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Categories Topics Page No

Awards Indian Awards 1

International Awards 9

Corporate & Business Acquisitions 13

Information on Media Companies 16

Prominent Companies 21

PSU - Maharatna, Navratna, Miniratna Companies 32

Politics and Govt Heads of Constitutional Bodies 35

Information on Countries 41

Sports Indian Olympic Winners and Commonwealth Medals Tally 53

IPL Franchise - Owners and Winners 55

Major Sporting Records 57

Tennis Grand Slams 60

World Cups and Winners 64

Miscellaneous Important Global Economic, Peace and Environmental Organizations

66

People and Sobriquets 70

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Indian Awards

Dadasaheb Phalke Awards

Sr.No. Year Winner Role of Winner 1 2011 Soumitra Chatterjee Actor

2 2010 K. Balachander Director

3 2009 D. Ramanaidu Producer, Director

4 2008 V. K. Murthy Cinematographer

5 2007 Manna Dey Playback singer

6 2006 Tapan Sinha Director

7 2005 Shyam Benegal Director

8 2004 Adoor Gopalakrishnan Director

9 2003 Mrinal Sen Director

10 2002 Dev Anand Actor, Director, Producer

11 2001 Yash Chopra Director, Producer

12 2000 Asha Bhosle Playback singer

13 1999 Hrishikesh Mukherjee Director

14 1998 B. R. Chopra Director, Producer

15 1997 Pradeep Lyricist

16 1996 Sivaji Ganesan Actor

17 1995 Rajkumar Actor, Singer

18 1994 Dilip Kumar Actor

19 1993 Majrooh Sultanpuri Lyricist

20 1992 Bhupen Hazarika Musician, singer, poet, filmmaker, lyricist

21 1991 Bhalji Pendharkar Director, Producer, Screenwriter

22 1990 Akkineni Nageswara Rao Actor

23 1989 Lata Mangeshkar Playback singer

24 1988 Ashok Kumar Actor

25 1987 Raj Kapoor Actor, Director, Producer

26 1986 Bommireddy Nagi Reddy Producer

27 1985 V. Shantaram Actor, Director, Producer

28 1984 Satyajit Ray Director

29 1983 Durga Khote Actress

30 1982 L. V. Prasad Actor, Director, Producer

31 1981 Naushad Music Director

32 1980 Paidi Jairaj Actor, Director

33 1979 Sohrab Modi Actor, Director, Producer

34 1978 Raichand Boral Music Director, Director

35 1977 Nitin Bose Cinematographer, Director,Screenwriter

36 1976 Kanan Devi Actress

37 1975 Dhirendranath Ganguly Actor, Director

38 1974 Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy Director

39 1973 Ruby Myers(Sulochana) Actress

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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 Cricket

61 2009 Surinder Kaur Hockey

62 2009 Ignace Tirkey Hockey

63 2009 Satish Joshi Rowing

64 2009 Ronjan Sodhi Shooting

65 2009 Poulomi Ghatak Table Tennis

66 2009 Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling

67 2009 Girdhari Lal Yadav Yachting

Bharat Ratna Awards

Sr.No. Year Winner Profession 1 2008 Bhimsen Joshi Hindustani classical singer

2 2001 Bismillah Khan Hindustani classical shehnai player

3 2001 Lata Mangeshkar Playback singer

4 1999 Gopinath Bordoloi Posthumous, independence activist, Chief

Minister of Assam

5 1999 Amartya Sen Economist

6 1999 Ravi Shankar Sitar player

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Sr.No. Year Winner Profession

7 1999 Jayaprakash Narayan Posthumous, independence activist and

politician

8 1998 Chidambaram Subramaniam Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture

9 1998 M. S. Subbulakshmi Carnatic classical singer

10 1997 Aruna Asaf Ali Posthumous, independence activist

11 1997 Gulzarilal Nanda Independence activist, interim Prime Minister

12 1997 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India

13 1992 Satyajit Ray Bengali filmmaker

14 1992 J. R. D. Tata Industrialist and philanthropist

15 1992 Abul Kalam Azad Posthumous, independence activist, first

Minister of Education

16 1991 Morarji Desai Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister

17 1991 Vallabhbhai Patel Posthumous, independence activist, first Home

Minister

18 1991 Rajiv Gandhi Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister

19 1990 Nelson Mandela Second non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid

movement

20 1990 B. R. Ambedkar Posthumous, chief architect of the Indian

Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar

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

Nadu

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

23 1983 Vinoba Bhave Posthumous, social reformer, independence

activist

24 1980 Mother Teresa Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of

Charity

25 1976 K. Kamaraj Posthumous, independence activist, Chief

Minister of Tamil Nadu State

26 1975 V. V. Giri Trade unionist and fourth President

27 1971 Indira Gandhi Third Prime Minister

28 1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri Posthumous, independence activist, second

Prime Minister

29 1963 Pandurang Vaman Kane Indologist and Sanskrit scholar

30 1963 Zakir Hussain Scholar, third President

31 1962 Rajendra Prasad Independence activist, jurist, first President

32 1961 Purushottam Das Tandon Independence activist, educator

33 1961 Bidhan Chandra Roy Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal

34 1958 Dhondo Keshav Karve Educator, social reformer

35 1957 Govind Ballabh Pant Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar

Pradesh, Home Minister

36 1955 Jawaharlal Nehru Independence activist, author, first Prime

Minister

37 1955 Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore

38 1955 Bhagwan Das Independence activist, author

39 1954 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Philosopher, second President

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Sr.No. Year Winner Profession 40 1954 C. V. Raman Physicist

41 1954 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Independence activist, last Governor-General

Dronacharya Awards

Sr.No. Year Person Sport 1 2012 B.I. Fernadez Boxing

2 2012 Bhavani Mukharjee Table Tennis

3 2012 J.S. Bhatia Athletics

4 2012 Satyapal Singh Para Sports(Athletics)

5 2012 Harendra Singh Hockey

6 2012 Yashvir Singh Wrestling

7 2012 Sunil Dabas Kabaddi

8 2012 Virendra Poonia Athletics

9 2011 Rajinder Singh Hockey

10 2011 Kuntal Roy Athletics

11 2011 Ramphal Athletics

12 2011 Devender Kumar Rathore Gymnastics

13 2011 Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao Boxing

14 2010 L Ibomcha Singh Boxing

15 2010 Subhash B Aggarwal Billiards & Snooker

16 2010 Ajay Kumar Bansal Hockey

17 2010 Captain Chandrup Wrestling

18 2010 AK Kutty Athletics

19 2009 Jaidev Bisht Boxing

20 2009 Baldev Singh Hockey

21 2009 J. Uday Kumar Kabaddi

22 2009 Satpal Wrestling

23 2009 Pullela Gopichand Badminton

24 2007 Jagminder Singh Wrestling

25 2007 G.E. Sridharan Volley Ball

26 2007 Jagdish Singh Boxing

27 2007 Sanjeev Kumar Singh Archery

28 2006 Koneru Ashok Chess

29 2006 Damodaran Chandralal Boxing

30 2006 R.D. Singh Athletics

31 2005 Ismail Baig Rowing

32 2005 Maha Singh Rao Wrestling

33 2005 Balwan Singh Kabaddi

34 2005 Hony. Captain M Venu Boxing

35 2004 Gurcharan Singh Boxing

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Sr.No. Year Person Sport 36 2004 Cyrus Poncha Squash

37 2004 Sunita Sharma Cricket

38 2004 Arvind Savur Billiards & Snooker

39 2003 Sukhchain Singh Cheema Wrestling

40 2003 Rajinder Singh Hockey

41 2003 Anup Kumar Boxing

42 2003 Robert Bobby George Athletics

43 2002 Cdr. H.D. Motivala Yachting

44 2002 E. Prasad Rao Kabaddi

45 2002 M.K. Kaushik Hockey

46 2002 Jaswant Singh Athletics

47 2002 Renu Kohli Athletics

48 2001 Michael Joseph Ferreira Billiards & Snooker

49 2001 Prof. Sunny Thomas Shooting

50 2000 Hansa Sharma Weightlifting

51 2000 Bhupender Dhawan Powerlifting

52 2000 Phadke Gopal Pushottam Kho-Kho

53 2000 Gudial Singh Bhangu Hockey

54 2000 S.M. Arif Badminton

55 1999 Ajay Kumar Sirohi Weightlifting

56 1999 Capt. Hawa Singh Boxing

57 1999 Kenneth Owen Bosen Athletics

58 1998 G.S.Sandhu Boxing

59 1998 Hargobind Singh Sandhu Athletics

60 1998 Bahadur Singh Athletics

61 1997 Joginder Singh Saini Athletics

62 1996 Pal Singh Sandhu Weightlifting

63 1996 Wilson Jones Billiards & Snooker

64 1995 M. Shyam Sunder Rao Volleyball

65 1995 Karan Singh Athletics

66 1994 Ilyas Babar Athletics

67 1990 A. Ramana Rao Volleyball

68 1990 Syed Naeemuddin Football

69 1990 Ramakant Achrekar Cricket

70 1987 Guru Hanuman Wrestling

71 1987 Gurcharan Singh Cricket

72 1986 Desh Prem Azad Cricket

73 1986 Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle Chess

74 1985 Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat Wrestling

75 1985 Om Prakash Bhardwaj Boxing

76 1985 O.M. Nambiar Athletics

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Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award

Sr.No. Year Winner Role of Winner

1 2012 D. R. Mehta Work through Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang

Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur

2 2011 SPIC MACAY Promotes Indian classical music and culture

among the youth

3 2010 Wahiduddin Khan Islamic Scholar, Peace Activist

4 2009 Gautam Bhai Social Activist

5 2008 N Radhakrishnan Social Activist

6 2007 Hem Dutta Social Activist

7 2006 Nirmala Deshpande Social Activist

8 2004 Swami Agnivesh Social Activist

9 2003 S. N. Subba Rao Peace Activist

10 2000 Kapila Vatsyayan Scholar

11 1998 Sunil Dutt Peace Activist, Politician

12 1996 Lata Mangeshkar Singer

Jnanpith Awards

Sr.No. Year Name Work 1 2011 Pratibha Ray For her contributions to Oria literature

2 2010 Chandrashekhara Kambara For his contributions to Kannada literature

3 2009 Sri Lal Sukla For his contribution to Indian literature and

culture

4 2009 Amar Kant For his contributions to Hindi literature

5 2008 Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' For his contributions to Urdu poetry

6 2007 Dr. O. N. V. Kurup For his contributions to Malayalam literature

7 2006 Satya Vrat Shastri For his contributions to Sanskrit language

8 2006 Ravindra Kelekar For his contributions to Konkani literature

9 2005 Kunwar Narayan For his contributions to Hindi literature

10 2004 Rehman Rahi Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren

Manz

11 2003 Vinda Karandikar For his contributions to Marathi literature

12 2002 D. Jayakanthan For his contributions to Tamil literature

13 2001 Rajendra Shah For his contributions to Gujarati literature

14 2000 Indira Goswami For his contributions to Assamese literature

15 1999 Gurdial Singh For his contributions to Punjabi literature

16 1999 Nirmal Verma For his contributions to Hindi literature

17 1998 Girish Karnad For his contributions to Kannada literature and for contributions to Kannada theatre (Yayati)

18 1997 Ali Sardar Jafri For his contributions to Urdu literature

19 1996 Mahasweta Devi Hajar Churashir Maa

20 1995 Dr. M. T. Vasudevan Nair For his contributions to Malayalam literature

21 1994 U. R. Ananthamurthy For his contributions to Kannada literature

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Sr.No. Year Name Work

22 1993 Sitakant Mahapatra For outstanding contribution to the enrichment

of Indian literature, 1973–92

23 1992 Naresh Mehta For his contributions to Hindi literature

24 1991 Subhas Mukhopadhyay Padatik (The Foot Soldier)

25 1990 V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna

Gokak) Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi

26 1989 Qurratulain Hyder Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar

27 1988 Dr. C. Narayana Reddy Vishwambhara

28 1987 Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar

(Kusumagraj) For his contributions to Marathi literature

29 1986 Sachidananda Routray For his contributions to Oriya literature

30 1985 Pannalal Patel Maanavi Ni Bhavaai

31 1984 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Kayar{Coir}

32 1983 Masti Venkatesha Iyengar Chikkaveera Rajendra(Life and struggle of

Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra)

33 1982 Mahadevi Varma Yama

34 1981 Amrita Pritam Kagaj te Canvas

35 1980 S. K. Pottekkatt Oru Desathinte Katha(Story of a land)

36 1979 Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Mrityunjay(Immortal)

37 1978 Sachchidananda Vatsyayan Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar(How many times in

how many boats?)

38 1977 K. Shivaram Karanth Mookajjiya Kanasugalu(Mookajjis dreams)

39 1976 Ashapurna Devi Pratham Pratisruti

40 1975 P. V. Akilan Chitttrappavai

41 1974 Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Yayati

42 1973 Gopinath Mohanty Matimatal

43 1973 Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre Nakutanti (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings)

44 1972 Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Urvashi

45 1971 Bishnu Dey Smriti Satta Bhavishyat

46 1970 Viswanatha Satyanarayana Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful

tree:Ramayana)

47 1969 Firaq Gorakhpuri Gul-e-Naghma

48 1968 Sumitranandan Pant Chidambara

49 1967 Umashankar Joshi Nishitha

50 1967 Kuppali Venkatappagowda

Puttappa(Kuvempu) Sri Ramayana Darshanam

51 1966 Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Ganadevta

52 1965 G. Sankara Kurup Odakkuzhal (Flute)

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International Awards

Man Booker Prize

Sr.No. Year Name of the Book Author Author's Country

of Origin

1 2012 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel United Kingdom

2 2011 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes United Kingdom

3 2010 The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson United Kingdom

4 2009 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel United Kingdom

5 2008 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga India

6 2007 The Gathering Anne Enright Ireland

7 2006 The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai India

8 2005 The Sea John Banville Ireland

9 2004 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst United Kingdom

10 2003 Vernon God Little DBC Pierre Australia

11 2002 Life of Pi Yann Martel Canada

12 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey Australia

13 2000 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Canada

14 1999 Disgrace J. M. Coetzee South Africa

15 1998 Amsterdam Ian McEwan United Kingdom

16 1997 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy India

17 1996 Last Orders Graham Swift United Kingdom

18 1995 The Ghost Road Pat Barker United Kingdom

19 1994 How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman United Kingdom

20 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle Ireland

21 1992 Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth United Kingdom

22 1992 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje Sri Lanka

23 1991 The Famished Road Ben Okri Nigeria

24 1990 Possession A. S. Byatt United Kingdom

25 1989 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Japan

26 1988 Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey Australia

Pulitzer Awards

Sr.No. Year Name of the Book Author

1 2011 A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan

2 2010 Tinkers Paul Harding

3 2009 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout

4 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz

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 Lahiri

13 1999 The Hours Michael Cunningham

14 1998 American Pastoral Philip Roth

15 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American

Dreamer Steven Millhauser

16 1996 Independence Day Richard Ford

17 1995 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields

18 1994 The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx

19 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler

20 1992 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley

21 1991 Rabbit at Rest John Updike

22 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos

23 1989 Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler

24 1988 Beloved Toni Morrison

25 1987 A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor

Nobel Prize

Sr.No. Year Category Nobel Laureates

1 2012 Physics Serge Haroche, David J. Wineland

2 2012 Chemistry Robert J. Lefkowitz, Brian K. Kobilka

3 2012 Physiology or medicine Sir John B. Gurdon, Shinya Yamanaka

4 2012 Literature Mo Yan

5 2012 Peace European Union (EU)

6 2012 Economic sciences Alvin E. Roth, Lloyd S. Shapley

7 2011 Physics Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G.

Riess

8 2011 Chemistry Dan Shechtman

9 2011 Physiology or medicine Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, Ralph

M. Steinman

10 2011 Literature Tomas Tranströmer

11 2011 Peace Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee,

Tawakkol Karman

12 2011 Economic sciences Thomas J. Sargent, Christopher A. Sims

13 2010 Physics Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov

14 2010 Chemistry Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira

Suzuki

15 2010 Physiology or medicine Robert G. Edwards

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16 2010 Literature Mario Vargas Llosa

17 2010 Peace Liu Xiaobo

18 2010 Economic sciences Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen,

Christopher A. Pissarides

19 2009 Physics Charles Kuen Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George

E. Smith

20 2009 Chemistry Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A.

Steitz, Ada E. Yonath

21 2009 Physiology or medicine Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider,

Jack W. Szostak

22 2009 Literature Herta Müller

23 2009 Peace Barack H. Obama

24 2009 Economic sciences Elinor Ostrom, Oliver E. Williamson

25 2008 Physics Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi,

Toshihide Maskawa

26 2008 Chemistry Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y.

Tsien

27 2008 Physiology or medicine Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-

Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier

28 2008 Literature Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

29 2008 Peace Martti Ahtisaari

30 2008 Economic sciences Paul Krugman

Complete List of Indian Nobel Laureates


1 2009 Chemistry Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

2 2007 Peace Rajendra Kumar Pachauri

3 1998 Economic sciences Amartya Sen

4 1983 Physics Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

5 1979 Peace Mother Teresa

6 1968 Medicine Har Gobind Khorana

7 1930 Physics C.V. Raman

8 1913 Literature Rabindranath Tagore

9 1907 Literature Rudyard Kipling

10 1902 Medicine Ronald Ross

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Ramon Magsaysay Award

Sr.No. Year Awardee Category

1 2012 Syeda Rizwana Hasan Government Service

2 2012 Yang Siang Koma Public Service

3 2012 Kulendei Francis Community Leadership

4 2012 Romulo Davide Journalism, Literature, and the Creative

Communication Arts

5 2012 Chen Shu-chu Peace and International Understanding

6 2012 Ruwindrijarto Emergent Leadership

7 2011 Tri Mumpuni Public Service

8 2011 Husanain Juaini Public Service

9 2011 Koul Panha Peace and International Understanding &

Emergent Leadership

10 2011 Harish Hande Emergent Leadership

11 2011 Nileema Mishra Emergent Leadership

12 2010 Fu Qiping Government Service

13 2010 Pan Yue Government Service

14 2010 Christopher Bernido Public Service

15 2010 Ma. Victoria Carpio-Bernido Public Service

16 2010 A.H.M. Noman Khan Community Leadership

17 2010 Huo Daishan Journalism, Literature, and the Creative

Communication Arts

18 2010 Tadatoshi Akiba Peace and International Understanding

19 2009 Krisana Kraisintu Public Service

20 2009 Deep Joshi Community Leadership

21 2009 Ma Jun Journalism, 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 Leadership

29 2008 Akio Ishii Journalism, Literature, and the Creative

Communication Arts

30 2008 Ahmad Syafi'i Maarif Peace and International Understanding

31 2008 Ananda Galappatti Emergent Leadership

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Acquisitions

Sr.No. Acquiring Company

Acquired Company

HQ of Acquiring Company

HQ of Acquired Company

1 Acacia Research ADAPTIX U.S. U.S.

2 Adani Enterprises Abbot Point Coal India Australia

3 Aditya Birla Group Columbian Chemicals India U.S.

4 Aegis Group Roundarch U.K. U.S.

5 Amazon Kiva Systems U.S. U.S.

6 Amazon LOVEFiLM U.S. U.K.

7 AMD SeaMicro U.S. U.S.

8 Amgen KAI Pharmaceuticals U.S. U.S.

9 Apple AuthenTec U.S. U.S.

10 AT&T NextWave Wireless U.S. U.S.

11 Autodesk Socialcam U.S. U.S.

12 Bazaarvoice PowerReviews U.S. U.S.

13 Bird Construction

Inc. Nason Contracting

Group Ltd. Canada Canada

14 Braintree Venmo U.K. U.S.

15 Brightcove Zencoder U.S. U.S.

16 Broadcom BroadLight U.S. Israel

17 Carlyle Group Getty Images U.S. U.S.

18 Celgene Avila Therapeutics U.S. U.S.

19 Cinven Mercury Pharma

Group U.K. U.K.

20 Cisco Lightwire U.S. U.S.

21 Cisco Cloupia U.S. U.S.

22 CryoLife Hemosphere U.S. U.S.

23 Dell Quest Software U.S. U.S.

24 Deluxe Corp OrangeSoda U.S. U.S.

25 DG Peer39 U.S. U.S. and Israel

26 Discovery

Communications Revision3 U.S. U.S.

27 Envestnet Tamarac U.S. U.S.

28 Facebook Instagram U.S. U.S.

29 Facebook Face.com U.S. Israel

30 FICO (Fair Isaac

Corporation) Adeptra U.S. U.S.

31 Fortis Healthcare

(India) Ltd

Fortis Healthcare International

Pte Ltd India Singapore

32 Generac Holdings

Inc. Ottomotores

Businesses U.S. U.K.

33 Google Motorola Mobility U.S U.S.

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34 Google Wildfire U.S. U.S.

35 Google Meebo U.S. U.S.

36 GREE Funzio Japan U.S.

37 Green Dot

Corporation Loopt U.S. U.S.

38 GVK Power Hancock Coal India Australia

39 Haemonetics Pall U.S. U.S.

40 Hanergy Holding

Group MiaSole China U.S.

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

42 Honeywell

International Inc. (HON)

Intermec Inc. U.S. U.S.

43 IAC About.com U.S. U.S.

44 IBM Kenexa U.S. U.S.

45 IBM Worklight U.S. Israel

46 iGate Patni U.S. India

47 Infospace TaxACT U.S. U.S.

48 Intel Olaworks U.S. South Korea

49 Intel Olaworks U.S. Korea

50 iRobot Evolution Robotics U.S. U.S.

51 Itron SmartSynch U.S. U.S.

52 ITV So Television U.K. U.K.

53 IXIA BreakingPoint

Systems U.S. U.S.

54 John Wiley & Sons Deltak.edu U.S. U.S.

55 Juniper Networks Mykonos Software U.S. U.S.

56 LinkedIn SlideShare U.S. U.S.

57 LinkedIn Rapportive U.S. U.S.

58 LogMeIn Bold Software U.S. U.S.

59 Mahindra &

Mahindra SsangYong India South Korea

60 Masimo Spire Corporation U.S. U.S.

61 Meredith AllRecipes U.S. U.S.

62 Microsoft Yammer U.S. U.S.

63 Mindspeed

Technologies PicoChip U.S. U.K.

64 Monitise ClairMail U.K. U.S.

65 Nexon Gloops South Korea Japan

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66 Nuance

Communications Transcend Services U.S. U.S.

67 Opera Mobile Theory U.S. U.S.

68 Oracle Taleo U.S. U.S.

69 Oracle Corporation Vitrue U.S. U.S.

70 Pearson Certiport U.K. U.S.

71 Pearson GlobalEnglish U.K. U.S.

72 Penguin Group Author Solutions U.S. U.S.

73 Perficient Northridge U.S. U.S.

74 Playphone Social Hour U.S. U.S.

75 Salesforce GoInstant U.S. Canada

76 SAP AG Ariba Germany U.S.

77 SAP AG SuccessFactors Germany U.S.

78 ShoreTel M5 Networks U.S. U.S.

79 Silicon Laboratories Ember U.S. U.S.

80 SingTel Amobee Singapore U.S.

81 SingTel Pixable Singapore U.S.

82 Symantec LiveOffice U.S. U.S.

83 Syngenta Pasteuria Bioscience Switzerland U.S.

84 Teleflex Semprus BioSciences U.S. U.S.

85 Telephone and Data

Systems Vital Support Systems U.S. U.S.

86 Thermo Fisher

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

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

88 TiVo TRA U.S. U.S.

89 Tornier OrthoHelix Surgical

Designs Holland U.S.

90 Towers Watson Extend Health U.S. U.S.

91 Vedanta Cairn India India India

92 Verizon Hughes Telematics U.S. U.S.

93 VMWare Nicira Networks U.S. U.S.

94 Vocus iContact U.S. U.S.

95 Vodafone Cable & Wireless

Worldwide (C&WW)

U.K. U.K.

96 Wanxiang A123 Systems China U.S.

97 Wipro Technologies Promax Application

Group India Australia

98 Yelp Qype U.S. Germany

99 Zillow RentJuice U.S. U.S.

100 Zynga OMGPOP U.S. U.S.

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Information on Media Companies

Sr.No. Parent

Company TV Media

Companies Print Media Companies

Internet Media Miscellaneous

1

Zee Entertainment

Enterprises Limited (ZEEL)

9X, Zee TV, Zee Cinema, Zing, TEN

Action+, TEN Cricket, TEN

Sports, TEN Golf, TEN HD,

Zee Premiere, Zee Action, Zee Classic, Zee Smile, Zee Jagran, Zee Trendz,

Zee Cafe, Zee Studio, Zee Telugu, Zee Bangla,

Zee Bangla Cinema, Zee Kannada, Zee Marathi,

Zee Marathi Cinema,

Zee Punjabi, Zee Tamil,

ETC Channel, ETC Punjabi,

Zee Khana Khazana,

Zee Q, Zee Salaam

Daily News and

Analysis(DNA)

DNA E-Paper, Playwin

Zee Motion Pictures, Indian Cricket League,

Fun Cinemas

2 ABP Group

(Ananda Bazar Patrika)

ABP News, ABP Ananda, ABP

Majha, Sananda TV

Anandabazar Patrika, Ebela, The Telegraph, Anandamela, Unish-Kuri,

Businessworld, Fortune India, Ananda Lok,

Desh, Sananda

Indiainfocom.com, Anandabazar.in,

Anandautsav.com, Tilottama.in,

Thetelegraphstore.com, Mjoy.in.

Ananda Publishers,

Penguin India, Ananda

Purashkar, Radio Ananda

3 HT Media NA

Hindustan Times, HT

Next, HT Café, Mint

Newspaper, Hindusthan

Shine.com, DesiMartini.com, HTCampus.com

Fever 104 FM

4 Independent News Service

India TV NA NA NA

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Sr.No. Parent

Company TV Media



5 Indian Express

Limited NA

The Indian Express, The

Sunday Express, The

Financial Express, Loksatta,

Lokprabha, Jansatta, Screen

Express Online, IndianExpress.com,

FinancialExpress.com, ScreenIndia.com,

Loksatta.com, Lokprabha.com,

ExpressCricket.in, KashmirLive.com

Cinema Express Awards

6

IndusInd Media &

Communications Ltd.(IMCL)

InCablenet, In Digital, In2cable, InPhone, Shop 24

seven, Planet-e-Shop

NA Shop 24 seven online NA

7 Jagran

Prakashan Ltd NA

Dainik Jagran, i-next, City

Plus, Mid-day, Mid-day Gujrati,

Inquilab, Nai Dunia, Sakhi,

Punjabi Jagran

jplcorp.in, jagran.com, mid-day.com

Jagran Engage, Jagran Solutions, J9,Pehel, Jagran

Research, Jagran Foundation

8 Living Media (India Today

Group)

TV Today Network , Aaj Tak News, Headlines Today, Dilli Aaj

tak, Tez

India Today, Business

Today, India Today Travel Plus, Money

Today, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health,

Women's Health, Auto

Bild, Reader's Digest,

Harper's Bazaar,

Prevention, Good

Housekeeping, Gadgets and

Gizmos, Design Today, Golf

Digest, Music Today, Bag it

Today, Harvard Business Review

BagItToday.com - Online Shopping

Website

Oye 104.8 FM, Thomson Press

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Sr.No. Parent

Company TV Media



9 Network 18

CNN-IBN, IBN-7, CNBC Awaaz,

CNBC-TV18, IBN-Lokmat, MTV

India, Nick India, VH1 India, Colors, History TV18, ETV Network, Nick Jr.,

Nick Teen, Comedy Central,

Forbes India, E18, Sport18

In.com, Moneycontrol.com,

Firstpost.com, Bookmyshow.com,

Cricketnext.com, Homeshop18.com,

ibnlive.com,

Webchutney

10 New Delhi Television

Limited (NDTV)

NDTV 24x7, NDTV India, NDTV

Profit, NDTV Good Times, NDTV

Hindi, ATN NDTV 24x7, NDTV Worldwide

NA ndtv.com NGEN, NDTV Worldwide

11 Prasar Bharati Doordarshan, DD

India, DD Regional chanels

NA DD Direct+ All India Radio

12 Raj Network

Raj TV, Vissa, Raj Parivar,Raj Musix (Tamil), Raj Musix Telugu, Raj Musix

Kannada, Raj Musix Malayalam,

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

Pariwar, Raj Asia

NA NA NA

13

Sahara One Media &

Entertainment Ltd

Sahara One, Filmy, Firangi, Sahara

Samay

Rashtriya Sahara,

Roznama Rashtriya

Sahara

NA Sahara One

Motion pictures

14

Sony Entertainment

Television (India)

Sony Mix, Sony SIX, SET Max, SET

PIX, Sony Entertainment

Television., AXN, SAB TV

NA Sony Liv NA

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Sr.No. Parent

Company TV Media



15 STAR India

STAR Plus, STAR Gold, STAR Jalsha,

STAR Pravah, STAR World, STAR

Movies, STAR Utsav, Channel[V],

Life OK, Asianet, Asianet Plus,

Asianet Sitara, Asianet News,

Asianet Movies, STAR Vijay, Movies

OK, Asianet Suvarna, Suvarna

News, STAR Sports, STAR Cricket,

ESPN, ESPNews Asia

NA Star Player

Star Screen Awards,Big Star Entertainment Awards, Star

Parivaar Awards

16 Sun TV Network

Sun TV, Sun Music, Sun News, Sun Life, Adithya

TV, Chutti TV, Sun Action, Gemini TV,

Gemini Music, Gemini News, Gemini Life,

Gemini Comedy, Kushi TV, Gemini Action, Udaya TV,

Udaya Music, Udaya News,

Udaya Comedy, Chintu TV,

Suriyan TV, Surya, Kiran, Chirithira, Kochu TV, Surya

Action, K TV, Gemini Movies, Udaya Movies

Dinakaran, Tamil Murasu, Malai Murasu,

Kungumam, Kumguma Chimizh,

Kungumam Thozhi,

Aanmigam, Mutharam, Vannathirai

Suntv.in

Sun Kudumbam Awards,Suryan

FM 93.5, Red FM 93.5

17 The Hindu

Group NA

The Hindu, The Hindu

Business Line, Sportstar, Frontline,

Praxis, Indian Cricket, Survey

of Indian industry, Survey of

Indian agriculture,

Survey of the Environment

The Hindu E-paper NA

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Sr.No. Parent

Company TV Media



18 The Outlook

Group NA

Outlook, Outlook Money, Outlook

Traveller, Outlook Saptahik

Outlookindia.com, outlooktraveller. com,

outlookmoney. com

Outloook Traveller getaway

series, The layman's guide to

insurance, the layman's guide to

mutual funds

19 The Times

Group

Times Now, ET Now, Zoom, Movies Now

The Times of India, The Economic

Times, Maharashtra

Times, Navbharat

Times, Mumbai

Mirror, ET Wealth,

Filmfare, Femina, Top

Gear Magazine India, Femina

Hindi

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

Indiatimes

Radio Mirchi, Absolute Radio,

360 Degrees, Mirchi Movies

Limited, Filmfare Awards, Femina

Miss India Beauty Pagent

20 UTV Software

Communications

Bindass (formerly UTV Bindass),

UTV Stars, UTV Action (formerly Bindass Movies), UTV Movies, UTV

World Movies,Bloomberg

UTV (formerly UTVi)

NA NA

UTV Motion Pictures, UTV

Toons, Ignition Entertainment

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Prominent Companies

Sr.No. Company

Name CEO/

Chairperson

Most Associated

Tagline

Prominent Products

Founders Industry

1 ABN AMRO

Group Gerrit Zalm

Making More Possible

Asset management, commercial

banking, investment

banking

Rob Hazelhoff,

Roelof Nelissen

Financial services

2 Accenture Pierre Nanterme High

Performance. Delivered

IT, business consulting and

outsourcing services

Founded in 1989 as the

business and technology consulting

division of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen

IT

3 Adobe Shantanu Narayen

Simplicity at work. Better

by adobe.

Acrobat, Flash, Photoshop

Charles Geschke, John

Warnock Software

4 Allianz Michael

Diekmann The Power on

your side

Insurance, banking, asset management

Carl von Thieme &

Wilhelm von Finck

Financial Services

5 Amazon.com,

Inc. Jeff Bezos

Earth's Biggest BookStore

Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com

Jeff Bezos Online Retailing

6 American

International Group, Inc.

Bob Benmosche We know

Money

Insurance annuities,

mutual funds

Cornelius Vander Starr

Insurance, Financial services

7 Amul R.S. Sodhi (Managing Director)

The taste of India

Dairy products Founded in

1946 Dairy

8 Apple Inc Tim Cook Think

Different. Mac PC, iPad, iPhone, iPod

Steve Jobs,Steve Wozniak,

Ronald Wayne

Software

9 Arcelor(Arcel

or Mittal) Lakshmi Mittal

Steel solutions for a better

world Steel

Formed due to a merger these three companies -

Arbed, Aceralia, Usinor

Steel

10 AT&T Inc. Randall

Stephenson

The World's Networking

Company AT&T Inc.

Management of American

Bell

Telecommuni-cations

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Sr.No. Company

Name CEO/

Chairperson

Most Associated

Tagline

Prominent Products

Founders Industry

11 Barclays PLC Antony Jenkins

(Group Chief Executive)

Fluent in Finance; Its

our business to know your

business

Retail banking Commercial

banking, Investment

banking, Investment

management

John Freame and Thomas

Gould

Banking, Financial services

12 Bata Thomas G. Bata Shoes for everyone

Footwear, sportswear,

sports equipment,

toiletries

Tomáš Baťa Retail and

manufacturing

13 Bayerische

Motoren Werke AG

Norbert Reithofer

The Ultimate Driving

Machine

Automobiles, motorcycles,

bicycles

Franz Josef Popp

Automobiles

14 Bloomingdale's Michael Gould Like no other store in the

world

Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture,

jewelry

Joseph and Lyman G.

Bloomingdale

Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture,

jewelry, beauty products,

housewares, optical, salon,

portrait studio, cafe.

15 CEAT

Paras Chowdhary

(Chief Management

Advisor)

Born Tough Tyres Virginio Bruni

Tedeschi Tyres & Tubes

16 Cisco Systems

Inc John Chambers

Empowering the Internet generation.

Networking Device,

Network Management, Cisco IOS and

NX-OS Software

Leonard Bosack,Sandy

Lerner

Networking equipment

17 CITIGROUP Michael Corbat The Citi Never

Sleeps

Credit cards, consumer banking,

corporate banking,

investment banking

Formed due to a merger

between Citicorp and

Travelers Group


18 Dell Inc Michael Dell Easy as DELL/

Easy to Buy, Easy to own

Desktops, netbooks,

notebooks, servers,

scanners, smart phones

Michael Dell Computers and

IT

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Sr.No. Company

Name CEO/

Chairperson

Most Associated

Tagline

Prominent Products

Founders Industry

19 Deutsche

Bank

Paul Achleitner (Chairman),

Juergen Fitschen (Co-CEO),

Anshuman Jain (Co-CEO)

A Passion to Perform

Consumer banking,

corporate banking, finance

and insurance

G. Siemens and L.

Bamberger


20 DuPont Ellen Kullman Better living

through chemistry.

Corian, Delrin, Kevlar

Eleuthère Irénée du

Pont Chemicals

21 Ernst and

Young Jim Turley

Quality in Everything we

Do

Assurance, Tax Advisory,

Consulting…etc. services

Formed due to a series of mergers of

ancestor organizations

Professional services

22 Essar Group Prashant Ruia A positive attitude

Steel, oil and gas, power,

communications, shipping

Shashi Ruia, Ravi Ruia

Conglomerate

23 Essel Group Subhash Chandra -

Media, entertainment,

packaging, infrastructure

Subhash Chandra

Conglomerate

24 Exxon Mobil Corporation

Rex W. Tillerson

Taking on the World's

Toughest Energy

Challenges

Fuels, lubricants,

petrochemicals


between Exxon and

Mobil

Oil and gas

25 Facebook Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook helps you

connect and share with the people in your

life

Social Networking

services

Mark Zuckerberg,

Eduardo Saverin, Andrew

McCollum, Dustin

Moskovitz, Chris Hughes

Social Networking

26 FIAT Sergio

Marchionne Driven by

Passion. FIAT

Automobiles, commercial

vehicles, auto parts

Giovanni Agnelli

Automotive

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Sr.No. Company

Name CEO/

Chairperson

Most Associated

Tagline

Prominent Products

Founders Industry

27 Ford Motor

Co. Alan R. Mulally

Built for the road

ahead/Ford has a better

idea

Automobiles, Automotive

parts Henry Ford Automobiles

28 Four Seasons

Hotels, Inc. Isadore Sharp

(Chairman)

Fifty Hotels. Twenty-Two

Countries. One Philosophy

- Isadore Sharp Hospitality

29 Future Group Fouad M.

Makhzoumi (Chairman)

India Tomorrow

Discount, grocery and convenience

stores, cash and carry,

hypermarkets, financial services

Mr. Kishore Biyani

Retail

30 GAIL Sh B. C. Tripathi (Chairman and

MD)

Gas and Beyond

Natural Gas, Petrochemical,

Liquid Hydrocarbons

Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

Energy, Petrochemicals

31 General Mills,

Inc. Kendall J. Powell

Nourishing Lives

Food Products Robert Smith Food Processing

32 General Motors

Company Daniel Akerson Only GM Automobiles,

William C. Durant

Automotive

33 Google

Eric Schmidt (Executive

Chairman), Larry Page (Co-founder

& CEO), Sergey Brin

(Co-founder)

-

Search tools, mobile

applications, operating systems

Larry Page, Sergey Brin

Internet, computer software, telecoms

equipment

34 Haier

Electronics Group Co

Zhang Ruimin Inspired Living

Major appliances,

small appliances, commercial heating and

cooling systems

Zhang Ruimin

Home appliances, Consumer electronics

35 Hewlett-Packard

Company Meg Whitman

Everything is Possible

PCs, printers, monitors, scanners, servers

Bill Hewlett,David

Packard

Computers and IT

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Sr.No. Company

Name CEO/

Chairperson

Most Associated

Tagline

Prominent Products

Founders Industry

36

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL)

Nitin Paranjpe Adding Vitality

to Life

Foods, beverages,

cleaning agents and personal care products

Founded in 1956 as

Hindustan Lever Limited

through a merger of

Lever Brothers,

Hindustan Vanaspati

Mfg. Co. Ltd. and United

Traders Ltd.

Consumer goods

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

Home appliances,

tools, hardware, lumber, building

materials

Bernie Marcus,

Arthur Blank, Ron Brill, Pat

Farrah

Retailing

38 Honda Motor

Co Ltd Takanobu Ito

The Power of Dreams

Automobiles, motorcycles,

scooters, electrical

generators, jet aircrafts

Soichiro Honda,Takeo

Fujisawa

Automotive, Aviation,

Telematics

39

HSBC (The Hong-kong

and Shanghai Banking

Corporation.)

Stuart Gulliver (Group Chief

Executive)

The World's Local Bank

Investment, commercial,

retail and private banking,

Sir Thomas Sutherland

Financial Services

40 Infosys S.D. Shibulal

Powered by Intellect, Driven by

Values; Improve your

odds with Infosys

Predictability



N. R. Narayana

Murthy,Nandan Nilekani

N. S. Raghavan,S.

Gopalakrishnan

S. D. Shibulal,K

Dinesh,Ashok Arora

IT

41 Intel

Corporation Paul Otellini Intel Inside

Bluetooth chipsets, flash

memory, microprocessors,

motherboard chipsets, network

interface cards

Gordon Moore,

Robert Noyce Semiconductors

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Sr.No. Company

Name CEO/

Chairperson

Most Associated

Tagline

Prominent Products

Founders Industry

42

International Business Machines

(IBM) Corporation

Ginni Rometty I think,

therefore IBM

Hardware and Software products

Charles Ranlett Flint

Computers and IT

43

IOCL (Indian Oil

Corporation Limited)

RS Butola (Chairman)

Bringing Energy to Life

Fuels, lubricants,

petrochemicals


between Indian Oil

Company Ltd. and Indian Refineries

Ltd.

Oil and gas

44 JVC(Victor

Company of Japan)

Shoichiro Eguchi The Perfect Experience

Audio, visual, computer-

related electronics and

software

Founded in 1927 as a

subsidiary of the United

States' leading

phonograph and record company

Audio, visual, computer-

related electronics and software, media

products

45 KFC(Kentucky Fried Chicken)

David C. Novak (Chairman and

CEO of Yum! Brands), Roger

Eaton (Chairman and CEO of KFC)

Its Finger Lickin Good!!

Fried chicken, soft drinks,

salads, desserts, breakfast

Harland Sanders

Fast food restaurant

46

Koninklijke Philips

Electronics N.V.

Frans van Houten

Sense and Simplicity

Home appliances,

lighting, medical

equipment

Gerard Philips,

Frederik Philips

Electronics

47 Kotak Uday Kotak

(Vice Chairman) & (MD)

Think Investments. Think Kotak.

Deposit accounts, Loans,

Investment services, Business banking

solutions

Uday Kotak Financial service

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Sr.No. Company

Name CEO/

Chairperson

Most Associated

Tagline

Prominent Products

Founders Industry

48 LARSEN and

TOUBRO K.

Venkataramanan

We make things which make India

proud

Construction, heavy

equipment, electrical

equipment, power

Henning Holck

Larsen,Soren Kristian Toubro

Conglomerate

49 Lenovo Group

Ltd. Yang Yuanqing

We are building a new

technology company

Desktops, servers,

notebooks, tablet

computers

Liu Chuanzhi Computer hardware, electronics

50 LG

Electronics Inc.

Bon-joon Koo Life's good

Electronics, chemicals,

telecommuni-cations

Koo In-Hwoi

Consumer electronics,

home appliances,

telecoms equipment

51 Lufthansa Christoph Franz There's no

better to fly Airline services

Founded in 1926 as

Deutsche Luft Hansa

Airlines

52 MasterCard

Incorporated Ajay Banga

There are some things money can't buy. For

everything else there's

MASTERCARD.

Credit cards, payment systems

Founded in 1966 when a

group of California

banks formed the Interbank

Card Association

(ICA)

Financial services

53

Max Life Insurance

Company Ltd. (formerly:Max New York Life

Insurance Company Ltd.)

Rajesh Sud Your Partner

for life Individual and

group insurance Analjit Singh

Financial Services

54 McDonald's

Corp Don Thompson I m Lovin it Fast food

Richard and Maurice

McDonald, Ray Kroc

Restaurants

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Sr.No. Company

Name CEO/

Chairperson

Most Associated

Tagline

Prominent Products

Founders Industry

55

Metropolitan Life Insurance

Company or Metlife.

Steven A. Kandarian

Have You Met Life Today

Insurance, Annuities, Employee Benefits, Banking

Founded on March 24,

1868. Earlier known as the

National Union Life and Limb Insurance Company

Financial services

56 Microsoft Steve Ballmer Be What's Next

Windows, MS Office, Skype,

Bing, Xbox, Windows

Phone, Surface

Bill Gates, Paul Allen

Software

57 Morrison &

Foerster Keith C.

Wetmore -

Morrison & Foerster LLP

(MoFo)

Alexender Morrison

Law Firm

58 MRF (Madras

Rubber Factory)

Arun Mammen (MD)

Tyres with Muscle

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

Mr.K.M.Mammen Mappilai

Conglomerate

59 Nestle Paul Bulcke Good food, Good life

Baby food, coffee, dairy

products

Henri Nestlé, Charles Page, George Page

Food processing

60

New Delhi Television

Limited (NDTV)

Vikramaditya Chandra (Group CEO & Executive

Director)

News you can Use.

(Ndtv Profit)

Broadcasting, radio

Prannoy Roy Media

61 Nike Inc. Mark Parker Just do it

Athletic footwear and apparel, sport

equipments and other

recreational products

Bill Bowerman, Phil Knight

Apparel, accessories

62 Nintendo Co

Ltd. Satoru Iwata

How U will play next

Nintendo Gameboy,Wii

Fusajiro Yamauchi

Consumer electronics,

Video games

63 Nokia Corp Stephen Elop Connecting

people

Mobile phones, smartphones,

mobile computers, networks

Fredrik Idestam,

Leo Mechelin

Telecommuni-cations

equipment, internet,

computer software

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Sr.No. Company

Name CEO/

Chairperson

Most Associated

Tagline

Prominent Products

Founders Industry

64 ONGC Sudhir

Vasudeva(Chairman & MD)

Making Tomorrow

Brighter

Petroleum, natural gas, and

other petrochemicals

Founded on 14th August,

1956 Oil and gas

65 PayPal

Patrick Dupuis (CFO), David

Marcus (President)

The safer, easier way to

pay

Online monetary

transaction services

Ken Howery,Max Levchin,Elon Musk, Luke Nosek,Peter

Thiel

Online

66 PepsiCo Inc Indra Nooyi Live for Now

Pepsi,Lay's potato chips, Quaker foods

and snacks

Donald Kendall,

Herman Lay

Food and beverages

67 Procter & Gamble

Robert McDonald

Touching lives, improving life

Foods, beverages,

cleaning agents and personal care products

William Procter,

James Gamble

Consumer goods

68 Reliance

Industries Limited

Mukesh Ambani (Chairman and

MD) Growth is Life

Crude oil, natural gas,

petrochemicals, petroleum

Dhirubhai Ambani

Conglomerate

69 Research In

Motion/ Blackberry

Thorsten Heins Be Bold

BlackBerry, BlackBerry Enterprise

Server, BlackBerry

Internet Service

Mike Lazaridis

Telecommunications equipment

70 Samsung Oh-Hyun Kwon

Turn on tomorrow/ Every one's

invited

Samsung Electronics, Cell

Phones

Lee Byung-chull

Electronics

71 Sahara India

Pariwar Subrata Roy Sahara (MD)

Emotionally yours.

Financial services,

construction, mass media

Subrata Roy Sahara

Conglomerate

72 Sansui

Electric

Takeshi Nakamichi (President)

Born in Japan Entertaining The World

Audio-Visual and

communication equipments,

home appliances, information equipment

Grande Holdings

Electronics

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Sr.No. Company

Name CEO/

Chairperson

Most Associated

Tagline

Prominent Products

Founders Industry

73 Siemens Peter Löscher Global

Network of Innovation

Communication systems, power

generation technology,

industrial and buildings

automation, lighting, home

appliances, railway vehicles

Werner von Siemens

Conglomerate

74 Škoda Auto H.C. Winfried

Vahland (Chairman)

Obsessed with Quality since

1897. Automobiles

Václav Laurin and Václav

Klement Automotive

75 Sony Kazuo Hirai Make believe

Televisions, digital imaging, PCs and other

networked products

Masaru Ibuka,Akio

Morita

Electronics/ conglomerate

76 Standard Chartered

Bank

Sir John Peace (Chairman),

Peter A. Sands (Group Chief

Executive)

Your Right Partner

Credit cards, Consumer banking,

Corporate banking,

Investment banking services

NA Banking, Financial services

77 Starbucks

Corporation Howard Schultz

It's bigger than coffee

Coffee and Handcrafted

Beverages

Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker, Zev Siegl

Food & Beverages

78 The Coca-Cola

Company Muhtar Kent

Enjoy Coca Cola

Coke,Diet Coke, Sprite,

Thums up

Asa Griggs Candler

Beverages

79 The NASDAQ OMX Group,

Inc. Robert Greifeld

Stock market for the digital

world (Nasdaq)

Derivatives, equity trading

platforms, futures and

options markets

NA Financial services

80 The Walt

Disney Company

Robert A. Iger Where dreams

come true.

Cable television, movies, theme

parks,

Walt and Roy Disney

Mass Media

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Sr.No. Company

Name CEO/

Chairperson

Most Associated

Tagline

Prominent Products

Founders Industry

81 Toyota Motor Corporation

Akio Toyoda Let's go places

Automobiles, commercial

vehicles, engines,

motorcycles

Kiichiro Toyoda

Automobile

82 United

Breweries Group

Vijay Mallya (Chairman), A K Ravi Nedungadi

(President & CFO)

Kingfisher - King of good

times

Brewery, alcoholic beverage, aviation,

chemicals & fertilizers

Thomas Leishman

Conglomerate

83 UTV Software Communicati

ons Ltd.

Ronnie Screwvala (MD)

NA

Films, televisions,

games, websites broadcasting

Ronnie Screwvala

Media conglomerate

84 Virgin Group

Ltd. David Baxby

(Co-CEO) We answer to

a higher calling

Beverages, airlines, trains,

video games

Sir Richard Branson

Conglomerate

85 Volkswagen Martin

Winterkorn Das Auto cars

Ferdinand Porsche

Automotive

86

Wipro Limited

(Western India

Products Limited)

Azim Premji (Chairman), T K Kurien (CEO, IT

Business & Executive Director)

Applying Thought



Mohamed Hasham Premji

IT

87 Walmart

Stores, Inc Mike Duke

Save Money. Live Better.

Retail products Sam Walton Retail

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PSU - Maharatna, Navratna and Miniratna

Maharatna CPSEs

Sr.No. Company Name

1 Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

2 Coal India Limited

3 GAIL (India) Limited

4 Indian Oil Corporation Limited

5 NTPC Limited

6 Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited

7 Steel Authority of India Limited

Navratna CPSEs

Sr.No. Company Name

1 Bharat Electronics Limited

2 Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

3 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

4 Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited

5 Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited

6 National Aluminium Company Limited

7 National Mineral Development Corporation Limited

8 Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited

9 Oil India Limited

10 Power Finance Corporation Limited

11 Power Grid Corporation of India Limited

12 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited

13 Rural Electrification Corporation Limited

14 Shipping Corporation of India Limited

Miniratna Category - I CPSEs

Sr.No. Company Name

1 Airports Authority of India

2 Antrix Corporation Limited

3 Balmer Lawrie & Co. Limited

4 Bharat Dynamics Limited

5 BEML Limited

6 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

7 Bridge & Roof Company (India) Limited

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Sr.No. Company Name 8 Central Warehousing Corporation

9 Central Coalfields Limited

10 Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited

11 Cochin Shipyard Limited

12 Container Corporation of India Limited

13 Dredging Corporation of India Limited

14 Engineers India Limited

15 Ennore Port Limited

16 Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited

17 Goa Shipyard Limited

18 Hindustan Copper Limited

19 HLL Lifecare Limited

20 Hindustan Newsprint Limited

21 Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited

22 Housing & Urban Development Corporation Limited

23 India Tourism Development Corporation Limited

24 Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Limited

25 IRCON International Limited

26 KIOCL Limited

27 Mazagaon Dock Limited

28 Mahanadi Coalfields Limited

29 Manganese Ore (India) Limited

30 Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemical Limited

31 Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited

32 MMTC Limited

33 MSTC Limited

34 National Fertilizers Limited

35 National Seeds Corporation Limited

36 NHPC Limited

37 Northern Coalfields Limited

38 Numaligarh Refinery Limited

39 ONGC Videsh Limited

40 Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited

41 Projects & Development India Limited

42 Railtel Corporation of India Limited

43 Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited

44 RITES Limited

45 SJVN Limited

46 Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited

47 South Eastern Coalfields Limited

48 State Trading Corporation of India Limited

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Sr.No. Company Name 49 Telecommunications Consultants India Limited

50 THDC India Limited

51 Western Coalfields Limited

52 WAPCOS Limited

Miniratna Category-II CPSEs

Sr.No. Company Name

1 Bharat Pumps & Compressors Limited

2 Broadcast Engineering Consultants (I) Limited

3 Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited

4 Ed.CIL (India) Limited

5 Engineering Projects (India) Limited

6 FCI Aravali Gypsum & Minerals India Limited

7 Ferro Scrap Nigam Limited

8 HMT (International) Limited

9 HSCC (India) Limited

10 India Trade Promotion Organisation

11 Indian Medicines & Pharmaceuticals Corporation Limited

12 M E C O N Limited

13 National Film Development Corporation Limited

14 National Small Industries Corporation Limited

15 P E C Limited

16 Rajasthan Electronics & Instruments Limited

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Heads of Constitutional Bodies

Prime Ministers of India

Sr.No. Term of Office Name Party

1 2004 - present Dr. Manmohan Singh Indian National Congress

2 1998 - 2004 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party

3 1997 - 1998 Inder Kumar Gujral Janata Dal

4 1996 - 1997 H. D. Deve Gowda Janata Dal

5 1996 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party

6 1991 - 1996 P. V. Narasimha Rao Indian National Congress

7 1990 - 1991 Chandra Shekhar Samajwadi Janata Party

8 1989 - 1990 V. P. Singh Janata Dal

9 1984 - 1989 Rajiv Gandhi Indian National Congress

10 1980 - 1984 Indira Gandhi Indian National Congress

11 1979 - 1980 Charan Singh Janata Party (Secular)

12 1977 - 1979 Morarji Desai Janata Party

13 1966 - 1977 Indira Gandhi Indian National Congress

14 1966 Gulzarilal Nanda Indian National Congress

15 1964 - 1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri Indian National Congress

16 1964 Gulzarilal Nanda Indian National Congress

17 1947 - 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru Indian National Congress

Presidents of India

Sr.No. Start of Term

of Office End of Term of

Office Name

1 2012 -- Pranab Mukherjee

2 2007 2012 Pratibha Patil

3 2002 2007 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

4 1997 2002 Kocheril Raman Narayanan

5 1992 1997 Shankar Dayal Sharma

6 1987 1992 Ramaswamy Venkataraman

7 1982 1987 Giani Zail Singh

8 1977 1982 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

9 1974 1977 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

10 1969 1974 Varahagiri Venkata Giri

11 1969 1969 Muhammad Hidayatullah

12 1969 1969 Varahagiri Venkata Giri

13 1967 1969 Zakir Hussain

14 1962 1967 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

15 1950 1962 Rajendra Prasad

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Chief Ministers of India

Sr.No. State/ UT Name Party 1 Andhra Pradesh N Kirankumar Reddy Indian National Congress

2 Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Tuki Indian National Congress

3 Assam Tarun Gogoi Indian National Congress

4 Bihar Nitish Kumar Janata Dal

5 Chhattisgarh Raman Singh Bharatiya Janata Party

6 National Capital

Territory of Delhi Sheila Dixit Indian National Congress

7 Goa Manohar Parrikar Bharatiya Janata Party

8 Gujarat Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party

9 Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda Indian National Congress

10 Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh Bharatiya Janata Party

11 Jammu & Kashmir Omar Abdullah Jammu & Kashmir National

Conference

12 Jharkhand President's Rule Indian National Congress

13 Karnataka Jagadish Shettar Bharatiya Janata Party

14 Kerala Oommen Chandy Indian National Congress

15 Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan Bharatiya Janata Party

16 Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan Indian National Congress

17 Manipur Okram Ibobi Singh Indian National Congress

18 Meghalaya Mukul Sangma Indian National Congress

19 Mizoram Lal Thanhawla Indian National Congress

20 Nagaland Neiphiu Rio Nagaland People's Front

21 Orissa Naveen Patnaik Biju Janata Dal

22 Pondicherry N. Rangaswamy All India NR Congress

23 Punjab Prakash Singh Badal Shiromani Akali Dal

24 Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot Indian National Congress

25 Sikkim Pawan Kumar Chamling Sikkim Democratic Front

26 Tamil Nadu Jayalalithaa All India Anna Dravida Munnetra

Kazhagam

27 Tripura Manik Sarkar Communist Party of India (Marxist)

28 Uttarakhand Vijay Bahuguna Indian National Congress

29 Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav Samajwadi Party

30 West Bengal Mamata Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress

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Cabinet Ministers (as on 14/03/2013)

Sr.No. Portfolio Minister

1

Atomic Energy, Space, Personnel, Public Grievances

& Pensions, Planning

Manmohan Singh

2 Finance Palaniappan Chidambaram

3 Agriculture, Food

Processing Industries

Sharad Chandra Govindrao Pawar

4 Defence A.K. Antony

5 Home Affairs Sushil Kumar Shinde

6 Health & Family

Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad

7 New & Renewable

Energy Farooq Abdullah

8 Civil Aviation Ajit Singh

9 Labour &

Employment Mallikarjun Kharge

10 Commerce &

Industry, Textiles Anand Sharma

11 Shipping G.K. Vasan

12 Chemicals & Fertilizers

M.K. Alagiri

13 Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

Praful Patel

14 Coal Shree Prakash Jaiswal

15 Panchayati Raj, Tribal Affairs

V. Kishore Chandra Deo

16 Steel Beni Prasad Verma

17 Minority Affairs K. Rahman Khan

18 Mines Dinsha J. Patel

19 Housing & Urban

Poverty Alleviation Ajay Maken

20 Human Resource

Development M.M. Pallam Raju

21 Law & Justice Ashwani Kumar

22 Water Resources Harish Rawat

23 Petroleum & Natural Gas

M. Veerappa Moily

24 Science &

Technology and Earth Sciences

S. Jaipal Reddy

25 Culture Chandresh Kumari Katoch

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26

Urban Development & Parliamentary

Affairs

Kamal Nath

27 Overseas Indian

Affairs Vayalar Ravi

28 Communications &

Information Technology

Kapil Sibal

29 Road Transport &

Highways C.P. Joshi

30 Social Justice & Empowerment

Selja Kumari

31 External Affairs Salman Khursheed

32 Rural Development Jairam Ramesh

33 Railways Pawan Kumar Bansal

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


1 Information & Broadcasting

Manish Tewari

2 Tourism K. Chiranjeevi

3 Power Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

4 Micro, Small &

Medium Enterprises

K.H. Muniyappa

5 Drinking Water &

Sanitation Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki

6 Corporate Affairs Sachin Pilot

7 Youth Affairs &

Sports Jitendra Singh

8 Women & Child

Development Krishna Tirath

9 Consumer Affairs,

Food & Public Distribution

Kurupassery V. Thomas

10 Statistics &

Program Implementation

Srikant Kumar Jena

11 Environment &

Forests Jayanthi Natarajan

12 Development of North Eastern

Region Paban Singh Ghatowar

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MINISTERS OF STATE – as on 14/03/2013


1 Human Resource

Development Shashi Tharoor

2 Human Resource

Development Jitin Prasada

3 Labour &

Employment Kodikunnil Suresh

4 Agriculture Tariq Anwar

5 Agriculture, Food

Processing Industries

Charan Das Mahant

6 Railways K. J. Surya Prakash Reddy

7 Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

8 Tribal Affairs Ranee Narah

9 Health & Family

Welfare Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury

10 Health & Family

Welfare S. Gandhiselvan

11 Road Transport &

Highways Tushar Amar Singh Chaudhary

12 Road Transport &

Highways Sarvey Sathyanarayana

13 Minority Affairs Ninong Ering

14 Urban

Development Deepa Dasmunsi


D. Napoleon


Porika Balram Naik

17 Communications &


Kruparani Killi

18 Communications &


Milind Deora

19 Defence Lalchand Kataria

20 Defence Jitin Prasada

21 External Affairs E. Ahamed

22 External Affairs Preneet Kaur

23 Commerce &

Industry D. Purandeswari

24 Home Affairs Mullapally Ramachandran

25 Civil Aviation K.C. Venugopal

26 Parliamentary

Affairs, Planning Rajeev Shukla

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27 Parliamentary

Affairs Paban Singh Ghatowar

28 Rural Development Pradeep Kumar Jain Aditya

29

Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances

& Pensions

V. Narayanasamy

30 Textiles Lakshmi Panabaka

31 Finance Namo Narain Meena

32 Finance S.S. Palanimanickam

33 Coal Pratik Patil

34 Home Affairs Ratanjit Singh

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Information on Countries

Prominent Countries

Sr.No. Country Capital Currency President Prime

Minister Parliament

1 Afghanistan Kabul Afghani Hamid Karzai - Shora

2 Australia Canberra Australian dollar - Julia Gillard Parliament

3 Austria Vienna Euro Heinz Fischer - National

Assembly

4 Belgium Brussels Euro - Elio Di Rupo Belgian Federal

Parliament

5 Canada Ottawa Canadian dollar - Stephen Harper

Parliament

6 China Beijing Renminbi-yuan Xi Jinping - National People

Congress

7 Denmark Copenhagen Danish krone - Helle

Thorning-Schmidt

Folketing

8 Egypt Cairo Egyptian pound Mohamed Morsi Hesham Kandil

People's Assembly

9 France Paris Euro François Hollande Jean-Marc

Ayrault National

Assembly

10 Germany Berlin Euro Joachim Gauck - Bundestag

11 Greece Athens Euro Karolos Papoulias Antonis Samaras

Chamber of Deputies

12 Hong Kong - Hong Kong dollar - - Hansard

13 India New Delhi Indian rupee Pranab Mukherjee Manmohan

Singh Parliament

14 Iran Tehran Iranian rial Mahmoud

Ahmadinejad - Majilis

15 Iraq Baghdad Iraqi dinar Jalal Talabani Nouri al-

Maliki National

Assembly

16 Ireland Dublin Euro Michael D. Higgins - Oireachtas

17 Italy Rome Euro Giorgio Napolitano Mario Monti Parlamento

Italiano

18 Japan Tokyo Yen - Shinzō Abe Diet

19 Luxembourg Luxembourg Euro - Jean-Claude

Juncker Chamber of

Deputies

20 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Malaysian ringgit - Najib Tun

Razak

Dewan Rakyat and Dewan

Negara

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Minister Parliament

21 Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian rupee Rajkeswur Purryag Navin

Ramgoolam National

Assembly

22 Mexico Mexico City Mexican peso Enrique Peña Nieto - Congress of the

Union

23 Nepal Kathmandu Nepalese rupee Ram Baran Yadav Khil Raj Regmi

Rashtriya Panchayat

24 Netherlands Amsterdam Euro - Mark Rutte States General

(Staten-Generaal)

25 Nigeria Abuja Naira Goodluck Jonathan - National

Assembly

26 Norway Oslo Norwegian krone - Jens

Stoltenberg Storting

27 Oman Muscat Omani rial Sultan Qaboos bin

Said al Said - Majlis-al-Shura

28 Pakistan Islamabad Pakistani rupee Asif Ali Zardari

Acting Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan

Khoso

Majlis-e-Shoora

29 Philippines Manila Philippine peso Benigno Aquino III - Congress

30 Poland Warsaw Zloty Bronisław

Komorowski Donald Tusk Scym

31 Portugal Lisbon Euro Aníbal Cavaco Silva Pedro Passos

Coelho Assembly of the

Republic

32 Qatar Doha Qatari riyal - Hamad bin Jassim bin

Jaber Al Thani

Majlis Al-Shura / Advisory

Council

33 Russia Moscow Rouble Vladimir Putin Dmitry

Medvedev Duma

34 Singapore Singapore Singapore dollar Tony Tan Lee Hsien

Loong Parliament

35 South Africa Pretoria Rand Jacob Zuma - Parliament

36 Spain Madrid Euro - Mariano

Rajoy Crotes

37 Sri Lanka Colombo Sri Lankan rupee Mahinda Rajapaksa D. M.

Jayaratne Parliament

38 Sudan Khartoum Sudanese dinar Omar al-Bashir - Majlis Watani

39 Sweden Stockholm Swedish krona - Fredrik

Reinfeldt Riksdag

40 Switzerland Berne Swiss franc Ueli Maurer - Federal

Assembly

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Minister Parliament

41 Syria Damascus Syrian pound Bashar al-Assad Wael Nader

al-Halqi People's Council

42 Thailand Bangkok Baht - Yingluck

Shinawatra National

Assembly

43 Turkey Ankara Turkish lira Abdullah Gül Recep Tayyip

Erdoğan Grand National

Assembly

44 Uganda Kampala Ugandan shilling Yoweri Museveni Amama Mbabazi

Parliament

45 Ukraine Kiev Hryvnia/ Hryvna Viktor Yanukovych Mykola Azarov

Verkhovna Rada

46 United Arab

Emirates Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates dirham

Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Mohammed bin Rashid Al

Maktoum

Federal National Council

47 United

Kingdom London Pound sterling -

David Cameron

Parliament

48 United States Washington DC US dollar Barack Obama - Congress

49 Venezuela Caracas Bolívar Acting President Nicolás Maduro

- National Congress

50 Vietnam Hanoi Dong Truong Tan Sang Nguyễn Tấn

Dũng National

Assembly

Other Countries


Minister Parliament

1 Albania Tirana Lek Bujar Nishani Sali Berisha Kuvendi/ People's

Assembly

2 Algeria Algiers Algerian Dinar Abdelaziz Bouteflika Abdelmalek

Sellal

National People's

Assembly

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

4 Angola Luanda Kwanza Jose Eduardo dos

Santos -

National People's

Assembly

5 Antigua and

Barbuda Saint John's

East Caribbean dollar

- Baldwin Spencer

Senate

6 Argentina Buenos Aires Argentine peso Cristina Fernández

de Kirchner -

National Congress

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Minister Parliament

7 Armenia Yerevan Armenian dram Serzh Sarkisyan Tigran

Sargsyan National

Assembly

8 Azerbaijan Baku Azerbaijani manat Ilham Aliyev Artur

Rasizade Melli Majlis

9 The Bahamas Nassau Bahamian dollar - Perry Christie General

Assembly

10 Bahrain Manama Bahraini dinar - Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah

Consultative Council

11 Bangladesh Dhaka Taka Acting President

Abdul Hamid

Prime Minister

Sheikh Hasina Jatia Parliament

12 Barbados Bridgetown Barbados dollar - Freundel

Stuart Parliament of

Barbados

13 Belarus Minsk Belarusian ruble Alexander

Lukashenko Mikhail

Myasnikovich

National Assembly of the

Republic of Belarus

14 Belize Belmopan Belize dollar - Dean Barrow National

Assembly

15 Benin Porto Novo CFA Franc Yayi Boni Pascal

Koupaki National

Assembly

16 Bhutan Thimphu Ngultrum - Lyonpo Jigme

Thinley Tasongadu

17 Bolivia La Paz

(administrative) Sucre (judicial)

Bolivian boliviano Evo Morales - National Congress

18 Bosnia and

Herzegovina Sarajevo

Bosnia and Herzegovina

convertible mark Bakir Izetbegović

Vjekoslav Bevanda

Skupstina

19 Botswana Gaborone Botswana pula Ian Khama - National

Assembly

20 Brazil Brasilia Brazilian real Dilma Rousseff - National Congress

21 Brunei Bandar Seri

Begawan Brunei dollar

Sultan: Hassanal Bolkiah

- National

Assembly

22 Bulgaria Sofia Lev Rosen Plevneliev Boyko

Borisov Narodno Subranie

23 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou West African CFA

franc Blaise Compaoré

Luc-Adolphe Tiao

National Assembly

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Minister Parliament

24 Burundi Bujumbura Burundi franc Pierre Nkurunziza - Senate

25 Cambodia Phnom Penh Riel - Hun Sen National

Assembly

26 Cameroon Yaoundé CFA Franc Paul Biya Philémon

Yunji Yang National

Assembly

27 Cape Verde Praia Cape Verde

escudo Jorge Carlos

Fonseca José Maria

Neves National

Assembly

28 Central African

Republic Bangui

Central African CFA franc

François Bozizé Faustin-

Archange Touadéra

National Assembly

29 Chad N'Djamena CFA franc Idriss Déby Emmanuel Nadingar

National Assembly

30 Chile Santiago Chilean peso Sebastián Piñera - Chamber of

Deputies and Senate

31 Colombia Santa Fe de

Bogotá Colombian Peso Juan Manuel Santos - Congress

32 Comoros Moroni Comorian franc Ikililou Dhoinine - Legislative Council and

Senate

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

Legislative Council

34 Costa Rica San Jose Costa Rican colón Laura Chinchilla - Legislative Council and

Senate

35 Croatia Zagreb Kuna Ivo Josipović Zoran

Milanović Sabor

36 Cuba Havana Cuban peso Raúl Castro - National

Assembly of People's Power

37 Cyprus Lefkosia(Nicosia) Cyprus pound Dimitris Christofias İrsen Küçük Vouli

Antiprosopon

38 Czech

Republic Prague Czech koruna Miloš Zeman Petr Nečas

Chamber of Deputies and

Senate

39 Djibouti Djibouti Djibouti franc Ismail Omar Guelleh Dileita

Mohamed Dileita

National Assembly

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Minister Parliament

40 Dominica Roseau Eastern

Caribbean dollar Nicholas Liverpool

Roosevelt Skerrit

House of Assembly

41 Dominican Republic

Santo Domingo Dominican peso Danilo Medina - Congress of the

Republic

42 East Timor Dili US dollar Taur Matan Ruak - Constituent Assembly

43 Ecuador Quito US dollar Rafael Correa - Natinal

Congress

44 El Salvador San Salvador US dollar;

Salvadorian colón Mauricio Funes -

Legislative Assembly

45 Equatorial

Guinea Malabo CFA Franc

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

- Cámara de los

Representantes del Pueblo

46 Eritrea Asmara Nakfa Isaias Afewerki - National

Assembly

47 Estonia Tallinn Estonian kroon Toomas Hendrik

Ilves - Riigikogu

48 Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ethiopian birr Girma Wolde-

Giorgis Haile Mariam

Desalegne

Federal Council and House of

Representative

49 Fiji Suva Fiji dollar Epeli Nailatikau

Acting Prime Minister

Frank Bainimarama

Senate & House of

Representative

50 Finland Helsinki Euro Sauli Niinistö Jyrki Katainen Eduskusta

(Parliament)

51 Gabon Libreville Central African

CFA franc Ali-Ben Bongo

Raymond Ndong Sima

Parlement

52 The Gambia Banjul Gambian dalasi Yahya Jammeh - National

Assembly

53 Georgia Tbilisi Lari Mikheil Saakashvili Boris

Ivanishvili Parliament

54 Ghana Accra Cedi John Dramani

Mahama - Parliament

55 Greenland Nuuk Danish krone Dependent on

Denmark - Landstraad

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Minister Parliament

56 Grenada St George's Eastern

Caribbean dollar -

Tillman Thomas

Parliament

57 Guatemala Guatemala City Guatemalan

quetzal Otto Pérez Molina -

Congress of the Republic

58 Guinea Conakry Guinean franc Alpha Condé Mohamed

Said Fofana National

Assembly

59 Guinea-Bissau

Bissau West African CFA

franc - -

People's National

Assembly

60 Guyana Georgetown Guyanese dollar Donald Ramotar Sam Hinds National

Assembly

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

Assembly

62 Honduras Tegucigalpa Honduran

lempira Porfirio Pepe Lobo -

National Congress

63 Hungary Budapest Forint János Áder Viktor Orbán Országgyűlés

64 Iceland Reykjavik Icelandic króna Ólafur Ragnar

Grímsson Jóhanna

Sigurðardóttir Althing

65 Indonesia Jakarta Indonesian

rupiah Susilo Bambang

Yudhoyono -

People's Consultative

Assembly

66 Israel Jerusalem New shekel Shimon Peres Benjamin

Netanyahu The Knesset

67 Jamaica Kingston Jamaica dollar - Portia

Simpson-Miller

Parliament

68 Jordan Amman Jordanian dinar - Fayez al-

Tarawneh National

Assembly

69 Kazakhstan Astana Kazakhstani

tenge Nursultan

Nazarbayev Serik

Akhmetov Parliament

70 Kenya Nairobi Kenyan shilling Mwai Kibaki Raila Odinga National

Assembly

71 Kiribati Tarawa Kiribati dollar/

Australian dollar Anote Tong -

House of Assembly

72 Korea, North Pyongyang North Korean

won - -

Supreme People's

Assembly

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Minister Parliament

73 Korea, South Seoul South Korean

won - -

National Assembly

74 Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwaiti dinar -

Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-

Sabah

Majlis-al-Umma

75 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Kyrgyzstani som - Zhantoro

Satybaldiyev Kyrgyz

Republic

76 Laos Vientiane Lao kip Choummaly

Sayasone Thongsing

Thammavong

People's Supreme Assembly

77 Latvia Riga Lats Andris Bērziņš Valdis

Dombrovskis Saeima

78 Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound Michel Sulaiman Najib Mikati National

Assembly

79 Lesotho Maseru Loti - Tom Thabane National

Assembly and Senate

80 Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar Ellen Johnson

Sirleaf - Legislature

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

General People's Congress

82 Liechtenstein Vaduz Swiss franc - Klaus

Tschütscher Diet

83 Lithuania Vilnius Litas Dalia Grybauskaitė Andrius Kubilius

Seimas

84 Macau Macau Pataca - - Legislative Assembly

85 Macedonia Skopje Macedonian

denar Gjorgje Ivanov

Nikola Gruevski

Assembly

86 Madagascar Antananarivo Ariary

President of the High Authority of Transition Andry

Rajoelina

Omer Beriziky National People's

Assembly

87 Malawi Lilongwe Malawian kwacha Joyce Banda - National

Assembly

88 Maldives Malé Rufiyaa Mohammed

Waheed Hassan - Majilis

89 Mali Bamako CFA Franc - - National

Assembly

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Minister Parliament

90 Malta Valletta Euro George Abela Lawrence

Gonzi House of

Representatives

91 Marshall Islands

Majuro US Dollar Christopher Loeak - Nitijela /

Parliament

92 Mauritania Nouakchott Mauritanian

ouguiya Mohamed Ould

Abdel Aziz

Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf

National Assembly/

Senate

93 Micronesia Palikir US dollar Manny Mori - Congress

94 Moldova Chisinau Moldovan leu Nicolae Timofti Vlad Filat Parliament

95 Monaco Monaco Ville Euro - Michel Roger National Council

96 Mongolia Ulan Bator Tugrik Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Norovyn Altankhuyag

Khural

97 Montenegro Podgorica Euro Filip Vujanović Igor Lukšić Federal

Assembly

98 Morocco Rabat Dirham - Abdelilah Benkirane

Parliament

99 Mozambique Maputo Mozambican

metical Armando Guebuza

Alberto Vaquina

People's Assembly

100 Myanmar Rangoon Kyat Thein Sein - Pyithu Hluttaw

101 Namibia Windhoek Namibian dollar Hifikepunye

Pohamba Nahas Angula

National Assembly

102 Nauru

no official capital;

government offices in Yaren

District

Australian dollar Sprent Dabwido - Parliament

103 New

Caledonia Nouméa CFP franc Harold Martin - Parliament

104 New Zealand Wellington New Zealand

dollar - John Key

Parliament (House of

Representatives)

105 Nicaragua Managua Nicaraguan

córdoba Daniel Ortega -

National Assembly

106 Niger Niamey West African CFA

franc Mahamadou

Issoufou Brigi Rafini

National Assembly

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Minister Parliament

107 North Korea Pyongyang North Korean

won - -

Supreme People's

Assembly

108 Palau Koror US dollar Johnson Toribiong - National Congress

109 Panama Panama City Balboa Ricardo Martinelli - National

Assembly

110 Papua New

Guinea Port Moresby

Papua New Guinean kina

- Peter O'Neill National

Parliament

111 Paraguay Asuncion Paraguayan

guaraní Federico Franco -

Senate & Chamber of

Deputies

112 Peru Lima Nuevo sol Ollanta Humala - Congress of the

Republic

113 Romania Bucharest Romanian leu Traian Băsescu Victor Ponta Great National

Assembly

114 Rwanda Kigali Rwandese franc Paul Kagame Pierre

Habumuremyi Parliament

115 Saint Kitts and Nevis

Basseterre East Caribbean

dollar -

Denzil Douglas

National Assembly

116 Saint Lucia Castries East Caribbean

dollar -

Kenny Anthony

Houses of Parliament

117 Saint Vincent

and the Grenadines

Kingstown East Caribbean

dollar -

Ralph Gonsalves

House of Assembly

118 Samoa Apia Samoan tala - Tuilaepa

Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi

Legislative Assembly

119 San Marino San Marino Euro - - Great and

General Council

120 Sao Tome and

Principe Sao Tome

São Tomé and Príncipe dobra

Manuel Pinto da Costa

Patrice Trovoada

National Assembly

121 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Saudi riyal King: Abdullah of

Saudi Arabia - Majlis Al Shura

122 Senegal Dakar West African CFA

franc Macky Sall Abdoul Mbaye

National Assembly

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Minister Parliament

123 Serbia Belgrade Serbian dinar Tomislav Nikolić Ivica Dačić Federal

Assembly

124 Seychelles Victoria Seychelles rupee James Michel - People's

Assembly

125 Sierra Leone Freetown Sierra Leonean

leone Ernest Bai Koroma - Parliament

126 Slovakia Bratislava Slovak koruna Ivan Gašparovič Iveta

Radičová National Council

127 Slovenia Ljubljana Euro Danilo Türk Janez Janša National

Assembley

128 Solomon Islands

Honiara Solomon Islands

dollar -

Gordon Darcy Lillo

National Parliament

129 Somalia Mogadishu Somali shilling Hassan Sheikh

Mohamoud -

People's Assembly

130 South Korea Seoul South Korean

won Lee Myung-bak

Kim Hwang-sik

National Assembly

131 South Sudan Juba South Sudanese

pound Salva Kiir Mayardit - Parliament

132 Suriname Paramaribo Suriname dollar Dési Bouterse - National

Assembly

133 Swaziland Mbabana Swazi lilangeni - Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini

Parliament

134 Taiwan Taipei New Taiwan

dollar Ma Ying-jeou - Yuan

135 Tajikistan Dushanbe Tajikistani

somoni Emomali Rahmonov Okil Okilov

Supreme Council

136 Tanzania Dar es Salaam Tanzanian

shilling Jakaya Kikwete

Mizengo Pinda

National Assembly

137 Togo Lome CFA francs Faure Gnassingbé Kwesi

Ahoomey-Zunu

National Assembly

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

Tu'ivakano Legislative Assembly

139 Trinidad and

Tobago Port-of-Spain

Trinidad and Tobago dollar

Anthony Carmona Kamla

Persad-Bissessar

Parliament

140 Tunisia Tunis Tunisian dinar Moncef Marzouki Ali Laarayedh National

Assembly

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141 Turkmenistan Ashgabat Turkmenistani

manat Gurbanguly

Berdimuhammedow - Assembly

142 Turks and

Caicos Islands Cockburn Town US dollar - - Parliament

143 Tuvalu Funafuti Tuvalu Currencies - Willy Telavi Parliament

144 Uruguay Montevideo Uruguayan peso José Mujica - General

Assembly

145 Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbekistani som Islam Karimov Shavkat

Mirziyayev Oliy Majlis

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

147 Vatican City (Holy See)

Vatican City Euro - - Parliament

148 Yemen Sanaa Yemeni rial Abd al-Rab Mansur

al-Hadi Mohammed Basindawa

Parliament

149 Zambia Lusaka Zambian kwacha Michael Sata - National

Assembly

150 Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe dollar Robert Mugabe Morgan

Tsvangirai Parliament

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Indian Olympic Winners & Commonwealth Medals Tally

Sr.No. Year Host Sports Person Sport 1 2012 London Sushil Kumar Wrestling

2 2012 London Vijay Kumar Shooting

3 2012 London Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling

4 2012 London Mary Kom Boxing

5 2012 London Saina Nehwal Badminton

6 2012 London Gagan Narang Shooting

7 2008 Beijing Abhinav Bindra Shooting

8 2008 Beijing Vijender Singh Boxing

9 2008 Beijing Sushil Kumar Wrestling

10 2004 Athens Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Shooting

11 2000 Sydney Karnam Malleswari Weightlifting

12 1996 Atlanta Leander Paes Tennis

13 1980 Moscow National team Field hockey

14 1972 Munich National team Field hockey

15 1968 Mexico National team Field hockey

16 1964 Tokyo National team Field hockey

17 1960 Rome National team Field hockey

18 1956 Melbourne National team Field hockey

19 1952 Helsinki Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav Wrestling

20 1952 Helsinki National team Field hockey

21 1948 London National team Field hockey

22 1936 Berlin National team Field hockey

23 1932 Los Angeles National team Field hockey

24 1928 Amsterdam National team Field hockey

25 1900 Paris Norman Pritchard Athletics

26 1900 Paris Norman Pritchard Athletics

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Commonwealth Medals Tally for India

Sr.No. Year Gold Silver Bronze 1 2010 38 27 36

2 2006 22 17 10

3 2002 30 22 13

4 1998 7 10 8

5 1994 6 11 7

6 1990 13 8 11

7 1986 Did not

Participate - -

8 1982 5 8 3

9 1978 5 5 5

10 1974 4 8 3

11 1970 5 3 4

12 1966 3 4 3

13 1962 Did not

Participate - -

14 1958 2 1 0

15 1954 0 0 0

16 1950 Did not

Participate - -

17 1938 0 0 0

18 1934 0 0 1

19 1930 Did not

Participate - -

Total 140 124 104

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IPL Franchise – Owners & Winners

Sr.No. Team name

City Owners name/s

Company Buying Price

Home Ground

1 Royal

Challengers Bangalore

Bangalore Vijay Mallya UB Group $111.6 million

(Bid in 2008)

M. Chinnaswamy

Stadium

2 Kings XI Punjab

Mohali (Chandigarh)

Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia,

Karan Paul and Mohit Burman

Bombay Dyeing, Apeejay

Surendera Group, Dabur

$76 million (Bid in 2008)

PCA Stadium, HPCA Stadium

3 Chennai

Super Kings Chennai N. Srinivasan India Cements


M. A. Chidambaram

Stadium

4 Kolkata

Knight Riders Kolkata

Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi

Chawla and Jay Mehta

Red Chillies, Mehta Group

$75.09 million

(Bid in 2008)

Eden Gardens

5 Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Mukesh Ambani Reliance

Industries Limited

$111.9 million

(Bid in 2008)

Wankhede Stadium,DY

Patil Stadium

6 Delhi

Daredevils New Delhi

Grandhi Mallikarjuna

Rao

GMR Sports Pvt Ltd


Feroz Shah Kotla

7 Rajasthan

Royals Jaipur

Manoj Badale, Lachlan

Murdoch, Raj Kundra and

Shilpa Shetty

Emerging Media $67 million

(Bid in 2008)

Sawai Mansingh Stadium

8 Sunrisers

Hyderabad Hyderabad

Kalanidhi Maran

Sun TV Network $159

million

Rajiv Gandhi International

Stadium

9 Deccan

Chargers (Defunct)

Hyderabad

T Venkatram Reddy & T

Vinayak Ravi Reddy

Deccan Chronicle

Holdings Ltd.

$107 million

(Bid 2012)

Rajiv Gandhi International

Stadium, ACA-VDCA Stadium,

Barabati Stadium

10

Kochi Tuskers Kerala

(Defunct)

Kochi

Anand Shyam, Vivek

Venugopal and Sunanda Pushkar

Kochi Cricket Private Limited,

Rendezvous Sports

World,Parinee Developers,

Anchor Earth,Film

Waves

$ 333.33 million

(Bid in 2010)

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

11 Pune

Warriors Pune Subrata Roy Sahara Group

$ 370 million

(Bid 2010)

Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium

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IPL Winners 2008 -2012

Year Winning

Team Runner-Up Purple Cap Holder Orange Cap Holder

2008 Rajasthan

Royals Chennai Super

Kings Sohail Tanvir

(Rajasthan Royals) Shaun Marsh

(Kings XI Punjab)

2009 Deccan

Chargers

Royal Challengers Bangalore

R.P. Singh (Deccan Chargers)

Matthew Hayden (Chennai Super Kings)

2010 Chennai Super

Kings Mumbai Indians

Pragyan Ojha (Deccan Chargers)

Sachin Tendulkar (Mumbai Indians)

2011 Chennai Super

Kings

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Lasith Malinga (Mumbai Indians)

Chris Gayle (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

2012 Kolkata Knight

Riders Chennai Super

Kings Morné Morkel

(Delhi Daredevils) Chris Gayle

(Royal Challengers Bangalore)

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Major Sporting Records

Cricket Records

Sr.No. Record Name

1 Most Runs in Tests Sachin Tendulkar

2 Most Test runs in a calendar year Mohammad Yousuf (Pak)

3 Most runs off one over in Tests Brian Lara

4 Most hundreds in Tests Sachin Tendulkar

5 Most double hundreds in a career DG Bradman (Aus)

6 Most triple hundreds in a career DG Bradman (Aus)

7 Youngest player to score a hundred Mohammad Ashraful

8 Youngest player to score a double

hundred Javed Miandad

9 Youngest player to score a triple

hundred GS Sobers

10 Fastest hundred in Tests Viv Richards

11 Fastest double hundred in Tests NJ Astle

12 Fastest triple hundred in Tests Virender Sehwag

13 Most fifties in career Sachin Tendulkar

14 Fastest fifty in tests Jacques Kallis

15 Most Wickets in ODIs Muttiah Murlitharan

16 Fastest to 100 Wickets in ODIs Muttiah Murlitharan

17 Most Runs in ODIs Sachin Tendulkar

18 Most Fifties in ODIs Sachin Tendulkar

19 Fastest 100 in ODIs Shahid Afridi

20 Fastest 200 in ODIs Virender Sehwag

21 Most Hundreds in ODIs Sachin Tendulkar

22 Most Runs in World Cups Sachin Tendulkar

23 Highest Individual Score in World

Cup Gary Kirsten

24 Most Fifties in World Cup Sachin Tendulkar

25 Most Hundreds in World Cups Sachin Tendulkar

26 Fastest 100 in in World Cups Kevin O'Brien

27 T20I Most Runs Brendon McCullum

28 T20I Highest Individual Score Brendon McCullum

29 T20I Most Hundreds Brendon McCullum

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Soccer Records

Sr.No. Record Name

1 Most World Cups matches played Lotthar Matthaus(Germany), Antonio Carbajal

2 Guinness World Record title for most

club goals in a year Lionel Messi

3 Youngest goalscorer, final Pele(Edson Do Nascimento)

4 Most goals in a club match Lionel Messi

5 Most goals scored, overall finals Ronaldo

6 Fastest World Cup goal Hakan Sükur

7 Most goals in a single world cup

match Oleg Salenko

Tennis Records

Sr.No Championship Record Name

1 Wimbledon Longest match by time and number of

games(Men) John Isner and Nicolas

Mahut

2 Wimbledon Longest singles final match by time

played(Men) Roger Federer and Rafael

Nadal

3 Wimbledon Longest singles final match by number

of games(Men) Roger Federer and Andy

Roddick

4 Wimbledon Longest match by time played(Women) Chanda Rubin and Patricia Hy-Boulais

5 Wimbledon Longest singles final match by time

played(Women) Venus Williams and Lindsay Davenport

6 Australian Open Longest match by time played(Men) Novak Djoković and

Rafael Nadal

7 Australian Open Longest match by time played(Women) Vicki Nelson and Jean

Hepner

8 Australian Open Most Grand Slam singles titles(Female) Margaret Court

9 Australian Open Most Grand Slam singles titles(Male) Roger Federer

10 Australian Open Most Grand Slam doubles titles of all-

time(Male) John Newcombe

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Sr.No. Championship Record Name

11 French Open Youngest winner of the women’s singles

title Monica Seles

12 French Open Youngest winner of the men’s singles

title Michael Chang

13 French Open Winner of most men's singles titles Rafael Nadal

14 French Open Winner of most women's singles titles Chris Evert

15 French Open Winner of most men's doubles titles Daniel Nestor and Max

Mirnyi

Badminton Records

Sr.No. Record Name

1 First Indian to win the Men's singles title at the All

England Championship Prakash Padukone

2 First Indian to win the World Junior Badminton

Championship. Saina Nehwal

3 First Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the

Olympics. Saina Nehwal

4 National Senior Women’s Badminton title for

maximum number of times consecutively Aparna Popat

5 First player to have won all nine major titles in world

badminton. Lin Dan

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Tennis Grand Slams

Men's Singles

Sr.No. Year Tournaments Winners Runners-up

1 2013 Australian Open Novak Djokovic Andy Murray

2 2012

Australian Open Novak Djokovic Rafael Nadal

French Open Rafael Nadal Novak Djokovic

Wimbeldon Roger Federer Andy Murray

US Open Andy Murray Novak Djokovic

3 2011

Australian Open Novak Djokovic Andy Murray

French Open Rafael Nadal Roger Federer

Wimbeldon Novak Djokovic Rafael Nadal

US Open Novak Djokovic Rafael Nadal

4 2010

Australian Open Roger Federer Andy Murray

French Open Rafael Nadal Robin Söderling

Wimbeldon Rafael Nadal Tomáš Berdych

US Open Rafael Nadal Novak Djokovic

5 2009

Australian Open Rafael Nadal Roger Federer

French Open Roger Federer Robin Söderling

Wimbeldon Roger Federer Andy Roddick

US Open Juan Martín del Potro Roger Federer

Women's Single


1 2013 Australian Open Victoria Azarenka Li Na

2 2012

Australian Open Victoria Azarenka Maria Sharapova

French Open Maria Sharapova Sara Errani

Wimbeldon Serena Williams Agnieszka Radwańska

US Open Serena Williams Victoria Azarenka

3 2011

Australian Open Kim Clijsters Li Na

French Open Li Na Francesca Schiavone

Wimbeldon Petra Kvitová Maria Sharapova

US Open Samantha Stosur Serena Williams

4 2010

Australian Open Serena Williams Justine Henin

French Open Francesca Schiavone Samantha Stosur

Wimbeldon Serena Williams Vera Zvonareva

US Open Kim Clijsters Vera Zvonareva

5 2009

Australian Open Serena Williams Dinara Safina

French Open Svetlana Kuznetsova Dinara Safina

Wimbeldon Serena Williams Venus Williams

US Open Kim Clijsters Caroline Wozniacki

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Men's Doubles


1 2013 Australian Open Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Robin Haase, Igor Sijsling

Australian Open Leander Paes, Radek Štěpánek Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan

2 2012 French Open Max Mirnyi, Daniel Nestor Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan

Wimbeldon Jonathan Marray, Frederik

Nielsen Robert Lindstedt, Horia Tecău

US Open Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Leander Paes, Radek Štěpánek

Australian Open Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Mahesh Bhupathi, Leander Paes

3 2011 French Open Max Mirnyi, Daniel Nestor Juan Sebastián Cabal, Eduardo

Schwank

Wimbeldon Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Robert Lindstedt, Horia Tecău

US Open Jürgen Melzer, Philipp

Petzschner Mariusz Fyrstenberg, Marcin

Matkowski

Australian Open Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Daniel Nestor, Nenad Zimonjić

4 2010 French Open Daniel Nestor, Nenad Zimonjić Lukáš Dlouhý, Leander Paes

Wimbeldon Jürgen Melzer, Philipp

Petzschner Robert Lindstedt, Horia Tecău

US Open Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Rohan Bopanna, Aisam-ul-Haq

Qureshi

Australian Open Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan Mahesh Bhupathi, Mark Knowles

5 2009 French Open Lukáš Dlouhý, Leander Paes Wesley Moodie, Dick Norman

Wimbeldon Daniel Nestor, Nenad Zimonjić Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan

US Open Lukáš Dlouhý, Leander Paes Mahesh Bhupathi, Mark Knowles

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Women's Doubles


1 2013 Australian Open Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci Ashley Barty, Casey Dellacqua

2 2012

Australian Open Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vera

Zvonareva Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci

French Open Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci Maria Kirilenko, Nadia Petrova

Wimbeldon Serena Williams, Venus

Williams Andrea Hlaváčková, Lucie

Hradecká

US Open Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci Andrea Hlaváčková, Lucie

Hradecká

3 2011

Australian Open Gisela Dulko, Flavia Pennetta Victoria Azarenka, Maria Kirilenko

French Open Andrea Hlaváčková, Lucie

Hradecká Sania Mirza, Elena Vesnina

Wimbeldon Květa Peschke, Katarina

Srebotnik Sabine Lisicki, Samantha Stosur

US Open Liezel Huber, Lisa Raymond Vania King, Yaroslava Shvedova

4 2010

Australian Open Serena Williams, Venus

Williams Cara Black, Liezel Huber

French Open Serena Williams, Venus

Williams Květa Peschke, Katarina Srebotnik

Wimbeldon Vania King, Yaroslava Shvedova Elena Vesnina, Vera Zvonareva

US Open Vania King, Yaroslava Shvedova Liezel Huber, Nadia Petrova

5 2009

Australian Open Serena Williams, Venus

Williams Daniela Hantuchová, Ai Sugiyama

French Open Anabel Medina Garrigues,

Virginia Ruano Pascual Victoria Azarenka, Elena Vesnina

Wimbeldon Serena Williams, Venus

Williams Samantha Stosur, Rennae Stubbs

US Open Serena Williams, Venus

Williams Cara Black, Liezel Huber

Sr.No Year Tournaments Winners Runners-up

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Mixed Doubles


1 2013 Australian Open Jarmila Gajdošová, Matthew

Ebden Lucie Hradecká, František Čermák

2 2012

Australian Open Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Horia

Tecau Elena Vesnina, Leander Paes

French Open Sania Mirza, Mahesh Bhupathi Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, Santiago

González

Wimbeldon Mike Bryan, Lisa Raymond Leander Paes, Elena Vesnina

US Open Ekaterina Makarova, Bruno

Soares Květa Peschke, Marcin Matkowski

3 2011

Australian Open Katarina Srebotnik, Daniel

Nestor Chan Yung-Jan, Paul Hanley

French Open Casey Dellacqua, Scott Lipsky Katarina Srebotnik, Nenad

Zimonjić

Wimbeldon Jürgen Melzer, Iveta Benešová Mahesh Bhupathi, Elena Vesnina

US Open Melanie Oudin, Jack Sock Gisela Dulko, Eduardo Schwank

4 2010

Australian Open Cara Black, Leander Paes Ekaterina Makarova, Jaroslav

Levinský

French Open Katarina Srebotnik, Nenad

Zimonjić Yaroslava Shvedova, Julian

Knowle

Wimbeldon Leander Paes, Cara Black Wesley Moodie, Lisa Raymond

US Open Liezel Huber, Bob Bryan Květa Peschke, Aisam-ul-Haq

Qureshi

5 2009

Australian Open Sania Mirza, Mahesh Bhupathi Nathalie Dechy, Andy Ram

French Open Liezel Huber, Bob Bryan Vania King, Marcelo Melo

Wimbeldon Mark Knowles, Anna-Lena

Grönefeld Leander Paes, Cara Black

US Open Carly Gullickson, Travis Parrot Cara Black, Leander Paes

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World Cups & Winners

Cricket World Cup

Sr.No. Year Winners Runners-up Player of

Tournament Venue

1 2011 India Sri Lanka Yuvraj Singh Wankhede Stadium,Mumbai, India

2 2007 Australia Sri Lanka Glenn McGrath Kensington Oval, Bridgetown

3 2003 Australia India Sachin Tendulkar Wanderers,Johannesburg, South

Africa

4 1999 Australia Pakistan Lance Klusener Lord's, London, England

5 1996 Sri Lanka Australia Sanath Jayasuriya Gaddafi Stadium,Lahore, Pakistan

6 1992 Pakistan England Martin Crowe MCG, Melbourne, Australia

7 1987 Australia England - Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India

8 1983 India West Indies - Lord's, London, England

9 1979 West Indies England - Lord's, London, England

10 1975 West Indies Australia - Lord's, London, England

T20 World Cup

Sr.No. Year Winners Runners-up Host Nation Venue

1 2016 - - India -

2 2014 - - Bangladesh -

3 2012 West Indies Sri Lanka Sri Lanka R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

4 2010 England Australia West Indies Kensington Oval, Barbados

5 2009 Pakistan Sri Lanka England Lord's, London, England

6 2007 India Pakistan South Africa Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

Hockey World Cup

Sr.No. Year Winners Runners-up Venue

1 2014 - - The Hague, Netherlands

2 2010 Australia Germany Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi, India

3 2006 Germany Australia Warsteiner HockeyPark, Mönchengladbach, Germany.

4 2002 Germany Australia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

5 1998 Netherlands Spain Galgenwaard Stadium, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

6 1994 Pakistan Netherlands Homebush Stadium, Sydney, Australia.

7 1990 Netherlands Pakistan Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan.

8 1986 Australia England Willesden, London, England.

9 1982 Pakistan West Germany BHA Stadium, Mumbai, India.

10 1978 Pakistan Netherlands Campo del Polo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

11 1975 India Pakistan Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

12 1973 Netherlands India Wagener Stadium, Amstelveen, Netherlands.

13 1971 Pakistan Spain Real Polo Grounds, Barcelona, Spain.

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FIFA World Cup

Sr.No. Year Host Winners Runners-up Golden Boot

1 2014 Brazil - - -

2 2010 South Africa Spain Netherlands Thomas Müller

2 2006 Germany Italy France Miroslav Klose

3 2002 South Korea

and Japan Brazil Germany Ronaldo

4 1998 France France Brazil Davor Šuker

5 1994 USA Brazil Italy Hristo Stoichkov, Oleg Salenko

6 1990 Italy West

Germany Argentina Salvatore Schillaci

7 1986 Mexico Argentina West Germany Gary Lineker

8 1982 Spain Italy West Germany Paolo Rossi

9 1978 Argentina Argentina Netherlands Mario Kempes

10 1974 West

Germany West

Germany Netherlands Grzegorz Lato

11 1970 Mexico Brazil Italy Gerd Müller

12 1966 England England West Germany Eusébio

13 1962 Chile Brazil Czechoslovakia Garrincha, Vavá, Leonel Sánchez, Dražan Jerković, Valentin Ivanov,

Flórián Albert

14 1958 Sweden Brazil Sweden Just Fontaine

15 1954 Switzerland West

Germany Hungary Sándor Kocsis

16 1950 Brazil Uruguay Brazil Ademir

17 1938 France Italy Hungary Leônidas da Silva

18 1934 Italy Italy Czechoslovakia Oldřich Nejedlý

19 1930 Uruguay Uruguay Argentina Guillermo Stábile

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Important Global Economic, Peace and Environmental Organizations

Sr.No. Organization Full form Countries Latest Summit

Info/ Headquarters

Formed on/1st

Summit

1 ASEAN Association of

Southeast Asian Nations

1.Indonesia 2.Malaysia

3.Phillippines 4.Singapore 5.Thailand

6.Brunei 7.Burma(Myanmar)

8.Cambodia 9.Laos

10.Vietnam

2012- Phnom Penh, Cambodia

8th August,1967

2 G-20

Group of Twenty Finance

Ministers and Central Bank Governors/

Group of Twenty

19 Countries + EU (European Union)

Group 1 1.Australia 2.Canada

3.Saudi Arabia 4.United States

Group 2 1.India

2.Russia 3.South Africa

4.Turkey Group 3

1.Argentina 2.Brazil

3.Mexico Group 4 1.France

2.Germany 3.Italy

4.United Kingdom Group 5 1.China

2.Indonesia 3.Japan

4.South Korea

2012-Los Cabos, Mexico

2013-Saint Petersburg,

Russia

2014-Brisbane, Australia

2015 – TBA,

Turkey

September, 1999

3 G8 Group of Eight

1.Canada 2.France

3.Germany 4.Italy

5.Japan 6.Russia

7.United Kingdom 8.United States

2012 – Camp David, United

States

2013 – Lough Erne, County Fermanagh,

United Kingdom

2014 – Sochi, Russia

1975

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Info/ Headquarters

Formed on/1st

Summit

4 G7 Group of

Seven

1. US 2. UK

3. France 4. Germany

5. Italy 6. Canada 7. Japan

2010- Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada

1976

5 G6 Group of Six

1. Germany 2. France

3. United Kingdom 4. Italy

5. Spain 6. Poland

- 2006

6 BRICS

Brazil Russia India China and South

Africa

1.Brazil 2.Russia 3.India 4.China

5.South Africa

2012 – New Delhi, India

2013 – Durban, South Africa

June 16, 2009

7 SAARC

South Asian Association for

Regional Cooperation

1. Afghanistan 2. Bangladesh

3. Bhutan 4. India

5. Maldives 6. Nepal

7. Pakistan 8. Sri Lanka

2011 – Addu, Maldives

2013 –

Kathmandu, Nepal

December 8, 1985

8 BIMSTEC

Bay of Bengal Initiative for

Multi-Sectoral Technical and

Economic Cooperation

1.Bangladesh 2.Bhutan

3.Burma (Myanmar) 4.India 5.Nepal

6.Sri Lanka 7.Thailand

2011 - Myanmar June 6, 1997

9 MERCOSUR -

1.Argentina 2.Brazil

3. Paraguay (suspended)

4.Uruguay 5.Venezuela

Associate Members 1.Bolvia 2.Chile

3.Colombia 4.Ecudor

5.Peru

2013 - Montevideo,

Uruguay 1991

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Info/ Headquarters

Formed on/1st

Summit

10 NAFTA

North American Free

Trade Agreement

1.Canada 2.Mexico

3.United States -

January 1, 1994

11 PARLACEN Central

American Parliament

1.Gautemala 2.El Salvador 3.Honduras 4.Nicaragua 5.Dominican

Republic 6.Panama

Headquarters: Guatemala City.

First Treaty Signed in –

1987 First

Formal Session

held on 28th October,

1991

12 OPEC

Organization of the

Petroleum Exporting Countries

Current Members 1.Algeria 2.Angola

3.Ecuador 4.Iran 5.Iraq

6.Kuwait 7.Libya

8.Nigeria 9.Qatar

10.Saudi Arabia 11.United Arab

Emirates 12.Venezuela

2013- Vienna, Austria

10-14 September,

1960

13 MGC Mekong-Ganga

Cooperation

1.India 2.Thailand 3.Myanmar 4.Combodia

5.Laos 6.Vietnam

2012 - New Delhi, India

November 10, 2000

14 CEPEA

Comprehensive Economic

Partnership for East Asia

1.Indonesia 2.Malaysia

3.Phillippines 4.Singapore 5.Thailand

6.Brunei 7.Burma(Myanmar)

8.Cambodia 9.Laos

10.Vietnam 11.Japan 12.China

13.South Korea 14.India

15.Australia 16.New Zealand

17th ASEAN Summit in

October 2010 2008 - 2009

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Info/ Headquarters

Formed on/1st

Summit

15 PEMSEA

Partnership in Environmental Management

for Seas of East Asia

1. Cambodia 2. China

3. Indonesia 4. Japan 5. Laos

6. North Korea 7. Philippines 8. South Korea

9. Singapore 10. Thailand

11. Timor-Leste 12. Vietnam

Headquarters : Quezon City, Phillipines

1994

16 WWF

World Wildlife

Fund Working in more

than 100 countries.

Headquarters: Gland, Vaud, Switzerland

11th September,

1961

17 PETA

People for the Ethical

Treatment of Animals

Nearly two million members and supporters all

around the world

Headquarters: Norfolk, Virginia

March, 1980

18 WTO World Trade Organization

The WTO has 159 members and 25

observer governments.

Headquarters: Centre William

Rappard, Geneva, Switzerland

January 1, 1995

20 IMF International

Monetary Fund

188 members Headquarters:

Washington, D.C., United States.

March 1, 1947.

21 UN United Nations 193 members

Headquarters: International

territory, New York City

1945

22 UNEP United Nations Environment Programme

- Headquarters:

Nairobi June 1972

23 Greenpeace - About 2.9 million

individual supporters.

Headquarters: Amsterdam, the

Netherlands, European Union

1972

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People and Sobriquets

Sr.No. People Sobriquet

1 Valmiki Adi Kavi

2 Dadabhai Naoroji Grand Old man of India

3 C N Annadurai Anna

4 Abdul Ghaffar Khan Frontier Gandhi

5 William Shakespeare Bard of Avon

6 Alexander Pope Bard of Twickenham

7 Florence Nightingale Lady with the lamp

8 Chris Andersen Birdman

9 Mary I of England Bloody Mary

10 P.T. Usha Udanpari

11 Charles Edward Stuart Bonnie Prince Charlie

12 Paul Hewson Bono

13 Jawaharlal Nehru Chacha, Panditji

14 Kalidas Shakespeare of India

15 C. F. Andrews Deenabandhu

16 Erwin Rommel Desert Fox

17 C. R. Das Deshbandhu

18 Jack Kevorkian Dr. Death

19 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Father of the Nation, Mahatma, Bapu

20 Adolf Hitler Fuhrer

21 Che Guevara Che

22 Rabindranath Tagore Gurudev

23 M. S. Golwalkar Guruji

24 Kapil Dev Haryana Hurricane

25 Michael Jordan His Airness

26 Abraham Lincoln Honest Abe, The Great Emancipator

27 David Eisenhower Ike Dwight

28 Arthur Wellesley Iron Duke

29 Jayaprakash Narayan Loknayak

30 James George Janos Jesse Ventura

31 Ho Chi Minh Uncle Ho

32 Richard Neville King Maker

33 Reggie Miller Knick Killer

34 Larry Bird Larry Legend, The Hick from French Lick

35 Bal Gangadhar Tilak Lokmanya

36 Madonna Madge, The Material Girl

37 Nelson Mandela Madiba

38 Otto Von Bismark Man of Blood and Iron

39 Napolean Bonaparte Man of Destiny

40 Subhash Chandra Bose Netaji

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Sr.No. People Sobriquet 41 Sarojini Naidu Nightingale of India

42 Andrew Jackson Old Hickory

43 Martin Van Buren Old Kinderhook (OK)

44 Zachary Taylor Old Rough and Ready

45 Saurav Ganguly Dada, Prince of Kolkata

46 Desiderius Erasmus Prince of the Humanists

47 Lala Lajpat Rai Punjab Kesari

48 Mohammad Ali Jinnah Qaid-e-Azam

49 C Rajagopalachari Rajaji

50 Mother Teresa Saint of the Gutters

51 Louis Armstrong Satchmo

52 Bill Clinton Slick Willy

53 Samuel Wilberforce Soapy Sam

54 George Herman Ruth, Jr The Bambino, The Sultan of Swat

55 Benito Mussolini Il Duce

56 Albert DeSalvo The Boston Strangler

57 George Washington The Cincinnatus of the Americans

58 Valentino Rossi The Doctor

59 David Howell Evans The Edge

60 Joseph Merrick The Elephant Man

61 Martin Cahill The General

62 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards The Glimmer Twins

63 James Brown The Godfather of Soul

64 Jack Nicklaus The Golden Bear

65 Geoffery Chaucer Father of English Poetry

66 William Pitt The Great Commoner

67 Ronald Reagan The Great Communicator

68 Muhammad Ali The Greatest

69 Saul Hudson Slash 70 Dhyanchand Magician of Hockey

71 Arnold Palmer The King (of golf)

72 Richard Petty The King (of NASCAR)

73 Elvis Presley The King (of Rock and Roll)

74 Michael Jackson The King of Pop

75 Ashley Giles The King of Spain

76 Shane Warne The King of Spin

78 James Francis Edward Stuart The Old Pretender

79 Shoaib Akhtar The Rawalpindi Express

80 Willie Mays The Say Hey Kid

81 John Gotti The Teflon Don

82 Steven Tyler and Joe Perry The Toxic Twins

83 Charles Edward Stuart The Young Pretender

84 Richard Nixon Tricky Dick

85 Walter Scott Wizard of the North

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