AWARDS

Winner
Award Name Field Winner 2010 Winner 2011 Winner 2012 Winner 2014
2013
Barack
Time Man of Personal
Mark Zukerberg
the year achievement Obama
Turing
Computing Leslie. G Valiant
Award
Rajeev
Yogeshwar Ronjan
Gandhi Khel Gagan Narang
Shooting Dutt Sodhi
Ratna (2010-11)
(2011-12) (2012-13)
Awards
Dada Saheb Cinema K. Balachander Pran
Phalke Award
Jnanpith Chandrashekhara Ravuri
Literature Kedarnath
Award Kambara Bharadhwaja Singh
Endre Pierre Yakov G.
Abel Prize Mathematics John Milnor
Szemerdi Deligne Sinai
Major. Major
Ashok Armed Lt. Navdeep
Laishram Mukund
Chakra Forces Singh
Jyotin Singh Varadarajan
Advertising
Cannes JWT
(Print) Grand
Lions Shanghai
Prix
Advertising Weiden +
Cannes
(film) Grand Kennedy
Lions
Prix Amsterdam
Dronachary Rajinder Harendra
Hockey
a Award Singh Singh
Devender
Dronachary
Gymnastics Kumar
a Award
Rathore
Dronachary
Athletics Ramphal J.S. Bhatia N. Lingappa
a Award
Dronachary
Athletics Kuntal Roy
a Award
Inukurthi
Dronachary
Boxing Venkateshw
a Award
ara Rao
Golden Lion
Roy
(Venice Film Best Film Faust Piet Sacro GRA
Andersson
Festival)
Grammy Best Rock
Muse
Award Album
Grammy
Best Album Arcade Fire
Award

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Award Name Field Winner 2010 Winner 2011 Winner 2012 Winner 2013 Winner 2014
Mark Twain
Prize for Ellen Carol
Humour Will Ferrell Jay Leno
American DeGeneres Burnett
Humor
Max Planck Martin Werner
Physics Giorgio Parisi David Ruelle
Medal Zirnbauer Nahm
Beauty Kanishtha
Miss India
Contest Dhankhar
Mara
Miss Beauty Leila
Olivia Culpo Gabriela
Universe Contest Lopes(Angola)
Isler
Beauty Ivian Sarcos
Miss World
Contest (Venezuela)
National Best Feature Adaminte Paan Singh
Film Award film Makan Abu Tomar
Vikram Rajkummar
National Dhanush,
Best Actor Gokhale + Rao +Suraj
Film Award Salim Kumar
Irrfan Khan Venjaramoodu
Best
Arati
National Playback Rekha
Ankalikar- Bela Shende
Film Award singer Bhardwaj
Tikekar
(Female)
Best
National Suresh Shankar Rupankar
Playback
Film Award Wadkar Mahadevan Bagchi
singer (male)
Padma Trade and
Azim Premji
Vibhushan Industry
Primetime
Best Comedy Modern
Emmy
TV series Family
Award
Primetime
Best Drama
Emmy Mad Men
TV series
Award
Primetime
Best Variety The Daily
Emmy
TV series Show
Award
Sun
The Sentinel,
Pulitzer Public Los Angeles
Philadelphia Fort
Prize Service Times
Inquirer Lauderdale,
FL
Pulitzer Investigative
Paige St. John
Prize Reporting
Jason Szep
Pulitzer International Clifford J. Levy Jeffrey David
and Adrew R.
Prize reporting and Ellen Barry Gettleman Barboza
C. Marshall
Tim Nickens
Pulitzer Editorial
Joseph Rago and Daniel
Prize Writing
Ruth
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 Winner
Award Name Field Winner 2010 Winner 2011 Winner 2012 Winner 2013
2014
John Laub
(National
Institute of
Stockholm
Justice) David P. Daniel S.
Prize in Criminology Jan van Dijk
Robert Farrington Nagin
Criminology
Sampson
(Harvard
University)
Templeton Spiritual Martin John
Prize Work Rees
Webby Best website
www.lego.com
Award home page

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 BOOKS & AUTHORS

AUTHORS BOOKS
1. Janardhan Thakur All the Prime Ministers Men
2. Dr. Verghese Kurien An Unfinished Dream
3. J. N. Dixit Anatomy of a Flawed Inheritance
4. Sir Richard Burton Arabian Nights
5. B. M. Oza Bofors: The Ambassadors Evidence
6. M. K. Kaw Bureaucrazy
7. George Bernard Shaw Candida
8. T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party
9. Karl Marx Communist Manifesto
10. Khushwant Singh The Company of Women
11. Arindam Chaudhry Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch
12. Alan Patan Cry, My Beloved Country
13. Nirad C. Chaudhuri Culture in the Vanity Bag
14. Karl Marx Das Kapital
15. Frederick Forsyth Day of the Jackal
16. Sharat Chandra Chatterjee Devdas
17. Harold Joseph Laski Dilemma of Our Time
18. George Bernard Shaw Doctors Dilemma
19. Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
20. Al Gore Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common purpose
21. S. Jaiswal E-Commerce
22. Rajmohan Gandhi Eight Lives
23. Upamanyu Chatterjie English August
24. Major H. P. S. Ahluwalia Eternal Himalayas
25. Ernest Hemingway Fiesta
26. Ernest Hemingway Fifth Column
27. Larry Collins and Freedom at Midnight
Dominique Lapierre
28. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman Friends and Foes
29. Ravi Batra The Great Depression of 1990
30. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Hindu View of Life
31. Nirad C. Choudhuri Hinduism
32. Anil Jaggia & Saurabh Shukla IC 814 Hijacked
33. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Evil Hour
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34. Subramanian Swamy Indias China Perspective
35. P.V. Narasimha Rao Insider, The
36. Stev Weissman and Islamic Bomb
Herbert Krousney
37. Kiran Bedi Its Always Possible
38. Dominique Lapierre It Was Five Past Midnight
39. Sean Smith J. K. Biography of J. K. Rowling
40. Colonel (Rtd.) Bhaskar Sarkar Kargil War: Past, Present & Future
41. Victoria Shaffield Kashmir in the Crossfire
42. Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
43. Khushwant Singh Love, Truth and a Little Malice
44. J. N. Dixit My South Block Years
45. Atal Bihari Vajpayee New Dimensiosn of Indias Foreign Policy
46. Nirad C. Chaudhuri A Passage to England
47. Jayaprakesh Narayan Prison Diary
48. Nayantara Sehgal Rich Like Us
49. Thomas Keneally Schindlers List
50. Winston Churchill The Second World War
51. Shobha De Speed Post
52. Shobha De Starry Nights
53. Lt. Gen. J. F. R. Jacob Surrender at Dacca
54. S. S. Gill The Pathology of Corruption
55. Khushwant Singh We, Indians
56. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Wings of Fire
57. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Without Fear or Favour
58. Khushwant Singh Women and Men in My Life
59. J. N. Dixit Assignment Colombo
60. Mikhail S. Gorbachev The August Coup
61. Maxim Gorky Mother
62. Mr. B.P. Singh & Mr. Pavan Verma Millenium Book on Delhi
63. Kiran Bedi, Parminder Jeet Singh Government @ net
& Sandeep Srivastava
64. Vesudha Dalmia, Angelika Malnar Charisma & Canon
& Martin Christ
65. Mira Sinha Bhattacharjee China, the world and India
66. Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik Lines of Control

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 67. Bob Beale Men: From Stone Age to Clone Age
68. Rabindra N. Bhattacharya Environmental Economics: An Indian Perspective
69. Captain Amarinder Singh A Ridge too Far
70. Dr. Kakana Subbarao A Doctor's Story of Life & Death
& Arun K. Tiwari
71. Nicholas Negroponte Being Digital
72. Munshi Prem Chand Gaban
73. Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
74. S. S. Gill Gandhi: A sublime Failure
75. Gen. K.V. Krishna Rao In the service of the nation
76. Jack Welch & John A. Bryne Jack: Straight From the Gut
77. Jim Collins Good to great
78. Marcus Buckingham First, break all the rules
79. Dr Ramesh Chandra Shah Alochana ka paksh
80. Goerge Orwell 1984
81. Richard Nixon 1999-Victory Without War
82. E. M. Forster A Passage to India
83. Arun Shourie A Secular Agenda
84. Stanley Wolfer A Tryst With Destiny
85. V. S. Naipaul A Wounded Civilisation India
86. Ruth Rendell Adam & Eve and Pinch Me
87. Indira Goswami Adha Lekha Dastavej
88. Deepak Chopra Ageless Body; Timeless Mind
89. Peter Brimelow Alien Nation
90. Henry Fielding Amelia
91. Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy
92. Vikram Seth An Equal Music
93. V. S. Naipaul Area of Darkness
94. Lewis Wallace Ben Hur
95. Bill Clinton Between Hope and History
96. Kuldip Nayar Between the Lines
97. V. S. Naipal Beyond Belief
98. Richard Nixon Beyond Peace
99. Yossef Bodansky Bin Laden The Man Who Declared War on America
100. Ronald Segal Black Diaspora
101. Tehmina Durrani Blasphemy

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102. Joy Adamson Born Free
103. Anees Jung Breaking the Silence
104. Helen Fielding Bridget Jones Dairy
105. Prem Bhatia Britains True History
106. Gita Piramal Business Legends
107. Joseph Heller Catch-22
108. Dr. Kanchan Ilaiah God as Political Philosopher: Buddha's challenge to
Brahminism
109. Joseph Conrad Chance
110. Pearl S. Buck Child Who Never Grew
111. Maxim Gorky Childhood
112. Preeti Singh Circles of Silence
113. Thomas Paine Common Sense
114. Anil Maheshwari Crescent Over Kashmir
115. Pope John II Crossing the Threshold of Hope
116. K. Natwar Singh Curtain Raisers
117. Amrita Pritam Death of a City
118. Emile Zola Debacle
119. Piloo Mody Democracy Means Bread and Freedom
120. Charles Darwin Descent of Man
121. Andrew Martin Diana Her Time Story in Her Own Words
122. Tim Graham Diana Princess of Wales: A Tribute
123. Andrew Morton Diana The True Story
124. Henry Kissinger Diplomacy
125. Salman Rushdie East West
126. Pearl S. Buck East Wind
127. Jane Austen Emma
128. Maxim Gorky Enemies
129. Thomes Hardy Far From the Madding Crowd
130. Taslima Nasreen French lover
131. Salman Rushdie Fury
132. Arthur Koestler Gladiators
133. Matthew Arnold God and the Bible
134. V. S. Naipaul Half A Life
135. R. K. Narayan Guide
136. J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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137. Cyrus Merchant Heartfelt
138. Dr. Karan Singh Heir Apparent
139. M. K. Gandhi Hind Swaraj
140. Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide
141. Tiger Woods How I Play Golf
142. Ben Johnson Humour
143. K. A. Abbas I am not an Island
144. V. N. Narayanan I Muse; Therefore I AM
145. Salig S. Harrison In Afghanistans Shadow
146. Dr. Bimal Jalan Indias Economic Crisis
147. Ayanjit Sen India's Neighbours: Problems and Prospects
148. Megasthenes Indica
149. Joginder Singh Inside the CBI
150. Munshi Prem Chand Go-daan
151. Sean Smith J.K-. Biography of J.K. Rowling
152. Rudyard Kipling Jungle Book
153. Amrita Pritam Kagaz Ke Canvas
154. Hari Jaisingh Kashmir A Tale of Shame
155. Tavleen Singh Kashmir A Tragedy of Errors
156. M . J. Akbar Kashmir Behind the Vale
157. Prakesh Singh Kohima to Kashmir: On Terrorist Trail
158. Taslima Nasreen Lajja
159. Victor Hugo Les Miserables
160. Nelson Mendela Long Walk to Freedom
161. J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings
162. Wilbur Smith Monsoon
163. Michael Jackson Moonwalk
164. Ravi Shankar My Music, My Life
165. Martin Meredith Nelson Mandella: A Biography
166. Mark Tully No Full Stop in India
167. Satyajit Ray Our Films, Their Films
168. Benazir Bhutto Pakistan The Gathering Storm
169. Leo Tolstoy Resurrection
170. Amrita Pritam Revenue stamp
171. K. K. Khullar Road to Freedom
172. Salman Rushdie Satanic Verses

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173. Mulk Raj Anand Seven Summers
174. Salman Rushdie Shame
175. Ahmed Rashid Taliban-Islam-Oil And the New Great Game in Central Asia
176. John C. Maxwell The 21 irrefutable laws of leadership
177. Stephen R. Covey The 7 habits of highly effective people
178. Paul Coelho The Alchemist
179. George Orwell The Animal Farm
180. John Updike The Coup
181. Ronald Segal The Crisis in India
182. Pupul Jayakar The Earth Mother
183. Amitav Ghosh The Glass Palace
184. Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
185. Mario Puzo The Godfather
186. Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles
187. David Davidar The House of Blue Mangoes
188. Hari Kunzru The Impressionist
189. Jhumpa Lahiri The Interpreter of Maladies Stories of Bengal,
Boston and Beyond
190. Kuldip Nayar The Judgement
191. K. Natwar Singh The Magnificent Maharaja
192. Itty Abraham The Making of Indian Atom Bomb
193. Jamyang Norbu The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes
194. Salman Rushdie The Moors Last Sigh
195. Sydney Sheldon The Naked Face
196. Balwant Gargi The Naked Triangle
197. Eudore Welty The optimist's Daughter
198. Beverley Naidoo The other Side of Truth
199. Nelson Mandela The Struggle in My Life
200. Besant, Annie The Theosophy; Wake Up India.
201. Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations
202. B. R. Ambedkar, Thoughts on Pakistan
203. H. G. Wells Time Machine
204. S. Gopalan Tryst with Destiny
205. Lala Lajpat Rai Unhappy India
206. Thomas More Utopia
207. Maroof Raza War and No Peace Over Kashmir

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208. N. A. Palkhivala We, the People
209. Spencer Johnson Who moved my cheese
210. Arun Shourie Worshipping False Gods
211. Henry Kissinger Year of the Upheaval

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 CHRONOLOGY OF INDEPENDENT INDIA
(IMPORTANT DATES)

15 Aug 1947 India obtains Independence from the British; Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian
Prime Minister

Oct 1947 Maharaja of Kashmir accedes to Indian Sovereignty

Nov 1947 John Mathai presents the First Railway Budget

Jan 1948 Reserve Bank of India Nationalised

30 Jan 1948 Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi

Sep 1948 Troops of Government of India enter Hyderabad state

Nov 1948 B.R. Ambedkar presents first Draft Constitution to Constituent Assembly.

1 Jan 1949 United Nations monitored cease fire takes effect in Kashmir

Sep 1949 Rupee devalued by approximately 31 percent

26 Nov 1949 New Constitution of India adopted and signed

26 Jan 1950 Constitution of India comes into force

March 1950 Planning Commission set up

July 1951 First Five year plan set in motion

25 Oct'51-21 Feb'52 First General Election

1952 Atomic Energy establishment set up in Bombay

1953 Private Airlines are Nationalised;

Chandigarh inaugurated as Capital of Punjab

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29 Dec 1953 The States Reorganisation Commission

April 1954 India concludes treaty with China

July 1954 Nehru inaugurates Bhakhra Dam

December 1954 Imperial Bank renamed as State Bank of India

1955 Chinese troops enter India's Garhwal district in Uttar Pradesh

18 May 1955 Hindu marriage Act is amended

1956 Second five year plan

Jan 1956 Nationalisation of Insurance Companies

17 June 1956 Hindu Succession Act

Feb 24-June 9 1957 Second General Election held

Sep 1957 Wealth Tax Bill passed

Feb 1958 Finance Minister T.T.Krishnamachari resigns following Mundhra LIC share scandal

1959 Oil and Natural Gas Corporation set up; Television transmission introduced in New
Delhi; Indo-Portuguese dispute

March 1959 Dalai Lama flees from Tibet to India

Oct 1959 Military confrontation with China in Aksai Chin

19 April 1960 Meeting of Afro-Asian Conference at New Delhi

1960 Bombay Presidency bifurcated into Maharashtra and Gujarat states

21 Jan 1961 Arrival of Queen Elizabeth at New Delhi

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19 Dec 1961 Liberation of Goa

Feb 16-June 6 1962 Third General election

Oct 1962 Indo-China war

Jan 1963 Gold Control Order comes into force

10 Aug 1963 The Kamraj Plan

27 May 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru dies

09 June 1964 Lal Bahadur Shastri becomes Prime Minister

July 1964 UTI and IDBI set up

April 1965 Pakistan tanks penetrate India

30 June 1965 Ceasefire agreed under UN auspices

1 Sep 1965 Indo-Pak war

4-10 Jan 1966 Tashkent Conference between Pakistan and Indian leaders

11 Jan 1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri dies

24 Jan 1966 Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister

June 1966 Rupee devalued by 36 percent

15-28 Feb 1967 Fourth General Elections

June 1969 Forward trading in shares banned

16 July 1969 Morarji Desai resigns from cabinet

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19 July 1969 Fourteen Banks nationalised

12 Nov 1969 Indira Gandhi expelled from Congress party for indiscipline

Feb 1970 Supreme Court holds nationalisation of banks illegal

April 1970 Privy Purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished

11 May 1970 A bill for setting up of "North Eastern Council" passed

1-13 March 1971 Fifth General Election

April 1971 General Insurance nationalised

May 1971 Wealth Tax doubled to 8 percent of Net Income

Dec 1971 India-Pakistan War; Formation of Bangladesh

1972 Pakistan and India sign Shimla Accord; Monsoon failure causes drought

1973 Coal mines nationalised; Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) passed

18 May 1974 Underground nuclear explosion at Pokhran

May 1974 Jaiprakash Narayan starts Citizens for Democracy Movement

July 1974 Indira Gandhi imposes 12 percent ceiling on dividends, Stock market crashes

April 1975 Indian satellite Aryabhatta launched from a Soviet cosmodrome

16 May 1975 Sikkim joins India

26 June 1975 Emergency declared

July 1975 Indira Gandhi announces 20-point economic programme

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Jan 1976 Private Oil companies nationalised

Feb 1976 Urban Land Ceiling Regulation Act passed

Nov 1976 Lok Sabha passes 42nd Constitution Amendment Bill

18 Jan 1977 Opposition politicians released from jail

16-20 March 1977 Sixth General Election; First Non-Congress Govt. led by Morarji Desai

Jan 1978 Currency notes in denominations of Rs 1,000, Rs 5,000 and RS 10,000 demonetised

June 1979 Bhaskara, India's second satellite, launched from a Soviet cosmodrome

19 June 1979 Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party

Oct 1979 Operation Flood II launched

Jan 1980 Seventh General Election; Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister again

23 June 1980 Sanjay Gandhi, younger son of Indira Gandhi, dies in plane crash

Feb 1981 Maruti Udyog set up

Feb 1982 Datta Samant leads Bombay's 300,000 textile workers on strike

Dec 1982 The Ninth Asian games held in Delhi

25 June 1983 India wins the Cricket World Cup

6 Oct 1983 Indira Gandhi imposes President's rule on Punjab

Oct 1983 Government nationalises 13 textile mills in Bombay

5 June 1984 Operation Blue Star: Indian army storms Golden Temple in Amritsar, killing hundreds of
people

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31 Oct 1984 Indira Gandhi assassinated in Delhi; Rajiv Gandhi sworn in as Prime Minister

2 Dec 1984 India's biggest Industrial disaster: Bhopal gas tragedy

24-28 Dec 1984 Eighth General Elections: Congress wins

1985 Narmada Bachao Andolan

July 1985 Rajiv Gandhi signs Punjab Accord

Oct 1986 V. P. Singh elected as President of Janata Dal, a new opposition party

May 1987 The Bofors Deal

Nov 1987 IPKF deployment and Operation Pawan

April 1988 Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) comes into existence

July 1988 Insat-IC launched

22 Aug 1988 The Darjeeling Accord

22-26 Nov 1989 Ninth General Elections: Congress loses; V.P. Singh becomes Prime Minister

1990 Mandal Commission Report

May 1991 V P Singh clears Rs 13,000 crore Sardar Sarovar project

21 May 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by LTTE

20 May-15 June'91 Tenth General Election: Congress wins; Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister;
Liberalisation initiated by Finance Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh

Sep 1991 Konkan Railway launched

Jan 1992 Prices of steel and iron decontrolled

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April 1992 Stock market scandal causes losses to banks

July 1992 Government allows private producers time slots on TV and Radio

6 Dec 1992 Demolition of Babri Masjid

Jan 1993 Hindu-Muslim Riots in Bombay

Feb 1993 Rupee made convertible on trade account

March 1993 Over 300 people killed in bomb blasts

April 1993 Motor cars and consumer goods delicensed

30 Sep 1993 The Latur earthquake

Jan 1994 Air India and Indian Airlines converted into companies

May 1994 Telecom services sector opened to private companies

21 Sep 1994 Outbreak of Pneumonic Plague in Surat

March 1995 Lok Sabha passes the Patents Bill

July 1995 Rajan Pillai dies in Delhi jail

Jan 1996 Revised carry forward system introduced

27 Jan 1996 Prithvi test-fired

29 Feb 1996 Jain Hawala case

27 April-21 May'96 Eleventh General Election; BJP's Atal Behari Vajpayee becomes Prime Minister

June 1996 BJP loses confidence vote; Deve Gowda takes over as Prime Minister of United Front
coalition government

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Jan 1997 Veteran labour leader Datta Samant shot dead

30 March 1997 Congress withdraws support to UF government

21 April 1997 I. K. Gujral appointed Prime Minister

15 Aug 1997 Nation celebrates 50 years of Independence

5 Sep 1997 Mother Teresa dies

14 Oct 1997 Arunadati Roy wins Booker Prize

7 Nov 1997 Bimal Jalan is the new Reserve Bank of India governor; C Rangarajan becomes Andhra
governor

27 Nov 1997 Femina Miss India Diana Hayden wins Miss World 1997

28 Nov 1997 Gujral government falls as Congress withdraws support

29 Dec 1997 Sonia Gandhi stepped into active politics

14 Jan 1998 MS Subbualakshmi awarded Bharat Ratna

15 Feb 1998 Tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati were ranked No. 2 when they won Dubai
Open

9 Mar 1998 Chess legend Vishwanathan Anand wins the Super Grand Master Title

19 Mar 1998 BJP-led alliance government is sworn in. Atal Behari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister
of India

28 Mar 1998 The BJP-led alliance survived its first test of trust, with the support of Chandrababu
Naidu's Telugu Desam Party. Jayalalitha continues to call the shots.

11 May 1998 India conducted three underground nuclear tests at Pokhran Range in Rajasthan

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1 June 1998 Finance Minister announced the Swadeshi budget

9 June 1998 Gujarat was hit by cyclone killing 1000 people in six days

29 June 1998 Three new states were announced -- Delhi, Uttaranchal and Vananchal

22 July 1998 24-year old PT Usha won bronze medal in the 400m and 200m1 anchored the 4x100m
relay team to gold and 4x400 m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in
Fukuoka, Japan

6 Aug 1998 Sri Krishna Commission report was tabled by the Maharashtra government. It was
rejected by the ruling alliance whom it heavily indicted.

5 Oct 1998 India has 5th largest GNP in Purchasing Power Parity terms: World Bank

10 Oct 1998 Market cap of top 8 banks, FIs fall below 50 pc over last 6 months

15 Oct 1998 Amartya Sen awarded Nobel Prize for Economics. Sen is the 6th Indian to win the Nobel
Prize.

May 1999 India launches offensive against Pakistan-backed infiltrators around Kargil in Indian
Kashmir.

Dec 2001 Gunmen attack Indian parliament. New Delhi blames Pakistan-based militants, snaps
transport and diplomatic links with Islamabad and the rivals come close to war.

Feb/March 2002 Fire on train kills 59 Hindu activists in western state of Gujarat. About 2,500 people,
mostly Muslims, are killed in retaliatory riots.

November 2003 Pakistan announces ceasefire in Kashmir and India reciprocates.

May 2004 BJP loses power to Congress. Man Mohan Singh becomes prime minister.

2004 Thousands of people killed in the Tsunami.

2005 Worst natural calamity, Mumbai Rains, more than 1000 people dies

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2006 NREGA introduced by UPA Government, Employment scheme to uplift poor and to
provide minimum 100 days of work.

2007:
Taj Mahal, Indian monument elected as No.1 out of Seven Wonders of the World.
India win Asian hockey tournament.
India win first Twenty-20 world tournament.

2008:
India sets a world record by sending 10 satellites into orbit in a single launch.
Abhinav Bindra won 1st ever individual gold medal for country in Olympics.
Arvind Adiga won Man Booker Award 2008 for his debut novel The White Tiger.
India, US signs nuclear deal.
Stock market crash in India caused BSE sensex to fall below 9K , which had once touched 22K mark
Mumbai terror attacks of 26/11 shook the whole nation, killing 183 people leaving the whole city in stress
for 60 hrs.

2009:
National Investigation Agency (NIA) Bill and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment (UAPA)
Bill, the new anti-terror regime came into force with President Pratibha Patil giving her assent.
A 148-year old colonial law banning homosexual intercourse in India is overturned by the High Court in
New Delhi.
India launches its first nuclear submarine, the INS Arihant.
Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned lunar probe, discovers large amounts of water on the Moon.

2010:
Russia signs a nuclear reactor deal with India which will see it build 16 nuclear reactors in India.
The Indian government initiates The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act to provide
free and compulsory education to all children aged between 6 and 14 years.
India launches its new 2011 biometric census, the largest census in the world.
India launches a national identity scheme aimed at reducing fraud and improving access to state benefits.
XIX Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010.

2011:
India wins the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
Anna Hazare undertakes fast for Jan Lokpal Bill at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
2G spectrum scam outbreaks.
F1 2011 Race comes to India at the Buddh International Circuit, Noida.
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2012:
India hosts 4th BRICS summit at New Delhi.
India bags 6 medals at the London Olympics including silvers to Vijay Kumar (shooting) & Sushil Kumar
(wrestling) and bronze to Gagan Narang (shooting), Saina Nehwal (badminton), Mary Kom (boxing) &
Yogeshwar Dutt (wrestling).

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 CORPORATE HEADS

Industry Company Name Designation

Advertising JW Thomson Bob Jeffrey Worldwide Chairman & CEO
Advertising Ogilvy and Mather Miles Young CEO
Auto General Motors Mary Barra CEO
Prof. Dr. rer nat. Martin
Auto Volkswagen Chairman
Winterkorn
Auto Maruti Suzuki Kenichi Ayukawa MD & CEO
Auto Bajaj Auto Rahul Bajaj Chairman
Aviation Jet Airways Naresh Goyal Founder & Chairman
Banking Bank of America Brian Moynihan President and CEO
Banking Citigroup Michael E. O'Neill Chairman
Banking SBI Arundhati Bhattacharya Chairperson
Chemicals Dow Chemical Andrew N. Liveris Chairman, CEO & President
Entertainment The Walt Disney Co. Bob Iger President & CEO
FMCG Colgate Palmolive Ian M. Cook CEO
FMCG Nestle Peter Brabeck-Letmathe Chairman
FMCG P&G Alan G. Lafley President & CEO
FMCG Unilever Paul Polman Chairman
FMCG Hindustan Unilever Harish Manwani Chairman
FMCG Hindustan Unilever Sanjiv Mehta CEO & MD
Internet Facebook Mark Zuckerberg Founder & CEO
Eduardo Saverin, Dustin
Internet Facebook Co-founder
Moskovitz, Chris Hughes
Internet Google Sergey M. Brin, Lawrence E. Page Founders
Internet Google Lawrence E. Page CEO
Internet Twitter Jack Dorsey Founder & Chairman
Internet Twitter Evan Williams Co-founder
Internet Twitter Biz Stone Co-founder
Internet Wikileaks Julian Assange Editor-in-Chief
Internet Wikipedia Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger Founder
IT Accenture Pierre Nanterme Chairman & CEO
IT TCS N. Chandrasekaran CEO & MD
IT Infosys N. R. Narayana Murthy Executive Chairman
IT Infosys Vishal Sikka CEO & MD
IT Wipro Azim Premji Chairman
IT - Hardware
Apple Inc. Tim Cook CEO
& Software
Oil & Gas Shell Ben van Beurden CEO

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 Industry Company Name Designation
Oil & Gas ONGC D. K. Sarraf Chairman & MD
Pharma Johnson & Johnson Alex Gorsky Chairman & CEO
Pharma Cipla Y K Hamied Chairman
Pharma Biocon Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Chairman & MD
Retail Wal-Mart Doug McMillon President and CEO
Steel ArcelorMittal Lakshmi Mittal Chairman & CEO
Steel Tata Steel T. V. Narendran MD
Steel SAIL Chandra Shekhar Verma Chairman
Telecom BSNL A. N. Rai Chairman & MD
Telecom AT&T Randall L. Stephenson Chairman, CEO & President
Telecom Nokia Risto Siilasmaa Chairman
Telecom BlackBerry Ltd Mike Lazaridis Founder
Telecom Vodafone Gerard Kleisterlee Chairman
Telecom Bharti Airtel Sunil Bharti Mittal Founder

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 COUNTRIES AND CURRENCIES

Country Capital Currency Currency sub-unit

Afghanistan Kabul Afghani pul

Australia Canberra Australian dollar cent

Bahrain Manama Bahraini dinar fils (inv.)

Bangladesh Dhaka Taka (inv.) poisha (inv.)

Bhutan Thimphu Ngultrum (inv.) chhetrum (inv.)

Brazil Brasilia Brazilian real (pl. centavo

reais)

Bulgaria Sofia Lev (pl. leva) stotinka (pl. stotinki)

Canada Ottawa Canadian dollar cent

China Beijing Renminbi-yuan (inv.) jiao; fen

Denmark Copenhagen Danish krone (pl. re (inv.)

kroner)

France Paris Euro cent

Germany Berlin Euro cent

Greece Athens Euro cent

Greenland Nuuk Danish krone (pl. re (inv.)

kroner)

Hong Kong - Hong Kong dollar cent

India New Delhi Indian rupee paisa

Iran Tehran Iranian rial -

Iraq Baghdad Iraqi dinar fils (inv.)

Italy Rome Euro cent

Japan Tokyo Yen (inv.) sen (inv.)

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 Country Capital Currency Currency sub-unit

Maldives Mal Rufiyaa laari (inv.)

Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian rupee cent

Nepal Kathmandu Nepalese rupee paisa (inv.)

New Zealand Wellington New Zealand dollar cent

Oman Muscat Omani rial baiza

Pakistan Islamabad Pakistani rupee paisa

Philippines Manila Philippine peso centavo

Poland Warsaw Zloty grosz (pl. groszy)

Qatar Doha Qatari riyal dirham

Russia Moscow Rouble kopek

South Africa Pretoria Rand cent

South Korea Seoul South Korean won chun (inv.)

(inv.)

Sri Lanka Colombo Sri Lankan rupee cent

Switzerland Berne Swiss franc centime

Thailand Bangkok Baht (inv.) satang (inv.)

United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi UAE dirham fils (inv.)

United Kingdom London Pound sterling penny (pl. pence)

United States Washington DC US dollar cent

Venezuela Caracas Bolvar centavo

Vietnam Hanoi Dong -

Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe dollar cent

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 FAMOUS INDUSTRIAL TOWNS
Ahmedabad (India)
Anshan (China)
Baku (Azerbaijan)
Bangkok (Thailand)
Belfast (Ireland)
Birmingham (UK)
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Cadiz (Spain)
Kolkata (India)
Changchun (China)
Chelyabinsk (Russia)
Chicago (USA)
Dhaka (Bangladesh)
Darjeeling (India)
Detroit (USA)
Dundee (Scotland)
Dresden (Germany)
Dusseldorf (Germany)
Essen (Germany)
Firozabad (India)
Glasgow (Scotland)
Gorky (Russia)
Havana (Cuba)
Hollywood (USA)
Jamshedpur (India)
Johannesburg (South Africa)
Kansas City (USA)
Kawasaki (Japan)
Kharkov (Ukraine)
Kiev (Ukraine)
Kimberley (South Africa)
Kobe (Japan)
Krivoi Rog (Ukraine)
Leeds (UK)
Leningrad (Russia)
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: Cotton textile industry
: Iron and steel industry
: Petroleum
: Shipping
: Shipbuilding
: Iron and Steel Industry
: Dairying
: Cork
: Jute Industry
: Automobiles and machine tools industry
: Iron & steel and machine tools industry
: Iron & steel industry and meatpacking
: Muslin
: Tea processing
: Automobile industry
: First jute mill; linen manufacturing
: Optical and photographic apparatus
: Iron & steel and engineering industry.
: Iron and steel, and engineering industry.
: Glass industry
: Iron and steel, shipbuilding and machinery manufacture
: Engineering industry
: Cigars
: Films
: Iron and steel industry
: Gold-mining
: Meatpacking
: Iron and steel industry
: Machine building and engineering industry
: Engineering industry
: Diamond mining
: Iron & steel and engineering industries
: Iron & steel and engineering industries
: Woollen textile industry
: Shipbuilding and automobile industries
Los Angeles (USA) : Petroleum and films
Lyons (France) : Silk industry
Magnitogorsk (Rusia) : Iron and steel indsutry
Manchester (UK) : Cotton textile industry
Milan (Italy) : Silk textile industry
Multan (Pakistan) : Pottery
Munich (Germany) : Lenses
Nagoya (Japan) : Cotton textiles, shipbuilding and engineering industry
New Orleans (USA) : Cotton textile industry
Newcastle (UK) : Coalmining and iron & steel industry
Nizhny Tagil (Russia) : Iron and steel industry
Osaka (Japan) : Iron & steel and engineering industry
Philadelphia (USA) : Locomotive industry
Pittsburg (USA) : Iron and steel industry
Plymouth (UK) : Shipbuilding
Rourkela (India) : Iron and steel industry
Sheffield (UK) : Cutlery
Singapore : Important trading port
Tula (Russia) : Iron and steel industry
Venice (Italy) : Glass industry
Vienna (Austria) : Glass industry
Vladivostok (Russia) : Shipping
Wellington (New Zealand : Dairying
Zurich (Switzerland) : Light engineering industry

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 HEADS OF GOVERNMENT BODIES
Department Heads
Chief of the Army Staff Dalbir Singh Suhag
Chief of the Air Staff Arup Racha
Chief of the Naval Staff Robin K. Dhowan
Rajya Sabha, Chairman Md. Hamid Ansari
Speaker of Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan
Leader of Opposition (Lok Sabha) Ms. Sushma Swaraj
Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha) Mr. Gulam Nabi Azad
Chairperson of Congress Parliamentary Party Ms. Sonia Gandhi
Chief Election Commissioner V. S. Sampath
Comptroller and Auditor-General of India Shashi Kant Sharma
Chief Justice of India H. L. Dattu
Attorney General of India Mukul Rohatgi
Solicitor-General of India Ranjit Kumar
Chairman, Planning Commission Narendra Modi
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission
Unique Identification Authority of India Mr. Nandan Nilekani
National Security Advisor Ajit Kumar Doval
Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh
Home Secretary Anil Goswami
Defence Secretary Radha Krishna Mathur

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 INDIAN HISTORY
(CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT)
6th century BC
Year Date Event
600 BC End of Vedic period.
599 BC Mahavira, 24th Tirthankar of Jainism born
563 BC Gautam Buddha, founder of Buddhism born
Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquers northwestern
538 BC
parts of the Indian subcontinent.
527 BC Nirvana of Mahavira

5th century BC
Year Date Event
483 BC Gautama Buddha died

4th century BC
Year Date Event
350 BC Panini wrote Ashtadhyayi
333 BC Persian rule in the northwest ends after Darius III is defeated by Alexander the Great
Ambhi king of Taxila surrenders to Alexander
326 BC Porus who ruled parts of the Punjab, fought Alexander at the Battle of the Hydaspes
River
Mauryan Empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya in Magadha after he defeats the
321 BC Nanda dynasty and Macedonian Seleucid Empire. Mauryan capital city is Patliputra
(Modern Patna in Bihar)
305 BC Chandragupta Maurya defeats Seleucus Nicator of the Seleucid Empire

3rd century BC
Year Date Event
273 BC Ashoka the Great ascends as emperor of the Mauryan Empire.
Kalinga War takes place between Ashoka and the kingdom of Kalinga.
261 BC After conquering Kalinga, Ashoka adopted Buddhism
Edicts of Ashoka are written in Brahmi script
232 BC Ashoka dies and is succeeded by Kunala
Simuka declares independence from Mauryan rule and establishes the Satavahana
230 BC
Empire

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2nd century BC
Year Date Event
Kuninda Kingdom established
200 BC Tholkappiyam describes the grammar and morphology of Tamil; it is the oldest
existing Tamil grammar (dates vary between 200 BCE and 100 CE). (to 100 BC)
The Mauryan Empire, which shrunk considerably, collapsed after its emperor
184 BC Brihadrata was assassinated by his general Pusyamitra Sunga who then established the
Sunga dynasty
180 BC Establishment of the Indo-Greek kingdom

1st century BC
Year Date Event
80 BC Establishment of the Indo-Scythian kingdom
65 BC The Pandyan king sends ambassadors to the Greek and Roman lands
57 BC Beginning of Vikram Era

1st century AD
Year Date Event
10 Establishment of the Indo-Parthian kingdom
68 Establishment of the Kushan empire by Kujula Kadphises
Gautamiputra Satkarni becomes Satavahana emperor and starts Shalivahana era calendar
78
after defeating Scythian king Maues

3rd century
Year Date Event
240 Sri-Gupta starts the Gupta Empire in Magadha, with its capital in Patliputra

4th century
Year Date Event
320 Chandragupta I ascends to the Gupta throne
335 Samudragupta ascends the Gupta throne and expands the empire
380 Chandragupta II, Samudragupta's son becomes the Gupta Emperor

5th century
Year Date Event
450 Invasions by the Huna

7th century
Year Date Event
606 Harshavardhana crowned Monarch
629 First Muslim mosque in India constructed in Kerala by Malik Dheenar
Badami Chalukya power at its peak. Pulakesin II pushes north up to the Narmada and
637
defeats the invading Harshavardhana of Kanauj
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8th century
Year Date Event
712 First Muslim, Md. Bin Qasim defeats Raja Dahir
Establishment of Rashtrakuta Kingdom of Manyakhet by Danti Durga by defeating
753
Chalukyas of Badami
788 Birth of Adi Shankaracharya

9th century
Year Date Event
814 Nripatunga Amoghavarsha I becomes Rashtrakuta emperor. Kannada literature flourishes.

10th century
Year Date Event
1000 Invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni

11th century
Year Date Event
1024 Last invasion of Mahmud Ghazni; destroyed temple of Somnath
1030 Alberuni arrivies in India; death of Mahmud of Ghazni

12th century
Year Date Event
"Victory of Prithviraj Chauhan". First battle of Tarain between Mohammed Ghori and
1191
Prithviraj III. Ghauri is defeated by Prithivi Raj Chauhan III.
"Victory of Mohammed Ghauri". Second battle of Tarain fought between Ghauri and
1192
Prithivi Raj Chauhan III. Prithvi Raj Chauhan III is defeated by Mohammed Ghori.
Battle of Chandawar fought between Ghauri and Jaichand of Kannauj. Ghauri defeated
1194
Jayachandra and killed him.

13th century
Year Date Event
1206 Gakhars kills Muhammad Ghori during a raid on his camp on the Jhelum River
1221 Genghis Khan invades Punjab

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14th century
Year Date Event
Ala-ud-din Khalji's army under Malik Kafur occupies Devagiri ending the Sena Yadava
1310
Kingdom
1323 Ulugh Khan defeats Prataparudra ending the Kakatiya dynasty
1336 Vijayanagara Empire established by Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I
Governor Hasan Gangu revolts against Muhammad bin Tughluq founding the Bahmani
1347
Sultanate
Bukka, the Vijayanagara ruler and his son Kumara Kamapna capture the entire Tamil
1370
speaking parts.
1398 Timur plunders Lahore

15th century
Year Date Event
Khizr Khan, deputized by Timur to be the governor of Multan takes over Delhi founding
1414
the Sayyid dynasty
Deva Raya II succeeded his father Veera Vijaya Bukka Raya as monarch of the Vijayanagara
1424
Empire
1443 Abdur Razzaq visits India
1451 Bahlul Khan Lodhi ascends the throne of the Delhi sultanate starting the Lodhi dynasty
1453 Constantinople won By Turkey
1469 Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism is born
1483 Birth of Babur in Andijan, Fergana Valley in Central Asia
1485 Saluva Narasimha Deva Raya drives out Praudha Raya ending the Sangama Dynasty
Advent of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and leader of the
1486
world's first civil disobedience movement, in Navadwip, West Bengal
Ahmadnagar declares independence, followed by Bijapur and Berar in the same year thus
1490
breaking up the Bahmani Sultanate.
1497 Vasco de Gama's first voyage from Europe to India and back (to 1499)

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16th century
Year Date Event
Kingdom of Kochi is taken over by the Portuguese creating the first European settlement in
1503
India.
Battle of Diu marks the beginning of the dominance of the Europeans in the Asian naval
1509
theater.
Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, of the Delhi Sultanate, angers local nobles, who respond by inviting
21 Babur, the Mughal ruler of Kabul, to invade Delhi and Agra. The local population, plus the
1526
April possession of artillery, assists Babur in killing the Sultan (whose soldiers desert him) at the
Battle of Panipat.
1539 Battle of Chausa fought between Humayun and Sher Shah Suri in which Humayun defeated.
Battle of Kannauj fought between Humayun and Sher Shah Suri and Humayun was
1540 completely defeated. Humayun lost the Mughal empire to Afghans (Suri Dynasty), and
passed 12 years in exile.
1545 Death of Sher Shah Suri
1555 Humayun regained the throne of Delhi from the hands of weak successors of Sher Shah.
Humayun dies, and is succeeded by his son Akbar
Hindu king Hemu establishes 'Hindu Raj' in North India and bestowed with title of "Samrat
1556
Hem Chandra Vikramaditya"; Second Battle of Panipat fought between Hemu and Akbar's
forces in which Hemu gets killed.
1565 Battle of Talikota results in the rout of Vijayanagara empire.
1572 Akbar the Great annexes Gujarat
1600 East India company is formed in England. Gets exclusive trading rights with India.

17th century
Year Date Event
1605 Akbar dies, and is succeeded by his son Jehangir
Jehangir announces "Chain of Justice" outside his palace that anyone can ring the bell and
1628 get a personal hearing with the emperor. Jehangir dies, and is succeeded by his son Shah
Jahan.
1630 Birth of Shivaji Maharaj.
Shah Jahan completes Taj Mahal, Jama Masjid, and Red Fort. Shah Jahan dies, and is
1658
succeeded by his son Aurangzeb.
Shivaji's ill-equipped and small Maratha army defeat mighty Adilshahi troops at the Battle
1659 of Pratapgarh in a major upset in Indian history. Shivaji personally kills Adilshahi
commander Afzal Khan (general).
Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Guru of Sikhs is executed in Delhi by the order of Aurangzeb
1675 for his support for the Kashmiri Hindus to practice their religion. Guru Gobind Singh
becomes tenth Guru of Sikhs.

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 Shivaji dies of fever at Raigad.
1680
Sambhaji became 2nd Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire
1681 Aurangzeb invades the Deccan
1689 March Chatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj dies.

18th century
Year Date Event
1707 Death of Aurangzeb the Mughal emperor.
1708 Guru Granth Sahib becomes Guru of Sikhs.
Battle of Plassey
1757
Company rule in India (to 1857)
1759 French India (to 1954)
1760 Marathas comprehensively defeat the Nizam, Maratha Empire reaches its zenith.
The Marathas are routed in the Third Battle of Panipat on 14 January 1761, by the
1761 Afghans led by Ahmad Shah Durrani, an ethnic Pashtun, also known as Ahmad Shah
Abdali. The battle is considered one of the largest battles fought in the 18th century.
1764 Battle of Buxar
1771 Marathas re-capture Delhi and parts of North India.
1772 14 August Ram Mohan Roy Born (to 1833)
Narayanrao Peshwa is murdered by his uncle Raghunathrao's wife in front of
Raghunathrao.
1773
Regulating Act of 1773
Warren Hastings appointed as first Governor-General of India
Chief Justice of the Maratha Empire, Ram Shastri passes death sentence against the
1774
ruling Peshwa Raghunath Rao for murdering his nephew.
1775 First Anglo-Maratha War
First Anglo-Maratha War begins, in which Haidar Ali of Mysore defeats the combined
1777
armies of the East India Company, the Marathas and the Nizam of Hyderabad.
Maratha sardar Mahadji Shinde routs the East India Company army at the Battle of
1779
Wadgaon War ends with the restoration of status quo as per Treaty of Salbai.
1780 Second Anglo-Mysore War begins.
1784 Second Anglo-Mysore War ends with the Treaty of Mangalore.
1786 District collectors in Bengal made responsible for settling the revenue and collecting it.
1789 Third Anglo-Mysore War begins.
1792 Third Anglo-Mysore War ends.
1798 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War begins.
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War ends with the death of Tipu Sultan, the victory of the East
1799
India Company, and the restoration of their ally, the Wodeyar dynasty of Mysore.
1800 Death of Nana Fadnavis

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19th century
Year Date Event
Maharaja Ranjit Singh establishes Khalsa rule of Punjab from Lahore. Khalsa army
1801
liberates Kashmiri Pundits and invades Afghanistan through Khyber Pass.
1803 Second Anglo-Maratha War begins
1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War ends
1806 Vellore Mutiny
"Atmiya Sabha" Established Later on known as "Prarthana Samaj" By Raja Ram Mohan
1814
Roy
1817 Third Anglo-Maratha War begins
Third Anglo-Maratha War ends with the defeat of Bajirao II and the end of the Maratha
1818
Empire leaving the East India Company with control of almost the whole of India
1820 September Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is born (to 1891)
1823 AngloBurmese Wars (to 1826)
12 Dayananda Saraswati is born (to 1883)
1824
February
1826 British rule in Burma (to 1947)
1839 First Anglo-Afghan War
First Anglo-Sikh Wars (to 1849)
1845 4 Vasudev Balwant Phadke is born (to 1883)
November
1853 Started Post Service
1853 16 April First Railway estalblished between Bombay and Thane
1855 30 June Santhal rebellion
25 July Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856
1856 23 July Bal Gangadhar Tilak is born (to 1920)
20 August Narayana Guru is born (to 1928)
1857 10 May Indian Rebellion of 1857
Established first three University of Mumbai, University of Madras and University of
1857
Calcutta in India
British Raj (to 1947)
1858 November Bipin Chandra Pal is born (to 1932)
7
1859 18 April Death of Tatya Tope
1863 12 January Swami Vivekanand is born (to 1902)
1865 28 January Lala Lajpat Rai is born (to 1928)
1867 "Prarthana Samaj" Established Earlier known as "Atmiya Sabha"
Mahatma Gandhi is born (to 1948)
1869
Thakkar Bapa is Born (to 1951)
"Arya Samaj" Established
1875
Aligarh Muslim University
1877 January Delhi Durbar First time

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1885 28 Indian National Congress established
December
1889 3 Khudiram Bose is born (to 1908)
December
1891 14 April B. R. Ambedkar is born (to 1956)
1897 23 January Subhas Chandra Bose is born (to 1945)

20th century
Year Date Event
1900 22 October Ashfaqulla Khan is born (to 1927)
1902 Anushilan Samiti, organized revolutionary association formed.
British Expedition to Tibet
1903
Delhi Durbar Second Time.
1905 Partition of Bengal
Jugantar formed.
1906 30 Muslim League formed in Dacca.
December
1909 Morley-Minto Reforms
Cancelation of Partition of Bengal
1911
Delhi Durbar Third Time
1912 Delhi conspiracy case
1913 Gadar Party formed.
1914 HinduGerman Conspiracy
Ghadar conspiracy
1915 Provisional Government of India formed in Kabul.
Gandhiji Returns to India.
1916 Lucknow Pact
1917 Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
1919 MontaguChelmsford Reforms
Rowlatt Act
1920 Non-cooperation movement. Khilafat Movement
1924 Hindustan Socialist Republican Association formed.
1925 Kakori conspiracy
1927 November Simon Commission
1928 Bardoli Satyagraha
Central Assembly Bombed by Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt.
1929
Purna Swaraj resolution.

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 Salt Satyagraha
1930 Round Table Conferences (India) First
Civil Disobedience Movement
March GandhiIrwin Pact
23 March Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev martyred
1931
September Round Table Conferences (India) Second
December
24 Sept. Poona Pact
4 August Communal Award
1932
November Round Table Conferences (India) Third
December
1935 August Government of India Act 1935
1939 All India Forward Bloc Established by Subhash Chandra Bose
Lahore Resolution
1940
August offer 1940
Quit India Movement
1942 Late March Cripps' mission
August Indian National Army Established by Subhash Chandra Bose
Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, the Provisional Government of Free India formed by
1943
Netaji.
1944 Subhash Chandra Bose calls Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation.
February Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
1946 March Cabinet Mission
16 August Direct Action Day/Great Calcutta Killings
July Indian Independence Act 1947 by British Raj.
Partition of India
1947 Freedom from British Raj.
Hundreds of thousands die in widespread communal bloodshed after partition.
(to 1948)

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 INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
Organization Headquarters Head Designation
International Monetary
Washington D.C., USA Christine Lagarde Managing Director
Fund (IMF)
World Bank Washington D.C., USA Jim Yong Kim President
World Trade Organization
Geneva, Switzerland Roberto Azevdo Director-General
(WTO)
Asian Development Bank Manila, Philippines Takehiko Nakao President
President of the
European Union (EU) Brussels, Belgium Herman Van Rompuy
European Council
Association of Southeast
Jakarta, Indonesia Le Luong Minh Secretary-General
Asian Nations (ASEAN)
South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation Kathmandu, Nepal Arjun Bahadur Thapa Secretary-General
(SAARC)
Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Paris, France Jos ngel Gurra Secretary-General
Development (OECD)
United Nations (UN) New York, USA Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General
World Wide Fund (WWF)
Gland, Vaud, Switzerland Yolanda Kakabadse President
for Nature
World Health Organisation
Geneva, Switzerland Dr. Margaret Chan Director General
(WHO)
United Nations Children`s
New York, USA Anthony Lake Executive Director
Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Paris, France Irina Bokova Director General
Organization (UNESCO)
Head of
Commonwealth of Nations London, UK Queen Elizabeth II
Commonwealth
Commonwealth of Nations London, UK Kamalesh Sharma Secretary-General
International Cricket
Dubai, UAE Alan Isaac President
Council (ICC)
International Olympic
Lausanne, Switzerland Thomas Bach President
Committee (IOC)
International Federation of
Zurich, Switzerland Sepp Blatter President
Association Football (FIFA )
North Atlantic Treaty
Brussels, Belgium Jens Stoltenberg Secretary-General
Organization (NATO)

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 Organization Headquarters Head Designation
International Court of
Hague, Netherlands Peter Tomka President
Justice
International Labour
Geneva, Switzerland Guy Ryder Director General
Organization (ILO)
Food & Agricultural
Rome, Italy Jos Graziano da Silva Director General
Organization (FAO)
Amnesty International London, UK Salil Shetty Secretary-General
International Committee of
Geneva, Switzerland Peter Maurer President
the Red Cross (ICRC)
Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Vienna, Austria Abdallah el-Badri Secretary-General
Countries (OPEC)
International Criminal
Police Organization Lyon, France Mireille Balestrazzi President
(INTERPOL)

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 INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES
Invention Inventor Country Year
Adding machine Pascal France 1642

Aeroplane Wright brothers USA 1903

Balloon Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier France 1783

Ballpoint pen C. Biro Hungary 1938

Barometer E. Torricelli Italy 1644

Bicycle K. Macmillan Scotland 1839

Bicycle tyre J.B. Dunlop Scotland 1888

Calculating machine Pascal France 1642

Centigrade scale A. Celsius France 1742

Cinematograph Thomas Alva Edison USA 1891

Computer Charles Babbage Britain 1834

Cine Camera FrieseGreene Britain 1889

Cinema A.L. and J.L. Lumiere France 1895

Clock (mechanical) Hsing and LingTsan China 1725

Clock (pendulum) C. Hugyens Netherlands 1657

Diesel engine Rudolf Diesel Germany 1892

Dynamite Alfred Nobel Sweden 1867

Dynamo Michael Faraday England 1831

Electric Iron H.W. Seeley USA 1882

Electric lamp Thomas Alva Edison USA 1879

Electromagnet W. Sturgeon England 1824

Evolution (theory) Charles Darwin England 1858

Film (with sound) Dr. Lee de Forest USA 1923

Fountain Pen LE. Waterman USA 1884

Gas lighting William Murdoch Scotland 1794

Gramophone T.A. Edison USA 1878

Jet Engine Sir Frank Whittle England 1937

Lift E.G. Otis USA 1852

Locomotive Richard Trevithick England 1804

Logarithms John Napier Scotland 1614

Machine gun Richard Gatling USA 1861

Match (safety) J.E. Lurdstrom Sweden 1855

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 Microphone David Hughes USA 1878

Microscope Z. Jansen Netherlands 1590

Motor car (petrol) Karl Benz Germany 1885

Motorcycle Edward Butler England 1884

Neonlamp G. Claude France 1915

Nylon Dr. W.H. Carothers USA 1937

Photography (paper) W.H. Fox Tablot England 1835

Printing press J. Gutenberg Germany 1455

Radar Dr. A.H. Taylor and L.C. Young USA 1922

Radium Marie and Pierre Curie France 1898

Radio G. Marconi England 1901

Rayon American Viscose Co. USA 1910

Razor (safety) K.G. Gillette USA 1895

Razor (electric) Col. J. Schick USA 1931

Refrigerator J. Harrison and A. Catlin Britain 1834

Revolver Samuel Colt USA 1835

Rubber (vulcanized) Charles Goodyear USA 1841

Rubber (waterproof) Charles Macintosh Scotland 1819

Safety lamp Sir Humphrey Davy England 1816

Safety pin William Hurst USA 1849

Sewing machine B. Thimmonnier France 1830

Scooter G. Bradshaw England 1919

Ship (steam) J.C. Perier France 1775

Ship (turbine) Sir Charles Parsons Britain 1894

Shorthand (modem) Sir Isaac Pitman Britain 1837

Spinning Frame Sir Richard Arkwight England 1769

Spinning jenny James Hargreaves England 1764

Steam engine (piston) Thomas Newcome Britain 1712

Steam engine (condenser) James Watt Scotland 1765

Steam production Henry Bessemer England 1855

Stainless Steel Harry Brearley England 1913

Tank Sir Ernest Swington England 1914

Telegraph code Samuel F.B. Morse USA 1837

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 Telephone Alexander Graham Bell USA 1876

Telescope Hans Lippershey Netherlands 1608

Television John Logie Baird Scotland 1926

Terylene J. Whinfield and H. Dickson England 1641

Thermometer Galileo Galilei Italy 1593

Tractor J. Froelich USA 1892

Transistor Bardeen, Shockley USA and Britain 1949

Typewriter C. Sholes USA 1868

Valve of radio Sir J.A. Fleming Britain 1904

Watch A.L. Breguet France 1791

Xray Wilhelm Roentgen Germany 1895

Zip fastener W.L. Judson USA 1891

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 List of International best sellers and authors 2010-12

1. Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy by E L James
2. The Hunger Games (Book 1) by Suzanne Collins
3. The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) by Jeff Kinney
4. Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn
5. The Harbinger: The ancient mystery that holds the secret of America's future by Jonathan Cahn
6. Precious Gifts of Love by C.J. Good
7. Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
8. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
9. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
10. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
11. A Scattered Life by Karen McQuestion
12. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
13. Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen

Top 10 Bestsellers (Fiction) of the year 2012 in India

S.No Title Author

1 Only Time Will Tell Jeffrey Archer

2 The Vault Of Shiva Andy MC Dermott

3 Susannas Seven Husbands Ruskin Bond

4 Empire of The Moghuls: Brothers at War Alex Rutherford

5 Theres No Love On Wall Street Ira Trivedi

6 The Museum of Innocence Orphan Pamuk

7 Dead Or Alive Tom Clancy

8 Harappa Files Orphan Pamuk

9 Lake Of Dreams Kim Edwards

10 Kabab Maker and The Consultant Arun Sikka

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 Top 10 Bestsellers (Non-Fiction) of the year 2012 in India
S.No Title Author

1 Mafia Queen of Mumbai: Stories of Women from The Ganglands Hussain Zaidi

2 Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee

3 Chicken Soup For The Indian Brides Soul Jack Canfield

4 Chettinad Kitchen Food and Flavours From South India Alamelu Vairavan

5 Dare To Run Amit Sheth

6 Fresh Brew Chronicles of Business and Freedom Amit Haralalka

7 The Bed of Procrustes Nassim Nicholas Taleb

8 India Calling an Intimate Portrait of Nation Remaking Anand Giridharadas

9 Atinder Box The Past and Future of Pakistan M J Akbar

Inside Wikileaks My Time With Julian

10 Daniel Domscheit Berg
Assange at the Worlds Most

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 LITERARY AWARDS
Literary Prize Winner Year
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of Managing a Dental Practice: The
2010
the Year Genghis Khan Way
Hans Christian Andersen Award David Almond 2010
Man Booker International Prize Philip Roth 2011
Pulitzer Prize Jennifer Egan 2011
Pulitzer Prize Kay Ryan 2011
Pulitzer Prize Siddhartha Mukherjee 2011
Ovid Prize Milan Kundera, Ognjen Spahi 2011
Franz Kafka Prize John Banville 2011
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Chang-rae Lee 2011
Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the
Ian Mc Ewan 2011
Individual in Society
Pulitzer Prize Tracy K. Smith 2012
Pulitzer Prize Stephen Greenblatt 2012
Franz Kafka Prize Daniela Hodrov 2012
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the
Bakeley Reginal 2012
Year
Hans Christian Andersen Award Mara Teresa Andruetto 2012
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Andrew Krivak 2012
Man Booker International Prize Lydia Davis 2013
Pulitzer Prize Adam Johnson 2013
Pulitzer Prize Sharon Olds 2013
Pulitzer Prize Gilbert King 2013
Franz Kafka Prize Amos Oz 2013
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Adam Johnson 2013
Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the
Antonio Muoz Molina 2013
Individual in Society
Pulitzer Prize Dona Tartt 2014
Pulitzer Prize Vijay Sheshadri 2014
Pulitzer Prize Dan Fagin 2014
Franz Kafka Prize Yan Lianke 2014
Hans Christian Andersen Award Nahoko Uehashi 2014
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Bob Shacochis 2014

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 MERGER & ACQUISITION

Top Merger & Acquisition Deals worldwide by value (in mn USD)

from 1990 to 1999
Acquirer Target Company Deal value ($ ml) Year
Vodafone Airtouch PLC Mannesmann 183000 1999
Pfizer Warner-Lambert 90000 1999
Exxon Mobil 77200 1998
Citicorp Travelers Group 73000 1998
SBC Communications Ameritech Corporation 63000 1999
Vodafone Group AirTouch Communications 60000 1999
Bell Atlantic GTE 53360 1998
BP Amoco 53000 1998
Qwest Communications US WEST 48000 1999
Worldcom MCI Communications 42000 1997

Top Merger & Acquisition Deals worldwide by value (in mn USD)

from 2000 to 2010
Acquirer Target Company Deal value ($ ml) Year
Fusion: AOL Inc. (America
Time Warner 164747 2000
Online)
Glaxo Wellcome Plc. SmithKline Beecham Plc. 75961 2000
Royal Dutch Petroleum
"Shell" Transport & Trading Co. 74559 2004
Company
AT&T Inc. BellSouth Corporation 72671 2006
Comcast Corporation AT&T Broadband 72041 2001
Pfizer Inc. Wyeth 68000 2009
Pfizer Inc. Pharmacia Corporation 59515 2002
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Bank One Corporation 58761 2004
InBev Inc. Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 52000 2008

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 Top Merger & Acquisition Deals worldwide by value (in mn USD)
2012 - 2013
Rank Acquiring Target Industry Deal value
'13 company company
Consortium
including
Macquarie
Open Grid
European
Europe, Gas transmission
1 Infrastructure $4.1 billion
subsidiary of network
Fund, IMC,
EON SE
Infinity
Investments SA
and MEAG NA
European
Eldorado Gold
2 Goldfields Goldfields $2.5 billion
Corporation
Limited

KGHM Polska Quadra FNX

3 Mining $2.2 billion
Miedz SA Mining Ltd

Cutbank Ridge
Mitsubishi Partnership
4 Cutbank Ridge Project $1.5 billion
Corp (40%) from
Encana

Pan American Minefinders

5 Mining $1.4 billion
Silver Corp Corporation Ltd

Eurasian
Natural
First Quantum
6 Resources Mining $1.3 billion
Minerals
Corporation
PLC (ENRC)
MacDonald Space Commercial
7 Dettwiler & Systems/Loral communications $875 million
Associates Ltd Inc satellites

Silver Wheaton HudBay

8 Silver mining $750 million
Corp Minerals Inc

Hathor
9 Rio Tinto plc Uranium exploration $578 million
Exploration
Finning
10 International Caterpillar Inc $465 million
Inc

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 Mergers & Acquisitions in India 2012-13
Deal value
Acquirer Target Company Industry
(Rs Cr)
UNILEVER PLC HINDUSTAN UNILEVER LTD. 29220.2863 FMCG
RELAY B. V. UNITED SPIRITS LIMITED 6935.5685 distillery
MCGRAW-HLL
CRISIL LTD. 1896.115 Credit Rating
FINANCIAL, INC.
HT GLOBAL IT SOLUTION HEXAWARE TECHNOLOGIES
1057.7226 IT
HOLDINGS LTD LTD.
PARTICIPIONES
INTERNACIONALES MAHINDRA FORGINGS LTD. 198.4678 Manufacturing
AUTOMET DOS, S.L.
COROMANDEL
LIBERTY PHOSPAHTE LTD. 90.4698 Fertilizer
INTERNATIONAL LTD
MR. RAOOF RAZAK
SAYAJI HOTELS LTD 59.2108 Hospitality
DHANANI
AMTEK AUTO LTD. JMT AUTO LTD. 55.7671 Auto
ELLENBARRIE INDUSTRIAL
AIR WATER INC. 53.9484 Industrial Gas
GASES LTD
NATIONAL OILWELL
GMM PFAUDLER LTD. 33.6539 Oilfield Services & Equipment
VARCO.INC.

Top 10 Acquisitions made by Indian companies worldwide (2012-13)

Acquirer Target Company Deal value ($ ml) Industry
Tata Steel Corus Group plc 12,000 Steel
Hindalco Novelis 5,982 Steel
Videocon Daewoo Electronics Corp. 729 Electronics
Dr. Reddys Labs Betapharm 597 Pharmaceutical
Suzlon Energy Hansen Group 565 Energy
HPCL Kenya Petroleum Refinery 500 Oil and Gas
Ltd.
Ranbaxy Labs Terapia SA 324 Pharmaceutical
Tata Steel Natsteel 293 Steel
Videocon Thomson SA 290 Electronics
VSNL Teleglobe 239 Telecom

Top Indian Mergers and Acquisitions

Year Purchaser Purchased Transaction Value

2014 Flipkart Myntra $300 million

2014 RIL Network 18 Media Rs. 4000 crore

2014 Sun Pharma Ranbaxy $4 billion

2014 Thomas Cook India Sterling India Resorts Rs. 870 crore

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 MINERAL WEALTH OF INDIA

METALLIC MINERALS
Antimony (1) Punjab (2) Karnataka
Bauxite (1) Jharkhand (2) Madhya Pradesh (3) Gujarat
Chromite (1) Orissa (2) Maharashtra
Coal (1) Jharkhand (2) West Bengal
Copper (1) Jharkhand (2) Rajasthan (3) Madhya Pradesh
Diaspore (1) Uttar Pradesh (2) Madhya Pradesh
Gold (1) Karnataka (2) Andhra Pradesh
Iron (1) Goa (2) Madhya Pradesh (3) Jharkhand
(4) Orissa (5) Andhra Pradesh (6) Tamil Nadu
Lead (1) Rajasthan (2) Andhra Pradesh
Lignite (1) Tamil Nadu (2) Gujarat
Manganese (1) Orissa (2) Madhya Pradesh (3) Karnataka
(4) Maharashtra
Nickel (1) Orissa
Natural Gas (1) Assam (2) Gujarat (3) Maharashtra
(4) Orissa (5) Tamil Nadu
Petroleum (1) Assam (2) Gujarat

Tungsten (1) Rajasthan (2) West Bengal

Uranium (1) Kerala (2) Jharkhand (3) Rajasthan
Zinc (1) Rajasthan

NON-METALLIC MINERALS
Asbestos (1) Andhra Pradesh
Ball clay (1) Andhra Pradesh (2) Rajasthan
Barytes (1) Andhra Pradesh (2) Maharashtra
Calcite (1) Rajasthan (2) Gujarat
China clay (Kaolin) (1) Rajasthan (2) West Bengal
Corundum (1) Karnataka (2) Maharashtra
Diamond (1) Madhya Pradesh (2) Andhra Pradesh
Dolomite (1) Madhya Pradesh (2) Orissa
Feldspar (1) Rajasthan (2) Tamil Nadu
Fire clay (1) Bihar (2) Gujarat
Fluorite (1) Gujarat (2) Rajasthan

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Graphite (1) Orissa (2) Rajasthan
Gypsum (1) Rajasthan (2) Andhra Pradesh
Kyanite (1) Bihar (2) Maharashtra
Limestone (1) Madhya Pradesh (2) Tamil Nadu
Magnetite (1) Tamil Nadu (2) Uttar Pradesh
Marble (1) Rajasthan
Mica (1) Jharkhand (2) Rajasthan (3) Andhra Pradesh
Ochre (1) Rajasthan (2) Madhya Pradesh
Pyrites (1) Bihar
Sulphur (1) Tamil Nadu
Quartz (1) Andhra Pradesh (2) Karnataka
Quartzite (1) Orissa (2) Bihar
Silica Sand (1) Uttar Pradesh (2) Gujarat

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 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS 2008-2014

Name Field Year

Osamu Shimomura Chemistry 2008
Martin Chalfie Chemistry 2008
Roger Y. Tsien Chemistry 2008
Paul Krugman Economic Sciences 2008
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clzio Literature 2008
Martti Ahtisaari Peace 2008
Yoichiro Nambu Physics 2008
Makoto Kobayashi Physics 2008
Toshihide Maskawa Physics 2008
Harald zur Hausen Physiology or Medicine 2008
Franoise Barr-Sinoussi Physiology or Medicine 2008
Luc Montagnier Physiology or Medicine 2008
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Chemistry 2009
Thomas A. Steitz Chemistry 2009
Ada E. Yonath Chemistry 2009
Elinor Ostrom Economic Sciences 2009
Oliver E. Williamson Economic Sciences 2009
Herta Muller Literature 2009
Barack H. Obama Peace 2009
Charles Kuen Kao Physics 2009
Willard S. Boyle Physics 2009
George E. Smith Physics 2009
Elizabeth H. Blackburn Physiology or Medicine 2009
Carol W. Greider Physiology or Medicine 2009
Jack W. Szostak Physiology or Medicine 2009
Richard F Heck Chemistry 2010
Ei-ichi Negishi Chemistry 2010
Akira Suzuki Chemistry 2010
Peter Diamond Economic Sciences 2010
Dale T. Mortensen Economic Sciences 2010
Christopher A. Pissarides Economic Sciences 2010
Mario Vargas Llosa Literature 2010

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 Name Field Year
Liu Xiaobo Peace 2010
Andre Geim Physics 2010
Konstantin Novoselov Physics 2010
Robert G Edwards Physiology or Medicine 2010
Saul Perlmutter Physics 2011
Brian P. Schmidt Physics 2011
Adam G. Riess Physics 2011
Dan Shechtman Chemistry 2011
Bruce A. Beutler Physiology or Medicine 2011
Jules A. Hoffmann Physiology or Medicine 2011
Ralph M. Steinman Physiology or Medicine 2011
Tomas Transtrmer Literature 2011
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Peace 2011
Leymah Gbowee Peace 2011
Tawakkol Karman Peace 2011
Thomas J. Sargent Economic Sciences 2011
Christopher A. Sims Economic Sciences 2011
Serge Haroche; Physics 2012
David J. Wineland Physics 2012
Brian K. Kobilka; Chemistry 2012
Robert J. Lefkowitz Chemistry 2012
John B. Gurdon; Physiology or Medicine 2012
Shinya Yamanaka Physiology or Medicine 2012
Mo Yan Literature 2012
European Union Peace 2012
Alvin E. Roth; Economic Sciences 2012
Lloyd S. Shapley Economic Sciences 2012
Franois Englert; Physics 2013
Peter W. Higgs Physics 2013
Martin Karplus; Chemistry 2013
Michael Levitt; Chemistry 2013
Arieh Warshel Chemistry 2013
James E. Rothman; Physiology or Medicine 2013

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 Name Field Year
Randy W. Schekman; Physiology or Medicine 2013
Thomas C. Sdhof Physiology or Medicine 2013
Alice Munro Literature 2013
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
Peace 2013
Weapons
Eugene F. Fama; Economic Sciences 2013
Lars Peter Hansen; Economic Sciences 2013
Robert J. Shille Economic Sciences 2013
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
Peace 2013
Weapons
Eugene F. Fama; Economic Sciences 2013
Lars Peter Hansen; Economic Sciences 2013
Robert J. Shille Economic Sciences 2013
Isamu Akasaki Physics 2014
Hiroshi Amano Physics 2014
Shuji Nakamura Physics 2014
Eric Betzig Chemistry 2014
Stefan Hell Chemistry 2014
William Moerner Chemistry 2014
John O'Keefe Physiology or Medicine 2014
May-Britt Moser Physiology or Medicine 2014
Edvard Moser Physiology or Medicine 2014
Patrick Modiano Literature 2014
Kailash Satyarthi Peace 2014
Malala Yousafzai Peace 2014
Jean Tirole Economics 2014

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 Oscars 2010-2014

Oscars' 2010-2011
Year Category Winner
2010 Best Picture The Hurt Locker
2011 Best Picture The King's Speech
2010 Best Actor Jeff Bridges
2011 Best Actor Colin Firth
2010 Best Director Kathryn Bigelow
2011 Best Director Tom Hooper
2010 Best Actress Sandra Bullock
2011 Best Actress Natalie Portman
2010 Best Foreign Film The secret in their eyes (Argentina)
2011 Best Foreign Film In a better world (Denmark)
2010 Original Screenplay Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
2011 Original Screenplay David Seidler (The King's Speech)

Oscars Trivia
Record Film/Actor/ Actress/Director
Most Nominations (film) Titanic & All about Eve (14 nominations each)
Most Nominations (Actress) Meryl Streep (16)
Most Nominations (Actor) Jack Nicholson (12)
Youngest actor to win best actor Adrien Brody (29 years)
Cost of each Oscar Statuette 500

85th Annual Oscars 2012-13

Year Category Winner
2012 Best Picture Argo
2012 Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis
2012 Best Director Ang Lee
2012 Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence
2012 Best Foreign Film Amour (Austria)
2012 Original Screenplay Quentin Tarantino

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 86th Annual Oscars 2013-14
Best Picture 12 Years a Slave
Best Actor Leading Role Matthew McConaughey
Best Actress Leading Role Cate Blanchett
Best Supporting Actor Jared Leto
Best Supporting Actress Lupita Nyong'o
Best Foreign Film The Great Beauty (Italian)
Best Original Screenplay Spike Jonze
Best Director Alfonso Cuarn

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THE LONGEST, LARGEST, BIGGEST, HIGHEST AND SMALLEST
The highest mountain peak
Highest mountain in Africa
The largest island
The largest river (in volume)
The longest river
The largest salt water lake
The largest fresh water lake
The greatest desert
The largest delta
The deepest lake
The highest lake
The largest artificial lake
The largest city (in area)
Largest Office Building
The shortest day
The longest day
The largest planet
The biggest passenger ship
The 2nd biggest ship
The biggest park
The deepest place
The highest city
The highest extinct volcano
The largest volcano
The smallest continent
The largest mountain system
The lowest body of water
The largest inland sea
The highest dam
The largest peninsula
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SUPERlatives
IN THE WORLD
Mount Everest (Nepal), 29,156 ft. (8854 m)
Kilimanjaro 18,000 ft.
Greenland 8,27,300 sq. miles (217,5600 sq km)
Amazon (S. America); basin 27,02,200 sq. miles)
Nile (Egypt)
Caspian Sea
Lake Superior (U.S.A.)
Sahara (Africa)
Sunderbans (Bengal 8,000 sq. miles)
Baikal, 3,200 ft. (Siberia)
Titicaca 12,000 ft. (Bolivia)
Lake Mead at Boulder Dam (U.S.A.)
London, 700 sq. miles
Pentagon (U.S.A.) where 32,000 men work; having 17 miles of
corridors
22 December (in the northern hemisphere)
21st June (in the northern hemisphere)
Jupiter
Queen Elizebeth II (83,000 tons) (U.K.)
Queen Mary (81,400 tons)
Yellowstone National Park (U.S.A.)
In the Pacific, off the island of Mindanao
(The Philippines) (35,000 ft.)
Wen Chuan (China 16,000 ft.)
Chimborozo (Ecuador), 20,702 ft. (6286 m)
Mauna Los (Hawaii) crater 12,400 ft. in diameter
Australia
Andes (South America)
Dead Sea (Palestine) 1230 ft. below sea-level
Mediterranean Sea
Hoover Dam (U.S.A.)
India
The largest bell
The longest wall
The biggest museum
The biggest library
The largest single country
The largest recognized swimming
course
The highest tower
The largest ocean
Largest Archipelago
Highest capital city
Largest continent
Largest desert in Asia
Coldest Region
The highest statue
The longest railway bridge
The longest railway platform
The longest non-stop train
The longest shipping canal
The largest State (area)
The deepest ocean
The longest railway run
The largest coral formation
The country having the largest
population
The biggest dome
The highest building
The country with the largest
electorate
Highest Volcano
Highest Mountain of Europe
Longest Railway Tunnel
Highest Waterfall
Second highest Waterfall
Largest Glaciers
Largest thoroughfare
Shortest Private Railway
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The Great Bell of Moscow (200 tons)
Great Wall of China (1,400 miles)
British Museum (London)
National Kiew Library; Russia (70,97,000 vols)
Brazil (area 3.1 million sq. miles)
British Channel (23 miles, Calais to Dover)
Tokyo Tower (Japan) 1,000 ft high
Pacific (6,29,86,000 sq. miles)
Indonesia
La Paz (Bolivia)
Asia (area 16 million sq. miles)
Gobi Desert (Mongolia area 5,00,000 sq miles)
Verkhoyansk (Siberia)
Statue of Liberty (New York)
Lower Zambesi (Africa)
Sonepur (Bihar) 2,480 ft. long
Flying Scotsman
Baltic White Sea Canal 140 miles
Russia
Pacific
Riga to Vladivostok (Russia)
The Great Barrier Reef, North-eastern coast of Australia
China
Gol Gumbaz (Bijapur, Karnataka)
Palace of Soviets (Moscow)
India
Cotopaxi (Andes, Ecuador)
Elburz (Causasus)
Tanna (Japan)
Angel (Venezuela)
Tungela (South America)
Found in Greenland and the Arctic as well as Antarctic
Broadway (New York)
Railway of the Pope in Vatican City (3/4 miles)
Planet nearest to the sun Mercury
Planet farthest from the sun Pluto
Longest road tunnel Mont Blanc Tunnel, between France and Italy (7/12 miles)

PRINCIPAL RIVERS OF THE WORLD

Name Approx. length (km)

Nile 6,690

Amazon 6,296

Mississippi 6,020

Yangtze Kiang 5,797

Congo 4,371

LARGE LAKES OF THE WORLD

Name Area (sq. km) Depth (Mtr.)

Caspian Sea, (Russia Iran, Kazakhistan,
3,94,299 246
Turkmenistan & Azerbaijan)

Superior, U.S.A. Canada 84,414 406

Victoria, East Central Africa 69,485 82

Tanzania, East Central Africa 32,893 1,435

WORLDS GREATEST MAN-MADE LAKES

Name Location Capacity (Acrefeet)

Owen Falls Uganda 166,000

High Aswan (Sadd-ElAali) Egypt 137,000

HIGHEST WATERFALLS OF THE WORLD

Name Location Height (Mts)

Angel Venezuela 1,000

Ribbon (Yosemite) California 491

Upper Yosemite California 436

Gersoppa India 253

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 WORLDS HIGHEST DAMS
Name Location Max. Height Reservoir Capacity
(Mts) (Acrefeet)
Roguvsky Vaksh Russia 325 9,485,000

Grand Dixence Dixence, Switzerland 285 324,000

Inguri Inguri 272 801,000

Sayansk Yenesei 242 25,353,000

Bhakra Sutlej India 226 8,000,000

WORLDS LARGEST DAMS

Name Location Volume (cu. Mts)
New Cornelia Tailings Arizona 209,550

Tarbela Pakistan 142,000

Mangla Pakistan 65,651

HIGHEST MOUNTAIN PEAKS OF THE WORLD

Name Range Location Height
(Mtrs.)
Everest Himalayas NepalTibet 8,848

Karakoram India (Under 8,611

Godwin Austin (K2)
occupation of Pakistan)

Kanchenjunga Himalayas India 8,586

Makalu Himalayas TibetNepal 8,470

Dhaulagiri Himalayas Nepal 8,166

MOUNTAIN
Nanga Parbat Himalayas India 8,126

Annapurna Himalayas Nepal 8,076

Gosainthan Himalayas Tibet 8,013

Nanda Devi Himalayas India 7,817

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 PRINCIPAL DESERTS OF THE WORLD

Name Location
Sahara Africa

Atacama North Chile

Black Rock Northwest Nevada

Great Salt West of Great Salt Lake on Nevada Utah

Lake line
Kalahari South Africa between the Orange and
Zambezi Rivers

Thar (India) Chiefly in Rajasthan, India

SUPERLATIVES IN INDIA

Highest peak in India Kanchenjunga 8586 metres (28,162 ft.)

Largest populated city Calcutta (Kolkata)
Longest River Greater Brahmaputra
Highest Waterfall Gersoppa Waterfall, Mysore (960 ft. high)
Largest Lake Wular Lake, Kashmir
Longest road bridge The Bridge over Ganga at Patna
Largest State (area) Rajasthan
Most Populous State Uttar Pradesh
Highest Bridge Chambal Bridge
Highest Gateway Buland Darwaza 176 ft. (Fatehpur sikri)
Longest Electric Train New Delhi to Chennai
Tallest Statue Statue of Gomateswar, Mysore
Wettest Place or heaviest rainfall Hausin gram (Meghalaya)
Highest Literacy in India Kerala (100 per cent)
Largest Museum Indian National Museum, Calcutta
Largest Tunnel Jawahar Tunnel
Largest Dam Hirakud Dam (Orissa)
Densest Population West Bengal (1991 census)
Largest zoo Zoological Gardens, Alipur, Calcutta
Largest Forest State Assam
Longest Delta Sunderbans Delta (8,000 sq. miles)
Longest Road Grand Trunk Road (2400 km)

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Largest Sugarcane Producing State
Largest rock-cut Temple
Largest Cantilever Span Bridge
Highest Tower
Largest Dome
Largest Animal Fair
Largest Corridor
Largest Mosque
Longest Rly. Bridge
Highest Straight Gravity Dam
Largest man-made lake
Largest desert
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Uttar Pradesh
Ellora (Kailash Temples, Maharashtra)
Howrah bridge (Calcutta)
Qutab Minar, Delhi
Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur (Karnataka)
Sonepur Fair (Bihar)
Rameshwaram temple Corridor (4,000 ft. long)
Jama Masjid, Delhi
Sone Bridge, Bihar
Bhakra Dam
Govind Sagar (Bhakra)
Thar (Rajasthan)