Prime Minister of India and also in-charge of the Ministries/Departments:  Manmohan 1 Singh    Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and

Pensions Planning Commission Ministry of Culture Department of Atomic Energy  2 Pranab Mukherjee Department of Space 75 70 71 66 Lok West Bengal(Jangipur) Sabha Lok Maharashtra(Madha) Sabha Rajya Kerala Sabha Lok Tamil Nadu(Sivaganga) Sabha MA, LLB, DLitt (Calcutta University) B.Com LLB (Kerala University) LLB, MBA (Harvard) B.A. (Economics), M.A. (Political Science) Educated at Chennai Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu Law Graduate, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX and The George Washington University Law School, Washington D.C. Rajya 79 Assam Sabha BA Economics (Punjab University), MA (Cambridge), PhD (Oxford)

Minister of Finance

Minister of 3 Sharad Pawar Agriculture and Minister of Food Processing Industries 4 A K Antony 5 Minister of Defence

P Minister of Home Affairs Chidambaram

Kishore 6 Chandra Deo[1][2]

Minister of Tribal Affairs Minister of Panchayati Raj

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Lok Andhra Pradesh(Araku Sabha (ST))

7 S. M. Krishna

Minister of External Affairs

79

Rajya Karnataka Sabha

Virbhadra Singh

Minister of Micro, Small and Lok 77 Himachal Pradesh(Mandi) MA Medium Enterprises Sabha B.Sc. & B.A. from M.E.S Abasaheb Garware College, Pune University & L.L.B. from the ILS Law College, Pune University MSc

Vilasrao Deshmukh

Minister of Science and Technology Minister of Earth Sciences

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Rajya Maharashtra Sabha

10

Ghulam Nabi Azad

Minister of Health and Family Rajya 61 Jammu and Kashmir Welfare Sabha

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Sushilkumar Shinde

Minister of Power

70

Rajya Maharashtra, Solapur Sabha

LLB (Mumbai University)

Veerappa 12 Moily 13 Farooq Abdullah

B.A., B.L. Educated at Lok Government Law Minister of Corporate Affairs 71 Karnataka(Chikkballapur) Sabha College, Bangalore, Karnataka Minister of New and Renewable Energy Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister of Urban Development Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs andMinister of Civil Aviation Minister of Communications and Information Technology and Minister of Human Resource Development Minister of Information and Broadcasting 73 69 64 73 Lok Jammu and Sabha Kashmir (Srinagar) MBBS

14 Jaipal Reddy 15 Kamal Nath 16 Vayalar Ravi

Lok MA (Osmania Andhra Pradesh(Chevella) Sabha University) Lok Madhya Sabha Pradesh(Chindwada) Rajya Kerala Sabha B Com LLB

17 Kapil Sibal

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Lok Delhi (Chandni Chowk) Sabha Rajya Punjab Sabha

LLM (Harvard)

18 Ambika Soni

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B.A. (Hons.)

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Salman Khurshid

Minister of Law and Justice Minister of Minority Affairs

B.A. (English and Jurisprudence), M.A., B.C.L. Educated at St. Lok Stephen`s College, 58 Farrukhabad(Farrukhabad) Sabha Delhi and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. 69 60 57 53 Lok Karnataka(Gulbarga) Sabha Lok Rajasthan(Bhilwara) Sabha Rajya Himachal Pradesh Sabha Lok Maharashtra(BhandaraSabha Gondiya) Lok Haryana (Ambala) Sabha Lok Jharkhand(Ranchi) Sabha Lok Uttar Pradesh(Gonda) Sabha LLB Ph.D BA, LLB (Shimla) B Com

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Mallikarjun Kharge

Minister of Labour and Employment Minister of Road Transport and Highways Minister of Commerce and Industry Ministry of Textiles Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Minister of Culture and Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister of Tourism Minister of Steel

21 C. P. Joshi 22 Anand Sharma 23 Praful Patel

24 Kumari Selja

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MA, MPhil. B.Sc., LL.B. from (A N College, Patna andRanchi University) B.A.,LL.B. Educated at Lucknow University,

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Subodh Kant Sahay Beni Prasad Verma

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Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh 27 G K Vasan 28 Pavan Kumar Bansal Minister of Shipping Minister of Parliamentary Affairs 46 62 Rajya Tamil Nadu Sabha Lok Chandigarh, Chandigarh Sabha B.A. BSc, LLB MBA

29 Mukul Wasnik

Minister of Social Justice and Lok 50 Maharashtra(Ramtek) Empowerment Sabha

30 Dinesh Trivedi

Minister of Railways

B. Com, M.B.A. Educated at St. Lok Xavier`s College, 61 West Bengal(Barrackpore) Sabha Calcutta University and University of Texas, USA B.Tech., M.S. and Graduate Study Educated at I.I.T., Bombay, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. and M.I.T., U.S.A. B.A. (Presidency College, Chennai)[3] Intermediate (D.A.V. College, Kanpur)[4]

31 Jairam Ramesh

Minister of Rural Development

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Rajya Andhra Pradesh Sabha

32 M. K. Azhagiri 33 Shriprakash Jaiswal

Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister of Coal

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Lok Tamil Nadu(Madurai) Sabha Lok Uttar Pradesh(Kanpur) Sabha

The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body in India. Founded in 1919, the Parliament alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all political bodies in India. The Parliament of India comprises the President and the two Houses, Lok Sabha (House of the People) and Rajya Sabha (Council of States). The President has the power to summon and prorogue either House of Parliament or to dissolve Lok Sabha.[9] The parliament is bicameral, with an upper house called as Council of States or Rajya Sabha, and a lower house called as House of People or Lok Sabha. The two Houses meet in separate chambers in the Sansad Bhavan (located on the Sansad Marg), in New Delhi. The Members of either house are commonly referred to as Members of Parliament or MP. The MPs of Lok Sabha are elected by direct election and the MPs of Rajya Sabha are elected by the members of the State Legislative Assemblies and Union territories of Delhi and Pondicherry only in accordance with proportional voting. The Parliament is composed of 802 MPs, who serve the largest democratic electorate in the world and the largest transnational democratic electorate in the world (714 million eligible voters in 2009)

The Qutub Minar (Urdu:

) is a tower located in Delhi, India. It is the world's tallest

[citation needed]

brick minaret with a height of 72.5 meters (237.8 ft)

. Prithviraj Chauhan built Qutub minar for

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his daugther to see Yamuna, but later, Construction commenced by Qutb-ud-din Aibak who won Delhi from Prithviraj under Muhammad Ghori as his commander in chief, and finished by Iltutmish .

The Qutub Minar is notable for being one of the earliest and most prominent examples of Indo-Islamic architecture. It is surrounded by several other ancient and medieval structures and ruins, collectively known as Qutub complex. Qutab Minar is the nearest station on the Delhi Metro. A picture of the minaret also features on the Travel Cards issued by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.

The Red Fort (Hindi:

, Urdu:

, usually transcribed into English as Lal Qil'ah or Lal Qila)

is a 17th century fort complex constructed by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the walled city of Old Delhi (in present day Delhi, India) that served as the residence of the Mughal Emperors. It also served as the capital of the Mughals until 1857, when Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled by the British Indian government. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.[1] Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, started construction of the massive fort in 1638 and work was completed in 1648 (10 years).[2] The Red Fort was originally referred to as "Qila-i-Mubarak" (the blessed fort), because it was the residence of the royal family. The layout of the Red Fort was organised to retain and integrate this site with the Salimgarh Fort. The fortress palace was an important focal point of the medieval city of Shahjahanabad. The planning and aesthetics of the Red Fort represent the zenith of Mughal creativity which prevailed during the reign of Emperor Shah Jahan. This Fort has had many developments added on after its construction by Emperor Shahjahan. The significant phases of development were under Aurangzeb and later Mughal rulers. Important physical changes were carried out in the overall settings of the site after the Indian Mutiny in 1857. After Independence, the site experienced a few changes in terms of addition/alteration to the structures. During the British period the Fort was mainly used as a cantonment and even after Independence, a significant part of the Fort remained under the control of the Indian Army until the year 2003. The Red Fort is an attraction for tourists from around the world. The Red Fort was the palace for Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's new capital, Shahjahanabad (present day Old Delhi), the seventh city in the Delhi site. He moved his capital here from Agra in a move designed to bring prestige to his reign, and to provide ample opportunity to apply his ambitious building schemes and interests.

The fort lies along the Yamuna River, which fed the moats that surround most of the wall. The wall at its north-eastern corner is adjacent to an older fort, the Salimgarh Fort, a defence built by Islam Shah Suri in 1546.The construction of the Red Fort began in 1638 and was completed by 1648. A treaty signed in 1752 made Marathas the protector of the Mughal throne at Delhi.[3] In 1761, after the Marathas lost the third battle of Panipat, Delhi was raided by Ahmed Shah Abdali. In 1803, the forces of British East India Company overran the Maratha forces near Delhi and ended the Mughal rule over the city.[4] The last Mughal emperor to occupy the fort was Bahadur Shah II "Zafar". Despite being the seat of Mughal power and its defensive capabilities, the Red Fort was not defended during the 1857 uprising against the British. After the failure of the 1857 rebellion, Zafar left the fort on 17 September. He returned to Red Fort as a prisoner of the British. Zafar was tried on in a trial starting on 27 January 1858, and was exiled on 7 October.

The Jantar Mantar is a collection of architectural astronomical instruments, built by Maharaja (King) Jai Singh II at his then new capital ofJaipur between 1727 and 1734. It is modeled after the one that he had built for him at the Mughal capital of Delhi. He had constructed a total of five such facilities at different locations, including the ones at Delhi and Jaipur. The Jaipur observatory is the largest and best preserved of these. It has been inscribed on the World Heritage List as "an expression of the astronomical skills and cosmological concepts of the court of a scholarly prince at the end of the Mughal period".[1] Early restoration work was undertaken under the supervision of Major Arthur Garrett, a keen amateur astronomer, during his appointment as Assistant State Engineer for the Jaipur District.[2]

The India Gate is the national monument of India. Situated in the heart of New Delhi, India Gate was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, inspired by Arch de Triumph in Paris. It was built in 1931. Originally known as All India War Memorial, it is a prominent landmark in Delhi and commemorates the 90,000 soldiers of the Indian Army who lost their lives while fighting for the Indian Empire, or more correctly the British Raj inWorld War I and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. It is composed of red and pale sand stone and granite. Originally, a Statue of King George V had stood under the now-vacant canopy in front of the India Gate, and was removed to Coronation Parkwith other statues. Following India's independence, India Gate became the site of the Indian Army's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, known asAmar Jawan Jyoti (The flame of the immortal soldier).

The Bah' House of Worship in Delhi, India, popularly known as the Lotus Temple due to its flowerlike shape, is a Bah' House of Worship and also a prominent attraction in Delhi. It was completed in 1986 and serves as the Mother Temple of the Indian subcontinent. It has won numerous architectural awards and been featured in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles.
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[edit]Worship As with all other Bah' Houses of Worship, the Lotus Temple is open to all regardless of religion, or any other distinction, as emphasized in Bah' texts. The Bah' laws emphasize that the spirit of the House of Worship be that it is a gathering place where people of all religions may worship Godwithout denominational restrictions.[2] The Bah' laws also stipulate that only the holy scriptures of the Bah' Faith and other religions can be read or chanted inside in any language; while readings and prayers can be set to music by choirs, no musical instruments can be played inside. Furthermore no sermons can be delivered, and there can be no ritualistic ceremonies practiced.[2]