Adar Poonawalla

Adar Poonawalla

Adar Poonawalla (born 14 January 1981) is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Serum Institute of India. Founded in 1966 by his father, Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla, it is the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by number of doses produced. 

Adar Poonawalla was educated at the Bishops School (Pune), St. Edmund's School, Canterbury Kent (UK) followed by the University of Westminster (UK).

Adar Poonawalla joined Serum Institute in 2001 after graduating from the University of Westminster in London. Then exporting its products to 35 countries, Poonawalla concentrated on the company's international market and getting new products licensed and pre-qualified by the World Health Organization for supply to United Nations Agencies including UNICEF and PAHO. As of 2015, the company exports its products to over 140 countries; 85 percent of its revenues are from overseas. 

In 2011, he became the CEO of Serum Institute of India with full control of day-to-day operations of the company. In 2012 he played a major role in the acquisition of Bilthoven Biologicals a Netherlands-based government vaccine manufacturing company.  In 2017 he acquired Praha Vaccine Limited in the Czech Republic. Poonawalla is a board member of the GAVI Alliance, the global vaccine alliance. 

He initiated and launched in 2014 Serum Institute's oral polio vaccine, which became a bestseller for the company. Every year he plans to launch a new vaccines for public health starting in 2017. In 2014, it was reported that he planned to expand the product portfolio to include vaccines for dengue, flu and cervical cancer

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adar_Poonawalla

Tahir Hussain

Tahir Hussain

Mohammad Tahir Hussain Khan or Tahir Hussain (19 September 1938 – 2 February 2010 was born into a Khumra Muslim family to descendants of sipahi) was an Indian film producer and director known for his works in Hindi cinema. 

Tahir Hussain married Shehnaz Khan and is the father of actors Aamir Khan and Faisal Khan. The hit film producer, director, and writer Nasir Hussain was Tahir Hussain's elder brother and mentor. Tahir's son, Aamir Khan, made his film debut in Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, a film which was produced by his uncle Nasir Hussain and directed by his cousin Mansoor Khan.

Tahir Hussain directed his son, Aamir, for the first (and only) time in his directorial debut Tum Mere Ho in 1990. 

Tahir Hussain was related to first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.  On 2 February 2010, he died in Mumbai following a severe heart attack. 

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahir_Hussain

Sunil Chhetri

Sunil Chhetri

Sunil Chhetri (born 3 August 1984) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a striker or winger and captains both the Indian Super League side Bengaluru and the Indian national team. Popularly known as Captain Fantastic, having scored the second highest number of goals in international matches among active male players after Cristiano Ronaldo,  he is both the most-capped player  and all-time top goalscorer for the Indian national team, with 72 goals  in 115 appearances.  He is the current captain of the national team. Sunil Chhetri was named an 'Asian Icon' by AFC on his 34th birthday. 

Chhetri began his professional career at Mohun Bagan in 2002.  He then moved to JCT where he scored 21 goals in 48 games.  He signed for the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer in 2010, becoming the third player from the subcontinent of note to go abroad.  However, that stint in the United States did not last long and soon he was back in India's I-League where he played for Chirag United and Mohun Bagan before going back abroad. This time he was signed by Sporting Clube de Portugal of the Primeira Liga where he played for the club's reserve side. 

He helped India win the 2007 Nehru Cup, 2009 Nehru Cup, the 2012 Nehru Cup as well as the 2011 SAFF Championship. He was also one of India's best players during the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup in which India won the tournament and thus qualified for their first AFC Asian Cup in 27 years.  He then led India in scoring during their short-lived campaign at the 2011 AFC Asian Cup with two goals.  Chhetri has also been named AIFF Player of the Year a record six times in 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018–19 

Chhetri began his professional football journey with Mohun Bagan of the National Football League after playing with City FC of New Delhi.  After his first season with the club, the 2002–03 season, Chhetri had scored four goals  as Mohun Bagan finished in seventh place in the table.  The next season, Chhetri scored only two goals. The first came against Sporting Goa while the second came against Indian Bank as Mohun Bagan once again finished in the bottom half of the table, in ninth place.  Chhetri then once again scored only two goals during the 2004–05 season; this time Mohun Bagan finished eighth in the league and remained in the National Football League on goal difference

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Chhetri

Yediyurappa

Yediyurappa

Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa (born 27 February 1943)  is an Indian politician serving as the 19th and current Chief Minister of Karnataka. Yediyurappa is serving as the Chief Minister of Karnataka for the fourth time, the only Chief Minister to do so in the history of Karnataka and he is also the only person in the history of Karnataka to serve 3 times as Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He is also an eight-times MLA from Shikaripura constituency in Shimoga district.

In 2008, Yediyurappa became the Chief Minister after leading the BJP to a victory in the Karnataka Assembly elections, a first for the BJP in a South Indian state. In 2011, he resigned after being indicted over a corruption case; he was acquitted in 2016. Owing to alleged ill-treatment meted out to Yediyurappa by the BJP High Command, he left BJP and formed his own party, the Karnataka Janata Paksha.  However, in 2014 he merged his party with the BJP and was subsequently elected to the 16th Lok Sabha from the Shimoga constituency, which he quit after being elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in May 2018  On 17 May 2018, he was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka, his third term in the office. Unable to get a majority support in the Assembly, he resigned just two days after taking office and H. D. Kumaraswamy took oath as CM.  After the government of H. D. Kumaraswamy lost its majority on 23 July 2019 with the resignation of 17 MLAs, he became chief minister of Karnataka and took oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka on 26 July 2019 and proved his majority on 29 July 2019. In the December by-elections, BJP won 12 seats out of the 15 under his leadership and gained full majority of 117 seats.

Yediyurappa was born on 27 February 1943 in a village called Bookanakere in K.R.Pet taluk of Mandya district.  His parents were Siddalingappa and Puttathayamma. He was named after the presiding deity of a Shaivite temple built by the great saint Siddalingeshwara at Yediyur in Tumkuru district. His mother died when he was four.   He completed his Pre-University College education from Government college, Mandya (Mysore University)- 1960-61. He belongs to Banajiga sub-sect of Lingayat community. 

In 1965, he was appointed as a first-division clerk in the social welfare department but he quit the job and moved on to Shikaripura where he joined as a clerk at Veerabhadra Shastri's Shankara rice mill. In 1967, Yediyurappa married Mythradevi, daughter of the rice mill owner.  He later set up a hardware shop in Shimoga. Yediyurappa has two sons, Raghavendra, B.Y Vijayendra and three daughters, Arunadevi, Padmavati and Umadevi. In 2004, his wife died after falling into a sump while drawing water.  In 2007, he changed the spelling of his name to Yeddyurappa from the earlier Yediyurappa following the advice of his astrologers,  to change back again to Yediyurappa before oath taking ceremony on 26 July 2019.  He is a proud follower of Basavanna

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._S._Yediyurappa

باسل خياط

باسل خياط

باسل خياط (29 أغسطس 1977 -) ممثل سوري.

بدأ التمثيل منذ أن كان في الثامنة من عمره حيث شارك في مسرح الأطفال، وعندما تقدم لاختبارات القبول في المعهد العالي للفنون المسرحية (دمشق) تم رفضه في المرة الأولى ولكن بالعام التالي اللجنة نفسها قبلته، وتخرج بنفس الدفعة مع الفنانين قصي خولي وسلافة معمار وندين تحسين بيك، وشارك في الكثير من المسرحيات في فرنسا ومصر وبيروت والأردن والكويت وسوريا، وربطته علاقة حب لفترة مع الفنانة التونسية هند صبري لكنها لم تكتمل بالزواج.

مصاب بمرض "حمّى البحر الأبيض المتوسط"، وهو مرض نادر لا شفاء منه.

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احمد الدمرداش

احمد الدمرداش

أحمد الدمرداش (27 يوليو 1975 -)، ممثل مصري. بدأ العمل الفني بعام 2000، من عائلة فنية حيث أن والده الفنان مصطفى الدمرداش ووالدته الفنانة سامية أمين وعمه الفنان والمخرج الراحل نور الدمرداش.

مراجع

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B4

Leila George

Leila George

Leila George D'Onofrio (born 20 March 1992) is an Australian-American actress. 

George was born in Sydney, Australia  to actor and producer Vincent D'Onofrio and actress Greta Scacchi.  In 2008, she had acting classes at Brighton College. In 2009, she went to Crawley College which her mother attended as well. In 2010, she studied at the Arts Educational Schools, London. In 2011, she went to Australia to study at Sydney Film School. In 2012, she went to the United States to study at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City near her father. 

In 2013, George worked as an additional camera operator for The Last Impresario documentary. In 2014, she with her mother was starring in Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull for Black Swan Theatre Company in Perth. Her mother acted as Arkadina, and she acted as Nina, Arkadina’s love rival. 

In 2016, she played the main role in her first feature television film, Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?.  She was featured in the films Mortal Engines (2018)  and The Kid (2019). 

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_George