S.No.
Name
From
To
Sukumar Sen
1950
1958
Kalyan Sundaram
1958
1967
S. P. Sen Verma
1967
1972
1973
T. Swaminathan
1973
1977
S. L. Shakdhar
1977
1982
R. K. Trivedi
1982
1986
R. V. S. Peri Sastri
1986
1990
V. S. Ramadevi
1990
1990
10
T. N. Seshan
1990
1996
11
M. S. Gill
1996
2002
12
J. M. Lyngdoh
2002
2004
13
T. S. Krishnamurthy 2004
2005
S.No.
Name
From
To
14
B. B. Tandon
2005
2006
15
N. Gopalaswami
2006
2009
14
Navin Chawla
2009
2010
15
S. Y. Quraishi
2010
2012
16
V. S. Sampath
2012
incumbent
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
MS Gill
JM Lyngdoh
TS Krishna Murthy
BB Tandon
N Gopalaswami
Navin Chawla
S.Y. Qureshi
V. S. Sampath
Dr. Syed Nasim
Ahmad Zaidi
Sl.No
Vice - President
Duration
President
Dr.SarvepalliRadhakrishnan
13 May 1952
12 May 1962
13 May 1962
13 May 1967
13 May 1967
3 May 1969
JusticeMuhammad
Hidayatullah
1 September 1969
1 September 1974
1 September 1974
25 July 1977
25 August 1977
25 July 1982
RamaswamyVenkataraman
7 25 August 1982
25 July 1987
3 September 1987
24 July 1992
Ramaswamy Venkataraman
10
Krishan Kant
11
Bhairon SinghShekhawat
12
21 August 1992
24 July 1997
21 August 1997
27 July 2002
19 August 2002
21 July 2007
11 August 2007
Year tenure
General of India
began
V. Narahari Rao
1948
1954
A. K. Chanda
1954
1960
A. K. Roy
1960
1966
S. Ranganathan
1966
1972
A. Bakshi
1972
1978
Gian Prakash
1978
1984
T. N. Chaturvedi
1984
1990
C. G. Somiah
1990
1996
V. K. Shunglu
1996
2002
10 VN Kaul
2002
2008
11 Vinod Rai
2008
2013
2013
Lok Sabha
First meeting
Dissolution
Speaker
Ganesh Vasudev
Mavalankar
13 May, 1952
Tenure
15 May, 1952-27 February, 1956
4 April, 1957
M. Ananthasayanam
Ayyangar
10 May, 1957
31 March, 1962
M. Ananthasayanam
Ayyangar
16 April, 1962
3 March, 1967
Hukam Singh
16 March, 1967
7 December, 1970
Gurdial Singh Dhillon
K. S. Hegde
19 March, 1971
25 March, 1977
18 January, 1977
22 August, 1979
31 December,
1984
15 January, 1985
27 November,
1989
18 December,
1989
13 March, 1991
Ravi Ray
9 July, 1991
10 May, 1996
Shivraj V. Patil
4 Dec., 1997
P. A. Sangma
26 April, 1999
G. M. C. Balayogi
G. M. C. Balayogi
Manohar Joshi
Thirteenth Lok
Sabha
Fourteenth Lok
Sabha
2 June, 2004
Somnath Chatterjee
First in india:
1. British Governor General of Bengal
Warren Hastings
2.
Lord Mountbatten
4. Cosmonaut
Babar
6. Field Marshal
S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
C. Rajagopalachari
Sri S. P. Sinha
Mihir Sen
Tenzing Norgay
Phu Dorjee
Nwang Gombu
W. C. Banerjee
Indira
Lord Canning
G. V. Mavlankar
Bachhendri Pal
Kalpana Chawla
34.
Karnam Malleshwari
(Sydney, in 2000)
Vishwanathan Anand
Sonali Banerjee
G. M. C. Balyogi
Krishna Kant
Mithali Raj
(August 2002 playing against England)
P. Bandopadhyaya
42.
43.
44.
K. J. Udeshi
(appointed on June 10, 2003)
45.
46.
47.
Kanchan C. Bhattacharya
(DGP Uttarakhand)
53.
54.
55.
Bula Chaudhury
56.
Dharmendra Yadav
(Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP)
58. India's first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title
Vijaypath Singhania
(Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.)
60.
61.
Letika Saran
Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006)
63.
64.
Acid Rain : The name given to rain, snow or sleet contaminated with acid substances so that its acidity is greater
than the limit expected by normal concentrations of carbondioxide dissolved in the rain to give carbonic acid. The
increased acidity is caused by larger concentrations of a number of contaminants, particularly the strong acids,
nitric and sulphuric which arise from industrial effluents containing oxides, nitrogen and sulphur.
Alluvium : Sedimentary matter deposited by rivers. It makes the soil fertile.
Milky way : A band of stars, gas and dust across the night sky.
Ocean Currents : These are great circulatory movements of ocean either warm or cold and are caused by (i)
permanent winds, i.e., trade and westernly winds; and (ii) by difference in density of sea water.
Oceans : 71% of the total area of the earth is covered by water. In the ancient times, these oceans were
regarded as great hindrance in the development of relations between different countries. But now these have
become great highways for transportation.
Orbit : The path of the earth or any other planet round the sun is called its orbit.
Photosphere : The bright surface layer of gases on the sun.
Pampas : Dreary expanse of treeless grassy plains between the Andes and the Atlantic ocean.
Prairies : Extensive treeless tracts, covered with tall coarse grass, situated ill Central and North America.
Rainbow : It is an arch in the sky, caused by the reflection and refraction of breaking up of the rays of the sun by
tiny droplets of rain suspended in air.
Satellite : Natural satellites also called :moons are small planets which revolve round the larger ones.
Savannas : Land covered with natural grass in the tropical region from 5 N and 5C of equator to 23 N and 30
S.
Selvas : The plains covered with thick forests near the river Amazon (Brazil) in South America.
Tides : Tides are the alternate rise and fall of the sea water. The tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the
moon and to a lesser degree of the sun.
Volcano : It is large conical hillock having a funnel-shaped opening from which lava comes out. Cotapaxi is a
lofty active volcano in South America.
Finance Commissions ]
So far 14 Finance Commissions have been appointed which are as follows:
Chairman
Operational Duration
First
1951
K. C. Neogy
195257
Second
1956
K. Santhanam
195762
Third
1960
A.K. Chanda
196266
Fourth
1964
P. V. Rajamannar
196669
Fifth
1968
Mahaveer Tyagi
Sixth
1972
Seventh
1977
J.M. Shelat
197984
Eighth
1983
Y. B. Chavan
198489
Ninth
1987
N.K.P. Salve
198995
Tenth
1992
K.C. Pant
19952000
Eleventh
1998
A.M.Khusro
20002005
Twelfth
2003
C. Rangarajan
20052010
Thirteenth
2007
20102015
Fouteenth
2012
Dr. Y. V Reddy
20152020
LAW COMMISSIONS:
First Mr. M. C. Setalvad, as its Chairman. 1955
Second
Law
Commis
sion
1958-61
Third
Law
Commis
sion
1961-64
196974
Fourth
Law
Commis
sion
1964-68
Fifth
Law
Commis
sion
1968-71
Mr. K. V. K. Sundaram, I. C. S.
Sixth
Law
Commis
sion
1971-74
Seventh
Law
Commis
sion
1974-77
Eighth
Law
Commis
sion
1977-79
Ninth
Law
Commis
sion
1979-80
Tenth
Law
Commis
sion
1981-85
Eleventh 1985-88
Law
Commis
sion
Twelfth
Law
Commis
sion
1988-91
Thirteen
th Law
Commis
sion
1991-94
Fourtee
nth Law
1995-97
Commis
sion
Fifteent
h Law
Commis
sion
19972000
Sixteent
h Law
Commis
sion
20002001
20022003
Ninetee
nth Law
Commis
sion
20092012
20th
2012 to
2015
(21.11.2
013)