Ghanshyam Das Birla, an eminent Indian industrialist, during the Quit India movement of 1942, had conceived the idea of organizing a commercial bank with Indian capital and management, and the United Commercial Bank Limited was incorporated to give shape to that idea. Bank started with its Head Office at Kolkata Capital with an issued capital of Rs 2 crore and a Paid-up capital of Rs 1 crore.

Danny had his early schooling in the erstwhile kingdom of Sikkim ( the 22nd state of India since 1975 ), thereafter completed his schooling from Birla Vidya Mandir, Nainital, Uttarakhand in 1964.

Socialist politicians such as Jaya Prakash Narayan and Asoka Mehta criticised him for his personal proximity to Indian industrialists such as the Birla and Sarabhai families.

It is known for being the home of the world renowned university BITS-Pilani ( Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani ).

Other colleges in the town include the BK Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology ( BKBIET ), an engineering college formed in 2007, the Indermani Mandelia college for girls and the ShaadiLal Kataria Teacher Training college.

Pilani is also the home for several boarding schools including Birla Senior Secondary School, Birla Public School ( Vidya Niketan ), Birla School, Pilani and Birla Balika Vidyapeeth.

Hyderabad is known for its famous historical monuments such as Charminar, Mecca Masjid, Golconda Fort, Falaknuma Palace, Qutub Shahi Tombs, and Birla Mandir.

AAU has established centres for telecommunication at Birla Institute of Technology in India, at Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia, and at the University of Rome.

AAU focuses on international collaboration within research and has, among other things, established a department for wireless communication and satellite navigation at University of Rome Tor Vergata, and the University of Calcutta in India and two centres for telecommunications, one at Birla Institute of Technology in India and one at Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia.

It was started by the management of Saurashtra Chemicals ( formerly held by S K Birla group ) for the wards of their employees.

He was awarded the Einstein Society Gold Medal in 1983, the Gold Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in 1988, the G. D. Birla International Award for Humanism, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2001.

* ICAI Award for Excellence in Financial Reporting for Birla Sun Life ;

Thindal () is a selection Grade urban area, located 8 km from Erode Junction and 7 km from Central Bus Terminus, Tamilnadu, India, well known for the Thindal Murugan Temple ( Velayudaswami temple )-a model of Birla Mandir.

… Birla then said that the only chance for Federation lay in agreement between Government and Congress and the best hope of this lay in discussion between the Viceroy and Gandhi .”

To list just a few of the awards gained by other faculty members: In 2006, Tapas K Kundu was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for biological sciences, Anuranjan Anand received the Outstanding Research Award from the Department of Atomic Energy ( India ), and Srikanth Sastry, GU Kulkarni and S. Balasubramanian received the B M Birla Science Prize.

In 1917, Rai Baldeodas Birla Bahadur donated a sum of Rs 50, 000 for the construction of the tuberculosis ward on the eastern side of the roof of the MCH building.

Birla Corporation Limited, popularly known as Birla Corp is an Indian company based in Kolkata.

It is the flagship company of the M P Birla group of companies.

The latter has been running as an independent company called Domsjö Fabriker since 2000, and in 2011 it was acquired by India's Aditya Birla Group.

Indo Gulf Fertilisers is an Indian company which unit of Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd based in Mumbai.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

There are several other English medium schools like Haridevi Jhutharam Shishu Sadan, CEERI Vidhya Mandir, Jawahar lal Nehru Children Academy, Jamuna Mishra Academy ( JMA ) and Birla Sishu Vihar.

In the R D Birla International Cardiac Centre associated with Bombay Hospital, there are 4 dedicated operation theatres, 2 cath labs where 1800 surgeries and 4000 angiographies / angioplasties are conducted each year.

There are 3 major play grounds i. e. Maxi Ground, Subhash Maidan & Birla College Ground.

The three largest private companies in India, Reliance Industries, Tata Group and Aditya Birla Group, are based in Mumbai.

Tata and Birla are currently the legendary business giants in India, serving a billion population.

The Birla Gita Mandir and Baba Nath ’ s haveli and temple are the neighbouring attractions.

The Birla Foundation has constructed several similar temples in India, all of which are known as Birla Mandir.

The existing South Point school in Kolkata of the M. P Birla Group, which was, till recently, managed by R S Lodha, has around 13, 500 regular students on its rolls, and is reported to be the second-largest school in the world.

One of the original three car manufacturers in India, founded in 1942 by Mr. B. M. Birla, it was a leader in car sales until the 1980s, when the industry was opened up from protection.

In this period the Sales Manager, Helmuth Lindeman, tried to persuade Birla Senior to use an Ambassador, as that would in his view, have improved the quality.

Speakers in the past have included Dr. Devi Shetty, Kumar Mangalam Birla, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Gurucharan Das, Justice Santosh Hegde, Dr. Arun Shourie, Gul Panag, M J Akbar, Nandita Das, Narain Karthikeyan, Shobhaa De etc.

In addition to being a unitary university, it has other institutes like the Jawahari Devi Birla Institute of Commerce and Management, Jadavpur Vidyapith as well as the Institute of Business Management affiliated to it, which operate out of independent campuses.

Birla in addition to members from the respective faculties.

** Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educationalist ( d. 1983 )

Kher and Morarji Desai were present to receive him with a car belonging to the Governor of Bombay, that took Vallabhbhai to Birla House.

After suffering a massive heart attack ( his second ), he died on 15 December 1950 at Birla House in Bombay.

The era of Licence Raj ( 1947 – 1990 ) in India created some of Asia's largest conglomerates, such as the Tata Group, Kirloskar Group, Larsen & Toubro, Mahindra Group, Sahara India, ITC Limited, Essar Group, Reliance ADA Group, Reliance Industries, Aditya Birla Group and the Bharti Enterprises.

Paul received Bachelor of Engineering degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani and MBA from University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The town is the birthplace of industrialist Ghanshyam Das Birla and the location of his ancestral residence.

Pilani is the home to a notable educational institute, Birla Institute of Technology and Science ( BITS Pilani ), a technological deemed university formed in 1964 and famous worldwide.

The GD Birla Memorial Polytechnic Institute ( BTTI ), established in 1988 is also located in the town.

Pilani has some worth watching visitng places like BITS, Pilani campus which includes Birla Museum, Saraswati Temple, Shivganga Canal etc.

The Birla family is a family in India.

The fore-father of the Birla family is Shiv Narain Birla, a member of the Marwari Maheshwari community from Pilani, Jhunjhunu, in the westerly state of Rajasthan.