C.D.Deshmukh was the first Indian to be appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 1943. He oversaw the post-partition division of assets and liabilities between the RBI of India and Pakistan. He also represented India at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference which established the IMF and World Bank, and was a member of both institutions' boards of governors for 10 years.
C.P. Krishnan Nair was inspired by Subhash Chandra Bose and served in the Indian National Army. He later pioneered the popular Bleeding Madras fabric business after getting the idea on a trip to Germany with the Handloom Board.
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3. When British India was
partitioned into India and
Pakistan in 1947, he oversaw the
post-partition division of the
assets and liabilities of the
Reserve Bank between India and
Pakistan.
4. He represented India at the
Bretton Woods Conference on July
1–22, 1944. The conference led to
the establishment of the (IMF) and
(IBRD). He was a member of the
Board of Governors of both of
these institutions for the next ten
years.
5. He was the first Indian to
be appointed as the
Governor of the Reserve
Bank of India in 1943 by
the British Raj authorities.
9. It was first established in
Calcutta in 1818 by Bipin Behari
Dasgupta and others and 245
such instuitions were merged
together to create the present
entity in 1956
10.
11. It is the country's largest
investor. It funds close to 24.6%
of the Indian Government's
expenses. It has assets
estimated of INR13.25 trillion
(US$264.34 billion)
14. He has served in the
Indian National Army
under Netaji Subhash
Chandra Bose.
15. In 1957, he was part of a delegation of the
Handloom Board to West Germany, which
involved visits to Frankfurt, Cologne, Munich and
Hamburg. This trip gave him the idea to enter the
business he is presently known in.
His company became one of the pioneers of the
Bleeding Madras fabric, which became much
popular in the 1960s
21. It is the only corporate entity in the country to
have both Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh
Khan as brand endorsers for the same brand.
It has more than 50 celebrity endorsers. Other
celebrity endorsers of the company’s brand
include Madhuri Dixit- Kareena Kapoor- Preity
Zinta- Malaika Arora Khan- Bipasha Basu-MS
Dhoni- Suriya- Mahesh Babu- Dinesh Karthik-
Amit Mishra- Virender Sehwag-Sachin Tendulkar-
Harbhajan Singh-Zaheer Khan-, Govinda, Sourav
Ganguly, Chiranjeevi, Surya and Upendra among
others.
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25. In 1921, the founder of the group
donated three lakh rupees to the
Tilak Swaraj Fund. The British put
out a circular prohibiting
government departments from
buying its products. The founder
was also a pall-bearer at Bal
Gangadhar Tilak's funeral.
26. They manufactured over
17 lakh ballot boxes for
free India's first elections
in 1952. Each box was
priced at Rs 5 a box.
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28.
29. The four major types
are Criollo,
Forastero, Trinitario
and Nacional
30. It was first given its botanical
name by Swedish natural
scientist Carl Linnaeus in his
original classification of the
plant kingdom, who called it
___________("food of the
gods") ______- .
31. It was introduced to Spain in the
16th century.
It contain a high level of flavonoids,
specifically epicatechin, which may
have beneficial cardiovascular
effects on health.