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CONTENTS

Categories Topics Page No

Awards Indian Awards 1
International Awards 9

Corporate & Business Acquisitions 13
Information on Media Companies 16
Prominent Companies 21
PSU - Maharatna, Navratna, Miniratna Companies 32

Politics and Govt Heads of Constitutional Bodies 35
Information on Countries 41

Sports Indian Olympic Winners and Commonwealth Medals Tally 53
IPL Franchise - Owners and Winners 55
Major Sporting Records 57
Tennis Grand Slams 60
World Cups and Winners 64

Miscellaneous
Important Global Economic, Peace and Environmental
Organizations
66
People and Sobriquets 70

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C-GK-FF 1 www.TestFunda.com
Indian Awards
Dadasaheb Phalke Awards

Sr.No. Year Winner Role of Winner
1 2011 Soumitra Chatterjee Actor
2 2010 K. Balachander Director
3 2009 D. Ramanaidu Producer, Director
4 2008 V. K. Murthy Cinematographer
5 2007 Manna Dey Playback singer
6 2006 Tapan Sinha Director
7 2005 Shyam Benegal Director
8 2004 Adoor Gopalakrishnan Director
9 2003 Mrinal Sen Director
10 2002 Dev Anand Actor, Director, Producer
11 2001 Yash Chopra Director, Producer
12 2000 Asha Bhosle Playback singer
13 1999 Hrishikesh Mukherjee Director
14 1998 B. R. Chopra Director, Producer
15 1997 Pradeep Lyricist
16 1996 Sivaji Ganesan Actor
17 1995 Rajkumar Actor, Singer
18 1994 Dilip Kumar Actor
19 1993 Majrooh Sultanpuri Lyricist
20 1992 Bhupen Hazarika Musician, singer, poet, filmmaker, lyricist
21 1991 Bhalji Pendharkar Director, Producer, Screenwriter
22 1990 Akkineni Nageswara Rao Actor
23 1989 Lata Mangeshkar Playback singer
24 1988 Ashok Kumar Actor
25 1987 Raj Kapoor Actor, Director, Producer
26 1986 Bommireddy Nagi Reddy Producer
27 1985 V. Shantaram Actor, Director, Producer
28 1984 Satyajit Ray Director
29 1983 Durga Khote Actress
30 1982 L. V. Prasad Actor, Director, Producer
31 1981 Naushad Music Director
32 1980 Paidi Jairaj Actor, Director
33 1979 Sohrab Modi Actor, Director, Producer
34 1978 Raichand Boral Music Director, Director
35 1977 Nitin Bose Cinematographer, Director,Screenwriter
36 1976 Kanan Devi Actress
37 1975 Dhirendranath Ganguly Actor, Director
38 1974 Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy Director
39 1973 Ruby Myers(Sulochana) Actress
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40 1972 Pankaj Mullick Music Director
41 1971 Prithviraj Kapoor Actor
42 1970 B. N. Sircar Producer
43 1969 Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich Actress
Arjuna Awards

Sr.No. Year Winner Sport
1 2012 Deepika Kumari Archery
2 2012 Laishram Bombayla Devi Archery
3 2012 Sudha Singh Athletics
4 2012 Kavita Ramdas Raut Athletics
5 2012 Ashwani Ponnappa Badminton
6 2012 Parupalli Kashyap Badminton
7 2012 Aditya S Mehta Billiards and Snooker
8 2012 Vikas Krishan Boxing
9 2012 Yuvraj Singh Cricket
10 2012 Sardar Singh Hockey
11 2012 Yashpal Solanki Judo
12 2012 Anup Kumar Kabaddi
13 2012 Samir Suhag Polo
14 2012 Annu Raj Singh Shooting
15 2012 Omkar Singh Shooting
16 2012 Joydeep Karmakar Shooting
17 2012 Deepika Pallikal Squash
18 2012 Sandeep Sejwal Swimming
19 2012 Ngangbam Sonia Chanu Weightlifting
20 2012 Narsingh Yadav Wrestling
21 2012 Rajinder Kumar Wrestling
22 2012 Geeta Phogat Wrestling
23 2012 M. Bimoljit Singh Wushu
24 2012 Deepa Malik Athletics Paralympics
25 2012 Ramkaran Singh Athletics Paralympics
26 2011 Rahul Banerjee Archery
27 2011 Preeja Sreedharan Athletics
28 2011 Jwala Gutta Badminton
29 2011 Suranjoy Singh Boxing
30 2011 Zaheer Khan Cricket
31 2011 Sunil Chettri Football
32 2011 Ashish Kumar Gymnastics
33 2011 Rajpal Singh Hockey
34 2011 Tejaswini bai Kabaddi
35 2011 Rakesh Kumar Kabaddi
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36 2011 Somdev Devvarman Lawn Tennis
37 2011 Tejaswini Sawant Shooting
38 2011 Virdhawal Khade Swimming
39 2011 Sanjay Kumar Volley Ball
40 2011 Katulu Ravi Kumar Weightlifting
41 2011 Rajinder Singh Wrestling
42 2010 Joseph Abraham Athletics
43 2010 Krishna Punia Athletics
44 2010 Jagseer Singh Athletics Paralympics
45 2010 Dinesh Kumar Boxing
46 2010 Parimarjan Negi Chess
47 2010 Jhulan Goswami Cricket
48 2010 Deepak Kumar Mondal Football
49 2010 Jasjeet Kaur Handa Hockey
50 2010 Dinesh Kabaddi
51 2010 Sanjeev Rajput Shooting
52 2010 Rehan Poncha Swimming
53 2010 K. J. Kapil Dev Volley Ball
54 2010 Rajiv Tomar Wrestling
55 2009 Mangal Singh Champia Archery
56 2009 Sinimol Paulose Athletics
57 2009 Saina Nehwal Badminton
58 2009 L. Sarita Devi Boxing
59 2009 Tania Sachdev Chess
60 2009 Gautam Gambhir Cricket
61 2009 Surinder Kaur Hockey
62 2009 Ignace Tirkey Hockey
63 2009 Satish Joshi Rowing
64 2009 Ronjan Sodhi Shooting
65 2009 Poulomi Ghatak Table Tennis
66 2009 Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling
67 2009 Girdhari Lal Yadav Yachting
Bharat Ratna Awards

Sr.No. Year Winner Profession
1 2008 Bhimsen Joshi Hindustani classical singer
2 2001 Bismillah Khan Hindustani classical shehnai player
3 2001 Lata Mangeshkar Playback singer
4 1999 Gopinath Bordoloi
Posthumous, independence activist, Chief
Minister of Assam
5 1999 Amartya Sen Economist
6 1999 Ravi Shankar Sitar player
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7 1999 Jayaprakash Narayan
Posthumous, independence activist and
politician
8 1998 Chidambaram Subramaniam Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture
9 1998 M. S. Subbulakshmi Carnatic classical singer
10 1997 Aruna Asaf Ali Posthumous, independence activist
11 1997 Gulzarilal Nanda Independence activist, interim Prime Minister
12 1997 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India
13 1992 Satyajit Ray Bengali filmmaker
14 1992 J. R. D. Tata Industrialist and philanthropist
15 1992 Abul Kalam Azad
Posthumous, independence activist, first
Minister of Education
16 1991 Morarji Desai Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister
17 1991 Vallabhbhai Patel
Posthumous, independence activist, first Home
Minister
18 1991 Rajiv Gandhi Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister
19 1990 Nelson Mandela
Second non-citizen and first non-Indian
recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid
movement
20 1990 B. R. Ambedkar
Posthumous, chief architect of the Indian
Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar
21 1988 M. G. Ramachandran
Posthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil
Nadu
22 1987 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan First non-citizen, independence activist
23 1983 Vinoba Bhave
Posthumous, social reformer, independence
activist
24 1980 Mother Teresa
Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of
Charity
25 1976 K. Kamaraj
Posthumous, independence activist, Chief
Minister of Tamil Nadu State
26 1975 V. V. Giri Trade unionist and fourth President
27 1971 Indira Gandhi Third Prime Minister
28 1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri
Posthumous, independence activist, second
Prime Minister
29 1963 Pandurang Vaman Kane Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
30 1963 Zakir Hussain Scholar, third President
31 1962 Rajendra Prasad Independence activist, jurist, first President
32 1961 Purushottam Das Tandon Independence activist, educator
33 1961 Bidhan Chandra Roy Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
34 1958 Dhondo Keshav Karve Educator, social reformer
35 1957 Govind Ballabh Pant
Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar
Pradesh, Home Minister
36 1955 Jawaharlal Nehru
Independence activist, author, first Prime
Minister
37 1955 Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore
38 1955 Bhagwan Das Independence activist, author
39 1954 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Philosopher, second President
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40 1954 C. V. Raman Physicist
41 1954 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Independence activist, last Governor-General
Dronacharya Awards

Sr.No. Year Person Sport
1 2012 B.I. Fernadez Boxing
2 2012 Bhavani Mukharjee Table Tennis
3 2012 J.S. Bhatia Athletics
4 2012 Satyapal Singh Para Sports(Athletics)
5 2012 Harendra Singh Hockey
6 2012 Yashvir Singh Wrestling
7 2012 Sunil Dabas Kabaddi
8 2012 Virendra Poonia Athletics
9 2011 Rajinder Singh Hockey
10 2011 Kuntal Roy Athletics
11 2011 Ramphal Athletics
12 2011 Devender Kumar Rathore Gymnastics
13 2011 Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao Boxing
14 2010 L Ibomcha Singh Boxing
15 2010 Subhash B Aggarwal Billiards & Snooker
16 2010 Ajay Kumar Bansal Hockey
17 2010 Captain Chandrup Wrestling
18 2010 AK Kutty Athletics
19 2009 Jaidev Bisht Boxing
20 2009 Baldev Singh Hockey
21 2009 J. Uday Kumar Kabaddi
22 2009 Satpal Wrestling
23 2009 Pullela Gopichand Badminton
24 2007 Jagminder Singh Wrestling
25 2007 G.E. Sridharan Volley Ball
26 2007 Jagdish Singh Boxing
27 2007 Sanjeev Kumar Singh Archery
28 2006 Koneru Ashok Chess
29 2006 Damodaran Chandralal Boxing
30 2006 R.D. Singh Athletics
31 2005 Ismail Baig Rowing
32 2005 Maha Singh Rao Wrestling
33 2005 Balwan Singh Kabaddi
34 2005 Hony. Captain M Venu Boxing
35 2004 Gurcharan Singh Boxing

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Sr.No. Year Person Sport
36 2004 Cyrus Poncha Squash
37 2004 Sunita Sharma Cricket
38 2004 Arvind Savur Billiards & Snooker
39 2003 Sukhchain Singh Cheema Wrestling
40 2003 Rajinder Singh Hockey
41 2003 Anup Kumar Boxing
42 2003 Robert Bobby George Athletics
43 2002 Cdr. H.D. Motivala Yachting
44 2002 E. Prasad Rao Kabaddi
45 2002 M.K. Kaushik Hockey
46 2002 Jaswant Singh Athletics
47 2002 Renu Kohli Athletics
48 2001 Michael Joseph Ferreira Billiards & Snooker
49 2001 Prof. Sunny Thomas Shooting
50 2000 Hansa Sharma Weightlifting
51 2000 Bhupender Dhawan Powerlifting
52 2000 Phadke Gopal Pushottam Kho-Kho
53 2000 Gudial Singh Bhangu Hockey
54 2000 S.M. Arif Badminton
55 1999 Ajay Kumar Sirohi Weightlifting
56 1999 Capt. Hawa Singh Boxing
57 1999 Kenneth Owen Bosen Athletics
58 1998 G.S.Sandhu Boxing
59 1998 Hargobind Singh Sandhu Athletics
60 1998 Bahadur Singh Athletics
61 1997 Joginder Singh Saini Athletics
62 1996 Pal Singh Sandhu Weightlifting
63 1996 Wilson Jones Billiards & Snooker
64 1995 M. Shyam Sunder Rao Volleyball
65 1995 Karan Singh Athletics
66 1994 Ilyas Babar Athletics
67 1990 A. Ramana Rao Volleyball
68 1990 Syed Naeemuddin Football
69 1990 Ramakant Achrekar Cricket
70 1987 Guru Hanuman Wrestling
71 1987 Gurcharan Singh Cricket
72 1986 Desh Prem Azad Cricket
73 1986 Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle Chess
74 1985 Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat Wrestling
75 1985 Om Prakash Bhardwaj Boxing
76 1985 O.M. Nambiar Athletics

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Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award

1 2012 D. R. Mehta
Work through Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang
Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur
2 2011 SPIC MACAY
Promotes Indian classical music and culture
among the youth
3 2010 Wahiduddin Khan Islamic Scholar, Peace Activist
4 2009 Gautam Bhai Social Activist
5 2008 N Radhakrishnan Social Activist
6 2007 Hem Dutta Social Activist
7 2006 Nirmala Deshpande Social Activist
8 2004 Swami Agnivesh Social Activist
9 2003 S. N. Subba Rao Peace Activist
10 2000 Kapila Vatsyayan Scholar
11 1998 Sunil Dutt Peace Activist, Politician
12 1996 Lata Mangeshkar Singer

Jnanpith Awards
Sr.No. Year Name Work
1 2011 Pratibha Ray For her contributions to Oria literature
2 2010 Chandrashekhara Kambara For his contributions to Kannada literature
3 2009 Sri Lal Sukla
For his contribution to Indian literature and
culture
4 2009 Amar Kant For his contributions to Hindi literature
5 2008 Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' For his contributions to Urdu poetry
6 2007 Dr. O. N. V. Kurup For his contributions to Malayalam literature
7 2006 Satya Vrat Shastri For his contributions to Sanskrit language
8 2006 Ravindra Kelekar For his contributions to Konkani literature
9 2005 Kunwar Narayan For his contributions to Hindi literature
10 2004 Rehman Rahi
Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren
Manz
11 2003 Vinda Karandikar For his contributions to Marathi literature
12 2002 D. Jayakanthan For his contributions to Tamil literature
13 2001 Rajendra Shah For his contributions to Gujarati literature
14 2000 Indira Goswami For his contributions to Assamese literature
15 1999 Gurdial Singh For his contributions to Punjabi literature
16 1999 Nirmal Verma For his contributions to Hindi literature
17 1998 Girish Karnad
For his contributions to Kannada literature and
for contributions to Kannada theatre (Yayati)
18 1997 Ali Sardar Jafri For his contributions to Urdu literature
19 1996 Mahasweta Devi Hajar Churashir Maa
20 1995 Dr. M. T. Vasudevan Nair For his contributions to Malayalam literature
21 1994 U. R. Ananthamurthy For his contributions to Kannada literature
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Sr.No. Year Name Work
22 1993 Sitakant Mahapatra
For outstanding contribution to the enrichment
of Indian literature, 197392
23 1992 Naresh Mehta For his contributions to Hindi literature
24 1991 Subhas Mukhopadhyay Padatik (The Foot Soldier)
25 1990
V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna
Gokak)
Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi
26 1989 Qurratulain Hyder Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar
27 1988 Dr. C. Narayana Reddy Vishwambhara
28 1987
Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar
(Kusumagraj)
For his contributions to Marathi literature
29 1986 Sachidananda Routray For his contributions to Oriya literature
30 1985 Pannalal Patel Maanavi Ni Bhavaai
31 1984 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Kayar{Coir}
32 1983 Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
Chikkaveera Rajendra(Life and struggle of
Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra)
33 1982 Mahadevi Varma Yama
34 1981 Amrita Pritam Kagaj te Canvas
35 1980 S. K. Pottekkatt Oru Desathinte Katha(Story of a land)
36 1979 Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Mrityunjay(Immortal)
37 1978 Sachchidananda Vatsyayan
Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar(How many times in
how many boats?)
38 1977 K. Shivaram Karanth Mookajjiya Kanasugalu(Mookajjis dreams)
39 1976 Ashapurna Devi Pratham Pratisruti
40 1975 P. V. Akilan Chitttrappavai
41 1974 Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Yayati
42 1973 Gopinath Mohanty Matimatal
43 1973 Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre Nakutanti (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings)
44 1972 Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Urvashi
45 1971 Bishnu Dey Smriti Satta Bhavishyat
46 1970 Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful
tree:Ramayana)
47 1969 Firaq Gorakhpuri Gul-e-Naghma
48 1968 Sumitranandan Pant Chidambara
49 1967 Umashankar Joshi Nishitha
50 1967
Kuppali Venkatappagowda
Puttappa(Kuvempu)
Sri Ramayana Darshanam
51 1966 Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Ganadevta
52 1965 G. Sankara Kurup Odakkuzhal (Flute)

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International Awards
Man Booker Prize

Sr.No. Year Name of the Book Author
Author's Country
of Origin
1 2012 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel United Kingdom
2 2011 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes United Kingdom
3 2010 The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson United Kingdom
4 2009 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel United Kingdom
5 2008 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga India
6 2007 The Gathering Anne Enright Ireland
7 2006 The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai India
8 2005 The Sea John Banville Ireland
9 2004 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst United Kingdom
10 2003 Vernon God Little DBC Pierre Australia
11 2002 Life of Pi Yann Martel Canada
12 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey Australia
13 2000 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Canada
14 1999 Disgrace J. M. Coetzee South Africa
15 1998 Amsterdam Ian McEwan United Kingdom
16 1997 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy India
17 1996 Last Orders Graham Swift United Kingdom
18 1995 The Ghost Road Pat Barker United Kingdom
19 1994 How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman United Kingdom
20 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle Ireland
21 1992 Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth United Kingdom
22 1992 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje Sri Lanka
23 1991 The Famished Road Ben Okri Nigeria
24 1990 Possession A. S. Byatt United Kingdom
25 1989 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Japan
26 1988 Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey Australia

Pulitzer Awards

1 2011 A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
2 2010 Tinkers Paul Harding
3 2009 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
4 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Daz
5 2007 The Road Cormac McCarthy
6 2006 March Geraldine Brooks
7 2005 Gilead Marilynne Robinson
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8 2004 The Known World Edward P. Jones
9 2003 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
10 2002 Empire Falls Richard Russo
11 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon
12 2000 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
13 1999 The Hours Michael Cunningham
14 1998 American Pastoral Philip Roth
15 1997
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American
Dreamer
Steven Millhauser
16 1996 Independence Day Richard Ford
17 1995 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields
18 1994 The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx
19 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler
20 1992 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
21 1991 Rabbit at Rest John Updike
22 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos
23 1989 Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler
24 1988 Beloved Toni Morrison
25 1987 A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor

Nobel Prize

Sr.No. Year Category Nobel Laureates
1 2012 Physics Serge Haroche, David J. Wineland
2 2012 Chemistry Robert J. Lefkowitz, Brian K. Kobilka
3 2012 Physiology or medicine Sir John B. Gurdon, Shinya Yamanaka
4 2012 Literature Mo Yan
5 2012 Peace European Union (EU)
6 2012 Economic sciences Alvin E. Roth, Lloyd S. Shapley
7 2011 Physics
Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G.
Riess
8 2011 Chemistry Dan Shechtman
9 2011 Physiology or medicine
Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, Ralph
M. Steinman
10 2011 Literature Tomas Transtrmer
11 2011 Peace
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee,
Tawakkol Karman
12 2011 Economic sciences Thomas J. Sargent, Christopher A. Sims
13 2010 Physics Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov
14 2010 Chemistry
Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira
Suzuki
15 2010 Physiology or medicine Robert G. Edwards
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16 2010 Literature Mario Vargas Llosa
17 2010 Peace Liu Xiaobo
18 2010 Economic sciences
Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen,
Christopher A. Pissarides
19 2009 Physics
Charles Kuen Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George
E. Smith
20 2009 Chemistry
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A.
Steitz, Ada E. Yonath
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider,
Jack W. Szostak
22 2009 Literature Herta Mller
23 2009 Peace Barack H. Obama
24 2009 Economic sciences Elinor Ostrom, Oliver E. Williamson
25 2008 Physics
Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi,
Toshihide Maskawa
26 2008 Chemistry
Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y.
Tsien
Harald zur Hausen, Franoise Barr-
Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier
28 2008 Literature Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clzio
29 2008 Peace Martti Ahtisaari
30 2008 Economic sciences Paul Krugman

Complete List of Indian Nobel Laureates

1 2009 Chemistry Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
2 2007 Peace Rajendra Kumar Pachauri
3 1998 Economic sciences Amartya Sen
4 1983 Physics Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
5 1979 Peace Mother Teresa
6 1968 Medicine Har Gobind Khorana
7 1930 Physics C.V. Raman
8 1913 Literature Rabindranath Tagore
9 1907 Literature Rudyard Kipling
10 1902 Medicine Ronald Ross

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Ramon Magsaysay Award

Sr.No. Year Awardee Category
1 2012 Syeda Rizwana Hasan Government Service
2 2012 Yang Siang Koma Public Service
3 2012 Kulendei Francis Community Leadership
4 2012 Romulo Davide
Journalism, Literature, and the Creative
Communication Arts
5 2012 Chen Shu-chu Peace and International Understanding
6 2012 Ruwindrijarto Emergent Leadership
7 2011 Tri Mumpuni Public Service
8 2011 Husanain Juaini Public Service
9 2011 Koul Panha
Peace and International Understanding &
Emergent Leadership
10 2011 Harish Hande Emergent Leadership
11 2011 Nileema Mishra Emergent Leadership
12 2010 Fu Qiping Government Service
13 2010 Pan Yue Government Service
14 2010 Christopher Bernido Public Service
15 2010 Ma. Victoria Carpio-Bernido Public Service
16 2010 A.H.M. Noman Khan Community Leadership
17 2010 Huo Daishan
Communication Arts
18 2010 Tadatoshi Akiba Peace and International Understanding
19 2009 Krisana Kraisintu Public Service
20 2009 Deep Joshi Community Leadership
21 2009 Ma Jun
Communication Arts
22 2009 Yu Xiaogang Peace and International Understanding
23 2009 Ka Hsaw Wa Emergent Leadership
24 2008 Grace Padaca Government Service
25 2008 Aris Alip Public Service
26 2008 Therdchai Jivacate Public Service
27 2008 Dr. Prakash Amte Community Leadership
28 2008 Dr. Mandakini Amte Community Leadership
29 2008 Akio Ishii
Communication Arts
30 2008 Ahmad Syafi'i Maarif Peace and International Understanding
31 2008 Ananda Galappatti Emergent Leadership

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Acquisitions

Sr.No.
Acquiring
Company
Acquired
Company
HQ of
Acquiring
Company
HQ of
Acquired
Company
1 Acacia Research ADAPTIX U.S. U.S.
2 Adani Enterprises Abbot Point Coal India Australia
3 Aditya Birla Group Columbian Chemicals India U.S.
4 Aegis Group Roundarch U.K. U.S.
5 Amazon Kiva Systems U.S. U.S.
6 Amazon LOVEFiLM U.S. U.K.
7 AMD SeaMicro U.S. U.S.
8 Amgen KAI Pharmaceuticals U.S. U.S.
9 Apple AuthenTec U.S. U.S.
10 AT&T NextWave Wireless U.S. U.S.
11 Autodesk Socialcam U.S. U.S.
12 Bazaarvoice PowerReviews U.S. U.S.
13
Bird Construction
Inc.
Nason Contracting
Group Ltd.
Canada Canada
14 Braintree Venmo U.K. U.S.
15 Brightcove Zencoder U.S. U.S.
16 Broadcom BroadLight U.S. Israel
17 Carlyle Group Getty Images U.S. U.S.
18 Celgene Avila Therapeutics U.S. U.S.
19 Cinven
Mercury Pharma
Group
U.K. U.K.
20 Cisco Lightwire U.S. U.S.
21 Cisco Cloupia U.S. U.S.
22 CryoLife Hemosphere U.S. U.S.
23 Dell Quest Software U.S. U.S.
24 Deluxe Corp OrangeSoda U.S. U.S.
25 DG Peer39 U.S. U.S. and Israel
26
Discovery
Communications
Revision3 U.S. U.S.
27 Envestnet Tamarac U.S. U.S.
28 Facebook Instagram U.S. U.S.
29 Facebook Face.com U.S. Israel
30
FICO (Fair Isaac
Corporation)
Adeptra U.S. U.S.
31
Fortis Healthcare
(India) Ltd
Fortis Healthcare
International
Pte Ltd
India Singapore
32
Generac Holdings
Inc.
Ottomotores
Businesses
U.S. U.K.
33 Google Motorola Mobility U.S U.S.
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Sr.No.
Acquiring
Company
Acquired
Company
HQ of
Acquiring
Company
HQ of
Acquired
Company
34 Google Wildfire U.S. U.S.
35 Google Meebo U.S. U.S.
36 GREE Funzio Japan U.S.
37
Green Dot
Corporation
Loopt U.S. U.S.
38 GVK Power Hancock Coal India Australia
39 Haemonetics Pall U.S. U.S.
40
Hanergy Holding
Group
MiaSole China U.S.
41 Hologic Gen-Probe U.S. U.S.
42
Honeywell
International
Inc. (HON)
Intermec Inc. U.S. U.S.
43 IAC About.com U.S. U.S.
44 IBM Kenexa U.S. U.S.
45 IBM Worklight U.S. Israel
46 iGate Patni U.S. India
47 Infospace TaxACT U.S. U.S.
48 Intel Olaworks U.S. South Korea
49 Intel Olaworks U.S. Korea
50 iRobot Evolution Robotics U.S. U.S.
51 Itron SmartSynch U.S. U.S.
52 ITV So Television U.K. U.K.
53 IXIA
BreakingPoint
Systems
U.S. U.S.
54 John Wiley & Sons Deltak.edu U.S. U.S.
55 Juniper Networks Mykonos Software U.S. U.S.
56 LinkedIn SlideShare U.S. U.S.
57 LinkedIn Rapportive U.S. U.S.
58 LogMeIn Bold Software U.S. U.S.
59
Mahindra &
Mahindra
SsangYong India South Korea
60 Masimo Spire Corporation U.S. U.S.
61 Meredith AllRecipes U.S. U.S.
62 Microsoft Yammer U.S. U.S.
63
Mindspeed
Technologies
PicoChip U.S. U.K.
64 Monitise ClairMail U.K. U.S.
65 Nexon Gloops South Korea Japan
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Sr.No.
Acquiring
Company
Acquired
Company
HQ of
Acquiring
Company
HQ of
Acquired
Company
66
Nuance
Communications
Transcend Services U.S. U.S.
67 Opera Mobile Theory U.S. U.S.
68 Oracle Taleo U.S. U.S.
69 Oracle Corporation Vitrue U.S. U.S.
70 Pearson Certiport U.K. U.S.
71 Pearson GlobalEnglish U.K. U.S.
72 Penguin Group Author Solutions U.S. U.S.
73 Perficient Northridge U.S. U.S.
74 Playphone Social Hour U.S. U.S.
75 Salesforce GoInstant U.S. Canada
76 SAP AG Ariba Germany U.S.
77 SAP AG SuccessFactors Germany U.S.
78 ShoreTel M5 Networks U.S. U.S.
79 Silicon Laboratories Ember U.S. U.S.
80 SingTel Amobee Singapore U.S.
81 SingTel Pixable Singapore U.S.
82 Symantec LiveOffice U.S. U.S.
83 Syngenta Pasteuria Bioscience Switzerland U.S.
84 Teleflex Semprus BioSciences U.S. U.S.
85
Telephone and Data
Systems
Vital Support Systems U.S. U.S.
86
Thermo Fisher
Scientific
Doe & Ingalls U.S. U.S.
87 TIBCO Software LogLogic U.S. U.S.
88 TiVo TRA U.S. U.S.
89 Tornier
OrthoHelix Surgical
Designs
Holland U.S.
90 Towers Watson Extend Health U.S. U.S.
91 Vedanta Cairn India India India
92 Verizon Hughes Telematics U.S. U.S.
93 VMWare Nicira Networks U.S. U.S.
94 Vocus iContact U.S. U.S.
95 Vodafone
Cable & Wireless
Worldwide
(C&WW)
U.K. U.K.
96 Wanxiang A123 Systems China U.S.
97 Wipro Technologies
Promax Application
Group
India Australia
98 Yelp Qype U.S. Germany
99 Zillow RentJuice U.S. U.S.
100 Zynga OMGPOP U.S. U.S.

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Information on Media Companies

Sr.No.
Parent
Company
TV Media
Companies
Print Media
Companies
Internet Media Miscellaneous
1
Zee
Entertainment
Enterprises
Limited (ZEEL)
9X, Zee TV, Zee
Cinema, Zing, TEN
Action+, TEN
Cricket, TEN
Sports, TEN Golf,
TEN HD,
Zee Premiere,
Zee Action,
Zee Classic,
Zee Smile,
Zee Jagran,
Zee Trendz,
Zee Cafe,
Zee Studio,
Zee Telugu,
Zee Bangla,
Zee Bangla Cinema,
Zee Kannada,
Zee Marathi,
Zee Marathi
Cinema,
Zee Punjabi,
Zee Tamil,
ETC Channel,
ETC Punjabi,
Zee Khana
Khazana,
Zee Q, Zee Salaam
Daily News
and
Analysis(DNA)
DNA E-Paper,
Playwin
Zee Motion
Pictures, Indian
Cricket League,
Fun Cinemas
2
ABP Group
(Ananda Bazar
Patrika)
ABP News, ABP
Ananda, ABP
Majha,
Sananda TV
Anandabazar
Patrika, Ebela,
The Telegraph,
Anandamela,
Unish-Kuri,
Businessworld,
Fortune India,
Ananda Lok,
Desh, Sananda
Indiainfocom.com,
Anandabazar.in,
Anandautsav.com,
Tilottama.in,
Thetelegraphstore.com,
Mjoy.in.
Ananda
Publishers,
Penguin India,
Ananda
Purashkar, Radio
Ananda
3 HT Media NA
Hindustan
Times, HT
Next, HT Caf,
Mint
Newspaper,
Hindusthan
Shine.com,
DesiMartini.com,
HTCampus.com
Fever 104 FM
4
Independent
News Service
India TV NA NA NA
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Sr.No.
Parent
Company
TV Media
Companies
Print Media
Companies
5
Indian Express
Limited
NA
The Indian
Express, The
Sunday
Express, The
Financial
Express,
Loksatta,
Lokprabha,
Jansatta,
Screen
Express Online,
IndianExpress.com,
FinancialExpress.com,
ScreenIndia.com,
Loksatta.com,
Lokprabha.com,
ExpressCricket.in,
KashmirLive.com
Cinema Express
Awards
6
IndusInd Media
&
Communications
Ltd.(IMCL)
InCablenet, In
Digital, In2cable,
InPhone, Shop 24
seven,
Planet-e-Shop
NA Shop 24 seven online NA
7
Jagran
Prakashan Ltd
NA
Dainik Jagran,
i-next, City
Plus, Mid-day,
Mid-day
Gujrati,
Inquilab, Nai
Dunia, Sakhi,
Punjabi Jagran
jplcorp.in, jagran.com,
mid-day.com
Jagran Engage,
Jagran Solutions,
J9,Pehel, Jagran
Research, Jagran
Foundation
8
Living Media
(India Today
Group)
TV Today
Network , Aaj Tak
News, Headlines
Today, Dilli Aaj
tak, Tez
India Today,
Business
Today, India
Today Travel
Plus, Money
Today,
Cosmopolitan,
Men's Health,
Women's
Health, Auto
Bild, Reader's
Digest,
Harper's
Bazaar,
Prevention,
Good
Housekeeping,
Gadgets and
Gizmos, Design
Today, Golf
Digest, Music
Today, Bag it
Today,
Harvard
Business
Review
BagItToday.com -
Online Shopping
Website
Oye 104.8 FM,
Thomson Press
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Sr.No.
Parent
Company
TV Media
Companies
Print Media
Companies
9 Network 18
CNN-IBN, IBN-7,
CNBC Awaaz,
CNBC-TV18, IBN-
Lokmat, MTV
India, Nick India,
VH1 India, Colors,
History TV18, ETV
Network, Nick Jr.,
Nick Teen,
Comedy Central,
Forbes India,
E18, Sport18
In.com,
Moneycontrol.com,
Firstpost.com,
Bookmyshow.com,
Cricketnext.com,
Homeshop18.com,
ibnlive.com,
Webchutney
10
New Delhi
Television
Limited (NDTV)
NDTV 24x7, NDTV
India, NDTV
Profit, NDTV Good
Times, NDTV
Hindi, ATN NDTV
24x7, NDTV
Worldwide
NA ndtv.com
NGEN, NDTV
Worldwide
11 Prasar Bharati
Doordarshan, DD
India, DD Regional
chanels
NA DD Direct+ All India Radio
12 Raj Network
Raj TV, Vissa, Raj
Parivar,Raj Musix
(Tamil), Raj Musix
Telugu, Raj Musix
Kannada, Raj
Musix Malayalam,
Raj Digital Plus,
Raj News 24X7,
Raj News, Raj
Pariwar, Raj Asia
NA NA NA
13
Sahara One
Media &
Entertainment
Ltd
Sahara One, Filmy,
Firangi, Sahara
Samay
Rashtriya
Sahara,
Roznama
Rashtriya
Sahara
NA
Sahara One
Motion pictures
14
Sony
Entertainment
Television
(India)
Sony Mix, Sony
SIX, SET Max, SET
PIX, Sony
Entertainment
Television., AXN,
SAB TV
NA Sony Liv NA
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Sr.No.
Parent
Company
TV Media
Companies
Print Media
Companies
15 STAR India
STAR Plus, STAR
Gold, STAR Jalsha,
STAR Pravah,
STAR World, STAR
Movies, STAR
Utsav, Channel[V],
Life OK, Asianet,
Asianet Plus,
Asianet Sitara,
Asianet News,
Asianet Movies,
STAR Vijay, Movies
OK, Asianet
Suvarna, Suvarna
News, STAR Sports,
STAR Cricket,
ESPN, ESPNews
Asia
NA Star Player
Star Screen
Awards,Big Star
Entertainment
Awards, Star
Parivaar Awards
16 Sun TV Network
Sun TV, Sun
Music, Sun News,
Sun Life, Adithya
TV, Chutti TV, Sun
Action, Gemini TV,
Gemini Music,
Gemini News,
Gemini Life,
Gemini Comedy,
Kushi TV, Gemini
Action, Udaya TV,
Udaya Music,
Udaya News,
Udaya Comedy,
Chintu TV,
Suriyan TV, Surya,
Kiran, Chirithira,
Kochu TV, Surya
Action, K TV,
Gemini Movies,
Udaya Movies
Dinakaran,
Tamil Murasu,
Malai Murasu,
Kungumam,
Kumguma
Chimizh,
Kungumam
Thozhi,
Aanmigam,
Mutharam,
Vannathirai
Suntv.in
Sun Kudumbam
Awards,Suryan
FM 93.5, Red FM
93.5
17
The Hindu
Group
NA
The Hindu,
The Hindu
Business Line,
Sportstar,
Frontline,
Praxis, Indian
Cricket, Survey
of Indian
industry,
Survey of
Indian
agriculture,
Survey of the
Environment
The Hindu E-paper NA
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Sr.No.
Parent
Company
TV Media
Companies
Print Media
Companies
18
The Outlook
Group
NA
Outlook,
Outlook
Money,
Outlook
Traveller,
Outlook
Saptahik
Outlookindia.com,
outlooktraveller. com,
outlookmoney. com
Outloook
Traveller getaway
series, The
layman's guide to
insurance, the
layman's guide to
mutual funds
19
The Times
Group
Times Now, ET
Now, Zoom,
Movies Now
The Times of
India, The
Economic
Times,
Maharashtra
Times,
Navbharat
Times,
Mumbai
Mirror, ET
Wealth,
Filmfare,
Femina, Top
Gear Magazine
India, Femina
Hindi
TimesJobs, Gaana.com,
TimesDeal, BoxTV.com,
Indiatimes
Radio Mirchi,
Absolute Radio,
360 Degrees,
Mirchi Movies
Limited, Filmfare
Awards, Femina
Miss India Beauty
Pagent
20
UTV Software
Communications
Bindass (formerly
UTV Bindass),
UTV Stars, UTV
Action (formerly
Bindass Movies),
UTV Movies, UTV
World
Movies,Bloomberg
UTV (formerly
UTVi)
NA NA
UTV Motion
Pictures, UTV
Toons, Ignition
Entertainment

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Prominent Companies

Sr.No.
Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
Products
Founders Industry
1
ABN AMRO
Group
Gerrit Zalm
Making More
Possible
Asset
management,
commercial
banking,
investment
banking
Rob
Hazelhoff,
Roelof
Nelissen
Financial
services
2 Accenture Pierre Nanterme
High
Performance.
Delivered
IT, business
consulting and
outsourcing
services
Founded in
1989 as the
business and
technology
consulting
division of the
accounting
firm Arthur
Andersen
IT
3 Adobe
Shantanu
Narayen
Simplicity at
work. Better
by adobe.
Acrobat, Flash,
Photoshop
Charles
Geschke, John
Warnock
Software
4 Allianz
Michael
Diekmann
The Power on
your side
Insurance,
banking, asset
management
Carl von
Thieme &
Wilhelm von
Finck
Financial
Services
5
Amazon.com,
Inc.
Jeff Bezos
Earth's Biggest
BookStore
Amazon Kindle,
Amazon.com
Jeff Bezos Online Retailing
6
American
International
Group, Inc.
Bob Benmosche
We know
Money
Insurance
annuities,
mutual funds
Cornelius
Vander Starr
Insurance,
Financial
services
7 Amul
R.S. Sodhi
(Managing
Director)
The taste of
India
Dairy products
Founded in
1946
Dairy
8 Apple Inc Tim Cook
Think
Different.
Mac PC, iPad,
iPhone, iPod
Steve
Jobs,Steve
Wozniak,
Ronald Wayne
Software
9
Arcelor(Arcel
or Mittal)
Lakshmi Mittal
Steel solutions
for a better
world
Steel
Formed due
to a merger
these three
companies -
Arbed,
Aceralia,
Usinor
Steel
10 AT&T Inc.
Randall
Stephenson
The World's
Networking
Company
AT&T Inc.
Management
of American
Bell
Telecommuni-
cations
GK FACT FILES-II

Sr.No.
Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
Products
Founders Industry
11 Barclays PLC
Antony Jenkins
(Group Chief
Executive)
Fluent in
Finance; Its
our business to
know your
business
Retail banking
Commercial
banking,
Investment
banking,
Investment
management
John Freame
and Thomas
Gould
Banking,
Financial
services
12 Bata Thomas G. Bata
Shoes for
everyone
Footwear,
sportswear,
sports
equipment,
toiletries
Tom Baa
Retail and
manufacturing
13
Bayerische
Motoren
Werke AG
Norbert
Reithofer
The Ultimate
Driving
Machine
Automobiles,
motorcycles,
bicycles
Franz Josef
Popp
Automobiles
14 Bloomingdale's Michael Gould
Like no other
store in the
world
Clothing,
footwear,
bedding,
furniture,
jewelry
Joseph and
Lyman G.
Bloomingdale
Clothing,
footwear,
bedding,
furniture,
jewelry, beauty
products,
housewares,
optical, salon,
portrait studio,
cafe.
15 CEAT
Paras
Chowdhary
(Chief
Management
Advisor)
Born Tough Tyres
Virginio Bruni
Tedeschi
Tyres & Tubes
16
Cisco Systems
Inc
John Chambers
Empowering
the Internet
generation.
Networking
Device,
Network
Management,
Cisco IOS and
NX-OS Software
Leonard
Bosack,Sandy
Lerner
Networking
equipment
17 CITIGROUP Michael Corbat
The Citi Never
Sleeps
Credit cards,
consumer
banking,
corporate
banking,
investment
banking
Formed due
to a merger
between
Citicorp and
Travelers
Group
Banking,
Financial
services
18 Dell Inc Michael Dell
Easy as DELL/
Easy to Buy,
Easy to own
Desktops,
netbooks,
notebooks,
servers,
scanners, smart
phones
Michael Dell
Computers and
IT
GK FACT FILES-II

Sr.No.
Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
Products
Founders Industry
19
Deutsche
Bank
Paul Achleitner
(Chairman),
Juergen Fitschen
(Co-CEO),
Anshuman Jain
(Co-CEO)
A Passion to
Perform
Consumer
banking,
corporate
banking, finance
and insurance
G. Siemens
and L.
Bamberger
Banking,
Financial
services
20 DuPont Ellen Kullman
Better living
through
chemistry.
Corian, Delrin,
Kevlar
Eleuthre
Irne du
Pont
Chemicals
21
Ernst and
Young
Jim Turley
Quality in
Everything we
Do
Assurance, Tax
Advisory,
Consultingetc.
services
Formed due
to a series of
mergers of
ancestor
organizations
Professional
services
22 Essar Group Prashant Ruia
A positive
attitude
Steel, oil and gas,
power,
communications,
shipping
Shashi Ruia,
Ravi Ruia
Conglomerate
23 Essel Group Subhash Chandra -
Media,
entertainment,
packaging,
infrastructure
Subhash
Chandra
Conglomerate
24
Exxon Mobil
Corporation
Rex W. Tillerson
Taking on the
World's
Toughest
Energy
Challenges
Fuels,
lubricants,
petrochemicals
Formed due
to a merger
between
Exxon and
Mobil
Oil and gas
25 Facebook Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook
helps you
connect and
share with the
people in your
life
Social
Networking
services
Mark
Zuckerberg,
Eduardo
Saverin,
Andrew
McCollum,
Dustin
Moskovitz,
Chris Hughes
Social
Networking
26 FIAT
Sergio
Marchionne
Driven by
Passion. FIAT
Automobiles,
commercial
vehicles, auto
parts
Giovanni
Agnelli
Automotive
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Sr.No.
Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
Products
Founders Industry
27
Ford Motor
Co.
Alan R. Mulally
Built for the
road
ahead/Ford
has a better
idea
Automobiles,
Automotive
parts
Henry Ford Automobiles
28
Four Seasons
Hotels, Inc.
Isadore Sharp
(Chairman)
Fifty Hotels.
Twenty-Two
Countries. One
Philosophy
- Isadore Sharp Hospitality
29 Future Group
Fouad M.
Makhzoumi
(Chairman)
India
Tomorrow
Discount,
grocery and
convenience
stores, cash and
carry,
hypermarkets,
financial
services
Mr. Kishore
Biyani
Retail
30 GAIL
Sh B. C. Tripathi
(Chairman and
MD)
Gas and
Beyond
Natural Gas,
Petrochemical,
Liquid
Hydrocarbons
Ministry of
Petroleum &
Natural Gas
Energy,
Petrochemicals
31
General Mills,
Inc.
Kendall J. Powell
Nourishing
Lives
Food Products Robert Smith Food Processing
32
General
Motors
Company
Daniel Akerson Only GM Automobiles,
William C.
Durant
Automotive
33 Google
Eric Schmidt
(Executive
Chairman), Larry
Page (Co-founder
& CEO), Sergey
Brin
(Co-founder)
-
Search tools,
mobile
applications,
operating
systems
Larry Page,
Sergey Brin
Internet,
computer
software,
telecoms
equipment
34
Haier
Electronics
Group Co
Zhang Ruimin Inspired Living
Major
appliances,
small
appliances,
commercial
heating and
cooling systems
Zhang Ruimin
Home
appliances,
Consumer
electronics
35
Hewlett-
Packard
Company
Meg Whitman
Everything is
Possible
PCs, printers,
monitors,
scanners,
servers
Bill
Hewlett,David
Packard
Computers and
IT
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Sr.No.
Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
Products
Founders Industry
36
Hindustan
Unilever
Limited
(HUL)
Nitin Paranjpe
Adding Vitality
to Life
Foods,
beverages,
cleaning agents
and personal
care products
Founded in
1956 as
Hindustan
Lever Limited
through a
merger of
Lever
Brothers,
Hindustan
Vanaspati
Mfg. Co. Ltd.
and United
Traders Ltd.
Consumer
goods
37 HOME DEPOT Frank Blake
You can do it.
We can Help.
Home
appliances,
tools, hardware,
lumber,
building
materials
Bernie
Marcus,
Arthur Blank,
Ron Brill, Pat
Farrah
Retailing
38
Honda Motor
Co Ltd
Takanobu Ito
The Power of
Dreams
Automobiles,
motorcycles,
scooters,
electrical
generators, jet
aircrafts
Soichiro
Honda,Takeo
Fujisawa
Automotive,
Aviation,
Telematics
39
HSBC (The
Hong-kong
and Shanghai
Banking
Corporation.)
Stuart Gulliver
(Group Chief
Executive)
The World's
Local Bank
Investment,
commercial,
retail and
private banking,
Sir Thomas
Sutherland
Financial
Services
40 Infosys S.D. Shibulal
Powered by
Intellect,
Driven by
Values;
Improve your
odds with
Infosys
Predictability
IT, business
consulting and
outsourcing
services
N. R.
Narayana
Murthy,Nand
an Nilekani
N. S.
Raghavan,S.
Gopalakrishn
an
S. D.
Shibulal,K
Dinesh,Ashok
Arora
IT
41
Intel
Corporation
Paul Otellini Intel Inside
Bluetooth
chipsets, flash
memory,
microprocessors,
motherboard
chipsets,
network
interface cards
Gordon
Moore,
Robert Noyce
Semiconductors
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Sr.No.
Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
Products
Founders Industry
42
International
Business
Machines
(IBM)
Corporation
Ginni Rometty
I think,
therefore IBM
Hardware and
Software
products
Charles
Ranlett Flint
Computers and
IT
43
IOCL
(Indian Oil
Corporation
Limited)
RS Butola
(Chairman)
Bringing
Energy to Life
Fuels,
lubricants,
petrochemicals
Formed due
to a merger
between
Indian Oil
Company Ltd.
and Indian
Refineries
Ltd.
Oil and gas
44
JVC(Victor
Company of
Japan)
Shoichiro Eguchi
The Perfect
Experience
Audio, visual,
computer-
related
electronics and
software
Founded in
1927 as a
subsidiary of
the United
States'
leading
phonograph
and record
company
Audio, visual,
computer-
related
electronics and
software, media
products
45
KFC(Kentucky
Fried Chicken)
David C. Novak
(Chairman and
CEO of Yum!
Brands), Roger
Eaton (Chairman
and CEO of KFC)
Its Finger
Lickin Good!!
Fried chicken,
soft drinks,
salads, desserts,
breakfast
Harland
Sanders
Fast food
restaurant
46
Koninklijke
Philips
Electronics
N.V.
Frans van
Houten
Sense and
Simplicity
Home
appliances,
lighting,
medical
equipment
Gerard
Philips,
Frederik
Philips
Electronics
47 Kotak
Uday Kotak
(Vice Chairman)
& (MD)
Think
Investments.
Think Kotak.
Deposit
accounts, Loans,
Investment
services,
Business
banking
solutions
Uday Kotak
Financial
service
GK FACT FILES-II

Sr.No.
Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
Products
Founders Industry
48
LARSEN and
TOUBRO
K.
Venkataramanan
We make
things which
make India
proud
Construction,
heavy
equipment,
electrical
equipment,
power
Henning
Holck
Larsen,Soren
Kristian
Toubro
Conglomerate
49
Lenovo Group
Ltd.
Yang Yuanqing
We are
building a new
technology
company
Desktops,
servers,
notebooks,
tablet
computers
Liu Chuanzhi
Computer
hardware,
electronics
50
LG
Electronics
Inc.
Bon-joon Koo Life's good
Electronics,
chemicals,
telecommuni-
cations
Koo In-Hwoi
Consumer
electronics,
home
appliances,
telecoms
equipment
51 Lufthansa Christoph Franz
There's no
better to fly
Airline services
Founded in
1926 as
Deutsche Luft
Hansa
Airlines
52
MasterCard
Incorporated
Ajay Banga
There are some
things money
can't buy. For
everything else
there's
MASTERCARD.
Credit cards,
payment
systems
Founded in
1966 when a
group of
California
banks formed
the Interbank
Card
Association
(ICA)
Financial
services
53
Max Life
Insurance
Company Ltd.
(formerly:Max
New York Life
Insurance
Company Ltd.)
Rajesh Sud
Your Partner
for life
Individual and
group insurance
Analjit Singh
Financial
Services
54
McDonald's
Corp
Don Thompson I m Lovin it Fast food
Richard and
Maurice
McDonald,
Ray Kroc
Restaurants
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Sr.No.
Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
Products
Founders Industry
55
Metropolitan
Life Insurance
Company or
Metlife.
Steven A.
Kandarian
Have You Met
Life Today
Insurance,
Annuities,
Employee
Benefits,
Banking
Founded on
March 24,
1868. Earlier
known as the
National
Union Life
and Limb
Insurance
Company
Financial
services
56 Microsoft Steve Ballmer Be What's Next
Windows, MS
Office, Skype,
Bing, Xbox,
Windows
Phone, Surface
Bill Gates,
Paul Allen
Software
57
Morrison &
Foerster
Keith C.
Wetmore
-
Morrison &
Foerster LLP
(MoFo)
Alexender
Morrison
Law Firm
58
MRF (Madras
Rubber
Factory)
Arun Mammen
(MD)
Tyres with
Muscle
Tyres, toys,
sports goods,
conveyor belt,
paints & coats
Mr.K.M.Mam
men Mappilai
Conglomerate
59 Nestle Paul Bulcke
Good food,
Good life
Baby food,
coffee, dairy
products
Henri Nestl,
Charles Page,
George Page
Food processing
60
New Delhi
Television
Limited
(NDTV)
Vikramaditya
Chandra (Group
CEO & Executive
Director)
News you can
Use.
(Ndtv Profit)
Broadcasting,
radio
Prannoy Roy Media
61 Nike Inc. Mark Parker Just do it
Athletic
footwear and
apparel, sport
equipments and
other
recreational
products
Bill
Bowerman,
Phil Knight
Apparel,
accessories
62
Nintendo Co
Ltd.
Satoru Iwata
How U will
play next
Nintendo
Gameboy,Wii
Fusajiro
Yamauchi
Consumer
electronics,
Video games
63 Nokia Corp Stephen Elop
Connecting
people
Mobile phones,
smartphones,
mobile
computers,
networks
Fredrik
Idestam,
Leo Mechelin
Telecommuni-
cations
equipment,
internet,
computer
software
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Sr.No.
Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
Products
Founders Industry
64 ONGC
Sudhir
Vasudeva(Chair
man & MD)
Making
Tomorrow
Brighter
Petroleum,
natural gas, and
other
petrochemicals
Founded on
14th August,
1956
Oil and gas
65 PayPal
Patrick Dupuis
(CFO), David
Marcus
(President)
The safer,
easier way to
pay
Online
monetary
transaction
services
Ken
Howery,Max
Levchin,Elon
Musk, Luke
Nosek,Peter
Thiel
Online
66 PepsiCo Inc Indra Nooyi Live for Now
Pepsi,Lay's
potato chips,
Quaker foods
and snacks
Donald
Kendall,
Herman Lay
Food and
beverages
67
Procter &
Gamble
Robert
McDonald
Touching lives,
improving life
Foods,
beverages,
cleaning agents
and personal
care products
William
Procter,
James Gamble
Consumer
goods
68
Reliance
Industries
Limited
Mukesh Ambani
(Chairman and
MD)
Growth is Life
Crude oil,
natural gas,
petrochemicals,
petroleum
Dhirubhai
Ambani
Conglomerate
69
Research In
Motion/
Blackberry
Thorsten Heins Be Bold
BlackBerry,
BlackBerry
Enterprise
Server,
BlackBerry
Internet Service
Mike
Lazaridis
Telecommunica
tions equipment
70 Samsung Oh-Hyun Kwon
Turn on
tomorrow/
Every one's
invited
Samsung
Electronics, Cell
Phones
Lee Byung-
chull
Electronics
71
Sahara India
Pariwar
Subrata Roy
Sahara (MD)
Emotionally
yours.
Financial
services,
construction,
mass media
Subrata Roy
Sahara
Conglomerate
72
Sansui
Electric
Takeshi
Nakamichi
(President)
Born in Japan
Entertaining
The World
Audio-Visual
and
communication
equipments,
home
appliances,
information
equipment
Grande
Holdings
Electronics
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Sr.No.
Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
Products
Founders Industry
73 Siemens Peter Lscher
Global
Network of
Innovation
Communication
systems, power
generation
technology,
industrial and
buildings
automation,
lighting, home
appliances,
railway vehicles
Werner von
Siemens
Conglomerate
74 koda Auto
H.C. Winfried
Vahland
(Chairman)
Obsessed with
Quality since
1897.
Automobiles
Vclav Laurin
and Vclav
Klement
Automotive
75 Sony Kazuo Hirai Make believe
Televisions,
digital imaging,
PCs and other
networked
products
Masaru
Ibuka,Akio
Morita
Electronics/
conglomerate
76
Standard
Chartered
Bank
Sir John Peace
(Chairman),
Peter A. Sands
(Group Chief
Executive)
Your Right
Partner
Credit cards,
Consumer
banking,
Corporate
banking,
Investment
banking
services
NA
Banking,
Financial
services
77
Starbucks
Corporation
Howard Schultz
It's bigger than
coffee
Coffee and
Handcrafted
Beverages
Jerry Baldwin,
Gordon
Bowker,
Zev Siegl
Food &
Beverages
78
The Coca-Cola
Company
Muhtar Kent
Enjoy Coca
Cola
Coke,Diet Coke,
Sprite,
Thums up
Asa Griggs
Candler
Beverages
79
The NASDAQ
OMX Group,
Inc.
Robert Greifeld
Stock market
for the digital
world
(Nasdaq)
Derivatives,
equity trading
platforms,
futures and
options markets
NA
Financial
services
80
The Walt
Disney
Company
Robert A. Iger
Where dreams
come true.
Cable television,
movies, theme
parks,
Walt and Roy
Disney
Mass Media
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Sr.No.
Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
Products
Founders Industry
81
Toyota Motor
Corporation
Akio Toyoda Let's go places
Automobiles,
commercial
vehicles,
engines,
motorcycles
Kiichiro
Toyoda
Automobile
82
United
Breweries
Group
Vijay Mallya
(Chairman), A K
Ravi Nedungadi
(President &
CFO)
Kingfisher -
King of good
times
Brewery,
alcoholic
beverage,
aviation,
chemicals &
fertilizers
Thomas
Leishman
Conglomerate
83
UTV Software
Communicati
ons Ltd.
Ronnie
Screwvala (MD)
NA
Films,
televisions,
games, websites
broadcasting
Ronnie
Screwvala
Media
conglomerate
84
Virgin Group
Ltd.
David Baxby
(Co-CEO)
We answer to
a higher calling
Beverages,
airlines, trains,
video games
Sir Richard
Branson
Conglomerate
85 Volkswagen
Martin
Winterkorn
Das Auto cars
Ferdinand
Porsche
Automotive
86
Wipro
Limited
(Western
India
Products
Limited)
Azim Premji
(Chairman), T K
Kurien (CEO, IT
Business &
Executive
Director)
Applying
Thought
IT, business
consulting and
outsourcing
services
Mohamed
Hasham
Premji
IT
87
Walmart
Stores, Inc
Mike Duke
Save Money.
Live Better.
Retail products Sam Walton Retail

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PSU - Maharatna, Navratna and Miniratna

Maharatna CPSEs

Sr.No. Company Name
1 Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
2 Coal India Limited
3 GAIL (India) Limited
4 Indian Oil Corporation Limited
5 NTPC Limited
6 Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited
7 Steel Authority of India Limited

Navratna CPSEs

Sr.No. Company Name
1 Bharat Electronics Limited
2 Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
3 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
4 Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
5 Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited
6 National Aluminium Company Limited
7 National Mineral Development Corporation Limited
8 Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited
9 Oil India Limited
10 Power Finance Corporation Limited
11 Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
12 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited
13 Rural Electrification Corporation Limited
14 Shipping Corporation of India Limited

Miniratna Category - I CPSEs

Sr.No. Company Name
1 Airports Authority of India
2 Antrix Corporation Limited
3 Balmer Lawrie & Co. Limited
4 Bharat Dynamics Limited
5 BEML Limited
6 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
7 Bridge & Roof Company (India) Limited
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Sr.No. Company Name
8 Central Warehousing Corporation
9 Central Coalfields Limited
10 Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited
11 Cochin Shipyard Limited
12 Container Corporation of India Limited
13 Dredging Corporation of India Limited
14 Engineers India Limited
15 Ennore Port Limited
16 Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited
17 Goa Shipyard Limited
18 Hindustan Copper Limited
19 HLL Lifecare Limited
20 Hindustan Newsprint Limited
21 Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited
22 Housing & Urban Development Corporation Limited
23 India Tourism Development Corporation Limited
24 Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Limited
25 IRCON International Limited
26 KIOCL Limited
27 Mazagaon Dock Limited
28 Mahanadi Coalfields Limited
29 Manganese Ore (India) Limited
30 Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemical Limited
31 Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited
32 MMTC Limited
33 MSTC Limited
34 National Fertilizers Limited
35 National Seeds Corporation Limited
36 NHPC Limited
37 Northern Coalfields Limited
38 Numaligarh Refinery Limited
39 ONGC Videsh Limited
40 Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited
41 Projects & Development India Limited
42 Railtel Corporation of India Limited
43 Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited
44 RITES Limited
45 SJVN Limited
46 Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited
47 South Eastern Coalfields Limited
48 State Trading Corporation of India Limited
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Sr.No. Company Name
49 Telecommunications Consultants India Limited
50 THDC India Limited
51 Western Coalfields Limited
52 WAPCOS Limited

Miniratna Category-II CPSEs

Sr.No. Company Name
1 Bharat Pumps & Compressors Limited
2 Broadcast Engineering Consultants (I) Limited
3 Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited
4 Ed.CIL (India) Limited
5 Engineering Projects (India) Limited
6 FCI Aravali Gypsum & Minerals India Limited
7 Ferro Scrap Nigam Limited
8 HMT (International) Limited
9 HSCC (India) Limited
10 India Trade Promotion Organisation
11 Indian Medicines & Pharmaceuticals Corporation Limited
12 M E C O N Limited
13 National Film Development Corporation Limited
14 National Small Industries Corporation Limited
15 P E C Limited
16 Rajasthan Electronics & Instruments Limited

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Heads of Constitutional Bodies
Prime Ministers of India

Sr.No. Term of Office Name Party
1 2004 - present Dr. Manmohan Singh Indian National Congress
2 1998 - 2004 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party
3 1997 - 1998 Inder Kumar Gujral Janata Dal
4 1996 - 1997 H. D. Deve Gowda Janata Dal
5 1996 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party
6 1991 - 1996 P. V. Narasimha Rao Indian National Congress
7 1990 - 1991 Chandra Shekhar Samajwadi Janata Party
8 1989 - 1990 V. P. Singh Janata Dal
9 1984 - 1989 Rajiv Gandhi Indian National Congress
10 1980 - 1984 Indira Gandhi Indian National Congress
11 1979 - 1980 Charan Singh Janata Party (Secular)
12 1977 - 1979 Morarji Desai Janata Party
13 1966 - 1977 Indira Gandhi Indian National Congress
14 1966 Gulzarilal Nanda Indian National Congress
15 1964 - 1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri Indian National Congress
16 1964 Gulzarilal Nanda Indian National Congress
17 1947 - 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru Indian National Congress

Presidents of India

Sr.No.
Start of Term
of Office
End of Term of
Office
Name
1 2012 -- Pranab Mukherjee
2 2007 2012 Pratibha Patil
3 2002 2007 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
4 1997 2002 Kocheril Raman Narayanan
5 1992 1997 Shankar Dayal Sharma
6 1987 1992 Ramaswamy Venkataraman
7 1982 1987 Giani Zail Singh
8 1977 1982 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
9 1974 1977 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
10 1969 1974 Varahagiri Venkata Giri
11 1969 1969 Muhammad Hidayatullah
12 1969 1969 Varahagiri Venkata Giri
13 1967 1969 Zakir Hussain
14 1962 1967 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
15 1950 1962 Rajendra Prasad

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Chief Ministers of India

Sr.No. State/ UT Name Party
1 Andhra Pradesh N Kirankumar Reddy Indian National Congress
2 Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Tuki Indian National Congress
3 Assam Tarun Gogoi Indian National Congress
4 Bihar Nitish Kumar Janata Dal
5 Chhattisgarh Raman Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
6
National Capital
Territory of Delhi
Sheila Dixit Indian National Congress
7 Goa Manohar Parrikar Bharatiya Janata Party
8 Gujarat Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party
9 Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda Indian National Congress
10 Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
11 Jammu & Kashmir Omar Abdullah
Jammu & Kashmir National
Conference
12 Jharkhand President's Rule Indian National Congress
13 Karnataka Jagadish Shettar Bharatiya Janata Party
14 Kerala Oommen Chandy Indian National Congress
15 Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan Bharatiya Janata Party
16 Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan Indian National Congress
17 Manipur Okram Ibobi Singh Indian National Congress
18 Meghalaya Mukul Sangma Indian National Congress
19 Mizoram Lal Thanhawla Indian National Congress
20 Nagaland Neiphiu Rio Nagaland People's Front
21 Orissa Naveen Patnaik Biju Janata Dal
22 Pondicherry N. Rangaswamy All India NR Congress
23 Punjab Prakash Singh Badal Shiromani Akali Dal
24 Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot Indian National Congress
25 Sikkim Pawan Kumar Chamling Sikkim Democratic Front
26 Tamil Nadu Jayalalithaa
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam
27 Tripura Manik Sarkar Communist Party of India (Marxist)
28 Uttarakhand Vijay Bahuguna Indian National Congress
29 Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav Samajwadi Party
30 West Bengal Mamata Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress

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Cabinet Ministers (as on 14/03/2013)

Sr.No. Portfolio Minister
1
Atomic Energy,
Space, Personnel,
Public Grievances
& Pensions,
Planning
Manmohan Singh
2 Finance Palaniappan Chidambaram
3
Agriculture, Food
Processing
Industries
Sharad Chandra Govindrao Pawar
4 Defence A.K. Antony
5 Home Affairs Sushil Kumar Shinde
6
Health & Family
Welfare
Ghulam Nabi Azad
7
New & Renewable
Energy
Farooq Abdullah
8 Civil Aviation Ajit Singh
9
Labour &
Employment
Mallikarjun Kharge
10
Commerce &
Industry, Textiles
Anand Sharma
11 Shipping G.K. Vasan
12
Chemicals &
Fertilizers
M.K. Alagiri
13
Heavy Industries &
Public Enterprises
Praful Patel
14 Coal Shree Prakash Jaiswal
15
Panchayati Raj,
Tribal Affairs
V. Kishore Chandra Deo
16 Steel Beni Prasad Verma
17 Minority Affairs K. Rahman Khan
18 Mines Dinsha J. Patel
19
Housing & Urban
Poverty Alleviation
Ajay Maken
20
Human Resource
Development
M.M. Pallam Raju
21 Law & Justice Ashwani Kumar
22 Water Resources Harish Rawat
23
Petroleum &
Natural Gas
M. Veerappa Moily
24
Science &
Technology and
Earth Sciences
S. Jaipal Reddy
25 Culture Chandresh Kumari Katoch

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26
Urban
Development &
Parliamentary
Affairs
Kamal Nath
27
Overseas Indian
Affairs
Vayalar Ravi
28
Communications &
Information
Technology
Kapil Sibal
29
Road Transport &
Highways
C.P. Joshi
30
Social Justice &
Empowerment
Selja Kumari
31 External Affairs Salman Khursheed
32 Rural Development Jairam Ramesh
33 Railways Pawan Kumar Bansal

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) as on 14/03/2013

1
Information &
Broadcasting
Manish Tewari
2 Tourism K. Chiranjeevi
3 Power Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
4
Micro, Small &
Medium
Enterprises
K.H. Muniyappa
5
Drinking Water &
Sanitation
Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki
6 Corporate Affairs Sachin Pilot
7
Youth Affairs &
Sports
Jitendra Singh
8
Women & Child
Development
Krishna Tirath
9
Consumer Affairs,
Food & Public
Distribution
Kurupassery V. Thomas
10
Statistics &
Program
Implementation
Srikant Kumar Jena
11
Environment &
Forests
Jayanthi Natarajan
12
Development of
North Eastern
Region
Paban Singh Ghatowar

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MINISTERS OF STATE as on 14/03/2013

1
Human Resource
Development
Shashi Tharoor
2
Human Resource
Development
Jitin Prasada
3
Labour &
Employment
Kodikunnil Suresh
4 Agriculture Tariq Anwar
5
Agriculture, Food
Processing
Industries
Charan Das Mahant
6 Railways K. J. Surya Prakash Reddy
7 Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
8 Tribal Affairs Ranee Narah
9
Health & Family
Welfare
Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury
10
Health & Family
Welfare
S. Gandhiselvan
11
Road Transport &
Highways
Tushar Amar Singh Chaudhary
12
Road Transport &
Highways
Sarvey Sathyanarayana
13 Minority Affairs Ninong Ering
14
Urban
Development
Deepa Dasmunsi
15
Social Justice &
Empowerment
D. Napoleon
16
Social Justice &
Empowerment
Porika Balram Naik
17
Communications &
Information
Technology
Kruparani Killi
18
Communications &
Information
Technology
Milind Deora
19 Defence Lalchand Kataria
20 Defence Jitin Prasada
21 External Affairs E. Ahamed
22 External Affairs Preneet Kaur
23
Commerce &
Industry
D. Purandeswari
24 Home Affairs Mullapally Ramachandran
25 Civil Aviation K.C. Venugopal
26
Parliamentary
Affairs, Planning
Rajeev Shukla
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27
Parliamentary
Affairs
Paban Singh Ghatowar
28 Rural Development Pradeep Kumar Jain Aditya
29
Prime Minister
Office, Personnel,
Public Grievances
& Pensions
V. Narayanasamy
30 Textiles Lakshmi Panabaka
31 Finance Namo Narain Meena
32 Finance S.S. Palanimanickam
33 Coal Pratik Patil
34 Home Affairs Ratanjit Singh

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Information on Countries

Prominent Countries

Sr.No. Country Capital Currency President
Prime
Minister
Parliament
1 Afghanistan Kabul Afghani Hamid Karzai - Shora
2 Australia Canberra Australian dollar - Julia Gillard Parliament
3 Austria Vienna Euro Heinz Fischer -
National
Assembly
4 Belgium Brussels Euro - Elio Di Rupo
Belgian Federal
Parliament
5 Canada Ottawa Canadian dollar -
Stephen
Harper
Parliament
6 China Beijing Renminbi-yuan Xi Jinping -
National People
Congress
7 Denmark Copenhagen Danish krone -
Helle
Thorning-
Schmidt
Folketing
8 Egypt Cairo Egyptian pound Mohamed Morsi
Hesham
Kandil
People's
Assembly
9 France Paris Euro Franois Hollande
Jean-Marc
Ayrault
National
Assembly
10 Germany Berlin Euro Joachim Gauck - Bundestag
11 Greece Athens Euro Karolos Papoulias
Antonis
Samaras
Chamber of
Deputies
12 Hong Kong - Hong Kong dollar - - Hansard
13 India New Delhi Indian rupee Pranab Mukherjee
Manmohan
Singh
Parliament
14 Iran Tehran Iranian rial
Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad
- Majilis
15 Iraq Baghdad Iraqi dinar Jalal Talabani
Nouri al-
Maliki
National
Assembly
16 Ireland Dublin Euro Michael D. Higgins - Oireachtas
17 Italy Rome Euro Giorgio Napolitano Mario Monti
Parlamento
Italiano
18 Japan Tokyo Yen - Shinz Abe Diet
19 Luxembourg Luxembourg Euro -
Jean-Claude
Juncker
Chamber of
Deputies
20 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Malaysian ringgit -
Najib Tun
Razak
Dewan Rakyat
and Dewan
Negara
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Prime
Minister
Parliament
21 Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian rupee Rajkeswur Purryag
Navin
Ramgoolam
National
Assembly
22 Mexico Mexico City Mexican peso Enrique Pea Nieto -
Congress of the
Union
23 Nepal Kathmandu Nepalese rupee Ram Baran Yadav
Khil Raj
Regmi
Rashtriya
Panchayat
24 Netherlands Amsterdam Euro - Mark Rutte
States General
(Staten-
Generaal)
25 Nigeria Abuja Naira Goodluck Jonathan -
National
Assembly
26 Norway Oslo Norwegian krone -
Jens
Stoltenberg
Storting
27 Oman Muscat Omani rial
Sultan Qaboos bin
Said al Said
- Majlis-al-Shura
28 Pakistan Islamabad Pakistani rupee Asif Ali Zardari
Acting Prime
Minister Mir
Hazar Khan
Khoso
Majlis-e-Shoora
29 Philippines Manila Philippine peso Benigno Aquino III - Congress
30 Poland Warsaw Zloty
Bronisaw
Komorowski
Donald Tusk Scym
31 Portugal Lisbon Euro Anbal Cavaco Silva
Pedro Passos
Coelho
Assembly of the
Republic
32 Qatar Doha Qatari riyal -
Hamad bin
Jassim bin
Jaber Al Thani
Majlis Al-Shura
/ Advisory
Council
33 Russia Moscow Rouble Vladimir Putin
Dmitry
Medvedev
Duma
34 Singapore Singapore Singapore dollar Tony Tan
Lee Hsien
Loong
Parliament
35 South Africa Pretoria Rand Jacob Zuma - Parliament
36 Spain Madrid Euro -
Mariano
Rajoy
Crotes
37 Sri Lanka Colombo Sri Lankan rupee Mahinda Rajapaksa
D. M.
Jayaratne
Parliament
38 Sudan Khartoum Sudanese dinar Omar al-Bashir - Majlis Watani
39 Sweden Stockholm Swedish krona -
Fredrik
Reinfeldt
Riksdag
40 Switzerland Berne Swiss franc Ueli Maurer -
Federal
Assembly
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Prime
Minister
Parliament
41 Syria Damascus Syrian pound Bashar al-Assad
Wael Nader
al-Halqi
People's
Council
42 Thailand Bangkok Baht -
Yingluck
Shinawatra
National
Assembly
43 Turkey Ankara Turkish lira Abdullah Gl
Recep Tayyip
Erdoan
Grand National
Assembly
44 Uganda Kampala Ugandan shilling Yoweri Museveni
Amama
Mbabazi
Parliament
45 Ukraine Kiev Hryvnia/ Hryvna Viktor Yanukovych
Mykola
Azarov
Verkhovna
Rada
46
United Arab
Emirates
Abu Dhabi
United Arab
Emirates dirham
Khalifa bin Zayed Al
Nahyan
Mohammed
bin Rashid Al
Maktoum
Federal
National
Council
47
United
Kingdom
London Pound sterling -
David
Cameron
Parliament
48 United States Washington DC US dollar Barack Obama - Congress
49 Venezuela Caracas Bolvar
Acting President
Nicols Maduro
-
National
Congress
50 Vietnam Hanoi Dong Truong Tan Sang
Nguyn Tn
Dng
National
Assembly

Other Countries
Prime
Minister
Parliament
1 Albania Tirana Lek Bujar Nishani Sali Berisha
Kuvendi/
People's
Assembly
2 Algeria Algiers Algerian Dinar Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Abdelmalek
Sellal
National
People's
Assembly
3 Andorra Andorra la Vella Andorran Diner - Antoni Mart General Council
4 Angola Luanda Kwanza
Jose Eduardo dos
Santos
-
National
People's
Assembly
5
Antigua and
Barbuda
Saint John's
East Caribbean
dollar
-
Baldwin
Spencer
Senate
6 Argentina Buenos Aires Argentine peso
Cristina Fernndez
de Kirchner
-
National
Congress
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Prime
Minister
Parliament
7 Armenia Yerevan Armenian dram Serzh Sarkisyan
Tigran
Sargsyan
National
Assembly
8 Azerbaijan Baku Azerbaijani manat Ilham Aliyev
Artur
Rasizade
Melli Majlis
9 The Bahamas Nassau Bahamian dollar - Perry Christie
General
Assembly
10 Bahrain Manama Bahraini dinar -
Khalifah ibn
Sulman Al
Khalifah
Consultative
Council
11 Bangladesh Dhaka Taka
Acting President
Abdul Hamid
Prime
Minister
Sheikh Hasina
Jatia Parliament
12 Barbados Bridgetown Barbados dollar -
Freundel
Stuart
Parliament of
Barbados
13 Belarus Minsk Belarusian ruble
Alexander
Lukashenko
Mikhail
Myasnikovich
National
Assembly of the
Republic of
Belarus
14 Belize Belmopan Belize dollar - Dean Barrow
National
Assembly
15 Benin Porto Novo CFA Franc Yayi Boni
Pascal
Koupaki
National
Assembly
16 Bhutan Thimphu Ngultrum -
Lyonpo Jigme
Thinley
Tasongadu
17 Bolivia
La Paz
(administrative)
Sucre (judicial)
Bolivian boliviano Evo Morales -
National
Congress
18
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Sarajevo
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
convertible mark
Bakir Izetbegovi
Vjekoslav
Bevanda
Skupstina
19 Botswana Gaborone Botswana pula Ian Khama -
National
Assembly
20 Brazil Brasilia Brazilian real Dilma Rousseff -
National
Congress
21 Brunei
Bandar Seri
Begawan
Brunei dollar
Sultan: Hassanal
Bolkiah
-
National
Assembly
22 Bulgaria Sofia Lev Rosen Plevneliev
Boyko
Borisov
Narodno
Subranie
23 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
West African CFA
franc
Blaise Compaor
Luc-Adolphe
Tiao
National
Assembly
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Prime
Minister
Parliament
24 Burundi Bujumbura Burundi franc Pierre Nkurunziza - Senate
25 Cambodia Phnom Penh Riel - Hun Sen
National
Assembly
26 Cameroon Yaound CFA Franc Paul Biya
Philmon
Yunji Yang
National
Assembly
27 Cape Verde Praia
Cape Verde
escudo
Jorge Carlos
Fonseca
Jos Maria
Neves
National
Assembly
28
Central
African
Republic
Bangui
Central African
CFA franc
Franois Boziz
Faustin-
Archange
Touadra
National
Assembly
29 Chad N'Djamena CFA franc Idriss Dby
Emmanuel
Nadingar
National
Assembly
30 Chile Santiago Chilean peso Sebastin Piera -
Chamber of
Deputies and
Senate
31 Colombia
Santa Fe de
Bogot
Colombian Peso Juan Manuel Santos - Congress
32 Comoros Moroni Comorian franc Ikililou Dhoinine -
Legislative
Council and
Senate
33 Congo Brazzaville Congolese franc Joseph Kabila -
Rep. of National
Legislative
Council
34 Costa Rica San Jose Costa Rican coln Laura Chinchilla -
Legislative
Council and
Senate
35 Croatia Zagreb Kuna Ivo Josipovi
Zoran
Milanovi
Sabor
36 Cuba Havana Cuban peso Ral Castro -
National
Assembly of
People's Power
37 Cyprus Lefkosia(Nicosia) Cyprus pound Dimitris Christofias rsen Kk
Vouli
Antiprosopon
38
Czech
Republic
Prague Czech koruna Milo Zeman Petr Neas
Chamber of
Deputies and
Senate
39 Djibouti Djibouti Djibouti franc Ismail Omar Guelleh
Dileita
Mohamed
Dileita
National
Assembly
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Prime
Minister
Parliament
40 Dominica Roseau
Eastern
Caribbean dollar
Nicholas Liverpool
Roosevelt
Skerrit
House of
Assembly
41
Dominican
Republic
Santo Domingo Dominican peso Danilo Medina -
Congress of the
Republic
42 East Timor Dili US dollar Taur Matan Ruak -
Constituent
Assembly
43 Ecuador Quito US dollar Rafael Correa -
Natinal
Congress
44 El Salvador San Salvador
US dollar;
Salvadorian coln
Mauricio Funes -
Legislative
Assembly
45
Equatorial
Guinea
Malabo CFA Franc
Teodoro Obiang
Nguema Mbasogo
-
Cmara de los
Representantes
del Pueblo
46 Eritrea Asmara Nakfa Isaias Afewerki -
National
Assembly
47 Estonia Tallinn Estonian kroon
Toomas Hendrik
Ilves
- Riigikogu
48 Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ethiopian birr
Girma Wolde-
Giorgis
Haile Mariam
Desalegne
Federal Council
and House of
Representative
49 Fiji Suva Fiji dollar Epeli Nailatikau
Acting Prime
Minister
Frank
Bainimarama
Senate & House
of
Representative
50 Finland Helsinki Euro Sauli Niinist Jyrki Katainen
Eduskusta
(Parliament)
51 Gabon Libreville
Central African
CFA franc
Ali-Ben Bongo
Raymond
Ndong Sima
Parlement
52 The Gambia Banjul Gambian dalasi Yahya Jammeh -
National
Assembly
53 Georgia Tbilisi Lari Mikheil Saakashvili
Boris
Ivanishvili
Parliament
54 Ghana Accra Cedi
John Dramani
Mahama
- Parliament
55 Greenland Nuuk Danish krone
Dependent on
Denmark
- Landstraad
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Prime
Minister
Parliament
56 Grenada St George's
Eastern
Caribbean dollar
-
Tillman
Thomas
Parliament
57 Guatemala Guatemala City
Guatemalan
quetzal
Otto Prez Molina -
Congress of the
Republic
58 Guinea Conakry Guinean franc Alpha Cond
Mohamed
Said Fofana
National
Assembly
59
Guinea-
Bissau
Bissau
West African CFA
franc
- -
People's
National
Assembly
60 Guyana Georgetown Guyanese dollar Donald Ramotar Sam Hinds
National
Assembly
61 Haiti Port-au-Prince Gourde Sweet Micky Garry Conille
National
Assembly
62 Honduras Tegucigalpa
Honduran
lempira
Porfirio Pepe Lobo -
National
Congress
63 Hungary Budapest Forint Jnos der Viktor Orbn Orszggyls
64 Iceland Reykjavik Icelandic krna
lafur Ragnar
Grmsson
Jhanna
Sigurardttir
Althing
65 Indonesia Jakarta
Indonesian
rupiah
Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono
-
People's
Consultative
Assembly
66 Israel Jerusalem New shekel Shimon Peres
Benjamin
Netanyahu
The Knesset
67 Jamaica Kingston Jamaica dollar -
Portia
Simpson-
Miller
Parliament
68 Jordan Amman Jordanian dinar -
Fayez al-
Tarawneh
National
Assembly
69 Kazakhstan Astana
Kazakhstani
tenge
Nursultan
Nazarbayev
Serik
Akhmetov
Parliament
70 Kenya Nairobi Kenyan shilling Mwai Kibaki Raila Odinga
National
Assembly
71 Kiribati Tarawa
Kiribati dollar/
Australian dollar
Anote Tong -
House of
Assembly
72 Korea, North Pyongyang
North Korean
won
- -
Supreme
People's
Assembly
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Prime
Minister
Parliament
73 Korea, South Seoul
South Korean
won
- -
National
Assembly
74 Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwaiti dinar -
Jaber Al-
Mubarak Al-
Hamad Al-
Sabah
Majlis-al-Umma
75 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Kyrgyzstani som -
Zhantoro
Satybaldiyev
Kyrgyz
Republic
76 Laos Vientiane Lao kip
Choummaly
Sayasone
Thongsing
Thammavong
People's
Supreme
Assembly
77 Latvia Riga Lats Andris Brzi
Valdis
Dombrovskis
Saeima
78 Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound Michel Sulaiman Najib Mikati
National
Assembly
79 Lesotho Maseru Loti - Tom Thabane
National
Assembly and
Senate
80 Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar
Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf
- Legislature
81 Libya Tripoli Libyan dinar -
Mustafa A.G.
Abushagur
General
People's
Congress
82 Liechtenstein Vaduz Swiss franc -
Klaus
Tschtscher
Diet
83 Lithuania Vilnius Litas Dalia Grybauskait
Andrius
Kubilius
Seimas
84 Macau Macau Pataca - -
Legislative
Assembly
85 Macedonia Skopje
Macedonian
denar
Gjorgje Ivanov
Nikola
Gruevski
Assembly
86 Madagascar Antananarivo Ariary
President of the
High Authority of
Transition Andry
Rajoelina
Omer Beriziky
National
People's
Assembly
87 Malawi Lilongwe Malawian kwacha Joyce Banda -
National
Assembly
88 Maldives Mal Rufiyaa
Mohammed
Waheed Hassan
- Majilis
89 Mali Bamako CFA Franc - -
National
Assembly
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Prime
Minister
Parliament
90 Malta Valletta Euro George Abela
Lawrence
Gonzi
House of
Representatives
91
Marshall
Islands
Majuro US Dollar Christopher Loeak -
Nitijela /
Parliament
92 Mauritania Nouakchott
Mauritanian
ouguiya
Mohamed Ould
Abdel Aziz
Moulaye Ould
Mohamed
Laghdaf
National
Assembly/
Senate
93 Micronesia Palikir US dollar Manny Mori - Congress
94 Moldova Chisinau Moldovan leu Nicolae Timofti Vlad Filat Parliament
95 Monaco Monaco Ville Euro - Michel Roger
National
Council
96 Mongolia Ulan Bator Tugrik
Tsakhiagiin
Elbegdorj
Norovyn
Altankhuyag
Khural
97 Montenegro Podgorica Euro Filip Vujanovi Igor Luki
Federal
Assembly
98 Morocco Rabat Dirham -
Abdelilah
Benkirane
Parliament
99 Mozambique Maputo
Mozambican
metical
Armando Guebuza
Alberto
Vaquina
People's
Assembly
100 Myanmar Rangoon Kyat Thein Sein - Pyithu Hluttaw
101 Namibia Windhoek Namibian dollar
Hifikepunye
Pohamba
Nahas Angula
National
Assembly
102 Nauru
no official
capital;
government
offices in Yaren
District
Australian dollar Sprent Dabwido - Parliament
103
New
Caledonia
Nouma CFP franc Harold Martin - Parliament
104 New Zealand Wellington
New Zealand
dollar
- John Key
Parliament
(House of
Representatives)
105 Nicaragua Managua
Nicaraguan
crdoba
Daniel Ortega -
National
Assembly
106 Niger Niamey
West African CFA
franc
Mahamadou
Issoufou
Brigi Rafini
National
Assembly
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Prime
Minister
Parliament
107 North Korea Pyongyang
North Korean
won
- -
Supreme
People's
Assembly
108 Palau Koror US dollar Johnson Toribiong -
National
Congress
109 Panama Panama City Balboa Ricardo Martinelli -
National
Assembly
110
Papua New
Guinea
Port Moresby
Papua New
Guinean kina
- Peter O'Neill
National
Parliament
111 Paraguay Asuncion
Paraguayan
guaran
Federico Franco -
Senate &
Chamber of
Deputies
112 Peru Lima Nuevo sol Ollanta Humala -
Congress of the
Republic
113 Romania Bucharest Romanian leu Traian Bsescu Victor Ponta
Great National
Assembly
114 Rwanda Kigali Rwandese franc Paul Kagame
Pierre
Habumuremyi
Parliament
115
Saint Kitts
and Nevis
Basseterre
East Caribbean
dollar
-
Denzil
Douglas
National
Assembly
116 Saint Lucia Castries
East Caribbean
dollar
-
Kenny
Anthony
Houses of
Parliament
117
Saint Vincent
and the
Grenadines
Kingstown
East Caribbean
dollar
-
Ralph
Gonsalves
House of
Assembly
118 Samoa Apia Samoan tala -
Tuilaepa
Aiono Sailele
Malielegaoi
Legislative
Assembly
119 San Marino San Marino Euro - -
Great and
General Council
120
Sao Tome and
Principe
Sao Tome
So Tom and
Prncipe dobra
Manuel Pinto da
Costa
Patrice
Trovoada
National
Assembly
121 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Saudi riyal
King: Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia
- Majlis Al Shura
122 Senegal Dakar
West African CFA
franc
Macky Sall Abdoul Mbaye
National
Assembly
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Prime
Minister
Parliament
123 Serbia Belgrade Serbian dinar Tomislav Nikoli Ivica Dai
Federal
Assembly
124 Seychelles Victoria Seychelles rupee James Michel -
People's
Assembly
125 Sierra Leone Freetown
Sierra Leonean
leone
Ernest Bai Koroma - Parliament
126 Slovakia Bratislava Slovak koruna Ivan Gaparovi
Iveta
Radiov
National
Council
127 Slovenia Ljubljana Euro Danilo Trk Janez Jana
National
Assembley
128
Solomon
Islands
Honiara
Solomon Islands
dollar
-
Gordon Darcy
Lillo
National
Parliament
129 Somalia Mogadishu Somali shilling
Hassan Sheikh
Mohamoud
-
People's
Assembly
130 South Korea Seoul
South Korean
won
Lee Myung-bak
Kim Hwang-
sik
National
Assembly
131 South Sudan Juba
South Sudanese
pound
Salva Kiir Mayardit - Parliament
132 Suriname Paramaribo Suriname dollar Dsi Bouterse -
National
Assembly
133 Swaziland Mbabana Swazi lilangeni -
Barnabas
Sibusiso
Dlamini
Parliament
134 Taiwan Taipei
New Taiwan
dollar
Ma Ying-jeou - Yuan
135 Tajikistan Dushanbe
Tajikistani
somoni
Emomali Rahmonov Okil Okilov
Supreme
Council
136 Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Tanzanian
shilling
Jakaya Kikwete
Mizengo
Pinda
National
Assembly
137 Togo Lome CFA francs Faure Gnassingb
Kwesi
Ahoomey-
Zunu
National
Assembly
138 Tonga Nuku'alofa Pa'anga -
Siale'ataonga
Tu'ivakano
Legislative
Assembly
139
Trinidad and
Tobago
Port-of-Spain
Trinidad and
Tobago dollar
Anthony Carmona
Kamla
Persad-
Bissessar
Parliament
140 Tunisia Tunis Tunisian dinar Moncef Marzouki Ali Laarayedh
National
Assembly
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Prime
Minister
Parliament
141 Turkmenistan Ashgabat
Turkmenistani
manat
Gurbanguly
Berdimuhammedow
- Assembly
142
Turks and
Caicos Islands
Cockburn Town US dollar - - Parliament
143 Tuvalu Funafuti Tuvalu Currencies - Willy Telavi Parliament
144 Uruguay Montevideo Uruguayan peso Jos Mujica -
General
Assembly
145 Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbekistani som Islam Karimov
Shavkat
Mirziyayev
Oliy Majlis
146 Vanuatu Port-Vila Vanuatu vatu Iolu Abil Sato Kilman Parliament
147
Vatican City
(Holy See)
Vatican City Euro - - Parliament
148 Yemen Sanaa Yemeni rial
Abd al-Rab Mansur
al-Hadi
Mohammed
Basindawa
Parliament
149 Zambia Lusaka Zambian kwacha Michael Sata -
National
Assembly
150 Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe dollar Robert Mugabe
Morgan
Tsvangirai
Parliament

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Indian Olympic Winners & Commonwealth Medals Tally

Sr.No. Year Host Sports Person Sport
1 2012 London Sushil Kumar Wrestling
2 2012 London Vijay Kumar Shooting
3 2012 London Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling
4 2012 London Mary Kom Boxing
5 2012 London Saina Nehwal Badminton
6 2012 London Gagan Narang Shooting
7 2008 Beijing Abhinav Bindra Shooting
8 2008 Beijing Vijender Singh Boxing
9 2008 Beijing Sushil Kumar Wrestling
10 2004 Athens Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Shooting
11 2000 Sydney Karnam Malleswari Weightlifting
12 1996 Atlanta Leander Paes Tennis
13 1980 Moscow National team Field hockey
14 1972 Munich National team Field hockey
15 1968 Mexico National team Field hockey
16 1964 Tokyo National team Field hockey
17 1960 Rome National team Field hockey
18 1956 Melbourne National team Field hockey
19 1952 Helsinki Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav Wrestling
20 1952 Helsinki National team Field hockey
21 1948 London National team Field hockey
22 1936 Berlin National team Field hockey
23 1932 Los Angeles National team Field hockey
24 1928 Amsterdam National team Field hockey
25 1900 Paris Norman Pritchard Athletics
26 1900 Paris Norman Pritchard Athletics

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Commonwealth Medals Tally for India

Sr.No. Year Gold Silver Bronze
1 2010 38 27 36
2 2006 22 17 10
3 2002 30 22 13
4 1998 7 10 8
5 1994 6 11 7
6 1990 13 8 11
7 1986
Did not
Participate
- -
8 1982 5 8 3
9 1978 5 5 5
10 1974 4 8 3
11 1970 5 3 4
12 1966 3 4 3
13 1962
Did not
Participate
- -
14 1958 2 1 0
15 1954 0 0 0
16 1950
Did not
Participate
- -
17 1938 0 0 0
18 1934 0 0 1
19 1930
Did not
Participate
- -
Total 140 124 104

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IPL Franchise Owners & Winners

Sr.No.
Team
name
City
Owners
name/s
Company
Buying
Price
Home
Ground
1
Royal
Challengers
Bangalore
Bangalore Vijay Mallya UB Group
$111.6
million
(Bid in 2008)
M.
Chinnaswamy
Stadium
2
Kings XI
Punjab
Mohali
(Chandigarh)
Preity Zinta,
Ness Wadia,
Karan Paul and
Mohit Burman
Bombay Dyeing,
Apeejay
Surendera
Group, Dabur
$76 million
(Bid in 2008)
PCA Stadium,
HPCA Stadium
3
Chennai
Super Kings
Chennai N. Srinivasan India Cements
$91 million
(Bid in 2008)
M. A.
Chidambaram
Stadium
4
Kolkata
Knight Riders
Kolkata
Shah Rukh
Khan, Juhi
Chawla and Jay
Mehta
Red Chillies,
Mehta Group
$75.09
million
(Bid in 2008)
Eden Gardens
5
Mumbai
Indians
Mumbai Mukesh Ambani
Reliance
Industries
Limited
$111.9
million
(Bid in 2008)
Wankhede
Stadium,DY
Patil Stadium
6
Delhi
Daredevils
New Delhi
Grandhi
Mallikarjuna
Rao
GMR Sports Pvt
Ltd
$84 million
(Bid in 2008)
Feroz Shah
Kotla
7
Rajasthan
Royals
Jaipur
Manoj Badale,
Lachlan
Murdoch, Raj
Kundra and
Shilpa Shetty
Emerging Media
$67 million
(Bid in 2008)
Sawai
Mansingh
Stadium
8
Sunrisers
Hyderabad
Hyderabad
Kalanidhi
Maran
Sun TV Network
$159
million
Rajiv Gandhi
International
Stadium
9
Deccan
Chargers
(Defunct)
Hyderabad
T Venkatram
Reddy & T
Vinayak Ravi
Reddy
Deccan
Chronicle
Holdings Ltd.
$107
million
(Bid 2012)
Rajiv Gandhi
International
Stadium, ACA-
VDCA Stadium,
Barabati
Stadium
10
Kochi
Tuskers
Kerala
(Defunct)
Kochi
Anand Shyam,
Vivek
Venugopal and
Sunanda
Pushkar
Kochi Cricket
Private Limited,
Rendezvous
Sports
World,Parinee
Developers,
Anchor
Earth,Film
Waves
$ 333.33
million
(Bid in 2010)
Jawaharlal
Nehru Stadium
11
Pune
Warriors
Pune Subrata Roy Sahara Group
$ 370
million
(Bid 2010)
Subrata Roy
Sahara Stadium
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IPL Winners 2008 -2012

Year
Winning
Team
Runner-Up Purple Cap Holder Orange Cap Holder
2008
Rajasthan
Royals
Chennai Super
Kings
Sohail Tanvir
(Rajasthan Royals)
Shaun Marsh
(Kings XI Punjab)
2009
Deccan
Chargers
Royal
Challengers
Bangalore
R.P. Singh
(Deccan Chargers)
Matthew Hayden
(Chennai Super Kings)
2010
Chennai Super
Kings
Mumbai
Indians
Pragyan Ojha
(Deccan Chargers)
Sachin Tendulkar
(Mumbai Indians)
2011
Chennai Super
Kings
Royal
Challengers
Bangalore
Lasith Malinga
(Mumbai Indians)
Chris Gayle
(Royal Challengers Bangalore)
2012
Kolkata Knight
Riders
Chennai Super
Kings
Morn Morkel
(Delhi Daredevils)
Chris Gayle
(Royal Challengers Bangalore)

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Major Sporting Records

Cricket Records

Sr.No. Record Name
1 Most Runs in Tests Sachin Tendulkar
2 Most Test runs in a calendar year Mohammad Yousuf (Pak)
3 Most runs off one over in Tests Brian Lara
4 Most hundreds in Tests Sachin Tendulkar
5 Most double hundreds in a career DG Bradman (Aus)
6 Most triple hundreds in a career DG Bradman (Aus)
7 Youngest player to score a hundred Mohammad Ashraful
8
Youngest player to score a double
hundred
Javed Miandad
9
Youngest player to score a triple
hundred
GS Sobers
10 Fastest hundred in Tests Viv Richards
11 Fastest double hundred in Tests NJ Astle
12 Fastest triple hundred in Tests Virender Sehwag
13 Most fifties in career Sachin Tendulkar
14 Fastest fifty in tests Jacques Kallis
15 Most Wickets in ODIs Muttiah Murlitharan
16 Fastest to 100 Wickets in ODIs Muttiah Murlitharan
17 Most Runs in ODIs Sachin Tendulkar
18 Most Fifties in ODIs Sachin Tendulkar
19 Fastest 100 in ODIs Shahid Afridi
20 Fastest 200 in ODIs Virender Sehwag
21 Most Hundreds in ODIs Sachin Tendulkar
22 Most Runs in World Cups Sachin Tendulkar
23
Highest Individual Score in World
Cup
Gary Kirsten
24 Most Fifties in World Cup Sachin Tendulkar
25 Most Hundreds in World Cups Sachin Tendulkar
26 Fastest 100 in in World Cups Kevin O'Brien
27 T20I Most Runs Brendon McCullum
28 T20I Highest Individual Score Brendon McCullum
29 T20I Most Hundreds Brendon McCullum

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Soccer Records

Sr.No. Record Name
1 Most World Cups matches played Lotthar Matthaus(Germany), Antonio Carbajal
2
Guinness World Record title for most
club goals in a year
Lionel Messi
3 Youngest goalscorer, final Pele(Edson Do Nascimento)
4 Most goals in a club match Lionel Messi
5 Most goals scored, overall finals Ronaldo
6 Fastest World Cup goal Hakan Skur
7
Most goals in a single world cup
match
Oleg Salenko

Tennis Records

Sr.No Championship Record Name
1 Wimbledon
Longest match by time and number of
games(Men)
John Isner and Nicolas
Mahut
2 Wimbledon
Longest singles final match by time
played(Men)
Roger Federer and Rafael
Nadal
3 Wimbledon
Longest singles final match by number
of games(Men)
Roger Federer and Andy
Roddick
4 Wimbledon Longest match by time played(Women)
Chanda Rubin and
Patricia Hy-Boulais
5 Wimbledon
Longest singles final match by time
played(Women)
Venus Williams and
Lindsay Davenport
6 Australian Open Longest match by time played(Men)
Novak Djokovi and
Rafael Nadal
7 Australian Open Longest match by time played(Women)
Vicki Nelson and Jean
Hepner
8 Australian Open Most Grand Slam singles titles(Female) Margaret Court
9 Australian Open Most Grand Slam singles titles(Male) Roger Federer
10 Australian Open
Most Grand Slam doubles titles of all-
time(Male)
John Newcombe
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Sr.No. Championship Record Name
11 French Open
Youngest winner of the womens singles
title
Monica Seles
12 French Open
Youngest winner of the mens singles
title
Michael Chang
13 French Open Winner of most men's singles titles Rafael Nadal
14 French Open Winner of most women's singles titles Chris Evert
15 French Open Winner of most men's doubles titles
Daniel Nestor and Max
Mirnyi

Badminton Records

Sr.No. Record Name
1
First Indian to win the Men's singles title at the All
England Championship
Prakash Padukone
2
First Indian to win the World Junior Badminton
Championship.
Saina Nehwal
3
First Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the
Olympics.
Saina Nehwal
4
National Senior Womens Badminton title for
maximum number of times consecutively
Aparna Popat
5
First player to have won all nine major titles in world
badminton.
Lin Dan

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Tennis Grand Slams

Men's Singles

Sr.No. Year Tournaments Winners Runners-up
1 2013 Australian Open Novak Djokovic Andy Murray
2 2012
Australian Open Novak Djokovic Rafael Nadal
French Open Rafael Nadal Novak Djokovic
Wimbeldon Roger Federer Andy Murray
US Open Andy Murray Novak Djokovic
3 2011
Australian Open Novak Djokovic Andy Murray
French Open Rafael Nadal Roger Federer
Wimbeldon Novak Djokovic Rafael Nadal
US Open Novak Djokovic Rafael Nadal
4 2010
Australian Open Roger Federer Andy Murray
French Open Rafael Nadal Robin Sderling
Wimbeldon Rafael Nadal Tom Berdych
US Open Rafael Nadal Novak Djokovic
5 2009
Australian Open Rafael Nadal Roger Federer
French Open Roger Federer Robin Sderling
Wimbeldon Roger Federer Andy Roddick
US Open Juan Martn del Potro Roger Federer

Women's Single

1 2013 Australian Open Victoria Azarenka Li Na
2 2012
Australian Open Victoria Azarenka Maria Sharapova
French Open Maria Sharapova Sara Errani
Wimbeldon Serena Williams Agnieszka Radwaska
US Open Serena Williams Victoria Azarenka
3 2011
Australian Open Kim Clijsters Li Na
French Open Li Na Francesca Schiavone
Wimbeldon Petra Kvitov Maria Sharapova
US Open Samantha Stosur Serena Williams
4 2010
Australian Open Serena Williams Justine Henin
French Open Francesca Schiavone Samantha Stosur
Wimbeldon Serena Williams Vera Zvonareva
US Open Kim Clijsters Vera Zvonareva
5 2009
Australian Open Serena Williams Dinara Safina
French Open Svetlana Kuznetsova Dinara Safina
Wimbeldon Serena Williams Venus Williams
US Open Kim Clijsters Caroline Wozniacki
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Men's Doubles

1 2013 Australian Open Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Robin Haase, Igor Sijsling
Australian Open Leander Paes, Radek tpnek Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan
2 2012 French Open Max Mirnyi, Daniel Nestor Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan
Wimbeldon
Jonathan Marray, Frederik
Nielsen
Robert Lindstedt, Horia Tecu
US Open Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Leander Paes, Radek tpnek
Australian Open Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Mahesh Bhupathi, Leander Paes
3 2011 French Open Max Mirnyi, Daniel Nestor
Juan Sebastin Cabal, Eduardo
Schwank
Wimbeldon Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Robert Lindstedt, Horia Tecu
US Open
Jrgen Melzer, Philipp
Petzschner
Mariusz Fyrstenberg, Marcin
Matkowski
Australian Open Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Daniel Nestor, Nenad Zimonji
4 2010 French Open Daniel Nestor, Nenad Zimonji Luk Dlouh, Leander Paes
Wimbeldon
Jrgen Melzer, Philipp
Petzschner
Robert Lindstedt, Horia Tecu
US Open Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan
Rohan Bopanna, Aisam-ul-Haq
Qureshi
Australian Open Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Mahesh Bhupathi, Mark Knowles
5 2009 French Open Luk Dlouh, Leander Paes Wesley Moodie, Dick Norman
Wimbeldon Daniel Nestor, Nenad Zimonji Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan
US Open Luk Dlouh, Leander Paes Mahesh Bhupathi, Mark Knowles

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Women's Doubles

1 2013 Australian Open Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci Ashley Barty, Casey Dellacqua
2 2012
Australian Open
Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vera
Zvonareva
Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci
French Open Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci Maria Kirilenko, Nadia Petrova
Wimbeldon
Serena Williams, Venus
Williams
Andrea Hlavkov, Lucie
Hradeck
US Open Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci
Hradeck
3 2011
Australian Open Gisela Dulko, Flavia Pennetta Victoria Azarenka, Maria Kirilenko
French Open
Hradeck
Sania Mirza, Elena Vesnina
Wimbeldon
Kvta Peschke, Katarina
Srebotnik
Sabine Lisicki, Samantha Stosur
US Open Liezel Huber, Lisa Raymond Vania King, Yaroslava Shvedova
4 2010
Australian Open
Williams
Cara Black, Liezel Huber
French Open
Williams
Kvta Peschke, Katarina Srebotnik
Wimbeldon Vania King, Yaroslava Shvedova Elena Vesnina, Vera Zvonareva
US Open Vania King, Yaroslava Shvedova Liezel Huber, Nadia Petrova
5 2009
Australian Open
Williams
Daniela Hantuchov, Ai Sugiyama
French Open
Anabel Medina Garrigues,
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Victoria Azarenka, Elena Vesnina
Wimbeldon
Williams
Samantha Stosur, Rennae Stubbs
US Open
Williams
Cara Black, Liezel Huber
Sr.No Year Tournaments Winners Runners-up

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Mixed Doubles

1 2013 Australian Open
Jarmila Gajdoov, Matthew
Ebden
Lucie Hradeck, Frantiek ermk
2 2012
Australian Open
Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Horia
Tecau
Elena Vesnina, Leander Paes
French Open Sania Mirza, Mahesh Bhupathi
Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, Santiago
Gonzlez
Wimbeldon Mike Bryan, Lisa Raymond Leander Paes, Elena Vesnina
US Open
Ekaterina Makarova, Bruno
Soares
Kvta Peschke, Marcin Matkowski
3 2011
Australian Open
Katarina Srebotnik, Daniel
Nestor
Chan Yung-Jan, Paul Hanley
French Open Casey Dellacqua, Scott Lipsky
Katarina Srebotnik, Nenad
Zimonji
Wimbeldon Jrgen Melzer, Iveta Beneov Mahesh Bhupathi, Elena Vesnina
US Open Melanie Oudin, Jack Sock Gisela Dulko, Eduardo Schwank
4 2010
Australian Open Cara Black, Leander Paes
Ekaterina Makarova, Jaroslav
Levinsk
French Open
Katarina Srebotnik, Nenad
Zimonji
Yaroslava Shvedova, Julian
Knowle
Wimbeldon Leander Paes, Cara Black Wesley Moodie, Lisa Raymond
US Open Liezel Huber, Bob Bryan
Kvta Peschke, Aisam-ul-Haq
Qureshi
5 2009
Australian Open Sania Mirza, Mahesh Bhupathi Nathalie Dechy, Andy Ram
French Open Liezel Huber, Bob Bryan Vania King, Marcelo Melo
Wimbeldon
Mark Knowles, Anna-Lena
Grnefeld
Leander Paes, Cara Black
US Open Carly Gullickson, Travis Parrot Cara Black, Leander Paes

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World Cups & Winners

Cricket World Cup

Sr.No. Year Winners Runners-up
Player of
Tournament
Venue
1 2011 India Sri Lanka Yuvraj Singh Wankhede Stadium,Mumbai, India
2 2007 Australia Sri Lanka Glenn McGrath Kensington Oval, Bridgetown
3 2003 Australia India Sachin Tendulkar
Wanderers,Johannesburg, South
Africa
4 1999 Australia Pakistan Lance Klusener Lord's, London, England
5 1996 Sri Lanka Australia Sanath Jayasuriya Gaddafi Stadium,Lahore, Pakistan
6 1992 Pakistan England Martin Crowe MCG, Melbourne, Australia
7 1987 Australia England - Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India
8 1983 India West Indies - Lord's, London, England
9 1979 West Indies England - Lord's, London, England
10 1975 West Indies Australia - Lord's, London, England

T20 World Cup

Sr.No. Year Winners Runners-up Host Nation Venue
1 2016 - - India -
2 2014 - - Bangladesh -
3 2012 West Indies Sri Lanka Sri Lanka R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
4 2010 England Australia West Indies Kensington Oval, Barbados
5 2009 Pakistan Sri Lanka England Lord's, London, England
6 2007 India Pakistan South Africa Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Hockey World Cup

Sr.No. Year Winners Runners-up Venue
1 2014 - - The Hague, Netherlands
2 2010 Australia Germany Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi, India
3 2006 Germany Australia Warsteiner HockeyPark, Mnchengladbach, Germany.
4 2002 Germany Australia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
5 1998 Netherlands Spain Galgenwaard Stadium, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
6 1994 Pakistan Netherlands Homebush Stadium, Sydney, Australia.
7 1990 Netherlands Pakistan Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan.
8 1986 Australia England Willesden, London, England.
9 1982 Pakistan West Germany BHA Stadium, Mumbai, India.
10 1978 Pakistan Netherlands Campo del Polo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
11 1975 India Pakistan Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
12 1973 Netherlands India Wagener Stadium, Amstelveen, Netherlands.
13 1971 Pakistan Spain Real Polo Grounds, Barcelona, Spain.
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FIFA World Cup

Sr.No. Year Host Winners Runners-up Golden Boot
1 2014 Brazil - - -
2 2010 South Africa Spain Netherlands Thomas Mller
2 2006 Germany Italy France Miroslav Klose
3 2002
South Korea
and Japan
Brazil Germany Ronaldo
4 1998 France France Brazil Davor uker
5 1994 USA Brazil Italy Hristo Stoichkov, Oleg Salenko
6 1990 Italy
West
Germany
Argentina Salvatore Schillaci
7 1986 Mexico Argentina West Germany Gary Lineker
8 1982 Spain Italy West Germany Paolo Rossi
9 1978 Argentina Argentina Netherlands Mario Kempes
10 1974
West
Germany
West
Germany
Netherlands Grzegorz Lato
11 1970 Mexico Brazil Italy Gerd Mller
12 1966 England England West Germany Eusbio
13 1962 Chile Brazil Czechoslovakia
Garrincha, Vav, Leonel Snchez,
Draan Jerkovi, Valentin Ivanov,
Flrin Albert
14 1958 Sweden Brazil Sweden Just Fontaine
15 1954 Switzerland
West
Germany
Hungary Sndor Kocsis
16 1950 Brazil Uruguay Brazil Ademir
17 1938 France Italy Hungary Lenidas da Silva
18 1934 Italy Italy Czechoslovakia Oldich Nejedl
19 1930 Uruguay Uruguay Argentina Guillermo Stbile

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Important Global Economic, Peace and Environmental Organizations

Sr.No. Organization Full form Countries
Latest Summit
Info/
Headquarters
Formed
on/1
st

Summit
1 ASEAN
Association of
Southeast
Asian Nations
1.Indonesia
2.Malaysia
3.Phillippines
4.Singapore
5.Thailand
6.Brunei
7.Burma(Myanmar)
8.Cambodia
9.Laos
10.Vietnam
2012- Phnom
Penh, Cambodia
8
th

August,1967
2 G-20
Group of
Twenty
Finance
Ministers and
Central Bank
Governors/
Group of
Twenty

19 Countries + EU
(European Union)
Group 1
1.Australia
2.Canada
3.Saudi Arabia
4.United States
Group 2
1.India
2.Russia
3.South Africa
4.Turkey
Group 3
1.Argentina
2.Brazil
3.Mexico
Group 4
1.France
2.Germany
3.Italy
4.United Kingdom
Group 5
1.China
2.Indonesia
3.Japan
4.South Korea
2012-Los Cabos,
Mexico

2013-Saint
Petersburg,
Russia

2014-Brisbane,
Australia

2015 TBA,
Turkey
September,
1999
3 G8
Group of Eight

1.Canada
2.France
3.Germany
4.Italy
5.Japan
6.Russia
7.United Kingdom
8.United States

2012 Camp
David, United
States

2013 Lough
Erne, County
Fermanagh,
United Kingdom

2014 Sochi,
Russia
1975

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Latest Summit
Info/
Headquarters
Formed
on/1
st

Summit
4 G7
Group of
Seven
1. US
2. UK
3. France
4. Germany
5. Italy
6. Canada
7. Japan
2010- Iqaluit,
Nunavut, Canada
1976
5 G6 Group of Six
1. Germany
2. France
3. United Kingdom
4. Italy
5. Spain
6. Poland
- 2006
6 BRICS
Brazil Russia
India China
and South
Africa
1.Brazil
2.Russia
3.India
4.China
5.South Africa
2012 New Delhi,
India
2013 Durban,
South Africa
June 16,
2009
7 SAARC
South Asian
Association for
Regional
Cooperation
1. Afghanistan
2. Bangladesh
3. Bhutan
4. India
5. Maldives
6. Nepal
7. Pakistan
8. Sri Lanka
2011 Addu,
Maldives

2013
Kathmandu,
Nepal
December 8,
1985
8 BIMSTEC
Bay of Bengal
Initiative for
Multi-Sectoral
Technical and
Economic
Cooperation
1.Bangladesh
2.Bhutan
3.Burma (Myanmar)
4.India
5.Nepal
6.Sri Lanka
7.Thailand
2011 - Myanmar
June 6,
1997
9 MERCOSUR -
1.Argentina
2.Brazil
3. Paraguay
(suspended)
4.Uruguay
5.Venezuela
Associate Members
1.Bolvia
2.Chile
3.Colombia
4.Ecudor
5.Peru
2013 -
Montevideo,
Uruguay
1991
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Latest Summit
Info/
Headquarters
Formed
on/1
st

Summit
10 NAFTA
North
American Free
Trade
Agreement
1.Canada
2.Mexico
3.United States
-
January 1,
1994
11 PARLACEN
Central
American
Parliament
1.Gautemala
2.El Salvador
3.Honduras
4.Nicaragua
5.Dominican
Republic
6.Panama
Headquarters:
Guatemala City.
First Treaty
Signed in
1987
First
Formal
Session
held on 28
th

October,
1991
12 OPEC
Organization
of the
Petroleum
Exporting
Countries
Current Members
1.Algeria
2.Angola
3.Ecuador
4.Iran
5.Iraq
6.Kuwait
7.Libya
8.Nigeria
9.Qatar
10.Saudi Arabia
11.United Arab
Emirates
12.Venezuela
2013- Vienna,
Austria
10-14
September,
1960
13 MGC
Mekong-Ganga
Cooperation
1.India
2.Thailand
3.Myanmar
4.Combodia
5.Laos
6.Vietnam
2012 - New Delhi,
India
November
10, 2000
14 CEPEA
Comprehensive
Economic
Partnership for
East Asia
1.Indonesia
2.Malaysia
3.Phillippines
4.Singapore
5.Thailand
6.Brunei
7.Burma(Myanmar)
8.Cambodia
9.Laos
10.Vietnam
11.Japan
12.China
13.South Korea
14.India
15.Australia
16.New Zealand
17th ASEAN
Summit in
October 2010
2008 - 2009
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Latest Summit
Info/
Headquarters
Formed
on/1
st

Summit
15 PEMSEA
Partnership in
Environmental
Management
for Seas of
East Asia
1. Cambodia
2. China
3. Indonesia
4. Japan
5. Laos
6. North Korea
7. Philippines
8. South Korea
9. Singapore
10. Thailand
11. Timor-Leste
12. Vietnam
Headquarters :
Quezon City,
Phillipines
1994
16
WWF

World Wildlife
Fund
Working in more
than 100 countries.
Headquarters:
Gland, Vaud,
Switzerland
11
th

September,
1961
17 PETA
People for the
Ethical
Treatment of
Animals
Nearly two million
members and
supporters all
around the world
Headquarters:
Norfolk, Virginia
March,
1980
18 WTO
World Trade
Organization
The WTO has 159
members and 25
observer
governments.
Headquarters:
Centre William
Rappard, Geneva,
Switzerland
January 1,
1995
20 IMF
International
Monetary
Fund
188 members
Headquarters:
Washington, D.C.,
United States.
March 1,
1947.
21 UN United Nations 193 members
Headquarters:
International
territory,
New York City
1945
22 UNEP
United Nations
Environment
Programme
-
Headquarters:
Nairobi
June 1972
23 Greenpeace -
About 2.9 million
individual
supporters.
Headquarters:
Amsterdam, the
Netherlands,
European Union
1972

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People and Sobriquets

Sr.No. People Sobriquet
1 Valmiki Adi Kavi
2 Dadabhai Naoroji Grand Old man of India
3 C N Annadurai Anna
4 Abdul Ghaffar Khan Frontier Gandhi
5 William Shakespeare Bard of Avon
6 Alexander Pope Bard of Twickenham
7 Florence Nightingale Lady with the lamp
8 Chris Andersen Birdman
9 Mary I of England Bloody Mary
10 P.T. Usha Udanpari
11 Charles Edward Stuart Bonnie Prince Charlie
12 Paul Hewson Bono
13 Jawaharlal Nehru Chacha, Panditji
14 Kalidas Shakespeare of India
15 C. F. Andrews Deenabandhu
16 Erwin Rommel Desert Fox
17 C. R. Das Deshbandhu
18 Jack Kevorkian Dr. Death
19 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Father of the Nation, Mahatma, Bapu
20 Adolf Hitler Fuhrer
21 Che Guevara Che
22 Rabindranath Tagore Gurudev
23 M. S. Golwalkar Guruji
24 Kapil Dev Haryana Hurricane
25 Michael Jordan His Airness
26 Abraham Lincoln Honest Abe, The Great Emancipator
27 David Eisenhower Ike Dwight
28 Arthur Wellesley Iron Duke
29 Jayaprakash Narayan Loknayak
30 James George Janos Jesse Ventura
31 Ho Chi Minh Uncle Ho
32 Richard Neville King Maker
33 Reggie Miller Knick Killer
34 Larry Bird Larry Legend, The Hick from French Lick
35 Bal Gangadhar Tilak Lokmanya
36 Madonna Madge, The Material Girl
37 Nelson Mandela Madiba
38 Otto Von Bismark Man of Blood and Iron
39 Napolean Bonaparte Man of Destiny
40 Subhash Chandra Bose Netaji
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41 Sarojini Naidu Nightingale of India
42 Andrew Jackson Old Hickory
43 Martin Van Buren Old Kinderhook (OK)
44 Zachary Taylor Old Rough and Ready
45 Saurav Ganguly Dada, Prince of Kolkata
46 Desiderius Erasmus Prince of the Humanists
47 Lala Lajpat Rai Punjab Kesari
48 Mohammad Ali Jinnah Qaid-e-Azam
49 C Rajagopalachari Rajaji
50 Mother Teresa Saint of the Gutters
51 Louis Armstrong Satchmo
52 Bill Clinton Slick Willy
53 Samuel Wilberforce Soapy Sam
54 George Herman Ruth, Jr The Bambino, The Sultan of Swat
55 Benito Mussolini Il Duce
56 Albert DeSalvo The Boston Strangler
57 George Washington The Cincinnatus of the Americans
58 Valentino Rossi The Doctor
59 David Howell Evans The Edge
60 Joseph Merrick The Elephant Man
61 Martin Cahill The General
62 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards The Glimmer Twins
63 James Brown The Godfather of Soul
64 Jack Nicklaus The Golden Bear
65 Geoffery Chaucer Father of English Poetry
66 William Pitt The Great Commoner
67 Ronald Reagan The Great Communicator
68 Muhammad Ali The Greatest
69 Saul Hudson Slash
70 Dhyanchand Magician of Hockey
71 Arnold Palmer The King (of golf)
72 Richard Petty The King (of NASCAR)
73 Elvis Presley The King (of Rock and Roll)
74 Michael Jackson The King of Pop
75 Ashley Giles The King of Spain
76 Shane Warne The King of Spin
78 James Francis Edward Stuart The Old Pretender
79 Shoaib Akhtar The Rawalpindi Express
80 Willie Mays The Say Hey Kid
81 John Gotti The Teflon Don
82 Steven Tyler and Joe Perry The Toxic Twins
83 Charles Edward Stuart The Young Pretender
84 Richard Nixon Tricky Dick
85 Walter Scott Wizard of the North

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