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AHIMSA TIMES - MAY 2009 ISSUE - www.jainsamaj.org
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students took the test, of which a mere 1,524 were successful. Nationwide, 10,035 students qualified. Nitin's teachers at Modern Vidya Niketan burst crackers to celebrate the unprecedented honour. Nitin's father, N C Jain, says the future was charted by the teenager long ago. I wanted him to do CA but he said he wanted to be a computer engineer. I once asked if he thought he could get into IIT. He said there was no doubt. Nitin, known as a science wizard in school, has won a gold medal in the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics in Indonesia and will soon head to Mexico for another science olympiad. The education minister of Indonesia had also invited him to join the Bardung Institute of Technology for engineering, Nitin's father said. Nitin scored 95% aggregate in his class XII board exams.
N. K. JAIN, NEW DELHI TO GET RASHTRIYA RATTAN AWARD Nand Kumar Jain, president of S S Jain School Committee, has been selected for the Rashtriya Rattan Award instituted by Citizens' Integration Peace Society, New Delhi. His name has been short listed for his outstanding services in the field of education.
Talking to newsline, Jain said, "The announcement of this award has come as a surprise to me. I have been serving this management for 25 years. I started serving as a member to this management." The committee headed by him runs Jain Public Senior Secondary School, Jain Girls' Sen Sec School, Devki Devi Jain Memorial College for Women and DD Jain College of Education and Atam Devki School. He said that a hospital was also started under his guidance near Neem Wala Chowk which has been doing very well.
A commerce graduate of 1977 from SCD Government College for Boys, Jain opted his family business of jewellery. He said, "My future plan is to provide more educational institutes in the city, where poor and needy children may study. Last year, we provided free of education to about 200 children."
AJIT JAIN MAY SUCCEED WARREN BUFFETT AS CEO WASHINGTON: India born Ajit Jain is one of three top executives who could succeed billionaire investor Warran Buffett as CEO of the investment giant, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. At the company's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett said it would be impossible to replace Jain at Berkshire's insurance operations, remarking: "Ajit is needed, and we won't find a substitute for him." Born in Orissa, the 57-year-old Jain is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and the Harvard Business School. As for Jain, this is not the first time that Buffett has showered praise on him. "Ajit's value to Berkshire is enormous," he said in 2004. In a comment a year ago, Buffett said: "Ajit came to Berkshire in 1986. Very quickly, I realised that we had acquired an extraordinary talent,
DR. SUSHIL JAIN OF WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA HONORED WITH 'AWARD OF EXCELLENCE BY INTERNATIONAL JAIN SANGH, NEW JERSEY - Dr. Sushil Jain from Washington, DC, metropolitan area has received the 2009 "Award of Excellence" from International Jain Sangh (IJS) of New Jersey at the Mahavir Jayanti celebration program on April 19, 2009. Each year IJS honors an exceptionally worthy person, who has visibly and verifiably demonstrated a great service to further the teachings of Lord Mahavir including peace, nonviolence, education, and compassion either by practice or by influencing public policies, media coverage or through interfaith programs. Instituted in 2001, the former recipients of this prestigious award were Mr. Bawa Jain, Dr. Dhiraj H. Shah, Mr. Arvind Vora, Dr. Tansukh Salgia, Mr. Pravin K.Shah, Dr. Sulekh Jain; and Mr. & Mrs. Mahendra and Asha Mehta from Mumbai.
In his acceptance speech, Dr. Sushil Jain shared experiences of educating the main stream America about nonviolence in Jainism, drafting several policy statements for media including Jaina Code of Ethics & Conduct; Faith-based Charity, Gun control, Racial Profiling, and Affirmative action. He has written to many newspapers and magazines correcting misinformation published regarding Jainism and helped develop a dehydrated Hindu/Jain vegetarian meal for soldiers in combat environment. Dr. Jain also known as Captain Jain, an Optometric Physician and retired U.S. Naval Captain volunteered in 18 eye camp missions around the globe; and organized Jain Prayer in the U.S. Congress, as well as in Virginia and Maryland General Assembly. He was a key organizer for Jain Pilgrimage exhibit at the Washington Smithsonian Museum. Dr. Jain is currently in private practice including providing consultative services to the nation's leaders at the White House and the U.S.
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