Prakash Javadekar (Hindi: प्रकाश जावडेकर) (born January 30, 1951) is a Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was elected to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra in 2008. He is the official spokesperson of the BJP.

Prakash Javadekar was born in Pune in the family of Shri Keshav Krishna Javadekar and Ranjani Javadekar, a school teacher. He studied B.Com. from Pune. He was associated with ABVP from student days.

He worked with Bank of Maharashtra for 10 years from 1971– 1981. He also worked in Rural Development Dept. Sick Unit Cell, Employment Promotion Pragramme of the Bank.

His father Keshav Krishna Javadekar was a senior leader of Hindu Maha Sabha and even lead its Pune unit as its President. His father was friend and follower of Veer Savarkar. He worked as joint editor of Marathi Daily started by Lokmanya Tilak - Kesari before having stints with some other newspapers like Tarun Bharat, Kaal as journalist. He still occasionally writes his thoughts in some newspapers. His mother is from Konkan region and was one of the first educated women from her area. Nowadays she conducts free classes of Vedic education for women.

Prabhu Chawla (Hindi: प्रभु चावला) is the Editorial Director of the Chennai-based The New Indian Express newspaper in India. Earlier he was the Editor-in-Chief of the same newspaper.

Born in 1946 at Dera Ghazi Khan, British India, now Pakistan, he is one of India's better-known political journalists, known for his sharp political analysis and investigative reports. A refugee from Pakistan, he arrived in Delhi in 1948. His graduation was completed at the Deshbandhu College in Kalkaji. Then he post graduated from Delhi School Of Economics. He began as a lecturer in Delhi University, then, after 11 years of teaching, he joined India Today, left for The Indian Express and then rejoined India Today first as editor of the Hindi edition and then the English one. He is married and has two sons, Ankur, an advocate, who was recently chargesheeted by the CBI, and Anubhav, a video photographer.

Prabhu Chawla is an authoritative voice in print. Prior to his assignment with The New Indian Express, he was the editor of Language publications in India Today, India's leading weekly newsmagazine India Today Group. Before holding this post he worked as the Editorial Director of the magazine for 14 years. Here Chawla was succeeded by M. J. Akbar in the end of August 2010.

Ban Ki-moon (Hangul: 반기문; Hanja: 潘基文; born 13 June 1944) is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before going on to be Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduated from university, accepting his first post in New Delhi, India. In the foreign ministry he established a reputation for modesty and competence .

Ban was the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea from January 2004 to November 2006. In February 2006, he began to campaign for the office of Secretary-General. Ban was initially considered to be a long shot for the office. As foreign minister of South Korea, however, he was able to travel to all of the countries that were members of the United Nations Security Council, a maneuver that turned him into the front runner.

On 11 October 2006, he was elected to be the eighth Secretary-General by the United Nations General Assembly and officially succeeded Annan on 1 January 2007. Ban has led several major reforms regarding peacekeeping and UN employment practices. Diplomatically, Ban has taken particularly strong views on Darfur, where he helped persuade Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to allow peacekeeping troops to enter Sudan; and on global warming, pressing the issue repeatedly with former U.S. President George W. Bush. Ban has received strong criticism from OIOS, the UN internal audit unit, stating that the secretariat, under Ban's leadership, is "drifting into irrelevance".

Lisa Maria Singh (born 20 February 1972) is an Australian politician. She is currently an Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania. From 2006 to 2010, she was a Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the division of Denison.

Singh was the first person of South Asian decent to be elected to the Australian Parliament.

Singh was born 20 February 1972 in Hobart, Tasmania to a naturalised Indian Fijian father and an Australian mother. Singh attended St Mary's College and Elizabeth College before leaving Tasmania to live and work in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Singh returned to Tasmania to study at the University of Tasmania, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Social Geography in 1996. Singh attended university with Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings.

Following university, Singh worked in public relations and for the Australian Education Union as an industrial organiser. After joining the Australian Labor Party, Singh served on the Tasmanian ALP’s State Administrative Committee, as President of the New Town branch and as a delegate at state and national conferences.