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Vigilance Commissioner Rajiv to act as CVC
The government has named vigilance commissioner Rajiv as the acting central vigilance commissioner (CVC) following the completion of tenure of Pradeep Kumar.The authorisation is...
Ban for Gmail and Yahoo
Government officials may no longer be able to use popular free e-mail services like Gmail and Yahoo for work by the end of the...
Bilateral Security Arrangement (BSA) between Afghanistan and US
The freshly sworn-in Ashraf Ghani government in Afghanistan will sign the BSA with the United States. The crucial deal will be signed by the...
Microsoft to set up cloud data centres in India
Microsoft will offer its commercial cloud services such as Azure and Office 365 by the end of 2015 from local data centres in India...
New Afghan President – Ashraf Ghani
Ashraf Ghani has replaced Hamid Karzai as the new Afghanistan President. Mr.Ghani was the finance minister from 2002-2004 under President Hamid Karzai government. He has...
Important Days in September
The Important Days in September which are observed across the world and the theme for year 2014 are listed below.Date
Day
Theme for 20142nd September
World Coconut...
RBI Policy On Repo & CRR Rate Unchanged
RBI (Reserve Bank of India) kept the policy rates unchanged (30-9-2014) citing latent inflation.The repo rate (rate at which the RBI infuses liquidity into the...
Narendra Modi’s Speech At Madison Square: Full Text
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected with thousands of cheering Indian diaspora at Madison Square Garden, promising them he would deliver on the electoral...
Panneerselvam sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister
AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam was sworn in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister at the Raj Bhavan. Governor K Rosaiah administered the oath to Panneerselvam, after...
TATA Initiates “Make In India” Campaign
Narendra Modi's BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) swept the Indian national polls to single majority, ending the 25 year old coalition ruling. Later the government...
World Heart Day – September 29
World Heart Day has been observed on September 29th of every year. The theme for this year 2014 is ‘Creating heart-healthy environments’.The World Heart...
Japan’s Mount Ontake volcano eruption
At least 36 people are feared to have died after a Japanese volcano erupted without warning at the weekend, raining ash and stones on...
Malaysian Open doubles, Kuala Lumpur
Leander Paes and Marcin Matkowski won the Malaysian Open doubles title. The Indo-Polish pair rallied to beat the Briton-Australian combo of Jamie Murray and...
SBI signed 500 million dollar Line of Credit with Korea Eximbank
Country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) signed a line of credit (LoC) of $500 million with Export-Import Bank of Korea ( Korea...
Justice H L Dattu sworn-in as the 42nd CJI
Justice Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu was on Sunday sworn in as the 42nd Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee. 63-year-old Justice Dattu took...
New snake species discovered in Odisha
A group of amateur herpetologists from Odisha claimed to have discovered a non-venomous snake in the State.
After months of research, these researchers have established...
Payloads of Mangalyaan
Payload
Primary Objective
Weight (Kg)Mars Colour Camera (MCC)
Optical imaging
1.27Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer(TIS)
Map surface composition and mineralogy
3.2Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM)
Detection of Methane presence
2.94Mars Enospheric Neutral Composition...
Jayalalitha Convicted
One of India's most colourful and controversial politicians, Jayaram Jayalalitha, has been sentenced to jail for four years on corruption charges in a case...
Yojanas for Skill Development in Rural and Urban
The Government announced an overarching scheme for uplift of urban and rural poor through enhancement of livelihood opportunities through skill development and other means.Under...
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award
Ten scientists from Indian research institutions have been selected for the country's prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for the year 2014.The award is given...
Banking Awareness (Part I)
What is a Bank?
A financial institution licensed as the receiver of deposits and lends them to the prospective borrowers as well as allows the depositors...
Banking and Insurance Organization
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
The World Bank Group
ORGANIZATIONS RELATED TO INSURANCE
Comprehensive History of Insurance in India
IRDA - Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
GIC - General Insurance Corporation of India
NICL...
First Russian woman in ISS (International Space Station mission)
Russia has sent a woman into space for the first time in 17 years as part of a joint US-Russian mission to the International...
Uses of Computer for IBPS PO & Clerk exam
The use of Computer has spread around all fields offering the necessity to know about the computer operations widely. It has invaded every field...
Australia & Cambodia sign deal for refugee resettlement program
Australia's Immigration Minister Scott Morrison signed the deal with Cambodia's Interior Minister Sar Kheng to accept rejected refugees for exchange of cash.Australia will pay...
Satellites revolving around the Red Planet – Part One
Mars OdysseyNASA's robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars launched on April 7, 2001 on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,...
Satellites revolving around the Red planet – Part two
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)A multipurpose spacecraft launched by NASA (in 2005) designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit. MRO contains a host of...
Bradman Honouree 2014
Indian Cricket Legend and Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Waugh of Australia were selected as Bradman Honouree 2014. It was announced by The...
Firms to get sub-licence to make new AIDS drug
The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) has announced six new sub-licences with Aurobindo, Cipla, Emcure, Hetero Labs, Laurus Labs and Desano to allow generic manufacture...
Reviving PSU’s
The government said it had begun the process of reviving five ailing PSUs and is working on one-time settlement, involving voluntary retirement scheme entailing...
SAARC Cultural Capital
Bamiyan, the Afghan town which shot into prominence when the Taliban blew up two ancient statues of the Buddha in 2001, has been selected...
BASH – A New Bug
A newly discovered security bug in a widely used piece of Linux software, known as ‘Bash’, could pose a bigger threat to computer users...