Dr Dilip Mahalanabis pioneered the use of ORS in refugee camps — a solution that has saved millions and been called the most important medical advance of the 20th century.
Brigadier Hamir Singh (Retd), who was a young captain during the 1971 war against Pakistan, was honoured as part of India’s celebrations to mark 50 years of the victory.
Dhaka had 30,000 defenders against 3,000 of Indian Army. But such is the impact of threatening the centre of gravity that General Niazi agreed to surrender.
Sheikh Hasina will join Modi in a summit to mark Bangladesh's 50th independence anniversary, just when Dhaka has told Beijing to get lost or pay up for Chinese Covid vaccine trials.
The battle, which led to the shooting down of three Pakistani fighter aircraft, shows the hallmarks of Indian Air Force — courage, culture and camaraderie.
2,000 short-service & emergency commissioned officers played big roles in India-Pakistan wars. Army Commanders' Conference discussed a pension scheme for them.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
In India doctors are always painted in bad light by media, they say doctors have no right to make profit….. While everyone including the lawyers, journalist, and politicians have right to do corruption and Amass as much wealth as possible….
So he is the one that gave a new life to these termites! Hop the present government is reading this article and gives this Doctor a well deserved Padma award.
Very inspiring story! At least, State Govt of Bengal could have given him due recognition and recommended him for Padma award along with Dr. Barua. Perhaps he remained out of India for a long time and therefore, went out of attention he deserved. But it is never too late. Our Health Minister or even PM should be told about his story. The country owes a lot of gratitude to Dr. Mahalanobis.
Shame on everyone including WHO and Govt of India that we never knew about his achievement so far.
In India doctors are always painted in bad light by media, they say doctors have no right to make profit….. While everyone including the lawyers, journalist, and politicians have right to do corruption and Amass as much wealth as possible….
Thank you. Very good article on scientific advances.
So he is the one that gave a new life to these termites! Hop the present government is reading this article and gives this Doctor a well deserved Padma award.
Very inspiring story! At least, State Govt of Bengal could have given him due recognition and recommended him for Padma award along with Dr. Barua. Perhaps he remained out of India for a long time and therefore, went out of attention he deserved. But it is never too late. Our Health Minister or even PM should be told about his story. The country owes a lot of gratitude to Dr. Mahalanobis.