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Current Affairs May 2011

01. Who is the New Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh ?

01. N. Tingkhatra
02. Dorjee Khandu
03. Garbom Gamlin
04. None of these

Question was not answered

02. When the Osama bin Laden Dead ?

01. May 3rd 2011
02. April 30th 2011
03. May 2nd 2011
04. May 1st 2011

Question was not answered

03. Where the Osama Bin Laden killed by US Army ?

01. Peshawar
02. Taliban
03. Abbottabad
04. Jaffarabad

Question was not answered

04. When Arunachal Pradesh CM Dorjee Khandu Dead ?

01. 2 May 2011
02. 5th May 2011
03. 4th May 2011
04. 3rd May 2011

Question was not answered

05. Where the Arunachal Pradesh CM helicopter missing ?

01. Itanagar
02. Bhutan
03. Tawang
04. Arunachal Pradesh

Question was not answered

06. When the PSLV-C16 Resourcesat-2 mission Rocket launched successfully in Space ?

01. 20th April 2011
02. 29th April 2011
03. 28th April 2011
04. 22th April 2011

Question was not answered

07. Who is the double century of IPL 2011 ?

01. Sachin Tendulkar
02. Gayle
03. Virender Sehwag
04. Virat Kohli

Question was not answered

08. 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was won by ?

01. Australia
02. Sri Lalanka
03. Pakistan
04. India

Question was not answered

09. The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup opening ceremony was held in ?

01. Eden Gardens, Kolkata
02. M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
03. Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
04. Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi

Question was not answered

10. Who Was the first bowler of these 2 hat-tricks in cricket World Cup ?

01. Yuvaraj Singh
02. Tim Southee
03. Robin Peterson
04. Lasith Malinga

Question was not answered

11. When the International Labour Day ?

01. 11th May
02. 2nd May
03. 1st May
04. 21st May

Question was not answered

12. When the Press Freedom Day ?

01. May 4th
02. May 23rd
03. May 13th
04. May 3rd

Question was not answered

13. When the International Energy Day ?

01. May 30th
02. May 13th
03. May 3rd
04. May 14th

Question was not answered

14. When the World Red Cross Day date ?

01. May 10th
02. May 15th
03. May 18th
04. May 8th

Question was not answered

15. When the National Technology Day ?

01. May 7th
02. May 9th
03. May 12th
04. May 11th

Question was not answered

16. When we celebrate International Nurse Day ?

01. May 14th
02. May 13th
03. May 12th
04. May 11th

Question was not answered

17. When the International Day Of the family ?

01. May 5th
02. May 17th
03. May 15th
04. May 18th

Question was not answered

18. When World Telecom Day ?

01. May 12th
02. May 15th
03. May 17th
04. None of these

Question was not answered

19. When the Commonwealth Day celebrate ?

01. May 17th
02. May 16th
03. May 24th
04. May 27th

Question was not answered

20. When Anti tobacco Day ?

01. May 31st
02. May 21st
03. May 12st
04. May 22nd

General Awareness of Andhrabank Clerk Questions

01. The Official mascot for the 2011 Cricket World Cup ?

01. Shera
02. Stumpy
03. Zakumi
04. Tiger
05. None of these

Question was not answered

02. The official song of the 2011 World Cup "Dc Ghuma Ke" was composed by ?

01. Zakir Hussain
02. A.R.Rahman
03. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
04. Sivamaui
05. None of these

Question was not answered

03. The official event ambassador for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 is ?

01. Sachin Tendulkar
02. Mahendra Singh Dhoni
03. Amitabh Bachchan
04. Aishwzuya Rai
05. None of these

Question was not answered

04. The Final match of 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was held between ?

01. India and Australia
02. India and Bangladesh
03. India and Pakistan
04. India and Sri Lanka
05. None of these

Question was not answered

05. The tenth Cricket World Cup was held in ?

01. 2007
02. 2015
03. 2011
04. 2003
05. None of these

Question was not answered

06. Who has been selected for the prestigious Dr.Y.Nayudamma Memorial Award for the year 2011, for his contribution to Science & Technology ?

01. Acharya Gowth Jasmok
02. K. Radhakrishnan
03. V.K.Sa.raswat
04. S.S.Mcn0n
05. A.R.J Abdul Kalam

Question was not answered

07. Who has been appointed as the first woman secretary general of SAARC ?

01. Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed
02. Sheikh Hasina Wazcd
03. Khaleda Zia
04. Chundxika Kumarutunga
05. Name of thsse

Question was not answered

08. The corpus allocated for Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) for 2011-12 is ?

01. Rs.16000
02. Rs.17000
03. Rs.18000
04. Rs. 19000
05. None of those

Question was not answered

09. Who is the author of the book "Great Soul Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India ?

01. Joseph Lelyveld
02. Dominique Lapieiie
03. V.S.Naipau
04. Stephen Hawking
05. J.K.Rowling

Question was not answered

10. Who is the new Foreign Minister of Japan ?

01. Takeaki Matsumoto
02. Naoto Kan
03. Hu Jimao
04. Wen Jiabao
05. Wu Bangguo

General Awareness

01. The prize money of 2011 Cricket World Cup winning team ?

01. $ 1.5 million
02. $ 3 million
03. $ 0.37 million
04. $ 0.75 million
05. None of these

Question was not answered

02. The Final match of 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was held in ?

01. Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
02. Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
03. M.Chinnaswamy Stadium,Bangalore
04. Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmadabad
05. Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Question was not answered

03. The first match of 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was held between ?0

01. India vs Srilanka
02. Kenya vs New Zealand
03. India vs Pakistan
04. India vs Bangladesh
05. None of these

Question was not answered

04. The leading run-scorer in World Cup Cricket history ?

01. Ricky Ponting
02. Adam—Gilchrist
03. Brian Lara
04. Sachin Tendulkar
05. None of these

Question was not answered

05. The top wicket taker in the 2011 Cricket World Cup ?

01. Yuvraj Singh
02. Tim Scuthee
03. Robin Petersen
04. Shahid Afridi and ZaheerKhan
05. None 0f these

Question was not answered

06. Indian Rupee joined elite club of US dollar, the euro, pound sterling and the _ on July 15, 2010, when its symbol was approved by the Union Cabinet ?

01. Yuan
02. Lira
03. Rouble
04. Yen
05. None of these

Question was not answered

07. The International Criminal Court. on July 12, 2010, charged President Omar al—Bashir of _____ with three counts of genocide in Darfur ?

01. Rwanda
02. Angola
03. Sudan
04. Congo
05. None of these

Question was not answered

08. __________, 0n July 15, 2010, became the first country in Latin America to legalise same—sex marriage ?

01. Brazil
02. Argentina
03. Chile
04. Peru
05. None of these

Question was not answered

09. The European spacecraft Rosetta, on July 11, 2010, performed a fly—by of a massive asteroid, Lutetia, between Mars and _ at 47,800 kph ?

01. Venus
02. Saturn
03. Jupiter
04. Mercury
05. None of these

Question was not answered

10. The United States, on October 2, 2010, apologized to __ for a series of experiments U.S. researchers conducted on prison inmates and mental hospital patients be tween 1946 and 1948 ?

01. Chile
02. Cuba
03. Guatemala
04. Venezuela
05. None of these

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List of Presidents of India

The President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India. The President is also theCommander-in-Chief of the armed forces of India.^[1] Although the president is vested such powers by the constitution of India, the position is largely a ceremonial role and the executive powers are de facto exercised by the Cabinet Ministers and Prime Minister.^[2] The post of President is known in Hindi as Rashtrapati (Hindi: राष्ट्रपति), a Sanskrit neologismmeaning "lord of the realm". The President is elected by an electoral college composed of members of the parliament houses, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, and also members of theVidhan Sabha, the state legislative assemblies.^[1]

There have been 12 Presidents of India since the introduction of the post in 1950. The post was established when India was declared as a republic with the adoption of the Indian constitution.^[3] Apart from these twelve, three acting presidents have also been in office for short periods of time. Varahagiri Venkata Giri became acting president in 1969 following the death of Zakir Hussain, who died in office. Giri was elected President a few months later. He remains the only person to have held office both as a president and acting president. The President may remain in office for a tenure of five years, as stated by article 56, part V, of the constitution of India. In the case where a president's term of office is terminated early or during the absence of the president, the vice president assumes office. By article 70 of part V, the parliament may decide how to discharge the functions of the president where this is not possible, or in any other unexpected contingency.^[1] Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, is the only person to have held office for two terms.^[4]

Seven presidents have been members of a political party before being elected. Six of these were active party members of the Indian National Congress. The Janata Party has had one member, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, who later became president. The state of Andhra Pradeshhas sent four presidents to the office so far, Dr.S Radhakrishnan, Zakir Hussain, V V Giriand Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, highest for any state. Two presidents, Zakir Hussain andFakhruddin Ali Ahmed, have died in office. Their vice-presidents functioned as acting president until a new president was elected. Following Hussain's death, two acting presidents held office until the new president, Varahagiri Venkata Giri, was elected. Varahagiri Venkata Giri himself, Hussain's vice president, was the first acting president. When Giri resigned to take part in the presidential elections, he was superseded byMuhammad Hidayatullah as acting president.^[5] The current President is Pratibha Patil, who was elected as the 12th President of India in 2007. She is also the first woman to serve as President of India.^[6]

[edit]Presidents

This list is numbered based on Presidents elected after winning an Indian Presidential election. The terms of Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Muhammad Hidayatullah, and Basappa Danappa Jatti, who have functioned as acting presidents, are therefore not numbered. The President of India does not represent any political party, and the Political party column below indicates the party (if any) that the president was a member of before being elected. The colours used in the table indicate the following:

#	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Vice President	Notes
1	Dr Rajendra Prasad		26 January 1950	13 May 1962	Dr.S Radhakrishnan	1952 election page & 1957 election page Prasad was the first President of independent India from Bihar.^[7][8] He was also an independence activist of the Indian Independence Movement.^[9]Prasad was the only president to serve for two terms in office.^[4]
2	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan		13 May 1962	13 May 1967	Zakir Hussain	1962 election page Radhakrishnan was a prominent philosopher, writer, a Knight of the Realm and also held the position of vice chancellor of theAndhra Universityand Banaras Hindu University.^[10] He was also made a Knight of theGolden Army of Angels by Pope Paul VI.^[11]
3	Zakir Hussain		13 May 1967	3 May 1969	Varahagiri Venkata Giri	1967 election page Hussain was vice chancellor of theAligarh Muslim University and a recipient of Padma Vibhushan andBharat Ratna.^[12]He died before his term of office was ended.
	Varahagiri Venkata Giri *		3 May 1969	20 July 1969		Giri was appointed as acting president following the death of Hussain.^[13] He resigned in a few months to take part in the presidential elections.^[5]
	Muhammad Hidayatullah *		20 July 1969	24 August 1969		Hidayatullah served as theChief Justice of India, and was a recipient of theOrder of the British Empire.^[14]He served as acting president until the election of Giri as the President of India.
4	Varahagiri Venkata Giri		24 August 1969	24 August 1974	Gopal Swarup Pathak	1969 election page Giri is the only person to have served as both an acting president and president of India. He was a recipient of the Bharat Ratna, and has functioned as Indian Minister of Labour and High Commissioner toCeylon (Sri Lanka).^[15]
5	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed		24 August 1974	11 February 1977	Basappa Danappa Jatti	1974 election page Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed served as a Minister before being elected as president. He died in 1977 before his term of office ended, and was the second Indian president to have died during a term of office.^[16]
	Basappa Danappa Jatti*		11 February 1977	25 July 1977		Jatti was the vice president of India during Ahmed's term of office, and was sworn in as acting president upon Ahmed's death. He earlier functioned as the Chief Minister for the State ofMysore.^[16][17]
6	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy		25 July 1977	25 July 1982	Muhammad Hidayatullah	1977 election page N.S.Reddy was the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh State. Reddy was the only Member of Parliament from the Janata Party to get elected from Andhra Pradesh.^[18] He was unanimously elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha on 26 March 1977 and relinquished this office on 13 July 1977 to become the 6^thPresident of India.
7	Giani Zail Singh		25 July 1982	25 July 1987	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	1982 election page In March 1972, Singh assumed the position of chief Minister of Punjab, and in 1980, he became Union Home Minister.^[19]
8	Ramaswamy Venkataraman		25 July 1987	25 July 1992	Shankar Dayal Sharma	1987 election page In 1942, Venkataraman was jailed by the British for his involvement in theIndia's independencemovement.^[20]After his release, he was elected to independent India’s Provisional Parliament as a member of the Congress Party in 1950 and eventually joined the central government, where he first served as Minister of Finance and Industry and later as Minister of Defence.^[21]
9	Shankar Dayal Sharma		25 July 1992	25 July 1997	Kocheril Raman Narayanan	1992 election page Sharma was Chief Minister ofMadhya Pradesh, and the Indian Minister for Communications. He has also served as the governor ofAndhra Pradesh,Punjab andMaharashtra.^[22]
10	Kocheril Raman Narayanan		25 July 1997	25 July 2002	Krishan Kant	1997 election page Narayanan served as India's ambassador to Thailand, Turkey, China and United States of America. He received doctorates in Science and Law and was also a chancellor in several universities.^[23] He was also the vice-chancellor ofJawaharlal Nehru University.^[24]
11	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam		25 July 2002	25 July 2007	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	2002 election page Kalam, was a scientist who played a leading role in the development of India's ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs.^[25]Kalam also received theBharat Ratna.
12	Pratibha Patil		25 July 2007	Incumbent	Mohammad Hamid Ansari	2007 election page Patil is the first woman to become the President of India. She was also the first female Governor of Rajasthan.^[26][27]

§ The symbol (*) with a light brown background indicates an acting president.

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List of Prime Ministers of

India

No.

Portrait

Name
(Birth–Death); Constituency

CM

Term of office

Elections
(Lok Sabha)

Political party
(Alliance)

Refs

1

Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889–1964)
MP for Phulpur

1

15 August
1947

27 May
1964 ^[1]

1951 (1^st)

Indian National Congress

^[1]

2

1957 (2^nd)

3

1962 (3^rd)

Indo-Pakistani War of 1947; created Planning commission of India and initiated Five-year plan to increase government investment in agriculture and industry; launched programmes to build irrigation canals, dams and spread the use of fertilizers to increase agricultural production; oversaw widespread poverty and unemployment, even with improvements in agriculture and infrastructure; oversaw establishment of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management; criminalized caste discrimination and increased the legal rights and social freedoms of women; pioneered the policy ofnon-alignment and co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement;Sino-Indian War; signed the Indus Waters Treaty; granted asylum to the Dalai Lama; oversaw liberation of Goa.

2

Gulzarilal Nanda
(1898–1998)
MP forSabarkantha

—

27 May
1964 (int)

9 June
1964

— (3^rd)

Indian National Congress

^[2]

Served as caretaker Prime Minister until the election of Lal Bahadur Shastri.

3

Lal Bahadur Shastri
(1904–1966)
MP for Allahabad

4

9 June
1964

11 January
1966 ^[1]

— (3^rd)

Indian National Congress

^[3]

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965; pushed for Green Revolution in India and Operation Flood; The National Dairy Development Board was formed; died from a heart attack at a summit inTashkent.

(2)

Gulzarilal Nanda
(1898–1998)
MP forSabarkantha

—

11 January
1966 (int)

24 January
1966

— (3^rd)

Indian National Congress

^[2]

Served as caretaker Prime Minister once again, until Indira Gandhi was chosen as the new leader.

4

Indira Gandhi
(1917–1984)
MP for Rae Bareli

5

24 January
1966

24 March
1977

— (3^rd) •1967 (4^th)

Indian National Congress

^[4]

6

1971 (5^th)

Nationalized banks; won the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, which resulted in the formation of Bangladesh; signed theShimla Agreement; tested the first nuclear weapon withSmiling Buddha; initiated Green Revolution in India; established state of emergency from 1975-1977.

5

Morarji Desai
(1896–1995)
MP for Surat

7

24 March
1977

28 July
1979 ^[4]

1977 (6^th)

Janata Party

^[5]

Ended the state of emergency initiated by Indira Gandhi; improved relations with Pakistan, China and the United States; softened its relationship with the Soviet Union; launched Sixth Five-Year Plan, aiming to boost agricultural production and rural industries; the plan proved unsuccessful leading to resurging inflation, fuel shortages, unemployment and poverty; lost many MPs from Janata Party, including his rival Charan Singh, which led to his resignation.

6

Charan Singh
(1902–1987)
MP for Baghpat

8

28 July
1979

14 January
1980 ^[3]

— (6^th)

Janata Party

^[6]

Initiated high level diplomatic relations with Israel; lost support of Congress, which led to his resignation without even a single session of Lok Sabha.

(4)

Indira Gandhi
(1917–1984)
MP for Rae Bareli

9

14 January
1980 ^[2]

31 October
1984 ^[1]

1980 (7^th)

Indian National Congress (Indira)

^[7]

Operation Bluestar, which subsequently led to her assassination.

7

Rajiv Gandhi
(1944–1991)
MP for Amethi

10

31 October
1984

2 December
1989

1984 (8^th)

Indian National Congress

^[8]

1984 anti-Sikh riots; significantly reduced License Raj; expanded telecommunications in India; signed the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord; Bofors scandal; nullified the Supreme Court's judgement on Shah Bano case.

8

V. P. Singh
(1931–2008)
MP for Fatehpur

11

2 December
1989

10 November
1990 ^[3]

1989 (9^th)

Janata Dal
(National Front)

^[9]

Negotiated terrorist kidnapping of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's daughter; visited Golden Temple to ask for forgiveness forOperation Bluestar; withdrew IPKF from Sri Lanka; initiated fixed quota/reservation for all public sector jobs as per recommendation from Mandal Commission; Ram Janmabhoomi agitation and subsequent loss of vote of no confidence because of it.

9

Chandra Shekhar Singh
(1927–2007)
MP for Ballia

12

10 November
1990

21 June
1991

— (9^th)

Samajwadi Janata Party

^[10]

Resigned due to accusations of spying on former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and subsequent withdrawal of Congress' support; Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.

10

P. V. Narasimha Rao
(1921–2004)
MP for Nandyal

13

21 June
1991

16 May
1996

1991(10^th)

Indian National Congress

^[11]

Initiated Economic liberalization in India; SEBI Act 1992; formation of National Stock Exchange of India; 1993 Bombay bombings; introduced TADA; Demolition of Babri Masjid.

11

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(1924– )
MP for Lucknow

14

16 May
1996

1 June
1996 ^[3]

1996†(11^th)

Bharatiya Janata Party

^[12]

Hung parliament†. Was in power for only 13 days, after BJP could not gather enough support from other parties to form a majority.

12

H. D. Deve Gowda
(1933– )
MP for Karnataka

15

1 June
1996

21 April
1997 ^[3]

1996†(11^th)

Janata Dal
(United Front)

^[12]

Hung parliament†. After a failed attempt of forming a BJP government, Congress refused to form a government and instead supported a minority United Front coalition led by Janata Dal. President of China Jiang Zemin begins the first visit by a Chinese head of state to India; initiates President's rule in Gujarat.

13

Inder Kumar Gujral
(1919– )
MP for Bihar

16

21 April
1997

19 March
1998

— (11^th)

Janata Dal
(United Front)

^[13]

Fodder scam; Jain Commission.

(11)

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(1924– )
MP for Lucknow

17

19 March
1998 ^[2]

22 May
2004

1998(12^th)

Bharatiya Janata Party
(National Democratic Alliance)

^[14]

18

1999(13^th)

Pokhran nuclear tests; Kargil War; National Highway Development Project; Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana;Barak Missile Deal Scandal;POTA; Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan;2001 Gujarat earthquake; 2002 Gujarat violence.

14

Dr. Manmohan Singh
(1932– )
Rajya Sabha Member forAssam

19

22 May
2004

Incumbent

2004(14^th)

Indian National Congress
(United Progressive Alliance)

^[15]

20

2009(15^th)

Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement; won the 2008 Lok Sabha vote of confidence; Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline;expanding ties with Israel; Economic crisis of 2008; National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA); Right to Information Act; revoking of POTA; 2008 Mumbai attacks and the implementation of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act;National_Investigation_Agency_(India);

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No.		Portrait	Name (Birth–Death); Constituency	CM	Term of office		Elections (Lok Sabha)	Political party (Alliance)	Refs
	1		Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MP for Phulpur	1	15 August 1947	27 May 1964 ^[1]	1951 (1^st)	Indian National Congress	^[1]
				2			1957 (2^nd)
				3			1962 (3^rd)
				Indo-Pakistani War of 1947; created Planning commission of India and initiated Five-year plan to increase government investment in agriculture and industry; launched programmes to build irrigation canals, dams and spread the use of fertilizers to increase agricultural production; oversaw widespread poverty and unemployment, even with improvements in agriculture and infrastructure; oversaw establishment of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management; criminalized caste discrimination and increased the legal rights and social freedoms of women; pioneered the policy ofnon-alignment and co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement;Sino-Indian War; signed the Indus Waters Treaty; granted asylum to the Dalai Lama; oversaw liberation of Goa.
	2		Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP forSabarkantha	—	27 May 1964 (int)	9 June 1964	— (3^rd)	Indian National Congress	^[2]
				Served as caretaker Prime Minister until the election of Lal Bahadur Shastri.
	3		Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad	4	9 June 1964	11 January 1966 ^[1]	— (3^rd)	Indian National Congress	^[3]
				Indo-Pakistani War of 1965; pushed for Green Revolution in India and Operation Flood; The National Dairy Development Board was formed; died from a heart attack at a summit inTashkent.
	(2)		Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP forSabarkantha	—	11 January 1966 (int)	24 January 1966	— (3^rd)	Indian National Congress	^[2]
				Served as caretaker Prime Minister once again, until Indira Gandhi was chosen as the new leader.
	4		Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli	5	24 January 1966	24 March 1977	— (3^rd) •1967 (4^th)	Indian National Congress	^[4]
				6			1971 (5^th)
				Nationalized banks; won the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, which resulted in the formation of Bangladesh; signed theShimla Agreement; tested the first nuclear weapon withSmiling Buddha; initiated Green Revolution in India; established state of emergency from 1975-1977.
	5		Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat	7	24 March 1977	28 July 1979 ^[4]	1977 (6^th)	Janata Party	^[5]
				Ended the state of emergency initiated by Indira Gandhi; improved relations with Pakistan, China and the United States; softened its relationship with the Soviet Union; launched Sixth Five-Year Plan, aiming to boost agricultural production and rural industries; the plan proved unsuccessful leading to resurging inflation, fuel shortages, unemployment and poverty; lost many MPs from Janata Party, including his rival Charan Singh, which led to his resignation.
	6		Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat	8	28 July 1979	14 January 1980 ^[3]	— (6^th)	Janata Party	^[6]
				Initiated high level diplomatic relations with Israel; lost support of Congress, which led to his resignation without even a single session of Lok Sabha.
	(4)		Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli	9	14 January 1980 ^[2]	31 October 1984 ^[1]	1980 (7^th)	Indian National Congress (Indira)	^[7]
				Operation Bluestar, which subsequently led to her assassination.
	7		Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi	10	31 October 1984	2 December 1989	1984 (8^th)	Indian National Congress	^[8]
				1984 anti-Sikh riots; significantly reduced License Raj; expanded telecommunications in India; signed the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord; Bofors scandal; nullified the Supreme Court's judgement on Shah Bano case.
	8		V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur	11	2 December 1989	10 November 1990 ^[3]	1989 (9^th)	Janata Dal (National Front)	^[9]
				Negotiated terrorist kidnapping of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's daughter; visited Golden Temple to ask for forgiveness forOperation Bluestar; withdrew IPKF from Sri Lanka; initiated fixed quota/reservation for all public sector jobs as per recommendation from Mandal Commission; Ram Janmabhoomi agitation and subsequent loss of vote of no confidence because of it.
	9		Chandra Shekhar Singh (1927–2007) MP for Ballia	12	10 November 1990	21 June 1991	— (9^th)	Samajwadi Janata Party	^[10]
				Resigned due to accusations of spying on former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and subsequent withdrawal of Congress' support; Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
	10		P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal	13	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	1991(10^th)	Indian National Congress	^[11]
				Initiated Economic liberalization in India; SEBI Act 1992; formation of National Stock Exchange of India; 1993 Bombay bombings; introduced TADA; Demolition of Babri Masjid.
	11		Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924– ) MP for Lucknow	14	16 May 1996	1 June 1996 ^[3]	1996†(11^th)	Bharatiya Janata Party	^[12]
				Hung parliament†. Was in power for only 13 days, after BJP could not gather enough support from other parties to form a majority.
	12		H. D. Deve Gowda (1933– ) MP for Karnataka	15	1 June 1996	21 April 1997 ^[3]	1996†(11^th)	Janata Dal (United Front)	^[12]
				Hung parliament†. After a failed attempt of forming a BJP government, Congress refused to form a government and instead supported a minority United Front coalition led by Janata Dal. President of China Jiang Zemin begins the first visit by a Chinese head of state to India; initiates President's rule in Gujarat.
	13		Inder Kumar Gujral (1919– ) MP for Bihar	16	21 April 1997	19 March 1998	— (11^th)	Janata Dal (United Front)	^[13]
				Fodder scam; Jain Commission.
	(11)		Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924– ) MP for Lucknow	17	19 March 1998 ^[2]	22 May 2004	1998(12^th)	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	^[14]
				18			1999(13^th)
				Pokhran nuclear tests; Kargil War; National Highway Development Project; Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana;Barak Missile Deal Scandal;POTA; Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan;2001 Gujarat earthquake; 2002 Gujarat violence.
	14		Dr. Manmohan Singh (1932– ) Rajya Sabha Member forAssam	19	22 May 2004	Incumbent	2004(14^th)	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)	^[15]
				20			2009(15^th)
				Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement; won the 2008 Lok Sabha vote of confidence; Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline;expanding ties with Israel; Economic crisis of 2008; National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA); Right to Information Act; revoking of POTA; 2008 Mumbai attacks and the implementation of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act;National_Investigation_Agency_(India);