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previous exams GA asked Questions

RBI Grade B 2016  Swayam initiative – education hrd ministry first state to have butterfly - Maharastra 122nd amendment- GST Maitree combat excercise b/w - India and thailand Operation sankat Mochan -- Sudan Book - Who moved my interest - D Subbarao Post payment Corpus - 800 crore Superfast train for unreserved passenger - Antodaya Canberra is capital of - Austalia Amount alloted to 13 PSB's – 22915 crore lakhwar dam on Yamuna river - Uttarakhand In NDTL what D stands for - Demand Bodhi tree Bodh gaya- bihar farmers doubling of income by 2022 - ashok dalwai comitee Game not included in Japan Olympic 2020 - Adiperuku festival - tamilnadu Water metro: kochi, kerala Himayat program - Jammu and Kashmir Switch joining banks Sudarshan sen comitee –digital economy Shankar acharya committee Andy Murray sport- tennis Compost brand ambsdr- amitabh bacchan Nat green highway- new delhi smera - credit rating agency Y20 china Lachhu maharaj profession – tabla player...

Basic Concept of Banking for SBI PO mains

Basic concepts Fiscal Policy It is what a Government does to influence the course of an economy through decisions on taxes and spending. Monetary Policy It is what a central bank does to influence the course of an economy through decisions on money supply and interest rate. Fiscal Consolidation The term refers to the things a Government does to maintain good fiscal health — cut debt and wasteful expenditure and improve revenue opportunities. Current Account Deficit It is a trade measure that shows the value of a country’s imports of goods and services to be higher than the value of its exports. Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act The Act is an attempt to make the Government adhere to a phased plan to reduce fiscal deficit, which denotes an excess of expenditure over revenue. Disinvestment Receipts The term refers to the money raised by the Government through disinvestment, or the sale of its equity stake in companies it owns. Wholesale Price Ind...

GST

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GST(Goods and Service Tax) is one of the biggest tax reforms in the country. GST will turn India into one market, leading to greater ease of doing business. It is a consumption based tax with a dual structure. Its is classified into two Central Good and service tax and State Good and service tax.Center is given the power to levy sales tax and state government levy service tax. Some companies earn more as GST rate will be lower than their current tax rates and some will lose as the rate will be higher than present effective tax rate. While GST rates are yet to be decided some industry observers assumed it as 18%.  Literally, GST is the tax levied when a consumer buys a commodity from the market it removes all riddles with the indirect taxes, which GST aims to subsume with a single comprehensive tax, bringing it all under a single umbrella. For the members of the public GST will be a mixed bag. Currently, the indirect tax on manufactured goods ranges from 27%-32% and ind...

NPA mounts up in PSU banks

There were 7,686 willful defaulters in India as of December 2015, as reviled by Ministry for State for Finance Jayant Singha in Rajya Sabha. Top 100 NPA with PSB is 1.73 lakh core as of December 2015. Total defaulters rose from 5,554 to 7,686 in three years to December 2015 while the amount involved more than doubled to 66,190 core from 27,749 core. In term of gross NPA State Bank of India comes top with Rs 72,291 crore and is followed by Bank of Baroda withRs 38,934 crore. Other banks with significant NPA are Punjab National Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, IDBI Bank, Canara Bank, Union Bank, Central Bank, UCO Bank and Corporation Bank.

SSC 3rd september 2016

Following are questions asked in SSC CGL 2016 3rd Sept,2016. 1.First amputee woman to climb mount everest ? Arunima Sinha 2.Father of Green Revolution ?  Norman Borlaug 3.Subhash Chandra formed ? Forward Block 4.Gov. organisation who controls insurance ? IRDA 5.0 kelvin is equal to ? -273 degree C 6.Who presided the 1st session of congress ? W C Banererjee 7.Which Country detonated its hydrogen bomb recently ?  North Korea 8.Speaker of Loksabha gives resignation to ? Deputy speaker of Loksabha 9.Who saidd din-e- elahi as something folly rather than wisdom ? Vincent Smith 10.India's first national park formed in 1936 ?   Halliey park is also known as Jim corbett 11.which book is called Bible of socialism ? Das Capital 12.The use of either naturally occurring or deliberately introduced microorganisms to consume and break down environmental pollutants, in order to clean a polluted site is called ? Bio remediation 13.Term bridge i...

Static GK for SBI clerk Main 2016

Following are some of the facts 1.Basilica of Bom Jesus Church located in Goa 2.Shore  Temple located in Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu 3.Nilgiri Railways located in Udagamandalam 4.Puttingal temple is located in which district of Kerala Kollam 5.Sun Temple located in Konark,Odisha 6.Mahabodhi Temple located in Gaya, Bihar 7.Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological park located in Pavagarh, Gujarat 8. Karni Mata Temple is located in Bakaner, Rajasthan. 9.Nada Devi National park and valley of flowers Uttarakhand 10. Simlipal Biosphere reserve located in Odisha 11.Pachmarhi Biosphere reserve located in Madhya Pradesh 12. Rudrasagar Wetland located in Tripura 13.Nokrek Biosphere reserve located in Meghalaya 14.Achanakamar Amarkantak Biosphere reserve located in Chhattisgarh 15. Loktak Lake located in Manipur 16.Kolleru Lake located in Andhra Pradesh  17.Harike Lake located in Punjab  18 . Keoladeo National Park locate...

RBI rates

 new policy rates Repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF)  -  6.50% Reverse repo rate  -  6% Marginal standing facility (MSF )  -  7%   Bank rate  -  7% Cash reserve ratio (CRR)  -  4 %

World number one ends French Open drought

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Novak Djokovic fulfilled his dream of clinching his first ever French open title in Paris. Thou Andy Murray takes the first set the champion showed his might by coming back from difficult situation. Novak Djokovic who has crossed a 100 million US Dollars as income is sailing into history by becoming top 10 players of all time.

Credit Cards touch new high

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Credit card issued touched new 24.5 million as per central bank data. This is the highest growth ever since RBI started maintaining a record. HDFC Bank stands at the top with a share of 7.28 million cards, which is about 22 percentage.   source:RBI  Axis Bank moved to fourth position displacing Citibank. SBI showing high potential for growth in sales as many other bank has tied up with SBI for issuing SBI credit cards.

Frozen tiger cubs found in Kanchanaburi

About 40 tiger cubs were found dead in freezer in Thailand's Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi province. Also there was an protected species Binturong, commonly known as a bearcat which authorities found along with carcasses of the cubs.But the temple authorities said that they have informed wildlife authorities that carcasses were in the freezer. The Buddhist temple has been a attraction for many tourist where visitors snaped selfies with bottle-feed cubs.About 61 live tigers has been moved from the temple as the authorities are not satisfied with the welfare of tiger in temple.