M. O. H. Farook, Indian politician and diplomat, Governor of Kerala (since 2011), died he was 74.

M. O. Hasan Farook Maricar was a three-time Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Pondicherry. He was the youngest chief minister of any state of India  died he was 74..

(Tamil: எம்.ஓ.எச் ஃபரூக் மரைக்காயர், Malayalam: എം.ഒ. ഹസൻ ഫാറൂഖ് മരിക്കാർ; 6 September 1937 – 26 January 2012) 

He served from April 9, 1967 to March 6, 1968 and March 17, 1969 to January 3, 1974 and from 1985 to 1990^[2] He was thrice elected to the Lok Sabha from Pondicherry in 1991, 1996 and 1999 and served as a Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation and Tourism during June 1991- December 1992. He participated in the struggle for liberation of Pondicherry as a student, during 1953-54 when Pondicherry was a French colony and served as a Member of the Central Haj Committee in Mumbai from 1975 to 2000.^[3] He was appointed as the Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in September 2004.^[4]
In 2010, Farook was appointed as Governor of Jharkhand.^[5] He was appointed as Governor of Kerala on 25 August 2011.^[6][7] He took office on 8 September 2011, but died in office a few months later, on 26 January 2012 at 9:10pm at Apollo Hospital in Chennai, due to multiple myeloma and kidney and other ailments. He is the second governor who died in office, after Sikander Bakht, and is the shortest served governor of Kerala.^[8][9]


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Alex Eadie, British politician, MP for Midlothian (1966–1992), died he was 91.

Alexander Mark Hughes Eadie ,^[1] known as Alex Eadie, was a Scottish Labour politician died he was 91..^[2]

^{(23 June 1920 – 26 January 2012)}

Early life

Born in Buckhaven, Fife, he was the son of a coal miner, who was later killed in a pit accident. Educated at Buckhaven Senior Secondary School,^[2] he left school aged 14 to work part-time at Lochhead Colliery, while he trained as a mining engineer.^[1]
Eadie stood for the Scottish presidency of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1961 against Alex Moffat, brother of the outgoing president Abe Moffat. Media commentators gave him little chance as a Fabian Society member in a union executive dominated by communists, but he came within 3,000 votes of victory.^[3] He was subsequently in 1965 elected to the Scottish NUM executive, representative for the county of Clackmannanshire.^[4]

Political career

Eadie joined the Scottish Labour Party in 1943, and was elected Scottish president of the Young Co-Operators in 1945.^[3] He later served as a member of the SLP Executive.
He was a councillor on Fife County Council for 20 years, chairing the housing and education committees.^[4]

Parliamentary career

Eadie contested Ayr in 1959 and 1964,^[1] losing the second time to George Younger.^[4]
In 1966 a vacancy arose in the mining constituency of Midlothian. Elected Member of Parliament in the 1966 UK general election with a majority of over 14,416, he warned in his maiden speech at the Palace of Westminster against closing the pits.^[1] His seat remained safe until his retirement in 1992,^[2] the only scare coming in 1974 when the Scottish National Party reduced his majority to just over 4,000.^[1]
After co-sponsoring David Steel's Private Member's Bill which became the Abortion Act 1967,^[3] in January 1967 he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister of Social Security, Margaret Herbison. However, along with seven other PPS's, he was sacked by Prime Minister Harold Wilson four months later for refusing to back Britain's application for Common Market membership.^[3]
Wilson appointed Eadie opposition spokesman on energy in 1973, and served as junior minister for Energy during the Labour government of 1974 to 1979, serving under ministers Eric Varley and then Tony Benn.^[4] Eadie promoted research into wave, tidal and geothermal energy, and in 1976 secured the Joint European Torus (JET) nuclear fusion project for Oxfordshire, when the European Commission recommendation was for Italy.^[3]
Eadie held the energy brief again in opposition under new Labour leader Neil Kinnock. Considered in 1983 as a replacement for Derek Ezra as chairman of the National Coal Board, the position was given to Sir Ian MacGregor, whom Eadie later blamed for the conflict that led to the miners' strike of 1984–85.^[4] As Labour's then shadow Energy spokesperson, he backed the strike, but was later critical of Arthur Scargill's leadership.^[3][4] After the strike, Eadie successfully led legal action against the NCB, which under a ruling from the Attorney General for England and Wales Sir Patrick Mayhew, recovered £120M in miners pension credits, which had been withheld during the strike.^[3][4]
In the early 1970s, Eadie put forward a Private Members Bill that would have established the principle that no child in Scotland should be treated as incapable of being educated. After he became a junior minister in February 1974, he handed over the brief to Hamish Gray, then Conservative MP for Ross and Cromarty, with whom he became firm friends. Legislation later passed, steered and supported by Eadie and Gray, which put Scotland at the forefront of special needs education provision within the UK.^[4]

Personal life

Eadie was married twice, firstly in 1941 to Jemima Ritchie; she died in 1981. In 1983 he married his second wife Janice Murdoch. His son from his first marriage is Bob Eadie, a Labour councillor in Fife.^[1] His daughter-in-law Helen Eadie is Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for Cowdenbeath.^[1]
After a period of illness, Eadie died at his home in East Wemyss, Fife, on 26 January 2012.^[1][2][3][4]


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Kartar Singh Duggal, Indian writer, died he was 94.

Kartar Singh Duggalwas an Indian writer who wrote in Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, and English s 94. His works include short stories, novels, dramas and plays. His works have been translated into Indian and foreign languages. He has served as Director, All India Radio.

^{(1 March 1917 – 26 January 2012)} 

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by Government of India in 1988.^[3] In 2007, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.^[2][4]

Early life and education

He was born in Dhamal, Rawalpindi District, (now in Pakistan) to Mr. Jiwan Singh Duggal and Mrs. Satwant Kaur. He is married to Ayesha Duggal (formerly Ayesha Jaffri), a medical doctor. He received his M.A. Honours in English at Forman Christian College, Lahore.

Career

Duggal started his professional career with All India Radio (AIR). He worked there from 1942–66 in various jobs including Station Director. For the AIR, he wrote and produced programmes in Punjabi and other languages. In addition, he authored a large number of plays and dramas. He was the Secretary/Director, National Book Trust, India from 1966–73. From 1973 to 1976, he served as an Information Advisor at the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (Planning Commission).^[5]
He has founded many institutions, including:

• Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation
• Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore
• Zakir Husain Educational Foundation

Duggal had been a member of many literary and cultural centres including being the President of Punjabi Sahitya Sabha (Punjabi Literary Society), Delhi. He was nominated Fellow of the Punjabi University in 1984. He was also honoured with nomination to the Rajya Sabha (Indian Parliament Upper House) in August, 1997.
He died on 26 January 2012 after a brief illness.^[6]

Work

Duggal has authored twenty four collections of short stories, ten novels, seven plays, seven works of literary criticism, two poetry collections and an autobiography. Many of his books have been adopted by various universities for graduate studies. Among his works are:

Short stories

• Birth of a Song (in English)
• Come Back My Master (in English)
• Dangar (Animal)
• Ikk Chhit Chananh Di (One Drop of Light)
• Nawan Ghar (New House)
• Sonar Bangla (Golden Bungalow)
• Tarkalan Vele (In the Evening)

Poetry

• Veehveen Sadi te Hor Kavitaavaan (Twentieth Century and Other Poems)
• Kandhe Kandhe (Shore Shore)

Novels

• Sarad Poonam Ki Raat (A Cold Full Moon Night)
• Tere Bhanhe (Your Wishes)

Other works

• Sat Natak (True Nanak) (One-Act Play)
• Band Darwaaze (Closed Doors)
• Mitti Musalmaan Ki (A Muslim’s Earth)
• Philosophy and Faith of Sikhism, Himalayan Institute Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-89389-109-1.
• Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir, New Delhi: National Book Trust, 1999. ISBN 81-237-2765-8.

Awards

Kartar Singh Duggal has been bestowed by many awards throughout his career, including:

• Padma Bhushan
• Sahitya Akademi Award
• Ghalib Award
• Soviet Land Award
• Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award
• Bhai Mohan Singh Vaid Award
• Bhartiya Bhasa Parishad Award
• Punjabi Writer of the Millennium, Award of Government of Punjab
• Bhai Vir Singh Award (1989) presented by the Vice-President of India for outstanding literary contribution
• Praman Patra (1993) presented by the Chief Minister of Punjab for outstanding contribution to Punjabi literature
• Sahir Award (1998)by Adeeb International (Sahir Cultural Academy) Ludhiana, India

He is well travelled. He has visited Bulgaria, North Korea, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, the UK and U.S.A.. He resided in New Delhi after retirement and spent his time reading.
The Library of Congress has 118 of his works.^[1]

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Bud Byerly, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds), died he was 91.

Eldred William (Bud) Byerly^[1] was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1943-1945), Cincinnati Reds (1950-1952), Washington Senators (1956-1958), Boston Red Sox (1958) and San Francisco Giants (1959-1960) died he was 91.. He was born in Webster Groves, Missouri, and batted and threw right-handed.

(October 26, 1920 – January 26, 2012)

Although he never pitched more than 95 innings in a regular season, Byerly played for five Major League teams in a span of 11 years. He proved to be a valuable man on the Cardinals 1944 World Champion staff, relieving or filling in for injured starting rotation members when needed. His most productive season came in 1957 with the Senators, when he posted career-highs with six wins and six saves.
In an 11-season career, Byerly had a 22-22 record with a 3.88 ERA and 14 saves in 237 appearances.


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Kandi Barbour, American pornographic actress, died she was 56

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Alfredo Avelín, Argentine politician, Governor of San Juan (1999–2002), died from multiple organ failure he was 84.

Alfredo Avelín was an Argentine politician, physician and author died from multiple organ failure he was 84.. He served as Governor of his province of San Juan and as a member of the Argentine Senate and Chamber of Deputies.

(1 May 1927 – 26 January 2012) 

Avelín was born in San Juan Province to parents of Lebanese descent. He earned a medical degree at the University of Córdoba, and later founded the Colegio Médico de la Provincia. Entering politics, he founded the Renewal Crusade party. He became Mayor of the provincial capital, San Juan, in 1958, and at the age of 31.
He was ultimately elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1989, and to the Argentine Senate, in 1992.^[1]
On 16 May 1999, Avelín was elected as governor of his province with 55%, heading the list of the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education, which would win the presidency of Argentina later the same year. He defeated the incumbent Governor, Jorge Escobar. His period in office was marked by economic turbulence and public unrest in San Juan, not unlike the country as a whole; by 2001, provincial employees were not being paid, and the province was insolvent.^[2]
Following the downfall of the government of President de la Rua, Avelín was a fierce opponent of the austerity measures proposed by the International Monetary Fund, saying, "The only thing lacking for us is to pull down the Argentine flag and replace it with the IMF's." In 2002, Avelín was impeached and deposed as governor by a majority of provincial deputies following massive demonstrations.^[3]
Avelín considered running again for the governorship in 2007 against the incumbent, José Luis Gioja.^[4] His daughter, Nancy Avelín, who also served as a senator, was eventually the candidate for the Renewal Crusade that year.
Alfredo Avelín died on 26 January 2012.^[5]


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Iggy Arroyo, Filipino politician, Representative from the 5th District of Negros Occidental (since 2004), died from cardiac arrest he was 60.

Ignacio Tuason Arroyo, Jr. ,[1] also known as Iggy Arroyo, was a Filipino politician died from cardiac arrest he was 60.. He was a member of the Philippine House of Representatives representing the Fifth District of Negros Occidental^[1] from 2004. He is the brother of former First Gentleman, Jose Miguel Arroyo.^[1] He was born to Ignacio L. Arroyo, Sr. and Lourdes Tuason-Arroyo.

(October 24, 1950 – January 26, 2012)

Profile

Congressman Ignacio T. Arroyo was elected as Congressman during his first try in politics in 2004 and in 2007, he was again chosen by his constituents in the 5th District of Negros Occidental. During the 13th Congress, he became the Vice-Chairman of the House Committees on Agriculture and Appropriations and Member of other various Committees. He is presently the Chairman of the House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Vice-Chairman of the House Committee on Government Reorganization and Member of other various Committees.
His early education began in Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City. He finished High School in 1969 at Villanova Preparatory High School in Ojai, California, USA and he took his preparatory course in Menlo College in Palo Alto, California then he went on to pursue his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree, Major in Finance at the University of San Francisco, California, USA where he graduated in 1974 with flying colors.
Prior to his election as Representative of the 5th District of Negros Occidental, he was a Board Member of the Philippine Producers Corporation (PHILPROCOM) in Bacolod City as well as the Planters Association of Negros Occidental.
He was actively involved in Rotary Club of Bacolod-East and Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals. As the Representative of his district, his priority is to respond to the needs of his constituents by providing them high impact infrastructure projects and places high value on the youth and children as the hope of this country in these trying times. He is affectionately called “Iggy” by his constituents.
He has proposed an act to promote environmental awareness through environmental education, which was signed into law as Republic Act No. 9512 otherwise known as the National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008. He wants to instill to the youth the value of protecting our environment which means protecting their future. he likewise authored the Philippine Climate Change Act of 2008, which created the Climate Change Commission.
Among other significant bills, he has authored acts on increasing the salary grades of public school teachers, Seafarers Act of 2008, giving scholarship to the youth engaged in agriculture, instituting the children’s welfare funds for the protection and rehabilitation of abandoned, abused and sexually exploited children, the anti-child pornography act, Magna Carta for Day Care workers, establishing drug rehabilitation in every region in the country and granting incentives and benefits to rural health workers.

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Major in Finance University of San Francisco, California, USA

Year Graduated: 1974

• Dean’s List, Villanova Preparatory High School, Ojai, California, USA

Year Graduated: 1969

• Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City

Year Graduated: 1965

Ancestry

[show]Ancestors of Iggy Arroyo

Death

Early on January 26, 2012 his brother Mike Arroyo announced that Iggy died before afternoon Philippine Standard Time (PST). With this, the Philippine flag in Batasan Pambansa was later put to half-mast. However, the chief of staff of Iggy Arroyo later released an advisory that he is not dead but he is currently under life support and declared "brain dead", or clinically dead^[2][3].. And they later rolled up the Philippine flag after two hours at half-mast. On the evening of that day, 6pm PST it was announced that the 5th representative of Negros Occidental representative Iggy Arroyo had died because the life support was already removed. This was confirmed by his brother and his chief of staff who received the message from love ones of Iggy Arroyo from London.^[4][5][6] It can be remembered that Iggy went to London late last year to seek treatment for liver ailment.^[2]

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