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Who is Who

INDIA 

Name	Designation
Mr. Pranab Mukherjee	President of India
Mohammad Hamid Ansari	Vice President
Manmohan Singh	Prime Minister of India (Chairman of Planing Commission)
Ms. Meira Kumar	Speaker, Lok Sabha
Mr. P. J. Kurien	Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha
Mr. Karia Munda	Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha
Ms. Sushma Swaraj	Leader of Opposition (Lok Sabha)
Mr. Arun Jaitley	Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha)
Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia	Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission
Mr. V. S. Sampath	Chief Election Commissioner
Mr. Hari Shankar Brahma	Election Commissioner
Justice K.G. Balakrishnan	Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission
Mr. Shashi Kant Sharma	Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Mr. Justice M.N. Rao	Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes
Prof. D.P. Agarwal	Chairman, UPSC
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan	Chairman, National Commission on Farmers (NCF)
Mr. Satyanand Mishra	Chief Information Commissioner
Mr. N. K. Raghupathy	Chairman, SSC
Dr. Vishwa Mohan Katoch	Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research
Mr. C. Chandramouli	Register General and Census Commissioner of India
Mr. Justice D. K. Jain	Chairman Law Commission
Mr. Duvvuri Subbarao	Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Mr. Baldev Raj	President, Indian National Academy of Engineering
Mr. Shailesh Gupta	Chairman, Audit Bureau Circulation(ABC)
Dr. (Ms.) Poonam Kishore Saxena	Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT)
Mr. U. K. Sinha	Chairman, Securities & Exchange Board of India
Ms. Mamata Sharma	Chairperson, National Commission for Women
Dr. Vijay Kelkar	Chairman, 13th Finance Commission
Mr. Sam Pitroda	Chairman, National Knowledge Commission
Shri Jawhar Sircar	CEO, Prasar Bharati
Mr. Ratan Tata	Chairman, Investment Commission
Mr. Krishnakumar Natarajan	Chairman, NASSCOM
Mr. Rajkumar Dhoot	President, ASSOCHAM
Mr. Shiv Shankar Menon	National Security Advisor and Special Advisor to PM (Internal Security)
Mr. Shumsher K. Sheriff	Secretary General Rajya Sabha
Mr. T. K. Vishwanathan	Secretary General Lok Sabha
Syed Asif Ibrahim	Director IB
Mr. Ranjit Sinha	Director CBI
Mr. Alok Joshi	Director, Research and Analytical Wing (RAW)
Mr. Arvind Ranjan	Director General, NSG
Mr. Pranay Sahay	Director General, CRPF
Mr. Rajiv	Director General, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
Mr. P. K. Mehta	Director General, Railway Protection Force
Shri Ajay Chadha	Director General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police(ITBP)
Prof. Ved Prakash	Chairman UGC
Dr. V. K. Saraswat	Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister and Director General DRDO
Dr. R. Chidambaram	Principal Scientific Advisor to the Govt.
Dr. K. Radhakrishnan	Chairman Space Commission and ISRO
Dr. R. K. Sinha	Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Dept of Atomic Energy.
Mr. Wajahat Habibullah	Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities
Dr. Pronob Sen	Chairman, National Statistical Commission
Shri Arun Chaudhary	Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal
Mr. Rameshwar Oraon	Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
Mr. P. L. Punia	Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes
Mr. S. C. Sinha	Director General National Investigation Agency (NIA)
Vice Admiral Anurag G Thapliyal	Director General, Indian Coast Guard
Mr. N. Srinivasan	President Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
Dr. Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi	Election Commissioner
Justice Altamas Kabir	Chief Justice of India
Mr. Mohan Parasaran	Solicitor General
Mr. K. K. Chakravarty	Chairman Lalit Kala Academy
Mr. S. Gopalkrishnan	Chairman Confederation of Indian Industries(CII)
General Vikram Singh	Chief of the Army Staff
Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi	Chief of the Naval Staff
Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne	Chief of the Air Staff
Mr. Goolam E. Vahanvati	Attorney General of India
Mrs. Kushal Singh	Chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
Dr. Y. V. Reddy	Chairman 14th Finance Commission
Mr. Subhash Joshi	Director General of Border Security Force (BSF)
Smt. Mrinal Pande	Chairperson Prasar Bharati Board

INTERNATIONAL 

Name	Designation
Ban Ki-moon	Secretary-General, United Nations Organisations
Jan Eliasson	Deputy Secretary-General,UN
Dr. Jim Yong Kim	President, World Bank
Christine Lagarde	Managing Director, International Monetary Fund(IMF)
Irina Bokova	Director -General, UNESCO
Dr. Margaret Chan	Director -General, WHO
Juan Somavia	Director -General, Inter-national Labour Organisation
Anthony Lake	Executive Director, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund(UNICEF)
Antonio Guterres	UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Helen Clark	Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi	Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on trade and Development(UNCTAD)
Angel Gurria	Secretary-General, Organisation of Economic Cooperation And Development (OECD)
Peter Tomka	President, International Court of Justice
Haruhiko Kuroda	President, Asian Development Bank
Donald Kaberuka	President, African Development Bank
Jacques Rogge	President,International Olympic Committee
Kamalesh Sharma	Secretary-General, Commonwealth
Thomas Yayi Boni	Chairman, African Union Assembly
Pascal Lamy	Director - General, WTO
Ms. Navanetham Pillay	High Commissioner, UN High Commission for Human Rights
Herman Van Rompuy	President, European Council
Alan Issac	President, International Cricket Council
Jose Manuel Durao Barroso	President, European Commission
Kandeh K. Yumkella	Director - General, UNIDO
Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani	Secretary-General, Gulf Co- operation Council
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu	Secretary-General, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Abdallah Salem el-Badri	Secretary-General, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC)
Jose Miguel Insulza Salinas	Secretary-General, Organisation of American States
Hifikepunye Pohamba	President, South West African People's Organisation(SWAPO)
Mr. Yukia Amano	Director - General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Anders Fogh Rasmussen	Secretary-General, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin	Executive Director, UNFPA
Dr. Surin Pitsuwan	Secretary-General, ASEAN
Mr. Ahmed Saleem	Secretary-General, SAARC
Lamine Diack	President, international Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF)
Charles F. Bolden, Jr	Chief of NASA (USA)
Salil Shetty	Secretary-General, Amnesty International

BUSINESS 

Name	Designation
Mr. Cyrus Mistry	Chairman Tata Sons
Mr. Mukesh Ambani	Chairman Relience Industries
Mr. Lakshmi Mittal	Chairman Mittal Arcelor Steels
Ms. Kiran Majumdar	Chairman Biocon
Ms. Chanda Kochhar	Managing Director & CEO ICICI Bank
Mr. Shiv Nadar	Chairman HCL Technologies
Mr. Naresh Goyal	Chairman Jet Airways
Mr. Sunil Mittal	Chairman Bharati Group
Ms. Indira Nooye	CEO Pepsico
Shikha Sharma	MD, CEO Axis Bank
S. D. Shibulal	CEO and Managing Director Infosys
Azim H. Premji	Chairman Wipro
Mr. Vineet Nayyar	Chairman of Mahindra Satyam
Mr. Rohit Nandan	Chairman & Managing Director of Air India
Mr. K. V. Kamath	Chairman ICICI Bank & Chairman Infosys
Mr. C. M. Vasudev	Chairman, HDFC Bank
Mr. Pratip Chaudhuri	Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI)
Mark Zuckerberg	CEO Facebook
Narayan Murthi	Founder & Ex-Chairman of Infosys
Steve Jobs	Founder of Apple Company
Mr. Vijay Maliya	Chairman of UB Group and Kingfisher Airlines
Mr. Sunil Mittal	Founder of Airtel (Telecom Service Provider in India)
Mr. Kumaramangalam Birla	Chairman of Aditya Birla Group of Company
Mr. Anand Mahindra	Chairman, Mahindra & Mahindra Group
Mr. Warren Buffett	Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
Rajan Bharti Mittal	President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India
Dr. Arup Roy Choudhury	Chairman NTPC

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Prime Ministers of India

Prime Ministers of India

We often get to face questions on Indian Prime Ministers in competitive Exams. Here is the complete list of Prime Ministers of India….. Download as PDF and keep as a handy reference!!!

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Sl No	Name	Tenure	Party
1	Shri Jawaharlal Nehru	August 15, 1947 - May 27, 1964	Congress
2	Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda	May 27, 1964 - June 9, 1964	Congress
3	Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri	June 9, 1964 - January 11, 1966	Congress
4	Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda	January 11, 1966 - January 24, 1966	Congress
5	Mrs. Indira Gandhi	January 24, 1966 - March 24, 1977	Congress
6	Shri Morarji Desai	March 24, 1977 - July 28, 1979	Janata Party
7	Shri Charan Singh	July 28, 1979 - January 14, 1980	Janata Party
8	Mrs. Indira Gandhi	January 14, 1980 - October 31, 1984	Congress (I)
9	Shri Rajiv Gandhi	October 31, 1984 - December 2, 1989	Congress (I)
10	Shri Vishwanath Pratap Singh	December 2, 1989 - November 10, 1990	Janata Dal
11	Shri Chandra Shekhar	November 10, 1990 - June 21, 1991	Janata Dal (S)
12	Shri P. V. Narasimha Rao	June 21, 1991- May 16, 1996	Congress (I)
13	Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee	May 16, 1996 - June 1, 1996	BJP
14	Shri H. D. Deve Gowda	June 1, 1996 - April 21, 1997	Janata Dal
15	Shri Inder Kumar Gujral	April 21, 1997 - March 19, 1998	Janata Dal
16	Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee	March 19, 1998 - May 22, 2004	BJP
17	Dr. Manmohan Singh	May 22, 2004 - till date	INC

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Representation from Government servant on service matters-Prescribed Channels

No.11013/08/2013-Estt.(A)-III

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

Department of Personnel & Training

North Block, New Delhi

Dated the 6th June, 2013

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Representation from Government servant on service matters.

The undersigned is directed to refer to the Ministry of Home Affairs OM No. 118/52-Ests. dated the 30th April, 1952, OM No. 25134168-Estt.(A) dated the 20th December, 1968 and this Department’s OM No. 11013/07/1999-Estt.(A) dated the l November, 1999 (copies enclosed for ready reference) on the above mentioned subject. This Departmentis receiving a number of representations. on service matters, addressed to the Prime Minister/Minister/Secretary (P) and other officers directly from the Government servants.

2. It has been envisaged in these instructions that whenever, in any matter connected with his service rights orconditions, a Government servant wishes to press a claim or to seek redress of a grievance, the proper course for him is to address his immediate official superior, or the Head of his office, or such other authority at the lowest level as is competent to deal with the matter.Of late it is observed that there is an increasing tendency on the part of officers at different levels to by-pass the prescribed channels of representation and write directly to the high functionaries totally ignoring the prescribed channels. The problem is more acute in large Departments where often very junior employees at clerical level address multiple representations to the Minster, Prime Minister and other functionaries. Apart from individual representations, the service unions have also developed a tendency to write to the Ministers and Prime Minister on individual grievance. Some of these representations are often forwarded through Members of Parliament, in violation of Rule 20 of the CCS (Conduct) Rule, 1964.

3. Existing instructions clearly provide that representations on service matters should be forwarded through proper channel. The stage at which an advance copy of the representation may be sent to higher authorities has also been indicated. In MHA O.M. No. 25!34!68-Estt.(A) dated 20.12.68 time limits for disposal of various types of representations have been prescribed. If it is anticipated that an appeal or petition cannot be disposed of within a month of its submission. An acknowledgement or interim reply should be sent to the individual within a month.

4. Thus adequate instructions are available in the matter of submission of representations by the Governmentservants and treatment of the representations by the authorities concerned. As such submission of representations directly to highest authorities by- passing the prescribed channel of communication, has to be viewed seriously and appropriate disciplinary action should be taken against those who violate these instructions as it can rightly be treated as an unbecoming conduct attracting the provisions of Rule 3 (1) (iii) of the CCS (Conduct) Rules, 1964.

5. it is again reiterated that these instructions may be brought to the notice of all Govt. servants and appropriate disciplinary action may be taken against those who violate these instructions.

sd/-

(Y.K. Wadhwa)

Under Secretary to the Government of India

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വീടുകളില്‍ വളര്‍ത്താന്‍ പറ്റിയ 10 നായകള്‍.

 

 

നമ്മുടെ വീടുകളില്‍ വളര്‍ത്താന്‍ പറ്റിയ പത്തു നായകളെ നമുക്ക് ഒന്ന് പരിചയപ്പെടാം. മിക്കവയും പാശ്ചാത്യന്‍ ഐറ്റം ആണെങ്കിലും മലയാളികളില്‍ പലരുടെ വീട്ടിലും ഇപ്പോള്‍ ഇത്തരം നായകളെ കാണാറുണ്ട്.
1. ഗോള്‍ഡന്‍ റിട്രീവര്‍

2. ലാബ്രഡോര്‍ റിട്രീവര്‍

3. ഐറിഷ് സെറ്റെര്‍

4. ബീഗല്‍

5. ഷിബ ഇനു

6.ഓസ്ട്രലിയന്‍ ഷെപ്പേര്‍ഡ്

7. പഗ്

8. ന്യൂ ഫൌണ്ട് ലാന്‍ഡ്‌

9. പൂഡ്ല്‍

10. കോള്ളീ

 

 

Paper Work: Updating details in the NPS

A subscriber of the National Pension System (NPS) needs to record any change in signature in the NPS database. An updated photograph can also be recorded using the same procedure. For any of these changes, the subscriber needs to use Form UOS-S7. This form is available with the POP-SP (point of presence service provider) or can be downloaded from the NPS website at http://tinyurl. com/qj2wbv7.

Information

The subscriber needs to indicate whether the request is for change in signature or for updating the photograph. If the request is for the latter, a recent colour photograph of 3.5 cm x 2.5 cm needs to be affixed.

Verification

The NPS subscriber needs to visit the office of the POP-SP in person and submit the form along with a copy of the PRAN card. On receipt of the form, the POP-SP shall affix the stamp of 'Verified in person' with the date as well as the name and signature of the authorised official of the POP-SP who has done the verification.

Process

The POP-SP will forward the request to the central recordkeeping agency (CRA) for updating records for the new signature and/or photograph. The CRA shall print a new PRAN card and dispatch it to the subscriber's address.

Conditions

The POP-SP accepts request for change of signature or photograph only from a subscriber associated with it.

Points to note

- The signature/thumb impression of the applicant should be inside the rectangle provided on the application form. It must be the lefthand thumb impression for males and the right-hand thumb impression for females.

- The photograph should be clearly visible and should not have any marks, stamps and signatures across or on it.

Source : http://economictimes.indiatimes.com

Redirection Facility available for ePOST

NIC has provided an option for Redirection of ePOST Messages. Operators can use this facility for redirecting the ePOST Messages to the correct PO and hence  transmission of Messages through RMS  can be avoided. The option is included under Services Menu in the ePOST website The Step wise Procedure is given below.

1. Login using user credentials.
2. Services> Redirect
3. Operator have to Select the Message Type which have to be redirected
4. Redirection is possible only after taking Print outs of Messages.
5.The date upon which the print out has been taken should be selected and Click on GO Button.
6.The Message id of the Messages will be displayed
7.Select the Corresponding Message ID, which is to be redirected.
8.There is an option for Giving the Receivers Address.
9.You can Skip Sl.No 8 and Click on GET ePOST Centre Option.
10. After that you have to select Region Name, Division name and ePOST Centre name from the Option.
11 The selected PO name and PINCODE will be displayed
12.CLICK ON SUBMIT BUTTON.
13.'Redirection Successful Message will be displayed"

All about GDS Establishment

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