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Y. V. Reddy is the Chairman of the Fourteenth Finance Commission.

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In 1994, Dr Joon Lew (South Korea) and Dr V Ekambaram (India) received International Gandhi Award for Outstanding Contributions to Leprosy Work.

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the first external affairs minister to deliver a speech in Hindi at the UN General Assembly, effectively raised India's stand on key issues like nuclear disarmament, state-sponsored terrorism and reforms at the world body.

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Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 - 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

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Amrita Shergil, was an eminent Indian painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother in Budapest, Hungary, in 1913.

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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj inaugurated "Panini Language Laboratory" at Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI) at Port Louis in Mauritius.

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Sunita Lyn Williams is an American astronaut and United States Navy officer of Indian origin who formerly held the records for most spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).