Whos Who in India President Vice President Prime Minister Pratibha Patil Md.

Hamid Ansari Manmohan Singh (also In-Charge of the ministries viz : Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; Ministry of Planning; Ministry of Water Resources; Department of Atomic Energy; and Department of Space ) Chief Justice of Supreme Court KG Balakrishnan Council of Ministers 2. Minister of Finance Pranab Mukherjee 3. Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Sharad Pawar 4. Minister of Defence Shri A.K. Antony 5. Minister of Home Affairs Shri P. Chidambaram 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. Minister of Railways Minister of External Affairs Minister of Steel Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Minister of Health and Family Welfare Minister of Power Minister of Law and Justice Minister of New and Renewable Energy Minister of Urban Development Minister of Road Transport and Highways Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Minister of Textiles Minister of Communications and Information Technology Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister of Information and Broadcasting Minister of Labour and Employment Minister of Human Resource Development Minister of Mines and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region Minister of Commerce and Industry Minister of Rural Development and Minister of Panchayati Raj Km. Mamata Banerjee Shri S.M. Krishna Shri Virbhadra Singh Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad Shri Sushil Kumar Shinde Shri M. Veerappa Moily Dr. Farooq Abdullah Shri S. Jaipal Reddy Shri Kamal Nath Shri Vayalar Ravi Shri Dayanidhi Maran Shri A. Raja Shri Murli Deora Smt. Ambika Soni Shri Mallikarjun Kharge Shri Kapil Sibal Shri B.K. Handique Shri Anand Sharma Shri C.P. Joshi ; : :

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Minister of Housing and Urban Kum. Selja Poverty Alleviation and Minister of Tourism Minister of Food Processing Industries Shri Subodh Kant Sahay Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Dr. M.S. Gill

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Minister of Shipping Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Minister of Tribal Affairs Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Shri G.K. Vasan Shri Pawan K. Bansal Shri Mukul Wasnik Shri Kantilal Bhuria Shri M.K. Alagiri

Governors of Indian States

1. Andhra Pradesh
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Shri E.S Lakshmi Narasimhan Arunachal Pradesh General (Rtd.) J.J. Singh 3. Assam Shri Janaki Ballav Pattanaik (External website that opens in a new window) 4. Bihar Shri Devanand Konwar (External website that opens in a new window) 5. Chhattisgarh Shri Shekhar Dutt 6. Goa Dr. Shivinder Singh Sidhu (External website that opens in a new window) 7. Gujarat Dr. Kamla Beniwal 8. Haryana Shri Jagannath Pahadia 9. Himachal Pradesh Smt. Urmila Singh (External website that opens in a new window) 10. Jammu and Kashmir Shri N. N. Vohra 11. Jharkhand Shri M.O.H Farook (External website that opens in a new window) 12. Karnataka Shri H.R. Bhardwaj (External website that opens in a new window) 13. Kerala Shri R.S. Gavai (External website that opens in a new window) 14. Madhya Pradesh Shri Rameshwar Thakur 15. Maharashtra Shri K. Shankarnarayan 16. Manipur Shri Gurbachan Jagat 17. Meghalaya Shri Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary (External website that opens in a new window) 18. Mizoram Lt. Gen. (Retd.) M.M. Lakhera, PVSM,AVSM,VSM (External website that opens in a new window) 19. Nagaland Shri. Nikhil Kumar (External website that opens in a new window) 20. Orissa Shri Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare (External website that opens in a new window) 21. Punjab Shri Shivraj Patil 22. Rajasthan Smt. Prabha Rau 23. Sikkim Shri Balmiki Prasad Singh (External website that opens in a new window) 24. Tamil Nadu Shri Surjit Singh Barnala (External website that opens in a new window) 25. Tripura Shri Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil (External website that opens in a new window) 26. Uttar Pradesh Shri B.L. Joshi (External website that opens in a new window) 27. Uttarakhand Smt. Margaret Alva (External website that opens in a new window) 28. West Bengal Shri M.K. Narayanan Chief Ministers of State

1. Andhra Pradesh

Shri K. Rosaiah

2. Arunachal Pradesh 3. Assam 4. Bihar 5. Chhattisgarh 6. Delhi 7. Goa 8. Gujarat 9. Haryana 10. Himachal Pradesh 11. Jammu and Kashmir 12. Jharkhand 13. Karnataka 14. Kerala 15. Madhya Pradesh 16. Maharashtra 17. Manipur 18. Meghalaya 19. Mizoram 20. Nagaland 21. Orissa 22. Puducherry 23. Punjab 24. Rajasthan 25. Sikkim 26. Tamil Nadu 27. Tripura 28. Uttar Pradesh 29. Uttarakhand 30. West Bengal
Chiefs of Defence Forces

Shri Dorjee Khandu Shri Tarun Gogoi Shri Nitish Kumar Dr. Raman Singh Smt Sheila Dikshit Shri Digambar Kamat Shri Narendra Modi Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal Shri Omar Abdullah Shri Shibu Soren Shri B. S. Yeddyurappa Shri V. S. Achuthanandan Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan Shri Ashok Chavan Shri Okram Ibobi Singh Dr. Dethwelson Lapang Shri Pu Lalthanhawla Shri Neiphiu Rio Shri Naveen Patnaik Thiru. V. Vaithilingam Shri Parkash Singh Badal Shri Ashok Gehlot Shri Pawan Chamling Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi Shri Manik Sarkar Kumari Mayawati Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

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Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik, Chief of Army Staff General Deepak Kapoor, Chief of Naval Staff: Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chief of Integrated Defence Staff Air Marshal Suresh Chand Mukul,

Presidents of the countries USA France Germany Italy UK Australia Japan South Africa China Barrack Hussein Obama Nicolas Sarcozy Richard von Weizsacker Oscar Luigi Scalfaro James Harold Wilson Kevin Michael Rudd Fukuda Yasuo TM Mbeki Jiang Zemin

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Boris Yeltsin Mahinda Rajapaksa Asif Ali Zardari Zillur Rehman (PM Sheikh Hasina)

12th 5 year plan GDP Montek Singh Ahluwalia Prime Minister First plan (1951-1956) 1989-91 was a period of political instability in India and hence no five year plan was implemented. Eleventh plan (2007-2012) Globalization Globalization (or globalisation) describes an ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a globe-spanning network of communication and trade. The term is sometimes used to refer specifically to economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology. However, globalization is usually recognized as being driven by a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural, political, and biological factors. The term can also refer to the transnational circulation of ideas, languages, or popular culture through acculturation. 2009 Noble Prizes Biology: Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu and Zhang Guanglei of Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Sagamihara, Japan, for demonstrating that kitchen refuse can be reduced more than 90% in mass by using bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas. Chemistry: Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M. Castano of Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, for creating diamond film from tequila. Economics: The directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic banks Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank, and Central Bank of Iceland for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa (and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy). Literature: Ireland's police service for writing and presenting more than 50 traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country - Prawo Jazdy - whose name in Polish means "Driving License". Mathematics: Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank, for giving people a simple, everyday way to cope with a wide range of numbers by having his bank print notes with denominations ranging from one cent to one hundred trillion dollars. Medicine: Donald L. Unger of Thousand Oaks, California, US, for investigating a possible cause of arthritis of the fingers, by diligently cracking the knuckles of his left hand but not his right hand every day for more than 60 years. Peace: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle. Physics: Katherine K. Whitcome of the University of Cincinnati, Daniel E Lieberman of Harvard University and Liza J. Shapiro of the University of Texas, all in the US, for analytically determining why pregnant women do not tip over. Deputy Chairman of the Commission ex officio Chairman

Public Health: Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago, US, for inventing a bra that can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks - one for the wearer and one to be given to a needy bystander. Veterinary medicine: Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University, UK, for showing that cows with names give more milk than cows that are nameless.