• Chief of Air Staff: Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC
• Chief of Army Staff: General Vijay Kumar Singh, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADC
• Chief of Naval Staff: Admiral Nirmal Verma, PVSM, AVSM, ADC
• Chief of Integrated Defence Staff: Vice Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi, AVSM, YSM, NM, VSM

Cabinet Ministers

Serial Number|  Portfolio | Name of Minister
1. Prime Minister and also in-charge of the Ministries/Departments not specifically allocated to the charge of any Minister viz.:
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions,
Ministry of Planning,
Department of Atomic Energy and
Department of Space Dr. Manmohan Singh
2. Minister of Finance Shri Pranab Mukherjee
3. Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Food Processing Industries Shri Sharad Pawar
4. Minister of Defence Shri A.K. Antony
5. Minister of Home Affairs Shri P. Chidambaram
6. Minister of External Affairs Shri S.M. Krishna
7. Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Shri Virbhadra Singh
8. Minister of Science and Technology and
Minister of Earth Sciences Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh
9. Minister of Health and Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad
10. Minister of Power Shri Sushilkumar Shinde
11. Minister of Corporate Affairs Shri M. Veerappa Moily
12. Minister of New and Renewable Energy Dr. Farooq Abdullah
13. Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri S. Jaipal Reddy
14. Minister of Urban Development Shri Kamal Nath
15. Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and
Minister of Civil Aviation Shri Vayalar Ravi
16. Minister of Information and Broadcasting Smt. Ambika Soni
17. Minister of Labour and Employment Shri Mallikarjun Kharge
18. Minister of Human Resource Development and
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Shri Kapil Sibal
19. Minister of Commerce and Industry and
Minister of Textiles  Shri Anand Sharma
20. Minister of Road Transport and Highways  Shri C.P. Joshi
21. Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Minister of Culture Kumari Selja
22. Minister of Tourism Shri Subodh Kant Sahay
23. Minister of Shipping Shri G.K. Vasan
24. Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and
Minister of Water Resources Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal
25. Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Mukul Wasnik
26. Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Shri M.K. Alagiri
27. Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Shri Praful Patel
28. Minister of Coal Shri Shriprakash Jaiswal
29. Minister of Law and Justice and
Minister of Minority Affairs Shri Salman Khursheed
30. Minister of Tribal Affairs and
Minister of Panchayati Raj Shri V. Kishore Chandra Deo
31. Minister of Steel Shri Beni Prasad Verma
32. Minister of Railways Shri Dinesh Trivedi
33. Minister of Rural Development and Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation Shri Jairam Ramesh
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Ministers of State with Independent Charge
Serial Number Portfolio Name of Minister
1. Ministry of Mines Shri Dinsha J. Patel
2. Ministry of Women and Child Development Smt. Krishna Tirath
3. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Ajay Maken
4. Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Prof. K.V. Thomas
5. Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers Shri Srikant Jena
6. Ministry of Environment and Forests Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan
7. Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Shri Paban Singh Ghatowar
Ministers of State
Serial Number Portfolio Name of Minister
1. Ministry of External Affairs and
Ministry of Human Resource Development Shri E. Ahamed
2. Ministry of Home Affairs Shri Mullappally Ramachandran
3. Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and
Prime Minister’s Office Shri V. Narayanasamy
4. Ministry of Commerce and Industry Shri Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
5. Ministry of Human Resource Development Smt. D. Purandeswari
6. Ministry of Railways Shri K.H. Muniappa
7. Ministry of Textiles Smt. Panabaka Lakshmi
8. Ministry of Finance Shri Namo Narain Meena
9. Ministry of Defence Shri M.M. Pallam Raju
10. Ministry of Urban Development Shri Saugata Ray
11. Ministry of Finance Shri S.S. Palanimanickam
12. Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Shri Jitin Prasada
13. Ministry of External Affairs Smt. Preneet Kaur
14. Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Food Processing Industries and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Shri Harish Rawat
15. Ministry of Railways Shri Bharatsinh Solanki
16. Ministry of Tribal Affairs Shri Mahadev S. Khandela
17. Ministry of Rural Development Shri Sisir Adhikari
18. Ministry of Tourism Shri Sultan Ahmed
19. Ministry of Shipping Shri Mukul Roy
20. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Shri Choudhury Mohan Jatua
21. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Shri D. Napoleon
22. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Dr. S. Jagathrakshakan
23. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Shri S. Gandhiselvan
24. Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Shri Tusharbhai Chaudhary
25. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Shri Sachin Pilot
26. Ministry of Coal Shri Pratik Prakashbapu Patil
27. Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and
Ministry of Corporate Affairs Shri R.P.N. Singh
28. Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Minority Affairs Shri Vincent Pala
29. Ministry of Rural Development Shri Pradeep Jain
30. Ministry of Rural Development Ms. Agatha Sangma
31. Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Science and Technology and
Ministry of Earth Sciences Shri Ashwani Kumar
32. Ministry of Power Shri K.C. Venugopal
33. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Shri Sudip Bandyopadhyay
34. Ministry of Agriculture and
Ministry of Food Processing Industries Shri Charan Das Mahant
35. Ministry of Home Affairs Shri Jitendra Singh
36. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Shri Milind Deora
37. Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Shri Rajeev Shukla

President of India

Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil

Vice President of India

Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari

Prime Minister of India

Dr. Manmohan Singh

Chiefs of Defence Forces

• Chief of Air Staff: Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik, PVSM, VSM, ADC
• Chief of Army Staff: General Vijay Kumar Singh, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADC
• Chief of Naval Staff: Admiral Nirmal Verma, PVSM, AVSM, ADC
• Chief of Integrated Defence Staff: Air Marshal Suresh Chand Mukul, PVSM, AVSM, VM, VSM

Hon’ble Chief Justice  of India :

Mr. Justice S.H. Kapadia (38th and Present Chief Justice of India)

States and Chief Ministers

Governors

AN Tiwari ( Anugraha Narayan Tiwari) has appointed as the new Chief Information Commissioner of India .Tiwari, one of the senior-most Information Commissioners was elevated to the position of Chief of Central Information Commissioner.

The Chief Information Commissioner is chosen by a committee comprising the Prime Minister, the Leader of Opposition and a minister of the Union Cabinet.

Mary Kom-The one and only boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six World Championships.

Mangte Chungneijang Merykom also known as MC Mary Kom or Mary Kom, is a female boxer from Manipur, India.Mary Kom was born on March 1983 in Kangathei, CCpur Subdiv, Manipur. Mary Kom is also known as MC Mary Kom. Her full name is Mangte Chungneijang Merykom. Mary Kom is a female boxer from Manipur, India who is supported by Olympic Gold Quest. She was earlier an athlete and switched to boxing after the success of fellow Manipur boxer Dingko Singh. Mary Kom choose sport as a career to provide some financial support to her family.

Mary Kom Won World Boxing Championship Title in Bridgetown, Barbados on Saturday. This is the fifth consecutive win for Mary Kom in World Boxing Championship Title. Mary Kom defeated Romanian opponent Duta Seluta 16-6

Mary Kom had won earlier four title of World Boxing Championship in the 46kg category but this time Mary Kom won in the 48kg category. In semifinal Mari Kom had defeated Flilpino opponent Alice Appari 8-1.

Mary Kom is the only boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six World Championships. Sports minister MS Gill congratulated Indian woman boxer M C Mary Kom for winning fifth successive gold medal at the World Boxing Championships

Best Actor Award goes to Amitabh Bachchan for ‘Paa’,

Ananya Chatterjee wins Best Actress National Award for performance in film ‘Abohoman’,

National Award for Best Film goes to Malayam ‘Kutty Srank’,

Best Director is Rituparna Ghosh for Bengali film ‘Abohoman’

Arundhati Nag is Best Supporting Actress for ‘Paa’

Farooq Sheikh Best Supporting Actor for his role in ‘Lahore’

Best Popular Film, Director, Producer awards go to film ’3 Idiots’

Best Film on Social Issues goes to Shyam Benegal’s ‘Well done Abba’

Tamil film ‘Pandiraj’ wins award for Best Dialogue

Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi will succeed Navin Chawla as the new Chief Election Commissioner of India. He will take charge on July 30, when Chawla officially retires.

The 63-year-old, 1971 batch IAS officer was appointed new CEC on Tuesday by President Pratibha Patil as the senior-most Election Commissioner of the three-member Election Commission. Qureshi, who has already served as EC for more than four years, will have a little more than two years as CEC. He is also the first Muslim to be appointed CEC.

The Centre may appoint a woman IAS officer in Quraishi’s place as one of the other two Election Commissioners. V S Sampath, a 1973 batch officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, is the other EC.

State                                   Governor

Andhra Pradesh        Shri E.S Lakshmi Narasimhan

Arunachal Pradesh  General (Rtd.) J.J. Singh

Assam                Shri Janaki Ballav Pattanaik

Bihar                Shri Devanand Konwar

Chhattisgarh          Shri Shekhar Dutt

Goa                Dr. Shivinder Singh Sidhu

Gujarat        Dr. Kamla Beniwal

Haryana        Shri Jagannath Pahadia

Himachal Pradesh   Smt. Urmila Singh

Jammu and Kashmir  Shri N. N. Vohra

Jharkhand        Shri M.O.H Farook

Karnataka        Shri H.R. Bhardwaj

Kerala                Shri R.S. Gavai

Madhya Pradesh        Shri Rameshwar Thakur

Maharashtra        Shri K. Shankarnarayan

Manipur        Shri Gurbachan Jagat

Meghalaya        Shri Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary

Mizoram        Lt. Gen. (Retd.) M.M. Lakhera, PVSM,AVSM,VSM

Nagaland        Shri. Nikhil Kumar

Orissa                Shri Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare

Punjab                Shri Shivraj Patil

Rajasthan        Shri Shivraj Patil, Governor of Punjab (Additional Charge)

Sikkim                Shri Balmiki Prasad Singh

Tamil Nadu        Shri Surjit Singh Barnala

Tripura        Shri Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil

Uttar Pradesh        Shri B.L. Joshi

Uttarakhand        Smt. Margaret Alva

West Bengal        Shri M.K. Narayanan