ROBA

Sad news....
We have lost another young Rimcollian Wg Cdr Mandeep Singh Dhillon CO 115 HU in the recent ALH helicopter crash in Arunachal. He was out on rescue mission and saved many lives in 6 sorties before the crash.

The President ROBA regrets to inform the sad demise of Capt JK Sengupta in Pune Command Hospital today.Capt Sengupta an ardent RIMCOLLIAN was a battle casualty during the 1965 INDO PAK conflict and lost vision in both his eyes. On being boarded out from the Army he settled down in Siliguri to run a gas agency and Mrs Senguta ran a spl school there.A well known CAVALIER Capt Sengupta has been a legend

Contact details-Mrs Sengupta-09434044934-----------Lt Col Yash Saxena,Hony Secy ROBA

Dear friends
It is to inform you all that Maj Gen A. Chakervorty VSM has been approved for promotion to Lt Gen while Brig Balraaj Singh has been approved for promotion to Maj Gen.
Heartiest congratulations to both of them on this well deserved approval.
purushottam Singh

Maj (Retd) Jai Singh Gill, 1930-37, ROBERTS has passed away on 27 Jun 2013 at Ludhiana.

In Grief !

On behalf of Hony Secy ROBA

Col (Retd) AN Sinha (1956-60, Pratap) passed away on 06 Jun 2013. Our prayers for the peace of his soul and strength to his family to bear this loss.

In Grief !

On behalf of Hony Secy ROBA

Dear Rimcollians,

It's tragic but truth. Rimcollian A. Phani Bhushan (2003-2008) , a youngster met with a fatal road accident on 28 April. Such irreparable losses are hard to accept. It's not even an year that he graduated and started working.
May his soul rest in peace and god provide his parents the strength to bear this loss.

His parents could be reached at 9246200336.

in grief,

Bhrigu Sharda
(2003-2008)

Regret to inform that Brig (Retd) JS Chandel (1947-50, Kit) passed away on 23 Mar 2013 in Fortis Hospital, Mohali, SAS Nagar, Punjab.

Our prayers for the peace of his soul and strength to his family to bear this loss.


In Grief !

On behalf of Hony Secy ROBA

Dear Rimcollians,

Mr Ashwani Kumar, 1963-67 RANJIT, has been appointed as the Governor of Nagaland wef 09 Mar 13.

For info please.

Regards,

On behalf of the
Hony Secy ROBA

Dear Veterans,
> With profound grief I have to inform you that Brig PS Kahai, (Gorkhas, 16 NDA, RIMCOLIAN) passed away at 0500 hrs this morning. He will be cremated at 1530 hrs at the Sector 25 crematorium today.
> In grief,
> Surjit

Dear Rimcollians,
This is to inform you of the sad demise of Col Rajesh Kapoor (1958-62) on 07 Feb due to a massive heart attack.
Chautha will be performed tomorrow (10 Feb) at Satsang Bhavan, R Block, New Rajender Nagar, New Delhi from 3 pm to 4 pm.
Mrs Kapoor can be contacted on 0-9818961301.
Ujjal Dasgupta

After a long battle with cancer, Col Abdul Qayyum (Rimcollian 20.1.1944 – 24.10.1947) passed away peacefully at his daughter Naila's home in the USA at around 3.30 AM IST this morning. He was in coma for the past few days and his family members were beside. I got the news over the phone from Naila's daughter Zainab. He last visited the RIMC in 1990 when Chinu Mahanti was the Commandant.

Soldier, civil servant, and teacher Abdul Qayyum was born in Barisal Bengal in 1932. He was educated in the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College Dehra Dun, India and Aitchison College Lahore. He won the Sword of Honour and the Norman Gold Medal from the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul and was commissioned as a Cavalry Officer in the Pakistan Army in 1952. Was also an Honour graduate of the Fuhrungsakademie (Hamburg) and an Honorary Member of the German General Staff. Along with another Rimcollian Habib Akbar, the two along with Hugh Catchpole started ‘Cadet College Hasan Abdal’ modeled after the RIMC in 1954. After the 1971 war being Bengali he was for a short while placed in Detention he did not move to Bangladesh but continued to stay on in Pakistan with his wife Parveen. His last assignment in uniform was as Senior Instructor, Command and Staff College (Quetta).

After retirement in 1974, he led an active intellectual and spiritual life beginning as a Professor of Geopolitics, Logic and Scientific Method at the Staff College, Quetta (1974-77). From 1978 – 89 he was Additional Secretary (Policy Planning and Research) in the Ministry of Information, Islamabad and from 1990 – 94 the President, Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad (1990-94). From 1994 onwards he was Professor of Islamic Studies at the National University of Sciences and Technology at Karachi.

A prolific writer on strategic issues, and being a staunch secular moderate Muslim he has also published books viz. ‘On Striving to be a Muslim (Kazi Publication, Chicago USA, 1980); ‘Understanding the Quran’ ICCTS, Islamabad, 1986); ‘Lectures on Islam’ (NUST, Rawalpindi, 1997) and ‘Studies in Comparative Religion’ (lectures for the Asian Study Group of Diplomatic Community in Islamabad, 1986-89). Till his recent illness he was a visiting lecturer on a variety of topics in several civil and military institutions in Pakistan.

Abdul Qayyum's funeral will be Saturday Feb 9; at 2.30 pm (USA time) at Stonewall Memory Gardens 12004 Lee Highway, Manassas 20109. A gathering will follow at their house 5630 Barrymore Rd., Centereville 20120.

All Rimcollians may join in the family's prayers for the Almighty to grant his soul to rest in peace and for the family to bear this irreparable loss.

With best wishes and regards
God bless
Sincerely

Arun Bhattacharya

Col HS Bansla, SM (1980-1984, Ranjit) took over as Commandant, RIMC on 19 Jan 2012.

Col Pankaj K Kumaria (1975-80, Shivaji) has been posted as Col GS (Info Sys) HQ 33 Corps.

The RIMC fraternity wishes both of them successful tenure.

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