WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST`[Note 1] SECULAR[Note 1] DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity[Note 1] of the Nation; IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY |
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preamble of indian constitution
February 12, 2009olympic 2008
February 12, 2009Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | China (CHN) | 51 | 21 | 28 | 100 |
2 | United States (USA) | 36 | 38 | 36 | 110 |
3 | Russia (RUS) | 23 | 21 | 28 | 72 |
4 | Great Britain (GBR) | 19 | 13 | 15 | 47 |
5 | Germany (GER) | 16 | 10 | 15 | 41 |
6 | Australia (AUS) | 14 | 15 | 17 | 46 |
7 | South Korea (KOR) | 13 | 10 | 8 | 31 |
8 | Japan (JPN) | 9 | 6 | 10 | 25 |
9 | Italy (ITA) | 8 | 10 | 10 | 28 |
10 | France (FRA) | 7 | 16 | 17 | 40 |
india in olympics
February 12, 2009- IOC regards this medal is credited to India, and International committees credits to Great Britain.
[edit] Medal tables
- See also: All-time Olympic Games medal count
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1900 Paris | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
1904 St. Louis | did not participate | |||
1908 London | did not participate | |||
1912 Stockholm | did not participate | |||
1920 Antwerp | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1924 Paris | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1928 Amsterdam | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
1932 Los Angeles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
1936 Berlin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
1948 London | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
1952 Helsinki | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
1956 Melbourne | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
1960 Rome | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
1964 Tokyo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
1968 Mexico City | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
1972 Munich | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
1976 Montreal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1980 Moscow | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
1984 Los Angeles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1988 Seoul | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1992 Barcelona | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1996 Atlanta | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2000 Sydney | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2004 Athens | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2008 Beijing | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Total | 9 | 4 | 7 | 20 |
[edit] Medals by sport
Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
Field hockey | 8 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
Shooting | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Athletics | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Wrestling | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Weightlifting | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Tennis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Boxing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 9 | 4 | 7 | 20 |
secretories of uno
February 12, 2009No. | Name | Country of origin | Took office | Left office | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Trygve Lie | Norway | 2 February 1946 | 10 November 1952 | Resigned |
2 | Dag Hammarskjöld | Sweden | 10 April 1953 | 18 September 1961 | Died while in office |
3 | U Thant | Burma | 30 November 1961 | 1 January 1972 | First Secretary-General from Asia |
4 | Kurt Waldheim | Austria | 1 January 1972 | 1 January 1982 | |
5 | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | Peru | 1 January 1982 | 1 January 1992 | First Secretary-General from South America |
6 | Boutros Boutros-Ghali | Egypt | 1 January 1992 | 1 January 1997 | First Secretary-General from Africa |
7 | Kofi Annan | Ghana | 1 January 1997 | 1 January 2007 | |
8 | Ban Ki-moon | South Korea | 1 January 2007 | Incumbent |
deputy prime ministers of india
February 12, 2009Name | Portrait | Entered office | Left office | Date of Birth and Death | Political party | |
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1 | Sardar Patel | 15 August 1947 | 15 December 1950 * | 31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950 | Indian National Congress | |
2 | Morarji Desai | 21 March 1967 | 6 December 1969 ** | 29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995 | Indian National Congress | |
3 | Choudhary Charan Singh | 28 July 1979 | 9 October 1979 ** | 23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987 | Janata Party | |
4 | Jagjivan Ram | 9 October 1979 | 10 December 1979 | 5 April 1908 – 6 July 1986 | Janata Party | |
5 | Yashwantrao Chavan | 10 December 1979 | 14 January 1980 *** | 12 March 1913 – 25 November 1984 | Janata Party | |
6 | Chaudhari Devi Lal | 19 October 1989 | 21 June 1991 | 23 July 1914 – 14 November 2001 | Janata Dal | |
7 | Lal Krishna Advani | 29 June 2002 | 20 May 2004 | 8 November 1927 – present | Bharatiya Janata Party |
vice presidents of india
February 12, 2009No. | Vice-President | Took office | Left office | President |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 13 May 1952 | 12 May 1962 | Rajendra Prasad |
2 | Zakir Hussain | 13 May 1962 | 12 May 1967 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
3 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri | 13 May 1967 | 3 May 1969 | Zakir Hussain |
4 | Gopal Swarup Pathak | 31 August 1969 | 30 August 1974 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri |
5 | Basappa Danappa Jatti | 31 August 1974 | 30 August 1979 | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed |
6 | Muhammad Hidayat Ullah | 31 August 1979 | 30 August 1984 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
7 | Ramaswamy Venkataraman | 31 August 1984 | 27 July 1987 | Giani Zail Singh |
8 | Shankar Dayal Sharma | 3 September 1987 | 24 July 1992 | Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
9 | Kocheril Raman Narayanan | 21 August 1992 | 24 July 1997 | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
10[2] | Krishan Kant | 21 August 1997 | 27 July 2002 | Kocheril Raman Narayanan |
11 | Bhairon Singh Shekhawat | 19 August 2002 | 21 July 2007 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
12 | Mohammad Hamid Ansari[3] | 11 August 2007 | Incumbent | Pratibha Patil |
presidents of india
February 12, 2009Name | Portrait | Took office | Left office | Political party | Vice President | Notes | ||
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1 | Rajendra Prasad | 26 January 1950 | 13 May 1962 | Indian National Congress | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Prasad was the first President of independent India.[7][8] He was also an independence activist of the Indian Independence Movement.[9] Prasad was the only president to serve for two terms in office.[4] | ||
2 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | 13 May 1962 | 13 May 1967 | Independent | Zakir Hussain | Radhakrishnan was a prominent philosopher, writer, a Knight of the Realm and also held the position of vice chancellor of the Andhra University and Banaras Hindu University.[10] He was also made a Knight of the Golden Army of Angels by Pope Paul VI.[11] | ||
3 | Zakir Hussain | 13 May 1967 | 3 May 1969 | Independent | Varahagiri Venkata Giri | Hussain was vice chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University and a recipient of Padma Vibhushan and Bharat Ratna.[12] He died before his term of office was ended. | ||
Varahagiri Venkata Giri * | 3 May 1969 | 20 July 1969 | Independent | Giri was appointed as acting president following the death of Hussain.[13] He resigned in a few months to take part in the presidential elections.[5] | ||||
Muhammad Hidayatullah * | 20 July 1969 | 24 August 1969 | Independent | Hidayatullah served as the Chief Justice of India, and was a recipient of the Order of the British Empire.[14] He served as acting president until the election of Giri as the President of India. | ||||
4 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri | 24 August 1969 | 24 August 1974 | Independent | Gopal Swarup Pathak | Giri is the only person to have served as both an acting president and president of India. He was a recipient of the Bharat Ratna, and has functioned as Indian Minister of Labour and High Commissioner to Ceylon (Sri Lanka).[15] | ||
5 | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | 24 August 1974 | 11 February 1977 | Indian National Congress | Basappa Danappa Jatti | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed served as a Minister before being elected as president. He died in 1977 before his term of office ended, and was the second Indian president to have died during a term of office.[16] | ||
Basappa Danappa Jatti * | 11 February 1977 | 25 July 1977 | Independent | Jatti was the vice president of India during Ahmed’s term of office, and was sworn in as acting president upon Ahmed’s death. He earlier functioned as the Chief Minister for the State of Mysore.[16][17] | ||||
6 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | 25 July 1977 | 25 July 1982 | Janata Party | Muhammad Hidayatullah | Reddy was the only Member of Parliament from the Janata Party to get elected from Andhra Pradesh.[18] He was unanimously elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha on 26 March 1977 and relinquished this office on 13 July 1977 to become the 6th President of India. | ||
7 | Giani Zail Singh | 25 July 1982 | 25 July 1987 | Indian National Congress | Ramaswamy Venkataraman | In March 1972, Singh assumed the position of chief Minister of Punjab, and in 1980, he became Union Home Minister.[19] | ||
8 | Ramaswamy Venkataraman | 25 July 1987 | 25 July 1992 | Indian National Congress | Shankar Dayal Sharma | In 1942, Venkataraman was jailed by the British for his involvement in the India’s independence movement.[20] After his release, he was elected to independent India’s Provisional Parliament as a member of the Congress Party in 1950 and eventually joined the central government, where he first served as Minister of Finance and Industry and later as Minister of Defence.[21] | ||
9 | Shankar Dayal Sharma | 25 July 1992 | 25 July 1997 | Indian National Congress | Kocheril Raman Narayanan | Sharma was Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, and the Indian Minister for Communications. He has also served as the governor of Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Maharashtra.[22] | ||
10 | Kocheril Raman Narayanan | 25 July 1997 | 25 July 2002 | Independent | Krishan Kant | Narayanan served as India’s ambassador to Thailand, Turkey, China and United States of America. He received doctorates in Science and Law and was also a chancellor in several universities.[23] He was also the vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University.[24] | ||
11 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | 25 July 2002 | 25 July 2007 | Independent | Bhairon Singh Shekhawat | Kalam was a scientist who played a leading role in the development of India’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs.[25] Kalam also received the Bharat Ratna. | ||
12 | Pratibha Patil | 25 July 2007 | Incumbent | Indian National Congress | Mohammad Hamid Ansari | Patil was the first woman to become President of India. She was also the first female Governor of Rajasthan. |
female noble laureates
February 12, 2009Image | Laureate | Country | Category | Rationale | |
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1903 | Marie Curie (shared with Pierre Curie) |
France | Physics | “in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel“[8] | |
1905 | Bertha von Suttner | Austria–Hungary | Peace | Honorary President of Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne, Switzerland; Author of Lay Down Your Arms.[10] | |
1909 | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden | Literature | “in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings”[11] | |
1911 | Marie Curie | France | Chemistry | “for her discovery of radium and polonium“[12] | |
1926 | Grazia Deledda | Italy | Literature | “for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general”[13] | |
1928 | Sigrid Undset | Norway | Literature | “principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages”[14] | |
1931 | Jane Addams (shared with Nicholas Murray Butler) |
United States | Peace | Sociologist; International President, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.[15] | |
1935 | Irène Joliot-Curie (shared with Frédéric Joliot-Curie) |
France | Chemistry | “for their synthesis of new radioactive elements”[16] | |
1938 | Pearl S. Buck | United States | Literature | “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces”[17] | |
1945 | Gabriela Mistral | Chile | Literature | “for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world”[18] | |
1946 | Emily Greene Balch (shared with John Raleigh Mott) |
United States | Peace | Formerly Professor of History and Sociology; Honorary International President, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.[19] | |
1947 | Gerty Theresa Cori (shared with Carl Ferdinand Cori) |
United States | Physiology or Medicine | “for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen“[20] | |
1963 | Maria Goeppert-Mayer (shared with J. Hans D. Jensen) |
United States | Physics | “for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure”[21] | |
1964 | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | United Kingdom | Chemistry | “for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances”[22] | |
1966 | Nelly Sachs | Sweden | Literature | “for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel’s destiny with touching strength”[23] | |
1976 | Betty Williams | United Kingdom | Peace | Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)[24] | |
1976 | Mairead Corrigan | United Kingdom | Peace | Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)[24] | |
1977 | Rosalyn Yalow | United States | Physiology or Medicine | “for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones“[25] | |
1979 | Mother Teresa | India | Peace | Leader of Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta.[26] | |
1982 | Alva Myrdal (shared with Alfonso García Robles) |
Sweden | Peace | Former Cabinet Minister; Diplomat; Writer.[27] | |
1983 | Barbara McClintock | United States | Physiology or Medicine | “for her discovery of mobile genetic elements“[28] | |
1986 | Rita Levi-Montalcini (shared with Stanley Cohen) |
Italy, United States |
Physiology or Medicine | “for their discoveries of growth factors“[29] | |
1988 | Gertrude B. Elion (shared with James W. Black and George H. Hitchings) |
United States | Physiology or Medicine | “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment“[30] | |
1991 | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa | Literature | “who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity”[31] | |
1991 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Burma | Peace | “for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights”[32] | |
1992 | Rigoberta Menchú | Guatemala | Peace | “in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples”[33] | |
1993 | Toni Morrison | United States | Literature | “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”[34] | |
1995 | Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (shared with Edward B. Lewis and Eric F. Wieschaus) |
Germany | Physiology or Medicine | “for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development“[35] | |
1996 | Wisława Szymborska | Poland | Literature | “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality”[36] | |
1997 | Jody Williams (shared with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines) |
United States | Peace | “for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines”[37] | |
2003 | Shirin Ebadi | Iran | Peace | “for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children”[38] | |
2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | Austria | Literature | “for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society’s clichés and their subjugating power”[39] | |
2004 | Wangari Maathai | Kenya | Peace | “for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”[40] | |
2004 | Linda B. Buck (shared with Richard Axel) |
United States | Physiology or Medicine | “for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system“[41] | |
2007 | Doris Lessing | United Kingdom | Literature | “that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”[42] | |
2008 | Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (shared with Harald zur Hausen and Luc Montagnier) |
France | Physiology or Medicine | “for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus“ |
noble prize
February 12, 2009gandhi peace prize
February 12, 2009Gandhi Peace Prize Recipients
No | Year | Name | Recipient Description |
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1. | 1995 | Julius Nyerere | 1st President of Tanzania |
2. | 1996 | A. T. Ariyaratne | Founder of Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement |
3. | 1997 | Gerhard Fischer | |
4. | 1998 | Ramakrishna Mission | Founded by Swami Vivekananda |
5. | 1999[1] | Baba Amte | Social Worker |
6. | 2000 | Nelson Mandela (co-recipient) | Former President of South Africa |
7. | 2000 | Grameen Bank (co-recipient) | Founded by Muhammad Yunus |
8. | 2001[2] | John Hume | Northern Irish Politician |
9. | 2002 | Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan | |
10. | 2003 | Václav Havel | |
11. | 2004 | Coretta Scott King | Widow of Martin Luther King |
12. | 2005[3] | Desmond Tutu | South African cleric and activist |
13. | 2006[4] | Nelson Mandela | Former South African president |