by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 9, 2023 | Persons in the News
M.S. Swaminathan, father of Green Revolution in India, passed away on September 28, 2023 in Chennai. He was the person behind India becoming self-sufficient in food grain production after independence. He was named the first World Food Price Laureate and received the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 24, 2023 | Persons in the News
London-based Indian-origin author Chetna Maroo’s debut novel Western Lane is among 13 books that have been listed for the 2023 Booker Prize. Born in Kenya and currently living in London, Chetna Maroo has written various stories for the anthologies published by the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 11, 2023 | Persons in the News
Lakshya Sen, an Indian badminton player, won the Canada Open 2023 badminton men’s singles title in July 2023, after beating the People’s Republic of China’s Li Shifeng. As of August 1, 2023, his current ranking has been 11, displacing Kidambi Srikanth, as...
by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 25, 2023 | Persons in the News
The Olympic High Jump Champion, Richard Douglas Fosbury, popularly known as Dick Fosbury, passed away on March 12, 2023, at the age of 76 at Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States of America. Fosbury was battling a recurrence of lymphoma, a form of cancer, which...
by Spectrum | Mar 20, 2023 | Persons in the News
Vani Jairam (birth name, Kalaivani) was born on November 30, 1945, in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. In her childhood, she was given a formal Carnatic music training under the guidance of Kadalur Srinivas Iyengar, T.R. Balasubramanian, and R.S. Mani. After completing her...
by Team Spectrum Books | Feb 25, 2023 | Persons in the News
Captain Shiva Chouhan became the first woman army officer on January 2, 2023 to get operationally deployed for an initial period of three months at Kumar Post, situated on the world’s highest battlefield, Siachen Glacier, at an altitude of 15,632 feet, after receiving...
