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GK CAPSULE FOR SBI PO 2014 Exam
Current RBI Policy & Reserve Rates:
Repo Rate 8% (Unchanged)
Reverse Repo 7% (Unchanged)
CRR 4% (Unchanged)
SLR 23% (Unchanged)
MSF 9% (Unchanged)
Bank Rate 9% (Unchanged)
Note: As on 1 April 2014, RBI (Reserve Bank of India) in its first bimonthly monetary policy statement kept the key policy rate (repo)
unchanged.
About Policy Rates
1. Basis points: It is the increase in interest rates in percentage terms. For instance, if the interest rate increases by 50 basis points
(bsp), then it means that interest rate has been increase by 50%. One percentage point is broken down into 100 basis points.
Therefore, an increase from 2% to 3% is an increase of one percentage point or 100 basis points.
2. CRR: Cash reserve Ratio (CRR) is the amount of funds that the banks have to keep with RBI. If RBI decides to increase the
percent of this, the available amount with the banks comes down. RBI is using this method (increase of CRR rate), to drain out
the excessive money from the banks. The current rate is 4%, which means for a cash deposit of Rs. 100, the bank has to park 4
rupee with the central bank.
3. Repo rate: Repo rate is the policy rate and is part of RBIs Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF). It is the rate at which commercial
banks borrow from the RBI by selling their securities or financial assets to the RBI for a shortperiod of time. It comes with an
agreement that the sold securities will be repurchased by the commercial banks from the RBI at a future date at predetermined
price. The repo rate is used by the central bank to increase liquidity in the system.
4. Reverse repo rate: Reverse Repo Rate is also a part of LAF. It is the rate of interest at which the central bank borrows funds
from other banks for a short duration. The banks deposit their short term excess funds with the central bank and earn interest
on it. This rate is used by the central bank to absorb liquidity from the economy. Generally it is one percentage less than the Repo
rate.
5. Bank rate: The only way the bank rate is different from the repo rate is that the bank rate is the rate at which banks borrow
money from the central bank without any sale of securities. It is generally for a longer period of time
6. Marginal Standing Facility: The Reserve Bank of India in its monetary policy for 201112 introduced the marginal standing
facility under which banks could borrow funds from RBI when there is a considerable shortfall of liquidity. This measure has
been introduced by RBI to regulate shortterm asset liability mismatches more effectively. Under this facility, banks can borrow
up to 1% of their net demand.
This GK Capsule has been prepared by Career Power Institute Delhi (Formerly Known as Bank Power). This
document consists of all important news and events of last few months which can come in SBI PO Exam.
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7. Liquidity Adjustment Facility: Under this facility, banks borrow from the central bank by pledging government securities.
8. Statutory Liquidity Ratio: This is the percentage of deposits that banks must mandatorily hold in the form of government
bonds. SLR bonds are liquid assets that can be sold at a short notice to meet any unexpected demand from depositors.
News related to RBI:
1. RBI, has decided that Indian companies will not be permitted to
raise External Commercial Borrowings from overseas branches or
subsidiaries of Indian banks for refinance or repayment of the
Rupee loans raised from domestic banking system.
2. Raghuram Rajan, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
announced that plastic currency notes will be launched in 2015
after field trials.
3. RBI panel headed by exChairman of Axis Bank, P. J. Nayak
recommend for diluting govt stake in public sector banks to below
50 %. The government should cut its holding in public sector
banks to under 50 per cent, a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) panel
report on Tuesday said, criticising the way in which the lenders
are now being governed.
4. Reserve Bank of India granted banking licences to infrastructure
financing firm IDFC and microfinance institution Bandhan
from among 25 applicants that included corporate heavyweights
ADAG Group, Aditya Birla Group and Bajaj Group.
Note: The inprinciple approval granted (to the two entities) will
be valid for a period of 18 months during which the applicants
have to comply with the requirements under the guidelines and
fulfil the other conditions as may be stipulated by the RBI.
Chandra Shekhar Ghosh: CMD of Bandhan financial services
Dr. Rajiv B. Lall: Chairman of IDFC Infrastructure Finance
Company.
5. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued the guidelines to allow the
minors of age above 10 years to independently open and operate
savings bank accounts and use other facilities like ATM and
cheque books.
6. RBI extended the timeline for full implementation of Basel III
norms 31 March 2019 instead of 31 March 2018.
7. RBI in consultation with Union Government on 1 April 2014
capped the Ways and Means Advances (WMA) limits for the first half of the new financial year 201415 (April 2014Sep 2014) at
35000 crore rupees.
Note: The interest rate on WMA/overdraft will be based on: a) WMA: Repo Rate. b) Overdraft: Two percent above the Repo
Rate
8. RBI extends date of exchanging pre2005 notes to Jan 1, 2015
Note: The Reserve Bank has further clarified that the public can continue to freely use these notes for any transaction. RBI has
said that people can unhesitatingly receive these notes in payment, as all such notes continue to remain legal tender.
9. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hiked the trade related remittance limit from 2 lakh rupees to 5 lakh rupees per transaction with
immediate effect. It also increased the number of transaction handled by exchange houses.
10. KC Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, has quit three months ahead of completion of his term.
11. RBI pegged 201415 GDP growth at a central estimate of 5.5 percent.
12. Economic growth for 201415 expected at 5.5 pc.
13. CAD expected to come down to 2 pc of GDP in 201415.
14. Retail inflation expected to be under 6 pc in 2014.
15. RBI panel headed by RBI Deputy Governor Anand Sinha has recommended bringing a benchmark floating interest rate,
especially for home loans. Panel also suggested Indian Banks Base Rate (IBBR).
16. The deadline for switching to new format bank cheques under the Cheque Truncation System (CTS) ended on 30 April 2014.
17. RBI scraps 26% cap on interest rate for MFIs: (RBI) removed 26 per cent cap on the interest rate that can be charged by a
microfinance company to its borrowers. MFI is allowed to charge interest rate equal to 2.75 times the average of the base rates of
the top five commercial banks.
18. RBI permits 4 nonbank entities to set up white label ATMs: The Reserve Bank has issued certificate of authorisation to four
nonbank entities:
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FDI Limits
Sr no. List of Limits in Various Sectors (In %)
1. Defence 26
2. Pension 49
3. Insurance 49
4. Print Media 26
5. Civil Aviation 49
6. Public Sec. Banks 20
7. Private Sec. Banks 74
8. Multi Brand 51
9. Single Brand 100
10. Tourism 100
India GDP Forecast:
RBI pegged 201415 GDP growth at a central estimate of 5.5 %
World Bank lowers Indias GDP growth forecast for 201415 at 5.7 %
ADB pegs India GDP growth rate for 201415 at 5.5 %
IMF projected GDP growth for India in 201415 at 5.4 %
India ranking in different Indexes for 2013 14:
1. Global Environment Performance Index 2014 155
2. Intellectual property (IP) environment 2014 25 (US ranked on the top followed by UK and France)
3. World Press Freedom Index 2014 140 in the list of 180 countriess
4. Nuclear material security index 2014 23rd out of 25 countries
5. World's best countries for doing business 2014 98
th
(Ireland topped the list).
6. Social Progress Index 2014: 102 out of 132
7. Global Hunger Index 2013 63
8. World Prosperity Index 2013 106. Norway tops the list.
9. Global Gender Gap Report 2013 101. Iceland tops the list.
10. Global Peace Index 2013 141
11. Human Development Report 2013 136
12. Global Corruption Index 2013 94
13. Global Competitiveness Index 2013 60 for 2013 (Switzerland top in this report)
14. Gender Inequality Index 2013 132
nd
(UN Human Development (Index) Report)
Some Important Economic Terms:
1. Bond: A certificate of debt (usually interestbearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to
raise money; the bond issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal.
2. Balance sheet: Record of the financial situation of an institution on a particular date by listing its assets and the claims against
those assets.
3. Balance of trade The part of a nation's balance of payments that deals with merchandise (or visible) imports or exports.
4. Closed economy: A closed economy is one in which there are no foreign trade transactions or any other form of economic
contacts with the rest of the world.
5. Deflation: Deflation is the continuous decrease in prices of goods and services. Deflation occurs when the inflation rate becomes
negative (below zero) and stays there for a longer period.
6. Debenture: Debenture is a loan issued by a firm, involving g a fixed repayment schedule, in terms of both time and interest.
7. Debit: Money paid out from an account either from a withdrawal or a transaction that result in decreasing the cash balance.
8. Equity: Equity is a one financial instrument by which company invite the public to invest their money in the company and
investor can become a partner of the company. Generally, when the company have insufficient money to expand its business it
comes with equity shares.
9. Economic growth An increase in the total output of a nation over time. Economic growth is usually measured as the annual
rate of increase in a nation's real GDP
10. Excise Tax Taxes imposed on specific goods and services, such as cigarettes and gasoline.
11. Exports Goods or services produced in one nation but sold to buyers in another nation.
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12. Fiscal policy: Fiscal policy defines the use of government spending and revenue collection to influence the economy.
13. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): Investment of foreign assets directly into a domestic company's structures, equipment, and
organizations. It does not include foreign investment into the stock markets
14. Foreign Exchange (FOREX): Foreign Exchange (FOREX) is the arena where a nation's currency is exchanged for that of
another.
15. GDP: GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product. It is a method of measuring the size of economy of a country. We can define as the
total market value of all the goods and services produced in a given period of time in a country.
16. GNP: The total value in money of all finished good and services produced in an economy in one full year, and all net property
income from abroad. The GNP growth rate is an important economic indicator for countrys economic development.
17. Imports: commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country.
18. Inflation: Inflation is as an increase in the price of bunch of Goods and services that projects the Indian economy. An increase in
inflation figures occurs when there is more demand and less supply of the goods.
19. Mutual Fund: There are accumulation and collection of many different types of shares. It is when investors together want to buy
securities as a group, this fund can be called a mutual fund. Each and every investor of this group has a proportional stake in the
shares based on the amount he has contributed.
20. Monetary policy: It is the process by which the central bank, or monetary authority of a country controls (i) the supply of
money, (ii) availability of money, and (iii) cost of money or rate of interest.
21. National income The amount of aggregate income earned by suppliers of resources employed to produce GNP; net national
product plus government subsidies minus indirect business taxes.
22. Per Capita Income: The total national income divided by the number of people in the nation, It means the share of each
individual when the income from the productive activities is divided equally among the citizens.
23. Sales tax Taxes paid on the goods and services people buy.
24. Stock A certificate reflecting ownership of a corporation.
25. Tax: A fee charged by a government on a product, income, or activity. If tax is levied directly on personal or corporate income,
then it is a direct tax. If tax is levied on the price of a good or service, then it is called an indirect tax.
26. VAT: VAT is the indirect tax on the consumption of the goods, paid by its original producers upon the change in goods or upon
the transfer of the goods to its ultimate consumers. It is based on the value of the goods, added by the transferor. It is the tax in
relation to the difference of the value added by the transferor and not just a profit. All over the world, VAT is payable on the
goods and services as they form a part of national GDP.
27. Wholesale Price Index (WPI): The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) takes into account the wholesale prices of identified
commodities for calculating rate of inflation.
Important Committees in News:
1. PJ Nayak: to review Governance of Boards of Banks in India. The committee was constituted under the chairmanship of P. J.
Nayak. He is a former Chairman and CEO of Axis Bank.
2. M P Bezbaruah: to suggest suitable remedial measures to address concerns regarding security of people from North East.
3. B. Sambamurthy: panel favours single mobile banking app on all SIMs. Panel recommended that customers should not be
required to visit the bank branch for mobile number registration.
4. BCCI suggests threeman committee to SC to probe IPL scandal. Ravi Shastri, former Calcutta High Court Chief Justice J N
Patel and exCBI Director R K Raghavan as members of the probe committee.
5. Vijay Kelkar Committee was appointed by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry to prepare a road map to make India self
sufficient in oil and natural gas by 2030.
6. Vishnu Sahay committee: look probe into the Muzaffarnagar communal violence.
7. Urjit Patel Committee to examine the current monetary policy framework
8. Mukul Mudgal member panel to probe IPL spotfixing
9. Nachiket Mor committee on comprehensive financial services for small businesses and lowincome households.
10. Justice A.P. Shah committee : to head panel on road safety
11. Anil Kaushal committee: to examine the recommendations made by the TRAI on pricing of Spectrum.
12. Bimal Jalan panel : to scrutinize applications for new bank licenses.
13. Parthasarathi Shome. for Tax Administration Reform Commission (TARC), Suggest a system to enforce better tax compliance
14. Kirit Parikh panel : on fuel pricing has suggested that the diesel prices should be increased by Rs 11.50 a litre every month as
against the 4550 paise monthly hike followed currently.
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15. K U.B. Rao : the idea of setting up Bullion Bank or Bullion Corporation of India
16. C Rangarajan Panel recommended the pricing of natural gas by a
complex methodology of arriving at an average of International gas
hub prices.
17. Arvind Mayaram Panel: report on the alleged irregularities at the
National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL)
18. Arvind Mayaram Committee for giving clear definitions to Foreign
Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment
(FII)
19. Suma Verma Committee to update, and revise the Banking
Ombudsman Scheme, 2006
20. Damodran Committee: on improvement of customer services in
banks
21. Shri M. Narasimham Committee: on Banking Sector Reforms
22. Shri Raghuram Rajan Committee: on Financial Sector Reforms,
23. Shri B. Mahapatra Committee: to review the existing prudential
guidelines on restructuring of advances by banks/financial
institutions
24. Shri Aditya Puri Committee: Dissemination of Credit Information
25. Shri K.U.B. Rao Committee: recommended aligning gold import
regulations
26. K M Chandrasekhar committee : for rationalization of foreign
investment norms
27. Shri Pulak Kumar Sinha Committee: to study the feasibility of
Aadhaar as an additional factor for authentication of card present
transactions
28. Mukul Mudgal Committee: looking into US giant Walmart's lobbying
activities to enter India
29. MBN Rao Committee: to prepare the blueprint of Indias first
womens bank
30. JS Mathur committee : to revise Newspaper Advertisement Rates.
31. K. Ratna Prabha : Committee on indecent depiction of women in
media
News Related to Banking & Finance
1. India recently launched its own payment gateway 'RuPay', equivalent of Visa and Mastercard, which will work on ATMs and
merchant outlets and help in reducing cash transactions.
Note: i. RuPay, which works on three channels ATMs, Point of Sales (POS) and online sales, is the seventh such payment
gateway in the world.
ii. The RuPay platform developed by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is being used by certain banks like ICICI,
State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, among others, for clearing and settlement.
2. India became thirdlargest economy in 2011 from 10th in 2005: World Bank.
3. Note: India emerged as the worlds thirdlargest economy in 2011 from being the 10th largest in 2005, moving ahead of Japan,
while the US remained the largest economy closely followed by China, latest figures have revealed.
4. Govt accepts Sahoo panel report on review of depository receipts scheme. The key recommendations of the committee include
allowing issuance of depository receipts against any underlying securities equity or debt, by any issuer listed or unlisted.
Note: Depository receipts are receipts denominated in foreign currency created by a depository in the country of listing. There
are two popular types of depository receipts global depository receipts and American depository receipts.
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5. ING Vysya Life Insurance Company Ltd has become Exide Life Insurance Company. The insurance company will continue to
honour its commitments and obligations under the insurance policies issued to customers in the name of ING Vysya Insurance
Company Ltd.
6. Switzerland and Norway are the world's most expensive economies, followed by Bermuda, Australia and Denmark, according to
a new ranking by the World Bank
7. SBI launches 3 Digital banking facilities for its customers
i. Tab Banking for Saving A/C Opening Savings a/c at Customers door step using tablet PC provided to the Banks Sales Staff (who visit the Customers
home).
ii. TAB Banking for Home Loan Inprinciple approval for the home loan at customers door step using tablet PC provided to the Banks Home Loan Sales
Team which will capture on the tablet KYC details and details.
iii. eKYC Generates eKYC (Know Your Customer) identity document.
8. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) launched an Institutional Trading Platform (ITP) to help Small and Medium Enterprises
(SMEs) and startup companies to list on the bourses without an Initial Public Offer (IPO).
9. Basel Committee issued Final standards to curb exposures of banks to customers. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
on 15 April 2014 issued Final standards for measuring and controlling large exposures of banks to customers. These standards
will take effect from 1 January 2019
10. Bank of India (BOI) has become the first Indian bank to extend a bridge loan of $200 million to Air India to finance the
purchase of two Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
11. India leads global remittances with USD 70 bn in 2013. India's neighbour China follows second with USD 60 billion, said the
World Bank report
12. World Trade Organisation (WTO) projected that the world trade will grow by 4.7 percent in 2014.
13. The World Bank give loan Pakistan 12 billion dollars over the next five
years to help lift its economy,
14. Qatar based Doha Bank announced its First branch in Mumbai. The
branch in Mumbai will be opened as a fullfledged bank in May 2014.
Note: Bank of Bahrain & Kuwait, Abu Dhabi Bank are the two other
banks from Arab countries to have operations in India before Doha
bank.
15. Bank of India (BOI) launched Instant Money Transfer (IMT) scheme
in Mumbai.
Note: IMT scheme allows customers to withdraw cash without using either debt card or credit card at BoI's IMTenabled ATMs.
This is the firstofitskind initiative launched by a public sector bank.
16. Kotak Mahindra launches accounts integrated with Facebook, Twitter.
17. ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund has bagged Morningstar Indias best fund house award in the debt, equity and multiasset
category.
18. ADB pegs India GDP growth rate for 201415 at 5.5 pc
19. Inflation based on Wholesale Price Index (WPI) reached a 3month high of 5.7% in March 2014.
20. Wholesale Inflation falls to 9month low of 4.68 per cent in Feb
21. Kotak Mahindra Bank announced the launch of Jifi, a firstofitskind fully integrated social bank account that transcends normal
digital banking by seamlessly incorporating social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook with mainstream banking.
22. ExportImport Bank of India extended a Line of Credit of $89.90 million to the Government of Republic of Congo, for
development of transportation system in the Republic of Congo.
23. Central Bank of India has sold its entire stake in credit information provider CIBIL to Transunion International Inc. Central Bank
had a 5 per cent stake in CIBIL while Transunion is the majority shareholder in CIBIL at 27.5 per cent.
24. Canara Bank names cricketer Shikhar Dhawan as its brand ambassador.
25. Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) Bank set World record for Blood collection in a single day. The blood
donation camp organised by HDFC Bank on 6 December 2013 was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
26. The World Bank has said it would provide up to $3 billion in aid for Ukraine in 2014 to help the country deliver muchneeded
economic reforms.
27. Max Life Insurance has tied up with Toyota Financial Services India Ltd to provide insurance cover to car loan customers.
28. Bihar emerges as fastest growing state (15.05 per cent) in 201213: CSO Report.
Note: According to the CSO data, Gujarat ranked 6th with growth rate at 7.96 per cent, behind Bihar and Madhya Pradesh with
9.89 per cent, Goa 8.47 per cent, Kerala 8.24 per cent and Odisha 8.09 per cent. The allIndia growth rate in 201213 was 4.47
per cent.
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29. Indian Bank has bagged national award for excellence in lending to micro enterprises for 20122013, for the consecutive second
year.
30. Corporation Bank has bagged the awards for lending to MSE (micro and small enterprises) and to micro enterprises from the
Union Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) for 201213.
31. The Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait, BBK, plans to expand its operations in India by opening its fourth branch in the country in New
Delhi.
32. Interest rate on Post Office FDs increased by up to 0.2 per cent from 8.2 percent to 8.4 percent.
33. Indias 1st post office savings bank ATM inaugurated in Thyagaraya Nagar, Chennai.
34. SEBI approved the new Corporate Governance norms. The new corporate governance norms would become applicable for all
listed companies with effect from 1 October 2014.
35. Wholesale inflation eased to a sevenmonth low of 5.05 per cent in January, on decline in the rate of price rise in food articles,
mainly vegetables.
36. Retirement fund body EPFO decided to increase the rate of interest on Provident Fund deposits to 8.75 percent from 8.5
percent.
37. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has sanctioned Rs 348.63 crore to Karnataka under Rural
Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF).
38. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided $400 million first tranche line of credit to India Infrastructure Finance Company
Ltd (IIFCL) to help accelerate infrastructure growth through increased private sector investment.
39. Asian Development Bank will provide USD 275 million loan for improving rural road connectivity in five states including
Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal in the country.
40. Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) and SBI Cards have joined hands for rollout of credit cards to customers of Indias first women
focused commercial bank
41. Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB), the first allwomen bank, tied with New India Assurance to launch health insurance products for
women account holders of the bank.
42. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) and RBI concluded an agreement that expands the maximum amount of the bilateral swap arrangement
(BSA) between the two countries to USD 50 billion.
Note: BOJ Governor is Haruhiko Kuroda and RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan
43. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has reduced refinance rate for banks and other
lending agencies by 0.20 per cent to promote rural credit and rural infrastructure.
Note: The revised rate of interest on refinance for a period of five years for commercial, state cooperative, regional rural and
primary urban cooperative banks will be 9.70 per cent, down from 9.90 per cent.
44. SEBI grants new status to three clearing corporations to National Securities Clearing Corporation, Indian Clearing
Corporation and MCXSX Clearing Corporation.
45. IMF projected 5.4 percent economic growth for India in 201415
46. WB (World Bank) projected economic growth rate of 5.7% for India in 201415 fiscal
47. World Bank will provide $250 million loan to construct disaster resilient houses and roads in disasterhit Uttarakhand.
48. World Bank will provide $500 million loan for water supply and sanitation projects in the rural areas of Assam, Bihar,
Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh.
49. World Bank will provide 50 million dollar assistance to Afghanistan to support the government's efforts to improve access to
credit for micro, small and medium enterprises.
50. LIC has relaunched its Jeevan Anand plan, a participating nonlinked plan which offers an attractive combination of
protection and savings.
51. Govt launches inflation indexed saving bonds which offer protection to retail investors from price rise. The minimum limit for
investment is Rs 5,000 and the maximum is Rs 5 lakh per applicant per annum. Interest rate would be linked to Consumer Price
Index (CPI).
52. The worlds first Bitcoin storage service that insures deposits of the digital currency against hackers and accidental loss
has opened in London.
53. Economic growth in India projected at 5.35% in 2014, says UN report
54. UN projected the global economy to grow at a pace of 3 per cent in 2014 and 3.3 per cent in 2015.
55. Indian Overseas Bank launched Connect Card, a new ATM cum Debit card in association with VISA that can be used for e
commerce across five lakh merchant outlets.
56. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) approved American retail giant Walmart Stores Inc's proposal to acquire Bharti
Group's nearly 50 per cent stake in their Indian wholesale stores joint venture.
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57. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) projected a credit potential of Rs 12726.83 crore in the
state focus paper (SFP) for the year 201415 in Uttarakhand under the priority sector.
Important News (India & World):
1. Bharatiya Janata Party wins 282 seats as the NDA bags 334 in General Elections 2014. The BJP led NDA is set to form the new
Government at the Centre with a massive win in the Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party has secured an absolute majority on
its own by winning 282 seats.
2. BJP wins 71 seats in UP. In Uttar Pradesh results of all 80 constituencies have been declared. Bharatiya Janata Party has 71
seats. Ruling Samajwadi Party has won 5 seats and twoseats each has been won by the Congress and the BJP ally Apana Dal.
3. India will become the worlds third largest oil consumer by 2025 according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its annual Energy Outlook on 7 May 2014. At present, India is the
fourth largest oil consumer in the world behind the US, China and Japan.
4. Actorfilmmaker Kamal Haasan led the Indian delegation at the 67th Cannes International Film Festival inaugurated in Cannes,
France on 14 May 2014.
5. The United Nations and the International Olympic Committee has signed a historic agreement to use the power of sports to
promote peace and economic development.
Note: IOC President: Thomas Bach
6. European Union bans Indian Alphonso mangoes, veggies from May 1. The 28member European Union has temporarily
banned the import of Alphonso mangoes, the king of fruits, and four vegetables from India from May 1, sparking protests from
the Indian community, lawmakers and traders.
Note: The recent decision by the grouping's Standing Committee on
Plant Health came after 207 consignments of fruits and vegetables from
India imported into the EU in 2013 were found to be contaminated by
pests such as fruit flies and other quarantine pests.
7. Microsoft acquires Nokia's mobile phone business for $7.5bn. The
Finnish company will now focus on networks, mapping services and
technology development and licences.
Note: Former Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop has become executive vice president of the Microsoft devices group
8. The Supreme Court of India appointed former judge of the High Court of Australia, Michael Hudson McHugh as the third
arbitrator to resolve the dispute between the Central government and Mukesh Ambaniled Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on KG
basin.
9. SC recognizes transgender as third category of sex. In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court on Monday recognised
transgenders or eunuchs as third category of gender and directed Centre and states to grant them all facilities including voters
ID, passport and driving licence.
10. WHO certifies India as a poliofree nation.
11. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) panel announced that Cherrapunji in India regained the world record for highest
rainfall in 48 hours with 2493 millimeters.
12. Russia suspended from G8 group: The G7 group of top economic powers have kicked out Russia from the powerful G8 over its annexation of Crimea and
threatened to impose far-reaching sanctions if Moscow continued its incursion into Ukraine.
ii. The US and six other economic powers also scrapped the G8 summit to be hosted by Russia in Sochi in June to build pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin
against his military action in Ukraine.
About Crimea
i. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea is an autonomous parliamentary republic within Ukraine and is governed by the
Constitution of Crimea in accordance with the laws of Ukraine.
ii. The capital is the city of Simferopol, located in the center of the peninsula. Crimea's area is 26,200 square kilometers.
iii. The Crimean peninsula, the main flashpoint in Ukraine's crisis, is a pro-Russia part of Ukraine, separated from the
rest of the country geographically, historically and politically. It also hosts Russia's Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine has
accused Russia of invading it.
13. IFFCO gets approval to set up $ 1.6 bn urea plant in Canada.
14. Global pharma major Novartis acquire GlaxoSmithKline plc's (GSK).
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15. Andhra Pradesh has recorded highest growth in terms of milk production at over 41 per cent and percapita milk availability
about 36 per cent, during the period 200610.
16. A US jury ordered Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to pay $119.6 million to Apple Inc, a big loss for the iPhone maker in the latest
round of their globespanning mobile patent litigation.
17. Cadbury India Limited announced to change its name to Mondelez India Foods Limited. Cadbury India Limited is a subsidiary of
Mondelez International Inc.
18. Vietnam (Hanoi) decided not to host the 2019 Asian Games for financial reasons, and was exploring procedures to withdraw
from staging the region's largest sporting event.
19. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (SPL) announced that it will acquire 100 per cent of Ranbaxy Laboratories in a $ 4 billion all
share transaction.
20. Deadly Heartbleed virus arrives in Indian cyberspace.
21. Jammu and Kashmir became the first state in the country to declare all election booths in the coming Lok Sabha polls as no
smoking zones.
22. IRV 2020 programme has been launched by WHOIndia, with an aim to
protect and increase the population of the onehorned rhinoceros
(Rhinoceros unicornis).
23. Workdays for tribals under MNREGA raised from 100 to 150.
Those tribals who have received land rights under the Forest Rights
Act, 2006 will be eligible for additional 50 days of wage employment
under the rural job scheme.
24. India nominated RanikiVav located in Patan, Gujarat and the
Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) in Himachal Pradesh for
UNESCOs World Heritage Site Status for 2014.
25. Vandana Foundation launched AQUATM in Mumbai: The
AQUATM is a water vending machine from which water can be
purchased. This water wending machine will release 1 liter water at
a price of 1 rupee.
26. Air India is all set to join the world's largest airline grouping, Star
Alliance, this July, making it the first airline from India to be part of a
global chain of carriers.
27. Gujarat state has been ranked number one in a list of India's 20
largest states in terms of economic freedom.
28. Google partners with Rayban for Google Glass.
29. India is Dubais largest non oil trading partner in 201314
30. In the biggestever deal signed at the India Aviation Show, SpiceJet
has inked an agreement with Boeing for purchase of 42 737 MAX 8
aircraft costing Rs. 26,000 crore ($ 4.4 billion).
31. Kelloggs ropes in Deepika Padukone as brand ambassador for
Special K
32. Mauritius President Rajkeswar Puryaag is the chief guest at Global
Ayurveda Fest in Kerala
33. National Waqf Development Corp. Limited is a new Central Public Sector Enterprise in New Delhi.
Note: It will be remain under the Ministry of Minority Affairs. National Waqf Development Corporation (NAWADCO) has been
established with an authorized share capital of Rs.500 Crore.
ii. The corporation has been establishment as a followup of the recommendation of Sachar Committee.
34. Social media giant Facebook will acquire mobile messaging company WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars in a cash and stock deal,
the largest acquisition by the Mark Zuckerbergled firm. Under the agreement, WhatsApp cofounder and CEO Jan Koum will
join Facebook Board of Directors.
Note: WhatsApp, headquarters is in California's Mountain View.
35. Odia declared as classical language. So far, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam have been declared as classical
languages.
36. Google and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) jointly launched 360degree panoramic imagery of 30 out of 100 "nationally
important monuments" including Taj Mahal, Red Fort, Humayun's Tomb, Jantar Mantar and Qutub Minar among others,
viewable to onethird of the world's population.
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37. Cheteshwar Pujara, the middle order batsman of Indian cricket team appointed as the brand ambassador of the Gujarat State
Election Commission.
38. Countrys first Minority Cyber Village opened in Chandoli in Alwar district of Rajasthan.
39. Sikkim achieves over 100 percent sanitation. Sikkim has become the only state in the country to achieve more than 100 percent
sanitation in rural and urban households, schools, sanitary complexes and Aanganwadi centres.
40. Indias first monorail service launched in Mumbai. The first phase covers 8.9 km long WadalaChembur section.
41. Belgium became second country to allow Mercy Killing for Children. Parliament of Belgium on 14 February 2014 legalised death
to terminally ill children of any age.
Note: Other European countries that allows active euthanasia are: 1. Luxembourg, which permits active euthanasia for
over 18 years in age. 2. Switzerland lets doctors to help adult patients to commit suicide
42. India is the worlds largest arms importer: SIPRI. The new data has ranked China and Pakistan second and third respectively as
the largest arms importer. The report published by as Swedish Think Tank, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
(SIPRI) has claimed that India continues to be the largest buyer of arms in the world.
43. India became third largest crude oil importer in the World.
Worlds Top Five OilImporting Countries are: 1.China, 2.U.S.A:, 3. India 4. Japan 5.Germany
44. Facebook with more than 1.2 billion users worldwide is celebrating its 10th birthday on 3
rd
Feb 2014.
45. Six Public Sector Units (PSUs) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up the Worlds largest 4000 MW ultra
solar power project in Rajasthan. The project will be the largest single location solar plant spread across 19000 acres at Sambhar
in Rajasthan.
46. The Ministry of Railways and the Government of Karnataka signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the setting up of
a rail coach factory at Kolar in Karnataka.
47. Cabinet approves quota hike of subsidised LPG cylinders from 9 to 12.
48. Kerala wins UN award: Kerala Tourism has been conferred the United Nations Award for creating innovative initiatives for
sustainable tourism, the first time India has ever won the recognition.
49. Odisha's Chilika lagoon, hotspot for biodiversity, has been named 'destination flyways' by United Nations World Tourism
Organization (UNWTO) following its inclusion in a list of eight such sites worldwide.
Note: Chilika is the only site to be selected from Asia by the UNWTO.
50. Japanese PM (Shinzo Abe) is the Chief Guest at Indias 65
th
Republic Day celebrations on 26
th
January 2014.
51. The Jain community was accorded minority status by the central government, which will enable them to avail of benefits in
government schemes and programmes. The Jains became the sixth community to have minority status after Muslims,
Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis.
52. Amul launches Indias first milk ATM in Gujarat.
53. Sourav Ganguly conferred Doctor of Letters degree by the prestigious Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU),
Shibpur, for his great contribution to Indian cricket.
54. Delhi became first state to withdraw FDI in Multibrand Retail.
55. India has been ranked 98th in the Forbes list of world's best countries for doing business that has cited poverty, corruption and
discrimination against girls among the challenges facing the country. Ireland topped the list.
56. The US Green Building Council (USGBC) has ranked India as No 3 among the list of top 10 countries for LEED outside of the
United States.
57. Prince Harry has become the first British royal to reach the South Pole after a threeweek charity trek with injured military
veterans from Britain, the U.S., Canada and Australia.
58. Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar has been named the regional brand ambassador by the UNICEF to promote its Total Sanitation
Campaign in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.
59. The Petroleum Conservation Research Association under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has selected Andhra
Pradesh for the award of best performing State amongst the big states for the oil and gas conservation programmes.
60. Gorakhpur railway station entered Limca Book of Records as worlds longest platform
Note: Before the platform number one of Gorakhpur, the platform of Kharagpur railway station of West Bengal had the
distinction of being worlds largest platform with length of 1072.5 meters.
61. India ranks 140 in the list of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index 2014, whereas China and Pakistan were placed at
175th and 158th position respectively.
62. India was ranked 94th out of 177 countries on Global Corruption Perception Index 2013, which was released by Transparency
International. Denmark and New Zealand tied for first place.
63. India has been ranked 23rd out of 25 countries in nuclear material security index. China has been ranked at 20th spot, while
Pakistan stands at 22nd place.
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New Appointment in World
1. Maj. Gen. Kristin Lund appointed first woman to lead UN force.
She replace Chinese Maj. Gen. Chao Liu.
2. New interim PM of Thailand: Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan.
Note: Ms. Yingluck shinawatra and nine Cabinet members were
forced to step down by the Constitutional Court, which found her
guilty of abuse of power.
3. New PM of Libya: Ahmed Maiteeg
4. New President of Panama: Juan Carlos
5. New Nokia CEO & President: Rajeev Suri
6. New President of Algeria: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
7. New reelected PM of Hungary: Viktor Orban
8. New Prime Minister Of France: Manuel Valls
9. New President of Malta: MarieLousie Coleiro Preca
10. PM of Malta: Joseph Muscat
11. New Prime Minister of Egypt: Ibrahim Mahlab:. Ibrahim Mahlab
replace Hazem elBeblawi .
12. New President of Chile: Michelle Bachelet
13. New CEO of Ford: Mark Fields . He succeed Alan Mulally
14. New Italy's youngest PM: Matteo Renzi. He is the 39yearold leader
of the CentreLeft Democratic Party,
15. New Prime minister of Ukraine: Arseniy Yatsenyuk
16. Interim President of Ukraine: Oleksandr Turchynov
17. New PM of Nepal: Sushil Koirala. He replaced KhilRaj Regmi.
18. New Chairman of Microsoft: John Thompson. He succeeded Bill
Gates
19. New CEO of Microsoft: Satya Nadella. He replaced Steve Ballmer
and he takes over as the third CEO of the Microsoft firm.
20. Marco Lambertini appointed as directorgeneral of WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) International
21. New Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO): Jens Stoltenberg. He replace the incumbent Secretary
General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
22. New PM of Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina She belongs to Awami League party.
23. New chairman of the Federal Reserve: Janet Yellen. She succeeds Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Janet Yellen, the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve in its 100year history. Federal Reserve is the name of the Central
Bank of US.
24. New Pakistani envoy to India: Abdul Basit. He replace Salman Bashir.
25. New Foreign Secretary of Pakistan: Aizaz Chaudhry
26. New Pakistani Ambassador to US: Jalil Abbas Jilani
27. First Secretary General of BIMSTEC: Sumith Nakandala
28. Shahnaz Shaikh: appointed Pakistan Coach of National Hockey team.
29. Teresa Kho is ADB's new Country Director for India. She replaces Hun Kim
30. Angela Merkel: begins third innings as German chancellor.
31. Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed: New Prime Minister of Somalia. (Mogadishu is the Capital Somalia).
32. Ashraf Jehan: First female judge in Paks National Sharia Court
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Summits
G 20 Summit:
G20 meeting (2014) of Finance ministers and central bank governors held in Sydney (Australia).
G20 Leaders Summit (2014) will be held in Brisbane, Queensland (Australia, in November 2014.
NATO Summit
NATO Summit 2014 will be held in Britain. (Britain last hosted the summit in 1990, when Margret Thatcher was Prime Minister).
G 8 Summit:
39
th
Summit 2013: United Kingdom. (Northern Ireland)
Note:
The 40th G8 summit was due to be held in Russia in 2014. The meeting was planned for 45 June 2014 at the Black Sea resort
of Sochi.
However, the other seven countries decided on 24 March that a summit would be held without Russia,
in Brussels, Belgium.
G7 countries refuse to attend planned G8 summit in Russia.
G8 Countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Britain and the US
SAARC Summit:
3rd SAARC ministerial meet on poverty alleviation 2013 Kathmandu (Nepal)
18th SAARC Summit 2013 Kathmandu (proposed)
Nuclear security summit
2
nd
Summit 2012 Seoul (South Korea),
3
rd
Summit 2014(Next) : Netherland
4
th
Summit 2016: United States
BIMSTEC Summit
3rd BIMSTEC summit 2014: Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar)
4
th
BIMSTEC summit will be held in Nepal.
Note: BIMSTEC (Bay of Bangal Initiative for Multisectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation)
BIMSTEC includes 7 countries: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal and aims to create
cooperation in multiple sectors including trade, investment and energy.
NAM Summit:
16
th
Summit 2013: Tehran, Iran
17
th
Summit2015 Caracas (Venezuela)
Note: Two nations, namely Azerbaijan Republic and Fiji, were accepted as the new members of the organization.
New Member
1. United Nation South Sudan new member country . Total 193 members
2. WTO Tajikistan new member country. Total 159 members.
3. World Bank & IMF South Sudan new member country. Total 188 members
4. European Union Croatia new member country. Total 28
1. World Economic Forum 2014: held in Abuja (Nigeria). Bharti Enterprises founder and Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal co chair this
years edition of the World Economic Forum on Africa.
2. India, Sri Lanka and Maldives held National Security Advisorlevel meeting on maritime security cooperation in New Delhi.
3. World Telecommunications Development Conference held in Dubai.
4. The Green Economy Summit held in Dubai.
5. Arab Summit 2014: Kuwait host the Arab summit for the first time
6. International Petroleum Conference 2014 (PETROTECH2014) held in New Delhi from 12th 15th January 2014.
7. The 9th WTO Ministerial Conference was concluded on 6 December 2013 at Bali, Indonesia.
8. 12
th
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2014 held in New Delhi. This year's theme is "Engaging Diaspora: Connecting Across Generations"
Datuk Seri G Palanival is the Chief Guest of 12
th
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
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9. The 8th Asia Gas Partnership Summit (AGPS) was held at New Delhi, India. The 8th AGPS was organized by GAIL (India) Limited
and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
Points To Remember:
MOUsDeal between India & Other Countries
1. India has committed 8.5 billion rupees to Bhutan for Small Development Project for the countrys the 11th Five Year Plan.
2. Iran and Japan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for bilateral cooperation on environmental issues in Tokyo.
3. India, Azerbaijan: to explore opportunities in energy sector
4. India and Canada have signed three MoUs for cooperation in health sector, audiovisual coproduction and skill development.
5. India, Poland agree to form Joint Working Group for cooperation in films sector.
6. India and Fiji have signed a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, DTAA for the avoidance of double taxation and for the
prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.
7. India and Saudi Arabia have decided to enhance their bilateral trade and economic cooperation over next 5 years.
8. India and Bhutan have signed an agreement on development of hydropower projects.
9. India and Germany could sign an agreement for 1 billion for Greenfield projects
10. India and Pakistan signed MoU on electricity trade: India has expressed its intent to export electricity to the tune of 500 MW
to Pakistan immediately if infrastructure for transmission of power is made available.
11. India and Maldives ink several pacts and have agreed to
jointly patrol and conduct surveillance to strengthen maritime
security in the Indian Ocean Region.
12. India has signed a Rs 4,000crore deal with the US for
procuring six more C130J Super Hercules Special Operations
aircraft for the Indian Air Force.
13. Election Commission signs MoU with Yemen. India has offered its expertise to Yemen in election management and electoral
roll preparations.
14. India and Macedonia have signed a new double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) that provides for among other things
exchange of banking information for tax administration purposes.
As per the new agreement, dividend, interest and royalty will be taxed in the source country and the rate of taxation will not
exceed 10 percent.
Scheme & Plan Launched by Union & State Government:
1. Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana (MGPSY) was launched in the UAE. A leading Indian financial and health care service
player has tied up with the UAE Exchange to offer Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana Scheme in the Gulf country.
About Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana (MGPSY)
i. Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana (MGPSY) Scheme is a pension and life insurance scheme and is recognised by the
Indian government.
ii. Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana (MGPSY) is a special social security scheme for overseas Indian workers on
temporary work permit in 17 Emigration Check Required (ECR) countries.
2. Govt. launch Maulana Azad Sehat Scheme' scheme for minority students. Under this scheme, students in the age group of 514
years will be provided with a health card which will entitle them to free checkups twice a year at the place where they are
studying.
3. North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) launched a new health scheme Stri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna for women on 6 March
2014.
4. Uttar Pradesh government launched Samajwadi pension scheme on 28 January 2014. The scheme will benefit over 40 lakh
families. Under the scheme pension from 500 rupees to 700 rupees will be given to beneficiaries.
5. Tamil Nadu launches free CFL bulb scheme: Under the scheme state Govt will provide free compact fluorescent light bulbs to
over 14 lakh hutdwellers in the State, an energy saving measure aimed at saving 40 MW of power.
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6. Centre launches einclusion project to spread eliteracy. The project is an initiative to make at least one individual in every
household eliterate, under the project, economically weaker sections of the society including rural SC, ST and women will
receive IT training.
7. Project Uddan: The project, an initiative of the Prime Minister, the National Skills Development Corporation and the Ministry of
Home Affairs and industry, was started with the aim of providing skills to 40,000 youth over a period of five years.
8. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved implementation of various schemes related to agriculture,
including continuation of Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), in the 12th Plan with a combined outlay of over Rs 80,000 crore.
Note: The RKVY is a State plan scheme that provides 'considerable flexibility' and autonomy to states in planning and executing
programmes for incentivising investment in agriculture and allied sectors.
9. Rani Laxmi Bai Pension Scheme: 'special pension' to Muzaffarnagar riot victims by U.P. Govt. The pension, which would be
anywhere between Rs 400 and Rs 500, would be given under this scheme.
10. Bhagat Puran Singh Sehat Beema Yojna (BPSSBY) Health care scheme for BPL families launched in Punjab
11. 'Roshini' Scheme: Centre launched skill development and job placement scheme 'Roshini' for rural youth and women in maoist
affected 24 districts in 9 states.
12. Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana (health insurance scheme) was launched in Maharashtra.
13. The Vikram Udyogpuri (DelhiMumbai Industrial Corridor) project launched in Madhya Pradesh.
14. Golden Girl (Bangaru Talli) Scheme: A unique scheme, launched in Andhra Pradesh, to protect girl child and ensure her
education.
15. Anna Bhagya programme launched in Karnataka. The programme entitles distribution of 30 kg rice at one rupee per Kg to
over 98 lakh BPL and Antyodaya card holders in the state.
Awards & Honours
1. Goldman Prize for environmental activist Ramesh Agrawal. He received the prize for helping villagers fight coal mining in
Chhattisgarh.
2. Caparo Group founded by leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul has won the International Business of the Year award 2014
3. Golden Peacock Awards 2014: Technopark Technology Business Incubator (TTBI) was chosen for the Special Commendation
at the Golden Peacock National Training Awards 2014.
4. Bharat Ratna Award: Sachin Tendulkar and CN Rao conferred Bharat Ratna Award 2013.
Note: Tendulkar is the first sportsman and the youngest recipient of the the Bharat Ratna
ii. Prof Rao is a well recognized international authority on solid state and materials chemistry is the third scientist to received
award after CV Raman and former President A.P.J Abdul Kalam.
iii. The Bharat Ratna was announced after a gap of four years with Hindustani music doyen Bhimsen Joshi being the last
recipient in 2009.
5. Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013: Veteran poet and film lyricist Gulzar has been chosen for the coveted Dadasaheb Phalke
Award for 2013. He is the 45th winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
6. Pulitzer Prize 2014: Indiaborn poet Vijay Seshadri has won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his
work '3 Sections'.
7. Donna Tartt wins fiction Pulitzer Prize 2014 for novel 'Goldfinch'
8. Miss India 2014: Koyal Rana new Miss India.
9. Gandhi Peace Prize for 2013: Eminent Gandhian and environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhat selected for the award.
Note: A pioneer of the Chipko Movement for which he was also awarded the Magsaysay Award in 1982, Mr. Bhatt was given the
Padma Bhushan by UPAI in 2005.
10. Saraswati Samman 2013: Govind Mishra selected for for his book Dhool Paudho Par.
11. Pritzker Prize 2014: Japanese architect Shigeru Ban won the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014. He won the award for his
creative and inexpensive designs for disaster relief shelters.
12. Abel Prize 2014: Russian mathematician Yakov Grigorevich Sinai won the award.
13. Laxmi, an acid attack victim gets International Women of Courage Award (US honour).
14. Vyas Samman 2013: Vishwanath Tripathi been selected for the prestigious Vyas Samman for the year 2013.
Note: Tripathi has been chosen for the coveted annual literary award instituted in 1991 by the K K Birla Foundation for his
memoir 'Vyomkesh Darvesh', a biolgraphy of noted Hindi scholar Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi.
15. G D Birla Award 2013: Rajesh Gopakumar was selected for the 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research for the year 2013.
16. M S Subbulakshmi Award 2014: Mathangi Sathyamurthy, Karnataka musician was selected for the award.
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17. Britain's highest awards: Ratan Tata, former chairman of the Tata Group honoured by Queen Elizabeth with a GBE (Knight
Grand Cross), which is one of the highest civilian honours in Britain.
18. Narayana Murthy awarded with Global Indian Award in Canada.
19. Luis Suarez named as Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year.
20. Jeev Milkha Singh nominated for Asian Tours Player of the Decade
award
21. MS Dhoni won United Kingdoms 2014 Asian award for outstanding
achievement in Sports.
22. Shikhar Dhawan named one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year
award.
23. Sachin Tendulkar won Cricketer of generation award
24. Tomas Halik, the Czech priest won the Templeton Prize for 2014.
25. India and Singapore won the 2014 edition of the UNWater Water for
Life Best Practices Award for their sustainable practices of water
resources.
26. Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) received the Most Efficient
Navratna Award for the year 2013.
27. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan was conferred India's Global Icon of the
Year award
28. Indianorigin Gopal Rao won UK Twitter Prize.
29. Turkish investigative journalist Ahmet Sik won 2014 UNESCO
Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
30. Anand Kumar, the founder of Super30 got 2014 Ramanujan
Mathematics award
31. Indian Writer Pankaj Mishra won Windham Campbell Literature Prize
2014
32. President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, President Park Geunhye of South
Korea and Mexican billionnaire Carlos Slim won the World
Telecommunication and Information Society (WTIS) Award 2014.
33. President Pranab Mukherjee got the Rotary's highest award for his
leadership in the country's victory over polio.
34. Arogya Swami Joseph Paulraj has been awarded the prestigious 2014
Marconi Society Prize. Paulraj is the only Indiaborn scientist to receive both the Marconi Prize and the Bell Medal, two top
global IT technology awards.
35. Madan Babu, an Indianborn scientist, won the Protein Science Young Investigator Award for 2014
36. Australian pacer Mitchell Johnson won the coveted Allan Border medal.
37. Abhishikta S Shetty of Karnataka won Miss South India Pageant Title
38. Cyrus Mistry wins DSC Prize 2014 for South Asian literature for his book Chronicles of a Corpse Bearer.
39. Taiwanese poet Yushi was awarded the Thiruvalluvar award by the Tamil Nadu government in Chennai. Yushi is the first foreign
scholar to receive Thiruvalluvar award.
40. Germany goalkeeper Nadine Angerer has been named the best women's football player in the world for 2013.
41. FIFA named Portuguese attacker Cristiano Ronaldo world's best soccer player for the 2012/2013 season.
42. Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award of 2012 and 2013: two eminent Bengali poets, namely Nirendranath Chakraborty
and Sankha Ghosh, respectively.
43. 12 Years a Slave' wins Golden Globe for best dramatic film. 12 Years a Slave,' directed by British filmmaker Steve McQuee
44. 'American Hustle' won the Golden Globe award for the best comedy or musical film. 'American Hustle,' directed by David O
Russell and starring Christian Bale
45. Leonardo DiCaprio has won the Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical for 'The Wolf of Wall Street.
46. Irrfan Khan won the best actor award for his brilliant performance in his film The Lunchbox at the 10th edition of Dubai
International Film Festival (DIFF).
47. C.K. Nayudu award: Former India captain Kapil Dev received the Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013.
48. The Union Ministry of Power has selected the Poovar Island Resort for the National Energy Conservation Award 2013
49. Sahitya Akademi Awards 2013 :Javed Akhtar has been chosen for "Lava", his compilation of 55 Urdu poems.
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50. Eminent historian Bipan Chandra: was awarded Itihas Ratna from Asiatic Society Bihar. Bipan Chandra is the fourth historian
to be honoured with the Itihas Ratna by the society.
Note: i. The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism, is one of his known and one of the earliest book.
ii. He has been a Chairperson of the centre for historical studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
51. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport of Hyderabad received Sword of Honour award.
Note: i. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Ltd is operated by GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL) and it is first
airport in India to receive this award.
ii. The Sword of Honour is considered to be Oscar of the Safety World
52. Lingaiah Nagarapu, Principal Scientist at the CSIRIndian Institute of Chemical Technology has been honoured with the best
scientist award of ScienceTech Foundation (STF)
Padma Awards 2014:
Padma Vibhushan
1. Dr Raghunath A Mashelkar: Science and Engineering, Maharashtra
2. B K S Iyengar: Yoga, Maharashtra
Padma Bhushan
Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, ArtPainting, Gujarat
Begum Parveen Sultana, ArtClassical Singing, Maharashtra
T.H. Vinayakram, ArtGhatam Artist, Tamil Nadu
Kamal Haasan, ArtCinema, Tamil Nadu
Justice Dalveer Bhandari, Public Affairs, Delhi
Ruskin Bond, Literature and Education, Uttarakhand
Pullela Gopichand, SportsBadminton, Andhra Pradesh
Leander Paes, SportsTennis, Maharashtra
Prof Lloyd I Rudolph, Literature and Education, USA
Padma Shri
Mohammad Ali Baig, ArtTheatre, Andhra Pradesh
Nayana Apte Joshi, Art, Maharashtra
Vidya Balan, ArtCinema, Maharashtra
Anjum Chopra, SportsCricket, Delhi
Sunil Dabas, SportsKabbadi, Haryana
Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu, SportsMountaineering, Delhi
Dipika Rebecca Pallikal, SportsSquash, Tamil Nadu
H Boniface Prabhu, SportsWheelchair Tennis, Karnataka
Yuvraj Singh, SportsCricket, Haryana
Mamta Sodha SportsMountaineering, Haryana
Oscar Award 2014:
Best Film 12 Years a Slave Directed by Steve McQueen
Best Actor Matthew McConaughey for: Dallas Buyers Club
Best Actress Cate Blanchett for: Blue Jasmine
Best Director Alfonso Cuarn for Gravity
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Jared Leto for: Dallas Buyers Club
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave
Best Foreign Language Film The Great Beauty (Italy)
Note: "Gravity" pulled in 7 Oscars, including best director, at the 86th Academy Awards on March 2, 2014.
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Person in News:
1. Dr. Manmohan Singh resigns. as Prime Minister of India.
2. Nitish Kumar resigns as Bihar CM
3. Lakhdar Brahimi: UN Envoy on Syria resigned
4. Alenka Bratusek Slovenias Prime Minister resigned.
5. Dilip Shanghvi named among Asias richest selfmade billionaires.
6. Manoj Vaish, Managing Director & CEO of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX), resigned.
7. P Elango interim CEO & Whole time Director, quit from Cairn India.
8. Aamir Khan Election Commissions National Icon for Lok Sabha Elections 2014
9. Arjun Kapoor Named National Ambassador for Earth Hour 2014
10. Vivek Gundotra, chief of Googles social networking venture Google+ resigned.
11. Nancy Powell resigned as the US Ambassador to India
12. Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Serik Akhmetov has resigned
13. South Korea's Prime Minister Chung HongWon give resign over the sinking of a passenger ferry that left more than 300 people
dead or missing.
14. Justice KT Thomas quits as head of Lokpal search committee
15. Hazem ElBeblawi : Egyptian PM resigns.
16. Archana Bhargava: Chairman and Managing Director of the United Bank of India, has resigned.
17. Zaka Ashraf : Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sacked Zaka Ashraf as the Chairman of the PCB
18. SubInspector K Prasad Babu was honoured posthumous Ashok Chakra for an antiNaxal operation .
19. Jamila Bayaz, first women to be appointed police chief of Kabul province. She is the first woman in Afghanistan to be appointed
as police chief of an entire district.
20. Enrico Letta : Italy Prime Minister resigned.
21. Arvind Kejriwal: resign from the post of Chief Minister of Delhi.
22. Pope Francis was named as the Person of the Year 2013 by Time Magazine.
23. Wipro Chairman Azim Premji won the Economic Times Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 for his role in creating India's third
largest software exporter.
24. Ali Larayedh: Prime Minister of Tunisia resigned
25. Indianorigin academician Rakesh Khurana has been appointed dean of the prestigious Harvard College. He succeeds Evelynn
Hammonds.
26. Parveen Amanullah: Bihar First Woman Muslim Minister Resigns
27. Teesta Setalvad, accused for misusing foreign funds meant for helping the victims of the 2002 Gulbarg society massacre.
28. Michael Ferreira: Billiards champion was accused in 425crore rupees scam in multi level marketing firm QNet.
29. Justice A.K. Ganguly: West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman Justice A.K. Ganguly resigned from the post of honorary
professor of the National University of Juridical Sciences
30. V Balakrishnan: Former Infosys CFO joins AAP
31. Hardeep Singh Puri: who retired as Indias Permanent Representative to the United Nations, today joined BJP.
32. Chandra Kant Birla Chairman of Hindustan Motors Limited resigned from the board.
33. Michael Schumacher, is in a coma and remains in a "critical" condition after striking his head in a ski accident
34. Devyani Khobragade: Khobragade, India's deputy consul general in New York, was accused by Manhattan's Indian American
US Attorney Preet Bharara of visa fraud and exploiting her babysitter and housekeeper.
35. Shashi Tharoor PETA's 'person of the year' by animal rights campaigner PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) for
initiating steps for animal protection.
36. Shoma Chaudhury, managing editor of Tehelka, announced her resignation from the Tehelka, an investigative magazine.
37. Tarun Tejpal: Tehelka editorinchief was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a young colleague.
38. Mathew Martoma: Indianorigin hedge fund portfolio manager Mathew Martoma convicted for his role in the $275 million
insider trading scheme, the most lucrative in U.S. history.
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OBITUARY
1. Russy Mody: Management guru Russy Mody who was known for his man management while he headed Tata Steel and was awarded
Padma Bushan died
2. Capt. C. P. Krishnan Nair, Founder Chairman of The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts, passed away
3. N Janardhan Reddy: Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister died.
4. Elena Baltacha: Extennis player dies of cancer
5. Khaled Chowdhury: Noted theatre personality died
6. Bob Hoskins: British actor dies
7. Tito Vilanova, Former Barcelona coach Vilanova dies.
8. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anja Niedringhaus shot dead in Afghanistan.
9. Khushwant Singh: Famous writer and journalist passed away
10. Former President of Guinea Kumba Yala died
11. Nanda: Veteran Bollywood actress passes away.
12. DK Jain : Luxor Group Chairman passes away
13. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate whose intoxicating novels and short stories exposed millions outside Latin America
passes away.
14. Former Sierra Leone President, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah died
15. British socialist stalwart Tony Benn dies
16. Noted economist and academician G.K. Chadha passed away
17. P Ramdas : Malayalam director passes away
18. K. Suryanarayana Raja, former international basketball
player passed away.
19. Joe McGinniss, author of Fatal Vision died
20. William Clay Ford passes away
21. Jagat Singh Mehta : Former Foreign Secretary died
22. J.S. Sarma: Former TRAI Chairman passes away
23. Hanumath Shastry, the eminent Telugu litterateur died
24. Bangaru Laxman : Former BJP president dies.
25. Legendary Guitarist: Paco de Lucia passed away
26. Prokash Karmakar: Eminent painter died
27. Balu Mahendra : Veteran filmmaker passed away.
28. Karl Slym: MD of Tata Motors died after falling from hotel building in Bangkok
29. Sudhir Mahato: the former Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand died
30. Akkineni Nageswara Rao: Padma Vibhushan and Dada Saheb Phalke awardee passed away. ANR is fondly called the Tragedy
King of Telugu cinema.
31. Suchitra Sen: Legendary Bengali actor passed away
32. Namdeo Dhasal Renowned Marathi poet and activist passed away
33. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddi: The spiritual leader of the Dawoodi Bohra community passed away
34. Silverine Swer, Meghalaya's first Padma Shri Awardee died
35. Adhip Chaudhuri, an international economist who taught at Georgetown University, died in Vienna,
36. Ariel Sharon: Former Israeli Prime Minister Dies
37. IIa Pathak social activist died
38. Vishwanath Bondre: Former Mumbai Ranji Trophy cricketer died
39. Farooq Sheikh: veteran Hindi actor died
40. Mikhail Kalashnikov: the designer of fabled AK47 automatic rifle, died in Russia. AK47's name stands for "Kalashnikov's
Automatic" and the year it was designed, 1947.
41. Ishrat Ali Siddiqui: Freedom fighter, veteran Journalist and Padm Shree awardee died
42. Anjali Devi: Veteran South Indian film actress died
43. Michiaki Takahashi: developed Chickenpox vaccine died in Japan.
44. Pran Chopra : Veteran journalist died
45. G.S. Shivarudrappa: Distinguished Kannada poet, writer and researcher G.S. Shivarudrappa (87) passed away. The writer, was
awarded with the title of Rashtrakavi by the Government of Karnataka in 2006.
46. Sis Ram Ola dead Union Labour and Employment Minister Sis Ram Ola died at a Gurgaon hospital after a prolonged illness.
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FIFA (Football) World CUP hosts:
1. 2014: Brazil (Mascot: Smiling Armadillo to be the official Mascot
of 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil).
2. 2018 : Russia
3. 2022: Qatar
FIFA ranking: 2014
1. Spain
2. Germany
3. Portugal
4. Brazil
India drop two places to 147 in Fifa ranking.
Olympics Games host cities:
1. 2014 winter: Sochi (Russia)
2. 2016 Summer: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
3. 2018 winter: Pyeongchang (South Korea)
4. 2020 summer: Tokyo (Japan)
Asian Games host cities:
1. 2014: Incheon (South Korea) (Note: 2010 Asain Games held in
Guangzhou, China).
Note: Vietnam (Hanoi) decided not to host the 2019 Asian Games
for financial reasons, and was exploring procedures to withdraw
from staging the region's largest sporting event.
ICC Rankings For Tests, ODIs and Twenty20
Test ODI Twenty20
Australia Australia India
South Africa India Sri Lanka
England Sri Lanka Pakistan
Pakistan England South Africa
India South Africa Australia
1. Mens T20 World Cup 2014: Sri Lanka defeat India to win the maiden title.
2. Womens World T20 2014: Australia defeat England in the final to win the title for the third time in a row.
3. Asia Cup Title 2014: Sri Lanka defeat Pakistan to win the title.
Note: It is their fifth Asia Cup success, equaling the record of India.
4. ICC U19 World Cup 2014: South Africa beats Pakistan to lift the title.
5. Ranji Trophy 2014. Karnataka beat Maharashtra to lift the title. Karnataka have won the trophy for seventh time.
6. Irani Trophy 2014: Karnataka won by defeating Rest of India.
7. India claim U19 Asia Cup title by defeating Pakistan in final
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8. Vijay Hazare Trophy 2014: Karnataka won the title by defeating Railways
9. Grant Flower named as Pakistan batting coach.
10. 68th Santosh Trophy : Mizoram defeat Railways to win the title.
Note: This is the maiden Santosh Trophy for Mizoram also this was the first appearance for them in the final match.
11. Pankaj Advani won CCI Biliards title. He defeated twotime world runnerup Dhruv Sitwala
12. National Women's Football champions 2014: Manipur defeated Orissa in the final.
13. Deodhar Trophy 2014: West Zone lifted the trophy after defeating North Zone in the final
14. Malaysian Grand Prix 2014: Britain's Lewis Hamilton won the title.
15. Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 trophy: Baroda beat Uttar Pradesh to win the trophy.
16. World Snooker title 2014: Mark Selby of England won maiden title.
17. Virat Kohli is number 1 ODI batsman in latest ICC rankings
18. Saeed Ajmal top bowlers in ODI ranking. He is followed by Dale Steyn and Sunil Narin while Ravindra Jadeja is at fourth.
19. Waqar Younis appointed as new Pakistan coach.
20. Martin Kilzan won the Munich ATP tournament to claim second title of his career. In the final match, he defeated Fabio Fognini
21. Chitra Magimairaj Wins World Women's Senior snooker title
22. The IndoZimbabwean tennis pair of Sania Mirza and Cara Black has won the WTA Portugal Open women's doubles title.
23. Kamal Chawla has settled for a bronze medal in the Asian
Snooker Championship being held in the United Arab Emirates.
24. Punjab won Junior National Hockey Title 2014 by defeating Odisha
in the final.
25. Novak Djokovic won Indian Wells final by defeating Roger Federer.
26. India's Heena Sidhu clinched World's No. 1 spot in 10 mts air pistol
event.
27. George Bailey lead Kings XI Punjab in the seventh edition of the Indian Premier League
28. Australian allrounder Shane Watson will captain Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
29. Sunil Gavaskar appoints (HDFC chairman) Deepak Parekh as his special advisor for 7th edition of IPL
30. US sprint star Tyson Gay has received a oneyear doping ban from the US AntiDoping Association.
31. Triple jumper Renjith Maheswary, who has been stopped from receiving Arjuna Award under controversial circumstances on
charges of dope violation last year, has again been recommended by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) for the coveted
honour this year.
32. Darren Sammy retires from test cricket but remains T20 captain.
33. Ronnie OSullivan named as Snookers Player of the Year.
34. Lasith Malinga, new captain of Sri Lanka T20 team
35. New Zealand's Kiwi Kathy Cross became the first woman to be inducted in an ICC umpires' panel
36. Dipika Pallikal ranked No 10 in Womens Squash Association (WSA) rankings
37. Saina Nehwal won Syed Modi International India Grand Prix Gold badminton crown by defeating PV Sindhu in Lucknow.
38. BCCI recommends Ravichandran Ashwin ( Offspinner) for Arjuna Award.
39. Anirban Lahiri won Indonesian Masters golf title.
40. Grand Master Adhiban won silver medal at the Asian Continental Chess Championship
41. Delhi Waveriders beat Jaypee Punjab Warriors to lifts 2nd edition of Hockey India League cup.
42. Rafael Nadal remains top of the mens ATP tennis rankings.
43. Serena Williams (USA) remains top of the WTA tennis rankings
44. Chennai to host World Bridge Championships next year .
45. Shaik Abdul Hameed of India won the 2014 Thailand Tour title of Asian Bowling Federation (ABF).
46. Chain Singh and Heena Sidhu claimed gold medals in the seventh Asian Air Gun Championship in Kuwait
47. Swimmer Supriya Mondal has qualified for the 2014 Youth Olympics by winning a gold medal in the 200m butterfly event at
the Dubai International Aquatic Championships in Hamdan.
48. Manavjit Singh Sandhu, the Indian veteran trap shooter jumped to the third spot in the world rankings.
49. Pooja Ghatkar clinches gold in womens air rifle in the seventh Asian air gun championship
50. Former Australia test batsman Marcus North retires.
51. Spain's Real Madrid retained the title of the world's richest soccer club
52. Netherlands beat New Zealand to win maiden Hero Hockey World League title
53. Jimmy Walker of the US won the Sony Open golf tournament held in Hawaii
54. Veteran Indian shuttler Arvind Bhat lifts German Open title
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8. INS Vikramaditya enters Indian Navy's area of operation. INS Vikramaditya (R33) is a Project which entered into service with
the Indian Navy in 2013. The ship has been renamed in honour of Vikramaditya, a legendary 1st century BC emperor of Ujjain,
India.
9. Fast Patrol Vessel Abhinav, the Indian Coast Guard Ship commissioned in Kochi
10. GSLVD5 launch places India in elite league of the U.S., Russia, France, Japan and China The GSLV is designed to inject its
passenger spacecraft into the intended Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit with a combination of solid, earthstorable liquid and
cryogenic propellants in its first, second and third stages, respectively.
11. Indian mission to Mars blasts off successfully. The Mars Orbiter
Mission, known as "Mangalyaan" .
Note: i. Only the United States, Russia and the European Space
Agency have been successful in this mission.
ii. The United States is the only nation that has successfully sent
robotic explorers to land on Mars, the most recent being Curiosity
which touched down in August 2012.
iii. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K.
Radhakrishnan.
iv. The satellite is scheduled to reach the Mars orbit in September
2014 and is designed to circle the Red Planet in an elliptical orbit of
366 km X 80000 km.
v. Primary objectives of the Mars mission are to demonstrate Indias
technological capability to send a satellite to orbit around Mars and
conduct meaningful experiments such as looking for signs of life, take
pictures of the red planet and study Martian environment.
12. IRNSS1A, India's first ever dedicated Navigation satellite launched
blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
13. INS Vikramaditya set to join Indian Navy . INS Vikramaditya is a
Kiev class aircraft carrier which was commissioned by Russian Navy
in 1987 under the name Baku.
14. Missiles:
1. Nuclearcapable 'AgniV' tested for second time. 'AgniV' longrange
ballistic missile. strike range of more than 5000 km
Note: In the Agni (Surface to Surface missile) series, India at present
has Agni1 with 700 km range, Agni2 with 2000 km range, Agni3 and
Agni4 with 2500 km to more than 3500 range. Agni V more than
5000 km
Prithvi:
1. Prithvi I 150km 2. Prithvi II 350km 3. Prithvi III 350km 600km
Headquarter of International Organisation
UNO New York
UNICEF New York
UNESCO Paris
UNIDO Vienna
WHO Geneva
UNFPA New York
SAARC Kathmandu
ILO Geneva
World Bank Washington D.C
IMF Washington DC
WTO Geneva
International Court Of Justice The Hague
International Atomic Energy Agency Vienna
International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva
International Maritime Organisation London
Food and Agricultural Organisation Rome
World Meteorological Organisation Geneva
Amnesty International London
Transparency International Berlin
World Intellectual Property Organization Geneva
International Renewable Energy Agency Abu Dhabi
(UAE)
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ABBREVIATION IN NEWS
1. DICGC : Deposit insurance and credit guarantee
corporation.
2. OLTAS : Online Tax Accounting System is used for Direct
Taxes
3. TIN: Tax Information Network
4. IMPS: Interbank Mobile Payment Service
5. BSBDA Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account
6. FCNR(B) Foreign Currency NonResident Bank
7. TARC Tax Administration Reform Commission
8. ITEs: IntraGroup Transactions and Exposures
9. LCR: Liquidity Coverage Ratio
10. NSFR: Net Stable Funding Ratio
11. REER: Real Effective Exchange Rate
12. LRMT: Liquidity risk monitoring tools
13. CBS: Core Banking Solution
14. DEAF: Depositor Education and Awareness Fund
15. CRAR: Capital to Riskweighted Assets Ratio
16. External Commercial Borrowings (ECB)
17. SWIFT: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication
18. FSLRC: Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission
19. MIBOR: Mumbai InterBank Offer Rate
20. LIBOR: London InterBank Offer Rate
21. LAF Liquidity Adjustment Facility
22. GIRO Government Internal Revenue Order
23. EEFC Exchange Earner's Foreign Currency
24. FRBMA: Fiscal Responsibility and Budget
Management Act
25. ALM Asset Liability Management
26. AMFI Association of Mutual Fund in India.
27. TIEA Tax Information exchange Agreement
28. CAR Cash Adequacy Ratio
29. CCEA Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
30. CECA Comprehensive Economic Cooperation
Agreement
31. CEPA Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Agreement
32. DTAA Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
33. ECBs External Commercial Borrowings
34. EEFC Exchange Earner's Foreign Currency
35. EFSF European Financial Stability Facility
36. FEMA Foreign Exchange Management Act
37. FII Foreign Institutional Investor.
38. FINO Financial Inclusion Network Operation
39. FIPB Foreign Investment Promotion board
40. FSLRC Financial Sector Legislative Reforms
Commission
41. FTA Free trade agreement
42. GAAR General anti avoidance rule
43. GSLV GeoSynchronous Launch Vehicle
44. MSFMarginal Standing Facility
45. NBFCNon Banking Finance Companies
46. NCTC National CounterTerrorism Centre
47. NEFT National Electronic Funds Transfer
48. NSG Nuclear Suppliers Group
49. PPP Public Private Partnership & Purchasing Power
parity
50. PSLV Polar Satellite Launch vehicle
51. RTGS Real Time Gross Settlement
52. SLRStatutory Liquidity Ratio
53. TAPI TurkmenistanAfghanistanPakistanIndia.
54. QFI Qualified Foreign Investors
55. VVPAT 'Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail'
56. Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA)
Highlights of General Elections 2014
Worlds biggest democratic exercise Indias 16
th
Lok Sabha (Lower House) elections which ran from April, 7 to May 12, 2014 are
over and its verdict is out. Of the total 543 seats for which elections were contested, BJP led NDA achieved a thumping victory on 336
seats, whereas, Congress led UPA has faced thorough defeat in 6 key states winning just 59 seats, and the Congress, 44 seats.
TheAam Aadmi Party (AAP) which contested on 424 seats has faced debacle as it could win just 4 seats. AAP leader and former Chief
Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejrival, who contested against the Narendra Modi from Varanasi, defeated by a huge margin of more than 3
lakh votes.
With this NDA victory, BJPs Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is all set to be the head of the newly elected Indian
Government.
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BJP registered its biggest win in Uttar Pradesh winning 71 seats despite a big coalition partner, the best performance by a single
party in the state since 1984 when the Congress won 83 of 85 seats.
Results Lok Sabha Polls 2014:
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SBI PO 2014 EXAM
ALLIANCE TALLY
NDA (BJP + Allies) 335
UPA (Congress +
Allies)
59
AAP 4
SP 5
BSP 0
AITC 34
JD(U) 2
LEFT 11
ADMK 37
OTHERS 56
TOTAL 543/543
Vote Share:
Alliance Vote Share (%)
NDA 35
UPA 23
LEFT 4
AITC 4
Others 34