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Women's Christian College, Chennai
Women's Christian College is an interdenominational women's college on College Road, Nungambakkam, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. History The Women's Christian College was founded in 1915 with 41 students and 7 faculty members, as a result of the joint venture of 12 missionary societies of interdenominational and international nature located in England, in Canada and in U.S.A., with a mission to provide higher education to women of India in liberal arts and sciences. It was affiliated to the University of Madras and was given recognition as an autonomous college in 1982. At present it is a government aided minority institution. It has grown to a strength of over a 4252 students and 209 members of faculty in the aided and self-financing sections. India's first female political prisoner and freedom fighter Rukmani Lakshmipathy was a student of the first batch. It has been autonomous since 1982, but is affiliated with the University of Madras. Principals * Eleanor McDoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private School
Private or privates may refer to: Music * "In Private", by Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album ''Reputation'' * Private (band), a Denmark-based band * Private (Ryōko Hirosue song), "Private" (Ryōko Hirosue song), from the 1999 album ''Private'', written and also recorded by Ringo Sheena * Private (Vera Blue song), "Private" (Vera Blue song), from the 2017 album ''Perennial'' Literature * Private (novel), ''Private'' (novel), 2010 novel by James Patterson * Private (novel series), ''Private'' (novel series), young-adult book series launched in 2006 Film and television * Private (film), ''Private'' (film), 2004 Italian film * Private (web series), ''Private'' (web series), 2009 web series based on the novel series * Privates (TV series), ''Privates'' (TV series), 2013 BBC One TV series * Private, a penguin character in ''Madagascar (franchise), Madagascar'' Other uses * Private (rank), a military rank * Privates (video game), ''Privates'' (video game), 2010 video game * Priva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Jeremiah
Andrea Maria Jeremiah is an Indian actress, playback singer, and a musician, who works predominantly in Tamil and Malayalam language films. She made her acting debut in Tamil film ''Pachaikili Muthucharam'' (2007), and Malayalam debut with ''Annayum Rasoolum'' (2013). She has appeared in many commercially successful films like ''Annayum Rasoolum'' (2013), ''Vishwaroopam'' (2013), ''Tadakha'' (2013), ''Endrendrum Punnagai'' (2013), ''Aranmanai'' (2014), ''Loham'' (2015), '' Thoppil Jopaan'' (2016), ''Taramani'' (2017), ''Aval'' (2017), ''Vada Chennai'' (2018) and ''Aranmanai 3'' (2021). Early life Andrea Jeremiah was born in an Anglo-Indian family at Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu on 21 December 1985. Andrea's father is a lawyer at the Madras High Court. She has one younger sister who lives and works at Leuven, Belgium as a research assistant. Jeremiah was raised near Chennai and went to National Public School and graduated from Women's Christian College. She has said that she was qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mallika Srinivasan
Mallika Srinivasan (born 1959) is an Indian industrialist and is the Chairman and Managing Director of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, a tractor major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, India. She is also the Chairperson of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) constituted by the Government of India. She is additionally on the Global Board of U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC), and the Boards of AGCO Corporation - United States and Tata Steel Limited. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, the Governing Board of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Trichy, and a member of the Governing Body of Stella Maris College, Chennai. Professional Mallika Srinivasan established TAFE as a mass manufacturer of tractors. She led the company's growth to its present status with revenues in excess of Rs. 10,000 Crores with diverse interests in tractors, farm machinery, diesel e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latika Saran
Letika Saran is the former Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu, India. Earlier she served as the 36th Commissioner of Police in Chennai. She is the only woman to head a metropolitan police organization in India. Before that she was an Additional Director-General of Police (ADGP). Early life Saran was born on 31 March 1952 in Idukki district in Kerala. Her father's name is NS Dhar. He was the first planter at James Finlay and Co, which later became Tata Tea. Her mother's name is Vijayalakshmi Dhar. She entered the Tamil Nadu Indian Police Service in 1976 as one of the first two women to be admitted, the other being Thilagavathi. Career Saran's postings include ADGP; Training and Project Director, Tamil Nadu Police Academy; Inspector-General of Police, Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC). She became the Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai on 20 April 2006. On 8 January 2010, she was appointed as Director General of Police Director general of police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heera Rajagopal
Heera Rajagopal (born 29 December 1971) is a former Indian actress who has appeared in a number of Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi language films. Career As a military brat, Heera shifted to schools across different states in India every few years. She later pursued a degree in psychology at Women's Christian College, Chennai. During her time in college, Heera was approached to model for print magazines and she took on the opportunities for financial independence. She also briefly worked as an encyclopaedia-seller, a hotel worker and a model coordinator in her days as a student. Heera was initially not keen for a career in films and turned down initial approaches for roles by film directors. She first received a film offer on a family holiday at Gulmarg in Kashmir, where a producer had approached her to play the body double for Tina Munim. She also later rejected an offer from filmmaker Subhash Ghai, who had attended one of her modelling assignments. In 1991, soo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saranya Ponvannan
Saranya Ponvannan (born Sheela Christina) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam language films. Saranya made her debut in a lead role in Mani Ratnam's ''Nayakan'' (1987) and went on to play lead roles from 1987 to 1996. Following an eight-year sabbatical, she returned to films in 2003 as a character actor roles. Career Saranya made her Tamil debut in Mani Ratnam's production ''Nayakan,'' as the female lead opposite Kamal Haasan in 1987. She made her first Telugu appearance in 1988 film ''Neerajanam;'' her Malayalam debut was a year later in the 1989 film '' Artham'' starring opposite Mammootty. In 1996 almost during the end of her career as a lead actress she debuted in Kannada cinema in ''Appaji''. After marriage in 1995, she quit from acting. However,in 1996 she acted with Ananthnag movie SAMAYAKKONDU SULLU in 2000 she appeared playing the lead role in the comedy television series, ''Veettukku Veedu Lootty'', and subsequently accepted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padma Shri
Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferred in recognition of "distinguished contribution in various spheres of activity including the arts, education, industry, literature, science, acting, medicine, social service and public affairs". It is awarded by the Government of India every year on India's Republic Day. History Padma Awards were instituted in 1954 to be awarded to citizens of India in recognition of their distinguished contribution in various spheres of activity including the arts, education, industry, literature, science, acting, medicine, social service and public affairs. It has also been awarded to some distinguished individuals who were not citizens of India but did contribute in various ways to India. The selection criteria have been criticised in some qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thangam Philip
Thangam Elizabeth Philip (1921–2009) was an Indian nutritionist and a pioneer of hospitality education in India. She was the Principal Emeritus of the Institute of Hotel Management, Mumbai and was the author of several books on cookery. A recipient of the ''FAO Ceres Medal'' and the Knighthood of the Order of Cordon Bleu Du Sant Esprit of France, Philip was awarded the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1976. Biography Thangam Philip was born on 12 May 1921 at Kozhikode in the south Indian state of Kerala in a central Travancore family by name, ''Thevarthundiyil'', to T. P. Philip and Elizabeth Philip. After graduating from the Women's Christian College, Chennai, she secured a post graduate diploma from the Lady Irwin College, Delhi and secured a master's degree (MS) from USA. She started her career by joining the faculty of home science at St Thomas School, Kolkata where she worked for a short time before moving to Sri Lanka in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoba Narayan
Shoba Narayan is an Indian author, journalist and columnist. She wrote the award-winning ''Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes'' (2003). She is the author of four books. Biography She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Women's Christian College. She studied fine arts as a Foreign Fellow at Mount Holyoke College and received a Master of Arts from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism s .... She has published four books. She contributes to a regular column for the Hindustan Times Brunch' magazine. She has previously contributed to Indian financial daily, ''Mint'' and Abu Dhabi daily, ''The National''. Bibliography *''The Milk Lady of Bangalore: an unexpected adventure'' *''Katha: Tell a Story; Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Servant
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil servant, also known as a public servant, is a person employed in the public sector by a government department or agency for public sector undertakings. Civil servants work for central and state governments, and answer to the government, not a political party. The extent of civil servants of a state as part of the "civil service" varies from country to country. In the United Kingdom (UK), for instance, only Crown (national government) employees are referred to as "civil servants" whereas employees of local authorities (counties, cities and similar administrations) are generally referred to as "local government civil service officers", who are considered public servants but not civil servants. Thus, in the UK, a civil servant i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sido Kanhu Murmu University
Sido Kanhu Murmu University (SKMU), formerly Siddhu Kanhu University, is a public university situated in the Santhal Parganas region of Jharkhand state in eastern India. It has its headquarters at Dumka, the second capital of Jharkhand. The university offers both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in various streams and have 13 constituent colleges and 15 affiliated colleges across six districts of Jharkhand. History Sido Kanhu Murmu University was founded as Siddhu Kanhu University on 10 January 1992 by an Act of Bihar Legislative Assembly. It was carved out from Bhagalpur University now known as Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University. The university was renamed as Sido Kanhu Murmu University on 6 May 2003 by an amendment made in the section 3(1) of the Jharkhand State Universities Act 2000 (Amendment). It is named after Sidhu Murmu and Kanhu Murmu, brothers who led the Santhal rebellion against the British in 1855–56. The university was recognized by and affiliated to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonajharia Minz
Sonajharia Minz is an academician, trained in Mathematics and Computer Science, and engages with adivasi issues. She is the second tribeswoman hailing from Chotanagpur and appointed as a Vice-Chancellor in Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka. Early life Minz hails from Oraon people, Oraon tribe, and from Gumla district in Jharkhand. She is the oldest of the four daughters of Nirmal Minz, a social ideologue and activist. She completed her schooling in Ranchi and graduated from Women's Christian College, Chennai. She passed M.Sc in Mathematics from Madras Christian College, Chennai. Academic career She completed her M.Phil, Ph.D in Computer science, Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Minz worked as the assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, Madurai Kamaraj University in 1991, as well as Barkatullah University of Bhopal since 1990. She published several research papers in national and international journals. In 1992, Minz joined in the post o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
