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Mr. Pranab Mukherjee
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Manmohan Singh
Ms. Meira Kumar
Mr. P. J. Kurien
Mr. Karia Munda
Ms. Sushma Swaraj
Mr. Arun Jaitley
Mr. V. S. Sampath
Mr. Hari Shankar Brahma
Justice K.G. Balakrishnan
Mr. Shashi Kant Sharma
Mr. Justice M.N. Rao
Prof. D.P. Agarwal
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan
Mr. Satyanand Mishra
Mr. N. K. Raghupathy
Dr. Vishwa Mohan Katoch
Mr. C. Chandramouli
Mr. Justice D. K. Jain
Mr. Duvvuri Subbarao
Mr. Baldev Raj
Mr. Shailesh Gupta
Dr. (Ms.) Poonam Kishore Saxena
Mr. U. K. Sinha
Ms. Mamata Sharma
Dr. Vijay Kelkar
Mr. Sam Pitroda
Shri Jawhar Sircar
Mr. Ratan Tata
Mr. Krishnakumar Natarajan Mr. Rajkumar Dhoot
Mr. Shiv Shankar Menon
Mr. Shumsher K. Sheriff
Mr. T. K. Vishwanathan
Syed Asif Ibrahim
Mr. Ranjit Sinha
Mr. Alok Joshi
Mr. Arvind Ranjan
Mr. Pranay Sahay
Mr. Rajiv
Mr. P. K. Mehta
Shri Ajay Chadha
Prof. Ved Prakash
Dr. V. K. Saraswat
Dr. R. Chidambaram
Dr. K. Radhakrishnan
Dr. R. K. Sinha
Mr. Wajahat Habibullah
Dr. Pronob Sen
Shri Arun Chaudhary
Mr. Rameshwar Oraon
Mr. P. L. Punia
Mr. S. C. Sinha
Vice Admiral Anurag G Thapliyal
Mr. N. Srinivasan
Dr. Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi
Justice Altamas Kabir
Mr. Mohan Parasaran
Mr. K. K. Chakravarty
Mr. S. Gopalkrishnan
General Vikram Singh
Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne Mr. Goolam E. Vahanvati
Mrs. Kushal Singh
Dr. Y. V. Reddy
Mr. Subhash Joshi
Smt. Mrinal Pande Designation
President of India
Vice President
Prime Minister of India (Chairman of Planing Commission)
Speaker, Lok Sabha
Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha
Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha
Leader of Opposition (Lok Sabha)
Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha)
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission
Chief Election Commissioner
Election Commissioner
Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission
Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes
Chairman, UPSC
Chairman, National Commission on Farmers (NCF)
Chief Information Commissioner
Chairman, SSC
Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research
Register General and Census Commissioner of India
Chairman Law Commission
Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
President, Indian National Academy of Engineering
Chairman, Audit Bureau Circulation(ABC)
Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT)
Chairman, Securities & Exchange Board of India
Chairperson, National Commission for Women
Chairman, 13th Finance Commission
Chairman, National Knowledge Commission
CEO, Prasar Bharati
Chairman, Investment Commission
Chairman, NASSCOM President, ASSOCHAM
National Security Advisor and Special Advisor to PM (Internal Security)
Secretary General Rajya Sabha
Secretary General Lok Sabha
Director IB
Director CBI
Director, Research and Analytical Wing (RAW)
Director General, NSG
Director General, CRPF
Director General, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
Director General, Railway Protection Force
Director General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police(ITBP)
Chairman UGC
Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister and Director General DRDO
Principal Scientific Advisor to the Govt.
Chairman Space Commission and ISRO Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Dept of Atomic Energy. Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities
Chairman, National Statistical Commission
Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal
Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes
Director General National Investigation Agency (NIA)
Director General, Indian Coast Guard
President Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
Election Commissioner
Chief Justice of India
Solicitor General
Chairman Lalit Kala Academy
Chairman Confederation of Indian Industries(CII)
Chief of the Army Staff
Chief of the Naval Staff
Chief of the Air Staff Attorney General of India
Chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
Chairman 14th Finance Commission
Director General of Border Security Force (BSF)
Chairperson Prasar Bharati Board Name
Ban Ki-moon
Jan Eliasson
Dr. Jim Yong Kim
Christine Lagarde
Irina Bokova
Dr. Margaret Chan
Guy Ryder
Anthony Lake
Antonio Guterres
Helen Clark
Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi
Jose Angel Gurria
Peter Tomka
Haruhiko Kuroda
Donald Kaberuka
Jacques Rogge
Kamalesh Sharma
Thomas Yayi Boni
Roberto Azevedo
Ms. Navanetham Pillay
Herman Van Rompuy
Alan Issac
Jose Manuel Durao Barroso
Kandeh K. Yumkella
Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
Abdallah Salem el-Badri
Jose Miguel Insulza Salinas
Hifikepunye Pohamba
Mr. Yukia Amano
Anders Fogh Rasmussen Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin
Dr. Surin Pitsuwan
Mr. Ahmed Saleem
Lamine Diack
Charles F. Bolden, Jr
Salil Shetty
Ms. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Ertharin Cousin Designation
Secretary-General, United Nations Organisations
Deputy Secretary-General,UN
President, World Bank
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund(IMF)
Director -General, UNESCO
Director -General, WHO
Director -General, Inter-national Labour Organisation
Executive Director, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund(UNICEF)
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on trade and Development(UNCTAD)
Secretary-General, Organisation of Economic Cooperation And Development (OECD)
President, International Court of Justice
President, Asian Development Bank
President, African Development Bank
President,International Olympic Committee
Secretary-General, Commonwealth
Chairman, African Union Assembly
Director - General, WTO
High Commissioner, UN High Commission for Human Rights
President, European Council
President, International Cricket Council
President, European Commission
Director - General, UNIDO
Secretary-General, Gulf Co- operation Council
Secretary-General, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Secretary-General, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC)
Secretary-General, Organisation of American States
President, South West African People's Organisation(SWAPO)
Director - General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Secretary-General, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Executive Director, UNFPA
Secretary-General, ASEAN
Secretary-General, SAARC
President, international Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF)
Chief of NASA (USA)
Secretary-General, Amnesty International
Chairperson, African Union Commission
Executive Director of WFP Name
Mr. Cyrus Mistry
Mr. Mukesh Ambani
Mr. Lakshmi Mittal
Ms. Kiran Majumdar
Ms. Chanda Kochhar
Mr. Shiv Nadar
Mr. Naresh Goyal
Mr. Sunil Mittal
Ms. Indira Nooye
Shikha Sharma
S. D. Shibulal
Azim H. Premji
Mr. Vineet Nayyar
Mr. Rohit Nandan
Mr. K. V. Kamath
Mr. C. M. Vasudev
Mr. Pratip Chaudhuri
Mark Zuckerberg
Narayan Murthi
Steve Jobs
Mr. Vijay Maliya
Mr. Sunil Mittal
Mr. Kumaramangalam Birla
Mr. Anand Mahindra
Mr. Warren Buffett
Rajan Bharti Mittal
Dr. Arup Roy Choudhury
Mittu Chandilya Designation
Chairman Tata Sons
Chairman Relience Industries
Chairman Mittal Arcelor Steels
Chairman Biocon
Managing Director & CEO ICICI Bank
Chairman HCL Technologies
Chairman Jet Airways
Chairman Bharati Group
CEO Pepsico
MD, CEO Axis Bank
CEO and Managing Director Infosys
Chairman Wipro
Chairman of Mahindra Satyam
Chairman & Managing Director of Air India
Chairman ICICI Bank
Chairman, HDFC Bank
Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI)
CEO Facebook
Founder & Chairman of Infosys
Founder of Apple Company
Chairman of UB Group and Kingfisher Airlines
Founder of Airtel (Telecom Service Provider in India)
Chairman of Aditya Birla Group of Company
Chairman, Mahindra & Mahindra Group
Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India
Chairman NTPC
CEO, Air Asia India Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Amir Khusrau
Anand Mohan Bose
Ashutosh Mukherjee
Aurobindo Ghosh
Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bhagat Singh
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
Dadabhai Naoro Ji
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Govinda Ballabh Pant
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Jamshedji Tata
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lala Lajpat Rai
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Mrs. Annie Besant
Mrs. Sarojini Naldu
Netaji Subhash Bose Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru
Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya
Pandit Motilal Nehru
Rabindranath Tagore
Ram Manohar Lohla
Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Rasbehari Ghosh
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sarvapalli Radha Krishan
Shaukat Ali
Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan
Sister Nivedita
Swami Vivekananda
V. D. C Savarkar
Wumesh Chandra Banerjee
Zakir Hussain He was known as the 'Frontier Gandhi'. He was a nationalist Muslim leader of the North-West Frontier Province. He first started a militant organisation known as the 'Red Shirt', and later on joined the non-violent Civil Disobedience Movement started by Mahatma Gandhi.
Saintly personality; had devoted his life to social welfare; founder of the Bhoodan movement.
Assumed 'Parrot of India', was a famous poet and author who wrote in poetry and prose and also composed music. He enjoyed the patronage of successive Sultans of Delhi from Balban to Ghiyas-ud- din Tughluq. He died in 1324-25. His works include Tughluqnamah and the Tarikh-i-Alai.
He was a prominent Indian public man in his times. He was the first Indian to be a Wrangler of Cambridge University in 1873. He was the founder-secretary of the Indian Association which was established in Calcutta in 1876, and presided over the 14th session of the Indian National Congress held in Ma
He was an eminent lawyer and educationist. He was certainly a maker of modern Bengal, if not of India, by virtue of his eminent services to the cause of education. At the early age of 25 he became a member of the Senate of the Calcutta University of which he became the vice-chancellor.
An ardent nationalist who later became a saint, was educated in England. His views were readily accepted by Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab and Bal Gangadhar Tilak of Maharashtra and led to the formation of an extremist school within the Congress.
Patriot and statesman, known as Lokmanya. He organised Extremist Party within the Congress with Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pai. Britishers called him "Father of Indian Unrest". He gave the clarion call "Swaraj is my birth right". Tilak was the founder-editor of Mahratta (English) and Kesar Known as Shahid-e-Azam. Founded Naujawan Bharat Sabha. Exploded bomb in Central Legislative Assembly at Lahore on April 8, 1929. He was arrested and sentenced for life. He along with Sukh Dev and Shivram Rajguru, was hanged on March 23, 1931 for participating in Lahore conspiracy.
A prominent Indian politician, born in South India in 1879. He was the General Secretary of the Indian National Congress in 1921-22 and was a member of the Congress Working Commitee. Rajagopalachari was the Chief Minister of Madras from 1937-39.
He was elected president of the Indian National Congress at its second session held in Calcutta in 1886. He was the first Indian to be elected a member of the House of Commons in England on a ticket of Liberal Party. Twice again, in 1893 and in 1906, he was elected president of the INC.
A prominent leader of the Scheduled Castes. Built up a party of the untouchables, became a member of the Constitutent Assembly and piloted through it the Indian Constitution Act which declared India to be Republic. He also piloted the Hindu Code through the Indian Legislature.
He was the first President of the Republic of India. Born in Bihar in 1884, educated at the Calcutta Universty, he began his career as an advocate and soon commanded a very large practice at Patna High Court. Prasad became the president of Congress in 1934, 1939 and 1947; a minister in Nehru's cabin
He was a prominent Indian nationalist, and presided over the 1905 session of the Indian National Congress. In 1905 he founded at Poona the Servants of India Society. He died in 1915. He is considered as the 'Political Guru' of Gandhiji.
The celebrated Sanskrit grammarian, was the author of Ashtadhyayi. He was one of the leading members and leaders of the Indian National Congress. He became the Chief Minister in his native province of Uttar Pradesh after independence.
Social reformer and educationist from Bengal and a pioneer in the field of primary education and widow re-marriage. Parsi industrialist and philanthropist. Father of Indian industry, founded Tata, Iron and Steel Company in Bihar.
Prime Minister of India from May, 1964 to his death on 11 January, 1966. He was conferred Bharat Ratna posthumously. He was a martyr for the cause of peace between India and Pakistan at Tashkent.
Indian national leader known as "Lion of Punjab". Founder editor of Bande Mataram, The Punjabeeand The People. Died of injuries caused by police lathi-charge while leading a demonstration against Simon Commission at Lahore in 1928. Author of Young India, The Arya Samaj and England's Debt to India.
Better known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born on October 2, 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat. Became a barrister-at-law (1891) in England. Went to South Africa in 1893. Stayed there till 1914 for the cause of the emancipation of the Indians from the insulting life.
Born in 1900, was a talented daughter of Pandit Motilal Nehru. She held many high offices after Indian independence including the post of India's High Commissioner in England (1955-61) and India's Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. as well as to the U. S. A.
English theosophist, bom in London in October 1847. She founded the Central Hindu College at Banaras and was elected president of the Theosophical Society in 1907. In 1916 she founded the Indian Home Rule League and became its first president and in 1917.
The most talented Indian lady, born of Bengali parents, was a poet and orator who took a prominent part in Indian politics. She presided over the Kanpur session of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and was the first lady to be appointed a state Governor in the Republic of India.
Popularly known as Netaji, was born on January 23, 1879, at Cuttack. He passed the Indian Civil Service Examination in 1920. He joined the Indian National Congress in 1921. In 1938 he was the president of the INC at its Haripura session and in 1939 he was elected president of its Tripuri session. He was the first Prime Minister of Independent India and is known as the architect of modem India. He was born in Allahabad on Novemeber 14,1889. In 1928 be became the General Secretary of the Indian National Congress and in 1929 its President. At the Lahore session under his Presidentship was pass
A leading nationalist leader, prominent educationist and social reformer. Later on joined the second session of the Indian National Congress held in 1886 and twice became its President in 1909 and 1918. His greatest achievement was the foundation in 1915 in Benaras of the Hindu University.
A renowned Indian patriot, was born on 6th May, 1861 in Delhi. He began his career as a lawyer at the Allahabad High Court, joined the Indian National Movement and started a journal named The Independent' to support the cause of Indian Nationalism. Along with C. R. Das he formed the Swarajist Party
Poet, novelist, patriot, educationist, essayist, painter and philosopher. He founded Shantiniketan (now Viswabharati University) in West Bengal. The first Asian to receive Nobel Prize in Literature (for Gitanjali in 1913), writer of National Anthems of India and Bangladesh.
A social and political revolutionary, he founded the'Samajwadi Party' after difference of opinion with the Congress.
He was a very great spiritual teacher of the Hindus in modern times. His two-noteworthy disciples were Keshavchandra Sen and Swami Vivekanand.
He was elected president of the Surat session of the Indian National Congress in 1907 in which the Moderates and Extremists came to a serious clash. Next year he presided over the Madras session of the INC.
A renowned Indian patriot and politician, was born on the 31st, October, 1875 in Gujarat and began his career as a lawyer. He took a leading part in the Bardoli Satyagraha movement. In 1931 he became the president of the Congress. He joined the "interim Government" set up in 1946 as the Home Ministe The second President of the Republic of India. Radha Krishnan was appointed as India's ambassador to the USSR in 1949. In 1962 he became the President of India. His birthday, Sept 5, is celebrated as Teacher's Day.'
A prominent leader and politician amongst the Indian Muhammadans. He along with his brother Muhammad All, led the Khilafat Movement in 1919-20. He also joined the Indian National Congress and the non-co-operation movement.
He was a prominent leader of the Indian Muhammadans. Remained loyal to the British during the Sepoy Mutiny (1857-58), founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh in 1875. In 1920 the college was raised to the status of University and called the Aligarh Muslim University.
A famous disciple of Swami Vivekananda, was an Irish lady named Miss Margaret Nobel.
Disciple of Rama Krishna Paramahansa, and founder of Ramakrishna Mission at Belur. He championed the supremacy of Vedantic philosophy and his talk at the Chicago conference of world religions in 1893 made westerners realise the greatness of Hinduism for the first time.
He founded Mitra Mandal aimed at achieving freedom by armed rebellion, founded Abhinav Bharat, started Free Indian Society in England (London). Savarkar was arrested in Nasik conspiracy case and sentenced to transportation for life and freed in 1937. He authored Indian War of Independence.
The first president of the Indian National Congress held at Bombay in 1885. He was made Congress President a second time at its Allahabad session in 1892.
Proposed Wardha Scheme of education, formerly Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia. He was elected as President of India in 1967.
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Indus valley civilization.
Birth of Mahavir; Nirvana in 523. B.C.
Birth of Gautam Buddha; Nirvana in 483 B.C.
Alexander's invasion of India and the opening of land route between India and Europe.
Ashoka's reign.
Battle of Kalinga. Beginning of Vikrama era.
Satvahana dynasty in Deooan. Pandyan empire in for south.
Alexander defeated Poras in the Battle of Hydaspas
Ashoka defeated Kalinga in the Kalinga War
Beginning of Saka era.
Beginning of Gupta era.
Samudragupta conquers the whole of N. India and much of the Deccan. Rule of Chandragupta Vikramaditya, age of Kalidasa, renewal of induism.
Rule of Harshavardhana.
Hieun Tsang's visit in India.
Beginning of Hijra era.
Arab invasion of Sind by Mohd. bin Qasim.
Repeated attacks of Mehmud Ghazni.
Sacking of Somnath temple by Mehmud.
First battle of Tarain in which Prithviraj Chauhan defeated Mohd. Ghori. Second battle of Tarain in which Mohd. Ghori defeated Prithviraj Chauhan.
Qutubuddin Aibak founded the Ilbari/Slave dynasty.
Jalaluddin Firuz Khilji established Khilji dynasty.
Marco Polo visited India.
Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq founded the Tughlaq dynasty.
Ibn Batuta arrived in India.
Harihara and Bukka founded the Vijaynagar empire.
Bahmani kingdom founded. Timur invades India.
Lodi dynasty comes in power in Delhi Sultanate.
Birth of Guru Nanak Dev.
Vasco da Gama lands at Calicut.
Portuguese capture Goa-Albuquerque Governor.
First Battle of Panipat in which Babar defeated Ibrahim Lodhi and established the Mughal dynasty.
Second battle of Panipat in which Akbar defeated Hemu.
Battle of Talikota in which Vijaynagar empire is defeated. Foundation of Fatehpur Sikri by Akbar.
Battle of Haldighati in which Akbar defeated Maharana Pratap.
Akbar started Din-i-llahi.
English East India Company established.
Compilation of Adi Granth.
Death of Akbar.
The English built a factory at Masulipatnam.
Birth of Shivaji Death of Shah Jahan's wife Mumtaz Mahal. The building of Taj Mahal.
Aurangzeb became Emperor of Delhi.
Birth of Guru Gobind Singh.
Guru Gobind Singh creates 'Khalsa'.
Death of Aurangzeb, fall of Mughal empire begins.
Nadir Shah invaded India; the peacock throne and the Kohinoor Diamond taken away from India.
Battle of Plassey in which the English defeated Siraj-ud- daula, Nawab of Bengal.
Battle of Wandiwash, end of French power in India, Third Battle of Panipat in which Ahmed Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas.
Battle of Buxar in which the English defeated the triple alliance of Nawab Mir Qasim of Bengal, Nawab Shuja-ud-daula of Awadh and Mughal emperor Shah Alam.
Permanent settlement in Bengal.
Fourth Anglo Mysore War, death of Tipu Sultan, Ranjit Singh occupied Lahore and made it his capital.
Marathas finally crushed.
Lord William Bentick becomes Governor General; Era of social reforms; Prohibition of Sati (1829), Suppression of thugs (1830).
Introduction of English as medium of instruction.
First Indian railway from Bombay to Thane. First war of Indian Independence.
British crown takes over the Indian Government; End of East India Company's rule.
Birth of Rabindra Nath Tagore.
Birth of M.K. Gandhi.
Formation of Indian National Congress.
Partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon.
Formation of All India Muslim League.
Minto-Morley Reforms. Delhi durbar held, partition of Bengal cancelled, capital shifted from Calcutta to Delhi.
World War I started.
End of World War I.
Rowlatt Act, Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Montague- Chelmsford reforms.
Non-cooperation Movement launched,
Moplah rebellian in Malabar; visit of Prince of Wales.
Chauri-Chaura incidence.
Swaraj party formed. Simon Commission appointed.
Visit of Simon Commission to India, death of Lala Lajpat Rai.
Congress demanded'Poorna Swaraj'in Lahore session.
January 26 celebrated as Independence Day throughout India, Dandi Salt Satyagraha, First Round Table conference.
Gandhi-lrvin Pact, Second Round Table Conference.
Suppression of Congress Movement, Third Round Table Conference, Communal Award, Poona Pact.
Government of India Act.
Inauguration of Provincial Autonomy. Congress ministries formed in 8 out of 11 provinces. Resignation of Congress ministries, beginning of World War II.
Cripps Mission Plan, Quit India Movement, Formation of Indian National Army by S.C. Bose.
Simla conference held and the failure of Wavell Plan, INA trials at Red Fort, Delhi.
Cabinet Mission Plan, Formation of Interim Government, Direct Action Resolution by Muslim League.
Mountbatten Plan of June 3 in which partition of India resolution is proposed, India divided, Pakistan created, both achieve independence, Jawarhar Lai Nehru becomes the I Prime Minister of India.
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (Jan. 30).
India became republic (Jan. 26).
First Five Year Plan implemented. First General Elections held.
Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary conquer Mt. Everest (May 29).
Panchsheel agreement between India and China.
Life insurance nationalized, State Reorganising Act comes into force.
Second General Elections.
Metric system of weights and measures introduced.
Dalai Lama exiled; enters India.
Liberation of Goa. Chinese attack on India. (Oct 20).
Jawaharlal Nehru dies; Lai Bahadur Shastri becomes PM.
Indo-Pak war.
Tashkent Agreement reached, Death of Lai Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi became PM.
Dr. Zakir Hussain elected President.
Hargovind Khurana shares the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology.
Death of. President Zakir Hussain (May 3). V. V. Giri elected President, Nationalization of 14 leading banks, Split in Indian National Congress.
Former Indian ruler's privy purses abolished. Dr. C. V. Raman died (Nov. 2). Indo-Pak War over Bangladesh.
Shimla Agreement signed.
Manekshaw named India's first Field Marshal
Nuclear explosion at Pokhran (May 18).
Indian satellite 'Aryabhatta' launched, National emergency declared.
The four Indian News agencies merged into a single News Agency known as 'Samachar', life of Lok Sabha extended by an year.
Defeat of Mrs. Indira Gandhi in the election, Morarji Desai takes over as PM, emergency withdrawn.
India launches world's biggest adult literacy plan (Oct. 2). Charan Singh became PM., Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Indira Gandhi returns to power at centre, India launches first satellite using its own satellite launching vehicle (July. 18).
India launched APPLE, Khalistan activists hijack Indian Airlines Boeing 737 to Lahore.
Zail Singh sworn in as President, the 21-member Indian scientific expedition headed by Dr. S. Z. Qasim lands on Antarctica (Jan. 9), INSAT1 A launched, Ninth Asian Games held in New Delhi.
The 7th Non Aligned Summit in New Delhi, Kalpakkam Atomic Energy plant goes critical (July 2), INSAT- 1 B launched (Aug. 30), Richard Attenborough's "Gandhi" wins 8 oscars.
Rakesh Sharma becomes India's first spaceman (Apr. 5), Bachendri Pal become the first Indian woman to scale Mt. Everest (May 23), Operation Blue Star, Assassination of Indira Gandhi (Oct 31), Rajiv Gandhi becomes PM, Bhopal Gas tragedy (Dec. 3).
Anti-defection Bill passed (Jan. 3), Azharuddin hits 3 centuries in 3 tests.
The first wholly Indian test-tube baby bom at KEM Hospital, Bombay (Aug. 7). Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first batsman to score 10,000 runs in tests (Mar. 7), Goa becomes the 25th state of India (May 30).
India's first remote sensing satellite IRS 1 -A launched from Russia (Mar. 17), INSAT 1-C launched from French Guyana (July 22).
Successful test of Agni (May 22), laying of the foundation stone for the Ram Janmabhoomi temple of Ayodhya (Nov 10). V.P. Singh becomes the PM.
Successful launching of INSAT 1-D (June 12), Mandal Commission recommendation implemented (Aug. 7), V.P. Singh tenders resignation (Nov. 7), S. Chandrashekhar becomes PM. (Nov. 10).
Rajiv Gandhi killed in a bomb blast (May 21), P. V. Narsimha Rao became PM. (June 21), Earthquake in Uttarkashi region (Oct. 20), Satyajit Ray got special Oscar award. (Dec.16).
Prithvi test fired (May 5), INSAT-2 A launched (July 10), Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma became President (July 25), the domes of Babri Masjid demolished (Dec 6).
Panchayati Raj Act effective (Apr. 24), INSAT-2 B launched from French Guyana (July 23), Earthquake in Latur region (Sept. 30).
First heart transplant in the country (Aug. 3), PSLV D-2 launched (Oct. 15). Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh assassinated (Agu. 31), INSAT-2 C launched (Dec. 7)
A.B. Vajpayee became PM. (May 16), H.D. Deve Gowda became PM. (June 1), India-Bangladesh sign Ganga Water Pact (Dec. 12)
I. K. Gujral became PM. (Apr. 21), K. R. Narayanan sworn in as President (July 25), Mother Teresa passes away (Sept. 5), Arundhati Roy wins Booker Prize (Oct. 14), I. K. Gujral resigns as PM. (Nov. 28)
Konkan railway commissioned (Jan. 26), A. B. Vajpayee became PM. (Mar. 19), India conducted total 5 nuclear tests (May 11 and May 13), Severe cyclone in Gujarat (June 9), Amartya Sen won the Noble Prize in Economics (Oct. 14)
P.M. Vajpayee arrived in Pakistan by Delhi-Lahore bus (Feb. 20), India successfully launched its first commercial telecom satellite INSAT-2 E from Kourou (Apr. 3), Intense fighting in Kargil (June-July), Devastating cyclone in Orissa and A. P. (Oct.)
U. S. President Bill Clinton visited India (Mar.) INSAT-3 B launched from Kourou (Mar. 22), Successful test firing of 'Dhanush', the naval version of 'Prithvi' missile (Apr. 11), Karnam Malleshwari wins a bronze at Olympics, Chattisgarh formed (Nov. 1), Uttaranchal formed (Nov. 9), Jharkhand formed (Nov. 15) The pilotless target aircraft 'Lakshya' inducted into the Indian Air Force (Jan. 5), Severe earthquake in Gujarat (Ja. 26), the newly-constructed Ennore port dedicated to the nation (Feb. 1), India successfully launches GSLV D-1 from Sriharikota (Apr. 18), Indo-Pak summit at Agra (July 15-16), Lok Pal Bill introduced in Lok Sabha (Aug. 14), Attack on WTC, New York shakes the world (Sept. 11), Lok Sabha passes the bill on "Right to Education till 14" (Nov. 30), Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament INSAT-3 C launched on Ariane rocket from Kourou in French Guyana (Jan. 24), ISRO successfully tries the indegenious cryogenic engine (Feb. 5), POTO passed in the joint session of the Parliament (Mar. 26), LCA test flown successfully (June 6), Cabinet clears 26% FDI in print media (June 25), Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam elected the President of India (July 18), Bhairon Singh Shekhawat sworn in as Vice- President of India (Aug. 19), India launches METSAT by using PSLV-C4 (Sept. 12), Draft of the Tenth Five-Year Plan approved by the Planning Commission (Oct. 5), BSNL launches mobile phone service (Oct. 15), Vajpayee and Putin sign Delhi declaration (Dec. 4), Kelkar submitted modified report on tax reforms (Dec. 28)
Kalpana Chawla killed in space shuttle Columbia burnup (Feb. 1); Large reserves of oil & gas discovered in Barmer district of Rajasthan (Feb. 4); US launched attack on Iraq (Mar. 20); INSAT-3A launched from Kourou (Apr. 10); Indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) renamed 'Tejas' (May 4); GSLVD-2 launched from Sriharikota (May 8); First instance of power failure in modern USA (Aug. 15- 16); Mars comes closest to Earth (Aug. 27); Govt. approves the purchase of Advanced Jet Trainers, Hawk, from Britain (Sept. 3); INSAT-3E launched from Kourou (Sept. 20); Pope John Paul-ll beautifies Mother Teresa (Oct. 19); First Afro-Asian Games held in Hyderabad (Oct. 24-Nov. 1); India & Pakistan agree to a formal cease-fire along the LOG (Nov. 25); 97th, 98th, 99th & 100th Constitutional Amendment Bills passed (Dec. 18-23) Sensex crosses the magical figure of 6000 (Jan. 2); India signs agreement with Russia for obtaining Admiral Gorshkov (Jan. 20); Delhi High Court clears Rajiv Gandhi from the Bofors deal (Feb. 4); 200 killed in Madrid train blast (Mar. 11); Nobel Medals of Rabindra Nath Tagore gets stolen from Shantiniketan (Mar. 25); NDA conducts election before time, but loses unexpectedly, UPA government comes in power, Dr. Manmohan Singh sworn-in as the new PM (May 22); 87 children killed in a fire in school in Kumbhkonam, Tamil Nadu (July 17); Olympics return to their homeland Athens, Rajyavardhan Rathode wins a silver for India (Aug. 13-29); Hamid Karzai wins the Presidential vote in Afghanistan (Oct. 14); Sandalwood King Veerappan is dead (Oct. 18); George W. Bush re- elected (Nov. 3); Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati arrested on murder charges (Nov. 11); Yasser Arafat is dead (Nov. 11); Parliament dismissses POTA (Dec. 9); Tsunami causes havoc in South and South East Asia killing more than a lakh (Dec. 26) Quotation
1 Swaraj is my Birth Right
2 Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
3 A thing of beauty is a joy forever
4 To be and not to be that is the question.
5 Delhi Chalo
6 Superstition is the religion of feeable minds.
7 Let a hundread flowers bloom and let a thousand school of thought contend.
8 Aram Haram Hai
9 Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
10 Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all.
11 I came I saw I conquered
12 Good Government is no substitute for self government.
13 A democratic Government is of the people, for the people and by the people.
14 Jay Hind
15 Law grinds the poor and rich men rule the men. 16 The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
17 War is the greatest crime man perpetrates against man.
18 There never was a good war or a bad peace.
19 The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
20 Truth and Non-violence is my God
21 Jai Jawan, Jai Kishan
22 Eureka Eureka
23 Just as I would not like to be a slave, so I would not like to be a master.
24 Brevity is the soul of wit.
25 East is east and west is west and never the twin shall meet.
26 Knowledge is Power
27 Man is by nature a political animal.
28 Temptation usually comes in through a door that has delibaretly been left open.
29 I therefore want freedom immediately this very night, before dawn if it can be had?
30 Man is not the creature of circumstance. Circumstances are the creature of men.
31 Excellent things are rare. 32 Well done is better than well said.
33 Ambition is like love: Impatient both of delays as well as rivals.
34 The child is father of the man.
35 Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
36 Patriotism is religion and religion is love for India.
37 Oh! Disrespectable democracy! I love you! Quoted By
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
G. B. Shaw
John Keats
Shakespeare
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Edmund Burke
Mao-Ste-Tunng
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Goldsmith
John Keats
Shekspear
Alfred Tennyson
Abraham Linkon
Netaji
Gold Smith D. H. Lawrence
Zarathustra
Benjamin Franklin
Theodore Roosevelt
M. K. Gandhi
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Archimedes
Abraham Linkon
Shekspear
Kipling
Hobbes
Aristotol
Arnold Glasow
Gandhiji
Disraeli
Plato Benjamin Franklin
Buddha
William Wordsworth
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
G.B.Shaw