August 27

>>> IMPORTANT HEADS <<<

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Chairman, IRDA T. S. Vijayan
Chairman, LIC S.K. Roy
President, FICCI Naina Lal Kidwai
Chairman, TRAI - Rahul Khullar
Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)-PradeepKumar
Director, CBI Ranjit Sinha
Chariman, CCI Ashok Chawla
President, ASSOCHAM -Raj kumar Dhoot
President, NASSCOM - R Chandrashekhar
Chairman, NASSCOM -KrishnakumarNatarajan
Director, BARC -Dr. Shekhar Basu
Director, DRDO - Avinash Chander
Secretary, Department of AtomicEnergy (DAE) - R KSinha
Chief Information Commissioner(CIC) -Satyanand Mishra
Chairman, ISRO - Dr. KRadhakrishnan
Chairperson, CBDT SudhaSharma
Chairman, SEBI - U K Sinha
Chief, Intelligence Bureau SaiyadAsif Ibrahim
Director, NCERT - Prof. P Sinclair
Governor, RBI Dr. RaghuramRajan.(New Declared)
MD, NSE Chitra Ramakrishna
President, ADB - Takehiko Nakao
MD, BSE Ashish Chauhan
Chariman, University GrantCommission VedPrakash
Chief, Indian Airforce NormanAnilKumarBrowne
MD, IMF Christine Lagarde
Director General, WHO Margarate Chan
Chairman, NABARD PrakashBakshi
Chief, Indian Army Bikram Singh
President, World Bank Jim YongKim
Chairman, UPSC D. P. Agarwal
Chief, RAW Alok Joshi
CEO, IFC Jim Yong Cai
Chief, Indian Navy Devendra Kumar Joshi
Chairman, National
FilmDevelopmentCorporation(NFDC)- Ramesh Sippy

August 28

Longest, Largest, Biggest, Smallest, Tallest and Highest

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Longest river (India) Ganges

Longest river (World) Nile
The longest tributary river of India Yamuna
The longest river of the south Godavari
Highest mountain peak Godwin Austin(k2)
Largest lake (Fresh water) Wular lake (Kashmir)
Highest Dam Tehri Dam on Bhagirathi River
Largest Mosque Jama Masjid, Delhi
Longest Road Grand Trunk Road
State with longest coastline Gujarat
Largest railway route Dibrugarh in Assam to Kannyakumari in Tamil Nadu
Longest tunnel Jawahar tunnel (Jammu & Kashmir)
Longest national highway NH-7 which runs from Varanasi to Kanyakumari
Longest Dam Hirakod Dam (Orissa)
Longest River Bride Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna
Longest populated city Mumbai (1.60 crore)
Largest Museum National Museum, Kolkata
Largest Delta Sunderban Delta, W. Bengal
Largest Dome Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur (Karnataka)
Largest Zoo Zoological Gardens, Alipur, Kolkata
Largest man-made Lake Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar (Rihand Dam)
Largest Desert Thar (Rajasthan)
Highest Tower Pitampura Tower, Delhi
Smallest State (Area) Goa
Smallest State (Population) Sikkim
Highest Waterfall Gersoppa waterfall (Karnataka)
Longest Electric railway line From Delhi to Kolkata via Patna
Densest populated State West Bengal
Largest cave temple Kailash temple, Ellora (Maharashtra)
Largest animal Fair Sonepur (Bihar)
Highest Gateway Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri (Agra)
Biggest Hotel Oberal Sharaton (Mumbai)
Largest State (Area) Rajasthan
Largest State (Population) Uttar Pradesh
Place of heaviest rainfall Mausinram (Meghalaya)
Largest corridor Rameshwaram temple corridor (Tamil Nadu)
Largest cantilever span bride Howrah Bridge (Kolkata)
Largest forest state M.P.
Highest straight gravity Dam Bhakra Dam
Longest Railway Platform Kharagpur (W. Bengal)
Largest Stadium Salt lake (Yuva Bharti), Kolkata
Largest Port Mumbai
Highest Lake Devatal (Garhwal)
Largest Lake (Saline water) Chika lake,Orissa
Highest Award Bharat Ratna
Highest Gallantry Award Paramveer Chakra
Largest Gurudwara Golden Temple, Amritsar
Deepest river valley Bhagirathi & Alaknanda

State with longest coastline of South India Andhra Pradesh

Longest river which forms estuary Narmada
Largest Church Saint Cathedral (Goa)
Longest Beach Marina Beach, Chennai
Highest Battle field Siachin Glacier
Highest Airport Len (Laddakh)
Largest river island Majuli (Brahmaputra river, Assam)
Largest Planetarium Birla Planetarium

August 28

TOP 10 GAS IN EARTH ATMOSPHERE (by Volume) :*************** *************** ********

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Nitrogen (N2) - (78.084%)

Oxygen (O2) - (20.946%)
Argon (Ar) - (0.9340%)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) - (0.0397%)
Neon (Ne) - (0.001818%)
Helium (He) - (0.000524%)
Methane (CH4) - (0.000179%)
Krypton (Kr) - (0.000114%)
Hydrogen (H2) - (0.000055%)
Nitrous oxide (N2O) - (0.0000325%)

August 30

>>> VARIOUS FOUNDERS <<<

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Five Years Plans of India Jawaharlal Nehru

Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda
Bhoodan Movement AcharyaVinoba Bhave
Alighar Muslim University SirSyed Ahmed Khan
Kinter Garten Frobel
SNDP Sree Narayana Guru
NSS Mannathu Padmanabhan
Advaita Philosophy Sree Sankaracharya
Indian National Army Subhash Chandra Bose

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Red Cross society Henry Dunant

Brahma Samaj Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Arya Samaj Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Servants of India society Gopalakrishna Gokhale
Theosophical Society Annie Besant
Home Rule League - Annie Besant
Scout Movement Baden Powell

Location of Wildlife Sanctuaries/National Parks

(*These are listed in the World Heritage Sites by
UNESCO)
1. Kaziranga National Park*---Golaghat/Nagaon
(Assam)
2. Manas Tiger Sanctuary*---Barpeta (Assam)
3. Keoladeo National Park*---Bharatpur
(Rajasthan)
4. Sundarbans Tiger Sanctuary*---24Paraganas
(West Bengal)
5. Bandhavgarh National Park---Shahdol
(Madhya Pradesh)
6. Kanha National Park---Mandla ( Madhya
Pradesh)
7. Dudwa National Park---Lakhimpur, Kheri
(Uttar Pradesh)
8. Chandraprabha Sanctuary---Varanasi (Uttar
Pradesh)
9. Corbett National Park---Nainital(Uttarakhand)
10. Rajaji National Park---Dehradun, Haridwar,
Pauri Garhwal (Uttarakhand)
11. Dachigam National Park---Srinagar(Jammu &
Kashmir)
12. Ranthambore Tiger Sanctuary---Sawai
Madhopur (Rajasthan)
13. Ghatprabha Bird Sanctuary---Belgaum
(Karnataka)
14. Bandipur National Park---Mysore (Karnataka)
15. Gir National Park--- Junagarh (Gujarat)
16. Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary---Ahmedabad
(Gujarat)
17. Hazaribagh National Park---Hazaribagh
(Jharkhand)
18. Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary---Nellore (Andhra

Pradesh)
19. Mudumalai Sanctuary---Nilgiris (Tamilnadu)
20. Periyar Sanctuary---Idduki (Kerala)
21. Simlipal Tiger Sanctuary---Mayurbhanj
(Odisha)
22. Gahirmatha Turtle Sanctuary---Kendrapara
(Odisha)
23. Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary--Bhagalpur (Bihar)
24. Silent Valley National Park---Palakkad,
(Kerala)
25. Rani Jhansi Marine National Park---Andaman
& Nicobar Is.
26. Campbell National Park---Andaman &
Nicobar Islands
27. Galathea National Park---Andaman &
Nicobar Islands
28. Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park--Andaman & Nicobar Islands

September 15

Full form of computer terms:

* HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
* HTTPS - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure.
* IP - Internet Protocol.
* URL - Uniform Resource Locator.
* USB - Universal Serial Bus.
* VIRUS - Vital Information Resource Under Seized.
* 3G - 3rd Generation.
* GSM - Global System for Mobile Communication.
* CDMA - Code Divison Multiple Access.
* UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunication
System.
* SIM - Subscriber Identity Module.
* AVI = Audio Video Interleave
* RTS = Real Time Streaming
* SIS = Symbian OS Installer File
* AMR = Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec
* JAD = Java Application Descriptor
* JAR = Java Archive
* JAD = Java Application Descriptor
* 3GPP = 3rd Generation Partnership Project
* 3GP = 3rd Generation Project

* MP3 = MPEG player lll

* MP4 = MPEG-4 video file
* AAC = Advanced Audio Coding
* GIF = Graphic InterchangeableFormat
* JPEG = Joint Photographic ExpertGroup
* BMP = Bitmap
* SWF = Shock Wave Flash
* WMV = Windows Media Video
* WMA = Windows Media Audio
* WAV = Waveform Audio
* PNG = Portable Network Graphics
* DOC = Document (Microsoft Corporation)
* PDF = Portable Document Format
* M3G = Mobile 3D Graphics
* M4A = MPEG-4 Audio File
* NTH = Nokia Theme (series 40)
* THM = Themes (Sony Ericsson)
* MMF = Synthetic Music Mobile Application File
* NRT = Nokia Ringtone
* XMF = Extensible Music File
* WBMP = Wireless Bitmap Image
* DVX = DivX Video
* HTML = Hyper Text Markup Language
* WML = Wireless Markup Language
* CD - Compact Disk.
* DVD - Digital Versatile Disk.
* CRT - Cathode Ray Tube.
* DAT - Digital Audio Tape.
* DOS - Disk Operating System.
* GUI - Graphical User Interface.
* HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
* IP - Internet Protocol.
* ISP - Internet Service Provider.
* TCP - Transmission Control Protocol.
* UPS - UninterruptiblePower Supply.
* HSDPA - High Speed Downlink Packet Access.
* EDGE - Enhanced Data Rate for GSM [Global System for Mobile
Communication] Evolution.
* VHF - Very High Frequency.
* UHF - Ultra High Frequency.
* GPRS - General Packet Radio Service.
* WAP - Wireless Application Protocol.
* TCP - Transmission Control Protocol .
* ARPANET - Advanced Research Project Agency Network.
* IBM - International Business Machines.
* HP - Hewlett Packard.
* AM/FM - Amplitude/ Frequency Modulation.
* WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network.

SPORTS AWARDS 2013

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award: Ronjan Sodhi.
The Arjuna awardees: Virat Kohli(Cricket)
Chekrovolu Swuro (Archery)
Renjith Maheshwary (Athletics)
P V Sindhu (Badminton)
Kavita Chahal (Boxing)
Rupesh Shah (Snooker)
Gaganjeet Bhullar (Golf)
Saba Anjum (Hockey)
Rajkumari Rathore (Shooting)
Joshna Chinappa (Squash)
Mouma Das (Table Tennis)
Neha Rathi (Wrestling)
Dharmendra Dalal (Wrestling)
Amit Kumar Saroha (Athletics)

September 4

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September 3

VARIOUS RATES AT GLANCE

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Bank Rate------------ 10.25%
CRR -------------------4.0%
SLR------------------- 23.0%
Repo Rate ------------7.25%

Reverse Repo Rate--- 6.25%

MSF Rate ------------- 10.25%

September 1

>>> INDIAN STATES & THEIR CAPITALS<<<

**********************************
1. Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad
2. Arunachal Pradesh - Itanagar
3. Assam - Dispur
4. Bihar - Patna
5. Chhattisgarh - Raipur
6. Goa - Panaji
7. Gujarat - Gandhinagar
8. Haryana - Chandigarh
9. Himachal Pradesh - Shimla
10. Jammu and Kashmir - Srinagar (summer), Jammu (winter)
11. Jharkhand - Ranchi
12. Karnataka - Bengaluru
13. Kerala - Thiruvananthapuram
14. Madhya Pradesh - Bhopal
15. Maharashtra - Mumbai
16. Manipur - Imphal
17. Meghalaya - Shillong
18. Mizoram - Aizawl
19. Nagaland - Kohima
20. Orissa - Bhubaneswar
21. Punjab - Chandigarh
22. Rajasthan - Jaipur
23. Sikkim - Gangtok
24. Tamil Nadu - Chennai
25. Tripura - Agartala
26. Uttar Pradesh - Lucknow
27. Uttarakhand - Dehradun
28. West Bengal - Kolkata

September 1

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August 31

LIST OF AWARDS & HONOURS : 2013

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1) Harshwanti Bisht - Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal
2) Vijay Singh - Lifetime Achievement Award by ASCE-EWRI
3) Prime Minister's Shram Awards for the Year 2012
4) UK Songwriting Contest 2013 ; Indian-Origin Winners Included
5) A team of three Indian-American students defeated teams from 17 other regions to win.
11th National Geographic World Championship.
6) The Prem Bhatia Memorial award - Shalini Singh of the Hindu.
7) Delhi conferred Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 on Abdul Rashid Khan and Anjolie Ela Menon.

8 VP Sharma won the Gujar Mal Modi Award for Science and Technology 2013.
9) Sri Lankan President felicitated tribal community, the Veddas on World Indigenous Peoples Day.
10) US Presidential Medal of Freedom to be conferred on Bill Clinton & Oprah Winfrey.
11) Sports Ministry announced 50 Thousand Cash Prize for Each Junior Women Hockey Player.
12) Play Called the Radicalisation of Bradley Manning Won James Tait Black Prize for Drama.
13) Sugathakumari, the Malayalam Poetess won Saraswati Samman 2013 for Manalezhuthu.
14) Indian Students Grab Two Silver & Three Bronze at 54th International Mathematical Olympiad.
15) Amjad Ali Khan to get 21st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadhbhavna Award.
16) Four Indian Americans won Simons
Investigators Awards 2013
17) Paradip Port Conferred With the Major Port of the Year Award.
18) Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation announced the Ramon Magsaysay Awards for the year 2013.
19) British Firm called Real VNC - MacRobert Award
20) OISD Safety Awards 2011-12 - HPCL and BPCL.

August 31 via mobile

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NEW APPOINTMENTS IN 2013.

1. Sujata Singh New Foreign Sec. She succeeded Ranjan Mathai
2. Justice P Sathasivam - New CJI(40th Chief Justice of India). He Succeeded Altamas Kabirs
3. Avinash Chander - New Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO Chief) replaced V.K. Saraswat
4. Infosys appoints Narayana Murthy as Executive Chairman
5. Sunil Soni New Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards
6. Shashi Kant Sharma - New Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, replaced Vinod Rai.
7. Kushal Singh - New Chairperson of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
8. Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul- takes oath as new CJ of Punjab & Haryana high court
9. Sudha Sharma: New CBDT chief (Central Board of Direct Taxes). She succeeded Poonam Kishore
Saxena
10. K R Kamath Re-Elected as the Chairman of Indian Banks' Association (IBA)
11. SK Roy- New Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation
12. Asian Athletics Association President's - Dahlan Jumaan Al-Hamad
13-Who is Chairperson of National Women Commission? Ans) Ms Mamta Sharma

9. NEW APPOINTMENT IN WORLD 1. Sunil Bharti Mittal - Vice Chairman of International Chamber of
Commerce 2. Satya Nadella(India-born) New Microsoft CEO (succeed Steve Ballmer) 3. Sunil Kumar
New M Dof Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). 4. Roberto Azevedo - Head of W.T.O.
(replaced Pascal Lamy of France). 5. Susan Elizabeth Rice - National Security Adviser to Obama ( replaced
Tom Donilon) 6. Ratan Tata - Chief Advisor of AirAsia India) 7. James Comey - next FBI (Federal Bureau
of Investigation) Director of US. 8. Staffan de Mistura - Italian Special Envoy to India. 9. Dr. Christopher
Briggs - Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention . 10. Takehiko Nakao new President of ADB (Asian
Development Bank) ( succeeded Haruhiko Kuroda) 11. Poonam Khetrapal Singh - first woman regional
director of WHO from South-East Asia region. 12. Ashok Vemuri - the President and CEO of iGate
Corporation. 13. Puneet Talwar - the Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs by the US
President Barack Obama. 14. The new Argentine pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio (76) - new Pope becomes the
266th pontiff. 15. Thomas Bach (Germany) - 9th President of IOC ( succeeded Jacques Rogge of Belgium.)
16. Rangaswamy Srinivasan is the only Indian American re-nominated by Obama for the District of
Columbia Circuit. 17. Elbegdorj Tsakhia New Mongolia president. 18. Abdoulaye Bathily of Senegal New Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization

Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). 19. Satish Babu(Director, International Centre for Free and Open Source
Software (ICFOSS)) elected to 2014Nominating Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Numbers and Names (ICANN). 20. Samantha Power - US ambassador to United Nations. Samantha
Power succeeded Susan Rice 21. Caroline Kennedy, daughter of former president John F Kennedy- envoy
to Japan. 22. Mamnoon Hussain - 12th President of Pakistan and replace incumbent Asif Ali Zardari. 23.
Hassan Rouhani - Iran's seventh President 24. Robert Mugabe President of Zimbabwe 25. Pak Lt Gen
Maqsood Ahmed - UN military advisor

Some Important Abbreviations(Must Read n SHARE With Others)

AADHAAR card denotes Unique
Identity Number
PSL Priority sector lending
NBFC Non Banking Financial
Company
WPI Wholesale price Index
CPI Consumer Price Index
LAF Liquidity adjustment facility
NDTL Net Deman d and Time
Liabilities
UCB Urban Cooperative Bank
ECS Electronic clearing service
FSLRC Financial Sector Legislative
Reforms Commission
UCIC Unique Customer Identification
Code
AML Anti Money Laundering
CFT Combatting of financial
terrorism
SME Small and Mediu m Enterprises
CDR Corporate Debt Restructuring
CDS Credit Default Swaps
IRS Interest Rate Swaps
FII Foreign Institutional Investors
RRB Regional Rural Banks
PDC Post Dated Cheques
MSE Micro an d Small Enterpr ises
DCCO Date of commencement of
commercial operations
CRAR Capital to Risk weighted assets
ratio
IBL Inter bank liability
GDS Gold deposit scheme

CAD Current account deficit

MFIN Micro Finance Institutions
Network
IRDA Insurance Regulatory
Development Authority CRMPG
Counterparty Risk Management Policy
Group
HTM Held to maturity
SLR Statutor y Liquidity Ratio
BC Business correspondents
BF Business facilitators DSA Direct
selling agents
DMA Direct mar keting agents
DRA Debt Recovery agents
ELA Emergency Liquidity assistance
BOP Balance of payments
APBS AADHAAR payment bridge
system
FDI Foreign direct investment
MSF Marginal standing facility
FFA Forward freight agreements
BIS Bank for international
settlements
BR act Banking Regulation act
MCX Mu lti commodity exchange
PSB Public sector banks

* Heads of important international organizations:World

1. Who is the president of International
Meteorological Organization? Answer:Alexander Bedritskiy
2. who is the secretary general ofAsean?
Answer:Surin Pitsuwan
3. Who is the Director-General of UNESCO?
Answer:Irina Bokova
4. Who is the Secretary General of NATO?
Answer:Anders Rasmussen
5. Who is the President of the European Union ?
Answer:Herman Van Rompuy
6. Who is the head of the African Union Commission ? answer:Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

7. Who is the Executive Director of UN Women ?

Answer:Michelle Bachelet
8. Who is Head of World Health Organization ?
Answer:Margaret Chan
9. Who is the Managing Director of IMF?
Answer:Christine Lagarde
10. Who is the President of the World Bank?
Answer:Jim Yong Kim

RRB Morning Exam dated 21-09-2013

General Awareness Questions
1. New Member of European Union ~~>Croatia
2. New Governor of Sikkim - ~~> Sriniwas Patil
3. PV sindhu related to ~~>Badminton
4. Who won the Champions Trophy 2013 ~~>India
5. Committee for NABARD ~~>Shivaraman
6. Which company installed white label ATm first in country? ~~>Tata
7. RTGS limit ~~>no limit
8. Kathakali is folk dance of -- ~~>Kerala
9. P Sathasivam is in news? ~~>CJI of
India
10. Largest producer of Rice in world? ~~>China
11. Commercial paper is issued by ~~>Corporate
12. What do u mean by CRR ~~> cash reserve ratio
13. Attorney general of india appointed by ~~>President of India

14. 28th member of EU ~~>croatia

15. Who is raghuram rajan ~~>RBi Governer
16. Financial task action force HQ~~>Paris
17. saarc head office ~~>Nepal
18. Who won global peace award ~~>Nelson mandela
19. What does a banking ombudsman do
20. Nirbhaya allocation in budget ~~>1000
21. CEO of World economic forum ~~>klaus schwab
22. Turning point authour ~~> kalam
23. Blue revolution ~~> fish
24. India to help which country in its
Elections? ~~Nepal

New Policy Rates are as Follows:

Repo Rate 7.50%
Reverse Repo Rate 6.50%
CRR 4%
MSF 9.50%
Bank Rate - 9.50%
SLR 23%

Questions Asked in today's Morning Shift IBPS RRB PO Exam:

1 ) treasury bills, Certificate of deposits, commercial papers traded in which market - Money market 1
2) About CSR corporate social responsibility
3) GAAR is applicable from - 1st april 2016
4) INDIA is going to trade in South east asian countries it is called - ASEAN
5) PAKISTAN PM - NAWAZ SHARIEF
6) Sarajevo is the capital of BOSNIA7) HDI Index of Rank of India - 136
8 )Nishi Vasudeva is the chairman of - HPCL
9) Who purchased the business of Royal bank of Scotland - Ratnakar Bank 2

10) Some thing about Insurance Broking permission as per the notification given by IRDA- Dnt know the
answer 3
11) PPF Max amount in a financial Year - 100000
12) E-Choupal is from Which Organization - ITC
13) Foreign trade policy annoued by - Ministry of commerce, Industry 4
14) UNCTAD HQ- Geneva
15) Swadhaar scheme for - A Scheme for Women in Difficult Circumstances
16) Highest award in Sport (India) - Rajiv Khel Ratna
17) FCNR Account - Opend by NRI and IPO's
18)About Asset Reconstruction Companies
19) Present Reverse Repo Rate - 6.5% ( Answer is not given previous is 6.25%)
20) Father of Nuclear Programme - Homi J BABA
21)ESCAP HQ Bangkok
22) Best Feature film in 60th IIFA Awards _ Pan singh Thomar 5
23) Committee on Below Poverty line Tendulkar Committee 6
24)Anoop Sridhar is a Famous for- BADMINTON 7
25) Sea of Pappies is Written by- AMITAV GHOSH 8
26) Question on KYC Norms
27)NPAs limited to by the end of 2013-14 fiscal Year is DoNT KNOW 9
28) FEMA enacted in the year 2000 10
29) ED is levied on I Think MANUFACT```URING GOODS
30) EFT means Electronic Funds Transfer
31) Banks didnt allow loans Beyond BASE RATE
32) Baht is the currency of THAILAND
33) Question on WPI
34) For participating in president election minimum age is 35 Years
35) Not a retail Banking Product DNT KNOW 11
36) Lender of last resort RBI
37) Fiscal Deficit in 2012-13 is 4.89%
38) SEBI Chairman U K SINHA
39) PMAEC chairman Rangarajan
40) Telecom regulator TRAI

Important acronyms for Banking & Finance

terms (AC)
ADRs American Depository Receipts
AFS Available for Sale
ANBC Adjusted Net Bank Credit
ARC Agricultural Refinance Corporation
ARDC Agricultural Refinance and
Development Corporation
ATM Automated Teller Machine
BC Business Correspondent

BCSBI Banking Codes and Standards Board of

India
BF Business Facilitator
BFS Board for Financial Supervision
BIS Bank for International Settlements
BO Banking Ombudsman
BoP Balance of Payments
BPSSBoard for Regulation and Supervision of
Payment and Settlement Systems
BRBNMPL Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note
Mudran Private Limited
BSR Basic Statistical Returns
CAC Current Account Convertibility
CAMELS Capital Adequacy, Asset Quality,
Management, Earnings, Liquidity, Systems and
Control
CAS Central Accounts Section
CBS Core Banking Solution
CCIL Clearing Corporation of India Limited
CCP Central Counter Party
CDSL Central Depository Services Ltd
CE of OBE Credit Equivalent of Off-Balance
Sheet Exposures
CFMS Centralised Funds Management System
CFSP Committee on Financial Sector Plan
CMB Cash Management Bill
CPPAPS Committee on Procedures and
Performance Audit on Public Services
CRAR Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets Ratio
CRR Cash Reserve Ratio
CSD Customer Service Department
CSF Consolidated Sinking Fund
CTS Cheque Truncation System

September 21 via mobile

Famous Persons and Nicknames

Previously asked gk questions from nick name
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1. Bengali Tiger =>> Bibin Chandra Pal
2. Punjab Lion, Punjab Kesari =>> Lala Lajpat
Rai
3. Sher- e -Punjab =>> Ranjit Singh
4. Lion of Kashmir =>> Sheikh Mohammed

Abdullah
5. Mysore Tiger =>> Tippu Sultan
6. Bard of Avon =>> William Shakespeare
7. Sage of Kanchi =>> Sankaracharya
* 8. Bird man of India =>> Salim Ali
9. Maratha Kesari =>> Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Did you know who started the newspapers
Maratta and Kesari ?
10. Bapu =>> Gandhiji
11. Babuji =>> Jagjeevan Ram
12. Indian Machiavelli =>> Chanakya
13. Indian Napoleon =>> Samudragupta
14. Indian Bismarck =>> Sardar Vallabhai Patel
15. Indian Shakespeare =>> Kalidasa
16. Deenabandhu =>> C.F Andrews
17. Deshabandhu =>> C.R Das
18. Who is known as Prince of Beggars =>>
Madan Mohan Malaviya
19. Who is known as Prince of Patriots =>>
Subash Chandra Bose
20. Who is known as prince of Martyrs =>>
Bhagat Singh
21. Who is known as prince of Builders =>>
Shahjahan
22. Who is known as prince of Pilgrims =>>
Hiuen Tsang
23. Who is known as prince of Autobiography
=>> Babur
24. Who is known as prince of Money Makers
=>> Muhammad bin Tughlaq
25. Who is known as prince of Pilgrims =>>
Hiuen Tsang
26. Who is known as Grand old man of Indian
Journalism =>> Tushar Kanti Ghosh
27. Man of Destiny =>> Napoleon Bonaparte
28. Andhara Kesari =>> T. Prakasam
29. Lok Nayak =>> Jayaprkash Narayan
30. Father of Medicine =>> Hippocrates
31. Lady with the lamp =>> Florence Nightingale
32. Poet's Poet =>> Edmund Spence

Most Important Committees &

Commissions of India(Part-1)
1. Palekar Tribunal:-Journalists Pay
reforms
2. U.C. Banerjee Commission:Enquiry into Godhra carnage
(railways)
3. Sarkaria Commission: Centre-State
relations
4. Srikrishna Commission: 1992
Bombay riots (Srikishna also headed
the Committee to look into the
Lawyer-violence of the Madras HC in
2009 and presently heads the
committee to look into Separate
Telangana)
5. Thakkar Commission: Indira Gandhi
assassination case
6. Phukan Commission & Saharya
Committee: Tehelka tapes
7. Malimath Commission: Criminal
Justice
8. Upendra Commission: Inquiry on
rape and murder Thangjam
Manorama Devi
9. Malhotra Committee: Insurance
Reforms
10. Janaki Ram Committee: Security
scam
11. Ajay Vikram Singh Committee:
Faster promotions in army
12. Rajinder Sachar Committee {1}:
Companies and MRPT Act
13. Rajindar Sachar Committee {2}:
Report on the social, economic and
educational status of the Muslims of
India
14. Jyoti Basu Committee: Report on
Octroi abolition
15 Balwant Rai Mehta
Committee:Recommendations on
decentralization system
16. Sawant Committee: Enquiry on
corruption, charges against ministers
& Anna Hazare
17. Chelliah Committee: Eradicating

black money
18. Kothari Commission: Educational
reforms
19. Wanchoo Committee: Tax enquiry
20. Bhanu Pratap Singh Committee:
Agriculture
21. Aggarwal Committee: Nepotism in
granting petrol pump, LPG
connections
22. Rangarajan Committee: Reforms
in private sector
23. Naresh Chandra Committee:
Corporate governance
24. Chakravarti Committee: Banking
sector reforms
25. Rekhi Committee: Structure of
indirect taxation
26. G.V.Ramakrishna Committee:
Disinvestment in PSU shares
27. Kelkar Committee: First committee
on backward castes
28. P.C.Hotha Committee:
Restructuring of civil services
29. Justice B.N.Kirpal Committee: 1st
chairman National Forest Commission
30. Godbole Committee :Enron Power
Project
31. J.C.Kumarappa Committee:
Congress agrarian Reforms Committee
32. Swaminathan Committee:
Population policy

Indias All-Time Olympic Medalists

1. K. D. Jadhav Bronze 1952
(Helsinki)Wrestling Men's
freestyle Bantamweight
2. Leander Paes Bronze 1996
(Atlanta)TennisMen's singles
3. Karnam Malleswari Bronze 2000
(Sydney)WeightliftingWomen's 69
kg
4. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Silver 2004 (Athens)Shooting

Men's double trap

5. Abhinav Bindra Gold 2008
(Beijing) ShootingMen's 10m Air
Rifle
6. Vijender Singh Bronze 2008
Beijing BoxingMen's 75 kg
7. Sushil Kumar Bronze 2008
Beijing WrestlingMen's 66 kg
Freestyle
8. Gagan Narang Bronze 2012
LondonShootingMen's 10m Air
Rifle
9. Vijay Kumar Silver2012 London
ShootingMen's 25 Rapid Fire
Pistol
10. Saina Nehwal Bronze 2012
LondonBadmintonWomen's
singles
11. Mary Kom Bronze 2012 London
BoxingWomen's flyweight
12. Yogeshwar Dutt Bronze 2012
LondonWrestlingMen's 60 kg
Freestyle
13. Sushil Kumar Silver 2012
LondonWrestlingMen's 66 kg
Freestyle

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards

199192 Viswanathan Anand
(Chess)
199293 Geet Sethi (Billiards)
199394 Not Conferred
199495 Cdr. Homi D. Motivala &
Lt. Cdr. P. K. Garg (Yachting)
199596 Karnam Malleswari(Weig
htlifting)
199697 Nameirakpam Kunjarani
(Weightlifting),Leander Paes(Tennis)
199798 Sachin Tendulkar(Cricket)
199899 Jyotirmoyee Sikdar(Athletic
s)
19992000 Dhanraj Pillay (Hockey)
200001 Pullela Gopichand(Badmi
nton)

200102 Abhinav Bindra(Shooting)

200203 Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat
(Shooting), K. M. Beenamol(Athletics)
200304 Anju Bobby George
(Athletics)
200405 Lt. Col Rajyavardhan Singh
Rathore(Shooting)
200506 Pankaj Advani (Billiards
and Snooker)
200607 Manavjit Singh Sandhu
(Shooting)
200708 Mahendra Singh Dhoni
(Cricket)
200809 Mary Kom (Boxing),Vijender
Singh (Boxing),Sushil Kumar
(Wrestling)
200910 Saina Nehwal (Badminton)
201011 Gagan Narang (Shooting)
201112 Vijay Kumar (Shooting),
Yogeshwar Dutt (Wrestling) 201213
Ronjan Sodhi (Shooting)

Punch lines of Commercial Banks in India

Hum Hai Na ICICI
Good People To Grow With Indian Overseas Bank
Pure banking nothing else, State Bank Of India
Tradition Of TrustAllahabad Bank
Trusted Family Bank Dena Bank
Good People To Bank With Union Bank Of India
World's Local BankHSBC
We Understand Your WorldHDFC
Much More To Do With YOU In FocusAndhra Bank
A Friend You Can Bank UponVijaya Bank
Together We Prosper Bank Of Rajasthan
Your Perfect Banking PartnerFederal Bank
Taking Banking Technology To The Common Man Indian Bank
Experience Our Expertise Yes Bank
Build A Better Life around UsCentral Bank Of India
Serving To EmpowerJ & K Bank
The Changing Face Of Prosperity Lakshami Vilas Bank
Where Every Individual Is Committed Oriental Bank Of Commerce
Aao Soche BadaIDBI

A Faithful & Friendly Financial Partner Syndicate Bank

Relationships Beyond Banking Bank Of India
Honours Your TrustUco Bank
Smart Way To BankKarur Vaisya Bank
A Passion To PerformDeutche Bank
Experience Next Generation BankingSouth Indian Bank
The Name You Can Bank UponPunjab National Bank

Important Current Affairs Question And Answer <----Q.1 With which country India signed extradition treaty in May, 2013
Answer : Thailand
Q.2 Which Indian player declare as 'Man of the Series' in Champions Trophy, 2013
Answer : Shikhar Dhawan
Q.3 Which state become first in India to implement electronic GPF in March, 2013
Answer : Arunachal Pradesh
Q.4 Which team wins the Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament 2013held in Malaysia
Answer : Australia
Q.5 Who is elected as new President of China in March,2013
Answer : Xi Jinping
Q.6 What is the name of the new 266th Pope of Vatican City
Answer : Jorge Bergoglio
Q.7 Who is elected as 68th Secretary of State of the United States in March, 2013
Answer : John Kerry
Q.8 Who was the Chief Guest of India as Republic Day function, 2013
Answer : Jigme Khesar N Wangchuck
Q.9 Who is appointed as the director of CBI in December, 2013
Answer : Ranjit Sinha
Q. 10 Who is appointed as the chairman of NASSCOM recently
Answer : Krishna Kumar Natrajan

Important Bureaucrats of Indian

Government

1 National Security Advisor

Shivshankar Menon
2 Cabinet Secretary of India Ajit
Seth
3 Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha
S. Bal Shekar
4 Attorney General of India Goolam
Essaji Vahanvati
5 Comptroller and Auditor General of
India Shashi Kant Sharma
6 Solicitor General of India Mohan
Parasaran
7 Principal Scientific Adviser R.
Chidambaram
8 CBDT Chairman Dr.Sudha sharma
(data by facebook/cnaonweb
9 Permanent Representative of India
to the United Nations Asoke Kumar
Mukherji
10 Chairman, Railway Board
Arunendra Kumar
11 Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh
(data by facebook/cnaonweb
12 Union Home Secretary Anil
Goswami
13 Finance Secretary Rajiv Takru
14 Secretary-General of the Rajya
Sabha SHUMSHER K. SHERIFF

Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission in India

1 Gulzari Lal Nanda 17 February 1953 to 21 September 1963
2 V.T. Krishnamachari 17 February 1953 to 21 June 1960
3 C.M. Trivedi 22 September 1963 to 2 December 1963
4 Ashok Mehta 3 December 1963 to 1 September 1967
5 D.R. Gadgil 2 September 1967 to 1 May 1971
6 C. Subramaniam 2 May 1971 to 22 July 1972
7 Durga Prasad Dhar 23 July 1972 to 31 December 1974
8 P.N. Haksar 4 January 1975 to 31 May 1977
9 D.T. Lakdawala 1 June 1977 to 15 February 1980
10 N.D. Tiwari 8 August 1981 (data by facebook/cnaonweb
11 S.B. Chavan 9 August 1981 to 19 July 1984
12 Prakash Chandra Sethi 20 July 1984 to 31 October 1984
13 P.V. Narasimha Rao 1 November 1984 to14 January 1985
14 Manmohan Singh 15 January 1985 to 31 August 1987

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20
21
22
23
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P. Shiv Shankar 25 July 1987 to 29 June 1988(data by facebook/cnaonweb

Madhav Singh Solanki 30 June 1988 to 16 August 1989
Ramakrishna Hegde 5 December 1989 to 6 July 1990
Madhu Dandavate 7 July 1990 to 10 December 1990
Mohan Dharia 11 December 1990 to 24 June 1991
Pranab Mukherjee 24 June 1991 to 15 May 1996(data by facebook/cnaonweb
Madhu Dandavate 1 August 1996 to 21 March 1998
Jaswant Singh 25 March 1998 to 4 February 1999
K.C. Pant 5 February 1999 to 17 June 2004
Montek Singh Ahluwalia6 July 2004

Important officials of IndiaN: Defence

and Security
1 Chief of Army Staff General
Bikram Singh
2 Chief of Air Staff Air Chief
Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne
3 Chief of Naval Staff Admiral
Devendra Kumar Joshi
4 Chief of Integrated Defence Staff
Lieutenant General Anil Chait
5 Director General, BorderSecurity
Force Subhash Joshi
6 Director General, Central Reserve
Police Force Dileep Trivedi
7 Director General,CentralIndustrial
Security ForceRajiv
8 Director-General of Military
Intelligence R. K. Loomba
9 Director, Central Bureau of
Investigation Ranjit Sinha
10 Director, Intelligence Bureau
Syed Asif Ibrahim
11 Director General, National
Investigation Agency Sharad Kumar
12 Secretary (Research) Alok Joshi
13 Member (Investigation CBDT) KV
Chaudhary

First India bank Got ISO : Canara Bank

First Governor of RBI : Mr. Osborne Smith

First Indian governor of RBI : Mr. C D Deshmukh

First Bank to Introduce ATM in India : HSBC
First Bank to introduce saving Bank in India : Presidency bank in 1830
First Bank to Introduce Cheque system in India : Bengal Bank 1784
First Bank to introduce Internet Banking : ICICI BANK
First Bank to introduce Mutual Fund : State Bank of India
First Bank to introduce Credit Card in India : Central Bank of India
First Foreign Bank in India : Comptoire dEscompte de Paris of France in 1860
First Bank Set Up in India : Bank of Hindustan in 1770
First Joint Stock Bank of British India : State Bank of India
First Joint Stock Bank of India : Allahabad Bank
First Bank that is oldest Public Bank in India : Allahabad Bank
First national bank that is merged with Punjab National Bank : New Bank of India in 1993
First Indian bank to open branch outside India in London in 1946 : Bank of India
First Indian Bank started with Indian capital /indigenous Bank of India : Punjab National Bank
First Regional Rural Bank name Prathama Grameen Bank Was started by : Syndicate Bank
BANKS IN INDIA
Central Bank
1. Central Bank Reserve Bank of India
Commercial Bank
2. Public Sector Bank (Nationalised Bank) Total 26 = 14 were nationalized in 1969 +6 were
Nationalized in 1980 (out of these one bank new Bank of India was merged with PNB in 1983), +1 IDBI
+ SBI +5 Subsidiary/Associates banks of State Bank of India.
3. Private Banks = RBI in 1993 gave licences to 12 Private bank in 2 phases 10 private bank in 1993 and
2 private bank in 2003-2004
4. Foreign Banks = 34 Foreign Banks are there in India.

Cooperative Bank:
Cooperative Banks = Bank those are registered under Co-operative Societies Act 1965, Co-operative
Banks are also works as Commercial Bank, these are made by self Help Group, or by the Communities or
by Groups.

Important International Lines

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Radcliffe Line---- India and Pakistan

McMahon Line--- India and China
Durand Line ------Pakistan and Afghanistan
Maginot Line -----France and Germany
38th Parallel -----North and South Korea
17th Parallel----- North and South Vietnam
49th Parallel -----USA and Canada

*****Recent Appointments (Womens Special) ******

1- Arundhati Bhattacharya - 1st women MD and CFO of SBI.
2- Usha Ananthasubramanian - 1st CEO of Bhartiya Mahila Bank.
3- Aruna Bahuguna - 1st Women Special DG of CRPF.
4- 1st Woman MD of a Public Sector bank - Ms Ranjana Kumar.
5- Chairman & MD ICICI Bank - Chanda Kochhar (MD & CEO).
6- Chairman & MD of United Bank of India - Archana Bhargav.
7- Chairman & MD of Axis Bank - Shikha Sharma.
8- Chairman & MD of Allahabad Bank - Shubhalakshmi Panse.
9- Chairperson of CBDT Sudha Sharma.
10- MD and CEO of NSE - Chitra Ramakrishna.
11- Principal secretary of President - Omita Paul.
12- New Foreign Secretary - Sujata Singh.

13- Tulsi Gabbard - New member of US House of Representatives

14- Smita Singh - Member of U.S. Global Development Council