96th GRAND MASTER OF INDIA

* GOA BORN ETHAN VAZ BECAME THE 96TH GRAND MASTER OF INDIA.

PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI INAUGURATED A NEW TERMINAL OF JODHPUR AIRPORT, RAJASTHAN ( ON VISIT)

* PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI INAUGURATED THE NEW TERMINAL BUILDING OF JODHPUR AIRPORT AND LAUNCHED MODIFIED UDAN SCHEME.

* PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI PLANTS A SAPLINGS A HEAD OF INAUGURATING INDIA'S FIRST GREENFIELD INTEGRATED REFINERY CUM - PETROCHEMICAL COMPLEX AT PACHPADRA, BALOTRA 

* INDIA'S LARGEST POLYETHYLENE PLANT 

* BUILD BY HPCL - HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED 

* 79000+ CRORES INVESTMENT IN PROJECT 

* THIS IS BUILD BY 3 LAKH MATRIC TONNE STEEL 

* A 9 MMPTA REFINERY 

A NEW SPECIES OF FISH DISCOVERED IN ARABIAN SEA

* ICAR - CMFRI SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW DEEP SEA FISH SPECIES IN ARABIAN SEA.

* SPECIES NAMED - CYTTOPSIS INDICA ( INDIAN DORY)

* FAMILY BELONGS TO PARAZENIDAE

WHAT IS GAGAN ?

( GAGAN - GPS AIDED GEO AUGMENTED NAVIGATION ) 

* LAUNCHED IN 2015 

* India Successfully Conducted The First Satellite Based Landing System Approach On a Commercial Jet Using GAGAN. ( IN JUNE 2026) 

* GAGAN Is Developed By ISRO In Collaboration With Airport Authority Of INDIA (AAI) 

* GAGAN Can Detect a Small GPS Error 

* India's Indigenous Satellite Based Augmentation System ( SBAS) 

* Its Provide Real Time Correction 

* GAGAN Supports Maritime Navigation, Road Transport, Railways, Disaster Management, Defense And Security, Telecommunication And Surveying And Mapping 

* India's Own NAVIC - India's Regional Navigation Satellite System 

( Provides Positioning Navigation And Timing Services) 

*  India Has Successfully Conducted It's First Satellite Based Landing System Approach On a Jet Aircraft, With An Indigo Airbus A320 Performing An LPV ( Localiser Performance With Vertical Guidance) Approach At Udaipur Airport 

JANUARY TO JUNE PERSON PASSED AWAY IN 2026

JANUARY - 

*  Gyan Ranjan Das, Former National Football PLAYER From Odisha Passed Away.

* Shri Skylance G Momin, The First GARO MPS Officer Of Nagaland Passed Away. 

* Two Times MLA From Nilgiri, Odisha Shri Akshay Acharya Passed Away.

* Siddhartha Bhaiya, Managing Director Of Aequitas Passed Away.

* Dr Shyam Bihari Lal, MLA From Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh PASSED AWAY.

* Professor Ashok Gajanan Modak, FORMER National President Of The Akhila BHARATIYA Vidyarthi Parishad Has Passed Away.

* Senior Journalist Punam Thakur Passed Away.

*  Senior DMK Leader L Ganesan Passed Away.

* Eminent Historian And King Of Khariar, Nuapada District, Odisha Jitamitra Prasad Singh Deo Passed Away.

* Malayalam ACTOR Kannan Pattambi Passed Away.

* Tatiana Schlossberg, The Environmental Journalist And Grand Daughter Of Former US President John F Kennedy Passed Away.

* * FORMER UNION MINISTER SURESH KALMADI PASSED AWAY ON 6TH JANUARY 2026. 

* BORN ON - 1ST MAY 1944 ( MADRAS) 

WORKED AS - 

* 9TH PRESIDENT OF INDIAN OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION ( 1996-2011) 

* MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ( 1996-1998) PUNE CONSTITUENCY ( 11TH LOK SABHA) 

* MINISTER OF STATE FOR RAILWAY ( 1995-1996) 

* MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, RAJYA SABHA ( 1982-2004) 

* IN 1977 HE BECAME THE PPRESIDENT OF YOUTH CONGRESS, PUNE 

* 1989 - CHAIRMAN OF THE MAHARASHTRA TOURISM DEPARTMENT 

* 2000- 2013 - PRESIDENT OF ASIAN ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION 

* IN 2015 WAS NAMED ITS LIFE PRESIDENT 

* * Former World Billiards Champion Manoj Kothari Passed Away At The Age Of 67 in Tamilnadu.

* IN 1990 HE BECAME THE BILLIARD CHAMPION 

* 16 TIMES NATIONAL CHAMPION IN BILIARDS 

AWARDS - 

* 2005 - DHYAN CHAND AWARD 

* LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BY BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER ASSOCIATION OF INDIA 

*  V K Ebrahim Kunju, Senior Leader Of Indian Union Muslim League ( IUML) & Former Kerala Minister For Public Works Passed Away. 

* Artist Syed Asif Ali Passed Away. 

* Michael Reagan, Son Of Former US President Ronald Reagan Passed Away.

* 

16) Former MP And Union Minister Shri Kabindra Purkayastha Passed Away.

* * INDIAN ECOLOGIST MADHAB DHANANJAY GADGIL PASSED AWAY ON 7TH JANUARY 2026 

* HE WAS AN ACADEMIC, ECOLOGIST, WRITER, COLUMNIST 

* HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF The CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES.

* BORN IN - 24TH MAY 1942 ( PUNE) 

* HE WAS A FORMER MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COUNCIL TO PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA (1986) 

* HE WAS HEAD OF THE WESTERN GHAT ECOLOGY EXPERT PANEL ( WGEEP) IN 2010

* A GODGIL COMMISSION (2010) 

*

WORKED AS - 

* 1971 - SCIENTIFIC OFFICER AT AGARKAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE 

* 1973 - JOINED IISC BENGALURU 

* HE  ESTABLISHED TWO RESEARCH INSTITUTE 

- CENTRE OF THE THEORETICAL STUDIES 

- CENTRE OF ECOLOGICAL STUDIES 

* 1991 - WORKED AS VISITING PROFESSOR OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY 

* & UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY (1995) 

* DURING 1986 ( AS JOINED AS SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY OF PM) ESTABLISHED A BIOSPHERE ( FIRST) BIOSPHERE RESERVES IN NILGIRI in 1986 

* 1998 - APPOINTED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY PANEL OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY ( UNDER UN (

* MEMBER OF THE NCERT 

* MEMBER OF NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL 

* MEMBER OF NATIONAL TIGER CONSERVATION AUTHORITY 

*

AWARDS & HONOURS - 

* 1984 - FELLOW OF NATIONAL SCIENCE ACADEMY 

* HONORARY FELLOW OF ASSOCIATION FOR TROPICAL BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION ( ATBC) 

* NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FELLOWSHIP OF THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FOREST ( FOR WESTERN GHATS) 

* 1981 - PADMA SHRI 

* 2006 - PADMA.   BHUSHAN 

* 1986 - SHANTI SWAROOP BHATNAGAR AWARD 

* 1983 - RAJYOSTOV PRASHASTHI ( KARNATAKA) 

* 2002 - HARVARD CENTENNIAL MEDAL 

* 2003 - VOLVO ENVIRONMENT PRIZE 

* 2007 - H K FIRODIA AWARD 

* 2013 - DOCTORATE OF SCIENCE ( ODISHA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY )

* 2014 - GEORGESCU - ROGEN AWARD 

* 2015 - JOHN & ALICE TYLER PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 

* Vikram SARABHAI AWARD 

* ISHWAR CHANDRA VIDYA SAGAR AWARD 

* 2019 - FERGUSON GAURAV PURSAKAR 

* 2024 - CHAMPION OF EARTH AWARD 

* EPONYMY - 

* ELAEOCARPUS GADGILII, a Tree Species In Kerala named After Him.

* 

BOOKS - 

* THE FISSURED LAND (WITH RAMCHANDRA GUHA) 

* A WALK UP THE HILL 

* ECOLOGY & EQUITY 

* THE USE AND ABUSE OF NATURE 

* ECOLOGICAL JOURNEY 

* NURTURING BIODIVERSITY :

* BUTTERFLIES: OF PENINSULAR INDIA 

* DRAGONFLIES OF INDIA, A FIELD GUIDE 

* Former Indian Forward (Footballer) Sadatullah Khan Passed Away.

( He Debuted In Merdeka Cup in 1968) 

*  INDIAN Idol Winner And Actor Prasant Tamang Passed Away.

* Swiss Author Erich Von Daeniken Passed Away.

* Veteran Bangladeshi Singer & Awami League Leader Prolay Chaki Passed Away.

* Former Indian Hockey Star Davinder Singh Passed Away. 

*  Noted SINGER Samar Hazarika ( ASSAM) Passed Away. ( YOUNGER BROTHER OF BHUPEN HAZARIKA) 

*  Senior Kerala. Congress Leader Thomas Kuthiravattam Passed Away.

* Former ASSAM MLA And Retired IAS OFFICER Bir Bhadra Hagjer Passed Away.

* Civil Right Pioneer Claudette Colvin Of US Passed Away.

* World War 2 Veteran MWO Ganesh Chandra Roy Passed Away 

* Pradip Baruah, Veteran Editor Of PRANTIK, ( Assamese Literary Magazine) Passed Away.

* Eminent Literature Rajkumari Indira Devi Dhanrajgir Of Hyderabad PASSED AWAY.

*  Former Indian First Class Cricketer Ajay Verma PASSED AWAY.

* G Rajkumar, An Eminent ENVIRONMENTALIST Of Kerala Passed Away.

( KNOWN AS KURINJI RAJKUMAR) 

* WHO Led The Role In The Estsblishment Of Kurinjimala Sanctuary 2006) 

( to protect The Rare Neelakurinji Flower In Western Ghat) 

* 

*  Shri Mohan Lal Mittal An Industrialist Passed Away.

* 

* Assam's First Radio Jockey Fawzia Rahman Passed Away.

*  FREEDOM FIGHTER And Congress Leader Bheemanna Khandre Passed Away.

* Chief Secretary Of FINANCE Odisha Mr Suresh Tripathi Passed Away.

* Former Bjp Minister Of Maharashtra Raj Purohit Passed Away.

* * NOTED VIOLINIST OF ASSAM MINOTI KHAUND PASSED AWAY ON 19th JANUARY 2026 

* SHE HAS BEEN PART OF THIS INDUSTRY FOR 50 YEARS.

* BORN IN 1940.

* 

AWARDS - 

- SANGEET JYOTI AWARD 

- SILPI AWARD 

- 

* Noted Italian Fashion Designer Valentino Garvani Passed Away.

* Former DGP Of Meghalaya W R Marbaniang Passed Away.

* Malayalam Actor Kamal Roy Passed Away.

*  Veteran Journalist Dasu Krishnamoorthy Passed Away.

* Odia Music Composer, Singer Abhijit Mazumder Passed Away.

* Dr Gladys West, Mathematician ( Who Works IN GPS) Passed Away.

* Veteran Journalist Ravi Kanungo Of Odisha Passed Away.

* Former BCCI President Mr I S  Bindra Passed Away.

* Thiru D Gnanasundaram Passed Away 

* Samir Kumar Patra, Odisha Veteran Sound Recordist Passed Away.

* Veteran Journalist And Broadcaster Mark Tully Passed Away.

* Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar Killed In Air Crash Near Baramati, Maharashtra.

* Veteran Trade Union Leader Anantha Subbarao Passed Away.

*  Former Australian Hockey Player Michael Nobbs Passed Away ( Bronze Medal At 1981 FIH) 

* Eminent Literature Shri Arjun Charan Panda Of Odisha Passed Away 

* Thiru Srinivasan, Husband Of P T Usha Passed Away.

FEBRUARY - 

*  Catherine O' Hara Hollywood Actress Passed Away.

* Senior Odisha Congress Leader Sushila Tiriya Passed Away. 

*  NOTABLE Music Director Jeeten Kumar Naorem Passed Away.

*  Sociologist Andre Beteille Passed Away 

*  FORMER Byndoor MLA B Appana Hegde Passed Away.

* Veteran Actor Sunil Thapa Passed Away

* Congress Leader And FORMER MLA M Murali Passed Away 

* Former Bangladesh Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen Passed Away.

* Presidential Award Winning Textile ARTIST Opila Rabha Passed Away At The Age Of 62.

* Veteran News Co - Anchor Of Doordarshan Saarla Maheswari Passed Away.

* James Van Der Beek, Passed Away.

*  Former Union Minister Kahnu Charan Lenka Passed Away in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. (4 Time MLA) 

* Former Lok SABHA Member Dr Bhagwan Dass Passed Away 

* Anand Ramanand Sagar, Son Of Veteran Ramanand Sagar Passed Away 

* Kannada Filmmaker Joe Simon Passed Away 

* Former Bodo Sahitya Sabha President And Eminent Literature Taren Baro Passed Away.

* David J Farber, Grand Father Of Internet Passed Away 

*  Veteran Odia Singer Geeta Pattnaik Passed Away 

* Prominent Backward Class Leader And FORMER MLC Iiapuram Venkaiah Passed Away 

* Shri Ramesh Shukla, Legendary Photographer Passed Away 

*  Ex Sambalpur MLA Raseswari Panigrahi Passed Away 

* Hollywood Actor Robert Duvall Passed Away

* Veteran Actress Pravina Despande Passed Away.

* US CIVIL Right Leader Jesse Jackson Passed Away.

* Lok Sabha MP From Shillong Dr Ricky AJ Syngkon Passed Away.

* Veteran Film Maker M M Baig Passed Away.

* Hollywood Actor Eric Dane Passed Away.

* Noted Bengali Author And Sahitya Academy Award Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay Passed Away.

*  MLA OF Manipur , Vungzagin Valte Passed Away.

* US Salsa Legend Willie Colon Passed Away.

* Veteran Journalist Dhirendra Nath Chakroborty From Assam Passed Away 

* Dr Seshagiri Rao Mallam pati, The Telugu Anaesthesiologist Passed Away.

* Shri Prakash Chandra Vohra, Former Director General Of Geological Survey Of India (GSI ( PASSED AWAY.

*  Former Union Minister (Railway Minister) And Senior TMC LEADER Mukul Roy Passed Away 

* 

* V K Jhanji, Former Acting Chief Justice Of Jammu And Kashmir High Court Passed Away.

* Former Commissioner Of Archaeology Dr Raja de Silva Passed Away.

* Veteran CPI Leader R Nallakannu Passed Away.

* Steel Industry Veteran Jatinder Mehra Passed Away.

* Odisha NOTED Ghodanacha Artist Dr. Uchhaba Charan Das Passed Away.

*  Former Times Now Consulting Editor And Defence Expert Maroof Raza Passed Away.

* Eminent Sociologist Professor T K oommen Passed Away.

MARCH  - 

*  The Supreme Leader Of Iran Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Killed 

* Former Iranian President Ahamdinejad Died 

* Noted Urdu Writer Jeelani Bano Passed Away 

* Ex Parliamentarian And Academician Janardan Waghmare Passed Away 

* David Oddsson, Iceland Longest Serving Prime Minister Has Passed Away.

*  Former Union Minister And Senior Congress Leader K P Unnikrishnan Passed Away.

* Former Director Of Indian Institute Of Mass Communication ( IIMC) Professor J S Jadav Passed Away.

* Raja Singh, The Founder Of Electronics Brand Texla Passed Away.

* Veteran Actor Vijay Crishna Passed Away.

*  Mosiuoa Lekota, Founder Of Congress Of People in South Africa Passed Away.

* Padma Bhushan Awardee H K Dua, Former Members of Parliament ( Rajya Sabha) Veteran Journalist Editor, Advisor To Former Prime Minister H D Devegowda Passed Away.

*  V R Muthu, The Man Behind Idhayam Oil In Tamilnadu Passed Away.

* Nadaswaram, Exponent Sheik Mahaboob Subhani, Padmashree Awardee Passed Away.

* Kenya's Father Of Electricity Hindpal Jabbal Passed Away.

* Veer Chakra Awardee Havildar K G George Passed Away ( War 1965) 

*  Former Indian Forward Footballer Syed Habibul Hasan Hameed Passed Away At Hyderabad.

* Veteran Odisha Journalist Asutosh Mishra Passed Away 

*  Eminent Historian Shri K N Pannikkar Passed Away.

* * NOTED HISTORIAN K N PANNIKAR PASSED AWAY ON 9TH MARCH 2026 

* BORN ON - 26TH APRIL 1936 ( MADRAS) 

AS AUTHOR - 

* A Concerned India's Guide To Communalism 

* 1940: A Documentary History Of The Freedom Struggle 

* Against Lord And State: Religion And Peasant Uprising In Malabar 

* Culture And Consciousness In Modern India 

WORK AS - 

* Chairman Of An Expert Committee By government of Kerala 

* Eminent Historian Hermann Kulke Passed Away.

* Veteran Leader From Karbi Anglong Shri Biren Singh Engti Passed Away 

* Former Union Minister Kavuru SambaSiva Rao Passed Away.

*  Senior Journalist Satpal Sharma PASSED AWAY 

* INDIAN Footballer Ravinder Singh PASSED AWAY.

* Former AIFF General Secretary Kushal Das Passed Away 

* Dutch Chess Icon Jan Timman Passed Away 

* Jurgen Habermas, World's Most Influential Philosopher Of Germany Has Passed Away 

( Best Known For His Theory Of Political Consensus Building Shaped The Discourses Post War GERMANY)

* Eminent Nephrologist Dr K V Johny Passed Away in Kochi.

*  Veteran Indian Actor Navnindra Behl Passed Away.

* Hollywood Actor Matt Clark Passed Away 

* Margareta Magnusson, Author Who Introduced Swedish Death Cleaning To The World Passed Away 

* Paul Ehrlich, Biologist From Stanford University Passed Away.

 * Nobel Laureate Christopher A Sims Passed Away.

* Novelist J M Coetzee (2003 Nobel prize Winner in Literature) Passed Away 

* Novelist And Historian Len Deighton Passed Away

*  Senior BJP Leader Shri Narsing Das Rajwal Passed Away.

* Veteran Doraemon Director Tsutomu Shibayama Passed Away.

* Nicholas Haysom, Representative Of Secretary General At UN Passed Away.

* Indonesian Billionaire Michael Bambang Hartono Passed Away.

*  Rajagopal Partha Sarthi Passed Away on 7th March 2026 

* Hollywood Actor Chuck Norris Passed Away 

* Hollywood Filmmaker Jamie Blanks Passed Away.

* Arunachal Pradesh 's First Female Rapper Takam Dado Renyo Passed Away.

 * Senior Yakshagana Artist Surikumeri K Govinda Bhat Passed Away..

* Former FBI AGENT Robert Mueller Passed Away.

* Hari Singh, Legend Of Indian Motorsport Passed Away.

* Eminent Educationist And Former MP Datta Meghe Passed Away.

* Former FRENCH Prime Minister Lionel Jospin Passed Away.

* Veteran Sports Journalist S Thaygarajan Has Passed Away.

*  Italian Singer - Song Writer Gino Paoli Passed Away 

*  India's First Diplomat Eric Goncalves Passed Away 

*  Malayalam Actor Director - E A Rajendran Passed Away 

* Dr Birute Galdikas Primatologist Passed Away 

* Former MP Of Odisha Narayan Sahu Passed Away.

*  Former Olympics Long Jump Champion Mary Rand, The First British Woman To Win Three Medals At A Single Olympics Games Has Passed Away.

* 

* Veteran Srilankan Journalist Author, Editor K V S Mohan Passed Away.

* Vijayapat Singhania, Former Raymond Group Chief Passed Away.

APRIL - 

* Former President Of Suriname Mr Chandrikapersad Santhoki Passed Away.

*  Dr Brenda Gael McSweeney, Who Served UN Resident Coordinator In India Passed Away.

* Former Mumbai Cricketer Anil Gaurav Passed Away.

*  Patrick A Rogers, Advocate For Meghalaya Living Root Bridges Passed Away.

* Odia Sahitya Academy Awardee Story Writer Shri Sadananda Tripathy Passed Away.

* Legendary Footballer Gilbertson Sangma Passed Away.

* Actress Dee Freeman Passed Away.

* Former Manipur Minister And Tangkhul Naga Leader K Envy Mashangva Passed Away.

* Russian Missile Designer ( Who Developed BRAHMOS Missile) Alexander Leonov Passed Away.

* Padmashree Awardee Noted Cardiologist Dr Mani Chetri Passed Away.

 * The Intelligence Chief Of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Seyed Majid Khademi Was Killed 

*  Noted Odia Film Producer And Industrialist Rabi Swain Passed Away.

* Former President And Honorary Life Vice  President Sir Craig Reedie Of BWF Passed Away 

*  Legendary Football Coach Mircea Lucescu Passed Away.

* Noted Indian Politician And Former Union Minister Mohsina Kidwai Passed Away.

* Former Union Minister Abu Hasem Khan Passed Away In Kolkata 

* Former Indian Cricketer C D Gopinath ( Who Was The Last Surviving Member Of India's First Test Winning GROUP) Passed Away 

* Jim Whittaker, First American To Summit Mount Everest Passed Away.

* Former Iranian FM Kharrazi Died From US - Israel Attack 

* Game Of Thrones Actor Michael Patrick Passed Away 

* Former President Of Rashtrotthana Parishat, Dr S R Ramaswamy Passed Away 

* A DISTINGUISHED MARITIME Leader Captain J C Anand Passed Away 

* Kargil War Hero Col Sonam Wangchuk Passed Away 

* * LENGENDARY SINGER ASHA BHOSLE PASSED AWAY ON 12TH APRIL 2026 

* BORN ON - 8TH SEPTEMBER 1933 

HONOURS - 

* 2000 - DADA SAHEB PHALKE AWARD 

* 2008 - PADMA BIBHUSHAN 

* 2018 - BANGA BIBHUSHAN 

* 2021 - MAHARASHTRA BHUSAN 

* 2001 - FILMFARE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 

* SHE WON NATIONAL FILM AWARD TWICE IN HER CAREER 

* 1981 ( FOR UMARAO JAN)

* 1986 ( FOR IJAZAAT ( 

* SHE NOMINATED FOR 39th GRAMMY AWARDS 1997 

* 

* IN 2013 SHE MADE ACTING DEBUT IN FILM MAI 

* OVER 12,000 SONGS RECORDED 

* 48TH GRAMMY AWARDS IN 2006 

* 2002 - BBC LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT BY UK GOVERNMENT ( TONY BLAIR) 

* 2000 - SINGER OF THE MILLENIUM (DUBAI) 

* 1999 - LATA MANGESHKAR AWARD ( BY MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT) 

* 1989 - LATA MANGESHKAR AWARD ( BY MADHYA PRADESH GOVERNMENT) 

* 1987 - NIFHTANGLE OF ASIA AWARD (FROM UK) INDO -PAK 

*  Hollywood Actor John Nolan Passed Away.

* Former French Federation PRESIDENT Escalates Passed Away 

* Veteran Investor Mark Mobius Passed Away.

* Malayalam Actor Siddharth Venugopal Has Passed Away.

*  French Film Star Nathalie Baye, Passed Away 

* Brazil Basketball Legend Oscar Schimdt Passed Away.

* Former Member Of Parliament, Author, Journalist Bjp Member Shri Balbir Punj Passed Away 

* French Actress Nadia Fares Passed Away.

*  Darshan Kumar, T-Series Founder Brother Passed Away 

* Former Ladakhi Scholar And Ambassador Phunchok Stobdan Passed Away 

* Historian And Economist Robert Skidelsky, Winner Of 1993 Wolfson History Prize Passed Away 

* Former Assam Movement LEADER Aravinda Hazarika Passed Away 

*  Former Rajya Sabha Member Dr Gopal Rao Patil Passed Away 

* Former Assam Cricketer Badal Thakur Passed Away.

* Mohan Krishna Urath, A Profound Personality Behind The India's Rugby Passed Away.

*  Ex - Chief Minister Of Undivided Andhra Pradesh Nadendla Bhaskar Rao Passed Away.

* Shiv Ratan Agarwal, Founder And Chairman Of Bikaji Passed Away.

* Veteran Telugu Director And Producer Tripuraneni Chittibabu Passed Away.

*  Maharaj Krishna Raina, Editor, Writer And Translator And Contribution In Kashmiri Language Passed Away.

* Spiritual Leader Muni Narayana Prasad Passed Away.

*  Olympic Hockey Medalist Gurbax Singh PASSED AWAY. ( Bronze Medal At 1968 Mexico City Olympics) 

* ) Veteran Actor Biplab Dasgupta Passed Away.

*  Eminent Photographer, Padmashree Awardee Shri Raghu Rai Passed Away.

* Bachani Devi, The Leader Of Chipko Movement Has Passed Away 

* Veteran Indian Business Man Vasu Shroff Passed Away.

* Veteran Film And Television Actor Bharat Kapoor Passed Away.

 

* Former Southern Command Head And IPKF Chief Lt General Dipender Singh Passed Away.

* Former INDIAN Golf Legend And Indian Open Challenge Winner Vijay Kumar Passed Away 

* 

MAY - 

*  Former Manipur MLA A S Arthur Passed Away 

* Gerry Conway, A Noted Comic Book Writer Passed Away.

* Former F1 Driver Alex Zanardi Passed Away. ( 4 Time Olympian Gold Medallist From Italy) 

* Meena Muthaiah, Educationist And Philanthropy Passed Away.

*  Dollar Industries Founder Dindayal Gupta Passed Away.

* Lily Das Mallick, All India Radio First Woman From Assamese News Reader Passed Away.

* J Craig Venter, Who Work On Human Genome Passed Away.

* Malayalam Actor Santosh Nair Passed Away.

* South Film Industry Noted Producer R B Chaudhary Passed Away.

*  CNN Founder Ted Turner Passed Away.

* Former IPL Player Amanpreet Singh Gill Passed Away.

* KPIT Tech Founder And Chairman Of The Board, SB Ravi Pandit Passed Away.

* Shri Arun Kumar Tyagi, Ex General Manager Gevra Area And Director (Technical) Northern Coalfield Limited Passed Away.

* Former Botswana President Festus Mogae Passed Away.

*  Karnataka Minister For Planning And Statistics D Sudhakar Passed Away.

* Australian Tennis True Legend Anderson Passed Away.

* Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai, Author Passed Away 

* * PADMASHRI AWARDEE KSHETRIMAYUM ONGBI THOURANISABI DEVI PASSED AWAY .

* SHE IS AN EMINENT CLASICAL DANCER & AUTHOR 

* BORN IN - 3RD NOVEMBER 1946 

* PASSED AWAY ON 12TH MAY 2026 

AWARDS - 

* PADMA SHRI (2003) 

* SANGEET NATAK AKADEMI AWARD 

* MANIPURI STATE KALA AKADEMI AWARD 

* NRITYA RATNA AWARD 

* ROYAL ROBE FROM GOVERNMENT OF MANIPUR 

AS AUTHOR - 

* DIVA RAS ( 2 VOLUMES 1993) 

* RAS MAKHA AMSUNG NUNGI MASHAK ( 2006) ( BASED ON MANIPURI DANCE) 

* Former MLA From Kantabanji, ODISHA Ayub Khan Passed Away 

* FORMER President Of Mohun Bagan Swapan Sadan Bose Passed Away.

*  Kannada Actor Dileep Raj Passed Away 

* Kenneth Keith, Member Of ICJ ( International Court Of Justice) From 2006-2015 Passed Away 

* Served As a Judge Of The New Zealand Court Of Appeal And Supreme Court ( 1996-2006) and Law Commissioner In New Zealand. 

* Former President Of Confederation Of AFRICAN Athletics (CAA) And Member Of World Athletics council Hamad Kalkaba Malboum Passed Away 

* Veteran CPI (M) Leader And Former MP Sudhanshu Sil Passed Away 

* Shri Bengia Tolum, Social reformer And Cultural Architect Of Arunachal Pradesh Passed Away 

* K Balakrishnan, Former Chief Editor Of Malayalam Daily Passed Away 

* Noted Psychiatrist Anand Nadkarni Passed Away 

*  Shri Sabir Khan, Eminent Tabla Mastero And Recipient Of Sangeet Natak Academy Award Passed Away 

* Scotland Rugby Player Scott Hasting Passed Away 

* Assam Eco Tourism Pioneer Achintya Barua Passed Away.

 * Former England Cricketer M J K Smith Passed Away 

* Former Uttarkhand Chief Minister Major General Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri ( RETIRED) Passed Away.

* Former Australian Wicketkeeper John Maclean Passed Away.

* Indian Origin Microsoft Veteran Soma Somasegar Passed Away.

* RETIRED Indian information OFFICER Triloki Nath Passed Away 

* Toshifumi Suzuki, The Founder Of The Seven - Eleven Japan Passed Away.

* Veteran Congress Leader And SOCIAL Cultural Activist Mangalam Gopinath Passed Away 

* * ON 25TH MAY 2026 NOTED ARCHAEOLOGIST SHEREEN RATNAGAR PASSED AWAY.

* BORN IN - 1944 

* HER WORK ON INDUS VALLEY CIVILISATION 

* SHE WAS PROFESSOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY AT THE CENTRE FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES AT JNU, NEW DELHI.

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NOTABLE BOOKS - 

* Encounter the Westerly Trade Of The Harappa Civilization (1981) 

* The End Of The Great Harappan Traditon 

* Understanding Harappa 

* Mobile And Marginalized People 

* Trading Encounters: From The Euphrates To The Indus In The Bronze Age 

* Ayodhya: Archaeology After Excavation 

* The Time chart History Of Ancient Egypt 

* Being Tribal 

* Veteran Actor Ramakant Dayama Passed Away 

* Olympian And Former Shooter Raja Randhir Singh Passed Away 

* He Served As The Secretary General Of The Indian Olympic Association 

* He Was Also Member Of International Olympics Committee 

* Noted National Awards Winning Bengali Film Maker Anik Dutta Passed Away.

* Legendry Poet Bashir Badr Passed Away. ( PADMASHREE AWARDEE) 

*  CCI's First Chairperson Dhanendra Kumar Passed Away 

* Mangala Kanti Roy, Padmashree Awardee Sarinda Player Passed Away ( Known As Morog Dadu ( 

*  Noted IFS OFFICER H S Power Passed Away 

* Shri H S Power Passed Away ( An Notable IFS OFFICER ) MADHYA Pradesh Cadre 

* He Was Director Of Project Tiger Till 1985 

* Conferred With Padma Shri For Tiger And Wildlife Conservation 

* Work For Kanha TIGER RESERVES 

 * K P Dhanapalan, Senior Congress Leader And Former KERALA MP Passed Away.

JUNE - 

* Veteran Playback Singer Suman Kalyanpur Passed Away.

* * NOTED POET, AUTHOR, RETIRED IAS OFFICER SHRI JAGANATH PRASAD DAS PASSED AWAY ON 4TH JUNE 2026 

* A NOVELIST, PLAYWRIGHT,POET, IAS OFFICER 

* BORN IN 1936 ( PURI, ODISHA) 

* HE GRADUATED FROM REVENSHAW UNIVERSITY, CUTTACK.

* HE JOINED THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE IN 1958.

* HIS FIRST POETRY COLLECTION  

PRATHAM PURUSH (1971) 

* SABA SESHA LOKA ( THE LAST MAN)

* NOVEL LIKE 

* DESA 

* KALA 

* PATRA 

AWARDS - 

* 1991 - SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARD ( FOR AHINIK ( 

* 1963- SERVED IAS OFFICER IN KALAHANDI DISTRICT 

* Baba Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal, Former Shot Put Athlete And Arjuna Awardee Passed Away 

* Veteran Indian Producer And Former CBFC Chairman Pahlaj Nihalani Passed Away.

*  Acclaimed Iranian - French Cartoonist And Filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, ( An Advocate For Women's Right) Passed Away.

* Padma Bhushan Awardees & CONSTITUTION EXPERT Dr Subhash Kashyap Passed Away.

* FORMER LOK SABHA SECRETARY GENERAL 

* Poet, Writer And Academic A C Sreehari Passed Away.

* Eminent Malayalam Actor And National Awardee Winner Salim Kumar Passed Away.

* ) Former Bengaluru FC Defender Yrondu Musavu King Passed Away.

* Former Indian Cricket Umpire Vikram Raju Passed Away.

*  Pulitzer Prize Winners Historian Gordon S Wood Passed Away. ( 1993 - PULITZER PRIZE & 1970 - BANCROFT PRIZE) 

* Public Health Expert Dr Ramakrishna Rath Of Odisha Passed Away.

* Renowned Tamil Film Director Bharatiraja Passed Away.

* * FORMER INDIAN SHOOTER AND COACH JASPAL RANA PASSED AWAY ON 12TH JUNE 2026 

* BORN IN - 28th JUNE 1976 ( UTTARAKHAND) 

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AWARDS & HONOURS - 

* 1994 - ARJUNA AWARD ( AT 18 Years Old) 

* 1997 - PADMASHRI 

* 2020 - DRONACHARYA AWARD 

* 2025 - UTTARAKHAND GAURAV SAMMAN 

ACHIEVEMENT - 

* ASIAN GAMES 

- 1994 ( GOLD) - HIROSHIMA (25m Pistol Event)

* 2006 (GOLD) - DOHA (25M )

* 2006 (GOLD) - DOHA ( TEAM EVENT 25M)

* 2006 (GOLD) - DOHA ( STANDARD EVENT 25M)

* 1998 (SILVER) - BANGKOK (25M

* 2006 (SILVER) - DOHA ) ( STANDARD TEAM)

* 1994 (. BRONZE) (HIROSIMA) - (25m Team) 

* 1998 ( BRONZE) - BANGKOK 

COMMONWEALTH GAMES - 

* 1994 (GOLD) - VICTORIA ( 25m Fire Pistol Event) 

* 1994 (GOLD) - VICTORIA ( 25m Pair) 

* 1998 ( GOLD) - KUALA LUMPUR ( 25,m Centre Fire Pistol) 

* 1998 (GOLD) - KUALA LUMPUR ( 25 M PAIR) 

* 2002 (GOLD) - MANCHESTER ( 25M FIRE PISTOL) 

* 2002 (GOLD) - MANCHESTER (25 m Standard) 

* 2002 (GOLD) - MANCHESTER ( 25 m Standard Pair) 

* 2006 ( GOLD) - MELBOURNE ( 25 M Fire Pistol Pairs)

* 1994 ( Silver) - VICTORIA ( 10 m Air Pistol) 

* 1998 ( SILVER) - KUALA LUMPUR ( 10m Air Pistol Fire Pair) 

* 2002 ( SILVER) - MANCHESTER ( 10M AIR PISTOL PAIRS) 

* 1994 ( BRONZE) - VICTORIA ( 10 m Air Pistol )

* 2002 ( BRONZE) - MANCHESTER ( 10M AIR PISTOL) 

ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS - 

* 1995 (GOLD) - JAKARTA ( 25 m Standard Pistol) 

* 2000 ( BRONZE) - LANGKAWI ( 25 m Centre)

WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 

* 1994 (GOLD) - MILLAN ( 25 m Standard Pistol)

* Ramurty Gomango, Former MLA From Rayagada Odisha Passed Away.

* Princess Bajrakitiyabha, Thai Royal Passed Away.

* Actor Pramathesh Mehta Passed Away.

* Veteran Naturalist And Birder V Guruswami ( Known For Conservation) Passed Away.

* Writer Indira Lankesh Passed Away.

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 * Former Vice Chief of Army Staff Lt General Vijay Oberoi Passed Away.

* Retired on  30th September 2001 

* He Was Participated In 1965 War 

* He Served As The Founder Director Of The Centre For Land Warfare Studies ( CLAWS) 

* He Served As The Director - General Military Operations, Army Commander Of The Army Training Command ( ARTRAC) 

* Professor Robert Thurman, One Of The World's Foremost Scholars Of Buddhism Passed Away.

* Veteran Marathi Artist Prasad Savkar Passed Away.

* International Archery Player Rajesh Hansda Passed Away 

* Former US Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan Passed Away 

*  Clive Davis, Who Known For Rock Music Passed Away.

* SENIOR Journalist Nandakishore Mohapatra Passed Away 

*  Harbans Singh Dhiman, Punjabi Singer Linguist Gurmukhi Script Expert Passed Away.

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* Chairman Emeritus And Founder Promoter Of GR Infra Vinod Kumar Agarwal Passed Away 

* Veteran ODIA Journalist Sarat Dash Passed Away 

* Former Indian Ambassador Primrose Raikhan Sharma ( First Manipuri WOMAN To Join Indian Foreign Service in 1976)) Passed Away 

* North East First Tribal To Join IFS 

* She Was Ambassador To Portugal, Panama 

* She Was Consul General Of Indian In Johannesburg 

* Eminent Actor And Tamil Director K Bhagyaraj Passed Away.

* Eminent Odia Cinematographer Dilip Rai Passed Away 

* Punjab And Haryana  High Court Judge Justice Mahabir Singh Sindhu Passed Away 

* Noted Japanese Actor & Singer Miwa Akihiro Passed Away