India’s All-Time Olympic Medalists

1. K. D. Jadhav— Bronze —1952 (Helsinki)—Wrestling— Men's freestyle Bantamweight
2.Leander Paes —Bronze — 1996 (Atlanta)—Tennis—Men's singles
3.Karnam Malleswari —Bronze —2000 (Sydney)—Weightlifting—Women's 69 kg
4.Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore —Silver— 2004 (Athens)—Shooting—Men's double trap
5.Abhinav Bindra —Gold — 2008 (Beijing) —Shooting—Men's 10m Air Rifle
6. Vijender Singh— Bronze— 2008 Beijing—Boxing—Men's 75 kg
7. Sushil Kumar— Bronze— 2008 Beijing —Wrestling—Men's 66 kg Freestyle
8.Gagan Narang— Bronze— 2012 London—Shooting—Men's 10m Air Rifle
9.Vijay Kumar —Silver—2012 London—Shooting—Men's 25 Rapid Fire Pistol
10.Saina Nehwal —Bronze—2012 London—Badminton—Women's singles
11.Mary Kom —Bronze— 2012 London— Boxing—Women's flyweight
12.Yogeshwar Dutt —Bronze— 2012 London—Wrestling—Men's 60 kg Freestyle
13.Sushil Kumar —Silver— 2012 London—Wrestling—Men's 66 kg Freestyle

Man Booker Prize for Fiction –Books & winners (All- time)

2012- Bring Up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel)
2011 - The Sense of an Ending (Barnes)
2010 - The Finkler Question (Jacobson)
2009 - Wolf Hall (Mantel)
2008 - The White Tiger (Adiga)
2007 - The Gathering (Enright)
2006 - The Inheritance of Loss (Desai)
2005 - The Sea (Banville)
2004 - The Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst)
2003 - Vernon God Little (Pierre)
2002 - Life of Pi (Martel)
2001 - True History of the Kelly Gang (Carey)
2000 - The Blind Assassin (Atwood)
1999 - Disgrace (Coetzee)
1998 - Amsterdam: A Novel (McEwan)
1997 - The God of Small Things (Roy)
1996 - Last Orders (Swift)
1995 - The Ghost Road (Barker)
1994 - How Late It Was, How Late (Kelman)
1993 - Paddy Clarke Ha HaHa (Doyle)
1992 - The English Patient (Ondaatje)
1992 - Sacred Hunger (Unsworth)
1991 - The Famished Road (Okri)
1990 - Possession: A Romance (Byatt)
1989 - The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
1988 - Oscar and Lucinda (Carey)
1987 - Moon Tiger (Lively)
1986 - The Old Devils (Amis)
1985 - The Bone People (Hulme)

1984 - Hotel Du Lac (Brookner)
1983 - Life & Times of Michael K (Coetzee)
1982 - Schindler's Ark (Keneally)
1981 - Midnight's Children (Rushdie)
1980 - Rites of Passage (Golding)
1979 - Offshore (Fitzgerald)
1978 - The Sea, the Sea (Murdoch)
1977 - Staying on (Scott)
1976 - Saville (Storey)
1975 - Heat and Dust (Jhabvala)
1974 - The Conservationist (Gordimer)
1974 - Holiday (Middleton)
1973 - The Siege of Krishnapur (Farrell)
1972 - G. (Berger)
1971 - In a Free State (V. S. Naipaul )
1970 - The Elected Member (Bernice Rubens)
1969 - Something to Answer For (P.H.Newby)

FIFA World Cup Football—All time Winners

(Year—Host Country—Winner—Score)

2010—South Africa —Spain— Spain 1-0 Netherlands
2006—Germany—Italy—Italy 1-1 (5-3) France
2002—Japan / S. Korea —Brazil—Brazil 2-0 Germany
1998—France— France—France 3-0 Brazil
1994—US—Brazil—Brazil 3-2 Italy
1990—Italy—Germany—Germany 1-0 Argentina
1986—Mexico—Argentina—Argentina 3-2 Germany
1982—Spain—Italy—Italy 3-1 Germany
1978—Argentina—Argentina—Argentina 3-1 Holland
1974—Germany—Germany—Germany 2-1 Holland

1970—Mexico—Brazil—Brazil 4-1 Italy
1966—England—England—England 4-2 Germany
1962—Chile—Brazil—Brazil 3-1 Czechoslovakia
1958—Sweden—Brazil—Brazil 5-2 Sweden
1954—Switzerland—Germany—Germany 3-2 Hungary
1950—Brazil—Uruguay—Uruguay 2-1 Brazil
1946— not held
1942— not held
1938—France—Italy—Italy 4-2 Hungary
1934—Italy—Italy—Italy 2-1 Czechoslovakia
1930—Uruguay—Uruguay—Uruguay 4-2 Argentina

Cricket World Cups and Winners & Runner-up

1. 1975 (Prudential Cup)— West Indies (def. Australia)
2. 1979 (Prudential Cup) — West Indies (def.England)
3. 1983 (Prudential Cup) — India (def. West Indies)
4. 1987(Reliance World Cup) —Australia (def.England)

5. 1992 (Benson and Hedges Cup)—Pakistan (def.England)
6. 1996(Wills World Cup)—Sri Lanka(def. Australia)
7. 1999 (ICC Cricket World Cup)—Australia (def. Pakistan)
8. 2003(ICC Cricket World Cup) —Australia (def. India)
9. 2007(ICC Cricket World Cup) —Australia (def. Srilanka)
10. 2011(ICC Cricket World Cup)—India (def. Srilanka)

First Indian Women winners in International Beauty Contests

Miss World— ReitaFaria in 1966. (She was also the first Asian to win the title.)
Miss Asia Pacific— ZeenatAman in 1970
Miss Intercontinental Pageant— Elizabeth Anita Reddi in 1978
World Miss University— Priyadarshini Pradhan in 1989
Miss Universe— SushmitaSen in 1994
Miss Tourism International— Candice Pinto in 2001

Mrs. World— Aditi Gowitrikar in 2001
Miss Tourism Queen International— Zabina Abdul Rashid Khan in 2004
Miss Tourism— Priyanka Shah in 2007
Miss Earth— Nicole Faria in 2010
Miss Tourism Queen Of The Year International— UrvashiRautela in 2011
Miss Asia Pacific World— Himangini Singh Yadu in 2012

Some Important Books and their Authors

6th December 1992— P.V. Narasimha Rao
A bend in the River — V.S. Naipal...
A Million Multinies Now — V.S. Naipal
A Mission In Kashmir —Andrew Whitehead
A new deal for Asia —Mahathir Mohammad
A pair of blue eyes —Thomas Hardy
A Passage of India — E.M. Forster
A Voice of Freedom — NayantaraSehgal
Aansoo —Jai Shankar Prasad
AbhigyanShakuntalam — Kalidas
Across Black Waters — Mulk Raj Anand
Affluent Society —J.K. Galbraith
Agni Veena —KaziNazurul Islam (data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Ain-e-Akbari —AbulFazal
Ajatshatru Jai —Shanker Prasad
Akabarnama —AbulFazal
Alice in Wonderland — Lewis Carrol
Amar Singh —Amar Singh
AmritAurVish- AmritLal Nagar
An EquaL Music —Vikram Seth
Anamika, Parimal, Gunjan, Jusiki kali -SuryakntTripathiNirala
Anna Karenina —Tolstoy(data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Area of Darkness —V.S. Naipal
Arthashastra —Kautilya
Ashtadhyayi —Panini
Asian Drama —Gunnar Myrdal
August Coup —Mikhail S. Gorbachov
Avanti Sundari —Dandi
Ayodhya .V. Narasimha Rao
Between the Lines —KuldeepNayyar
Bhagwad Gita —Veda Vyas
Bharat Bharti —Maithili Saran Gupta
Bharat Durdasha — BhartenduHarischandra
BihariSatsai — Bihari(data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Bijak— Kabirdas
Bliss was it in that down — MinooMasani
Blood Brothers — M.J. Akbar
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life —J.M. Coetzee
Bradman’s Best — Rolland Perry
Broken Wing —Sarojini Naidu
Buddha Charitam —Ashwaghosh
Chand KaMunhTedhaHai —GajananMadhav
Coolie — Mulk Raj Anand(data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Cosmic Reality — Lajja Ram
Curfewed Night— Basarrat Peer
Das Capital —Karl Marx
Dashkumaracharitam — Dandi
Daybhag —Jeemootwahan
Death —Kaka SahebKalelkar
Divine Comedy — Dante
Divine Life — Swami Shivanand
Elizabeth Castello— Eight Lessons J.M. Coetzee

End of the Era —C.S. Pandit(data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Envisioning an Empowered Nation — Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Eternal India —Mrs. Indira Gandhi
Experiment with Untruth — Michael Anderson
Fasting, Feasting — Anita Desai
Fireproof —Raj Kamal Jha
Forty nine Days— Amrita Pritam
Freedom from Fear — Aung San SuuKyi
Gaban — MunsiPremChand
GeetGovind — Jayadev
Gitanjali —RabindraNath Tagore(data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Glimpses of World History —JawaharLal Nehru
Godan —MunsiPremChand
Golden Threshold — Sarojini Naidu
Gora— RabindraNath Tagore
Gulag Archipelago — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Guide —R. K. Narayanan
Gurusagaran — O.P. Vijayan
Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows —J.K. Rowling
HarshaCharit — BanaBhatta
Hindu view of Life — Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
History of Western Philosophy — B. Russel
Humanyunama — GulbadanBeghum
I Follow the Mahatma — K.M. Munshi
Ignited Minds — Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
In the Line of Fire — A Memoir — Parvez Musharraf
India Wins Freedom— Abul Kalam Azad
Indian Philosophy — Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Indian Summers — John Wright
Indian war of Independence — V.D. Savarkar
Indira Gandhi Returns —Khushwant Singh
Innocent in Death —J.D. Robb(data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Interpreter of Maladies — JhumpaLahiri
Kaya Kalp — MunshiPrem Chand
Let Us Kill Gandhi — Tushar A. Gandhi
Life of Pi —Yann Martel
My President Years —R. Venkataraman

International Sports organizations & their Heads

1. Asian Football Confederation (AFC)—President - Zhang Jilong, China (2011–present)
2. ConfédérationAfricaine de Football (CAF) — President - IssaHayatou, Cameroon (1988–present)
3. Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) —President - Alfredo Hawit, Honduras (2011–present)
4. ConfederaciónSudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL) —President - Nicolas Leoz, Paraguay (1986–present)
5. FédérationInternationale des Échecs (FIDE) —President - KirsanIlyumzhinov, Russian Federation (1995–present)
6. FédérationInternationale de Football Association (FIFA) — President - SeppBlatter, Switzerland (1998–present)
7. International Cricket Council (ICC) — President - Alan Isaac, New Zealand (2012–present)

8. International Olympic Committee (IOC) —President - Thomas Bach
9. International Paralympic Committee (IPC) —President - Philip Craven, United Kingdom (2001–present)
10. International Rugby Board (IRB) —President - Syd Millar, Ireland (2003–present)
11. Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) — President - ReynaldTemarii, Tahiti (2004–present)
12. Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) —President - Michel Platini, France (2007–present)

ICC AWARDS LIST - 2013

1. ICC Cricketer of the Year - Michael Clarke - Australia
2. ICC Test Cricketer of the Year - Michael Clarke - Australia
3. ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year - Suzie Bates - New Zealand
4. ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year - Kumar Sangakkara - Sri Lanka
5. ICC Emerging Cricketer of the Year - CheteshwarPujara - India
6. ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year - Umar Gul - Pakistan
7. ICC T20I Women’s Cricketer of the Year - Sarah Taylor - England
8. ICC Associate and Affiliate Cricketer of the Year - Kevin O’Brien - Ireland
9. ICC Spirit of Cricket Award - MahelaJayawardena - Sri Lanka
10. ICC Umpire of the Year (The David Shepherd Trophy) -Richard Kettleborough - England
11. LG People’s Choice - MS Dhoni - India
12. Michael Clarke - Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year

Bharat Ratna Awardees: Bharat Ratna Award Winners List From 1954 to 2014

S.No	Name	Birth / death	Awarded	Field of Performance	Indian state or country
1.	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1888–1975	1954	Second President, First Vice President, Philosopher.	Tamil Nadu
2.	Chakravarti Rajagopalachari	1878–1972	1954	Last Governor-General, Freedom Fighter.	Tamil Nadu
3.	C. V. Raman	1888–1970	1954	Nobel-prize winning Physicist	Tamil Nadu
4.	Bhagwan Das	1869–1958	1955	Philosopher, Freedom Fighter	Uttar Pradesh
5.	Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	1861–1962	1955	Civil Engineer	Karnataka
6.	Jawaharlal Nehru	1889–1964	1955	First Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter, Author.	Uttar Pradesh
7.	Govind Ballabh Pant	1887–1961	1957	Freedom Fighter, Home Minister	Uttar Pradesh
8.	Dhondo Keshav Karve	1858–1962	1958	Educationist, Social Reformer	Maharashtra
9.	B. C. Roy	1882–1962	1961	Physician, Politician	West Bengal
10.	Purushottam Das Tandon	1882–1962	1961	Freedom Fighter, Educationalist.	Uttar Pradesh
11.	Rajendra Prasad	1884–1963	1962	First President, Freedom Fighter, Jurist	Bihar
12.	Zakir Hussain	1897–1969	1963	Former President, Scholar.	Andhra Pradesh
13.	Pandurang Vaman Kane	1880–1972	1963	Indologist and Sanskrit scholar	Maharashtra
14.	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1904–1966	1966	Posthumous, Second Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter	Uttar Pradesh
15.	Indira Gandhi	1917–1984	1971	Former Prime Minister	Uttar Pradesh
16.	V. V. Giri	1894–1980	1975	Former President, Trade Unionist.	Andhra Pradesh
17.	K. Kamaraj	1903–1975	1976	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu.	Tamil Nadu
18.	Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa)	1910–1997	1980	Naturalized Indian citizen, Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1979).	West Bengal
19.	Acharya Vinoba Bhave	1895–1982	1983	Posthumous, Social Reformer, Freedom Figher.	Maharashtra
20.	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan	1890–1988	1987	First non-citizen, Freedom Fighter.	Pakistan
21.	M. G. Ramachandran	1917–1987	1988	Posthumous, Chief Minister-Tamil Nadu, Actor.	Tamil Nadu
22.	B. R. Ambedkar	1891–1956	1990	Posthumous, Architect-Indian Constitution, Leader of Buddhist people of India	Maharashtra
23.	Nelson Mandela	b. 1918	1990	Second non-citizen and first non-Indian, Leader of Anti-Apartheid movement.	South Africa
24.	Rajiv Gandhi	1944–1991	1991	Posthumous, Former Prime Minister	New Delhi
25.	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel	1875–1950	1991	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, First Home Minister of India.	Gujarat
26.	Morarji Desai	1896–1995	1991	Former Prime Minister, Freedom Fighter.	Gujarat
27.	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad	1888–1958	1992	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Educator.	West Bengal
28.	J. R. D. Tata	1904–1993	1992	Industrialist and philanthropist.	Maharashtra
29.	Satyajit Ray	1922–1992	1992	Legendary Indian Film Director	West Bengal
30.	A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	b. 1931	1997	Former President, Scientist.	Tamil Nadu
31.	Gulzarilal Nanda	1898–1998	1997	Freedom Fighter, former Prime Minister.	Punjab
32.	Aruna Asaf Ali	1908–1996	1997	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter.	West Bengal
33.	M. S. Subbulakshmi	1916–2004	1998	Classical singer.	Tamil Nadu
34.	Chidambaram Subramaniam	1910–2000	1998	Freedom Fighter, Minister of Agriculture(Father of Green revolution).	Tamil Nadu
35.	Jayaprakash Narayan	1902–1979	1998	Posthumous, Freedom Fighter, Social Reformer.	Uttar Pradesh
36.	Ravi Shankar	b. 1920	1999	Classical sitar  player.	west Bengal
37.	Amartya Sen	b. 1933	1999	Nobel Laureate (Economics, 1998), Economist.	West Bengal
38.	Gopinath Bordoloi	1890–1950	1999	Posthumous, freedom fighter	Assam
39.	Lata Mangeshkar	b. 1929	2001	Play back singer	Maharashtra
40.	Ustad Bismillah Khan	1916-2006	2001	Hindustani classical shehnai player	Bihar
41.	Bhimsen Joshi	1922–2011	2009	Hindustani classical singer	Karnataka
42.	C. N. R. Rao	b. 1934	2014	Scientist	Karnataka
43.	Sachin Tendulkar	b. 1973	2014	Cricketer	Maharashtra

Note : No one was awarded the country's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007