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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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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 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 Athletics61 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 Wrestling71 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. MehtaWork through Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang

Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur

2 2011 SPIC MACAY

Promotes Indian classical music and culture

among the youth3 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 SuklaFor 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 RahiSubhuk 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 literature16 1999 Nirmal Verma For his contributions to Hindi literature

17 1998 Girish KarnadFor his contributions to Kannada literature andfor 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 MahapatraFor 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 1990V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna

Gokak)

Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi

26 1989 Qurratulain Hyder Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar

27 1988 Dr. C. Narayana Reddy Vishwambhara

28 1987Vishnu 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 IyengarChikkaveera 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 VatsyayanKitni 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 SatyanarayanaRamayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful

tree:Ramayana)

47 1969 Firaq Gorakhpuri Gul-e-Naghma

48 1968 Sumitranandan Pant Chidambara

49 1967 Umashankar Joshi Nishitha

50 1967Kuppali 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 AuthorAuthor's Country

of Origin

1 2012 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel United Kingdom2 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 Canada12 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

Sr.No. Year Name of the Book Author1 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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Sr.No. Year Name of the Book Author

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 Lahiri13 1999 The Hours Michael Cunningham

14 1998 American Pastoral Philip Roth

15 1997Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American

DreamerSteven 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 Updike22 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. Kobilka3 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 PhysicsSaul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G.

Riess

8 2011 Chemistry Dan Shechtman

9 2011 Physiology or medicineBruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, Ralph

M. Steinman

10 2011 Literature Tomas Transtrmer

11 2011 PeaceEllen 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 ChemistryRichard 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 sciencesPeter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen,

Christopher A. Pissarides

19 2009 Physics Charles Kuen Kao, Willard S. Boyle, GeorgeE. Smith

20 2009 ChemistryVenkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A.

Steitz, Ada E. Yonath

21 2009 Physiology or medicineElizabeth 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 PhysicsYoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi,

Toshihide Maskawa

26 2008 ChemistryOsamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y.

Tsien

27 2008 Physiology or medicineHarald 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 DavideJournalism, 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 PanhaPeace and International Understanding &

Emergent Leadership

10 2011 Harish Hande Emergent Leadership

11 2011 Nileema Mishra Emergent Leadership12 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 DaishanJournalism, Literature, and the Creative

Communication Arts

18 2010 Tadatoshi Akiba Peace and International Understanding

19 2009 Krisana Kraisintu Public Service20 2009 Deep Joshi Community Leadership

21 2009 Ma JunJournalism, Literature, and the Creative

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 Leadership29 2008 Akio Ishii

Journalism, Literature, and the CreativeCommunication 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.

13Bird 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 CinvenMercury Pharma

GroupU.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

26Discovery

CommunicationsRevision3 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

30FICO (Fair Isaac

Corporation)Adeptra U.S. U.S.

31Fortis Healthcare

(India) Ltd

Fortis HealthcareInternational

Pte LtdIndia Singapore

32Generac Holdings

Inc.Ottomotores

BusinessesU.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.

37Green Dot

CorporationLoopt U.S. U.S.

38 GVK Power Hancock Coal India Australia

39 Haemonetics Pall U.S. U.S.

40Hanergy Holding

GroupMiaSole China U.S.

41 Hologic Gen-Probe U.S. U.S.

42Honeywell

InternationalInc. (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 IXIABreakingPoint

SystemsU.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.

59Mahindra &

MahindraSsangYong 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.

63Mindspeed

TechnologiesPicoChip 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

66Nuance

CommunicationsTranscend 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.

85Telephone and Data

SystemsVital Support Systems U.S. U.S.

86Thermo Fisher

Scientific Doe & Ingalls U.S. U.S.

87 TIBCO Software LogLogic U.S. U.S.

88 TiVo TRA U.S. U.S.

89 TornierOrthoHelix Surgical

DesignsHolland 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 VodafoneCable & Wireless

Worldwide(C&WW)

U.K. U.K.

96 Wanxiang A123 Systems China U.S.

97 Wipro TechnologiesPromax Application

GroupIndia 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

CompaniesInternet Media Miscellaneous

1

ZeeEntertainment

Enterprises

Limited (ZEEL)

9X, Zee TV, ZeeCinema, Zing, TEN

Action+, TENCricket, TENSports, 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 MarathiCinema,

Zee Punjabi,Zee Tamil,

ETC Channel,ETC Punjabi,

Zee KhanaKhazana,

Zee Q, Zee Salaam

Daily Newsand

Analysis(DNA)

DNA E-Paper,Playwin

Zee MotionPictures, IndianCricket League,

Fun Cinemas

2ABP Group

(Ananda BazarPatrika)

ABP News, ABPAnanda, ABP

Majha,Sananda TV

AnandabazarPatrika, 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.

AnandaPublishers,

Penguin India,Ananda

Purashkar, RadioAnanda

3 HT Media NA

Hindustan

Times, HTNext, HT Caf,Mint

Newspaper,Hindusthan

Shine.com,DesiMartini.com,HTCampus.com

Fever 104 FM

4IndependentNews Service

India TV NA NA NA


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Sr.No.Parent

Company

TV Media

Companies

Print Media


9 Network 18

CNN-IBN, IBN-7,CNBC Awaaz,

CNBC-TV18, IBN-Lokmat, MTV

India, Nick India,VH1 India, Colors,History TV18, ETVNetwork, 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

10New DelhiTelevision

Limited (NDTV)

NDTV 24x7, NDTVIndia, NDTV

Profit, NDTV GoodTimes, NDTV

Hindi, ATN NDTV24x7, NDTVWorldwide

NA ndtv.comNGEN, NDTVWorldwide

11 Prasar BharatiDoordarshan, DD

India, DD Regionalchanels

NA DD Direct+ All India Radio

12 Raj Network

Raj TV, Vissa, RajParivar,Raj Musix(Tamil), Raj Musix

Telugu, Raj MusixKannada, RajMusix Malayalam,

Raj Digital Plus,Raj News 24X7,Raj News, Raj

Pariwar, Raj Asia

NA NA NA

13

Sahara OneMedia &

EntertainmentLtd

Sahara One, Filmy,Firangi, Sahara

Samay

RashtriyaSahara,

RoznamaRashtriya

Sahara

NASahara One

Motion pictures

14

SonyEntertainment

Television(India)

Sony Mix, SonySIX, SET Max, SET

PIX, SonyEntertainment

Television., AXN,SAB TV

NA Sony Liv NA


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Sr.No.Parent

Company

TV Media

Companies

Print Media


15 STAR India

STAR Plus, STARGold, STAR Jalsha,

STAR Pravah,STAR World, STAR

Movies, STARUtsav, Channel[V],Life OK, Asianet,

Asianet Plus,Asianet Sitara,Asianet News,

Asianet Movies,STAR Vijay, Movies

OK, AsianetSuvarna, Suvarna

News, STAR Sports,STAR Cricket,

ESPN, ESPNewsAsia

NA Star Player

Star ScreenAwards,Big StarEntertainmentAwards, Star

Parivaar Awards

16 Sun TV Network

Sun TV, SunMusic, Sun News,Sun Life, Adithya

TV, Chutti TV, SunAction, Gemini TV,

Gemini Music,Gemini News,Gemini Life,

Gemini Comedy,Kushi TV, GeminiAction, 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,KumgumaChimizh,

Kungumam

Thozhi,Aanmigam,Mutharam,Vannathirai

Suntv.in

Sun KudumbamAwards,Suryan

FM 93.5, Red FM93.5

17The Hindu

GroupNA

The Hindu,The Hindu

Business Line,

Sportstar,Frontline,Praxis, Indian

Cricket, Surveyof Indianindustry,Survey of

Indianagriculture,

Survey of theEnvironment

The Hindu E-paper NA


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Sr.No.Parent

Company

TV Media

Companies

Print Media


18The Outlook

Group

NA

Outlook,OutlookMoney,Outlook

Traveller,OutlookSaptahik

Outlookindia.com,outlooktraveller. com,

outlookmoney. com

OutloookTraveller getaway

series, Thelayman's guide to

insurance, thelayman's guide to

mutual funds

19The Times

Group

Times Now, ETNow, Zoom,

Movies Now

The Times ofIndia, TheEconomic

Times,Maharashtra

Times,Navbharat

Times,Mumbai

Mirror, ETWealth,

Filmfare,Femina, Top

Gear MagazineIndia, Femina

Hindi

TimesJobs, Gaana.com,TimesDeal, BoxTV.com,

Indiatimes

Radio Mirchi,Absolute Radio,

360 Degrees,Mirchi Movies

Limited, Filmfare

Awards, FeminaMiss India Beauty

Pagent

20UTV Software

Communications

Bindass (formerlyUTV Bindass),

UTV Stars, UTVAction (formerlyBindass Movies),UTV Movies, UTV

WorldMovies,Bloomberg

UTV (formerlyUTVi)

NA NA

UTV MotionPictures, UTV

Toons, IgnitionEntertainment


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Prominent Companies

Sr.No.Company

Name

CEO/

Chairperson

Most

Associated

Tagline

Prominent

ProductsFounders Industry

1ABN AMRO

GroupGerrit Zalm

Making MorePossible

Assetmanagement,commercial

banking,investment

banking

RobHazelhoff,

RoelofNelissen

Financialservices

2 Accenture Pierre NantermeHigh

Performance.Delivered

IT, businessconsulting and

outsourcingservices

Founded in1989 as the

business andtechnologyconsulting

division of theaccounting

firm ArthurAndersen

IT

3 AdobeShantanuNarayen

Simplicity atwork. Better

by adobe.

Acrobat, Flash,Photoshop

CharlesGeschke, John

WarnockSoftware

4 AllianzMichael

DiekmannThe Power on

your side

Insurance,banking, assetmanagement

Carl vonThieme &

Wilhelm vonFinck

FinancialServices

5Amazon.com,

Inc.Jeff Bezos

Earth's BiggestBookStore

Amazon Kindle,Amazon.com

Jeff Bezos Online Retailing

6American

InternationalGroup, Inc.

Bob BenmoscheWe know

Money

Insuranceannuities,

mutual funds

CorneliusVander Starr

Insurance,Financialservices

7 AmulR.S. Sodhi(ManagingDirector)

The taste ofIndia

Dairy productsFounded in

1946Dairy

8 Apple Inc Tim CookThink

Different.Mac PC, iPad,iPhone, iPod

SteveJobs,SteveWozniak,

Ronald Wayne

Software

9Arcelor(Arcel

or Mittal)Lakshmi Mittal

Steel solutionsfor a better

worldSteel

Formed dueto a mergerthese threecompanies -

Arbed,Aceralia,Usinor

Steel

10 AT&T Inc.Randall

Stephenson

The World'sNetworking

CompanyAT&T Inc.

Managementof American

Bell

Telecommuni-cations


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Sr.No.Company

Name

CEO/

Chairperson

Most

Associated

Tagline

Prominent


11 Barclays PLC

Antony Jenkins

(Group ChiefExecutive)

Fluent inFinance; Its

our business toknow yourbusiness

Retail bankingCommercial

banking,

Investmentbanking,

Investmentmanagement

John Freame

and ThomasGould

Banking,

Financialservices

12 Bata Thomas G. BataShoes foreveryone

Footwear,sportswear,

sportsequipment,

toiletries

Tom BaaRetail and

manufacturing

13Bayerische

MotorenWerke AG

NorbertReithofer

The UltimateDriving

Machine

Automobiles,motorcycles,

bicycles

Franz JosefPopp

Automobiles

14 Bloomingdale's Michael GouldLike no otherstore in the

world

Clothing,footwear,bedding,furniture,

jewelry

Joseph andLyman G.

Bloomingdale

Clothing,footwear,bedding,furniture,

jewelry, beautyproducts,

housewares,optical, salon,

portrait studio,cafe.

15 CEAT

ParasChowdhary

(ChiefManagementAdvisor)

Born Tough Tyres

Virginio Bruni

Tedeschi Tyres & Tubes

16Cisco Systems

IncJohn Chambers

Empoweringthe Internetgeneration.

NetworkingDevice,

NetworkManagement,Cisco IOS and

NX-OS Software

LeonardBosack,Sandy

Lerner

Networkingequipment

17 CITIGROUP Michael Corbat

The Citi Never

Sleeps

Credit cards,consumerbanking,

corporatebanking,investment

banking

Formed dueto a merger

between

Citicorp andTravelers

Group

Banking,

Financialservices

18 Dell Inc Michael DellEasy as DELL/

Easy to Buy,Easy to own

Desktops,netbooks,

notebooks,servers,

scanners, smartphones

Michael DellComputers and

IT


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Sr.No.Company

Name

CEO/

Chairperson

Most

Associated

Tagline

Prominent


19 DeutscheBank

Paul Achleitner(Chairman),

Juergen Fitschen(Co-CEO),

Anshuman Jain(Co-CEO)

A Passion toPerform

Consumer

banking,corporatebanking, finance

and insurance

G. Siemensand L.Bamberger

Banking,Financialservices

20 DuPont Ellen KullmanBetter living

throughchemistry.

Corian, Delrin,Kevlar

EleuthreIrne du

PontChemicals

21Ernst and

YoungJim Turley

Quality inEverything we

Do

Assurance, TaxAdvisory,

Consultingetc.

services

Formed dueto a series ofmergers of

ancestororganizations

Professionalservices

22 Essar Group Prashant RuiaA positiveattitude

Steel, oil and gas,power,

communications,shipping

Shashi Ruia,Ravi Ruia

Conglomerate

23 Essel Group Subhash Chandra -

Media,entertainment,

packaging,infrastructure

SubhashChandra

Conglomerate

24Exxon MobilCorporation

Rex W. Tillerson

Taking on theWorld'sToughest

EnergyChallenges

Fuels,lubricants,

petrochemicals

Formed dueto a mergerbetween

Exxon andMobil

Oil and gas

25 Facebook Mark Zuckerberg

Facebookhelps you

connect andshare with thepeople in your

life

SocialNetworking

services

MarkZuckerberg,

EduardoSaverin,Andrew

McCollum,Dustin

Moskovitz,Chris Hughes

SocialNetworking

26 FIATSergio

MarchionneDriven by

Passion. FIAT

Automobiles,commercial

vehicles, autoparts

GiovanniAgnelli

Automotive


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Sr.No.Company

Name

CEO/

Chairperson

Most

Associated

Tagline

Prominent


27Ford Motor

Co.

Alan R. Mulally

Built for theroad

ahead/Ford

has a betteridea

Automobiles,Automotive

parts

Henry Ford Automobiles

28Four Seasons

Hotels, Inc.Isadore Sharp

(Chairman)

Fifty Hotels.Twenty-Two

Countries. OnePhilosophy

- Isadore Sharp Hospitality

29 Future GroupFouad M.

Makhzoumi(Chairman)

IndiaTomorrow

Discount,grocery andconvenience

stores, cash andcarry,

hypermarkets,financialservices

Mr. KishoreBiyani

Retail

30 GAILSh B. C. Tripathi(Chairman and

MD)

Gas andBeyond

Natural Gas,Petrochemical,

LiquidHydrocarbons

Ministry ofPetroleum &Natural Gas

Energy,Petrochemicals

31General Mills,

Inc.Kendall J. Powell

NourishingLives

Food Products Robert Smith Food Processing

32GeneralMotors

Company

Daniel Akerson Only GM Automobiles,William C.

Durant

Automotive

33 Google

Eric Schmidt(Executive

Chairman), LarryPage (Co-founder

& CEO), SergeyBrin

(Co-founder)

-

Search tools,mobile

applications,operatingsystems

Larry Page,Sergey Brin

Internet,computersoftware,telecoms

equipment

34

Haier

ElectronicsGroup Co

Zhang Ruimin Inspired Living

Majorappliances,

small

appliances,commercialheating and

cooling systems

Zhang Ruimin

Home

appliances,Consumerelectronics

35Hewlett-Packard

CompanyMeg Whitman

Everything isPossible

PCs, printers,monitors,scanners,servers

BillHewlett,David

Packard

Computers andIT


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Sr.No.Company

Name

CEO/

Chairperson

Most

Associated

Tagline

Prominent


36

HindustanUnileverLimited(HUL)

Nitin ParanjpeAdding Vitality

to Life

Foods,beverages,

cleaning agentsand personalcare products

Founded in1956 as

Hindustan

Lever Limitedthrough amerger of

LeverBrothers,

HindustanVanaspati

Mfg. Co. Ltd.and United

Traders Ltd.

Consumergoods

37 HOME DEPOT Frank Blake You can do it.We can Help.

Homeappliances,

tools, hardware,lumber,building

materials

BernieMarcus,

Arthur Blank,Ron Brill, Pat

Farrah

Retailing

38Honda Motor

Co LtdTakanobu Ito

The Power ofDreams

Automobiles,motorcycles,

scooters,electrical

generators, jetaircrafts

SoichiroHonda,Takeo

Fujisawa

Automotive,Aviation,

Telematics

39

HSBC (TheHong-kong

and ShanghaiBanking

Corporation.)

Stuart Gulliver(Group Chief

Executive)

The World's

Local Bank

Investment,commercial,

retail andprivate banking,

Sir Thomas

Sutherland

Financial

Services

40 Infosys S.D. Shibulal

Powered byIntellect,Driven by

Values;Improve your

odds withInfosys

Predictability


outsourcingservices

N. R.Narayana

Murthy,Nandan Nilekani

N. S.Raghavan,S.

Gopalakrishnan

S. D.Shibulal,K

Dinesh,AshokArora

IT

41Intel

CorporationPaul Otellini Intel Inside

Bluetoothchipsets, flash

memory,microprocessors,

motherboardchipsets,network

interface cards

GordonMoore,

Robert NoyceSemiconductors


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Sr.No.Company

Name

CEO/

Chairperson

Most

Associated

Tagline

Prominent


42

InternationalBusinessMachines

(IBM)Corporation

Ginni RomettyI think,

therefore IBM

Hardware andSoftware

products

Charles

Ranlett Flint

Computers and

IT

43

IOCL(Indian Oil

CorporationLimited)

RS Butola(Chairman)

BringingEnergy to Life

Fuels,lubricants,

petrochemicals

Formed dueto a merger

betweenIndian Oil

Company Ltd.and IndianRefineries

Ltd.

Oil and gas

44JVC(Victor

Company ofJapan)

Shoichiro EguchiThe PerfectExperience

Audio, visual,computer-

relatedelectronics and

software

Founded in

1927 as asubsidiary ofthe United

States'leading

phonographand recordcompany

Audio, visual,computer-

relatedelectronics andsoftware, media

products

45KFC(KentuckyFried Chicken)

David C. Novak(Chairman and

CEO of Yum!Brands), Roger

Eaton (Chairmanand CEO of KFC)

Its FingerLickin Good!!

Fried chicken,soft drinks,

salads, desserts,breakfast

HarlandSanders

Fast foodrestaurant

46

KoninklijkePhilips

ElectronicsN.V.

Frans vanHouten

Sense andSimplicity

Homeappliances,

lighting,medical

equipment

GerardPhilips,

FrederikPhilips

Electronics

47 KotakUday Kotak

(Vice Chairman)& (MD)

ThinkInvestments.Think Kotak.

Deposit

accounts, Loans,Investment

services,Businessbanking

solutions

Uday KotakFinancialservice


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Sr.No.Company

Name

CEO/

Chairperson

Most

Associated

Tagline

Prominent


48LARSEN and

TOUBROK.

Venkataramanan

We makethings whichmake India

proud

Construction,heavy

equipment,electrical

equipment,power

HenningHolck

Larsen,SorenKristianToubro

Conglomerate

49Lenovo Group

Ltd.Yang Yuanqing

We arebuilding a new

technologycompany

Desktops,servers,

notebooks,tablet

computers

Liu ChuanzhiComputerhardware,electronics

50

LG

ElectronicsInc.

Bon-joon Koo Life's good

Electronics,

chemicals,telecommuni-cations

Koo In-Hwoi

Consumerelectronics,

homeappliances,telecoms

equipment

51 Lufthansa Christoph FranzThere's no

better to flyAirline services

Founded in1926 as

Deutsche LuftHansa

Airlines

52MasterCard

IncorporatedAjay Banga

There are some

things moneycan't buy. Foreverything else

there'sMASTERCARD.

Credit cards,paymentsystems

Founded in1966 when a

group of

Californiabanks formedthe Interbank

CardAssociation

(ICA)

Financialservices

53

Max LifeInsurance

Company Ltd.(formerly:MaxNew York Life

InsuranceCompany Ltd.)

Rajesh SudYour Partner

for lifeIndividual and

group insuranceAnaljit Singh

FinancialServices

54McDonald's

CorpDon Thompson I m Lovin it Fast food

Richard andMaurice

McDonald,Ray Kroc

Restaurants


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Sr.No.Company

Name

CEO/

Chairperson

Most

Associated

Tagline

Prominent


55MetropolitanLife InsuranceCompany or

Metlife.

Steven A.Kandarian

Have You MetLife Today

Insurance,

Annuities,EmployeeBenefits,Banking

Founded onMarch 24,

1868. Earlier

known as theNational

Union Lifeand LimbInsuranceCompany

Financialservices

56 Microsoft Steve Ballmer Be What's Next

Windows, MSOffice, Skype,

Bing, Xbox,Windows

Phone, Surface

Bill Gates,Paul Allen

Software

57 Morrison &Foerster

Keith C.Wetmore

- Morrison &Foerster LLP(MoFo)

AlexenderMorrison

Law Firm

58MRF (Madras

RubberFactory)

Arun Mammen(MD)

Tyres withMuscle

Tyres, toys,sports goods,conveyor belt,paints & coats

Mr.K.M.Mammen Mappilai

Conglomerate

59 Nestle Paul BulckeGood food,Good life

Baby food,coffee, dairy

products

Henri Nestl,Charles Page,George Page

Food processing

60

New DelhiTelevision

Limited(NDTV)

VikramadityaChandra (GroupCEO & Executive

Director)

News you canUse.

(Ndtv Profit)

Broadcasting,radio

Prannoy Roy Media

61 Nike Inc. Mark Parker Just do it

Athleticfootwear andapparel, sport

equipments andother

recreationalproducts

BillBowerman,Phil Knight

Apparel,accessories

62 Nintendo CoLtd.

Satoru Iwata How U willplay next

NintendoGameboy,Wii

FusajiroYamauchi

Consumerelectronics,Video games

63 Nokia Corp Stephen ElopConnecting

people

Mobile phones,smartphones,

mobilecomputers,networks

FredrikIdestam,

Leo Mechelin

Telecommuni-cations

equipment,internet,

computersoftware


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Sr.No.Company

Name

CEO/

Chairperson

Most

Associated

Tagline

Prominent


64 ONGCSudhir

Vasudeva(Chairman & MD)

MakingTomorrow

Brighter

Petroleum,natural gas, and

otherpetrochemicals

Founded on14th August,

1956Oil and gas

65 PayPal

Patrick Dupuis(CFO), David

Marcus(President)

The safer,easier way to

pay

Onlinemonetary

transactionservices

KenHowery,MaxLevchin,ElonMusk, LukeNosek,Peter

Thiel

Online

66 PepsiCo Inc Indra Nooyi Live for Now

Pepsi,Lay'spotato chips,Quaker foods

and snacks

DonaldKendall,

Herman Lay

Food andbeverages

67Procter &Gamble

RobertMcDonald

Touching lives,improving life

Foods,beverages,

cleaning agentsand personalcare products

WilliamProcter,

James Gamble

Consumergoods

68Reliance

IndustriesLimited

Mukesh Ambani(Chairman and

MD)Growth is Life

Crude oil,natural gas,

petrochemicals,petroleum

DhirubhaiAmbani

Conglomerate

69

Research In

Motion/Blackberry

Thorsten Heins Be Bold

BlackBerry,BlackBerryEnterprise

Server,BlackBerry

Internet Service

MikeLazaridis

Telecommunications equipment

70 Samsung Oh-Hyun Kwon

Turn ontomorrow/Every one's

invited

SamsungElectronics, Cell

Phones

Lee Byung-chull

Electronics

71Sahara India

PariwarSubrata RoySahara (MD)

Emotionallyyours.

Financialservices,

construction,mass media

Subrata RoySahara

Conglomerate

72Sansui

Electric

TakeshiNakamichi(President)

Born in JapanEntertainingThe World

Audio-Visualandcommunication

equipments,home

appliances,informationequipment

GrandeHoldings

Electronics


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Sr.No.Company

Name

CEO/

Chairperson

Most

Associated

Tagline

Prominent


73 Siemens Peter LscherGlobal

Network ofInnovation

Communicationsystems, power

generation

technology,industrial and

buildingsautomation,

lighting, homeappliances,

railway vehicles

Werner vonSiemens

Conglomerate

74 koda AutoH.C. Winfried

Vahland(Chairman)

Obsessed withQuality since

1897.Automobiles

Vclav Laurinand Vclav

KlementAutomotive

75 Sony Kazuo Hirai Make believe

Televisions,digital imaging,PCs and other

networkedproducts

MasaruIbuka,Akio

Morita

Electronics/conglomerate

76StandardChartered

Bank

Sir John Peace(Chairman),

Peter A. Sands(Group Chief

Executive)

Your RightPartner

Credit cards,Consumerbanking,

Corporatebanking,

Investmentbankingservices

NABanking,Financialservices

77Starbucks

CorporationHoward Schultz

It's bigger thancoffee

Coffee andHandcrafted

Beverages

Jerry Baldwin,GordonBowker,Zev Siegl

Food &Beverages

78The Coca-Cola

CompanyMuhtar Kent

Enjoy CocaCola

Coke,Diet Coke,Sprite,

Thums up

Asa GriggsCandler

Beverages

79

The NASDAQ

OMX Group,Inc.

Robert Greifeld

Stock market

for the digitalworld(Nasdaq)

Derivatives,equity trading

platforms,futures and

options markets

NA Financialservices

80The Walt

DisneyCompany

Robert A. IgerWhere dreams

come true.

Cable television,movies, theme

parks,

Walt and RoyDisney

Mass Media


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Sr.No.Company

Name

CEO/

Chairperson

Most

Associated

Tagline

Prominent


81Toyota MotorCorporation

Akio Toyoda Let's go places

Automobiles,commercial

vehicles,

engines,motorcycles

KiichiroToyoda

Automobile

82United

BreweriesGroup

Vijay Mallya(Chairman), A KRavi Nedungadi

(President &CFO)

Kingfisher -King of good

times

Brewery,alcoholicbeverage,aviation,

chemicals &fertilizers

ThomasLeishman

Conglomerate

83UTV SoftwareCommunicati

ons Ltd.

Ronnie

Screwvala (MD)

NA

Films,televisions,

games, websitesbroadcasting

Ronnie

Screwvala

Media

conglomerate

84Virgin Group

Ltd.David Baxby

(Co-CEO)We answer to

a higher calling

Beverages,airlines, trains,

video games

Sir RichardBranson

Conglomerate

85 VolkswagenMartin

WinterkornDas Auto cars

FerdinandPorsche

Automotive

86

Wipro

Limited(Western

IndiaProductsLimited)

Azim Premji

(Chairman), T KKurien (CEO, IT

Business &ExecutiveDirector)

ApplyingThought


outsourcingservices

MohamedHashamPremji

IT

87Walmart

Stores, IncMike 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 Name1 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 Limited13 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 Limited42 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 Party13 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 Name1 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 Dal5 Chhattisgarh Raman Singh Bharatiya Janata Party

6National Capital

Territory of DelhiSheila 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 AbdullahJammu & Kashmir National

Conference

12 Jharkhand President's Rule Indian National Congress13 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 JayalalithaaAll 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

3Agriculture, Food

ProcessingIndustries

Sharad Chandra Govindrao Pawar

4 Defence A.K. Antony

5 Home Affairs Sushil Kumar Shinde

6Health & Family

WelfareGhulam Nabi Azad

7New & Renewable

EnergyFarooq Abdullah

8 Civil Aviation Ajit Singh

9Labour &

EmploymentMallikarjun Kharge

10Commerce &

Industry, TextilesAnand Sharma

11 Shipping G.K. Vasan

12Chemicals &Fertilizers

M.K. Alagiri

13Heavy Industries &Public Enterprises

Praful Patel

14 Coal Shree Prakash Jaiswal

15Panchayati Raj,Tribal Affairs

V. Kishore Chandra Deo

16 Steel Beni Prasad Verma

17 Minority Affairs K. Rahman Khan

18 Mines Dinsha J. Patel

19Housing & Urban

Poverty AlleviationAjay Maken

20Human Resource

DevelopmentM.M. Pallam Raju

21 Law & Justice Ashwani Kumar

22 Water Resources Harish Rawat

23Petroleum &Natural Gas

M. Veerappa Moily

24Science &

Technology andEarth Sciences

S. Jaipal Reddy

25 Culture Chandresh Kumari Katoch


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26

UrbanDevelopment &Parliamentary

Affairs

Kamal Nath

27Overseas Indian

AffairsVayalar Ravi

28Communications &

InformationTechnology

Kapil Sibal

29Road Transport &

HighwaysC.P. Joshi

30Social 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


1Information &Broadcasting

Manish Tewari

2 Tourism K. Chiranjeevi

3 Power Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

4Micro, Small &

Medium

Enterprises

K.H. Muniyappa

5Drinking Water &

SanitationBharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki

6 Corporate Affairs Sachin Pilot

7Youth Affairs &

SportsJitendra Singh

8Women & Child

DevelopmentKrishna Tirath

9Consumer Affairs,

Food & PublicDistribution

Kurupassery V. Thomas

10Statistics &

ProgramImplementation

Srikant Kumar Jena

11Environment &

ForestsJayanthi Natarajan

12Development ofNorth Eastern

RegionPaban Singh Ghatowar


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MINISTERS OF STATE as on 14/03/2013


1Human Resource

DevelopmentShashi Tharoor

2Human Resource

DevelopmentJitin Prasada

3Labour &

EmploymentKodikunnil Suresh

4 Agriculture Tariq Anwar

5Agriculture, Food

ProcessingIndustries

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

10Health & Family

WelfareS. Gandhiselvan

11Road Transport &

HighwaysTushar Amar Singh Chaudhary

12Road Transport &

HighwaysSarvey Sathyanarayana

13 Minority Affairs Ninong Ering

14Urban

DevelopmentDeepa Dasmunsi

15

Social Justice &

Empowerment D. Napoleon

16Social Justice &Empowerment

Porika Balram Naik

17Communications &


Kruparani Killi

18Communications &


Milind Deora

19 Defence Lalchand Kataria

20 Defence Jitin Prasada21 External Affairs E. Ahamed

22 External Affairs Preneet Kaur

23Commerce &

IndustryD. Purandeswari

24 Home Affairs Mullapally Ramachandran

25 Civil Aviation K.C. Venugopal

26Parliamentary

Affairs, PlanningRajeev Shukla


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27Parliamentary

AffairsPaban Singh Ghatowar

28 Rural Development Pradeep Kumar Jain Aditya

29

Prime MinisterOffice, 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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Sr.No. Country Capital Currency PresidentPrime

MinisterParliament

41 Syria Damascus Syrian pound Bashar al-AssadWael Nader

al-HalqiPeople'sCouncil

42 Thailand Bangkok Baht -Yingluck

ShinawatraNational

Assembly

43 Turkey Ankara Turkish lira Abdullah GlRecep Tayyip

ErdoanGrand National

Assembly

44 Uganda Kampala Ugandan shilling Yoweri MuseveniAmamaMbabazi

Parliament

45 Ukraine Kiev Hryvnia/ Hryvna Viktor YanukovychMykolaAzarov

VerkhovnaRada

46United Arab

EmiratesAbu Dhabi

United ArabEmirates dirham

Khalifa bin Zayed AlNahyan

Mohammedbin Rashid Al

Maktoum

FederalNationalCouncil

47 UnitedKingdom

London Pound sterling - DavidCameron

Parliament

48 United States Washington DC US dollar Barack Obama - Congress

49 Venezuela Caracas BolvarActing PresidentNicols Maduro

-NationalCongress

50 Vietnam Hanoi Dong Truong Tan SangNguyn Tn

DngNational

Assembly

Other Countries


MinisterParliament

1 Albania Tirana Lek Bujar Nishani Sali BerishaKuvendi/People's

Assembly

2 Algeria Algiers Algerian Dinar Abdelaziz BouteflikaAbdelmalek

Sellal

NationalPeople's

Assembly

3 Andorra Andorra la Vella Andorran Diner - Antoni Mart General Council

4 Angola Luanda KwanzaJose Eduardo dos

Santos-

NationalPeople's

Assembly

5Antigua and

BarbudaSaint John's

East Caribbeandollar

-BaldwinSpencer

Senate

6 Argentina Buenos Aires Argentine pesoCristina Fernndez

de Kirchner-

NationalCongress


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MinisterParliament

7 Armenia Yerevan Armenian dram Serzh SarkisyanTigran

SargsyanNational

Assembly

8 Azerbaijan Baku Azerbaijani manat Ilham AliyevArtur

RasizadeMelli Majlis

9 The Bahamas Nassau Bahamian dollar - Perry ChristieGeneral

Assembly

10 Bahrain Manama Bahraini dinar -Khalifah ibnSulman AlKhalifah

ConsultativeCouncil

11 Bangladesh Dhaka TakaActing President

Abdul Hamid

PrimeMinister

Sheikh HasinaJatia Parliament

12 Barbados Bridgetown Barbados dollar -Freundel

StuartParliament of

Barbados

13 Belarus Minsk Belarusian ruble AlexanderLukashenko

MikhailMyasnikovich

National

Assembly of theRepublic of

Belarus

14 Belize Belmopan Belize dollar - Dean BarrowNational

Assembly

15 Benin Porto Novo CFA Franc Yayi BoniPascal

KoupakiNational

Assembly

16 Bhutan Thimphu Ngultrum -Lyonpo Jigme

ThinleyTasongadu

17 Bolivia La Paz(administrative)Sucre (judicial)

Bolivian boliviano Evo Morales - NationalCongress

18Bosnia and

HerzegovinaSarajevo

Bosnia andHerzegovina

convertible markBakir Izetbegovi

VjekoslavBevanda

Skupstina

19 Botswana Gaborone Botswana pula Ian Khama -National

Assembly

20 Brazil Brasilia Brazilian real Dilma Rousseff -National

Congress

21 BruneiBandar Seri

BegawanBrunei dollar

Sultan: HassanalBolkiah

-National

Assembly

22 Bulgaria Sofia Lev Rosen PlevnelievBoyko

BorisovNarodnoSubranie

23 Burkina Faso OuagadougouWest African CFA

francBlaise Compaor

Luc-AdolpheTiao

NationalAssembly


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MinisterParliament

24 Burundi Bujumbura Burundi franc Pierre Nkurunziza - Senate

25 Cambodia Phnom Penh Riel - Hun SenNational

Assembly

26 Cameroon Yaound CFA Franc Paul Biya PhilmonYunji Yang

NationalAssembly

27 Cape Verde PraiaCape Verde

escudoJorge Carlos

FonsecaJos Maria

NevesNational

Assembly

28CentralAfrican

RepublicBangui

Central AfricanCFA franc

Franois BozizFaustin-

ArchangeTouadra

NationalAssembly

29 Chad N'Djamena CFA franc Idriss DbyEmmanuelNadingar

NationalAssembly

30 Chile Santiago Chilean peso Sebastin Piera -Chamber of

Deputies andSenate

31 ColombiaSanta Fe de

BogotColombian Peso Juan Manuel Santos - Congress

32 Comoros Moroni Comorian franc Ikililou Dhoinine -LegislativeCouncil and

Senate

33 Congo Brazzaville Congolese franc Joseph Kabila -Rep. of National

LegislativeCouncil

34 Costa Rica San Jose Costa Rican coln Laura Chinchilla -LegislativeCouncil and

Senate

35 Croatia Zagreb Kuna Ivo JosipoviZoran

MilanoviSabor

36 Cuba Havana Cuban peso Ral Castro -National

Assembly ofPeople's Power

37 Cyprus Lefkosia(Nicosia) Cyprus pound Dimitris Christofias rsen Kk VouliAntiprosopon

38Czech

RepublicPrague Czech koruna Milo Zeman Petr Neas

Chamber ofDeputies and

Senate

39 Djibouti Djibouti Djibouti franc Ismail Omar GuellehDileita

MohamedDileita

NationalAssembly


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MinisterParliament

40 Dominica RoseauEastern

Caribbean dollarNicholas Liverpool

RooseveltSkerrit

House ofAssembly

41 DominicanRepublic Santo Domingo Dominican peso Danilo Medina - Congress of theRepublic

42 East Timor Dili US dollar Taur Matan Ruak -ConstituentAssembly

43 Ecuador Quito US dollar Rafael Correa -Natinal

Congress

44 El Salvador San SalvadorUS dollar;

Salvadorian colnMauricio Funes -

LegislativeAssembly

45 EquatorialGuinea Malabo CFA Franc Teodoro ObiangNguema Mbasogo -

Cmara de los

Representantesdel Pueblo

46 Eritrea Asmara Nakfa Isaias Afewerki -National

Assembly

47 Estonia Tallinn Estonian kroonToomas Hendrik

Ilves- Riigikogu

48 Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ethiopian birrGirma Wolde-

GiorgisHaile Mariam

Desalegne

Federal Counciland House of

Representative

49 Fiji Suva Fiji dollar Epeli Nailatikau

Acting PrimeMinister

FrankBainimarama

Senate & Houseof

Representative

50 Finland Helsinki Euro Sauli Niinist Jyrki KatainenEduskusta

(Parliament)

51 Gabon LibrevilleCentral African

CFA francAli-Ben Bongo

RaymondNdong Sima

Parlement

52 The Gambia Banjul Gambian dalasi Yahya Jammeh -National

Assembly

53 Georgia Tbilisi Lari Mikheil SaakashviliBoris

IvanishviliParliament

54 Ghana Accra CediJohn Dramani

Mahama- Parliament

55 Greenland Nuuk Danish kroneDependent on

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MinisterParliament

56 Grenada St George'sEastern

Caribbean dollar-

TillmanThomas

Parliament

57 Guatemala Guatemala CityGuatemalan

quetzal Otto Prez Molina -Congress of the

Republic

58 Guinea Conakry Guinean franc Alpha CondMohamed

Said FofanaNational

Assembly

59Guinea-Bissau

BissauWest African CFA

franc- -

People'sNational

Assembly

60 Guyana Georgetown Guyanese dollar Donald Ramotar Sam HindsNational

Assembly

61 Haiti Port-au-Prince Gourde Sweet Micky Garry Conille NationalAssembly

62 Honduras TegucigalpaHonduran

lempiraPorfirio Pepe Lobo -

NationalCongress

63 Hungary Budapest Forint Jnos der Viktor Orbn Orszggyls

64 Iceland Reykjavik Icelandic krnalafur Ragnar

GrmssonJhanna

SigurardttirAlthing

65 Indonesia JakartaIndonesian

rupiah

Susilo Bambang

Yudhoyono

-People's

Consultative

Assembly

66 Israel Jerusalem New shekel Shimon PeresBenjamin

NetanyahuThe Knesset

67 Jamaica Kingston Jamaica dollar -Portia

Simpson-Miller

Parliament

68 Jordan Amman Jordanian dinar -Fayez al-

TarawnehNational

Assembly

69 Kazakhstan AstanaKazakhstani

tengeNursultan

NazarbayevSerik

AkhmetovParliament

70 Kenya Nairobi Kenyan shilling Mwai Kibaki Raila OdingaNational

Assembly

71 Kiribati TarawaKiribati dollar/

Australian dollarAnote Tong -

House ofAssembly

72 Korea, North PyongyangNorth Korean

won- -

SupremePeople's

Assembly


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MinisterParliament

73 Korea, South SeoulSouth Korean

won- -

NationalAssembly

74 Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwaiti dinar -

Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-

Hamad Al-Sabah

Majlis-al-Umma

75 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Kyrgyzstani som -Zhantoro

SatybaldiyevKyrgyz

Republic

76 Laos Vientiane Lao kipChoummaly

SayasoneThongsing

Thammavong

People'sSupremeAssembly

77 Latvia Riga Lats Andris BrziValdis

DombrovskisSaeima

78 Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound Michel Sulaiman Najib MikatiNational

Assembly

79 Lesotho Maseru Loti - Tom ThabaneNational

Assembly andSenate

80 Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollarEllen Johnson

Sirleaf- Legislature

81 Libya Tripoli Libyan dinar -Mustafa A.G.Abushagur

GeneralPeople'sCongress

82 Liechtenstein Vaduz Swiss franc -Klaus

TschtscherDiet

83 Lithuania Vilnius Litas Dalia GrybauskaitAndriusKubilius

Seimas

84 Macau Macau Pataca - -LegislativeAssembly

85 Macedonia SkopjeMacedonian

denarGjorgje Ivanov

NikolaGruevski

Assembly

86 Madagascar Antananarivo Ariary

President of theHigh Authority ofTransition Andry

Rajoelina

Omer BerizikyNationalPeople's

Assembly

87 Malawi Lilongwe Malawian kwacha Joyce Banda -National

Assembly

88 Maldives Mal RufiyaaMohammed

Waheed Hassan- Majilis

89 Mali Bamako CFA Franc - -National

Assembly


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MinisterParliament

107 North Korea PyongyangNorth Korean

won- -

SupremePeople's

Assembly

108 Palau Koror US dollar Johnson Toribiong - NationalCongress

109 Panama Panama City Balboa Ricardo Martinelli -National

Assembly

110Papua New

GuineaPort Moresby

Papua NewGuinean kina

- Peter O'NeillNational

Parliament

111 Paraguay AsuncionParaguayan

guaranFederico Franco -

Senate &Chamber of

Deputies

112 Peru Lima Nuevo sol Ollanta Humala -Congress of the

Republic

113 Romania Bucharest Romanian leu Traian Bsescu Victor PontaGreat National

Assembly

114 Rwanda Kigali Rwandese franc Paul KagamePierre

HabumuremyiParliament

115Saint Kittsand Nevis

BasseterreEast Caribbean

dollar-

DenzilDouglas

NationalAssembly

116 Saint Lucia Castries East Caribbeandollar

- KennyAnthony

Houses ofParliament

117Saint Vincent

and theGrenadines

KingstownEast Caribbean

dollar-

RalphGonsalves

House ofAssembly

118 Samoa Apia Samoan tala -Tuilaepa

Aiono SaileleMalielegaoi

LegislativeAssembly

119 San Marino San Marino Euro - -Great and

General Council

120Sao Tome and

PrincipeSao Tome

So Tom andPrncipe dobra

Manuel Pinto daCosta

PatriceTrovoada

NationalAssembly

121 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Saudi riyalKing: Abdullah of

Saudi Arabia- Majlis Al Shura

122 Senegal DakarWest African CFA

francMacky Sall Abdoul Mbaye

NationalAssembly


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MinisterParliament

123 Serbia Belgrade Serbian dinar Tomislav Nikoli Ivica DaiFederal

Assembly

124 Seychelles Victoria Seychelles rupee James Michel -People's

Assembly

125 Sierra Leone FreetownSierra Leonean

leoneErnest Bai Koroma - Parliament

126 Slovakia Bratislava Slovak koruna Ivan GaparoviIveta

RadiovNationalCouncil

127 Slovenia Ljubljana Euro Danilo Trk Janez JanaNational

Assembley

128SolomonIslands

HoniaraSolomon Islands

dollar-

Gordon DarcyLillo

NationalParliament

129 Somalia Mogadishu Somali shillingHassan Sheikh

Mohamoud-

People'sAssembly

130 South Korea SeoulSouth Korean

wonLee Myung-bak

Kim Hwang-sik

NationalAssembly

131 South Sudan JubaSouth Sudanese

poundSalva Kiir Mayardit - Parliament

132 Suriname Paramaribo Suriname dollar Dsi Bouterse -National

Assembly

133 Swaziland Mbabana Swazi lilangeni -BarnabasSibusisoDlamini

Parliament

134 Taiwan TaipeiNew Taiwan

dollarMa Ying-jeou - Yuan

135 Tajikistan DushanbeTajikistani

somoniEmomali Rahmonov Okil Okilov

SupremeCouncil

136 Tanzania Dar es SalaamTanzanian

shillingJakaya Kikwete

MizengoPinda

NationalAssembly

137 Togo Lome CFA francs Faure GnassingbKwesi

Ahoomey-

Zunu

National

Assembly

138 Tonga Nuku'alofa Pa'anga -Siale'ataonga

Tu'ivakanoLegislativeAssembly

139Trinidad and

TobagoPort-of-Spain

Trinidad andTobago dollar

Anthony CarmonaKamla

Persad-Bissessar

Parliament

140 Tunisia Tunis Tunisian dinar Moncef Marzouki Ali LaarayedhNational

Assembly


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MinisterParliament

141 Turkmenistan AshgabatTurkmenistani

manatGurbanguly

Berdimuhammedow- Assembly

142 Turks andCaicos 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 KarimovShavkat

MirziyayevOliy Majlis

146 Vanuatu Port-Vila Vanuatu vatu Iolu Abil Sato Kilman Parliament

147Vatican City(Holy See)

Vatican City Euro - - Parliament

148 Yemen Sanaa Yemeni rialAbd al-Rab Mansur

al-HadiMohammedBasindawa

Parliament

149 Zambia Lusaka Zambian kwacha Michael Sata -National

Assembly

150 Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe dollar Robert MugabeMorgan

TsvangiraiParliament


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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 hockey14 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 1986Did 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 1962Did not

Participate- -

14 1958 2 1 0

15 1954 0 0 0

16 1950Did not

Participate- -

17 1938 0 0 0

18 1934 0 0 1

19 1930Did not

Participate- -

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IPL Franchise Owners & Winners

Sr.No.Team

nameCity

Owners

name/sCompany

Buying

Price

Home

Ground

1

Royal

ChallengersBangalore Bangalore Vijay Mallya UB Group

$111.6

million(Bid in 2008)

M.

ChinnaswamyStadium

2Kings XIPunjab

Mohali(Chandigarh)

Preity Zinta,Ness Wadia,

Karan Paul andMohit Burman

Bombay Dyeing,Apeejay

SurenderaGroup, Dabur

$76 million(Bid in 2008)

PCA Stadium,HPCA Stadium

3Chennai

Super KingsChennai N. Srinivasan India Cements


M. A.Chidambaram

Stadium

4Kolkata

Knight RidersKolkata

Shah RukhKhan, Juhi

Chawla and JayMehta

Red Chillies,

Mehta Group

$75.09million

(Bid in 2008) Eden Gardens

5MumbaiIndians

Mumbai Mukesh AmbaniReliance

IndustriesLimited

$111.9million

(Bid in 2008)

WankhedeStadium,DY

Patil Stadium

6Delhi

DaredevilsNew Delhi

GrandhiMallikarjuna

Rao

GMR Sports PvtLtd


Feroz ShahKotla

7Rajasthan

RoyalsJaipur

Manoj Badale,Lachlan

Murdoch, Raj

Kundra andShilpa Shetty

Emerging Media$67 million

(Bid in 2008)

SawaiMansingh

Stadium

8Sunrisers

HyderabadHyderabad

KalanidhiMaran

Sun TV Network$159

million

Rajiv GandhiInternational

Stadium

9Deccan

Chargers(Defunct)

Hyderabad

T VenkatramReddy & T

Vinayak RaviReddy

DeccanChronicle

Holdings Ltd.

$107million

(Bid 2012)

Rajiv GandhiInternational

Stadium, ACA-VDCA Stadium,

BarabatiStadium

10

KochiTuskersKerala

(Defunct)

Kochi

Anand Shyam,Vivek

Venugopal andSunandaPushkar

Kochi CricketPrivate Limited,

RendezvousSports

World,ParineeDevelopers,

AnchorEarth,Film

Waves

$ 333.33million

(Bid in 2010)

JawaharlalNehru Stadium

11Pune

WarriorsPune Subrata Roy Sahara Group

$ 370million

(Bid 2010)

Subrata RoySahara Stadium


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IPL Winners 2008 -2012

YearWinning

TeamRunner-Up Purple Cap Holder Orange Cap Holder

2008Rajasthan

RoyalsChennai Super

KingsSohail Tanvir

(