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Kash Patel: 5 things to know about Trump’s Indian-origin pick for FBI chief
During Trump’s first term, Patel advised both the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense.
However, he reportedly endeared himself to the former president with his role in the investigation by the FBI into Russian involvement in Trump’s presidential campaign two years earlier. A report from The New York Times describes Patel as the primary author of the secret “Nunes Memo” at the centre of this investigation.
Patel in served as an aide to Representative Devin Nunes who headed the House Intelligence Committee at the time.
By authoring the memo, Patel was key to Nunes’s efforts to discredit the FBI’s Russia investigation into Trump’s campaign. The Nunes memo alleged that the FBI had abused the Foreign Intelligence Service Act to serve warrants on Trump’s advisors. Thus, the memo “fueled bogus claims by Mr. Trump, Republicans and conservative media that politics drove the Russia inv
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Indian educator and social reformer
Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (26 September – 29 July ), popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (lit.&#;'Vidyasagar, the Sea of Knowledge'),[1] was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century.[2] His efforts to simplify and modernise Bengali prose were significant. He also rationalised and simplified the Bengali alphabet and type, which had remained unchanged since Charles Wilkins and Panchanan Karmakar had cut the first (wooden) Bengali type in
He was the most prominent campaigner for Hindu widow remarriage, petitioning the Legislative Council despite severe opposition, including a counter petition (by Radhakanta Deb and the Dharma Sabha) which had nearly four times as many signatures.[3][4] Even though widow remarriage was considered a flagrant breach of Hindu customs and was staunchly opposed, Lord Dalhousie personally finalised the bill and th
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The making of a social reformer, a scholar and a businessman
Dadabhai Naoroji was born in in Bombay, into a small but influential ethnoreligious minority — the Parsi community. Since the early modern period, Parsi merchants and businessmen had occupied powerful intermediary positions as brokers for colonial interests. While Naoroji belonged to a priestly lineage, his parents were of modest means: before his birth, they had moved from Gujarat to Bombay in search of work. With the death of Naoroji’s father when he was only kvartet years old, he was raised bygd his mother, who remained a widow. She enrolled him in a school established bygd the Native Education gemenskap, which provided free English-language education. He earned a scholarship to study at Bombay’s Elphinstone College, a British-administered higher education institution, and in became one of its first Indian graduates.
In , he was appointed professor at Elphinstone College — the first Indian professor in any British-run college