Important Abbreviations For SSC 10

GENERAL AWERNESS STUDY METIRIAL
Important Abbreviations for SSC 10+2 Exams

************************* GAIL- Gas Authority of India Limited GATT -General Agreement on Tariff and Trade GIC -General Insurance Corporation GMT- Greenwich mean Time GNLF -Gorakha National Liberation Front GNP -Gross National Product GPF -General Provident Fund GPO -General Post Office GPS -Global Positioning System GSI -Geographical survey of India
HAC- Hindustan Aluminum Corporation HAL- Hindustan Aeronautics Limited HCF -Highest common Factor HDFC -Housing Development Finance Corporation HIV -Human Immuno-deficiency Virus HMT -Hindustan Machine Tools HUDCO- Housing and Urban Development Corporation HYVS- High Yield Variety seeds GDP percentages list of India for 2013:
World Bank Forecast GDP growth rate for India: 5.7% in 2013-14 6.5% in 2014-15 6.7% in 2015-16
IMFs GDP growth: 5.6 %- For India (According to World Economic Outlook ) for 2013. 3.3 %- For global growth.

Indias GDP growth Forecast from Others:
The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (of India) lowers growth projection for 2013-14 to 5.3 percent from 6.4 percent projected earlier. Indias GDP growth likely to be at 5.2% in 2013: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). RBI recently in its quarterly review has scaled down the growth projection for the current fiscal to 5.5 per cent from its earlier estimate of 5.7 per cent. Asian Development Bank lowered its growth projection for India to 5.8 percent in calendar 2013 from 6 per cent estimated earlier, citing the slow progress of economic reforms. HSBC cuts Indias GDP growth forecast to 4% OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) scaled down Indias Growth Rate at 5.3 Percent
****Some important current affairs (INTERNATIONAL)****

Tony Abbott is Australias new Prime Minister....!! US and Russia Agreement on Removing Chemical Weapons on Syria.....!! European Union Pledges 650 million euros To Somalia.....!!! 232 Million Global Migrants Living Abroad World Wide...!! Egyptian Court Bans Muslim Brotherhood....!!! Palestinian Authority to be Named State of Palestine....!! 140 Nations Agreed On Global Mercury Limits....!!! Milos Zeman Elected as Czech Republic new President.....!! Pakistan to Renamed Sindh Province to Sind....!! Rafael Correa Re-elected for 3rd term as Ecuadors President...!! Russia and Brazil Signed on Defence Cooperation Agreements...!!

IBPS PO GA Questions(19-10-2013) - Morning Session
1. Current bank rate -- 9.00 % 2. SLR full form -- Statutory Liquidity Ratio 3. MICR full form -- Magnetic Ink character Recognition 4. Max. Home loan limit to a person in metropolitan city 5. Interest Rate for Export 6. Chairman of fed reserve -- Janet Yellen 7. About SARFAESI act -- Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act,2002 related with NPA 8. Micro industry(service) set up cost limit 9. Who keeps all credit information of persons -- CIBIL 10. CCTV Full Form 11.Which among below a microprocessor manufacturing company(options-intel,microsoft etc) 12. Name of tablet made by microsoft -- Surface 13. Term associated with cricket 14. Where is national institute of sports -- Patiala 15. Two question from union budget 16. National award in "Best Entertaining Movie category -- Vicky Donor 17. About "Aam Admi Bima Yojana" 18. Inventor of mouse who died recently -- Douglas Engelbert 19. Author of book "The lowland" -- Jhumpa Lahri 20. Transfer & Withdrawl limit in BSBDA account.
21. What is the main thing focused in raghuram rajans recent RBI monitary policy21. Target fiscal deficit of govt in FY 2013-14 22. Who among following are major applicant in new banking license(option-tatason,mahindra etc) 23. Which of the following not considered as proof of identity while opening account in bank(optionspassport,electicity bill,adhar card,pan card,driving license) 24. Who is not an MP (options-Amitab bachan,dharmendra,etc) 25. Pan Card essential for how much money transaction 26. 'Branch On Wheels' scheme by which bank -- ICICI 27. Australian PM -- Tony Abbot 28. Britain PM -- David Cameron 29. EU 28th Member -- Croatia 30. NPA Category

31. Roshni Scheme 32. Tagore Award for cultural harmony -- Zubin Mehta 33. About MNREGA -- 100 Days 34. INS Sindhurakshak Made by -- Russia 35. Hummingbird Alogorithm deveoloped by -- Google 36. Corporate Debt Limit- 25bn $ 37. Limit of Micro Enterprise as per MSME act 2006- 25 lakh 38. Largest Producer of Gold -- China

1. World Heart Day -- 29 September 2. Who was conferred with the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development 2012 by the President of India recently -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 3. Which Woman Tennis Player won 15 grand slams and one doubles recently -- Serena Williams 4. Name the German chancelor who won the elections again recently -- Angela Merkel 5. Author of the book " My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions" -- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 6. Jennifer Lawerence won the best actress award at oscar 2013 for a film who was the director of that film? 7. Rice, Pulses, Millets come under which crops -- Food Crops 8. ROA(Return on Asset ) means? 9. What is meant by Run to Bank -- Heavy cash withdrawals by depositor from an account at a time 10. FTSE-100 is the stock exchange of which country -- London 11. Which of the following is not a credit rating agency? 12. Ambassadors for prestige cooking ware Abhishek, Aishwarya 12. One ques. on Headquarter of a foriegn Bank?
IBPS PO GA Questions(26-10-2013) - Evening Session

1. IBSA full form -- India Brazil South Africa 2. Which bank has HQ in Bangalore --Canara 3. MSF rate 9.5 has decreased to how much on 07/10/2013 -- 9 4. Director of movie Lunchbox -- Ratish Batra 5. International Child Peace Prize -- Malala Yousafzai

6. 1st CYBER FORENSIC LAB will be in which state -- Tripura 7. DICGC insured how much money -- 1 lakh 8. New DG of WTO -- Roberto Azevedo 9. Life of Pie novel writer -- Yann Martel 10. Duration of 12th year plan -- 2012-17 11. Gujar Mal Modi Award 2013 -- Vinod Prakash Sharma 12. Limit of educational loans under priority sector for abroad -- 20 Lakh 13. Which tennis player has retired in 14 august 2013 -- Marion Bartoli 14. According to 2004, Senior citizens can invest upto -- 15 Lakh 15. GDP Growth rate of India as per Central Statistics Office (CSO) for 2013? 16. Trade deficit was how much low as on september? 17. CRR condition related to 95% 18. According to 2011 census which state has highest Rural Population -- Uttar Pradesh (15.51 crore- 18.16% of Indias Rural Population) 19. Full form of CDS -- Credit Default Swap 20. Fairfax group head which brought blackberry -- Prem Valsa 21. Aadhaar Bill name -- UIDAI bill 22. Which option will be provided to voters by Election Commission in upcoming elections as per the directives of Supreme Court -- Option to Reject All(NOTA) 23. Which Indian actor is/has been selected for a US award for his television show by the America Abroad Media (AAM) -- Aamir Khan for Satyameva Jayathe 24. DAX is the Stock Market index of which country -- Germany 25. NEFT maximum limit -- No Limit 26. One Question on core banking solution? 27. Question related to Deep discount bond feature 28. One question on Prithvi-2 29. One question on NBFC 30. One question on Truncated cheques 31. Related to Currency Swap Arrrangement b/w India and Japan 32. Record made by Indian Women players by winning bronze medal for the first time in which sport event recently -- Hockey

33. Which of the following is not an Android OS? 34. Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana is provided with how much money for the year 2013-14 -9954crores IBPS PO GA Questions(26-10-2013) - Morning Session 1. Which of the following movie nominated for Oscar Award? 2. Who among the following is chairman FMC (Forward Markets Commission) -- Ramesh Abhishek 3. What is the name of food grain scheme of Himanchal Pradesh -- Rajiv Gandhi Ann Yojana 4. Which of the following is the GAAR implementation date -- April 1, 2016 5. What is the name of new President of Iran -- Hassan Rouhani 6. Who among the following is the new chairman of SBI -- Arundhati Bhattacharya 7. Who among the following is the new chairman of AADHAR -- Nandan Nilekani 8. Fullform of NOFHC -- Non Operative Financial Holding Company 9. Indiss place in global competitive list by WEF -- 60 10. Which of the following Bank open 15000 branches -- SBI 11. Which of the following country in BRICS? 12. Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award -- Amjad Ali Khan, Sarod Maestro 13. Which of the following is the population growth rate (2001-2011) - 17.64% 14. One question related with MSF. 15. Graphic biography on of whom released by Amar Chitra Katha -- Dhyan Chand 16. Bank rate -- 9% 17. Raghuram Rajan book name -- Fault Lines 18. One question related to INS VIKRANT. 19. Pullea Gopichand related to which game -- Badminton 20. Maharashtra state launches Manodhairya scheme for whom -- For rape victims 21. First Women Chief Information Commissioner -- Deepak Sandhu 22. Sundarban located in which state -- West Bengal 23. Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards(From India) -- The Good Road 24. What is the Maximum limit in prority sector by public sector -- 40 %
25. According to MSMED Act 2006,maximum limit in services is 5 crore .what is minimum limit for

medium enterprises -- 2 crore 26. Where is the head quaters of european union?- Brussels
Daily Important Current Affairs Question And Answer : 18 October 2013 ----------------------------Q1. In Which Indian state Maximum cop suicides in 5 years? Answer : Maharashtra Q2. Who recently becomes the first Indian cricketer who hits fastest century in one day internationals? Answer : Virat Kohli Q3. Who has been recently appointed as new chairman of railways board? Answer : Arunendra Kumar Q4. Which company net profit rises 13% to Rs 837.16 crore in second quarter? Answer : Bajaj Auto Q5. Which former Indian pacer recently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket? Answer : Ajit Agarkar Q6. In which country recently at least 44 dead in passenger plane crash? Answer : Laos Q7. Who has been recently becomes the youngest Booker prize winner? Answer : Eleanor Catton Q8. Which Indian state to launch door delivery scheme? Answer : Himachal Pradesh Q9. Who has been recently elected as new chairman of Public Health Foundation? Answer : Anand Mahindra Q10. How much percent condom use has dropped in five years in India? Answer : 40 Percent
LIST OF IMPORTANT AWARDS

''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' (Important for po/clerk entrance exam:) 1. Man Booker Prize 2013 Eleanor Catton (for The Luminaries)
2. Man Booker International Prize Lydia Davis 3. Asia Pacific International Award Dr. Mujeeb Athar 4. Cecil B Demile Award Woody Allen 5. Champion for Global Change Award 2013 Malala Yousafzai 6. First Mahathir Award for Global Peace Nelson Mandela 7. German Whistleblower Prize 2013 Edward Snowden 8. Golden Lion at Venice Film FestivalSacro GRA (Italy) 9. Grand Prize at Cuba's International Radio and Telivision Festival - Baraksat (Lebanese Documentary) 10. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Kevin Barry 11. INDEX Design Award Kavitha Shukla 12. ISRO Young Scientist Award Jenita Mary 13. Jnanpith Award 2012 Ravuri Bharadhwaja 14. Knighthood, which is the highest honour of Britain Anish Kapoor (sculptor). 15. Lata Mangeshkar Samman Alankaran Hariharan 16. 'Legend of Planet' award Bindeshwar Pathak (Sulabh movement founder) 17. Library of Congress Gershwin Award Carole King (first woman)
18. National Literacy Award Chattisgarh 19. NSS Wernher von Braun MemorialAward Abdul Kalam 20. NTR National Literary Award Manoj Das 21. Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular & Peace Award 2013 Shashi Tharoor 22. Presidential medal of freedom Dr. Sally Ride 23. Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013 Adam Johnson (for the novel The Orphan Masters son) 24. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Ranjan Sodhi 25. Saraswati Samman (2013) Sugathakumari 26. Skoch Group Award Jharkhand 27. Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony Zubin Mehta 28. Tagore Peace Prize Shihab Ghanem (first Arab) 29. The Simn Bolvar National Award of Journalism 2013 Hugo Chavez (late Venezuelan President ) 30. U. N. Champions of the Earth Award V. Ramanathan 31. UEFA Best Player in Europe AwardFranck Ribry 32. UNs Public Service Award Omen Chandi (Kerala CM) 33. Unique Female Leader Award Madeleine Albrite (former US Secratary)
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34. United Nation's Public Service Award Oommen Chandy (Chief Minister of Kerala). 35. US "woman of courage" award Nirbhaya (Dehli gang rape victim) 36. Vyas Samman (2012) Narendra Kohli 37. Whitley award (Green Oscar) Dr. Aparajita Datta 38. Womens Prize for Fiction AM Homes (for her book, May We Be Forgiven) 39. Youngest Indian to scale theMount Everest Raghav Joneja 40. ParliamentarianAwards - 2012 Sharad Yadav Daily Important Current Affairs Question And Answer : 19 October 2013 ----------------------------Q1. In Which Indian state Maximum cop suicides in 5 years? Answer : Maharashtra Q2. Who recently becomes the first Indian cricketer who hits fastest century in one day internationals? Answer : Virat Kohli Q3. Who has been recently appointed as new chairman of railways board? Answer : Arunendra Kumar Q4. Which company net profit rises 13% to Rs 837.16 crore in second quarter? Answer : Bajaj Auto Q5. Which former Indian pacer recently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket? Answer : Ajit Agarkar Q6. In which country recently at least 44 dead in passenger plane crash? Answer : Laos Q7. Who has been recently becomes the youngest Booker prize winner? Answer : Eleanor Catton

Q8. Which Indian state to launch door delivery scheme? Answer : Himachal Pradesh Q9. Who has been recently elected as new chairman of Public Health Foundation? Answer : Anand Mahindra Q10. How much percent condom use has dropped in five years in India? Answer : 40 Percent
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Most Expected 15 Current Affairs Questions in Upcoming Exams *************************************************** 1. who is thecurrent loksabha speaker? ans:Meira Kumar 2. Who is theDeputy Chairmanof the Rajya Sabha? ans:pj kuryan 3. who is the current rajya sabha chairman? ans:Mohammad Hamid Ansari 4. americais inwhich partof theworld? Ans: in Northern hemisphere 5.how manymembersare ineuropian union? ans:28 members 6. Who became thefirst playerto win four successive ballon d'or awards ? Answer:Lionel Mess 7.how manymember in IMF.? Answer:188 Members 8. Who is known as thefather of Indian Cricket? Answer:Renjith Singh 9.2013 republic day guest Answer:King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck 10. name ofprotein in milk Answer:casein *11.Which element has no nutron? Answer:Hydrogen *12. Kalinga Prizeis related to ___?

Answer:Popularization of Science *13.silent valley biosphereis in Answer:palakad,kerala *14.Zindagi Ka Karvan'book is anautobiographyof Answer: Former prime ministerchandrasekhar *15.who is thecurrent nawab of patudi? Answer:Saif Ali Khan
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1. Who directed the bollywood film Satyagraha? Prakash Jha 2. Reserve Bank of India hiked Repo Rate on Sept 20, 2013 by 25 basis point to 7.5% 3. The limit of Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) hiked to? Rs. 12 Lakh per year 4. ATM wrong deduction to be refunded within ? 5. Which of the following bank doesnt have its head office in Kolkata? IOB 6. Which country become the 28th member of EU? Croatia 7. When RBI wants to absorb liquidity from market increase reverse repo,decrease repo or increase crr 8. Committee on Gold KUB Rao committee 9. Which book is not written by Chetan Bhagat two people 10. Who become the first Indianorigin Miss America 2013? Nina

Davuluri 11. Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana 12. GDP Growth Forecast by CSO for 2013-14?13. The name of the airline venture float by TATA and Singapore Airlines? Tata SIA Airlines Ltd 14. Which is the Most Important Stock Exchange in the World NYSE/ Nasdaq 15. Which award given to Finance Minister P Chidambaram by Business Reformer Award
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Questions Asked In IBPS PO Held On 19.10.2013 (Evening)

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1. Who is the new president of Pakistan?- Mamnoon Hussain 2. Geeta Phogat is related to which game?- Wrestling 3. Full form of IFSC?- Indian Financial System Code 4. What is the current SLR?- 23%(w.e.f. 11/08/2012) 5. BTM stands for?- Business Transaction Management 6. Name the Prime Minister of Bhutan?- Tshering Tobgay 7. Name the Bengali film Director who died recently?- Rituparno Ghosh 8. Which program has been changed to new name swarnajyanti rojgar yojna? 9. One questions related to Janpith award 10. Banking Ombudsman issued by? 11. Which country will be hosting the 2020 Olympic Games?- Japan 12. RBI is going to issue plastic note of ________ rupees (Options: 10,100,5,20 i think) 13. Among BSE and NIFTY which has been established first in India?

14. Film and Television Institute of India is situated at?-Pune 15. Name the chemical used in Syria attack?16. Where is the head quarters of Bharathiya Mahila Bank, the first all women bank in India?- New Delhi
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17. Prime Ministers key economic adviser C Rangarajan lowered the growth forecast for the current fiscal to per cent?- 5.3% 18. One Question related to Medium industry 19. Current Marginal Standing Facility (MSF)?- 9.5 per cent 20. Relating to Insight Trading 21. BSBDA limit? 22. RIDF maintained by?-NABARD 23. what is FACTORING? 24. Food security bill how much percent people benefited 67% 25. Who won Janpith award 2012?- Ravuri Bhardwaj 26. NOKIA was recently acquired by? MICROSOFT

1. Director of the bollywood film Satyagraha -- Prakash Jha 2. The first Indian-origin Miss America 2013 -- Nina Davuluri 3. Reserve Bank of India hiked Repo Rate on Sept 20, 2013 by -- 25 basis point to 7.5% 4. The limit of Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) hiked to -- Rs. 12 Lakh per year 5. Which bank headquarter not in kolkata 6. NEFT is used for 7. ATM wrong deduction to be refunded within 8. Which country become the 28th member of EU -- Croatia 9. When RBI wants to absorb liquidity from market increase reverse repo,decrease repo or increase crr 10. Head of Committee on Gold -- K U B Rao 11. Next G-8 Summit will be held in 12. Which book is not written by Chetan Bhagat 13. Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana 14. Wheat ,Bajra comes under rabi or kharif crop 15. GDP Growth Forecast by CSO for 2013-14 16. Name the joint venture of Tata Sons-Singapore Airlines -- Tata SIA Airlines Ltd

17. No. 1 Stock Exchange in the World -- NYSE/ Nasdaq 18. Award given to Finance Minister P Chidambaram by ET Awards -- Business Reformer Award 19. Balance Sheet indicates what 20. What do you understand by TLE in POS machine -- Terminal Line Encryption 21. G20 Summit 2013 Venue -- Saint Petersburg, Russia 22. At a time what is maximum limit of Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA)-- Rs 50, 000 23. Infosys launches new version of banking solution -- Finacle11 24. MacMohan Line between which countries India and China 25. Who developed rupee symbol Udaya Kumar 26. CEO of Women Bank 27. Full form of EASIEST -- Electronic Accounting System in Excise and Service Tax 28. Who is the Chief of Forward Markets Commission (FMC) -- Shri Ramesh Abhishek 29. Who among the following is not a member of Parliament 30. New Director General of CPRF Dilip Trivedi 31. Micro finance Maximum investment Limit 32. IFSC Code is needed in? 33. Information technology Act in which year? 34. Who is the first indian to win shooting competion in world championship -Rahi Sarnobat 35. Where has ONGC opened new gas based power plant recently?
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36. Adviced Limit of draft granted by cheque? 37. 726 MW ONGC power project in which North-Eastern state -- Tripura 38. The 78-year-old RBI history book released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh 'RBI History Looking Back and Looking Ahead' 39. Full Form of TLE 40. Mandatory for companies to spend at least 2% of net profits on-CSR
IBPS PO GA Questions(19-10-2013) - Evening Session

1. Geeta Phogat related to which game -- Wrestling 2. Full form of IFSC Indian Financial System Code 3. BTM stands for -- Banking Through Mobile 4. PM of Bhutan -- Tshering Tobgay

5. President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain 6. Bengali director who died recently -- Rituparno Ghosh 7. Janpith award 2012 Ravuri Bharadwaja 8. Banking Ombudsman issued by -- RBI 9. Current SLR 23% 10. MSF on 20 sept. 9.50% (But Current MSF 9%) 11. 2020 olympic will be in which country -- Tokyo 12. RBI is going to issue plastic note of ___ rupees -- 10 Rs. 13. Indian Institute of Film is situated at -- Pune 14. Which program has changed to "Swarnajyanti Rojgar Yojna" 15. Pranav Mukharjee recommended reconstruction of which university -- Nalanda University 16. Question on Medium Scale industry 17. Chemical name used in syria attack -- Sarin 18. PSBs dividend to rbi ? 19. External debt of india in 2013-14 20. Maximun no. of Credit Limit in financial inclusion 21. Head quarters of Bharatiya Mahila Bank New Delhi
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22. Prime Minister's key economic adviser C Rangarajan lowered the growth forecast for the current fiscal to ......... per cent -- 5.3% 23. Among BSE and NIFTY which has been established first in India -- BSE 24. Food security bill to give right to food to what percentage of population -- 67% 25. One question related to BSBDA 26. Who bought Nokia -- Microsoft 27. GDP in first quater of 2013-14 -- 4.4 % 28. India announced an aid of____to Bhutan -- 5000 Cr 29. Committee head who Reviewed Credit Guarantee Scheme for Micro & Small Enterprises -- V K Sharma 30. Committee Suggested on Customer Service -- Damodaran Committee 31. How much max. money is allowed by the RBI to take abroad -- Rs.10,000

Recently Appointed Persons (as on June 2013)
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.Xi Jinping President of China .Li Keqiang Prime Minister China .Shinzo Abe prime minister Japan .NicosAnastasiades President Cyprus .Park Guenhye president South Korea .Uhuru Kenyatta president Kenya.John Kerry 68th Secretary of State of the US .Mohan Pieris 44th Chief Justiceof Sri Lanka .VedPrakash UGC chairman .Obama US President (Second Term) .Suchitra Ella Founding Chairwoman of CIIs women wing .Mo Yan (writer) and Jackie Chan (Actor) New Members of Chinese Parliament(data by facebook/cnaonweb) .Subra Suresh President of Carnegie Mello University .Ratan Tata Member of National Academy of Engineering .Rajiv Shah Head of United States Agency for International Development (USAID).(data by facebook/cnaonweb) .Anil Dev Singh New chief of IOA election panel .Scott Flemming Indias basketball coach .Tony Hall Director general of BBC .Ranjit Sinha CBI Director(data by facebook/cnaonweb) .Barbosa First nonwhite President of Brazils Supreme Court Alok Joshi New RAW chief(data by facebook/cnaonweb) Rajeev Shahare New High Commissioner to Maldives Ajit Saran Member Secretary of National Commission for Women(data by facebook/cnaonweb) Asif Ibrahim Chief of the Intelligence Bureau Urjit Patel RBI deputy governor(data by facebook/cnaonweb) YV Reddy Head of 14th Finance Commission Ami Bera and TulsiGabbard new members of the US House of Representatives(data by facebook/cnaonweb)

Srinivasan Federal Judge (Re elected) Justice D K Law Commission chief Vivek Rae MSME (Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) Secretary(data by facebook/cnaonweb) Anil Kumble Chairman of ICC Cricket Committee Jaspal Rana Junior pistol chief coach Neiphiu Rio Chief Minister of Nagaland (3rd Term) Mukul Manda Sangma Chief Minister of Meghalaya (2nd Term) Ashwani Kumar Governor of Nagaland(data by facebook/cnaonweb) .Bobby Ghosh Editor of Time International (first non American) Khil Raj Regmi New Prime Minister of Nepal D K Jain Chairman of 20th LawCommission of India Ashok Tomar Indias ambassadorto Brazil Rakesh Mohan Executive director of IMF
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Who's Who (Business)

Mr. Cyrus Mistry---------- Chairman Tata Sons Mr. Mukesh Ambani----- Chairman Relience Industries Mr. Lakshmi Mittal------- Chairman Mittal Arcelor Steels Ms. Kiran Majumdar------ Chairman Biocon Ms. Chanda Kochhar---- Managing Director & CEO ICICI Bank Mr. Shiv Nadar--------- Chairman HCL Technologies Mr. Naresh Goyal------- Chairman Jet Airways Mr. Sunil Mittal---------- Chairman Bharati Group Ms. Indira Nooye-------- CEO Pepsico Shikha Sharma---------- MD, CEO Axis Bank S. D. Shibulal------------ CEO and Managing Director Infosys Azim H. Premji---------- Chairman Wipro Mr. Vineet Nayyar------- Chairman of Mahindra Satyam Mr. Rohit Nandan------- Chairman & Managing Director of Air India Mr. K. V. Kamath--------- Chairman ICICI Bank

Mr. C. M. Vasudev------ Chairman, HDFC Bank Mr. Pratip Chaudhuri--- Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI) Mark Zuckerberg------- CEO Facebook Narayan Murthi---------- Founder & Chairman of Infosys Steve Jobs-------------- Founder of Apple Company Mr. Vijay Maliya-------- Chairman of UB Group and Kingfisher Airlines Mr. Sunil Mittal---------- Founder of Airtel (Telecom Service Provider in India) Mr. Kumaramangalam Birla--- Chairman of Aditya Birla Group of Company Mr. Anand Mahindra--------- Chairman, Mahindra & Mahindra Group Mr. Warren Buffett----------- Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Rajan Bharti Mittal---------- President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India Dr. Arup Roy Choudhury------------Chairman NTPC Mittu Chandilya CEO, Air Asia India.....
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International days in October by UN

1 October International Day of Older Persons 2 October International Day of Non-Violence 5 October World Teachers Day [UNESCO] UNESCOPRESSE, 7 October (First Monday in October) World Habitat Day 9 October World Post Day UPU 10 October World Mental Health Day [WHO] 10 October (Second Thursday in October) World Sight Day [WHO] 11 October International Day of the Girl Child(data by facebook/cnaonweb 13 October International Day for Disaster Reduction 15 October International Day of Rural Women 16 October World Food Day [FAO] 17 October International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 24 October United Nations Day (data by facebook/cnaonweb 24 October World Development Information Day 27 October World Day for Audiovisual Heritage [UNESCO]

****** Some important current affairs *******
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Launched Gandhi Heritage Portal In NewDelhi........... 3rd All India Survey on Higher Education Launched.... Judicial Appointments Commission Bill Passed In Rajya Sabha............... Lok Sabha Passed Bill To Set Up First National Aviation University......... Cabinet Committee On Economic Affairs Approved Proposal For Restructuring SJSRY........ President Gave Assent To Land Acquisition Bill.... Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare Launched New Health Initiatives For Assam.... Himachal Pradesh Scrapped Palchan-Rohtang Ropeway Project... Kerala Government Launched E-Payment Facility....... MP Government Decided To Constitute State Disaster Emergency Response Force.......... Union Government Approved 1000 crore Proposal To Develop J&K sports
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IMPORTANT HEADS IN INDIA - 2013

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1. Dr. Manmohan Singh: Chairman, Planning Commission. 2. Ms. Meira Kumar: Speaker, Lok Sabha. 3. Mohammad Hamid Ansari: Chairman, Rajya Sabha. 4. Mr. P. J. Kurien: Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha. 5. Mr. Karia Munda: Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha. 6. Mrs. Sushma Swaraj : Leader of Opposition (Lok Sabha). 7. Mr. Arun Jaitley: Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha). 8. Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia: Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission. 9. Mr. V. S. Sampath: Chief Election Commissioner 10. Mr. Harishankar Brahma : Election Commissioner. 11. Syed Nasim Zaidi : Election Commissioner. 12. Mr. Shashi Kant Sharma : Comptroller and Auditor-General of India 13. Mr. Justice K. G. Balakrishnan : Chairperson, National Human Right Commission (NHRC)

14. Mr. K. M. Chandrasekhar: Cabinet Secretary. 15. Mr. T. K. A. Nair : Principal Secretary to Prime Minister . 16. Mr. Justice M. N. Rao: Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes. 17. Ms. Shanta Sinha: Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights 18. Dr. Buta Singh: Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes 19. Ms. Urmila Singh: Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes. 20. Prof. D. P. Agrawal: Chairman, UPSC. 21. Dr. M. S. Swaminathan : Chairman, National Commission on Farmers (NCF).
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22. Mr. Shiv Shankar Menon: National Security Adviser and Special Adviser to PM (Internal Security). 23. Mr. S. C. Sinha : Director-General, National Investigation Agency (NIA). 24. Mr. Vinay Mittal: Chairman, Railway Board. 25. Mr. Shumsher K. Sheriff : Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha 26. Mr. T. K. Viswanathan : Secretary-General, Lok Sabha. 27. Mr. Syed Asif Ibrahim : Director, IB. 28. Mr. Ranjit Sinha: Director, CBI. 29. Mr. Alok Joshi : Director, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). 30. Mr. Arvind Ranjan : Director-General, NSG. 31. Mr. Dilip Trivedi : Director-General, CRPF. 32. Mr. Subhash Joshi : Director-General, Border Security Force (BSF). 33. Mr. Rajiv : Director-General, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). 34. Mr. P. K. Mehta: Director-General, Railway Protection Force. (RPF) 35. Mr. Ajay Chadha: Director-General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). 36. Mr. Arun Chaudhary : Director-General, Sashastra Seema Bal. 37. Vice-Admiral Anurag G. Thapliyal : Director-General, Indian Coast Guard. 38. Lt. Gen. Avtar Singh: Director-General, Defence Intelligence Agency.
who is the winner of 2013 Saraswati Samman ? Answer: Sugathakumari (Manalezhuthu) Who is recently reelected as IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Director general ? Answer: Yukiya Amano Who is the new Prime Minister of Nepal ? Answer: Khil Raj Regmi
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Who is the first female Prime minister of UK who recently passed away ? Answer: Margaret Thatcher Who is the new pm of North Korea ? Answer: Pak Pong-ju Who is the new venezuela president ? Answer: Nicolas Maduro Who is the new president of Bangladesh ? Answer: Abdul Hamid What is the theme of 2013 World Earth day (April 22) ? Answer: The face of climate change Who is the new Governor of Jammu and Kashmir ? answer: Narinder Nath Vohra Who is the new president of ADB (Asian Development Bank) ? Answer: Takehiko Nakao Where is Railway Staff College situated ? Answer: Baroda What is the width of Broad gauge rail ? Answer: 1.676 Which is the First Electric Train in India ? Answer: Deccan Queen (Kalyan - Pune) When did Life Line Express (Jeevan Rekha) Started ? Answer: In 1991 Which year is declared as "Year of Rail Users" by the Indian Railways ? Answer: 1995 Which is the Longest Railway Tunnel ? Answer: Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel (Banihal railway tunnel) Which is the Longest Railway platform in the World ? Answer: Gorakhpur station platform (UP) Which is the train running between India and Bangladesh ? Answer: Maitree Express Which are the states have no Railway ? Answer: Meghalaya and Sikkim (building new railway lines)
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Which is the Worlds oldest working steam locomotive engine (train) ? Answer: Fairy Queen runs in India Which is the Biggest public bank in India ? Answer: SBI 2. What was the old name of State Bank Of India ? Answer: Imperial Bank of India 3. Which bank has the most branches in India ? Answer: SBI 4. Which Committee recommended the formation of State Bank of India ? Answer: Gorwala committee 5. Where is the headquarters of SBI ? Answer: Mumbai 6. Which is the biggest commercial bank in India ? Answer: State Bank of India 7. Who is the present Chairman of SBI ? Answer: Pratip Chaudhuri 1) Which bank HQ not in mumbai (BOM, BOI, DENA BANK, indian bank) - indian bank 2) In Which stock exchange MIBOR is operating (BSE, NSE, etc) 3) define trade deficit - import exceeds export 4) zimbabe pm? robert mogabe 5) related to new pension plan launched by Uttar pradesh govt? 6) GAAR - General Anti Avoidance Rule 7) REER - Real Effective Exchange Rate 8)which rate s changed during 20/9/13 review (msf, crr, slr) -MSF 9) gold jewel import tax? 15%

10) FII invest in indian market through? (participatory notes, treasury bill, commercial papers) participatory notes 11) que related to revenue deficit 12) ATM without any bank's specified label? white label ATM 13) WTO located in? geneva 14) CEO of Apple company? Ronald wayne 15) largest stock exchange in d world? NYSE ( newyork stock exchange) 16) Bhaag milga bhaag movie actor? fahran aktar 17) Richest person in india according to forbes? mukesh ambani 18) capital of lebanon? beirut 19) ranjan sodhi is related to? shooting 20) bringing out illegal money to visible? money laundring 21) govt approved disinvestment of 10% stake of which company? ( ONGC, SBI, Indian oil corporation) 22) RTGS limit? 2lakhs
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Current RBI Policy & Reserve Rates

*********************************** 1. Repo Rate 7.50% 2. Reverse Repo 6.50% 3. CRR 4% 4. SLR 23%

5. MSF 9.00% 6. Bank Rate 9.00% 1. Repo Rate : Whenever the banks have any shortage of funds they can borrow it form RBI. Repo rate is the rate at which commercial banks borrows rupees from RBI. A reduction in the repo rate will help banks to get money at cheaper rate. When the repo rate increases borrowing form RBI becomes more expensive. 2. Reverse Repo Rate : Reverse Repo rate is the rate at which RBI borrows money from commercial banks. Banks are always happy to lend money to RBI since their money is in the safe hands with a good interest. An increase in reverse repo rate can cause the banks to transfer more funds to RBI due to this attractive interest rates. One factor which encourages an organisation to enter into reverse repo is that it earns some extra income on its otherwise idle cash. 3. CRR (Cash Reverse Ratio) : CRR is the amount of funds that the banks have to keep with RBI. If RBI increases CRR, the available amount with the banks comes down. RBI is
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using this method (increase of CRR), to drain out the excessive money from the banks. 4. SLR (Statutory Liquidity Ratio) : SLR is the amount a commercial banks needs to maintain in the form of cash, or gold, or govt. approved securities (Bonds) before providing credit to its customers. SLR rate is determined and maintained by RBI in order to control the expansion of the bank credit. 5. Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) : MSF rate is the rate at which banks borrow funds overnight from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) against approved government securities. 6. Bank Rate : The interest rate at which at central bank lends money to commercial banks. Often these loans are very short in duration. Managing the bank rate is a preferred method by which central banks can regulate the level of economic activity. Lower bank rates can help to expand the economy, when unemployment is high, by lowering the cost of funds for borrowers. Conversely, higher bank rates help to reign in the economy, when inflation is higher than desired.
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Q 1. What is the full form of CORE in Core banking Solution? A. Centralized Online Realtime Exchange. Q 2. Which is the most safest card among Visa card , Master card and Maestro Card? A. Maestro Card Q 3. Which bank launched the Rupay card for the first time? A. Bank of India Q 4. What is the currency name of IMF? A. SDR (Special Drawing Rights) Q 5. Expand FATF and what does it mean? A. FATF: Financial Action Task Force, it is used to put a hold on money supply to terrorist. Q 6. What is the initial capital requirement of any Public sector company to register in SEBI? A. Five Lacs Q 7. What is the full form of FII? A. Foreign Institutional Investor. Q 8. What is Term Money? A. Money which is borrowed from one bank to another for more than 15 days. Q 9. G-20 meeting in 2014 is going to held in which country ? A. Brisbane, Australia.
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Q 10. How many member does Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has? A. Twelve Members. Q 11. Which committee recommended NABARD and when was NABARD established? A. NABARD is recommended by Shiv Raman Committee and is established in 1982. Q 12. Who is also known as Banker for the Bank? A. RBI. Q 13. Which scheme is related to Financial Inclusion? A. Swabhiman Scheme. Q 14. Who is the Chairperson of National Advisory Council (NAC)? A. Sonia Gandhi. Q 15. Name the central Bank of United States of America? A. Federal Bank. Q 16. What is the minimum and maximum fund transfer limit in National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT)? A. Their is no such limit of money transfer in NEFT. Q 17. Which company rolls out with first White Label ATM? A. Tata Communications Payment Solutions Ltd.
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Q 18. Expand MGNREGA and what is it meant for? A. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), this scheme is meant for job guarantee to rural Indians.
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Alll 40 General Awareness Questions of IBPS PO Exam : held on 19.10.2013 (Morning Shift) *********************************************** 1) CCTV- close circuit television 2) 28th member of EU- cros 3) Australian PM- Tony Abratt 4) Federal Bank Head- syam srinivasan 5) T20 related to cricket. 6) Tagore award- jubin mehta edited by javed adeeb 7) Largest Producer of GOLD-china bank rate on 20 September 2013--- 9.5% 9) full form of SLR- statutory liquidity ratio 10) national award for wholesome entertainment- Vicky donor 11) who has never been MP- amitab bacchan 12) Limit of Micro Enterprise as per MSME act 2006- 25 lakh..... 13) Corporate Debt Limit- 25bn $ 14) serfeisi act related to: NPA of banks. And it comes in year 2002. 15) the low land writer.-jumpa lehari (nominated for man booker) 16) mouse man name who died-douglas 17) MICR full form-magnetic ink character recognition 18) MNEREGA-150days(drought area) 19) BSBDA minimum amount-zero 20) IMEI number related to? 21) ROSHNI scheme? 22) Loan limit for housing to a person in metropolitan city 23) who keeps all credit information of persons(CIBIL)
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24) which among below a microprocessor manufacturing company(options-intel,microsoft etc) 25) name of tablet made by microsoft(i think "surface") 26) where is national institute of sports 27) Two question from union budget 28) Two question from union budget 29) About "aam admi bima yogana" 30) Transfer & withdrawl limit in BSBDA account 31) what is the main thing focoused in raghuram rajans recent RBI monitary policy 32) Target fiscal defecit of govt in FY 2013-14 33) Who among following are major applicant in new banking license(optiontatason,mahindraetc) 34) which of the following not considered as proof of identity while opening account inbank(options-passport,electicity bill,adhar card,pan card,driving license) 35) Rastra bhasa Award Given By RBI , 36) Basic Saving Bank Deposit Scheme For elderly People and Student Living Outside theirNative Home- Maximum Limit in the Account Per Month- Answer IS 25000 RS and 10000 can be transacted at once. 37) SindhuRakshak Made BYRussia 38) Humming Bird Algo- Made BY Google 39) Brach On Wheels- ICICI 40) BRICS initial Fund for setting Up capital- 100 million $,sharing
IBPS PO Exam 20th October, 2013 (Morning Shift Questions) 1. Director of the bollywood film Satyagraha -- Prakash Jha 2. The first Indian-origin Miss America 2013 -- Nina Davuluri 3. Reserve Bank of India hiked Repo Rate on Sept 20, 2013 by -- 25 basis point to 7.5%

4. The limit of Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) hiked to -- Rs. 12 Lakh per year 5. Which bank headquarter not in kolkata 6. NEFT is used for 7. ATM wrong deduction to be refunded within 8. Which country become the 28th member of EU -Croatia 9. When RBI wants to absorb liquidity from market increase reverse repo,decrease repo or increase crr 10. Head of Committee on Gold -- K U B Rao 11. Next G-8 Summit will be held in 12. Which book is not written by Chetan Bhagat 13. Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana 14. Wheat ,Bajra comes under rabi or kharif crop 15. GDP Growth Forecast by CSO for 2013-14 16. Name the joint venture of Tata Sons-Singapore Airlines -- Tata SIA Airlines Ltd 17. No. 1 Stock Exchange in the World -- NYSE/ Nasdaq 18. Award given to Finance Minister P Chidambaram by ET Awards -- Business Reformer Award 19. Balance Sheet indicates what 20. What do you understand by TLE in POS machine --Terminal Line Encryption 21. G20 Summit 2013 Venue -- Saint Petersburg, Russia 22. At a time what is maximum limit of Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA) -- Rs 50, 000 23. Infosys launches new version of banking solution -Finacle11
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24. MacMohan Line between which countries India and China 25. Who developed rupee symbol Udaya Kumar 26. CEO of Women Bank 27. Full form of EASIEST -- Electronic Accounting System in Excise and Service Tax 28. Who is the Chief of Forward Markets Commission (FMC) -- Shri Ramesh Abhishek 29. Who among the following is not a member of Parliament 30. New Director General of CPRF Dilip Trivedi 31. Micro finance Maximum investment Limit 32. IFSC Code is needed in? 33. Information technology Act in which year? 34. Who is the first indian to win shooting competion in world championship -Rahi Sarnobat 35. Where has ONGC opened new gas based power plant recently? 36. Adviced Limit of draft granted by cheque? 37. 726 MW ONGC power project in which NorthEastern state -- Tripura 38. The 78-year-old RBI history book released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh 'RBI History Looking Back and Looking Ahead' 39. Full Form of TLE 40. Mandatory for companies to spend at
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ABBREVIATION IN NEWS
1. BSBDA - Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account 2. FCNR(B) - Foreign Currency Non-Resident Bank 3. TARC - Tax Administration Reform Commission 4. ITEs: Intra-Group Transactions and Exposures 5. LCR: Liquidity Coverage Ratio 6. NSFR: Net Stable Funding Ratio 7. LRMT: Liquidity risk monitoring tools 8. CBS: Core Banking Solution 9. DEAF: Depositor Education and Awareness Fund 10. CRAR: Capital to Risk-weighted Assets Ratio 11. External Commercial Borrowings (ECB) 12. SWIFT: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication 13. FSLRC: Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission 14. MIBOR: Mumbai Inter-Bank Offer Rate 15. LIBOR: London Inter-Bank Offer Rate 16. LAF Liquidity Adjustment Facility 17. GIRO - Government Internal Revenue Order 18. EEFC - Exchange Earner's Foreign Currency 19. FRBMA: Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act 20. ALM- Asset Liability Management 21. AMFI- Association of Mutual Fund in India. 22. TIEA Tax Information exchange Agreement 23. CAR Cash Adequacy Ratio 24. CCEA Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs 25. CECA - Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement 26. CEPA Comprehensive Economic Partnership

Agreement 27. DTAA Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement 28. DTC Direct Tax Code 29. ECBs - External Commercial Borrowings 30. EEFC - Exchange Earner's Foreign Currency 31. EFSF European Financial Stability Facility 32. FEMA- Foreign Exchange Management Act 33. FII Foreign Institutional Investor. 34. FINO- Financial Inclusion Network Operation 35. FIPB Foreign Investment Promotion board 36. FSLRC Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission 37. FTA- Free trade agreement 38. GAAR - General anti avoidance rule 39. GSLV - Geo-Synchronous Launch Vehicle 40. MSF-Marginal Standing Facility 41. NBFC-Non Banking Finance Companies 42. NCTC - National Counter-Terrorism Centre 43. NEFT - National Electronic Funds Transfer 44. NSG Nuclear Suppliers Group 45. PPP Public Private Partnership & Purchasing Power parity 46. PSLV Polar Satellite Launch vehicle 47. RTGS - Real Time Gross Settlement 48. SLR-Statutory Liquidity Ratio 49. TAPI - Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India. 50. QFI -Qualified Foreign Investors 51. VVPAT -'Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail' 52. Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA)
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COMPUTER RELATED FULL FORMS ********************************* * 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 Interchangeable Format * JPEG = Joint Photographic Expert Group * 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 (SonyEricsson)
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* 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 - Uninterruptible Power Supply. * 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.
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* 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 - Internation Business Machine Corporation. * HP - Hewlett Packard. * AM/FM - Amplitude/ Frequency Modulation. * WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network
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Chief Ministers of Indian States

Andhra Pradesh Shri Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy Arunachal Pradesh Shri Nabam Tuki Assam Shri Tarun Gogoi Bihar Shri Nitish Kumar Chhattisgarh Dr. Raman Singh Delhi (NCT) Smt. Sheila Dikshit Goa Shri Manohar Parrikar Gujarat Shri Narendra Modi

Haryana Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda Himachal Pradesh Shri Virbhadra Singh Jammu and Kashmir Shri Omar Abdullah Jharkhand Shri Hemant Soren Karnataka Shri Siddaramaiah(data by facebook/cnaonweb) Kerala Mr Oommen Chandy Madhya Pradesh Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan Maharashtra Shri Prithviraj Chavan Manipur Shri Okram Ibobi Singh Meghalaya Dr. Mukul Sangma Mizoram Shri Lal Thanhawla Nagaland Shri. Neiphiu Rio(data by facebook/cnaonweb) Odisha Shri Naveen Patnaik(data by facebook/cnaonweb) Puducherry (UT) Shri N. Rangasamy Punjab Shri Parkash Singh Badal(data by facebook/cnaonweb) Rajasthan Shri Ashok Gehlot(data by facebook/cnaonweb) Sikkim Shri Pawan Kumar Chamling Tamil Nadu Selvi J. Jayalalithaa Tripura Shri Manik Sarkar Uttar Pradesh Shri Akhilesh Yadav Uttarakhand Shri Vijay Bahuguna(data by facebook/cnaonweb) West Bengal Km. Mamata Banerjee
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->> Recent Appointments In September 2013 <<--*************************************** 1) Thomas Bach elected as the President of International Olympic Committee. 2) KC Ponnappa took over the Office as Chairman of Nilgiri Planters Association. 3) Deepak Sandhu became the First

Woman Chief Information Commissioner on 5th September, 2013. She took over from Satyananda Mishra. 4) Poonam Khetrapal Singh Elected Regional Director for WHO South-East Asia Region Court. 5) BN Talukdar, Director for exploration in Oil India Ltd. (OIL) was appointed as the new Director G eneral of DGH. 6) The ruling Cambodian Peoples Party (CPP) of incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen on 8th September, 2013 was reelected to power. 7) Harish Lakshman elected New President of Automotive Component Manufacturers Association. 8 )Sanjay Govind Dhande appointed as UGC Member. 9) Ruchira Kamboj appointed the Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO. 10) Jawaid Akhtar elected as the Chairperson of International Coffee Council. 11) TV Narendran appointed as the New Managing Director Tata Steel. 12) Ravindra Kumar elected as the President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS). 13) Ramlubhya appointed as the
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Rajasthan State Election Commissioner. 14) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appointed Rakesh Sood as his new Special envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. 15) Ashok Vemuri appointed as the President and CEO of iGate Corporation. 16) National Spot Exchange on 16th September, 2013 appointed Saji Cherian as the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company. 17) P. Sudhakar appointed as the CMD of Electronics Corporation of India Ltd. 18) Justice Prafulla Chandra Pant appointed as the New Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court. 19) Nancy Gibbs appointed as the Managing Editor of Time Magazine. 20) Tony Abbott was sworn in as Australias new Prime Minister on 18th September, 2013 at Government House in Canberra, Australia.
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Latest Appointments in Indian Defence Sector

1. Supreme Commander of Armed Forces ~ Shri Pranab Mukherjee 2. Defence Minister ~ Sri A.K. Antony 3. Minister of State for Defence ~ Sri Jitendra Singh

4. Chief of Army Staff General~ Bikram Singh 5. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral~ Devendra Kumar Joshi 6. Chief of Air Staff (Air Chief) ~ Marshall Norman Anil Kumar Browne 7. Chief of Integrated Defence Staff ~ Lt Gen Anil Chait 8. Director General, Indian Coast Guard ~ Vice Admiral Anurag G Thapliyal
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Current Chairpersons of Important Commissions:

1. Planning Commission~ Dr. Manmohan Singh 2. 14th Finance Commission~ Dr. Y.V. Reddy 3. 20th Law Commission ~ Justice D.K. Jain 4. Union Public Service Commission ~ Prof. DP Agarwal 5. University Grants Commission (UGC)~ Prof. Ved Prakash 6. Indian Space Research Organisation ~Dr. K Radhakrishnan 7. Atomic Energy Commission~ Shri Ratan Kumar Sinha 8. National Human Rights Commission ~ Justice K.G. Balarakrishnan 9. National Commission for Minorities~ Shri Wajahat Habibullah 10. National Commission for Women ~ Smt Mamata Sharma 11. National Commission for Protection of Child Rights~ Mrs. Kushal Singh 12. Securities Exchange Board of India ~ Shri UK Sinha 13. Central Board of Film Censors ~ Ms Leela Samson 14. Central Board of Direct Taxes~ Ms Sudha Sharma

***********Current affairs Questions***********
1. Who is newly appointed as United Nations goodwill ambassador for UNAIDS ? Answer: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan 2. Which country won T20 World cup 2012 ? Answer: West indies (beating Sri Lanka) 3. Which country won T20 Womens World cup 2012 ? Answer: Australia (beating England) 4. What is the name of new book written by JK Rowling ? Answer: The Casual Vacancy 5. According to the Forbes annual list of the world's 100 most powerful women on August 2012, Who has been ranked in the first place ? Answer: Angela Merkel 6. What is the name of new ship commissioned on 2012 for coast guard ? Answer: Rajatarang 7. Who won the 2012 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award ? Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi 8. Which Country won Asian Kabadi Championship 2012 ? Answer: Pakistan (defeating India) 9. Who is the Winner of 2012 US Grand Prix ? Answer: Lewis Hamilton 10. The seventh meeting of the G-20 summit was held in which country ? Answer: Mexico (Los Cabos) 11. Which is the fastest super computer ? Answer: Titan 12. Who is the new chief of RAW ? Answer: Alok Joshi 13. Who will be the first Muslim head of Intelligence Bureau (IB) ? Answer: Syed Asif Ibrahim 14. Which country won Davis cup 2012 (men's tennis) ? Answer: Czech Republic 15. In which jail Ajmal Kasab hanged ? Answer: Yerawada Jail (Pune).....
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1)World Population Day is observed on - ? Ans:- July 11 2) International Day of Peace is observed on ? 21 September 3) World Environment Day is observed on - ? Ans:- June 5 4) World Athletics Day is observed on ? Ans: May 4 5) Which date is World PressFreedom Day ? Ans: May 3........ Top 10 Companies in Fortune 500
1. Wal-Mart Stores 469.2 Revenues ($b) 2. Exxon Mobil 449.9 3. Chevron233.9 4. Phillips 66169.6 5. Berkshire Hathaway162.5 6. Apple156.5 7. General Motors152.3 8. General Electric146.9 9. Valero Energy138.3 10. Ford Motor134.3
Reserve Bank of India Governor & Deputy Governors
Governor Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan Deputy Governor Dr. K. C. Chakrabarty Deputy Governor Shri Anand Sinha

Deputy Governor Shri H.R. Khan Deputy Governor Dr. Urjit R. Patel
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****Headquarters****
Staples Framingham, Massachusetts, USA Walmart Bentonville, Arkansas, USA Dell Round Rock, Texas, USA IBM Armonk, New York, USA HBOS Edinburgh, Scotland Nike Beaverton, Oregon, USA IKEA Leiden, The Netherlands Samsung Electronics Seoul, South Korea McDonalds Oak Brook, Illinois, USA Michelin Clermont-Ferrand, France ExxonMobil Irving, Texas, USA Royal Dutch Shell The Hague, The Netherlands Walt Disney Burbank, California, USA HP Palo Alto, California, USA Canon Tokyo, Japan
Verizon New York, USA General Electric Fairfield, Connecticut, USA Chevron San Ramon, California, USA UBS Basel & Zurich, Switzerland Bank of America Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Allianz Charlotte, North Carolina, USA LG Seoul, South Korea
Sprint Nextel Overland Park, Kansas, USA. Deutsche Bank Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Intel Santa Clara, California, USA Peugeot Paris, France.........
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Maharatna CPSEs (as on February, 2013)
1. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited 2. Coal India Limited 3. GAIL (India) Limited 4. Indian Oil Corporation Limited 5. NTPC Limited 6. Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited 7. Steel Authority of India Limited
( Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs)
***IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS (AWARDS & HONOURS)*** Zubin Mehta Received Tagore Award......... Amitabh Bachchan Honoured With 2013 Global Diversity Award...... Indian Freedom Fighter Gets House of Commons Award.... John Abraham Honoured With Pride of the Nation Award ..... Malala Yousafzai Received Amnesty International Award..... President of India Presented National Communal Harmony Awards For The Year 2011 & 2012.............. The President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented the National Communal Harmony Awards for the year 2011 and 2012 at a function in New Delhi. National Communal Harmony Award for 2011: - Odishas MD Janab Haji Abdul Bari and Mizorams Khamliana jointly awarded for the year 2011 individual category. Both are social activists. National Communal Harmony Award for 2012:- The Foundation for Amity and National Solidarity, Delhi awarded for Organisational category. The foundation formed in 1984.The Foundation works for spreading amity and communal harmony.............!!!! Bunker Roy and Malala Yousafzai Received Clinton Global Citizens Awards............!!!

**List of top ten countries with Largest Population in the World**
1. China----------- 1,306,313,800 2. India-------------- 1,080,264,400 3. U.S.---------------- 295 734 100 4. Indonesia-------- 241 973 900 5. Brazil---------- 186 112 800 6. Pakistan-------- 162 419 900 7. Bangladesh----- 144 319 600 8. Russia--------- 143 420 300 9. Nigeria--------- 128 772 000 10. Japan--------- 127 417 200
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The Right to Information Act, 2005, mentions that every State Government is
to constitute a body to be known as the Information Commission to exercise the powers conferred on, and to perform the functions as-signed to it under the RTI Act. Appointment The State Chief Information Commissioner and the State Information Commissioners are to be appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of a committee consisting of Composition The State Chief Information Commissioner. The State Information Commissioners who should not be more than 10 number. Headquarter of State Information Commission is to be at such place in the State which the State Government may specify or the State Information Commission may with the previous approval of the State Government establish offices at other places in stateThe Chief Minister, who shall be the chairperson of the committee. The leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly. A Cabinet Minister to be nominated by the Chief Minister. The State Chief Information Commissioner is to supervise and manage the affairs of the State Information Commission and is to be assisted by the State

Information Commissioners. Qualification and Terms of office and Conditions of service
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The State Chief Information Commissioner and the State Information Commissioners are to be persons of eminence in public life with wide knowledge and experience in Law, Science and Technology, Social Service, Management, Journalism, Mass Media or Administration and Governance. The State Chief Information Commissioner or a State Information Commissioner are not to be a member of Parliament or member of State Legislative Assembly of any State or UT of hold any other office of profit or connected with any political party or carrying on any business or pursuing any profession. The State Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners are to hold office for five years or upto 65 years of age. The State Chief Information Commissioner and State Information Commissioner are required to take oath before the Governor of the State. The salaries and allowances payable to and other terms and conditions of service of the State Chief Information Commissioner is to be same as that of an Election Commissioner and of the State Information Commissioners same as that of the Chief Secretary to the State Government. The State Chief Information Commissioner or a State Information Commissioner may resign from his office by writing under his address to the Governor and can be removed from his office by the order of the Governor on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity after the Supreme Court, on a reference made to it by the Governor has on inquiry, reported that the grounds are valid. Powers and Functions of the Information Commissions The Central Information Commission or State Information Commission are empowered to receive and inquire into a complaint from any person who could not get information from any public authority due to the reason of no appointment of PIO in that organisation. If the made request by any person for Information has been turned down by the public authority. If the information seeker could not get information within the time limit specified under RTI. If the demanded fee by the public authority for providing information is unreasonably high. If the information seeker thinks that he or she has been given incomplete, misleading or false information.
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In respect of any other matter relating to requesting or obtainng access to records under this Act. The Central Public Information Officer or the State Public Information Officer as the case may be is to be provided a reasonable opportunity of being heard before any penalty is imposed on him. Burden of proving shall be upon the Information Officers. No suit is to be laid against any person for anything done in good faith. The provision of this Act are to have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in the Official Secrets Act, 1923. The Right to Information Act has been continously used by the active and aware member of Civil Society to expose corrupt practices in the administration and misappropriation of funds sanctioned for the execution of public welfare schemes. Mrs. Aruna Roy, a social activist and winner of Magsaysay Award is actively associated with the task of popularising Right to Information Act among the common people of the country. Arvind Kejriwal, won the Magaseysay Award for popularising Right to Information Act among the masses.
Daily Current Affairs : 27th-28th October 2013
1. Today is 146th birth Anniversary of social worker, author, teacher, Sister Nivedita. Her original name was Margaret Elizabeth Noble. She was a Scots-Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda. she took active interest in promoting Indian history, culture and science. She actively encouraged Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose, the epoch-making Indian scientist and seminal philosopher of science who is credited to have discovered the wireless radio, to pursue original scientific research and helped him financially as well in getting due recognition when he was faced by an indifferent attitude of the British Government.
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2. Today is International Animation Day, proclaimed in 2002 by ASIFA as the main global event to celebrate art of animation. 3. 5th South Asian Conference on Sanitation begins in Nepal to promote hygienic practices and enhance the quality of life in South Asian countries. Conference has been inaugurated by Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav. 4. A radio documentary about domestic violence and other related issues in the Australian Indian community has won a prestigious United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) media award. The documentary was awarded this year in the category of "increasing understanding and awareness of womens' rights and issues". 5. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conferred an Honorary Doctorate by the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations.Founded in 1944, it is the oldest and the most renowned school in Russia for preparing specialists in international relations and diplomacy.
6. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan received the third Hridaynath Mangeshkar award for his contribution to the film industry.The prestigious Hridaynath Mangeshkar award was supposed to be presented by melody queen Lata Mangeshkar to Bachchan, but due to health issues she could not make it and filmmaker Subhash Ghai did the honours. 7. Former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen has been awarded the Mother Teresa International Award by NGO The Harmony Foundation for her efforts towards achieving social justice. 8. Mexican drama 'La Jaula De Oro' (The Golden Cage) won the best film award by a debutante director on the closing day of 15th Mumbai Film Festival that also recognised Singapore's 'Ilo Ilo' and Indian films 'Fandry', 'Katiyabaaz' and 'Qissa'. Directed by Diego Quemada-Diaz, 'The Golden Cage' was honoured with the Golden Gateway of India award and a cash prize by the jury headed by director Bruce Beresford. The best actor prize was given to French actor Vincent Macaigne for his role in French film. 9. GAIL India and Paradip Port Trust on 26 October 2013 signed a Memorandum of Understanding for setting up an offshore Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal at Paradip Port, Odisha. The MoU envisages setting up of the project with a capacity
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of 4 Million Metric Tonnes Per Annum (MMPTA) in Phase-I with a storage capacity of 170000 cubic metres. This will entail a total investment of 3108 crore rupees. 10. SC directs Sahara Group to hand over title deeds of its properties worth Rs 20,000 crores to SEBI within three weeks. 11. A team of astronomers discovered the most distant galaxy in the universe which is estimated to be 30 billion light years away from the Earth. The results of the latest findings were published in the most prestigious international journal the Nature. 12. Vijay Soni, a noted painter and theatre personality died on 27 October 2013 in New Delhi. The 76 year old Vijay Soni was battling with Parkinson disease for past 12 years. He is survived by his wife Aanita Soni, two daughters and three grandsons. 13. Anjali Gopalan on 25 October 2013 was awarded with French highest civilian award Chevalier de la Legion dHonneur. She was awarded for her work on transgenders and HIV positive patients.
14. Sebastian Vettel wins 3rd Indian Grand Prix, becomes youngest to win four straight world drivers' championships. With this victory, Vettel became the quadruple champion and joined the group of legends like Michael Schumacher, Juan Manuel Fangio and Alain Prost. He is only the third to do it in a row after Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher. 15. Serena Williams beats Li Na for WTA title. Serena Williams ended her best season in suitable style, coming from behind to beat Li Na 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 on Sunday for her second straight WTA Championships title. Williams' titles this year included the French and U.S. Opens for a total of 17 Grand Slam crowns. 16. Indian Oil Corporation on 27 October 2013 defeated Air India 5-3 to win the 48th Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament at the MHA stadium, Mumbai. Sunil was given the man of the tournament award and received a cheque for 5000 rupees from newly appointed chief national coach Terry Walsh at the end of the tournament.
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GA Questions Asked in The Evening Shift of IBPS RRB Assistant:

1. Headquarter of International Bank of Settlement is BASEL, Switzerland. 2. Extend UNCTAD: United Nations Conference on Trade And Development. 3. 15th Elections of Lok Sabha Was Held in the Year 2009. 4. How Many Countries are the Member of ASEAN: 10 Countries. 5. 18th Meet of SAARC Will be Held in The Nepal. 6. Chairperson of Planning Commission is Dr Manmohan Singh As The Ruling Prime Minister Heads This Position. 7. Indian Athlete Mary Com is World Famous in Boxing, Being World Champion For 3 Times. 8. Author of Sadistic Saga "Devdas" is Sharatchandra Chattopadhyaya. 9. Capital City of Indian Union Territory Andaman & Nicobar Island is Port Blair. 10. Capital City of Mauritius is Port Louis. 11. Currensy of South Korea is Won. 12.Tehri Dam is Constructed on The River Bhagirathi in Uttarakhand. 13. Abhinav Bindra is Related to Sport Event of Shooting. 14. Summer Olympics of 2016 Will be Organized in Brazil. 15. United Nation's Day is Observed on 24th October. 16. Chief of Naval Staff of India: Admiral D.K.Joshi. 17. Leander Adrean Peas is Associated With Tennis. 18. Dronacharya Award of Year 2013 For Lifetime Achievement is Given to K.P.Thomas. 19. Dhyan Chand Award of Hockey is Given to Syed Ali. 20. USSR Earlei Which is Now Splitted into Different Countries is Also Called CIS What is its Full Form: Commonwealth of Independent States. 21. Sanchi Stoops Signifying Symbol of Peace And Buddha Dharma Are Situated in Indian State Madhya Pradesh. 22. Full Form of Indian Governments Program NREGA is National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. 23. Indian Submarine Which Sink into Arabian Sea in August Caused by Firing Incident Was Called INS Sindhurakshak. 24. Midnight Children is a Books Written By Salman Rushdie. 25. President of Afghanistan is Hamid Karzai.

26. Best Actor Award is Given to Daniel de Lewis for Movie Lincoln in 85th Oscar Awards. 27. Union Minister of Home Affairs is Mr Suhil Kumar Shinde. 28. Parliament of Bangladesh is Called Jatiyo Sangshad. 30. Renjith Maheshwari is Indian Triple Jumper Who Has Won 2007 Asian Games. 31. Sum of Goods & Services Produced in a Year Minus Depreciation is Called Net National Product. 32. Headquarter of International Civil Aviation Organization is Montreal, Canada. 33. Speaker of Ongoing Loksabha is Mrs. Meira Kumar.
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34. Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva is a Russian Pole Vaulter. She is a Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist (2004 and 2008), a Three-Time World Champion. 35. Bharat Nirman Plan Where Missing Objective Was Rural Drinking Water Supply. Top Banks in India
Name of the Bank----Deposits (in Rs. crs)----No. of Offices
Public Sector Banks :
1.State Bank of India -----910,43,647----------- 14,316 2.Punjab National Bank---3,79,588---------------5,739 3.Bank of Baroda--------- 3,84,871---------------3,992 4.Canara Bank----------- 3,27,054 --------------3,631 5.Bank of India ------------3,18,216 -------------4,021
Private Sector Banks
1.ICICI Bank --------------2,55,500 ------------2,780 2. HDFC Bank -------------2,46,706 ---------- 2,186 3. Axis Bank---------------2,20,104---------- 1,657 4. Jammu and Kashmir Bank--53,347 -------555 5. Federal Bank-------------48,937 -------956
Foreign Banks:
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1. HSBC -------------61,423------------ 50 2. Citi Bank -------------64,697 -----------43 3. Standard Chartered Bank --63,968 ---------95 4. Royal Bank of Scotland and NVC-13,039 ----31 5. Deutsche Bank ----------16,842 --------15
***The above information has been updated on 01 April 2013 as per data available on the website of RBI for the year 2011-12
More IBPS RRB EXAM QUESTIONS
1. World Water Day March 22 2. Argentina Capital - Buenos Aires 3. Australia Currency - Dollar 4. First Indian Women to get Olympic Medal Karnam Malleshwari 5. English Vinglish Movie Director Gauri Shinde 6. International Development Association HQ Washington 7. Gnanpit Award Telugu Literature 2013 Ravauri Bharadwaja 8. Pride and Prejudice Book Author Jane Austen 9. Fiat Cars Which Country Italy 10. Wriddhiman Saha related to Cricket 11. Highest Literacy State (2011) Kerala 12. Abdul Rahim Rather Minister of state Jammu & Kashmir 13. Khajuraho Madhya Pradesh 14. Vinton Cerf Father of Internet 15. Swaythling Cup for Men, Corbillon Cup for Women Related to Which Game Table Tennis 16. Difference Between Repo & Reverse Repo Rate Interest Rate Corridor 17. Annapurna Scheme - 1st April, 2000 18. JNNURM Started in Year 2005 19. Current Chief Justice Sathasivam

20. Ranbaxy related to - Pharmaceutical 21. Bulk Payments ECS 22. A question about GDP 23. To Classify as NPA Number of Required Days - 90 Days 24. Number of Digits in IFSC Code - 11 25. Image Based Cheque Clearing - Cheque Truncation System 26. 14th Finance commission Headed By YV Reddy 27. CASA Ratio Share of Current and Savings Account 28. Situation where an inflation rate is high, the economic growth rate slows down, and unemployment remains steadily high Stagflation 29. Banks Capital Infusion 14,000 crores by May 2014 30. Safest Form of Deposit Fixed Deposit 31. Converting assets into marketable securities & generating cash flows securitisation 32. If NRI wants to invest in stock exchange, which account should b opened..?
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Weird facts about human body : ************************
1 Men lose about 40 hairs in a day and women lose 70 hairs in a day. 2 Your blood has same amount of salts in it as an ocean has. 3 You are taller in the morning than you are at night. 4 Heart circulates blood in your body about 1000 times each day. 5 Eyelashes last about 150 days. 6 There are 500 hairs in an eyebrow. 7 The average human body contains approximately 100 billion nerve cells. 8 It is not possible to sneeze with open eyes. 9 Bones are 4 times stronger than concrete. 10 Average life span of a taste bud is only 10days. 11 You are born without knee caps and they dont appear until age of 2 to 6 years. 12 Children grow faster in spring time 13 Eyes stay the same size throughout life but nose and ears never stop growing. 14 We born with 300 bones but end up with 206 bones when we are adult.

15 Human skull is made up of 26 different bones. 16 Hair is made of same substance as fingernails. 17 Our entire body functions stop when we sneeze, even your heart beat. 18 Tongue is the strongest muscle in human body. 19 Typical person goes to bathroom six timesa day. 20 Food takes 7 seconds to reach stomach from mouth. 21 Children have more taste buds than adults. 22 Sneeze blows air out of nose at the speed of 100 miles per hour. 23 Largest muscle in your body is one on which you are sitting on. 24 Smallest bone of body is in ears.
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FOUNDER OF SOME POPULAR WEBSITES ***************************************** 01. GOOGLE : Larry Page & Sergey Brin 02. FACEBOOK : Mark Zuckerberg 03. YAHOO : David Filo & Jerry Yang 04. TWITTER : Jack Dorsey & Dick Costolo 05. INTERNET : Tim Berners Lee 06. LINKDIN : Reid Hoffman,Allen Blue & Koonstantin Guericke. 07. EMAIL : Shiva Ayyadurai 08. GTALK : Richard Wahkan 09. WHATS UP : Laurel Kirtz 10. HOTMAIL : Sabeer Bhatia 11. ORKUT : Orkut Buyukkokten 12. WIKIPEDIA : Jimmy Wales 13. YOU TUBE : Steve Chen,Chad Hurley & Jawed Karim

Presidents of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
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2013-incumbant Thomas Bach 2001-2013 Count Jacques Rogge (Belgium) 1980-2001 Juan Antonio Samaranch (Spain) 1972-1980 Michael Morris (Ireland) (data facebook/cnaonweb) 1952-1972 Avery Brundage (United States) 1946-1952 J. Sigfrid Edstrm (Sweden) (data facebook/cnaonweb) 1925-1942 Henri de Baillet-Latour (Belgium) 1896-1925 Pierre de Coubertin (France) 1894-1896 Dimitrios Vikelas (Greece)
The Nobel Prize in Physics For WomenOnly two Times
1. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer("for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure")
2. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 Marie Curie, ne Sklodowska("in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel")
BSE Sensex
The BSE Sensex currently consists of the following 30 major Indian companies as of 17 February 2012. # Company Industry 1 Housing Development Finance Corporation Consumer finance 2 Cipla Pharmaceuticals 3 Bharat Heavy Electricals Electrical equipment 4 State Bank Of IndiaBanking 5 HDFC BankBanking 6 Hero MotocorpAutomotive

7 InfosysInformation Technology 8 Oil and Natural Gas CorporationOil and gas 9 Reliance IndustriesOil and gas 10 Tata PowerPower(data facebook/cnaonweb) 11 Hindalco IndustriesMetals and Mining 12 Tata SteelSteel 13 Larsen & ToubroConglomerate 14 Mahindra & MahindraAutomotive 15 Tata MotorsAutomotive 16 Hindustan UnileverConsumer goods 17 ITCConglomerate 18 Sterlite IndustriesMetals and Mining 19 WiproInformation Technology 20 Sun PharmaceuticalPharmaceuticals 21 GAILOil and gas(data facebook/cnaonweb) 22 ICICI BankBanking 23 Jindal Steel & PowerSteel and power 24 Bharti AirtelTelecommunication 25 Maruti SuzukiAutomotive 26 Tata Consultancy ServicesInformation Technology 27 NTPCPower(data facebook/cnaonweb) 28 DLFReal estate 29 Bajaj AutoAutomotive 30 Coal IndiaMetals and Mining
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SECURITY PRESSES in India
1. Currency Note Press, Nasik (1928) 2. Bank Note Press, Dewas (1974) 3. Bharatiya Note Mudra Nigam, Salboni, West Bengal ( 1995) 4. Bharatiya Note Mudra Nigam, Mysore, Karnataka. (1995)

Security Paper Mill 1. Security Paper Mill, Hoshangabad (1963)
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Four mints in the country for the production of coins
1. Mumbai, Maharashtra 2. Alipore(Kolkata),West Bengal(data facebook/cnaonweb) 3. Saifabad(Hyderabad), Andhra Pradesh 4. Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Indian Railway Zones and their Headquarters
1. Northern Railway--Delhi 2. North Eastern Railway--Gorakhpur 3. Northeast Frontier Railway--Maligaon(Guwahati) 4. Eastern Railway--Kolkata 5. South Eastern Railway--Kolkata 6. South Central Railway--Secunderabad 7. Southern Railway--chennai (data facebook/cnaonweb) 8. Central Railway--Mumbai 9. Western Railway--Mumbai 10. South Western Railway--Hubli 11. North Western Railway--jaipur 12. West Central Railway--jabalpur 13. North Central Railway--Allahabad 14. South East Central Railway--Bilaspur 15. East Coast Railway--Bhubaneswar(data facebook/cnaonweb) 16. East Central Railway--Hajipur 17. Kolkata MetroKolkata

Latest Committees in India
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1. Committee Set Up On Uttarakhand Floods : The committee will be headed by AK Ganju (Chairman, Ganga Flood Control committeesCommission, Patna). 2. JS Mathur committee : to revise NewspaperAdvertisement Rates. 3. K. Ratna Prabha : Committee on indecent depiction of women in media. 4. Mukul Mudgal Committee: looking into US giant Walmarts lobbying activities to enter India 5.Mukul Mudgal Committee: to look at process of film clearance. (data by facebook/cnaonweb 6. MBN Rao Committee: to prepare the blueprint of Indias first womens bank 7. SK Srivastava Committee: to formulate a policy on public-private partnership model to raise coal output.. (data by facebook/cnaonweb 8. K M Chandrasekhar Committee for rationalization of foreign investment norms 9. Arvind Mayaram Committee for giving clear definitions to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII), (data by facebook/cnaonweb 10. Janakiraman Committee To investigate the security transactions of the bank 11. MS Ahluwalia committee to evaluate aspects related to set up of Nalanda University 12. Sitakant Mahapatra committee- for inclusion of Bhojpuri language in eighth schedule of constitution 13. N R Narayana Murthy committee for evaluation of corporate sector participation in Higher Education. (data by facebook/cnaonweb 14. C Rangarajan committee for poverty scale estimates in the country 15. MB Shah committee for inspection of illegal mining activities 16. N Rangachary committee to examine taxation policies for I.T. sector 17. Parthasarathi Shome committee implementation of GAAR (General Anti Avoidance Rule). 18. Deepak Parekh committee for Financing Infrastructure sector(data by facebook/cnaonweb 19. Naresh Chandra committee 14 member task force on security issues 20. Bhandari Committee Reconstruction of RRBs 21. RS Gujral Committee suggest measures to boost MSME exports.
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Worlds Top10 biggest oilfield services companies
1. Schlumberger 2. Halliburton 3. Saipem 4. Transocean 5. Baker Hughes 6. Fluor(data by facebook/cnaonweb 7. Weatherford International 8. BJ Services Company 9. Petrofac (data by facebook/cnaonweb 10. China Oilfield Services Ltd
Foreign Ministers of India since Independence
Jawaharlal Nehru 2 September 1946 to 27 May 1964 Gulzarilal Nanda 27 May 1964 to 9 June 1964 Lal Bahadur Shastri 9 June 1964 to 17 July 1964 Sardar Swaran Singh 18 July 1964 to 14 November 1966 M. C. Chagla14 November 1966 to 5 September 1967 Indira Gandhi6 September 1967 to 13 February 1969 Dinesh Singh14 February 1969 to 27 June 1970(data by facebook/cnaonweb Sardar Swaran Singh27 June 1970 to 10 October 1974 Yashwantrao Chavan10 October 1974 to 24 March 1977 Atal Bihari Vajpayee26 March 1977 to 28 July 1979 Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra28 July 1979 to 13 January 1980 P. V. Narasimha Rao14 January 1980 to 19 July 1984 Indira Gandhi19 July 1984 to 31 October 1984(data by facebook/cnaonweb Rajiv Gandhi31 October 1984 to 24 September 1985 Bali Ram Bhagat25 September 1985 to 12 May 1986 P. Shiv Shankar12 May 1986 to 22 October 1986(data by facebook/cnaonweb

N. D. Tiwari22 October 1986 to 25 July 1987 Rajiv Gandhi 25 July 1987 to 25 June 1988 P. V. Narasimha Rao25 June 1988 to 2 December 1989 V. P. Singh2 December 1989 to 5 December 1989(data by facebook/cnaonweb I. K. Gujral5 December 1989 to 10 November 1990 Vidya Charan Shukla21 November 1990 to 20 February 1991 Madhavsinh Solanki21 June 1991 to 31 March 1992 P. V. Narasimha Rao31 March 1992 to 18 January 1993 Dinesh Singh18 January 1993 to 10 February 1995 Pranab Mukherjee10 February 1995 to 16 May 1996 Sikander Bakht21 May 1996 to 1 June 1996(data by facebook/cnaonweb I. K. Gujral1 June 1996 to 18 March 1998 Atal Bihari Vajpayee19 March 1998 to 5 December 1998 Jaswant Singh5 December 1998 to 23 June 2002 Yashwant Sinha1 July 2002 to 22 May 2004(data by facebook/cnaonweb K. Natwar Singh22 May 2004 to 6 November 2005 Manmohan Singh6 November 2005 to 24 October 2006 Pranab Mukherjee24 October 2006 to 22 May 2009 S. M. Krishna22 May 2009 to 26 October 2012 Salman Khurshid28 October 2012 Incumbent
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Top 10 highest GDP countries by IMF (2012)(nominal In Millions of US$)
1 United States 15,684,750 2 China8,227,037 3 Japan 5,963,969 4 Germany 3,400,579 5 France 2,608,699 6 United Kingdom 2,440,505 7 Brazil 2,395,968(data by facebook/cnaonweb 8 Russia 2,021,960

9 Italy 2,014,019 10 India 1,824.832
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RESERVE BANK OF INDIA GOVERNOR & DEPUTY GOVERNORS
GOVERNOR Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan DEPUTY GOVERNOR Dr. K. C. CHAKRABARTY DEPUTY GOVERNOR SHRI ANAND SINHA DEPUTY GOVERNOR SHRI H.R. KHAN DEPUTY GOVERNOR Dr. Urjit R. Patel
Chief Election Commissioners of India
1 Sukumar Sen21 March 1950 to19 December 1958 2 Kalyan Sundaram20 December 1958 to 30 September 1967 3 S. P. Sen Verma1 October 1967 to 30 September 1972 4 Nagendra Singh1 October 1972 to 6 February 1973 5 T. Swaminathan7 February 1973 to 17 June 1977 6 S. L. Shakdhar18 June 1977 to 17 June 1982 7 R. K. Trivedi18 June 1982 to 31 December 1985 8 R. V. S. Peri Sastri1 January 1986 to 25 November 1990 9 V. S. Ramadevi26 November 1990 to 11 December 1990 10 T. N. Seshan 12 December1990 to 11 December 1996 11 M. S. Gill 12 December 1996 to 13 June 2001 12 J. M. Lyngdoh14 June 2001 to 7 February 2004 (data by facebook/cnaonweb 12 T. S. Krishnamurthy8 February 2004 to 15 May 2005 13 B. B. Tandon16 May 2005 to 29 June 2006 14 N. Gopalaswami30 June 2006 to 20 April 2009 15 Navin Chawla21 April 2009 to 29 July 2010(data by facebook/cnaonweb 16 S. Y. Quraishi30 July 2010 to 10 June 2012 17 V. S. Sampath10 June 2012 to incumbent

Important Days to note in October and November......
October 1: International Day for the Elderly October 2: Gandhi Jayanthi October 3: World Habitat Day October 4: World Animal Welfare Day October 8: Indian Air Force Day October 9: World Post Office Day October 10: National Post Day October 2nd Thursday: World Sight Day October 13 : UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction October 14: World Standards Day October 15 : World White Cane Day (guiding the blind) October 16 : World Food Day October 24 : UN Day; World Development Information Day October 30: World Thrift Day November 9: Legal Services Day November 14: Children's Day; Diabetes Day November 17: National Epilepsy Day November 20: Africa Industrialisation Day November 29: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
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Chief of Army Staff of India since Independence

1. Sir Robert McGregor Macdonald Lockhart* 15 August 1947 to 31 December 1947 2. Sir Francis Robert Roy Bucher* 1 January 1948 to 15 January 1949 3 Kodandera Madappa Cariappa 16 January 1949 to 14 January 1953 4 Maharaj Shri Rajendrasinhji Jadeja15 January 1953 to 14 May 1955 5 Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh15 May 1955 to 7 May 1957

6 Kodandera Subayya Thimayya8 May 1957 to 7 May 1961 7 Pran Nath Thapar8 May 1961 to 19 November 1962
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8 Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri20 November 1962 to 7 June 1966(data by facebook/cnaonweb 9 Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam8 June 1966 to 7 June 1969 10 Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw8 June 1969 to 15 January 1973 (data by facebook/cnaonweb 11 Gopal Gurunath Bewoor16 January 1973 to 31 May 1975 12 Tapishwar Narain Raina1 June 1975 to 31 May 1978 13 Om Prakash Malhotra1 June 1978 to 31 May 1981 14 Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao1 June 1981 to 31 July 1983(data by facebook/cnaonweb 15 Arun Shridhar Vaidya1 August 1983 to 31 January 1985 16 Krishnaswamy Sundarji1 February 1985 to 31 May 1988 17 Vishwa Nath Sharma1 June 1988 to 30 June 1990 18 Sunith Francis Rodrigues1 July 1990 to 30 June 1993 19 Bipin Chandra Joshi1 July 1993 to 19 November 1994 20 Shankar Roychowdhury20 November 1994 to 30 September 1997(data by facebook/cnaonweb 21 Ved Prakash Malik1 October 1997 to 30 September 2000 22 Sundararajan Padmanabhan1 October 2000 to 30 December 2002(data by facebook/cnaonweb 23 Nirmal Chander Vij31 December 2002 to 31 January 2005 24 Joginder Jaswant Singh31 January 2005 to 30 September 2007(data by facebook/cnaonweb 25 Deepak Kapoor30 September 2007 to 31 March 2010 26 Vijay Kumar Singh31 March 2010 to 31 May 2012 27 Bikram Singh 31 May 2012 Current
Top 10 Countries By Length Of Coastline (Coastline in km)

1 Canada 202,080 2 Indonesia 54,716

3 Greenland(Denmark) 44,087 4 Russia 37,653 5 Philippines 36,289 6 Japan 29,751 (data by facebook/cnaonweb 7 Australia 25,760 8 Norway 25,148 9 United States 19,924 10 New Zealand 15,134
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List of Indian state animals Common name & Scientific name

Andhra PradeshBlackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) Arunachal Pradesh Gayal (Bos frontalis) Assam One-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) Bihar Gaur (Bos gaurus) Chhattisgarh Wild Buffalo (B. bubalis arnee) Goa Gaur (Bos gaurus) (data by facebook/cnaonweb Gujarat Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) Haryana Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) Himachal Pradesh Snow leopard (Uncia uncia or Panthera uncial) Jammu and Kashmir Kashmir stag (Cervus elaphus hanglu ) Jharkhand Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) Karnataka Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) Kerala Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) Lakshadweep Butterfly Fish (Chaetodon decussates) Meghalaya Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) Madhya Pradesh Barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii) Maharashtra Indian Giant Squirrel (Ratufa indica) Manipur Sangai (Cervus eldi eldi ) (data by facebook/cnaonweb Mizoram Hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) Nagaland Gaur (Bos gaurus) (data by facebook/cnaonweb Odisha Sambar (Rusa unicolor)

Puducherry Squirrel (Sciuridae) PunjabBlackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) Rajasthan Chinkara (Gazella bennettii) Sikkim Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens ) Tamil Nadu Nilgiri Tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius ) Tripura Phayre's Langur (Trachypithecus phayrei ) Uttarakhand Musk deer Moschidae Uttar Pradesh Swamp Deer (Rucervus duvaucelii) West Bengal Fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus)
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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 15 P. Shiv Shankar 25 July 1987 to 29 June 1988(data by facebook/cnaonweb 16 Madhav Singh Solanki 30 June 1988 to 16 August 1989 17 Ramakrishna Hegde 5 December 1989 to 6 July 1990 18 Madhu Dandavate 7 July 1990 to 10 December 1990 19 Mohan Dharia 11 December 1990 to 24 June 1991 20 Pranab Mukherjee 24 June 1991 to 15 May 1996(data by facebook/cnaonweb

21 Madhu Dandavate 1 August 1996 to 21 March 1998 22 Jaswant Singh 25 March 1998 to 4 February 1999 23 K.C. Pant 5 February 1999 to 17 June 2004 24 Montek Singh Ahluwalia6 July 2004
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Top-10 Wheat Producers of the World 2012 (Production 1000 MT)

1. EU-27 133,486.00 2. China 117,000.00 3. India 85,930.00 4. United States 56,514.00 5.Russian Federation 56,000.00 6. Australia 25,000.00(data by facebook/cnaonweb 7. Pakistan 24,000.00 8. Canada 21,000.00 9.Ukraine 21,000.00 10.Turkey 18,500.00
Important Research Institutes in India (in alphabetical order AC)
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational Sciences Nainital Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleo botany Lucknow Bose Institute Kolkata Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute Pilani Central Food Technological Research Institute Mysore Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI) Kolkata Central Institute for Cotton Research Nagpur( data by facebook/cnaonweb Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Bhopal Central Institute of Brackish Water Aquaculture Chennai Tamil Nadu Central Institute of Educational Technology New Delhi Central Institute of Fisheries Education Mumbai

Central Institute of Fisheries, Nautical and Engineering Training Kochi Central Institute of Fresh Water Aquaculture Bhubaneswar Central Institute of Indian Languages Mysore( data by facebook/cnaonweb Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology Bhubaneswar Central Institute of Psychiatry Ranchi( data by facebook/cnaonweb Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Lucknow Central Institute f Road Transport (CIRT) Pune Central Leather Research Institute Adyar, Chennai Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited Ranchi Central Research Institute for Dry land Agriculture Hyderabad Central Sheep & Wool Research Institute Avikanagar Central Soil Salinity Research Institute New Delhi Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) New Delhi Centre for Development Studies Thiruvananthpuram Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences Mumbai College of Defense Management Secunderabad
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Population of Indian States & UTs according to Census 2011
1 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 379,944 (0.03%) 2 Andhra Pradesh 84,665,533 (7.00%) 3 Arunachal Pradesh 1,382,611 (0.11%) 4 Assam 31,169,272 (2.68%) 5 Bihar 103,804,637 (8.48%) 6 Chandigarh 1,054,686 (0.09%) 7 Chhattisgarh 25,540,196 (2.11%) 8 Dadra and Nagar Haveli 342,853 (0.03%) 9 Daman and Diu 242,911 (0.02%) 10 Delhi 16,753,235 (1.38%) 11 Goa 1,457,723 (0.12%)(data by facebook/cnaonweb 12 Gujarat 60,383,628 (4.99%) 13 Haryana 25,353,081 (2.09%)

14 Himachal Pradesh 6,856,509 (0.57%) 15 Jammu and Kashmir 12,548,926 (1.04%) 16 Jharkhand 32,966,238 (2.72%) 17 Karnataka 61,130,704 (5.05%) 18 Kerala 33,387,677 (2.76%)(data by facebook/cnaonweb 19 Lakshadweep 64,429 (0.01%) 20 Madhya Pradesh 72,597,565 (6.00%) 21 Maharashtra 112,372,972 (9.29%) 22 Manipur 2,721,756 (0.22%) 23 Meghalaya 2,964,007 (0.24%) 24 Mizoram 1,091,014 (0.09%)(data by facebook/cnaonweb 25 Nagaland 1,980,602 (0.16%) 26 Orissa 41,947,358 (3.47%) 27 Pondicherry 1,244,464 (0.10%) 28 Punjab 27,704,236 (2.29%)(data by facebook/cnaonweb 29 Rajasthan 68,621,012 (5.67%) 30 Sikkim 607,688 (0.05%) 31 Tamil Nadu 72,138,958 (5.96%) 32 Tripura 3,671,032 (0.30%) 33 Uttarakhand 10,116,752 (0.84%) 34 Uttar Pradesh 199,581,477 (16.49%) 35 West Bengal 91,347,736 (7.55%)
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TOTAL 1,210,193,422 (100%)
1. India invented the number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
2. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European Languages .
3. India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world. However, it is not unusual for a letter to take two weeks to travel just 30 miles.
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4. The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan Mountains.
5. The total distance covered by the 14,300 trains on the Indian Railways everyday, equals three & half times the distance to moon
6. It is illegal to take Indian currency (rupees) out of India.
7. Many Indian wives will never say their husbands name aloud, as it is a sign of disrespect. When addressing him, the wife will use several indirect references, such as ji or look here or hello, or even refer to him as the father of her child
Jnanpith Award Winners (Highest award in literature)

1965 G. Sankara Kurup Odakkuzhal [Flute] (Malayalam) 1966 Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya Ganadevta (Bengali) 1967 Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa (Kuvempu) Sri Ramayana Darshanam (Kannada) 1967 Umashankar Joshi Nishitha (Gujarati) 1968 Sumitranandan Pant Chidambara (Hindi) 1969 Firaq Gorakhpuri Gul-e-Naghma (Urdu) 1970 Viswanatha Satyanarayana Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu [A resourceful tree Ramayana] (Telugu) 1971 Bishnu Dey Smriti Satta Bhavishyat (Bengali) 1972 Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' Urvashi (Hindi) 1973 Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre Nakutanti [Naku Thanthi (Four Strings)] (Kannada) 1973 Gopinath Mohanty Paraja (Oriya) 1974 Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Yayati (Marathi) 1975 P. V. Akilan Chitttrappavai (Tamil) 1976 Ashapurna Devi Pratham Pratisruti (Bengali) 1977 K. Shivaram Karanth Mookajjiya Kanasugalu [Mookajjis dreams] (Kannada)
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1978 Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' Kitni Navon Men Kitni Bar (Hindi) 1979 Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya Mrityunjay [Immortal] (Assamese) 1980 S. K. Pottekkatt Oru Desathinte Katha [Story of a land] (Malayalam) 1981 Amrita Pritam Kagaj te Canvas (Punjabi) 1982 Mahadevi Varma Yama (Hindi) 1983 Maasti Venkatesh Ayengar Chikkaveera Rajendra [Life and struggle of Kodava King Chikkaveera Rajendra] (Kannada) 1984 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Kayar [Coir] (Malayalam) 1985 Pannalal Patel Maanavi Ni Bhavaai (Gujarati) 1986 Sachidananda Rout Roy (Oriya) 1987 Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) Natsamrat (Marathi) 1988 Dr.C. Narayana Reddy Vishwambhara (Telugu) 1989 Qurratulain Hyder Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar (Urdu) 1990 V. K. Gokak (Vinayaka Krishna Gokak) Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi (Kannada) 1991 Subhas Mukhopadhyay Padati (Bengali) 1992 Naresh Mehta (Hindi) 1993 Sitakant Mahapatra "for outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Indian literature, 1973-92" (Oriya) 1994 U. R. Ananthamurthy for his contributions to (Kannada) literature (Kannada) 1995 M. T. Vasudevan Nair Randamoozham [Second Chance] (Malayalam) 1996 Mahasweta Devi Hajar Churashir Ma (Bengali) 1997 Ali Sardar Jafri (Urdu) 1998 Girish Karnad "for his contributions to (Kannada) literature and for contributions to (Kannada) theater (yayati)" (Kannada) 1999 Nirmal Verma (Hindi) 1999 Gurdial Singh (Punjabi) 2000 Indira Goswami (Assamese) 2001 Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (Gujarati) 2002 D. Jayakanthan (Tamil) 2003 Vinda Karandikar Ashtadarshana (poetry) (Marathi) 2004 Rahman Rahi Subhuk Soda, Kalami Rahi and Siyah Rode Jaren Manz (Kashmiri) 2005 Kunwar Narayan (Hindi)

2006 Ravindra Kelekar (Konkani) 2006 Satya Vrat Shastri (Sanskrit) 2007 O. N. V. Kurup (Malayalam) 2008 Akhlaq Mohammed Khan 'Shahryar' (Urdu) 2009 Amar Kant (Hindi) 2009 Shrilal Shukla (Hindi)
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2010 Chandrashekhara Kambara for his contributions to Kannada literature (Kannada) 2011 Pratibha Ray (Oriya) 2012 Ravuri Bharadhwaja For his contributions to Telugu literature
Prime Ministers of India since Independence

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) 15 August 1947-27 May 1964 Gulzari Lal Nanda (1898-1997) 27 May 1964- 9 June 1964 (Acting) Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904-1966) 9 June 1964-11 January 1966 Gulzari Lal Nanda (1898-1997) 11 January 1964 - 24 January 1966 (Acting) Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) 24 January 1966 -24 March 1977 Morarji Desai (1896-1995) 24 March 1977- 28 July 1979 Charan Singh (1902-1987) 28 July 1979- 14 January 1980 Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) 14 January 1980- 31 October 1984 Rajiv Gandhi (1944-1991) 31 October 1984- 1 December 1989 Vishwanath Pratap Singh (b-1931) 2 December 1989- 10 November 1990 Chandra Shekhar (b-1927) 10 November 1990- 21 June 1991 P.V Narasimha Rao (b-1921) 21 June 1991- 16 May 1996 Atal Bihari Vajpayee (b-1926) 16 May 1996- 01 June 1996 H.D Deva Gowda (b-1933) 01 June 1996- 21 April 1997 I.K Gujral (b-1933) 21 April 1997- 18 March 1998 Atal Bihari Vajpayee (b-1926) 19 March 1998- 13 October 1999 Atal Bihari Vajpayee (b-1926) 13 October 1999- 22 May 2004 Dr. Manmohan Singh (b-1932) 22 May 2004- till date

Arjun Awards for cricketers( All Time)
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1. 1961 Saleem Durani 2. 1964Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi 3 1965 Vijay Manjrekar 4 1966 Chandu Borde 5 1967 Ajit Wadekar 6 1968 E.A.S. Prasanna 7 1969 Bishan Singh Bedi 8 1970 Dilip Sardesai 9 1971 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan 10 1972 Eknath Solkar 11 1972 B.S. Chandrashekhar 12 1975 Sunil Gavaskar 13 1976 Shanta Rangaswamy 14 1977-78Gundappa Vishwanath 15 1979-80Kapil Dev Nikhanj 16 1980-81Chetan Chauhan 17 1980-81Syed Kirmani 18 1981 Dilip Vengsarkar 19 1982 Mohinder Amarnath 20 1983 Diana Edulji 21 1984Ravi Shastri 22 1985 Shubhangi Kulkarni 23 1986Mohammad Azharuddin 24 1986Sandhya Agarwal 25 1989 Madan Lal 26 1993 Manoj Prabhakar 27 1993Kiran More 28 1994 Sachin Tendulkar 29 1995 Anil Kumble 30 1996 Javagal Srinath

31 1997 Ajay Jadeja 32 1997 Sourav Ganguly 33 1998Rahul Dravid 34 1998Nayan Mongia 35 2000 B.K. Venkatesh Prasad 36 2001 VVS Laxman 37 2002 Virender Sehwag 38 2003 Harbhajan Singh 39 2003 Mithali Raj 40 2005Anju Jain 41 2006 Anjum Chopra 42 2009Gautam Gambhir 43 2010Jhulan Goswami 44 2011 Zaheer Khan 45 2012 Yuvraj Singh 46 2013 Virat Kohli
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#World_At_A_Glance
Total Surface Area ----> 510,064,472 sq km
Total Land Area ----> 148,940,000 sq km (29.2% of Planet Earth's surface)
Total Water Area ----> 361,132,000 sq km (70.8% of Planet Earth's surface)
Total Population ----> 7.04 billion
Total Weight ----> 5.9722 1024 Kg
Total Volume ----> 1.083211012 km3
Total Age ----> 4.54 billion years
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Surface Gravity ----> 32.041 ft/s2
Distance from Moon ----> 384,403 kmWorld Map
Distance from Sun ----> 150 million km
Equatorial Radius ----> 6,378.1 km
Mean Radius ----> 6,371.0 km
Polar Radius ----> 6,356.8 km
Orbiting Speed ----> 29.78 km/s
Orbiting Time ----> 365.256363004 days
Surface Temperature ----> -88/5(min/max)C
Orbit Size around Sun ----> 92,956,050 miles (Semi Major Axis)
Period of Rotation ----> 23.934 hours
Speed of Rotation ----> 1670 km/hr
Distance from nearest Planet ----> 38 million km from Venus
Total Continent ----> 7 (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica)
Total Ocean ----> 5 ( Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic )

UN Recognized Countries ----> 193
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Total Seas ----> 137
Primary Tectonic Plates ----> 8 (African, Antarctic, Australian, Eurasian, Indian, North American, Pacific, South American)
Largest Continent ----> Asia, 43,820,000 sq km (29.5% of total World landmass)
Smallest Continent ----> Australia, 9,008,500 sq km
Largest Country ----> Russia, 17,098,242 sq km
Smallest Country ----> Vatican City - 0.44 sq km
Largest Ocean ----> The Pacific Ocean - 155,557,000 sq km
Smallest Ocean ----> Arctic, 14,056,000 sq km
Highest Mountain ----> Mount Everest, 29,029 ft - Nepal
Longest River ----> The Nile - 6,650 km
Largest Lake ----> The Caspian Sea - 371,000 sq km
Average Life Expectancy ----> 67.2 years
Important Events25September
1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean. 1947 Kashmir accedes to Indian Union.

1954 14 Members of Parliament (MP) form a new party called the Union of Socialist Progress. Acharya Kripalani is the leader. 1959 Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day. 1969 The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed. 1984 Indian Army withdraws from the Golden Temple; repair of Akal Takht complete. 1985 Akali Dal wins Punjab state elections.
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1990 Prafull Chandra Sen, former Chief Minister of West Bengal and Gandhian leader, died in Calcutta. He was 94 years old. 1990 Sabyasachi Mukherji, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, aged 63, died in London. 1990 L. K. Advani, BJP President, starts his Somnath Temple, Ayodhya Rath Yathra. 1992 NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail. 2008 China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
Important Inventors & their Inventions ( Inventors name in alphabetical orderD)

1. Gustaf Daln, (18691937), Sweden AGA cooker; Daln light; Agamassan 2. Salvino D'Armate, (12581312), Italy credited for inventing eyeglasses in 1284 3. Leonardo da Vinci, (14521519), Italy conceptualized a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, the double hull. Relatively few of his designs were constructed during his lifetime. Some that were used are an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire 4. Corradino D'Ascanio, (18911981), Italy D'AT3 helicopter; Vespa scooter 5. Jacob Davis, (18681908), U.S. riveted jeans 6. Edmund Davy, (17851857), Ireland acetylene 7. Humphry Davy, (17781829), UK Davy miners lamp 8. Joseph Day, (18551946), UK the crankcase-compression two-stroke engine 9. Lee DeForest, (18731961), U.S. triode 10. Vasily Degtyaryov, (18801949), Russia first self-loading carbine, Degtyaryov-series firearms, co-developer of Fedorov Avtomat 11. Akinfiy Demidov, (16781745), Russia co-developer of rebar, cast iron dome, lightning

rod (all found in the Leaning Tower of Nevyansk) 12. Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk, (19272006), Russia 3D holography
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13. Miksa Deri (18541938), Hungary co-inventor of an improved closed-core transformer 14. James Dewar, (18421923), UK Thermos flask 15. Aleksandr Dianin, (18511918), Russia Bisphenol A, Dianin's compound 16. William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, (18601935), UK motion picture camera 17. Philip Diehl, (18471913), U.S. Ceiling fan, electric sewing machine 18. Rudolf Diesel, (18581913), Germany Diesel engine 19. Al-Dinawari, (828896), Persia/Iran more than a hundred plant drugs 20. William H. Dobelle, (19432004), United States first functioning artificial eye 21. Ray Dolby, (19332013), U.S. Dolby noise-reduction system 22. Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, (18621919), Poland/Russia three-phase electric power (first 3-phase hydroelectric power plant, 3-phase electrical generator, 3-phase motor and 3phase transformer) 23. Nikolay Dollezhal, (18992000), Russia AM-1 reactor for the 1st nuclear power plant, other RBMK reactors, VVER pressurized water reactors 24. Bryan Donkin, (17681855), UK print industry composition roller 25. Hub van Doorne, (19001979), Netherlands, Variomatic continuously variable transmission 26. Anastase Dragomir, (18961966), Romania Ejection seat 27. Karl Drais, (17851851), Germany dandy horse (Draisine) 28. Cornelius Drebbel, (15721633), The Netherlands first navigable submarine 29. Richard Drew, (18991980), U.S. Masking tape 30. John Boyd Dunlop, (18401921), UK first practical pneumatic tyre 31. Cyril Duquet, (18411922), Canada Telephone handset 32. Alexey Dushkin, (19041977), Russia deep column station 33. James Dyson, (1947), UK Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, incorporating the principles of cyclonic separation.

Presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)
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19801986Atal Bihari Vajpayee 19861991Lal Krishna Advani First Term 19911993Murli Manohar Joshi 19931998Lal Krishna Advani Second Term 19982000Kushabhau Thakre 20002001Bangaru Laxman 20012002Jana Krishnamurthi 20022004Venkaiah Naidu 20042006Lal Krishna Advani Third Term 20062009Rajnath Singh First Term 20092013Nitin Gadkari First Term 2013 presentRajnath Singh Second Term
Important International Lines
1. Radcliffe Line---- India and Pakistan 2. McMahon Line--- India and China 3. Durand Line ------Pakistan and Afghanistan 4. Maginot Line -----France and Germany 5. 38th Parallel -----North and South Korea 6. 17th Parallel----- North and South Vietnam 7. 49th Parallel -----USA and Canada
Years when the Nobel Prize Have Not Been Awarded
Nobel Prize Year

Physics 1916, 1931, 1934, 1940, 1941, 1942 Chemistry 1916, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1933, 1940, 1941, 1942 Medicine 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1925, 1940, 1941, 1942 Literature 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943

Peace 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1948, 1955, 1956, 1966, 1967, 1972 Economic Sciences -
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Presidents of Indian National Congress (INC) (year and conferences where they elected)
J. B. Kripalani 1947 Meerut Pattabhi Sitaraimayya 1948 & 49 Jaipur Purushottam Das Tandon1950 Nasik Jawaharlal Nehru1951 & 52 Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru1953 Hyderabad Jawaharlal Nehru1954 Calcutta U. N. Dhebar 1955 Avadi U. N. Dhebar 1956 Amritsar U. N. Dhebar 1957 Indore U. N. Dhebar 1958 Gauhati U. N. Dhebar 1959 Nagpur Indira Gandhi 1959 Delhi Neelam Sanjiva Reddy1960 Bangalore Neelam Sanjiva Reddy1961 Bhavnagar Neelam Sanjiva Reddy1962 & 63 Patna K. Kamaraj1964 Bhubaneswar K. Kamaraj1965 Durgapur K. Kamaraj1966 & 67 Jaipur S. Nijalingappa1968 Hyderabad S. Nijalingappa1969 Faridabad Jagjivan Ram1970 & 71 Bombay Shankar Dayal Sharma1972 74 Calcutta Dev Kant Baruah1975 77 Chandigarh Indira Gandhi 1978 83 Delhi Indira Gandhi 1983-84 Calcutta Rajiv Gandhi1985-91 Bombay

P. V. Narasimha Rao1992-96 Tirupati Sitaram Kesri 1997-98 Calcutta Sonia Gandhi 1998present Calcutta
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Major Rivers Of the World (by length)

Nile, Africa 6,825 km Amazon, South America 6,437 km Chang Jiang (Yangtze), Asia 6,380 km Mississippi, North America 5,971 km Yenisey-Angara, Asia 5,536 km Huang (Yellow), Asia 5,464 km Ob-Irtysh, Asia 5,410 km Paran Ro de la Plata4,880 Km Amur, Asia 4,416 km Lena, Asia 4,400 km Congo, Africa 4,370 km Mackenzie-Peace, North America 4,241 km Mekong, Asia 4,184 km Niger, Africa 4,171 km
Important Acronyms for Banking & Finance terms (OZ)
OMO Open Market Operation OSMOS Off-Site Monitoring and Surveillance OSS Off-Site Surveillance OTC Over-the-Counter PACS Primary Agricultural Credit Society PAD Public Accounts Department PAN Permanent Account Number PCARDBs Primary Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Banks PDAI Primary Dealers Association of India

PDO Public Debt Office PDO-NDS Public Debt Office - Negotiated Dealing System PDs Primary Dealers PIO Person of Indian Origin PSS Act Payment and Settlement Systems Act QD Quarterly Discussion RBS Risk Based Supervision RBSC Reserve Bank Staff College RFC Resident Foreign Currency Account RFC(D) Resident Foreign Currency (Domestic) Account RIDF Rural Infrastructure Development Fund RRBs Regional Rural Banks RTGS Real Time Gross Settlement SACPs Special Agricultural Credit Plans SBI State Bank of India SCARDBs State Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Banks SDDS Special Data Dissemination Standards SDR Special Drawing Rights SEBI Securities and Exchange Board of India SGL Subsidiary General Ledger SHGs Self-Help Groups SIPS Systemically Important Payment System SLBC State Level Bankers Committee SLR Statutory Liquidity Ratio SMEs Small and Medium Enterprises SPMCIL Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd. SSI Small Scale Industries StCB State Co-operative Bank TAC Technical Advisory Committee TAFCUBs Task Force for Urban Co-operative Banks TBs Treasury Bills UCBs Urban Cooperative Banks
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USD United States Dollar UTI Unit Trust of India WI When Issued WMA Ways and Means Advances WOS Wholly Owned Subsidiary ZTC Zonal Training Center
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RBI Raises policy rate by 0.25%

i. RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Friday surprised the industry and shocked the stock markets by hiking the short-term policy rate by 0.25 percent to keep worrisome inflation under check, a move that may increase EMIs for home and auto loans in the medium term. ii. Contrary to the expectations of the industry and experts, Rajan in his maiden policy opted for a hawkish monetary policy stance ahead of the festive season instead of shifting the focus to promotion of growth by lowering interest rates to generate demand. iii. The RBI Governor, however, eased liquidity through a reduction in the marginal standing facility rate, at which banks borrow from the central bank, by 0.75 percent to 9.5 percent and eased the minimum daily maintenance of the cash reserve ratio (CRR). iv. The repo rate, or the short-term lending rate, has been increased by 25 basis points to 7.5 percent from 7.25 percent with immediate effect. Other policy rates will be adjusted accordingly. v. "The increase in repo rate could have been avoided as industry is already reeling under pressures of high cost of capital and low availability in a tight liquidity situation...the increase in repo rate come as a surprise," CII Director General Chandrajit Banerjee said. vi. Rajan left the CRR, or the portion of deposits that banks need to keep with the RBI in cash, unchanged at 4 percent. vii. At the same time, the RBI reduced the minimum daily maintenance of CRR from 99 percent of the requirement to 95 percent, effective from 21st September, a move aimed at inducing liquidity into the system. viii. Wholesale price inflation rose to a six-month high of 6.1 percent in August, driven by costlier food items. ix. Also, steps have been taken to improve the environment for external financing, turning
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the focus to internal determinants of the value of the rupee, primarily the fiscal deficit and domestic inflation, he added. x. Next monetary policy review on 29th October 2013.
Current Rates are as Follows:

1. Repo Rate 7.50% 2. Reverse Repo Rate 6.50% 3. CRR 4% 4. MSF 9.50% 5. Bank Rate - 9.50% 6. SLR 23%
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
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Some Important Companies with Full Names

3M Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph Company Adidas Adolf (Adi) Dassler Amoco AMerican Oil COmpany AOL America Online Amul Anand Milk Union Limited BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke BBC British Broadcasting Corporation BenQ Bringing Enjoyment and Quality BHP Broken Hill Proprietary BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam LimitedBP BP British Petroleum BPL British Physical Laboratories BASF Baden Aniline and Soda Factory BEML Bharat Earth Movers Limited BHEL Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited CEAT Cavi Elettrici e Affini Torino Capcom Capsule Computers CDAC Centre for Development of Advanced Computing COLT City Of London Telecom ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network HDFC Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited HCL Hindustan Computer Limited HTC High Tech Computer CorporationHP HP Hewlett-Packard HMV His Master's Voice HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation H&M Hennes & Mauritz ICICI Bank Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India Bank

IBM International Business Machines Infosys Information Systems Intel INTegrated ELectronics IKEA Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd ING International Netherlands GroupLarsen & Toubro JVC Japan Victor Company JBL James Bullough Lansing KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken L&T Larsen & Toubro LG Lucky and Goldstar LEGO leg godt MRF Madras Rubber Factory NEC Nippon Electric Company Nikon Nippon KogakuProcter Gamble Nissan Nippon Sangyo P&G Procter & Gamble Company SAP System Analyse und Programmentwicklung TCL Today China Lion UPS United Parcel Service of America Wipro Western India Palm Refined Oil Ltd
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1. Who is the winner of Australian Open 2013 Women's title ? Answer: Victoria Azarenka
2. Who is the winner of Australian Open 2013 men's title ? Answer: Novak Djokovic
3. Who is the chief guest of 2013 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas ?

Answer: Rajkeswur Purryag, President of Mauritius (Held in Kochi)
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4. Who is the chief guest of republic day 2013 ? Answer: Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
5. Who is first female President of South Korea ? Answer: Park Guen-hye
6. Who is the first female Chief Justice of Sri Lanka ? Answer: Shirani Bandaranayake (recently impeached)
7. Who is the winner of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013? Answer: Jeet Thayil (book Narcopolis)
8. Which is the Longest Railway Tunnel in India? Answer: Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel (Banihal railway tunnel)
9. Where did the World Economic Forum annual meeting held ?

Answer: Davos, Switzerland 10. Who has been conferred won Keerthi Chakra (the second highest among peace time gallantry awards of the country) ? Answer: Major Anoop Joseph 11. Which Indian scientist conferred with China's top science award ? Answer: CNR Rao 12. Who is the winner of Ranji Trophy 2012-2013 ? Answer: Mumbai 13. Which country recently test fired Hatf-9 (Nasr) missile ? Answer: Pakistan 14. Who is the new Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi ? Answer: Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty 15. Who is the new President of Sahitya Akademi ? Answer: Dr. Vishwanath Prasad 16. Who is appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations ? Answer: Asoke Kumar Mukerji 17. Who is the worlds oldest Marathon runner ? Answer: Fauja Singh
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100 Most Important Expected Computer Questions for Upcoming IBPS PO and IBPS Clerk Exam (With Answers)
****************************************** 1. All of the following are examples of real security and privacy risks EXCEPT: A. hackers. B. spam. C. viruses. D. identity theft. Answer: B
2. A process known as ____________ is used by large retailers to study trends. A. data mining B. data selection C. POS D. data conversion Answer: A
3. ____________terminals (formerly known as cash registers) are often connected to complex inventory and sales computer systems. A. Data B. Point-of-sale (POS) C. Sales D. Query Answer: B
4. A(n) ____________ system is a small, wireless handheld computer that scans an items tag and pulls up the current price (and any special offers) as you shop. A. PSS B. POS C. inventory D. data mining Answer: A
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5. The ability to recover and read deleted or damaged files from a criminals computer is an example of a law enforcement specialty called: A. robotics. B. simulation. C. computer forensics. D. animation. Answer: C
6. Which of the following is NOT one of the four major data processing functions of a computer? A. gathering data B. processing data into information C. analyzing the data or information D. storing the data or information Answer: C
7. ____________ tags, when placed on an animal, can be used to record and track in a database all of the animals movements. A. POS B. RFID C. PPS D. GPS Answer: B
8. Surgeons can perform delicate operations by manipulating devices through computers instead of manually. This technology is known as: A. robotics. B. computer forensics. C. simulation. D. forecasting. Answer: A
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9. Technology no longer protected by copyright, available to everyone, is considered to be: A. proprietary. B. open. C. experimental. D. in the public domain. Answer: A
10. ____________ is the study of molecules and structures whose size ranges from 1 to 100 nanometers. A. Nanoscience B. Microelectrodes C. Computer forensics D. Artificial intelligence Answer: A 11. ____________ is the science that attempts to produce machines that display the same type of intelligence that humans do. A. Nanoscience B. Nanotechnology C. Simulation D. Artificial intelligence (AI) Answer: D
12. ____________ is data that has been organized or presented in a meaningful fashion. A. A process B. Software C. Storage D. Information Answer: D
13. The name for the way that computers manipulate data into information is called: A. programming.

B. processing. C. storing. D. organizing. Answer: B
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14. Computers gather data, which means that they allow users to ____________ data. A. present B. input C. output D. store Answer: B
15. After a picture has been taken with a digital camera and processed appropriately, the actual print of the picture is considered: A. data. B. output. C. input. D. the process. Answer: B
16. Computers use the ____________ language to process data. A. processing B. kilobyte C. binary D. representational Answer: C
17. Computers process data into information by working exclusively with: A. multimedia. B. words. C. characters. D. numbers.

Answer: D
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18. In the binary language each letter of the alphabet, each number and each special character is made up of a unique combination of: A. eight bytes. B. eight kilobytes. C. eight characters. D. eight bits. Answer: D
19. The term bit is short for: A. megabyte. B. binary language. C. binary digit. D. binary number. Answer: C
20. A string of eight 0s and 1s is called a: A. megabyte. B. byte. C. kilobyte. D. gigabyte. Answer: B
21. A ____________ is approximately one billion bytes. A. kilobyte B. bit C. gigabyte D. megabyte Answer: C
22. A ____________ is approximately a million bytes.

A. gigabyte B. kilobyte C. megabyte D. terabyte Answer: C
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23. ____________ is any part of the computer that you can physically touch. A. Hardware B. A device C. A peripheral D. An application Answer: A
24. The components that process data are located in the: A. input devices. B. output devices. C. system unit. D. storage component. Answer: C
25. All of the following are examples of input devices EXCEPT a: A. scanner. B. mouse. C. keyboard. D. printer. Answer: D
26. Which of the following is an example of an input device? A. scanner B. speaker C. CD D. printer

Answer: A
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27. All of the following are examples of storage devices EXCEPT: A. hard disk drives. B. printers. C. floppy disk drives. D. CD drives. Answer: B
28. The ____________, also called the brains of the computer, is responsible for processing data. A. motherboard B. memory C. RAM D. central processing unit (CPU) Answer: D
29. The CPU and memory are located on the: A. expansion board. B. motherboard. C. storage device. D. output device. Answer: B
30. Word processing, spreadsheet, and photo-editing are examples of: A. application software. B. system software. C. operating system software. D. platform software. Answer: A
31. ____________ is a set of computer programs used on a computer to help perform tasks.

A. An instruction B. Software C. Memory D. A processor Answer: B
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32. System software is the set of programs that enables your computers hardware devices and ____________ software to work together. A. management B. processing C. utility D. application Answer: D
33. The PC (personal computer) and the Apple Macintosh are examples of two different: A. platforms. B. applications. C. programs. D. storage devices. Answer: A
34. Apple Macintoshes (Macs) and PCs use different ____________ to process data and different operating systems. A. languagesz B. methods C. CPUs D. storage devices Answer: C
35. Servers are computers that provide resources to other computers connected to a: A. network. B. mainframe.

C. supercomputer. D. client. Answer: A
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36. Smaller and less expensive PC-based servers are replacing ____________ in many businesses. A. supercomputers B. clients C. laptops D. mainframes Answer: D
37. ____________ are specially designed computers that perform complex calculations extremely rapidly. A. Servers B. Supercomputers C. Laptops D. Mainframes Answer: B
38. DSL is an example of a(n) ____________ connection. A. network B. wireless C. slow D. broadband Answer: D
39. The difference between people with access to computers and the Internet and those without this access is known as the: A. digital divide. B. Internet divide. C. Web divide.

D. broadband divide. Answer: A
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40. ____________ is the science revolving around the use of nano structures to build devices on an extremely small scale. A. Nanotechnology B. Micro-technology C. Computer forensics D. Artificial intelligence Answer: A
41. Which of the following is the correct order of the four major functions of a computer? A. Process Output Input Storage B. Input Output Process Storage C. Process Storage Input Output D. Input Process Output Storage Answer: D
42. ____________ bits equal one byte. A. Eight B. Two C. One thousand D. One million Answer: A
43. The binary language consists of ____________ digit(s). A. 8 B. 2 C. 1,000 D. 1 Answer: B

44. A byte can hold one ____________ of data. A. bit B. binary digit C. character D. kilobyte Answer: C
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45. ____________ controls the way in which the computer system functions and provides a means by which users can interact with the computer. A. The platform B. The operating system C. Application software D. The motherboard Answer: B
46. The operating system is the most common type of ____________ software. A. communication B. application C. system D. word-processing software Answer: C
47. ____________ are specially designed computer chips that reside inside other devices, such as your car or your electronic thermostat. A. Servers B. Embedded computers C. Robotic computers D. Mainframes Answer: B
48. The steps and tasks needed to process data, such as responses to questions or clicking an icon, are called:

A. instructions. B. the operating system. C. application software. D. the system unit. Answer: A
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49. The two broad categories of software are: A. word processing and spreadsheet. B. transaction and application. C. Windows and Mac OS. D. system and application. Answer: D
50. The metal or plastic case that holds all the physical parts of the computer is the: A. system unit. B. CPU. C. mainframe. D. platform. Answer: A
Fill in the Blanks:
51. Between PCs and Macs, the ____________ is the platform of choice for graphic design and animation. Answer: Mac
52. The ____________ is the program that manages the hardware of the computer system, including the CPU, memory, storage devices, and input/output devices. Answer: operating system
53. The type of operating system software you use depends on your computerss ____________.

Answer: platform
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54. ____________software helps you carry out tasks, such as typing a document or creating a spreadsheet. Answer: Application
55. ____________are the fastest and most expensive computers. Answer: Supercomputers
56. A ____________ is approximately 1,000 bytes. Answer: kilobyte
57. Input devices are used to provide the steps and tasks the computer needs to process data, and these steps and tasks are called ____________. Answer: instructions
58. A computer gathers data, processes it, outputs the data or information, and ____________ the data or information. Answer: stores
59. The binary language consists of two digits: ____________ and ____________. Answer: 0 and 1
60. A string of ____________ 0s and 1s is called a byte. Answer: eight (8)
61. The devices you use to enter data into a computer system are known as ____________ devices. Answer: input
62. The devices on a computer system that let you see the processed information are known as ____________ devices.

Answer: output
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63. ____________ is the set of computer instructions or programs that enables the hardware to perform different tasks. Answer: Software
64. When you connect to the ____________, your computer is communicating with a server at your Internet service provider (ISP). Answer: Internet
65. ____________ are computers that excel at executing many different computer programs at the same time. Answer: Mainframes
66. ____________is the application of computer systems and techniques to gather legal evidence. Answer: Computer forensics
67. ____________ is the science that attempts to create machines that will emulate the human thought process. Answer: Artificial intelligence (AI)
68. Macintosh computers use the Macintosh operating system (Mac OS), whereas PCs generally run ____________ as an operating system. Answer: Microsoft Windows
69. A process known as ____________ tracks trends and allows retailers to respond to consumer buying patterns. Answer: data mining
70. Hard disk drives and CD drives are examples of ____________ devices. Answer: storage
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71. You would use ____________ software to create spreadsheets, type documents, and edit photos. Answer: application
72. ____________ are computers that support hundreds or thousands of users simultaneously. Answer: Mainframes
73. ____________ is the term given to the act of stealing someones identity and ruining their credit rating. Answer: Identity theft
74. Surgeons are using ____________ to guide robots to perform delicate surgery. Answer: computers
75. Patient ____________ are life-sized mannequins that have a pulse and a heartbeat and respond to procedures just like humans. Answer: simulators
True and False
76. Currently, the performance of tasks by robots is based on pre programmed algorithms. Answer: True
77. Data can be a number, a word, a picture, or a sound. Answer: True
78. Strictly defined, a computer is a data processing device. Answer: True
79. The discrepancy between the haves and have-nots with regard to

computer technology is commonly referred to as the digital society. Answer: False (digital divide)
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80. One of the benefits of becoming computer fluent is being a savvy computer user and consumer and knowing how to avoid viruses, the programs that pose threats to computer security. Answer: True
81. Trend-spotting programs, developed for business, have been used to predict criminal activity. Answer: True
82. Employers do not have the right to monitor e-mail and network traffic on employee systems used at work. Answer: False
83. Clicking on an icon with the mouse is a form of giving an instruction to the computer. Answer: True
84. Output devices store instructions or data that the CPU processes. Answer: False (memory)
85. The CPU and memory are located on a special circuit board in the system unit called the motherboard. Answer: True
86. Nanostructures represent the smallest human-made structures that can be built. Answer: True
87. The main difference between a supercomputer and a mainframe is that supercomputers are designed to execute a few programs as quickly as possible, whereas mainframes are designed to handle many programs running at the same time (but at a slower pace).

Answer: True
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88. Being computer fluent means that you should be able to build a computer yourself. Answer: False
89. Embedded computers are self-contained computer devices that have their own programming and do not receive input. Answer: True
90. A Web browser is a special device that is installed in your computer that allows it to communicate with other devices on a network. Answer: False (network adapter)
91. With a wireless network, it is easier to relocate devices. Answer: True
92. The most common type of memory that the computer uses to process data is ROM. Answer: False (RAM)
Matching:
93. Match the following terms with their approximate size: I. kilobyte A. one million bytes II. byte B. eight bits III. gigabyte C. one thousand bytes IV. megabyte D. one billion bytes V. terabyte E. one trillion bytes Answer: C, B, D, A, E
94. Match the following terms with their meanings: I. printer A. storage device II. scanner B. output device

III. RAM C. input device IV. CPU D. a type of memory V. CD drive E. processor Answer: B, C, D, E, A
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95. Match the following terms with their meanings: I. mainframe A. the most expensive computers that perform complex calculations extremely rapidly II. supercomputer B. a computer that provides resources to other computers connected to a network III. embedded computer C. a large, expensive computer that supports hundreds or thousands of users simultaneously IV. PDA D. a self-contained computer device that usually performs preprogrammed functions such as temperature control V. server E. a small mobile computing device Answer: C, A, D, E, B
96. Match the following terms with their meanings: I. software A. transforming data into information II. hardware B. data that has been organized or presented in a meaningful fashion III. operating system C. any part of the computer that you can physically touch IV. processing D. a set of computer programs that enables hardware to perform different tasks V. information E. the most common type of system software, it controls the way in which the computer system functions Answer: D, C, E, A, B
97. Match the following terms with their meanings: I. system software A. the set of programs that enables computer hardware devices and application software to work together II. application software B. the kind of operating system software you will use depends on this

III. platform C. operating system software generally used on PCs IV. Microsoft Windows D. a set of programs used to accomplish a specific task V. Mac OS E. operating system software used on the Apple Macintosh Answer: A, D, B, C, E
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98. Match the following terms with their meanings: I. data A. the main circuit board in the system unit II. memory B. the representation of a fact or idea (unprocessed information) III. output C. processed data or information IV. storage D. holds instructions or data that the CPU processes V. motherboard E. data or information that can be accessed again Answer: B, D, C, E, A
99. Match the following terms with their meanings: I. bit A. the science revolving around the use of nanostructures to build devices on an extremely small scale II. binary language B. the case that contains the system components III. instructions C. consists of 0s and 1s IV. system unit D. short for binary digit V. nanotechnology E. steps and tasks necessary to process data into usable information Answer: D, C, E, B, A
100. Match the following fields to the related computer technology: I. medicine A. Internet research and virtual tours II. business B. data mining III. law enforcement C. robotics and simulation IV. education D. computer forensics V. archeology E. digital recreations of ruins Answer: C, B, D, A, E
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IBPS RRB Assistant Exam GA Questions (29 Sept. 2013)

Morning Shift:
1. Human Rights Day -- 10 Dec 2. Dronacharya Award 2013 for Boxing -- Mahavir Singh 3. 40th Chief Justice of India -- P Sathasivam 4. Wimbledon 2013 Mens Singles winner -- Andy Murray 5. Barkeswar Thermal Project in -- West Bengal 6. Opposition Leader in Rajya Sabha -- Arun Jaitly 7. Chief of Air Staff -- N A K Browne 8. UNICEF Abbreviation -- United National Childrens Fund 9. Minister of Petrolium & Natural gas -- Veerappa Moily 10. President of Bangladesh -- Abdul Hamid 11. Kohima is the Capital of -- Nagaland 12. Export finance institution established to enhance the exports -- ECGC 13. Whole some Entertainment Movie 2012 in National Awards -- Vicky Donar 14. Nagarjuna Sagar Dam on which river -- Krishna 15. Abbreviation of ASEAN -- Association of southeast asian nations 16. Headquarters of IMF -- Washington DC 17. Viswanadan Anand associated with which sport -- Chess 18. Credit linked subsidy program Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme 19. Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire Book Written by -- JK Rowling 20. Manmohan Singh is MP of Rajya sabha From -- ASSAM 21. Brent Prices are Quoted for -- Crude Oil 22. Portugal Capital -- Lisbon 23. Konark Sun Temple in Which State -- Orissa 24. Lender of Last Resort -- RBI 25. Rajiv Khel Ratna awardee Ranjan Singh Sodhi associated with which sport -Shooting 26. Country Joined in EU on 1st July 2013 is -- Croatia 27. Usain Bolt is from Which Country -- Jamaica 28. In IBL , in a total of 6 teams one is Delhi , Two from the following are -- Pune andBangalore 29. Oscar 2013 best film is -- ARGO 30. Belgium Currency -- EURO

31. GDP Per Captia is Calculated by Dividing GDP with -- Citizens of the Coutry 32. Bharth Nirman asscociated with 6 objectives 5 are given find the 6th One 33. Russia President Vladmir Putin 34. % of PWD Beneficiaries of National Rural Livelihood Mission 3% 35. GODAAN novel written by --- Munshi Premchand 36. Sushil Kumar Solanki Related to Which sport Wrestling 37. Argentinas Assembly is known as National Congress 38. Dun & Bradstreet Award 2013 for Best private Sector Bank HDFC 39. 2009 Loksabha Election Number 15th 40. Which river Originating From Manasarovar - Brahmaputra
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Evening Shift :
1. UNCTAD Abbreviation -- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development 2. Midnight's children book written by -- Salman Rushide 3. Name of the Submarine recenlty exploded -- INS Sindhurakshak 4. Devdas Book written by -- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya 5. NREGA full form -- National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 6. % of Minorities covered by National Rural Livelihood Mission 7. Capital of Andaman and Nicobar -- Port Blair 8. Currency of South Korea -- won 9. President of Afghanistan -- Hamid karzai 10. Abhinav bindra related to which sport -- Shooting 11. Best Actor award in 85th oscar awards -- Daniel Day Lewis 12. Which film got more awards in Filmfare Awards -- Kahaani 13. Imp Functions of Bharat Nirman 14. Mary kom won medal in olympics for which sport? -- Boxing 15. HQ of IBS -- Basel,switzerland 16. Number of ASEAN Member Countires -- 10 17. Name of Bangladesh Parliament --Jatiya Sansad 18.Tehri dam constructed across which river -- Bhagirathi 19. 15th Loksabha Elections held in -- 2009 20. 2016 Summer olympics venue -- Brazil 21. Union Home affairs minister of india -- Sushil Kumar Shinde 22. Vice President of india -- Hamid Ansari 23. UN day celebrated on -- 24th october 24. Chief of Naval Staff -- Admiral D K joshi 25. 18th SAARC summit goind to held at -- Nepal 26. Leander Paes related to which sports -- Tennis 27. Dronacharya Award 2013 for Athletics -- K P Thomas 28. Dhyan Chand Award 2013 for lifetime achievement for hockey -- Syed Ali 29. Full form of CIS -- Commonwealth Independent States 30. Sanchi Stupas belonging to Lord Buddha and King Ashoka were found in
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india at -- Madhya Pradesh 31. Nationality of Yelena Isinbayeva - Russian32. capital Of Mauritius -- Port Louis 33. Planning Commission head 34. About SIDBI 35. Why Renjith Maheshwari recently in news -- given arjuna award in Athletics 3 more que of evening session 29 sep: Shared By:-Nikky Bahetra 36. Speaker of Lok sabha-Miera Kumar 37. Final goods manufactured in country in a specified period less depreciationNNP 38. HQ of International civil aviation organisation-Montreal,Canada
LAF - Liquidity Adjustment Facility LBD - Land Development Bank LBS - Locational Banking Statistics LCD - Liquid Crystal Display LERMS - Liberalised Exchange Rate Management System LIBOR - London Inter-Bank Offer Rate LIC - Life Insurance Corporation of India LOI - Letter of Intent LPA - Long Period Average LTO - Long Term Operation JCO - Junior Commissioner Officer JLG - Joint Liability Group JNNURM - Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission JP - Justices of Peace JPEG - Joint Photographic Expert Group JPP - Janata Parliamentary Party JSC - Joint Stock Company KCCs - Kisan Credit Cards KVIBs - Khadi and Village Industries Boards KVIC - Khadi and Village Industries Commission KYC - Know Your Customer IBRD - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBS - International Banking Statistics ICAC - International Cotton Advisory Committee ICAI - Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ICAR - Indian Council of Agricultural Research ICICI - Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India ICMR - Indian Council of Medical Research ICT - Information and Communication Technology IDB - India Development Bonds IDBI - Industrial Development Bank of India IDD - Industrial Development Department IFAD - International Fund for Agricultural Development IFC - International Finance Corporation IFC (W) - International Finance Corporation (Washington) IFCI - Industrial Finance Corporation of India IFR - Investment Fluctuation Reserve Account

IFS - International Financial Statistics IGLS - Iterative Generalized Least Squares IIBI - Industrial Investment Bank of India IIP - Index of Industrial Production IIP/InIP - International Investment Position ILO - International Labour Organisation IMD - India Millennium Deposits IMF - International Monetary Fund IN - India INR - Indian Rupee IOTT - Input-Output Transaction Table IP - Interest Payment IRBI - Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India ISDA - International Swaps and Derivative Association ISIC - International Standard Industrial Classification ISO - International Standards Organization ITRS - International Transaction Reporting System IWGEDS - International Working Group on External Debt Statistics HDFC - Housing Development Finance Corporation HFCs - Housing Finance Companies HFT - Held For Trading HICP - Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices HO - Head Office HR - Human Resources HRDD - Human Resources Development Department HRMS - Human Resources Management System HSUI - Housing Start Up Index HUDCO - Housing & Urban Development Corporation GDP - Gross Domestic Product GDR - Global Depository Receipt GFD - Gross Fiscal Deficit GFS - Government Finance Statistics GIC - General Insurance Corporation GLS - Generalized Least Squares GNIE - Government Not Included Elsewhere GoI - Government of India GPD - Gross Primary Deficit GRF - Guarantee Redemption Fund G-Sec - Government Securities GSDP - Gross State Domestic Product GST - Goods and Services Tax FAO - Food & Agriculture Organisation FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions FATF - Financial Action Task Force FBT - Fringe Benefit Tax FC - Financial Conglomerate FCAs - Foreign Currency Assets FCCB - Foreign Currency Convertible Bond FCI - Food Corporation of India FCNR(B) - Foreign Currency Non-Resident (Banks) FDI - Foreign Direct Investment FED - Foreign Exchange Department
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FEDAI - Foreign Exchange Dealers Association of India FEMA - Foreign Exchange Management Act FI - Financial Institutions FICCI - Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry FIEO - Federation of Indian Export Organisation FIIs - Foreign Institutional Investors FIPB - Foreign Investment Promotion Board FITL - Funded Interest Term Loan FIU-IND - Financial Intelligence Unit-India FLCCs - Financial Literacy and Credit Counseling Centres FMCG - Fast Moving Consumer Goods FMD - Financial Markets Department FOF - Flow of Funds FPS - Focus Product Scheme FRBM - Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management FRBs - Floating Rate Bonds FRL - Full Reservoir Level FRLs - Fiscal Responsibility Legislations FSB - Financial Stability Board FSF - Financial Stability Forum EACB - European Association of Co-operative Banks EBT - Electronic Benefit Transfer ECB - European Central Bank ECBs - External Commercial Borrowings ECGC - Export Credit Guarantee Corporation ECR - Export Credit Refinance ECS - Electronic Clearing Services EEA - Exchange Equalisation Account EEFC - Exchange Earners Foreign Currency EFT - Electronic Funds Transfer EMEs - Emerging Market Economies EOU - Export Oriented Unit EPCG - Export Promotion Capital Goods EPF - Employees Provident Fund ESOS - Employees Stock Option Scheme EU - European Union EXIM Bank - Export Import Bank DAD - Deposit Accounts Department DAP - District Agricultural Plan DAPM - Department of Administration and Personnel Management DBOD - Department of Banking Operations and Development DBS - Department of Banking Supervision DCC - District Consultative Committee DCCB - District Central Cooperative Bank DCM - Department of Currency Management DD - Demand Draft DEAP - Department of Economic Analysis and Policy DEBC - Department of Expenditure and Budgetary Control DEIO - Department of External Investments and Operations DEPB - Duty Entitlement Pass Book DGBA - Department of Government and Bank Accounts DGCI & S - Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics
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DI - Direct Investment DIC - District Industries Centre DICGC - Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation DIP - Disclosure and Investor Protection DIT - Department of Information Technology DMIS - Document Management Information System DNBS - Department of Non-Banking Supervision DOC - Department of Communication DoT - Department of Telecommunication DRG - Development Research Group DRI - Differential Rate of Interest DRT - Debt Recovery Tribunal DS - Difference Stationary DSB - Designated Settlement Banks DSIM - Department of Statistics and Information Management DvP - Delivery versus Payment CA - Concurrent Audit CAB - College of Agricultural Banking CACP - Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices CAD - Current Account Deficit CAMELS - Capital Adquacy, Asset Quality, Management, Earnings, Liquidity, Systems and Control CAS - Central Account Section CBDT - Central Board of Direct Taxes CBLO - Collateralised Borrowing and Lending Obligation CBS - Consolidated Banking Statistics CBS - Core Banking Solutions CC - Cubic Capacity CCB - Central Co-operative Bank CCC - Central Complaints Committee CCIL - Clearing Corporation of India Limited CCR - Counterfeit Currency Report CCRS - Currency Chest Reporting System CD - Certificate of Deposit C-D - Currency-Deposit CDBMS - Centralised Data Base Management System CDOs - Collateralised Debt Obligations CDR - Corporate Debt Restructuring CDS - Credit Default Swap CENVAT - Central Value Added Tax CFMS - Centralised Funds Management System CFSA - Committee on Financial Sector Assessment CFT - Combating Financing of Terrorism CGFTMSE - Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises CGRA - Currency & Gold Revaluation Account CIC - Central Information Commission CICs - Credit Information Companies CIS - Commonwealth of Independent States CMCPS - Compulsorily and Mandatorily Convertible Preference Shares CMIS - Currency Management Information System CoBoSAC - Corporate Bonds and Securitisation Advisory Committee CODs - Central Office Departments

CoR - Certificate of Registration CP - Commercial Paper CPADS - Centralised Public Accounts Department System CPC - Cheque Processing Centre CPDO - Centralised Public Debt Office CPFF - Commercial Paper Funding Facility CPI - Consumer Price Index CPI-AL - Consumer Price Index- Agricultural Labourers CPI-RL - Consumer Price Index- Rural Labourers CPI-IW - Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers CPIO - Central Public Information Officer CPIs - Consumer Price Indices CPMG - Corporate Performance Monitoring Group CPPC - Central Pension Payment Cell CPSEs - Central Public Sector Enterprises CR - Contingency Reserve CRAR - Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets Ratio CRCS - Central Registar of Co-operative Societies CRR - Cash Reserve Ratio CSAA - Control Self Assessment Audit CSD - Customer Services Department CSF - Consolidated Sinking Fund CSGL - Constituant Subsidiary General Ledger CSIR - Council of Scientific and Industrial Research CSO - Central Statistical Organisation CTR - Cash Transaction Receipt CTS - Cheque Truncation System CTS - Complaint Tracking System CVD - Countervailing Duty CVPS - Currency Verification and Processing System CWC - Central Water Commission BAFT - Bankers Association for Finance & Trade BC - Business Correspondent BCBS - Basel Committee on Banking Supervision BCP - Business Continuity Planning BCSBI - Banking Codes and Standards Board of India BE - Budget Estimates BF - Business Facilitator BFS - Board for Financial Supervision BFSI - Banking Financial Services and Insurance BHEL - Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited BIS - Bank for International Settlements BIS - Bureau of Indian Standards BMP - Basic Management Programme BOI - Bank of India BoP - Balance of Payments BPL - Below Poverty Line BPLR - Benchmark Prime Lending Rate BRBNMPL - Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited BSA - Bilateral Swap Arrangements BSE - Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai BSR - Basic Statistical Returns
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BTC - Bankers Training College ABCI - Association of Business Communicators of India ABCP - Asset Backed Commercial Paper ACU - Asian Clearing Union ADB - Asian Development Bank ADF - Augmented Dicky Fuller ADR - Asset Development Reserve ADRs - American Depository Receipts ADs - Authorised Dealers AERA - Airport Economic Regulatory Act AFI - Annual Financial Inspection AIFI - All India Financial Institution AIIMS - All India Institute of Medical Science AIMSCS - Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science ALM - Asset Liability Management AMA - Advanced Measurement Approach AMFI - Association of Mutual Funds in India AML - Anti-Money Laundering AMU - Asian Monetary Unit ANBC - Adjusted Net Bank Credit APS - Annual Policy Statement AS - Accounting Standard ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange ATM - Automated Teller Machine
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Daily Current Affairs : 2nd & 3rd October 2013

1. 109th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastricelebrated across the country. Several functions including symposia and discussions organised to mark the occassion. Leaders of different political parties paid floraltributes to the former Prime Minister at his memorial Vijayghat in Delhi.
2. The Centre given its approval for creation of a separate Telangana state from out of Andhra Pradesh and decided that Hydrabad will be the joint capital of the two states for 10 years. 3. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Wednesday sharply lowered its forecast on India's economic growth to 4.7 percent for this year from its earlier projection of 6 percent. 4. Government of India appointed on 2 October 2013 a four member committee headed by Arvind Mayaram, Economic Affairs Secretary setup to clear the ambiguity between Foreign Direct

Investment (FDI) and ForeignInstitutional Investment (FII). The committee will look into the difference between them and it will also give definition of FDI and FII.
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5. The International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation Among the Nations of the World has nominated President Putin as a candidate for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. 6. President Pranab Mukherji will meet the Prime Minister of Belgium Elio De Rupo in Brussles today. After the plenary meeting between the two leaders, delegation level talks will take place during which some agreements are likely to be signed betweenthe two countries. 7. Special CBI court in Ranchi has sentenced RJD Chief and former chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav to 5 years in jail in fodder scam case. The court also imposed a fine of 25 lakh rupees on him. The sentencing by special CBI judge Pravas Kumar Singh disqualifies Prasad from Parliament and renders him ineligible for contesting elections for 11 years. 8. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries India's biggest drug maker by market capital andUSA based Intrexon Corporation, a leading player in synthetic biology announced on 2 October 2013 to establish a joint venture to develop controllable gene-based therapies for the treatment of eye diseases. The joint venture will helpful for Sun Pharma's to increase their global capabilities and experience in developing and manufacturing complex dosage forms .It will also enhance their specialty pharmaceuticals for niche therapy areas. 9. The goverment today launched a unique project to put 100 most important Indian heritage sites online. The sites include theTaj Mahal, Khajuraho and the Ajanta and Ellora caves. An agreement to this effect was reached at between the Archaeological Survey of India and Google in New Delhi today in presence of Union Culture Minister Chandresh Kumari Katoch. 10. Meghalaya Government to provide all School and college classrooms with Wi-Fi connection to aid their learning process. The announcement was made by CM Mukul Sangma after distributing free tablet computers to 11,000 class XII students as a part of state governments Digital Learning Aid for Students scheme. 11. The book titled Haunted by Fire: Essays on Caste, Class, Exploitation and Emancipation authored by Mythily Sivaraman released in International Centre inNew Delhi on 1 October 2013. Mythili Sivaraman is a Women Rights Activist. She is currently one of the Vice Presidents of the All India Democratic Women's Association (Women's wing of Communist Party of India (Marxist)). 12. A multinational company plans to launch the worlds largest man-made lagoon costing a whopping $7 billion. Crystal Lagoons Corp., developer of patented technology for giant crystalline lagoons, has signed a deal to construct the lagoon, covering 40 hectares, almost four-times bigger than the worlds largest existing lagoon. 13. 3M Healthcare, the healthcare division of 3M India, has won the Sterilization Services Company of the Year award at the Frost & Sullivans fifth annual India Healthcare Excellence Awards 2013. These coveted Awards recognized innovativegrowth strategies and solutions adopted by top companies in the healthcare industry for 2012-13. 14. Yashasvini Cooperative Farmers Health Care Scheme, launched in Karnataka in June 2003, has successfully completed 10 years benefiting lakhs of farmers in co-operative sector. The Yashasvini Cooperative Farmers Health Care Trust was formed under the principle One for all and all for one has made healthcare affordable to farmers in co-operative sector. 15. Airtel is the only telecom company from India featuring on the list of top ten global brands admired most in Africa, according to a survey. Airtel was placed at ninth on the list, beating Japanese car manufacturer Honda, the survey conducted by the African Business Awards said. The list was headed by US-based Coca Cola, and dominated by other US and European brands, the only other Asian brands wereJapans Toyota and Samsung Electronics of Korea.

The full list is: 1. Coca ColaUS, 2. ShellNetherlands 3. SamsungSouth Korea 4. VodafoneUK 5. NikeUS 6. ToyotaJapan 7. McDonaldsUS 8. Pepsi ColaUS 9. AirtelIndia 10. HondaJapan.
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16. Tata Power today has commenced construction work for the first phase of its joint venture 400MW hydro power project in Georgia. The hydel project would be jointly developed by Tata Power along with Clean Energy Invest AS, Norway (Clean Energy) and IFC InfraVentures (IFC). 17. Private insurer SBI Life Insurance on Thursday launched Smart Power Insurance plan, which is designed to care for investors twin needs of insurance and investment. SBI Life Insurance is a joint venture between State Bank of India and BNP Paribas Cardif, the insurance arm of BNP Paribas. 18. The Gambian Government on 2 October 2013 announced that it is pulling out of the Commonwealth with immediate effect. Gambian, a West African country joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1965. The last country to be withdrawn from the Commonwealth group was Zimbabwe in 2003. 19. The BCCI awarded the title sponsorship for all international series and the domestic tournaments in India for the year 2013-14 to Star Private Ltd and ESPN at the base price of Rs. two crore per fixture, considerably low compared to their previous deal with Airtel. Sponsorship rights will extend to domestic events such as Irani Cup, Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy, Vijay Hazare, Deodhar Trophy and Raj Singh Dungarpur Trophy. 20. Former national table tennis champion Uttam Chandarana, who dominated the sport during 1940s and 50s, passed away in Mumbai on Wednesday morning due to old age, family sources said. Chandarana is remembered for defeating world champion Ivan Andreadis in 1954. 21. Balaji Motion Pictures, the film production unit of Balaji Telefilms, has acquired the film adaptation rights to the book, The Devotion of Suspect X. ii. Director Sujoy Ghosh, whose previous release was the Vidya Balan-starrer Kahaani, has been signed to direct the Hindi feature film. 22. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has again been named the world's top university by the Times Higher Education Global Ranking.
1. Name the person who headed the committee constituted by the Union Government of India to give clear definitions to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII) with an aim of removing the ambiguity from both types of foreign investments. a) Dr. K.C. Chakrabarty b) Arvind Mayaram c) Dr. Urjit R. Patel d) Y.H. Malegam Answer: (b) Arvind Mayaram
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2. What is the amount allotted to Gujarat from the Planning Commission of India under its annual plan 2013-14? a) 63000 crore rupees b) 54000 crore rupees c) 59000 crore rupees d) 45000 crore rupees Answer: (c) 59000 crore rupees 3. Name the latest case in which Supreme Court of India practiced the Scope of Article 21 (Right to Life and Personal Liberty)? a) Videocon case against three Ugandan citizens b) Maneka Gandhi vs. Union of India Case c) Gopalanachari vs. Administrator, State of Kerala d) Francis Coralie Mullin vs. Union Territory of Delhi Answer: (a) Videocon case against three Ugandan citizens 4. Name the person who has been appointed the head of the committee to Examine Indecent Representation of Women in Media Constituted? a) Bimal Jalan b) K Ratnaprabha c) JS Verma d) Acharya Kripalani Answer: (b) K Ratnaprabha 5. Government of India on 19 June 2013 announced a disaster relief fund of ___________ crore rupees to Uttarakhand. a) 1100 b) 1000 c) 700 d) 1500 Answer: (b) 1000 6. Indian Air Force (IAF) received its first of the ten Boeing C-17 Globemaster III Aircraft from United States on 18 June 2013. The first C-17 Globemaster landed at ____________ Airbase in India? a) Hindan Air Force Station Airbase b) Farkhor Air Force Station Airbase c) Palam Air Force Station Airbase d) Ambala Air Force Station Airbase Answer: (a) Hindan Air Force Station Airbase
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7. Name the state that made it mandatory to have an Aadhaar Card to withdraw salary from August for teaching and non-teaching staffs? a) Gujarat b) Uttar Pradesh c) Himachal Pradesh d) Maharashtra Answer: (d) Maharashtra 8. Name the writer of the book Ambedkar Speaks (Trilogy)? a) Dr. Rajendra Jadhav b) Dr. Narendra Jadhav c) Dr. Surendra Jadhav d) Dr. Vijendra Jadhav Answer: (b) Dr. Narendra Jadhav 9. Name the publisher of the book Ambedkar Speaks (Trilogy)? a) Shriti Publishers b) Konark Publishers c) Rupa Publishers d) Mills and Boons Answer: (b) Konark Publishers 10. SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India), the market regulator of India on 20 June 2013 notified guidelines for investment advisers and their associated person and made it compulsory for them to get the requisite certifications for them to operate in stock market. Name the body that will offer certifications for being an investment adviser? a) Institute of Securities Markets b) National Institute of Securities Markets c) National Institute of Securities d) National Securities Market Institute Answer: (b) National Institute of Securities Markets
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Daily Current Affairs : 23rd October 2013
1. India and China on Wednesday reached a comprehensive agreement to avoid border tensions and army face-offs along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) by deciding that neither side will use military capability to attack the other side nor tail patrols along the border. The Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA) was on Wednesday signed after extensive talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People.
2. Reserve Bank on said it has received USD 10.1 billion under two schemes which were announced last month to attract foreign funds. RBI had come out with the special measures to arrest declining value ofrupee , which was triggered by widening CAD, that touched a historic high of 4.8 per cent of GDP in 2012-13. Soon after taking over as RBI Governor on September 4, Raghuram Rajan announced the opening of a swap window facility to encourage banks to lure NRI funds. Under the facility, banks are permitted to swap fresh FCNR(B) dollar funds, mobilised for a minimum tenor of three years, at a fixed rate of 3.5 per cent per annum for the tenor of the deposit.
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3. Moscow, the Capital of Russia hosted the 14th India-Russia Annual Summit on 21 October 2013. Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin co-chaired the summit. During the summit both nations discussed priority areas of bilateral cooperation on current international and regional issues. Both nations emphasised their continued commitment to promote and strengthen their special and privileged strategic partnership. 4. GAIL India Ltd on signed an agreement for development of natural gas infrastructure and city gas network in Bihar. GAIL signed a Gas Cooperation Agreement (GCA) with the Department of Industries, Government of Bihar, the company said in a statement here. The agreement was signed in the presence of
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and GAIL Chairman and Managing Director B.C. Tripathi in Patna. GAIL is laying a 2,050 kilometre gas pipeline from Haldia in West Bengal to Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh, of which about 621 km will pass through 14 districts of Bihar.
5. Canara Bank signed a MoU with industry body CII to facilitate cheaper credit access to micro, small and medium enterprises. Under the MoU, Canara Bank shall extend a concessional credit of 50 basis points on the applicable card rate of interest to MSME units which are members of CII.
6. Bank Internasional Indonesia (BII) marked its re-entry into India after five years by opening a branch in Mumbai. The bank was operational in India from 1996 to 2008. In 2008, BII was bought over by Malaysia-based Maybank, which holds 88 per cent in BII. The foreign banks India operations became inactive after 2008. 7. India Post on 22 October 2013 released a commemorative postage stamp on the Golden Jubilee of Bhakra Dam. A two-inch stamp marking the 50th anniversary of Bhakra Dam was released in Nangal by Union minister of water resources Harish Rawat. The dam was dedicated to the nation by the then Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru on 22nd October in 1963. 8. The Finance Ministry decided to pump in Rs 2,000 crore in State Bank of India and Rs 1,800 crore each in IDBI Bank and Central Bank of India as part of the Rs 14,000 crore capital infusion plan for the current fiscal. 9. India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) expects India's GDP growth to remain sluggish at 4.9 per cent in the current financial year, due to a mix of domestic and external factors. 10. India will launch the first interplanetary probe, Mars Orbiter Spacecraft onboard the PSLV C-25 on the fifth of next month from Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota. The vehicle will lift off at 2.36 pm on that day. The mission is provided with communications and navigational support from NASA. The Mars orbiter will take around 300 days to reach the targetted mission after the scheduled launch.
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11. Lawrence R Klein, Nobel Prize winning economist died on 20 October 2013 in Gladwyne, near Philadelphia. He was 93 years old. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Then he joined the Penn faculty in 1958. He developed the statistical models there known as the Wharton Models which got him his Nobel Prize in 1980 in Economics.
12. Aung Suu Kyi on 23 October 2013 received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought at Strasbourg, France. She was choosen by the European Parliament in 1990. The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought announced by the European Parliament in 1990 when she was under house arrest. 13. Singer Noel Harrison has died at his home in Devon, aged 79 on 22 October 2013. He was the son of the actor Rex Harrison. He was best known for recording the hit song The Windmills Of Your Mind on The Thomas Crown Affair soundtrack. It won best song at the 1968 Oscars and was later covered by artists including Dusty Springfield. * The first Britisher to perform a space walk, who retired from NASA in the second week of August 2013- Colin Michael Foale Name of the largest blast furnace of India which was operationalised by SAIL on 10 August 2013- Durga Female tennis player to win The Rogers Cup 2013 and capture her 54th WTA singles title- Serena Williams Technology used by the researchers to find that autism affected the brains of males and females in a different way- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Name the captain of the 18-member hockey squad of India in the Asia Cup hockey tournament 2013- Sardar Singh Date on which International Lefthanders Day is celebrated across the world- 13 August Name of the First Twitter Hotel opened in Spain by the Melia brand of hotelsSocial Wave House
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Name of the oldest Penguin who on 12 August 2013 turned 36 years old- King Penguin Missy Body which proposed first season of the Indian Badminton League (IBL)Badminton Association of India (BAI) Name of the host country of 7th Asian Junior Wushu Championships- Philippines Name the fossil of the oldest known ancestor of modern rats recently unearthed in China- Rugosodon eurasiaticus Name of one of the most endangered bird species of the world that made a comeback in the US- Puerto Rican parrot
Some abbreviations..................
CAI: Computer Aided Instructuion CAM: Computer Aided Manufacturing CAR: Control Address Register CASE: Computer Aided Software Engineering CCIS: Common Channel Interoffice Signaling CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate CD: Compact Disc CD RW: Compact Disc ReWritable CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access CDROM: Compact Disc Read Only Memory CFG: Control Flow Graph CGI: Common Gateway Interface CGM: Computer Graphics Metafile
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CIDR: Classless InterDomain Routing CIM: Computer Integrated Manufacture CIX: Commercial Internet Exchange CLR: Common Language Runtime CMOS: Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor CMS: Content Management System CMYK: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black) COBOL: Common Business Oriented Language CORBA: Common Object Request Broker Architecture CPI: Clock Cycle Per Instruction CPU: Central Processing Unit CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check CRM: Customer Relationship Management CROM: Control Read Only Memory CRT: Cathode Ray Tube CUI: Character User Interface DAC: Digital To Analog Converter DAO: Data Access Objects DARPANET: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network DBA: Data Base Administrator

DBMS: Data Base Management System DCA: Defence Communication Agency DCL: Data Control Language DCOM: Distributed Component Object Model DCP: Data Communication Processor DDL: Data Definition Language DDOS: Distributed Denial Of Service DDP: Distributed Data Processing DFD: Data Flow Diagram DFS: Distributed File System DHCP: Dynamic Host Control Protocol
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DHTML: Dynamics Hyper Text Markup Language * The person who on 25 January 2013 became Czech Republics first directly elected President as per the Czech Republic Presidential election results-Milos Zeman The Bollywood superstar who topped the inaugural Forbes India Celebrity 100 list-Shahrukh Khan The renowned playback singer, who on 26 January 2013 refused to accept the prestigious Padma Bhushan-Sreeramamurthy Janaki The ballistic missile successfully test fired by India with a strike range of around 700 kilometres, from an underwater platform in Bay of Bengal-K15 The Kannada author who was shortlisted among other ten authors for prestigious International Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013-UR Ananthamurthy The major of Rashtriya Rifles who was selected for Kirti Chakra for his

extraordinary bravery efforts in counter- terrorist operations in J&K-Major Abup J Manjali The mastermind of 26/11 terror attack who was sentenced to 35 years of imprisonment by the U.S. Federal District Court Judge Harry LeinenweberDavid Coleman Headley
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The Islamic school of India which on 23 January 2013 demanded that the controversial writers should be banned from 6th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF)- Darul Uloom Deoband The two Scientists awarded with the prestigious Aryabhatta Award instituted by the Astronautical Society of India (ASI)- Dr. A.E. Muthunayagam and Dr. V.K. Saraswat The Chennai-born Scientist of Indian Origin and President of Micronutrient Initiative, Canada who was awarded with Canadas Highest Civilian Award the Order of Canada-Venkatesh Mannar The former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor who constituted the 14th Finance Commission under Union Government in January 2013-Yaga Venugopal Reddy The place at which the foundation stone of the state-of-the-art National Data Centre of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was laidManesar, Gurgaon in Haryana The first fast patrol vessel (FPV), launched by Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) on 8 January 2013 which was built for the Indian Coast Guard Aadesh The Special Bench of Justices of A.K. Patnaik and Gyan Sudha Misra to hear cases of crime against women was constituted by-Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir Keeping under consideration the sharp increase in the cost of materials, the Union Cabinet in January 2013 approved the Ministry of Rural Developments proposal to increase the unit cost under-Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) 1. As per latest Report by the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) which country is the largest consumer and producer of Chickpeas in the world? a) Australia

b) Myanmar c) Turkey d) India Answer: (d) India
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2. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on 9 May 2013 approved the proposal of the Ministry of Shipping for setting up of two major ports in the country. In which Indian state the two ports will be situated? a) West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh b) Himachal Pradesh and Goa c) Tamil Nadu and Kerala d) Gujarat and Meghalaya Answer: (a) West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh 3. What Percent of Equity sale was approved by Coal India Limited in an Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) on 10 May 2013? a) 13 Percent b) 12 Percent c) 10 Percent d) 16 Percent Answer: (c) 10 Percent 4. By what percentage Retail inflation declined in April 2013 because of reduction in prices of vegetables, edible oil and protein-based items as per the data released on 13 May 2013. a) 9.39 Percent b) 10.39 Percent c) 11.69 Percent d) 7.39 Percent Answer: (a) 9.39 Percent 5. By what percent the Indian exports grew in the month of April 2013 and stood at 24.16 billion US Dollar. a) 1.6 Percent b) 3.5 Percent c) 4.3 Percent d) 6.4 Percent Answer: (a) 1.6 Perc
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Important Daily Current Affairs : 22 October 2013 ----------------------------1. Russia has proposed that the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) members develop a strategy of multilateral economic cooperation. The BRICS countries together account for around 3 billion people, and a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of over $16 trillion. 2. Aung San Suu Kyi collected on Tuesday the EU democracy prize that had been awarded 23 years ago while she was under house arrest. Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmars Nobel Peace Prize laureate and long-time political prisoner, finally collects the European Unions 1990 Sakharov Prize for human rights 3. The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Projects first reactor was synchronised with the Southern regional electricity grid on Tuesday.The first 1,000megawatt (MWe) unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project was synchronised with the southern regional electricity grid in the early hours of Tuesday. 4. Jamaicas athletes, including sprint star Usain Bolt, could be banned from major events like the Olympics due to the islands handling of recent drug scandals, according to Tuesdays Daily Telegraph. 5. The worlds most wanted woman, Samantha Lewthwaite, dubbed the White Widow, wrote a poem telling of her love for Osama Bin Laden. She was present in Nairobi at the time of the attack by the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab. 6. US-based sports website has placed Indias prolific batsman Cheteshwar Pujara in its latest list of potentially good top ten investment options in sports. 7. India will launch its first interplanetary probe, Mars orbiter spacecraft, at 2.36pm on November 5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Isro said on Tuesday. 8. PM is in Beijing. India, China to sign landmark pact on border cooperation. 9. BlackBerry said that it has begun to roll out its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service to users of Android and iPhone devices. 10. Hurricane Raymond swirls off Mexico, hits Acapulco with more rain.
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1. Who was the one and only women, to serve as the Chief Election The Great Commissoner of India? a) Mahasweta Devi b) Pratibha Ray c) Qurratulain Hyder d) V.S. Ramadevi Answer: (d) V.S. Ramadevi 2. State Cabinet of which State ________________ recently on 16 April 2013 gave its not to grant 35 percent reservation to women in the recruitment of constables and sub-inspectors in reserved and unreserved categories of the state. a) Chhattisgarh b) Gujarat c) Bihar d) Kerela Answer: (c) Bihar 3. Name the writer who was recently selected for Jnanpith Award 2012 by the Jnanpith Award Committee. a) Pratibha Ray b) Amar Kant c) Sri Lal Sukla[6] d) Ravuri Bharadhwaja Answer: (d) Ravuri Bharadhwaja 4. The Vice-President of India recently paid a four day state-visit to a country from 14 to 17 April 2013. Name of the country of his visit? a) Nepal b) Tajikistan c) Burgundy d) Maldives Answer: (b) Tajikistan 5. The 20th meeting of Eastern Zonal Council, comprising of the States of West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand, was held on 17 April 2013 at ____________________? a) Ranchi b) Bhubaneshwar c) Patna d) Kolkata
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1. The Supreme Court of India on 19 May 2013 pronounced its decision on the two-finger test on a rape victim and directed the government to provide better medical procedures to confirm sexual assault. What is the reason cited by the Court to ban the two finger test? a) Because the test is medically unfit b) Because it impacts the health of the victim c) The test violates her right to privacy d) All the three reasons mentioned above were cited by the court Answer: (c) The test violates her right to privacy 2. The Election Commission of India and the National Literacy Mission Authority, Ministry of Human Resource Development, on 21 May 2013 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on _______________ in New Delhi? a) Electoral Literacy and Greater Participation for a Stronger and Inclusive Democracy b) Greater Participation for a Stronger and Inclusive Democracy only c) Electoral Literacy and Greater Participation for Democracy only d) Electoral Literacy and Inclusive Democracy only Answer: (a) Electoral Literacy and Greater Participation for a Stronger and Inclusive Democracy 3. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on 21 May 2013 relaxed the eligibility parameters for the _____________ with an expectation of reducing the neonatal and maternal mortality in young mothers. a) Janani Suraksha Yojana b) Janani-shishu Suraksha Yojna c) Sishu-Janani Suraksha Yojna d) Maa-Shishu Suraksha yojna Answer: (a) Janani Suraksha Yojana 4. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 23 May 2013 approved the proposal of Department of AIDS Control, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare for the implementation of National AIDS Control Support Project (NACSP) under the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP). The amount for this would be 2550 crore Rupees. The Government of India as well as the World Bank will finance the NACP in equal proportions. Which of the following statements about the benefits of project is/are false? I. Strengthening Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) and demand generation II. Intensifying and consolidating prevention services with a focus on highly vulnerable populations, high risk groups and bridge population

III. Institutional strengthening and financial management IV. The project would also help in controlling the spread of HIV infection in India as well as the countries in the sub-continent a) Statement I and IV are false b) Statement I and II are False c) Statement IV Is false d) Statement III is False Answer: (c) Statement IV is false
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5. The Union Government of India on 24 May 2013 announced that under the 12th Five Year Plan it will set up Institutes of Teacher Training at Block Level in __________ districts. The decision of the union Government will help in strengthening the teacher training capacity across the nation. a) 197 b) 196 c) 200 d) 176 Answer: (b) 196 >>> Member Countries - SAARC, ASEAN, OPEC <<< **************************************** ~> SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) - Headquarters - Kathmandu Member Country - Capital 1. Afghanistan--Kabul 2. Bangladesh---Dhaka 3. Bhutan---Thimphu 4. India---New Delhi 5. Maldives---Male 6. Nepal---Kathmandu 7. Pakistan---Islamabad 8. Sri Lanka---Colombo ~> ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) - Headquarters - Jakarta Member Country - Capital 1. Brunei Darussalam---Bandar Seri Begawan 2. Cambodia--Phnom Penh 3. Indonesia---Jakarta 4. Laos PDR---Vientiane 5. Malayasia---Kuala Lumpur

6. Myanmar---Naypyitaw 7. Phillipines---Manila 8. Singapore---Singapore 9. Thailand---Bangkok 10. Vietnam--Hanoi ~> OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) - Headquarters - Vienna Member Country - Capital 1. Algeria---Algiers 2. Angola---Luanda 3. Ecuador---Quito 4. Iran---Teheran 5. Iraq---Baghdad 6. Kuwait---Kuwait City 7. Libya---Tripoli 8. Nigeria---Abuja 9. Qatar---Doha 10. Saudi Arabia---Riyadh 11. U.A.E--- Abu Dhabi 12. Venezuala---Caracas >>> IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONS N ITS HEADQUARTERS <<< *********************************************** 1. UNO New York 2. UNICEF New York 3. UNESCO Paris 4. UNIDO Vienna 5. WHO Geneva 6. UNFPA New York 7. ILO Geneva 8. IMF Washington DC 9. WTO Geneva 10. International Court Of Justice The Hague 11. International Atomic Energy Agency Vienna 12. World Bank Washington D.C. 13. International Committee of the Red Cross - Geneva 14. International Maritime Organisation London 15. Universal Postal Union Berne 16. Food and Agricultural Organisation Rome
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17. World Meteorological Organisation Geneva 18. SAARC Kathmandu 19. Amnesty International London 20. Transparency International Berlin 21. World Intellectual Property Organization Geneva 22. International Renewable Energy Agency Abu Dhabi (UAE) 23. Commonwealth of Nations London 24. International Standards Organisation Geneva
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1. Right now, the screening of new banking license is________in progress. Who heads this overall? (a) RBI Governor (b) RBI Dy. Governor (c) Bimal Jalan (d) Finance Minister (e) None of these 2. Expand CCDs. It is a kind of debenture. (a) Compulsory Convertible Debentures (b) Complimentary Convertible Debentures (c) Complimentary & Closed Debentures (d) Cross Convertible Debentures (e) None of these 3. The trio, who won Nobel Prize 2013 for chemistry ______ (a) John B. Fenn, Frederic Joliot, and Michael Levitt (b) Michael Levitt, Martin Karplus, and Frederic Joliot (c) Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arien Warshel (d) Martin Karplus, Frederic Joliot and John B. Fenn (e) None of these 4. What is RTS, S? It was in news recently. (a) A Probe to be used with Chandrayan Solar mission (b) A malaria Vaccine (c) A Talking Robot (d) New Visa form for EU countries (e) None of these 5. Expand NRLM.
GENERAL AWERNESS STUDY METIRIAL (a) National Rural Livelihood Mission (b) National Rural Level Merchants (c) National Rural Level Monitors (d) National Rehabilitation & Logistics Mission (e) None of these 6. What is JENVAC?
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(a) It is the first vaccine to be manufactured in PPP (Public-Private Partnership) mode. (b) It is a vaccine to protect from Japanese Encephalitis. (c) It is a vero cell-derived purified inactivated JE vaccine. (d) All of above are correct. (e) None of above is correct.
1. C 3. C 5. A
Answers 2. A 4. B 6. D
7. As per a recent report released by World Bank, which country notched the top destination for global remittances? (a) China (b) India (c) Japan (d) Indonesia (e) Pakistan 8. Where will the Winter Olympics, 2014 take place? (a) Sochi (b) London (c) Vancouver (d) Falkland Island (e) None of these 9. Who won Japanese Grand Prix, recently?
GENERAL AWERNESS STUDY METIRIAL (a) Sebastian Vettel (b) Alonso (c) Raikkonen (d) Hamilton (e) None of these
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10. Eleanor Catton from New Zealand won Man Booker Prize, 2013 recently. She also happens to be the youngest one to win this prestigious prize. What is the name of that novel? (a) The lowland (b) The Good Road (c) The curve and Plain (d) The Luminaries (e) None of these 11. Who won EUs prestigious Sakharov human rights prize? (a) Neha Bajpeyi (b) Snowden (c) Malala Yousafzai (d) Jullain Assangie (e) None of these 12. In the first week of Oct this year, IMF in its economic outlook report pegged Indias economy growth rate at 4.25%, whereas World Bank estimated it at _____%, recently. (a) 4.0 (b) 4.2 (c) 4.4 (d) 4.7
7. B 9. A 11. C
Answers 8. A 10. D 12. D
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books and authors...............

1 Zool: The Final Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke 2 Zhivago,Dr. Boris Pasternak 3 Zlatas Diary-A Childs Zlata Filipovic Life in Sarajero 4 Zulfi, My Friend Piloo Mody 5 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto & Pakistan Rafi Raza >>> IMPORTANT HEADQUARTERS AT GENEVA <<< *************************************** WHO World Health Organization WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization WMO World Meteorological Organization ECE Economic Commission for Europe IBE International Bureau of Education ICC International Computing Centre ILO International Labour Organization ITC International Trade Centre ITU International Telecommunication Union JIU Joint Inspection Unit OCHA Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS UNHCHR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights UNHCR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNCC United Nations Compensation Commission UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNIDIR United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research UNITAR United Nations Institute for Training and Research NGLS United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service UNOPS United Nations Office for Project Services UNOSDP United Nations Office on Sport for Development & Peace UNFPA United Nations Population Fund UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in

the Near-East UNRISD United Nations Research Institute for Social Development CEB United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination UNV United Nations Volunteers Programme
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Daily Current Affairs : 24th October 2013
1. Today is the United Nations' Day. The day is celebrated to commemorate thelaunch of UN Charter in 1945. The theme of this year is partnerships for global progress.The UN is known for its important role in combating poverty and vaccinating about 58 per cent of the world's children.
2. World Polio Day is being observed today. The day is observed to raise public awareness of the ravages of polio and garner support for eradication efforts. Global eradication programmes, since 1988, have significantly reduced the worldwide occurrence of polio by 99%. Polio is a disease which had plagued many nation. 3. A Bihar woman health official is set to share stage with Malala
Yousufzai. Martha Dodray, in her mid-40s, is an auxiliary nursing midwife posted at Kusheshwarsthan primary health centre in the state's Darbhanga district. She was selected by the United Nations Foundation (UNF) for her extraordinary work to eradicate polio.
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4. The Reserve Bank of India has constituted a GIRO Advisory Group (GAG) to implement a national Indian Bill Payment System so that households will be able to use bank accounts to pay school fees, utilities, medical bills and make remittances electronically. 5. The Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) and YES Bank on Wednesday entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore avenues for mutually beneficial knowledge sharing in food processing and agricultural sectors. According to the MoU, Austrade and YES Bank have agreed to jointly organise workshops across India to create awareness about Australian capabilities in the food and agri-business sectors. 6. A CBI court here yesterday sentenced former Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Bank M Gopalakrishnan and four others to one year imprisonment for defrauding various branches of the bank to the tune of about Rs 6.5 crore. 7. Internet giant Google has emerged as the worlds best multinational company to work for, followed by software developer SAS Institute and network storage provider NetApp in the second and third place, respectively. 8. Manna Dey, the legendary singer died on 23 October 2013 in Bangalore hospital. He was 94 years old. He was treated for respiratory illness died of cardiac arrest. He is survived by his daughters Shuroma and Sumita. He was born in the year 1919. His original name was Prabodh Chandra Dey but he was nicknamed Manna. 9. Delhi Electoral Office launched a theme campaign- Dil Mein Hai Dilli Vote Karenge for the upcoming Delhi Assembly Elections with a view to motivate people to exercise their franchise. Launching the theme at a function in the national capital, Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi, Vijay Deo said, the objective behind it to ensure maximum turnout during election. 10. Actor Ranbir Kapoor named as the brand ambassador for Philips, the country's leading lighting company.
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11. The Supreme Court on Thursday awarded Rs 5.96 crore as compensation to be paid by Kolkata-based AMRI Hospital and three doctors to a US-based Indianorigin doctor for medical negligence which led to the death of his wife in 1998. 12. Market regulator Sebi has disqualified Cals Refineries from issuing equity shares and any other security for a further eight years, as the company was found guilty in a case involving irregularities in issuance of Global Depository Receipts (GDRs). 13. The US comedian Carol Burnett was on 20 October 2013 honoured with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Three artists- Dame Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett and Tina Fey performed specifically in the honour of Carol Burnett at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. she also acted on Broadway and appeared on The Garry Moore Show. The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is the foremost award for humour in America. It was first awarded in the year 1988 by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 14. India's retiring batsman Sachin Tendulkar has been named in the Wisden alltime World Test XI. Tendulkar was named at number four spot in the team announced to mark 150 years of the Cricketers' Almanac in London. The team captained by legendary Australian batsman Don Bradman has four Englishmen, three West Indians, two Australians, one Indian and a Pakistani. 15. The Sports Ministry and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) have launched 'India Sports 2014' at the 5th Global Sports Summit to promote sports among youth in the country. The event will be an umbrella programme, focusing on all aspects of sports and will bring the entire sports fraternity on one platform.
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Computer Quiz 107

1. Which language is CPU dependent? (a) C (b) Assembly (c) Java (d) All except Java (e) None of the above 2. How many bits use to be in ASCII code? (a) 16 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 8 (e) None of these 3. The _______ number system on which the modern computer works (a) Decimal (b) Octal (c) Binary (d) Hexadecimal (e) None of these 4. ______ language is used for the development of games. (a) C + + (b) C (c) Java (d) SQL (e) None of these 5. A terabyte comprises (a) 1024 gigabytes (b) 1024 kilobytes (c) 2048 gigabytes
GENERAL AWERNESS STUDY METIRIAL (d) 1024 megabytes (e) None of these 6. UNIVAC is an example of (a) Second generation computer (b) First generation computer (c) Third generation computer (d) Fourth generation computer (e) Fifth generation computer 7. Which is the called the administrative section of the computer? (a) Control unit (b) ALU (c) Memory unit (d) All of above together (e) CPU 8. CD-Rom is a kind of (a) Optical disk (b) Magnetic disk (c) Magnetic-optical disk (d) Optical erasable disk (e) None of these
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9. ______ language is a set of rules for telling a computer what operation to perform. (a) Command (b) Programming (c) Structural (d) Procedural (e) None of these 10. FPI stands for (a) Frames per inch (b) Figures per inch (c) Films per inch (d) Frequency per inch (e) None of these
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1. D 3. C 5. A 7. E 9. B
Answers 2. D 4. A 6. B 8. B 10. A
Important Current Affairs (14 Oct.-20 Oct. 2013):

14 October 2013 Fourth India-US economic and financial partnership meeting held. Syria joined UN Chemical Weapons Convention. Sixth India- Brazil joint commission meeting held. Global Hunger Index Report 2013: India ranked at 63rd position. Rafael Nadal topped the ATP ranking. 15 October 2013 India and Finland signed an agreement to produce clean technology. Eleanor Catton, 28, became youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013. Hilary Clinton got the First Founders Award for helping AIDS victims. Novak Djokovic defeated Juan Del Potro to win Shanghai Masters 2013. 16 October 2013 Iran and P5+1 Group agreed to hold talks on Irans nuclear programme. NASA scientists discovered planets with the shortest ever orbit. The Wankhede Stadium to host Sachin Tendulkar's landmark 200th and final test. World Food Day observed every year on 16 October. Powerful Typhoon Wipha caused destruction in Japan. Sigrid Kaag appointed as the head of Joint OPCW-UN Mission in Syria. Malala Yousafzai to be granted Honorary Canadian Citizenship. Brazilian football legend Pele launched a book titled 1283.
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Conservation international scientific expedition discovered 60 new species in Suriname. Liverpool launched Football Academy in India. Virat Kohli: Indias fastest ODI century scorer. 17 October 2013 India and Hungary signed MoU for promotion of traditional systems of medicine. Thirty-Four election observers from European Union election observation deployed in Nepal. Greg du Toit was named Wildlife Photographer of the year 2013. International Day for the Eradication of Poverty observed on 17 October. Exhibition on development of the Hungarian cultural roots inaugurated at NGMA. Global Slavery Index 2013 estimated 30 million people in the world affected by slavery. Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban visited India. New species of Giant Amazon Fish discovered in Brazil. British scientists solved the mystery of legendary Himalayan Yeti. Outdoor air pollution a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths: IARC. US scientists developed new blood test to detect gastrointestinal disorders. 18 October 2013 Saudi Arabia turned down UN Security Council seat. NASA discovered first known tilted planetary system. Chinese scientists developed Li-Fi technology; Internet through lightbulbs. Ding Junhui won Indian Open Snooker Title 2013. 19 October 2013 US agreed on a deal with Romania to use its air base for Afghan pullout. Scientists discovered new species of Dragon Tree in Thailand. Brain makes use of sleep to drain waste toxins: Research.

20 October 2013 World Osteoporosis Day was celebrated. Jorge Lorenzo won Australian Grand Prix 2013. Jovanka Broz, widow of Josip Broz Tito, died at 88. Dipika Pallikal won Macau Open Squash Title 2013. Important Current Affairs (07 Oct. -13 Oct. 2013)
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7 October 2013 Supreme Court of the Maldives annulled first round of voting in Presidential Election. Bangladesh Cabinet ratified extradition treaty with India. India and Turkey agreed to resolve terrorism. India and Japan signed MoU for feasibility study of high speed railway system. Ethiopia Parliament elected Mulatu Teshome as new president. 8 October 2013 AIAI and FPCCI signed MoU for promotion of Indo-Pak trade. Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid concluded two day visit to Sri Lanka. Turkey lifted a ban on women wearing the Islamic head scarf. 9 October 2013 Michael Levitt, Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013. India and Japan signed MoU to study Mumbai-Ahmedabad Rail Route. Janet Yellen nominated as Head of US Federal Reserve Board. Queen's baton relay launched at the Buckingham Palace, London. Government of Pakistan decided to appoint Syed Ibne Abbas as envoy to India. Samsung unveils first curved screen smartphone of the world called Galaxy Round. Wilfried Martens, nine-time Prime Minister of Belgium died at 77.
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10 October 2013 China passed USA as biggest oil importer in September 2013. India signed MoUs with seven countries for Nalanda University Project. Malala Yousafzai won European Union's Sakharov Human Rights Prize 2013. World Mental Health Day observed on 10 October. Alice Munro, the Canadian writer, won Nobel Prize 2013 in literature. Cyclonic Storm Phailin hit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan abducted by gunmen. Sachin Tendulkar announced retirement from Test Cricket. China and EU signed a Bilateral Currency Swap Agreement. Varun Arora won UN Award for 'Open Curriculum' Web Platform. 11 October 2013 India and Indonesia signed six MoUs to strengthen cooperation. International Day of the Girl Child observed on 11 October. OPCW won 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. India and Indonesia signed six MoUs to strengthen cooperation. 12 October 2013 Syria disarmament plan approved by UN Security Council. World Arthritis Day observed on 12 October. Sanam Singh and Vijayant Malik won the ITF Doubles Title 2013. Syria disarmament plan approved by UN Security Council. Satyavrat won the 9th Roustam E-International Indian Style Wrestling Title. 13 October 2013 Ireland set to exit international bail-out programme. Typhoon Nari created havoc in Philippines. Ireland set to exit international bail-out programme.

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