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Thursday 18 July 2013

complete list UN Secretaries Generals

complete list UN Secretaries Generals
Sl No
Name
Term of Office
Nationality
1
Trygve Lie
1 February 1946 – 10 November 1952
Norway
2
Dag Hammarskjold
10 April 1953 – 18 September 1961
Sweden
3
U Thant
30 November 1961 – 31 December 1971
Burma
4
Kurt Waldheim
1 January 1972 – 31 December 1981
Austria
5
Javier Peres De Cuellar
1 January 1982 – 31 December 1991
Peru
6
Dr. Boutros Boutros Ghali
1 January 1992 – 31 December 1996
Egypt
7
Kofi Annan
1 January 1997 – 31 December 2006
Ghana
8
Ban-Ki-Moon*
1 January 2007– present
South Korea

Nick Names of Indian Cites

Nick Names of Indian Cites

Bangle City - Hyderabad (Andra Pradesh)
City of Blood - Tezpur (Assam)
City of Dawn - Auroville (Pondichery)
City of golden Temple - Amritsar (Punjab)
City of Palaces - Kolkata (West Bengal)
City of seven Islands - Mumbai (Maharashtra)
Diamond City - Surat (Gujarat)
Egg city - Namakkal (Tamilnadu)
Garden City - Bangalore (Karnataka)
Golden City - Jaisalmer(Rajastan)
Lake City - Udaipur (Rajastan)
Orange City - Nagpur (Maharashtra)
Pearl City - Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu)
Rose Pink City - Jaipur (Rajastan)
Sandal Wood City - Mysore (Karnataka)
Sun City - Jodhpur (Rajastan)
Temple City - Bhuvaneswar (Orissa)
Twin Cities - Hyderabad and Secundarabad(Andra pradesh)
Weavers city - Panipat (Haryana)
White City - Udaipur (Rajastan)

Sunday 7 July 2013

IFA Awards 2013: Complete lis


IIFA Awards 2013: Complete list of winners- Ranbir, Vidya bag best actor awards  

Vidya Balan took home the Best Actress award at IIFA (International Indian Film Academy) 2013 for her portrayal of a pregnant woman in search of her husband in ‘Kahaani’ while Ranbir Kapoor was named Best Actor for ‘Barfi!’ in Macau on 06 July 2013 (Saturday).

Ranbir, who played a deaf-mute boy in ‘Barfi!’ was not present at the ceremony and the gong was accepted on his behalf by the film’s director Anurag Basu. These trophies are the Ranbir and Vidya’s second best actor awards after they bagged the same honours for ‘Rockstar’ and ‘The Dirty Picture’ respectively.

Basu’s romantic-comedy ‘Barfi!’, which won many awards throughout the year, bagged the best film, director, story and music awards at the 14th edition of the Bollywood extravaganza leaving behind ‘Agneepath’, ‘Vicky Donor’ and ’Gangs of Wasseypur’

Former couple Ranbir and Deepika Padukone won best Jodi award. Deepika, on accepting the award, said, “I love Ranbir and (am) missing him.”

’Vicky Donor’ stars Yami Gautam and Ayushmann Khurrana won the best debut awards in the female and male categories, respectively. “It feels like I am living in a dream. This is going to be my last debut award. In future, if I don’t get any award I will be happy in every situation,” Ayushmann said.

’English Vinglish’ helmer Gauri Shinde bagged the best debut director award.

The glitzy ceremony kicked off with a dance by Bachchan while other celebrities like Sridevi, Prabhudeva, Sushant Singh Rajput, Madhuri Dixit and Deepika Padukone, too, gave scintillating performances.

Here is the complete list of winners:

BEST ACTOR: Ranbir Kapoor for Barfi!

BEST FEMALE ACTOR: Vidya Balan for Kahaani

BEST FILM: Barfi!

BEST DIRECTOR: Anurag Basu (Barfi!)

BEST STORY: Tani and Anurag Basu for Barfi!

BEST SUPPORTING MALE: Anu Kapoor for Vicky Donor

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE - Anushka Sharma for JTHJ

BEST DEBUT FEMALE: Yami Gautam for Vicky Donor

BEST DEBUT MALE: Ayushmaan Khurana

BEST ACTOR IN COMIC ROLE: Abhishek Bachchan for Bol Bachchan

BEST ACTOR IN NEGATIVE ROLE: Rishi Kapoor from Agneepath

STAR JODI OF THE YEAR: Deepika padukone and ranbir kapoor

BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR: Gauri Shinde for English Vinglish

BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR: Pritam for Barfi!

BEST LYRICS: Amitabh Bhattacharya, mujhme kahin from Agneepath

BEST SINGER MALE: Sonu Nigam for Agneepath

BEST SINGER FEMALE: Shreya Ghoshal for Chikni chameli

SPECIAL AWARDS

IIFA FOREVER: Yash Chopra

INDIAN INTERNATIONAL CINEMA OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT: Anupam Kher

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO INDIAN CINEMA: Javed Akhtar

HUMANITY AWARD: Shabana Azmi

DIGITAL STAR OF THE YEAR: Shah Rukh Khan 

Thursday 4 July 2013

Number of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha seats in each State and Union Territory of India

Number of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha seats in each State and Union Territory of India

States / Union Territories
No. of Seats in
Rajya Sabha
No. of Seats in
Lok Sabha
Andhra Pradesh
18
42
Arunachal Pradesh
01
02
Assam
07
14
Bihar
16
40
Chhattisgarh
05
11
Goa
01
02
Gujarat
11
26
Haryana
05
10
Himachal Pradesh
03
04
Jammu and Kashmir
04
06
Jharkhand
06
14
Karnataka
12
28
Kerala
09
20
Madhya Pradesh
11
29
Maharashtra
19
48
Manipur
01
02
Meghalaya
01
02
Mizoram
01
01
Nagaland
01
01
Orissa
10
21
Punjab
07
13
Rajasthan
10
25
Sikkim
01
01
Tamil Nadu
18
39
Tripura
01
02
Uttarakhand
03
05
Uttar Pradesh
31
80
West Bengal
16
42
Andaman and Nicobar
-
01
Chandigarh
-
01
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
-
01
Daman and Diu
-
01
Delhi (NCT)
03
07
Lakshadweep
-
01
Pondicherry
01
01
Nominated members
12
02
Total
245
545

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