Book: First Citizen: Pranab Mukherjee in Rashtrapati Bhavan

Published by _____ Week Magazine

Book: Blood Feud
authored by _____ Edward Klein
Book: A Bad Character
authored by _____ Deepti Kapoor.
Book: The Substance and the Shadow
authored by _____ Udaya Tara Nayar (an autobiography of Dilip Kumar)
Book: Getting India Back on Track
authored by_____Narendra Modi
Book: Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths
authored by _____PC Parakh
Book: The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh
authored by ______Dr. Sanjaya Baru
Book: Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership
written by ______Pavan Choudary .
Book: Rationalised Roman for Kashmiri
written by _____Dr. R L Bhat
Book: Narendra Modi: A Political Biography
written by ____ Andy Marino.
Book: Public Issues Before Parliament
written by ______Vijay Darda
Book: The Political Economy of Energy and Growth
authored by ______Sh. Najeeb Jung
Book: India at Risk:
authored by _____ Jaswant Singh.
Book - ModiNomics: Inclusive Economics, Inclusive Governance:
authored by _____Sameer Kochhar.
Book: Water, Peace and War - Confronting the Global Water Crisis
written by ____Brahma Chellaney.

Mr. Narendra Modi :Chairman, Planning Commission.
Mrs. Sumitra Mahajan :Speaker, Lok Sabha.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari :Chairman, Rajya Sabha.
Mr. P. J. Kurien :Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha.
Mr. Arun Jaitley :Leader of House (Rajya Sabha).
Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad :Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha).
Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia :Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission.
Mr. V. S. Sampath :Chief Election Commissioner
Mr. Harishankar Brahma :Election Commissioner.
Syed Nasim Zaidi :Election Commissioner.
Mr. Shashi Kant Sharma :Comptroller and Auditor-Generalof India.
Mr. Justice K. G. Balakrishnan :Chairperson, National Human Right Commission (NHRC)
Mr. Ajit Kumar Seth :Cabinet Secretary.
Mr. Nripendra Misra :Principal Secretary to Prime Minister.
Justice V. Eshwaraiah :Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes.
Ms. Shanta Sinha :Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
Dr. P. L. Punia :Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes
Dr. Rameshwar Oraon :Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST).
Prof. D. P. Agrawal :Chairman, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
Dr. M. S. Swaminathan :Chairman, National Commission on Farmers (NCF).
Mr. Ajit Kumar Doval :National Security Adviser and Special Adviser to PM (Internal Security).
Mr. Sharad Kumar :Director-General, National Investigation Agency (NIA)
Mr. Arunendra Kumar :Chairman, Railway Board.
Mr. Shumsher K. Sheriff :Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha
Mr. T. K. Viswanathan :Secretary-General, Lok Sabha.
Mr. Syed Asif Ibrahim :Director, Intelligence Bureau (IB).
Mr. Ranjit Sinha :Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Mr. Alok Joshi :Director, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
Mr. Jayanto Narayan Choudhury :Director-General, National Security Guard (NSG).
Mr. Dilip Trivedi :Director-General, CRPF.
Mr. Devendra Kumar Pathak :Director-General, Border Security Force (BSF).
Mr. Arvind Ranjan :Director-General, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
Current Affairs of 23,24 July

1) Which public-sector undertaking (PSU) on 23 July 2014 became the 17th Navratna status company?
Ans Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR)

2) What is Indias Human Development Index (HDI) rank in the recently released Human Development
Report (HDR) 2014?
Ans 135 out of 187 countries

3) Who was during July 2014 chosen as the head of the committee formed to review the previous UPA
governments decision to raise the price of natural gas that would have led to a cascading effect on power
tariff, urea costs and retail price of piped cooking gas?
Ans Suresh Prabhu

4) Who won the first gold medal for India at the 20th Commonwealth Games being held at Glasgow,
Scotland?
Ans K. Sanjita Chanu, woman weightlifter

5) An Air Algerie passenger aircraft en-route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers crashed on 24
July 2014 killing 116 people on-board. This crash took place in deserts of which country?
Ans Mali

6) Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene smashed an unbeaten 140 against South Africa on the first
day of the second Test against South Africa at Singhala Sports Club (SCC) ground in Colombo on 24 July
2014. What unique record Mahela achieved with this century at SCC?
Ans This was his 11th century at SCC ground, which is the most by any batsman at a single venue