Bedi, Kiran
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Birthname | Kiran Peshawaria | ||||
born on | 9 June 1949 at 14:10 (= 2:10 PM ) | ||||
Place | Amritsar, India, 31n35, 74e53 | ||||
Timezone | IST h5e30 (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
Indian Police Service officer, social activist, former tennis player and politician from India. She was the first woman to join the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development.
She has written several books, and runs the India Vision Foundation. During 2008–11, she also hosted a court show Aap Ki Kachehri. She was one of the key leaders of the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2015. She unsuccessfully contested the 2015 Delhi Assembly election as the party's Chief Ministerial candidate.
Source Notes
Ashish Seth quotes from Astrological Biographies: Seventeen Examples of Predictive Insights by Bepin Behari, p. 77: "Kiran Bedi was born on 9 June 1949, Amritsar, Punjab. . . at about 2:10 pm when Virgo almost in middle of Hasta asterism, was rising in eastern sky."
Categories
- Vocation : Law : Police
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ feminist
- Vocation : Politics : Candidate and lost
- Vocation : Politics : Party Affiliation (Bharatiya Janata Party)
- Vocation : Sports : Tennis