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PERSONALITY OF THE MONTHKiran Mazumdar-Shaw.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian entrepreneur. She is the chairman & managing director of Biocon Limited a

biotechnology company based in Bangalore (Bengaluru), India and the current chairperson of IIM-Bangalore. She

is on the Forbes list of the world's 100 most powerful women and the Financial Times' top 50 women in business list.

Profile

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw completed her schooling from the city's Bishop Cotton Girl's High School (1968). She

wanted to go to medical school but instead took up biology and completed her BSC Zoology Honors course from

Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. She received a graduate honors degree in Zoology from Bangalore University in

(1973). She later did her post-graduation work as a brew master in Malting and Brewing from Ballarat College of

Advanced Education (1975), earning the degree of Master Brewer.

She worked as a trainee brewer in Carlton and United Breweries, Melbourne and as a trainee maltster at Barrett

Brothers and Burston, Australia. She also worked for some time as a technical consultant at Jupiter Breweries

Limited, Calcutta and as a technical manager at Standard Maltings Corporation, Baroda between 1975 and 1977.

She started Biocon in 1978 and spearheaded its evolution from an industrial enzymes manufacturing company to a

fully integrated bio-pharmaceutical company with a well-balanced business portfolio of products and a research

focus on diabetes, oncology and auto-immune diseases. She also established two subsidiaries: Syngene (1994) to

provide development support services as an outsourcing firm for discovery research and Clinigene (2000) to cater to

clinical development services.

Her pioneering work in the sector has earned her several awards, including the prestigious Padma Shri (1989) and

the Padma Bhushan (2005) from the government of India. She was recently named among TIME magazine's 100

most influential people in the world. She is on the Forbes list of the world's 100 most powerful women and the

Financial Times' top 50 women in business list She is also a member of the board of governors of the prestigious

Indian School of Business and Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

In 1978, she joined Biocon Biochemicals Limited, of Cork, Ireland as a Trainee Manager. In the same year she

started Biocon in the garage of her rented house in Bangalore with a seed capital of Rs. 10,000.

Initially, she faced credibility challenges because of her youth, gender and her untested business model. Not only

was funding a problem as no bank wanted to lend to her, but she also found it difficult to recruit people for her start-

up. With single-minded determination she overcame these challenges only to be confronted with the technological

challenges associated with trying to build a biotech business in a country facing infrastructural woes. Uninterrupted

power, superior quality water, sterile labs, imported research equipment, and advanced scientific skills were not

easily available in India during the time.

Born : 23rd March 1953, Bangalore India.

Residence : Banglore, India

Nationality : Indian

Education : Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University.

Occupation : Chairperson of Biocon

Religion : Hindu

Spouse : John Shaw

She is responsible for steering Biocon on a trajectory of growth and innovation over the years. Within a year of its

inception, Biocon became the first Indian company to manufacture and export enzymes to USA and Europe. In

1989, Biocon became the first Indian biotech company to receive US funding for proprietary technologies. In

1990, she upgraded Biocon's in-house research program, based on a proprietary solid substrate fermentation

technology.

In the same year, she incorporated Biocon Biopharmaceuticals Private Limited to manufacture and market a

select range of biotherapeutics in a joint venture with the Cuban Centre of Molecular Immunology.

In 2004, she decided to access the capital markets to develop Biocon's pipeline of research programs. Biocon's

IPO was oversubscribed 32 times and its first day at the bourses closed with a market value of $1.11 billion,

making Biocon only the second Indian company to cross the $1-billion mark on the first day of listing.

She entered into more than 2,200 high-value R&D licensing and other deals within the pharmaceuticals and bio-

pharmaceutical space between 2005 and 2010 and helped Biocon expand its global footprint to emerging and

developed markets through acquisitions, partnerships and in-licensing. Her belief that healthcare needs can only

be met with affordable innovation has been the driving philosophy that has helped Biocon manufacture and

market drugs cost-effectively.

In 2007–08, a leading US trade publication, Med Ad News, ranked Biocon as the 20th leading biotechnology

companies in the world and the 7th largest biotech employer in the world. Biocon also received the 2009

BioSingapore Asia Pacific Biotechnology Award for Best Listed Company.

Today, thanks to her leadership, Biocon is building cutting-edge capabilities, global credibility and global scale in

its manufacturing and marketing activities. It has Asia's largest insulin and stating facilities also the largest

perfusion-based antibody production facilities.

Philanthropic activities

In 2004, she started the Biocon Foundation to conduct health and environmental programs to benefit of the

economically weaker sections of society.

The Biocon Foundation's 7 ARY clinics are located where healthcare facilities are poor and they offer clinical care,

generic medicines and basic tests for those who cannot afford them. Each of the clinics serves a population of

50,000 people living within a radius of 10 km. All the clinics organize regular general health checks in remote

villages by bringing in physicians and doctors from network hospitals. Each year, the Foundation touches more

than 300,000 lives through its holistic healthcare approach.

She helped establish a 1,400-bed cancer care center at the Narayana Health City campus at Boommasandra,

Bangalore, along with Dr. Devi Shetty of Narayana Hrudayalaya in 2007.

She liked the innovation model and thinking that Dr. Prasad Kaipa brought to Biocon and funded multi-year

research at Indian School of Business by creating Biocon Cell for Innovation Management as part of Center for

Leadership Innovation and Change.

Awards

Mazumdar-Shaw is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Nikkei Asia Prize (2009) for

Regional Growth, Express Pharmaceutical Leadership Summit Award (2009) for Dynamic Entrepreneur, the

Economic Times 'Businesswoman of the Year' (2004), the 'Veuve Clicquot Initiative For Economic Development

For Asia, Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Life Sciences & Healthcare (2002), 'Technology

Pioneer' recognition by World Economic Forum and The Indian Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement

Award.

She has also received the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award (2002), the 'Business Woman of the Year' Award from the

Indian Business Leadership Award committee, CNBC-TV18 (2006), the Indian Merchants' Chamber Diamond

Jubilee Endowment Trust's'Eminent Businessperson of the Year Award'(2006) and the 'Corporate Leadership

Award' by the American India Foundation (2005). She also received an honorary Doctorate of Science in 2004,

from her alma mater, Ballarat University, in recognition of her contributions to biotechnology, apart from being

awarded honorary doctorates from University of Abertay, Dundee, UK (2007), University of Glasgow, UK

(2008) and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK (2008). She also received honorary doctorate from

Davangere University in July 2013 in recognition of her contribution in the field of Biotechnology.

She was ranked 80 on the worlds-100-most-powerful-women-2012 according to Forbes Magazine

PIONEERS IN CIVIL ENGINEER

He was an Austrian-born American civil engineer who made important contributions to the fields of engineering

geology and geotechnical engineering during its infancy. Renowned for his ingenious designs of soil testing

apparatus and fundamental research on seepage and soil liquefaction, he is also credited for developing the soil

mechanics teaching programme at Harvard University during the early 1930s that has since been modeled in

many universities around the world.

Casagrande was born in Haidenschaft, Austria and moved to Trieste after attending his first year in school in Linz.

When reaching the age to enter secondary school he entered the Realschule, where students are typically expected

to take on an apprenticeship and pursue a technical career upon graduating. The decision to attend the real

schooled was chiefly influenced by his maternal forebears, many of whom coming from mechanical and chemical

engineering backgrounds. He graduated from the Technische Hochschule (TH) in Vienna with a civil engineering

degree in 1924, after which he carried on working there as a full-time assistant to Professor Schaffernak in the

hydraulics laboratory.

Following the dissolution of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire after World War I, there was little construction work

around, leaving employment scant prospects in the civil engineering field. When Casagrande's father died in

1924, the duty of supporting the financial burden of the entire family, together with a strong desire to engage in

major civil engineering projects, prompted him to take the gamble of moving to the United States, a decision that

was not supported by his mother and professor. Casagrande stayed in a YMCA hostel for ten days after arriving in

New York in 1926, and decided to go to New Jersey and work as a draftsman for a few months. While visiting the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a job interview, he met Karl Terzaghi who had only just arrived, and

was immediately offered the job opportunity to work as his private assistant.

Arthur Casagrande

Born : 28 August, 1902

Died : 6 September, 1981

From 1926 to 1932, Casagrande worked as a research assistant with the US Bureau of Public Roads, assigned to

MIT, where he assisted Terzaghi in his numerous research projects directed towards improving apparatus and

techniques for soil testing. When Terzaghi took up a professorship at Vienna in 1929 after a short stint at MIT,

Casagrande traveled with him to help him set up the soil mechanics laboratory that would later become one of the

most famous research centers in soil mechanics. He also capitalized on the touring opportunity by visiting all soil

mechanics laboratories in Europe at the time. When he returned to MIT a few months later, he had gained a

thorough knowledge of the state-of-the-art in this field. While at MIT, he developed the liquid limit apparatus,

the hydrometer test, the horizontal capillary test, the odometer apparatus, and the shear box, all of which still

form the prototypes for the ones in use today. He was also a pioneer in the US for conducting the triaxial shear test

and was one of the first persons to study the volume changes of soil during shear.

Aided by his latest advances in experimental techniques and apparatus, Casagrande was able to make

fundamental contributions to the understanding of soil mechanics. He was among the first to recognize that

change in pore pressure developed during untrained shearing. He also pointed out the significant difference in

mechanical characteristics between undisturbed and remolded clay. The common procedures in use today for

identifying the pre consolidation pressure in an over consolidated soil were also due to Casagrande. In relation to

his work on Atterberg limits, the "A-line" on plasticity charts may well be named after him.

In 1932, Casagrande moved to Harvard University where he would later be promoted to a newly created chair of

soil mechanics and foundation engineering in 1946. There he rapidly established a school of postgraduate

teaching and research that would see the number of students steadily grow from 12 in 1932 to over 80 after World

War II. At one stage during 1942–44, Casagrande went on to train a total of approximately 400 army officers on

the soil mechanics aspects of airfield construction through a series of intensive four-week programmes at the

request of the Army Corps of Engineers. Even though Terzaghi would later join Harvard (with the assistance of

Casagrande) from Vienna out of concerns on the turbulent political landscape in Europe, Casagrande was

effectively alone in the soil mechanics section because of Terzaghi's many periods of absence (Terzaghi would

often be away to the University of Illinois collaborating with his close friend Ralph Peck) and disdain of

administrative duties. The successful soil mechanics and foundation engineering programme at Harvard was

hence often credited to Casagrande, and its particular emphasis on laboratory courses and seepage being an

integral part of the curriculum would later form the basis of similar courses around the world.

Casagrande was also credited for organizing the first ever International Conference on Soil Mechanics and

Foundation Engineering in 1936, which Terzaghi considered to be too much of a gamble given the early stage in

soil mechanics at that time. The conference however turned out to be a success - it led to the establishment of the

International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering- and has legitimately established soil

mechanics as an essential part of civil engineering. Alec Skempton, another early pioneer in the field, would later

refer to the time between the publication of Erdbaumechanik by Terzaghi in 1925 and the first International

Conference as the vital formative period of modern soil mechanics.

Of all the consulting projects he was involved in practice, Casagrande was well known for his work in the

construction and failure investigation of earth dams. Casagrande's passionate interests in earth dams can be seen

in the extensive research work he has carried out on seepage as well as soil liquefaction. It was also through the

study commissioned by the Corps of Engineers (who after WWII became concerned about the influence of a

possible atomic blast on the stability of embankments of the Panama Canal) that led Casagrande to become one

of the first persons in the world to investigate the dynamic strength of soils. Interestingly, even though the word

"liquefaction" was first used by Casagrande in the soil mechanics literature, he considered it to be inappropriate

for describing the effects of earthquake loading or cyclic loading in building up pore pressures and deformations in

sands (which is effectively the modern notion of liquefaction). Casagrande strenuously insisted that the

definition of liquefaction should be reserved for soil exhibiting drastic strain-softening which results in an almost

flow-type behavior. Casagrande won many awards throughout his career, including being named the first ever

Rankin Lecturer by the British Geotechnical Association as well as a Terzaghi Lecturer by ASCE. A number of

awards have been established in his honor including the Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award.

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SDDL Baramati Won Achievement Award for Excellent Safety performance.

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National Safety Week : Cricket tournament was organised on Sunday, 9th March 2014 at Rohan Leher, Pune.

· Total Eight Teams participated

· Winner Team - Rohan Mithila ( Execution)

· Runner up team- Property Management Team

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A R C H I T E C T U R A L W O N D E RA R C H I T E C T U R A L W O N D E RA R C H I T E C T U R A L W O N D E R

Marathon Futurex is an IT and financial business centre launched recently by the Marathon Group at Lower

Parel, Mumbai. Marathon Futurex is proposed to be the tallest commercial property in India. It is centrally

located at the busy junction of Lower Parel and Curry Road. It is in close proximity of major business houses

like Peninsula Corporate Park, Phoenix Mills, and Kamala Mills. The project, being developed in the

Mafatlal Mill land complex, will have a total built-up area of about 1.1 million sq ft.

Construction technology

Marathon Futurex has been constructed using the formwork technology of Sten (Spain) and Peri (Germany]

It is an energy efficient structure with a full glass façade and modern elevation.

Marathon Futurex has a system to manage, maintain and secure the commercial premises through a Building

Management System (BMS). BMS controls technical security features like CCTV, all electronic equipments,

access control system, lift system, water and electronics management systems. The BMS system enables

micro-check on all aspects of the building to ensure a secure environment to work.

Green architecture

Marathon Futurex is expected to get a gold rating from the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) for its eco

friendly design concept and construction methodology. A Solar Envelope Design study identified changing

thermal patterns throughout the year based on which the cooling of the building as been designed. The

building façade is made of double-glazed, Low-e glass that lets in the light but cuts out the heat. During the

construction phase materials like fly ash, micro silicon, low volatile organic compound paints, adhesives and

other recycled resources have been used to ensure minimal environment damage. The orientation of the

building reduces the need for artificial cooling thus conserving energy.

Marathon Futurex has more than 15 sky gardens with glass fences that act as heat barriers during the day.

There is a rain water harvesting system [4] and a captive sewage-disposal-plant that aims at zero discharge of

water thus helping in water conservation when the building becomes fully functional.

Name : Marathon Futurex

Status : Under construction

Type : Commercial

Location : Lower Parel Mumbai

Estimated Completion : 2010

Owner : Marathon Company

Antenna spire : 168 mtr (551 ft)

Floor Count : 38

Lifts/Elevators : 22

Architect : ADA

Developer : Marathon Group

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A first grade teacher explains to her class that she is a Carolina

Tarheel. She asks her students to raise their hands if they're

Tarheels too.

Not really knowing what a Carolina Tarheel is but wanting to be like

their teacher, their hands explode into the air like fleshy fireworks.

There is, however, one exception. A girl named Kristen has not gone

along with the crowd.

The teacher asks her why she has decided to be different. "Because

I'm not a Tarheel."

“Then," asks the teacher, "What are you?"

"Why I'm a proud NC State Wolf," boasts the little girl.

The teacher is perturbed now, her face slightly red. She asks Kristen

why she is a rebel.

"Well, my mom and dad are Wolfs, so I'm a Wolf too."

Her teacher is now angry. “That's no reason," she says loudly.

“What if your mom was a moron, and your dad was a moron.

What would you be then?"

A pause, and a smile. “Then," says Kristen, "I'd be a Tarheel."

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01 April Shree Swami Samarth Prakatdin

08 April Shree Ram Navami

13 April Bhagawan Mahavir Jayanti

14 April Shree Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti

15 April Shree Hanuman Jayanti

16 April Shree Tatya Tope Balidan Din

18 April Good Friday

20 April Ester Day

27 April Shree Swami Samarth Punyatithi

Shri Swami Samartha

Sri Dattatreya’s second incarnation – Shri Narasimha Saraswathi Swamy went to Kardaleevan near Sri Sailam (Andhra

Pradesh) after his Samadhi and did Thapasya (Penance) for about 300 years. One wood-cutter’s axe accidently fell into the

ant-hill which had covered Sri Narasimha Saraswathi who was doing ‘thapas’ inside, and blood started coming out. He got

shocked and when he was clearing the mud, Lo!, an handsome tall and brightful like the Sun with copper shining and

Gracious pearcing eyes, Shri Swamy Samarth came out of the ant-hill. Instead of cursing the wood cutter, the Swamy him

and went away. The mark of axe was found on the lap of Shri Swamy Samarth to evidence this incident. Swamy travelled

from the Himalayas till Rameswaram and after visiting all the Holy places and blessing lakhs of people, came to

Mangalweda near Solapur (Maharashtra) in about 1838 Swamy left Mangalweda in 1850 and came to Akkalkot in about

1857 (earlier known as ‘Pragnapur’) and did innumerable Leelas (divine plays) until he took samadhi in 1878.

(Source : http://www.akkalkotmaharaj.com/2013/01/sri-swamy-samarth-akkalkot-maharaj.htm)

Shri Rama Navami

Tithi : Chaitra Shukla paksha Navami (Ninth day of the bright fortnight of the Hindu lunar month of Chaitra)

History : Shriram Navami is celebrated to commemorate the birth of Shriram, the seventh Incarnation of Shrivishnu.

Ramachandra was born in Ayodhya on this day, during Punarvasu nakshatra (Lunar asterism) at twilight in karka lagan,

when the Sun and five other planets etc. were positioned.

Importance of Shriram Navami : The Principles of Deities and Incarnations are more active on earth on the day of their

birth as per the Hindu lunar calendar. On the day of Shriram Navami, Shriram’s Principle is a thousand times more active

when compared to other days. On this day, chanting ‘II Shri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram II’ and worshipping Deity Ram with

bhav (spiritual emotion) helps in obtaining maximum benefit of Deity Ram's Principle.

Method of celebrating Shriram Navami : Temples of Shriram celebrate this festival for nine days beginning from the day

of Pratipada (note) of the month of Chaitra. It is celebrated by repeated readings of the Ramayan, organising spiritual

discourses and beautifully embellishing Lord Ram’s Idol.

On the ninth day, in the afternoon a spiritual discourse on Shriram’s birth is held. At noon, a coconut draped in a hooded

cloak is placed in a cradle and the cradle is rocked gently. Devotees shower gulal (a red, fragrant powder) and flowers onto it.

(At some places an Idol of Shriram is kept in a cradle instead of a coconut.) On this occasion, songs describing the events at

Shriram’s birth are sung. Then, the Idol of Shriram is worshipped and sauntha (Dried ginger powder) is served as prasad. At

some places mahaprasad is served along with dried ginger.

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Bhagawan Mahavir Jayanti

Birth Legend : Mahavira was born into royalty as the son of King Siddhartha and Queen Trishala. During pregnancy,

Trishala was believed to have had a number of auspicious dreams, all signifying the coming of a great leader. The exact

number of dreams differs according to the school of Jainism; Svetambaras generally believe that the actual number is

fourteen while Digambaras claim sixteen instead. Regardless, the astrologers that interpreted these dreams claimed that the

child would become either an emperor or a Tirthankar. It is said that when Trishala finally gave birth to Mahavira, the god-

king Indra bathed the newborn himself with celestial milk, a ritual essentially marking him as a Tirthankar.

Celebrations : Local statues of Mahavira are given a ceremonial bath called the abhisheka. During the day, many Jains

engage in some sort of charitable act in the name of Mahavira while others travel to temples to meditate and offer prayers.

Lectures are typically held in temples to preach the path of virtue as defined by Jain doctrine. Donations are collected in

order to promote charitable missions like saving cows from slaughter or helping to feed poor people. Ancient Jain temples

across India typically see an extremely high volume of practitioners come to pay their respects and join in the celebrations.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavir_Jayanti

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Shree Babasaheb Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar ([14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956), popularly also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist,

politician, philosopher, anthropologist, historian and economist. A revivalist for Buddhism in India, he inspired the Modern

Buddhist movement. As independent India's first law minister, he was principal architect of the Constitution of India. Born

into a poor Mahar family, Ambedkar campaigned against social discrimination, the Indian caste system. He converted to

Buddhism and is also credited with providing a spark for the conversion of hundreds of thousands of lower caste members to

Buddhism. Ambedkar was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1990.[3] Eventually

earning a law degree and doctorates for his study and research in law, economics and political science from Columbia

University and the London School of Economics, Ambedkar gained a reputation as a scholar and practiced law for a few

years, later campaigning by publishing journals advocating political rights and social freedom for India's untouchables. He is

regarded as a Bodhisattva by some Indian Buddhists, though he never claimed it himself.

(Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar)

Shree Hanuman Jayanti

In Maharashtra, Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated on the full moon day (pournima) of the Hindu lunar month of Chaitra. A

special feature of Hanuman Jayanti is that according to some religious almanacs (panchangs) the birthday of Hanuman falls

on the fourteenth day (chaturdashi) in the dark fortnight of the month of Ashvin while according to others it falls on the full

moon day in the bright fortnight of Chaitra. On this day, in a Hanuman temple spiritual discourses are started at dawn.

Hanuman was born at sunrise. At that time the spiritual discourse is stopped and the offering of food (Prasad) is distributed

to everyone. (Source: http://www.hindujagruti.org/articles/17.html)

Shree Tatya Tope Balidan Din

Tatya Tope alias Ramchandra Pandurang Tope was born around 1813 in an orthodox Deshasth Brahmin family in

Pune. His father, Pandurang Rao Tope, was an important noble at the court of the Peshwa Baji Rao II. He shifted his

family with the ill-fated Peshwa to Bithur where his son became the most intimate friend of the Peshwa's adopted son,

Nana Dhondu Pant. The other associates of Tatya Tope were Rao Sahib and Rani Lakshmi Bai. In 1851, when Lord

Dalhousie deprived Nana Sahib of his father's pension, Tatya Tope also became a sworn enemy of the British. He co-

operated with Nana Sahib in organising an anti-British upsurge secretly in collaboration with other aggrieved persons.

In May 1857, when the political storm was gaining momentum, Tatya Tope won over the Bharatiya troops of the East

India company, stationed at Kanpur, established Nana Sahib's authority and became the Commander-in-Chief of his

revolutionary forces. In the military encounters that followed he emerged as a gifted tactician with a marvellous

organising skill and as an unsurpassed guerrilla warrior with lightning speed. Tatya Tope joined hands with Rani

Lakshmi Bai After the reoccupation of Kanpur by the British and kindled a revolt in Bundelkhand. Then he reached

Gwalior where he declared Nana Sahib as Peshwa with the support of the Gwalior contingent. But before he could

consolidate his position he was defeated by General Rose in a memorable battle in which Rani Lakshmi Bai suffered

martyrdom. The fall of Gwalior was a turning point in the career of Tatya Tope. Thereafter commenced his remarkable

feats of guerrilla warfare over very vast regions of Central India, Malwa, Bundel-khand, Rajputana and Khandesh,

from the recesses of the Vindhyas to the gorges of the Aravali, harassing and perplexing the British and their allies.

Pursued from June 1858 to April 1859 by nearly half of the British forces in India under their ablest generals enjoying

the fullest support of their military intelligence, he outmaneuvred them several times. Tatya Tope could not be

captured in the marathon chase of about 2,800 miles horizontally and vertically through forests, hills, dales and across

the swollen rivers. At last he was betrayed by his trusted friend Mansingh. The British army captured him on 7th April

1859. He admitted boldly, "What I did, was for my mother and I have no regrets". He was hanged on 18th April 1859

and the sun set forever on the First War of Bharatiya Independence.(Source: http://www.hindujagruti.org/articles/16_tatya-tope.html)

Good Friday

Is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at

Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday,

and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Black Friday, or

Easter Friday, though the latter properly refers to the Friday in Easter week.

Based on the details of the Canonical gospels, the Crucifixion of Jesus was most likely to have been on a Friday (the day

before the Sabbath) (John 19:42). The estimated year of the Crucifixion is AD 33, by two different groups, and originally as

AD 34 by Isaac Newton via the differences between the Biblical and Julian calendars and the crescent of the moon. A third

method, using a completely different astronomical approach based on a lunar Crucifixion darkness and eclipse model

(consistent with Apostle Peter's reference to a "moon of blood" in Acts 2:20), points to Friday, 3 April

1st April - Tripathi Dhananjay, Chavan Apurva, Pandey Ashutosh Kumar,

Singh Santosh L, Khan Mohammad Ayub,

Shilwant Shantappa, Lunkad Ankita

2nd April - Punitha M., Chalwadi Hanumant

3rd April - Tumminakatti Ramesh S., Vishwasrao Bapu,

Mishra Sudhakar Kumar, Pareek Akshay

4th April - Adaput Devaraj, Girkar Mansoor,

Nair Vasudev, Aji Kumar V, Deepak Pakhale

5th April - Pasha Mohammed Rizwan, Gupta Subrotosen,

Patil Vijay V, Singh Himmat

6th April - J. Thippeswamy, S. Rudresh,

Ranjeet Kumar Raushan, Singh Vivek

7th April - Sharma Kamlesh

8th April - S. Srinivas

10th April - Ghone Sunil, Dhanegave Gangadhar,

Shivankar Ashok G, Bhoite Nitin, Ghodke Kasturi

11th April - Gonbare Manoj, Dixit Milind D, Rede Sagar

12th April - Manoj Kumar D, Hemant Kumar

13th April - Shingte Aniket, Kapse Ramakant M,

Hivarkar Mahesh, Deshpande Prasad

14th April - Pawar Sham

15th April - Yadavar Murgan P, Singh Balvinder,

Manoj Kumar M

16th April - Naik Srikanta

17th April - Daga Vipul

18th April - More Ganesh

19th April - Jagtap Prashant

21st April - C. Parthipan, Nerkar Aniruddh, Singh Manjeet

22nd April - Nadaf Akabar M, Raut Shivaji, Chavan Sambhaji,

Pathak Deelip, Daware Vivek

23rd April - M. R. Deepa, Shende Dnyanesh

24th April - Dhure Dharmendra, Patwardhan Archana

25th April - Tiwari Ravindranath, Singh Dharmendra S,

Dungarwal Sunny

26th April - Wani Anirudh G, Khapare Jayavant, Khadke

Shrikant, Thosar Ajit, Landge Sachin

27th April - Mohanto Digbijay, Rathod Hemchandra J

28th April - S. Raghu

29th April - Salve Ganesh, Bibin George

30th April - Khan Asifulla, Paste Nilesh, Biswas Sandeep,

Sankpal Dundappa, Salavi Nilesh, Bhise Govind