Saturday, September 20, 2008

Georgia

Georgian President : Mikheil Saakashvili

Pakistan

Pakistan Prime Minister : Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani

Water and Power Minister : Raja Pervez Asraf

Cambodia

Cambodian Prime Minister : Hun Sen

Ukraine Government

Ukrainian President : Viktor Yushchenko

Prime Minister : Yulia Tymoshenko

Russia government

Russian President : Dmitry Medvedev

Post

Post Master General is Sobha Koshy

Defence

Chief of Army Staff : Gen Deepak Kapoor

Vice chief of Army : Gen Milan Lalitkumar Naidu

Chief of Naval Staff : Admiral (ADM) Sureesh Mehta

Navy vice : Admiral RP Suthan

IAF Chief Air Marshal : Fali Homi Major

IAF Vice Chief Air Marshal : PV Naik

Some Secretaries

Foreign Secretary : Shiv Shanker Menon

Union Home Secretary : Madhukar Gupta

CPI General Secretary : AB Bardhan

Incumbents (in the news) in Indian Ministry

Union Minister of Science and technolgy : Kapil Sibal

Union Home Minister : Shivraj Patil

Information and Broadcasting Minister : Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi

Financial Minister : P Chidambaram

Ann Cargill and The Nancy

Ann Cargill was a British opera singer. She went to India to meet her lover Captain John Haldane who was working in the English East India Company at Kolkata. But the then Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger sent her back to Britain in a ship - The Nancy. But it wrecked west of Isles of Scilly in 1784 killing her and her illegitimate child. The wreck of the ship was recently discovered

World's oldest man and the man who does not die

Tomoji Tanabe of Japan might have celebrated his 113th birthday last week. But his seniority in age does not count when Alec Ader of London (though 91) cheated death 14 times

World's smallest man and lady with the longest legs

He Pingping from inner Mongolia (an autonomous region of China) who stands 74.61 cm short is the shortest man in the world.

He can easily pass through under the legs of:

Svetlana Pankratova of Russia who is the lady with the longest legs - 132cm

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Who's who in India

Ever wished to know who the central Minister of Atomic Energy was? You would have probably known it and also other very valuable information for candidates attending competitive examinations (like who the CM of Meghalaya is) from India's national portal - Who's who.*

I thought I would paste it here, but it is too large and you will not find a way through. So, just provided the link.

* This will get updated as soon as a change occurs. Therefore there is no need to mistrust it.