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List of State Visitors to India (Most Updated) Month Visitors January January 03, 2013 State visit of President of Republic of Maur...

List of important foreign visitors to India in 2013 ( From Jan'2013 to Sep'18-2013)

List of State Visitors to India (Most Updated)

MonthVisitors
January
January 03, 2013State visit of President of Republic of Mauritius H.E. Mr. Rajkeswur Purryag (January 3-10, 2013)
January 20, 2013Visit of Foreign Minister of Australia to India (January 19-22, 2013)
January 21, 2013Visit of Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka to India (January 21-23, 2013)
January 21, 2013Visit of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan to India (January 21-22, 2013)
January 22, 2013State visit of the King of Bhutan H.M. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (January 23-30, 2013)
February
February 17, 2013Official Visit of Prime Minister of UK to India (February 18-20, 2013)
February 06, 2013Visit of Prime Minister of Bhutan Jigmi Y. Thinley to India (February 7-9, 2013)
February 15, 2013State Visit of H.E. Mr. Francois Hollande President of the Republic of France to India (February 14-15, 2013)
March
March 02, 2013Visit of Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan to India (March 3-5, 2013)
March 03, 2013Visit of Foreign Minister of Portugal to India (March 3-7, 2013)
March 10, 2013Visit of Minister of Amiri Dewan Affairs of Kuwait to India (March 10-13, 2013)
March 17, 2013State visit of His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Morsy, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt to India (March 18-20, 2013)
March 23, 2013Visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr. Zlatko Lagumdzija (24-28 , March, 2013)
March 31, 2013Visit of His Excellency Dr. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland to India (March 31-April 06, 2013)
May
May 02, 2013Visit of His Excellency Mr. Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan (May 2-5, 2013)
May 06, 2013Visit of Mr. Erkki Tuomioja, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland to India (May 06-08, 2013)
May 14, 2013State Visit of Chinese Premier Mr. Li Keqiang to India (May 19-21, 2013)
May 18, 2013Visit of President of Afghanistan (May 20-22, 2013)
May 23, 2013Visit of Foreign Minister of Cuba (May 25-27, 2013)
June
June 03, 2013Visit of Foreign Minister of New Zealand to India (June 4, 2013)
June 14, 2013Visit of Foreign Minister of Argentina to India (June 15-18, 2013)
June 17, 2013Visit of Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic (June 17- 20, 2013)
June 22, 2013Visit of US Secretary of State Mr. John Kerry (June 23-25, 2013)
July
July 09, 2013Visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam (July 10-12, 2013)
July 22, 2013Visit of Vice President of USA (July 22-25, 2013)
July 25, 2013Visit of Minister of Finance and National Economy of Sudan (July 24-26, 2013)
August
August 12, 2013Visit of Foreign Minister of Republic of Chad (August 12-13, 2013)
August 18, 2013Visit of Minister of External Affairs of Sri Lanka (August 18-19, 2013)
August 19, 2013Visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Nicaragua to India (August 20-23, 2013)
August 19, 2013Official visit of Vice President of Afghanistan to India (August 20-22, 2013)
August 21, 2013State visit of Prime Minister of Iraq to India (August 22-25, 2013)
August 23, 2013Visit of Foreign Minister of Tuvalu to India (August 21-25, 2013)
August 05, 2013Visit of Mr. Sushil Kumar Koirala, President of Nepali Congress to India (August 4-9, 2013)
September
September 02, 2013Visit of Prime Minister of Bhutan to India (August 30-September 4, 2013)
September 06, 2013State Visit of the President of Republic of Liberia to India (September 9-13)
September 17, 2013Visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia (September 14-20, 2013)
September 18, 2013Official Visit of His Highness The Aga Khan to India (September 17-28, 2013)

Salient Points of India's 5 Year Plans ( Upto 11th Plan Period) Plan Notes First Plan(1951 - 56) It was based on Harrod-Domar Mod...

Summary of India's 5 Year Plans ( Upto 11th Plan Period)

Salient Points of India's 5 Year Plans ( Upto 11th Plan Period)
PlanNotes
First Plan(1951 - 56)It was based on Harrod-Domar Model.
 Community Development Program launched in 1952
 Focus on agriculture, price stability, power and transport
 It was a successful plan primarily because of good harvests in the last two years of the plan
Second Plan(1956 - 61)Target Growth: 4.5% Actual Growth: 4.27%Also called Mahalanobis Plan named after the well known economist
 Focus - rapid industrialization
 Advocated huge imports through foreign loans.
 Shifted basic emphasis from agriculture to industry far too soon. 
 During this plan, prices increased by 30%, against a decline of 13% during the First Plan
Third Plan (1961 - 66)Target Growth: 5.6% Actual Growth: 2.84%At its conception, it was felt that Indian economy has entered a take-off stage. Therefore, its aim was to make India a 'self-reliant' and 'self-generating' economy.
 Based on the experience of first two plans, agriculture was given top priority to support the exports and industry.
 Complete failure in reaching the targets due to unforeseen events - Chinese aggression (1962), Indo-Pak war (1965), severe drought 1965-66
Three Annual Plans (1966-69) Plan holiday for 3years.Prevailing crisis in agriculture and serious food shortage necessitated the emphasis on agriculture during the Annual Plans
 During these plans a whole new agricultural strategy was implemented. It involving wide-spread distribution of high-yielding varieties of seeds, extensive use of fertilizers, exploitation of irrigation potential and soil conservation. 
 During the Annual Plans, the economy absorbed the shocks generated during the Third Plan
 It paved the path for the planned growth ahead.
Fourth Plan(1969 - 74)Target Growth: 5.7% Actual Growth: 3.30%Main emphasis was on growth rate of agriculture to enable other sectors to move forward
 First two years of the plan saw record production. The last three years did not measure up due to poor monsoon.
 Influx of Bangladeshi refugees before and after 1971 Indo-Pak war was an important issue
Fifth Plan(1974-79)Target Growth: 4.4% Actual Growth: 3.8The fifth plan was prepared and launched by D.D. Dhar. 
 It proposed to achieve two main objectives: 'removal of poverty' (Garibi Hatao) and 'attainment of self reliance'
 Promotion of high rate of growth, better distribution of income and significant growth in the domestic rate of savings were seen as key instruments
 The plan was terminated in 1978 (instead of 1979) when Janta Party Govt. rose to power.
Rolling Plan(1978 - 80)There were 2 Sixth Plans. Janta Govt. put forward a plan for 1978-1983. However, the government lasted for only 2 years. Congress Govt. returned to power in 1980 and launched a different plan.
  
Sixth Plan(1980 - 85) Target Growth: 5.2% Actual Growth: 5.66%Focus - Increase in national income, modernization of technology, ensuring continuous decrease in poverty and unemployment, population control through family planning, etc.
  
  
Seventh Plan (1985 - 90) Target Growth: 5.0% Actual Growth: 6.01%Focus - rapid growth in food-grains production, increased employment opportunities and productivity within the framework of basic tenants of planning.
  
 The plan was very successful, the economy recorded 6% growth rate against the targeted 5%.
Eighth Plan (1992 - 97)The eighth plan was postponed by two years because of political uncertainty at the Centre 
 Worsening Balance of Payment position and inflation during 1990-91 were the key issues during the launch of the plan.
 The plan undertook drastic policy measures to combat the bad economic situation and to undertake an annual average growth of 5.6%
 Some of the main economic outcomes during eighth plan period were rapid economic growth, high growth of agriculture and allied sector, and manufacturing sector, growth in exports and imports, improvement in trade and current account deficit.
Ninth Plan (1997- 2002)Target Growth: 6.5% Actual Growth: 5.35%It was developed in the context of four important dimensions: Quality of life, generation of productive employment, regional balance and self-reliance.
  
  
Tenth Plan(2002 - 2007)Goals:
 To achieve 8% GDP growth rate
 Reduction of poverty ratio by 5 percentage points by 2007.
 Providing gainful high quality employment to the addition to the labour force over the tenth plan period.
 Universal access to primary education by 2007.
 Reduction in gender gaps in literacy and wage rates by atleast 50% by 2007.
 Reduction in decadal rate of population growth between 2001 and 2011 to 16.2%.
 Increase in literacy rate to 72% within the plan period and to 80% by 2012.
 Reduction of Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) to 45 per 1000 live births by 2007 and to 28 by 2012.
 Increase in forest and tree cover to 25% by 2007 and 33% by 2012.
 All villages to have sustained access to potable drinking water by 2012.
 Cleaning of all major polluted rivers by 2007 and other notified stretches by 2012.
Eleventh Plan(2007 - 2012)Goals:
 Accelerate GDP growth from 8% to 10%. Increase agricultural GDP growth rate to 4% per year.
 Create 70 million new work opportunities and reduce educated unemployment to below 5%.
 Raise real wage rate of unskilled workers by 20 percent.
 Reduce dropout rates of children from elementary school from 52.2% in 2003-04 to 20% by 2011-12. Increase literacy rate for persons of age 7 years or above to 85%.
 Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage point. Increase the percentage of each cohort going to higher education from the present 10% to 15%.
 Reduce infant mortality rate to 28 and maternal mortality ratio to 1 per 1000 live births
 Reduce Total Fertility Rate to 2.1
 Provide clean drinking water for all by 2009. Reduce malnutrition among children between 0-3 years to half its present level. Reduce anaemia among women and girls by 50%.
 Raise the sex ratio for age group 0-6 to 935 by 2011-12 and to 950 by 2016-17
 Ensure that at least 33 percent of the direct and indirect beneficiaries of all government schemes are women and girl children
 Ensure all-weather road connection to all habitation with population 1000 and above (500 in hilly and tribal areas) by 2009, and ensure coverage of all significant habitation by 2015
 Connect every village by telephone by November 2007 and provide broadband connectivity to all villages by 2012
 Increase forest and tree cover by 5 percentage points.
 Attain WHO standards of air quality in all major cities by 2011-12.
 Treat all urban waste water by 2011-12 to clean river waters.
 Increase energy efficiency by 20 percentage points by 2016-17.

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summits • 4th BRICS Summit 2012 – New Delhi, India • 5th BRICS Summit 2013 – Du...

Important World Summits ( Frequently asked in Exams)

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summits


• 4th BRICS Summit 2012 – New Delhi, India
• 5th BRICS Summit 2013 – Durban, South Africa





G-8 Annual Summits Group of Eight (G8) Countries – France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, Russia.


• 37th G8 Meeting 2011 – Deauville, France
• 38th G8 Meeting 2012 – David camp, USA
• 39th G8 Summit 2013 – County Fermanagh, UK
• 40th G8 Summit 2014 – Russia




G-20 Summits




• 7th G 20 Meeting 2012 – Los Cabos, Mexico
• 8th G 20 Meeting 2013 – Saint Petersburg, Russia
• 9th G 20 Meeting 2014 – Brisbane, Australia




SAARC Summits SAARC – South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation






• 17th SAARC Summit 2011– Addu, Maldives
• 18th SAARC Summit 2013 – Kathmandu,Nepal






ASEAN Summits ASEAN – Association of South East Asian Nation

• 19th ASEAN Summit 2011 (November) – Bali, Indonesia
• 20th ASEAN Summit 2012 (April)– Phnom penh, Cambodia
• 21th ASEAN Summit 2012 (November)– Phnom penh, Cambodia

ASEAN-India Summit

• 9th ASEAN-India Summit 2011 – Bali, Indonesia
• 10th ASEAN-India Summit 2012 – Phnom penh, Cambodia


East Asia Summit (EAS) EAS meetings are held after annual ASEAN leaders’ meetings.


• 6th East Asia Summit 2011 – Bali, Indonesia
• 7th East Asia Summit 2012 – Phnom penh, Cambodia







IBSA Summits IBSA Dialogue Forum – India, Brazil, South Africa.




• 5th IBSA Summit 2011 – Pretoria, South Africa
• 6th IBSA Summit 2013 – India




APEC Summits APEC – Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation



• 23rd APEC summit 2011 – Honolulu, USA
• 24th APEC Summit 2012 – Vladivostok,Russia
• 25th APEC Summit 2013 – Medan/Jakarta, Indonesia
• 26th APEC Summit 2014 – China
• 27th APEC Summit 2015 – Philippines
• 28th APEC Summit 2016 – Lima, Peru

OPEC Seminars OPEC – Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries


• 4th OPEC International Seminar 2009 – Vienna, Austria
• 5th OPEC International Seminar 2012 – Vienna, Austria





NAM Summits NAM – Non-aligned Movement




• 16th NAM Summit 2012 – Tehran, Iran
• 17th NAM Summit 2015 – Caracas,Venezuela




SCO Meetings SCO – Shanghai Cooperation Organization





• SCO Meeting 2011 – Astana, Kazakhstan
• SCO Meeting 2012 – Beijing, China
• SCO Meeting 2013 – Kyrgyzstan







Asian Development Bank (ADB) Annual Meetings Annual meeting of the board of governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held every year.


• ADB Annual Meeting 2012 – Manila, Philippines
• ADB Annual Meeting 2013 – New Delhi, India








WTO Ministerial Conferences



• 8th WTO Ministerial Conferences2011 – Geneva, Switzerland
• 9th WTO Ministerial Conferences2013 (Expected) -Bali, Indonesia

Picture Courtesy: PTI Graphics Complete List of Governors of Reserve Bank of India Sr. No. Name Tenure 1 Sir Osborne Smith 1 Ap...

Governors of Reserve Bank of India

Picture Courtesy: PTI Graphics

Complete List of Governors of Reserve Bank of India



Sr. No. Name Tenure
1 Sir Osborne Smith 1 April 1935 – 30 June 1937
2 Sir James Braid Taylor 1 July 1937 – 17 February 1943
3 Sir C. D. Deshmukh 11 August 1943 – 30 June 1949
4 Sir Benegal Rama Rau 1 July 1949 – 14 January 1957
5 K. G. Ambegaonkar 14 January 1957 – 28 February 1957
6 H. V. R. Iyengar 1 March 1957 – 28 February 1962
7 P. C. Bhattacharya 1 March 1962 – 30 June 1967
8 L. K. Jha 1 July 1967 – 3 May 1970
9 B. N. Adarkar 4 May 1970 – 15 June 1970
10 S. Jagannathan 16 June 1970 – 19 May 1975
11 N. C. Sen Gupta 19 May 1975 – 19 August 1975
12 K. R. Puri 20 August 1975 – 2 May 1977
13 M. Narasimham 3 May 1977 – 30 November 1977
14 Dr. I. G. Patel 1 December 1977 – 15 September 1982
15 Dr. Manmohan Singh 16 September 1982 – 14 January 1985
16 A. Ghosh 15 January 1985 – 4 February 1985
17 R N Malhotra 04 February 1985 to 22 December 1990
18 S. Venkitaramanan 22 December 1990 – 21 December 1992
19 C. Rangarajan 22 December 1992 – 21 November 1997
20 Dr. Bimal Jalan 22 November 1997 – 6 September 2003
21 Dr. Y V Reddy 6 September 2003 – 5 September 2008
22 D. Subbarao 5 September 2008 to 04 September 2013
23 Raghuram Rajan 05 September 2013 to Present

There has been several new appointments in Power Centers, important Government Posts, organizations - both in India and across the globe. ...

Key Appointments of 2013 - India & World

There has been several new appointments in Power Centers, important Government Posts, organizations - both in India and across the globe. Catch a glimpse of important appointments of 2013



Sl No Post/Appointment Name Month
Banking
1 Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of Baroda S. S. Mundra Jan-13
2 Executive Director of Central Bank of India Raj Kumar Goyal Jan-13
3 Who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Canara Bank R K Dubey Jan-13
4 Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Urjit Patel Jan-13
5 Executive Director of the Reserve Bank of India Deepali Pant Joshi Jan-13
6 Non-executive Chairman of Axis Bank Sanjiv Misra Mar-13
7 Governor of the Bank of Japan Haruhiko Kuroda Mar-13
8 President – Retail Banking of Axis Bank Rajiv Anand Apr-13
9 Chairman and Managing Director of United Bank of India (UBI) Archana Bhargava Apr-13
10 President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Takehiko Nakao Apr-13
Business/Market Related
11 CEO of Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) Sanjoy Chowdhury Jan-13
12 New country manager for India LinkedIn Nishant K Rao Jan-13
13 Managing director of CSC in India Neeraj Nityanand Jan-13
14 Managing Director of IBM India Pvt Ltd Vanitha Narayanan Jan-13
CEO of HCL Technologie Ltd. Anant Gupta Jan-13
15 Deputy Managing Director of Yamaha India Masaki Asano Jan-13
16 Whole Time Member of SEBI S Raman Jan-13
17 Secretary of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) MS Sahoo Jan-13
18 President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) Subodh Kumar Agrawal Feb-13
19 Vice Preident of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) K Raghu Feb-13
20 Chairman of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) T S Vijayan Feb-13
21 Managing Director and CEO Maruti Suzuki India Ltd Kenichi Ayukawa Mar-13
22 Head of Google’s Android division Sunder Pichai Mar-13
23 Chairman of CII–Southern Region for 2013-14 B. Santhanam Mar-13
24 President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India Rajan Bharti Mittal Mar-13
25 President of CII for the year 2013-14 S. Gopalakrishnan Apr-13
26 Chairman of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd G V Prasad Apr-13
27 President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India, Indian affiliate of the Paris-based ICC Rajan Bharti Mittal Apr-13
28 President Designate of CII for the year 2013-14 Ajay S Shriram Apr-13
29 Chairman of National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) Krishnakumar Natarajan Apr-13
30 Head of the Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Jo White Apr-13
31 Vice Chairman of National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) for the year 2013-14 R Chandrasekaran Apr-13
32 Vice-Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Sunil Bharti Mittal Apr-13
33 Managing Director of Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) Narendra Kumar Apr-13
Government Appointment
34 Secretary of Ministry of Water Resources Syamal Kumar Sarkar Jan-13
35 Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India Justice D K Jain Jan-13
36 Secretary of the Department of Disinvestment Ravi Mathur Jan-13
37 Chairman of 14th finance commission Y V Reddy Jan-13
38 First woman Speaker of the Singapore parliament Halimah Yacob Jan-13
39 New China envoy to India Wei Wei Jan-13
40 Commandant of National Defence Academy Kulwant Singh Gill Jan-13
41 Speaker of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Brij Bihari Lal Butail Jan-13
42 Who has been appointed as the new Solicitor-General of India Mohan Parasaran Feb-13
43 Who has been appointed as the new Lokayukta of Karnataka Y. Bhaskar Rao Feb-13
44 Next Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York Asoke Kumar Mukerji Feb-13
45 20th Director General of Indian Coast Guard Anurag G Thapliyal Mar-13
46 Goa’s first Lokayukta B. Sudershan Reddy Mar-13
47 First Chief Justice of the new Manipur High Court Abhay Manohar Sapre Mar-13
48 Lokayukta of Rajasthan Sajjan Singh Kothari Mar-13
49 First Chief Justice of the new Meghalaya High Court T Meena Kumari Mar-13
50 First Chief Justice of the new Tripura High Court Dr. D Y Patil Mar-13
51 Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) MRP Rao Mar-13
52 Secretary of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) M F Farooqui Apr-13
53 President of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI) C. Shekhar Reddy Apr-13
54 Director (Personnel) of Electronics Corporation of India Ltd V.S.B. Babu Apr-13
55 Secretary in Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Amarjit Singh Apr-13
56 Chairman Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA) Amarnath Sengupta Apr-13
57 President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) Raninder Singh Apr-13
58 Chairman of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Amitava Bhattacharyya Apr-13
59 Vice Chairman of Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA) for fiscal 2013-14 P. Devadas Apr-13
60 Special Director General of CRPF Aruna Bahuguna Apr-13
61 Secretary of Minority Affairs Ministry Lalit K Panwar Apr-13
62 Home Secretary of India Anil Goswami Apr-13
63 Chief Justice for High Court of Himachal Pradesh Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar Apr-13
Others
64 Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) S. Ramakrishnan Jan-13
65 Director of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) M.C. Dathan Jan-13
66 Director of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) M.Y.S. Prasad Jan-13
67 Who has been appointed as the new Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) P.R.Vasudeva Rao Feb-13
68 The President of India has appointed whom as Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty Feb-13
69 First non-American Editor of Time International Bobby Ghosh Mar-13
70 266th Pope Argentina’s Jorge Bergoglio Mar-13
71 Vice-President-Cum-President of Computer Society of India H.R. Mohan Apr-13
72 President of Editors Guild of India Narasimhan Ravi Apr-13
73 Chairman of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on population and Development PJ Kurien Apr-13
Politics
74 Czech Republic’s first direct President Milos Zeman Jan-13
75 New president of Bharatiya Janata Party Rajnath Singh Jan-13
76 First Hindu member of the US House of Representatives Tulsi Gabbard Jan-13
77 US secretary of state John Kerry Jan-13
78 US President Barack Obama has nominated as the new U.S. interior secretary for looking after the huge energy reserves as well as the national parks Sally Jewell Feb-13
79 US Defense Secretary by the US Senate Chuck Hagel Feb-13
80 President of Ecuador for the 3rd term Rafael Correa Feb-13
81 Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel Feb-13
82 President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades Feb-13
83 Chief Minister of Nagaland for the third consecutive term Neiphiu Rio Mar-13
84 Chief minister of Meghalaya for a second straight term Mukul Sangma Mar-13
85 Chief minister of Tripura for the record 5th Consecutive time Manik Sarkar Mar-13
86 Governor of Nagaland Ashwani Kumar Mar-13
87 Governor of Odhisa S C Jamir Mar-13
88 Governor of Tripura Devanand Konwar Mar-13
89 Governor of Bihar D Y Patil Mar-13
90 President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta Mar-13
91 Prime Minister of Nepal to head interim government Khil Raj Regmi Mar-13
92 Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu Mar-13
93 20th Governor of Kerala Nikhil Kumar Mar-13
94 President of Venezuela after death of Hugo Chavez Nicolas Maduro Apr-13
95 20th president of Bangladesh Abdul Hamid Apr-13
96 Prime Minister of Italy Enrico Letta Apr-13
97 Governor of Jammu and Kashmir for the second term N N Vohra Apr-13
98 National President of Janata Dal (re-elected) Sharad Yadav Apr-13
99 President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano Apr-13
Sports
100 Chairman of the All India Football Federation’s technical committee Baichung Bhutia Mar-13
101 Coach of the Junior Hockey Men’s National Team Gregg Clark Apr-13
102 Managing Director of Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) Sunil Kumar Apr-13

1. Which Indian brand tops the list in the first edition of Inter brands Best Indian Brands study published in July 2013? A) Reliance ...

Important Current Affair MCQ -2013 ( July/Aug/Sep)


1. Which Indian brand tops the list in the first edition of Inter brands Best Indian Brands study published in July 2013?
A) Reliance
B) Birla
C) Tata
D) Essar
Ans) Tata



2. Which Indian athlete won gold medal of World Snooker Championship held at Colombia in July 2013?
A) Pankaj Advani
B) Aditya Mehta
C) Yasin Merchant
D) None of These
Ans) Aditya Mehta





3. The RBI has kept Statutory Liquidity Ratio unchanged at _______ during its monetary policy review meet in July 2013.
A) 23%
B) 23.5%
C) 24%
D) 25%
Ans) 23%

4. Which country won the second edition of the South Asian Football Federation Championship held in July 2013?
A) Nepal
B) India
C) Bangladesh
D) Afghanistan
Ans) India



Important Dates and Days that occurs frequently in various competitive exam. This is extremely important from IBPS/CSAT/UPSC exam and ca...

List of Important National/International Days/Dates


Important Dates and Days that occurs frequently in various competitive exam. This is extremely important from IBPS/CSAT/UPSC exam and can fetch easy marks.Try to memorize the days month wise to avoid confusion.






Sr NoDATEDAY
112th JanuaryNational Youth day (Birthday of Vivekananda).
215th JanuaryArmy day.
324th JanNational Girl Child Day.
425th JanuaryNational tourism day/ Voters day
530th JanuaryNational Martyrs day & World anti Leprosy Day
63rd FebWorld Cancer Day.
728th FebNational science day
88th MarchInternational women day
99th MarchWorld Kidney day
1015th MarchWorld Consumer rights day , (the theme for 2013 is, ‘Consumer Justice Now)
1120th MarchWorld Sparrow Day & International Happiness Day.
1221st MarchWorld Forestry day
1322nd MarchWorld water day (For the year 2013, the theme is ‘Water Cooperations)
1423rd MarchWorld Meteorological day
1524th MarchWorld T.B. day
1602-AprWorld Autism Awareness Day
177th AprilWorld Health day
1821st AprilCivil service day
1922nd AprilWorld Earth day
2023rd AprilWorld Books day
2124th AprilPanchayat Divas
221st MayInternational Labour day
2311th MayNational Technology day
2421st MayAnti Terrorism day (Death day of Rajiv Gandhi)
2531st MayAnti Tobacco Day
265th JuneWorld Environment day
271st JulyDoctors day
2811th JulyWorld population day
306th AugustHiroshima day
319th AugustNagasaki day
3212th AugustInternational youth day
3329th AugustNational Sports Day
345th SeptemberTeachers day
358th SeptemberWorld Literacy day
3614th SeptemberHindi Divas
3715th SeptemberEngineers day
3816th SeptemberOzone day
392nd OctoberInternational Non-violence day
408th OctoberAir force day
419th OctoberWorld post day
4224th OctoberUnited nation day
4317th NovemberStudents day
4418th NovemberAdults day
4519th NovemberCitizens day
4627th NovemberNational law day
471st DecemberAIDS day
484th DecemberNavy day
4910th DecemberHuman Rights day
5014th DecemberNational consumers day & National Energy Conservation Day.

1. BSBDA - Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account 2. FCNR(B) - Foreign Currency Non-Resident Bank 3. TARC - Tax Administration Reform Co...

52 Important Abbreviations for IBPS/CSAT/UPSC and other Exams 2013

1.BSBDA - Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account
2.FCNR(B) - Foreign Currency Non-Resident Bank
3.TARC - Tax Administration Reform Commission
4.ITEs: I ntra-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.ECB : External Commercial Borrowings
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.TIEA:Tax Information Exchange Agreement  

a) The food security bill approved is directed towards giving the right to food to around 67 per cent of India's 120-crore populatio...

India's Food Security Bill 2013 - Important Points

a) The food security bill approved is directed towards giving the right to food to around 67 per cent of India's 120-crore population (including 75% rural and 50% urban).

b) While families in the poorest of the poor will continue to get 35 kg of grains per month.

c) Rice will be made available at 3 Rupees per Kg.

d) Wheat will cost 2 rupees a kg and cereal will be sold for 1 Rupees per kg.

e) The Food Security programme will be the biggest in the world with the government spending estimated at Rs. 1,25,000 crore annually on supply of about 62 million tonnes of rice, wheat and coarse cereals to 67 per cent of the population.

India's Ranking in different Global Indexes for 2013:  a) Global Hunger Index - 66. b) Global Peace Index – 141 c) Human Devel...

India's Ranking in different Global Indexes for 2013

India's Ranking in different Global Indexes for 2013: 

a) Global Hunger Index- 66.

b) Global Peace Index – 141

c) Human Development Report – 136

d) Global Corruption Index – 94


e) Global Competitiveness Index-60 for 2013 (Switzerland top in this report)

f) Gender Inequality Index - 132nd (UN Human Development (Index) Report)

g) In List of High Net worth Individuals – 5th acc to the Knight Frank Wealth Report 2013

h) In The List of Spam Spewing Nation in the World- 3rd after US and China (as per the new report of Sophos Labs)

i) India has been ranked as the 119th freest country in the world out of 177 in the 2013 index of economic freedom.

FDI in India has been quite controversial issue as far as India's economic policy is concerned. The FDI Limits as decided by the union...

Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) Limits in India- Awesome Infographics


FDI in India has been quite controversial issue as far as India's economic policy is concerned. The FDI Limits as decided by the union government has been quite interesting. While Single Brand Retail Outlet, Tourism, Pharma & Telecom sector can have 100% FDI, Govt. has been quite cautious to allow only 26% FDI Limit for Defence Sector.

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                               49
7.        Private Sec. Banks                              74
8.        Multi Brand                                         51
9.        Single Brand                                       100
10.        Tourism                                           100
11.        Pharmaceuticals                                100
12.        FM Radio                                        26
13.       Telecommunication                            100
14.       Asset Reconstruction companies          100

1.RBI has launched a website explaining ways to detect counterfeit notes with a tagline 'Pehchano Paise Ki Boli, Kyunki Paisa Bolta Ha...

Important Fact and news of RBI 2013

1.RBI has launched a website explaining ways to detect counterfeit notes with a tagline 'Pehchano Paise Ki Boli, Kyunki Paisa Bolta Hai'.

2.R.B.I. directed Banks to follow Clean Note Policy.

3.RBI started Plastic Money Project on Trial Basis in 5 cities of India with the denomination of 10 rupees and will continue with other small denominations depending upon the success of these notes.

4.The Union Government and RBI on 12 March 2013 decided to introduce one billion pieces of 10 Rupees bank notes made of plastic on a field trial basis in five cities of Kochi, Mysore, Jaipur, Bhubhaneswar and Shimla.

5.RBI guide lines for the clearance of all the cheques is 2 days.

6.RBI hiked the investment limit in government securities by FIIs and long-term investors $25 billion from $20 billion and in corporate bonds $50 billion from $45 billion.

a. CRR – 4% b. SLR – 23% c. Repo Rate – 7.25% d. Reverse Repo– 6.25% e. MSF– 10.25%  f. Bank Rate – 10.25% Download...

Current RBI Rates



a. CRR – 4%
b. SLR – 23%
c. Repo Rate – 7.25%
d. Reverse Repo– 6.25%
e. MSF– 10.25%
 f. Bank Rate – 10.25%


Download the latest RBI Rates

1. Who is the winner of  Australian Open 2013 Women's title ? Answer: Victoria Azarenka 2. Who is the winner of  Australian Open ...

Important Current Affair Questions till August 2013 for IBPS, RBI, SSC


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)

4. Who is the chief guest of republic day 2013 ?
Answer: Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, King of Bhutan

August, 2013        31st August: Hyderabad  Hotshots  wins the first Indian Badminton League (IBL). 30th August: ...

Current Affair: August 2013

August, 2013       

31st August:








  • Hyderabad Hotshots wins the first Indian Badminton League (IBL).
30th August:
  • India's economy grew at 4.4 per cent in the April-June 2013 quarter, the slowest quarterly rate in last 4 years.

  • India becomes the first nation to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to Australia as Air India's first commercial flight landed in Australia.
  • Indian Hockey Team assured of a berth in next year's World Hockey Cup in Netherland after defeating Malaysia 2-0 in the semifinal of Asia Cup.
29th August:
  • The Land Acquisition Bill passed in Lok Sabha.
  • Indian Mujahideen chief Yasin Bhatkal arrested near India-Nepal Border.
  • India's Chandrayan mission data helped NASA to detected magmatic water locked under the surface of the Moon.

After a long battle against the newly imposed Educational Qualification for the post of Probationary Officers (PO) / Management Trainee...

IBPS Removed 60 Percent in Graduation and Age Limit for PO/MT Posts-Important Corrigendum

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After a long battle against the newly imposed Educational Qualification for the post of Probationary Officers (PO) / Management Trainee (MT) in Public Sector Banks, Today on July 22, 2013 Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) issued a CORRIGENDUM regarding it’s latest Notification for the Common Written Examinations for the Recruitment of PO/ MT in Public Sector Banks.





CORRIGENDUM



The eligibility criteria for the recruitment of POs/MTs under CWE-PO/MT-III have been revised as under:
1. Educational Qualification: A Degree (Graduation) in any discipline from a recognized University or any equivalent qualification recognized as such by the Central Government


2. Age:

Minimum – 20 years Maximum – 30 years (i.e. candidate must have been not born earlier than 02.07.1983 and not later than 01.07.1993)
(Relaxation in upper age limit as per Govt. Guidelines for Reserved Categories will apply).

3. Computer Literacy: Not Mandatory

Revised dates for registration are as under:
Activity Dates Online Registration: 22.07.2013 to 17.08.2013
Payment of Application Fees/Intimation Charges (Online): 22.07.2013 to 17.08.2013
Payment of Application Fees/Intimation Charges(Offline): 24.07.2013 to 22.08.2013


For the Official CORRIGENDUM Click Here.