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Jain (surname)
Jain is a surname of Indian origin and reflects the Jain religious community. Notable people with the surname include: * Abigail Jain, actor * Ajit Jain (born 1951), businessman * Anand Jain (born 1957), business executive * Anil Jain (other), several people * Anjli Jain (born 1981), American businesswoman * Anshu Jain (1963–2022), British Indian financier * Bhagchandra Jain (born 1936), scholar * Bhavarlal Jain (1937–2016), industrialist * BM Jain, political scientist * Dipak C. Jain (born 1957), business educator * Jainendra K. Jain (born 1960), physicist * Kalyan Jain (1934–2023), Indian politician * Kamini Jain (born 1969), Canadian Olympic kayaker * Meenakshi Jain, Indian political scientist and historian * Naveen Jain (born 1959), Indian-American Internet entrepreneur * Nirmal Jain (born 1967), Indian billionaire, founder of India Infoline * Piyare Jain (1921–2019), Indian-American physicist * Raj Jain (born 1951), Indian-American computer scienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jainism
Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religions, Indian religion. Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of ''Dharma''), with the first in the current time cycle being Rishabhadeva, whom the tradition holds to have lived millions of years ago, the twenty-third ''tirthankara'' Parshvanatha, whom historians date to the 9th century BCE, and the twenty-fourth ''tirthankara'' Mahāvīra, Mahavira, around 600 BCE. Jainism is considered to be an eternal ''dharma'' with the ''tirthankaras'' guiding every time cycle of the Jain cosmology, cosmology. The three main pillars of Jainism are ''Ahimsa in Jainism, ahiṃsā'' (non-violence), ''anekāntavāda'' (non-absolutism), and ''aparigraha'' (asceticism). Jain monks, after positioning themselves in the sublime state of soul consciousness, take five main vows: ''ahiṃsā'' (non-violence), ''satya'' (truth), ''Achourya, asteya'' (not stealing), ''b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meenakshi Jain
Meenakshi Jain is an Indian political scientist and historian who served as an associate professor of history at Gargi College, Delhi. In 2014, she was nominated as a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research by the Government of India. In 2020, she was conferred with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, for her work in the field of literature and education. Jain wrote ''Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse'' on the practice of Sati in colonial India and had also authored a school history textbook, ''Medieval India'', for NCERT, which replaced a previous textbook co-authored by Romila Thapar, Satish Chandra et al. Early life and education Meenakshi Jain is the daughter of journalist Girilal Jain, a former editor of ''The Times of India''. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Delhi. Her thesis on the social base and relations between caste and politics was published in 1991. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarang Jain
Tarang may refer to: Geography *Tarang River Thailand, tributary of the Pa Sak River, part of the Chao Phraya River basin *Tarang, Afghanistan *Tarang (Yap), an island in the main harbor of Yap Island, Micronesia Percussion instruments *Tabla tarang (Hindi: तबला तरंग) percussion instrument consisting of between ten and sixteen tuned dayan drum *Jal tarang (Hindi: जल तरंग, Urdu: جل ترنگ, ʒəl tərəŋg, ceramic bowls with water *Kanch tarang, a type of glass harp List of Indian musical instruments * Bulbul tarang (Hindi: बुलबुल तरंग), nightingale harp *Kashtha tarang, a type of xylophone List of Indian musical instruments Other *Tarang Chawla (born 1987), Indian-born Australian activist and writer * ''Tarang'' (film), 1984 film directed by Kumar Shahani *Radio Tarang, former radio station based in Hisar city of Haryana, India *Tarang TV, Odia-language based general entertainment channels *Tarang Music, 24-hour music channel o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunny Jain
Sunny is a daytime weather condition. It may refer to: People * Sunny (name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Sunny (singer), member of Girls' Generation * Sunny, of Sue and Sunny, who also recorded as a solo artist Music * ''Sunny'' (musical), a 1925 Jerome Kern musical * ''Sunny'' (Neil Sedaka album), 1979 * ''Sunny'' (Towa Tei album), 2011 * "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb song), a 1966 song by Bobby Hebb, covered by Boney M., José Feliciano and Cher * "Sunny" (Morrissey song), a 1995 song by Morrissey * "Sunny", a song by Brockhampton from ''Saturation II'' * "Sunny", a song by Stereophonics on their 2015 album '' Keep the Village Alive'' Films * ''Sunny'' (1930 film), a film adaptation of the musical * ''Sunny'' (1941 film), a film adaptation of the musical * ''Sunny'' (1984 film), an Indian film directed by Anil Joshi * ''Sunny'' (2008 film), a South Korean film about South Korean entertainers in the Vietnam War * ''Sunny'' (2011 film), a So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanjay Jain
Sanjay Jain is a senior fellow at the University of Oxford with research interest in development economics. He was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia from 2001 to 2009. Before he was an assistant professor of economics and international affairs at the George Washington University from 1994 to 2001 and a lecturer in the department of economics at the Princeton University from 1993 to 1994. Education He obtained his PhD in economics from the Princeton University in 1995, M.A. in economics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1989 and B.A. (Honours) in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi in 1986. He did his schooling in Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi. Research interest * Development Economics * Political Economy * Microeconomics, Applied Microeconomic Theory Publications * * * * *Pdf.* ::''Reprinted as'': * * * * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Jain, Sanjay Princeton Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sachin H
Sachin may refer to: * Sachin (given name), an Indian given name, including a list of people with the name ** Sachin (actor) (born 1957), Indian actor and filmmaker ** Sachin Tendulkar (born 1973), Indian cricketer Films * ''Sachein'', a 2005 Tamil film directed by John Mahendran, sometimes spelled "''Sachin''" * '' Sachin: A Billion Dreams'', a 2017 Indian biographical film of Sachin Tendulkar * ''Sachin'' (film), a 2018 Malayalam film directed by Santhosh Nair Places * Sachin, Pas-de-Calais, a town in northern France * Sachin, Gujarat, a suburban area of Surat in India **Sachin INA, a town and an industrial notified area ** Sachin railway station, a small railway station in Surat district, Gujarat * Sachin State The Sachin State ( gu, સચીન રિયાસત; ur, سچن ریاست) was a princely state belonging to the Surat Agency, former Khandesh Agency, of the Bombay Presidency during the era of the British Raj. Its capital was in Sachin, ..., a princely stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravindra Jain
Ravindra Jain (28 February 1944 – 9 October 2015) was an Indian music composer, lyricist and playback singer. He started his career in the early 1970s by composing for several hit movies. His notable works include '' Chor Machaye Shor'' (1974), ''Geet Gaata Chal'' (1975), ''Chitchor'' (1976) and ''Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se'' (1978), '' Nadiya Ke Paar'' (1982), ''Ram Teri Ganga Maili'' (1985) and ''Vivah'' (2006). He composed music for many films and TV shows including Ramanand Sagar's epic '' Ramayan'' (1987), which became iconic. He was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India in 2015 for his contribution to arts. Early life and education Ravindra Jain was born blind on 28 February 1944 to Pandit Indramani Jain and Kiran Jain as the third child of seven brothers and one sister. He belongs to the Jain community. His father was a Sanskrit pandit and his mother was a homemaker. His father recognised his talent and sent him to stalwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramesh Jain
Ramesh Chandra Jain (born 8 June 1949) is a scientist and entrepreneur in the field of information and computer science. He is a Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Education He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India and has a Ph.D. in electronics engineering (1975) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Career Ramesh Jain has been a researcher, an entrepreneur, and an educator. His activities have been mostly in the areas of Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia and using these to build real world systems. He served in academic positions at many universities. He served as a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego; in each case he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakesh Jain
Rakesh K. Jain (born 1950) is the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School and Director of the E.L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has mentored more than 200 graduate and postdoctoral students from over a dozen different disciplines. Jain's research findings are summarized in more than 600 publications, which have been cited more than 70,000 times (as of December, 2015). He was among the top 1% cited researchers in Clinical Medicine in 2014-15. He serves or has served on advisory panels to government, industry and academia, and is a member of editorial advisory boards of 22 journals, including Nature Reviews Cancer and Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. He has received more than 75 awards from engineering and medical professional societies/institutions. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the integration of bioengineering wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raj Jain
Raj Jain (born 17 August 1951) is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Education Dr. Jain obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1978, an M.E. in Automation from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India in 1974, and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Awdhesh Pratap Singh University, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India in 1972. Affiliations Until 2005 he was the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Nayna Networks, Inc. – a next generation telecommunications systems company in San Jose, CA. Prior to that he was a professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and a Senior Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation in Littleton, Massachusetts. He was also a visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piyare Jain
Piyare Lal Jain (December 11, 1921 – October 28, 2019) was a particle physicist at University at Buffalo. On December 6, 2006, he claimed the discovery of the long-sought axion subatomic particle. Search for new particles decaying into electron pairs of mass below 100 MeV/c2 P.L. Jain and G. Singh, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, preprint 28 November 2006 Biography On December 6, 2006, he claimed discovery of the long-sought subatomic particle. The discovery involved Jain's use of 3-dimensional photographic medium targets in heavy-ion particle accelerators; modern detectors using ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nirmal Jain
Nirmal Jain (born 1967) is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chairman of India Infoline (IIFL) Group, a financial conglomerates. IIFL and its group companies are backed by Canadian investor Prem Watsa, private equity firm General Atlantic and CDC Group, the UK Government's private equity arm. Early life Nirmal Jain earned a bachelor's degree in commerce (B.Com) from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, a constituent college of the University of Mumbai, followed by a postgraduate diploma certificate in management (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He is also a certified chartered accountant from ICAI. Career In 1989, Jain started his career with Hindustan Unilever, as a commodities' trader. In 1995, Jain founded an equity research company that later became India Infoline (or IIFL Group). In 2000, he started one of India's first online trading websites. The business later diversified into life insurance, mutual funds, equi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
