query: who was the president of the first indian science congress meeting held in kolkata in 1914

pos: Indian Science Congress Association lines of the British Association for the Advancement of Science could be arranged. The Association was formed with the following objectives : The first meeting of the congress was held from 15–17 January 1914 at the premises of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta. Honorable justice Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, the then Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta presided over the Congress. One hundred and five scientists from different parts of India and abroad attended it. Altogether 35 papers under 6 different sections, namely Botany, Chemistry, Ethnography, Geology, Physics and Zoology were presented. The Silver Jubilee Session of the Science Congress was

pos: Jagadbandhu Institution Jagadbandhu Institution Jagadbandhu Institution ) is a school for boys in South Kolkata, West Bengal, India, affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education for Madhyamik Pariksha (10th Board exams) and to the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education for Higher Secondary Examination (12th Board exams). Jagadbandhu Institution is a Bengali medium of South Kolkata. The school was established by Jagadbandhu Roy in 1914 at 25 Fern Road, Kolkata-19. Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee laid the foundation stone on 11 January 1914. The first president and vice-president of the school were Asutosh Choudhury and Rai Bahadur Ramtaran Banerjee. The first

pos: Jagadbandhu Institution secretary was Rajendra Bidyabhusan. The school alumni association was established in 1992. Jagadbandhu Institution Jagadbandhu Institution ) is a school for boys in South Kolkata, West Bengal, India, affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education for Madhyamik Pariksha (10th Board exams) and to the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education for Higher Secondary Examination (12th Board exams). Jagadbandhu Institution is a Bengali medium of South Kolkata. The school was established by Jagadbandhu Roy in 1914 at 25 Fern Road, Kolkata-19. Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee laid the foundation stone on 11 January 1914. The first president and vice-president of

neg: Indian Science Congress Association approach was needed. Indian Science Congress Association Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) is a premier scientific organisation of India with headquarters at Kolkata, West Bengal. The association started in the year 1914 in Kolkata and it meets annually in the first week of January. It has a membership of more than 30,000 scientists. The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) owes its origin to the foresight and initiative of two British chemists, namely, Professor J. L. Simonsen and Professor P. S. MacMahon. It occurred to them that scientific research in India might be stimulated if an annual meeting of research workers

neg: Indian Science Congress Association Indian Science Congress Association Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) is a premier scientific organisation of India with headquarters at Kolkata, West Bengal. The association started in the year 1914 in Kolkata and it meets annually in the first week of January. It has a membership of more than 30,000 scientists. The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) owes its origin to the foresight and initiative of two British chemists, namely, Professor J. L. Simonsen and Professor P. S. MacMahon. It occurred to them that scientific research in India might be stimulated if an annual meeting of research workers somewhat on the

neg: Indian National Conference Indian National Conference Indian National Conference is called as predecessor of Indian National Congress. Surendranath Banerjee and Anandamohan Bose were main organsers. Two sessions of it were held in 1883 and 1885, which had representative drawn from all major towns. The first Indian National Conference was held in Kolkata at Albert Hall from 28 to 30 December 1883. The second Indian National Conference was also held in Kolkata from 25 to 27 December 1885. Along with the Indian Association, the National Mohammadan Association and the British Indian Association were also conveners of this meeting. At its last day, the second

neg: Amar Nath Bhaduri of the Indian Science Congress held in Kochi in 1990. He was a president of the Institute of Science, Education and Culture (ISEC), Kolkata. Bhaduri delivered several award orations including the B. C. Guha Memorial Lecture of the University of Calcutta in 1989. An elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (1986) and the Indian Academy of Sciences (1989), he was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1978. Indian National Science Academy honored him again with Jagadis Chandra Bose Medal in 1995. He

neg: Indian Science Congress Association foreign scientists and 20 Nobel laureates. It was inaugurated by the incumbent Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh. On its sidelines, the first Women's Science Congress was inaugurated by Nirupama Rao, India's ambassador to United States of America and the Children's Science Congress was inaugurated by the former President of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. The 100th edition was hosted by the University of Calcutta which is in the city of Kolkata from 3 to 7 January 2013. The theme of the Centenary Congress was, “Science for shaping the future of India.” It was inaugurated by the former President

neg: History of Mohun Bagan A.C. "Mohun Bagan Sporting Club" on 15 August 1889. Situated in Faria Pukur Street, "Mohun Bagan Villa" the famous marble palace owned by Kirti Mitra of the Mitra family, served as the first ground, also inspiring name of the newly formed club. Mohun Bagan's first president was the eminent lawyer Bhupendra Nath Bose, a member of one of the three founding families. Bose was also an important player in the Indian revolutionary movement and would become the president of Indian National Congress in 1914. The first meeting of the club was presided by Bhupendra Nath Bose himself and was held in

neg: Ashutosh Mukherjee donated his personal collection of 80,000 books which are arranged in a separate section. He was the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. Mukherjee was a member of the 1917–1919 Sadler Commission, presided over by Michael Ernest Sadler, which inquired into the state of Indian education. He was thrice elected as the president of The Asiatic Society. Having served as a fellow and subsequently as a vice-president of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science since the 1890s, in 1922 he was elected President of the IACS and held the office until his

neg: Indian National Conference National Conference sent message of goodwill to the Indian National Congress. As both of them were very similar to each other, the National Conference merged with the Congress in December 1886. Indian National Conference Indian National Conference is called as predecessor of Indian National Congress. Surendranath Banerjee and Anandamohan Bose were main organsers. Two sessions of it were held in 1883 and 1885, which had representative drawn from all major towns. The first Indian National Conference was held in Kolkata at Albert Hall from 28 to 30 December 1883. The second Indian National Conference was also held in Kolkata from

neg: Indian Science Congress Association held at Calcutta in 1938 under the presidency of Lord Rutherford of Nelson but due to his sudden death, Sir James Hopwood Jeans took the chair. It was at this Jubilee Session that the participation of foreign scientists in session of the Indian Science Congress was first initiated. The 34th Annual Session of the Indian Science Congress was held at Delhi in 3–8 January 1947 with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India, as General president. Pandit Nehru's personal interest in the Science Congress continued and there was hardly any session which he did not attend. He immensely enriched

neg: Jyoti Bhusan Chatterjea work has been cited by a number of authors and researchers. Chatterjea chaired the Medical and Veterinary Section of the 51st Indian Science Congress held at Kolkata in 1964 and was the Asian representative on the executive committee of the International Society of Blood Transfusion the same year. He served as the president of various medical organizations; at Indian Society of Hematology for two terms in 1963 and 1964, at Indian Anthropological Society during 1967–68, at Indian Public Health Association and at Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists in 1968. He also served as a counselor to international organizations such

neg: Upendranath Brahmachari and medicine. He was president of the 23rd session of the Indian Science Congress in Indore (1936). He was the President of the Indian Chemical Society, Calcutta (1936). He was honoured with the fellowships of the Royal Society of Medicine, London and the Indian National Science Academy as well as the President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for two years (1928–29). He was also the Vice-chairman of the board of Trustees of the Indian Museum. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation renamed Loudon Street the Dr. U.N. Brahmachari Street. Some of his important works are: Upendranath Brahmachari Rai Bahadur Sir Upendranath

neg: India Science Award Vajpayee in 2003. The first award, for the year 2004, was given to a renowned chemist Prof CNR Rao, for his works in solid state and material chemistry, by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the inauguration of the 93rd Indian Science Congress on 3 January 2006. India Science Award was launched at the 90th Indian Science Congress on 3 January 2003, held at Bangalore University, by the Prime Minister of India. On 30 June 2003 the Ministry of Science and Technology (India) approved the framework and guidelines of the award. The meeting was attended by 20 eminent scientists, government officials,

neg: Rajendra Nath Mookerjee more in connection with his business. Beside Business he Also Founded Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) with inspiration of Prasanta Chandra Mohalanobis In 1908, Mookerjee was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE). In 1911, he became sheriff of Kolkata. Also in 1911, he was knighted with the KCIE. In 1922, Mookerjee was further honoured with the dignity of a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO). In 1931, the University of Calcutta honoured him with an honorary D.Sc. (Engineering). He presided over the 8th session of Indian Science Congress held at Kolkata in 1921. Mookerjee

neg: International Psychoanalytical Association international meeting should be arranged. Freud welcomed the proposal. The meeting took place in Salzburg on April 27, 1908. Jung named it the "First Congress for Freudian Psychology". It is later reckoned to be the first International Psychoanalytical Congress. Even so, the IPA had not yet been founded. The IPA was established at the next Congress held at Nuremberg in March 1910. Its first President was Carl Jung, and its first Secretary was Otto Rank. Sigmund Freud considered an international organization to be essential to advance his ideas. In 1914 Freud published a paper entitled . The IPA is the

neg: Jyoti Basu nearby Moharkunja park (formerly, citizens' park). The hospital authority is considering preserving his brain. The Trinamool Congress-run government has decided not to rename Rajarhat New Town after Jyoti Basu. The renaming proposal was a part of the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2010, passed in the assembly during the Left Front regime. A programme was even held at Rajarhat in October 2010 on the township's renaming. List of Kolkata Presidencians Jyoti Basu Jyotirindra Basu (8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010); known as Jyoti Basu was an Indian Marxist ideologue, theorist and statesman belonging to the Communist Party

neg: Biraja Sankar Guha the first Indian citizen to do so. In 1927, he joined the anthropological section of the Zoological Survey of India. In 1934, Guha became a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and member of the Permanent Council of the International Congress of Anthropology. In 1936, he founded the Indian Anthropological Institute in Calcutta (now Kolkata). In 1938, he became the President of the Anthropology Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1944, he submitted a new proposal for a separate Anthropological Survey of India. His proposal was supported by Nelson Annandale

neg: Francis Anderson (philosopher) education in New South Wales (see his chapter on "Educational Policy and Development" in the Federal Handbook prepared for the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Australia in 1914). Anderson was president of the social and statistical science section at the meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science held at Adelaide in 1907 and gave an address on "Liberalism and Socialism". This was followed by a paper on "Sociology in Australia. A Plea for its Teaching" given at the Sydney meeting held in 1911. Following the discussion, a resolution was unanimously

neg: Transnational organized crime were not sufficiently detached from the political centers of their respective states to function autonomously as expert bureaucracies. In 1914, the First International Criminal Police Congress was held in Monaco, which saw police officers, lawyers and magistrates from 24 countries meeting to discuss arrest procedures, identification techniques, centralized international criminal records and extradition proceedings. This organization appeared poised to avoid the political forces that ended earlier organizations, but the outbreak of World War I disorganized the Congress. In 1923, a second International Criminal Police Congress was held in Vienna, on the initiative of Mr. Hans Schober, President of the Austrian

neg: International Ice Hockey Federation first LIHG Championship was contested in Brussels from 20–24 March. It was held annually until 1914. At the 1913 congress in St. Moritz, Max Sillig resigned his position as vice-president and was replaced by Peter Patton, who had previously served in the position from 1910–1911. In February 1913, LIHG arranged the first European Bandy Championship tournament in Davos, Switzerland. The 1914 congress was held in Berlin, the location of that year's European Championship. Louis Magnus replaced Van den Bulcke as president, but he resigned immediately as the other delegates did not follow his program. Peter Patton, vice-president at the time,

neg: World Romani Congress minority of Indian origin. The Porajmos was a major topic of discussion. In 1990, the fourth Congress was held in Serock, Poland with 250 delegates attending. Discussion topics included World War II reparations, education, culture, public relations, language, and a Romani language encyclopedia. The International Day of the Roma was also officially declared as April 8, in honour of the first World Romani Congress meeting in 1971. The fifth World Romani Congress was held in Prague, Czech Republic in July, 2000. Emil Ščuka was elected as president of the International Romani Union. The Congress produced the official Declaration of the

neg: Bhupendra Nath Bose Bhupendra Nath Bose Bhupendra Nath Bose (1859–1924) was an Indian politician and President of the Indian National Congress in 1914. Bose was born in Radhanagar, West Bengal in 1859. He graduated from the Presidency College, Calcutta in 1880. He completed his master's degree in 1881 and his law degree in 1883. He founded the law firm B.N. Basu and Company, whose office is still located at Temple Chambers, Old Post Office Street, Kolkata. From 1904 to 1910, Bose was a member of the Bengal Legislature. During this period, he was involved in the nationalist movement. In 1905 he presided over

neg: T. R. Seshadri Technology Association, the North India chapter of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, London, Indian Pharmaceutical Congress and Indian Science Congress Association (1966–67). Seshadri received doctorates (honoris causa) from Andhra University, Banaras Hindu University, Osmania University and Delhi University, honorary professorship from Andhra University and Osmania University, and was a "Cooch-Behar Professor" of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata. He delivered several award orations including "H. K. Sen Lecture" of the Institution of Chemists (India), "B. C. Guha Lecture" of the Indian Science Congress Association, "B. M. Singh Lecture" of the Panjab University and "K. Venkataraman Lecture"

neg: Mohammad Hamid Ansari 2017 vice-presidential election. Upon the inauguration of Ram Nath Kovind as President of India in 2017, Ansari became the first Indian Vice-President to serve during the terms of three presidents. He is the longest serving chairman of Rajya Sabha. Ansari was born on 1 April 1937 at Calcutta, Bengal Presidency (present day Kolkata in the state of West Bengal) to Mohammad Abdul Aziz Ansari and Aasiya Begum. Though his ancestral home is in the city of Ghazipur of the Uttar Pradesh state, he spent his formative years in Kolkata. He is a grand-nephew of former Indian National Congress president and

neg: Ashutosh Mukherjee for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914. Mukherjee also played a vital role in the founding of the University College of Law popularly known as Hazra Law College. The Calcutta Mathematical Society was also founded by Mukherjee in 1908 and he served as the president of the Society from 1908 to 1923. He was also the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. The Ashutosh College was also founded under his stewardship in 1916, when he was Vice-chancellor of University of

neg: Bishan Narayan Dar the President of the Indian National Congress in the same year. In 1914, he was elected as a member of the Imperial Legislative Council from the United Provinces. Bishan Narayan Dar Pandit Bishan Narayan Dar (1864–1916) was an Indian politician who served as the President of the Indian National Congress for one term in 1911. Dar belonged to a prominent Kashmiri Pandit family from Lucknow. His uncle Pandit Shambhu Nath was the first Indian Judge of the Calcutta High Court. Dar studied at the Church Mission High School and Canning College in Lahore. Dar went to England where he practised

neg: International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment results of engineering geological activities. Together with Springer Science+Business Media, it publishes the "Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment". The first president of the IAEG was Asher Shadmon, who held the office from 1964 to 1968. The current president is Scott F. Burns from Portland State University. Every two years, the IAEG awards the "Hans Cloos" medal to an engineering geologist of outstanding merit. Every four years, the IAEG organizes an international congress, during which a general meeting of the association takes place and the board for the subsequent four years is also elected. The "XII IAEG Congress" was

neg: Kamanio Chattopadhyay the Indian Institute of Metals and served as its vice president during 2012-13 and as the president for the term 2013-14. He co-chaired the "11th Asian Microgravity Symposium–2016" held at Hokkaido University, Japan and sat in the advisory committees of the "International Conference on Metals and Materials Research" organized by the Indian Indian Institute of Science, held in June 2016 and the "International Symposium on Energy Materials : Opportunities and Challenges (ISEM-2011)" held at Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata in March 2011. Besides mentoring a number of master's and doctoral scholars in their studies, he has delivered invited

neg: Sourindra Mohan Sircar Sourindra Mohan Sircar Sourindra Mohan Sircar was a botanist specializing in plant physiology and anatomy. He joined the Calcutta University in 1937 as a lecturer in botany and later became the head of the department. He was appointed director of the Bose Institute, Kolkata. He later worked at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. He founded the school of Plant Physiology, which has made significant contributions to plant science research and teaching in India. He was appointed the General President of Indian Science Congress Association from 1977 to 78, which is a professional body under the Ministry of

neg: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER-K or IISER Kolkata) is an autonomous science research and education institute in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, awarding its own degrees. It was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2006 and promoted to the status of an Institute of National Importance in 2012 vide the NIT Amendment Act. It is one of seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, and was the first of the IISERs to be established along with IISER Pune. Admission is done through 3 channels

neg: Kenya Indian Congress three of the 53 elected seats in the Legislative Council with 1.2% of the vote, whilst the KFP won two seats. At its annual meeting in 1962, the KIC opted to dissolve itself as a political party as it was "no longer desirable to function politically as an Asian organisation." Kenya Indian Congress The Kenya Indian Congress (KIC) was a political party in Kenya. The party was established at a meeting on 7 March 1914 as the East African Indian National Congress (EAINC), and initially aimed to represent Indian interests across British East Africa, although it largely focussed on Kenya.

neg: International Orthodontic Congress International Orthodontic Congress International Orthodontic Congress is a meeting held every five years where world's leading Orthodontists and allied professionals come together to discuss Orthodontic related topics. The first meeting was held in 1926 in New York City, USA, and has had 8 meetings happen in its 90-year history. This is an official meeting of World Federation of Orthodontists (WFO). "1st International Orthodontic Congress" was held in 1926 in New York City, USA. It was the first worldwide congress ever held by a dental speciality at that time. Dr. William Fisher was the first President of the International Orthodontic Congress

neg: John Samuel Forrest become Visiting Professor at the new University of Strathclyde. By 1966, Forrest had become a member of three of the study committees of the Conference Internationale des Grands Reseau Electrique (and became Chairman of the British National Committee in 1972) and in that year, as President of Section A of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, he was invited to attend the meeting of the Indian Association (which became the Indian Science Congress) meeting in Hyderabad in 1967 where he delivered a lecture on the British electricity supply industry. In 1966, Forrest was elected a Fellow of the

neg: History of Madras Presidency in the first session of the Indian National Congress at Bombay in December 1885, 22 were from Madras Presidency. The third session of the Indian National Congress was held in Madras in December 1887 and was a huge success attended by 362 delegates from the Province. Subsequent sessions of the Indian National Congresswere held in Madras in 1894, 1898, 1903, 1908, 1914 and 1927. The headquarters of the Theosophical Society were moved to Adyar by Madam Blavatsky and Colonel H. S. Olcott in 1882. The most prominent figure associated with the Theosophical Society was Annie Besant who founded the Home

neg: Mediterranean Science Commission represented at the government level so the scientific opinions of the commission would carry weight. The next meeting, in February 1914, endorsed the principle that all the countries bordering the Mediterranean and the Black Sea should be eligible for membership. The planned third meeting, in Spain, was cancelled as a result of the start of World War I. The Constituent Assembly of the CIESM was therefore delayed until November 1919, when it was held in Madrid after a preparatory meeting in Paris in June 1919. King Alfonso XIII of Spain was the first president. The founding meeting had representatives from

neg: S. Subramania Iyer his administration of the Madras Presidency, in a private capacity. As Chairman of the Reception Committee, he welcomed the delegates to the 29th session of the Indian National Congress held at Madras in 1914. He presided over a public meeting at Madras in 1915 organised to welcome Mr. M. K. Gandhi just then returned from South Africa. Welcoming Mr. Gandhi, he suggested the lines on which national work in India should proceed: He agreed to serve as the Honorary President of the All India Home Rule League established in Madras on 1 September 1916, by Mrs. Annie Besant, whose arrest

neg: U. Muthuramalingam Thevar session of the Indian National Congress, held in Tripuri in March 1939. At this meeting the presidency of Subhas Chandra Bose was challenged by Pattabhi Sitaramayya. Sitaramayya had the active support of Gandhi. Bose, whom Thevar supportee, was re-elected as the Congress President. However, due to the manoeuvrings of the Gandhi-led clique in the Congress Working Committee, Bose found himself forced to resign from the Congress Presidency. He then launched the Forward Bloc on 22 June, calling for the unification of all leftwing elements into a united organisation within the Congress. Thevar, who was disillusioned by the official Congress leadership

neg: Karun Krishna Majumdar Karun Krishna Majumdar Karun Krishna Majumdar () (6 September 1913 – 17 February 1945) was a wing commander (the first Indian to ever reach that rank) who took part in the Second World War. Karun Krishna Majumdar was born in Kolkata on 6 September 1913. His maternal grandfather was Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee was the first president of the Indian National Congress. Because he was over six feet tall and well-built, he acquired the nickname Jumbo. Majumdar attended St. Paul's School, Darjeeling In 1932, he travelled to England and took admission in Royal Air Force College Cranwell. In 1933, he returned

neg: Bishnupada Mukerjee general secretary of the Indian Science Congress Association from 1946 to 1952 and presided the 49th Congress in 1962. He was a member of the council, foreign secretary and vice president of the Indian National Science Academy for various tenures. He served as the president of the Indian Pharmaceutical Association and Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Association and was a member of the Expert Committee on International Pharmacopoeia of the World Health Organization. He was a member of the first Pharmacy Council of India when it was constituted in 1949 and served as a member of several government committees and sub committees

neg: Kolkata also hosts venerable cultural institutions of national importance, such as the Academy of Fine Arts, the Victoria Memorial, the Asiatic Society, the Indian Museum and the National Library of India. Among professional scientific institutions, Kolkata hosts the Agri Horticultural Society of India, the Geological Survey of India, the Botanical Survey of India, the Calcutta Mathematical Society, the Indian Science Congress Association, the Zoological Survey of India, the Institution of Engineers, the Anthropological Survey of India and the Indian Public Health Association. Though home to major cricketing venues and franchises, Kolkata differs from other Indian cities by giving importance to association

neg: Indian History Congress and Sir Shafaat Ahmad Khan attended the first session. Historians Mohammad Habib and Susobhan Sarkar and later Nurul Hasan, Ram Sharan Sharma, Satish Chandra, Bipan Chandra, Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, Athar Ali, Barun De, Iqtidar Alam Khan, B. N. Mukherjee, K. N. Panikkar, Brajadulal Chattopadhayay, Dwijendra Narayan Jha, Sumit Sarkar, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Pritam Saini have had a long association with the Indian History Congress. Its current President is R. Champakalakshmi of Jawaharlal Nehru University. Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu was invited to speak the 61st session at Kolkata. The Indian History Congress has constituted Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade Award for

neg: Utkal Sammilani Utkal Sammilani Utkala Sammilani ()is an Indian social and cultural organization. It was founded in Odisha in 1903 by Madhusudan Das and continues in present times. Utkal Sammilani was founded by Madhusudan Das. Its first meeting was held in 1903 and included 62 "permanent members". The organization's first objective was to campaign for the unification of the state of Odisha. A conference was held in 1920 in Chakradharpur and the organization decided to join the non-cooperation movement that had recently been endorsed by the Indian National Congress. It elected a new president, Basanta Kumar Panigrahi, in 2002. In 2010, Utkal

neg: Indian Science Congress Association the activities of the Congress by his sustained interest in the development of scientific atmosphere in the country, particularly among young generations. From 1947, his programme for inviting representatives from foreign societies and academies was included in the Science Congress. This trend still continues with the support of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. The Science Congress celebrated its Golden Jubilee in October 1963 at Delhi with Prof.D. S. Kothari as General president. On this occasion two special publications were brought out: The Diamond Jubilee Session of the Science Congress was held at Chandigarh in 3–9 January

neg: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata field studies, and a broadband seismological observatory. The institute jointly runs the Göttingen-Kolkata: Open shell systems (G-KOSS) in fundamentals of molecular spintronics with Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The college organizes a major annual festival, Inquivesta, which is promoted as one of the first and the biggest science fest of the country. IISER Kolkata has also been hosting VIJYOSHI (the national science camp), along with IISc Bangalore and the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, since 2014. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata was ranked 25 by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in overall ranking in 2018. Indian Institute

neg: Baikuntha Nath Sen legal advisor of Cossimbazar Royal Estate. Sen achieved great popularity as a lawyer and orator. He was the first editor of "Murshidabad Hitaishi", a reputed weekly. He was a great patron of modern education and was associated with various social as well as political works. He was one of the top leaders of the Indian National Congress in Bengal. In 1916-17 he was elected Chairman of the Reception Committee of the session of the Indian national Congress held in Kolkata. Sen became the first unofficial Indian chairman of Berhampore Municipality, the then Murshidabad District Board which was established by Montagu–Chelmsford

neg: Science City Kolkata Science City Kolkata The Science City of Kolkata is the largest science centre in the Indian subcontinent. Managed by National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Ministry of Culture, Government of India, it is located at the crossing of Eastern Metropolitan Bypass and J. B. S. Haldane Avenue. Saroj Ghose, the first director general of NCSM, who is credited with having conceptualised this centre in 1997. This centre was inaugurated by two parts: the ‘Convention Centre Complex’ was unveiled on 21 December 1996 by Paul Jozef Crutzen in presence of the then chief minister Jyoti Basu and the whole centre was

neg: Snehasikta Swarnakar trust in memory of Amar Nath Bhaduri, the noted chemical biologist she was the secretary of the organizing committee of the 2nd International Meet on Advanced Studies on Cell Signaling Network (CeSiN 2014) held in Kolkata. She is the treasurer of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and sits in the council of the Chemical Biology Society. She is also a life member of the Indian Science Congress Association, the Biotech Research Society, India, the Society for Free Radical Research, the International Society for Computational Biology and the Society of Biological Chemists, India. The Department of Biotechnology of

neg: Indian Science Congress Association of India Pranab Mukherjee in the presence of the former Prime Minister of India Dr.Manmohan Singh and the incumbent Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee. The 101st edition of Indian Science Congress was held in Jammu starting from February 3, 2014 to February 8. The 102nd edition of Indian Science Congress was held in Mumbai from January 3, 2015 to January 7, 2015. It was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mumbai University. Studies and papers on Ancient Indian Vedas were presented in this Congress. Accomplishments of Ancient Indian Science in the fields of medicine, mathematics, surgery etc.

neg: Science City Kolkata The 5400 square metres new building is opened in 2016 with the latest infrastructure and provides an enquiry based learning to the visitors. It has four sections: Convention Centre Complex Science City Kolkata The Science City of Kolkata is the largest science centre in the Indian subcontinent. Managed by National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Ministry of Culture, Government of India, it is located at the crossing of Eastern Metropolitan Bypass and J. B. S. Haldane Avenue. Saroj Ghose, the first director general of NCSM, who is credited with having conceptualised this centre in 1997. This centre was inaugurated by

neg: Nyapati Subba Rao Pantulu the annual session of the Madras Provincial Conference held at Visakhapatnam on 5 June 1907. Subbarao was a moderate by conviction. He did not support the activists of the extremists. At the same time, he supported the Swadeshi Movement as it fostered the growth of indigenous industries. Along with C.Y. Chintamani he toured the coastal Andhra districts to propagate Swadeshi. Pantulu was elected as the General Secretary of the Indian National Congress in 1914 and remained in that position till 1917. When the Andhra Mahasabha held its second session at Vijayawada on 11 April 1914, Pantulu presided over the meeting

neg: Indian Science Congress Association actions on recommendations made in the previous Science Congress are discussed at a General Session organized by DST during the Science Congress. Through this process, the Indian Science Congress Association has been contributing to the development of Science in general and National Science Policy, in particular. The Indian Science Congress Association celebrated the seventy-fifth year of its inception, popularly called otherwise, Platinum Jubilee, in 1988, with Prof. C. N. R. Rao as General president. Keeping this in view, a special brochure, entitled "Indian Science Congress Association-Growth & Activities" was published so as to highlight the programmes of the Association over

neg: All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar) 29–31 the Ruikar faction held a congress in Ashutosh College Hall, Calcutta. Ruikar was elected general secretary and Cavesheer as president. At the same time the Marxist faction held a congress in Hooghly. Thus the split was complete. The Ruikar-led party adopted the Indian tricolour with a leaping tiger as their flag, identical to the one used by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army. In 1951 the issue of reunification was raised inside Ruikar's party. In June the Central Committee of the party held a meeting which decided to move ahead with the reunification of Forward Bloc. Ruikar and

neg: Academia Europaea journal, a newsletter, providing independent advice, improving mobility of scholars within Europe and improving public understanding of science. The new body was named the Academia Europaea and its Foundation Meeting was held in Cambridge in September 1988 under the first President, Arnold Burgen. Hubert Curien, who was at that time the French Minister of Science (and later became the second President of the Academia) arrived by helicopter and gave the inaugural address and provided the active support of the French government. The first Plenary Meeting was held in London in June 1989, by which time there were 627 members. Since

neg: Society of American Indians flush of enthusiasm following the Denver conference, the Executive Committee held its meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a more elaborate fashion than usual the session and included a banquet. In October 1914, Dennison Wheelock hosted the Society's annual October convention in Madison, Wisconsin. In December 1914, the Society met in Washington, D.C. and received a first-class reception from the federal government. Commissioner Cato Sells welcomed them to the nation's capital where they toured the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and visited the White House to meet with President Woodrow Wilson. After shaking hands with the president, Wheelock presented the Society's petition

neg: History of Kolkata [[Indian National Congress]] was Sir [[Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee]] and he was also the first Congress president to advocate self-rule by Indians, Sir [[Surendra Nath Banerjea]] (referred to by the British as "Surrender Not") were early eminent Calcuttans, who provoked and influenced nationalist thinking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Other societies based on nationalist or religious thoughts were started, like the [[Hindu Mela]]. Revolutionary organisations like the [[Jugantar]] and the [[Anushilan Samiti]] were formed with the goal of using force against the British rulers. Among early nationalist leaders, the most prominent were [[Sri Aurobindo]], Indira devi Chaudhurani, [[Bipin

neg: Kenya Indian Congress Kenya Indian Congress The Kenya Indian Congress (KIC) was a political party in Kenya. The party was established at a meeting on 7 March 1914 as the East African Indian National Congress (EAINC), and initially aimed to represent Indian interests across British East Africa, although it largely focussed on Kenya. It called for equality between Indians and Europeans, advocating the inclusion of Indians on the same roll as Europeans in elections and that Asians be allowed to farm in the White Highlands. The EAINC encouraged Indian immigration to Kenya, and became involved in humanitarian work in the 1930s, providing aid

neg: Sarat Chandra Sinha common man in an uncommon society. Like a young man at the age of 90, he attended literary discussion, drama workshop, dharna, hunger strike or trade union meeting. He died on 25 December 2005 at his Guwahati residence due to old age ailments., Sarat Chandra Sinha Sarat Chandra Sinha (1 January 1914 – 25 December 2005) was a Chief Minister of Assam and a leader of Indian National Congress, Indian National Congress (Socialist) and Nationalist Congress Party. He was known for his value-based politics, Sinha belonged to a rare breed of politicians who sacrificed his life for the welfare of

neg: Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk and end at Esplanade Metro Channel. However, the route was changed in lieu of President Pranab Mukherjee's visit to the city on the same date as the pride march. The route was changed after a meeting held between senior officers of Lalbazar – Kolkata Police Headquarters and the organisers of the pride walk. The walk then started from Shyambazar and ended at Moulali. Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk 2016 was held on 11 December 2016. The march began from Esplanade Y Channel in central Kolkata to Park Circus Maidan. The theme of Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk 2016 was 'Law and Rights'.

neg: Ranjeet Deshmukh Ranjeet Deshmukh 'Ranjeet Deshmukh, who has served as the agriculture minister in the Vilasrao Deshmukh cabinet between 1999-2004, had also held other portfolios. He had held the position as state unit president of the party on two occasions was the president of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC). He was first elected to the MLA in 1985 from the Savner constituency. 'Ranjeet Deshmukh, joined politics in the 1970 and he was a youth leader he was the head of the youth congress of the Indian National Congress and worked very closely with Sanjay Gandhi.He was first elected as an MLA from

neg: Maneklal Sankalchand Thacker He was known to have consolidated the functioning of CSIR and contributed to the industrial development of India. He chaired the Governing Council of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and was a member of the council of the Indian National Science Academy during 1954 to 1956. He presided the engineering and metallurgy section of the 1951 Indian Science Congress and was the general president of the 1958 session held in Chennai. He represented India in the standing committee of the British Commonwealth Scientific Conference and was a member of the governing councils of several science and educational organizations, Indian

neg: Kolkata flyover collapse state administration did not take any lesson even after the collapse of Ultadanga flyover three years ago". The legal advisor to IVRCL, Sheela Peddinti, said "The glass was shattered. It could have been a blast." The vice-president of the Indian National Congress, Rahul Gandhi, visited the injured and the site of the accident. He refused to make any political statements. Later, he incidentally raised the issue at rallies and accused the ruling party, Trinamool Congress of negligence. Kolkata flyover collapse On 31 March 2016, a steel span of the under-construction Vivekananda Road flyover in the Girish Park neighbourhood of Kolkata,

neg: Great Indian Rock Great Indian Rock Great Indian Rock (GIR) is the first multi-city rock music festival of India. It is usually held annually in cities llke Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Shillong, with a cumulative audience of approximately 50,000 people. The first GIR was held in 1997 as a two-day festival in Kolkata. The festival is organized by the media and publishing company Entertainment Media Services Private Limited, which also publishes the magazine "Rock Street Journal". The festival was founded by rock journalist and promoter Amit Saigal, who died in 2012. Subsequently, according to "Mint, the ""Great Indian Rock Festival

neg: Rahimtulla M. Sayani Rahimtulla M. Sayani Rahimtulla Mahomed Sayani (5 April 1847 – 6 June 1902), was an Indian politician who served as the President of the Indian National Congress for one term, succeeding Surendranath Banerjea. Rahimtullah M Sayani, born in 1847, a century before the Independence of India, belonged to a Khoja Muslim Community, who were the disciples of the Aga Khan. He was associated with the Indian National Congress since its inception and he was one of the two Indian Muslims who attended its First Session of INC held at Bombay in 1885, where "Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee" was elected as the

neg: Show Indians who were also asked to speak at the 1904 Congress of Indian Educators. Their interpreter was Henry Standing Soldier, an educated man who had been a participant in the 1901 Pan American Exposition Wild West Show. Anthropologists lectured, and educated Indians held congresses, while Indian students staged band concerts, dance exhibitions, dramatic presentations and marched in parades. On June 18, 1904, there was an incident when cowboys in the Colonel Cummins’ Wild West Indian Congress and Rough Riders of the World snapped their revolvers in the faces of the Indians as an act of disrespect. "An ‘indignation meeting’ was held

neg: Rahimtulla M. Sayani first President of Congress. Rahimtullah M Sayani was the "Second Muslim" to become the "President of Indian National Congress".(First was Badruddin Tayyab Ji) In the year 1896 he presided over the 12th Annual Session of the Congress held at Calcutta where he was elected as the "President of Congress" and became the Second Muslim to achieve such Position. His presidential address to the Session was the "Best delivered so far" as it was hailed by a contemporary journal of that period. Rahimtullah M Sayani was western educated, a Lawyer by profession who achieved public eminence and professional excellence, he was

neg: Indian Association for Medical Informatics a conference every two years on roles and applications of informatics in medicine, health and allied fields in various states of India. The first biennial conference was held in 1995 at Hyderabad. The second conference was held in 1997 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The third conference in 1999 in Hyderabad was postponed due to natural calamities. A workshop was also held at NIMS in lieu later. The third conference was held in 2001 in New Delhi. The fourth conference was held in 2003 at PGIMER, Chandigarh. A mid-conference was held in 2004 at the South-Eastern Railways Hospital, Kolkata.

neg: Indian independence movement in Tamil Nadu held its first meeting at the Tejpal Sanskrit College, Bombay between 28 and 31 December 1885. Among the 72 delegates who attended the first session, 22 were from the Madras Presidency. Important public personalities of the Presidency, like Rangaiah Naidu, S. Subramania Iyer, and G. Subramania Iyer, attended the first session of the Indian National Congress. However, some prominent personalities like Eardley Norton, Salem Ramaswami Mudaliar, C. Jambulingam Mudaliar, T. Madhava Rao and R. Raghunatha Rao did not participate in the first session. Nevertheless, the Indian National Congress, with its ideals actively propagated by members of the Theosophical Society grew

neg: Saugata Roy Saugata Roy Prof. Saugata Roy (born 6 August 1946) is an Indian politician of Trinamool Congress and a member of parliament in the Lok Sabha of the Indian Parliament representing the Dum Dum constituency in the 16th Lok Sabha. He was the Union Minister of State for Urban Development in the Manmohan Singh government. A National Science Talent Search Scholar and a former student of St. Lawrence High School, Kolkata, Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College and Presidency College, Kolkata, he holds a post-graduate degree in Physics. He also holds a degree in Law from Calcutta University. He is a retired

neg: D. K. Barooah D. K. Barooah Dev Kant Barooah (22 February 1914 – 28 January 1996) was an Indian politician from Assam, who served as the President of the Indian National Congress during the Emergency (1975–77). He is now chiefly remembered for his sycophancy to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, encapsulated by his c. 1974 proclamation that "India is Indira. Indira is India." However, he later parted ways with her and joined Congress (Urs), later renamed as Indian Congress (Socialist). He was the Governor of Bihar from 1 February 1971 to 4 February 1973. He died in New Delhi. Barua was a noted poet

neg: Indian Library Association Indian Library Association Indian Library Association (ILA) was established on September 22, 1933 Registered under the societies Registration Act (XXI of 1860), on the occasion of the First All India Library Conference held at Calcutta (now Kolkata). The ILA is the largest and renowned professional body in the field of Library and Information Science in India with a membership of more than 7000. The headquarter of ILA situated in Delhi,India. The main objectives of the Association are: Its 53rd Annual conference was held in Hyderabad in 2007. Its 54th Annual conference was held in Mumbai in 2008. Its 55th Annual

neg: C. V. Subramanian the vice-president from 1977 to 1985. He served as a member of the Indian National Science Academy, International Union of Biological Sciences, Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium and British Mycological Society. He was the president of the International Mycological Association in 1977 and presided its annual congress held in Tokyo in 1983. In 1973, he led a group of mycologists who founded the Mycological Society of India for promoting mycological researches. The society has since grown to be a national organisation with 400 members and interest in studies related to taxonomy, ecology, pathology, genetics, molecular biology

neg: Belgachia East (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Congress in 1962,Nandalal Banerjee of Congress in 1957and in independent India’s first election in 1951 defeating Sudhir Kumar De of Congress. Belgachia East (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Belgachia East (Vidhan Sabha constituency) was an assembly constituency in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission, Belgachia East (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011. It was part of Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency). In the by-election held in 2009 as a result of the death of the sitting MLA Subhas Chakraborty, Sujit Bose of Trinamool Congress won the 139 Belgachia

neg: Sankar Kumar Pal Sankar Kumar Pal Sankar Kumar Pal is a Distinguished Scientist and former Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He is a computer scientist with an international reputation on fuzzy neural network, soft computing, and machine intelligence. He founded the Machine Intelligence Unit in 1993, and the Center for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility in 2004, both at the ISI. He is the founder President of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Kolkata Chapter. He was awarded Padma Shri in Science and Engineering on 5 April 2013 by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee in recognition of his

neg: Sunil Sahu L.S. College in Muzaffarpur, where he was influenced by the faculty who carried on the legacy of nationalist leaders who had taught at that college a generation earlier, such as Dr. Rajendra Prasad, India's first President (1950–62), and J.B. Kripalani, President of Indian National Congress at the time of the country's independence in 1947. Sahu received his Bachelor's degree in Political Science (honors) and History from Bihar University in India, his Master's degrees in Political Science from Bihar University and the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Before starting his Ph.D. program,

neg: Bowbazar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Bowbazar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Bowbazar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) was an assembly constituency in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission, Bowbazar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) ceases to exist from 2011. It was part of Calcutta North West (Lok Sabha constituency). A bye-election was held on 18 August 2009 following the resignation of the sitting MLA, Sudip Banerjee who was elected as MP In Parliament from Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency). In This Election, Swarnakamal Saha of Trinamool Congress Defeated Minati Gomez of CPIM - Supported Independent. In the 2006 election,

neg: History of Kolkata First, nor National, nor a War of Independence". In the suburbs of Calcutta, at the [[Barrackpore]] military barracks, [[sepoy]] [[Mangal Pandey]] sparked off a huge revolt that shook the foundations of the British Empire. This movement is sometimes also called the [[Indian Mutiny]], although recent evidence goes against using this name and suggests "The Revolt of 1857" as a better and less controversial choice. In 1883, [[Surendranath Banerjea]] organised a [[Indian National Association|national conference]] - the first of its kind in 19th century India. This conference heralded the birth of The [[Indian National Congress]]. The first native president of the

neg: Taraknath Palit trust deeds for Calcutta University, donating Rs 1.5 million. His donations helped fund the 27 March 1914 creation of the University College of Science and Technology. He was knighted by the British Government on 1 January 1913. He died on 3 October 1914. Taraknath Palit Sir Taraknath Palit (1831–1914) was an Indian lawyer from West Bengal and a philanthropist. He was associated with the Swadeshi Movement during the Partition of Bengal and was one of the key figures behind the establishment of Calcutta University and Jadavpur University. Taraknath was born in 1831 in Kolkata, the only son of millionaire, Kalisankar

neg: Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk the Section 377 of IPC. The poster making workshop cum volunteers' meeting for Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk 2017 was held on 3 December 2017. Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk (KRPW) is the oldest in South Asia. The first march in Kolkata was organised on 2 July 1999. The walk was called The Friendship Walk. Kolkata was chosen as the first city to host the march owing to Kolkata's history of movements for human and Political Rights. Currently, Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk is organised by the Kolkata Rainbow Pride Festival (KRPF). Kolkata Rainbow Pride Walk is held with

neg: Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. A member of the organization committee that founded the District of Columbia Chapter of Sigma Xi in 1914, Lyon became the Secretary of both the Organization Committee and Chapter, which held its first annual meeting in 1915. He was appointed secretary of the Biological Society of Washington in 1904 and from 1915 through 1919. In 1917, he was elected for membership to the Washington Biologists' Field Club. Lyon was president of the St. Joseph County Medical Society in 1931, as well as the treasurer (1927–1932) and president (1933) of the Indiana Academy of Science.

neg: Sovandeb Chattopadhyay law. He is president of Kolkata Auto Rickshaw Operators’ Union. Sovandeb Chattopadhyay won the Baruipur seat as a Congress candidate in 1991 and 1996and as a Trinamool Congress candidate won the Rasbehari seat in 2001 and 2006. In 2011 he was pitted against a green-horn and won by nearly 50,000 votes and was further re-elected in 2016. Currently he is the Hon'ble Minister-in-Charge, Department of Power and Non Conventional Energy Sources, Government of West Bengal. Sovandeb Chattopadhyay Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay is an Indian politician representing Trinamool Congress and is the first elected MLA of the party, elected in 1998.He was the

neg: Maitreyi Devi undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata. She received Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 1976 for her novel "Na Hanyate". Maitreyi Devi Maitreyi Devi (or Maitreyī Devī) (1 September 1914 – 4 February 1990) was a Bengali-born Indian poet and novelist. Devi was born in 1914, she was the daughter of philosopher Surendranath Dasgupta and protegée of poet Rabindranath Tagore. She was married to quinologist dr. M.M. Sen. She was the founder of the Council for the Promotion of Communal Harmony in 1964, and vice-president of the All-India Women’s Coordinating Council. Her first book of

neg: International Congress of Radiology congress was, by that token, president of the ISR until the next meeting. International Congress of Radiology The International Congress of Radiology (ICR) is a meeting of radiologists for the exchange of ideas and the harmonisation of international standards and practice, first held in 1925 in London and held at regular intervals since then. Since 1994 it has become a biennial event. Until 1953 each congress was organised by radiological society of the host country, but in that year, a formal organisation, the International Society for Radiology was set up to provide continuity between the congresses. At the second congress,

neg: Nerella Sharada Nerella Sharada Nerella Sharada is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. She is the first Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) Mahila wing President and All India Mahila Congress Secretary. She is also member of Telangana Pradesh Congress (TPCC) Executive committee. She is an eloquent speaker proficient in Hindi, English, Telugu and Marathi Languages. Nerella Sharada was born in Karimnagar district in AP. Nerella Sharada speech at a meeting in New Delhi, was first noticed by Smt.Sonia Gandhi ji, impressed by it she was called on to dais and as a token of appreciation Madam Sonia Gandhi ji

neg: Subrata Bakshi and re-elected in 2014. Subrata Bakshi Subrata Bakshi is an Indian politician who is the General Secretary of All India Trinamool Congress and State President of West Bengal Trinamool Congress. He was the Minister for Public Works and the Minister for Transport in the Government of West Bengal in 2011. He was also an MLA, elected from the Bhabanipur constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. He was elected to parliament from South Kolkata constituency after Mamata Banerjee resigned to become a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He was elected on 10 December 2011 with a

neg: Cécile Brunschvicg her to feminist activism; she became vice-president of the League of Electors for women's suffrage. The French Union for Women's Suffrage (UFSF: "Union française pour le suffrage des femmes") was founded by a group of feminists who had attended a national congress of French feminists in Paris in 1908, led by Jeanne Schmahl and Jane Misme. The UFSF provided a less militant and more widely acceptable alternative to the "Suffrage des femmes" of Hubertine Auclert (1848–1914). The sole objective was to obtain women's suffrage through legal approaches. The founding meeting of 300 women was held in February 1909. Cécile Brunschvicg

neg: Subrata Bakshi Subrata Bakshi Subrata Bakshi is an Indian politician who is the General Secretary of All India Trinamool Congress and State President of West Bengal Trinamool Congress. He was the Minister for Public Works and the Minister for Transport in the Government of West Bengal in 2011. He was also an MLA, elected from the Bhabanipur constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. He was elected to parliament from South Kolkata constituency after Mamata Banerjee resigned to become a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He was elected on 10 December 2011 with a margin of 2,30,999 votes,

neg: Jamuna Sharan Singh Values, Current Science Association, Indian Science Congress Association and Indian Botanical Society. He is a life member of the Indian Science Congress and presided the environmental sciences section of the 2004 congress held in Chandigarh. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded Singh the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1980. He was selected for the Pitamber Pant National Environment Fellowship of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in 1984 and the University Grants Commission of India chose him for the Pranavanand Saraswati Award in 1985. The Indian Botanical Society awarded

neg: G. Madhavan Nair IAA. He is the only Indian and the first non-American to IAA. Nair was General President of the 97th Indian Science Congress 2009-2010 and first chairman of the board of governors of Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Nair has won several awards such as National Aeronautical Award, FIE Foundation's Award, Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award, Swadeshi Sastra Puraskar Award, Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Gold Medal of the Indian Science Congress Association, Dr.Yelavarthy Nayudamma Memorial Award-2004, HK Firodia Award-2005, Fifth "Shri Balvantbhai Parekh Award", Lokmanya Tilak Award from Tilak Smarak Trust, "Sree Chithira Thirunal Award" from Sree Chithira Thirunal Trust, "MP Birla

neg: Anton Lembede Anton Lembede Anton Lembede (21 January 1914 – 30 July 1947) was a South African activist and founding president of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). He has been described as "the principal architect of South Africa's first full-fledged ideology of African nationalism." Lembede had a strong influence on Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo. Lembede was regarded as the progenitor of the "Programme of Action" that was adopted as a guiding document by the 1949 meeting of the African National Congress. He died in 1947, aged 33. Anton Muziwakhe Lembede was born on 21 January 1914 on

neg: Krishnendu Sengupta Krishnendu Sengupta Krisnendu Sengupta (born 31 March 1970), is a Professor of Theoretical Physics in Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, India, who was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2012 in physical science category. Before joining IACS he was a Research Fellow in Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, and Associate Professor in Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata. He received his PhD. from University of Maryland at College Park and MSc degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His research interests include physics

neg: Barry Ramachandra Rao of the University Grants Commission of India, presided the Indian Science Congress on "Man and the ocean – resource and development" of 1983 held in Tirupati. He served as the president of the National Academy of Sciences, India and the Acoustical Society of India during 1981–82. He was a member of the governing body of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research during 1977–89 and sat in the science and engineering council of the Department of Science and Technology from 1977 to 1981. He chaired the Indian National Committee for International Union of Radio Science (INCURSI) and was a member

neg: I. V. Subba Rao retired in 2003. The university became the first agricultural university in the country to organize Indian Science Congress. He was the General President of the 93rd Congress held in 2006. He died of Cancer on 14 August 2010 at the age of 75 years. I. V. Subba Rao Idupuganti Venkata Subba Rao M.Sc. Ph.D. (20 December 1934 – 14 August 2010), better known as I. V. Subba Rao, was an eminent Agricultural scientist. He was born in Pasalapudi village near Tanuku in West Godavari district. His parents are Achanna and Munemma. He has done M.Sc. in Agriculture from Andhra University

neg: Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee the first Indian to act as a Standing Counsel, in which capacity he officiated four times 1882, 1884, 1886-87. In 1883 he defended Surendranath Banerjee in the famous contempt of court case against him in the Calcutta High Court. He was the fellow of Calcutta University and was the president of its law faculty and often represented it in the legislative council. He retired from the Calcutta bar in 1901. His daughter Janaki Bonnerjee studied natural science, chemistry, zoology and physiology at Newnham College, Cambridge University. He presided over the first session of the Indian National Congress held at Bombay

neg: Panchanan Mitra Honorary Magistrate of Kolkata from 1922 to 1924 and later served as a councillor in the Municipal corporation of the city till 1927. He presided over the Anthropology proceedings in the Indian Science Congress in 1933 and the anthropogenetics sessions of the Indian Population Congress, Lucknow in 1936. He was also an associate member at the American Museum of Natural History. The Asiatic Society awards an annual ‘Panchanan Mitra Memorial Lectureship’ for outstanding contributions to the field of anthropology in his name. The recent (2005) publication of his book entitled "Manual of Prehistoric India" shows the continuing importance of his

neg: Prafulla Chandra Ray at the Institution was Surendranath Banerjee, the prominent Indian nationalist and future president of the Indian National Congress, whose passionately held ideals including an emphasis on the value of service and the need to continually strive for India's rejuvenation left a definite and lasting impression on Ray, who took those values to heart. Though Ray had maintained a focus in history and literature until this stage, chemistry was then a compulsory subject in the FA degree. As the Metropolitan Institution offered no facilities for science courses at the time, Ray attended physics and chemistry lectures as an external student at

neg: Asok Kumar Barua Asok Kumar Barua Asok Kumar Barua is an Indian condensed matter physicist and the honorary Emeritus Professor of Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, who focuses on research in optics and optoelectronics. He was honoured by the Government of India in 2003 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award. Asok Kumar Barua was born on 1 July 1936 in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. He did his schooling at Hare School and graduated in Physics with honours from the Presidency College, Kolkata. His masters studies were at Kolkata University (1956) after which he

neg: 1914 United States House of Representatives elections created in 1912 for a newly apportioned seat. The at-large district was eliminated in 1914 and the created. 1914 United States House of Representatives elections Elections to the United States House of Representatives in 1914 were held in the middle of President Woodrow Wilson's first term for members of the 64th Congress. The opposition Republican Party had recovered from the split they underwent during the 1912 presidential election, and they made large gains in seats from the Democratic Party, though not enough to regain control of the body. The burgeoning economy greatly aided Republicans, who pushed for pro-business principles and

neg: National Irrigation Congress the principal address, favored the latter proposal. 1914 The regular meeting of the Irrigation Congress was scheduled for Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 5 through 9 with more than 8,000 people attending the closing session. (In April a Trans-Missouri Irrigation Conference, not affiliated with the ongoing organization, had been held in Denver, Colorado, at the call of Secretary of the Interior Franklin Knight Lane, who had "issued a broad invitation to all persons interested in irrigation," with the meetings "open to all.") 1915 The congress was held at four locations in Northern California September 12 through 20: Stockton, Fresno, Sacramento and