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Cabinet Ministers of India 2014 (Latest)

Cabinet Ministers
● Narendra Modi – Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister
● Rajnath Singh – Home Affairs
● Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
● Arun Jaitley – Finance, Corporate (Additional charge – Affairs Information and Broadcasting)
● Manohar Parrikar – Defence
● M Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development, Housing, Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
● Nitin Gadkari – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
● Suresh Prabhu – Railways
● Uma Bharati – Water resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
● Dr Najma Heptulla – Minority Affairs
● Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
● Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
● Maneka Gandhi – Women and Child Development
● Ananthkumar – Chemicals and Fertilizers
● Ravi Shankar Prasad – Communications and Information Technology
● Ashok Gajapathi Raju – Civil Aviation
● Anant Geete – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
● Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Food Processing Industries
● Narendra Singh Tomar – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
● Jual Oram – Tribal Affairs
● Radha Mohan Singh – Agriculture
● Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment
● Smriti Irani – Human Resource Development
● JP Nadda – Health and Family Welfare
● Birender Singh – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
● DV Sadananda Gowda – Law and Justice
● Dr Harsh Vardhan – Science and Technology Earth Sciences


Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
● General VK Singh – Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
● Inderjit Singh Rao – Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Defence
● Santosh Gangwar – Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
● Shripad Naik – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
● Dharmendra Pradhan – Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
● Sarbananda Sonowal – Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
● Prakash Javadekar – Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs
● Piyush Goyal – Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
● Dr Jitendra Singh – Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
● Nirmala Sitharaman – Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs
● Bandaru Dattatreya – Labour and Employment
● Rajiv Pratap Rudy – Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs
● Mahesh Sharma – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge), Civil Aviation

Ministers of State
● GM Siddeshwara – Civil Aviation
● Manoj Sinha – Railways
● Nihalchand – Chemicals and Fertilizers
● Upendra Kushwaha – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
● Pon Radhakrishnan – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
● Kiren Rijiju – Home Affairs
● Krishan Pal – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
● Dr. Sanjeev Balyan – Agriculture, Food Processing Industries
● Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava – Tribal Affairs
● Raosaheb Danve – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
● Vishnu Deo Sai – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
● Sudarshan Bhagat – Rural Development
● Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi – Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs
● Ram Kripal Yadav – Drinking Water and Sanitation
● HP Chaudhary – Home Affairs
● Sanwar Lal Jat – Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
● Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya – Agriculture
● Giriraj Singh – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
● Hansraj Gangaram Ahir – Chemicals and Fertilizers
● Dr Ramshankar Katheria – Human Resource Development
● Jayant Sinha – Finance
● YS Chowdary – Science and Technology, Earth Science
● Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore – Information and Broadcasting
● Babul Supriyo – Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
● Niranjan Jyoti – Food Processing Industries
● Vijay Sampla – Social Justice and Empowerment

 

 

Capitals, Governors and Chief Ministers of Indian States

States	Capitals	Governors	Chief Ministers
(1) Andhra Pradesh	Hyderabad	Mr. E. S. L.Narasimhan	Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu
(2) Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar	Lt. General (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma	Mr. Nabam Tuki
(3) Assam	Dispur	Mr. J. B. Patnaik	Mr. Tarun Gogoi
(4) Bihar	Patna	Mr. D. Y. Patil	Mr. Jitan Ram Manjhi
(5) Chhattisgarh	Raipur	Mr. Balram Das Tandon	Dr. Raman Singh
(6) Goa	Panaji	Ms. Mridula Sinha	Mr. Laxmikant Parsekar
(7) Gujarat	Gandhinagar	Mr. Om Prakash Kohli	Ms. Anandiben Patel
(8) Haryana	Chandigarh	Mr. Kaptan Singh Solanki	Mr. Manohar Lal Khattar
(9) Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	Ms. Urmila Singh	Mr. Virbhadra Singh
(10) Jammu and Kashmir	Srinagar (Summer) Jammu (Winter)	Mr. N. N. Vohra	Mr. Omar Abdullah
(11) Jharkhand	Ranchi	Dr. Syed Ahmed	Mr. Hemant Soren
(12) Karnataka	Bengaluru	Mr. Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala	Mr. K. Siddaramaiah
(13) Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	Mr. P Sathasivam	Shri. Oommen Chandy
(14) Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Mr. Ram Naresh Yadav	Mr. Shivraj Singh Chauhan
(15) Maharashtra	Mumbai	Mr. Kateekal Sankaranarayanan	Mr. Devendra Fadnavis
(16) Manipur	Imphal	Dr. K. K. Paul (Additional charge)	Mr. Okram Ibobi Singh
(17) Meghalaya	Shillong	Mr. Krishan Kant	Mr. Mukul A. Sangma
(18) Mizoram	Aizawl	Dr. K. K. Paul	Mr. Lal Thanhawla
(19) Nagaland	Kohima	Mr. P. B. Acharya	Mr. Neiphiu Rio
(20) Odisha	Bhubaneswar	Mr. S. C. Jamir	Mr. Naveen Patnaik
(21) Punjab	Chandigarh	Mr. Shivraj V. Patil	Mr. Parkash Singh Badal
(22) Rajasthan	Jaipur	Mr. Kalyan Singh	Smt. Vasundhara Raje
(23) Sikkim	Gangtok	Mr. Shriniwas D. Patil	Mr. Pawan Chamling
(24) Tamil Nadu	Chennai	Mr. K Rosaiah	Mr. O. Panneerselvam
(25) Tripura	Agartala	Mr. Padmanabha Acharya (Additional charge)	Mr. Manik Sarkar
(26) Telangana	Hyderabad	Mr. E.S.L.Narasimhan	Mr. K. Chandrasekhar Rao
(27) Uttarakhand	Dehradun	Dr. Aziz Qureshi	Mr. Harish Rawat
(28) Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Mr. Ram Naik	Mr. Akhilesh Yadav
(29) West Bengal	Kolkata	Mr. Keshari Nath Tripathi	Ms. Mamata Banerjee

World Presidents and Prime Ministers 2014

● Afghanistan : President - Hamid Karzai; Capital - Kabul.

● Algeria : President - Abdelaziz Bouteflika; Prime Minister - Ahmed Ouyahia; Capital-Algiers.

● Argentina : President- Ms. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner; Capital- Buenos Aires.

● Australia : Governor-General- Ms. Quentin Bryce; Prime Minister - Kevin Rudd; Capital (Federal)- Canberra.

● Austria : President- Heinz Fischer; Chancellor-Werner Faymann, Capital- Vienna.

● Bahrain : King - Hamad ibn al-Khalifah; Prime Minister - Sheikh Khalifah Sulman al-Khalifah; Capital- Manama.

● Bangladesh : President - Abdul Hamid; Prime Minister - Ms. Sheikh Hasina; Capital- Dhaka.

● Belarus : President- Alexander Lukashenko; Prime Minister - Mikhail Myasnikovich; Capital- Minsk.

● Belgium : King - Albert II; Prime Minister-Herman Van Rompuy; Capital- Brussels.

● Bhutan : King - Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk; Prime Minister-Tshering Tobgay; Capital – Thimphu

● Bolivia : President- Evo Morales; Capital – La Paz.

● Brazil : President- Ms. Dilma Rousseff; Capital - Brasilia.

● Bulgaria : President - Georgi Purvanov; Prime Minister - Boyko Borisov; Capital-Sofia.

● Burkina Faso : President – Blaise Compaore; Prime Minister – Luc-Adolphe-Tiao; Capital-Ouagadougou.

● Cambodia : King - Norodom Sihamoni; Prime Minister - Hun Sen; Capital – Phnom Penh.

● Canada : Governor-General- David Lloyd Johnston; Prime Minister - Stephen Harper; Capital- Ottawa.

● Chile : President - Ms. Sebastian Pinera; Capital - Santiago.

● China : President- Xi Jinping; Prime Minister-Li Keqiang; Capital- Beijing.

● Colombia : President- Juan Manuel Santos; Capital - Bogota.

● Croatia : President - Stjepan Mesic; Prime Minister -Dr. Ivo Sanader; Capital-Zagreb.

● Cuba : President- Raul Castro; Capital -Havana.

● Czech Republic : President- Milos Zeman; Prime Minister -Petr Necas; Capital-Prague.

● Denmark : Queen - Margrethe II; Prime Minister- Ms. Helle Thorning-Schmidt; Capital - Copenhagen.

● Ecuador : President- Rafael Correa; Capital-Quito.

● Egypt : President - Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (Acting); Capital-Cairo.

● Finland : President - Ms. Tarja Halonen; Prime Minister - Matti Vanhanen; Capital-Helsinki.

● France : President- Francois Hollande; Prime Minister - Jean-Marc Ayrault; Capital- Paris.

● Germany : President - Joachim Gruck; Chancellor - Ms. Angela Merkel; Capital-Berlin.

● Guyana : President - Bharrat Jagdeo; Prime Minister - Samuel Hinds; Capital- Georgetown.

● Greece : President – Karolos Papoulias; Prime Minister – Antonis Samaras; Capital - Athens.

● Hungary : President- Janos Ader; Prime Minister - Viktor Orban; Capital- Budapest.

● Indonesia : President - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono; Capital- Jakarta.

● Iran : President - Mr. Hassan Rouhani; Capital- Teheran.

● Iraq : President -Jalai Talabani; Prime Minister - Nouri al-Maliki, Capital- Baghdad.

● Ireland : President- Michael D. Higgins; Prime Minister - Enda Kenny, Capital- Dublin.

● Israel : President - Shimon Peres; Prime Minister - Benjamin Netanyahu; Capital- Jerusalem.

● Italy : President - Georgio Napolitano; Prime Minister- Enrico Letta (Premier-designate); Capital- Rome.

● Japan : Emperor- Akihito; Prime Minister : Shinzo Abe; Capital- Tokyo.

● Jordan : King - Abdullah II; Prime Minister-Nader al-Dahabi; Capital- Amman.

● Kazakhstan : President - Nursultan A. Nazarbayev; Prime Minister – Serik Akhmetov; Capital- Astana.

● Kenya : President - Uhuru Kenyatta; Capital - Nairobi.

● Korea, North : President – Kim Jong-un; Capital- Pyongyang.

● Korea, South : President- Park Geun-hye; Prime Minister - Kim Hwang-sik; Capital - Seoul.

● Kuwait : Emir - Sheikh Sabah ai-Ahmad al-Sabah; Capital - Kuwait.

● Kyrgyzstan : President – Nursultan Kurmanbek Bakiyey; Prime Minister - Daniyar Usenov Capital - Bishkek.

● Lebanon : President – Michel Suleiman; Prime Minister - Najib Mikati, Capital - Beirut.

● Madagascar : President - Andy Rajoelina; Prime Minister - Eugene Mangalaza; Capital-Antananarivo.

● Malaysia : King - Sultan Abdul Halim; Prime Minister- Najib Tun Razak; Capital-Kuala Lumpur.

● Maldives : President - Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik; Capital - Male.

● Mauritius : President - Mr. Rajkeshwur Purryag; Prime Minister - Navin Ramgoolam; Capital - Port Louis.

● Mexico : President – Enrique Pena Nieto; Capital – Mexico City.

● Mongolia : President - Nambaryn Enkhbayar; Prime Minister - Sukhbaatar Batblod; Capital - Ulan Bator.

● Montenegro : President - Filip Vujanovic; Prime Minister-Milo Dukanovic; Capital – Podgorica

● Morocco : King - Mohammed VI; Prime Minister - Abbas El Fassi; Capital - Rabat.

● Myanmar (Burma) : Head of Govt. : Gen. Than Shwe; Capital - Nyapidaw.

● Nepal : President - Dr. Ram Baran Yadav; Prime Minister – Khil Raj Regmi; Capital -Kathmandu.

● Netherlands : Queen - Beatrix; Capital-Amsterdam.

● New Zealand : Governor-General – Jerry Mateparae; Prime Minister - John Key; Capital- Wellington.

● Nigeria : President - Goodluck Jonathan; Capital - Abuja.

● Norway : King - Harald V; Prime Minister – Jens Stoltenberg; Capital - Oslo.

● Pakistan : President - Mr. Mamnoon Hussain; Prime Minister - Navas Shareef; Capital -Islamabad.

● Panama : President - Ricardo Martenelli; Capital - Panama City.

● Paraguay : President - Fernando Lugo; Capital – Asuncion

● Peru : President - Alan Garcia; Prime Minister -Javier Velasquez; Capital- Lima.

● Philippines : President - Benigno S. Aquino III- Arroyo; Capital - Manila.

● Poland : President - Lech Kaczynski; Prime Minister- Donald Tusk; Capital- Warsaw.

● Portugal : President - Amibal Cavaco Silva; Prime Minister -Pedro Passos Coelho; Capital-Lisbon.

● Romania : President - Traian Basescu; Capital - Bucharest.

● Russia : President - Vladimir Putin; Prime Minister - Dmitry Medvedev; Capital - Moscow.

● Rwanda : President - Paul Kagame; Prime Minister - Bernard Makuza; Capital -Kigali.

● Saudi Arabia : King - Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud; Capital- Riyadh.

● Serbia : President - Boris Tadic; Prime Minister - Mirko Cvetkovic; Capital - Belgrade.

● Singapore : President - S. R. Nathan; Prime Minister - Lee Hsien Loong; Capital - Singapore.

● Slovakia : President - Ivan Gasparovic; Prime Minister - Robert Fico; Capital-Bratislava.

● South Africa : President- Jacob Zuma; Capital-Cape Town (Legislative) and Tshwane (Formerly Pretoria) (Administrative).

● Spain : King - Juan Carlos I; Prime Minister-Mariano Rajoy; Capital -Madrid.

● Sri Lanka : President - Mahinda Rajapaksa; Prime Minister - D.M. Jayaratne; Capital- Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (Colombo).

● South Sudan : President - Salva Kiir Mayardit; Capital - Juba.

● Sudan : President - Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir; Capital - Khartoum.

● Sweden : King - Carl XVI Gustaf; Prime Minister – Fredrik Reinfeldt; Capital - Stockholm.

● Switzerland : President - Ms. Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf; Capital – Berne

● Syria : President - Bashar Al-Assad; Prime Minister - Muhammad Naji al-Otari; Capital- Damascus.

● Taiwan : President - Ma Ying-jeou; Prime Minister -Wu Den-yih; Capital – Taipei.

● Thailand : King- Bhumibol Adulyadej; Prime Minister -Yingluck Shinawatra; Capital – Bangkok.

● Turkey : President - Abdullah Gul; Prime Minister - Recep Tayyip Erdogan; Capital- Ankara.

● Ukraine : President - Victor Yushchenko; Prime Minister- Mykola Azarov; Capital- Kiev.

● United Arab Emirates : Prime Minister- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum; Capital- Abu Dhabi.

● United Kingdom : Queen - Elizabeth II; Prime Minister - David Cameron; Capital - London.

● United States of America : President – Barack Obama; Secretary of State -John Kerry; Capital- Washington, D.C.

● Uzbekistan : President - Islam A. Karimov; Prime Minister - Shavkat Mirziyayev; Capital- Tashkent.

● Venezuela : President - Nicolas Maduro; Capital - Caracas.

● Vietnam : President - Nguyen Minh Triet; Prime Minister - Nguyen Tan Dung; Capital-Hanoi.

● Zimbabwe : President - Robert G. Mugabe; Prime Minister - Morgan Tsvangirai; Capital- Harare.

World Amazing Facts..

● World population in 2011 – 6,988 million (3,523 million males and 3,465 million females)
● World population under 30 in 2011 – 3,649 million
● World population over 60 in 2011 – 785 million
● World population over 100 in 2011 – 532,000
● Number of births worldwide every day – 378,000
● Number of deaths worldwide everyday – 162,000
● World economic growth rate in 2010 – 5.0% (-0.6% in 2009)
● Number of illiterate adults – 796 million
● Number of unemployed people – 205 million
● Average world life expectancy – 70.8 years for females; 66.4 years for males
● Annual world population increase – 79.33 million people
● Number of people living outside country of birth – 214 million, or more than 3% of the world’s population
● Fertility rate – 2.5 births per woman
● Urban population – 50.5% of total population
● World trade in 2009 – US $ 25.2 billion
● Annual world defence expenditure – US $ 1,630 billion
● Number of TV sets – 1.4 billion
● Number of radio receivers – 2.2 billion
● Number of cigarettes smoked – 5,600 billion a year
● Number of internet users – 2.0 billion
● Number of mobile phone users – 4.7 billion
● Number of motor vehicles on the road – 790 million
● Number of people who cross international borders every day – 2 million
● Number of people living in extreme poverty – 1.4 billion
● Number of people living in urban slums – 828 million
● Number of undernourished people – 925 million
● Number of overweight adults – 1.6 billion
● Number of obese adults – 502 million
● Number of people dying of starvation – 24,000 every day
● Number of people lacking clean water – 1.1 billion
● Number of people lacking basic sanitation – 2.6 billion
● Number of recorded executions in 2008 – 2,390
● Number of people worldwide exposed to indoor
air pollution that exceeds WHO guidelines – 1 billion
● Annual carbon dioxide emissions – 7.7 billion tonnes of carbon equivalent