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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

MiscellaneousImportant Global Economic, Peace and Environmental

Organizations66

People and Sobriquets 70

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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 singer13 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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Sr.No. Year Winner Role of Winner

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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Sr.No. Year Winner Sport

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 Cricket61 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 BordoloiPosthumous, independence activist, Chief

Minister of Assam

5 1999 Amartya Sen Economist

6 1999 Ravi Shankar Sitar player

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Sr.No. Year Winner Profession

7 1999 Jayaprakash NarayanPosthumous, 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 AzadPosthumous, independence activist, first

Minister of Education

16 1991 Morarji Desai Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister

17 1991 Vallabhbhai PatelPosthumous, independence activist, first Home

Minister

18 1991 Rajiv Gandhi Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister

19 1990 Nelson MandelaSecond non-citizen and first non-Indianrecipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid

movement

20 1990 B. R. AmbedkarPosthumous, chief architect of the Indian

Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar

21 1988 M. G. RamachandranPosthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil

Nadu

22 1987 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan First non-citizen, independence activist

23 1983 Vinoba BhavePosthumous, social reformer, independence

activist

24 1980 Mother TeresaCatholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of

Charity

25 1976 K. KamarajPosthumous, 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 ShastriPosthumous, 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 Bengal34 1958 Dhondo Keshav Karve Educator, social reformer

35 1957 Govind Ballabh PantIndependence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar

Pradesh, Home Minister

36 1955 Jawaharlal NehruIndependence 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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Sr.No. Year Winner Profession40 1954 C. V. Raman Physicist

41 1954 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Independence activist, last Governor-General

Dronacharya Awards

Sr.No. Year Person Sport1 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 Athletics11 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 Kuma