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PRESIDENTS OF INDIA

PRESIDENTS OF INDIA President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind  (Birth-1945) July 25, 2017 - Incumbent Former Presidents of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee   (birth - 1935) Term of Office: 25 July 2012 to 25 July 2017 Smt Pratibha Devisingh Patil (birth - 1934) Term of Office: 25 July 2007 to 25 July 2012 DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (1931-2015) Term of Office: 25 July 2002 to 25 July 2007 Shri K. R. Narayanan (1920 - 2005) Term of Office: 25 July 1997 to 25 July 2002 Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918-1999) Term of Office: 25 July 1992 to 25 July 1997 Shri R Venkataraman (1910-2009) Term of Office: 25 July 1987 to 25 July 1992 Giani Zail Singh (1916-1994) Term of Office: 25 July 1982 to 25 July 1987 Shri Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913-1996) Term of Office: 25 July 1977 to 25 July 1982 Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905-1977) Term of Office: 24 August 1974 to 11 February 1977 Shri Varahagiri Venkata Giri (1894-1980) Term of Office:...

Lt. Governors and Administrators of Union Territories, India

Lt. Governors and Administrators of Union Territories, India Union Territory : Lt . Governor & Administrator Andaman and Nicobar Island ( UT ) : Admiral (Retd.) D.K. Joshi (Lieutenant Governor) Chandigarh ( UT ) : Shri.V.P. Singh Badnore (Administrator) Dadra and Nagar Haveli ( UT ) : Shri Praful Patel (Administrator) Daman and Diu ( UT ) : Shri Praful Patel (Administrator) Delhi ( NCT ) : Shri Anil Baijal (Lieutenant Governor) Lakshadweep ( UT ) : Shri Farooq Khan, IPS, (Retd.) (Administrator) Puducherry ( UT ) : Dr. Kiran Bedi, IPS, (Retd.) (Lieutenant Governor) Source: www.india.gov.in   (as on 12th August, 2019)

THE 89th ACADEMY AWARDS , 2017

THE 89TH ACADEMY AWARDS | 2017 Sunday, February 26, 2017 (Honoring movies released in 2016) BEST PICTURE : Moonlight Adele Romanski , Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner , Producers ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Casey Affleck (Film: Manchester by the Sea) ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Emma Stone (Film: La La Land) ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Mahershala Ali (Film: Moonlight) ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Viola Davis (Film: Fences) ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Zootopia Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer CINEMATOGRAPHY La La Land Linus Sandgren COSTUME DESIGN Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Colleen Atwood DIRECTING La La Land Damien Chazelle DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE) O.J .: Made in America Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT) The White Helmets Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara FILM EDITING Hacksaw Ridge John Gilbert FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM The Salesman Iran; Directed by Asghar Farhadi MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING ...

NOBEL PRIZE 2017

NOBEL LAUREATES-2017 THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2017: Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne (America) "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves" THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2017: Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland) , Joachim Frank (USA) and Richard Henderson (U.K.) "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution" THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE 2017: Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young (America) "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm" THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2017: Kazuo Ishiguro (England) "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world" THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) "for its work to draw at...