GK Compilation of Important Topics for SNAP

IMPORTANT COMMITTEES
Committees are formed to investigate an incident that has already happened or to get a fresh perspective and suggestions into a present issue. The important committees formed are listed here: 1. U.C. Banerjee Commission: - Enquiry into Godhra carnage (railways) 2. Sarkaria Commission: Centre-State relations 3. Srikrishna Commission: 1992 Bombay riots 4. Thakkar Commission : Indira Gandhi assassination case 5. Malhotra Committee: Insurance Reforms 6. Ajay Vikram Singh Committee: Faster promotions in army 7. Rajinder Sachar Committee {1}: Companies and MRPT Act 8. Rajindar Sachar Committee {2}: Report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslims of India 9. Jyoti Basu Committee: Report on Octroi abolition 10. Sawant Committee: Enquiry on corruption, charges against ministers & Anna Hazare 11. Chelliah Committee: Eradicating black money 12. Kothari Commission: Educational reforms 13. Wanchoo Committee: Tax enquiry 14. Rangarajan Committee: Reforms in private sector 15. Chakravarti Committee: Banking sector reforms 16. G.V.Ramakrishna Committee: Disinvestment in PSU shares 17. Kelkar Committee: First committee on backward castes 18. Godbole Committee: Enron Power Project 19. Rangarajan Committee: Statistics 20. Wardha Committee: Inquiry on murder of Graham Staines

LIST OF INITIATIVES BY GOVERNMENT

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana Swabhiman Midday Meal Scheme Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana Swavalamban Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana Swabhiman 100 Days of Employment Guaranteed per year to unskilled labours Provide Roads in villages with population of 1000+ Supplementary labour provided to labourers in rural areas Provide banking facilities in rural areas Free lunch to primary students of government schools Budget allocated to improve agricultural productivity Encourage workers to save for retirement 100 Days of Employment Guaranteed per year to unskilled labours Provide Roads in villages with population of 1000+ Supplementary labour provided to labourers in rural areas Provide banking facilities in rural areas

List of major global organizations, their headquarters and their current leaders and their designations:
Organization Name United Nations Organization United Nations Populations Fund International Labour Organization Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development International Atomic Energy Agency International Monetary Fund World Bank Amnesty International Commonwealth of Nations North Atlantic Treaty Organization International Renewable Energy Agency South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Association of South East Asian Nations Headquarters New York New York Geneva Paris Vienna Washington D.C. Washington D.C. London London Brussels Abu Dhabi Kathmandu Jakarta Leaders Secretary General - Ban Ki Moon Executive Director - Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin Director General - Guy Ryder Secretary General - Angel Gurria Director General - Yukiya Amano Managing Director - Christine Langarde President - Jim Yong Kim Secretary General - Salil Shetty Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma Secretary General - Anders Fogh Rasmussen Director General - Adnan Z. Amin Secretary General - Ahmed Saleem Secretary General - L Lng Minh

Top M&A DEALS in 2013:

$ 28 Billion $ 24.4 Billion $ 23.3 Billion $ 13.6 Billion $ 10.4 Billion $ 10 Billion $ 8.7 Billion $ 8.6 Billion $ 7.3 Billion $ 7.2 Billion Heinz was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital Michael Dell and Silver Lake, a private equity firm, bought out the company's shareholders in a bid to go private Liberty Global bought Virgin media for stocks and cash Thermo Fisher, the second biggest life-science equipment manufacturer, bought Life Technologies, a lab equipment manufacturer in the same industry Amgen acquired Onyx Pharmaceuticals primarily to gain entry to the cancer drug market Mid-American Energy Holdings, the power and natural gas arm of Berkshire Hathaway, acquired NV Energy Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Canada's largest drug maker acquired Bausch and Lomb Perrigo, a healthcare products company purchased Elan, a biotechnology company America Realty Capital Properties announced a takeover of Cole Real Estate Investments - both are competitors in the net-lease industry Privately held Koch Industries acquired Molex, a maker of electronic connectors, in a bid to diversify into a new sector

Member countries of international organizations:

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) BRICS Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) G-8 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Afghanistan,Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. One Observer country Papua New Guinea. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Qatar, Indonesia, Libya, UAE, Algeria, Nigeria, Angola Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, USA 21 countries along the Pacific Rim; Major member nations areUSA, Canada, Mexico, Russia, Australia and Japan

Organizations

Heads

Chairman, Planning Commission Speaker, Lok Sabha Chairman, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (Lok Sabha) Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha) Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission Chief Election Commissioner Election Commissioner Election Commissioner Comptroller and Auditor-General of India Chairman, ISRO Governor of Reserve Bank of India Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India National Security Advisor Chief of Army Staff Chief of Naval Staff Chief of Air Staff Chief Justice of India

Dr. Manmohan Singh Ms. Meira Kumar Mohammad Hamid Ansari Mr. P. J. Kurien Mr. Karia Munda Mrs. Sushma Swaraj Mr. Arun Jaitley Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia Mr. V. S. Sampath Mr. Harishankar Brahma Syed Nasim Zaidi Mr. Shashi Kant Sharma K. Radhakrishnan Raghuram Rajan Upendra Kumar Sinha Shivshankar Menon General Bikram Singh Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi Anup Raha P Sathasivam

Chairperson, National Human Right Commission (NHRC) Mr. Justice K. G. Balakrishnan

List of Major Corporations along with their CEOs

Executive
Alan Mulally Anant Gupta Andrew Mackenzie Andrew Witty Anshu Jain Antony Jenkins Bernie Ecclestone Bob Dudley Brian Moynihan Daniel Akerson David C. Novak Douglas R. Oberhelman Ellen J. Kullman Francisco D'Souza Frederick W. Smith Gary Rodkin Gregory R. Page Hubert Joly Jeff Bezos Jeffrey R. Immelt John Chambers John Donahoe Juergen Fitschen Kenneth Chenault Kumar Birla

Company
Ford Motor Company HCL Technologies BHP Billiton GlaxoSmithKline Deutsche Bank Barclays Formula One Management BP Bank of America General Motors Yum! Brands, Inc. Caterpillar Inc. DuPont Cognizant Technology Solutions FedEx ConAgra Cargill Best Buy Amazon.com General Electric Cisco Systems eBay Deutsche Bank American Express Aditya Birla Group

Executive
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal Larry Page Lloyd Blankfein Mark Zuckerberg Meg Whitman Michael Corbat Michael Dell Michel Combes Muhtar Kent Norbert Reithofer Pierre Nanterme Randall L. Stephenson Rex Tillerson Rich Lesser Risto Siilasmaa Sergio Marchionne Shantanu Narayen Stephen A. Schwarzman Sunil Bharti Mittal Terry Gou Tim Armstrong Tim Cook W. James McNerney, Jr. Warren Buffett Yang Hyun Suk

Company
Arcelor Mittal Google Goldman Sachs Facebook Hewlett-Packard Citigroup Dell Inc Alcatel-Lucent Coca-Cola BMW Accenture AT&T Inc. Exxon Mobil Boston Consulting Group Nokia Chrysler Adobe Systems Blackstone Group Bharti Enterprises Foxconn Electronics Inc AOL Inc. Apple Inc. Boeing Berkshire Hathaway YG Entertainment