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Chandigarh residents fondly remembered the architect of City Beautiful, Le Corbusier on his 125th birth anniversary.

While the city built by the French architect occupies pride of place in the country and beyond, city residents feel, that Corbusier’s vision was that of a city with a small population. Now that equations have changed, Chandigarh has go Le Corbusier ne from a placid town to a bustling metropolis, and changes are required.

The metro train network is something city residents both look forward to and dread. While travel will be facilitated, people feel it will destroy the peaceful essence of Chandigarh.

While Le Corbusier is without doubt one of the most loved figures in the history of the city, the scene at the Le Corbusier centre on his 125th birth anniversary belied the esteem he is held in. There were no officials at the centre. Regular workmen could be seen dusting the architect’s photographs with no idea that it is his birth anniversary. While the Frenchman who gave India one of her most beautiful cities would not be an egomaniac, it would be only fair for us to remember him once in a while.

UT Tourism department officials paid tribute to the Swiss-French master architect, Le Corbusier on his 125th birth anniversary at the beautifully decorated Le Corbusier Centre in Sector-19. To mark Corbusier's birth anniversary the visitors and tourists were greeted with flower buds and sweets all through the day at Le Corbusier Centre. It's here in these premises of that Le Corbusier conceptualized the foundation plans and design of the city beautiful including architectural edifices .

The architect genius Le Corbusier was invited here in the year 1950 to carve out and chase the dreams of late Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru. Corbusier was then at the peak of his career and he got along quite well with the Indian architects and other developers to raise this modern city of Chandigarh. During his stay here, Corbusier created wonderful designs of Capitol Complex, Open Hand as the symbol of Chandigarh and a number of big architectural buildings across the city including the famous Museum Complex in Sector-10.

100 years of African National Congress
 African National Congress (ANC) is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
 Africa’s oldest liberation movement successfully brought an end to the Apartheid which once saw South Africa
legally divided on the basis of race.
 African National Congress (ANC) is South Africa’s governing Africanist political party.
 It defines itself as a “disciplined force of the left”.
 The organization was founded as South African Native National Congress (SANNC) on 8 January 1912 in
Bloemfontein to increase the rights of the black South African population.
 John Dube was its first president. The organization became the ANC in 1923 and formed a military wing, the
Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) in 1961.
 It has been the ruling party of post-apartheid South Africa on the national level since 1994.
 The year-long celebrations have begun with a golf tournament.







April 5, 2012: “Samta Diwas” – Babu Jagjivan Ram’s 105th
birth anniversary
Which day in India is celebrated as “Samta Diwas”?
The nation paid homage to the veteran freedom fighter and former Deputy Prime Minister and Defence
Minister Babu Jagjivan Ram on his 105th birth anniversary. The day is also being celebrated as“Samta
Diwas”. The day is so called to match his belief of bringing equality among all in the society.
Babu Jagjivan Ram strove for over fifty years to bring in a just and egalitarian society and empowering the
Current Affairs Published on www.gktoday.in from January 1, 2012 to
September 10, 2012
underprivileged. Jagjivan Ram was born on 5 April 1908, in Chandwa in a harijan family. At that time society played
many societal taboos on them and the harsh rules made his world very eldritch from others. He was filled with pain at
the troubles of the untouchables. Jagjivan Ram died in July 1986.









137 foundation day of Indian Metrological Department observed
 In the year 1875, the Government of India established the India Meteorological Department, bringing all
meteorological work in the country under a central authority.
 Mr. H. F. Blanford was appointed Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India.
 The first Director General of Observatories was Sir John Eliot who was appointed in May 1889 at Calcutta
headquarters.
 The headquarters of IMD were later shifted to Shimla, then to Poona (now Pune) and finally to New Delhi.
 137 foundation day of Indian Metrological Department observed on 15 January 2012.