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Piara may refer to: Given name * Piara Singh Bhaniara (1958–2019) *Piara Singh Gill (1911–2002), Indian nuclear physicist *Piara Khabra (1921–2007), British politician * Ram Piara Saraf (1924–2009), Indian politician * Choudhary Piara Singh, Indian politician Other uses *, a genus of fly in subfamily Trapherinae Trapherinae is a subfamily of flies (Diptera) in the family Platystomatidae (Signal flies), which currently includes 11 genera. Subfamily classification The Platystomatidae were comprehensively divided into five subfamilies, but more recent rev ...
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Piara Singh Bhaniara
Piara Singh Bhaniara (23 August 1958 – December 30, 2019) also known as Baba Bhaniara (or Bhaniarawala), was a Dalit religious leader from Punjab, India. He established a breakaway Sikh sect in the 1980s, which was opposed by orthodox Sikhs as insulting to their faith. In 2001, his followers published their own holy text '' Bhavsagar Granth'', and allegedly insulted the Sikh holy book ''Guru Granth Sahib''. This sparked violence against Bhaniara's followers. The Punjab government banned ''Bhavsagar Granth'', and arrested and jailed Bhaniara. Early life Piara Singh Bhaniara was from the Dhamiana village of Ropar district. He was one of the 7 children of Tulsi Ram, a mason. Before becoming a religious leader, Bhaniara was working in a sericulture farm in Asmanpur village, as a Class IV employee of the Punjab state's horticulture department. Religious career Bhaniara's father served as the caretaker of two mazars (mausoleums of religious leaders) located on the outskirts ...
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Piara Singh Gill
Piara Singh Gill (28October 1911 – 23March 2002) was an Indian nuclear physicist and a pioneer in cosmic ray nuclear physics.''Up Against Odds: Autobiography of an Indian Scientist''. (South Asia Books, 1993. ) He was the first Director of Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) of India. He was research fellow of University of Chicago (1940). He was research Professorship fellow of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) (1947), Officer-on-Special Duty (OSD) with the Atomic Energy Commission in New Delhi. Professor and head of the Department of Physics at Aligarh University (1949), Director of Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO) (1959) and Professor Emeritus at Punjab Agricultural University (1971). Education He was born on 28October 1911 in a Sikh Gill Jatt family in a village in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. He attended Khalsa High School in Mahilpur and left for America in 1929. He graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees from Un ...
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Piara Khabra
Piara Singh Khabra (Hindi: प्यारा सिंह खाबड़ा, Punjabi: ; 20 November 1921 – 19 June 2007) was a British-Indian Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Southall from 1992 until his death. He was the fifth Asian, and the first Sikh, to become a British MP. From the retirement of Sir Edward Heath in 2001 until his death, Khabra was the oldest MP sitting in the House of Commons, and was the last sitting MP to have served in the Commonwealth's forces during the Second World War. Background Piara Singh Khabra was born into a Punjabi Sikh farming family of the Khabra clan in the Punjab Province of British India. Khabra gave his year of birth as 1924, but his marriage certificate dated it as 1921. He joined the Communist Party of India, and became a teacher in an elementary school. He requalified in 1964, becoming an elementary teacher and then a social worker. He also became the President of the Indian Wo ...
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Ram Piara Saraf
R. P. Saraf, full name Ram Piara Saraf, (1924 – 24 June 2009) was a Kashmiri politician. In 1952, Saraf was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir from the Kadal constituency. He was a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly for ten years. In 1958, he co founded the Democratic National Conference. Saraf was a leader in the early years of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). In Kashmir the entire Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) organization had gone with Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (CPI(ML)). At the CPI(ML) party congress in 1970 Saraf was elected to the Central Committee. The formerly CPI(M) local organ ''Jammu Sandesh'' became the regional CPI(ML) publication. In 1986, Saraf founded his own splinter group, the Internationalist Democratic Party. Two former Members of the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to: * Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subc ...
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Choudhary Piara Singh
Choudhary Piara Singh is an Indian politician and member of Bharatiya Janta Party from Jammu and Kashmir. Singh was a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly from the Gandhinagar constituency in Jammu district Jammu district is the most populous of the districts in Jammu and Kashmir, India and is home to the winter capital (Jammu) of Jammu and Kashmir. The capital moves to Srinagar in the summer. Administrative divisions Jammu District has 7 Sub .... References People from Jammu Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Jammu and Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir National Conference politicians Jammu and Kashmir MLAs 1996–2002 Living people 21st-century Indian politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{JammuKashmir-BJP-politician-stub ...
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