S.Vishwanathan is The New MD of State Bank of India (SBI)

The Central Government of India has announced that S Viswanathan is the New Managing Director of State Bank of India (SBI). Mr Viswanathan, who was serving as a deputy managing director of the country’s largest lender, earlier headed the state-run bank’s investment banking arm, SBI Capital Markets Ltd. With this, SBI has four managing directors, including Diwakar Gupta, who is also the chief financial officer, Hemant Contractor, who is in charge of international operations and A. Krishna Kumar, who looks after national banking.

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Complete List of Countries and their Currencies

Here is the Complete List of Countries and Their Currencies

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Miscellaneous

Ø  Awards

Ø  Books and Authors

Ø  Chief Ministers - India

Ø  List of News Papers (Language Wise)

Ø  List of Nationalized Banks (With Website Links)

Ø  United Nations Organization (UNO)

Ø  Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

Ø  Countries & Currencies 

Ø  Short Notes on Poverty Eradication Programmes

Ø  Places of Some Important Games and Events

Ø  Five Years Plans in India

Ø  New Programmes and Schemes

Ø  Rupee Hits All Time Low

Ø  White Labelled ATMs

Ø  India’s First Medal Winner in London Olympics

Chidambaram is the New Finance Minister

Friends, our Home Minister P.Chidambaram is our country's new finance minister, and his cabinet colleague Mr. Sushilkumar Shinde will step into Mr. Chidambaram's shoes.

“The president, as advised by the prime minister, has directed that the portfolios of the following ministers will be re-allocated as follows - P. Chidambaram Finance, Sushilkumar Shinde Home Affairs”  a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique issued Tuesday said . M. Veerappa Moily, Minister of Corporate Affairs, will be assigned additional charge of the ministry of power,” the statement added.

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India's First medal winner in London 2012 Olympics - Gagan Narang

Gagan Narang wins a bronze medal in 10m air rifle event in London Olympics. Gagan’s score in the final round — 10.7, 9.7, 10.6, 10.7, 10.4, 10.6, 9.9, 9.5, 10.3, 10.7 (no need to remember all these numbers, we are giving them for the information's sake). Narang, a two-time world record setter, had won four gold medals in the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games and followed that up with two silver in the Guangzhou Asian Games a month later.

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Rupee Hits All Time Low ( 57.12)

The Indian Rupee fell 57.32 against the dollar on Friday (22nd June 2012) on strong demand for the American currency from oil importers, increased capital outflows and concerns over slowdown in global economic growth. Our rupee surpassed previous records in the five-day long losing streak and tumbled Re 1, over 1.6 percent from previous close to 57.32 per dollar in mid-session trade on the forex markets. The rupee has depreciated nearly 3 percent so far this week, its biggest weekly fall since September 23.

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Awards

Here are some Awards and Honours which are useful for IBPS Probationary Officers and Clerical Exams. All The Best.

• Pulitzer Prize 2012 - The Philadephia Inquirer
•  Maharashtra Bhushan (2011-12) - Anil Kakodkar
• Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award - S.R. Nathan (Singapore's Former Precedent)
• Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony - Pandit Ravishankar (first reciepient)
• International Jurists Award - Mulayam Singh Yadav
• Miss India World - Vanya Mishra
• Miss India Earth - Prachi Mishra
• Miss India International - Rochelle Maria Rao

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Chief Ministers - India

Here is the latest Chief Ministers' list of different states of India. It'll be useful for the upcoming bank and other competitive exams. It'll hardly take 15 minutes to Memorize and remember them. So don't neglect. All The Best :)

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Books and Authors - 2012

Here is a list of some books and authors which is useful for Competitive  Exams especially IBPS PO  and Clerks 2012. We've included almost all new books of famous personalities and some books from the previous bank examinations. Hope this post will help you in getting one mark (as there is a prediction that you will get one question from this area). Have a look at the list.............

 Sunny Days      -     Sunil Gavaskar

 Cricket My Style      -     Kapil Dev

 Lava     -     J aved Akhtar

 The last man in the Tower     -     Aravind Adiga
 Survivors      -     Randheer Khare

 Nirbasan      -     Taslima Nasreen

 True Colours      -     Adam Gilchrist

 Bekir Paror Jui (Fire on the banks of river beki)    -     Hemen Das

 Moda  Goa: History & style     -     Wendell Rodricks

 Bajanaama, A study of Early Indian Recording      -     A.N. Sharma

 Write of Passage    -     R. Siva Kumar

 Cooking with Poo      -     Saiyuud Diwong

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Books and Authors - 2

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Arming the Indian Arsenal      -     Deb Mohanty

 The Year of the Flood      -     Margaret Atwood

 The Post American World      -     Farid Zakaria

 Yours Sincerely      -     Natwar Singh

 The British, the Bandits and the Bordermen      -     P.V. Rajgopal

 After the Ice : Life, Death and Geopolitics in the New Arctic      -     Alun Anderson

 A Tale of Two Revolts : India 1857 and the American Civil War      -     Rajmohan Gandhi

 The Red Sari      -     Javier Moro

 The Fragrance of Forgotten Years      -     Bilkees Latif

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General Awareness

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Ø Current affairs

Ø Banking Awareness

Ø Miscellaneous

Five Year Plans In India

In this post we shall discuss about the Five year Plans in India. Click here to read about the previous topic Economic Planning in India.

1st Plan : 1951-56

• Priority giving to Agriculture and Irrigation.
• "Harrod - Domar" growth model adopted.
• This is the only plan in which Prices Fell.

2nd Plan : 1956-61

• PC Mahalanobis prepared this Plan. Priority given to basic and heavy industries. 
• Bhilai, Rourkela and Durgapur Steel Plants, ONGC, Ranchi Heavy Engg. Corporation, Neyveli Lignite Corporation, Multi-purpose projects - Nagarjuna Sagar, Bhakra Nangal, Hirakud started during this Plan. 
• Deficit financing Started in this plan.
• "Socialist pattern of society" is accepted as a goal.

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Economic Planning in India

In this post we shall discuss about Indian Economy. Espicially the Planning commission of India and Five Year Plans.These topics are very important for all Bank Exams. The Soviet Union is the 1st country in the world to adopt Planning. Latter in 1934 M. Visweswarayya wrote "Planned Economy of India". He is the first to introduce "Planning" concept in India. Lets have a look at some important points about the Economic Planning in India.

• 1938 : National Planning Committee under Jawaharlal Nehru.

• 1943 : Bombay Plan : Drafted by 8 big industrialists.

• 1944 : Gandhian Plan : Srimannarayan Agarwal.

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SBI Clerks Marketing Aptitude - Paper 6

SBI Clerks Exam - Held on 25-11-2007

1.       Prior to the Industrial Revolution, selling was no problem and no sales team is required because _______________

1.       Marketing was not a subject then

2.       People was not a subject then

3.       People don’t want to sell anything

4.       Small-scale enterprises dominated the economic scene

5.       None of these

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Poverty Eradication Programmes

Today we shall discuss about the Poverty & Poverty Eradication Programs of India. Being bank aspirants, all of us prepare well about Banks, Indian Economy, Famous People, Current Events, Bilateral Issue etc... But often neglect a few areas, "Poverty Eradication Programs" is one among them. According to one of my friends, there is no need to prepare for these type of bits. Just see the options given in the exam and choose the one which is having the name "Indira, Rajeev or Nehru" in it!!! of course, this is also true at a certain extent. But why to take risk? Just spend 10 mins of your time and have a look at the following points.

Below Poverty Line (BPL) : According to the "Task Force on projection of minimum needs and effective consumption demand" appointed by the Planning Commission, a person is BPL if his daily consumption of calories is less than 2400 in Rural Areas and 2100 calories in Urban areas.

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State Bank of India (SBI)

In this post, we shall discuss about the India's oldest, largest and most successful commercial bank State Bank of India (SBI). This post is very useful for those people who are preparing for Bank Exams (IBPS and SBI).

• Imperial Bank of India was created in Jan 1921, by amalgamation of three presidency banks, those are
1. Bank of Bengal
2. Bank of Bombay
3. Bank of Madras

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Nationalized Banks - Important Info

In this post we shall discuss about some important points about Nationalized Banks. Which are useful for all Bank Exams.

• Allahabad Bank is the Oldest Joint Stock Bank of India.
• Andhra Bank was the bank founded by a Freedom Fighter Dr. Bhogaraju Pattabhi Seetaramayya.
• Bank of India was the first bank to open branch outside India (in London, 1946)
• Canara Bank is the bank  to be given an ISO 9002 certificate for one of its branches.
• The postal department has issued a commemorative stamp in the name of Central Bank of India celebrating 100 years in 2011.
• Central Bank of India is the First Indian Bank to be wholly owned by Indians.

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Places of Some Important Games and Events

2011 Cricket world cup  -  India, Srilanka, Bangladesh

2015 Cricket world cup  -   Australia, Newzealand

2019 Cricket world cup  -   England, Wales

2011 Rugby World Cup  -   Newzealand

2015 Rugby World Cup  -   England, Wales

2019 Rugby World Cup        -           Japan, Hongkong, Singapore

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Countries and Currencies

In this post we shall discuss about different Countries and their Currencies. This information is very important for Banking Exams...

Country	Currency
Afghanistan	Afghani
Argentina	Austral (Peso)
Australia	Dollar
Bangladesh	Taka
Belgium	Franc
Brazil	Cruzeiro
Bulgeria	Leva
Canada	Dollar
Ceylon	Rupee
Chile	Peso
China	Yuan
Columbia	Peso
Costa Rica	Colon
Czechosolovakia	Koruna
Denmark	Krone
Ethiopia	Dollar

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United Nations Organization (UNO) - Part II

<< CLICK Here to read Basics of UNO

International Court of Justice (ICJ) :

Headquarters : The Hague (Netherlands)

Membership : Consists of 15 Judges and one Chief Justice who are elected by the General Assembly and the Security Council for a term of nine years. The chief justice term is 3 years.

Functions : 

• It gives advisory opinion on legal matters to the bodies and special agencies of the UNO and considers the legal disputes brought before them. 
• Justice R.S. Pathak, former Chief Justice of India, was elected judge of the ICJ on April 18, 1989.
• He became the third Indian on whom this honour has been bestowed.
• The Other two were, Justice B.N.Rao and Justice Nagendra Singh

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