Organization: Tata Group of Companies Achievement: He was known as Father of Indian Industry. He started his career by working in his father’s company until the age of 29, after which he set up a cotton mill in Nagpur. One of his major ideas incuded the Taj Mahal Hotel that was inaugurated in 1903. Tata […]
Organization: HCL Achevement: He has made the country proud with his company and its global existence. He is a philanthropist and works towards providing free education and scholarship for the underprivileged.“Forbes new entry in the list of the world’s richest person is a man who began by making computers in his garage 24 years ago.
Organization: Apollo Hospitals Group Achievement: India can be always be proud of Apollo Hospitals for all their humanitarian activities. Dr. Reddy made the country proud when The Harvard Business School published a case study on the pioneering efforts of Dr Reddy and the achievements of Apollo Hospitals.A compassionate humanitarian, dedicated to bringing world-class healthcare within
Organization: Biocon Achievement: This company was founded by Shaw in her garage which later turned to become the 7th largest biotech employer in the world and India’s first and No. 1 biotech company with a global ranking of 16.She has been referred to as “India’s Biotech Queen” by The Economist and “India’s mother of invention”
Organization: Wipro Limited Achievement: Premji’s Wipro with its global presence in about 54 countries has represented the nation with pride and has employed about 130,000 employees.Azim Hashim Premji, the Chairman of Wipro Corporation, was born in 1945 in Maharashtra. His father had a vegetable oil company in Maharashtra. His father died of a heart attack
Organization:Infosys Technologies Limited Achievement: Murthy is an industrialist who co-founded Infosys and expanded the Indian market to the next level. It was awarded as ‘India’s most respected company’ in business world’s survey.There is a famous adage in English which says that hard work does not kill anybody but it is sloth that is the main
A former FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union for 22 years starting in 1979, Hanssen was charged with selling information for more than $1.4 million. Considered the “worst intelligence disaster in the US history” he pleaded guilty to 13 counts of espionage and is now serving life imprisonment at the United States Penitentiary
Infamously known as “the Falcon and the Snowman,” this unlikely duo somehow managed to create a serious hole in the national security of the US government in the 1970s through their low-profile efforts. Boyce, who was working for an aerospace company on contract with the US government, stumbled upon some top secret information. He decided
Raymond Llewellyn Mawby was a British member of the Parliament for the Conservative Party who spied for the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic during the Cold War. Given the code name “Laval,” he had received £100 for every piece of information that he handed over including the floor plans of the Prime Minister’s office. Raymond Llewellyn “Ray”
Known for his code name “Agent HERO,” Oleg was a Colonel in the Soviet GRU who was supplying intelligence to the United States government during the 1950s and 60s. He was responsible for the ‘Cuban Missile Crisis’ as he informed the United Kingdom and the United States about the Soviet’s placement of missiles in Cuba.
Klaus Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist, whose significant contributions include the first fission weapons and early models of the hydrogen bomb; he was convicted for leaking out information about the Atomic bomb research (the Manhattan Project) to the Soviet Union in 1950 due to the reasoning that they had the right to know. He
The first civilians in the history of the United States to be executed as spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of passing secrets about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Julius obtained the documents from his brother-in-law, David Greenglass, who supplied the documents from Los Alamos and cleared Ethel’s involvement.
An Albanian secret agent who spied for Germany during World War II, Elyesa Bazna sold information to the Germans under his code name “Cicero”. He is credited for selling some of the Allies most damaging secrets and was probably one of the Axis powers top informants. Elyesa Bazna (Albanian, Iliaz Bazda, born July 28, 1904
Though American born yet George Koval moved to Russia as a child and was later recruited by the Soviet GRU and sent back to America to obtain nuclear information as agent DELMAR. When he secured a position as an engineer on the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bomb during World War II from
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake served as a British agent during the later part of World War II. She became a leading figure in the French Resistance and was one of the Allies’ most decorated servicewomen of the war. Nancy Grace Augusta Wake AC, GM (30 August 1912—7 August 2011) served as a British Special Operations