Postal Exam : Update as on October 26, 2014
Postal Exam : Update as on October 26, 2014
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Postal
Circles
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Exam
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Exam
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Maharashtra
(24)
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08
November to 13 November 2014
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09:00AM
onwards in Batches. Please check your Admit Card for timings
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for Paper I by Logging into the website. Candidates, shortlisted to
appear in the Paper II, may download the Admit Cards.
Please keep visiting the website for exam schedules for other Postal Circles & updates.
On completion of Paper II
& subsequent processing respective Postal Circle shall publish
Result of PA/SA Direct Recruitment Examination 2014 on its website.
Candidate is requested to visit the website of the Postal Circle for updates on regular basis.
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Current Affairs : October 2014 (Third Week) PDF
Current Affairs PDF October 2014
Third Week
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1) Who won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics on 13 October 2014?
Ans. French economist Jean Tirole
Read details: http://goo.gl/GHQ7Fj
2)
Who was chosen as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of India’s Incheon
Asian Games campaign at a felicitation of the medal winners by
contingent sponsors, Samsung India on 13 October 2014?
Ans. MC Mary Kom
Note: She is the first Indian woman boxer to win a gold medal in Asian Games.
3) Who won the Man Booker Prize 2014 on 14 October 2014?
Ans. Australian author Richard Flanagan
Note:
He won the Prize for his wartime novel The Narrow Road to the Deep
North. This was the first year that the Man Booker prize was open to all
authors writing in English, regardless of nationality.
4) Which bank on 14 October 2014 launched Facebook-based funds transfer platform KayPay?
Ans. Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB)
5) Who was appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) in the Union Finance Ministry on 16 October 2014?
Ans. Arvind Subramanian
6) ISRO on 16 October 2014 successfully launched third navigation satellitein IRNSS series named?
Ans. IRNSS 1C.
Note:
IRNSS- Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. Polar Satellite
Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C26 injected IRNSS 1C into the designated orbit
from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
This was the 27th consecutive successful flight of PSLV.
7) Union government on 16 October 2014 launched Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Karyakram. What is the aim of the scheme?
Ans. Scheme is aimed at creating conducive environment for industrial development and doing business with ease.
8) Who was appointment as the Union Finance Secretary on 16 October 2014?
Ans. Rajiv Mehrishi
Note: Mehrishi, an IAS of the 1978-batch of Rajasthan Cadre, replaced his batch-mate Arvind Mayaram, who was appointed as the Union Tourism Secretary.
9) Who was conferred with Euromoney’s Central Bank Governor of the Year Award 2014 in Washington 10 October 2014?
Ans. Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor of Reserve Bank of India
10) Name the Cyclonic Storm which struck the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha on 12 October 2014?
Ans. Hudhud
11) India on 30 September 2014 signed which convention on Mercury?
Ans. Minamata Convention
Note:
The convention is named after the Japanese city Minamata that has
become synonymous with deadly mercury contamination since 1950.
12) Which Indian shuttler won the Dutch Open Grand Prix badminton tournament on 12 October 2014?
Ans. Ajay Jayaram
13)
What was India's rank in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) which was
released on 13 October 2014 by the International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI)?
Ans. 55
14) World Food Day was observed across the world on 16 October 2014 with the theme?
Ans. Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth.
15) Name the Indian-born scientist who received the World Food Prize 2014 on 16 October 2014?
Ans. Sanjaya Rajaram
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16) International Day for the Eradication of Poverty was observed across the world on?
Ans. 17 October 2014
Note: The theme for the day was Leave no one behind: think, decide and act together against extreme poverty.
17) India on 17 October 2014 successfully test fired its first long range subsonic cruise missile named?
Ans. Nirbhay
18)
International Cricket Council (ICC) on 10 October 2014 awarded the
global broadcast agreement rights for ICC Events from 2015 to 2023 to?
Ans. Star India and Star Middle East.
19) Which countries were elected as non-permanent members of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on 16 October 2014?
Ans. Venezuela, Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand and Spain
20) Global Handwashing Day (GHD) was observed across the world on?
Ans. 15 October 2014
Note: Theme for 2014 is "Clean Hands Save Lives".
21) Srilankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on 13 October 2014 flagged off which train from Palai after 25 years?
Ans. Yal Devi Express
22) Which country will host first leg of Asia Cup Archery Tournament in Delhi in January 2015 as announced recently?
Ans. India
Note:
Asia Cup will replace the Asian GP. The first leg will be conducted in
Delhi in January 2015 while the second and third legs was allotted to
Bangkok and Tehran.
23) Which MP of present Lok Sabha died on 13 October 2014 in Kolkata following a lung failure?
Ans. Kapil Krishna Thakur
24) Who was appointed as the new Managing Director (MD) of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL) on 14 October 2014?
Ans. Gautham Roy
25) Union Home Ministry on 17 October 2014 announced to rename 12 cities and towns of which state?
Ans. Karnataka
Note: Cities will be named as per pronunciation in Kannada language.
26) Who was appointed as Prime Minister of Yemen on 13 October 2014?
Ans. Khaled Bahah
27)
NASA on 21 September 2014 successfully installed and activated its
first Earth-observing instrument ............... on the International
Space Station (ISS)?
Ans. ISS-RapidScat (ISS Rapid Scatterometer)
28) Who was honoured with the National Kishore Kumar Award for the year 2012-13 on 13 October 2014?
Ans. Noted lyricist Sameer
29) Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) on 11 October 2014 removed whom as its President?
Ans. Lalit Modi
Note:
He was removed after a no—confidence motion against him was passed in
Jaipur in which 23 of the 33 districts voted against Lalit Modi.
30) Who won the inaugural Russian Grand Prix of Formula One on 12 October 2014?
Ans. Lewis Hamilton
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List of Nobel Prize Winners 2014
Dear Viewers, The Royal Swedish Academy has announced the Nobel Prizes for the year 2014 during October 2014. Here is the complete list of winners.
Area
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Recipients
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Awarded for
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Physiology or Medicine 2014
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John O´Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser
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"for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain"
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Physics
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Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura.
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“for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”
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Chemistry
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Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner.
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“for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.
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Literature
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Patrick Modiano
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“for
the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human
destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”.
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Peace
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Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay
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for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
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Economics
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Jean Tirole
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“for his analysis of market power and regulation”.
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Government employee can't seek promotion after refusing it: Supreme Court
NEW DELHI: A government employee, whose promotion is canceled owing
to his refusal to accept it, cannot ask for it at a later stage, the
Supreme Court has said.
The apex court set aside the order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court
which had directed the state government to restore the promotion of one
of its employees whose promotion was cancelled after he turned down the
offer as he did not want to get transfered to some other place.
"As we find that it is the respondent himself who is responsible for
cancellation of the promotion order as he did not join the promoted
post, the impugned order of the high court is clearly erroneous and
against the law," a bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar said.
The court passed the order on an appeal filed by Madhya Pradesh government challenging the high court order.
The government had submitted that the high court failed to consider
that Ramanand Pandey himself sent back the promotion order and continued
on his post and approached the court after two years when it cancelled
his promotion.
It said that at the time of promotion, Pandey was posted in Bhind
district where he remained for almost 15 years and his intention was to
stay at that place only.
The apex court, after hearing both sides, quashed the high court order.
"It is clear that he wanted to remain in Bhind district, where he had
continued since 1990, as he was ready to go on leave instead of joining
the place of transfer. Moreover, for more than two years from the date
of cancellation of the order of promotion, the respondent kept totally
mum and maintained stoic silence.
"There was not even a semblance of protest as to why his promotion
order was cancelled or that he wanted to join the promotion post after
the alleged inquiry into the so-called complaint was over. He filed the
writ petition on October 24, 2008, i.e. almost two years after
cancellation of his promotion order," it said.
HC sets aside govt order dismissing employee on theft charge
Terming as "harsh" the Centre's decision to dismiss a government
employee from service for stealing government property, the Bombay High
Court has set aside the impugned order and instead lowered the
punishment to compulsory retirement from service.
Justices Naresh Patil and BP Colabawalla set aside the July 27, 2010,
order of dismissal of Ramchandra Goya Sadhu, who was caught stealing
copper rods on May 14, 2010, by the Defence Security Corps Platoon at
Tiger Gate here. He was found to have tied the rods around his waist,
hiding them inside his clothes.
The court also set aside the March 15, 2013, order of the Central
Administrative Tribunal which had upheld his dismissal from service for
committing theft of government property.
Instead, the bench ordered that the said employee be slapped with the
penalty of compulsory retirement under Rule 40 of CCS (Pension) Rules,
1972, and paid pensionary benefits in accordance with law.
Sadhu had cited a government order wherein four employees who were
facing a similar charge of stealing property were not dismissed but
given a lesser punishment. Some of them were compulsorily retired from
service while others were not given increments for two years.
"Taking into consideration the period of service of the petitioner and
his unblemished record in serving his employer, we are of the view that
the punishment meted out... namely dismissal from service, was harsh,"
the bench noted in its order, which was delivered recently.
"We find that the interest of justice would be met if the order of
dismissal of the petitioner is set aside and, instead, the lesser
punishment of compulsory retirement from service is imposed," the bench
said.
"We are not for a moment condoning the actions of the petitioner. The
charge of theft is indeed a serious one, but looking to the totality of
the facts, we feel that in the present case it would be punishment
enough if the petitioner is compulsorily retired from service so that he
receives pensionary benefits as per the rules," the judges observed.
The bench said it had taken a sympathetic view in the case only because
the petitioner has an unblemished record of 22 years of service and
other similarly-placed employees found guilty on theft charges were
slapped with penalties lighter than what was meted out to him.
Source
: http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/hc-sets-aside-govt-order-dismissing-employee-on-theft-charge-114102300131_1.html
Regional allotment in Inspector Posts cadre
Sri
R.Rama rao, PA SBCO Karimnagar HO who came out successful in IP
examination for the year 2012 and approved for promotion to the cadre of
Inspector Posts vide Directorate letter no A-3403/07/2012-DE dated
23.09.2014 is now alloted to Vijayawada Region vide CO letter no
ST/2-2/2014-I dated 22.10.2014.
