General Knowledge

Forbes Top—10 Indian billionaires:

1. Mukesh Ambani— $21 billion (Reliance Industries)

2. Lakshmi Mittal — $16 billion (ArcelorMittal)

3. Azim Premji— $12.2 billion (Wipro)

4. Pallonji Mistry— $9.8 billion (Shapoorji Pallonji Group)

5. Dilip Shanghvi — $9.2 billion (Sun Pharmaceuticals)

6. Adi Godrej— $9 billion (Godrej Group)

7. Savitri Jindal and family — $8.2 billion (Jindal Group)

8. Shashi & Ravi Ruia— $8.1 billion (Essar Group)

9. Hinduja brothers— $8 billion (Hinduja Group)

10. Kumar Mangalam Birla— $7.8 billion (Aditya Birla Group)

Chief Ministers of Indian States:

Andhra Pradesh— Shri Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy 

Arunachal Pradesh— Shri Nabam Tuki 

Assam— Shri Tarun Gogoi 

Bihar— Shri Nitish Kumar 

Chhattisgarh — Dr. Raman Singh 

Delhi (NCT) — Smt. Sheila Dikshit

Goa— Shri Manohar Parrikar 

Gujarat— Shri Narendra Modi 

Haryana — Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda 

Himachal Pradesh— Shri Virbhadra Singh 

Jammu and Kashmir— Shri Omar Abdullah 

Jharkhand— Shri Hemant Soren

Karnataka — Shri Siddaramaiah 

Kerala— Mr Oommen Chandy 

Madhya Pradesh— Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan 

Maharashtra — Shri Prithviraj Chavan 

Manipur— Shri Okram Ibobi Singh 

Meghalaya— Dr. Mukul Sangma 

Mizoram — Shri Lal Thanhawla 

Nagaland — Shri. Neiphiu Rio 

Odisha — Shri Naveen Patnaik

Puducherry (UT) — Shri N. Rangasamy 

Punjab — Shri Parkash Singh Badal 

Rajasthan— Shri Ashok Gehlot 

Sikkim— Shri Pawan Kumar Chamling 

Tamil Nadu— Selvi J. Jayalalithaa 

Tripura— Shri Manik Sarkar 

Uttar Pradesh — Shri Akhilesh Yadav 

Uttarakhand — Shri Vijay Bahuguna 

West Bengal — Km. Mamata Banerjee

The Chief Justices of India: 

1 H. J. Kania ( 1950-1951)

2 M. Patanjali Sastri (1951- 1954)

3 Mehr Chand Mahajan (1954- 1954)

4 Bijan Kumar Mukherjea (1954- 1956)

5 Sudhi Ranjan Das (1956- 1959)

6 Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha (1959-1964)

7 P. B. Gajendragadkar (1964-1966)

8 Amal Kumar Sarkar (1966-1966)

9 Koka Subba Rao (1966-1967)

10 Kailas Nath Wanchoo (1967-1968)

11 Mohammad Hidayatullah (1968- 1970)

12 Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah (1970 – 1971)

13 Sarv Mittra Sikri (1971-1973)

14 Ajit Nath Ray (1973 -1977)

15 Mirza Hameedullah Beg (1977-1978)

16 Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (1978 -1985)

17 Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati (1985-1986)

18 Raghunandan Swarup Pathak (1986-1989)

19 Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah (1989-1989)

20 Sabyasachi Mukharji (1989-1990)

21 Ranganath Misra (1990-1991)

22 Kamal Narain Singh (1991-1991)

23 Madhukar Hiralal Kania (1991 -1992)

24 Lalit Mohan Sharma (1992-1993)

25 Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah (1993-1994)

26 Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi (1994 -1997)

27 Jagdish Sharan Verma ( 1997 -1998)

28 Madan Mohan Punchhi (1998-1998)

29 Adarsh Sein Anand (1998-2001)

30 Sam Piroj Bharucha (2001-2002)

31 Bhupinder Nath Kirpal (2002-2002)

32 Gopal Ballav Pattanaik (2002-2002)

33 V. N. Khare (2002 -2004)

34 S. Rajendra Babu (2004-2004)

35 Ramesh Chandra Lahoti (2004 -2005)

36 Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal (2005-2007)

37 K. G. Balakrishnan (2007 -2010)

38 S. H. Kapadia (2010 -2012)

39 Altamas Kabir (2012- 2013)

40 P. Sathasivam (2013 Incumbent)

Finance Commissions and their Chairmen in India: 

1951– K. C. Neogy (1952–57)

1956– K. Santhanam(1957–62)

1960– A.K. Chanda (1962–66)

1964– P.V. Rajamannarr (1966–69)

1968– Mahaveer Tyagi (1969–74)

1972– K. Brahmananda Reddy (1974–79)

1977– J.M. Shelat (1979–84)

1983– Y. B. Chavan (1984–89)

1987– N.K.P. Salve (1989–95)

1992– Late shri K.C. Pant (1995–2000)

1998– A.M.Khusro (2000–2005)

2003– C.Rangarajan (2005–2010)

2007– Dr. Vijay L. Kelkar(2010–2015)

2012– Yaga Venugopal Reddy (2015–2020)

List of top –10 countries in Area (in Square km):

1 Russia –17,098,242

2 Canada— 9,984,670

3 China—9,706,961

4 United States—9,629,091

5 Brazil—8,514,877

6 Australia— 7,692,024

7 India—3,166,414

8 Argentina— 2,780,400

9 Kazakhstan—2,724,900

10 Algeria—2,381,741