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GK FACT FILES-II
CONTENTS
Categories Topics Page No
Awards Indian Awards 1
International Awards 9
Corporate & Business Acquisitions 13
Information on Media Companies 16
Prominent Companies 21
PSU - Maharatna, Navratna, Miniratna Companies 32
Politics and Govt Heads of Constitutional Bodies 35
Information on Countries 41
Sports Indian Olympic Winners and Commonwealth Medals Tally 53
IPL Franchise - Owners and Winners 55
Major Sporting Records 57
Tennis Grand Slams 60
World Cups and Winners 64
MiscellaneousImportant Global Economic, Peace and Environmental
Organizations66
People and Sobriquets 70
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Indian Awards
Dadasaheb Phalke Awards
Sr.No. Year Winner Role of Winner
1 2011 Soumitra Chatterjee Actor
2 2010 K. Balachander Director
3 2009 D. Ramanaidu Producer, Director
4 2008 V. K. Murthy Cinematographer
5 2007 Manna Dey Playback singer
6 2006 Tapan Sinha Director
7 2005 Shyam Benegal Director
8 2004 Adoor Gopalakrishnan Director
9 2003 Mrinal Sen Director
10 2002 Dev Anand Actor, Director, Producer
11 2001 Yash Chopra Director, Producer
12 2000 Asha Bhosle Playback singer13 1999 Hrishikesh Mukherjee Director
14 1998 B. R. Chopra Director, Producer
15 1997 Pradeep Lyricist
16 1996 Sivaji Ganesan Actor
17 1995 Rajkumar Actor, Singer
18 1994 Dilip Kumar Actor
19 1993 Majrooh Sultanpuri Lyricist
20 1992 Bhupen Hazarika Musician, singer, poet, filmmaker, lyricist
21 1991 Bhalji Pendharkar Director, Producer, Screenwriter
22 1990 Akkineni Nageswara Rao Actor
23 1989 Lata Mangeshkar Playback singer
24 1988 Ashok Kumar Actor
25 1987 Raj Kapoor Actor, Director, Producer
26 1986 Bommireddy Nagi Reddy Producer
27 1985 V. Shantaram Actor, Director, Producer
28 1984 Satyajit Ray Director
29 1983 Durga Khote Actress
30 1982 L. V. Prasad Actor, Director, Producer
31 1981 Naushad Music Director
32 1980 Paidi Jairaj Actor, Director
33 1979 Sohrab Modi Actor, Director, Producer
34 1978 Raichand Boral Music Director, Director
35 1977 Nitin Bose Cinematographer, Director,Screenwriter
36 1976 Kanan Devi Actress
37 1975 Dhirendranath Ganguly Actor, Director
38 1974 Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy Director
39 1973 Ruby Myers(Sulochana) Actress
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Sr.No. Year Winner Role of Winner
40 1972 Pankaj Mullick Music Director
41 1971 Prithviraj Kapoor Actor
42 1970 B. N. Sircar Producer
43 1969 Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich Actress
Arjuna Awards
Sr.No. Year Winner Sport
1 2012 Deepika Kumari Archery
2 2012 Laishram Bombayla Devi Archery
3 2012 Sudha Singh Athletics
4 2012 Kavita Ramdas Raut Athletics
5 2012 Ashwani Ponnappa Badminton
6 2012 Parupalli Kashyap Badminton
7 2012 Aditya S Mehta Billiards and Snooker
8 2012 Vikas Krishan Boxing
9 2012 Yuvraj Singh Cricket
10 2012 Sardar Singh Hockey
11 2012 Yashpal Solanki Judo
12 2012 Anup Kumar Kabaddi
13 2012 Samir Suhag Polo
14 2012 Annu Raj Singh Shooting
15 2012 Omkar Singh Shooting
16 2012 Joydeep Karmakar Shooting
17 2012 Deepika Pallikal Squash
18 2012 Sandeep Sejwal Swimming
19 2012 Ngangbam Sonia Chanu Weightlifting
20 2012 Narsingh Yadav Wrestling
21 2012 Rajinder Kumar Wrestling
22 2012 Geeta Phogat Wrestling
23 2012 M. Bimoljit Singh Wushu
24 2012 Deepa Malik Athletics Paralympics
25 2012 Ramkaran Singh Athletics Paralympics
26 2011 Rahul Banerjee Archery
27 2011 Preeja Sreedharan Athletics
28 2011 Jwala Gutta Badminton
29 2011 Suranjoy Singh Boxing
30 2011 Zaheer Khan Cricket
31 2011 Sunil Chettri Football
32 2011 Ashish Kumar Gymnastics
33 2011 Rajpal Singh Hockey
34 2011 Tejaswini bai Kabaddi
35 2011 Rakesh Kumar Kabaddi
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Sr.No. Year Winner Sport
36 2011 Somdev Devvarman Lawn Tennis
37 2011 Tejaswini Sawant Shooting
38 2011 Virdhawal Khade Swimming
39 2011 Sanjay Kumar Volley Ball
40 2011 Katulu Ravi Kumar Weightlifting
41 2011 Rajinder Singh Wrestling
42 2010 Joseph Abraham Athletics
43 2010 Krishna Punia Athletics
44 2010 Jagseer Singh Athletics Paralympics
45 2010 Dinesh Kumar Boxing
46 2010 Parimarjan Negi Chess
47 2010 Jhulan Goswami Cricket
48 2010 Deepak Kumar Mondal Football
49 2010 Jasjeet Kaur Handa Hockey
50 2010 Dinesh Kabaddi
51 2010 Sanjeev Rajput Shooting
52 2010 Rehan Poncha Swimming
53 2010 K. J. Kapil Dev Volley Ball
54 2010 Rajiv Tomar Wrestling
55 2009 Mangal Singh Champia Archery
56 2009 Sinimol Paulose Athletics
57 2009 Saina Nehwal Badminton
58 2009 L. Sarita Devi Boxing
59 2009 Tania Sachdev Chess
60 2009 Gautam Gambhir Cricket61 2009 Surinder Kaur Hockey
62 2009 Ignace Tirkey Hockey
63 2009 Satish Joshi Rowing
64 2009 Ronjan Sodhi Shooting
65 2009 Poulomi Ghatak Table Tennis
66 2009 Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling
67 2009 Girdhari Lal Yadav Yachting
Bharat Ratna Awards
Sr.No. Year Winner Profession
1 2008 Bhimsen Joshi Hindustani classical singer
2 2001 Bismillah Khan Hindustani classical shehnai player
3 2001 Lata Mangeshkar Playback singer
4 1999 Gopinath BordoloiPosthumous, independence activist, Chief
Minister of Assam
5 1999 Amartya Sen Economist
6 1999 Ravi Shankar Sitar player
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Sr.No. Year Winner Profession
7 1999 Jayaprakash NarayanPosthumous, independence activist and
politician
8 1998 Chidambaram Subramaniam Independence activist, Minister of Agriculture
9 1998 M. S. Subbulakshmi Carnatic classical singer
10 1997 Aruna Asaf Ali Posthumous, independence activist
11 1997 Gulzarilal Nanda Independence activist, interim Prime Minister
12 1997 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Aeronautical Engineer,11th President of India
13 1992 Satyajit Ray Bengali filmmaker
14 1992 J. R. D. Tata Industrialist and philanthropist
15 1992 Abul Kalam AzadPosthumous, independence activist, first
Minister of Education
16 1991 Morarji Desai Independence activist, fourth Prime Minister
17 1991 Vallabhbhai PatelPosthumous, independence activist, first Home
Minister
18 1991 Rajiv Gandhi Posthumous, Sixth Prime Minister
19 1990 Nelson MandelaSecond non-citizen and first non-Indianrecipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid
movement
20 1990 B. R. AmbedkarPosthumous, chief architect of the Indian
Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar
21 1988 M. G. RamachandranPosthumous, film actor, Chief Minister of Tamil
Nadu
22 1987 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan First non-citizen, independence activist
23 1983 Vinoba BhavePosthumous, social reformer, independence
activist
24 1980 Mother TeresaCatholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of
Charity
25 1976 K. KamarajPosthumous, independence activist, Chief
Minister of Tamil Nadu State
26 1975 V. V. Giri Trade unionist and fourth President
27 1971 Indira Gandhi Third Prime Minister
28 1966 Lal Bahadur ShastriPosthumous, independence activist, second
Prime Minister
29 1963 Pandurang Vaman Kane Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
30 1963 Zakir Hussain Scholar, third President
31 1962 Rajendra Prasad Independence activist, jurist, first President
32 1961 Purushottam Das Tandon Independence activist, educator
33 1961 Bidhan Chandra Roy Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal34 1958 Dhondo Keshav Karve Educator, social reformer
35 1957 Govind Ballabh PantIndependence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar
Pradesh, Home Minister
36 1955 Jawaharlal NehruIndependence activist, author, first Prime
Minister
37 1955 Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya Civil engineer, Diwan of Mysore
38 1955 Bhagwan Das Independence activist, author
39 1954 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Philosopher, second President
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Sr.No. Year Winner Profession40 1954 C. V. Raman Physicist
41 1954 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Independence activist, last Governor-General
Dronacharya Awards
Sr.No. Year Person Sport1 2012 B.I. Fernadez Boxing
2 2012 Bhavani Mukharjee Table Tennis
3 2012 J.S. Bhatia Athletics
4 2012 Satyapal Singh Para Sports(Athletics)
5 2012 Harendra Singh Hockey
6 2012 Yashvir Singh Wrestling
7 2012 Sunil Dabas Kabaddi
8 2012 Virendra Poonia Athletics
9 2011 Rajinder Singh Hockey
10 2011 Kuntal Roy Athletics11 2011 Ramphal Athletics
12 2011 Devender Kumar Rathore Gymnastics
13 2011 Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao Boxing
14 2010 L Ibomcha Singh Boxing
15 2010 Subhash B Aggarwal Billiards & Snooker
16 2010 Ajay Kumar Bansal Hockey
17 2010 Captain Chandrup Wrestling
18 2010 AK Kutty Athletics
19 2009 Jaidev Bisht Boxing
20 2009 Baldev Singh Hockey
21 2009 J. Uday Kumar Kabaddi
22 2009 Satpal Wrestling
23 2009 Pullela Gopichand Badminton
24 2007 Jagminder Singh Wrestling
25 2007 G.E. Sridharan Volley Ball
26 2007 Jagdish Singh Boxing
27 2007 Sanjeev Kumar Singh Archery
28 2006 Koneru Ashok Chess
29 2006 Damodaran Chandralal Boxing
30 2006 R.D. Singh Athletics
31 2005 Ismail Baig Rowing
32 2005 Maha Singh Rao Wrestling
33 2005 Balwan Singh Kabaddi
34 2005 Hony. Captain M Venu Boxing
35 2004 Gurcharan Singh Boxing
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Sr.No. Year Person Sport
36 2004 Cyrus Poncha Squash
37 2004 Sunita Sharma Cricket
38 2004 Arvind Savur Billiards & Snooker
39 2003 Sukhchain Singh Cheema Wrestling
40 2003 Rajinder Singh Hockey
41 2003 Anup Kumar Boxing
42 2003 Robert Bobby George Athletics
43 2002 Cdr. H.D. Motivala Yachting
44 2002 E. Prasad Rao Kabaddi
45 2002 M.K. Kaushik Hockey
46 2002 Jaswant Singh Athletics
47 2002 Renu Kohli Athletics
48 2001 Michael Joseph Ferreira Billiards & Snooker
49 2001 Prof. Sunny Thomas Shooting
50 2000 Hansa Sharma Weightlifting
51 2000 Bhupender Dhawan Powerlifting
52 2000 Phadke Gopal Pushottam Kho-Kho
53 2000 Gudial Singh Bhangu Hockey
54 2000 S.M. Arif Badminton
55 1999 Ajay Kumar Sirohi Weightlifting
56 1999 Capt. Hawa Singh Boxing
57 1999 Kenneth Owen Bosen Athletics
58 1998 G.S.Sandhu Boxing
59 1998 Hargobind Singh Sandhu Athletics
60 1998 Bahadur Singh Athletics61 1997 Joginder Singh Saini Athletics
62 1996 Pal Singh Sandhu Weightlifting
63 1996 Wilson Jones Billiards & Snooker
64 1995 M. Shyam Sunder Rao Volleyball
65 1995 Karan Singh Athletics
66 1994 Ilyas Babar Athletics
67 1990 A. Ramana Rao Volleyball
68 1990 Syed Naeemuddin Football
69 1990 Ramakant Achrekar Cricket
70 1987 Guru Hanuman Wrestling71 1987 Gurcharan Singh Cricket
72 1986 Desh Prem Azad Cricket
73 1986 Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle Chess
74 1985 Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat Wrestling
75 1985 Om Prakash Bhardwaj Boxing
76 1985 O.M. Nambiar Athletics
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Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award
Sr.No. Year Winner Role of Winner
1 2012 D. R. MehtaWork through Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang
Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur
2 2011 SPIC MACAY
Promotes Indian classical music and culture
among the youth3 2010 Wahiduddin Khan Islamic Scholar, Peace Activist
4 2009 Gautam Bhai Social Activist
5 2008 N Radhakrishnan Social Activist
6 2007 Hem Dutta Social Activist
7 2006 Nirmala Deshpande Social Activist
8 2004 Swami Agnivesh Social Activist
9 2003 S. N. Subba Rao Peace Activist
10 2000 Kapila Vatsyayan Scholar
11 1998 Sunil Dutt Peace Activist, Politician
12 1996 Lata Mangeshkar Singer
Jnanpith Awards
Sr.No. Year Name Work
1 2011 Pratibha Ray For her contributions to Oria literature
2 2010 Chandrashekhara Kambara For his contributions to Kannada literature
3 2009 Sri Lal SuklaFor his contribution to Indian literature and
culture
4 2009 Amar Kant For his contributions to Hindi literature
5 2008 Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' For his contributions to Urdu poetry
6 2007 Dr. O. N. V. Kurup For his contributions to Malayalam literature
7 2006 Satya Vrat Shastri For his contributions to Sanskrit language
8 2006 Ravindra Kelekar For his contributions to Konkani literature
9 2005 Kunwar Narayan For his contributions to Hindi literature
10 2004 Rehman RahiSubhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren
Manz
11 2003 Vinda Karandikar For his contributions to Marathi literature
12 2002 D. Jayakanthan For his contributions to Tamil literature
13 2001 Rajendra Shah For his contributions to Gujarati literature
14 2000 Indira Goswami For his contributions to Assamese literature
15 1999 Gurdial Singh For his contributions to Punjabi literature16 1999 Nirmal Verma For his contributions to Hindi literature
17 1998 Girish KarnadFor his contributions to Kannada literature andfor contributions to Kannada theatre (Yayati)
18 1997 Ali Sardar Jafri For his contributions to Urdu literature
19 1996 Mahasweta Devi Hajar Churashir Maa
20 1995 Dr. M. T. Vasudevan Nair For his contributions to Malayalam literature
21 1994 U. R. Ananthamurthy For his contributions to Kannada literature
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Sr.No. Year Name Work
22 1993 Sitakant MahapatraFor outstanding contribution to the enrichment
of Indian literature, 197392
23 1992 Naresh Mehta For his contributions to Hindi literature
24 1991 Subhas Mukhopadhyay Padatik (The Foot Soldier)
25 1990V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna
Gokak)
Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi
26 1989 Qurratulain Hyder Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar
27 1988 Dr. C. Narayana Reddy Vishwambhara
28 1987Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar
(Kusumagraj)For his contributions to Marathi literature
29 1986 Sachidananda Routray For his contributions to Oriya literature
30 1985 Pannalal Patel Maanavi Ni Bhavaai
31 1984 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Kayar{Coir}
32 1983 Masti Venkatesha IyengarChikkaveera Rajendra(Life and struggle of
Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra)
33 1982 Mahadevi Varma Yama
34 1981 Amrita Pritam Kagaj te Canvas
35 1980 S. K. Pottekkatt Oru Desathinte Katha(Story of a land)
36 1979 Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Mrityunjay(Immortal)
37 1978 Sachchidananda VatsyayanKitni Navon Men Kitni Bar(How many times in
how many boats?)
38 1977 K. Shivaram Karanth Mookajjiya Kanasugalu(Mookajjis dreams)
39 1976 Ashapurna Devi Pratham Pratisruti
40 1975 P. V. Akilan Chitttrappavai
41 1974 Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Yayati
42 1973 Gopinath Mohanty Matimatal
43 1973 Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre Nakutanti (Naku Thanthi) (Four Strings)
44 1972 Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Urvashi
45 1971 Bishnu Dey Smriti Satta Bhavishyat
46 1970 Viswanatha SatyanarayanaRamayana Kalpavrikshamu (A resourceful
tree:Ramayana)
47 1969 Firaq Gorakhpuri Gul-e-Naghma
48 1968 Sumitranandan Pant Chidambara
49 1967 Umashankar Joshi Nishitha
50 1967Kuppali Venkatappagowda
Puttappa(Kuvempu)Sri Ramayana Darshanam
51 1966 Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Ganadevta
52 1965 G. Sankara Kurup Odakkuzhal (Flute)
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International Awards
Man Booker Prize
Sr.No. Year Name of the Book AuthorAuthor's Country
of Origin
1 2012 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel United Kingdom2 2011 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes United Kingdom
3 2010 The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson United Kingdom
4 2009 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel United Kingdom
5 2008 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga India
6 2007 The Gathering Anne Enright Ireland
7 2006 The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai India
8 2005 The Sea John Banville Ireland
9 2004 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst United Kingdom
10 2003 Vernon God Little DBC Pierre Australia
11 2002 Life of Pi Yann Martel Canada12 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey Australia
13 2000 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Canada
14 1999 Disgrace J. M. Coetzee South Africa
15 1998 Amsterdam Ian McEwan United Kingdom
16 1997 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy India
17 1996 Last Orders Graham Swift United Kingdom
18 1995 The Ghost Road Pat Barker United Kingdom
19 1994 How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman United Kingdom
20 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle Ireland
21 1992 Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth United Kingdom
22 1992 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje Sri Lanka
23 1991 The Famished Road Ben Okri Nigeria
24 1990 Possession A. S. Byatt United Kingdom
25 1989 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Japan
26 1988 Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey Australia
Pulitzer Awards
Sr.No. Year Name of the Book Author1 2011 A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
2 2010 Tinkers Paul Harding
3 2009 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
4 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Daz
5 2007 The Road Cormac McCarthy
6 2006 March Geraldine Brooks
7 2005 Gilead Marilynne Robinson
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Sr.No. Year Name of the Book Author
8 2004 The Known World Edward P. Jones
9 2003 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
10 2002 Empire Falls Richard Russo
11 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon
12 2000 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri13 1999 The Hours Michael Cunningham
14 1998 American Pastoral Philip Roth
15 1997Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American
DreamerSteven Millhauser
16 1996 Independence Day Richard Ford
17 1995 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields
18 1994 The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx
19 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler
20 1992 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
21 1991 Rabbit at Rest John Updike22 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos
23 1989 Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler
24 1988 Beloved Toni Morrison
25 1987 A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor
Nobel Prize
Sr.No. Year Category Nobel Laureates
1 2012 Physics Serge Haroche, David J. Wineland
2 2012 Chemistry Robert J. Lefkowitz, Brian K. Kobilka3 2012 Physiology or medicine Sir John B. Gurdon, Shinya Yamanaka
4 2012 Literature Mo Yan
5 2012 Peace European Union (EU)
6 2012 Economic sciences Alvin E. Roth, Lloyd S. Shapley
7 2011 PhysicsSaul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G.
Riess
8 2011 Chemistry Dan Shechtman
9 2011 Physiology or medicineBruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, Ralph
M. Steinman
10 2011 Literature Tomas Transtrmer
11 2011 PeaceEllen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee,
Tawakkol Karman
12 2011 Economic sciences Thomas J. Sargent, Christopher A. Sims
13 2010 Physics Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov
14 2010 ChemistryRichard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira
Suzuki
15 2010 Physiology or medicine Robert G. Edwards
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Sr.No. Year Category Nobel Laureates
16 2010 Literature Mario Vargas Llosa
17 2010 Peace Liu Xiaobo
18 2010 Economic sciencesPeter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen,
Christopher A. Pissarides
19 2009 Physics Charles Kuen Kao, Willard S. Boyle, GeorgeE. Smith
20 2009 ChemistryVenkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A.
Steitz, Ada E. Yonath
21 2009 Physiology or medicineElizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider,
Jack W. Szostak
22 2009 Literature Herta Mller
23 2009 Peace Barack H. Obama
24 2009 Economic sciences Elinor Ostrom, Oliver E. Williamson
25 2008 PhysicsYoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi,
Toshihide Maskawa
26 2008 ChemistryOsamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y.
Tsien
27 2008 Physiology or medicineHarald zur Hausen, Franoise Barr-
Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier
28 2008 Literature Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clzio
29 2008 Peace Martti Ahtisaari
30 2008 Economic sciences Paul Krugman
Complete List of Indian Nobel Laureates
Sr.No. Year Category Nobel Laureates
1 2009 Chemistry Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
2 2007 Peace Rajendra Kumar Pachauri
3 1998 Economic sciences Amartya Sen
4 1983 Physics Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
5 1979 Peace Mother Teresa
6 1968 Medicine Har Gobind Khorana
7 1930 Physics C.V. Raman
8 1913 Literature Rabindranath Tagore
9 1907 Literature Rudyard Kipling
10 1902 Medicine Ronald Ross
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Ramon Magsaysay Award
Sr.No. Year Awardee Category
1 2012 Syeda Rizwana Hasan Government Service
2 2012 Yang Siang Koma Public Service
3 2012 Kulendei Francis Community Leadership
4 2012 Romulo DavideJournalism, Literature, and the Creative
Communication Arts
5 2012 Chen Shu-chu Peace and International Understanding
6 2012 Ruwindrijarto Emergent Leadership
7 2011 Tri Mumpuni Public Service
8 2011 Husanain Juaini Public Service
9 2011 Koul PanhaPeace and International Understanding &
Emergent Leadership
10 2011 Harish Hande Emergent Leadership
11 2011 Nileema Mishra Emergent Leadership12 2010 Fu Qiping Government Service
13 2010 Pan Yue Government Service
14 2010 Christopher Bernido Public Service
15 2010 Ma. Victoria Carpio-Bernido Public Service
16 2010 A.H.M. Noman Khan Community Leadership
17 2010 Huo DaishanJournalism, Literature, and the Creative
Communication Arts
18 2010 Tadatoshi Akiba Peace and International Understanding
19 2009 Krisana Kraisintu Public Service20 2009 Deep Joshi Community Leadership
21 2009 Ma JunJournalism, Literature, and the Creative
Communication Arts
22 2009 Yu Xiaogang Peace and International Understanding
23 2009 Ka Hsaw Wa Emergent Leadership
24 2008 Grace Padaca Government Service
25 2008 Aris Alip Public Service
26 2008 Therdchai Jivacate Public Service
27 2008 Dr. Prakash Amte Community Leadership
28 2008 Dr. Mandakini Amte Community Leadership29 2008 Akio Ishii
Journalism, Literature, and the CreativeCommunication Arts
30 2008 Ahmad Syafi'i Maarif Peace and International Understanding
31 2008 Ananda Galappatti Emergent Leadership
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Acquisitions
Sr.No.Acquiring
Company
Acquired
Company
HQ of
Acquiring
Company
HQ of
Acquired
Company
1 Acacia Research ADAPTIX U.S. U.S.
2 Adani Enterprises Abbot Point Coal India Australia
3 Aditya Birla Group Columbian Chemicals India U.S.
4 Aegis Group Roundarch U.K. U.S.
5 Amazon Kiva Systems U.S. U.S.
6 Amazon LOVEFiLM U.S. U.K.
7 AMD SeaMicro U.S. U.S.
8 Amgen KAI Pharmaceuticals U.S. U.S.
9 Apple AuthenTec U.S. U.S.
10 AT&T NextWave Wireless U.S. U.S.
11 Autodesk Socialcam U.S. U.S.12 Bazaarvoice PowerReviews U.S. U.S.
13Bird Construction
Inc.Nason Contracting
Group Ltd.Canada Canada
14 Braintree Venmo U.K. U.S.
15 Brightcove Zencoder U.S. U.S.
16 Broadcom BroadLight U.S. Israel
17 Carlyle Group Getty Images U.S. U.S.
18 Celgene Avila Therapeutics U.S. U.S.
19 CinvenMercury Pharma
GroupU.K. U.K.
20 Cisco Lightwire U.S. U.S.
21 Cisco Cloupia U.S. U.S.
22 CryoLife Hemosphere U.S. U.S.
23 Dell Quest Software U.S. U.S.
24 Deluxe Corp OrangeSoda U.S. U.S.
25 DG Peer39 U.S. U.S. and Israel
26Discovery
CommunicationsRevision3 U.S. U.S.
27 Envestnet Tamarac U.S. U.S.
28 Facebook Instagram U.S. U.S.
29 Facebook Face.com U.S. Israel
30FICO (Fair Isaac
Corporation)Adeptra U.S. U.S.
31Fortis Healthcare
(India) Ltd
Fortis HealthcareInternational
Pte LtdIndia Singapore
32Generac Holdings
Inc.Ottomotores
BusinessesU.S. U.K.
33 Google Motorola Mobility U.S U.S.
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Company
Acquired
Company
HQ of
Acquiring
Company
HQ of
Acquired
Company
34 Google Wildfire U.S. U.S.
35 Google Meebo U.S. U.S.
36 GREE Funzio Japan U.S.
37Green Dot
CorporationLoopt U.S. U.S.
38 GVK Power Hancock Coal India Australia
39 Haemonetics Pall U.S. U.S.
40Hanergy Holding
GroupMiaSole China U.S.
41 Hologic Gen-Probe U.S. U.S.
42Honeywell
InternationalInc. (HON)
Intermec Inc. U.S. U.S.
43 IAC About.com U.S. U.S.
44 IBM Kenexa U.S. U.S.
45 IBM Worklight U.S. Israel
46 iGate Patni U.S. India
47 Infospace TaxACT U.S. U.S.
48 Intel Olaworks U.S. South Korea
49 Intel Olaworks U.S. Korea
50 iRobot Evolution Robotics U.S. U.S.
51 Itron SmartSynch U.S. U.S.
52 ITV So Television U.K. U.K.
53 IXIABreakingPoint
SystemsU.S. U.S.
54 John Wiley & Sons Deltak.edu U.S. U.S.
55 Juniper Networks Mykonos Software U.S. U.S.
56 LinkedIn SlideShare U.S. U.S.
57 LinkedIn Rapportive U.S. U.S.
58 LogMeIn Bold Software U.S. U.S.
59Mahindra &
MahindraSsangYong India South Korea
60 Masimo Spire Corporation U.S. U.S.
61 Meredith AllRecipes U.S. U.S.
62 Microsoft Yammer U.S. U.S.
63Mindspeed
TechnologiesPicoChip U.S. U.K.
64 Monitise ClairMail U.K. U.S.
65 Nexon Gloops South Korea Japan
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Sr.No.Acquiring
Company
Acquired
Company
HQ of
Acquiring
Company
HQ of
Acquired
Company
66Nuance
CommunicationsTranscend Services U.S. U.S.
67 Opera Mobile Theory U.S. U.S.
68 Oracle Taleo U.S. U.S.69 Oracle Corporation Vitrue U.S. U.S.
70 Pearson Certiport U.K. U.S.
71 Pearson GlobalEnglish U.K. U.S.
72 Penguin Group Author Solutions U.S. U.S.
73 Perficient Northridge U.S. U.S.
74 Playphone Social Hour U.S. U.S.
75 Salesforce GoInstant U.S. Canada
76 SAP AG Ariba Germany U.S.
77 SAP AG SuccessFactors Germany U.S.
78 ShoreTel M5 Networks U.S. U.S.
79 Silicon Laboratories Ember U.S. U.S.
80 SingTel Amobee Singapore U.S.
81 SingTel Pixable Singapore U.S.
82 Symantec LiveOffice U.S. U.S.
83 Syngenta Pasteuria Bioscience Switzerland U.S.
84 Teleflex Semprus BioSciences U.S. U.S.
85Telephone and Data
SystemsVital Support Systems U.S. U.S.
86Thermo Fisher
Scientific Doe & Ingalls U.S. U.S.
87 TIBCO Software LogLogic U.S. U.S.
88 TiVo TRA U.S. U.S.
89 TornierOrthoHelix Surgical
DesignsHolland U.S.
90 Towers Watson Extend Health U.S. U.S.
91 Vedanta Cairn India India India
92 Verizon Hughes Telematics U.S. U.S.
93 VMWare Nicira Networks U.S. U.S.
94 Vocus iContact U.S. U.S.
95 VodafoneCable & Wireless
Worldwide(C&WW)
U.K. U.K.
96 Wanxiang A123 Systems China U.S.
97 Wipro TechnologiesPromax Application
GroupIndia Australia
98 Yelp Qype U.S. Germany
99 Zillow RentJuice U.S. U.S.
100 Zynga OMGPOP U.S. U.S.
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Information on Media Companies
Sr.No.Parent
Company
TV Media
Companies
Print Media
CompaniesInternet Media Miscellaneous
1
ZeeEntertainment
Enterprises
Limited (ZEEL)
9X, Zee TV, ZeeCinema, Zing, TEN
Action+, TENCricket, TENSports, TEN Golf,
TEN HD,Zee Premiere,
Zee Action,Zee Classic,Zee Smile,Zee Jagran,Zee Trendz,
Zee Cafe,Zee Studio,Zee Telugu,
Zee Bangla,Zee Bangla Cinema,Zee Kannada,Zee Marathi,
Zee MarathiCinema,
Zee Punjabi,Zee Tamil,
ETC Channel,ETC Punjabi,
Zee KhanaKhazana,
Zee Q, Zee Salaam
Daily Newsand
Analysis(DNA)
DNA E-Paper,Playwin
Zee MotionPictures, IndianCricket League,
Fun Cinemas
2ABP Group
(Ananda BazarPatrika)
ABP News, ABPAnanda, ABP
Majha,Sananda TV
AnandabazarPatrika, Ebela,The Telegraph,Anandamela,Unish-Kuri,
Businessworld,Fortune India,Ananda Lok,
Desh, Sananda
Indiainfocom.com,Anandabazar.in,
Anandautsav.com,Tilottama.in,
Thetelegraphstore.com,Mjoy.in.
AnandaPublishers,
Penguin India,Ananda
Purashkar, RadioAnanda
3 HT Media NA
Hindustan
Times, HTNext, HT Caf,Mint
Newspaper,Hindusthan
Shine.com,DesiMartini.com,HTCampus.com
Fever 104 FM
4IndependentNews Service
India TV NA NA NA
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Company
TV Media
Companies
Print Media
CompaniesInternet Media Miscellaneous
9 Network 18
CNN-IBN, IBN-7,CNBC Awaaz,
CNBC-TV18, IBN-Lokmat, MTV
India, Nick India,VH1 India, Colors,History TV18, ETVNetwork, Nick Jr.,
Nick Teen,Comedy Central,
Forbes India,E18, Sport18
In.com,Moneycontrol.com,
Firstpost.com,Bookmyshow.com,
Cricketnext.com,Homeshop18.com,
ibnlive.com,
Webchutney
10New DelhiTelevision
Limited (NDTV)
NDTV 24x7, NDTVIndia, NDTV
Profit, NDTV GoodTimes, NDTV
Hindi, ATN NDTV24x7, NDTVWorldwide
NA ndtv.comNGEN, NDTVWorldwide
11 Prasar BharatiDoordarshan, DD
India, DD Regionalchanels
NA DD Direct+ All India Radio
12 Raj Network
Raj TV, Vissa, RajParivar,Raj Musix(Tamil), Raj Musix
Telugu, Raj MusixKannada, RajMusix Malayalam,
Raj Digital Plus,Raj News 24X7,Raj News, Raj
Pariwar, Raj Asia
NA NA NA
13
Sahara OneMedia &
EntertainmentLtd
Sahara One, Filmy,Firangi, Sahara
Samay
RashtriyaSahara,
RoznamaRashtriya
Sahara
NASahara One
Motion pictures
14
SonyEntertainment
Television(India)
Sony Mix, SonySIX, SET Max, SET
PIX, SonyEntertainment
Television., AXN,SAB TV
NA Sony Liv NA
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Sr.No.Parent
Company
TV Media
Companies
Print Media
CompaniesInternet Media Miscellaneous
15 STAR India
STAR Plus, STARGold, STAR Jalsha,
STAR Pravah,STAR World, STAR
Movies, STARUtsav, Channel[V],Life OK, Asianet,
Asianet Plus,Asianet Sitara,Asianet News,
Asianet Movies,STAR Vijay, Movies
OK, AsianetSuvarna, Suvarna
News, STAR Sports,STAR Cricket,
ESPN, ESPNewsAsia
NA Star Player
Star ScreenAwards,Big StarEntertainmentAwards, Star
Parivaar Awards
16 Sun TV Network
Sun TV, SunMusic, Sun News,Sun Life, Adithya
TV, Chutti TV, SunAction, Gemini TV,
Gemini Music,Gemini News,Gemini Life,
Gemini Comedy,Kushi TV, GeminiAction, Udaya TV,
Udaya Music,
Udaya News,Udaya Comedy,
Chintu TV,Suriyan TV, Surya,Kiran, Chirithira,Kochu TV, Surya
Action, K TV,Gemini Movies,Udaya Movies
Dinakaran,Tamil Murasu,Malai Murasu,Kungumam,KumgumaChimizh,
Kungumam
Thozhi,Aanmigam,Mutharam,Vannathirai
Suntv.in
Sun KudumbamAwards,Suryan
FM 93.5, Red FM93.5
17The Hindu
GroupNA
The Hindu,The Hindu
Business Line,
Sportstar,Frontline,Praxis, Indian
Cricket, Surveyof Indianindustry,Survey of
Indianagriculture,
Survey of theEnvironment
The Hindu E-paper NA
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Sr.No.Parent
Company
TV Media
Companies
Print Media
CompaniesInternet Media Miscellaneous
18The Outlook
Group
NA
Outlook,OutlookMoney,Outlook
Traveller,OutlookSaptahik
Outlookindia.com,outlooktraveller. com,
outlookmoney. com
OutloookTraveller getaway
series, Thelayman's guide to
insurance, thelayman's guide to
mutual funds
19The Times
Group
Times Now, ETNow, Zoom,
Movies Now
The Times ofIndia, TheEconomic
Times,Maharashtra
Times,Navbharat
Times,Mumbai
Mirror, ETWealth,
Filmfare,Femina, Top
Gear MagazineIndia, Femina
Hindi
TimesJobs, Gaana.com,TimesDeal, BoxTV.com,
Indiatimes
Radio Mirchi,Absolute Radio,
360 Degrees,Mirchi Movies
Limited, Filmfare
Awards, FeminaMiss India Beauty
Pagent
20UTV Software
Communications
Bindass (formerlyUTV Bindass),
UTV Stars, UTVAction (formerlyBindass Movies),UTV Movies, UTV
WorldMovies,Bloomberg
UTV (formerlyUTVi)
NA NA
UTV MotionPictures, UTV
Toons, IgnitionEntertainment
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Prominent Companies
Sr.No.Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
ProductsFounders Industry
1ABN AMRO
GroupGerrit Zalm
Making MorePossible
Assetmanagement,commercial
banking,investment
banking
RobHazelhoff,
RoelofNelissen
Financialservices
2 Accenture Pierre NantermeHigh
Performance.Delivered
IT, businessconsulting and
outsourcingservices
Founded in1989 as the
business andtechnologyconsulting
division of theaccounting
firm ArthurAndersen
IT
3 AdobeShantanuNarayen
Simplicity atwork. Better
by adobe.
Acrobat, Flash,Photoshop
CharlesGeschke, John
WarnockSoftware
4 AllianzMichael
DiekmannThe Power on
your side
Insurance,banking, assetmanagement
Carl vonThieme &
Wilhelm vonFinck
FinancialServices
5Amazon.com,
Inc.Jeff Bezos
Earth's BiggestBookStore
Amazon Kindle,Amazon.com
Jeff Bezos Online Retailing
6American
InternationalGroup, Inc.
Bob BenmoscheWe know
Money
Insuranceannuities,
mutual funds
CorneliusVander Starr
Insurance,Financialservices
7 AmulR.S. Sodhi(ManagingDirector)
The taste ofIndia
Dairy productsFounded in
1946Dairy
8 Apple Inc Tim CookThink
Different.Mac PC, iPad,iPhone, iPod
SteveJobs,SteveWozniak,
Ronald Wayne
Software
9Arcelor(Arcel
or Mittal)Lakshmi Mittal
Steel solutionsfor a better
worldSteel
Formed dueto a mergerthese threecompanies -
Arbed,Aceralia,Usinor
Steel
10 AT&T Inc.Randall
Stephenson
The World'sNetworking
CompanyAT&T Inc.
Managementof American
Bell
Telecommuni-cations
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Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
ProductsFounders Industry
11 Barclays PLC
Antony Jenkins
(Group ChiefExecutive)
Fluent inFinance; Its
our business toknow yourbusiness
Retail bankingCommercial
banking,
Investmentbanking,
Investmentmanagement
John Freame
and ThomasGould
Banking,
Financialservices
12 Bata Thomas G. BataShoes foreveryone
Footwear,sportswear,
sportsequipment,
toiletries
Tom BaaRetail and
manufacturing
13Bayerische
MotorenWerke AG
NorbertReithofer
The UltimateDriving
Machine
Automobiles,motorcycles,
bicycles
Franz JosefPopp
Automobiles
14 Bloomingdale's Michael GouldLike no otherstore in the
world
Clothing,footwear,bedding,furniture,
jewelry
Joseph andLyman G.
Bloomingdale
Clothing,footwear,bedding,furniture,
jewelry, beautyproducts,
housewares,optical, salon,
portrait studio,cafe.
15 CEAT
ParasChowdhary
(ChiefManagementAdvisor)
Born Tough Tyres
Virginio Bruni
Tedeschi Tyres & Tubes
16Cisco Systems
IncJohn Chambers
Empoweringthe Internetgeneration.
NetworkingDevice,
NetworkManagement,Cisco IOS and
NX-OS Software
LeonardBosack,Sandy
Lerner
Networkingequipment
17 CITIGROUP Michael Corbat
The Citi Never
Sleeps
Credit cards,consumerbanking,
corporatebanking,investment
banking
Formed dueto a merger
between
Citicorp andTravelers
Group
Banking,
Financialservices
18 Dell Inc Michael DellEasy as DELL/
Easy to Buy,Easy to own
Desktops,netbooks,
notebooks,servers,
scanners, smartphones
Michael DellComputers and
IT
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Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
ProductsFounders Industry
19 DeutscheBank
Paul Achleitner(Chairman),
Juergen Fitschen(Co-CEO),
Anshuman Jain(Co-CEO)
A Passion toPerform
Consumer
banking,corporatebanking, finance
and insurance
G. Siemensand L.Bamberger
Banking,Financialservices
20 DuPont Ellen KullmanBetter living
throughchemistry.
Corian, Delrin,Kevlar
EleuthreIrne du
PontChemicals
21Ernst and
YoungJim Turley
Quality inEverything we
Do
Assurance, TaxAdvisory,
Consultingetc.
services
Formed dueto a series ofmergers of
ancestororganizations
Professionalservices
22 Essar Group Prashant RuiaA positiveattitude
Steel, oil and gas,power,
communications,shipping
Shashi Ruia,Ravi Ruia
Conglomerate
23 Essel Group Subhash Chandra -
Media,entertainment,
packaging,infrastructure
SubhashChandra
Conglomerate
24Exxon MobilCorporation
Rex W. Tillerson
Taking on theWorld'sToughest
EnergyChallenges
Fuels,lubricants,
petrochemicals
Formed dueto a mergerbetween
Exxon andMobil
Oil and gas
25 Facebook Mark Zuckerberg
Facebookhelps you
connect andshare with thepeople in your
life
SocialNetworking
services
MarkZuckerberg,
EduardoSaverin,Andrew
McCollum,Dustin
Moskovitz,Chris Hughes
SocialNetworking
26 FIATSergio
MarchionneDriven by
Passion. FIAT
Automobiles,commercial
vehicles, autoparts
GiovanniAgnelli
Automotive
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Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
ProductsFounders Industry
27Ford Motor
Co.
Alan R. Mulally
Built for theroad
ahead/Ford
has a betteridea
Automobiles,Automotive
parts
Henry Ford Automobiles
28Four Seasons
Hotels, Inc.Isadore Sharp
(Chairman)
Fifty Hotels.Twenty-Two
Countries. OnePhilosophy
- Isadore Sharp Hospitality
29 Future GroupFouad M.
Makhzoumi(Chairman)
IndiaTomorrow
Discount,grocery andconvenience
stores, cash andcarry,
hypermarkets,financialservices
Mr. KishoreBiyani
Retail
30 GAILSh B. C. Tripathi(Chairman and
MD)
Gas andBeyond
Natural Gas,Petrochemical,
LiquidHydrocarbons
Ministry ofPetroleum &Natural Gas
Energy,Petrochemicals
31General Mills,
Inc.Kendall J. Powell
NourishingLives
Food Products Robert Smith Food Processing
32GeneralMotors
Company
Daniel Akerson Only GM Automobiles,William C.
Durant
Automotive
33 Google
Eric Schmidt(Executive
Chairman), LarryPage (Co-founder
& CEO), SergeyBrin
(Co-founder)
-
Search tools,mobile
applications,operatingsystems
Larry Page,Sergey Brin
Internet,computersoftware,telecoms
equipment
34
Haier
ElectronicsGroup Co
Zhang Ruimin Inspired Living
Majorappliances,
small
appliances,commercialheating and
cooling systems
Zhang Ruimin
Home
appliances,Consumerelectronics
35Hewlett-Packard
CompanyMeg Whitman
Everything isPossible
PCs, printers,monitors,scanners,servers
BillHewlett,David
Packard
Computers andIT
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Sr.No.Company
Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
ProductsFounders Industry
36
HindustanUnileverLimited(HUL)
Nitin ParanjpeAdding Vitality
to Life
Foods,beverages,
cleaning agentsand personalcare products
Founded in1956 as
Hindustan
Lever Limitedthrough amerger of
LeverBrothers,
HindustanVanaspati
Mfg. Co. Ltd.and United
Traders Ltd.
Consumergoods
37 HOME DEPOT Frank Blake You can do it.We can Help.
Homeappliances,
tools, hardware,lumber,building
materials
BernieMarcus,
Arthur Blank,Ron Brill, Pat
Farrah
Retailing
38Honda Motor
Co LtdTakanobu Ito
The Power ofDreams
Automobiles,motorcycles,
scooters,electrical
generators, jetaircrafts
SoichiroHonda,Takeo
Fujisawa
Automotive,Aviation,
Telematics
39
HSBC (TheHong-kong
and ShanghaiBanking
Corporation.)
Stuart Gulliver(Group Chief
Executive)
The World's
Local Bank
Investment,commercial,
retail andprivate banking,
Sir Thomas
Sutherland
Financial
Services
40 Infosys S.D. Shibulal
Powered byIntellect,Driven by
Values;Improve your
odds withInfosys
Predictability
IT, businessconsulting and
outsourcingservices
N. R.Narayana
Murthy,Nandan Nilekani
N. S.Raghavan,S.
Gopalakrishnan
S. D.Shibulal,K
Dinesh,AshokArora
IT
41Intel
CorporationPaul Otellini Intel Inside
Bluetoothchipsets, flash
memory,microprocessors,
motherboardchipsets,network
interface cards
GordonMoore,
Robert NoyceSemiconductors
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Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
ProductsFounders Industry
42
InternationalBusinessMachines
(IBM)Corporation
Ginni RomettyI think,
therefore IBM
Hardware andSoftware
products
Charles
Ranlett Flint
Computers and
IT
43
IOCL(Indian Oil
CorporationLimited)
RS Butola(Chairman)
BringingEnergy to Life
Fuels,lubricants,
petrochemicals
Formed dueto a merger
betweenIndian Oil
Company Ltd.and IndianRefineries
Ltd.
Oil and gas
44JVC(Victor
Company ofJapan)
Shoichiro EguchiThe PerfectExperience
Audio, visual,computer-
relatedelectronics and
software
Founded in
1927 as asubsidiary ofthe United
States'leading
phonographand recordcompany
Audio, visual,computer-
relatedelectronics andsoftware, media
products
45KFC(KentuckyFried Chicken)
David C. Novak(Chairman and
CEO of Yum!Brands), Roger
Eaton (Chairmanand CEO of KFC)
Its FingerLickin Good!!
Fried chicken,soft drinks,
salads, desserts,breakfast
HarlandSanders
Fast foodrestaurant
46
KoninklijkePhilips
ElectronicsN.V.
Frans vanHouten
Sense andSimplicity
Homeappliances,
lighting,medical
equipment
GerardPhilips,
FrederikPhilips
Electronics
47 KotakUday Kotak
(Vice Chairman)& (MD)
ThinkInvestments.Think Kotak.
Deposit
accounts, Loans,Investment
services,Businessbanking
solutions
Uday KotakFinancialservice
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Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
ProductsFounders Industry
48LARSEN and
TOUBROK.
Venkataramanan
We makethings whichmake India
proud
Construction,heavy
equipment,electrical
equipment,power
HenningHolck
Larsen,SorenKristianToubro
Conglomerate
49Lenovo Group
Ltd.Yang Yuanqing
We arebuilding a new
technologycompany
Desktops,servers,
notebooks,tablet
computers
Liu ChuanzhiComputerhardware,electronics
50
LG
ElectronicsInc.
Bon-joon Koo Life's good
Electronics,
chemicals,telecommuni-cations
Koo In-Hwoi
Consumerelectronics,
homeappliances,telecoms
equipment
51 Lufthansa Christoph FranzThere's no
better to flyAirline services
Founded in1926 as
Deutsche LuftHansa
Airlines
52MasterCard
IncorporatedAjay Banga
There are some
things moneycan't buy. Foreverything else
there'sMASTERCARD.
Credit cards,paymentsystems
Founded in1966 when a
group of
Californiabanks formedthe Interbank
CardAssociation
(ICA)
Financialservices
53
Max LifeInsurance
Company Ltd.(formerly:MaxNew York Life
InsuranceCompany Ltd.)
Rajesh SudYour Partner
for lifeIndividual and
group insuranceAnaljit Singh
FinancialServices
54McDonald's
CorpDon Thompson I m Lovin it Fast food
Richard andMaurice
McDonald,Ray Kroc
Restaurants
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Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
ProductsFounders Industry
55MetropolitanLife InsuranceCompany or
Metlife.
Steven A.Kandarian
Have You MetLife Today
Insurance,
Annuities,EmployeeBenefits,Banking
Founded onMarch 24,
1868. Earlier
known as theNational
Union Lifeand LimbInsuranceCompany
Financialservices
56 Microsoft Steve Ballmer Be What's Next
Windows, MSOffice, Skype,
Bing, Xbox,Windows
Phone, Surface
Bill Gates,Paul Allen
Software
57 Morrison &Foerster
Keith C.Wetmore
- Morrison &Foerster LLP(MoFo)
AlexenderMorrison
Law Firm
58MRF (Madras
RubberFactory)
Arun Mammen(MD)
Tyres withMuscle
Tyres, toys,sports goods,conveyor belt,paints & coats
Mr.K.M.Mammen Mappilai
Conglomerate
59 Nestle Paul BulckeGood food,Good life
Baby food,coffee, dairy
products
Henri Nestl,Charles Page,George Page
Food processing
60
New DelhiTelevision
Limited(NDTV)
VikramadityaChandra (GroupCEO & Executive
Director)
News you canUse.
(Ndtv Profit)
Broadcasting,radio
Prannoy Roy Media
61 Nike Inc. Mark Parker Just do it
Athleticfootwear andapparel, sport
equipments andother
recreationalproducts
BillBowerman,Phil Knight
Apparel,accessories
62 Nintendo CoLtd.
Satoru Iwata How U willplay next
NintendoGameboy,Wii
FusajiroYamauchi
Consumerelectronics,Video games
63 Nokia Corp Stephen ElopConnecting
people
Mobile phones,smartphones,
mobilecomputers,networks
FredrikIdestam,
Leo Mechelin
Telecommuni-cations
equipment,internet,
computersoftware
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CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
ProductsFounders Industry
64 ONGCSudhir
Vasudeva(Chairman & MD)
MakingTomorrow
Brighter
Petroleum,natural gas, and
otherpetrochemicals
Founded on14th August,
1956Oil and gas
65 PayPal
Patrick Dupuis(CFO), David
Marcus(President)
The safer,easier way to
pay
Onlinemonetary
transactionservices
KenHowery,MaxLevchin,ElonMusk, LukeNosek,Peter
Thiel
Online
66 PepsiCo Inc Indra Nooyi Live for Now
Pepsi,Lay'spotato chips,Quaker foods
and snacks
DonaldKendall,
Herman Lay
Food andbeverages
67Procter &Gamble
RobertMcDonald
Touching lives,improving life
Foods,beverages,
cleaning agentsand personalcare products
WilliamProcter,
James Gamble
Consumergoods
68Reliance
IndustriesLimited
Mukesh Ambani(Chairman and
MD)Growth is Life
Crude oil,natural gas,
petrochemicals,petroleum
DhirubhaiAmbani
Conglomerate
69
Research In
Motion/Blackberry
Thorsten Heins Be Bold
BlackBerry,BlackBerryEnterprise
Server,BlackBerry
Internet Service
MikeLazaridis
Telecommunications equipment
70 Samsung Oh-Hyun Kwon
Turn ontomorrow/Every one's
invited
SamsungElectronics, Cell
Phones
Lee Byung-chull
Electronics
71Sahara India
PariwarSubrata RoySahara (MD)
Emotionallyyours.
Financialservices,
construction,mass media
Subrata RoySahara
Conglomerate
72Sansui
Electric
TakeshiNakamichi(President)
Born in JapanEntertainingThe World
Audio-Visualandcommunication
equipments,home
appliances,informationequipment
GrandeHoldings
Electronics
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Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
ProductsFounders Industry
73 Siemens Peter LscherGlobal
Network ofInnovation
Communicationsystems, power
generation
technology,industrial and
buildingsautomation,
lighting, homeappliances,
railway vehicles
Werner vonSiemens
Conglomerate
74 koda AutoH.C. Winfried
Vahland(Chairman)
Obsessed withQuality since
1897.Automobiles
Vclav Laurinand Vclav
KlementAutomotive
75 Sony Kazuo Hirai Make believe
Televisions,digital imaging,PCs and other
networkedproducts
MasaruIbuka,Akio
Morita
Electronics/conglomerate
76StandardChartered
Bank
Sir John Peace(Chairman),
Peter A. Sands(Group Chief
Executive)
Your RightPartner
Credit cards,Consumerbanking,
Corporatebanking,
Investmentbankingservices
NABanking,Financialservices
77Starbucks
CorporationHoward Schultz
It's bigger thancoffee
Coffee andHandcrafted
Beverages
Jerry Baldwin,GordonBowker,Zev Siegl
Food &Beverages
78The Coca-Cola
CompanyMuhtar Kent
Enjoy CocaCola
Coke,Diet Coke,Sprite,
Thums up
Asa GriggsCandler
Beverages
79
The NASDAQ
OMX Group,Inc.
Robert Greifeld
Stock market
for the digitalworld(Nasdaq)
Derivatives,equity trading
platforms,futures and
options markets
NA Financialservices
80The Walt
DisneyCompany
Robert A. IgerWhere dreams
come true.
Cable television,movies, theme
parks,
Walt and RoyDisney
Mass Media
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Name
CEO/
Chairperson
Most
Associated
Tagline
Prominent
ProductsFounders Industry
81Toyota MotorCorporation
Akio Toyoda Let's go places
Automobiles,commercial
vehicles,
engines,motorcycles
KiichiroToyoda
Automobile
82United
BreweriesGroup
Vijay Mallya(Chairman), A KRavi Nedungadi
(President &CFO)
Kingfisher -King of good
times
Brewery,alcoholicbeverage,aviation,
chemicals &fertilizers
ThomasLeishman
Conglomerate
83UTV SoftwareCommunicati
ons Ltd.
Ronnie
Screwvala (MD)
NA
Films,televisions,
games, websitesbroadcasting
Ronnie
Screwvala
Media
conglomerate
84Virgin Group
Ltd.David Baxby
(Co-CEO)We answer to
a higher calling
Beverages,airlines, trains,
video games
Sir RichardBranson
Conglomerate
85 VolkswagenMartin
WinterkornDas Auto cars
FerdinandPorsche
Automotive
86
Wipro
Limited(Western
IndiaProductsLimited)
Azim Premji
(Chairman), T KKurien (CEO, IT
Business &ExecutiveDirector)
ApplyingThought
IT, businessconsulting and
outsourcingservices
MohamedHashamPremji
IT
87Walmart
Stores, IncMike Duke
Save Money.Live Better.
Retail products Sam Walton Retail
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Maharatna CPSEs
Sr.No. Company Name
1 Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
2 Coal India Limited
3 GAIL (India) Limited
4 Indian Oil Corporation Limited
5 NTPC Limited
6 Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited
7 Steel Authority of India Limited
Navratna CPSEs
Sr.No. Company Name
1 Bharat Electronics Limited
2 Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
3 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
4 Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
5 Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited
6 National Aluminium Company Limited
7 National Mineral Development Corporation Limited
8 Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited
9 Oil India Limited
10 Power Finance Corporation Limited
11 Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
12 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited
13 Rural Electrification Corporation Limited
14 Shipping Corporation of India Limited
Miniratna Category - I CPSEs
Sr.No. Company Name1 Airports Authority of India
2 Antrix Corporation Limited
3 Balmer Lawrie & Co. Limited
4 Bharat Dynamics Limited
5 BEML Limited
6 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
7 Bridge & Roof Company (India) Limited
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8 Central Warehousing Corporation
9 Central Coalfields Limited
10 Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited
11 Cochin Shipyard Limited
12 Container Corporation of India Limited13 Dredging Corporation of India Limited
14 Engineers India Limited
15 Ennore Port Limited
16 Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited
17 Goa Shipyard Limited
18 Hindustan Copper Limited
19 HLL Lifecare Limited
20 Hindustan Newsprint Limited
21 Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited
22 Housing & Urban Development Corporation Limited
23 India Tourism Development Corporation Limited
24 Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Limited
25 IRCON International Limited
26 KIOCL Limited
27 Mazagaon Dock Limited
28 Mahanadi Coalfields Limited
29 Manganese Ore (India) Limited
30 Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemical Limited
31 Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited
32 MMTC Limited
33 MSTC Limited
34 National Fertilizers Limited
35 National Seeds Corporation Limited
36 NHPC Limited
37 Northern Coalfields Limited
38 Numaligarh Refinery Limited
39 ONGC Videsh Limited
40 Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited
41 Projects & Development India Limited42 Railtel Corporation of India Limited
43 Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited
44 RITES Limited
45 SJVN Limited
46 Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited
47 South Eastern Coalfields Limited
48 State Trading Corporation of India Limited
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49 Telecommunications Consultants India Limited
50 THDC India Limited
51 Western Coalfields Limited
52 WAPCOS Limited
Miniratna Category-II CPSEs
Sr.No. Company Name
1 Bharat Pumps & Compressors Limited
2 Broadcast Engineering Consultants (I) Limited
3 Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited
4 Ed.CIL (India) Limited
5 Engineering Projects (India) Limited
6 FCI Aravali Gypsum & Minerals India Limited
7 Ferro Scrap Nigam Limited
8 HMT (International) Limited
9 HSCC (India) Limited
10 India Trade Promotion Organisation
11 Indian Medicines & Pharmaceuticals Corporation Limited
12 M E C O N Limited
13 National Film Development Corporation Limited
14 National Small Industries Corporation Limited
15 P E C Limited
16 Rajasthan Electronics & Instruments Limited
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Heads of Constitutional Bodies
Prime Ministers of India
Sr.No. Term of Office Name Party
1 2004 - present Dr. Manmohan Singh Indian National Congress
2 1998 - 2004 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party
3 1997 - 1998 Inder Kumar Gujral Janata Dal
4 1996 - 1997 H. D. Deve Gowda Janata Dal
5 1996 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party
6 1991 - 1996 P. V. Narasimha Rao Indian National Congress
7 1990 - 1991 Chandra Shekhar Samajwadi Janata Party
8 1989 - 1990 V. P. Singh Janata Dal
9 1984 - 1989 Rajiv Gandhi Indian National Congress
10 1980 - 1984 Indira Gandhi Indian National Congress
11 1979 - 1980 Charan Singh Janata Party (Secular)
12 1977 - 1979 Morarji Desai Janata Party13 1966 - 1977 Indira Gandhi Indian National Congress
14 1966 Gulzarilal Nanda Indian National Congress
15 1964 - 1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri Indian National Congress
16 1964 Gulzarilal Nanda Indian National Congress
17 1947 - 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru Indian National Congress
Presidents of India
Sr.No.
Start of Term
of Office
End of Term of
Office Name1 2012 -- Pranab Mukherjee
2 2007 2012 Pratibha Patil
3 2002 2007 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
4 1997 2002 Kocheril Raman Narayanan
5 1992 1997 Shankar Dayal Sharma
6 1987 1992 Ramaswamy Venkataraman
7 1982 1987 Giani Zail Singh
8 1977 1982 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
9 1974 1977 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
10 1969 1974 Varahagiri Venkata Giri
11 1969 1969 Muhammad Hidayatullah
12 1969 1969 Varahagiri Venkata Giri
13 1967 1969 Zakir Hussain
14 1962 1967 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
15 1950 1962 Rajendra Prasad
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Chief Ministers of India
Sr.No. State/ UT Name Party
1 Andhra Pradesh N Kirankumar Reddy Indian National Congress
2 Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Tuki Indian National Congress
3 Assam Tarun Gogoi Indian National Congress
4 Bihar Nitish Kumar Janata Dal5 Chhattisgarh Raman Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
6National Capital
Territory of DelhiSheila Dixit Indian National Congress
7 Goa Manohar Parrikar Bharatiya Janata Party
8 Gujarat Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party
9 Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda Indian National Congress
10 Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
11 Jammu & Kashmir Omar AbdullahJammu & Kashmir National
Conference
12 Jharkhand President's Rule Indian National Congress13 Karnataka Jagadish Shettar Bharatiya Janata Party
14 Kerala Oommen Chandy Indian National Congress
15 Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan Bharatiya Janata Party
16 Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan Indian National Congress
17 Manipur Okram Ibobi Singh Indian National Congress
18 Meghalaya Mukul Sangma Indian National Congress
19 Mizoram Lal Thanhawla Indian National Congress
20 Nagaland Neiphiu Rio Nagaland People's Front
21 Orissa Naveen Patnaik Biju Janata Dal
22 Pondicherry N. Rangaswamy All India NR Congress
23 Punjab Prakash Singh Badal Shiromani Akali Dal
24 Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot Indian National Congress
25 Sikkim Pawan Kumar Chamling Sikkim Democratic Front
26 Tamil Nadu JayalalithaaAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam
27 Tripura Manik Sarkar Communist Party of India (Marxist)
28 Uttarakhand Vijay Bahuguna Indian National Congress
29 Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav Samajwadi Party
30 West Bengal Mamata Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress
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Cabinet Ministers (as on 14/03/2013)
Sr.No. Portfolio Minister
1
Atomic Energy,Space, Personnel,Public Grievances
& Pensions,
Planning
Manmohan Singh
2 Finance Palaniappan Chidambaram
3Agriculture, Food
ProcessingIndustries
Sharad Chandra Govindrao Pawar
4 Defence A.K. Antony
5 Home Affairs Sushil Kumar Shinde
6Health & Family
WelfareGhulam Nabi Azad
7New & Renewable
EnergyFarooq Abdullah
8 Civil Aviation Ajit Singh
9Labour &
EmploymentMallikarjun Kharge
10Commerce &
Industry, TextilesAnand Sharma
11 Shipping G.K. Vasan
12Chemicals &Fertilizers
M.K. Alagiri
13Heavy Industries &Public Enterprises
Praful Patel
14 Coal Shree Prakash Jaiswal
15Panchayati Raj,Tribal Affairs
V. Kishore Chandra Deo
16 Steel Beni Prasad Verma
17 Minority Affairs K. Rahman Khan
18 Mines Dinsha J. Patel
19Housing & Urban
Poverty AlleviationAjay Maken
20Human Resource
DevelopmentM.M. Pallam Raju
21 Law & Justice Ashwani Kumar
22 Water Resources Harish Rawat
23Petroleum &Natural Gas
M. Veerappa Moily
24Science &
Technology andEarth Sciences
S. Jaipal Reddy
25 Culture Chandresh Kumari Katoch
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26
UrbanDevelopment &Parliamentary
Affairs
Kamal Nath
27Overseas Indian
AffairsVayalar Ravi
28Communications &
InformationTechnology
Kapil Sibal
29Road Transport &
HighwaysC.P. Joshi
30Social Justice &Empowerment
Selja Kumari
31 External Affairs Salman Khursheed
32 Rural Development Jairam Ramesh
33 Railways Pawan Kumar Bansal
MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) as on 14/03/2013
Sr.No. Portfolio Minister
1Information &Broadcasting
Manish Tewari
2 Tourism K. Chiranjeevi
3 Power Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
4Micro, Small &
Medium
Enterprises
K.H. Muniyappa
5Drinking Water &
SanitationBharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki
6 Corporate Affairs Sachin Pilot
7Youth Affairs &
SportsJitendra Singh
8Women & Child
DevelopmentKrishna Tirath
9Consumer Affairs,
Food & PublicDistribution
Kurupassery V. Thomas
10Statistics &
ProgramImplementation
Srikant Kumar Jena
11Environment &
ForestsJayanthi Natarajan
12Development ofNorth Eastern
RegionPaban Singh Ghatowar
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Sr.No. Portfolio Minister
1Human Resource
DevelopmentShashi Tharoor
2Human Resource
DevelopmentJitin Prasada
3Labour &
EmploymentKodikunnil Suresh
4 Agriculture Tariq Anwar
5Agriculture, Food
ProcessingIndustries
Charan Das Mahant
6 Railways K. J. Surya Prakash Reddy
7 Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
8 Tribal Affairs Ranee Narah
9
Health & Family
Welfare Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury
10Health & Family
WelfareS. Gandhiselvan
11Road Transport &
HighwaysTushar Amar Singh Chaudhary
12Road Transport &
HighwaysSarvey Sathyanarayana
13 Minority Affairs Ninong Ering
14Urban
DevelopmentDeepa Dasmunsi
15
Social Justice &
Empowerment D. Napoleon
16Social Justice &Empowerment
Porika Balram Naik
17Communications &
InformationTechnology
Kruparani Killi
18Communications &
InformationTechnology
Milind Deora
19 Defence Lalchand Kataria
20 Defence Jitin Prasada21 External Affairs E. Ahamed
22 External Affairs Preneet Kaur
23Commerce &
IndustryD. Purandeswari
24 Home Affairs Mullapally Ramachandran
25 Civil Aviation K.C. Venugopal
26Parliamentary
Affairs, PlanningRajeev Shukla
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27Parliamentary
AffairsPaban Singh Ghatowar
28 Rural Development Pradeep Kumar Jain Aditya
29
Prime MinisterOffice, Personnel,
Public Grievances& Pensions
V. Narayanasamy
30 Textiles Lakshmi Panabaka
31 Finance Namo Narain Meena
32 Finance S.S. Palanimanickam
33 Coal Pratik Patil
34 Home Affairs Ratanjit Singh
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Sr.No. Country Capital Currency PresidentPrime
MinisterParliament
41 Syria Damascus Syrian pound Bashar al-AssadWael Nader
al-HalqiPeople'sCouncil
42 Thailand Bangkok Baht -Yingluck
ShinawatraNational
Assembly
43 Turkey Ankara Turkish lira Abdullah GlRecep Tayyip
ErdoanGrand National
Assembly
44 Uganda Kampala Ugandan shilling Yoweri MuseveniAmamaMbabazi
Parliament
45 Ukraine Kiev Hryvnia/ Hryvna Viktor YanukovychMykolaAzarov
VerkhovnaRada
46United Arab
EmiratesAbu Dhabi
United ArabEmirates dirham
Khalifa bin Zayed AlNahyan
Mohammedbin Rashid Al
Maktoum
FederalNationalCouncil
47 UnitedKingdom
London Pound sterling - DavidCameron
Parliament
48 United States Washington DC US dollar Barack Obama - Congress
49 Venezuela Caracas BolvarActing PresidentNicols Maduro
-NationalCongress
50 Vietnam Hanoi Dong Truong Tan SangNguyn Tn
DngNational
Assembly
Other Countries
Sr.No. Country Capital Currency PresidentPrime
MinisterParliament
1 Albania Tirana Lek Bujar Nishani Sali BerishaKuvendi/People's
Assembly
2 Algeria Algiers Algerian Dinar Abdelaziz BouteflikaAbdelmalek
Sellal
NationalPeople's
Assembly
3 Andorra Andorra la Vella Andorran Diner - Antoni Mart General Council
4 Angola Luanda KwanzaJose Eduardo dos
Santos-
NationalPeople's
Assembly
5Antigua and
BarbudaSaint John's
East Caribbeandollar
-BaldwinSpencer
Senate
6 Argentina Buenos Aires Argentine pesoCristina Fernndez
de Kirchner-
NationalCongress
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MinisterParliament
7 Armenia Yerevan Armenian dram Serzh SarkisyanTigran
SargsyanNational
Assembly
8 Azerbaijan Baku Azerbaijani manat Ilham AliyevArtur
RasizadeMelli Majlis
9 The Bahamas Nassau Bahamian dollar - Perry ChristieGeneral
Assembly
10 Bahrain Manama Bahraini dinar -Khalifah ibnSulman AlKhalifah
ConsultativeCouncil
11 Bangladesh Dhaka TakaActing President
Abdul Hamid
PrimeMinister
Sheikh HasinaJatia Parliament
12 Barbados Bridgetown Barbados dollar -Freundel
StuartParliament of
Barbados
13 Belarus Minsk Belarusian ruble AlexanderLukashenko
MikhailMyasnikovich
National
Assembly of theRepublic of
Belarus
14 Belize Belmopan Belize dollar - Dean BarrowNational
Assembly
15 Benin Porto Novo CFA Franc Yayi BoniPascal
KoupakiNational
Assembly
16 Bhutan Thimphu Ngultrum -Lyonpo Jigme
ThinleyTasongadu
17 Bolivia La Paz(administrative)Sucre (judicial)
Bolivian boliviano Evo Morales - NationalCongress
18Bosnia and
HerzegovinaSarajevo
Bosnia andHerzegovina
convertible markBakir Izetbegovi
VjekoslavBevanda
Skupstina
19 Botswana Gaborone Botswana pula Ian Khama -National
Assembly
20 Brazil Brasilia Brazilian real Dilma Rousseff -National
Congress
21 BruneiBandar Seri
BegawanBrunei dollar
Sultan: HassanalBolkiah
-National
Assembly
22 Bulgaria Sofia Lev Rosen PlevnelievBoyko
BorisovNarodnoSubranie
23 Burkina Faso OuagadougouWest African CFA
francBlaise Compaor
Luc-AdolpheTiao
NationalAssembly
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24 Burundi Bujumbura Burundi franc Pierre Nkurunziza - Senate
25 Cambodia Phnom Penh Riel - Hun SenNational
Assembly
26 Cameroon Yaound CFA Franc Paul Biya PhilmonYunji Yang
NationalAssembly
27 Cape Verde PraiaCape Verde
escudoJorge Carlos
FonsecaJos Maria
NevesNational
Assembly
28CentralAfrican
RepublicBangui
Central AfricanCFA franc
Franois BozizFaustin-
ArchangeTouadra
NationalAssembly
29 Chad N'Djamena CFA franc Idriss DbyEmmanuelNadingar
NationalAssembly
30 Chile Santiago Chilean peso Sebastin Piera -Chamber of
Deputies andSenate
31 ColombiaSanta Fe de
BogotColombian Peso Juan Manuel Santos - Congress
32 Comoros Moroni Comorian franc Ikililou Dhoinine -LegislativeCouncil and
Senate
33 Congo Brazzaville Congolese franc Joseph Kabila -Rep. of National
LegislativeCouncil
34 Costa Rica San Jose Costa Rican coln Laura Chinchilla -LegislativeCouncil and
Senate
35 Croatia Zagreb Kuna Ivo JosipoviZoran
MilanoviSabor
36 Cuba Havana Cuban peso Ral Castro -National
Assembly ofPeople's Power
37 Cyprus Lefkosia(Nicosia) Cyprus pound Dimitris Christofias rsen Kk VouliAntiprosopon
38Czech
RepublicPrague Czech koruna Milo Zeman Petr Neas
Chamber ofDeputies and
Senate
39 Djibouti Djibouti Djibouti franc Ismail Omar GuellehDileita
MohamedDileita
NationalAssembly
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MinisterParliament
40 Dominica RoseauEastern
Caribbean dollarNicholas Liverpool
RooseveltSkerrit
House ofAssembly
41 DominicanRepublic Santo Domingo Dominican peso Danilo Medina - Congress of theRepublic
42 East Timor Dili US dollar Taur Matan Ruak -ConstituentAssembly
43 Ecuador Quito US dollar Rafael Correa -Natinal
Congress
44 El Salvador San SalvadorUS dollar;
Salvadorian colnMauricio Funes -
LegislativeAssembly
45 EquatorialGuinea Malabo CFA Franc Teodoro ObiangNguema Mbasogo -
Cmara de los
Representantesdel Pueblo
46 Eritrea Asmara Nakfa Isaias Afewerki -National
Assembly
47 Estonia Tallinn Estonian kroonToomas Hendrik
Ilves- Riigikogu
48 Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ethiopian birrGirma Wolde-
GiorgisHaile Mariam
Desalegne
Federal Counciland House of
Representative
49 Fiji Suva Fiji dollar Epeli Nailatikau
Acting PrimeMinister
FrankBainimarama
Senate & Houseof
Representative
50 Finland Helsinki Euro Sauli Niinist Jyrki KatainenEduskusta
(Parliament)
51 Gabon LibrevilleCentral African
CFA francAli-Ben Bongo
RaymondNdong Sima
Parlement
52 The Gambia Banjul Gambian dalasi Yahya Jammeh -National
Assembly
53 Georgia Tbilisi Lari Mikheil SaakashviliBoris
IvanishviliParliament
54 Ghana Accra CediJohn Dramani
Mahama- Parliament
55 Greenland Nuuk Danish kroneDependent on
Denmark- Landstraad
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56 Grenada St George'sEastern
Caribbean dollar-
TillmanThomas
Parliament
57 Guatemala Guatemala CityGuatemalan
quetzal Otto Prez Molina -Congress of the
Republic
58 Guinea Conakry Guinean franc Alpha CondMohamed
Said FofanaNational
Assembly
59Guinea-Bissau
BissauWest African CFA
franc- -
People'sNational
Assembly
60 Guyana Georgetown Guyanese dollar Donald Ramotar Sam HindsNational
Assembly
61 Haiti Port-au-Prince Gourde Sweet Micky Garry Conille NationalAssembly
62 Honduras TegucigalpaHonduran
lempiraPorfirio Pepe Lobo -
NationalCongress
63 Hungary Budapest Forint Jnos der Viktor Orbn Orszggyls
64 Iceland Reykjavik Icelandic krnalafur Ragnar
GrmssonJhanna
SigurardttirAlthing
65 Indonesia JakartaIndonesian
rupiah
Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono
-People's
Consultative
Assembly
66 Israel Jerusalem New shekel Shimon PeresBenjamin
NetanyahuThe Knesset
67 Jamaica Kingston Jamaica dollar -Portia
Simpson-Miller
Parliament
68 Jordan Amman Jordanian dinar -Fayez al-
TarawnehNational
Assembly
69 Kazakhstan AstanaKazakhstani
tengeNursultan
NazarbayevSerik
AkhmetovParliament
70 Kenya Nairobi Kenyan shilling Mwai Kibaki Raila OdingaNational
Assembly
71 Kiribati TarawaKiribati dollar/
Australian dollarAnote Tong -
House ofAssembly
72 Korea, North PyongyangNorth Korean
won- -
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73 Korea, South SeoulSouth Korean
won- -
NationalAssembly
74 Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwaiti dinar -
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-
Hamad Al-Sabah
Majlis-al-Umma
75 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Kyrgyzstani som -Zhantoro
SatybaldiyevKyrgyz
Republic
76 Laos Vientiane Lao kipChoummaly
SayasoneThongsing
Thammavong
People'sSupremeAssembly
77 Latvia Riga Lats Andris BrziValdis
DombrovskisSaeima
78 Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound Michel Sulaiman Najib MikatiNational
Assembly
79 Lesotho Maseru Loti - Tom ThabaneNational
Assembly andSenate
80 Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollarEllen Johnson
Sirleaf- Legislature
81 Libya Tripoli Libyan dinar -Mustafa A.G.Abushagur
GeneralPeople'sCongress
82 Liechtenstein Vaduz Swiss franc -Klaus
TschtscherDiet
83 Lithuania Vilnius Litas Dalia GrybauskaitAndriusKubilius
Seimas
84 Macau Macau Pataca - -LegislativeAssembly
85 Macedonia SkopjeMacedonian
denarGjorgje Ivanov
NikolaGruevski
Assembly
86 Madagascar Antananarivo Ariary
President of theHigh Authority ofTransition Andry
Rajoelina
Omer BerizikyNationalPeople's
Assembly
87 Malawi Lilongwe Malawian kwacha Joyce Banda -National
Assembly
88 Maldives Mal RufiyaaMohammed
Waheed Hassan- Majilis
89 Mali Bamako CFA Franc - -National
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107 North Korea PyongyangNorth Korean
won- -
SupremePeople's
Assembly
108 Palau Koror US dollar Johnson Toribiong - NationalCongress
109 Panama Panama City Balboa Ricardo Martinelli -National
Assembly
110Papua New
GuineaPort Moresby
Papua NewGuinean kina
- Peter O'NeillNational
Parliament
111 Paraguay AsuncionParaguayan
guaranFederico Franco -
Senate &Chamber of
Deputies
112 Peru Lima Nuevo sol Ollanta Humala -Congress of the
Republic
113 Romania Bucharest Romanian leu Traian Bsescu Victor PontaGreat National
Assembly
114 Rwanda Kigali Rwandese franc Paul KagamePierre
HabumuremyiParliament
115Saint Kittsand Nevis
BasseterreEast Caribbean
dollar-
DenzilDouglas
NationalAssembly
116 Saint Lucia Castries East Caribbeandollar
- KennyAnthony
Houses ofParliament
117Saint Vincent
and theGrenadines
KingstownEast Caribbean
dollar-
RalphGonsalves
House ofAssembly
118 Samoa Apia Samoan tala -Tuilaepa
Aiono SaileleMalielegaoi
LegislativeAssembly
119 San Marino San Marino Euro - -Great and
General Council
120Sao Tome and
PrincipeSao Tome
So Tom andPrncipe dobra
Manuel Pinto daCosta
PatriceTrovoada
NationalAssembly
121 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Saudi riyalKing: Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia- Majlis Al Shura
122 Senegal DakarWest African CFA
francMacky Sall Abdoul Mbaye
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123 Serbia Belgrade Serbian dinar Tomislav Nikoli Ivica DaiFederal
Assembly
124 Seychelles Victoria Seychelles rupee James Michel -People's
Assembly
125 Sierra Leone FreetownSierra Leonean
leoneErnest Bai Koroma - Parliament
126 Slovakia Bratislava Slovak koruna Ivan GaparoviIveta
RadiovNationalCouncil
127 Slovenia Ljubljana Euro Danilo Trk Janez JanaNational
Assembley
128SolomonIslands
HoniaraSolomon Islands
dollar-
Gordon DarcyLillo
NationalParliament
129 Somalia Mogadishu Somali shillingHassan Sheikh
Mohamoud-
People'sAssembly
130 South Korea SeoulSouth Korean
wonLee Myung-bak
Kim Hwang-sik
NationalAssembly
131 South Sudan JubaSouth Sudanese
poundSalva Kiir Mayardit - Parliament
132 Suriname Paramaribo Suriname dollar Dsi Bouterse -National
Assembly
133 Swaziland Mbabana Swazi lilangeni -BarnabasSibusisoDlamini
Parliament
134 Taiwan TaipeiNew Taiwan
dollarMa Ying-jeou - Yuan
135 Tajikistan DushanbeTajikistani
somoniEmomali Rahmonov Okil Okilov
SupremeCouncil
136 Tanzania Dar es SalaamTanzanian
shillingJakaya Kikwete
MizengoPinda
NationalAssembly
137 Togo Lome CFA francs Faure GnassingbKwesi
Ahoomey-
Zunu
National
Assembly
138 Tonga Nuku'alofa Pa'anga -Siale'ataonga
Tu'ivakanoLegislativeAssembly
139Trinidad and
TobagoPort-of-Spain
Trinidad andTobago dollar
Anthony CarmonaKamla
Persad-Bissessar
Parliament
140 Tunisia Tunis Tunisian dinar Moncef Marzouki Ali LaarayedhNational
Assembly
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MinisterParliament
141 Turkmenistan AshgabatTurkmenistani
manatGurbanguly
Berdimuhammedow- Assembly
142 Turks andCaicos Islands
Cockburn Town US dollar - - Parliament
143 Tuvalu Funafuti Tuvalu Currencies - Willy Telavi Parliament
144 Uruguay Montevideo Uruguayan peso Jos Mujica -General
Assembly
145 Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbekistani som Islam KarimovShavkat
MirziyayevOliy Majlis
146 Vanuatu Port-Vila Vanuatu vatu Iolu Abil Sato Kilman Parliament
147Vatican City(Holy See)
Vatican City Euro - - Parliament
148 Yemen Sanaa Yemeni rialAbd al-Rab Mansur
al-HadiMohammedBasindawa
Parliament
149 Zambia Lusaka Zambian kwacha Michael Sata -National
Assembly
150 Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe dollar Robert MugabeMorgan
TsvangiraiParliament
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Indian Olympic Winners & Commonwealth Medals Tally
Sr.No. Year Host Sports Person Sport
1 2012 London Sushil Kumar Wrestling
2 2012 London Vijay Kumar Shooting
3 2012 London Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling
4 2012 London Mary Kom Boxing
5 2012 London Saina Nehwal Badminton
6 2012 London Gagan Narang Shooting
7 2008 Beijing Abhinav Bindra Shooting
8 2008 Beijing Vijender Singh Boxing
9 2008 Beijing Sushil Kumar Wrestling
10 2004 Athens Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Shooting
11 2000 Sydney Karnam Malleswari Weightlifting
12 1996 Atlanta Leander Paes Tennis
13 1980 Moscow National team Field hockey14 1972 Munich National team Field hockey
15 1968 Mexico National team Field hockey
16 1964 Tokyo National team Field hockey
17 1960 Rome National team Field hockey
18 1956 Melbourne National team Field hockey
19 1952 Helsinki Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav Wrestling
20 1952 Helsinki National team Field hockey
21 1948 London National team Field hockey
22 1936 Berlin National team Field hockey
23 1932 Los Angeles National team Field hockey
24 1928 Amsterdam National team Field hockey
25 1900 Paris Norman Pritchard Athletics
26 1900 Paris Norman Pritchard Athletics
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Commonwealth Medals Tally for India
Sr.No. Year Gold Silver Bronze
1 2010 38 27 36
2 2006 22 17 10
3 2002 30 22 13
4 1998 7 10 8
5 1994 6 11 7
6 1990 13 8 11
7 1986Did not
Participate- -
8 1982 5 8 3
9 1978 5 5 5
10 1974 4 8 3
11 1970 5 3 4
12 1966 3 4 3
13 1962Did not
Participate- -
14 1958 2 1 0
15 1954 0 0 0
16 1950Did not
Participate- -
17 1938 0 0 0
18 1934 0 0 1
19 1930Did not
Participate- -
Total 140 124 104
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IPL Franchise Owners & Winners
Sr.No.Team
nameCity
Owners
name/sCompany
Buying
Price
Home
Ground
1
Royal
ChallengersBangalore Bangalore Vijay Mallya UB Group
$111.6
million(Bid in 2008)
M.
ChinnaswamyStadium
2Kings XIPunjab
Mohali(Chandigarh)
Preity Zinta,Ness Wadia,
Karan Paul andMohit Burman
Bombay Dyeing,Apeejay
SurenderaGroup, Dabur
$76 million(Bid in 2008)
PCA Stadium,HPCA Stadium
3Chennai
Super KingsChennai N. Srinivasan India Cements
$91 million(Bid in 2008)
M. A.Chidambaram
Stadium
4Kolkata
Knight RidersKolkata
Shah RukhKhan, Juhi
Chawla and JayMehta
Red Chillies,
Mehta Group
$75.09million
(Bid in 2008) Eden Gardens
5MumbaiIndians
Mumbai Mukesh AmbaniReliance
IndustriesLimited
$111.9million
(Bid in 2008)
WankhedeStadium,DY
Patil Stadium
6Delhi
DaredevilsNew Delhi
GrandhiMallikarjuna
Rao
GMR Sports PvtLtd
$84 million(Bid in 2008)
Feroz ShahKotla
7Rajasthan
RoyalsJaipur
Manoj Badale,Lachlan
Murdoch, Raj
Kundra andShilpa Shetty
Emerging Media$67 million
(Bid in 2008)
SawaiMansingh
Stadium
8Sunrisers
HyderabadHyderabad
KalanidhiMaran
Sun TV Network$159
million
Rajiv GandhiInternational
Stadium
9Deccan
Chargers(Defunct)
Hyderabad
T VenkatramReddy & T
Vinayak RaviReddy
DeccanChronicle
Holdings Ltd.
$107million
(Bid 2012)
Rajiv GandhiInternational
Stadium, ACA-VDCA Stadium,
BarabatiStadium
10
KochiTuskersKerala
(Defunct)
Kochi
Anand Shyam,Vivek
Venugopal andSunandaPushkar
Kochi CricketPrivate Limited,
RendezvousSports
World,ParineeDevelopers,
AnchorEarth,Film
Waves
$ 333.33million
(Bid in 2010)
JawaharlalNehru Stadium
11Pune
WarriorsPune Subrata Roy Sahara Group
$ 370million
(Bid 2010)
Subrata RoySahara Stadium
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IPL Winners 2008 -2012
YearWinning
TeamRunner-Up Purple Cap Holder Orange Cap Holder
2008Rajasthan
RoyalsChennai Super
KingsSohail Tanvir
(