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Salil may refer to: *Salil Ankola (born 1968), former Indian cricketer * Salil Chaturvedi, director of Indian apparel brand Provogue and a former sailing champion *Salil Chowdhury (1922–1995), famous Hindi and Bengali composer, poet and a playwright * Salil Oberoi (born 1983), English cricketer *Salil Shetty, Indian United Nations official, next Secretary-General of Amnesty International * Salil al-Sawarim, a nasheed by ISIS Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingd ... {{given name ...
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Salil Ankola
Salil Ashok Ankola (; born 1 March 1968) is a former international cricketer who played one Test match and 20 One Day Internationals (ODIs) from 1989 to 1997 for India. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, he played first-class cricket for Mumbai, regularly opening the bowling. Ankola's consistency for Mumbai team earned him a spot for representing India during their tour of Pakistan in 1989–90. After the first Test match at Karachi, he was dropped for the subsequent matches in the series owing to injuries. After a brief phase of playing first-class cricket, Ankola was called for the Indian ODI team during 1993, eventually led to being a part of the 1996 Cricket World Cup. His reputation as a poor fielder, resulted in being dropped from the side after subsequent series. At 28, Ankola retired from international cricket to pursue acting. Since then he went on to appear in a number of Indian soap operas and a few Bollywood movies. In 2020, he was selected as the chief selector of the M ...
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Salil Chaturvedi
Salil Chaturvedi is a director of India-based apparel brand Provogue and a former sailing champion, having represented India in international sailing championships. Allegation of drug trade Salil was arrested on 1 August 2005 in a drugs supply case of January 2005, despite protestations of innocence. Eventually, with clearer evidence, the police arrested him and subsequent to the arrest, discovered 3 grams of cocaine in his home. After a long court battle, and 39 days in prison, Salil's innocence was finally proclaimed by the special N.D.P.S act ( Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act), 1985, court by the A. T. Amlekar, special N. D. P. S. judge, on 3 April 2009. In that judgment, the judge Amlekar delivered a scathing indictment of the irregularities and the way the police had "lost sight of basic concept of Law". Two policemen are under the scanner for their involvement in fudging records and planting cocaine at Chaturvedi's Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also ...
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Salil Chowdhury
Salil Chowdhury (19 November 1925 – 5 September 1995) was an Indian music director, songwriter, lyricist, writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He composed music for films in 13 languages. This includes over 75 Hindi films, 41 Bengali films, 27 Malayalam films, and a few Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Odia and Assamese films. His musical ability was widely recognised and acknowledged in the Indian film industry. He was an accomplished composer and arranger who was proficient in several musical instruments, including flute, the piano, and the esraj. He was also widely acclaimed and admired for his inspirational and original poetry in Bengali. The first Bengali film for which Chowdhury composed music was ''Paribortan'', released in 1949. ''Mahabharati'', released in 1994, was the last of the 41 Bengali films where he rendered his music. He is affectionately called ''Salilda'' by his admirers. Career Early influences ...
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Salil Oberoi
Salil Oberoi (born 7 December 1983 in Delhi) is an Indian cricketer who played first-class cricket in England for Oxford UCCE. He also represented Delhi having coming through their youth teams. Oberoi was a Rhodes Scholar and an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi, where he studied Economics between 2001 and 2004. He completed his schooling from Modern School, Delhi In 2005, Oberoi made 247 against Cambridge at Fenner's in the Varsity Match. This was the third-highest of all time for a side representing Oxford University; the previous two higher scores were both made in the 19th century. It was also the highest ever in a Varsity Match A varsity match is a fixture (especially of a sporting event or team) between two university teams, particularly Oxford and Cambridge. The Scottish Varsity rugby match between the University of St Andrews and the University of Edinburgh at Murray .... This record was surpassed in July 2013 when Samridh Agarwal scored 313 not out for Oxford i ...
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Salil Shetty
Salil Shetty (born 3 February 1961) is an Indian human rights activist who was the Secretary General of the human rights organization Amnesty International (2010–2018) till 31 July 2018. His tenure at Amnesty International was marred by significant controversy surrounding the organization's Global Transition Programme and the prevalence of a toxic workplace culture, which was later found to have contributed to the suicide of employee Gaetan Mootoo. Previously, he was the director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign. Before joining the UN, he served as the Chief Executive of ActionAid. In September, 2021, Shetty will become the Vice President of Global Programs at the Open Society Foundations. In recognition of his long-term commitment to Human Rights and his deep understanding of the complexities of human rights issues, Shetty was appointed a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights for the academic year 2018–2019. Shetty is also aff ...
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ...
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. It is the world's largest and most familiar international organization. The UN is headquarters of the United Nations, headquartered on extraterritoriality, international territory in New York City, and has other main offices in United Nations Office at Geneva, Geneva, United Nations Office at Nairobi, Nairobi, United Nations Office at Vienna, Vienna, and Peace Palace, The Hague (home to the International Court of Justice). The UN was established after World War II with Dumbarton Oaks Conference, the aim of preventing future world wars, succeeding the League of Nations, which was characterized as ineffective. On 25 April 1945, 50 governments met in San Francisco for United Nations Conference ...
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world. The stated mission of the organization is to campaign for "a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments." The organization has played a notable role on human rights issues due to its frequent citation in media and by world leaders. AI was founded in London in 1961 by the lawyer Peter Benenson. Its original focus was prisoners of conscience, with its remit widening in the 1970s, under the leadership of Seán MacBride and Martin Ennals to include miscarriages of justice and torture. In 1977, it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In the 1980s, its secretary general was Thomas Hammarberg, succeeded ...
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Salil Al-Sawarim
Salil al-Sawarim (, "Clashing of Swords") is a nasheed (chant) produced by the Islamic State in 2014 and used in Islamist propaganda videos. It is a melodic a cappella hymn. The lyrics discuss bloodshed and war. The song was produced by the Ajnad Foundation, with the recitation of the vocalist Abu Yassir, the most well known vocalist of the group. Salil al-Sawarim is among the best known IS nasheeds. It appeared in IS' fourth installment of the ''Salil al-Sawarim'' video series, which among other things contain medleys of executions. See also * Dawlat al-Islam Qamat, an unofficial anthem of IS References External links Listen to Salil al-Sawarim
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Nasheed
A nasheed (Arabic: singular ', plural ', meaning: "chants") is a work of vocal music, partially coincident with hymns, that is either sung ''a cappella'' or with instruments, according to a particular style or tradition within Islam. Nasheeds are popular throughout the Islamic world. The material and lyrics of a nasheed usually make reference to Islamic beliefs, history, and religion, as well as current events. Scholars on instruments The founders of all four of the major madhabs – Islamic schools of thought – as well as many other prominent scholars, have debated the legitimacy and use of musical instruments. For instance, according to the Hanafi school of thought, associated with the scholar Abu Hanifa, if a person is known to play musical instruments to divert people from God, their testimony is not to be accepted. According to the widely acknowledged book of authentic hadiths Sahih al-Bukhari of Sunni scholarship, Muhammad taught that musical instruments are sinf ...
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