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Most Famous English Acronyms & Abbreviations

Popular Indian Acronyms and Abbreviations

A
A.A.F. Auxiliary Air Force
A.A.O.U. Asian Association of Open Universities
A.C.D. Asian Co-operation Dialogue
A.D.B. Asian Development Bank
A.D.S. Air Defence Ship
A.E.C. Atomic Energy Commission
A.H.Q. Air Head Quarters; Army Head Quarters
A.I.C.C. All India Congress Committee
A.I.D.S. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
A.I.R. Annual Information Report
A.J.T. Advanced Jet Trainer
A.N.C. African National Council
A.P.E.C. Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation
A.P.E.D.A. Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority
A.R.C. Administrative Reforms Commission; Asset Reconstruction Corporation (of
India)
A.S.E.A.N. Association of South East Asian Nations
A.S.I. Archaeological Survey of India
A.U. African Union
A.V.E.S. Acute Viral Encephalitic Syndrome
B
B.A.R.C. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
B.C.G. Bacillus Calmette Guerin (Anti-T.B. vaccine)
BIMSTEC Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand Economic Corporation
B.S.N.L. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
B.O.A.C. British Overseas Airways Corporation
B.R.E.A.D. Basic Research Education and Development Society
B.V.R. Beyond Visual Range

C
C.A.B.E. Central Advisory Board of Education
C.A.C.C.I. Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry
C.M.P. Common Minimum Programme
C.A.D.P. Command Area Development Programme
C.A.S. Conditional Access System
C.C.I. Cricket Club of India
C.D.M.A. Code Division Multiple Access
C.H.O.G.M. Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
C.I.A. Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.A.)
C.N.G. Compressed Natural Gas
C.N.L.U. Chanakya National Law University
C.N.P.C. China National Petroleum Corporation
C.S.I.R. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
C.S.T.O. Collective Security Treaty Organisation
D
D.A.E. Department of Atomic Energy
D.D.T. Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloro-ethane
D.I.A.S. Direct Internet Access System
D.M.R.C. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
D.O.A.R.T. Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting Technology
D.P.P. Dabhol Power Project
D.Litt. Doctor of Literature
D.V.C. Damodar Valley Corporation
E
E.A.S. East Asia Summit
E.C.I.L. Electronics Corporation of India Limited
E.D.C.I.L. Educational Consultants India Ltd.
E.D.I. Educational Development Index
EDUSAT Education Satellite
E.E.C. Eurasian Economic Community; European Economic Community
E.E.T. Exempt, Exempt, Taxable
E.P.I.C. Electors Photo Identity Card
E.S.C.A.P. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (This is the new
name of ECAFE)
FF.D.I. Foreign Direct Investment
F.E.M.A. Foreign Exchange Management Act.
F.I.C.A. Federation of International Cricketers Association
F.T.A. Free Trade Agreement
G
G.A.T.T. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
G.D.P. Gross Domestic Product
G.I.C. General Insurance Corporation (of India)
G.I.S.T. Global Institute of Science and Technology
G.N.P. Gross National Product
G.U.A.M. Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova
HH.D.F.C. Housing Development Finance Corporation
H.U.D.C.O. Housing and Urban Development Corporation
I
I.A.A.I. International Airport Authority of India
I.B.S.A. India, Brazil, South Africa
I.C.R.I.E.R. Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
I.C.S.I.D. International Centre for Settlement of Industrial Disputes
I.C.R.C. International Committee of the Red Cross
I.C.S.S.R. Indian Council of Scientific and Social Research
I.D.P.L. Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited
I.F.P.R.I. International Food Policy Research Institute (Located in Washington)
I.F.W.J. Indian Federation of Working Journalists
I.C.A.R. Indian Council of Agricultural Research
I.D.A. International Development Association
I.G.C.A.R. Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
I.G.M.D.P. Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme
I.G.N.C.A. Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts
I.I.F.A. International Indian Film Academy
I.M.D.T. Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983
I.M.F. International Monetary Fund
I.M.O. Instant Money Order
I.N.S. Indian News Paper Society
INSDOC Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre
I.N.T.U.C. Indian National Trade Union Congress
I.N.T.A.C.H. Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage
I.N.X.F.A.C. Indian Naval Extra-Fast Attact Craft
I.S.I. Inter Services Intelligence (Pakistan)
I.S.T. Indian Standards Time
I.S.R.O. Indian Space Research Organisation
I.S.S.P. Indian Scientific Satellite Project
I.T.E.R. International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
I.T.E.S. Information Technology Enabled Services
I.U.C.N. International Union for Conservation of Nature
I.U.P.E.P. Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme
J
J.V.P. Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
LL.I.B.O.R. London Inter Bank Offered Rate
M
M.A.I. Multilateral Agreement on Investment
M.C.C. Marylebone Cricket Club
M.D.M.A. Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency
M.F.A.L.A. Marginal Farmers and Agricultural Labourers Agency
M.N.N.A. Major Non-NATO Alley
M.R.T.P.C. Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission
N
N.A.D.T. National Authority on Drugs and Therapeutics
N.A.R.I. National AIDS Research Institute
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
N.B.R.A. National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority
N.C.H.R.H. National Council for Human Resource in Health.
N.C.A. National Cricket Academy
N.E.A. National Environment Authority
N.E.G.P. National E-governance Plan
N.I.F. National Innovative Foundation
N.I.S.M. National Institute of Securities Market
N.L.L.M. National Legal Literacy Mission
N.M.C.C. National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council
N.M.I.T.L.I. New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative
N.P.T. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
N.R.C. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
N.R.E.G.A. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
N.R.H.M. National Rural Health Mission
N.R.I. Non-Resident Indians
N.R.S.A. National Remote Sensing Agency
N.S.C.N. National Social Council of Nagaland
N.U.E.P.A. National University of Educational Planning and Administration
O
O.I.C. Overseas Indian Citizenship
O.I.G.S. On Indian Government Service
OIL Oil India Limited
O.N.G.C. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
P
P.A.C. Public Accounts Committee; Professional Aptitude Council
P.A.N. Permanent Account Number
P.E.S.O. Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO is the changed name
of Department of Explosives).
P.E.T.A. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
P.F.R.D.A. Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority
P.H.D.C.C.I. Progress, Harmony and Development Chambers of Commerce and
Industry
P.I.L. Public Interest Litigation
P.N.R. Passenger Numerical Record
P.O.S.C.O. Pohang Steel Company
P.O.T.A. Prevention of Terrorism Act
P.T.C. Power Trading Corporation
Q
Q.I.P. Qualified Institutional Placement
RR.A.F. Rapid Action Force
R.S.V.P. Repondez sil vous Plait (Fr.) reply, if you please
R.T.R.A. Rail Tariff Regulatory Authority
SSAIL Steel Authority of India Limited
SAPTA South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement
S.C.O. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
S.C.R.A.M.J.E.T. Supersonic Combustion Ramjet
S.E.W.A. Self-Employed Womens Association
S.G.R.Y. Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana
S.G.S.Y. Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
S.M.S. Short Message Service; Subscriber Management System
SNIPES Society for the National Institutes of Physical Education and Sports
S.W.A.P.O. South-West African Peoples Organization
TTELCO Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company
T.E.R.C. Trade and Economic Relations Committee
T.E.R.L.S. Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station
T.R.A. Tea Research Association
T.R.A.I. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
TWAS Third World Academy of Sciences
UU.D.C. University Development Commission
U.N.C.L.O.S. UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
U.N.C.T.A.D. United Nations Conference of Trade and Development
U.G.C. University Grants Commission
U.N.E.S.C.O. United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation
U.N.F.C.C.C. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
U.N.I.C.E.F. United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund
U.N.I.F.I.L. United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
U.P.A. United Progressive Alliance
VV.B.A.L. Value Based Advanced Licencing
V.D.I.S. Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme
V.S.S.C. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
V.A.T. Value Added Tax
WW.C.C.B. Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
W.C.A.R. World Conference Against Racism
W.E.F. World Environment Forum
W.G.I.G. Working Group on Internet Governance
W.F.C. World Food Council
W.I.P.O. World Intellectual Property Organisation
W.L.L.M. Mobile Wireless in Local Loop
W.S.I.S. World Summit on Information Society
W.T.O. World Trade Organisation
W.W.F. World Wild Life Fund; War Wounded Foundation
YY.M.C.A. Young Mens Christian Association
Y.W.C.A. Young Womens Christian Association
ZZ.S. Zoological Society

List of Computer Abbreviations and Meanings


Computer Abbreviations and Meanings
A
ACE Access Control Entry
ACL Access Control List
ADO Active Data Objects
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port
AI Artificial Intelligence
ALGOL Algorithmic Language
ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AOL America Online
API Application Program Interface
APIPA Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing
APT Automatically Programmed Tooling
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASF Advanced Streaming Format
ASM Association for Systems Management
ASP Active Server Pages
ATAPI Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AUI Attachment Unit Interface
AVI Audio Video Interleave

B
B2B Business to Business
B2C Business to Commerce
BASIC Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
BDPS Business Data Processing Systems
BHTML Broadcast Hyper Text Markup Language
BIOS Basic Input Output System
BIU Bus Interface Unit
BMP Bitmap
BPS Bytes Per Seconds

C
CAD Computer Aided Design
CADD Computer Added Drafting and Design
CAI Computer Aided Instructuion
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAR Control Address Register
CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
CCIS Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate
CDWORM Compact Disc Write Once Read Many
CD RW Compact Disc ReWritable
CD Compact Disc
C-DAC Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDONTS Collabaration on Data Objects for Windows NT Server
CDROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory
CFG Control Flow Graph
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CGM Computer Graphics Metafile
CIDR Classless InterDomain Routing
CIM Computer Integrated Manufacture
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computers
CIX Commercial Internet Exchange
CLR Common Language Runtime
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMS Content Management System
CMYK Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (black)
COBOL Common Business Oriented Language
COM Component Object Model
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CPI Clock Cycle Per Instruction
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRM Customer Relationship Management
CROM Control Read Only Memory
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CUI Character User Interface

D
DAC Digital to Analog Converter
DAO Data Access Objects
DARPANET Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
DAT Digital Audio Tape
DBA Data Base Administrator
DBMS Data Base Management System
DCA Defence Communication Agency
DCL Data Control Language
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DCP Data Communication Processor
DDL Data Definition Language
DDOS Distributed Denial of Service
DDP Distributed Data Processing
DFD Data Flow Diagram
DFS Distributed File System
DHCP Domain Host Configuration Protocol
DHTML Dynamics Hyper Text Markup Language
DLC Data Link Control
DLL Dynamic Link Library
DMA Direct Memory Access
DML Data Manipulation Language
DMTF Distributed Management Test Force
DNA Distributed Internet Architecture
DNS Domain Name System
DOM Document Object Model
DOS Disk Operating System, Denial Of Service
DPI Dots Per Inch
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSN Digital Subscriber Network
DTD Document Type Definition
DVD Digital Versatile Disc

E
E Electronic
EAROM Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory
EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EDC Electronic Digital Computer
EDCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EFS Encrypted File System
EJB Enterprise Java Beans
ENIAC Electronics Numerical Integrator and Calculator
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EROM Erasable Read Only Memory
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
EULA End User License Agreement

F
FAT File Allocation Table
FDD Floppy Disk Drive
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FIFO First In First Out
FLOPS Floating Point Operations Per Second
FO Fiber Optics
FORTRAN Formula Translation
FPS Frames Per Second
FRAM Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
FTP File Transfer Protocol

G
GB Giga Bytes
GIF Graphic Interchange Format
GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out
GML General Markup Language
GNU GNU's Not Unix
GPL General Public License
GUI Graphical User Interface

H
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HFS Hierarchical File System
HP Hewlett Packard
HPC High Performance Computing
HPFS High Performance File System
HSR Horizontal Scan Rate
HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

I
IBM International Business Machines
IC Integrated Circuit
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICS Reduce Instruction Set Computer
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IDE Integrated Development Environment
IE Internet Explorer
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
IIS Internet Information Server
IL Intermediate Language
IO Input Output
IOP Input Output Processor
IP Internet Protocol
IPX Internetworked Packet Exchange
IRAM Integration Ram
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IrDA Infrared Data Association
IRQ Interrupt Request
ISAPI Internet Server Application Program Interface
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO International Standard Organization
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISR Interrupt Service Routine
IT Information Technology
ITPL Information Technology Park Limited (India)

J
JCL Job Control Language
JDBC Java Data Base Connectivity
JHTML Java within Hyper Text Markup Language
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JSP Java Server Pages

K
KB Kilo Bytes
KBPS Kilo Bytes Per Second

L
L2TP Layer Two Tunneling Protocol
LAN Local Area Network
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LDAP Light Weight Directory Access Control
LIFO Last In First Out
LIPS Logical Interfaces Per Second
LOC Lines Of Code
LSI Large Scale Integration
LSP Layered Service Provider

M
MAC Media Access Control
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MAU Multistation Access Unit
MB Mega Bytes
MBONE Multicast Backbone
MBPS Mega Bytes Per Second
MBR Master Boot Record
MCP Microsoft Certified Professional
MCS Multicast Server
MCSA Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
MCSD Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
MCSE Microsoft Certified System Engineer
MDI Multiple Document Interface
MDS Microcomputer Development System
MFC Microsoft Foundation Classes
MFT Master File Table
MG Mega Bytes
MICR MagneticInk Characters Reader
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIMD Multiple Instruction Multiple Data
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIPS Millions of Instructions Per Second
MISD Multiple Instruction Single Data
MODEM Modulator and Demodulator
MP3 Motion Pictures Experts Group Layer 3
MPEG Motion Pictures Experts Group
MS MicroSoft
MSDN MicroSoft Developer Network
MSIIS Microsoft Internet Information Server
MSIL Microsoft Intermediate Language
MSMQ Microsoft Message Queue
MSN MicroSoft Network
MSRAP Microsoft Remote Administration Protocol
MSRPC Microsoft Remote Procedure Call
MTS Microsoft Transaction Server
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
MUDS MultiUser Dungeons

N
NAS Network Attached Storage
NASSCOM National Association of Software and Service Companies
NCP Network Control Protocol
NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification
NDRO Nondestructive Read Out
NetBEUI NetBIOS Enhanced User Interface
NIC National Informatics Centre,
NIIT National Institute of Information Technology
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol
NOW Network Of Workstations
NSFNET National Science Foundation Network
NT (Windows) New Technology
NTFS New Technology File System
NTP Network Time Protocol

O
OCP Oracle Certified Professional
OCR Optical Character Readers
ODBC Open Data Base Connectivity
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OMR Optical Mark Reader
ONE Open Network Architecture
OOA Object Orient Analysis
OOAD Object Oriented Analysis and Design
OOP Object Oriented Programming
OOPS Object Oriented Programming System
OPEN GL Open Graphics Library
OS Operating System
OSI Open System Interconnection

P
PC Personal Computer
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDF Portable Document Format
PDL Page Description Language
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PHP PHP Hypertext Processor
PIC Programming Interrupt Control
PILOT Programmed Inquiry Learning Or Teaching
PLA Programmable Logic Array
PLC Programmable Logic Controller
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PNP Plug And Play
POP Post Office Protocol
POST Power On Self Test
PPP Peer to Peer Protocol
PPTP Point To Point Tunneling Protocol
PROM Programmable Read Only Memory
PS Post Script
PSN Processor Serial Number

Q
QoS Quality of Service

R
RADSL RateAdaptive Digital Subscribes Line
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAM Random Access Memory
RAMDAC Random Access Memory Digital to Analog Converter
RAS Remote Access Network
RD RAM Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
R-DAT Rotating Digital Audio Tape
RDBMS Relational Data Base Management System
RDO Remote Data Objects
RDP Remote Desktop Protocol
RFC Request for Comments
RGB Red Green Blue
RICS Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RIP Raster Image Processor
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
ROM Read Only Memory
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RTC Real Time Clock
RTF Rich Text Format
RTOS Real Time Operating System

S
S-DAT Stationary Digital Audio Tape
SACK Selective Acknowledgements
SAM Security Access Manager
SAP Service Access Point, Systems Applications Products
SCMP Software Configuration Management Plan
SCSI Small Computers Systems Interface
SD RAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDD Software Design Description
SDK Software Development Kit
SDL Storage Definition Language
SDN Integrated Service Digital Network
SDRAM Static Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscribes Line
SG RAM Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
SIM Subscriber Identification Module
SIMD Single Instruction Multiple Data
SISD Single Instruction Single Data
SIU Serial Interface Unit
SMP Symmetric Multi Process
SMS Short Message Service
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNA System Network Architecture
SNAP Sub Network Access Protocol
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SNOBOL String Oriented Symbolic Language
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SPX Sequenced Packet Exchange
SQA Statistical Quality Assurance
SQL Structured Query Language
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SRS Software Requirements Specification
STP Shielded Twisted Pair
SVVP Software Verification and Validation Plan
SW Software

T
TAPI Telephony Application Program Interface
TB Tera Bytes
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TDI Transport Data Interface
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TPM Transactions Processing Monitor
TSR Terminate and Stay Residents

U
UDD User Datagram Protocol
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UI User Interface
UML Unified Modelling Language
UNC Universal Naming Convention
UNIX Uniplexed Information and Computer Systems
URL Universal Resource Locator
USB Universal Serial Bus
USRT Universal Synchronous Receiver Transmitted
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair

V
VAN Virtual Area Network
VAST Very Small Aperture Terminal
VB Visual Basic
VC++ Visual C++
VCD Video Compact Disc
VDL View Definition Language
VGA Video Graphics Array
VHS Video Home System
VLIW Very Long Instruction Words
VLSI Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits
VPN Virtual Private Network
VRAM Video Random Access Memory
VRML Virtual Reality Modelling Language
VS Visual Studio
VSNL Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited
VVR Software Validation and Validation Report
VXD Virtual Device Driver

W
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
WAIS Wide Area Information Servers
WAN Wide Area Network
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WBEM Web Base Enterprise Management
WDM Wave Division Multiplexing
WHQL Windows Hardware Quality Lab
Windows ME Windows Millennium Edition
Windows NT Windows New Technology
Windows XP Windows eXPerienced
WINS Windows Internet Name Services
WMI Windows Management Instrumentation
WML Wireless Markup Language
WORM Write Once Read Many
WSH Windows Script Host
WWW World Wide Web
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

X
XHTML eXtensible Hyper Text Markup Language
XML eXtensible Markup Language
XSL eXtensible Style Sheet language

Y
Y2K Year 2000
Z
ZIF Zero Insertion Force

Most Common Abbreviations List


Common Abbreviations
AIDWAAll India Democratic Womens Association.
APEDAAAgricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority Act.
BFCBusiness Facilitation Council.
BRICBrazil, Russia, India, China.
BRSPBhartiya Rashtrawadi Samanta Party.
BRTSBus Rapid Transit System.
BVRAAMBeyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile
CAMPACompensatory Afforestation Management and Planning Authority.
CBECCentral Board of Excise and Customs.
CCEACabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.

C-DAPComprehensive District Agriculture Plan.


CIDSConstruction Industry Development Council.
CIETCentral Institute of Educational Technology.
CIRDAPCentre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and Pacific.
CJPCitizen for Justice and Peace.
CLATCommon Law Admission Test.
COBSECouncil of Boards of School Education.
CRRIDCentre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development.
CSTOCollective Security Treaty Organisation.
CVERDECombat Vehicles Engineering Research and Development Establishment.
DDPADurban Declaration and Programme of Action.
DIPPDepartment of Industrial Policy and Promotion.
DPCCDelhi Pollution Control Committee.
DSIIDCDelhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation.
EBTCEuropean Business and Technology.
ECBExternal Commercial Borrowing.
EDIEducation Development Index.
EGOMEmpowered Group of Ministers.
EMBOEuropean Molecular Biology Organisation.
EPFOEmployees Provident Fund Organisation.
EPICElectors Photo Identity Card.
EQUISEuropean Quality Improvement System.
ESAExplosive Substance Act.
ESCAREconomic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific.
ESOAEducation Services for Overseas Students Act.
FATFFinancial Action Task Force.
FIAFederal Investigation Agency.
FOGSIFederation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Societies of India.
GFDRRGlobal Facility For Disaster Reduction and Recovery.
GPSGlobal Positioning System.
IBEXInterstellar Boundary Explorer Mission.
ICCInternational Chamber of Commerce.
ICRISATInternational Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics.
ICRPInternational Commission on Radiological Protection.
ICWFIndian Community Welfare Fund.
IDPInternally Displaced Persons.
IEDSSInclusive Education of the Diasbled at Secondary Stage.
IFADInternational Fund for Agricultural Development.
IGCARIndira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research.
IGMDPIntegrated Guided Missile Development Programme.
IIDIndian Institute of Diabetes.
IIFCLIndia Infrastructure Finance Company Limited.
ILEWGInternational Lunar Exploration Working Group.
IMBInternational Maritime Bureau.
IMEIInternational Mobile Equipment Identity.
IMRHIndian Multi Role Helicopter.
INCOISIndian National Centre for Ocean Information Services.
INSTInstitute of Nano Science and Technology.
INTACHIndian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage.
IRNSSThe Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System.
ISCIntegrated Space Cell.
ISSAIndia Specific Safeguards Agreement.
ISSMInternational Society for Sexual Medicine.
ISTPInternational Society of Tropical Paediatrics.
ISTRACIsro Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network.
IUCAAInter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics.
IUCNInternational Union for Conservation of Nature.
JEMJustice and Equality Movement.
JNNURMJawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.
JUCCCEJoint US-China Cooperation on Clean Energy.
LACLive Action Cockpit.
LHCThe Large Hadron Collider.
LSGIsLocal Self-Governing Institutions.
MIPMoon Impact Probe.
MMICMultipurpose National Identity Card.
MRMRMedium Range Maritime Reconnaissance.
MSMEMicro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
NABINational Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute.
NACILNational Aviation Company of India Limited.
NBERNational Bureau of Economic Research.
NCEUSNational Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector.
NCHACNorth Cachar Hills Autonomous Council.
NCHERNational Commission for Higher Education and Research.
NCHRCNational Council for Human Resource in Health.
NCPCRNational Commission for Protection of Child Right.
NJCNational Judicial Council.
NLDNational League for Democracy.
NPCILNuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd.
NPSNew Pension System.
NRCAFNational Research Centre for Agro-Forestry.
NRHMNational Rural Health Mission.
NSSKNavjaat Shishu Suraksha Karyakram.
NSTEDBNational Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board.
NUEPANational University of Educational Planning and Administration.
NUTPNational Urban Transport Policy.
OECDThe Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
OSCEOrganisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe.
PCAPermanent Court of Arbitration.
PEAISPanchayatiraj Empowerment and Accountability Incentive System.
PHWRsPressurised Heavy Water Reactors.
PIARCPermanent International Association of Road Congresses.
PTCPower Trading Corporation.
RGGVYRajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojna.
RMSARashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan.
SAFMASouth Asia Free Media Association.
SARPSCOSouth Asia Regional Port Security Cooperative.
SASSSri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti.
SCJRCSouth Asian Centre for Journalists Reporting Conflict.
SDISSkill Development Initiative Scheme.
SEWASelf Employed Womens Association.
SHEScholarship for Higher Education.
SMEsSmall and Medium Enterprises.
SRISystem for Rice Intensification.
STPFSpecial Tiger Protection Force.
TARTrans-Asian Railway.
THAADTheatre High Attitude Area Defence.
UASLUnified Access Service License.
UNCBDUnited Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
UNCLOSUN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
UNDFUnited Nations Democracy Front.
UNIDOUnited Nations Industrial Development Organisation.
UNRWAThe United Nations Relief and Works Agency (For Palestinian refugees).
UNSCEARUnited Nations Scientific Committee on the effects of Atomic Radiation.

Current Abbreviations
A.C.D. Asian Co-operation Dialogue
A.D.S. Air Defence Ship
A.I.D.S. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
A.T.G.M. Anti-Tank Guided Missile
A.P.E.D.A. Agriculture and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority
A.U. African Union
A.W.A.N. Army Wide Area Network
B.P.O. Business Process Outsourcing
C.C.I. Consumer Confidence Index; Cricket Club of India
C.D.M.A. Code Division Multiple Access
C.I.S. Commonwealth of Independent States
C.I.B.I.L. Credit Information Bureau (India) Ltd.
C.N.G. Compressed Natural Gas
C.R.I.S.I.L. Credit Rating and Information Services of India Ltd.
C.S.T.O. Collective Security Treaty Organisation
D.M.R.C. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
D.O.T.S. Directly Observed Treatment Short Course
E.A.S. East Asia Summit
E.E.C. Eurasian Economic Community
E.D.C.I.L. Educational Consultants India Ltd.
G.C.M.M.F. Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation
G.P.R.S. General Packet Radio Service
G.S.L.V. Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle
G.U.A.M. Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova
I.C.D.S. Integrated Child Development Services
I.F.C.I. Industrial Finance Corporation of India
I.G.C.A.R. Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
I.G.N.O.U. Indira Gandhi National Open University
I.I.S.E.R. Indian Institutes of Science and Educational Research
I.N.M.A.S. Institute of Nuclear Medicines and Allied Sciences
I.P.C.C. International Panel on Climate Change
I.T.E.R. International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
NASSCOM National Association of Software and Service Companies
N.B.R.C. National Brain Research Centre
N.C.A. National Cricket Academy, Nuclear Command Authority
N.C.A.O.R. National Centre for Antarctica and Ocean Research
N.D.I.C. Natural Disaster Information System
N.D.M.A. National Disaster Management Authority
N.E.A. National Environment Authority
N.F.W.P. National Food for Work Programme
N.P.C.L. Nuclear Power Corporation of India
N.R.E.G.A. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
N.R.H.M. National Rural Health Mission
N.S.G. Nuclear Suppliers Group; National Security Guards
O.C.I. Overseas Citizen of India
O.I.C. Overseas Indian Citizenship
O.S.C.E. Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
P.H.D.C.C.I. Progress, Harmony and Development Chambers of Commerce and Industry
P.H.F.I. Public Health Foundation of India
P.O.S.C.O. Pohang Steel Company
P.O.T.A. Prevention of Terrorism Act
Q.I.B. Qualified Institutional Buyer
Q.I.P. Qualified Institutional Placement
R.T.R.A. Rail Tariff Regulatory Authority
S.A.I. Sports Authority of India
S.A.A.R.C. South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation
S.C.R.A.M.J.E.T. Supersonic Combustion Ramjet
S.G.R.Y. Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana
S.M.S. Short Message Service; Subscriber Management System
S.R.S.F. Special Railway Safety Fund
T.I.N. Tax Payers Identification Number
T.R.A. Tea Research Association
T.R.I.P.S. Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights
U.A.P.A. Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
U.N.F.P.A. United Nations Fund for Population Activities
V.A.A. Virgin Atlantic Airlines
VAT Value Added Tax
W.C.C.B. Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
W.E.M. World Environment Forum
WIPO World Intellectual Property Organisation
W.L.L. Wireless in Local Loop
W.M.D. Weapons of Mass Destruction

Acronyms and Abbreviations in News


AIDWA : All India Democratic Womens Association.
BVRAAM : Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile.
CJP : Citizen for Justice and Peace.
CBEC : Central Board of Excise and Customs.
CIET : Central Institute of Educational Technology.
CAMPA : Compensatory Afforestation Management and Planning Authority.
CDAP : Comprehensive District Agriculture Plan. It is a plan formulated by the government of
Haryana to boost agriculture in the State.
DPCC : Delhi Pollution Control Committee.
DUAC : Delhi Urban Art Commission.
EGOM : Empowered Group of Ministers.

FIA : Federal Investigation Agency. The FIA is the Central Investigation Agency of Pakistan
which probes criminal acts, especially terrorist attacks.
GPS : Global Positioning System.
IDP : Internally Displaced Persons. The reference is to persons in the LTTE held territories in Sri
Lanka, which were overrun by the Sri Lankan military during zts operations against the former.
ICFAI : SocietyThe Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India, Society, Hyderabad.
IUCAA : Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics. The IUCAA is one of the five
inter-university research centres of the University Grants Commission.
IRNSS : The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System.
JUCCCE : Joint U.S.China Cooperation on Clean Energy.
JEM : Justice and Equality Movement. JEM is a rebel group active in Sudan against the
incumbent President Omar al-Beshir.
JOC : Joint Operation Centre. It is the new command centre set up at INS Angre in South
Mumbai for Navy and coast guard forces for ensuring Indias western coastal security.
LSGIs : Local Self-Governing Institutions.
MRMR : Medium Range Maritime Reconnaissance. The medium Range Maritime
Reconnaissance (MR- MR) are the planes which India proposes to buy from the United States of
America to strengthen the reconnaissance wing of its navy.
NBER : National Bureau of Economic Research.
NPCIL : Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd.
NFC : Nuclear Fuel Complex.
NCPCR : National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.
NCHAC : North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council.
NCPCR : National Commission for Protection of Child Right.
PEAIS : Panchayatiraj Empowerment and Accountability Incentive System. It is a system
evolved by the Central Government in a bid to devolve power and funds to local self-governing
institutions to make decentralization a success.
PAD : Peoples Alliance for Democracy.
PHWRs : Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors.
RGGVY : Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana. This rural electrification project was
launched at Kollumedu village, near Chennai in Tamil Nadu in February 2009.
SJVN : Satlaj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd.
TAR : Trans-Asian Railway.
UNRWA : The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (for Palestinian refugees).

List of Famous Books and their Authors


A Bunch of Old Letters : Jawaharlal Nehru
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : Arthur Conan Doyle
Adhe Adhure : Mohan Rakesh
A Week with Gandhi : Louis Fischer
A China Passage : J.K. Galbraith
Aesops Fables : Aesop
A Farewell to Arms : Ernest Hemingway
A Midsummer Nights Dream : William Shakespeare
A Million Mutinies, Now : V.S. Naipal
An iron Will : Swett Marden
A Pair of Blue Eyes : Thomas Hardy
A Passage to India : E.M. Forster
A Prisoners Scrapbook : L.K. Advani
A Season of Ghosts : Ruskin Bond
A Suitable Boy : Vikram Seth
A Tale of Two Cities : Charles Dickens
A Village by the Sea : Anita Desai
A Voice for Freedom : Nayantara Sehgal
Aenied : Virgil
Against the Tide : Minoo Masani
Age of Reason : Jean Paul Sartre
A Dangerous Place : Daniel Patrik Moyihan
A Haunted House : Virginia Woolf
Agni Veena : Kazi Nazrul Islam
Amar Kosha : Amar Singh
Anand Math : Bankim Chandra Chatterje
A Story of History : Arnold Toynbee
Avanti Sundari : Dandi
Autobiography : Jawaharlal Nehru
As You Like It : W. Shakespeare
Between the Lines : Kuldeep Nayyar
Bhagwad Gita : Maharshi Ved Vyas
Black Wednesday : Promila Kalhan
Bubble : Mulk Raj Anand
Buddha Charitam : Ashvaghosh
Bal Gitayan : D.P. Maheshwari
Bitter Sweet : Noel Coward
Blind Beauty : Boris Pasternak
Broken Wings : Sarojini Naidu
Canterbury Tales : Chaucer
Chidambara : Sumitra Nandan Pant
Chitralekha : Bhagwati Charan Verma
City of Joy : Dominique Lapierre
Confessions of a Lover : Mulk Raj Anand
Comedy of Errors : Shakespeare
Communist Manifesto : Karl Marx
Comus : John Milton
Confidential Clerk : T.S. Eliot
Coolie : Mulk Raj Anand
Count of Monte Cristo : Alexander Dumas
Childe Harold : Lord Byron
Chittirappavai : P.V. Akhilandam
Degeneration of India : T.N. Seshan
Devdas : Sharat Chandra
Divine Comedy : Dante
Discovery of India : Jawaharlal Nehru
Don Ouixote : Cervantes
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : R.L. Stevenson
Dash Kumar Charitam : Dandi
Dark Room, The : R.K. Narayan
Debacle : Emile Zola
Diana, The True Story : A. Morton
Deserted Village : Goldsmith
Distant Drums : Manohar Malgaonkar
Emma : Jane Austen
Ends and Means : Aldous Huxley
Essays of Elia : Charles Lamb
Emperor Jones, The : Eugene O Neill
Essays on Gita : Sri Aurbindo Ghosh
Every Man a King : Swett Marden
Father and Sons : Ivan Turganev
Faust : Goethe
For Whom the Bell Tolls : Ernest Hemingway
Flames from the Ashes : P.D. Tandon
Friends, Not Masters : Ayub Khan
Gathering Storm : Winston Churchill
Geet Govind : Jaya Dev
Ghasiram Kotwal : Vijay Tendulkar
Gitanjali : R.N. Tagore
Gita Rahasya : Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Glimpses of World History : J.L. Nehru :
Godan : Premchand
God Father, The : Mario Puzo
Grapes of Wrath : John Steinbeck
Great Tragedy : Z.A. Bhutto
Guide, The : R.K. Narayan
Hamlet : William Shakespeare
Harsha Charit : Bana Bhatt
Heat and Dust : Ruth Prawar Jhabwala
Himalayan Blunders : Brig. J.P. Dalvi
House Divided : Pearl S. Buck
Idle Hours : R.K. Laxman
Idols : Sunil Gavaskar
Idylls of the King : Lord, Alfred Tennyson
If I am Assassinated : Z.A. Bhutto
Isabela : Keats
Illiad : Homer
Inside the C.B.I. : Joginder Singh
India Divided : Rajendra Prasad
India Wins Freedom : Maulana Azad
Indian War of Independence : V.D. Savarkar
Jean Christopher : Romian Rolland
Judgement, The : Kuldip Nayyar
Julius Caesar : William Shakespeare
Jurassic Park : Michael Chrichton
Kadambari : Bana Bhatt
Kagaz Te Kanwas : Amrita Pritam
Kamayani : Jay Shankar Prasad
Kamasutra : S.H. Vatsayayan
Kaya Kulp : Premchand
King Lear : W. Shakespeare
Lajja : Tasleem Nasreen
Lady Chhatterleys Lover : D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass : Walt Whitman
Life Divine : Sri Aurbindo
Living History : Hillary Rodham Clinton
Living with Honour : Shiv Khera
Lolita : Vladimir Nobokov
Long Walk to Freedom : Nelson Mandela
Less Miserable : Victor Hugo
Macbeth : Shakespeare
Madhushala : Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Mahabharata : Maharshi Ved Vyas
Major Barbara : G.B. Shaw
Malti Madhav : Bhavbhuti
Malvikagnimitra : Kalidas
Man and Superman : G.B. Shaw
Meghdoot : Kalidas
Men Who Killed Gandhi : Manohar Magaonkar
Merchant of Venice : Shakespeare
Middle March : George Eliot
Midnight Children : Salman Rushdie
Mother : Maxim Gorky
Mudra Rakshasa : Vishakha Datt
Murder in the Cathedral : T.S. Eliot
My Experiments with Truth : Gandhi
Nana : Emile Zola
Natya Shastra : Bharat Muni
Netaji Dead or Alive : Samar Guha
Nine Days Wonder : John Mansfield
Ninteen Eighty Four : George Orwell
O Jeruselam : L. Collins and D. Lapierre
Odyssey : Homer
Old Man and the Sea : Ernest Hemingway
Of Human Bondage : Somerset Maugham
Our India : Minoo Masani
Out of Dust : F.D. Karaka
On Contradiction : Mao-Tse-Tung
Pakistan, The Gathering Storm : Behazir Bhutto
Panchatantra : Vishnu Sharma
Pather Panchali : Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyaya
Peace has no Alternative : Mikhail Gorbachev
Pickwick Papers : Charles Dickens
Pilgrims Progress : John Bunyan
Prathma Pratishruti : Ashapoorna Devi
Price and Prejudice : Jane Austin
Prince : Machiaveli
Peter Pan : J.M. Barrie
Principia : Isaac Newton
Raghuvansha : Kalidasa
Rajtaringini : Kalhan
Ram Charit Manas : Tulsidas
Ramayana : Valmiki
Rangbhoomi : Premchand
Ratnavali : Harshavardhan
Robaiyat : Omar Khayyam
Robinson Crusoe : Daniel Defoe
Rugby Chapel : Mathew Arnold
Saket : Maithili Sharan Gupta
Satanic Verses : Salman Rushdie
Satyarth Prakash : Swami Dayanand
Shakuntalam : Kalidas
Shahnama : Firdausi
Social Contract : Rousseau :
Sursagar : Surdas
Sakharam Binder : Vijay Tendulkar
Testament of Beauty : Robert Bridges
The Blind Assassin : Margaret Atwood
The Emperors New Suit : Hans Chrishtian Anderson
Three Musketeers : Alexander Dumas
The Otherness of Self : Feroz Varun Gandhi
The Elephant Paradigm : Gurcharan Das
The Affluent Society : J.K. Galbraith
The God of Small Things : Arundhati Roy :
The Inheritance of Loss : Anita Desai
The Legacy of Nehru : K. Natwar Singh
Tom Jones : Henry Fielding
Treasure Island : R.L. Stevenson
Trail of Jesus : John Masefield
Uncle Toms Cabin : Mrs. Haraiet Stowe
Unhappy India : Lajpat Rai
Utopia : Tomas Moor
Unto The Last : John Ruskin
Untold Story : B.M. Kaul
Urvashi : Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar
Uttara Ram Charita : Bhav Bhuti
Universe Around Us : James Jeans
Vanity Fair : Thackeray
Victim, The : Saul Bellow
Village, The : Mulk Raj Anand
Vinay Patrika : Tulsidas
Voskresenia : Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace : Tolstoy
Wealth of Nations : Adam Smith
We Indians : Khushwant Singh
Waiting for God : Thomas Becket
Wings of Fire : Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Yama : Mahadevi Verma
Yashodhara : Maithili Sharan Gupta
Zulfi, My Friend : Piloo Mody
Zhivago, Dr. : Boris Pasternak

Famous Indian Authors & Indian Writers


Famous Indian Authors
AssameseHem Chandra Barua, Madhav Kondali, Hem Chand Goswami, Birendra Kumar
Bhattacharya (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1979), Nilmani Phukan (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha
Parishad Award 2000), Apoorva Sharma (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Indira
Goswami (Winner of the Jnanpith Award for 2000), Mahima Bora (Recipient of Sahitya
Academy Award, 2001), Nalinidhar Bhattacharya (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002-03),
Vireshwar Barua (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2003-04), Hirendra Nath Dutt (Winner of
Sahitya Academy Award 2004-05), Yeshe Dorji Thongchi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award
2005), Atulanand Goswami (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2006)], Purabi Bormudoi
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2007), Rita Choudhury (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award
2008).

Bangla
B. B. Bandhopadhyay, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Tara Shanker
Bandhopadhyaya (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith Award, 1966), Sarat Chandra, R.C. Dutt, Kazi
Nazrul Islam, Machel Madhusudan Datt, Premendra Mitra, Vishnu Dey (Recipient of Jnanpith
Award of 1971), Ashapoorna Devi (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1976), Subhash
Mukhopadhyaya and Smt. Mahasweta Devi (Recipient of Jnanpith Award 1991 and 1996
respectively), Jai Goswami (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Atin Bandyopadhyay
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001-2002), Sandeepan Chattopadhyaya (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award 2002-03), Prafulla Ray (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2003-04), Sudir
Chakravarti (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2004-05), Sunil Gangopadhyaya (Winner of
Saraswati Samman-2004), Vinay Majumdar (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award-2005), Amar
Mitra (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2006), Samarendra Sen Gupta (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award 2007), Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2008).

Gujarati
Mirabai, Narsingh Mehta, K.M. Munshi, Uma Shanker Joshi (Recipient of Jnanpith Award,
1967), Goverdhan Ram Parmanand, Narmada Sagar, Panna Lal Patel (Winner of the 1985
Jnanpith Award), Vinesh Ataani (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Dhiruben Patel
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2001-2002), Dhruv Bhatt (Winner of Sahitya Academy
Award 2002-03), Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (Honoured with Jnanpith Award 2001), Bindu Bhatt
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2003-04), Amrit Lal Vegad (Winner of Sahitya Academy
Award 2004-05), Suresh Dalal (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award-2005), Rajendra Shukla
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2007), Suman Shah (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award
2008).

Hindi
Shree Lal Shukla (Winner of 1999 Vyas Samman), Nirmal Verma (Recipient of Moorti Devi
Award in 1995 and Jnanpith Award for 1999), Dr. Ram Vilas Sharma (Recipient of Bharat
Bharati Puruskar and many other distinctions. Krishna Sobti and Giriraj Kishore (both winners of
Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award, 2000), Manglesh Dabral (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award
for 2000). P.C.K. Prem (Recipient of Hindi Ratan Award in 2001), Ramdarsh Misra (Recipient of
Shalaka Samman 2001-02), Alka Saraogi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001-2002), Dr.
Ram Murthy Tripathy (Winner of Shankar Puruskar, 2001), Rajesh Joshi (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award 2002-03), Kamleshwar (Winner of Shalaka Samman 2002-03), S. R. Harnot
(Recipient of Indu Sharma Katha Samman 2003), Dr. Biswambha Pahi (Recipient of Shanker
Puruskar 2002), Rajendra Yadav (Recipient of Shalaka Samman of Hindi Academy 2003),
Vibhuti Narayan Rai (Recipient of Katha U.K. honour), Prem Ranjan Animesh (Recipient of
Bharat Bhushan Award for Excellence in Poetry-2004), Veeren Dangwal (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award 2004-05), Marudhur Mridul (Winner of Bihari Puruskar-2004), Pt. Vidya Niwas
Misra (Recipient of Padma Bhushan Award), Mridula Garg (Recipient of Vyas Samman -2004),
Pramod Tiwari (Recipient of Indu Sharma Katha Samman, 2005), Prof. Kamlesh Dutta Tripathi
(Recipient of Bhasha Samman (2005) of Sahitya Academy, Bhagwan Singh (Recipient of
Shankar Puruskar, 2005), Chandrakanta (Recipient of Vyas Samman for 2005), Marudhar Mridul
(recipient of Bihari Puruskar for 2004), Kunwar Narayan (Honoured with Shalaka Samman for
2005-06). Asgar Vajahat (Recipient of Indu Sharma Katha Samman-2006), Gyanendra Pati
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2006), Amarkant (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award
2007), Govind Mishra (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2008).

Kannada
Masti Venkatesh Iyengar (winner of the Jnanpith Award, 1983), Prof. V.R. Anandmurti (Winner
of Jnanpith Award, 1994), Girish Karnad (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1998), Shanti Nath Desai
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), S. Narayan Shetty Sujan (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award 2002-03), K. B. Subanna (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2003- 04),
Geetha Nagabhushan (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2004-05), Raghvendra Patil (Winner
of Sahitya Academy Award-2005), Veerbhadrappa (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2007),
Shrinivas B. (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2008).

Malayalam
O. Chandu Menon, K.V. Raman Pillai, G. Shanker Kurup (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith Award,
1965, author of Odakhugal), Kumaran Asan, Narayan Menon, Mohd. Basheer Vallathol, S.K.
Pottekkat (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith Award, 1980), Takshi Shivshanker Pillai (Winner of
the Jnanpith Award, 1984), M.T. Vasudevan Nair (Winner of the Jnanpith Award, 1995), Dr. M.
Lilavati (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award, 2000), R. Ram Chandran (Winner of
Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Attoor Ravivarma (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001-
2002), K.G. Shanker Pillai (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002-03), Sarah Joseph (Winner
of Sahitya Academy Award 2003-04), Paul Zakaria (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2004-
05), G. V. Kakkanadan (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award-2005), Prof. K. Ayyappa Paniker
(Recipient of Saraswati Samman for 2005), M. Sukumaran (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award
2006), A. Sethumadhavan (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2007), (Late) K. P. Appan
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2008).

Marathi
Hari Narayan Apte, Tukaram Mahaya, V. S. Khandekar (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1974),
Shirwadkar (Jnanpith Award, 1987), Binda Karandikar (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad
Award, 2000), N. D. Mahanore (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Rajan Gavas
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001-02), Mahesh Elkunchwar (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award 2002-03), T.V. Sardeshmukh (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2003-04),
Sadanand Deshmukh (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2004-05), Arun Kolhatkar (Winner of
Sahitya Academy Award-2005), Vinda Karandikar (Recipient of Jnanpith Award-2003), Ashe
Bage (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2006), G. M. Pawar (Winner of Sahitya Academy
Award 2007), Shyam Manohar (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2008).

Oriya
Gopalabandhudas, Radha Nath Roy, Gopi Nath Mohanti (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1973),
Dr. Saachchidanand Raut Rai (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1986), Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra
(Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1993), M. Neelmani Sahu (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad
Award, 2000), Pratibha Rai (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Manoj Das (Winner
of Saraswati Samman for 2000) and Fellowship of Sahitya Academy in 2006), Pratibha Satpathy
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001-2002), Sharat Kumar Mohanti (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award 2002-03), Jatindra Mohan Mohanti (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2003-
04), Prafull Kumar Mohanty (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2004-05), Pandit Dukhisyama
Pattanayak (Recipient of Bhasha Samman (2005) of Sahitya Academy, Ram Chandra Behra
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award-2005), Bansidhar Sarangi (Winner of Sahitya Academy
Award 2006), Deepak Mishra (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2007), Pramod Kumar
Mohanty (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2008).

Punjabi
Dhani Ram Chatrik, Bhai Vir Singh, Amrita Preetam (Recipient of Padma Vibhushan in 2004),
Waris Shah, Balwant Gargi, Nanak Singh, Gurudayal Singh (Recipient of 1999 Jnanpith Award),
Surjit Pattar (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award, 2000), Varyam Singh Sandhu (Winner
of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Dev (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001-2002), Dr.
Dalip Kaur Tiwana (Recipient of Saraswati Samman 2001 and Padam Sri in 2004), Harbhajan
Halwarvi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002-03), Charan Das Siddhu (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award 2003-04), Satinder Singh Noor (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2004-05),
Gurbachan Singh Bhullar (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award- 2005), Ajmer Singh Aulakh
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2006), Jaswant Deed (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award
2007).

Sanskrit
Bhasa, Kalidas, Bana Bhatt, Bhartrihari, Bhavbhuti, Kalhan, Valmiki., Prof. Rasik Behari Joshi
(Recipient of Vachaspati Puruskar, 1999), Prof. Ram Chandra Narayan Dandekar,
Ramanujtatacharya (Recipient of Vachaspati Puruskar for 2000), Psriramachandrudu (Winner of
Sahitya Academy Award 2001-2002), Dr. Gajanan Balkrishna Palsule (Recipient of Vachaspati
Puruskar 2001), Kashinath Misra (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002-03), Pt. Mohan Lal
Sharma (Recipient of K.K. Birla Foundations Vachaspati Puruskar 2002), Vijaydan Detha
(Recipient of Bihari Puruskar 2002), Bhaskaracharya Tripathi (Winner of Sahitya Academy
Award 2003-04), Prof. Govind Chandra Pandey (Recipient of Saraswati Samman-2003), Acharya
P. Ramchandudu (Recipient of Vachaspati Puruskar-2003), Kalanath Shastri (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award 2004-05), Prof. Ram Karan Sharma (Winner of Vachaspati Puruskar-2004),
Swami Rambhadracharya (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award-2005), Acharya Ramyatna Shukla
(Recipient of Vachaspati Puruskar for 2005), Harshdev Mahadev (Winner of Sahitya Academy
Award 2006), Dr. Bhaskaracharya Tripathi (Winner of Vachaspati Puruskar 2006), Hari Dutt
Sharma (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2007), Om Prakash Pandey (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award 2008).

Tamil
Subramaniam Bharati, Ramalingam Navakhal, P.V. Akilandam (Winner of Jnanpith Award,
1975), Dr. Indira Parathasarathi (Recipient of Saraswati Samman for 1999), T.G. Shivshankarn
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), C.S. Chellappa (Winner of Sahitya Academy
Award 2001-2002), Sirpi Balasubramanian (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002-03), R.
Vermatu (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2003-04), Sunder Ramaswami (Recipient of Kath
Chunamani Puruskar, 2004), Tamilban (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2004-05), D.
Jaykanthan (Winner of Jnanpith Award-2002), G. Tilkavati (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award-
2005), Neela Padmanabhan (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2007), Melannai Ponnusamy
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2008).

Telugu
Vishwanatha Satya Narayan (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith Award, 1970, author of
Sreemadramayan Kalpavraksham), Tirupati, Lakshmi Narasimhan, C.N. Reddy (Jnanpith Award,
1988), Dr. Vasireddy Sita Devi (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award, 2000), N. Gopi
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Tirumala Ramchandra (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award for 2001-2002), Chekuri Ram Rao (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002-
03), Naveen (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2004-05), Abboori Chhaya Devi (Winner of
Sahitya Academy Award-2005), Munipillai Raju (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2006),
Gadiaram Ramkrishna (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2007).

Urdu
Mohd. Iqbal, Mirza Galib, Raghupati Sahay Firaq (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith Award, 1969,
author of Gul-e-Naghma), Altaf Hussain, Josh Malihabadi, Gyan Chandra Jain (author of
Tafseer-a-Ghalib), Sikander Ali Waid, Ms. Qurratul Hyder (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1989), Ali
Sardar Jafri (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1997), Ibrahim Yusuf and Joginder Pal (Winner of Iqbal
Samman for 1998-99 and 1999-2000 respectively), Amber Bahraichi (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award for 2000), Nayyar Masood (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001-2002),
Prof. Gopi Chand Narang (Winner of Majlis Faroge Urdu Adab Award in 2002 and Padma
Bhushan in 2004)), Kaifi Azmi (Recipient of Sahitya Academy Fellowship in 2002), Gulzar
(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002-03), Syed Mohammad Ashraf (Winner of Sahitya
Academy Award 2003-04), Salaam bin Razzak (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2004-05),
Shaharyar (Winner of M. P. Governments Iqbal Samman-2004-05), Kazi Abdul Sattar
(Recipient of Farog-e-Adab Award, 2005, Zabir Hussain (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award-
2005), Bahab Asharfi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2007), Jayant Parmar (Winner of
Sahitya Academy Award 2008).
Famous Indian Writers in English
Rabindra Nath Tagore, K. M. Munshi, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt,
Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Lala Har Dayal, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Jawahar Lal
Nehru, C. Rajgopalachari, Ashok Mehta, P. Seshadri, N.V. Thadain, Ramesh Chandra Dutt, Mrs.
Nayantara Sehgal, K.A. Abbas, Raja Rao, Nirad C. Chaudhari, Khushwant Singh, Anita Desai,
Arundhati Roy, Shobha De, Amit Chaudhury, Jhumpa Lahiri (Indian-American), Vikram Seth,
Amitav Ghosh.

International Organizations and their Headquarters and Heads


International Organizations and their Headquarters and
Heads 2015
International Organization Headquarters Heads
Food and Agriculture Organization Jos Graziano da Silva (Director-
Rome, Italy
(FAO) General)
International Atomic Energy Agency
Vienna, Austria Yukiya Amano (Director-General)
(IAEA)
International Civil Aviation Raymond Benjamin (Secretary-
Quebec, Canada
Organization (ICAO) General)
International Labour Organization
Geneva, Switzerland Guy Ryder (Director-General)
(ILO)
United Nations (UN) New York City, USA Ban Ki Moon (Secretary-General)
United Nations Children's Fund
New York City, USA Anthony Lake (Executive Director)
(UNICEF)
United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Paris, France Irina Bokova (Director-General)
Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
United Nations Industrial
Kandeh Yumkella (Director-
Development Vienna, Austria
General)
Organization (UNIDO)
Josette Sheeran (Executive
World Food Programme (WFP) Rome, Italy
Director)
World Health Organization (WHO) Geneva, Switzerland Margaret Chan (Director-General)
World Meteorological Organization
Geneva, Switzerland Michel Jarraud (Secretary-General)
(WMO)
World Tourism Organization
Madrid, Spain Taleb Rifai (Secretary-General)
(UNWTO)
Political and Economic Organizations
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Muhamad Noor (Executive
Singapore
(APEC) Director)
Association of Southeast Asian Surin Pitsuwan (Secretary-
Jakarta, Indonesia
Nations (ASEAN) Generalm)
London, United
Commonwealth of Nations Queen Elizabeth II (Head)
Kingdom
Council of Europe Strasbourg Thorbjrn Jagland (Secretary
General)
Richard Sezibera (Secretary-
East African Community Arusha
General)
Economic Community of West
Abuja, Nigeria John Dramani Mahama (Chairman)
African States
Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani
Gulf Cooperation Council Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
(Secretary-General)
Jan-Erik Enestam (Secretary-
Nordic Council Copenhagen, Denmark
General)
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Brussels, Belgium
(Secretary-General)
Jos Miguel Insulza (Secretary-
Organization of American States Washington, D.C.
General)
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Bolat Nurgaliyev (Secretary-
Beijing, China
(SCO) General)
South Asian Association for
Kathmandu, Nepal Ahmed Saleem (Secretary-General)
Regional Cooperation
Southern Cone Common Market Agustn Colombo Sierra (Director
Montevideo
(Mercosur) of the Executive Secretariat)
Southern African Development Tomaz Salomo (Executive
Gaborone, Botswana
Community Secretary)
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples The Hague, Ngawang Choephel (Secretary-
Organization (UNPO) Netherlands General)
Roberto Azevedo (Director-
World Trade Organization (WTO) Geneva, Switzerland
General)
Financial Organizations
African Development Bank Abidjan, Ivory Coast Donald Kaberuka (President)
Metro Manila,
Asian Development Bank Haruhiko Kuroda (President)
Philippines
Inter-American Development Bank Washington, D.C.
Luis Alberto Moreno (President)
(IADB) United States
Washington, D.C., Christine Lagarde (Managing
International Monetary Fund
United States Director)
Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Ahmad Mohamed Ali (President)
Washington D.C.,
World Bank Jim Yong Kim (President)
United States
Sports Organizations
Confdration africaine de football Kuala Lumpur,
Issa Hayatou (President)
(CAF) Malaysia
Confederation of North, Central
American and Alfredo Hawit, Honduras
Miami, Florida, U.S.
Caribbean Association Football (President)
(CONCACAF)
Confederacin Sudamericana de
Luque, Paraguay Nicolas Leoz (President)
Ftbol (CONMEBOL)
Fdration Internationale des checs Athens, Greece Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (President)
(FIDE)
Fdration Internationale de Football
Zrich, Switzerland Sepp Blatter (President)
Association (FIFA)
International Cricket Council (ICC) Dubai, United Arab N. Srinivasan (President)
International Olympic Committee
Lausanne, Switzerland Thomas Bach (President)
(IOC)
International Paralympic Committee
Bonn, Germany Philip Craven (President)
(IPC)
International Rugby Board (IRB) Dublin, Ireland Bernard Lapasset (President)
Oceania Football Confederation Auckland, New
David Chung (President)
(OFC) Zealand
Union of European Football
Nyon, Switzerland Michel Platini (President)
Associations (UEFA)
Other Organizations
Patricia Yoon-Moi Chia (Secretary-
Colombo Plan Colombo, Sri Lanka
General)
Community of Portuguese Language Murade Isaac Miguigy Murargy
Lisbon, Portugal
Countries (CPLP) (Executive Secretary)
EDU - Intergovernmental G. Irving Levance (Secretary-
Organization (EDU) General)
La Francophonie Paris, France Abdou Diouf (Secretary-General)
Intergovernmental Authority on Mahboub Maalim (Executive
Djibouti City
Development (IGAD) Secretary)
International Committee of the Red Peter Maurer, Switzerland
Switzerland, England
Cross (President)
International Criminal Police
Lyon, France Ronald Noble (Secretary-General)
Organization (Interpol)
International Federation of Red
Cross and Geneva, Switzerland Tadateru Kono (President)
Red Crescent Societies
London, United
International Maritime Organization Koji Sekimizu (Secretary-General)
Kingdom
International Organization for William Lacy Swing (Director-
Geneva, Switzerland
Migration (IOM) general)
International Telecommunication Hamadoun Tour (Secretary-
Geneva, Switzerland
Union General)
Organisation for the Prohibition of
The Hague,
Chemical Ahmet zmc (Director-General)
Netherlands
Weapons (OPCW)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Mohammed S. Barkindo (Secretary-
Vienna, Austria
Countries (OPEC) General)
Universal Postal Union Bern, Switzerland douard Dayan (Director-General)
World Intellectual Property
Geneva, Switzerland Francis Gurry (Director-General)
Organization (WIPO)
International Organizations and their Heads 2015

International Organization
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General, Jos Graziano da Silva
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General, Yukiya Amano
- International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Secretary-General, Raymond Benjamin
- International Labour Organization (ILO) Director-General, Guy Ryder
- United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director, Anthony Lake
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-
General, Irina Bokova
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) High Commissioner,
Navanethem Pillay
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) High Commissioner, Antnio
Guterres
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Director-General, Kandeh
Yumkella
- World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, Josette Sheeran
- World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Margaret Chan
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretary-General, Michel Jarraud
- World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai

Political and Economic Organizations


- African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) - Secretary-General, Mohamed Ibn
Chambas
- African Union (AU) - Chairperson, Robert Mugabe
- Andean Community - Secretary-General, Adalid Contreras Baspineiro
- Arab League - Secretary-General, Nabil Elaraby
- Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) - Secretary-General, Habib Ben Yahia
- Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) - Executive Director, Muhamad Noor
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) - Secretary-Generalm, Surin Pitsuwan
- Caribbean Community (CARICOM) - Secretary-General, Lolita Applewhaite
- Central American Parliament - President, Dorindo Cortz
- Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) - Secretary-General, Sindiso
Ngwenya
- Commonwealth of Nations - Head, Queen Elizabeth II
- Commonwealth of Independent States - Executive Secretary, Sergei Lebedev
- Council of Europe - Secretary General, Thorbjrn Jagland
- East African Community - Secretary-General, Richard Sezibera
- Economic Community of West African States - Chairman, John Dramani Mahama
- Eurasian Economic Community - Secretary-General, Tair Mansurov
- European Free Trade Association - Secretary-General, Kristinn rnason
- Group of Eight (G8) - President (informal), Vladimir Putin
- Gulf Cooperation Council - Secretary-General, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani
- Ibero-American Secretariat (Segib) - Secretary-General, Enrique V. Iglesias
- Indian Ocean Commission - Secretary-General, Monique Andreas Esoavekomandroso
- Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) - Chairman, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Nordic Council - Secretary-General, Jan-Erik Enestam
- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - Secretary-General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - Secretary-General, Jos
ngel Gurra
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) - Secretary-General, Lamberto
Zannier
- Organization of American States - Secretary-General, Jos Miguel Insulza
- Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States - Director-General, Len Ishmael
- Organisation of Islamic Cooperation - Secretary-General, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
- Pacific Community - Director-General, Jimmie Rodgers
- Pacific Islands Forum - Secretary-General, Tuiloma Neroni Slade
- Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) - Secretary-General, Bolat Nurgaliyev
- South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation - Secretary-General, Ahmed Saleem
- Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) - Director of the Executive Secretariat, Agustn
Colombo Sierra
- Southern African Development Community - Executive Secretary, Tomaz Salomo
- Union of South American Nations (Unasur/Unasul) - President, Bharrat Jagdeo
- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) - Secretary-General, Ngawang
Choephel
- World Trade Organization (WTO) - Director-General, Roberto Azevedo

Financial Organizations
- African Development Bank - President, Donald Kaberuka
- Asian Development Bank - President, Haruhiko Kuroda
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - President - Suma Chakrabarti
- Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) - President - Luis Alberto Moreno
- International Monetary Fund - Managing Director - Christine Lagarde
- Islamic Development Bank (IDB) - President - Ahmad Mohamed Ali
- World Bank - President - Jim Yong Kim

Sports Organizations
- Confdration africaine de football (CAF) - President - Issa Hayatou
- Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF)
President - Alfredo Hawit, Honduras
- Confederacin Sudamericana de Ftbol (CONMEBOL) - President - Nicolas Leoz
- Fdration Internationale des checs (FIDE) - President - Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
- Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) - President - Sepp Blatter
- International Cricket Council (ICC) - President - N. Srinivasan
- International Olympic Committee (IOC) - President - Thomas Bach
- International Paralympic Committee (IPC) - President - Philip Craven
- International Rugby Board (IRB) - President - Bernard Lapasset
- Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) - President - David Chung
- Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) - President - Michel Platini

Other Organizations
- Antarctic Treaty - Executive Secretary - Jan Huber
- Colombo Plan - Secretary-General - Patricia Yoon-Moi Chia
- Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) - Executive Secretary -Murade Isaac
Miguigy Murargy
- EDU - Intergovernmental Organization (EDU) - Secretary-General - G.Irving Levance
- La Francophonie - Secretary-General - Abdou Diouf
- Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) - Executive Secretary - Mahboub
Maalim
- International Committee of the Red Cross - President - Peter Maurer, Switzerland
- International Court of Justice - President - Hisashi Owada
- International Criminal Court - President - Song Sang-Hyun
- International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) - Secretary-General - Ronald Noble
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - President - Tadateru Kono
- International Maritime Organization - Secretary-General - Koji Sekimizu
- International Organization for Migration (IOM) - Director-general - William Lacy Swing
- International Telecommunication Union - Secretary-General - Hamadoun Tour
- Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) - Director-General - Ahmet
zmc
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - Secretary-General - Mohammed S.
Barkindo
- Universal Postal Union - Director-General - douard Dayan
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) - Director-General - Francis Gurry

Heads of Important Offices (World) 2015


Ban Ki-moon : Secretary-General, United Nations Organisation.
Jan Eliasson : Deputy Secretary-General, UN.
Dr. Jim Yong Kim : President, World Bank.
Christine Lagarde : Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Ms. Irina Bokova : Director-General-UNESCO.
Dr. Margaret Chan : Director-General, WHO.
Jose Graziano da Silva : Director-General, Food and Agricultural Organisation.
Guy Ryder : Director-General, International Labour Organisation.
Anthony Lake : Executive Director, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
(UNICEF).
Antonio Guterres : Head, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Ms. Helen Clark : Administrator, United Nations Development Programme.
Mr. Mukhisa Kituyi : Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD).
Jose Angel Gurria : Secretary-General, Organisation of Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD).
Ronny Abraham : President, International Court of Justice.
Takehiko Nakao : President, Asian Development Bank.
Donald Kaberuka : President, African Development Bank.
Thomas Bach : President, International Olympic Committee.
Kamalesh Sharma : Secretary-General, Commonwealth.
Robert Mugabe : Chairman, African Union Assembly.
Ms. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma : Chairperson, African Union Commission.
Roberto Azevedo : Director-General, WTO.
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein : High Commissioner, UN High Commission for Human Rights.
Donald Tusk : President, European Union
N. Srinivasan : Chairman, International Cricket Council.
Jean-Claude Juncker : President, European Commission.
Li Yong : Director-General, UNIDO.
Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al-Zayani : Secretary-General, Gulf Co-operation Council.
Iyad bin Amin Madani : Secretary-General, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Abdallah el-Badri : Secretary-General, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC).
Luis Almagro : Secretary-General, Organisation of American States.
Hifikepunye Pohamba : President, South-West African People's Organisation (SWAPO).
Mr. Yukiya Amano : Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Jens Stoltenberg : Secretary-General, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
Sir Alan Haselhurst : Chairman, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin : Executive Director, UNFPA.
Le Luong Minh : Secretary-General, ASEAN.
Arjun Bahadur : Secretary-General, SAARC
Lamine Diack : President, International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF).
Dr. Ellen Stofan : Chief of NASA (USA).
Salil Shetty : Secretary-General, Amnesty International.
Lt.-Gen.Chikadibia Obiakor : Military Adviser to UN Department of Peacekeeping
Operations.
Hassan Rouhani : Secretary-General, Non-Aligned Movement.
Asha Kanwar : President and CEO, Commonwealth of Learning.
Mireille Ballestrazzi : President, INTERPOL

Chief Ministers and Governors of Indian States 2015


Capitals, Governors and Chief Ministers of Indian States

States Capitals Governors Chief Ministers


Andhra Mr. N. Chandrababu
Hyderabad Mr. E. S. L. Narasimhan
Pradesh Naidu
Arunachal Lt. General (Retd) Nirbhay
Itanagar Mr. Nabam Tuki
Pradesh Sharma
Mr. P. B. Acharya (Additional
Assam Dispur Mr. Tarun Gogoi
charge)
Mr. Keshari Nath Tripathi
Bihar Patna Mr. Nitish Kumar
(Additional charge)
Chhattisgarh Raipur Mr. Balram Das Tandon Dr. Raman Singh
Mr. Laxmikant
Goa Panaji Ms. Mridula Sinha
Parsekar
Gujarat Gandhinagar Mr. Om Prakash Kohli Ms. Anandiben Patel
Mr. Manohar Lal
Haryana Chandigarh Mr. Kaptan Singh Solanki
Khattar
Himachal Mr. Kalyan Singh
Shimla Mr. Virbhadra Singh
Pradesh (Additional charge)
Jammu and Srinagar (Summer) Jammu Mr. Mufti
Mr. Narinder Nath Vohra
Kashmir (Winter) Mohammad Sayeed
Jharkhand Ranchi Dr. Syed Ahmed Mr. Raghuvar Das
Karnataka Bengaluru Mr. Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala Mr. K. Siddaramaiah
Shri. Oommen
Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Mr. P Sathasivam
Chandy
Madhya Mr. Shivraj Singh
Bhopal Mr. Ram Naresh Yadav
Pradesh Chauhan
Mr. Kateekal Mr. Devendra
Maharashtra Mumbai
Sankaranarayanan Fadnavis
Dr. K. K. Paul (Additional Mr. Okram Ibobi
Manipur Imphal
charge) Singh
Mr. Keshari Nath Tripathi Mr. Mukul A.
Meghalaya Shillong
(Additional charge) Sangma
Mr. Keshari Nath Tripathi
Mizoram Aizawl Mr. Lal Thanhawla
(Additional charge)
Mr. E. S. L. Narasimhan
Nagaland Kohima Mr. Neiphiu Rio
(Additional charge)
Odisha Bhubaneswar Mr. S. C. Jamir Mr. Naveen Patnaik
Mr. Parkash Singh
Punjab Chandigarh Mr. Shivraj V. Patil
Badal
Smt. Vasundhara
Rajasthan Jaipur Mr. Kalyan Singh
Raje
Sikkim Gangtok Mr. Shriniwas D. Patil Mr. Pawan Chamling
Mr. O.
Tamil Nadu Chennai Mr. K Rosaiah
Panneerselvam
Mr. P. B. Acharya
Tripura Agartala Mr. Manik Sarkar
(Additional charge)
Mr. K.
Telangana Hyderabad Mr. E. S. L. Narasimhan
Chandrasekhar Rao
Uttarakhand Dehradun Dr. Aziz Qureshi Mr. Harish Rawat
Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Mr. Ram Naik Mr. Akhilesh Yadav
Ms. Mamata
West Bengal Kolkata Mr. Keshari Nath Tripathi
Banerjee

Heads of Important Offices in India 2015


Heads of Important Offices in India
Mr. Narendra Modi : Chairman, National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog)
Mrs. Sumitra Mahajan : Speaker, 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. Arvind Panagariya : Vice-Chairman, National Institution for Transforming India (Niti
Aayog)
Syed Nasim Zaidi : Chief Election Commissioner.
Mr. Shashi Kant Sharma : Comptroller and Auditor-General of India.
Mr. Justice K. G. Balakrishnan : Chairperson, National Human Right Commission (NHRC)
Mr. Ajit Kumar Seth : Cabinet Secretary.
Mr. Nripendra Misra : Principal Secretary to Prime Minister.
Justice V. Eshwaraiah : Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes.
Ms. Shanta Sinha : Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
Dr. P. L. Punia : Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes
Dr.Rameshwar Oraon : Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST).
Mr. Deepak Gupta : 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. Shumsher K. Sheriff : Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha
Mr. T. K. Viswanathan : Secretary-General, Lok Sabha.
Mr. Dineshwar Sharma : Director, Intelligence Bureau (IB).
Mr. Anil Kumar Sinha : Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Mr. Rajinder Khanna : Director, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
Mr. Jayanto Narayan Choudhury : Director-General, National Security Guard (NSG).
Mr. Prakash Mishra : Director-General, CRPF.
Mr. Devendra Kumar Pathak : Director-General, Border Security Force (BSF).
Mr. Arvind Ranjan : Director-General, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
Mr. P. K. Mehta : Director-General, Railway Protection Force. (RPF)
Mr. Parkash Mishra : Director-General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
Mr. B. D. Sharma : Director-General, Sashastra Seema Bal.
Vice-Admiral Anurag G. Thapliyal : Director-General, Indian Coast Guard.
Lt. Gen. Avtar Singh : Director-General, Defence Intelligence Agency.
Prof. Ved Prakash : Chairman, UGC.
Dr. Avinash Chander : 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.
Mr. Ratan Kumar Sinha : Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Dept. of Atomic
Energy.
Mr. Naseem Ahmad : Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities.
Mr. Amitava Bhattacharya : Chairman, Staff Selection Commission (SSC).
Dr. Vishwa Mohan Katoch : Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research.
Mr. C. Chandramouli : Registrar-General of India and Census Commissioner.
Justice D. K. Jain : Chairman, Law Commission.
Dr. B. N. Suresh : President, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).
Mr. Justice (Retd.) B. N. Kirpal : Chairman, National Forest Commission.
Mr. T. Nanda Kumar : Chairperson, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).
Lt. General AT Parnaik : Director-General, Border Roads Organisation.
Dr. Raghuram Rajan : Governor, RBI.
Justice Mr. Chandramauli Kumar Prasad : Chairman, Press Council of India.
Mr. Ravindra Pisharody : Chairman, Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC).
Mr. R. K. Tewari : Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
Mrs. J.M. Shanti Sundharam : Chairman, Central Board of Excise and Customs.
Mr. Ashok Chawla : Competition Commission of India
Justice Syed Rafat Alam : Chairman, Central Administrative Tribunal
Mr. R.S.T. Sai : CMD, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC).
Mr. R. S. Sharma : CMD, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
Mr. B. C. Tripathi : CMD, GAIL.
Mr. S. Behuria : Chairman, IOC.
Mr. Sunil Kumar Srivastava : CMD, Oil India Ltd.
Dr. Satbir Bedi : 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. M. S. Raghavan : Chairman, IDBI.
Justice Dilip Raosaheb Deshmukh : Chairman, Company Law Board.
Mr. Asoke Kumar Mukerji : India's Permanent Representative to UN.
Mr. S. K. Roy : Chairman, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)
Mr. Ashwin Pandya : Chairman, Central Water Commission.
Ms. Lalitha Kumarmangalam : Chairperson, National Commission for Women.
Dr. Y. V. Reddy: Chairman, 14th Finance Commission.
Dr. Pronob Sen : Chairman, National Statistical Commission.
Mr. Pahlaj Nihalani : Chairperson, Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
Dr. Rakesh Tewari : Director-General, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
Dr. Jyotsna Suri : President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)
Dr. Rahul Khullar : Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Dr. Rajan Katoch : Director, Enforcement Directorate.
Mr. R. V. Verma : Chairman, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA).
Dr. Sekhar Basu : Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
Mr. N. Ramachandran : President, Indian Olympic Association.
Prof. B.K.Tripathi : Acting Director, National Council of Educational Research and Training
(NCERT).
Mr. Ajay S. Shriram : President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
Dr. A. Surya Prakash : Chairman, Prasar Bharti Board.
Mr. Ratan Tata : Chairman, Investment Commission.
Mr. Jagmohan Dalmiya : Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Mr. R. Chandrasekaran : Chairman, NASSCOM.
Mr. Ramesh Sippy : Chairman, National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).
Mr. Ravindra Kumar: Chairman, United News of India.
Mr. Mahendra Mohan Gupta : Chairman, PTI.
Mr. Kiran B. Vadodaria : President, Indian Newspaper Society (INS).
Mr. Rana Kapoor : President, The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India
(ASSOCHAM).
List of World Presidents & Prime Ministers 2015
World Presidents and Prime Ministers 2015
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 - (Acting) Youcef
Yousfi
Angola : Capital - Luanda; President - Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
Antigua and Barbuda : Capital - St. John's; Governor General-Louise Agnetha Lake-Tack,
Prime Minister - Baldwin Spencer
Argentina : Capital - Buenos Aires; President - Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner
Armenia : Capital - Yerevan; President - Serzh Sargsian; Prime Minister - Tigran Sargsian
Aruba : Capital - Oranjestad; Governor-Fredis Refunjol; Prime Minister - Michiel Godfried
Eman
Australia : Capital - Canberra; Governor General-Quentin Alice Louise Bryce; Prime Minister -
Tony Abbott
Austria : Capital - Vienna; President - Heinz Fischer; Chancellor-Werner Faymann
Azerbaijan : Capital - Baku; President - Ilham Aliyev; Prime Minister - Artur Rasizade

B
Bahamas, The : Capital - Nassau; Governor General-Arthur Foulkes; 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 - Mikhail
Myasnikovich
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 - Thomas Boni Yayi; Prime Minister - Pascal Koupaki
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 - Braslia; President - Dilma Rousseff
Brunei : Capital - Bandar Seri Begawan; Sultan-Sir Hassanal Bolkiah; Prime Minister - Sir
Hassanal Bolkiah
Bulgaria : Capital - Sofia; President - Rosen Plevneliev; Prime Minister - Plamen Oresharski
Burkina Faso : Capital - Ouagadougou; President - Blaise Compaore; Prime Minister - Yacouba
Isaac Zida
Burundi : Capital - Bujumbura; President - Pierre Nkurunziza
C
Cabo Verde : Capital - Praia; President - Jorge Carlos De Almeida Fonseca; Prime Minister -
Jose Maria Pereira Neves
Cambodia : Capital - Phnom Penh; King-Norodom Sihamoni; Prime Minister - Hun Sen
Cameroon : Capital - Yaound; President - Paul Biya; Prime Minister - Philemon Yang
Canada : Ottawa; Governor General-David Johnston; Prime Minister - Stephen Joseph Harper
Central African Republic : Capital - Bangui; President - Michel Am-Nondroko Djotodia; Prime
Minister - Mahamat Kamoun
Chad : Capital - N'djamena; President - Idriss Deby Itno; Prime Minister - Kalzeubet Pahimi
Deubet
Chile : Capital - Santiago; President - Michelle Bachelet
China : Capital - Beijing; President - Xi Jinping; Prime Minister - Li Keqiang
Colombia : Capital - Bogot; President - Juan Manuel Santos
Comoros : Capital - Moroni; President: Ikililou Dhoinine
Congo, Democratic Republic of The : Capital - Kinshasa; President - Joseph Kabila; Prime
Minister - Augustin Matata Ponyo Mapon
Congo, Republic of The : Capital - Brazzaville; President - Denis Sassou-Nguesso
Cook Islands : Capital - Avarua; Prime Minister - Henry Puna
Costa Rica : Capital - San Jos; President - Luis Guillermo Sols
Cote D'ivoire : Capital - Yamoussoukro; President - Alassane Dramane Ouattara; Prime
minister: Daniel Kablan Duncan
Croatia : Capital - Zagreb; President - Ivo Josipovic; Prime Minister - Zoran Milanovic
Cuba - NDE : Capital - Havana; President - General Raul Modesto Castro Ruz; Prime minister:
Ral Castro
Cyprus : Capital - Nicosia; President - Nikos Anastasiadis
Czech Republic : Capital - Prague; President - Milos Zeman; Prime Minister - Bohuslav
Sobotka

D
Denmark : Capital - Copenhagen; Queen-Margrethe II; Prime Minister - Helle Thorning-
Schmidt
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 - Ibrahim Mehlab
El Salvador : Capital - San Salvador; President - Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena
Equatorial Guinea : Capital - Malabo; President - Brig. General Teodoro Obiang Nguema
Mbasogo; Prime minister: Vicente Ehate Tomi
Eritrea : Capital - Asmara; President - Isaias Afworki
Estonia : Capital - Tallinn; President - Toomas Hendrik Ilves; Prime Minister - Taavi Roivas
Ethiopia : Capital - Addis Ababa; President - Mulatu Teshome; Prime Minister - Hailemariam
Desalegn

F
Fiji : Capital - Suva; President - Epeli Nailatikau; Prime Minister - Frank Bainimarama
Finland : Capital - Helsinki; President - Sauli Niinisto; Prime Minister - Jyrki Tapani Katainen
France : Capital - Paris; President - Francois Hollande; Prime Minister - Manuel Valls

G
Gabon : Capital - Libreville; President - Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba; Prime Minister - Frank
Bainimarama
Gambia, The : Capital - Banjul; President - Yahya Jammeh
Georgia : Capital - Tbilisi; President - Giorgi Margvelashvili; Prime Minister - Irakli
Garibashvili
Germany : Capital - Berlin - Fed. President - Joachim Gauck; Chancellor-Angela Merkel
Ghana : Capital - Accra; President - John Dramani Mahama
Greece : Capital - Athens; President - Karolos Papoulias; Prime Minister - Alexis Tsipras
Grenada : Capital - St. George's; Governor General-Cecile La Grenade; Prime Minister - Keith
Mitchell
Guatemala : Capital - Guatemala City; President - Otto Fernando Perez Molina
Guinea : Capital - Conakry; President - Alpha Conde; Prime Minister - Mohamed Said Fofana
Guinea-Bissau : Capital - Bissau; President - Jos Mrio Vaz; Prime Minister - Domingos
Simes Pereira
Guyana : Capital - Georgetown; President - Donald Ramotar; Prime Minister - Sam Hinds

H
Haiti : Capital - Port-Au-Prince; President - Michel Martelly; Prime Minister - Laurent Lamothe
Honduras : Capital - Tegucigalpa; President - Juan Orlando Hernandez Alvarado
Hungary : Capital - Budapest; President - Janos Ader; Prime Minister - Viktor Orban

I
Iceland : Capital - Reykjavik; President - Olafur Ragnar Grimsson; Prime Minister - Sigmundur
David Gunnlaugsson
India : Capital - New Delhi; President - Pranab Mukherjee; Prime Minister - Narendra Modi
Indonesia : Capital - Jakarta; President - Joko Widodo
Iran - NDE : Capital - Tehran; President - Hasan Fereidun Ruhani; President : Hassan Rouhani
Iraq : Capital - Baghdad; Supreme Leader-Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei; 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 - Giorgio Napolitano; Prime Minister - Matteo Renzi

J
Jamaica : Capital - Kingston; Governor General-Patrick Linton Allen; Prime Minister - Portia
Simpson-Miller
Japan : Capital - Tokyo; Emperor-Akihito; Prime Minister - Shinzo Abe
Jordan : Capital - Amman; King-Abdallah II; Prime Minister - Abdullah Nsour

K
Kazakhstan : Capital - Astana; President - Nursultan Nazarbayev; Prime Minister - Serik
Akhmetov
Kenya : Capital - Nairobi; President - Uhuru Kenyatta
Kiribati : Capital - South Tarawa; President - Anote Tong
North, South NDE : Capital - Pyongyang; Supreme leader: Kim Jong-un
Korea, South : Capital - Seoul; President - Park Geun-Hye; Prime Minister - Chung Hong-Won
Kosovo : Capital - Pristina; President - Atifete Jahjaga; Prime Minister - Hashim Thaci
Kuwait : Capital - Kuwait City; Amir-Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah; Prime Minister - Jabir
Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah
Kyrgyzstan : Capital - Bishkek; President - Almazbek Atambaev; Prime Minister - Joomart
Otorbaev

L
Laos : Capital - Vientiane President - Lt. General Choummali Saignason; Prime Minister -
Thongsing Thammavong
Latvia : Capital - Riga; President - Andris Berzins; Prime Minister - Laimdota Straujuma
Lebanon : Capital - Beirut; President - Michel Sulayman; Prime Minister - Tamam Salam
Lesotho : Capital - Maseru; King-Letsie III; Prime Minister - Thomas Motsoahae Thabane
Liberia : Capital - Monrovia; President - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Libya : Capital - Tripoli; President - Nuri Abu Sahmayn; Prime Minister - Abdullah al-Thani
Liechtenstein : Capital - Vaduz; Head of State-Prince Hans Adam II; Prime Minister - Klaus
Tschuetscher
Lithuania : Capital - Vilnius; President - Dalia Grybauskaite; Prime Minister - Algirdas
Butkevicius
Luxembourg : Capital - Luxembourg; Grand Duke-Henri; Prime Minister - Xavier Bettel

M
Macedonia : Capital - Skopje; President - Gjorge Ivanov; Prime Minister - Nikola Gruevski
Madagascar : Capital - Antananarivo; President - Hery Martial Rajaonarimampianina Rakotoari
Malawi : Capital - Lilongwe; President - Peter Mutharika
Malaysia : Capital - Kuala Lumpur; King-Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah; Prime Minister - Najib
Razak
Maldives : Capital - Mal; 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 - Christopher Jorebon Loeak
Mauritania : Capital - Nouakchott; President - Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz; Prime Minister -
Yahya Ould Hademine
Mauritius : Capital - Port Louis; President - Rajkeswur Kailash Purryag; Prime Minister -
Anerood Jugnauth
Mexico : Capital - Mexico City; President - Enrique Pena Nieto
Micronesia, Federated States of : Capital - Palikir; President - Emanuel "Manny" Mori
Moldova : Capital - ChiInu; President - Nicolae Timofti; Prime Minister - Iurie Leanca
Mongolia : Capital - Ulan Bator; President - Tsakhia Elbegdorj; Prime Minister - Chimed
Saikhanbileg
Montenegro : Capital - Podgorica; President - Filip Vujanovic; Prime Minister - Milo
Djukanovic
Morocco : Capital - Rabat; King-Mohammed VI; Prime Minister - Abdelillah Benkirane
Mozambique : Capital - Maputo; President - Armando Emilio Guebuza; Prime Minister -
Alberto Vaquina
Myanmar : Capital - Naypyidaw; President - Thein Sein

N
Namibia : Capital - Windhoek; President - Hifikepunye Pohamba; Prime Minister - Hage
Geingob
Nauru : Capital - Yaren District; President - Baron Divavesi Waqa
Nepal : Capital - Kathmandu; President - Dr. Ram Baran Yadav; Prime Minister: Sushil Koirala
Netherlands : Capital - Amsterdam; King-Willem-Alexander; Prime Minister - Mark Rutte
New Zealand : Capital - Wellington; Governor General-Jeremiah Mateparae; Prime Minister -
John Phillip Key
Nicaragua : Capital - Managua; President - Daniel Ortega Saavedra
Niger : Capital - Niamey; President - Issoufou Mahamadou; Prime Minister - Brigi Rafini
Nigeria : Capital - Abuja; President - Goodluck Jonathan
Norway : Capital - Oslo; King-Harald V; Prime Minister - Erna Solberg

O
Oman : Capital - Muscat; Sultan-Qaboos bin Said Al Said; Prime Minister - Qaboos Bin Said Al
Said

P
Pakistan : Capital - Islamabad; President - Mamnoon Hussain; Prime Minister - Mohammad
Nawaz Sharif
Palau : Capital - Melekeok; President - Jr. Thomas Esang 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 - Asuncin; President - Horacio Cartes Jara
Peru : Capital - Lima; President - Ollanta Moises Humala Tasso; Prime Minister - Rene Cornejo
Diaz
Philippines : Capital - Manila; President - Benigno Aquino III
Poland : Capital - Warsaw; President - Bronislaw Komorowski; Prime Minister - Donald Tusk
Portugal : Capital - Lisbon; President - Anibal Antonio Cavaco Silva; Prime Minister - Pedro
Manuel Passos Coelho Mamede

Q
Qatar : Capital - Doha; Amir-Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani; Prime Minister - Abdallah Bin Nasir
Bin Khalifa Al Thani
R
Romania : Capital - Bucharest; President - Klaus Iohannis; Prime Minister - Victor-Viorel Ponta
Russia : Capital - Moscow; President - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; Prime Minister - Dmitriy
Anatolyevich Medvedev
Rwanda : Capital - Kigali; President - Paul Kagame; Prime Minister - Anastase Murekezi

S
Saint Kitts and Nevis : Capital - Basseterre; Governor General-Edmund Lawrence; Prime
Minister - Dr. Denzil Llewellyn Douglas
Saint Lucia : Capital - Castries; Governor General- Dame Pearlette Louisy; Prime Minister -
Kenny Davis Anthony
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines : Capital - Kingstown; Governor General-Sir Frederick
Nathaniel Ballantyne; Prime Minister - Ralph Everard Gonsalves
Samoa : Capital - Apia; Chief of State-Tui Atua Tupua Tupuola Efi Tamasese; Prime Minister -
Fatiaalofa Aiono Lupesolia'i Sailele Malielegaoi Tuilaepa
Sao Tome and Principe : Capital - So Tom; President - Manuel Pinto Da Costa; Prime
Minister - Patrice Trovoada
Saudi Arabia : Capital - Riyadh; King-Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud; Prime Minister -
Abdallah Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud
Senegal : Capital - Dakar; President - Macky Sall; Prime Minister - Aminata Toure
Serbia : Capital - Belgrade; President - Tomislav Nikolic; Prime Minister - Aleksandar Vui
Seychelles : Capital - Victoria; President - James Alix Michel
Sierra Leone : Capital - Freetown; President - Ernest Bai Koroma
Singapore : President - Tony Tan Keng Yam; Prime Minister - Lee Hsien Loong
Slovakia : Capital - Bratislava; President - Ivan Gasparovic; Prime Minister - Robert Fico
Slovenia : Capital - Ljubljana; President - Borut Pahor; Prime Minister - Alenka Bratusek
Solomon Islands : Capital - Honiara; Governor General-Frank Ofagioro Kabui; Prime Minister -
Gordon Darcy Lilo
Somalia : Capital - Mogadishu; President - Hassan Sheikh Mahamud; Prime Minister - Abdiweli
Sheikh Ahmed
South Africa : Capital - Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein; President - Jacob Zuma
South Sudan : Capital - Juba; President - Salva Kiir Mayardit
Spain : Capital - Madrid; President - Of The Govt. Mariano Rajoy Brey
Sri Lanka : Capital - Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Colombo; President - Maithripala Sirisena;
Prime Minister - Ranil Wickremesinghe
Sudan : Capital - Khartoum; President - Umar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir, Field Mar
Suriname : Capital - Paramaribo; President - Desire Delano Bouterse
Swaziland : Capital - Lobamba, Mbabane; King-Mswati III; Prime Minister - Barnabus Sibusiso
Dlamini
Sweden : Capital - Stockholm; King-Carl XVI Gustaf; Prime Minister - Fredrik Reinfeldt
Syria : Capital - Damascus; President - Bashar Al-Asad; Prime Minister - Wael Al-Halqi

T
Taiwan - NDE : Capital - Taipei; President - Ma Ying-Jeou
Tajikistan : Capital - Dushanbe; President - Emomali Rahmon; Prime Minister - Qohir
Rasulzoda
Tanzania : Capital - Dodoma; President - Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete; Prime Minister - Mizengo
Kayanza Peter Pinda
Thailand : Capital - Bangkok; King-Phumiphon Adunyadet
Timor-Leste : Capital - Dili; President - Taur Matan Ruak; Prime Minister - Kay Rala Xanana
Gusmao
Togo : Capital - Lom; President - Faure Gnassingbe; Prime Minister - Kwesi Seleagodji
Ahoomey-Zunu
Tonga : Capital - NukuAlofa; King-Tupou VI; Prime Minister - Akilisi Pohiva
Trinidad and Tobago : Capital - Port of Spain; President - Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona;
Prime Minister - Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Tunisia : Capital - Tunis; President - Moncef Marzouki; Prime Minister - Mehdi Jomaa
Turkey : Capital - Ankara; President - Recep Tayyip Erdoan; Prime Minister - Ahmet
Davutolu
Turkmenistan : Capital - Ashgabat; President - Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Tuvalu : Capital - Funafuti; Governor General-Iakoba Italeli; Prime Minister - Enele Sopoaga

U
Uganda : Capital - Kampala; President -Yoweri Kaguta Museveni; Prime Minister - Ruhakana
Rugunda
Ukraine : Capital - Kiev; President - Petro Poroshenko; Prime Minister - Arseniy Yatsenyuk
United Arab Emirates : Capital - Abu Dhabi; President - Khalifa Bin Zayid Al Nuhayyan;
Prime Minister - Muhammad Bin Rashid Al Maktum
United States of America : Capital - Washington, D.C., President - Barack Obama
United Kingdom : Capital - London; Queen-Elizabeth II; Prime Minister - David William
Donald Cameron
Uruguay : Capital - Montevideo; President - Jose "Pepe" Mujica Cordano
Uzbekistan : Capital - Tashkent; President - Islom Karimov; Prime Minister - Shavkat
Mirziyoyev

V
Vanuatu : Capital - Port Vila; President - Lolu Johnson Abbil; Prime Minister - Moana
Carcasses Kalosil
Venezuela : Capital - Caracas; President - Nicolas Maduro Moros
Vietnam : Capital - Hanoi; President - Truong Tan Sang; Prime Minister - Nguyen Tan Dung

Y
Yemen : Capital - Sana'a; President - Fd. Mar. Abd Rabuh Mansur Hadi; Prime Minister -
Muhammad Salim Ba Sindwah

Z
Zambia : Capital - Lusaka; President - Michael Chilufya Sata
Zimbabwe : Capital - Harare; President - Robert Gabriel Mugabe

List of New Appointments in India 2015


New Appointments in India 2015

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
Comptroller and Auditor-General of India : Shashi Kant Sharma
National Human Right Commission (NHRC) : Justice K. G. Balakrishnan, Chairperson
Cabinet Secretary : Ajit Kumar Seth
Principal Secretary to Prime Minister : Nripendra Misra
National Commission for Backward Classes : Justice V. Eshwaraiah, Chairman
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) : Ms. Shanta
Sinha, Chairperson
National Commission for Scheduled Castes : Dr. P. L. Punia, Chairman
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) : Dr.Rameshwar Oraon, Chairman
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) : Deepak Gupta, 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) : Anil Kumar Sinha, Director
Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) : Rajinder Khanna, Director
National Security Guard (NSG) : Jayanto Narayan Choudhury, Director-General
Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) : Prakash Mishra, Director-General
Border Security Force (BSF) : Devendra Kumar Pathak, Director-General
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) : Arvind Ranjan, Director-General
Railway Protection Force. (RPF) : P. K. Mehta, Director-General
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) : Parkash Mishra, Director-General
Sashastra Seema Bal : B. D. Sharma, Director-General
Indian Coast Guard : Vice-Admiral Anurag G. Thapliyal, 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. Avinash Chander, Scientific
Adviser to Defence Minister and Secretary
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 : Ratan Kumar
Sinha, Chairman
National Commission for Minorities : Naseem Ahmad, Chairperson
Staff Selection Commission (SSC) : Amitava Bhattacharya, Chairman
Indian Council of Medical Research : Dr. Vishwa Mohan Katoch, Director-General
India and Census Commissioner : C. Chandramouli, Registrar-General
Law Commission : Justice D. K. Jain, Chairman
Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) : Dr. B. N. Suresh, President
National Forest Commission : Justice (Retd.) B. N. Kirpal, Chairman
National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) : T. Nanda Kumar, Chairperson
Border Roads Organisation : Lt. General AT Parnaik, Director-General
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) : Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor
Press Council of India : Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, Chairman
Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) : Ravindra Pisharody, Chairman
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) : R. K. Tewari, Chairman
Central Board of Excise and Customs : Mrs. J.M. Shanti Sundharam, Chairman
Competition Commission of India : Ashok Chawla
Central Administrative Tribunal : Justice Syed Rafat Alam, Chairman
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) : R.S.T. Sai, CMD
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) : R. S. Sharma, CMD
GAIL : B. C. Tripathi, CMD
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) : S. Behuria, Chairman
Oil India Ltd : Sunil Kumar Srivastava, CMD
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) : Dr. Satbir Bedi, 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) : M. S. Raghavan, Chairman
Company Law Board : Justice Dilip Raosaheb Deshmukh, Chairman
India's Permanent Representative to UN : Asoke Kumar Mukerji
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) : S. K. Roy, Chairman
Central Water Commission : Ashwin Pandya, Chairman
National Commission for Women : Ms. Lalitha Kumarmangalam, Chairperson
14th Finance Commission : Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Chairman
National Statistical Commission : Dr. Pronob Sen, 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) : Dr. Jyotsna
Suri, President
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) : Dr. Rahul Khullar, Chairman
Enforcement Directorate : Dr. Rajan Katoch, Director
Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) : R. V. Verma, Chairman
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre : Dr. Sekhar Basu, Director
Indian Olympic Association : N. Ramachandran, President
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) : Prof. B.K.Tripathi, Acting
Director
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) : Ajay S. Shriram, President
Prasar Bharti Board : Dr. A. Surya Prakash, Chairman
Investment Commission : Ratan Tata, Chairman
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) : Jagmohan Dalmiya, President

NASSCOM : R. Chandrasekaran, Chairman


National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) : Ramesh Sippy, Chairman
United News of India : Ravindra Kumar, Chairman
Press Trust of India (PTI) : Mahendra Mohan Gupta, Chairman
Indian Newspaper Society (INS) : Kiran B. Vadodaria, President
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) : Rana
Kapoor, President

Heads of National and Union Territories India 2015


Capitals, Lt. Governors/Administrators and Chief Ministers of
National/Union Territories
Lt.
Territories Capital Chief Minister
Governor/Administrators
(1) Delhi Delhi Mr. Najeeb Jung Arvind Kejriwal
(2) Andaman and Nicobar
Port Blair Lt. Gen. (Retd.) A. K. Singh
Islands
(3) Chandigarh ChandigarhMr. Shivraj V. Patil
(4) Dadra and Nagar Haveli Silvassa Mr. B. S. Bhalla
(5) Daman and Diu Daman Mr. B. S. Bhalla
(6) Lakshadweep Kavaratti Mr. H. Rajesh Prasad
Mr. N.
(7) Puducherry PuducherryMr. Virendra Kataria
Rangaswamy

India's 100 Best Business Schools & Colleges 2014


Search for Top Private B Schools in India. Get a list of Top Private 141 B Schools in India

(CSR-GHRDC B-School Survey 2014)

1. XLRI - Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand


2. SVKM's NMIMS, School of Business Management, Mumbai Maharasthra
3. Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
4. International Management, Institute, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi
5. Symbiosis Centre For Management and Human Resource Development, Pune, Maharashtra
6. K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai, Maharashtra
7. TAPMI (T.A. Pai Management Institute), Manipal, Karnataka
8. Prin L.N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Mumbai,
Maharashtra
9. Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune, Maharashtra
10. Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
11. Goa Institute of Management, Sattari, Goa
12. Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIMS), Pune, Maharashtra
13. IBS Business School, Mumbai, Maharashtra
14. Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai, Tamil Nadu
15. Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Bangalore, Karnataka
16. Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Dwarka, New Delhi
17. Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management, Kolkata, West Bengal
18. Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra
19. NIILM Centre for Management Studies, Greater, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
20. Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB), Pune, Maharashtra
21. Institute for Technology and Management, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
22. Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies, Kochi, Kerala
23. Jagan Institute of Management Studies, Rohini, Delhi
24. IBS Business School, Pune, Maharashtra
25. Regional College of Management Autonomous, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
26. Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
27. IBS, Gurgaon, Haryana
28. Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development (SDMIMD),
Mysore, Karnataka
29. IBS Business School, Bangalore, Karnataka
30. Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
31. Indus Business Academy (Formerly, Indian Business Academy), Bangalore, Karnataka
32. Fortune Institute of International Business, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
33. IFIM Business School, Bangalore, Karnataka
34. Gitam School of International Business, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
35. Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Bangalore, Karnataka
36. Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
37. SCMS Cochin School of Business, Cochin, Kerala
38. Siva Sivani Institute of Management, Secunderabad, Telangana
39. Apeejay School of Management, Dwarka, New Delhi
40. Jagannath International Management School, Kalkaji, New Delhi
41. Integrated Academy of Management and Technology (INMANTEC), Ghaziabad, Uttar
Pradesh
42. Institute of Rural Management, Jaipur, Rajasthan
43. Institute of Technology and Science, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
44. CMS Business School, Jain University, Bangalore, Karnataka
45. IBS Business School, Kolkata, West Bengal
46. Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Management Studies and Research, Navi Mumbai,
Maharashtra
47. Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management, Hyderabad, Telangana
48. Master School of Management, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
49. International School of Informatics and Management, Jaipur, Rajasthan
50. Balaji Institute of Modern Management, Pune, Maharashtra
51. Accurate Institute of Management and Technology, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
52. School of Management, ITM University, Gurgaon, Haryana
53. Sinhgad Institute of Management, Pune, Maharashtra
54. Dhruva College of Management, Hyderabad, Telangana
55. FLAME School of Business, Pune, Maharashtra
56. Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management (SITM), Pune, Maharashtra
57. Dayananda Sagar College of Management and Information Technology, Bangalore,
Karnataka
58. IBS Business School, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
59. Balaji Institute of International Business (BIIB), Pune, Maharashtra
60. International School of Management Excellence, Bangalore, Karnataka
61. Balaji Institute of Management and Human Resource Development (BIMHRD), Pune,
Maharashtra
62. Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore, Madhya Pradesh
63. IBS Business School, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
64. MIT School of Business, Pune, Maharashtra
65. Institute of Management and Information Science, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
66. Suryadatta Institute of Management, Pune, Maharashtra
67. Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management and Technology, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
68. M M Institute of Management, Mullana-Ambala, Haryana
69. International Management Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
70. MIT School of Telecom Management, Pune, Maharashtra
71. Acharya Bangalore B-School (ABBS), Bangalore, Karnataka
72. Faculty of Management Studies, Mody University of Technology and Science,
Lakshmangarh, Rajasthan
73. Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur, Rajasthan
74. Sona School of Management, Salem, Tamil Nadu
75. Vel Tech Multi Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering Colloge, Chennai, Tamil
Nadu
76. Kristu Jayanti College of Management and Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka
77. Institute of Management Studies, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
78. Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies, Harihar, Karnataka
79. IIMT Management College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
80. Institute for Technology and Management, Bangalore, Karnataka
81. SRM School of Management, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
82. Balaji Institute of Telecom and Management, Pune, Maharashtra
83. Institute of Technology and Management, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
84. Sinhgad Institute of Business Administration and Research (SIBAR), Pune, Maharashtra
85. Tilak Raj Chadha Institute of Management and Technolgy, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana
86. NERIM Group of Institutions, Guwahati, Assam
87. School of Management, Manipal, Karnataka
88. Lala Lajpatrai Institute of Management, Mumbai, Maharashtra
89. Prestige Institute of Management, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
90. Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Reserach, Pune, Maharashtra
91. School of Management Studies, Bannari Amman Institute of Technolgy, Erode, Tamil Nadu
92. ERA Business School, Dwarka, New Delhi
93. Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka
94. Jaipuria Institute of Management, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
95. Rungta College of Engineering and Technology, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh
96. Delhi School of Professional Studies and Research, Rohini, Delhi
97. St. Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology, St. Aloysius Collage
(Autonomous), Mangalore, Karnataka
98. IIMT College of Management, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
99. NSHM Business School, Kolkata, West Bengal
100. Veltech High Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil
Nadu
101. D. C. School of Management and Technology, Idukki, Kerala
102. Jaipuria Institute of Management, Indore, Madhya Pradesh
103. Karunya School of Business Leadership and Management, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
104. Institute of Business and Computer Studies, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
105. Shri Ram Murti Smarak International Business School, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
106. Warangal Institute of Management, Warangal, Telangana
107. J K Business School, Gurgaon, Haryana
108. Punjab Institute of Management and Technolgy, Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab
109. AICAR Business School, Raigad, Maharashtra
110. Sterling Institute of Management Studies, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
111. Ghandhi Institute of Management Studies, Gunupur, Odisha
112. Sinhgad Business School, Pune, Maharashtra
113. KLS's Institute of Management Education and Research, Belgaum, Karnataka
114. SSM School of Management and Computer Application, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu
115. Prestige Institute of Management, Dewas, Madhya Pradesh
116. Jaipuria Institute of Management, Studies, Ghaziabad, U.P.
117. Greater Noida Institute of Technology (MBA Institute), Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
118. Amrapali Group of Institutes, Haldwani, Uttarakhand
119. Saintgits Institute of Management, Kottayam, Kerala
120. St. Joseph's PG College, Hyderabad, Telangana
121. International School of Business Management, Jaipur, Rajasthan
122. Institute of Professional Excellence and Management, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
123. Parul Institute of Engineering and Technology - MBA, Vadodara, Gujarat
124. Sinhgad Institute of Business Administration and Computer Application (SIBACA),
Pune, Maharashtra
125. C K Shah Vijapurwala Institute of Management, Vadodara, Gujarat
126. Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Sangil, Maharashtra
127. Mount Carmel Institute of Management, Bangalore, Karnataka
128. FMS - Maharishi Arvind Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
129. C K Pithawalla Institute of Management, Surat, Gujarat
130. Institute of Business Management, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
131. Dr. V. N. Bedekar Institute of Management, Studies, Thane, Maharashtra
132. APIIT Business School, Panipat, Haryana
133. PES Institute of Technology - Department of MBA, Bangalore, Karnataka
134. Nehru Institute of Management Studies, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
135. SKN Sinhgad Business School (MBA), Solapur, Maharashtra
136. Sinhgad Institute of Business Management (MBA), Solapur, Maharashtra
137. R. M. Dhariwal Sinhgad Management, School, Pune, Maharashtra
138. RMD Sinhgad School of Management Studies, Pune, Maharashtra
139. Sinhgad School of Business Studies, Pune, Maharashtra
140. Acropolis Technical Campus, Faculty of Management Studies, Indore, Madhya Pradesh
141. Sinhgad Business School, Kegaon, Maharashtra
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Important Institutions and Its Headquarters in India


Education
Commission of Scientific and Technical Words TerminologyNew Delhi
Central Institute of English and Foreign LanguagesHyderabad
Institute of National SanskritNew Delhi
National Sanskrit VidyapeethTirupati
Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit VidyapeethNew Delhi
Rashtriya Bal BhavanNew Delhi
Institute of Central Indian LanguageMysore
Indian Council of Higher ResearchShimla
Indian Institute of Social Sciences and ResearchNew Delhi
Council of Indian Philosophy ResearchNew Delhi and Lucknow
Indian Institute of ScienceBengaluru
Indian Institute of Information Technology and ManagementGwalior
Central Hindi InstituteAgra
Environmental Institutes
Arid Zone Research InstituteJodhpur
Central Pollution Control BoardDelhi
Central Museum AuthorityNew Delhi
Rehabilitation Institute of Social Forestry and EcologyAllahabad
G. B. Pant Himdoya Environment and Development InstituteAlmora
Himalayan Forest Research CentreShimla
Indian Forest Research and Education CouncilDehradun
Institute of Indian Forest ManagementBhopal
Institute of Indian Plywood Industry and ResearchBengaluru
Institute of Forest Genetic Tree BreedingCoimbatore
Forest Productive CentreRanchi
Institute of Forest Research and Human Resource DevelopmentChindwara
Institute of RainforestJorhat
Institute of Lumbering Science and TechnologyBengaluru
Institute of National Science & TechnologyFaridabad
Indian Botanical SurveyKolkata
Indian Anthropology SurveyKolkata
Indian Forest SurveyJorhat
Tropical InstituteJabalpur
Defence Institutes
Air Force AcademyHyderabad
Air Force Technical CollegeBengaluru
College of Military EngineeringPune
Defence Management InstituteSikandrabad
Defence Services Staff CollegeWellington
Directorate General N.C.C.New Delhi
Electrical and Mechanical Engineering SchoolBaroda
Hindustan Aeronatic LimitedBengaluru
Indian Air Force Training CentreChennai
Indian Military AcademyDehradun
Institute of Armament TechnologyPune
Military College of Electrical and Mechanical EngineeringSikandrabad
Directorate of National Cadet CoreNew Delhi
National Defence AcademyKharagwasala
Naval College of EngineeringLonavala
Officers Training AcademyChennai
Art and Culture
Institute of National Museum History for Art Conservation and Science MuseumNew Delhi
Allahabad MuseumAllahabad
Asiatic SocietyKolkata
Indian Anthropology SurveyKolkata
Indian National ArchivesNew Delhi
Central Buddh Education InstituteLeh
Central High Tibetean Educational InstituteVaranasi
Central Secretariat Library (1981)New Delhi
Cultural Institute and Training Centre (1979)New Delhi
Delhi Public LibraryNew Delhi
Gandhian Recollection and Philosophy RecollectionNew Delhi
Institute of Indian DiamondSurat
Indian MuseumKolkata
Indira Gandhi National Art CentreNew Delhi
Indira Gandhi National Human MuseumBhopal
Jawahar Lal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy (1954)Imphal
Kala Chitra FoundationChennai
Khudabaksh Oriental Public LibraryPatna
Lalit Kala Academy (1954)New Delhi
Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Asian Studies InstituteKolkata
National Drama Vidyalaya (1959)New Delhi
National Science Museum ParishadKolkata
National Modern Art Technique (1954)Kolkata
National Library (1948)Kolkata
National MuseumNew Delhi
National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural HeritageLucknow
National School of DramaNew Delhi
Nav-Nalanda MahabiharBihar
Nehru Memorial Museum and LibraryNew Delhi
Raja Rammohan Rai Library FoundationKolkata
Ram Krishan Mission Sanskrit Institute (1938)Kolkata
Rampur Raja LibraryRampur
Sahitya Academy (1954)New Delhi
Salarjanj MuseumHyderabad
Sangeet Natak AcademyNew Delhi
Victoria Memorial HallKolkata
Food and Civil Supply
Indian Standard BureauDelhi
Indian Examination HouseKolkata
Health and Family Welfare
Central Health Education BureauNew Delhi
National Medical Science AcademyNew Delhi
National Ayurvedic InstituteJaipur
National Siddh InstituteChennai
National Yunani InstituteBengaluru
Morarji Desai National Yog InstituteNew Delhi
National Natural Medical InstitutePune
National Homeopathic InstituteKolkata
National Ayurvedic VidyapeethNew Delhi
Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd.Rasoyni (Maharashtra)
Industries
South India Textile Research AssociationCoimbatore
North India Cloth Research InstituteGhaziabad
Silk and Art Silk Mills Research AssociationMumbai
Indian Jute Industry Research AssociationKolkata
Wool Research InstituteThane
National Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd.Trombay
Pesticide Technology InstituteGurgaon
Hindustan Antibiotic Ltd.Pimpri, Pune
Plastic Engineering and Technology Institute(Sepate) Chennai
Indian Bureau of MinesNagpur
National Aluminium Co. Ltd.Orissa
Hindustan Zinc Ltd.Udaipur
Law and Justice
National Justice AcademyBhopal
Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel National Police AcademyHyderabad
Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain National Crime and Justice InstituteNew Delhi
Labour
Labour Bureau InstituteChandigarh and Shimla
V. V. Giri National Labour InstituteNoida (U. P.)
Central Labour BoardNagpur
Director General of Mines SecurityDhanbad
Central Education Media InstituteChennai
Institute of Central government Training and ResearchKolkata
Mass Communication Publication Deptt.New Delhi
Film DepartmentMumbai
National Film ArchievesPune
Indian Committee of Children FilmMumbai
Directorate of Publications and Visual PublicityDelhi
Directorate of Regional PublicityNew Delhi
Testimony Board of Central MovieMumbai
Institute of Indian Film and TelevisionPune
Satyajeet Ray Film and Television Institute Kolkata
Institute of Science and Technology
Indian Association for the Cultivation of ScienceKolkata
Indian Institute of Tropical MeteorologyPune
Indian Astro-physics InstituteBengaluru
Jawahar Lal Nehru Developed Scientific Research CentreBengaluru
Indian Institute of GeomagnetismMumbai
Indian Science AcademyBengaluru
Indian National Science AcademyNew Delhi
Indian Science Congress AssociationKolkata
Indian National Engineering AcademyNew Delhi
Indian National Oceanic Information Service CentreHyderabad
Indian Oceanic Technical InstituteChennai
National Antarctic and Ocean Research CentreGoa
National Biological Science CentreBengaluru
National Institute of ReservationNew Delhi
Centre of National Cell SciencePune
Centre of National Mental ResearchManesar
National Plant-Genome Research CentreNew Delhi
National Earthquake Science Data CentreNew Delhi
Indian Science AcademyAllahabad
Survey Training InstituteHyderabad (with the help of U.N.D.P.)
Bose InstituteKolkata
Agarkar Research InstitutePune
Sri Chitra Triunal Medical Science and Technical InstituteTiruvananthapuram
Wadia Institute of Himalayan GeologyDehradun
N. N. Bose National Fundamental Science CentreKolkata
Birbal Sahani Institute of Paleo-botanyLucknow
Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment CouncilNew Delhi
Science Expansion (Vigyan Prasar)New Delhi
Liquid Crystal Research InstituteBengaluru
Aryabhatta Research ObservatoryNainital
Director of Atomic Mineral Investigation and ResearchHyderabad
Indian Uranium Corporation Ltd.Jaduguda
Heavy Water BoardMumbai
Nuclear Fuel CampusHyderabad
Bhabha Atomic Research CentreMumbai
Shri Ram Institute of Chemical ResearchNew Delhi
Institute for Plasma Research (I. P. R.)Ahmedabad
Harish Chand Research InstituteChennai
Physics InstituteBhubaneshwar
Variable Energy Cyclotron CentreKolkata
Deptt. of Atomic EnergyMumbai
Project Directorate, Integrated Coastal and Sea Coast ManagementChennai
Sea-biotic Resources and Ecology CentreCochin
Hindustan Zinc LimitedUdaipur
D. N. A. Finger Print and CentreHyderabad
Biotic Resources and Continuous Development CentreImphal
Life Science InstituteBhubaneshwar
Physical Research LaboratoryAhmedabad (Gujarat)
S. V. National Technical InstituteSurat
Saha Nuclear Physics InstituteKolkata (W. Bengal)
Cosmic Rays Research InstituteGauribidanow
Shri Ram Chennai Research InstituteNew Delhi
Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchMumbai
Centre for Marine Living Resources and EcologyKocchi
Institute of Mathematical ScienceChennai
Institute of PhysicsBhubaneshwar
National Biology CentreBengaluru
Uranium Corporation of India Ltd.Jaduguda (Jharkhand)
Vishveshraiya National Technical InstituteNagpur
Transport
Diesel Locomotive WorksVaranasi
Chitranjan Locomotive WorksChitranjan
Rail Coach FactoryKapurthala
Integral Coach FactoryPerambur, Kapurthala
Rail Wheel FactoryBengaluru
Marine Engineering and Research InstituteKolkata
Marine Engineering and Research InstituteMumbai
Lal Bahadur Shastri Coastal Research and Higher Study InstituteMumbai
Indian Inland Waterways AuthorityNoida
Maritime Training Institute PowaiMumbai
Hindustan Shipyard LimitedVisakhapatnam
Central Inland Water Transport CorporationKolkata
Civil Aviation Security BureauDelhi
National Aviation Management and Research InstituteDelhi
Fire Training CentreNew Delhi
Fire Service Training SchoolNarainpur (Kolkata)
Indira Gandhi National Flying AcademyFurshatganj (U. P.)
Indian Tourism and Travel Management InstituteGwalior
National Water Sporting InstituteGoa
Water Resources
Central Soil and Material Research CentreNew Delhi
Central Water and Electric Research CentreKharagwasala (Pune)
National Project Construction Corporation Ltd.New Delhi
National Hydrology InstituteRoorkee (Uttarakhand)
Welfare
National Blind InstituteDehradun
National Orthopedic Disabled InstituteKolkata
Aliyawarjung National Hard of Hearing InstituteMumbai
National Mental Disabled InstituteSikandrabad
National Rehabilitation Training and Research InstituteCuttack
Physically Disabled InstituteNew Delhi
Multi-disabled Strengthen InstituteChennai
National Public Cooperation and Child Development InstituteNew Delhi
Youth Work and Play Rajeev Gandhi National Youth Development InstitutePerambur
Laxmibai National Physical Education Institute (1957)Gwalior
Energy National Thermal Power CorporationNew Delhi
Electric Finance Corporation Ltd.New Delhi
Communication
Telecommunication Engineering CentreNew Delhi
National Telecommunication Finance and Management AcademyHyderabad
High Level Telecommunication Training CentreGhaziabad
Advance Level Telecommunication Training CentreGhaziabad
Bharat Ratna Bhim Rao Ambedkar Telecommunication Training InstituteJabalpur
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Top 100 Private Engineering Colleges in India 2014


Top Private Engineering Colleges 2014
(CSR-GHRDC Engineering Colleges Survey 2014)

1. Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab


2. Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Karnataka
3. Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT),
Gandhinagar, Gujarat
4. Institute of Technology (Nirma University), Ahmedabad, Gujarat
5. SRM Engineering College, SRM University, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu
6. Hindustan University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
7. SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Tamil Nadu
8. Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Rangpo, Sikkim
9. Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering Bangalore, Karnataka
10. ITM University, Gurgaon, Haryana
11. K. L. University (Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
12. Maharishi Markandeshwar Engineering College, Ambala, Haryana
13. Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu
14. Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Ranga Reddy, Andhra Pradesh
15. Mepco Schlenk Engineering College Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu
16. Rungta College of Engineering and Technology, Bhilai, Chattisgarh
17. Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh
18. Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Erode, Tamil Nadu
19. Sona College of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu
20. Karunya University (Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences), Coimbatore, Tamil
Nadu
21. Sinhgad College of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra
22. IEC Group of Institutions, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
23. Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka
24. Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
25. Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad,
Karnataka
26. Vel Tech Dr. RR and Dr. SR Technical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
27. Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur, Maharashtra
28. CMR College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
29. Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Gunupur, Odisha
30. Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
31. Faculty of Science and Technology, ICFAI University, Dehradun, Uttarkhand
32. Malla Reddy College of Engineering and Technology, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh
33. Dwarkadas J. Sanghivi College of Engineering, Mumbai Maharashtra
34. Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
35. Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
36. Mahendra Engineering College, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu
37. SVKMS NMIMS, Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering,
Mumbai, Maharashtra
38. DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab
39. IMS Engineering College, Ghazizbad, Uttar Pradesh
40. Maharishi Arvind Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
41. Jaipur National University, Jaipur Rajasthan
42. Vel Tech High Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil
Nadu
43. D.K.T.E. Societys Textile and Engineering Institute Kolhapur, Maharashtra
44. Mody University of Science and Technology, Sikar, Rajasthan
45. Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology SD India, Panipat, Haryana
46. Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and Technology, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh
47. Reva Institute of Technology and Management, Bangalore, Karnataka
48. Desh Bhagat Engineering College, Fetehgarh Sahib, Punjab
49. HKBK College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka
50. CMR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh
51. Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences, Visakhapatnam, Andhara Pradesh
52. SCMS School of Engineering and Technology, Ernakulam, Kerala
53. Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
54. GMR Institute of Technology, Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh
55. Accurate Institute of Management and Technology, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
56. Vel Tech Multi Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil
Nadu
57. Chhatrapati Shivaji Institute of Technology, Durg, Chhattisgarh
58. Department of Engineering, DIT University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
59. Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering and Technology, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh
60. Ganeshi Lal Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, Greater, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
61. Stani Memorial College of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
62. K. E. Societys Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Sangli, Maharashtra
63. TIT Group of Institutions, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
64. V.S.B. Engineering College, Karur, Tamil Nadu
65. Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra
66. Takshshila Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
67. A.D. Patel Institute of Technology, Anand, Gujarat
68. Gudlavalleru Engineering College, Krishna, Andhra Pradesh
69. KLE Dr. M.S. Sheshgiri College of Engineering and Technology, Belgaum, Karnataka
70. G H Patel College of Engineering and Technology, Vidyanagar, Gujarat
71. Bonam Venkata Chalamayya Engineering College, East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh
72. PBR Visvodaya Institute of Technology and Science, Kavali, Andhra Pradesh
73. Adiya Institute of Technology and Management (AITAM), Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh
74. CT Institute of Engineering, Management and Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab
75. Amrutvahini College of Engineering, Sangamner, Maharashtra
76. Bheemanna Khandre Institute of Technology, Bhalki, Karnataka
77. Siddharth Institute of Engineering and Technology, Puttur, Andhra Pradesh
78. BIT Institute of Technology, Hindupur, Andhra Pradesh
79. Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology, Thrissur, Kerala
80. G. Pulla Reddy Engineering College (Autonomous), Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
81. Mahendra College of Engineering, Salem, Tamil Nadu
82. Erode Sengunthar Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu
83. Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala
84. Gandhi Institute for Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
85. Geetanjali Institute of Technical Studies Udaipur, Rajasthan
86. Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra
87. Bonam Venkata Chalamayya Institute of Technology and Science, East Godavari Andhra
Pradesh
88. Knowledge Institute of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu
89. Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology and Science, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
90. Sinhgad Academy of Engineering, Pune, Mahatashtra
91. Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Professional Management and Technology, Raipur,
Chhattisgarh
92. JP Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
93. SSM College of Engineering, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu
94. IIMT Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
95. Gyan Ganga College of Technology, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
96. Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management and Technology, Guwahati, Assam
97. Rungta College of Engineering and Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
98. Vignan Institute of Technology and Science, Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh
99. Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Technology and Management, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh
100. Anand Engineering College, Agra, Uttar Pradesh
101. Sanka Educational Tursts Group of Institutions Institute of Engineering and Industrial
Technology, Bardhaman, West Bengal
102. Shri Shankaracharya Engineering College, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh
103. CMR Engineering College, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
104. Hindustan Institute of Technology and Management, Agra, Uttar Pradesh
105. Malla Reddy Engineering College for Women, Swcunderabad, Andhra Pradesh
106. Sinhgad Technical Education Societys, Sinhgad Institute of Technology and Science, Pune,
Maharashtra
107. Rungta Engineering College, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
108. Siddartha Institute of Sciecne and Technology, Puttur, Andhra Pradesh
109. S V College of Engineering, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh
110. K.N.G.D. Modi Engineering College, Modinagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
111. Laqshya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh
112. St. Johns College of Engineering and Technology, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
113. Hindustan College of Science and Technology, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
114. Samskruti College of Engineering and Technology, Ranga, Reddy, Andhra Pradesh
115. B.V.C. College of Engineering, East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh
116. Rajshree Institute of Management and Technology, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
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Top Government Engineering Colleges in India 2014


Top Government Engineering Colleges
(CSR-GHRDC Engineering Colleges Survey 2014)
1. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal
2. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
3. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
4. Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
5. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
6. National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka
7. PEC University of Technology, Chandigrah, Punjab
8. College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra
9. National Institure of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha
10. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, College of Engineering, Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh
11. University College of Engineering (Autonomous), Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra
Pradesh
12. National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
13. B.I.T. SINDRI, Dhanbad, Jharkhand
14. Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Punjab
15. College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Junagadh, Gujarat
16. Government Engineering College, Jagdalpur, Chhattisgrah
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Best 25 Engineering Colleges in India 2014


Best 25 Engineering Colleges
(Ranked by Placement / Industry Interface / USP)*

1. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal


2. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
3. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
4. Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
5. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
6. National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka
7. PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, Punjab
8. Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab
9. College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra
10. Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT),
Gandhinagar, Gujart
11. Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka
12. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, College of Engineering, Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh
13. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha
14. University College of Engineering (Autonomous), Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra
Pradesh
15. Institute of Technology (Nirma University), Ahmedabad, Gujarat
16. Hindustan University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
17. SRM Engineering College, SRM University, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu
18. Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka
19. SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Tamil Nadu
20. National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
21. Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Rangpo, Sikkim
22. ITM University, Gurgaon, Haryana
23. B.I.T. SINDRI, Dhanbad, Jharkhand
24. Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Ranga Reddy, Andhra Pradesh
25. Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu
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Top 25 Engineering Colleges in India 2014


Top 25 Engineering Colleges 2014
(Ranked by Faculty, Research, Consultancy, EDP and Other Programmes)*

1. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh


2. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal
3. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
4. Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
5. National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karntaka
6. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad Uttar Pradesh
7. Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab
8. PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, Punjab
9. College of Engineering, pune, Maharashtra
10. Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka
11. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha
12. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, College of Engineering, Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh
13. University College of Engineering (Autonomous), Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra
Pradesh
14. Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT),
Gandhinagar, Gujarat
15. Institute of Technology (Nirma University), Ahmedabad, Gujarat
16. SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Tamil Nadu
17. National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
18. Hindustan University Chennai, Tamil Nadu
19. SRM Engineering College, SRM University, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu
20. K.L. University (Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
21. Maharishi Markandeshwar Engineering College, Ambala, Haryana
22. ITM University, Gurgaon, Haryana
23. Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Punjab
24. Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Rangpo, Sikkim
25. B.I.T. SINDRI, Dhanbad, Jharkhand
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Top Engineering Colleges in India 2014 - State wise Ranking


Top Engineering Colleges Ranked by State
(CSR-GHRDC Engineering Colleges Survey 2014)

ANDHRA PRADESH
1. Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University Hyderabad, College of Engineering, Hyderabad
2. University College of Engineering (Autonomous), Osmania University, Hyderabad
3. K. L. University (Koneru Lakshmaiah Education), Guntur
4. Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Ranga Reddy
5. CMR College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad
6. Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad
7. Malla Reddy College of Engineering and Technology, Secunderabad
8. Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada
9. Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and Technology, Chittoor
10. Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences, Visakhapatnam
11. GMR Institute of Technology, Srikulam
12. Bonam Venkata Chalamayya Engineering College, East Godavari

ASSAM
1. Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management and Technology, Guwahati

CHHATTISGARH
1. Rungta College of Engineering and Technology, Bhilai
2. Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus, Bhilai
3. Chhatrapati Shivaji Institute of Technology, Durg
4. Government Engineering College Jagdalpur
5. Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Professional Management and Technology, Raipur
6. Rungta College of Engineering and Technology, Raipur
7. Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Technology, and Management, Bhilai
8. Shri Shankaracharya Engineering College, Bhilai
9. Rungta Engineering College, Raipur

GUJARAT
1. Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT),
Gandhinagar
2. Institute of Technology (Nirma University), Ahmedabad
3. A.D. Patel Institute of Technology, Anand
4. G H Patel College of Engineering and Technology, Vidyanagar
5. College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Junagadh

HARYANA
1. ITM University, Gurgaon
2. Maharishi Markandeshwar Engineering College, Ambala
3. Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology SD India Panipat

HIMACHAL PRADESH
1. National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur

JHARKHAND
1. B.I.T. SINDRI, Dhandbad

KARNATAKA
1. National Institute of Technology, Surathkal
2. Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
3. Dayanada Sagar College of Engineering Bangalore
4. Acharaya Institute of Technology, Bangalore
5. Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad
6. Reva Institute of Technology and Management, Banglore
7. HKBK College of Engineering, Bangalore
8. KLE Dr. M.S. Sheshgiri College of Engineering and Technology, Belgaum
9. Bheemanna Khandre Institute of Technology, Bhalki
KERALA
1. SCMS School of Engineering and Technology, Ernakulam
2. Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology, Thrissur
3. Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum

MADHYA PRADESH
1. TIT Group of Institutions, Bhopal
2. Takshshila Institute of Engineering Technology, Jabalpur
3. Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology and Science, Jabalpur
4. Gyan Ganga College of Technology, Jabalpur

MAHARASHTRA
1. College of Engineering, Pune
2. Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune
3. Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur
4. Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai
5. SVKMs NMIMS, Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering,
Mumbai
6. D.K.T.E. Societys Textile and Engineering Institute, Kolhapur
7. K. E. Societys Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Sangli
8. Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune
9. Amrutvahini College of Engineering Sangamner
10. Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Pune
11. Singhad Academy of Engineering, Pune
12. Sinhgad Technical Educations Societys, Singhad Institute of Technology and Science, pune

ODISHA (ORISSA)
1. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
2. Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Gunupur
3. Gandhi Institute for Technology, Bhubaneswar

PUNJAB
1. Thapar University, Patiala
2. PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh
3. Guru Nanak Dev Engineering Colloege, Ludhiana
4. DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar
5. Desh Bhagat Engineering College, Fatehgrah Sahib
6. CT Institute of Engineering, Management, and Technology, Jalandhar

RAJASTHAN
1. Maharishi Arvind Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur
2. Jaipur National University, Jaipur
3. Mody University of Science and Technology, Sikar
4. Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur
5. Stani Memorial College of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur
6. Geetanjali Institute of Technical Studies, Udaipur

SIKKIM
1. Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Rangpo

TAMIL NADU
1. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
2. SRM Engineering College, SRM University Kattankulathur
3. Hindustan University, Chennai
4. SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam
5. Kongu Engineering College, Erode
6. Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi
7. Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Erode
8. Sona College of Technology, Salem
9. Karunya University (Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences), Coimbatore
10. Vel Tech Dr. RR and Dr. ST Technical University, Chennai
11. Mehendra Engineering College, Namakkal
12. Vel Tech High Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College, Chennai
13. Vel Tech Multi Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College, Chennai
14. V.S.B Engineering College, Karur
15. Mahendra College of Engineering, Salem

UTTAR PRADESH
1. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
2. Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi
3. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
4. IEC Group of Institutions, Greater Noida
5. Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College. Ghaziabad
6. Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida
7. IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad
8. Accurate Institute of Management and Technology, Greater Noida
9. Ganeshi Lal Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, Greater Noida
10. JP Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut
11. IIMT Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut
12. Anand Engineering College, Agra
13. Hindustan Institute of Technology and Management, Agra
14. K.N.G.D. Modi Engineering College, Modinagar, Ghaziabad
15. Hindustan College of Science and Technology, Mathura

UTTARAKHAND
1. Faculty of Science and Technology, ICFAI University, Dehradun
2. Department of Engineering, DIT University, Dehradun

WEST BENGAL
1. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
2. Sanaka Educational Trusts Group of Institutions Institute of Engineering and Industrial
Technology, Bardhaman
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Top Engineering Colleges in India | CSR-GHRDC Ranking 2014


Overall Ranking of Top Engineering Colleges
(CSR-GHRDC Engineering Colleges Survey 2014)

Ranking of Top 4 Leading Engineering Colleges of Super Excellence


1. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal
2. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
3. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
4. Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

RANKING STANDARD
1. Leading Super Excellence >=80%
2. Super Excellence >=70% & <80 br=""> 3. Emerging Super Excellence >=60% and <70 br=""> 4. Excellenc

Ranking of Top Engineering Colleges of Super Excellence


1. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
2. National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka
3. Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab
4. PEC University, Patiala Punjab
5. College of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra
6. Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka
7. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha
8. Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT),
Gandhinagar, Gujarat
9. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, College of Engineering, Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh
10. University College of Engineering (Autonomous), Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra
Pradesh
11. Institute of Technology (Nirma University), Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Ranking of Top Emerging Engineering Colleges of Super Excellence


1. SRM Engineering College, SRM University, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu
2. Hindustan University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
3. SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Tamil Nadu
4. National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
5. Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Rangpo, Sikkim
6. Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka
7. B.I.T. SINDRI, Dhanbad, Jharkhand
8. Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Pujab
9. ITM University, Gurgaon, Haryana
10. K.L. University (Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
11. Maharishi Markandeshwar Engineering College, Ambala, Haryana
12. Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu
13. Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Ranga Reddy, Andhra Pradesh
14. Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu
15. Rungta College of Engineering and Technology, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh
16. Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus, Bhilai Chhattisgarh
17. Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Erode, Tamil Nadu
18. Sona College of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu
19. Karunya University (Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences), Coimbatore, Tamil
Nadu
20. Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra
21. IEC Group of Institutions, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
22. Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka
23. Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
24. Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad,
Karnataka
25. Vel Tech Dr. RR and Dr. SR Technical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
26. Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur, Maharashtra

Rankin of Top Engineering College of Excellence


1. CMR College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Andhra, Pradesh
2. Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Gunupur, Odisha
3. Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
4. Faculty of Science and Technology, ICFAI University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
5. Mall Reddy College of Engineering and Technology, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh
6. Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, Maharashtra
7. Galagotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
8. Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
9. Mahendra Engineering College, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu
10. SVKMs NMIMS, Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering,
Mumbai Maharashtra
11. DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab
12. IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
13. Maharishi Arvind Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
14. Jaipur National University, Jaipur, Rajasthan
15. Vel Tech High Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil
Nadu
16. D.K.T.E. Societys Textile and Engineering Institute, Kolhapur, Maharashtra
17. Mody University of Science and Technology, Sikar, Rajasthan
18. Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology SD India, Panipat, Haryana
19. Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and Technology, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh
20. Reva Institute of Technology and Management, Bangalore, Karnataka
21. Desh Bhagat Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab
22. HKBK College of Engineering Bangalore, Karnataka
23. CMR Institute of Technology, Hyderabad Andhara Pradesh
24. Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pardesh
25. SCMS School of Engineering and Technology, Ernakulam, Kerala
26. Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
27. GMR Institute of Technology, Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh

Ranking of Top Emerging Engineering Colleges of Excellence


1. Accurate Institute of Management and Technology, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
2. Vel Tech Multi Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil
Nadu
3. Chhatarapati Shivaji Institute of Technology, Durg, Chhattisgarh
4. Department of Engineering DIT University, Dehradun, Uttrakhand
5. Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering and Technology, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh
6. Ganeshi Lal Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
7. Stani Memorial College of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
8. K. E. Societys Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Sangli, Maharashtra
9. TIT Group of Institutions, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
10. V.S.B Engineering College, Karur, Tamil Nadu
11. Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra
12. Takshshila Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
13. A. D. Patel Institute of Technology , Anand, Gujarat
14. Gudlavalleru Engineering College, Krishna, Andhra Pradesh
15. KLE. Dr. M.S Sheshgiri College of Engineering and Technology, Belgaum, Karnataka
16. G.H. Patel College of Engineering and Technology, Vidyanagar, Gujarat
17. Bonam Venkata Chalamayya Engineering College, East Godavari
18. PBR Visvodaya Institute of Technology and Science, Kavali, Andhra Pradesh
19. Aditya Institute of Technology and Management (AITAM), Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh
20. CT Institute of Engineering, Management and Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab
21. Amrutvahini College of Engineering Sanamner, Maharashtra
22. Bheemanna Khandre Institute of Technology, Bhalki, Karnataka
23. College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology
24. Siddharth Institute of Engineering and Technology, Puttur, Andhra Pradesh
25. BIT Institute of Technology, Hindupur, Andhra Pradesh
26. Sahradaya College of Engineering and Technology, Thrissur, Kerala
27. G. Pulla Reddy Engineering College (Autonomous), Kurnool, Andhra Prdesh
28. Mahendra College of Engineering, Salem, Tamil Nadu
29. Erode Sengunthar Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu
30. Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala
31. Gandhi Institute for Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
32. Geetanjali Institute of Technical Studies, Udaipur, Rajasthan
33. Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra
34. Bonam Venkata Chalamayya Institute of Technology and Science, East Godavari Andhra
Pradesh
35. Knowledge Institure of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu
36. Government Engineering College, Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh
37. Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology and Science, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
38. Sinhgad Academy of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra
Ranking of Promising Engineering Colleges
1. Shri Shnakaracharya Institute of Professional Management and Technology, Raipur
Chhattisgarh
2. JP Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
3. SSM College of Engineering, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu
4. IIMT Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
5. Gyan Ganga College of Technology, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
6. Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management and Technology, Guwahati Assam
7. Rungta College of Engineering and Technology, Raipur, Chhattishgarh
8. Vignan Institute of Technology and Science, Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh
9. Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Technology and Management, Bhilai Chattisgarh
10. Anand Engineering College Agra, Uttar Pradesh
11. Sanaka Educational Trusts Group of Institutions Institute of Engineering and Industrial
Technology, Bardhaman, West Bengal
12. Shri Shankaracharya Engineering College, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh
13. CMR Engineering College, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
14. Hindustan Institute of Technology and Management, Agra Uttar Pradesh
15. Malla Reddy Engineering College for Women, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh
16. Sinhgad Technical Education Societys, Sinhgad Institute of Technology and Science, Pune,
Maharashtra
17. Rungta Engineering College, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
18. Siddartha Institute of Science and Technology, Puttur, Andhra Pradesh
19. S V College of Engineering, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh
20. K. N. G. D. Modi Engineering College, Modinagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
21. Laqshya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh
22. St. Johns College of Engineering and Technology, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
23. Hindustan College of Science and Technology, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
24. Samskruti College of Engineering and Technology, Ranga Reddy, Andhra Pradesh
25. B. V. C. College of Engineering East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh
26. Rajshree Institute of Management Technology, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
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