The first episode aired on 1 May 1995 and was hosted by Sonu Nigam. In the year 1999, the show was hosted by the Bangash brothers, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash, sons of legendary sarod-player Amjad Ali Khan. From 2002, Shaan started hosting the show. Till 2005, the show used to follow a format wherein experts in the field of music would judge the contestants and score them. The format changed with the advent of "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005" which introduced the judges as mentors of different teams and scoring was primarily dependent on public voting. After Shaan quit hosting the show, the show was hosted by many others like Purab Kohli, Manish Paul, Karan Singh Rathore, Archana Jani, Vipul Roy, Jay Soni and even kids Dhairya Sorecha & Afsha Musani. The most prominent names to host the show in later seasons were Javed Ali and the current host Aditya Narayan.
The show has seen multiple variations over the years:
There have also been multiple regional versions in languages like Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu.
Amath Dansokho
Amath Dansokho (January 13, 1937 – August 23, 2019) was a Senegalese politician. He was Secretary-General of the Party of Independence and Work (PIT) for years. He was Minister of Urban Planning and Housing from 1991 to 1995 and again in 2000. He was mayor of Kédougou from 2005 through 2012.
Roaring Lion (horse)
Roaring Lion (March 11, 2015 – August 23, 2019) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse.
He was the top-rated British-trained two-year-old of 2017. He won three races including the Royal Lodge Stakes and was only defeated narrowly in the Racing Post Trophy.
In the following year, he won the Dante Stakes, the Eclipse Stakes, International Stakes, Irish Champion Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. He was euthanized following horse colic in Cambridge, New Zealand on August 23, 2019 at the age of four.
Ines Torelli
Ines Torelli (née Ines Stierli, June 14, 1931 – August 23, 2019) was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, singer and actress. She was born in St. Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She was known for her roles in the television series "Fascht e Familie" and in the 1961 movie "Chikita".
Torelli died on August 23, 2019 at her home in Rose Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada at the age of 88.
Rick Loomis
Rick Loomis (August 24, 1946 – August 23, 2019) was an American game designer. He was known as the founder of game publisher Flying Buffalo. He managed the publishing company until his death. Loomis was born in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Loomis died on August 23, 2019 from lymphoma in Scottsdale, Arizona at the age of 72.
Sidney Rittenberg
Sidney Rittenberg (; August 14, 1921 – August 24, 2019) was an American journalist, educator, and Chinese linguist. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He lived in China from 1944 to 1980. He worked closely with Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai, and other leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the Chinese Communist Revolution.
He was imprisoned in solitary confinement, twice, for a total of 16 years. He was the first American citizen to join the CCP.
Rittenberg died on August 24, 2019 in Scottsdale, Arizona at the age of 98.
Zhu De
Zhu De ( (also Chu Teh; 1 December 1886 – 6 July 1976) was a Chinese general, warlord, politician and revolutionary. He was one of of the founders of the Communist Party of China. He was a high-ranking official of the Chinese Red Army.
He was Commander-in-Chief of the Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
In 1955 he became one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Liberation Army. He was the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1975 to 1976. Zhu was the head of state of the People's Republic of China.
Zhu died on 6 July 1976 in Beijing at the age of 89.
Eddie Money
Edward Joseph Mahoney (March 21, 1949 – September 13, 2019), known professionally as Eddie Money, was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was popular during the 1970s and 1980s. He was born in New York City, but raised in Berkeley, California.
Money was well known for songs like "Baby Hold On", "Two Tickets to Paradise", "Maybe I'm a Fool", "Think I'm in Love", "Shakin'", "Take Me Home Tonight", "I Wanna Go Back", "Walk on Water", "The Love in Your Eyes", and "Peace in Our Time".
In August 2019, Money was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer. On September 13, 2019, he died from the cancer and from heart valve surgery-related problems at his home in Los Angeles at age 70.
Chandler, Arizona
Chandler is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. As of 2017, the population was estimated at 253,458 according to the United States Census Bureau.
Permadeath
Permadeath, short for permanent death, is a feature in video games where if a character dies, they will stay dead for the rest of the game. The only way be able to play dead characters would be to load the game file before the character died or to start the game all over again.
This is a big feature in Fire Emblem games. Permadeath adds a level of challenge to the player, so the player must be very careful where they move each of their own player units. However, in every Fire Emblem game since , the player has the choice whether or not they want to play the game with permadeath.
Alaska Natives
Alaska Natives are the indigenous peoples of Alaska. They include Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Eyak, and some Northern Athabaskan cultures.
Below is a full list of the different Alaska Native cultures. Within each culture are many different tribes.
Tropical Storm Bailu (2019)
Tropical Storm Bailu (Jenny) was a storm that devastated many parts of Southeastern Asia, especially Fujian. It was a storm of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season.
On August 20, a tropical depression formed to the west of Mariana Islands. On the next day, the JMA designated the system as Tropical Storm Bailu, and the JTWC classified the system as Tropical Depression 12W. Bailu gradually intensified over the Philippine Sea. At 13:00 TST (05:00 UTC) on August 24, Bailu made landfall over Manzhou Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan.
Though Bailu didn't made landfall in the Philippines, two people were killed in Ilocos Norte, and left Php1.1 billion (US$21 million) damage in the province.
Bailu also killed one person, and injured nine others in Taiwan. Institutional damage were calculated to be TWD 2.31 million (US$74,000), while agricultural damage reached TWD 87.9 million (US$2.83 million).
Damage in Fujian reached ¥10.49 million (US$1.5 million).
Massimo Mattioli
Massimo Mattioli (25 September 1943 – 23 August 2019) was an Italian artist and cartoonist. He was born in Rome.
Mattioli began his career in 1965. He was also published in "Corto Maltese" and "Frigidaire". In 1973 he began his works with "Il Giornalino", creating the character "Pinky".
In 1977, he created the underground magazine "Cannibale". In 1978, "Cannibale" published the first adventure of Joe Galaxy. In 1982, he created the "Squeak the Mouse" series. His works helped inspire "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening.
Mattioli died on 23 August 2019 in Rome after a short-illness at the age of 75.
Pita Paraone
Rewiti Pomare Kingi "Pita" Paraone (30 November 1945 – 26 August 2019) was a New Zealand politician. He was Chairman of the Waitangi National Trust Board. He was a member of the New Zealand First party. Paraone was a member of the New Zealand Parliament from 2002 to 2008 and again from 2014 through 2017. Paraone was born in Kawakawa, New Zealand.
Paraone died on 26 August 2019 at a hospital in Auckland from heart surgery-related problems at the age of 73.
Jafar Umar Thalib
Jafar Umar Thalib (; ; ; December 29, 1961 – August 25, 2019) was an Indonesian Muslim figure. He was the founder and the head of Laskar Jihad, an Islamic organization in Indonesia.