IBPS Clerk Main 2016: GA Day 1

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Gujarat is all set to become the first state to distribute 2 crore LED bulbs under Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for all (UJALA) scheme. The state reached this milestone in just 96 days after centre has coined the scheme and over 42 lakh households have already benefitted from the scheme.

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Bangalore based Canara Bank has launched Unified Payment Interface [UPI] App named ‘empower’, at its board of directors’ meet held at Bengaluru. This move is in line with the digital initiative which enables any Bank customers to link and operate their various Bank accounts using a single app. This app is available for download from Google play store.

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The World Risk Report 2016, published by the UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and Bundnis Entwicklung Hilft, analyses the role that infrastructure plays in shaping a country’s disaster risk. India has been ranked 77th on the World Risk Index, topped by Island state of Vanuatu.

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Syndicate Bank has adopted a large scale transformation program called “Project Ananya” that focuses on improved customer service and offering latest indigital banking services.

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Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, quoted that handlooms can be a tool to fight poverty, just as swadeshi was a tool in the struggle for freedom and he quoted that Khadi and handloom products provide the same warmth that mother’s love provides on the fabulous National Handloom Day on August 7.

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The Rupee denominated bonds can only be issued in a country and can only be subscribed by a resident of a country with minimum maturity period of 3 years.

Explanation: The Reserve Bank of India was established on April 1, 1935 with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. The Central Office of the Reserve Bank was initially established in Calcutta but was permanently moved to Mumbai in 1937. It was originally privately owned, since nationalisation in 1949, the Reserve Bank is fully owned by the Government of India.

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Jamaican cricketer Chris Gayle’s autobiography, ‘Six Machine’ published by Anurag Singh Thakur, President of the BCCI at a gala event in Delhi, which was organised by Dunamis Sportainment in association with Penguin India.

Explanation: Tripura hailed Dipa Karmakar created history after she became the first Indian to qualify for the apparatus finals of artistic Gymnastics at the Rio 2016.

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Legendary carnatic vocalist M. S. Subbulakshmi honoured at the United Nations on India’s 70th Independence Day by a performance by Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman .UN also releasing Postal Stamp of MS Subbulakshmi to mark her 100thBirth Anniversary.

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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It was established in June 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations and began work in April 1946. The seat of the Court is at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands).

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Mozambique – Maputo (Capital) and Mozambican metical(Currency)

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A systemically important financial institution (SIFI) is a bank, insurance company, or other financial institution whose failure might trigger a financial crisis.

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Brazil launched the first public immunization programme in the Americas against dengue fever, where 500,000 people to be injected with the world’s first authorized vaccine against the disease.

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Adani Green Energy, part of the Adani Group, has dedicated to the nation the world’s largest 648-mw solar power plant in Tamil Nadu entailing an investment of Rs 4,550 crore.