. His descendants held various titles and offices in south-eastern part of Poland until Partitions of Poland, partitions. Baligród ("Bal's borough" in Polish) was founded by Piotr II Bal. According to the PESEL, Universal Electronic System for Registration of the Pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bal Kudtarkar
Bal Kudtarkar (21 August 1921 – 7 February 2020) was a radio personality from All India Radio, Mumbai. He was the Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * * ... voice that was most recognized on Mumbai Radio and was the voice enjoyed by millions from the 1940s through 1980s. His most famous radio creation was a show called "Prapanch" and its revived version "Punha Prapanch", a 15-minute radio show with three characters (Pant, Meena and Tekade) that covered local events and the toils of daily life, in a humorous way. The three characters were Pant (Bal Kudtarkar), Meena (late Neelam Prabhu) and Tekade (late Prabhakar Joshi). Kudtarker died in February 2020 at a private hospital. He is survived by two children and three grandchildren. His body was cremated on 6 Februar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (; born Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (pronunciation: eʃəʋ ɡəŋɡaːd̪ʱəɾ ʈiɭək; 23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), endeared as Lokmanya (IAST: ''Lokmānya''), was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist. He was one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. Tilak was the first leader of the Indian independence movement. The British colonial authorities called him "The father of the Indian unrest". He was also conferred with the title of " Lokmanya", which means "accepted by the people as their leader". Mahatma Gandhi called him "The Maker of Modern India". Tilak was one of the first and strongest advocates of Swaraj ('self-rule') and a strong radical in Indian consciousness. He is known for his quote in Marathi: "Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it!". He formed a close alliance with many Indian National Congress leaders including Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Aurobindo Ghose, V. O. Chidambaram Pillai and Muhammad Ali J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bal Thackeray
Bal Thackeray (; 23 January 1926 – 17 November 2012), also known as Balasaheb Thackeray, was an Indian politician who founded the Shiv Sena, a right-wing pro-Marathi and Hindu nationalist party active mainly in the state of Maharashtra. Thackeray began his professional career as a cartoonist with the English-language daily, ''The Free Press Journal'' in Bombay (now Mumbai), but he left the paper in 1960 to form his own political weekly, '' Marmik''. His political philosophy was largely shaped by his father Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, a leading figure in the Samyukta Maharashtra (United Maharashtra) movement, which advocated the creation of a separate linguistic state for Marathi speakers. Through ''Marmik'', Bal Thackeray campaigned against the growing influence of non-Marathis in Mumbai. In 1966, Thackeray formed the Shiv Sena party to advocate for the interests of Maharashtra in Indian political and professional landscape, and against certain segments of Mumbai's Muslim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bal Krishna Singh
Bal Krishna Singh (18 April 1916 – 1977) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh in 1962 as a member of the Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em .... Singh died in 1977. References External links Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website {{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Bal Krishna 1916 births 1977 deaths India MPs 1962–1967 Indian National Congress politicians Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh People from Chandauli district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bal Gopal Shrestha
Bal Gopal Shrestha is a cultural anthropologist based in the Netherlands. He was born in Sankhu, a small town near Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and finished his MA (political science) from Tribhuvan University. Later Shrestha completed a PhD in cultural anthropology at Leiden University in 2002. Dr Shrestha has been a Jan Gonda fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden (2001–02), offered to him by The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam. He was also awarded the Frederick Williamson Memorial Fund by the University of Cambridge (2003). Between 2004 & 2006 Shrestha was a research fellow at the Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona, Switzerland. He also taught Politics of South and Southeast Asia at Leiden University (2006–07). In 2009 he joined the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford, where he has been carrying out research on the Nepalese diaspora in the UK and Belgium. He has published widely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bal Bahadur Rai
Bal Bahadur Rai (बल बहादुर राई) (1921-2010) was the leader of the Nepali Congress political party and a former cabinet minister of Nepal government. He had shown active participation in major democratic movements in Nepal history. He started serious politics since 1947. He had served 19 times as an acting prime minister of Nepal. Death Rai died at the age of 90 in Kathmandu. 5 July 2010. References Nepali Congress politicians from Province No. 1 1921 births 2010 deaths People from Okhaldhunga District Rai people Members of the National Assembly (Nepal) Nepal MPs 1959–1960 Nepal MPs 1991–1994 Nepal MPs 1994–1999 {{Nepal-politician-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bal Phondke
Bal Phondke (born 22 April 1939) is the pen name of Dr Gajanan Phondke, a leading Marathi language, Marathi writer of science literature (science fiction, fiction and non-fiction). He is credited in part to have started the science fiction genre of writing in Marathi literature. Alongside Dr. Jayant Narlikar's science fiction work Baal Phondke's works had a cult following in a generation of readers in Maharashtra. He worked as a nuclear biologist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre from 1962 to 1983. From 1983 to 1989, he was with the Times of India, serving as the Editor of Science Today magazine and also as the science editor of ''The Times of India'' broadsheet. He later served as the director of the Publications and Information Directorate of CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), retiring in 1999. After retirement, he served as a guide for various universities and also wrote science articles for several publications. Bal Phondke has also published books on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bal Kumar Patel
Bal Kumar Patel (born 1 January 1964) is an Indian politician and has served as a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Mirzapur Lok Sabha constituency, Mirzapur constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Samajwadi Party (SP) political party before he joined Indian National Congress in March 2019. He is the brother of bandit Dadua and uncle of Veer Singh Patel, former Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), MLA of Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency, Chitrakoot. Early life and education Bal Kumar Patel was born in Devkali village, Chitrakoot district, Uttar Pradesh on 1 January 1964 to Ram Pyare Patel and Krishnawati Patel. Bal Kumar had a brother Shiv Kumar Patel (Dadua) who was killed by Uttar Pradesh Police in July 2007. Bal Patel was educated at Bhauri Intermediate College, Chitrakoot district, Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh. Highest qualification attained by him is Intermediate (12th). He was an agriculturist and businessperson be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bal Pandit
Bal Jagannath Pandit (24 July 1929 – 17 September 2015) was an Indian cricketer, writer and broadcaster. Early life He was born in Pune. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Maharashtra. Playing career Pandit made his cricketing debut in the Rohinton Baria Trophy, in which he played for Poona University for two seasons between 1951 and 1953. He made a single first-class appearance, during the 1959–60 season, representing Maharashtra against Gujarat in the Ranji Trophy. In the only innings in which he batted, he scored 25 runs. Later career Pandit was a pioneer in Marathi cricket commentary and was commissioned by All India Radio for many decades. His coining of new words in Marathi for cricket terms such as ‘aapat-baar’ for a bouncer ball received wide popularity. He was also a cricket commentator in English for a short period. Being a first-class cricketer himself, Pandit's commentary was clinical. He was known for focusing on the scope of improvement in a pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bal Raj Nijhawan
Bal Raj Nijhawan, (1915 – 2014) was an Indian metallurgist, author and the first Director of Indian origin of the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). He was a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian science award, which he received in 1964 in the Engineering sciences category. The Government of India honoured him in 1958, with the award of Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award for his services to the nation. Biography Bal Raj Nijhawan was born to Rajwanti and Lala Sukh Diyal Nijhawan, as one of their six children, four boys and two girls, on 22 September 1915 in Lyallpur, presently known as Faisalabad, in the erstwhile British India. His early years were spent in the present day Pakistan and did his graduate studies at Banares Hindu University in metallurgy to get a BSc degree in 1936. Later, he moved to London and secured a doctorate in Metallurgy from University of Sheffield in 1941. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bal Ram Nanda
Bal Ram Nanda (1917 – 30 May 2010) was a writer from New Delhi, India. He was the preeminent Indian biographer of Mahatma Gandhi. Career After studying student of History at Lahore University, B.R. Nanda joined the Indian Railways Services, of which he was a senior railway officer. He was the first Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi. Awards *Padma Bhushan, 1988, *Padma Vibhushan The Padma Vibhushan ("Lotus Decoration") is the second-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "exceptional and distinguished service" ..., 2003. Death Nanda died on 30 May 2010 at his New Delhi residence.BALRAM NANDA (1917-2010) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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