Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
EXECUTIVE HEADS OF WORLD GOVERNMENTS
State Head of state (President) Head of government (Prime Minister)
Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani Abdullah Abdullah
Albania Bujar Nishani Edi Rama
Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika Abdelmalek Sellal
Andorra Joan Enric Vives Sicília Josep Maria Mauri
French François Hollande Antoni Martí
Argentina Mauricio Macri
Armenia Serzh Sargsyan Hovik Abrahamyan
Austria Heinz Fischer Christian Kern
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev Artur Rasizade
Bangladesh Abdul Hamid Sheikh Hasina
Belarus Alexander Lukashenko Andrei Kobyakov
Belgium King – Philippe Charles Michel
Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev Boyko Borissov
Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré Paul Kaba Thieba
Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza
Cambodia King – Norodom Sihamoni Hun Sen
Cameroon Paul Biya Philémon Yang
Canada Elizabeth II
Governor General – David Johnston Justin Trudeau
Cape Verde Jorge Carlos Fonseca Ulisses Correia e Silva
Chad Idriss Déby Albert Pahimi Padacké
Chile Michelle Bachelet
China Xi Jinping Li Keqiang
Colombia Juan Manuel Santos
Comoros Ikililou Dhoinine Azali Assoumani
Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic Tihomir Oreškovic
Cuba Raúl Castro
Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades
Czech Republic Miloš Zeman Bohuslav Sobotka
Denmark Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Djibouti Ismaïl Omar Guelleh Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed
Dominica Charles Savarin Roosevelt Skerrit
Dominican Republic Danilo Medina
East Timor Taur Matan Ruak Rui Maria de Araújo
Ecuador Rafael Correa
Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Sherif Ismail
El Salvador Salvador Sánchez Cerén
Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Vicente Ehate Tomi
Eritrea Isaias Afwerki
Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves Taavi Rõivas
Ethiopia Mulatu Teshome Hailemariam Desalegn
Fiji George Konrote Frank Bainimarama
Finland Sauli Niinistö Juha Sipilä
France François Hollande Manuel Valls
Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba Daniel Ona Ondo
Gambia Yahya Jammeh
Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili Giorgi Kvirikashvili
Germany Joachim Gauck Chancellor – Angela Merkel
Ghana John Dramani Mahama
Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos Alexis Tsipras
Guatemala Jimmy Morales
Guinea Alpha Condé Mamady Youla
Guinea-Bissau José Mário Vaz vacant
Guyana David A. Granger Moses Nagamootoo
Haiti Jocelerme Privert Enex Jean-Charles
Hungary János Áder Viktor Orbán
Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson
India Pranab Mukherjee Narendra Modi
Indonesia Joko Widodo
Iran Supreme Leader – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
President – Hassan Rouhani
Iraq Fuad Masum Haider al-Abadi
Ireland Michael D. Higgins Taoiseach – Enda Kenny
Israel Reuven Rivlin Benjamin Netanyahu
Italy Sergio Mattarella
President of the Council of Ministers – Matteo Renzi
Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara Daniel Kablan Duncan
Jamaica Queen – Elizabeth II
Governor-General – Sir Patrick Allen Andrew Holness
Japan Emperor – Akihito Shinzo Abe
Jordan King – Abdullah II Abdullah Ensour
Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev Karim Massimov
Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta
Kiribati Taneti Mamau
Kuwait Emir – Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Prime Minister – Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah
Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev Sooronbay Jeenbekov
Laos Bounnhang Vorachith Thongloun Sisoulith
Latvia Raimonds Vejonis Maris Kucinskis
Lebanon Acting President and Prime Minister – Tammam Salam
Lesotho King – Letsie III Pakalitha Mosisili
Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Libya Chairman of the Presidential Council and Prime Minister – Fayez al-Sarraj
Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite Algirdas Butkevicius
Luxembourg Grand Duke – Henri Xavier Bettel
Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov
Interim President of the Government – Emil Dimitriev
Madagascar Hery Rajaonarimampianina Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana
Malawi Peter Mutharika
Malaysia Yang di-Pertuan Agong – Tuanku Abdul Halim
Prime Minister – Najib Razak
Maldives Abdulla Yameen
Mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta Modibo Keita
Malta Marie Louise Coleiro Preca Joseph Muscat
Marshall Islands Hilda Heine
Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Yahya Ould Hademine
Mauritius Ameenah Gurib Sir Anerood Jugnauth
Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto
Micronesia Peter M. Christian
Moldova Nicolae Timofti Pavel Filip
Monaco Albert II Minister of State – Serge Telle
Mongolia Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Chimediin Saikhanbileg
Montenegro Filip Vujanovic Milo Ðukanovic
Morocco King – Mohammed VI Abdelilah Benkirane
Mozambique Filipe Nyusi Carlos Agostinho do Rosário
Myanmar Htin Kyaw State Counsellor– Aung San Suu Kyi
Namibia Hage Geingob Saara Kuugongelwa
Nauru Baron Waqa
Nepal Bidhya Devi Bhandari Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
Netherlands King – Willem-Alexander Mark Rutte
New Zealand Elizabeth II
Governor-General – Sir Jerry Mateparae
Governor-General designate – Dame Patsy Reddy John Key
Nicaragua Daniel Ortega
Niger Mahamadou Issoufou Brigi Rafini
Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari
North Korea
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea – Kim Jong-un
First Chairman of the National Defence Commission and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army -
Supreme Leader) – Kim Jong-un
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly- Kim Yong-nam
Premier of the Cabinet – Pak Pong-ju
Norway King – Harald V Erna Solberg
Oman Qaboos bin Said al Said
Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain Nawaz Sharif
Palau Tommy Remengesau
Palestine Mahmoud Abbas Rami Hamdallah
Panama Juan Carlos Varela
Paraguay Horacio Cartes
Peru Ollanta Humala Pedro Cateriano
Philippines Benigno Aquino III
President-elect – Rodrigo Duterte
Poland Andrzej Duda Beata Szydlo
Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa António Costa
Qatar Emir – Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani
Romania Klaus Iohannis Dacian Ciolo
Russia Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev
Rwanda Paul Kagame Anastase Murekezi
Saudi Arabia King and Prime Minister – Salman
Senegal Macky Sall Mohammed Dionne
Serbia Tomislav Nikolic Aleksandar Vucic
Seychelles James Michel
Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma
Singapore Tony Tan Lee Hsien Loong
Slovakia Andrej Kiska Robert Fico
Slovenia Borut Pahor Miro Cerar
Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke
South Africa Jacob Zuma
South Korea Park Geun-hye Hwang Kyo-ahn
South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit
Spain King – Felipe VI
President of the Government – Mariano Rajoy
Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena Ranil Wickremesinghe
Sudan Omar al-Bashir
Suriname Dési Bouterse
Swaziland King – Mswati III
Prime Minister – Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
Sweden King – Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister – Stefan Löfven
Syria Bashar al-Assad Wael Nader al-Halqi
Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon Kokhir Rasulzoda
Tanzania John Magufuli[a] Kassim Majaliwa
Thailand King – Bhumibol Adulyadej
Prime Minister – Prayut Chan-o-cha
Tunisia Beji Caid Essebsi Habib Essid
Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ahmet Davutoglu
Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Tuvalu Queen – Elizabeth II
Governor-General – Sir Iakoba Italeli
Prime Minister – Enele Sopoaga
Uganda Yoweri Museveni[a] Ruhakana Rugunda
Ukraine Petro Poroshenko Volodymyr Groysman
United Arab Emirates Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
United Kingdom Queen – Elizabeth II David Cameron
United States Barack Obama
Uruguay Tabaré Vázquez
Uzbekistan Islam Karimov Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Vanuatu Baldwin Lonsdale Charlot Salwai
Vatican City Sovereign – Pope Francis
President of the Governorate – Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello
Venezuela Nicolás Maduro
Yemen Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr
Zambia Edgar Lungu
Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe
Man Booker Prize 2016 Winner Han Kang
South Korean novelist Han Kang will share £50,000 prize with translator Deborah Smith, for ‘lyrical and lacerating’ story. author Han Kang and her translator Deborah Smith, who only began learning Korean seven years ago, have beaten writers including Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and international bestseller Elena Ferrante to the Man Booker International prize.
2016 Han Kang South Korea
2015 Marlon James Jamaica
2014 Richard Flanagan Australia
2013 Eleanor Catton New Zealand
2012 Hilary Mantel United Kingdom
2011 Julian Barnes United Kingdom
2010 Howard Jacobson United Kingdom
2009 Hilary Mantel United Kingdom
2008 Aravind Adiga India
2007 Anne Enright Ireland
2006 Kiran Desai India
2005 John Banville Ireland
2004 Alan Hollinghurst United Kingdom
2003 DBC Pierre Australia
2002 Yann Martel Canada
2001 Peter Carey Australia
2000 Margaret Atwood Canada
1997 Arundhati Roy India
Padma Awards 2016
President Pranab Mukherjee approved conferment of Padma Awards to 112 people this year. The list comprises 10 Padma Vibhushan , 19 Padma Bhushan and 83 Padma Shri awardees.
Padma Vibhushan
1. Ms. Yamini Krishnamurthi — Art-Classical dance — Delhi2. Shri Rajinikanth — Art-Cinema — Tamil Nadu
3. Smt Girija Devi — Art-Classical Vocal — West Bengal
4. Shri Ramoji Rao — Literature & Education-Journalism — Andhra Pradesh
5. Dr Viswanathan Shanta — Medicine-Oncology — Tamil Nadu
6. Shri Shri Ravi Shankar — Others-Spiritualism — Karnataka
7. Shri Jagmohan — Public Affairs — Delhi
8. Dr Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre — Science & Engineering — Karnataka
9. Shri Avinash Dixit(Foreigner) — Literature & Education — USA
10.Late Shri Dhiru Bhai Ambani (Posthumous) — Trade & Industry — Maharashtra
Padma Bhushan
11. Shri Anupam Kher — Art-Cinema — Maharashtra12. Shri Udit Narayan Jha — Art-Playback Singing — Maharashtra
13. Shri Ram V Sutar — Art-Sculpture — Uttar Pradesh
14. Shri Heisnam Kanhailal — Art-Theatre — Manipur
15. Shri Vinod Rai — Civil Service — Kerala
16. Dr Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad — Literature & Education — Andhra Pradesh
17. Prof NS Ramanuja Tatacharya — Literature & Education — Maharashtra
18. Dr Barjinder Singh Hamdard — Literature & Education - Journalism — Punjab
19. Prof D Nageshwar Reddy — Medicine-Gastroenterology — Telangana
20. Swami Tejomayananda — Other-Spiritualism — Maharashtra
21. Shri Hafeez Contractor — Others-Architecture — Maharashtra
22. Shri Ravindra Chandra Bhargava — Public Affairs — Uttar Pradesh
23. Dr Venkata Rama Rao — Alla Science & Engineering — Andhra Pradesh
24. Ms Saina Nehwal — Sports-Badminton — Telangana
25. Ms Sania Mirza — Sports-Tennis — Telangana
26. Ms Indu Jain — Trade & Industry — Delhi
27. Late Swami Dayanand Sarawasati (Posthumous) — Others-Spiritualism — Uttarakhand
28. Shri Robert Blackwill (Foreigner) — Public Affairs — USA
29. Shri Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (NRI/PIO) — Trade & Industry — Ireland
Padma Shri
30. Smt Prathibha Prahlad — Art- Classical Dance — Delhi31. Shri Bhikhudan Gadhvi — Art- Folk Music — Gujarat
32. Shri Sribhas Chandra Supakar — Art- Textile Designing — Uttar Pradesh
33. Shri Ajay Devgn — Art-Cinema — Maharashtra
34. Ms Priyanka Chopra — Art-Cinema — Maharashtra
35. Pt Tulsidas Borkar — Art-Classical Music — Goa
36. Dr Soma Ghosh — Art-Classical Vocal — Uttar Pradesh
37. Shri Nila Madhab Panda — Art-Film Direction and Production — Delhi
38. Shri SS Rajamouli — Art-Film Direction and Production — Karnataka
39. Shri Madhur Bhandarkar — Art-Film Direction and Production — Maharashtra
40. Prof M Venkatesh Kumar — Art-Folk Artist — Karnataka
41. Ms Gulabi Sapera — Art-Folk Dance — Rajasthan
42. Smt Mamta Chandrakar — Art-Folk Music — Chhattisgarh
43. Ms Malini Awasthi — Art-Folk Music — Uttar Pradesh
44. Shri Jai Prakash Lekhiwal — Art-Miniature Painting — Delhi
45. Shri K Laxma Goud — Art-Painting — Telangana
46. Shri Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe — Art-Photography — Madhya Pradesh
47. Shri Naresh Chander Lal — Art-Theatre & Cinema — Andaman & Nicobar
48. Shri Dhirendra Nath Bezbaruah — Literature & Education — Assam
49. Shri Prahlad Chandra Tasa — Literature & Education — Assam
50. Dr Ravindra Nagar — Literature & Education — Delhi
51. Shri Dahyabhai Shastri — Literature & Education — Gujarat
52. Dr Santeshivara Bhyrappa — Literature & Education — Karnataka
53. Shri Haldar Nag — Literature & Education — Odisha
54. Shri Kameshwaram Brahma — Literature & Education -Journalism — Assam
55. Prof Pushpesh Pant — Literature & Education-Journalism — Delhi
56. Shri Jawaharlal Kaul — Literature & Education-Journalism — Jammu & Kashmir
57. Shri Ashok Malik — Literature & Education — Delhi
58. Dr Mannam Gopi Chand — Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery — Telangana
59. Prof Ravi Kant — Medicine-Surgery — Uttar Pradesh
60. Prof Ram Harsh Singh — Medicine- Ayurveda — Uttar Pradesh
61. Prof Shiv Narain Kureel — Medicine- Paediatric Surgery — Uttar Pradesh
62. Dr Sabya Sachi Sarkar — Medicine -Radiology — Uttar Pradesh
63. Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale — Medicine-Cardiac Surgery — Andhra Pradesh
64. Prof TK Lahiri — Medicine-Cardio Thoracic Surgery — Uttar Pradesh
65. Dr Praveen Chandra — Medicine-Cardiology — Delhi
66. Prof (Dr) Daljeet Singh Gambhir — Medicine-Cardiology — Uttar Pradesh
67. Dr Chandrasekar Shesadri Thoguluva — Medicine-Gastroenterology — Tamil Nadu
68. Dr (Mrs) Anil Kumari Malhotra — Medicine-Homeopathy — Delhi
69. Prof MV Padma Srivastava — Medicine-Neurology — Delhi
70. Dr Sudhir V Shah — Medicine-Neurology — Gujarat
71. Dr MM Joshi — Medicine-Ophthalmology — Karnataka
72. Prof (Dr) John Ebnezar — Medicine-Orthopaedic Surgery — Karnataka
73. Dr Nayudamma Yarlagadda — Medicine-Paediatric Surgery — Andhra Pradesh
74. Shri Simon Oraon — Other -Environment Conservation — Jharkhand
75. Shri Imitiaz Qureshi — Other-Culinary — Delhi
76. Shri Piyush Pandey — Others-Advertising & Communication — Maharashtra
77. Shri Subhash Palekar — Others-Farming — Maharashtra
78. Shri Ravinder Kumar Sinha — Others-Wildlife Conservation — Bihar
79. Dr HR Nagendra — Others-Yoga — Karnataka
80. Shri MC Mehta — Public Affairs — Delhi
81. Shri MN Krishna Mani — Public Affairs — Delhi
82. Shri Ujjwal Nikam — Public Affairs — Maharashtra
83. Shri Tokheho Sema — Public Affairs — Nagaland
84. Dr Satish Kumar — Science & Engineering — Delhi
85. Dr Mylswamy Annadurai — Science & Engineering — Karnataka
86. Prof Dipankar Chatterji — Science & Engineering — Karnataka
87. Prof(Dr) Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav — Science & Engineering — Maharashtra
88. Smt (Prof) Veena Tandon — Science & Engineering — Meghalaya
89. Shri Onkar Nath Srivastava — Science and Engineering — Uttar Pradesh
90. Ms Sunita Krishnan — Social Work — Andhra Pradesh
91. Shri Ajoy Kumar Dutta — Social Work — Assam
92. Shri M Pandit Dasa — Social Work — Karnataka
93. Shri PP Gopinathan Nair — Social Work — Kerala
94. Smt Madeleine Herman de Blic — Social Work — Puducherry
95. Shri Srinivasan Damal Kandalai — Social work — Tamil Nadu
96. Shri Sudhakar Olwe — Social Work — Maharashtra
97. Dr TV Narayana — Social Work — Telangana
98. Shri Arunachalam Murugantham — Social Work — Tamil Nadu
99. Ms Deepika Kumari — Sports-Archery — Jharkhand
100. S Shri Sushil Doshi — Sports-commentary — Madhya Pradesh
101. Shri Mahesh Sharma — Trade & Industry — Delhi
102. Shri Saurabh Srivastava — Trade & Industry — Delhi
103. Sh Dilip Sanghvi — Trade & Industry — Maharashtra
104. Dr Keki Hormusji Gharda — Trade & Industry — Maharashtra
105. Late Shri Prakash Chand Surana (Posthumous) — Art -Classical Music — Rajasthan
106. Late Shri Saeed Jaffrey (NRI/PIO/Posthumous) — Art-Cinema — UK
107. Shri Michael Postel (Foreigner) — Art-Archaeology — France
108. Shri Salman Amin Sal Khan (NRI/PIO) — Literature & Education — USA
109. Smt Hui Lan Zhang (Foreigner) — Others-Yoga — China
110. Shri Predrag K Nikic (Foreigner) — Others-Yoga — Serbia
111. Dr Sundar Aditya Menon (NRI/PIO) — Social Work — UAE
112. Shri Ajaypal Singh Banga (NRI/PIO) — Trade & Industry — US
Man Booker Prize 2016 Winner Han Kang
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| Man Booker Prize 2016 Winner Han Kang |
South Korean novelist Han Kang will share £50,000 prize with translator Deborah Smith, for ‘lyrical and lacerating’ story. Han Kang and her translator Deborah Smith, who only began learning Korean seven years ago, have beaten writers including Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and international bestseller Elena Ferrante to the Man Booker International prize.
2016 Han Kang South Korea
2015 Marlon James Jamaica
2014 Richard Flanagan Australia
2013 Eleanor Catton New Zealand
2012 Hilary Mantel United Kingdom
2011 Julian Barnes United Kingdom
2010 Howard Jacobson United Kingdom
2009 Hilary Mantel United Kingdom
2008 Aravind Adiga India
2007 Anne Enright Ireland
2006 Kiran Desai India
2005 John Banville Ireland
2004 Alan Hollinghurst United Kingdom
2003 DBC Pierre Australia
2002 Yann Martel Canada
2001 Peter Carey Australia
2000 Margaret Atwood Canada
1997 Arundhati Roy India
Miss Universe Title Holders
2014 Paulina Vega Colombia
2013 Gabriela Isler Venezuela
2012 Olivia Culpo United States
2011 Leila Lopes Angola
2010 Ximena Navarrete Mexico
2009 Stefanía Fernández Venezuela
2008 Dayana Mendoza Venezuela
2007 Riyo Mori Japan
2006 Zuleyka Rivera Puerto Rico
2005 Natalie Glebova Canada
2004 Jennifer Hawkins Australia
2003 Amelia Vega Dominican Republic
2002 Justine Pasek Panama
2001 Denise Quinones Puerto Rico
2000 Lara Dutta India
1994 Sushmita Sen India
Miss World Title Holders
2015 Mireia Lalaguna Spain
2014 Rolene Strauss South Africa
2013 Megan Young Philippines
2012 Yu Wenxia China PR
2011 Ivian Sarcos Venezuela
2010 Alexandria Mills United States
2009 Kaiane Aldorino Gibraltar
2008 Ksenia Sukhinova Russia
2007 Zhang Zilin China PR
2006 Taťána Kuchařová Czech Republic
2005 Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir Iceland
2005 Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir Iceland
2003 Rosanna Davison Ireland
2002 Azra Akın Turkey
2001 Agbani Darego Nigeria
2000 Priyanka Chopra India
1999 Yukta Mookhey India
1997 Diana Hayden India
1994 Aishwarya Rai India
1966 Reita Faria India
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