PRESIDENTS OF COUNTRIES

Current  Affairs 
[1]● Afghanistan : Hamid Karzai( before election)
[2]● Albania : Bujar Nishani
[3]● Algeria : Abdelaziz Bouteflika
[4]● Angola : Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
[5]● Antigua and Barbuda : Alincia T. H. Williams-Grant
[6]● Argentina : Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner
[7]● Armenia : Serzh Sargsian
[8]● Australia : Governor General-Quentin Alice Louise Bryce
[9]● Aruba : Fredis Refunjol
[10]● Austria : Heinz Fischer
[11]● Azerbaijan : Ilham Aliyev
[12]● Bahamas : Arthur Foulkes
[13]● Bahrain : King-Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
[14]● Bangladesh : Abdul Hamid
[15]● Barbados : Elliot Belgrave
[16]● Belarus : Aleksandr Lukashenko
[17]● Belgium : King-Philippe

Current GK 1 July

• PSLV C23 launched successfully from Sriharikota
• Malala Yousafzai wins Liberty Medal
• West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan resigns from his post
•    Pankaj Advani wins his maiden IBSF 6-Red World Snooker title in Egyp
• Saina Nehwal wins Australian Open Super Series title
•   Jean-Claude Juncker named as next European Commission president
• Kochi wins CNBC Awaaz ‘best city award’
• Flipkart launches 7-inch calling tablet for Rs 9,999
  

Headlines of today

1. The five recognized Nuclear Powers (United States, Russia, China, Britain and France) signed a treaty to create a ‘nuclear free zone’ in 5 central Asian countries namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

2. Historian and political scientist Luis Guillermo Solis has been sworn in as 47th President of Costa Rica.

3. Ronnie O’Sullivan has been crowned World Snooker Player of the Year. The five-time world snooker champion was recently stunned by Mark Selby at the Dafabet World Championship.

4. Nation to observe National Technology Day 2014 on May 11. It marks multiple technological breakthrough achieved on the day like Pokhran nuclear tests in 1998, test-flight of our first indigenous aircraft “Hansa-3″ and successful test firing of the Trishul missile.

GK update

1.    Govt, World Bank sign USD 60 mn loan pact for K'taka project

i. The government signed a USD 60 million loan agreement with the World Bank on Monday to improve watershed operations in seven districts of Karnataka.

ii. “Government and the World Bank signed a USD 60 million credit agreement for the Karnataka Watershed Development Project II (KWDP II) to further improve watershed planning and management in project areas.

iii. The project will improve government watershed operations in 930 micro-watersheds covering 465,000 hectares across sevendistricts of Karnataka.

iv. The project follows successful implementation of WB-supported KWDP I which helped improve lives of 230,000 farmers by increasing crop yields by about 25 per cent and raising household incomes of small and marginal farmers by 40 per cent.

v. It will also facilitate better convergence of IWMP with othser government programmes such as National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). 

vi. Besides, it will strengthen the financial and technical convergence between IWMP and NREGS through more integrated watershed planning and monitoring, and developing innovative tools and processes in sub and micro-watersheds.

vii. It will be financed through a credit from World Bank’s concessionary lending arm, International Development Association (IDA). 

viii. The closing date of the project is 31^st December, 2018.

कैबिनेट मंत्री क्र.संख्या-पोर्टफोलियो-मंत्री का नाम

कैबिनेट मंत्री क्र.संख्या-पोर्टफोलियो-मंत्री का नाम
1. प्रधानमंत्री के साथ ही उन मंत्रालयों और विभागों का प्रभार
जो किसी मंत्री को नहीं सौंपे गए हैं।
इनमें कार्मिक, जन शिकायत और पेंशन, योजना मंत्रालय, परमाणु ऊर्जा
तथा अंतरिक्ष विभाग शामिल हैं।-डॉ. मनमोहन सिंह
2. रेल मंत्रालय-श्री पवन कुमार बंसल
3. वित्त मंत्रालय-श्री पी. चिदंबरम
4. कृषि एवं खाद्य प्रसंस्करण मंत्रालय-

श्री शरद पवार
5. रक्षा मंत्रालय-श्री ए. के. एंटनी
6. गृह मंत्रालय-श्री सुशील कुमार शिंदे
7. विदेश मंत्रालय-श्री सलमान खुर्शीद
8. विज्ञान और प्रौद्योगिकी मंत्रालय और पृथ्वी विज्ञान मंत्रालय-श्री जयपाल सुडिनी रेड्डी
9. स्वास्थ्य और परिवार कल्याण मंत्रालय-श्री गुलाम नबी आजाद
10. नवीन एवं अक्षय ऊर्जा मंत्रालय-श्री फारूक अब्दुल्ला
11. पेट्रोलियम और प्राकृतिक गैस मंत्रालय-श्री एम. वीरप्पा मोइली

Current events

G-8 Summit
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38th (2012) - Camp David, Maryland, USA
39th (2013) - Ullswater, UK
40th (2014) - Skolkovo, Moscow, Russia

G-20 Summit
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7th (2012) - Los Cabos, Mexico
8th (2013) - Strelna, St.Petersburg, Russia
9th (2014) - Brisbane, Australia
10th (2015) - Turkey

Important International Awards at one Place

Nobel Prizes-The Nobel prizes lore awarded each year under the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, engineer and inventor of dynamite, who died in 1896. The award is given to those who have made most outstanding contribution in the field of physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine, who have produced most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency and those who have contributed most towards world peace.

Magsaysay Awards-This award was instituted in memory of the Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay who died in an air crash in 1957. The award carries a gold medal, $ 50,000 and a certificate a and is awarded for the following five services : (i) Government service; (ii ) Public service; (iii) Community Leadership; (iv) Journalism, Literature and Communicative Arts; (v) International Understanding. The awards have been given from 1958 onwards.

Kalinga Prize- This award is presented each year by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to a person with a distinguished career of service in the interpretation of science and research to the public.The prize was instituted by Biju Patnaik, industrialist and politician who is the founder and Chairman of the Kalinga Foundation Trust in the State of Orissa. UNESCO awarded the prize for the first time in 1952.

Main October Days

* International Day of the Elderly October 1
* Gandhi Jayanti, International Day of Non-Violence October 2
* Lal Bahadur Shastri's Birth Anniversary October 2

* World Animal Day October 2
* World Vegetarian Day October 2
* World Habitat Day October 3
* World Animal Welfare Day October 4
* World Teacher's Day October 5
* World Wild Animal Day October 6
* Indian Air Force Day October 8
* World Post Office Day October 9
* National Post Day October 10

October GA

• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 20 October 2012 launchedAadhaar Enabled Service Delivery in Dudu district of Rajasthan to mark the 2nd anniversary of Aadhaar
• The Supreme Court of India on 19 October 2012 rejected the plea of Deccan Chargers to put a stay order on the decision of Mumbai High Court that supported the decision of BCCI to terminate the franchise from being in Indian Premier League (IPL).
• Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL) Jamnagar Refinery  won the British Safety Council’s ‘Globe of Honor Award’ for excellence in Environmental management.

October GA Part two

British Writer Hilary Mantel won Booker

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success.

The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee which includes an author, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation.

RRB PO all 40 Question

RRB all 40 Question

1.Based on RBI function.
2. Based on SEBI function.
3. Recently 20 more works has been added to which national employment scheme in India?
And: - MNREGA
4. India recently entered into TIEA with Bahrain. What is its full form?
Ans:- Tax Information Exchange Agreement

Current Affairs September 2012

The month of September will start with celebrations in India as:

·         “Onam” will be celebrated across the India on 1^st September. 

·         Ladakh Festival will be organised from 1^st to 15^th September.

·         Ganesh Chaturthi will be celebrated after a 10 day long Ganesha Festival i.e. from 19^th to 29^th September.

T-20 World Cup 2012 : will start on 18^th September 2012 in Sri Lanka. It will be major attraction for a cricket crazy nation like India.

35^th National Games will start in Kerala during the month of September.

International Events in India :

·         IORS 2012, India Oil & Gas Review Summit & International Exhibition will be organised in Hotel Taj Lands, Mumbai on 6th and 7th September.

·         Indo-Global Education Summit 2012 will be organised from 7th to 9th of September 2012

·         12th ASFAA  ( Asiania Sport For All Association)  Congress will be organised  26 – 30 September 2012 in New Delhi.

Current Gk

1. Recently which Ghazal Singer and Padmabhushan Awardee, Passed Away in Mumbai ?
-Jagjit Singh
Veteran ghazal singer Jagjit Singh passed away on 10 October 2011 in Mumbai. He was 70. He was admitted in
Lilavati Hospital for more than two weeks. The singer had undergone an emergency surgery for brain
hemorrhage at the Hospital on 23 September 2011.

2. Name the Ex-Chief Minister of Karnataka who was arrested recently.
B.S.Yeddyurappa

3. Name the 3D animation film Shemaroo Entertainment which is set to release online.
Super K

4. Who is set to head special purpose vehicle called the GST Network?
Nandan Nilekani

5.Which business has NIIT sold to Skillsoft for $110 million?
Element K

6. Who has been appointed as commissioner for the AFC Champions League final?
FIFA badge holder Gautam Kar

7. Name the men's and women's singles National champions who won the Fenesta National
Championship.
Yuki Bhambri and Rutuja Bhonsle

8. Name the Indian golfer who finished 2nd in the Hero Indian Open golf tournament.
Chiragh Kumar

9. Name the Indian women's discus thrower who qualified for London Olympics after clinching gold
medal at an event of the Fling Throw Meet in Portland, USA.
Krishna Poonia

10. Upon whose name a highway leading south out of the capital in Grenada is set to be renamed?
Kirani James Boulevard
11. Which director is set to make film on mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan?
Roger Spottiswoode

12. Name the team which won the Durand Cup?
Churchill Brothers

13. Which former Ranji Player died after falling from train at Vaikom in Kottayam?
K.R.Krishna Varma

14. Name the 69-year-old who collapsed and died minutes after fulfilling his life-long ambition of
climbing Africa's highest mountain peak, Mount Kilimanjaro.
Alistair Cook

15. Which Bollywood movie have been watched by over 1.3 lakh Chinese since its Mandarin version
release?
Aamir Khan's 3 Idiots 
16. Which Asian Advertising congress is coming back to India after 8 years?
Ad Asia (October 31st to November 3rd 2011)

17. Name the education technology solution launched by Texas Instruments in association with CORE
Education and Technologies to facilitate a better learning experience for students in classrooms across
India.
STEMpower

18. Who has been honoured with Dr.B.Saroja Devi award recently?
Dr.Vyjayanthimala

19. Who is set to receive Mahatma Gandhi peace prize in South Africa?
Dalai Lama

20. Name the rocket and navigation satellite launched by Russia after August's space ship crash.
Soyuz-2 rocket launched a GLONASS navigation satellite 
21. Who has been voted as 2nd most powerful business-woman in US?
Indra Nooyi

22. Which company has struck natural gas reserves in its first well drilled in the offshore Mannar basin
in Sri Lanka?
Cairn India

23. Who has been selected to create the theme music for the London Olympics 2012?
Scottish rocker Mark Ronson

24. Which Indian shuttler finished runner-up in Czech International Open?
Arundhati Pantawane

25. Which IAS officer has joined as Prime Minister's principal secretary?
Pulok Chatterjee 
26. Name the trio who received Nobel Medicine Prize for immune system research.
Bruce Beutler of USA, Jules Hoffmann Luxembourg and Ralph Steinman Canada

27. Which FM radio channel has taken initiative to make Goddess Durga idol out of bio-degradable and
recyclable waste material in Kolkata?
OYE 104.8 FM

28. Who is called as the Gandhian of Brazil?
Lia Diskin

29. Who is the inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker which keeps the heartbeat in a regular
rhythm?
Wilson Greatbatch

30. What is the name of the China's first space Laboratory?
Tiangong-1 
31. Name the famous television personality of CBS News channel's program called "60 minutes" retired
recently?
Andy Rooney

32. Which UAE telecom giant recently launched 4G mobile broadband network in UAE?
Etisalat

33. Who retired as the CEO of Hyundai Motor co. recently?
Yang Seung-suk

34. Name the planetary scientist who worked for NASA recently died?
Micheal J.Drake

35. Name the three Indian boxers who have qualified for London Olympics 2012?
Jai Bhagwan, L.Devendro Singh and Manoj Kumar 
36. Name the Afghan President who was in India for a two-day visit.
Hamid Karzai

37. Who has been appointed as Chairman of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation?
Sudhir Vasudeva

38. Name the MD and VP, Nokia India, who has been assigned global role to head India, Middle East and
Africa region.
D.Shivakumar

39. Name the company which has launched apps for iPad and Android phones recently.
Adobe

40. Who has shot a film in 47 days titled 'Facebook'?
RP.Patnaik
41. Who won the 2011 Nobel prize in chemistry?
Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals

42. Name the world's cheapest laptop launched in India.
Aakash

43. Name the Ashes hero who died at the age of 52.
Former England fast bowler, Graham Dilley

44. Who won the Irani Cup 2011?
Rest of India Team

45. Name the application launched by Monster India for Facebook users.
BeKnown  

current affairs

Q. IRDA is associated with--   1 Insurance Sector   2 Banking   3 Railways   4 Telecommunication     Ans: 1

Q. As on status July 26, 2011 which of the two rates of RBI are equal?   1 Bank Rate and CRR   2 Repo Rate and Bank Rate   3 CRR and Reverse Repo   4 None of the above     Ans: 1

Q. What is the true for Repo Rate as announced by RBI on July 26, 2011?   1 Raised from 7.5% to 8.0%   2 Raised from 7% to 7.5%   3 Raised from 7.25% to 7.75%   4 Raised from 7.75% to 8.25%     Ans: 1

Q. The longest sea bridge of the world is located in--   1 China   2 Tibet   3 Myanmar   4 Germany     Ans: 1

Q. Who has/have been honoured with national Communal Harmony Award this year?   1 Haneef Khan Shastri   2 Acharya Lokesh Muni   3 None of the above   4 Both of the above     Ans: 4

Q. Prem Bhatia Award of Journalism has been conferred on--   1 Jyotirmoy Dey   2 Josy Joseph   3 None of the above   4 Both of the above     Ans: 4

Q. Under Nagar Awards this year which Municipal Corporation has been adjudged the best run organization?   1 Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation   2 Vadodara Municipal Corporation   3 Rajkot Municipal Corporation   4 Mysore City Corporation     Ans: 1

Q. Which women has been honoured with first Mercy Ravi Award?   1 Sheila Dixit   2 Shabana Azmi   3 Sharmila Tagore   4 None of the above     Ans: 1

Q. Which Indian personality has posthumously been honoured with Bangladesh highest award?   1 Indira Gandhi   2 Lal Bahadur Shastri   3 Narsimha Rao   4 None of the above     Ans: 1

Q. Who of the following has not been conferred on the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellow ship this year?   1 Lachchu Maharaj   2 Girija Devi   3 Nataraja Ramakrishna   4 R.F. Dagar

Current Affairs

Which gas is used to fill the tyre of aeroplane?
a. Helium
Who has written the Miser
a. Moliere
Which river has played an important role in building the Punjab ?
a. Sutlej
Indian Standard Time line passes through which of the following towns?
a. Allahabad
Where is the headquarter of ‘Forest Research Centre’ situated?
a. Dehradun
Open Museum of ‘Hampi’ is situated in which of the following states?
a. Karnataka
In which of the following cities is ‘Bhabha Atomic Research Centre’ situated?
a. Mumbai
Which liquid is used in manufacturing dynamite?
a. Nitroglycerine
What is used in bleaching and manufacturing of food?
a. Caramel
Which of the following digits makes the binary System?
a. 0 and 1
In which state is Mahabaleshwar located
a. Mahrashtra
Ayappa Temple is situated in which of the following cities?
a. Kerala
Guru Arjun Dev was the contemporary of which leader?
a. Jehangir
Goutamiputra Satkarni was the king belongs to which dynasties?
a. Satwahan
Goitre is a disease is related to which part of body.
a. Neck
What is the chemical name of Washing Soda?
a. Sodium carbonate
Where is Humayun tomb located?
a. Delhi
Which personality was given the title of ‘Jari Kalam’?
a. Mukammal Khan
Which crops has the largest interval between sowing and reaping it?
a. Sugarcane
1. Which of the following diseases is not immunized by ‘triple antigen’?
a. Typhoid
b. Tetanus
c. Diphtheria
d. Whooping cough
2. Which of the following is the chemical name of laughing gas?
a. Nitrogen dioxide
b. Nitrous oxide
c. Nitrogen pentaoxide
d. None of these
Answers
1. a. Delhi
2. d. Mohammed Hussain
3. d. Sugarcane
4. b. Tetanus
5. b. Nitrous oxide