Cabinet Ministers in India and Constituency

Cabinet Ministers:

S.No	Cabinet Ministers	Portfolio	Constituency
1	Smt. Sushma Swaraj	External Affairs	Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh
2	Shri Arun Jaitley	Finance	Gujarat Rajaya Sabha
		Corporate Affairs
3	Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Road Transport and Highways	Nagpur, Maharashtra
		Shipping, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
4	Shri Suresh Prabhu	Commerce and Industry	Andhra Pradesh, Rajya Sabha

India's Ranking in Different Indices 2017

Dear Readers,

Today we are presenting you a short note on India's Rankings in Different Indices 2017

India's Rankings in Different Indices 2017

Index	Position of India	Top Ranked Country
Global Passport Power Rank -2017	75	1. Singapore 2. Germany
Human Development Index -2017	131	Norway followed by Australia
Ease of Doing Business Index 2017	130th	The list is topped by New Zealand followed by Singapore, Denmark.
Foreign Direct Investment confidence index	8th	The list is topped by USA followed by Germany

Weekly Current Affairs (23 October-29 October)

Banking and Financial Awareness

• SBI has waived charges for fund transfer of up to Rs. 1000, made through the IMPS (Immediate Payment Service).
• RBI to make LEI must for companies with over Rs 5 crore exposure, in a move to help preventing multiple loans to firms under same collateral.
• The Reserve Bank of India has formed a 10-member ‘High-Level Task Force" on developing a transparent Public Credit Registry (PCR)" for India.
• Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) became the first Indian company to cross Rs. 6 trillion market capitalization.

Bihar Police SI Recruitment

Dear Candidates,
Bihar State Selection Commision has released Notification for the Recruitment of Sub Inspector in Bihar State Police. Its a good opportunity for those who want to join Police Department.

Here are details given below and must read carefullu before apply this job.

TOTAL VACANCY: 1717*

General: 892

OBC: 468

SC: 300

ST: 09

OBC (Women) (3%): 48

PAY SCALE:

9300-34800 Grade pay is 4200/-

IBPS RRB Office Assistant Mains Exam Admit Card

Dear Candidates,
IBPS has released Admit Card for the Mains Exam of IBPS RRB Office Assistant. The Exam will be Conducted on 12th November 2017.

Candidates can download Admit Card From given Link.

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Important MoUs (October) Part-II

Name of the MOU/treaty	Between
To cooperate in Information Technology, cybersecurity e.t.c	India and Russia
For the development of Yoga and Ayurveda	Ministry of AYUSH and USA
For distribution of energy efficiency Appliances	Between EESL & HPCL, BPCL and IOCL
Skill Development	India and Russia
To setup Mega Apparel park	Gujarat & Arvind limited

1. Indian & Russia firms signed agreement for IT Solutions:

• India and Russia have signed an agreement to cooperate in Information Technology and 

Weekly Current Affairs (16 October-22 October)

Banking and Financial Awareness

• Income Tax department activated ‘Online Chat’ service to redress the grievances of the tax payers.

• SEBI has reconstituted its committee on market infrastructure institutions under the chairmanship of R Gandhi.
• RBI has guided banks to issue loans to rural women SHGs at 7 % under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihood Mission in 2017-2018.
• Private sector Bank, Yes Bank is to fund Rs.156 Crores for the STP- Sewage Treatment Plant at Varanasi under Namami Gange project.
• NITI Aayog forecasted that the GDP might grow to 6.9 to 7 % in the fiscal of 2017-2018 and to 7.5% in 2018-2019.
• Union Bank of India launched an app called Union Sahyog, which offers both English and Hindi.
• Yes Bank has partnered with an Abu Dhabi International Financial Center, for collaboration in financial technology systems in India and Saudi Arabia.

Some Important Static GK Questions

1. The Bihu dance is a folk dance celebrated in which state?
Answer: Assam

2. Valmiki National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the West Champaran district of ......................?
Answer: Bihar

3. The Tehri Dam is the highest dam in India and tenth tallest dam in the world located at?
Answer: Uttrakhand

Important Dance Types in India

DANCE FORM	STATE
Bharatanatyam	Tamil Nadu
Kathak	Uttar Pradesh
Kathakali	Kerala
Kuchipudi	Andhra Pradesh
Manipuri	Manipur
Odissi	Orissa
Sattriya	Assam
Mohiniyattam	Kerala

UPTET Answer Key 2017

Dear Candidates,
Uttar Pradesh Education Board has released Answer Key for the Exam Of Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) Primary Level and Junior Level.
Candidates can check their Score and Answers from given Link.

Answer Key (Primary Level)

Answer Key (Junior Level)

RBI Assistant 2017 Recruitment

Dear Candidates,
Reserve Bank of India has released notification for the Recruitment of Assistant in PAN India.

For More Details Read Below carefully.

Total Vacancy: 623
General: 308
OBC: 144
SC: 92
ST: 79

Fee Charge:
General/OBC: ₹450/-
SC/ST: ₹50/-

MOUs Between India And Other Countries (October 2017)

1. The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its approval for the signing and ratification of the Extradition Treaty between India and Lithuania.

The Treaty would provide a legal framework for seeking extradition of terrorists, economic offenders and other criminals from and to Lithuania

It will bring the criminals to justice, with a view to ensure peace and tranquillity to the public at large.

Weekly Current Affairs (08 October - 15th October 2017)

Banking and Financial Awareness

• Market regulator SEBI has announced to impose a penalty if a company violates the minimum public shareholding (MPS) norms.
• PNB MetLife India Insurance has appointed Ashish Srivastava as its new MD and CEO.
• The Reserve Bank of India is to launch a Financial Literacy Drive to educate people on financial awareness like e-transactions, in 9 states.
• The Central Board of Direct Taxes has signed two more advance pricing agreements (APAs) with taxpayers, related to automobile and healthcare consulting sectors.
• Tata AIA Life launched Eazy Connect chatbot, a servicing tool for social media.

International Sports Organization

SPORT	INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION	HEADQUARTER
Cricket	International Cricket Council	Dubai, UAE
Chess	Fédération internationale des échecs (FIDE) or World Chess Federation	Athens, Greece

IB ACIO 2017 (General Knowledge Answer Key)

Question 26: C (Bhopal)

Question 27: D (INSV Tarini)

Question 28: B (China)

Question 29: A (Asian Development Bank)

Question 30: A (Virat Kohli)

Question 31: D (Rinku Hooda)

Question 32: A (1952)

Question 33: D (Andhra Pradesh)

Honours and Awards 2017

Recent National and international awards 2017

Name of the Award	Recipient
Lifetime Achievement Award at Dubai International Film Festival	Rekha (Veteran actress)
The world's third largest startup base	India (US and UK stands in the first and second position respectively)
Rio Paralympics silver medalist, who honored with Rs. 4 crore cash reward by P Narendra Modi	Deepa Malik

Core Banking Solution (CBS)

CBS - Core Banking Solution

This word is more often used by bankers and now-a-days postal officials are also using it. CBS is an acronym of Core Banking Solutions. Again one will wonder what the meaning of core is, core is also an acronym. It stands for "Centralized On-line Real-time Exchange".

Important Indian Symbols

1.National Flag

Adopted on	22 July 1947
Designed by	Pingali venkayya
Description	The national flag consists of three horizontal and parallel strips with kesariya at the top, white in the middle and green color at the bottom with Ashoka Chakra at the centre. The Ashok Chakra has 24 spokes. It was derived from lion capitol of Ashok at Sarnath, Bihar. The width to length ratio of the flag is 2:3. All the rules and regulations regarding flag hosting of the national flag is given in Flag Code of India 2002.

Weekly Current Affairs (02 Oct - 08 Oct)

Banking and Financial Awareness

• ●HDFC Life Insurance Company has launched Neo which is a servicing bot for Twitter.
• ●The Appointments Committee of the government has named Rajnish Kumar as the new chairman of SBI or the State Bank of India.

• ●Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced Fourth Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement for the financial year 2017-18. Repo and Reverse repo rates were unchanged.

कारक

संज्ञा या सर्वनाम जिस रूप से वाक्य के अन्य शब्दों के साथ उसके सम्बन्ध का बोध होता है, उसे कारक कहते हैं। हिन्दी में आठ कारक होते हैं- कर्ता, कर्म, करण, सम्प्रदान, अपादान, सम्बन्ध, अधिकरण और सम्बोधन। विभक्ति या परसर्ग-जिन प्रत्ययों से कारकों की स्थितियों का बोध होता है, उन्हें विभक्ति या परसर्ग कहते हैं। आठ कारकों के विभक्ति चिह्न या परसर्ग इस प्रकार होते हैं-

IBPS RRB Officer Scale-I Prelim Result

Dear Candidates,
IBPS has Declared Written Exam Result of IBPS RRB  Office Scale-I Prelim Exam.
Candidates can check their Prelim Result from given Link.

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Nobel Prize for Literature 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro just won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The British writer, known best for his novels The Buried Giant, Never Let Me Go,and The Remains of the Day, was announced as this year’s winner by the Swedish academy earlier today (Oct. 5)

4th Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy of RBI 2017-18

On October 4, 2017, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced Fourth Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement in which the Policy Repo Rate has been kept unchanged for financial year 2017-18. RBI but cut the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) by 50 basis points to 19.5 per cent but kept the repo rate unchanged at 6 per cent.

UP TET Admit Card 2017

Dear Aspirants,
UP Basic Education Board has Released Admit Card for UP TET (Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test) Exam 2017.
Candidates can download Admit Card From given Link.

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Nobel Prize 2017

Dear readers,
The Royal Swedish academy of Sciences has Declared Nobel prize in the Field of Physics, Chemistry and Medical 2017.

So here is list of Awardee and Thesis.

CHEMISTRY
1) Jacques Dubochet
2) Joachim Frank
3) Richard Henderson

About MUDRA Yojana

What is Mudra Bank?

• MUDRA means Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency(known as the MUDRA bank) 
• Mudra bank is being set up through a statutory enactment and will be responsible for developing and refinancing through a Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojna.
• It is first set up as a subsidiary of the Small Industries Develpoment Bank of India(SIDBI). It will later be converted into full-fledged bank through an act of the parliament.
• MUDRA Bank is a public sector financial institution in India, It provides loan at low rates to small entrepreneurs.

Indian Financial Institutions

NABARD ( National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development )

Established: NABARD was established on 12th July 1982 on the recommendation of CRAFICARD committee which is also known as the Sivaraman Comittee.
Headquarter: Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Chairman: Harsh Kumar Bhanwala.
Primary Function: 

• NABARD is the apex organisation related to financing in the agricultural sector.
•  It looks after matters concerned with policy, planning and operations in rural areas in India. 
• Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) are operated by NABARD.

SIDBI ( Small Industries Development Bank of India )

Established: Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI in short) was established on 2nd April 1990 under the Small Industries Development Bank of India Act 1989 as a subsidiary of Industrial Development Bank of India.

Computer Fundamental Questions

1- UNIVAC is:
Universal Automatic Computer

2- CD ROM stands for:
Compact Disc Read Only Memory

3- ALU is:
Aruthmetic Logic Unit

4- VGA is:
Video Graphics Array

Weekly Current Affairs (25 September - 01 October)

Banking and Financial Awareness

• RBI announced that from October 3, rupee-denominated overseas bonds (masala bonds) will no longer form part of the limit for FPI (Foreign portfolio investors) investments in corporate bonds.
• ADB, Asian Development Bank has lowered India's growth forecast for this fiscal to 7 %.
• IDBI Bank has launched ‘Project Nishchay’ along with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to accelerate its turnaround programme and improve financial performance.
• State Bank of India (SBI) has launched The FTSE SBI Bond Index Series at London Stock Exchange. It is India’s first bond index series for overseas investors.
• SBI has lowered the minimum Average Monthly Balance required in a Savings Bank account to Rs.3000.
• ICICI launched a Cashback Home Loan Scheme, where 1 % cashback is offered on every EMI.

Types of Bank Account

Today we are posting the types of accounts in Banks. There are very frequent questions from this part asked in many exams earlier. Just have an overview and read it with a light mind.

Types of Bank Accounts

A bank account can be a time deposit account or a term deposit account or a no frill account ie BSBDA .

TYPES OF BANK ACCOUNTS

a. Savings Bank Account

b. Current Deposit Account

c. Fixed Deposit Account

d. Recurring Deposit Account.

e. No-Frill Account

CCC October 2017 Admit Card

Dear Readers,
National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology has released Admit Card for CCC exam held in October 2017.
Candidates who applied for this Exam, can download their Admit Card.
All the Best!!!

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List Of Brand Ambassader

Today we are presenting you a short note on Recent Brand Ambassadors. This is very important for your upcoming competitive exams.

BRAND NAME	PERSONS
JANUARY 2017
Gionee	Virat Kohli
Asian Paints ‘ Ultima Protek	Ranbir Kapoor
International Ambassador of Stanchart, Mumbai	David Rudisha
Brand Ambassador of Momentum, Jharkhand	M S Dhoni
IG International	Sonu Sood
Kings XI,Punjab Brand Ambassador	Virender Sehwag
Swiss watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen	Sonam Kapoor