Today’s Motto: ‘Nothing in the world is bigger than the shelter of parent’s love’

This is Your Day:  TODAY:  Take a Determined Step Forward and Make History!

On this day, 11 Jan….

1913 – 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (New York City).

1954 – The first in-vision weather forecaster broadcast on BBC television.

1958 – Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.

1964 – The U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry, announced the results of a study on the health effects of smoking, ordered by President Kennedy in 1962. As America’s first widely publicized official recognition of the dangers, it stated “Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action.”

1986 – The first MiG-27M fighter, built under license by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, is delivered and inducted into the Indian Air Force.

1986 – Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K.

2007 – Author J. K. Rowling finishes the 7th and last Harry Potter novel in room 552 of the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh.

2024 – The US and UK launch multiple air-strikes against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen in retaliation for attacks on vessels in the Red Sea.

Born….1815 – Sir Jon A Macdonald. The first PM of Canada who ruled  between 1867-73 and 1878-91.

1954  – Kailash Satyarthi, engineer, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate. Born ‘Kailash Sharma’ he is an Indian children’s rights and education advocate and an activist against child labour. He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980 and has acted to protect the rights of more than 83,000 children from 144 countries.

1973 – Rahul Dravid, veteran Indian batsman,  who played  for India  in Tests, ODIs and  IPL since 1996.  He has scored over 24,177 runs in First Class , captained Indian team between 2005 -2007 and was coach forsome years. Prersently he  coaches  Rajasthan  Royals in IPL format. He was  awarded Padam Shri  in2004  and  Padam Bhushan  in  2014.

RIP…. 1872 – Gail Borden. Famous invented technoique for milk condensation.

1966 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, 2nd Indian premier (1964-66), dies at 61. {Shastri joined the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. Deeply impressed and influenced by Mahatma Gandhi (with whom he shares his birthday), he became a loyal follower, first of Gandhi, and then of Jawaharlal Nehru. Following independence in 1947, he joined the latter’s government and became one of Prime Minister Nehru’s principal lieutenants, first as Railways Minister (1951–56), and then in a variety of other functions, including Home Minister. Shastri while a staunch supporter of Nehru, differed from his socialist policies on Industry. Shastri’s greatest moment came when he led India in the 1965 Indo-Pak War and also gave a slogan Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan to countrymen.                       He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.

1983 – Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and   educator. He took over the financing and  management of The Hindustan Times on Gandghiji’s advise around 1927 and became a big media magnate. Birla group has business acttivities in miniing, metals, coal, insurance, financing etc. and has a worth of over US$ 17 million in 2023.

You may have known….

For nearly 58 percent of India’s population (as per India Brand Equity Foundation) agriculture is a primary source of livelihood. But agriculture accounts only 14 percent of the GDP. Hence, there is a huge requirement to move people away from agriculture into other areas. This can be done if enough industry and jobs are created. For that land  is required and farmers have that land.

                                                                                                                                            (Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R)  Raj Kadyan}