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St. Joseph's College, Allahabad
St. Joseph's College, abbreviated to SJC, established in 1884, is a prominent Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, CISCE-affiliated elite school in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, with high rankings both in the state and in India. It is affiliated with the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations. With over 1000 students collectively enrolled within its main, annexes, and girls' wing campuses, the college is one of the largest schools of Prayagraj in terms of enrolment. The college's motto is Always Aim High. Reverend Father Walter D'silva is the current principal of the college. Students of the institution are known as Josephites. Josephest The biggest cultural event of the college is Josephest, which is held annually at the end of October and sometimes at the start of November. A number of schools from the city as well as from other cities in the state participate. A multitude of events are organized during the two-day festival that range fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Of Staff
The title chief of staff (or head of staff) identifies the leader of a complex organization such as the armed forces, institution, or body of persons and it also may identify a principal staff officer (PSO), who is the coordinator of the supporting Employment, staff or a primary aide-de-camp to an important individual, such as a President (government title), president, or a senior military officer, or leader of a large organization. In general, a chief of staff provides a buffer between a chief executive and that executive's direct-reporting team. The chief of staff generally works behind the scenes to solve problems, mediate disputes, and deal with issues before they are brought to the chief executive. Often chiefs of staff act as a confidant and advisor to the chief executive, acting as a sounding board for ideas. Ultimately the actual duties depend on the position and the people involved. Civilian Government Australia *Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister (Australia), Chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Justice Of India
The chief justice of India (CJI) is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India and the highest-ranking officer of the Indian judiciary. The Constitution of India grants power to the President of India to appoint, as recommended by the outgoing chief justice in consultation with other judges, (as envisaged in Article 124 (2) of the Constitution) the next chief justice, who will serve until they reach the age of 65 or are removed by the constitutional process of impeachment. As per convention, the successor suggested by the incumbent chief justice is most often the next most senior judge of the Supreme Court. However, this convention has been broken twice. In 1973, Justice A. N. Ray was appointed, superseding three senior judges, and in 1977 when Justice Mirza Hameedullah Beg was appointed as Chief Justice, superseding Justice Hans Raj Khanna. As head of the Supreme Court, the chief justice is responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahul Kanwal
Rahul Kanwal is an Indian TV news anchor and journalist working as CEO and Editor-in-Chief at NDTV, worked as News Director at India Today before joining NDTV. He was the anchor host of the prime-time show ''Newstrack'' on weekdays and the interview-based show ''Jab We Met'' on India Today TV. Education and career Kanwal studied at St. Joseph's College, Allahabad. He then studied journalism at Delhi University. He is a Chevening scholar and did a program in International Broadcast Journalism at Cardiff University. He won a Rory Peck Trust grant for a course in Hostile Environment Journalism. Kanwal started his career in 1999 as an anchor-cum-reporter with Zee News and joined Aaj Tak in 2002. He has also served as the Editor-at-Large of Aaj Tak and India Today in TV Today Group. In 2019, Kanwal interviewed India's union minister, Piyush Goyal, and questioned the minister over the Balakot strikes. He was criticized for simulating a skirmish between CRPF and Naxal insurgents in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prashant Bhushan
Prashant Bhushan (born 15 October 1956) is an Indian author and a public interest lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. He was a member of the faction of the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement known as Team Anna which supported Anna Hazare's campaign for the implementation of the Jan Lokpal Bill. After a split in IAC, he helped Team Anna form the Aam Aadmi Party. In 2015, he made several allegations against the party's leadership, its functioning and its deviation from the core ideology, values and commitments. He is one of the founders of Swaraj Abhiyan and Sambhaavnaa, an Institute of Public Policy and Politics. Early life and education Prashant Bhushan is the oldest of the three children of Shanti Bhushan and Kumud Bhushan. His father is a lawyer-activist and a former Union Law Minister in the Morarji Desai government. Bhushan was educated at St. Joseph's High School, Prayagraj, and at the St Joseph's College, Allahabad. Bhushan, who dropped out of IIT Madra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Agrawal
Amit Agrawal is an Indian engineer and an institute chair professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He leads a group of scientists who are involved in the development of next-generation diagnostic microdevices. Agrawal, who started his career as an engineer at Tata Motors, Pune, did his post-doctoral work at the University of Newcastle, Australia during 2003–04 before joining the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) as assistant professor in 2004, where he is an institute chair professor at the department of mechanical engineering since 2015. The team led by him at IITB has developed several microdevices of which a few have already been licensed to others for commercial use. Agrawal has published several articles, ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 198 of them. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific resear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuroscientist
A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist specializing in neuroscience that deals with the anatomy and function of neurons, Biological neural network, neural circuits, and glia, and their Behavior, behavioral, biological, and psychological roles in health and disease. Neuroscientists generally work as researchers within a college, university, government agency, or private Private industry, industry setting. In research-oriented careers, neuroscientists design and conduct scientific experiments on the nervous system and its functions. They can engage in basic or applied research. Basic research seeks to expand current understanding of the nervous system, whereas applied research seeks to address a specific problem, such as developing a treatment for a neurological disorder. Neuroscientists have numerous career opportunities outside of academic research, including careers in industry, science writing, government program management, science advocacy, and education. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mriganka Sur
Mriganka Sur (born 1953 in Fatehgarh, India) is an Indian neuroscientist. He is the Newton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a visiting faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and N.R. Narayana Murthy Distinguished Chair in Computational Brain Research at the Centre for Computational Brain Research, IIT Madras. He was on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2010 and has been serving as jury chair from 2018. Biography Mriganka Sur did his early schooling at the St. Joseph's Collegiate School, Allahabad. He received the Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) in 1974, and the Master of Science and PhD degrees in electrical engineering in 1975 and 1978, respectively, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. After p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh Muslim University is a Collegiate university, collegiate, Central university (India), central, and Research university, research university located in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, which was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875. Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920, following the Aligarh Muslim University Act. The university offers more than 300 courses in traditional and modern branches of education. It is an Institutes of National Importance, Institute of National Importance and is listed in the Union List under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India. History Funding The university was established as the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. It began to function on 24 May 1875. The movement associated with Syed Ahmad Khan and the college came to be known as the Aligarh Movement, which pushed to realise the need for establishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Ahmad Ali
Brigadier Syed Ahmad Ali is a retired senior officer of the Indian Army. He was the former pro-vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University from 26 September 2012 to 16 May 2017. He is the director of Jahangirabad Educational Institute of Technology. Biography Ahmad Ali was born on 10 August 1954 in Allahabad. His father, Syed Mahbub Ali, was a social reformer and zamindar. Ahmad Ali completed his primary education at St. Joseph's College, Allahabad where he completed his Indian School Certificate in 1972. He continued his education in Govt. Inter College, Allahabad. In 1976, he graduated from Allahabad University and qualified for the Combined Defence Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. He subsequently joined the Indian Army and was commissioned into the Infantry Kumaon Regiment in 1977. For his distinguished services during Operation Vijay, he received the Sena Medal. He obtained a master's degree in defence studies from Chennai Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Command (India)
The Central Command of the Indian Army is one of the seven operational commands of the army. It is based at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. History Second World War Central Command was first established in 1942 during World War II and then disbanded in 1946.Army Commands Southern Command was responsible for most of the training activities for Indian Army until Central Command was formed in April 1942 which took over the responsibility of some of the training areas. Post 1962 Indo-China war With its HQ at the Command was re-establishe ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yogendra Dimri
Lieutenant General Yogendra Dimri, PVSM, AVSM, VSM is a former General Officer in the Indian Army. He last served as the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Central Command in April 2021. He previously served as a Corps Commander and as Chief of Staff of the Western Command, he was appointed as a military attaché in the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia and directing staff at the Defence Services Staff College. Prior to his appointment to the Central Command, he commanded XXI Corps and infantry brigade on the Line of Control (LOC). Biography Dimri was commissioned into the Indian military's regiment Bombay Engineer Group on 17 December 1983. He did his schooling from St. Joseph's College, Allahabad. He obtained his professional courses from the various institutions such as National Defence Academy in Khadakwasla, Indian Military Academy, Defence Services Staff College, Defence Services Command and Staff College and the Army War College, Mhow. He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
