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List Of Administrators Of Chandigarh ...
The Administrator of Chandigarh is appointed by the President of India under article 239 of the Constitution of India. Since 1984, the Governor of Punjab has acted as the administrator of Chandigarh. The official residence is Raj Bhavan, Punjab in Chandigarh. Chief commissioners Administrators of Chandigarh See also * Governors in India References * http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_states.html External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Administrators of Chandigarh Chandigarh-related lists Chandigarh Chandigarh Chandigarh is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. Situated near the foothills of the Shivalik range of Himalayas, it borders Haryana to the east and Punjab in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of Chief Ministers Of Kerala
The chief minister of Kerala is the head of government, chief executive of the Indian state of Kerala. ''De facto'' executive authority rests with the Chief Minister (India), chief minister. Following elections to the Kerala Legislative Assembly, the Governor of Kerala, state's governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the chief minister, whose Cabinet (government), council of ministers are Cabinet collective responsibility, collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits. Following India's independence from the British Raj in 1947, the states' monarchs of Travancore (തിരുവിതാംകൂർ - Thiruvithāmkōr) and Kingdom of Cochin, Cochin (കൊച്ചി - Kochi) instituted a measure of representative government, headed by a prime minister and his council of ministers. On 1 July 1949 Travancore and Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arjun Singh 1998 New Delhi
Arjun or Arjuna may refer to a person from Mahabharata People * Arjun (name), a common male given name (including a list of persons with the name) * Arjuna, a figure in the Hindu epic ''Mahabharata'' * Kartavirya Arjuna, a character in Hindu mythology * Arjun (Firoz Khan) (fl. 1984–2016), Indian actor * Arjun (singer) (born 1990), Arjun Coomaraswamy, British-Sri Lankan singer-songwriter * Arjun Prabhakaran, Indian film director and writer Arts and entertainment Books * Arjun (character), a fictional young detective from a book series by Samaresh Majumdar * Arjun (''The Vampire Chronicles''), a fictional character in novels by Anne Rice Films * ''Arjun'' (1985 film), a 1985 Hindi film * ''Arjun'' (2004 film), a 2004 Telugu film * ''Arjun'' (2008 film), a 2008 Kannada film * ''Arjun'' (2011 film), a 2011 Marathi film * '' Arjun: The Warrior Prince'', a 2012 animated film * '' Arjun: Kalimpong E Sitaharan'', a 2013 Bengali film * Arjun, a fictional child character in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Om Prakash Verma
Om Prakash Verma (20 March 1937 – 8 December 2015) was an Indian politician. He was the Governor of Punjab (2003–04), Governor of Haryana (briefly during July 2004), Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court and the chairman of the Himachal Pradesh Human Rights Commission. He was born in Garhmukteshwar District, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In .... He was also the Lokayukta of Himachal Pradesh before taking over the Governorship of Punjab. He read law at the Campus Law Centre of the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. References Governors of Haryana 2015 deaths Governors of Punjab, India 20th-century Indian judges 1937 births Ombudsmen in India Chief justices of the Kerala High Court People from Ghaziabad district, India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
JFR Jacob
Lieutenant General Jack Farj Rafael Jacob (2May 1921 – 13January 2016) was a prominent Indian military officer. He was best known for his role in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. Jacob, then a major general, served as the chief of staff of the Indian Army's Eastern Command. During his 36-year long career in the army, Jacob fought in World War II and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He later served as the governor of the Indian states of Goa and Punjab. Early life Jacob was born in Calcutta to a deeply religious Baghdadi Jewish family originally from Iraq which had settled in Calcutta in the mid-19th century. His father, Elias Emanuel, was an affluent businessman. After his father became sick, Jacob was sent at the age of nine to Victoria Boys' School, a boarding school in Kurseong near Darjeeling. From then on, he went home only during school holidays. Jacob, motivated by reports of the Holocaust of European Jews during World War II, enlisted in the British Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar
Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar (born 16 January 1935) is a former chief justice of the Punjab & Haryana High Court in January 1994. Later he became a judge of the Supreme Court of India in March 1996 and retired in January 2000. He was earlier a judge in the Bombay High Court. He was acting Governor of Punjab from July to September 1994. See also * List of governors of Punjab (India) This is a list of the governors of Punjab state in India since 1 April 1849 its partition on 15 August 1947. Since 1985, the governor of Punjab has acted as the administrator of Chandigarh. There are 32 governors with additional charge. Befor ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kurdukar, Sudhakar Panditrao Governors of Punjab, India 1935 births Justices of the Supreme Court of India Chief justices of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Judges of the Bombay High Court Living people 20th-century Indian judges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Surendra Nath
Surendra Nath (1926 – 9 July 1994) was the Governor of Punjab from August 1991 to July 1994. He also held additional charge as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh from November 1993 to July 1994. He was a career Indian Police Service The Indian Police Service (IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became Partition of India, independent from the British Empire. Along with the Indian Admini ... officer. He died in an aeroplane crash in 1994, still in office as governor. His father was Mahashe Rajpal, publisher of Rangila Rasul. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Nath, Surendra Governors of Punjab, India Governors of Himachal Pradesh Indian police officers 1926 births 1994 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Om Prakash Malhotra
General Om Prakash Malhotra, (6 August 1922 – 29 December 2015), best known as OP Malhotra, was a senior army officer in the Indian Army who served as the 10th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 19781981. Upon retiring from his military service in India, he served in the Indian Foreign Service when he tenured as the Indian Ambassador to Indonesia 1981–1984, and later served as a political administrator in India as the Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh 1990–1991. Early life Om Prakash Malhotra was born on 6 August 1922 in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, British India, into a Punjabi Hindu Khatri family of the Malhotra clan, within the Dhai Ghar family-group originally belongs to Lahore. Malhotra received his schooling first at Model High School, Srinagar, and then at Sri Pratap College, Srinagar. He then attended Government College University, Lahore, before being selected to join the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dera Doon. Military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Virendra Verma
Virendra Verma (18 September 1916 – 2 May 2009) was an Indian politician, born in Shamli, Uttar Pradesh. He served as the Governor of Punjab and the Administrator of Chandigarh (1990) as well as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh (1990–1993). Personal life Virendra Verma was educated in J.H. School in Shamli, then DAV/SD High School in Muzaffarnagar and after his graduation attained an L.L.B. in 1943 from Meerut College, Meerut. Verma married Rameshwari Devi in June 1940 and together had one son and two daughters. He had special interests in education, agriculture, and sports (including wrestling, volleyball, and field hockey - the latter two of which he captained while in college). Additionally, Verma took deep interest in the uplifting of farmers, Mazdoors, backward classes/scheduled castes, and Harijans. He had, in his career, visited the U.S., Canada, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, England, the Netherlands, France, West Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nirmal Mukarji
Nirmal Kumar Mukarji (9 January 1921 – 29 August 2002) was an Indian administrator and the last member of the Indian Civil Service to serve. In the course of a long career he was Home Secretary, Cabinet Secretary, and eventually Governor of Punjab. Born in Delhi to Satyanand Mukarji, Principal of St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Mukarji was educated at St. Stephen's and subsequently entered the ICS at the top of the last intake, in 1943. In the ICS Assigned to the Punjab cadre, he was assigned as the confidential secretary of the Governor of Punjab, a post that he held till Independence in 1947. As part of the assignment, he was privy to most discussions involving the Partition of the Punjab between India and Pakistan, and part of the team that divided government resources between the two new Punjabs. Choosing to join India in 1947, he was appointed District Collector in a number of sensitive border districts, particularly Ferozepur. After serving his time in the districts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Siddhartha Shankar Ray
Siddhartha Shankar Ray (20 October 1920 – 6 November 2010) was an Indian lawyer, diplomat and Indian National Congress politician from West Bengal. In his political career he held a number of offices, including Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–77), Union Minister of Education (1971–72), Governor of Punjab (1986–89) and Indian Ambassador to the United States (1992–96). He was, at one point, the main troubleshooter for the Congress Party. Biography Ray was born in a Bengali Baidya family. Ray's father, Sudhir Kumar Ray, was a well-known barrister of Calcutta High Court and a member of the Indian National Congress and his mother Aparna Devi, was the elder daughter of the barrister and nationalist leader Chittaranjan Das and Basanti Devi grew up in England. Ray's sister is Justice Manjula Bose (1930–2016) who was a senior judge of the Calcutta High Court; along with Padma Khastagir, she was one of the first female judges of the Calcutta High Court. Ray was al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
