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St. Xavier's School, Jaipur
St Xavier's Senior Secondary School is a private Catholic secondary school located in Jaipur, in Rajasthan in north-western India. The school was established by the Jesuits in 1943 in this name. The Jesuits took over St. Mary's Boys School in 1943, which had recently been founded in 1941. In the year 2016, St Xavier's School, Jaipur had celebrated its 75th anniversary. History The school was established in 1943. Following a visit to St Xavier's School, Patna, Mirza Ismail, the prime minister of Jaipur State, wished to have a similar institution in his home city, Jaipur. As a result, the Jesuits took over management of St. Mary's Boys School, which had been founded two years earlier, in 1941. The school became co-educational in 1989. Notable alumni * Lt. Amit Bhardwaj, a soldier martyred in the Kargil War * Rajiv Mehrishi, Comptroller and Auditor General of India * Rohit Bohra, Politician and Businessman * Pratap Bhanu Mehta, vice-chancellor of Ashok University * Raghu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaipur
Jaipur (; , ) is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and the List of cities and towns in Rajasthan, largest city of the north-western States and union territories of India, Indian state of Rajasthan. , the city had a population of 3.1 million, making it the List of cities in India by population, tenth most populous city in the country. Located from the national capital New Delhi, Jaipur is also known as the ''Pink City'' due to the dominant color scheme of its buildings in the old city. Jaipur was founded in 1727 by Sawai Jai Singh, Sawai Jai Singh II, the Kachhwaha, Kachhwaha Rajput ruler of Amer, India, Amer, after whom the city is named. It is one of the earliest planned cities of modern India, designed by Vidyadhar Bhattacharya. During the British Raj, British colonial period, the city served as the capital of Jaipur State. After Independence of India, Indian independence in 1947, Jaipur became the capital of the newly formed state of Rajas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raghubir Singh (photographer)
Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) was an Indian photographer, most known for his landscapes and documentary-style photographs of the people of India. He was a self-taught photographer who worked in India and lived in Paris, London and New York. During his career he worked with ''National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker'' and ''Time''. In the early 1970s, he was one of the first photographers to reinvent the use of color at a time when color photography was still a marginal art form. Singh belonged to a tradition of small-format street photography, working in color, that to him, represented the intrinsic value of Indian aesthetics. According to his 2004 retrospective his "documentary-style vision was neither sugarcoated, nor abject, nor controllingly omniscient". Deeply influenced by modernism, he liberally took inspiration from Rajasthani miniatures, Mughal paintings and Bengal, a place where he thought western modernist ideas and vernacular Indian art were f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Jesuit Educational Institutions
The Jesuits (Society of Jesus) in the Catholic Church have founded and managed a number of educational institutions, including the notable secondary schools, colleges, and university, universities listed here. Some of these universities are in the United States where they are organized as the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. In Latin America, they are organized in the Asociación de Universidades Confiadas a la Compañía de Jesús en América Latina, Association of Universities Entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America. List of Jesuit universities This list includes four-year colleges and universities operated by the Society of Jesus. The currently listed total on this page is 189 colleges and universities. Paul Grendler has authored a history of Jesuit schools and universities from 1548 to 1773. In it, he notes that the Jesuits had established over 700 colleges and universities across Europe by 1749, with another hundred in the rest of the world, but i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogilvy (agency)
Ogilvy is a New York City-based British advertising, marketing, and public relations agency. It was founded in 1850 by Edmund Mather as a London-based agency. In 1964, the firm became known as Ogilvy & Mather after merging with a New York City agency that was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. The agency is part of the WPP Group global agency network. It provides services in five areas: growth and innovation; advertising, brand and content; public relations and influence; experience; and health. It also operates a strategy division Ogilvy Consulting. History Foundation The agency was founded in London in 1850, when Edmund Charles Mather began an advertising agency on Fleet Street. By the 1860s, Mather had a U.S. branch called Mather & Abbott at 335 Broadway, New York City. After Mather's death in 1886, his son, Harley Lawrence Mather, partnered with Herbert Oakes Crowther, and the London agency became known as Mather & Crowther. The agency pioneered newspaper advertising, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piyush Pandey
Piyush Pandey is an advertising professional and the Chief Creative Officer Worldwide (2019) and Executive Chairman India of Ogilvy (agency). He is the recipient of the LIA Legend Award (2024), and the Padma Shri award (2016). Pandey is also credited with shaping a distinct indigenous influence on Indian advertising that was earlier under the influence of western advertising and ideas. Early life and education Pandey was born in Jaipur in 1955 in a family of nine children - seven daughters and two sons. His siblings include film director Prasoon Pandey and singer-actor Ila Arun. His father worked for the Rajasthan state cooperative bank. He played the Ranji Trophy for the state of Rajasthan. He worked as a tea taster. Pandey studied at St. Xavier's School, Jaipur and has a Post Graduate in History from St Stephen's College, Delhi. He is married to Nita Pandey. Career Pandey joined the ad industry as a client servicing executive at Ogilvy in 1982. Sunlight Detergent print a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Of Naval Staff Of The Indian Navy
The Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) is a statutory office held by the professional head of the Indian Navy (IN), the naval branch of the Indian Armed Forces. Customarily held by a four-star admiral, the CNS is the senior-most operational officer of the IN, tasked with the roles of overseeing the force's overall functioning during states of peace and conflict, along with the realization of India's strategic maritime objectives, namely, the defence of the country's sovereignty against maritime threats and the security of international sea lines in the Indo-Pacific. Being a permanent member of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) and the National Security Council (NSC), the CNS also bears the responsibility of advising the nation's civilian leadership i.e., the Government of India on all matters privy to the IN. Statutorily, the CNS ranks 12th-overall in the Indian order of precedence, and is the IN's status-equivalent of the Chief of Defence Staff, the Chief of the Army Staf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madhvendra Singh
Admiral (India), Admiral Madhvendra Singh, Param Vishisht Seva Medal, PVSM, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, AVSM, Aide-de-camp, ADC was Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy between 29 December 2001 and his retirement from service on 31 July 2004. He had by that date completed over 41 years of service. He was also the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee from 2002 to 2004 Career Madhvendra Singh is a son of Major General K Bhagwati Singh and was educated at St. Xavier's School, Jaipur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. His military career began in July 1958 when he joined the National Defence Academy (India), National Defence Academy, from which he moved to the Indian Navy in January 1963. He won various awards early in his naval career and chose to specialise in Gunnery, for which purpose he subsequently attended courses at the National Defence College, India, National Defence College in New Delhi, as well as abroad at institutions such as the Royal Military College of Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PartyGaming
PartyGaming plc was a network of gambling sites operated by Ruth Parasol in the Caribbean. Founded in 1997, the network eventually operated under an umbrella company called iGlobalMedia, which then changed its name to PartyGaming. PartyGaming's flagship site, PartyPoker.com, was launched in 2001. Its primary shareholders were Parasol, Group Operations Director Anurag Dikshit, Marketing Director Vikrant Bhargava (who joined the company in 1998 and 1999, respectively), and Russ DeLeon. The company merged with bwin Interactive Entertainment in March 2011 to form Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment. History In the 1990s, Las Vegas consultant and actuary Michael Shackleford ran a computer trial of the first blackjack and roulette games offered by the company. Shackleford stated that the "results clearly showed they (the games) weren't fair". Ruth Parasol's spokesman Jon Mendelsohn acknowledged that the chances had "tipped too much toward the house", but attributed the problems to " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikrant Bhargava
Vikrant Bhargava (विक्रान्त भार्गव; born 14 December 1972) is an Indian-born British businessman, and the co-founder and former marketing director of online casino operator PartyGaming. Early life and education Bhargava was born on 14 December 1972 in Jaipur, India, and raised in Rajasthan. He holds a bachelor's degree in Technology in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, where he met his future business partner Anurag Dikshit. He also studied at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Career Prior to joining PartyGaming, Bhargava was a credit officer at Bank of America, responsible for managing credit exposure and revenue for corporate clients, and a business analyst in the business development division of British Gas. Bhargava joined PartyGaming (formerly iGlobalMedia) as marketing director in early 2000. In July 2001, he oversaw the marketing for the launch of PartyPoker, as well as for Partygaming when it went public in 2005, at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shashindra Pal Tyagi
Air Chief Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi, more commonly known as S P Tyagi, is an Indian Air Force officer who served as the 20th Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force and served from 31 December 2004 to 31 March 2007. He was succeeded by Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major. Controversies Tyagi was briefly named in an Italian Investigation into bribes paid to secure a Helicopter Contract, although further information created doubts in the matter. As per the unverified testimony of an Italian businessman, he received illegal payments to change the technical specifications of the helicopters which favored AgustaWestland which was finally awarded the deal. However, further investigation showed that the technical specifications were changed prior to his tenure on the orders of Brajesh Mishra, the National Security Adviser, in the Prime Minister's office (PMO). According to the investigators, 21 million euros (about Rs 150 crore) were paid as kickbacks under the cover of enginee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Police Service
The Indian Police Service (IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became Partition of India, independent from the British Empire. Along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Forest Service (IFS), the IPS is part of the All India Services – its officers are employed by both the Government of India, Union Government and by individual States and union territories of India, states. The service provides leadership to various state and central police forces, including the Central Armed Police Forces (Border Security Force, BSF, Sashastra Seema Bal, SSB, Central Reserve Police Force, CRPF, Central Industrial Security Force, CISF, and Indo-Tibetan Border Police, ITBP), the National Security Guard (NSG), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Intelligence Bureau (India), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), Special Protection Group (SPG), National Invest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Lodha
Amit Lodha (Hindi: अमित लोढ़ा) (born 22 February 1974) is a 1998 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Bihar Cadre, currently serving as Additional Director General of State Crime Record Bureau, assigned at Bihar. He has received several awards for his work. He is known for his book '' Bihar Diaries: The True Story of How Bihar's Most Dangerous Criminal Was Caught.'' The web series '' Khakee: The Bihar Chapter'' on Netflix is based on that book. Early life and career Lodha is a 1995 alumnus of IIT Delhi He joined the IPS in 1998. During his District Training, he was trained under IPS Gupteshwar Pandey. After the infamous Manikpur (Manipur) Village Massacre in 2006, Amit Lodha was posted in the newly created, Sheikhpura District of Bihar in 2006 by the then CM Nitish Kumar. He was instrumental in the nabbing and crackdown of Politically protected Ashok Mahto Gang during his tenure there. Lodha used his expertise in technology as an engineer to set-up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
