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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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Sr.No. Year Category Nobel Laureates
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
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 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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Sr.No. Acquiring Company
Acquired Company
HQ of Acquiring Company
HQ of Acquired Company
34 Google Wildfire U.S. U.S.
35 Google Meebo U.S. U.S.
36 GREE Funzio Japan U.S.
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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Sr.No. Acquiring Company
Acquired Company
HQ of Acquiring Company
HQ of Acquired Company
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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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
Companies Print Media Companies
Internet Media Miscellaneous
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
Companies Print Media Companies
Internet Media Miscellaneous
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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Company TV Media
Companies Print Media Companies
Internet Media Miscellaneous
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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Company TV Media
Companies Print Media Companies
Internet Media Miscellaneous
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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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
Banking, Financial services
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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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
Banking, Financial services
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
Formed due to a merger
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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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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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
IT, business consulting and
outsourcing services
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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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
Formed due to a merger
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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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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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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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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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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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
IT, business consulting and
outsourcing services
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
Sr.No. Portfolio Minister
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
Sr.No. Portfolio Minister
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
15 Social Justice & Empowerment
D. Napoleon
16 Social Justice & Empowerment
Porika Balram Naik
17 Communications &
Information Technology
Kruparani Killi
18 Communications &
Information Technology
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
Sr.No. Country Capital Currency President Prime
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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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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Minister Parliament
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
$91 million (Bid in 2008)
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
$84 million (Bid in 2008)
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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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
Sr.No. Year Tournaments Winners Runners-up
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
Sr.No. Year Tournaments Winners Runners-up
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
Sr.No. Year Tournaments Winners Runners-up
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
Sr.No. Year Tournaments Winners Runners-up
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