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1) Former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh on 3 November 2014 received the Japan’s top national award named?

Ans. The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers 2014.

2) Name Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography which was launched on 5 November 2014 in Mumbai?

Ans. Playing It My Way

3) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 5 November 2014 adopted which village in Varanasi (his constituency) under Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY)?

Ans. Jayapur Village

4) Forbes list of the World's Most Powerful People 2014 was released on 5 November 2014. Who topped the list?

Ans. Vladimir Putin, the Russian President.

Note: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his debut in the world's most powerful people list ranked 15th.

5) Who was on 5 November 2014 appointed as the new chairperson of theCentral Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the apex authority of the Income-Tax Department?

Ans. Anita Kapur, the senior IRS officer

6) Which team won the 2014-15 Duleep Trophy cricket tournament on 2 November 2014?

Ans. Central Zone

Note: They won by defeating South Zone in the finals played at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi with 9 runs.

7) Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee on 3 November 2014 submitted its final report on IPL Spot fixing to?

Ans. Supreme Court of India

8) Which car's from India on 3 November 2014 failed the crash tests and got zero stars in safety rating for their adult occupant protection under the Global New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP)?

Ans. Maruti’s Swift and Nissan’s Datsun GO

9) Who won LG People’s Choice Award 2014 on 5 November 2014?

Ans. Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Note: He is the third Indian player to win the coveted prize and overall fourth cricketer to win this prize.

10) Name the Italian physicist who was on 4 November 2014 appointed as first woman chief of CERN particle physics research centre?

Ans. Fabiola Gianotti

Note: She became the first woman to be put in charge of a top global scientific institution in the field.

11) Which city in India recorded the largest number of internet users in 2014 as per a study conducted by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and released on 4 November 2014?

Ans. Mumbai

12) Who was named as the captain of ICC ODI Team of the Year 2014 recently?

Ans. Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni

13) Who was named as captain of the ICC Test Team of the Year 2014 on 5 November 2014?

Ans. Angelo Mathews, the Sri Lankan cricket captain

14) Which tech giant on 3 November 2014 announced launch of Indian Language Internet Alliance (ILIA) in partnership with various content providers?

Ans. Google India

15) Which company recently became the first listed Indian company among the 30 SENSEX firms to have more than 75 percent shareholding by ForeignInstitutional Investors (FIIs)?

Ans. HDFC

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16) Commemorative Postage stamp on Liver Transplantation in India was released on 4 November 2014 by the Department of Posts. In which year the first successful liver transplantation in India was done?

Ans. 1998

17) Which company completed the acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google on 30 October 2014?

Ans. Lenovo, the Chinese PC maker

18) Which player received his 2013-14 European Golden Boot award on 5 November 2014?

Ans. Cristiano Ronaldo

Note: Portuguese star was awarded for being joint top-goal scorer last season in Europe along with Luis Suarez, having hit 31 goals.

19) Largest wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy on 6 November 2014 installed the world’s tallest hybrid wind generator turbine at?

Ans. Kutch, Gujarat

20) Union Cabinet on 4 November 2014 approved dissolution of legislative assembly of which state?

Ans. Delhi

21) Which telecom company on 5 November 2014 called off the 700 crore rupees deal with Loop Mobile?

Ans. Airtel

22) India and which country on 7 November 2014 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop Nalanda University in Bihar as an international centre of excellence?

Ans. Bhutan

23) Who was on 5 November 2014 appointed as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of e-retailer Flipkart?

Ans. Sanjay Baweja

24) National Cancer Awareness Day was recently observed on?

Ans. 7 November 2014

25) Which airlines on 6 November 2014 banned shipment of shark fins and committed to protect marine ecosystem?

Ans. Jet Airways

26) Who has resigned from the post of Goa Chief Minister on 8 November 2014?

Ans. Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar

27) Name the Veteran Bollywood actor who died on 3 November 2014 at Mumbai?

Ans. Sadashiv Amrapurkar

28) Name the Hockey India President who on 2 November 2014 became a member of International Hockey Federation (FIH) Executive Board?

Ans. Narinder Batra

29) Name the tallest building in the US which was reopened for business thirteen years after the original twin towers were destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attack?

Ans. World Trade Center

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Important Daily Current Affairs: 21 November 2014

1) Obama to be chief guest at Republic Day celebrations 2015: Prime Minister Narendra Modihas invited US President Barack Obama to Republic Day on January 26, 2015, an invitation that has been accepted by the US president. Obama will be the first US president to grace the occasion. Tthe Prime Minister's Office gave an official confirmation on Obama's visit to India. "This Republic Day, we hope to have a friend over...invited President Obama to be the 1st US President to grace the occasion as Chief Guest," PM Modi tweeted.

2) World Television Day celebrated: In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed November 21 as World Television Day, “in recognition of the increasing impact television has on decision-making by alerting world attention to conflicts and threats to peace and security and its potential role in sharpening the focus on other major issues, including economic and social issues.”

3) World Fisheries Day observed: World Fisheries day on 21 November 2014 was observed across the world by the fisher folk communities. The day will remind the world to ensure sustainable stocks of fisheries and healthy oceans ecosystems.

4) Japan PM Shinzo Abe dissolved parliament for election: Japan's PrimeMinister Shinzo Abe has dissolved parliament, paving the way for a snap election. Mr Abe is seeking a new mandate for economic reforms and is delaying an unpopular increase in sales tax. But opinion polls conducted by local media indicate low support for the PM and that many people do not understand why he has called an election two years ahead of schedule. Japan will now head to the polls in mid-December.

5) Democratic Republic of Congo declared free of Ebola Virus: The World Health Organization said on 21 November 2014 that the Democratic Republic of Congo was free of the Ebola virus after the African country went more than 40 days without a person developing symptoms of the deadly disease.

6) India's Mangalyaan among best inventions of 2014: Mangalyaan has been named among the best inventions of 2014 by Time magazine which described it as a technological feat that will allow India to flex its "interplanetary muscles." "Nobody gets Mars right on the first try. The US didn't, Russia didn't, the Europeans didn't. But on September 24, India did. That's when the Mangalyaan ...went into orbit around the Red Planet, a technological feat no other Asian nation has yet achieved," Time said about Mangalyaan, calling it "The Supersmart Spacecraft."Mangalyaan is among the 25 'Best Inventions of 2014' listed by Time magazine that are "making the world better, smarter andin some casesa little more fun."

7) World's first White Tiger Safari to come up in MP: Powerful roar of white tigers will soon reverberate in Madhya Pradesh's Vindhya region as the world's first White Tiger Safari would begin in Rewa, which was once home to this rare breed of the big cats. "The world's first White Tiger Safari would begin soon at Mukundpur near Rewa where the first white tiger was spotted by erstwhile ruler Maharaja Martand Singh in 1951 from Sidhi forest area (it was named as Mohan)," Madhya Pradesh Public Relations Minister Rajendra Shukla told PTI.

8) Inform customers about fall in minimum balance, RBI directs banks: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked banks to inform their customers about a fall in minimum balance well in advance and said penal charges should be levied only to the extent of shortfall in such balances. The guidelines with respect to levying of penal charges for non-maintenance of minimum balance will be effective from April 1, 2015. RBI said while levying charges for non-maintenance of minimum balance in savings bank account, banks shall adhere to the additional guidelines.

9) Deutsche Bank won Custodian of the Year 2014 award: Deutsche Bank on 15 November 2014 won Custodian of the Year 2014 award.  The bank was awarded the ‘Channel Islands Custodian of the Year 2014’ title, with the award being presented to Lisa Haggarty, Head of Custody and Fund Solutions for Deutsche Bank Channel Islands.

Full Forms of Important Banking Terms for competitive Exams

Friends.. Here is the list of important banking terms with their full forms useful for all bank exams.  If anything is missed please comment below, we will add it.

1. LAF – Liquidity Adjustment Facility

2. BSBDA - Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account

3. RTGS - Real Time Gross Settlement

4. SLR-Statutory Liquidity Ratio

5. PPP – Public Private Partnership

6. FCNR(B) - Foreign Currency Non-Resident Bank

7. LCR- Liquidity Coverage Ratio

8. NEFT - National Electronic Funds Transfer

9. NBFC-Non Banking Finance Companies

10. MSF- Marginal Standing Facility

11. NSFR- Net Stable Funding Ratio

12. GAAR - General anti avoidance rule

13. FTA- Free trade agreement

14. LRMT- Liquidity risk monitoring tools

15. CBS- Core Banking Solution

16. FSLRC - Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission

17. FIPB – Foreign Investment Promotion board

18. DEAF- Depositor Education and Awareness Fund

19. CRAR- Capital to Risk-weighted Assets Ratio

20. FIPB – Foreign Investment Promotion board

21. FEMA- Foreign Exchange Management Act

22. EEFC - Exchange Earner's Foreign Currency

23. ECBs - External Commercial Borrowings

24. DTC – Direct Tax Code

25. CCEA – Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs

26. CAR – Cash Adequacy Ratio

27. ALM- Asset Liability Management

28. FSLRC- Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission

29. SWIFT- Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication

30. CRAR- Capital to Risk-weighted Assets Ratio

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Nanyatha’, a monitoring mechanism for letter box clearance - Inaugurated at Vijayawada

Sri B.V.Sudhakar, CPMG ,AP Circle and 
Sri M.Sampath, PMG Vijayawada

‘Nanyatha’, a monitoring mechanism for letter box clearance through a unique ID generation, was launched by Chief Postmaster General,AP Circle B.V. Sudhakar at Vijayawada on 21.11.2014.

“The facility has been introduced with the aim of helping people know the status of letter clearance from a particular letter box,” Sri Sudhakar, CPMG said. The deparment has created a unique 12-digit number to serve as the identification number for each letter box. A bar code, printed on the rear door of the box to capture details, will be generated for the unique number. The entire application will be based on Android operating system, he said.

“The application helps us upload data on location of letter box, date and time of letter clearance and the person who cleared them on the web (http://appost.in/nanyatha) when the bar code is scanned using the smart phone,” he said. The letter box details, date and time of clearance will be sent to the central server using GPRS technology.

The server, in turn, will validate the information and accept the date and time of clearance through management information system (MIS). Denizens can log on to the website and enter the location of the letter box to get information about the date and time of clearance. A log-in name and password have been provided to postal administrators of each division for entering the website and see the MIS details comprising the name of the post office and the letter box under its jurisdiction.

Sri B.V.Sudhakar said the facility was launched in 10 of the 11 post offices in Vijayawada covering 173 letter boxes. 

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CELEBRATE IN A BEFITTING MANNER ON 17-12-2014 AS

PENSIONERS DAY

SENIOR CITIZENS DAY

NAKARA’s CENTENARY BIRTH DAY CELEBRATION

Chief Justice Chandrachud who delivered the 17-12-1982 historical judgment

D.S.Nakara who fought heroically after his retirement for justice to all pensioners

Pensioners can never forget 17^th December. It was on this day in the year 1982 that the historic judgment by the constitutional bench headed by the Chief Justice Chandrachud in the famous case filed by Nakara was delivered to up hold the fundamental right of pension by the Pensioners.

The judgment had categorically ruled that “ (i) that pension is neither a bounty nor a matter of grace depending upon the sweet will of the employer and that it create a vested right subject to 1972 rules which are statutory in character because they are enacted in exercise of powers conferred by the proviso to Art.309 and clause (5) of Art.148 of the constitution; (ii) that pension is not an ex-gratia payment but it is a payment for the past service rendered and (iii) it is a social welfare measure rendering socio-economic justice to those who in the heyday of their life ceaselessly toiled for the employer on an assurance that in their old age they would not be left in lurch ’’

Incidentally Shri.Nakara who was born in the year 1914 and entered in Government Service in the year 1937 and retired in the year 1972 went to court and fought heroically for ten long years to get the above historic judgment in the year 1982 had passed away in the year 2009 at his age of 96. This year being the centenary year of his birth, it is appropriate to celebrate his centenary of birth along with the Pensioners Day on 17-12-2014 as the Day of “ Pensioners Day – Senior Citizens Day – and Centenary year of Birth of Nakara”.

AIPRPA CHQ Calls upon all Postal Pensioners to forge unity with other Pensioners everywhere and celebrate 17-12-2014 in a befitting manner. If you have a District or Divisional Branch of AIPRPA or not, the CHQ calls upon the Postal Pensioners to observe the day and remember Nakara to take the pledge to fight continuously until the Government is forced to withdraw the PFRDA and uphold the right to pension to all  Pensioners of Central Government and other pensioners. Moreover let us stand for the grant of Universal Pension to all Senior Citizens in the world and in our country.

Observe 17-12-2014 as:

Pensioners Day

Senior Citizens Day

Centenary of Nakara’s Birth

India Post working on model to connect artisan with e-commerce - NEWS

New Delhi: India Post has been asked to develop a framework to facilitate local artisans sell their products online, Telecom and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said here on Friday. India Post, which has world's largest postal network of 1.55 lakh post offices, has seen multifold rise in business since the time it entered in partnership with e-commerce companies.

"I have asked India Post to develop framework where India artisan like in Kashi, handloom of Meerut, artisans at Tirupur can leverage postal environment to become big brand in e-commerce," Prasad said at an event organised by Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad on public policy making.

The minister had on Wednesday met Department of Posts officials, where they shared India Post's plans to tap opportunities in the e-commerce sector.

 
As per industry estimates shared by India Posts, e-commerce business in India was about USD 6 billion in value in 2012 and is expected to reach USD 76 billion by 2021.

 
The distribution, delivery or logistics is projected to constitute about 12 per cent of the total e-commerce market, accounting for about USD 9 billion by 2021.

Prasad said government policy needs to balance growth and equity and be participative in nature. "We need to come up with framework which is not unilateral and is participative."

 
The minister shared example of Jan Dhan Yojana which has resulted in opening of about 70 million new bank accounts within couple of months and getting public idea through 'mygov.in' website.

"There was no requirement to deposit single penny in bank account opened under Jan Dhan Yojana but people deposited about Rs 6,000 crore in total," Prasad said.

He said that policy should not be directed top-down but it should emanate from bottom and go up.

He sought suggestions from IIM and other academic institutes in formulating policy that can be inclusive of people and bring growth along with equity.

IIM-A Chairperson for marketing Dhreeraj Sharma said that the institute is discussing various management strategies and systemic interventions which can help government deliver their plans and policies in the most expeditious and effective manner.

"We hope that discussions and interactions during the course of this conference will result in the creation of the sentiment with reference to development and implementation of public policy," Sharma said.

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Special benefits in cases of death and disability in service - Revision of Disability Pension/Family pension of Pre-2006 disability pensioners/ Family Pensioners - regarding.

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INTRODUCTION OF AADHAAR ENABLED BIO-METRIC ATTENDANCE SYSTEM IN ALL CG OFFICES

ADMIT CARDS FOR IP AND LGO DEPARTMENTAL EXAMINATION FOR THE YEAR 2014 TO BE HELD ON 22ND AND 23RD NOVEMBER 2014

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Institute of Banking Personnel Selection ( IBPS ) PO IV Results Out

Friends.. Institute of Banking Personnel Selection has on 21 November 2014 published the results of its PO IV 2014 Online Exam held during the month of October/November 2014. You can check the result by entering the Registration No or Roll No and Password or Date Of Birth. The interviewfor the selected candidates will be held during the month of January 2014. Congratulations to all selected candidates.

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