Term
|
Name
|
Period
|
Political party
|
1
|
Rajendra Prasad
|
26-Jan-1950 to 13-May-1962
|
Indian National Congress
|
2
|
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
|
13-May-1962 to 13-May-1967
|
Independent
|
3
|
Zakir Hussain
|
13-May-1967 to 3-May-1969
|
Independent
|
Varahagiri Venkata Giri
|
3-May-1969 to 20-Jul-1969
|
Independent
| |
Muhammad Hidayatullah
|
20-Jul-1969 to 24-Aug-1969
|
Independent
| |
4
|
Varahagiri Venkata Giri
|
24-Aug-1969 to 24-Aug-1974
|
Independent
|
5
|
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
|
24-Aug-1974 to 11-Feb-1977
|
Indian National Congress
|
Basappa Danappa Jatti
|
11-Feb-1977 to 25-Jul-1977
|
Independent
| |
6
|
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
|
25-Jul-1977 to 25-Jul-1982
|
Janata Party
|
7
|
Giani Zail Singh
|
25-Jul-1982 to 25-Jul-1987
|
Indian National Congress
|
8
|
Ramaswamy Venkataraman
|
25-Jul-1987 to 25-Jul-1992
|
Indian National Congress
|
9
|
Shankar Dayal Sharma
|
25-Jul-1992 to 25-Jul-1997
|
Indian National Congress
|
10
|
Kocheril Raman Narayanan
|
25-Jul-1997 to 25-Jul-2002
|
Independent
|
11
|
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
|
25-Jul-2002 to 25-Jul-2007
|
Independent
|
12
|
Pratibha Patil
|
25-Jul-2007 to 25-Jul-2012
|
Indian National Congress
|
13
|
Pranab Mukherjee
|
25-Jul-2012 to Till now
|
Indian National Congress
|
Friday, August 29, 2014
Presidents of India (1947-2014)
United Nations International Years
| Importance | Year | |
| » World Refugees year | - | 1959-60 |
| » Health and Medical Research year | - | 1961 |
| » Co-operation Year | - | 1965 |
| » Tourism year | - | 1967 |
| » Human Rights Year | - | 1968 |
| » Education Year | - | 1970 |
| » Action to Combat Racism and Racial Prejudice | - | 1971 |
| » Population Year | - | 1974 |
| » Women’s Year | - | 1975 |
| » Anti-Apartheid year | - | 1978/79 |
| » Childrens Year | - | 1979 |
| » Disabled Persons year | - | 1981 |
| » Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa | - | 1982 |
| » Communication Year | - | 1983 |
| » Youth Year | - | 1985 |
| » Peace Year | - | 1986 |
| » Year of Shelter for the Homeless | - | 1987 |
| » Literacy Year | - | 1990 |
| » Space Year | - | 1992 |
| » World’s Indigenous People year | - | 1993 |
| »Year of the Family, Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal | - | 1994 |
| » Year of Tolerance | - | 1995 |
| » Poverty Eradication Year | - | 1996 |
| » Ocean Year | - | 1998 |
| » Old Age persons Year | - | 1999 |
| » Peace and Cultural Year | - | 2000 |
| » Year of Volunteers | - | 2001 |
| » Year for Cultural Heritage, Ecotourism year, Mountains Year | - | 2002 |
| » Fresh Water Year | - | 2003 |
| » International Rice Year | - | 2004 |
| » International Micro Credit Year | - | 2005 |
| » International Physics Year | - | 2005 |
| » International Sports and Physical Education | - | 2005 |
| » Year of Deserts and Desertification | - | 2006 |
| » Polar Year | - | 2007/08 |
| » International Potato Year, International Earth Year, Year of Sanitation, Year of languages | - | 2008 |
| » Year of Reconciliation, Year of Natural Fibres, Human Rights learning, Year of Astronomy | - | 2009 |
| » Year of Youth, Reapproachment of cultures, Year of Seafarer, Bio Diversity Year | - | 2010 |
| » Year for People of African Descent, Year of Chemistry, Year of Forest | - | 2011 |
| » Sustainable Energy for All | - | 2012 |
| » Water Cooperation, Year of Quinoa | - | 2013 |
| » Solidarity with the Palestinian people year, Small Island Developing States, Crystallography, Family Farming | - | 2014 |
| » Year of Soils | - | 2015 |
| » Year of Pulses | - | 2016 |
Famous Fathers in India
Branch of Subject
|
Founding Father
| ||
| » Father of Indian Unrest | - | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | |
| » Father of Indian Cinema | - | Dada Saheb Phalke | |
| » Father of Indian Green Revolution | - | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan | |
| » Father of Co-operative Movement in India | - | Frederic Nicholson | |
| » Father of Indian Printing | - | James Hickey | |
| » Father of Sanskrit Drama | - | Kalidasa | |
| » Father of Indian Railway | - | Lord Dalhousie | |
| » Father of Local Self Government in India | - | Lord Ripon | |
| » Father of the Nation | - | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| » Father of Indian Engineering | - | M.Visweswariah | |
| » North America | - | Leif Ericsson | |
| » Father of Indian Painting | - | Nandalal Bose | |
| » Father of Indian Budget | - | Professor Mahalanobis | |
| » Father of Indian Renaissance | - | Raja Ram Mohan Roy | |
| » Father of Surgery | - | Susruta | |
| » Father of Astronomy | - | Varahamihira |
World’s important famous Fathers
Branch of Subject
|
Founding Father
| ||
| » Father of Economics | - | Adam Smith | |
| » Father of Biology | - | Aristotle | |
| » Father of Sociology | - | Augustus Comte | |
| » Father of Modern Computer | - | Marco Polo | |
| » Greenland | - | Norseman Eric | |
| » Hudson Bay | - | Charles Babbage | |
| » Father of Greek Democracy | - | Clesthenes | |
| » Father of Nuclear Physics | - | Ernest Rutherford | |
| » Father of English Poetry | - | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| » Father of Genetics | - | Gregor Mendel | |
| » Father of Printing | - | Guttenberg | |
| » Father of Modern Drama | - | Henrik J. Ibsen | |
| » Father of Motor Car | - | Henry Ford | |
| » Father of History | - | Herodotus | |
| » Father of Medicine | - | Hippocrates | |
| » Father of Cloning | - | Ian Wilmut | |
| » Father of Jurisprudence | - | John Locke | |
| » Father of Tanzania | - | Julius Nyrere | |
| » Father of Scientific Socialism | - | Karl Marx | |
| » Father of Painting | - | Leonardo Da Vinci | |
| » Father of Reformation | - | Martin Luther | |
| » Father of Pakistan | - | Muhammed Ali Jinnah | |
| » Father of Green Revolution | - | Norman Borlaug | |
| » Father of Atom Bomb | - | Otto Hahn | |
| » Father of Renaissance | - | Petrarch | |
| » Father of Mathematics | - | Pythagorus | |
| » Father of Socialism | - | Robert Owen | |
| » Father of Co-operation | - | Robert Owen | |
| » Father of Homeopathy | - | Samuel Haniman | |
| » Father of Bangladesh | - | Sheikh Mujibur Rehman | |
| » Father of Psychology | - | Sigmund Freud | |
| » Father of Philosophy | - | Socrates | |
| » Father of Modern Tourism | - | Thomas Cook | |
| »Father of Modern Cartoon | - | William Hogarth |
Popular Names – Persons in India
Popular Name
|
Person
| ||
| » Lokmanya | - | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | |
| » Maratha Kesari | - | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | |
| » Shahid | - | Bhagat Singh | |
| » Bengali Tiger | - | Bipin Chandra Pal | |
| » Light of Asia | - | Buddha | |
| » Indian Machiavelli | - | Chanakya | |
| » Deenabandhu | - | C.F. Andrews | |
| » Anna | - | C.N. Annadurai | |
| » Deshabandhu | - | C.R. Das | |
| » C.R. | - | C. Rajagopalachari | |
| » Rajaji | - | C. Rajagopalachari | |
| » Grand Old Man of India | - | Dadabhai Naoroji | |
| » Bapu | - | Gandhiji | |
| » Mahatma | - | Gandhiji | |
| » Guruji | - | Golwalkar | |
| » Iron Lady of India | - | Indira Gandhi | |
| » Priyadarshini | - | Indira Gandhi | |
| » Babuji | - | Jagjeevan Ram | |
| » J.P | - | Jayaprakash Narayan | |
| » Loknayak | - | Jayaprakash Narayan | |
| » Chachaji | - | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| » Indian Shakespeare | - | Kalidasa | |
| » Badshah Khan | - | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | |
| » Frontier Gandhi | - | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | |
| » Faker-e-Afghan | - | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | |
| » Man of the Masses | - | K. Kamaraj | |
| » Kipper | - | K.M. Cariappa | |
| » Kuvembu | - | K.V. Puttappa | |
| » Rani of Jhansi | - | Lakshmibai | |
| » Man of Peace | - | Lal Bahadur Shastri | |
| » Punjab Kesari | - | Lala Lajpat Rai | |
| » Mahamana | - | Madan Mohan Malaviya | |
| » Prince of Beggars | - | Madan Mohan Malaviya | |
| » Barefooted painter | - | M.F. Hussain | |
| » Sage of Sabarmati | - | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| » Flying Sikh | - | Milkha Singh | |
| » Saint of Gutters | - | Mother Theresa | |
| » Golden Girl of Indian Athletics | - | P.T. Usha | |
| » Gurudev | - | Rabindranath Tagore | |
| » Sher-e-Punjab | - | Ranjit Singh | |
| » Birdman of India | - | Salim Ali | |
| » Indian Napoleon | - | Samudragupta | |
| » Sage of Kanchi | - | Sankaracharya | |
| » Indian Bismarck | - | Sardar Vallabhai Patel | |
| » Nightingale of India | - | Sarojini Naidu | |
| » Lion of Kashmir | - | Sheikh Mohammed | |
| » Netaji | - | Subash Chandra Bose | |
| » Prince of Patriots | - | Subash Chandra Bose | |
| » Little Master | - | Sunil Gavaskar | |
| » Andhra Kesari | - | Tangutri Prakasam | |
| » Mysore Tiger | - | Tippu Sultan | |
| » T.T.K. | - | T.T. Krishnamachari | |
| » Grand Old Man of Indian Journalism | - | Tushar Kanti Ghosh | |
| » Acharya | - | Vinobha Bhave | |
| » Sage of Paunar | - | Vinobha Bhave | |
| » Milkman of India | - | Varghese Kurian |
Popular Names – Persons in the World
Popular Name
|
Person
| ||
| » Fuhrer (also Fuehrer) | - | Adolf Hitler | |
| » Master of Suspense | - | Alfred Hitchcock | |
| » The Daughter of East | - | Benazir Bhutto | |
| » Second Duke | - | Benitto Mussolini | |
| » African Gandhi | - | Dr. Kenneth Kaunda | |
| » The Wizard of Menlo Park | - | Edison | |
| » Poet’s Poet | - | Edmund Spenser | |
| » King of Rock & Roll | - | Elvis Presley | |
| » Desert Fox | - | Erwin Rommel | |
| » Lady with the Lamp | - | Florence Nightingale | |
| » GBS | - | George Bernard Shaw | |
| » Grand Old Man of Britain | - | Gladstone | |
| » Prince of Pilgrimage | - | Huien Tsang | |
| » Light of the world | - | Jesus Christ | |
| » Good Shepherd | - | Jesus Christ | |
| » Maid of Orleans | - | Joan of Arc | |
| » Iron Lady | - | Margaret Thatcher | |
| » Iron Butterfly | - | Margaret Thatcher | |
| » American Gandhi | - | Martin Luther King | |
| » Little Corporal | - | Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| » Columbus of Space | - | Neil Armstrong | |
| » Man of Blood and Iron | - | Otto von Bismarck | |
| » Maiden Queen | - | Queen Elizabeth I | |
| » Rascal monk | - | Rasputin | |
| » Apostle of Free Trade | - | Richard Cobden | |
| » Bard of Avon | - | William Shakespeare |
Rever side Cites And Countries
City
|
River
|
Country
| |
| » Alexandria | - Nile | - Egypt | |
| »Amsterdam | - Amsel | - Netherlands | |
| » Baghdad | - Tigris | - Iraq | |
| » Bangkok | - Menam | - Thailand | |
| » Basra | - Eupharates and Tigris | - Iraq | |
| » Belgrade | - Danube | - Serbia | |
| » Berlin | - Spree | - Germany | |
| » Bonn | - Rhine | - Germany | |
| » Bristol | - Avon | - England | |
| » Brussels | - Seine | - Belgium | |
| » Budapest | - Danube | - Hungary | |
| » Cairo | - Nile | - Egypt | |
| » Chittagong | - Karnaphuli | - Bangladesh | |
| » Colombo | - Kaliganga | - Sri Lanka | |
| » Cologne | - Rhine | - Germany | |
| » Dublin | - Liphi | - Ireland | |
| » Glasgow | - Clyde | - Scotland | |
| » Hamburg | - Elbe | - Germany | |
| » Karachi | - Indus | - Pakistan | |
| » Khartoum | - Nile | - Sudan | |
| » Lahore | - Ravi | - Pakistan | |
| » Lisbon | - Tagus | - Portugal | |
| » Liverpool | - Mersey | - England | |
| » London | - Thames | - England | |
| » Montreal | - Ottawa | - Canada | |
| » Moscow | - Moskva | - Russia | |
| » New York | - Hudson | - USA | |
| » Paris | - Seine | - France | |
| » Philadelphia | - Delawara | - USA | |
| » Prague | - Vitava | - Czechoslovakia | |
| » Quebec | - St. Lawrence | - Canada | |
| » Rome | - Tiber | - Italy | |
| » Shanghai | - Yangtze-Kiang | - China | |
| » Stalingrad | - Volga | - Russia | |
| » Tokyo | - Sumida | - Japan | |
| » Vienna | - Danube | - Austria | |
| » Warsaw | - Vistula | - Poland | |
| » Washington | - Potamac | - USA | |
| » Yangoon | - Irawadi | - Myanmar |
National Flowers of Various Countries
| Country | National Flower | |
| » Australia | - Gold wattle | |
| » Bangladesh | - Water Lilly | |
| » Canada | - Maple leaf | |
| » China | - Narsissas | |
| » France | - Lilly | |
| » Germany | - Corn Flower | |
| » India | - Lotus | |
| » Ireland | - Shamrock | |
| » Japan | - Chrysanthemum | |
| » Russia | - Sunflower | |
| » Scotland | - Thistle | |
| » Spain | - Pomegranate | |
| » UK | - Rose | |
| » USA | - Golden Rose |
Institutions - Founders
World
Institution
|
Founder
| ||
| » Amnesty International | - | Peter Berenson | |
| » Boy Scouts | - | Baden Powell | |
| » Cubism | - | Pablo Picasso | |
| » Fascism | - | Benito Mussolini | |
| » Lion’s Club | - | Melvin John | |
| » Montessori System | - | Maria Montessori | |
| » Nazism | - | Adolf Hitler | |
| » Nursing System | - | Florence Nightingale | |
| » Protestant Religion | - | Martin Luther | |
| » Red Cross | - | Jean-Henri Dunant | |
| » Salvation Army | - | William Booth | |
| » Atomic Structure | - | Bohr and Rutherford | |
| » Taoism | - | Lao Tse | |
| » United Nations | - | Joseph Stalin (USSR) | |
| » Winston | - | Churchill (UK) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (USA) | |
| » YMCA | - | Sir George Williams | |
| » Confucianism | - | Confucius | |
| » Zorastrianism (Parsis) | - | Zoraster | |
India
| |||
| » Arya Samaj | - | Dayananda Saraswathi | |
| » Bahaism | - | Mirza Hussain Ali | |
| » Bhoodan Movement | - | Vinoba Bhave | |
| » Brahma Samaj | - | Raja Ram Mohan Roy | |
| » Chinmaya Mission | - | Swami Chinmayananda | |
| » Dev Samaj | - | Siva Narayan Agnihothri | |
| » Indian Association | - | Surendranath Banerji | |
| » Jainism | - | Vardhamana Mahavira | |
| » Peoples Education Society | - | Dr. B.R. Ambedkar | |
| » Prarthana Samaj | - | Kesab Chandra Sen | |
| » Ramakrishna Mission | - | Swami Vivekananda | |
| » Sarvodaya Movement | - | Jaya Prakash Narayan | |
| » Servants of India Society | - | Servants of India Society | |
| » Sikhism | - | Guru Nanak | |
| » Suddhi Movement | - | Swami Shradhanand | |
| » Theosophical Society of India | - | Annie Besant | |
| » Vana Mahothsav | - | K.M. Munshi | |
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Banking Programmes And Schemes
| S.No. | Banking Programmes and Schemes | Year of Beginning | Objective/Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Credit Authorization Scheme (CAS) | 1965 | A scheme of Qualitative Credit Control of Researve Bank |
| 2 | Scheme of Discriminatory Interest Rate | 1972 | To provide loan to the weaker sections of the societyat a concessional interest rate of 4%. |
| 3 | Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India | 1985 | To provide financial assistance to sick and closed industrial units for their reconstruction. |
| 4 | Formation of Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) | 1988 | To safeguard the interest of investors in capital market and to regulate share market. |
| 5 | National Renewal Fund (NRF) | 1992 | To protect the interest of the employees of Public Sector. |
| 6 | Group Life Insurance Scheme in Rural Areas | 1995 | To provide insurance facilities to rural people on lower premium. |
| 7 | Social Security Pilot Scheme | 2004 | Scheme for labors of unorganized sector for providing family pension, insurance and medical. |
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