GK 2010

Padma Vibhushan Awardees (2010)
Shri Ebrahim Alkazi
Dr. Prathap Chandra Reddy
Shri Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
Arts : India : Delhi
Trade & Industry : India : Tamil Nadu
Arts : India : Tamil Nadu
Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Dr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy
Smt. Zohra Segal
Science & Engineering. : United Kingdom
Public Affairs : India : Andhra Pradesh
Arts : India : Delhi



Padma Bhushan Awardees (2010)


Shri Aamir Khan
Prof. Abhijit Sen
Shri Akbar Padamsee
Arts : India : Maharashtra
Public Affairs : India : Delhi
Arts : India : Maharashtra
Shri Allah Rakha Rahman
Shri Anil Bordia
Prof. Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj
Arts : India : Tamil Nadu
Literature & Education : India : Rajasthan
Science & Engineering. : United States :
Shri B.K. Chaturvedi
Dr. Balagangadharanatha Swamiji
Prof. Belle Monappa Hegde
Civil Service : India : Delhi
Social Work : India : Karnataka
Medicine : India : Karnataka
Prof. Bikash Chandra Sinha
Prof. Bipan Chandra
Capt. C.P. Krishnan Nair
Science & Engineering. : India : West Bengal
Literature & Education : India : Delhi
Trade & Industry : India : Maharashtra
Shri E.T. Narayanan Mooss
Shri Eknath Rao alias Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
Shri Fareed Zakaria
Medicine :India : Kerala
Social Work : 2010 : India : Maharashtra
Journalism : United States :
Shri G.P. Chopra
Shri Ilaiyaraaja
Shri Jagdish Chandra Kapur
Literature & Education : India : Delhi
Arts : 2010 : India : Tamil Nadu
Science & Engineering. :India : Delhi
Smt. Kumudini Lakhia
Dr. Kushal Pal Singh
Shri Kuzhur Narayana Marar
Civil Service :India : Gujarat
Trade & Industry : India : Delhi
Arts : India : Kerala
Prof. Madhusudan Amilal Dhaky
Ms. Mallika Sarabhai
Shri Manvinder Singh Banga alias Vindi Banga Vindi Banga
Arts : India : Gujarat
Arts : India : Gujarat
Trade & Industry : United Kingdom
Prof. Minoru
Prof. Mohammad Amin
Shri Moosa Raza
Arts : India : Maharashtra
Literature & Education : India : Delhi
Civil Service :India : Delhi
Shri Narayanan Vaghul
Prof. (Dr. Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana
Dr. Noshir M. Shroff
Trade & Industry :India : Tamil Nadu
Arts : India : Andhra Pradesh
Medicine :India : Delhi
Dr. P.R. Dubhashi
Pandit Chhannulal Mishra
Dr. Panniyampilly Krishna Warrier
Civil Service : India : Maharashtra
Arts : India : Uttar Pradesh
Medicine : India : Kerala
Pandit Dr. Puttaraj Gavai
Shri Ram Kumar
Dr. Ramakant Madanmohan Panda
Arts : India : Karnataka
Arts :India : Delhi
Medicine : India : Maharashtra
Shri S.P. Oswal
Shri Sailesh Kumar Bandyopadhyay
Shri Sant Singh Chatwal
Trade & Industry : India : Punjab
Public Affairs : India : West Bengal
Public Affairs : United States
Prof.(Dr.) Satya Paul Agarwal
Prof. Satya Vrat Shastri
Prof. Tan Chung
Medicine : India : Delhi
Literature & Education : India : Delhi
Literature & Education : United States
Ustad Sultan Khan


Arts : India : Maharashtra

Head of Important Offices (International)
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General, United Nations Organisation
Ms. Asha-Rose Migiro
Deputy Secretary-General, UN.
Robert Zoellick
President, World Bank.
Dominic Strauss-Kahn
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Irina Bokova
Director-General, UNESCO.
Dr. Margaret Chan
Director-General, WHO.
Jacques Diouf
Director-General, Food and Agricultural Organisation
Juan Somavia
Director-General, International Labour Organisation
Ann M. Veneman
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, Oranisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Ms. Rosalyn Higgins
President, International Gourt 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
Muammar Qaddafi
Chairman, African Union
Pascal Lamy
Director-General, WTO
Ms. Navanethan Pillay
High commissioner, UN High Commission for Human Rights
Jerzy Buzek
President, European Union
David Morgan
President, International Cricket Council
Raul castro
Secretary-General, Non-Aligned Movement
Jose Manuel Durao Barroso
President, European Commission
Kandeh K. Yumkella
Director-General, UNIDO
Abdul-Rahman bin Hamad Al-Attiyah
Secretary-General, Gulf Co-operation council
Ekmeleddin Ihanoglu
Secretary-General, Organisation of Islamic Conference
Abdallah Salem el-Badri
Secretary-General, Organisation of American States
Hifikepunye Pohamba
President, South-West African People's Organisation (SWAPO)
Mr. Yukiya Amano
director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Secretary-General, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
Dr. Abdul Waheed Khan
Director, Commonwelath of Learning
Hashim Abdul Halim
Chairman, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
Ms. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid
Executive Director, UNFPA
Dr. Surin Pitsuwan
Secretary-General, ASEAN
Q.A.M.A. Rahim
Secretary-General, SAARC
Lamine Diack
President, International Amateur Athletic Federaton (IAAF)
Michael Griffin
Chief of NASA (USA)
Ms. Irene Zubaida Khan
Secretary-General, Amnesty International


Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad
Mr. E.S.L. Narasimhan
Mr. K. Rosaiah
Arunachal Pradesh
Itanagar
Gen.(Retd.) J.J. Singh
Mr. Dorjee Khandu
Assam
Dispur
Shri Janaki Ballav Pattanaik
Mr. Tarun Gogoi
Bihar
Patna
Mr. Devanand Konwar
Mr. Nitish Kumar
Chhatisgarh
Raipur
Shri Shekhar Dutt
Dr. Raman Singh
Goa
Panaji
Dr. Shivinder Singh Sidhu
Mr. Digambar v. Kamat
Gujarat
Gandhi Nangar
Dr. Kamla Beniwal
Mr. Narendra Modi
Haryana
Chandigarh
Mr. Jagannath Pahadia
Mr. Bhupinder S.Hooda
Himachal Pradesh
Shimla
Smt. Urimilaben Patel
Mr. Prem Kumar Dhumal
Jammu and Kashmir
Srinagar(Summer)Jammu(Winter) )
Mr. N.N. Vohra
Mr. Omar Abdullah
Jharkhand
Ranchi
Smt. Mohsina Kidwai
Shri Shibu Soren
Karnataka
Bengaluru
Mr. Hans Raj Bhardwaj
Mr. B.S. Yeddyurappa
Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram
Mr. Ram Krishna S. Gavai
Mr. V.S. Achuthanandan
Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal
Mr. Rameshwar Thakur
Mr. Shivraj Singh chauhan
Maharashtra
Mumbai
Shri K. Shankarnarayan
Mr. Ashok Chavan
Manipur
Imphal
Mr. Gurbachan Jagat
Mr. Okram Ibibo Singh
Meghalaya
Shillong
Mr. R.S. Mooshahary
Mr. D.D. Lapang
Mizoram
Aizawl
Lt.Gen.(Retd)M.M.Lakhera
Mr. Lalthanhawla
Nagaland
Kohima
Shri. Nikhil Kumar
Mr. Neiphiu Rio
Orrissa
Bhubaneshwar
Mr. M.C. Bhandare
Mr. Naveen Patnaik
Punjab
Chandigarh
Shri Shivraj Patil
Mr. Parkash Singh badal
Rajasthan
Jaipur
Smt. Prabha Rau
Mr. Ashok Gehlot
Sikkim
Gangtok
Mr. Balmiki Prasad Singh
Mr. Pawan Chamling
Tamil Nadu
Chennai
Mr. S.S. Barnala
Mr. M. Karunanidhi
Tripura
Agartala
Shri Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil
Mr. Manik Sarkar
Uttarakhand
Dehradun
Ms. Margaret Alva
Mr. Ramesh Pokhriyal
Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
Mr. B.L. Joshi
Ms. Mayawati
West Bengal
Kolkata
Shri M.K. Narayanan
Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Dada Saheb Phalke Award
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is an annual award given by the Indian government for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. It was instituted in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dadasaheb Phalke, considered the father of Indian cinema. The award for a particular year is given during the end of the following year along with the National Film Awards.
The Bombay High Court had directed the Directorate of Film Festivals of India (DFFI) to consider uncensored films for the competition, a case which DFFI contested and won in the Supreme Court in late 2006. The case had delayed announcement of the award for 2006, which was announced in the middle of 2008. The 2007 award which had to be announced at the end of 2008 was announced in September 2009.
Renowned playback singer Manna Dey has been nominated for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 2007.First Awardee was Devika Rani (1969).
55th National Film Awards
The year 55th National Flim Awards of India was announced on 7 September 2009 for flim released in the year 2007.
Swarna Kamal Medal
Best Feature Flim - 'Kanchivaram' (Tamil) Percept Picture Company by Priyadarshan.
Best Flim for Wholesome Entertaunment - 'Chak De India (hindi), Aditya Chopra and Shimit Amin.
Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Flim - 'Frozen' (Hindi) by Shivajee Chandrabhushan.
Best Director - Adoor Gopalakrishnan for Naalu Pennungal (Tamil).
Rajat Kamal Medal
Best Film on Family Welfare - 'Taare Zameen Par' (Hindi) by Amir Khan.
Best Screen Play - 'Gandhi My Father' (Hindi) by Feroz Abbas Khan
Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Flim on National Integration - 'Dharm' by Sheetal V. Talwar and Bhavna Talwar.
Best Actor - Prakash Raj for Kanchivaram (Tamil).
Best Actress - Umashree for 'Gulabi Talkies'(Kannada)
Best Supporting Actor - Darshan Jariwala for Gandhi my Father.
Best Supporting Actress - Shefali Shah for the Last Lear (English).
Best Male Playback Singer - Shankar Mahadevan for Taare Zameen Par (Hindi).
Best Female Playback Singer - Shreya Ghosal for Jab We Met (Hindi)
Best Music - Ouseppachan for Ore Kadal (Malayalam).
Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion Winner :- "Lebanon", an Israeli flim (directed by Samuel Maoz) that recounts Israel's 1982 invasion of the West Asian country through the eyes of four soldiers in a tank, has won the top prize at the Venice Flim Festival. The Golden Lion is the festival's highest award for best flim.
Silver Lion Winner : - An Iranian film "About Women and Repression" took the No. 2 prize, the Silver Lion. Silver Lion is an irregular award presented only in some years as runner- up.

Nobel Personalities in India
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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.
Acharya Vinoba Bhave
Saintly personality; had devoted his life to social welfare; founder of the Bhoodan movement.
Amir Khusrau
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.
Anand Mohan Bose
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
Ashutosh Mukherjee
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.
Aurobindo Ghosh
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.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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
Bhagat Singh
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.
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
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.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
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
Dadabhai Naoro Ji
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.

Nobel Personalities in India
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
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.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
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.
Govinda Ballabh Pant
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.
Ishwar Chandra Vtdyasagar
Social reformer and educationist from Bengal and a pioneer in the field of primary education and widow re-marriage.
Jamshedji Tata
Parsi industrialist and philanthropist. Father of Indian industry, founded Tata, Iron and Steel Company in Bihar.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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.
Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
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.
Lala Lajpat Rai
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.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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.
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Nobel Personalities in India
Mrs. Annie Besant
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.
Mrs. Sarojini Naldu
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.
Netaji Subhash Bose
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.
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru
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
Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya
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.
Pandit Motilal Nehru
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
Rabindranath Tagore
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 Gitanjati in 1913), writer of National Anthems of India and Bangladesh.
Ram Manohar Lohla
A social and political revolutionary, he founded the'Samajwadi Party' after difference of opinion with the Congress.
Ramakrishna Paramhansa
He was a very great spiritual teacher of the Hindus in modern times. His two-noteworthy disciples were Keshavchandra Sen and Swami Vivekanand.
Rasbehari Basu
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.



Nobel Personalities in India
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
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
Sarvapalli Radha Krishan
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.'
Shaukat Ali
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.
Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan
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.
Sister Nivedita
A famous disciple of Swami Vivekananda, was an Irish lady named Miss Margaret Nobel.
Swami Vivekananda
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.
V. D. C Savarkar
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.
W. C. Banetjee
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.
Zakir Hussain
Proposed Wardha Scheme of education, formerly Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia. He was elected as President of India in 1967.
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