Monday, March 7, 2016

Republic Day chief guests


Year
Name of the Guest
Country
2016President, Francois HollandeFrance
2015President, Barack Obama
(First U.S. President to be invited)
USA
2014Prime Minister, Shinzo AbeJapan
2013King, Jigme Khesar Namgyel WangchuckBhutan
2012Prime minister, Yingluck ShinawatraThailand
2011President, Susilo Bambang YudhoyonoIndonesia
2010President, Lee Myung BakRepublic of Korea
2009President, Nursultan NazarbayevKazakhstan
2008President, Nicolas SarkozyFrance
2007President, Vladimir PutinRussia
2006King, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-SaudSaudi Arabia
2005King, Jigme Singye WangchuckBhutan
2004President, Luiz Inacio Lula da SilvaBrazil
2003President, Mohammed KhatamiIran
2002President, Cassam UteemMauritius
2001President, Abdelaziz BouteflikaAlgeria
2000President, Olusegun ObasanjoNigeria
1999King, Birendra Bir Bikram Shah DevNepal
1998President, Jacques ChiracFrance
1997Prime Minister, Basdeo PandayTrinidad and Tobago
1996President, Dr. Fernando Henrique CardosoBrazil
1995President, Nelson MandelaSouth Africa
1994Prime Minister, Goh Chok TongSingapore
1993Prime Minister, John MajorUnited Kingdom
1992President, Mário SoaresPortugal
1991President, Maumoon Abdul GayoomMaldives
1990Prime Minister, Anerood JugnauthMauritius
1989General Secretary, Nguyen Van LinhVietnam
1988President, Junius JayewardeneSri Lanka
1987President, Alan GarciaPeru
1986Prime Minister, Andreas PapandreouGreece
1985President, Raúl AlfonsínArgentina
1984King, Jigme Singye WangchuckBhutan
1983President, Shehu ShagariNigeria
1982King, Juan Carlos ISpain
1981President, Jose Lopez PortilloMexico
1980President, Valéry Giscard d’EstaingFrance
1979Prime Minister, Malcolm FraserAustralia
1978President, Patrick HilleryIreland
1977First Secretary, Edward GierekPoland
1976Prime Minister, Jacques ChiracFrance
1975President, Kenneth KaundaZambia
1974President, Josip Broz TitoYugoslavia
Prime Minister, Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias BandaranaikeSri Lanka
1973President, Mobutu Sese SekoZaire
1972Prime Minister, Seewoosagur RamgoolamMauritius
1971President, Julius NyerereTanzania
1969Prime Minister, Todor ZhivkovBulgaria
1968Prime Minister, Alexei KosyginSoviet Union
President, Josip Broz TitoYugoslavia
1965Food and Agriculture Minister, Rana Abdul HamidPakistan
1963King, Norodom SihanoukCambodia
1961Queen, Elizabeth IIUnited Kingdom
1960President, Kliment VoroshilovSoviet Union
1958Marshall Ye JianyingPeople’s Republic of China
1955Governor General, Malik Ghulam Muhammad
(First guest for parade at Rajpath)
Pakistan
1954King, Jigme Dorji WangchuckBhutan
1950President, SukarnoIndonesia

FIRST IN INDIA- FULLY UPDATED LIST

● British Governor-General : Warren Hastings
● British Governor-General of Independent India : Lord Mountbatten

● Justice of India : Hiralal J. Kania
● Comander-in-Chief of Free India : General K. M. Cariappa
● Chief of Air Staff : Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst
● Indian Air Chief : Air Marshal S. Mukherjee
● Chief of Army Staff : General M. Rajendra Singh
● Chief of Naval Staff : Vice-Admiral R. D. Katari
● Consmonaut : Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma
● Emperor of Mughal Dynasty in India : Babar
● Field Marshal : SPFJ Manekshaw
● Governor-General of Indian Union : C. Rajgopalachari
● Indian to get an Oscar : Bhanu Athaiya
● Indian to Reach the South Pole : Col. I. K. Bajaj
● Indian ICS Officer : Satyendra Nath Tagore
● Indian Member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council : Sir S. P. Sinha
● Indian Man to Swim Across the English Channel : Mihir Sen
● Indian Woman to Swim Across the English Channel : Miss Aarti Saha
● Indian Woman to Swim Across the Strait of Gibraltar : Aarti Pradhan
● Man to Climb Mount Everest : Sherpa Tenzing
● Man to Climb Mount Everest without Oxygen : Phu Dorjee
● Man to Climb Mount Everest twice : Nawang Gombu
● Muslim Woman to sit on the throne of Delhi : Razia Sultana
● Nobel Prize Winner : Rabindra Nath Tagore
● President of the Indian National Congress : W. C. Banerjee
● Woman President of the Indian National Congress : Annie Besant
● President to Die in Office : Dr. Zakir Hussain
● Prime Minister to Lose an Election : Indira Gandhi
● Prime Minister to Resign from Office : Morarji Desai
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● Deputy Prime Minister : Vallabhbhai Patel
● Talkie Film : Alam Ara (1931)
● Test-tube Baby : Indira (Baby Harsha)
● Viceroy : Lord Canning
● Woman Central Minister : Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
● Woman Chief Minister of a State : Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani
● Woman Governor : Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
● Woman Minister : Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
● Woman to Climb the Mt. Everest: Bachendri Pal
● Woman Prime Minister : Mrs. Indira Gandhi
● Woman Speaker of a State Assembly : Mrs. Shanno Devi
● Woman Airline Pilot : Durba Banerjee
● Woman to Win an Asiad Gold : Kamaljit Sandhu
● Woman Judge of the Supreme Court : Fathima Beevi
● Woman IPS Officer : Kiran Bedi
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● Indian in the British Parliament: Dadabhai Naoroji
● Indian to win Miss Universe Title : Ms Sushmita Sen
● Indian Woman Congress President : Sarojini Naidu (1925)
● Woman President of UN General Assembly : Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953)
● Woman to Win the Nobel Prize : Mother Teresa (1979)
● Woman to become ‘Miss World : Reeta Faria
● Speaker, Lok Sabha : G. V. Manavalankar (1952-57)
● Chairman Rajya Sabha : S. V. Krishnamoorthy (1952)
● Indian to Pass ICS : Surendra Nath Banerji (1869)
● Indian Pilot : JRD Tata (1929)
● To Reach Antarctica : Lt. Ram Charan (1960)
● Vernacular Daily : Kolkata (1727)
● Telegraph Line Installed : Calcutta to Diamond Harber (1853)
● Silent Movie : Raja Harish Chandra by Dada Saheb Phalke (1913)
● Coloured Cinemascope Film : Pyar ki Pyas (1961)
● Satellite launched : Aryabhatta (1975)
● Indigenously built satellite : Aryabhatta (1975)
● Atomic device exploded at : Pokharan in Rajasthan (1974)
● Large-scale Nuclear Reactor : Apsara (1956)
● Indigenously designed and built missile : Prithvi (1988)
● Member of the Dalit Community to become the President of India : K. R. Narayanan
● DNA typing forensic Laboratory set-up at : Kolkata
● Electric Train started between : Ludhiana and New Delhi
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● Science City was inaugurated in : Kolkata
● Actress of Indian Cinema : Kamalabai Gokhale
● Woman Pilot of IAF : Harita Deol
● Solar Thermal Parabolic Trough Power Station was established at : Mathania (Rajasthan)
● Indian writer to win the Booker Prize : Arundhati Roy
● Musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna : M. S. Subbulakshmi
● Indian Woman to go into Space : Kalpana Chawla
● Chairman of the Prasar Bharati Board : Nikhil Chakravarthy
● Indian Institution to be awarded Gandhi Peace Prize : Ramakrishna Mission
● Solar city is developed at : Anandpur Sahib
● Woman to win an Olympic medal : Karnam Malleswari
● Woman Foreign Secretary of India : Chokila Iyer
● Indian to win World Billiards Trophy : Wilson Jones
● Indian Grand Master (in Chess) : Vishwanathan Anand
● Chinese pilgrim to visit India : Fahien
● European invader on India soil : Alexender, the great
● Indian to win World Chess Championship : Vishwanathan Anand
● Women Air Vice Marshal : P. Bandopadhyaya
● Lady Cadet of Indian Army : Priya Jhingan
● First Indian to win a medal in the world Athletic Championship : Anju B. George (2003)
● Triple Century Maker in Test Cricket : Virendra Sahwag (2004)
● Hitter of 5 Double Centuries : Rahul Dravid (2004)
● Woman DGP : Kanchan Chaudhury
● Medal winner in Olympic Games : Rajyawardhan Singh Rathore.
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● Asian Tennis Champion, WTA champion, Third round winner in Grand Slam Tournament, Grand slam tournament winner Match winner in U.S. open, Youngest awardee of Padamshree : Sania Mirza
● Formula-1 Car Racer : Narayan Kartikeyan
● Indian to be awarded ‘Srilanka Ratn’ : N. Ram
● Woman Commanded the annual passing out parade : Wahida Prizm (2006).
● Five hundred wicket taker in Test cricket: Anil Kumble (2006)
● To the ski to the North Pole : Ajeet Bajaj (2006)
● First Air Chief to to Sky dive : Air Chief S. P. Tyagi (2006)
● First Indian Woman to win a Badminton Grand Prix : Saina Nehwal (2006)
● First President to make sortie in a combat aircraft : Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2006)..
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● First Women President : Pratibha Patil (2007)
● First Indian to win Gold Medal in Olympics in individual Event : Abhinav Bindra (2008)
● First Woman Pilot of Fighter Plane : Suman Sharma
● World Cup (Jr.) Badminton, Indonesian Open Winner (Woman) : Saina Nehwal (2009)(facebook/cnaonweb)
● Woman Speaker Lok Sabha : Ms. Meira Kumar (2009)
● Two Oscar Award Winner : A. R. Rehman (2009)
● Khel Ratna, Arjun and Dronacharya Award : P. Gopi Chand (2009)
● Indian Woman to reach the South Pole : Reena Kaushal (2009)

FIRST 20 SMART CITIES IN INDIA

Union Government has declared the names of latest 98 cities for its ambitious Smart Cities Project.
RanksSmart CitiesState
1BhubaneswarOdisha
2PuneMaharashtra
3JaipurRajasthan
4SuratGujarat
5KochiKerala
6AhmedabadGujarat
7JabalpurMadhya Pradesh
8VisakhapatnamAndhra Pradesh
9SolapurMaharashtra
10DavangereKarnataka
11IndoreMadhya Pradesh
12New Delhi Municipal CorporationNew Delhi
13CoimbatoreTamil Nadu
14KakinadaAndhra Pradesh
15BelagaviKarnataka
16UdaipurRajasthan
17GuwahatiAssam
18ChennaiTamil Nadu
19LudhianaPunjab
20BhopalMadhya Pradesh
Facts on Smart Cities:
  • Thirteen of them are in the WHO list of the 20 most polluted cities in the world.
  • None of the cities are from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal. On the other hand, some states have two or more nominees – Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
  • The cities not named today will be asked to get their act together, focus on deficiencies and prepare for Round 2 of announcements in April.
  • The prime minister had described Smart Cities as those with “very high quality of life comparable with any developed European city”.

Dadasaheb Phalke Award Winners list till 2015




Year
Winner
Occupation

2015
Manoj Kumar
Actor and Director

2014
Shashi Kapoor
Actor, Director and Producer

2013
Gulzar
Poet, Lyricist and Director

2012
Pran
Actor

2011
Soumitra Chatterjee
Actor

2010
K. Balachander
Director

2009
D. Ramanaidu
Producer

2008
VK Murthy
Cinematographer

2007
Manna Dey
Singer

2006
Tapan Sinha
Director

2005
Shyam Benegal
Director

2004
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Director

2003
Mrinal Sen
Director

2002
Dev Anand
Actor, Director and Producer

2001
Yash Chopra
Director and Producer

2000
Asha Bhosle
Singer

1999
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Director

1998
B.R. Chopra
Director and Producer

1997
Pradeep
Lyricist

1996
Sivaji Ganesan
Actor

1995
Rajkumar
Actor

1994
Dilip Kumar
Actor

1993
Majrooh Sultanpuri
Lyricist

1992
Bhupen Hazarika
Composer (Music Director)

1991
Bhalji Pendharkar
Director, Producer and Writer

1990
Akkineni Nageswara Rao
Actor

1989
Lata Mangeshkar
Singer

1988
Ashok Kumar
Actor

1987
Raj Kapoor
Actor and Director

1986
B. Nagi Reddy
Producer

1985
V. Shantaram
Actor, Director and Producer

1984
Satyajit Ray
Director

1983
Durga Khote
Actress

1982
L. V. Prasad
Actor, Director and Producer

1981
Naushad Ali
Composer (Music Director)

1980
Paidi Jairaj
Actor and Director

1979
Sohrab Modi
Actor, Director and Producer

1978
Rai Chand Boral
Composer and Director

1977
Nitin Bose
Cinematographer, Director and Writer,

1976
Kanan Devi
Actress

1975
Dhirendranath Ganguly
Actor and Director

1974
Bomireddi Narasimha Reddy
Director

1973
Ruby Myers (Sulochana)
Actress

1972
Pankaj Mullick
Composer (Music Director)

1971
Prithviraj Kapoor
Actor (Posthumous)

1970
B. N. Sircar
Producer

1969
Devika Rani
Actress