A lecture

1. Viswanathan Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1988.[3] He held the FIDE World Chess Championship from
2000 to 2002. He became the undisputed World Champion in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in
2008. He then defended his title in the World Chess Championship 2010 against Veselin Topalov and in the World Chess
Championship 2012[4] against Boris Gelfand. In the World Chess Championship 2013 he lost to challenger Magnus
Carlsen and he lost again to Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2014.[5]
In April 2006 Anand became the fourth player in history to pass the 2800 Elo mark on the FIDE rating list, after Garry
Kasparov,Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov.[6] He occupied the number one position for 21 months, the 6th longest
on record.[7]
He was also the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 1991–92, India's highest sporting honour. In
2007, he was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, making him the first sports person to
receive the award.
.
Saina Nehwal ( pronunciation (help·info); born 17 March 1990) is an
Indian badminton player, former world no.1 in Women's Singles .[10][11][12]
She is the
first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics.[13]
She achieved this feat by
winning the Bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012 on 4 August 2012.[14]
She is
also the first Indian after Prakash Padukone and the first Indian woman to become
world number 1 badminton player.[10]
Besides these, she is the first Indian to win
the World Junior Badminton Championships and was also the first Indian to win a
Super Series tournament, by clinching the Indonesia Open on 21 June 2009. Saina
is supported by the Oly
mpic Gold Quest.[15]

2. The Chennai Municipal Corporation (officially the Greater Chennai Corporation[1]
),
formerly known as the Corporation of Madras, is the civic body that governs the city
of Chennai (formerly Madras), India. Inaugurated on 29 September 1688, under a Royal
Charter issued by King James II on 30 December 1687 as the Corporation of Madras,
it is the oldest municipal body of theCommonwealth of Nations outside Great Britain.[2]
It
is headed by a mayor, who presides over 200 councillors each of whom represents one
of the 200 wards of the city.[3]
It is also the second oldest corporation in the world,[4]
after
the city of London In October 2011, the expansion process was initiated before the
elections to the corporation council in October. In this move, 42 small local bodies,
including 9 municipalities, 8 town panchayats and 25 village panchayats, were merged
with Chennai Corporation, taking the area up by 140% to 426 km2
from the earlier

3. 176 km2
.[7][8]
Some areas have been arbitrarily left out, to the discontent of the residents
of those areas.[9]
The new expanded Corporation of Chennai has 200 wards, an increase
of 45 wards.[10]
Elections were held for the expanded corporation in October 2011. s of
2012-13 revenue, the annual budgetary estimate of Chennai Corporation is ₹13,261.1
million and expenditure is ₹12,329.7 million. Surplus income of the corporation is₹931.4
million.[6]
Property tax is the main source of revenue for Chennai corporation.[15]
The
corporation collects company tax from all incorporated companies in the city which
transact business for 60 days or more in any half year.[16]
The amount of tax levied varies
from ₹ 500 to ₹ 30,000 per six months, based on the paid up capital of the
company.[17]
In 2012, the city has about 34,260 identified companies in its 15 zones, of
which 5,196 companies has a paid-up capital of over ₹ 5 million.[17]