LATEST WHO'S WHO

As on May 13, 2026

INDIA - UNION GOVERNMENT

President : Ms. Droupadi Murmu

Vice-President : Mr. C.P. Radhakrishnan

COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

CABINET MINISTERS

Mr. Narendra Modi : Prime Minister and also in-charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; All important policy issues; and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

Mr. Rajnath Singh : Defence

Mr. Amit Shah : Home Affairs; Cooperation

Mr. Nitin Jairam Gadkari : Road Transport and Highways

Mr. Jagat Prakash Nadda : Health and Family Welfare; Chemicals and Fertilizers

Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan : Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Rural Development

Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman : Finance; Corporate Affairs

Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar : External Affairs

Mr. Manohar Lal Khattar : Housing and Urban Affairs; Power

Mr. H. D. Kumaraswamy : Heavy Industries; Steel

Mr. Piyush Goyal : Commerce and Industry

Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan : Education

Mr. Jitan Ram Manjhi : Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh : Panchayati Raj; Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying

Mr. Sarbananda Sonowal : Ports, Shipping and Waterways

Dr. Virendra Kumar : Social Justice and Empowerment

Mr. Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu : Civil Aviation

Mr. Pralhad Joshi : Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; New and Renewable Energy

Mr. Jual Oram : Tribal Affairs

Mr. Giriraj Singh : Textiles

Mr. Ashwini Vaishnaw : Railways; Information and Broadcasting; Electronics and Information Technology

Mr. Jyotiraditya M. Scindia : Communications; Development of North Eastern Region

Mr. Bhupender Yadav : Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Mr. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat : Culture; Tourism

Ms. Annpurna Devi : Women and Child Development

Mr. Kiren Rijiju : Parliamentary Affairs; Minority Affairs

Mr. Hardeep Singh Puri : Petroleum and Natural Gas

Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya : Labour and Employment; Youth Affairs and Sports

Mr. G. Kishan Reddy : Coal; Mines

Mr. Chirag Paswan : Food Processing Industries

Mr. C R Patil : Jal Shakti

MINISTERS OF STATE (Independent Charge)

Rao Inderjit Singh : Statistics and Programme Implementation. MoS in Planning; Culture

Dr. Jitendra Singh : Science and Technology; Earth Sciences. MoS in Prime Minister's Office; Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space

Mr. Arjun Ram Meghwal : Law and Justice. MoS in Parliamentary Affairs

Mr. Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao : Ayush. MoS in Health and Family Welfare

Mr. Jayant Chaudhary : Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. MoS in Education

MINISTERS OF STATE

Mr. Jitin Prasada : Commerce and Industry; Electronics and Information Technology

Mr. Shripad Yesso Naik : Power; New and Renewable Energy

Mr. Pankaj Chaudhary : Finance

Mr. Krishan Pal : Cooperation

Mr. Ramdas Athawale : Social Justice and Empowerment

Mr. Ram Nath Thakur : Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Mr. Nityanand Rai : Home Affairs

Ms. Anupriya Patel : Health and Family Welfare; Chemicals and Fertilizers

Mr. V. Somanna : Jal Shakti; Railways

Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani : Rural Development; Communications

Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel : Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Panchayati Raj

Miss. Sushri Sobha Karandlaje : Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; Labour and Employment

Mr. Kirtivardhan Singh : Environment, Forest and Climate Change; External Affairs

Mr. B. L. Verma : Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; Social Justice and Empowerment

Mr. Shantanu Thakur : Ports, Shipping and Waterways

Mr. Suresh Gopi : Petroleum and Natural Gas; Tourism

Dr. L. Murugan : Information and Broadcasting; Parliamentary Affairs

Mr. Ajay Tamta : Road Transport and Highways

Mr. Bandi Sanjay Kumar : Home Affairs

Mr. Kamlesh Paswan : Rural Development

Mr. Bhagirath Choudhary : Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Mr. Satish Chandra Dubey : Coal; Mines

Mr. Sanjay Seth : Defence

Mr. Ravneet Singh : Food Processing Industries; Railways

Mr. Durgadas Uikey : Tribal Affairs

Ms. Raksha Nikhil Khadse : Youth Affairs and Sports

Mr. Sukanta Majumdar : Education; Development of North Eastern Region

Ms. Savitri Thakur : Women and Child Development

Mr. Tokhan Sahu : Housing and Urban Affairs

Mr. Raj Bhushan Choudhary : Jal Shakti

Mr. Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma : Heavy Industries; Steel

Mr. Harsh Malhotra : Corporate Affairs; Road Transport and Highways

Ms. Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya : Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Mr. Murlidhar Mohol : Cooperation, Civil Aviation

Mr. George Kurian : Minority Affairs, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying

Mr. Pabitra Margherita : External Affairs, Textiles

LEGISLATURE

RAJYA SABHA CHAIRMAN : Mr. C.P. Radhakrishnan

RAJYA SABHA DEPUTY CHAIRMAN : Mr. Harivansh Narayan Singh

LOK SABHA SPEAKER : Mr. Om Birla

JUDICIARY

CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA : Mr. Justice Surya Kant

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF INDIA : Mr. R. Venkataramani

SOLICITOR GENERAL OF INDIA : Mr. Tushar Mehta

CHIEFS OF ARMED FORCES

SUPREME COMMANDER : Hon'ble President Ms. Droupadi Murmu

CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF : General N.S. Raja Subramani (w.e.f. May 30, 2026)

CHIEF OF THE ARMY STAFF : General Upendra Dwivedi

CHIEF OF THE NAVAL STAFF : Admiral Krishna Swaminathan (w.e.f. May 31, 2026)

CHIEF OF THE AIR STAFF : Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh

CAPITALS, GOVERNORS AND CHIEF MINISTERS OF STATES

States	Capitals	Governors	Chief Ministers
Andhra Pradesh	Amaravati	Justice S. Abdul Nazeer (Retd.)	Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu
Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar	Lt. Gen. Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik (Retd.)	Mr. Pema Khandu
Assam	Dispur	Mr. Lakshman Prasad Acharya	Mr. Himanta Biswa Sarma
Bihar	Patna	Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Syed Ata Hasnain	Mr. Samrat Choudhary
Chhattisgarh	Raipur	Mr. Ramen Deka	Mr. Vishnu Deo Sai
Goa	Panaji	Mr. Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju	Mr. Pramod Sawant
Gujarat	Gandhinagar	Acharya Devvrat	Mr. Bhupendra Patel
Haryana	Chandigarh	Prof. Ashim Kumar Ghosh	Mr. Nayab Singh Saini
Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	Mr. Kavinder Gupta	Mr. Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
Jharkhand	Ranchi	Mr. Santosh Kumar Gangwar	Mr. Hemant Soren
Karnataka	Bengaluru	Mr. Thaawar Chand Gehlot	Mr. Siddaramaiah
Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	Mr. Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar	—
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Mr. Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel	Mr. Mohan Yadav
Maharashtra	Mumbai	Mr. Jishnu Dev Varma	Mr. Devendra Fadnavis
Manipur	Imphal	Mr. Ajay Kumar Bhalla	Mr. Yumnam Khemchand Singh
Meghalaya	Shillong	Mr. C.H. Vijayashankar	Mr. Conrad K. Sangma
Mizoram	Aizawl	General V. K. Singh (Retd.)	Mr. Lalduhoma
Nagaland	Kohima	Mr. Nand Kishore Yadav	Mr. Neiphiu Rio
Odisha	Bhubaneswar	Dr. Hari Babu Kambhampati	Mr. Mohan Charan Majhi
Punjab	Chandigarh	Mr. Gulab Chand Kataria	Mr. Bhagwant Mann
Rajasthan	Jaipur	Mr. Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde	Mr. Bhajan Lal Sharma
Sikkim	Gangtok	Mr. Om Prakash Mathur	Mr. Prem Singh Tamang
Tamil Nadu	Chennai	Mr. Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar*	Mr. C. Joseph Vijay
Telangana	Hyderabad	Mr. Shiv Pratap Shukla	Mr. Revanth Reddy
Tripura	Agartala	Mr. Indrasena Reddy Nallu	Mr. Manik Saha
Uttarakhand	Gairsain (Summer) Dehradun (Winter)	Lt. Gen. Gurmit Singh (Retd.)	Mr. Pushkar Singh Dhami
Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Ms. Anandiben Patel	Yogi Adityanath
West Bengal	Kolkata	Mr. R.N. Ravi	Mr. Suvendu Adhikari

NATIONAL CAPITAL TERRITORY - DELHI

National Capital Territory	Capital	Lt. Governor	Chief Minister
Delhi	Delhi	Mr. Taranjit Singh Sandhu	Ms. Rekha Gupta

UNION TERRITORIES

Union Territories	Capitals	Lt. Governors/Administrators	Chief Ministers
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Sri Vijaya Puram	Admiral D.K. Joshi (Retd.)	—
Chandigarh	Chandigarh	Mr. Gulab Chand Kataria*	—
Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu	Daman	Mr. Praful K. Patel	—
Jammu and Kashmir	Srinagar (Summer) Jammu (Winter)	Mr. Manoj Sinha	Mr. Omar Abdullah
Ladakh	Leh	Mr. Vinai Kumar Saxena	—
Lakshadweep	Kavaratti	Mr. Praful K. Patel*	—
Puducherry	Puducherry	Mr. Kuniyil Kailashnathan	Mr. N. Rangasamy

*Additional Charge

General Knowledge, June 2026

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