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TISS GK Preparation | Civics and Politics #9

TISS GK Preparation Series: GK is a very important section for TISS especially since the verbal and the quant sections are relatively easy. Hence, getting a good score in GK can easily be the difference between getting a TISS call and not getting one. To help you ace this section, we are starting a series of articles devoted to topics commonly asked in the TISS GK section. We hope that this will help you in your preparation. Every article will also be available in PDF format. Here is our #9 article in this series: Civics and Politics. This is another section from which you can expect a few questions in TISS GK section. Run through the lists given below noting the more important ones.

Prime Ministers of

Sr. No. Name Term of Office 1 15 Aug, 1947 – 27 May, 1964 - 27 May, 1964 - 9 June, 1964 (acting) 2 9 June, 1964 - 11 January, 1966 - Gulzarilal Nanda 11 January, 1966 - 24 January, 1966 (acting) 3 24 January, 1966 - 24 March, 1977 4 24 March, 1977 - 28 July, 1979 5 28 July, 1979 - 14 January, 1980 6 Indira Gandhi 14 January, 1980 - 31 October, 1984 7 31 October, 1984 - 2 December, 1989 8 V.P.Singh 2 December, 1989 - 10 November, 1990 9 10 November, 1990 - 21 June, 1991 10 P.V. Narasimha Rao 21 June, 1991 - 16 May, 1996 11 16 May, 1996 - 1 June, 1996 12 H.D. Deve Gowda 1 June, 1996 - 21 April, 1997 13 I.K. Gujral 21 April, 1997 - 19 March, 1998 14 Atal Bihari Vajpayee 19 March, 1998 - 22 May, 2004 15 22 May, 2004 - 26 May, 2014 16 26 May, 2014 - present

Presidents of India

Sr. No. Name Term of Office 1 26 January, 1950 - 12 May, 1962 2 13 May, 1962 - 13 May, 1967 3 Zakir Husain 13 May, 1967 - 3 May, 1969 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri 3 May, 1969 - 20 July, 1969 (acting)

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- 20 July, 1969 - 24 August, 1969 (acting) 4 Varahagiri Venkata Giri 24 August, 1974 - 24 August, 1974 5 24 August, 1974 - 11 February, 1977 - Basappa Danappa Jatti 11 February, 1977 - 25 July, 1977 6 25 July, 1977 - 25 July, 1982 7 Giani 25 July, 1982 - 25 July, 1987 8 25 July, 1987 - 25 July, 1992 9 25 July, 1992 - 25 July, 1997 10 Kocheril Raman Narayanan 25 July, 1997 - 25 July, 2002 11 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 25 July, 2002 - 25 July, 2007 12 25 July, 2007 - 25 July, 2012 13 25 July, 2012 - present

List of Cabinet Ministers Minister Portfolio Narendra Modi Prime Minister Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space Minister of Home Affairs Minister of External Affairs Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Arun Jaitley Minister of Finance Minister of Defence Arun Jaitley Minister of Information and Broadcasting Minister of Railways Venkaiah Naidu Minister of Urban Development Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Nitin Gadkari Minister of Road Transport and Highways Minister of Shipping D.V. Sadananda Gowda Minister of Law and Justice Uma Bharati Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Minister of Minority Affairs Birender Singh Minister of Rural Development Minister of Panchayati Raj Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

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Maneka Gandhi Minister of Women and Child Development Ananth Kumar Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Ravi Shankar Prasad Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ashok Gajapathi Raju Minister of Civil Aviation Pusapati Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Harsimrat Kaur Badal Minister of Food Processing Industries Narendra Singh Tomar Minister of Mines Minister of Steel Minister of Labour and Employment Jual Oram Minister of Tribal Affairs Radha Mohan Singh Minister of Agriculture Thawar Chand Gehlot Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Smriti Irani Minister of Human Resource Development Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology Jagat Prakash Nadda Minister Of Health and Family Welfare

List of current Indian Chief Ministers and Governors

Sr. Name Chief Minister No. 1 N Chandrababu Naidu ESL Narasimhan 2 Nabam Tuki 3 Tarun Gogoi P B Acharya 4 Bihar 5 Balramji Das Tandon 6 Laxmikant Parsekar 7 OP Kohli 8 Kaptan Singh Solanki 9 Virbhadra Singh Acharya Dev Vrat 10 Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Mohammad Sayeed N N Vohra 11 Raghuvar Das Droupadi Murmu 12 Vajubhai R. Vala 13 Kerala Oommen Chandy P. Sathasivam 14 Ram Naresh Yadav 15 C Vidyasagar Rao 16 Okram Ibobi Singh Syed Ahmed 17 Meghalaya Mukul Sangma V. Shanmuganathan 18 19 Nagaland T R Zeliang Balkrishna Acharya

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20 Odisha S.C. Jamir 21 Punjab Kaptan Singh Solanki 22 23 Pawan Kumar Chamling Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil 24 Tamil Nadu Jayalalithaa Konijeti Rosaiah 25 K Chandrasekhar Rao ESL Narasimhan 26 Manik Sarkar 27 Akhilesh Yadav Shri 28 Harish Rawat Krishna Kant 29

Important World Leaders

Sr. Country Post Name No. 1 Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull 2 Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 3 Brazil President Dilma Rousseff 4 Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 5 China President Xi Jinping 6 France President Francois Holland 7 Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel 8 Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras 9 Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 10 Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 11 Italy President Sergio Mattarella 12 Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 13 Nepal President Bidhya Bhandari 14 Nepal Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli 15 New Zealand Prime Minister John Key 16 North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un 17 Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain 18 Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif 19 Russia President Vladimir Putin 20 South Africa President Jacob Zuma 21 Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena 22 Syria President Bashar al-Assad 23 Turkey President Recep Erdogan 24 United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron 25 United States President Barack Obama

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Constitution of India The Constitution which envisages parliamentary form of government is federal in structure with unitary features. The is the constitutional head of executive of the Union. Article 74 (1) of the Constitution provides that there shall be a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister as head to aid and advise the President who shall exercise his functions and act in accordance with such advice. Real executive power thus vests with the Council of Ministers with Prime Minister as the head. The Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the House of the People (). Similarly, in states, the Governor is the head of executive, but it is the Council of Ministers with Chief Minister as the head in whom the real executive power vests. Council of Ministers of a state is collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly.

Amended Preamble of the Constitution We, the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic and to secure to all its citizens: JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and unity and integration of the Nation; in our constituent assembly this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do hereby adopt, enact and give to ourselves this constitution.

Fundamental Rights The Constitution offers all citizens, individually and collectively, some basic freedoms. These are guaranteed in the Constitution in the form of six broad categories of Fundamental Rights. Articles 12 to 35 contained in Part III of the Constitution deal with Fundamental Rights. 1. Right to equality 2. Right to freedom 3. Right against exploitation 4. Right to freedom of religion 5. Cultural and Educational rights 6. Right to constitutional remedies

The ‘right to property’ was originally a fundamental right but was deleted by the 44th Amendment Act, 1978.

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Fundamental Duties By the 42nd Amendment of the Constitution, adopted in 1976, Fundamental Duties of the citizens have been enumerated. The Fundamental Duties of Citizens: 1. Respect the Constitution, the national flag and the national anthem; 2. Cherish the noble ideals of the freedom struggle; 3. Uphold and project the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India; 4. Defend the country and render national service when called; 5. Promote the common brotherhood of all the people of India and renounce any practice derogatory to the dignity of women; 6. Preserve the rich heritage of the national composite culture; 7. Protect the natural environment and have compassion for living creatures; 8. Develop scientific temper, humanism and spirit of inquiry and reform; 9. Safeguard public property and abjure violence; 10. Strive for excellence in all individual and collective activity. 11. Provide opportunities for education to child/ward between the age of six and fourteen years.

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