Heads of Important Offices in India 2016

Heads of Important Offices in India 2016:

Mr. Narendra Modi : Chairman, National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog)
Mrs. Sumitra Mahajan : Speaker, Lok Sabha.
Mr. T. K. Viswanathan : Secretary-General, Lok Sabha.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari : Chairman, Rajya Sabha.
Mr. P. J. Kurien : Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha.
Mr. Arun Jaitley : Leader of House (Rajya Sabha).
Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad : Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha).
Mr. Shumsher K. Sheriff : Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha
Mr. Arvind Panagariya : Vice-Chairman, National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog)
Syed Nasim Zaidi : Chief Election Commissioner.
Mr. Achal K. Jyoti : Election Commissioner.
K. V. Chowdary : Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC)
R. K. Mathur : Chief Information Commissioner (CIC)
Mr. Shashi Kant Sharma : Comptroller and Auditor-General of India.
Justice H.L. Dattu : Chairperson, National Human Right Commission (NHRC)
Mr. Pradeep Kumar Sinha : Cabinet Secretary.
Mr. Nripendra Misra : Principal Secretary to Prime Minister.
Justice Shri S.K. Kharventhan : Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes.
Ms. Stuti Kacker : Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
(Vacant) : Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes
Dr.Rameshwar Oraon : Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST).
Smt. Alka Sirohi : Chairman, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
Dr. M. S. Swaminathan : Chairman, National Commission on Farmers (NCF).
Mr. Ajit Kumar Doval : National Security Adviser and Special Adviser to PM (Internal Security).
Mr. Sharad Kumar : Director-General, National Investigation Agency (NIA)
Mr. A. K. Mital : Chairman, Railway Board.
Mr. Dineshwar Sharma : Director, Intelligence Bureau (IB).
Sh. Rakesh Asthana : Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Mr. Rajinder Khanna : Director, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
R C Tayal : Director-General, National Security Guard (NSG).
Mr. Prakash Mishra : Director-General, CRPF.
K K Sharma : Director-General, Border Security Force (BSF).
Sh. O.P Singh : Director-General, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
Shri S.K. Bhagat : Director-General, Railway Protection Force. (RPF)
Mr. Krishna Chaudhary : Director-General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
Archana Ramasundaram : Director-General, Sashastra Seema Bal.
Vice-Admiral Rajendra Singh : Director-General, Indian Coast Guard.
Lt. Gen. Avtar Singh : Director-General, Defence Intelligence Agency.
Prof. Ved Prakash : Chairman, University Grants Commission (UGC).
Dr. S. Christopher : Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister and Secretary, Defence Research and Development Organisation. (DRDO)
Dr. R. Chidambaram : Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government.
Mr. A. S. Kiran Kumar : Chairman, Space Commission and ISRO.
Dr. Sekhar Basu : Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Dept. of Atomic Energy.
Mr. Naseem Ahmad : Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities.
Mr. Ashim Khurana : Chairman, Staff Selection Commission (SSC).
Dr. Soumya Swaminathan : Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research.
Mr. C. Chandramouli : Registrar-General of India and Census Commissioner.
Justice Ajit Prakash Shah : Chairman, Law Commission of India.
Dr. B. N. Suresh : President, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).
Mr. Justice B. N. Kirpal : Chairman, National Forest Commission.
Shri Dilip Rath : Chairperson, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).
Lt Gen Suresh Sharma : Director-General, Border Roads Organisation.
Dr. Urjit R. Patel : Governor, RBI.
Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad : Chairman, Press Council of India.
Mr. I Venkat : Chairman, Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC).
Shri Sushil Chandra : Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
Sh. Najib Shah : Chairman, Central Board of Excise and Customs.
Mr. Devender Kumar Sikri : Competition Commission of India
Justice Permod Kohli : Chairman, Central Administrative Tribunal
Shri K.M Singh : CMD, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC).
Mr. Dinesh K. Sarraf : CMD, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
Mr. B. C. Tripathi : CMD, GAIL.
Mr. B. Ashok : Chairman, IOC.
Shri Utpal Bora : CMD, Oil India Ltd.
Mr. R K Chaturvedi : Chairperson, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
Mr. U. K. Sinha : Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala : Chairman, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya : Chairman, SBI.
Mr. Kishor Kharat : Chairman, IDBI.
Shri Mahesh Mittal Kumar : Chairman, Company Law Board.
Mr. Syed Akbaruddin : India's Permanent Representative to UN.
Mr. S. K. Roy : Chairman, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)
Mr. G.S. Jha : Chairman, Central Water Commission.
Ms. Lalitha Kumarmangalam : Chairperson, National Commission for Women.
Dr. Y. V. Reddy : Chairman, 14th Finance Commission.
Radha Binod Barman : Chairman, National Statistical Commission.
Mr. Pahlaj Nihalani : Chairperson, Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
Dr. Rakesh Tewari : Director-General, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
Mr. Pankaj R. Patel : President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)
Shri Raghubir Singh : Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Shri Karnal Singh : Director, Enforcement Directorate.
Mr. Hemant G Contractor : Chairman, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA).
Mr. K. N. Vyas : Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
Mr. N. Ramachandran : President, Indian Olympic Association.
Dr. Hrushikesh Senapaty : Acting Director, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
Dr. Naushad Forbes : President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
Dr. A. Surya Prakash : Chairman, Prasar Bharti Board.
Mr. Ratan Tata : Chairman, Investment Commission.
Mr. Anurag Singh Thakur : Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Mr. Shashank Manohar : President, International Cricket Council (ICC)
Mr. CP Gurnani : Chairman, NASSCOM.
Mr. Ms. Nina Lath Gupta : Chairman, National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).
Mr. Vishwas Tripathi : Chairman, United News of India.
Mr. Riyad Mathew : Chairman, Press Trust of India (PTI).
Mr. Somesh Sharma : President, Indian Newspaper Society (INS).
Mr. Sunil Kanoria : President, The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). 

List of New Appointments in India 2016

List of New Appointments in India 2016

National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog) : Narendra Modi, Chairman
• Lok Sabha, Speaker : Mrs. Sumitra Mahajan
• Lok Sabha, Secretary-General : T. K. Viswanathan
• Rajya Sabha, Chairman : Mohammad Hamid Ansari
• Rajya Sabha, Deputy Chairman : P. J. Kurien
• Rajya Sabha, Leader of House : Arun Jaitley
• Rajya Sabha, Leader of Opposition : Ghulam Nabi Azad
• Rajya Sabha, Secretary-General : Shumsher K. Sheriff
• National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog) : Arvind Panagariya, Vice-Chairman
• Chief Election Commissioner : Syed Nasim Zaidi
• Election Commissioner : Achal Kumar Jyoti
• Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) : K. V. Chowdary
• Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) : R. K. Mathur
• Comptroller and Auditor-General of India : Shashi Kant Sharma
• National Human Right Commission (NHRC) : Justice Shri H.L. Dattu, Chairperson
• Cabinet Secretary : Pradeep Kumar Sinha
• Principal Secretary to Prime Minister : Nripendra Misra
• National Commission for Backward Classes : Justice Shri S.K. Kharventhan, Chairman
• National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) : Ms. Stuti Kacker, Chairperson
• National Commission for Scheduled Castes : (Vacant) , Chairman
• National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) : Dr. Rameshwar Oraon, Chairman
• Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) : Smt. Alka Sirohi, Chairman
• National Commission on Farmers (NCF) : Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, Chairman
• National Security Adviser and Special Adviser to PM (Internal Security) : Ajit Kumar Doval
• National Investigation Agency (NIA) : Sharad Kumar, Director-General
• Railway Board : A. K. Mital, Chairman
• Intelligence Bureau (IB) : Dineshwar Sharma, Director
• Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) : Sh. Rakesh Asthana, Director
• Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) : Rajinder Khanna, Director
• National Security Guard (NSG) : R C Tayal, Director-General
• Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) : Prakash Mishra, Director-General
• Border Security Force (BSF) : K K Sharma, Director-General
• Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) : Sh. O.P Singh, Director-General
• Railway Protection Force. (RPF) : Shri S.K. Bhagat, Director-General
• Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) : Krishna Chaudhary, Director-General
• Sashastra Seema Bal : Archana Ramasundaram, Director-General
• Indian Coast Guard : Vice-Admiral Rajendra Singh, Director-General
• Defence Intelligence Agency : Lt. Gen. Avtar Singh, Director-General
• University Grants Commission (UGC) : Prof. Ved Prakash, Chairman
• Defence Research and Development Organisation. (DRDO) : Dr. S. Christopher, Director-General
• Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government : Dr. R. Chidambaram
• Space Commission and ISRO : A. S. Kiran Kumar, Chairman
• Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Dept. of Atomic Energy : Dr. Sekhar Basu, Chairman
• National Commission for Minorities : Naseem Ahmad, Chairperson
• Staff Selection Commission (SSC) : Ashim Khurana, Chairman
• Indian Council of Medical Research : Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Director-General
• India and Census Commissioner : C. Chandramouli, Registrar-General
• Law Commission of India : Justice Ajit Prakash Shah, Chairman
• Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) : Dr. B. N. Suresh, President
• National Forest Commission : Justice B. N. Kirpal, Chairman
• National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) : Shri Dilip Rath, Chairperson
• Border Roads Organisation : Lt Gen Suresh Sharma, Director-General
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) : Dr. Urjit R. Patel, Governor
• Press Council of India : Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, Chairman
• Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) : I Venkat, Chairman
• Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) : Shri Sushil Chandra, Chairman
• Central Board of Excise and Customs : Sh. Najib Shah, Chairman
• Competition Commission of India : Devender Kumar Sikri
• Central Administrative Tribunal : Justice Permod Kohli, Chairman
• National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) : Shri K.M Singh, CMD
• Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) : Dinesh K. Sarraf, CMD
• GAIL : B. C. Tripathi, CMD
• Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) : Mr. B. Ashok, Chairman
• Oil India Ltd : Shri Utpal Bora, CMD
• Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) :  R K Chaturvedi, Chairperson
• Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) : U. K. Sinha, Chairman
• National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) : Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Chairman
• State Bank of India (SBI) : Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman
• Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) : Mr. Kishor Kharat, Chairman
• Company Law Board : Justice Shri Mahesh Mittal Kumar, Chairman
• India's Permanent Representative to UN : Syed Akbaruddin
• Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) : S. K. Roy, Chairman
• Central Water Commission : G.S. Jha, Chairman
• National Commission for Women : Ms. Lalitha Kumarmangalam, Chairperson
• 14th Finance Commission : Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Chairman
• National Statistical Commission : Radha Binod Barman, Chairman
• Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) : Pahlaj Nihalani, Chairperson
• Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) : Dr. Rakesh Tewari, Director-General
• Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) : Mr. Pankaj R. Patel, President
• Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) : Shri Raghubir Singh, Chairman
• Enforcement Directorate : Shri Karnal Singh, Director
• Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) : Hemant G Contractor, Chairman
• Bhabha Atomic Research Centre : Mr. K. N. Vyas, Director
• Indian Olympic Association : N. Ramachandran, President
• National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) : Dr. Hrushikesh Senapaty, Acting Director
• Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) : Dr. Naushad Forbes, President
• Prasar Bharti Board : Dr. A. Surya Prakash, Chairman
• Investment Commission : Ratan Tata, Chairman
• Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) : Anurag Singh Thakur, President
• International Cricket Council (ICC) : Shashank Manohar, President
• NASSCOM : CP Gurnani , Chairman
• National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) : Ms. Nina Lath Gupta, Chairman
• Children's Film Society : Mukesh Khanna, Chairman
• United News of India : Mr Vishwas Tripathi, Chairman
• Press Trust of India (PTI) : Mr Riyad Mathew, Chairman
• Indian Newspaper Society (INS) : Mr. Somesh Sharma, President
• The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) : Sunil Kanoria, President 

List of World Presidents & Prime Ministers 2016

List of World Presidents & Prime Ministers 2016

A
Afghanistan : Capital - Kabul; President - Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
Albania : Capital - Tirana; President - Bujar Nishani; Prime Minister - Edi Rama
Algeria : Capital - Algiers; President - Abdelaziz Bouteflika; Prime Minister - Abdelmalek Sellal
Angola : Capital - Luanda; President - Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
Antigua and Barbuda : Capital - St. John's; Governor General-Sir Rodney Williams, Prime Minister - Gaston Browne
Argentina : Capital - Buenos Aires; President - Mauricio Macri
Armenia : Capital - Yerevan; President - Serzh Sargsyan; Prime Minister - Karen Karapetyan
Aruba : Capital - Oranjestad; Governor-Fredis Refunjol; Prime Minister - Mike Eman
Australia : Capital - Canberra; Governor General-Sir Peter Cosgrove; Prime Minister - Malcolm Turnbull
Austria : Capital - Vienna; President - Heinz Fischer; Chancellor-Christian Kern
Azerbaijan : Capital - Baku; President - Ilham Aliyev; Prime Minister - Artur Rasizade

B
Bahamas, The : Capital - Nassau; Governor General-Marguerite Pindling; Prime Minister - Perry Gladstone Christie

Bahrain : Capital - Manama; King-Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa; Prime Minister - Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa
Bangladesh : Capital - Dhaka; President - Abdul Hamid; Prime Minister - Sheikh Hasina
Barbados : Capital - Bridgetown; Governor General-Elliot Belgrave; Prime Minister - Freundel Stuart
Belarus : Capital - Minsk; President - Aleksandr Lukashenko; Prime Minister - Andrei Kobyakov
Belgium : Capital - City of Brussels; King-Philippe; Prime Minister - Charles Michel
Belize : Capital - Belmopan; Governor General-Sir Colville Young; Prime Minister - Dean Oliver Barrow
Benin : Capital - Porto-Novo; President - Patrice Talon; Prime Minister - Lionel Zinsou
Bhutan - NDE : Capital - Thimphu; King-Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck; Prime Minister-Tshering Tobgay
Bolivia : Capital - Sucre; President - Juan Evo Morales Ayma
Botswana : Capital - Gaborone; President - Seretse Khama Ian Khama
Brazil : Capital - Brasília; President - Michel Temer
Brunei : Capital - Bandar Seri Begawan; Sultan-Sir Hassanal Bolkiah; Prime Minister - Sir Hassanal Bolkiah
Bulgaria : Capital - Sofia; President - Rosen Plevneliev; Prime Minister - Boyko Borisov
Burkina Faso : Capital - Ouagadougou; President - (Acting) Roch Marc Christian Kaboré; Prime Minister - Paul Kaba Thieba
Burundi : Capital - Bujumbura; President - Pierre Nkurunziza

C
Cape Verde : Capital - Praia; President - Jorge Carlos De Almeida Fonseca; Prime Minister - Ulisses Correia e Silva
Cambodia : Capital - Phnom Penh; King-Norodom Sihamoni; Prime Minister - Hun Sen
Cameroon : Capital - Yaoundé; President - Paul Biya; Prime Minister - Philemon Yang
Canada : Ottawa; Governor General-David Johnston; Prime Minister - Justin Trudeau
Central African Republic : Capital - Bangui; President -Faustin-Archange Touadéra; Prime Minister - Simplice Sarandji
Chad : Capital - N'djamena; President - Idriss Deby Itno; Prime Minister - Albert Pahimi Padacke
Chile : Capital - Santiago; President - Michelle Bachelet
China : Capital - Beijing; President - Xi Jinping; Prime Minister - Li Keqiang
Colombia : Capital - Bogotá; President - Juan Manuel Santos
Comoros : Capital - Moroni; President: Azali Assoumani
Congo, Democratic Republic of The : Capital - Kinshasa; President - Joseph Kabila; Prime Minister - Samy Badibanga
Congo, Republic of The : Capital - Brazzaville; President - Denis Sassou Nguess
Cook Islands : Capital - Avarua; Prime Minister - Henry Puna
Costa Rica : Capital - San José; President - Luis Guillermo Solís
Cote D'ivoire : Capital - Yamoussoukro; President - Alassane Dramane Ouattara; Prime minister: Daniel Kablan Duncan
Croatia : Capital - Zagreb; President - Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic; Prime Minister - Andrej Plenkovic
Cuba - NDE : Capital - Havana; President - Raul Castro; Prime minister: Raul Castro
Cyprus : Capital - Nicosia; President - Nicos Anastasiades
Czech Republic : Capital - Prague; President - Milos Zeman; Prime Minister - Bohuslav Sobotka

D
Denmark : Capital - Copenhagen; Queen-Margrethe II; Prime Minister - Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Djibouti : Capital - Djibouti; President - Ismail Omar Guelleh; Prime Minister - Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed
Dominica : Capital - Roseau; President - Charles Savarin; Prime Minister - Roosevelt Skerrit
Dominican Republic : Capital - Santo Domingo; President - Danilo Medina Sanchez

E
Ecuador : Capital - Quito; President - Rafael Correa Delgado
Egypt : Capital - Cairo - President - Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi; Prime Minister - Sherif Ismail
El Salvador : Capital - San Salvador; President - Salvador Sánchez Cerén
Equatorial Guinea : Capital - Malabo; President - Brig. General Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo; Prime minister: Vicente Ehate Tomi
Eritrea : Capital - Asmara; President - Isaias Afwerki
Estonia : Capital - Tallinn; President - Kersti Kaljulaid; Prime Minister - Jüri Ratas
Ethiopia : Capital - Addis Ababa; President - Mulatu Teshome; Prime Minister - Hailemariam Desalegn

F
Fiji : Capital - Suva; President - George Konrote; Prime Minister - Frank Bainimarama
Finland : Capital - Helsinki; President - Sauli Niinisto; Prime Minister - Juha Sipila
France : Capital - Paris; President - Francois Hollande; Prime Minister - Bernard Cazeneuve

G
Gabon : Capital - Libreville; President - Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba; Prime Minister - Daniel Ona Ondo
Gambia, The : Capital - Banjul; President - Yahya Jammeh
Georgia : Capital - Tbilisi; President - Giorgi Margvelashvili; Prime Minister - Giorgi Kvirikashvili
Germany : Capital - Berlin; President - Joachim Gauck; Chancellor-Angela Merkel
Ghana : Capital - Accra; President - John Dramani Mahama
Greece : Capital - Athens; President - Prokopis Pavlopoulos; Prime Minister - Alexis Tsipras
Grenada : Capital - St. George's; Governor General-Cecile La Grenade; Prime Minister - Keith Mitchell
Guatemala : Capital - Guatemala City; President - Jimmy Morales
Guinea : Capital - Conakry; President - Alpha Conde; Prime Minister - Mamady Youla
Guinea-Bissau : Capital - Bissau; President - José Mário Vaz; Prime Minister - Umaro Sissoco Embalo
Guyana : Capital - Georgetown; President - David A. Granger; Prime Minister - Moses Nagamootoo

H
Haiti : Capital - Port-Au-Prince; President - (Acting) Jocelerme Privert; Prime Minister - (Acting) Enex Jean-Charles
Honduras : Capital - Tegucigalpa; President - Juan Orlando Hernandez Alvarado
Hungary : Capital - Budapest; President - Janos Ader; Prime Minister - Viktor Orban

I
Iceland : Capital - Reykjavik; President - Guðni Th. Jóhannesson; Prime Minister - Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson
India : Capital - New Delhi; President - Pranab Mukherjee; Prime Minister - Narendra Modi
Indonesia : Capital - Jakarta; President - Joko Widodo
Iran - NDE : Capital - Tehran; President - Hassan Rouhani
Iraq : Capital - Baghdad; President - Fuad Masum; Prime Minister - Haider al-Abadi
Ireland : Capital - Dublin; President - Michael Daniel Higgins; Prime Minister - Enda Kenny
Israel : Capital - Jerusalem; President - Reuven Rivlin; Prime Minister - Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu
Italy : Capital - Rome; President - Sergio Mattarella; Prime Minister - Paolo Gentiloni

J
Jamaica : Capital - Kingston; Governor General - Sir Patrick Allen; Prime Minister - Andrew Holness
Japan : Capital - Tokyo; Emperor-Akihito; Prime Minister - Shinzo Abe
Jordan : Capital - Amman; King-Abdallah II; Prime Minister - Hani Al-Mulki

K
Kazakhstan : Capital - Astana; President - Nursultan Nazarbayev; Prime Minister - Bakhytzhan Sagintayev
Kenya : Capital - Nairobi; President - Uhuru Kenyatta
Kiribati : Capital - Tarawa; President - Taneti Mamau
Korea North, NDE : Capital - Pyongyang;  Supreme leader: Kim Jong-un
Korea, South : Capital - Seoul; President - Park Geun-Hye; Prime Minister - Hwang Kyo-ahn
Kosovo : Capital - Pristina; President - Hashim Thaçi; Prime Minister - Isa Mustafa
Kuwait : Capital - Kuwait City; Amir-Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah; Prime Minister - Jaber Mubarak al-Sabah
Kyrgyzstan : Capital - Bishkek; President - Almazbek Atambaev; Prime Minister - Sooronbay Jeenbekov

L
Laos : Capital - Vientiane; President - Bounnhang Vorachith; Prime Minister - Thongsing Thammavong
Latvia : Capital - Riga; President - Raimonds Vējonis; Prime Minister - Maris Kucinskis
Lebanon : Capital - Beirut; President -Michel Aoun ; Prime Minister - Saad Hariri
Lesotho : Capital - Maseru; King-Letsie III; Prime Minister - Pakalitha Mosisili
Liberia : Capital - Monrovia; President - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Libya : Capital - Tripoli; President - Aguila Salah Issa; Prime Minister - Fayez al-Sarraj
Liechtenstein : Capital - Vaduz; Prince - Hans Adam II; Prime Minister - Adrian Hasler
Lithuania : Capital - Vilnius; President - Dalia Grybauskaite; Prime Minister - Saulius Skvernelis
Luxembourg : Capital - Luxembourg; Monarch - Henri; Prime Minister - Xavier Bettel

M
Macedonia : Capital - Skopje; President - Gjorge Ivanov; Prime Minister - Emil Dimitriev
Madagascar : Capital - Antananarivo; President - Hery Martial Rajaonarimampianina Rakotoari; Prime Minister - Olivier Solonandrasana
Malawi : Capital - Lilongwe; President - Peter Mutharika
Malaysia : Capital - Kuala Lumpur; King-Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah; Prime Minister - Najib Razak
Maldives : Capital - Malé; President - Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom
Mali : Capital - Bamako; President - Ibrahim Boubacar Keita; Prime Minister - Modibo Keita
Malta : Capital - Valletta; President - Marie Louise Coleiro Preca; Prime Minister - Joseph Muscat
Marshall Islands : Capital - Majuro; President - Hilda Heine
Mauritania : Capital - Nouakchott; President - Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz; Prime Minister - Yahya Ould Hademine
Mauritius : Capital - Port Louis; President - Ameenah Gurib; Prime Minister - Anerood Jugnauth
Mexico : Capital - Mexico City; President - Enrique Pena Nieto
Federated States of Micronesia : Capital - Palikir; President - Peter M. Christian
Moldova : Capital - Chișinău; President - Igor Dodon; Prime Minister - Pavel Filip
Mongolia : Capital - Ulan Bator; President - Tsakhia Elbegdorj; Prime Minister - Jargaltulgyn Erdenebat
Montenegro : Capital - Podgorica; President - Filip Vujanovic; Prime Minister - Dusko Markovic
Morocco : Capital - Rabat; King-Mohammed VI; Prime Minister - Abdelillah Benkirane
Mozambique : Capital - Maputo; President - Filipe Nyusi; Prime Minister - Carlos Agostinho do Rosário
Myanmar : Capital - Naypyidaw; President - Htin Kyaw

N
Namibia : Capital - Windhoek; President - Hage Geingob; Prime Minister - Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila
Nauru : Capital - Yaren ; President - Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Nepal : Capital - Kathmandu; President - Bidhya Devi Bhandari; Prime Minister: Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Netherlands : Capital - Amsterdam; King-Willem-Alexander; Prime Minister - Mark Rutte
New Zealand : Capital - Wellington; Governor General- Dame Patsy Reddy; Prime Minister - Bill English
Nicaragua : Capital - Managua; President - Daniel Ortega Saavedra
Niger : Capital - Niamey; President - Mahamadou Issoufou; Prime Minister - Brigi Rafini
Nigeria : Capital - Abuja; President - Muhammadu Buhari
Norway : Capital - Oslo; King-Harald V; Prime Minister - Erna Solberg

O-P
Oman : Capital - Muscat; Sultan-Qaboos bin Said Al Said; Deputy Prime Minister - Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said
Pakistan : Capital - Islamabad; President - Mamnoon Hussain; Prime Minister - Mohammad Nawaz Sharif
Palau : Capital - Ngerulmud; President - Tommy Remengesau
Panama : Capital - Panama City; President - Juan Carlos Varela
Papua New Guinea : Capital - Port Moresby; Governor General - Michael Ogio; Prime Minister - Peter Paire O'neill
Paraguay : Capital - Asunción; President - Horacio Cartes Jara
Peru : Capital - Lima; President - Pedro Pablo Kuczynski; Prime Minister - Fernando Zavala Lombardi
Philippines : Capital - Manila; President - Rodrigo Duterte
Poland : Capital - Warsaw; President - Andrzej Duda; Prime Minister - Beata Szydło
Portugal : Capital - Lisbon; President - Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa; Prime Minister - António Costa

Q-R
Qatar : Capital - Doha; Emir - Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani; Prime Minister - Abdallah Bin Nasir Bin Khalifa Al Thani
Romania : Capital - Bucharest; President - Klaus Iohannis; Prime Minister - Dacian Cioloș
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Karun Nair

Karun Nair

Full name Karun Kaladharan Nair

Born December 6, 1991, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

Current age 25 years 14 days

Major teams India, Delhi Daredevils, India A,India Under-19s, Karnataka,Karnataka State Cricket Association Colts XI,Karnataka State Cricket Association XI, Karnataka Under-15s,Karnataka Under-19s, Mangalore United, Rajasthan Royals,Royal Challengers Bangalore, South Zone

Playing role Top-order batsman

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	2	2	0	17	13	8.50	22	77.27	0	0	3	0	1	0
ODIs	2	2	0	46	39	23.00	88	52.27	0	0	6	0	0	0
First-class	39	62	6	2862	328	51.10	5608	51.03	8	13	363	16	27	0
List A	49	48	11	1358	120	36.70	1561	86.99	1	9	132	28	16	0
Twenty20	64	58	8	1179	83*	23.58	964	122.30	0	8	122	28	17	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	39	35	885	456	8	2/11	2/35	57.00	3.09	110.6	0	0	0
List A	49	23	624	508	12	2/16	2/16	42.33	4.88	52.0	0	0	0
Twenty20	64	6	48	55	2	1/3	1/3	27.50	6.87	24.0	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	India v England at Mohali, Nov 26-29, 2016 scorecard
Last Test	India v England at Mumbai, Dec 8-12, 2016 scorecard
Test statistics	- Statsguru Test analysis -  Player analysis menu/filter  Test match list  ---------------------------------  Batting career summary  Batting innings list  High scores  Batting series averages  ---------------------------------  Fielding career summary  Fielding innings list  Most catches in an innings  Fielding series statistics
ODI debut	Zimbabwe v India at Harare, Jun 11, 2016 scorecard
Last ODI	Zimbabwe v India at Harare, Jun 13, 2016 scorecard
ODI statistics	- Statsguru ODI analysis -  Player analysis menu/filter  ODI match list  ---------------------------------  Batting career summary  Batting innings list  High scores  Batting series averages  ---------------------------------  Fielding career summary  Fielding innings list  Fielding series statistics
First-class debut	Karnataka v Punjab at Hubballi, Dec 14-17, 2013 scorecard
Last First-class	India v England at Mumbai, Dec 8-12, 2016 scorecard
List A debut	Goa v Karnataka at Bangalore, Feb 20, 2012 scorecard
Last List A	Australia A v India A at Mackay, Sep 4, 2016 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Goa v Karnataka at Shimoga, Mar 17, 2013 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Delhi Daredevils v Royal Challengers Bangalore at Raipur, May 22, 2016 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
13	India	v England	Mumbai	8 Dec 2016	Test # 2239
4	India	v England	Mohali	26 Nov 2016	Test # 2238
0/9, 145, 0/5	Karnataka	v Assam	Mumbai	27 Oct 2016	FC
53	Karnataka	v Delhi	Kolkata	20 Oct 2016	FC
74, 0/21, 54*	Karnataka	v Jharkhand	Greater Noida	13 Oct 2016	FC
26	Mangalore	v Panthers	Hubballi	29 Sep 2016	Other T20
24, 0/44	Mangalore	v Hubli Tigers	Hubballi	25 Sep 2016	Other T20
25*	Mangalore	v Bellary	Hubballi	24 Sep 2016	Other T20
29, 0/13	Mangalore	v Shivamogga	Hubballi	22 Sep 2016	Other T20
6	Mangalore	v Bulls	Hubballi	21 Sep 2016	Other T20

Profile

The year 2016 was memorable for Karun Nair. He made his ODI debut against Zimbabwe in July, his selection a reward for his consistency in domestic cricket - he had averaged more than 50 in his first three seasons. In October, he was elevated to captain of his state side, Karnataka. In November, he was given his first Test cap in the Mohali Test against England. In his third Test, he became India's second triple-centurion after Virender Sehwag, and only the third man in the game's history to convert a maiden Test ton into a triple.

Karun Nair

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NEW DELHI:  Google today celebrated the 158th birthday of Jagdish Chandra Bose with a doodle showing him in his laboratory.

The Google Doodle shows the scientist with crescograph, which is an instrument that he invented to measure growth in plants. It also determines environment effects on vegetation.

Jagdish Chandra Bose was a legendary multi-talented Indian scientist who became a world leader in telecommunications.

His invention, crescograph helped scientists better understand about cultivation of crops in an effective way.

He was born on 30 November, 1858 at Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh. He was raised in a home committed to pure Indian traditions and culture.

Mr Bose attended Cambridge after studying physics at Calcutta University. He returned to India in 1884 after completing a BSc degree from Cambridge University.

Prior to his death in 1937, Mr Bose had set up the Bose Institute at Calcutta. He was elected the Fellow of the Royal Society in 1920 for his amazing contributions and achievements.

To recognise Mr Bose's achievements, a small-impact crater on the far side of the Moon is named after him. It is located close to Crater Bhabha and Crater Adler and has a reported diameter of 91 kilometres.

Jagadish Chandra Bose

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose is one of the most prominent first Indian scientists who proved by experimentation that both animals and plants share much in common. He demonstrated that plants are also sensitive to heat, cold, light, noise and various other external stimuli. Bose contrived a very sophisticated instrument called Crescograph which could record and observe the minute responses because of external stimulants. It was capable of magnifying the motion of plant tissues to about 10,000 times of their actual size, which found many similarities between plants and other living organisms.

Contributions and Early Life:

The central hall of the Royal Society in London was jam-packed with famous scientists on May 10, 1901. Everyone seemed to be curious to know how Bose’s experiment will demonstrate that plants have feelings like other living beings and humans. Bose chose a plant whose mots were cautiously dipped up to its stem in a vessel holding the bromide solution. The salts of hydrobromic acid are considered a poison. He plugged in the instrument with the plant and viewed the lighted spot on a screen showing the movements of the plant, as its pulse beat, and the spot began to and fro movement similar to a pendulum. Within minutes, the spot vibrated in a violent manner and finally came to an abrupt stop. The whole thing was almost like a poisoned rat fighting against death. The plant had died due to the exposure to the poisonous bromide solution.

The event was greeted with much appreciation, however some physiologists were not content, and considered Bose as an intruder. They harshly knocked the experiment but Bose did not give up and was quite confident about his findings.

Using the Crescograph, he further researched the response of the plants to fertilizers, light rays and wireless waves. The instrument received widespread acclaim, particularly from the Path Congress of Science in 1900. Many physiologists also supported his findings later on, using more advanced instruments.

Jagadish Chandra Bose was born on 30 November, 1858 at Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh. He was raised in a home committed to pure Indian traditions and culture. He got his elementary education from a vernacular school, because his father thought that Bose should learn his own mother tongue, Bengali, before studying a foreign language like English. Bose attended Cambridge after studying physics at Calcutta University. He returned to India in 1884 after completing a B.Sc. degree from Cambridge University.

Later Life and Death:

Bose authored two illustrious books; ‘Response in the Living and Non-living’ (1902) and ‘The Nervous Mechanism of Plants’ (1926). He also extensively researched the behaviour of radiowaves. Mostly known as a plant physiologist, he was actually a physicist. Bose devised another instrument called ‘Coherer’, for detecting the radiowaves.

Prior to his death in 1937, Bose set up the Bose Institute at Calcutta. He was elected the Fellow of the Royal Society in 1920 for his amazing contributions and achievements.