SBI GK POWER CAPSULE

(Note: This power capsule has been compiled by Research & Development team of Bank Power
Institute, Delhi along with inputs from Senior Faculty members, keeping in mind the upcoming
exam of SBI PO. This capsule contains important information related to banking terms, economy,
current affairs and other important events which might be asked in SBI PO Exam)
 RBI hiked the investment limit in government
BANKING NEWS securities by FIIs and long-term investors $25 billion
Current RBI Rates from $20 billion and in corporate bonds $50 billion
a. CRR – 4 % b. SLR – 23% c. Repo Rate – 7.5 % from $45 billion.
d. Reverse Repo– 6.5% e. MSF– 8.5%  RBI has extended the date for implementation of
f. Bank Rate – 8.5% Basel III by three months i.e., from 1 Jan to 1 April,
2013.
RBI’s guidelines for new bank licenses:  Reserve Bank of India (RBI) signed a Memorandum of
 Bank should have 49% cap on foreign holding in new Understanding (MoU) with the State Bank of Vietnam
banks and minimum paid-up equity capital is Rs 500 (SBV) for promoting greater co-operation and sharing
Crores. supervisory information, between the two
 New banks will have to set up 25% of its branches in supervisors.
unbanked rural areas.  In order to promote lending to priority sectors, the
 Existing NBFCs, if considered eligible, may be Reserve Bank has allowed urban co-operative banks
permitted to promote new banks or convert (UCBs) to grant unsecured loans up to 25 % of their
themselves into banks. assets if certain conditions are met.
 The paid-up equity capital should be Rs 500crore and
they will have to get listed within three years of
operations.
 The Reserve Bank of India has issued a new series of
50 paisa coins with the rupee symbol and new security
features to facilitate easy recognition.

Important Fact and news of RBI:

 RBI has launched a website explaining ways to detect
counterfeit notes. With a tagline 'Pehchano Paise Ki
Boli, Kyunki Paisa Bolta Hai'.
 At present India’s foreign exchange reserves is $
293.84 billion.
 RBI Sign first Currency Swap Agreement with Royal
Monetary Authority of Bhutan valid for a period of 3
years, according to this the Royal Monetary Authority
of Bhutan can draw US Dollar, Euro or Indian Rupee in
multiple tranches up to a maximum of 100 million US
dollars or its equivalent.
 RBI issued a guide lines that all the cheques should be
cleared in 2 days.
 The Reserve Bank did a scrutiny of head offices and
branches of ICICI, HDFC and Axis Bank, which are
accused of money laundering and violating regulations
like FEMA and KYC.
 RBI has allowed RRBs to open branches in Tier-II cities
(Population -50,000 to 99,999 as per 2001 census)
without taking its permission.

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UNION BUDGET 2013-14
Amount Allotted for Major Sectors in Union Budget 2013-14 presented by Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
Sr no. Sector Amount (in Crores)
1. Total budget 1665297
2. Planned expenditure 555322
3. Unplanned expenditure 1109975
4. Kisan credit card 7 Lac
5. Defence 203672
6. Rural development Scheme 80194
7. Human resource department(HRD) 65869
8. MGNREGA 33000
9. Sarva shiksha abhyan 27258
10. Pradhan mantri gram sadak yojana 21700
11. RIDF(Rural Infrastructure Development Fund) 20000
12. Integrated child development scheme 17700
13. Drinking water and sanitation 15260
14. Indira Awaj Yojana 15184
15. JNNURM 14873
16. Public sector banks 14000
17. Mid day meal 13215
18. SIDBI 10000
19. Agriculture development project 9954
20. Environment and foresty 2430
21. Rural housing fund 6000
22. Agricultural research 3415
23. NABARD to finance construction of godowns and 5000
warehouses.
24. NFSM 2250
25. Medical, education and research 4727
26. Urban housing fund 2000
27. Women Bank 1000
28. Nirbhaya Fund 1000
29. Green revolution for eastern zone(Assam, Odissa, Jharkhand, 1000
Chattisgarh, WB) mainly for rice production
30. Science and Technology 6275
31. Microfinance equity fund 100
32. Aligarh muslim University 100
33. Banaras Hindu University(BHU) 100
34. Crop diversification 500
35. Agri business 100
36. Sahitya Acadamy 21.1
37. Lalit Kala Acadamy 19.18

 The revised expenditure target is Rs 14,30,825 crore.
 Rs 500 crore would be allocated for addressing
environmental issues faced by textile industry.
 Relief of Rs 2,000 for tax payers in tax bracket of Rs. 2-5
lakh.
 24.3 % hike in expenditure for health care both rural
and urban health mission.
 Headline WPI inflation to 7 % and core inflation to 4.2
%.
 Average economic growth rate in 11th Plan period is 8
%, highest ever in any Plan period.
 Food grain production in 2012-13 will be over 250
million tons.
 Rs 14,873 crore for JNNURM for urban transportation in
2013-14 against Rs 7,880 crore in the current fiscal.
 Rs 5,284 crore to various Ministries
for scholarships for SC/ST, OBC and minority students.
 Tax free bonds issue to be allowed up to Rs 50,000 crore
in 2013-14 strictly on capacity to raise funds from the
market.
 Current year's economic growth rate will be
below India's potential growth rate of 8 %.
 Concessional 6% interest on loans to weavers.
Fiscal Deficit:
 Fiscal deficit seen at 5.2 % of GDP in 2012/13.
 Fiscal deficit seen at 4.8 % of GDP in 2013/14.
 Fiscal deficit to 3 % by 2016/17
Revenue Deficit:
 Revenue Deficit seen at 3.9 % 2012-13.
 Revenue Deficit seen at 3.3 % 2013-14.
 Revenue deficit to 1.9% by 2016-17.

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  A workshop for repair and rehabilitation of motorized
Taxes: bogies at Misrod (Madhya Pradesh).
 Service tax (12%), Custom duty (10%) & Excise duty  A new wagon maintenance workshop in Kalahandi
(12%) remains unchanged. (Odisha).
 Tax benefits in RGESS extended to 3 years:  A modern signaling equipment facility at Chandigarh
 The Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) will be through PPP route.
liberalised to enable first time retail investors to invest
in mutual funds and listed shares and not in one year OTHER ECONOMIC FACTS:
alone, but for three successive years. FDI Limits:
 Under the scheme, an individual with an income of less Sr no. List of Limits in Various Sectors (In %)
than Rs 12 lakh would get tax incentives for investing up 1. Defence 26
to Rs 50,000 in the stock market. 2. Pension 49
 Also, the limit for investors wanting to invest in RGESS 3. Insurance 49
has been raised to Rs 12 lakh from Rs 10 lakh earlier. 4. Print Media 26
5. Civil Aviation 49
6. Public Sec. Banks 49
7. Private Sec. Banks 74
8. Multi Brand 51
9. Tourism 100
10. Pharmaceuticals 100
11. FM Radio 26
12. Telecommunication 74

 Lok Sabha passed the Banking Laws Amendment Bill,

HIGHLIGHTS OF RAIL BUDGET 2013-2014
 Union Railway Minister Pawan kumar Bansal was the
first Congress minister to present a Railway Budget
in the last 17 years.
 67 new express and 26 passenger trains to be launched.
 Indian Railways to join 1 billion tonne select club
with China, Russia and US.
 Educational tourist train "Azadi Express" proposed.
 Train Collision Avoidance System to be put to rigorous
trials.
 Indian Railway Financial Management Institute to be set
up at Secunderabad.
 Target of investment of 1 lakh crore through PPP mode
in 12th FYP.
 For the first time, Arunachal Pradesh brought under Rail
Network.
 Complementary passes for Rajiv Gandhi Khel
Ratna and Olympic awardees.
 Dronacharya awardees to get Shatabdi and Rajdhani
passes.
New factories/workshops to be set up:
 New Forged Wheel Factory at Rae Bareli in collaboration
with Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited.
 A Coach Manufacturing Unit in Sonepat District
(Haryana) in collaboration with State Government.
 A Midlife Rehabilitation Workshop at Kurnool (Andhra
Pradesh) in collaboration with the State Government.
 Bikaner and Pratapgarh workshops to undertake POH of
BG wagons.
2012 by voice vote.
 Govt wins FDI vote by 253 votes against 218 in Lok
Sabha.
 Maharatna status for BHEL and GAIL.
 P. Chidambaram launched Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings
Scheme (RGESS) in Mumbai
 Govt approved Rs 12,517 crore (December 2012) capital
infusion in PSU banks to meet BASEL III norms.
 Govt. declared use of MGNREGA linked Post Office
Accounts for Direct Cash Transfer.
 Govt. postponed the implementation of GAAR by two
years to April 1, 2016.
 Govt has made over 3.5 crore existing post office
accounts ready for its new “Aadhaar” linked cash
transfer scheme.
 The Government announced its decision to link the Gold
Exchange Traded Funds with Gold Deposit schemes as a
measure to increase the supply of physical gold in the
market without resorting to imports.
 Govt. granted an aid of 41 Crore Rs. to protect Pashmina
Goats.
 Government to transfer subsidies directly into
beneficaries' accounts from 1st Jan. 2013.
 the government decided to transfer cash subsidy to
domestic cooking gas (LPG) consumers under its
ambitious Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme from
may 2013.
 The government signed a $60 million loan agreement
with the World Bank to improve watershed operations
in seven districts of Karnataka.
 Centre to set up country's 1st geothermal power project
in Ladakh.
 The Union Cabinet approved the National Food Security
Bill which will guarantee 5 kg of food grains per person
per month, While families in the poorest of the poor will
continue to get 35 kg of grains per month. @ 3 Rs/kg
rice, @ 2Rs/kg wheat & @ 1 Rs/kg cereal.

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 The Union government approved a 1500 crore Rupees  MCX-SX became the third full-fledged equity bourse
proposal for production of more than 2000 rockets for after BSE and NSE in the country.
the Pinaka multi- barrel weapons system.  SEBI has introduced electronic IPOs from January 1,
 The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural 2013.
Development (NABARD) in Karnataka has disbursed 750  The Indian tea industry has finally breached the 1 billion
crore rupees financial assistance for creating rural kg-mark in production.
infrastructures like Raitha Samparka Kendras,  The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will
Anganwadis, schools, ITIs, rural roads and bridges during implement the Rs.5,182-crore Kochi Metro Rail project
2012-13. with E.Sreedharan as its Principal Adviser.SBI opened its
 Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram inaugurated nd st
2 branch in China (Tianjin), While 1 in Shanghai.
300 new bank branches.The participating banks include  India has been ranked as the 119th freest country in the
public sector Allahabad Bank, Bank of India, Syndicate world out of 177 in the 2013 index of economic
Bank, Union Bank of India, Canara Bank, and private freedom.
sector HDFC, Indusind Bank, Shreyas Grameen Bank and  Gujarat has topped in terms of governance and inclusive
others. growth in Economic Freedom of the States of India
 Union Govt. announced to spend Rs. 1000 crores in the 2012' .
current financial year to increase rice production in the  Now 30% reservation for rural candidates in Assam
eastern states. Govt. Jobs.
 The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), headed  Govt. postponed GAAR implementation by 2 years to
by DEA Secretary Arvind Mayaram, approved the 2016.
proposal of Air Asia's India investment plans, which  Madhya Pradesh is the first State to fully utilize tourism
allows up to 49 per cent FDI. Rs 80 crore is initial plans funds.
investment.  SEBI allowed mutual funds to park 20% in gold deposit
 The taxation authorities in India has made E-filing schemes.
mandatory for all the taxpayers in the country who earn  Bharat Heavy Plate & Vessels Ltd. (BHPV) Merged With
more than Rs. 5 lakh per annum to file their tax returns BHEL.
online.  P Chidambaram has launched the Centralized Processing
 In a report of Tata Strategic Management Group Punjab, Cell for Tax Deducted at Source (CPC-TDS).
Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana have been ranked  Infosys Shares started Trading on New York Stock
at the top of the Well Being Index (WBI) while Gujarat Exchange
and most of the north-eastern states emerged as the
most secure ones for women in the Female Security
Index (FSI).
 Arunachal Pradesh became the First State to Introduce
e-GPF.

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Odisha became the 1 Indian state to commence e-
payment facility for government employees.

th
Indian Rank in Global Competitiveness Index-59 for
2012.
 India ranked at 65th position in Global Hunger Report
2012

nd
India Ranked 132 on Gender Inequality Index: UN
Human Development (Index) Report 2013.

th
India ranked 5 On the List of High Net worth
Individuals, according to the Knight Frank Wealth Report
2013.

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India Ranked 3 on the List of Spam Spewing Nation in
the World after US and China, as per the new report
of Sophos Labs.
 Human Development Index (HDI) is a combined index
which measures the average achievements of the
countries in three main dimensions decent standard of
living, knowledge and long and healthy life.
 India will help Sri Lanka to establish special economic
zone in automobile and pharma.
 India has allowed FDI from Pakistan.
 India is expected to have 89 gigawatts (GW) of installed
wind power capacity by 2020.
 Coal India Ltd will invest Rs 7,500crore to develop
railway infrastructure in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and
Odisha.
 NSE ranked 12th in the world Stock Exchange List.

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 Central government has started a mega scheme named
Ganga Action Plan to clean the river Ganga. $ 1 billion
have been approved from the World Bank to fund an 8
year project.
 NABARD to provide Rs 400 crores credit for Punjab dairy
sector.
 US’ Export-Import Bank to extend $2.1 billion credit to
Reliance Industries for expanding Reliance's projects at
Jamnagar.
 India will grow by 6% in 2013: World Bank.
 IMF: World Economic Growth Rate would be 3.5% and
Indian Economic Growth Rate to be 5.9% in 2013.
 ICICI Bank Opened 101 Gramin Branches across Villages
in 6 States
 IRCTC introduced Interbank Mobile Payment System.
 According to IBA (Indian Banking Association) guidelines
duration of education loans would be increased 7 – 10
yrs. In special case it would extend to 15 yrs.
 Former RBI Governor Y V Reddy will be the Chairman of
14th Finance Commission; the 13th Finance Commission
was headed by former Finance Secretary Vijay Kelkar.
 India and Pakistan have agreed to allow two banks each
from both, the countries to set up branches across the
border. The two Indian banks are SBI and Bank of India
and two Pakistani banks are National Bank of Pakistan
and United Bank Ltd.
 World Bank will provide India $3-5 billion assistance
annually over the next four years to help eradicate
poverty and improve healthcare mainly in the low-
income states.
 Indian banks would need Rs 3,90,000-5,00,000 Crore
capital over the next six years in the wake of Basel III
capital regulations announced by the RBI.
 After SBI and NABARD ownership of National Housing
Bank (Now RBI hold 100% share) will be transferred
from RBI to Government.
 India's largest bank SBI will discontinue a free accident
insurance cover given to its home and car loan
customers from July 2013.

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Bank of India opened its 1 Branch in South Africa.
 RBI said NBFCs operating infrastructure finance
companies (IFCs) can now avail themselves of overseas
borrowings up to 75 % of their owned funds without its
approval.
 LIC Housing Finance has launched a new home loan
product called “Bhagyalakshmi” for women home
seekers.
 ICICI Partnered With Aircel to Launch Mobile Banking
Service.
 World Bank praises MP achievements under National
Livelihoods Mission.
 ADB gave 100 Million US Dollar Loan to Uttarakhand for
the urban infrastructure programme.
 The ADB has offered $150 million loan for the expansion
of railway tracks and to improve overall service in the
country.
 ADB announced to provide $74.8 million loan to
improve road connectivity in the North East states.
 World Bank slashed the Global Growth Forecast to 2.4%
for 2013, little higher than the 2.3% achieved in 2012.
 ADB to provide $300 million loan to Chhattisgarh for
overhauling roads
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 IMF, in its World Economic Outlook pegged India's
economic growth rate in 2013 at 5.9 % and projected a
higher growth of 6.4 % for next year.
 As per the UN 'World Economic Situation and Prospects
2013, India's economic growth is projected to grow at a
slower pace of 6.1 % this year.
 Indian Economy Would Dominate the Economy of the
World by 2030 by US Intelligence Community Report.
 World's Largest Private Yacht named Azzam Launched
by German Shipyard.
IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER
MOU Signed by India:
 India and Russia signed Regulation of Co-operation
Agreement at Moscow.
 Germany wiil provide USD 1.3 bn for renewable energy
in India.
 India signed an agreement with Belgium for the
modernization of the Indian Railways.
 India and Russia signed pacts on Economic Ties for $2
billion Investment Fund.
 India signs $70 million loan pact with World Bank for
K’taka Health Systems Development, Reform Project.
 India and China sign 11 pacts to enhance trade and
economic ties.
 India and Japan signed a currency swap agreement for
up to 15 billion dollars today to address short-term
liquidity problems. The bilateral swap arrangement
(BSA) has been inked between the Reserve Bank of India
and the Bank of Japan.
 India and World Bank Signed 500 Million Dollar Deal for
Shiksha Abhyan.
 India to sign Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty in criminal
matters with Azerbaijan, Israel, Nepal and Oman.
 Trade between South Asian countries crosses $2 billion
following the implementation of South Asian Free Trade
Area (SAFTA)
 India and Ukraine signed five agreements to enhance
cooperation including in areas of defence, Nuclear
energy, Science and Technology and also to remove
barriers for trade. The two countries also agreed to raise
the bilateral cooperation to a Comprehensive
partnership level.
 India and Sweden sign pact to enhance cooperation on
social security.
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 India and Japan signed an Earths Pact that will enable
the latter to import the rare Earth minerals from India.
 India and ASEAN signed the free trade agreement (FTA)
in services and investments to boost trade to $100
billion by 2015.
 India, Mauritius meet to review bilateral Double
Taxation Avoidance Convention.
 India and Bangladesh Decided to increase Rail Link
Projects.
 India, Bangladesh to set up Joint Inspection team for
successful implementation of Border Trade.
 India and Bangladesh signed Agreements on Extradition
and Visa Regime.
 India & Mauritius sign MoU in textile sector.
 India & Austria ink social security pact.
 India and Bangladesh signed MoU on Health.
 India and France concluded negotiations on the Short
Range Surface to Air Missile nearly worth USD 6 billion.
 India becomes number one exporting nation to Kenya.
 India and UK Signed MoU on in Earth Sciences.
 India and Germany inked 6 key MoUs including that for
putting together € 7 million for next 4 years towards
joint research in the field of higher education , a soft
loan of € 1 billion for strengthening the green energy
corridor, to promote German as a foreign language ,
both Germany and India have committed to € 3.5
million each towards working on joint research and
innovation programmes, estb of green energy corridor
was also signed besides one in agriculture and
establishment of a working group in infrastructure,
cooperation in standardisation, conformity assessment
and product safety.
 India and Sri Lanka signed two agreements.
 Combating International Terrorism, illegal Drug and
Human Trafficking.
 An agreement on Avoidance of double
taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion Japan to close
embassy in Mali over worsening security situation.
 7 key pacts in the areas of cyber security, Information
technology, services, electronics, small and medium
enterprises, manufacturing, fertilisers, and renewable
energy was signed between Indian PM Manmohan
Singh and the visiting Egyptian President Mohamed
Morsi in New Delhi.
 India and Liechtenstein signed the Tax Information
Exchange Agreement (TIEA) on 28 March 2013 at Bern,
Switzerland.
 India, Myanmar & Thailand decided to implement
Trilateral Connectivity Project by 2016.
 India offered Telecom Support to Turkmenistan.
 India & Azerbaijan inked 3 key pacts for creating the
necessary legal framework in areas of extradition, India
and Azerbaijan on Thursday inked three key pacts which
also included treaties for mutual legal assistance
in criminal and civil matters.
 India and Malta signed the new DTAA (The Double
Taxation Avoidance Agreement) at Valetta, Malta during
the visit of Preneet Kaur, Minister of State for External
Affairs of India.
Scheme & Plan Launched by Union & state Government:
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 E-stamping to be launched in Delhi on 28 June of all
denominations.
 India to Launch World’s Biggest Cash-to-the-Poor
Program.
 Second all-woman employees post office inaugurated at
the Delhi.
 Union government launched Direct cash transfer
scheme in 20 districts, It will cover 26 schemes such as
educational scholarship for SC/ST and OBC, and widow
pension.
 Union Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment,
Kumari Selja on 5 April 2013 launched a Website
(http://www.jagjivanram.nic.in/) on Babu Jagjivan Ram
on the occasion of his 106th Birth Anniversary.
 Bosnia and Herzegovina signed an MoU with India in the
form of larger investments in the manufacturing, energy
and IT sectors.
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The 5 BRICS summit held in Durban from 26 to 27
March 2013 at the Durban International Convention
Centre (ICC).
 Govt. launched Child health Screening service in
Maharashtra.
 HRD Ministry Launched Sanskrit Caravan.
 The official online portal http://intraips.gov.in of INTRA-
IPS was launched by S. Jayaraman (Special Secretary-
Internal Security), Minister of Home Affairs at New
Delhi.
 Vocational education, services and e-governance
network, AISECT launched a job portal
called RojgarMantra.com which will cater mainly to
people in rural and semi urban India.
 President of India released a Commemorative Postage
Stamp on late Ramgopal Maheshwari.
 Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana (health
insurance scheme) was launched in Maharashtra.
 Andhra Pradesh on occasion of Ugadi Festival launched
a new scheme named Amma Hastham (mother's hand)
to supply nine essential food items to poor at subsidized
rates.
 Haryana Govt. decides to implement e-pension scheme
system.
 Haryana bags ‘Krishi Karman Award’ for highest wheat
production.
 In Haryana, to ensure that all the health facilities and
services provided by Health Department are accessible
to the people, a programme called “ Rapid Appraisal of
Programme Implementation in District”.
 Odisha decided to set up the first public health
university in India, This university will be set up under
Public-Private Partnership mode at Gramadiha village in
Jatni tehsil on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. An MoU
has been signed in this regard by State Health
Department and Asian Institute of Public Health in
Bhubaneshwar.
 Madya Pradesh CM announced Mukhyamantri Yuva
Swarozgar Yojna. Under the scheme, the State
Government will give bank guarantee for industries
worth up to 25 lakh rupees and 5% loan subsidy for 5
years.
 Madya Pradesh starts new scheme Sampark Setu.
 MP Govt. launches Mukhyamantri Yuva Swarozgar
Yojana. The scheme aims to provide loans through
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 banks to youths to set up their own industries or
business.
 Former president Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam launched
Madhya Pradesh government’s Atal Jyoti scheme in
Bhopal district. Under the scheme 24 hour power
is supplied in the rural areas.
 The Madhya Pradesh government decided to
declare Malkhamb as the State Sport
 Nirmal Bharat Campaign had started in Sevagram,
Maharashtra.
 India's first automatic toll collection system launched in
Maharashtra.
 Maharashtra Govt. creates special bank account for
drought relief.
 U.P started Ashirwad Bal Swasthya Guarantee Yojna
NRHM.
 UP govt. launched unemployment allowance scheme.
 UP Government launched the Samajwadi Swasthya Seva
in the state.
 Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav launched
free laptop scheme for intermediate pass.
 Uttarakhand govt to strictly implement 'no work no pay'
rule.
 Kerala Govt. Raised Age Limit (18 to 21 ) for Buying and
Selling Liquor.
 Rajasthan Govt will establish Kisan Service Centers and
Village Knowledge centers at all Panchayat
headquarters.
 West Bengal to give fixed Salary to ASHA workers.
 MP leads in growth rate with Gross State Domestic
Product for 2012-13 is likely to be 14.28 % and
agriculture growth rate about 10.02%.
 Cairn India has said it has made the 26th oil discovery in
its prolific Rajasthan block, the discovery follows
allowing the company to explore for oil on block well
after expiry of the exploration phase.
Others:
 India Proposed Hydrocarbon Pipeline from Kazakhstan
like TAPI.
 Now Toll free complaint number will be printed on train
tickets.
 Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya got their own High
Courts,Mr. Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre is the first
Chief Justice of the new Manipur High Court, Justice T
Meena Kumari has become the first Chief Justice of
Meghalaya High Court, justice Deepak Gupta took over
as the new Tripura High Court's Chief Justice.
 AirAsia ties up with TATA to start Airline in India.
 Mohamammed Afzal Guru, the convict of 13 dec, 2001
Parliament attack was hanged in Tihar Jail, New Delhi.
 Tripura records highest ever polling of 93% in India.
 Ajmal Kasab hanged and buried in Pune's Yerwada Jail.
 Mangalam village became the first village in India where
all households were provided banking facilities, it is
situated in Pondicherry.
 India’s First River-lake link project launched In
Bundelkhand.
 Former CM of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa formally
launched Karnataka Janata Party.
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 Sonia Gandhi launched a major food security
programme of Delhi Government "Delhi Annshri Yojna".
 Rajyasabha passes (117th Amendment) Bill for
reservation in promotion for SCs and STs in govt. jobs.
 Sharad Pawar releases book “For the Grains” written by
KV Thomas.
 The 28th International food & hospitality fair ‘AAHAR’
for 5 days organized at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
The theme of this trade show is, Traceability - an
essence of food products.
 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (7-9Jan) in Kochi (Kerala).
Mauritius President Rajkeswur Purryag was the chief
guest.
 Andhra Pradesh Government has introduced a Bill in the
Assembly aimed at ensuring transparent, accountable
and accurate implementation of Sub-plans for the
welfare of Scheduled Casts and Scheduled Tribes.
 Shiv Shankar Menon, the national security advisor as
well as negotiator in the border talks with China paid
the visit here in Dec 2012. This was the first visit by any
top ranking Indian official post changes announcement
in Communist Party of China.
 Srinagar hosting international cycling event- Tour de
India
 IOC suspends IOA for violating Olympic charter
 Telecom Commission approves subsidy for BSNL
operations in rural areas.
 India has a confirmed reserve of nearly two lakh tonnes
of uranium at present. The reserves of monazite amount
to one hundred seven lakh tonnes.
 Chhattisgarh became the first state in the country to
bring legislation on food security.
 Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne released a book titled
"Victory India - A Key to Quality Military Leadership"
authored by Colonel Vinay B Dalvi (Retd) at the Air
Headquarters.
 States which ban Gutka-MP, Kerela, Maharashtra, Bihar
Rajsthan,Gujrat
 National Aluminium Co Ltd commissioned its first wind
power project at Gandikota in Kadapa district of Andhra
Pradesh.
 Omar Abdullah inaugurated First Civil Air Service in J&K.
 Former ISRO Chairman Prof U R Rao is joining the highly
prestigious ‘Satellite Hall of Fame’ in Washington.
 Jaipur Literature Festival’s theme is “Buddha in
literature”. Spritual leader Dalai Lama will be the chief
guest at the festival.
 Hamid Ansari inaugurated the Global Partnership
Summit in the Taj city Agra.
 Shah Rukh Khan Ranked First in Forbes India Celebrity
100 List.
 The Information and Broadcasting Minister, Manish
Tiwari launched the My India Initiative-A Digital
Volunteer Programme to reach out the people in the
social media space.
 CJI Altamas Kabir inaugurated the first fast-track court in
Delhi .
 Maximum No. of Aadhar Card over 5 crore 36 lakh
enrolments in Andhra Pradesh till march.
 President Pranab Mukherjee was Chief Guest at the
45th Mauritius Independence Day celebrations on the
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agreements in areas of health and medicine, tourism
and welfare of senior citizens and the disabled.
 Arun Jaitley, Karan Singh and Sharad Yadav Selected For
Parliamentarian Award for 2010, 2011 and 2012
respectively.
 Union minister Kapil Sibal launched (a web based)
Electronics Project Proposal System (e-PPS) in march
2013, which will Support Online submission of project
proposals, Evaluation of proposals by experts, Project
recommendations, Project Monitoring.
 Bharti Airtel launches free roaming scheme in 5 states.
 The Communications and Information Technology
Minister, Kapil Sibal has inaugurated India's First All
Women Employees Post Office at Shastri Bhawan in
New Delhi on the occasion of the International
Women's Day, All the counters of this Post Office will be
manned by women employees only.
 Postage Stamp Released on the Commemorative Sahir
Ludhianvi (a renowned Urdu poet)by the President of
India, Pranab Mukherjee on 8 March 2013 on occasion
of his birth anniversary.
 UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation stone
of a residential, educational-cum- vocational training
centre ‘ANANDA’ for persons with autism spectrum
disorders at village Gairatpur Bass in Gurgaon. the
centre will be developed by an NGO named Action for
Autism on about 10 acres of land.
 Vidya Balan re-elected as Brand Ambassador of Indian
Film Festival of Melbourne
 President of India, Pranab Mukherjee appointed Ali
Mohd. Magrey and Dhiraj Singh Thakur as the Judges of
the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
 According to the report released by United National
Development Programme (UNDP) 2013 South Asia(the
South Asian Countries) leads the world in improvements
in human development.
 DMK quits UPA govt over Sri Lankan Tamils issue.
 The Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari released a
book titled The First Woman President of India,
Reinventing leadership, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil
by Professor Sunaina Singh.
 S. Venkata Mohan a scientist of the Indian Institute of
Chemical Technology for his contributions towards
developing technologies for production of clean bio-
fuels from waste, won the National Bioscience Award
for 2012 in Hyderabad.
 Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt Sentenced to 5-Years Jail
Term by the Supreme Court for his association with the
1993 bombings in Mumbai.
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The 5 Nashik International Film Festival (NIFF)
organised in memory of the father of the Indian
cinema Dadasaheb Phalke and also to mark the
centenary year of Indian cinema.88 documentaries and
short films, 10 feature films, 22 films made in Malegaon
in the district, which is popularly known as
"Mollywood", will be screened in the festival.Besides
these, five Australian, 20 French films and seven
animation films will be screened during the four-day
festival.
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 Reliance Industries has been awarded by the prestigious
'International Refiner of the Year' 2013 at HART
Energy's 27th World Refining & Fuel Conference at San
Antonio, Texas, USA.
 YES BANK signed up as IPL's financial services partner.
 SEBI summoned Sahara group chief Subrato Roy in
investor refund case (refund of Rs 24,000 crore)
 The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has
withdrawn changes suggested by it in civil services
mains examination, dropping mandatory English
language paper requirement.
 Top Indian space scientist U. R. Rao has been inducted
into the Satellite Hall of Fame in Washington DC by the
Society of Satellite Professionals International, in the US.
 Google launched Google Play Movies in India.
 Boxer Ram Singh dismissed by Punjab Police in drug haul
case.
 The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
(IRDA) Introduced Credit Rating Norm for Selecting
Foreign Re-insurers.
 Rajasthan celebrated its 63rd foundation day On 30th
March, it was formed on 30th March 1949.
 NTPC commissioned a New 5-MW solar photo-voltaic
power project at Port Blair in Andaman & Nicobar
Islands.
 Narendra Modi inducted into BJP's Parliamentary Board.
 Hazare organised 'janatantra yatra' from Amritsar.
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Odisha celebrated its 77th foundation day on 1 april.
 International boxer and Olympic medalist Vijender
found accused of taking heroin 12 times.
 UPSC Changed the Scheme of Civil Services MAIN
Examination 2013.
 GAIL signed a deal of 2.3-million-tonne (mt) capacity in
the Cove Point LNG liquefaction terminal project at
Lusby in Maryland, US.
 sixth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) started
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from 3 april.
 New tough anti-rape law comes into force, it will now
be called the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013.
 Wi-Fi, internet facility in Howrah Rajdhani launched.
 Param Yuva II - India's fastest supercomputer and the
62nd fastest supercomputer in the world.
 The Central Bureau Investigation has celebrated its
Golden Jubilee.
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 The Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari Released
Book: “Religion, Law & Society – Across the Globe”
authored by Prof. Tahir Mahmood.
 Malala Yousafzai, 15 years old Pakistani schoolgirl who
was shot in the head by Taliban signed 3-Million Dollar
deal for Publishing her Life Story book with a title “I am
Malala”. It is going to be published by Weidenfeld &
Nicholson in the UK and Commonwealth and by Little,
Brown in the rest of the worldWorld Bank President Jim
Yong Kim came to India for 3 day visit to gather
information on development challenges being faced by
the country and look at opportunities for enhancing its
role in reducing poverty at an accelerated pace.
 Jeff Zucker named CNN's New Chief Executive
succeeded outgoing CNN chief Jim Walton starting in
January 2013.
 UNGA votes to recognize Palestine as non-member
observer state.
 Parliament of Egypt Passed Draft of the New
Constitution.
 Recently discovered colourful, freshwater species of fish
known as Darters, was named after the re-elected US
President Barack Obama in December 2012.
 Barack Obama leads Forbes ranking of world's most
powerful
 PM of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong visited India.
 London became no.1 Fashion City of the world (earlier it
was Paris)
 HSBC agreed to sell banking business in Pakistan.
 Smiling Armadillo to be the official Mascot of 2014 FIFA
World Cup Brazil
 Japan unveils plan to phase out nuclear power by 2030.
 Afghanistan & China to expand bilateral relations.
 South Korea Became first country in Asia to Order
Chemical Castration of Child Rapist.
 Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck was the
chief guest of Republic Day parade.
 5 day Indo-Pak International Trade Expo (IPEX-13) held
in Jalandhar.
 Pakistan PM Raja Pervez Ashraf arrives Jaipur.
 Tsering Woeser, Tibetan author, poet and blogger was
honoured with the prestigious International Women of
Courage Award.
 UK grants 5.11 billion nepali rupees aid to Nepal.
 Russian conglomerate Sistema's Indian unit on Monday
won telecom spectrum in 8 circles or zones for Rs 3,639
crore in an auction shunned by all other companies.
 The UK Government on 12 March 2013 opened its first
ever Mobile Biometric Clinic (MBC) in Goa. MBC is a new
and optional service, which for an additional fee allows
applicants who are residing in Goa to submit their UK
visa application and biometric data using a mobile
facility in the state.
 Iran and Pakistan launched Gas Pipeline Project of 7.5
billion dollar gas pipeline project which will link Iran's
gas pipeline to that of Pakistan.
 David Beckham with a total income of 175 million pound
Named Richest Footballer of the World according to
the Goal Rich List 2013.
 Japan Became First Country in the World to Extract
Natural Gas from Methane Hydrate by March 2013.
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 The Union Government and RBI on 12 March 2013
decided to introduce one billion pieces of 10 Rupees
bank notes made of plastic on a field trial basis in five
cities of Kochi, Mysore, Jaipur, Bhubhaneswar and
Shimla.
 Legendary Painter Ganesh Pyne Passed Away in Kolkata
 The Eurozone finance ministers and the International
Monetary Fund signed a deal on 16 March 2013 in
Brussels to aid Cyprus with a bailout worth 10 billion
Euros.
 World Celebrates Earth hour on 23 March With the
ongoing theme “Ï will if you will " to save the planet
earth & Save energy, the fuels, the bills over the
fuels and reduce Carbon emissions for a cleaner and
better tomorrow is the message from Earth Hour.
 Cyprus Finance Minister Michalis Sarris resigns.
 Kuwait is the fattest country in the world, with the
highest average body mass index or the BMI. The Men
in Kuwait have BMI of 27.5 while the women have a BMI
of 31.4.
 MoU Signed Between Mysore Zoo and Leipzig Zoo in
Germany for Transporting Four Sloth Bears
 North Korea declares 'state of war' with South Korea
and warned that any provocation would swiftly escalate
into a nuclear conflict.
 The most powerful ever seen cyberattack in history
"bazooka" slowed down traffic on internet.
 United Arab Emirates (UAE) Inaugurated World’s Largest
Solar Power Plant of cost 600-million dollar
project named “Shams 1” at Madinat Zayed by the
President of UAE and the Ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan on 17 March 2013 which is
aimed at providing electricity to 20000 homes.
NEW APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA
 Parthasarathi Shome - Adviser to Finance Minister of
India
 S Gopalakrishnan (co-founder & Executive Co-Chairman
of Infosys) - President of the Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) for the year 2013-14 (succeeding Adi
Godrej)
 Krishna Kumar Natrajan (CEO and Director of Mindtree)
- New Chief of NASSCOM (replaced N Chandrasekaran).
 Amitava Bhattacharyya - chairman of Staff Selection
Commission (replaced N.K. Raghupati)
 Amarjit Singh- secretary in Union Public Service
Commission (UPSC).
 Raninder Singh - President of National Rifle Association
of India
 PJ Kurien - Chairman of Asian forum of Parliamentarians
(replaced Yasuo Fukuda, former P M of Japan)
 Abhay Chautala- New President of Indian Olympic
Association
 Vinod Rai - Re-Elected As Chairman of UN Panel of
External Auditors
 Sidharth Birla (Chairman of Xpro India Ltd and Digjam
Ltd) - Senior Vice-President of FICCI.
 Anil Dev Singh - Chairperson of IOA Election Panel (after
S.Y. Quraishi).
 Ashwani Kumar (Former CBI Director) - Governor of
Nagaland (replaced Nikhil Kumar).
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 Nikhil Kumar (Former Governor of Nagaland) - Governor
of Kerala for the remainder of terms.
 D Y Patil (Former Governor of Tripura) - Governor of
Bihar (replaced Devanand Konwar)
 Devanand Konwar (Former Governor of Tripura) -
Governor of Tripura.
 Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir - new Odisha Governor.
 Prahlad Joshi - Karnataka BJP President
 Jagat Singh Negi - Deputy Speaker of Legislative
Assembly of Himachal.
 Justice D.K. Jain - new Chairman of Law Commission.
 Shyamala Gopinath - New Clearing Corporation of India
Ltd (CCIL)Chairperson.
 Urjit Patel -New Deputy Governer of RBI (replaced Subir
Gokarn).
 Jawahar Sircar - New CEO of Prasar Bharti.
 Naina Lal Kidwai - New President of FICCI- (replaced R.V.
Kanoria).
 Rajiv Takru - Secretary of Financial Services in the
Finance Ministry replacing Dinesh Kumar.
 Rajnath Singh- new BJP president.
 P.R. Vasudeva Rao - Director of the IGCAR (Indira Gandhi
Centre for Atomic Research) replacing S.C Chetal.
 Mukund Govind Rajan - Group Spokesperson and Brand
Custodian of Tata Group.
 Justice Y Bhaskar Rao - New Lokayukta of K'taka.
 Asoke Kumar Mukerji - Next Permanent Representative
of India to the UN.
 T. S. Vijayan - Chairman of IRDA replacing J. Hari
Narayan.
 Manik Sarkar - CM of Tripura for 5th time.
 Vice Admiral Anurag G Thapliyal - New Director General
of Indian Coast Guard.
 Mukul Sangma - CM of Meghalaya.
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Neiphiu Rio CM of Nagaland for the 3 consecutive
time.
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Virbhadra Singh – CM of Himachal Pradesh for 6 time.
 Narendra Modi - CM of Gujarat for 4th time.
 Justice Swatanter Kumar - NGT (National Green tribunal)
Chairperson.
 Cyrus Mistry - New Chairman of TATA Group after the
retirement of Ratan tata.
 MS Sahoo - Secretary of Institute of Company
Secretaries of India (ICSI).
 S Raman - Whole Time Member of Security and
Exchange Board of India(SEBI).
 S. Ramakrishnan - new Director of Vikram Sarabhai
Space Centre (replaced P S Veeraraghavan).
 Roelant Oltmans - New Director (High Performance) for
Indian Hockey Team.
 S. Ramakrishnan - Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space
Centre replacing P S Veeraraghava.
 Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as International Goodwill
Ambassador – UNAIDS (UN Programme on HIV/AIDS).
 Mary Kom - Brand Ambassador of Super Fight League
(SPL) .
 Kenichi Ayukawa - new MD of Maruti Suzuki (replaced
Shinzo Nakanishi).
 Justice B.Sudarshan Reddy (Former Judge of the
Supreme Court of India) - first Lokayukta of Goa.
 B Ashok Reddy - Chairman of Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII), Andhra Pradesh, for 2013-14.
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 Justice Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar- new Chief Justice of
the Himachal Pradesh High Court
 Rajan Bharti Mittal - president of International Chamber
of Commerce (ICC) India.
 Justice Ujjal Bhuyan - new Judge of the Gauhati High
Court
 Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu - Congress Party President of
Himachal.
 IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre M.F. Farooqui - Telecom
Secretary by replacing R. Chandrashekhar.
 Bhaichung Bhutia - Chairman of the All India Football
Federation’s technical committee.
 Gregg Clark - Coach of the Junior Hockey Men’s National
Team
NEW APPOINTMENT IN WORLD
 Uhuru Kenyatta- President of Kenya
 Tony Hall - New Director General of BBC.
 Xi Jinping takes - new China's President (succeeded Hu
Jintao).
 Li Keqiang - China's new Premier (succeeded Wen
Jiabao).
 Khil Raj Regmi (Chief Justice of Nepal) - Nepal's new
Prime Minister to head an interim government
 The new Argentine pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio (76) -
new Pope becomes the 266th pontiff.
 Park Geun-hye - President of S. Korea (1st women
president).
 Raul Castro - President in Cuba.
 Mittal Jack Lew (democratic Party) - US Treasury
Secretary Administration, replacing Geithner.
 Milos Zeman - Czech Republic’s President (First Directly
Elected President).
 Sally Jewell - U.S. Interior Secretary.
 Rafael Correa - Ecuador’s President re-elected for a
Third Term.
 Hagel - New US Defence Secretary.
 Shinzo Abe - New PM of Japan.
 Nicos Anastasiades - President of Cyprus .
 Patrick Suckling - Australia's next High Commissioner to
India (replacing Peter Varghese).
 Rangaswamy Srinivasan is the only Indian American re-
nominated by Obama for the District of Columbia
Circuit.
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Zhang Yang.
 Milos Zeman - Czech Republic’s First Directly Elected
President.
 Ahmed Saleem - New Secretary General of SAARC.
 John Kerry- The secretary of state (US).
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Mir Hazar Khan Khoso - 6 caretaker Prime Minister of
Pakistan.
 Khaled Meshaal (re-elceted) - political leader of the
Palestinian Islamist group ‘Hamas’.
 Nicolas Maduro - Venezuela’s new President
PERSONS IN NEWS
 Arunima Sinha – a National-level volleyball player with
an artificial limb geared up to climb the world's highest
peak - the Mt Everest, accompanied by Sushen Mahto.
 Bobby Ghosh - Eeminent Indian Journalist became First
non-American Editor of Time International.
 Emomali Rahmon - President of Tajikistan.
 Pop Benedict XVI – resigned due to poor health.
 T. S. Vijayan- took over as the Chairman of IRDA.
 Sreeramamurthy Janaki- Refused to take Padma
bhushan.
 David Coleman Headley – US federal court sentenced
imprisonment for 35yrs.
 Mukesh Ambani – 18 richest man in the world.
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 Naina Lal Kidwai – the first woman president of FICCI.
 Bhanu Athaiya – First Indian to win Oscar decided to
return her trophy.
 Hamadi Jebali – Tunisia PM resigned.
 Boiko Borisov – Bugaria PM resigned.
 Michael Hussey (Australian Cricketer)- announced
Retirement from Test Cricket.
 Rahi Sarnobat - first Indian Pistol Shooter to clinch a
gold medal in the ISSF World Cup in Changwon, Korea.
 Sunil Dutt – Resined from his post he was BlackBerry’s
India Managing Director.
 Salam Fayyad – Resigned from his post of Palestinian
Prime Minister.
 Sharad Yadav (India) Unanimously Re-Elected As the
National President of JDU
 Mo yan & Jackie Chan – Selected as Members of
Chinese Parliament.
 Subra Suresh – Indian American Appointed as president
of Carnegie Mellon
 Ratan Tata- Elected as member of National Academy of
Engineering.
 Mukesh Ambani – appointed as chair of India Advisory
council of BAT
ORBITUARY
 Margaret Thatcher- Britain's first female PM
 Chinua Achebe - father of African literature.
 Dr Hilary Koprowski - Developer of First Successful Oral
Vaccination for Polio.
 R P Goenka - Industrialist.
 Zao Wou-ki - abstract Chinese painter.
 Kamala Sadagopan - eminent Tamil Novelist and Writer.
 Robert Edwards - Test-tube baby pioneer.
 Haseeb Ahsan - Former Pakistan off-spinner.
 Professor Bratindra Nath Mukherjee - Renowned
Historian
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 Leslie Claudius - Legendary hockey player and one of
India's greatest Olympians, passed away in Kolkata.
 SK Varma - the former news editor of The Indian
Express.
 Mukesh Gadhvi - the Congress MP from Banaskantha.
 Hari Shankar Singhania, - the leading industrialist of
India.
 Radhakishan Malviya - the former Union Minister
and Rajya Sabha Member from Madhya Pradesh
 Shanu Lahiri - Shanu Lahiri, the Renowned Bengali
PainterPasses away
 Ayesha Haroon - Ayesha Haroon, the
Renowned PakistaniJournalist Died of Cancer
 P.Shanmugam. - Veteran Congress leader and
former Puducherry Chief Minister P Shanmugham died.
in his Karaikal residence.
 Jasuben Shilpi - Renowned sculptor Jasuben Shilpi,
popularly known as ‘The Bronze woman of
India’, passed away in Gujarat.
 Hugo Chavez - Venezuelan President.
 M S Goplakrishnan- Violin maestro:
 M.S. Udayamurthy – Tamil Writer.
 Hari Shankar Singhania (Padma Bhushan awardee) - the
leading industrialist at the age of 79 years.
 Radhakishan Malviya - former Union Minister.

Ravi Shankar- Music Composer.
 S.K. Verma- The veteran Journalist.
 Tony Greig - Former England cricket captain.
 Gerda Lerner - Founder member of National
Organization for Woman.
 Haradhan Bandopadhyay - Bengali Actor.
 Koto Okubo - World’s Oldest Female died at 115.
 Jasuben Shilpi(The Bronze woman of India) -sculptor .
 Shanu Lahiri - Bengali Painter.
 Ayesha Haroon - Pakistani Journalist.
 Dara Singh-Film Actor.
 R.H. Patil- First MG of NSE.
 Mrinal Gore-Social Activist.
 P.M.Rungta-Director of BCCI.
 Neil Armstrong-first man to set foot on the moon (From
US).
 Verghese Kurien- Founder of white revolution (Amul
Milk).
 K.S. Sudarshan – Former RSS Chief.
 Brajesh Mishra – First National Security Advisor of India.
 V.P. Singhal – former president of VHP.
 Norman woodland- Inventor of Barcode.
 Haseeb Ahshan – Pakistani cricketer.
 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Oscar and Booker Prize winner
writer.
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Freedom Fighter
 Dinesh Thakur – Indian theatre director and actor

SPORTS
Tennis
Australian Open 2013:
 Men Single- Novak Djokovic(Serbia) bt Andy
Murray(Britain).
 Women Single-Victoria Azarenka bt Li Na( china)
 Men Double- Bob & Mike Byan bt Robin haase & Igor
Sijsling.
 Women Double- Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci(Italy) bt
Ashlegh Barty and Casey Dellaqua
US Open 2012:
 Men Single- Andy Murray bt Novak Djokovic
 Women Single-Serena Williams bt Victoria Azarenka
 K Venukuttan Nair - a well known theatre personality as  Men Double- Bob and Mike Bryan won bt Leander paes
well as the Malayalam film actor. and Radek Stepanek.
 Dave Brubeck- the Renowned Jazz Pianist and  Women Double- Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci(Italy)
Composer. Wimbledon 2012
 I K Gujral - Ex PM of India.  Men Singles - Roger Federer bt Andy Murray
 Vedantam - Eminent Kuchipudi dancer.  Women Singles - Serena Williams bt Agnieszka
 Anthony Lewis - Pulitzer Prize-winner. Radwanska
 Lilian Davies - Swedish Princess.  Men Doubles - Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen bt
 Kallam Anji Reddy - Dr Reddy's Laboratories Founder. Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau
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Zillur Rahman - Bangladesh’s 19 President .  Women Doubles - Serena Williams and Venus Williams
 James Herbert -British horror author. bt Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka
 Phil Ramone - Iconic music producer.  Mixed Doubles- Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond bt
 Actor Richard Griffiths - the Renowned Vernon Dursley Leander Paes-Elena Vesnina
of Harry Potter. th
 Soraya Jimenez - Mexican weightlifter . London Olympics 2012(30 summer Olympics)
 Pietro Mennea - Italian Athlete. Highest Medal:
 1 US: 104 Medals (46 G+29 S+ 29 B),
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 Viren J Shah - Former West Bengal Governor.
 2 China: 88 Medals (38 G+27 S+ 23 B)
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 Prof Veer Bhadra Mishra - Noted Environmentalist.
 55 India: 6 Medals (2 S +4 B)
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 B Satyanarayana Reddy-Freedom fighter and former
Governor of Uttar Pradesh INDIA MEDEL IN LONDON OLOMPIC
 Yash chopra-Film Maker Name Medel Sport Event
Men's 10m
 Jaspal Bhatti-Comedian and satirist Gagan Narang Bronze Shooting Air Rifle
 Pt.Ravi Shankar- Music Composer Men's 25
 Joy Mukherjee- Film Actor Rapid Fire
 Vilas Rao Deshmukh-Union Science and Technology Vijay Kumar Silver Shooting Pistol
Women's
Minister Saina Nehwal Bronze Badminton Women's
singles
 Mehdi hassan-Ghazal legend Mary Kom Bronze Boxing flyweight
 Dara Singh-Film Actor Yogeshwar Men's 60 kg
 Rajesh Khanna- Film Actor Dutt Bronze Wrestling Men's
Freestyle66 kg
 Bingu wa Mutharika-Malawi’s President Sushil Kumar Silver Wrestling Freestyle
 Ahmed Ben Bella- first President of Algeria  Women’s Hockey- Netherlands bt Argentina
 R.H. Patil- First MG of NSE  Men’s Hockey- Germany beat Netherlands
 Mrinal Gore-Social Activist  In Men’s Basketball, US beat Spain to win gold
 P.M.Rungta-Director of BCCI  Andy Murray(Eng) defeated Roger Federer (Switzerland)
 A.K. Hangal-Film Actor to clinch tennis men’s singles gold
 Neil Armstrong-first man to set foot on the moon (From  Mascots for London Olympics were Wenlock and
US) Mandeville.
 Meles Zenawi-Ethopia Prime Minister  Wenlock was mascot for Olympics and Mandeville was
 Verghese Kurien- Founder of white revolution(Amul mascot for Paralympics.
Milk)  Next: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016
 Ranganath Misra -Former Chief Justice of India  Winner Asian Chess Championship 2012 – Parivarjan
 K.S. Sudarshan – Former RSS Chief Negi.
 Brajesh Mishra – First National Security Advisor of India  Serena Williams named WTA Player of the Year 2012
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2012.
 Hockey Champions Trophy 2012 - Australia won by
defeating Netherlands in Melbourne.
 Unmukt Chand, the man who led the Indian side to win
the U-19 World Cup 2012 was declared the Indian
Youngster of the Year award.
 Hockey India League - Ranchi Rhinos beat Delhi
Waveriders.
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Shreyasi & Sushma Singh win Gold in 56 National
Shooting Championship.
 Asian Champions Trophy Hockey: Pakistan defeat India.
 Mahaveer Singh and Tejaswini Sawant Bagged Gold in
National Shooting Championship:
 Santosh Trophy title - Services retain 67th Santosh
Trophy title by defeating Kerala.
 Vijay Hazare Trophy - Delhi clinch Vijay Hazare Trophy
by defeating Assam
 Mexican Open - Rafael Nadal clinch Mexican Open title
by defeating David Ferrer in final.
 ATP Dubai Open Tennis title - Novak Djokovic won by
defeating Czech Republic’s Tomas Berdych.
 Grenke Chess Classic Trophy 2013 - Viswanathan Anand
(India) after defeating Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany.)
 ICC Women’s World Cup 2013 - Australia defeated West
Indies at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
 Ranji Trophy 2013 - Mumbai won its 40th Ranji Trophy
after defeating Saurashtra in Final.
 Irani Trophy 2013 – Rest of India defeated Mumbai to
clinch the title.
 National Weightlifting Championship 2013 - Manpreet
Kaur.
 WTA Copa Claro Colsanitas Cup 2013 - Jelena Jankovic
(in Bogota, Colombia).
 US National Indoor Tennis Championship 2013 - Marina
Erakovic defeated Germany's Sabine Lisicki in Memphis.
 Brazil Open 2013 - Rafael Nadal defeated David
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Nalbandian (2 time).
 Brisbane International Tennis Title 2013 - Andy Murray
defeated Grigor Dimitrov.
 Ladies Doubles Brisbane International Tennis Title -
Sania Mirza & Bethanie Mattek-Sands won by defeating
Kveta Peschke & Anna-Lena Groenefeld.
 ATP Chennai Open 2013- Janko Tipsarevic defeated
young Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut.
 Qatar Open 2013 (Doha)- Richard Gasquet defeated
Nicolay Davydenko.
 Brisbane International Tennis Tournament 2013-Serena
Williams.
 England Cricket Captain Alastair Cook became the
youngest Batsman to score 7000 Runs
 Lionel Messi set the Record for most Goals in a Calendar
Year
 Air India won Lal Bahadur Shastri hockey tournament
against Bharat Petroleum
 Australia Won Hockey Champions Trophy for the 5th
Consecutive Year.
 Chandrika Tarafdar becomes the first Indian to win a
medal in Youth World Weightlifting Championship in
Slovakia.
 Indian Iconic football Club Mohun Bagan banned for 2
Years.
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 India's under-19 World Cup winning captain Unmukt
Chand cracked a brilliant 116 to help Delhi clinch the
Vijay Hazare Trophy after convincingly defeating Assam
by 75 runs in the summit clash on Sunday.
 Myanmar defeated India in the final Football qualifier
clash in Yangon
 Harmanpreet Kaur named captain of Indian Women’s
Cricket Team.
 Australia Won Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament
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2013 7 time by defeating Malaysia by 3-2.
 Prayag United have dethroned East Bengal to win
the 117th IFA Shield.
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Kolkata’s Neha Tripathi won 6 leg of Hero Women's
Pro Golf Tour 2013 in Panchkula.
 India won Border Gavaskar Trophy 2013 agaist Austraia
by 4-0
 Virat Kohli with 731 points is at number eight position
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and Suresh Raina with 719 points is at number 9 are
the in the list of top 10 in ICC Player Rankings for T20I
batsmen.
 Britain’s Andy Murray defeated Spain’s David Ferrer in a
Miami Masters final.
 World No. 1 Serena Williams won Miami Masters open
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Tennis Tournament 2013 (6 time) by defeating Maria
Sharapova.
 Jamjang Deru won silver in the 50 kg boys’ category at
Tashkent, Uzbekistan in the world youth weightlifting
championships 2013.
 World No. 1 Serena Williams has won her third Family
Circle Cup title in Charleston by defeating Jelena
Jankovic.
 Badminton player Parupalli Kashyap achieved his career-
best world ranking of 7 in the latest list issued by the
Badminton World Federation (BWF).
 Chandigarh lifted 3rd Hockey India Sub-Junior Men
National Championship (North Zone) title.
 Rupesh Shah, the world champion won the 12th Asian
Billiards championship at Indore Tennis Club, Indore in
April 2013.
 Novak Djokovic maintained his big lead in the men’s
tennis rankings in the latest list issued on Monday by
the ATP 2013.
 Adam Scott won the Augusta Masters Golf
championship by beating Angel Cabrera in the play-off
for the title.
 India wins 8 medals at the first Asian Grand Prix Archery
Championship at Bangkok.
AWARDS
PADMA AWARDS: (total 108 awards)
Padma Vibhushan(4):
 Prof Yashpal (Science & Engg),
 Prof Roddam (Science & Engg),
 Raghunath Mohapatra (Arts)
 Syed Haider Raza (Arts).
 Padma Bushan: (24)
 Cricketer Rahul Dravid,
 Actresses Sharmila Tagore
 Actress Sridevi
 DRDO chief V K Saraswat
Padma Shri: 80
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List of Nobel Prize 2012 winners:-
 Physiology or Medicine - Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya
Yamanaka - For- "the discovery that mature cells can be
reprogrammed to become pluripotent".
 Physics - Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland -- For-
"ground-breaking experimental methods that enable
measuring and manipulation of individual quantum
systems".
 Chemisty - Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka -- For
--"studies of G-protein-coupled receptors".
 Literature - Mo Yan --For-- "who with hallucinatory
realism merges folk tales, history and the
contemporary".
 Peace Prize - European Union (EU) -- For-- over six
decades contributed to the advancement of peace and
reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe".
 Economics (also known as Sveriges Riksbank Prize in
Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) --- Alvin
E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley -- For "the theory of stable
allocations and the practice of market design".
 Miss World 2012-Wen xia YU(China).
 Miss Asia Paisific-Himangini Sing
 Miss Universe 2012-Olivia Culpo (USA) she crowned in
Las Vegas. Philippines’ Janine Tugonon was adjudged
the first runner-up followed by Venezuela’s Irene Esser.
 Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2012 – Saumitra Chatterjee.
 Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013 – Pran Krishan Sikand
(Bollywood actor, mostly known as Pran).
 Saraswati Samman (2012,) – Rohit Gautam for Bang
Bhoomi (conferred by K. K. Birla Foundation)
 Saraswati Samman (2013) – Sugathakumari, ( the
Malayalam poetess for the poetry
collection ‘Manalezhuthu’, which means The Writing on
the Sand in English.
 Moorti Devi Award (2012) – Gopichand Narang
 Bihari Puraskar (2012) – Hariram Meena for his hindi
novel Dhooni Tape Teer
 Vyas Samman (2012) – Narendra Kohli for his novel “Na
bhooto na bhavishyati”
Sahitya Akademi Awards:
 Booker-nominated Jeet Thayil and Bengali novelist
Subrata Mukhopadhyaya with 24 authors.
 12 of the 24 awards went to works of poets: K
Sachitandandan (Malayalam - Marannu Vacha Vazhikal),
late Bal Krishna 'Bhaura (Dogri - Tim-Tim Karde Tare) &
Makhan Lal Kanwal (Kashmiri - Yath Aangnaz Manz).
 Indira Gandhi International Award - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
(president of Liberia)
 Indira Gandhi Award for National Intergration –
Sampooran Singh Kalra (GULJAR)
 World Food Prize 2012- Dr. Daniel Hillel (Israel)
 India who won Magasaysay Award- Kulendei Francis for
community leadership
 Indusharma Katha Samman- Pradeep Saurabh for his
novel Teesri Tali
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 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award- Pandit Ravi
Shankar (Posthumous )
 Best Banker Prize Award 2012-13 – Jammu & Kashmir
Bank
 Jammu and Kashmir won FE India’s Best Bank Award
2012-13.
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award 2012:
 Suman Kumar Dhar – Biology
 Amit Sharma & Rajan – Biotechnology
 Balsubramaniam – Chemistry
 Mohan MJ & Plus Sarkar – Maths
 K Narayana – Medical
 Siraj Minawala – Physics
 Ramon Magsaysay Award winners 2012: Kulendei
Francis (India) – Community Leadership
 World Trade summit held in Gurgaon (India)
 Golden Boot Award as Europe’s top Scorer- Lionel Messi
 ‘Pieta’ the South Koran Film won Golden Lion Venice
Top prize
 Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar grabbed third Asian tour title
 FICCI Healthcare Excellence Award 2012- Fortis Escorts
 Ireland’s Tipperary International Peace Prize for 2012 –
nd
Malala Yousafzai (2 Pakistani National)
 France's Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's
Freedom - Malala Yousafzai.
 Bravery Award by World Peace and Prosperity
Foundation - Malala Yousafzai
 The Oscars 2013 (ceremony was held at Dolby Theatre
in Hollywood, California).
 Life of Pi, with 4 awards
 Best Directing: Ang Lee for Life of Pi
 Best Cinematography: Claudio Miranda for Life of Pi
 Best Music-Original Score: Mychael Danna for Life of Pi
 Best Visual Effects: Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume
Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott for Life
of Pi
 Best film award ;Argo (with 3 awards)
 Best Actor award :Daniel Day-Lewis wins for 'Lincoln'.
 Best Actoress award: Jennifer Lawrence for 'Silver
Linings Playbook'
 Liberation War Honour Award - President of India
Pranab Mukherjee Conferred With the Liberation War
Honour Award by Bangladesh.
 'Women of courage award' - The US State Department
awarded one of the 2013 International Women of
Courage Awards to Nirbhaya posthumously
 Sportsperson of the year' - Deepika Kumari named
‘state's 'Sportsperson of the year' by Tata Steel
 Life Time Achievement Award 2012 - Ratan Tata
Awarded with Life Time Achievement Award 2012 by
Ernst & Young
 The entrepreneur of the year (2012) - Adi Godrej,
Godrej Group Chairman by Ernst & Young
 Jnanpith Award 2011 - Oriya novelist and academician
Pratibha Ray, (47th author to be bestowed with the
honors)
 Canada’s Highest Civilian Award - Venkatesh Mannara
(Channai born Indian scientist)
 Tagore Peace Prize- Shihab Ghanem (the first Arab) he
will officially receive the Tagore award in a ceremony to
be held in Kolkata, India on May 6, 2013.
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 Indian scientist Dr C N R Rao has conferred with China's
top science award for his important contributions
in boosting Sino-India scientific cooperation.
 Kirti Chakra - Major Abup J Manjali.
 Deepika Kumari named 'sportsperson of the year' by
Tata Steel.
 43rd IFFI: Punjabi film "Andhey Ghorey Da Daan" bags
Golden Peacock award.
 Bollywood Actress Hema Malini Selected for Bharat
Muni Samman.
 National e-Governance award was given to Madhya
Pradesh for 2012-13, for its 'Sparsh Abhiyan'
aimed towards the disabled and the aged.
 Madhav Chavan Awarded the Education Nobel Prize.
 The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee on 4 March
2013 conferred with the Liberation War Honour
Award for his contribution to 1971 war by the President
of Bangladesh, Zillur Rahman.
 Five Writers honoured with SAARC Literature Award
2013.
 Abhay K (A poet-diplomat)- India.
 Farheen Chaudhary- Pakistan.
 Abdul Khaliq Rashid- Afghanistan.
 Suman Pokhrel – Nepal.
 Daya Dissanayake- Sri Lanka(novelist).
 Hardeep Singh Puri has received the Thomas Jefferson
Eternal Vigilance award for his exemplary service to
humanity by UN Chief.
 Templeton Prize 2013 - South Africa's Desmond Tutu.
ICSI National Awards:
 For Excellence in Corporate Governance 2012 - Indian
Oil Corporation Limited & HCL Technologies Limited.
 Life Time Achievement Award 2012 - Deepak S. Parekh,
Chairman, Housing Development.
 Certificates of Recognition were presented to the top
five companies which were.
o CMC Limited
o Engineers India Limited
o ONGC Limited
o Persistent Systems Ltd.
o Power grid Corporation of India Limited
 Saina nominated for BWF's Female Player of the Year
Award 2012.
 The 2nd National Photo Awards for the year 2011-2012
(given away on 28 March 2013 at Vigyan Bhavan, New
Delhi).
 List of Awardees at the 2nd National Photo Awards
 Lifetime Achievement Award- Pranlal Patel, T.S.
Nagarajan and T.N.A. Perumal
 Best Professional Photographer of the Year 2011-12-
Salil Bera
 Professional Photographer of the Year 2011-12 on
Green India: Environmental Stories- Pankaj Sharma
 Best Amateur Photographer of the Year 2011-12-
Subhash Jirange
 Best Amateur Photographer of the Year 2011-12 on Life
and Landscape of India- Sudip Roychoudhury
 President Pranab Mukherjee presented Gallantry
Awards at the Defence Investiture Ceremony held at
Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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 18 people were conferred with Param Vishisht Seva
Medalwith Yudh Seva Medal.
 2 with Ati Vishisht Seva Medal.
 17 with Ati Ati Vishisht Seva Medal.
 14 people were conferred with Shaurya Chakra
 Major Chandrashekhar Singh, Nayak Rajeshwar Singh
and Nayak Anil Kumar were conferred with Shaurya
Chakra posthumously.
 Gavaskar conferred with BCCI's Col C K Naidu Lifetime
Achievement award.
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Miss India 2013- Navneet Kaur Dhillon with 1 runner
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up is Shobhita Dholipal, and 2 runner up is Zoya Afroz.
 Global Competition Review (GCR) Awards 2013 -
Competition Commission of India (CCI) (Nominated).
 Assam’s First, Dr.Bhupen Hazarika International
Solidarity Award - Lubna Marium of Bangladesh.
 Maharatna-Award for the 2012 - The National Thermal
Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC) by Stock Magazine at 4th
DSIJ Award.
 Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 - Tan Twan Eng (the first
Malaysian author to winthe most prestigious literary
prize of Asia).
 Madhya Pradesh bagged two national tourism awards:
One for the best civic management of a tourist
destination and other for the most innovative and
unique tourism project in the 23rd National Tourism
Award.
BOOKS AND AUTHERS
 A Brush with Life- Satish Gujral
 A Bend in the river- V.S. Naipaul
 A Foreign Policy for India- I.K. Gujral
 A Reveolutionary Life-Laxmi Sehgal
 A Secular Agenda-Arun Shourie.
 Aawan Main Baarahon Maas-Ambika Dutta
 Accidental Apprentice – Vikas Swarup Simon and
Schuster.
 Alone in the Multitude — Amrita Pritam.
 “sh in the Belly- Indianls Unfinished Battle Against
Hunger” – Harsh Mander.
 Asking for Trouble — Amreek Singh
 Assam-A Valley Divided — Shekhar Gupta
 Basanti — Bhishma Sahani
 Bliss was in that Dawn — Minoo Masani
 Diamond Dust & Other Stories- Anita Desai
 God of Small things- Arundhati Rai
 Hinduism — Nirad C. Chaudhari
 Indian Drama — Chelapati Rao.
 Inheritance of Loss- Kiran Desai.
 Inventing the Enemy – Umberto Eco
 Joseph Anton- Sulman Rushdie (Autobiography)
 “Khushwantnama-The Lessons of My Life “ –Khushwant
singh
 Lajja- Taslima Nasrim.
 “Land of the Seven Rivers-A Brief History of India’s
Geography” – Sanjeev Sanyal
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 My Unforgettable Memories-Mamata Banerjee  PM Manmohan Singh attended the BRICS Summit from
 Mind Positive-Life Positive-S.Joginder Singh India.
 "Muslim in Indian cities”- Christophe Jaffrelot & Laurent  The central area of discussion was under the
Gayer overarching theme, BRICS and Africa: Partnership for
 My Life Struggle — Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan Development, Integration and Industrialisation.
 My country My Life- L.K.Advani  The possibility of setting up of a development bank and
 My Life – Bill Clington. investment fund and promoting trade within this group
 My Music My Life- Pt Ravi Shankar in local currencies are particularly encouraging and
 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Germany – Prof Anita progress in finalising these.
B. Pfaff  Brazil and China Signed the Currency Swap Agreement:
 Netaji and Gandhi — Shashi Ahluwalia BRICS Summit 2013.
 Religion, Law & Society – Across the Globe” - Prof. Tahir
Mahmood. G 8 Summit:
 38 Summit 2012 :David camp, USA
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 Revolution 2020- Chetan Bhagat
 39 Summit 2013(next) : United Kingdom
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 Rich Like Us — Nayantara Sehgal
 Reflection on our Time — P.N. Haksar
 Runs in Ruins — Sunil Gavaskar G 20 Summit:
 7 Summit 2012 – Los Cabos, Mexico
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 Salvation of a Saint – Keigo Higashino.
 8 Summit 2013(next)-St. Petersberg, Russia
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 Swami and Friends — R.K. Narain
 Struggle For Change — K.B. Lal
NAM Summit:
 Satenic versus- Salman Rushdi
 16 Non-Aligned Movement Summit 2012- Tehran(Iran)
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 Speaking for My Life — Cherry Blair
 17 Summit(Next)-In 2015- Venezuela
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 Secular Perception in Sikh Faith — K.M. Duggal
 26-31 August at Attended By(India): Prime Minister
 Storm Over the Sutlej–Akali Politics — A.M. Narang
 Theme: Lasting Peace through Joint Global Governance.
 Sandy Storms — Sandeep Patil
 Country:120,New-Fiji, Azerbaijan
 Survivors — Randheer Khare
 The Blind man’s Garden – Nadeem Aslam.
ASEAN Summit:
 The Last Hero — Mihir Bose
 20 ASEAN Meeting April 2012 – Phnom penh
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 The Indian Epics Retold — R. K. Narayan
(Cambodia).
 Terrorism in India — Shaileshwar Jha
 21 ASEAN Summit Nov 2012 - Phnom Penh (Cambodia
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 True Colours — Adam Gilchrist
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 The Things About Thugs — Tabish Nair
 22 ASEAN Summit 2013 – Brunei (proposed)
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 The Heritage of Sikhs — Harbans Singh
 The Jewels of Happiness – Indian spiritual guru Sri SCO Summit:
Chinmoy.  12 Summit 2012-Beijing
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 The Things About Thugs — Tabish Nair  Attended by:SM Krishna(Forgien Minister)
 The Test of My Life'- Indian cricketer Yuvraj singh  13 Summit 2013-Kyrgyzstan
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 “Those were the Day and then-The Life & Times of Lal
Krishna Advani”-Mira Govind Advani
 Turning Points-APJ Abdul Kalam
 What Young India Wants – Chetan Bhagat
 Ye Jo Hai Pakistan'- Shivendra Kumar Singh.

IMPORTANT ORGANIZATION AND SUMMIT

New Member
 United Nation – Total– 193 (Last– South Sudan)
 WTO – Total– 157 (Last - Vanuatu)
 World bank and IMF – Total– 188 (Last – South Sudan)
 European Union – Total– 27 (Next member will be
Croatia in July 2013)

Nuclear Security Summit

 2 Summit 2012 – Seoul (South Korea),
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 3 Summit 2014(Next) : Netherland

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BRICS Summit
 Country: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South-Africa.
 4 Summit 2012: New Delhi
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 5 Summit 2013 : South Africa:

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 Held in Durban from 26 to 27 March 2013 at the Durban

International Convention Centre (ICC).

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National Youth Festival:
 17 -Mangalore (Karnataka)
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 18 –Patna(12-16) January
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 NATO Summit-Chikago
SAARC Summit:
 SAARC journalists' summit 2013- Indore.
 3rd SAARC ministerial meet on poverty alleviation 2013
– Kathmandu (Nepal)
 18th SAARC Summit 2013- Kathmandu (proposed)
 Arab summit 2012 - Baghdad (Iraq)
 Arab league Summit - Doha.
 World Economic Forum Summit 2012 Nov-
Gurgaon(Haryana)
 10th BASIC Summit - New Delhi
 Earth Summit : -Rio de Janeiro
 United Nation conference on Sustanable Devlopment-
Rio de Janeiro
 World Economic Forum – Davos (Switzerland)
 World Polio Summit 2012 - New Delhi
 FM Trilateral Talks(China& India & Russia)-Moscow
 11th Energy Efficiency Summit organized by (CII –
Confederation of Indian Industries) – Hyderabad
 World Conference on International Telecommunications
(WCIT) held in Dubai.
 FM Trilateral Talks(China& India & Russia)-Moscow
 Emerging Kerala investment meet –Kochi
 The international biodiversity meet– Hyderabad
 Asia Co-operation Dialogue Summit- Kuwait
 UN biodiversity meet in 2014 -South Korea
 Third Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit - New Delhi
 9th World Hindi Conference- Johannesburg (South
Africa). Theme: “Bhasha Ki Asmita Aur Hindi Ka Vaishvik
Sandarbh”.
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 58th Commonwealth Parliamentarian conference (2012)
held in Colombo. Next conference will be held in South
Africa 2013.
 Organization of Islamic Co-operation (OIC) summit –
Cairo (Egypt)
 14th Meet of Environment Ministers of BASIC countries
- Chennai
 13th India-Russia Annual Summit – New Delhi
 11th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas – Kochi(Kerala), Theme-
'Engaging Diaspora: The Indian growth story'
 18th National Level Meeting b/w Myanmar and India –
New Delhi
 4th World Telugu Conference - Tirupati. (Inaugurated by
President Pranab Mukherje)
 3 day long International Buddhist Conference – Patna.
 11th Meeting of India-Canada Joint Working Group on
Counter Terrorism 2012 held in New Delhi and the 12th
meeting of the Joint Working Group will be held in
Canada in 2013
 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Doha
extends the Kyoto Protocol till 2020..
 UN Conference on Climate Change gets held at Doha.
 14th North East Book Fair held in Guwahati. Fair is
dedicated to Poet Hiren Bhattacharya.
 2014 Mrs India International will be held place in
Kolkata.
 Fourth meeting of India-Mongolia Joint Committee held
in New Delhi
 3 days Dubai World Conference on Consumer
Rights (DWCCR) held at the World Trade Center
in Dubai.
 'India Calling China Business Partnership Summit' held in
China from April 7 to 12 this year.
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The 8 India-Yemen Joint Committee Meeting for
Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation (JCM)
took place in New Delhi.
 Microfinance India Summit 2012 held in New Delhi.
IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT SCHEMES
BHARAT NIRMAN:
 It was implemented and extended in three phases i.e.,
from (2005 - 2009), (2009 - 2012), (2012- 2014)
 It is centrally sponsored scheme for the rural
development of India started in September 2005.
 There are 6 objectives in this scheme
Objectives:
 To provide all weather road connectivity to the village
which have more than 1000 population in plain areas
and 500 population in hilly areas.
 To bring 10 million hectares of land under irrigation
facility and to make 1.4 million hectares of additional
land for arable land (for the use of agriculture).
 To provide clean drinking water to all villages by the end
of 2012 under Rajiv Gandhi payjal yojana.
 To electrify 1, 76,000 villages by the end of 2012 under
Rajiv Gandhi Vidyutikaran yojna.
 To construct Pakka houses for BPL house- holds under
Indira Awas Yojana (Now from April 1 2013 cash
st
assistance Rs. 70000 for plain areas and Rs. 75000 for
hilly areas) previously it was Rs. 40000 for plain areas
and Rs. 45000 for hilly areas.
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  To provide telephone connectivity to all villages and all
BPL holders by 2012.
 Note: All these objectives are extended till 2014.
JNNURM: Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal
Mission
 It was implemented and extended in two phases i.e.,
(2005 - 2012), (2012 - 2014)
 Started in the year 2005 to make million plus cities
squatter (Slam area) free.
There are 2 components
a) To construct pakka houses for urban poor dwelling in
squatter under Rajiv Awas yojana.
b) To make transportation system faster and greener.
NRHM: National Rural Health Mission
 It was started on 12 April 2005 to enhance the health
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facilities in rural areas.
 The appointment of ASHA workers (Accredited social
health activist) in Angonwadi Kendra to provide basic
information on health and hygiene conditions as well as
to guide people regarding conservation of water.
MGNREGA: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act
 It was on started on 2 Feb 2006 to provide minimum
nd
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150 days from 1 April 2013 (previously its is 100 days)
of employment to BPL house hold.
 This scheme is both for Urban and Rural areas.
 The old name of this scheme is NREGA and it was
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changed to MGNREGA on 2 Oct 2009.
 The wages under the scheme is fixed on the basis of CPI-
AL (Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers)
which is calculated by the state government on the basis
of their Per capita Income.
UIDAI: Unique Identification Authority of India.
 It was started in the year 2010 to provide multipurpose
national identity card (MNIC) to every citizen aged
above 5 years.
 Its name has been changed to Aadhar.
 Its model state was Karnataka (started)
 The retinal identification is taken from the age group of
14 and above.
 Scheme has 7 components like address, PAN no.,
Passport no., retinal identity etc, It consists of 12 digit
number.
 Chairman: Nandan Nilkani
NFSM: National Food Security Mission
 This scheme is to reduce the poverty in India under
national social assistance programme.
 Under Public Distribution System (PDS), government will
provide rice @ Rs. 3/kg, wheat @ Rs. 2/kg to the BPL
households.
IGNOAPS: Indira Gandhi National Old age Pension Scheme
 This Scheme is for the people who aged above 65 years.
 The amount of Rs. 400 per month (Central govt + State
govt = Rs. 200 + Rs. 200) will be provided by both
Central government and State government who aged
between 65 – 80 years.
 Rs. 500 per month (Central govt + State govt = Rs. 250 +
Rs. 250) for the people who aged more than 80 years.
IGNWPS: Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme
 The beneficiary is in between age group of 40-64 years
in this scheme.
 Assistance of Rs. 400 per month (Central govt + State
govt = Rs. 200 + Rs. 200) will be given to particular
person.
NFBS: National Family Benefit Scheme
 Under this scheme a grant of Rs. 10000 is given in case
of natural and accidental death of the primarily
breadwinner of the family (he/she) of BPL households.
ANNAPURNA:
 Under this scheme 10 kg of food grains are provided to
BPL households free of cost every month.
 But for this scheme the particular beneficiary shouldn’t
be registered with IGNOAPS.

ORGANISATIONS & THEIR HEAD

Sr no. Organisation Heads
1. RBI D. Subbarao
2. SEBI U.K. Shinha
3. NABARD Prakash Bakhsi
4. FICCI NainaLal Kidwai
5. IBPS K.R. Kamath
6. RAW Alok Joshi
7. IB Saiyad Ashif Ibrahim
8. CBI Ranjeet shinha
9. UPSC D.P. Agarwal
10. SSC Amitava Bhattacharyya
11. UGC Ved Prakash
12. Indian Army Gen. Bikram Singh
13. Indian Airforce Air Chief Marshal N A K Browne
14. Indian Navy Admiral D.K. Joshi
15. BSF Subhash Joshi

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17. NASSCOM Krishna kumar Natrajan
18. ASSOCHAM Rajkumar Dhut
19. DRDO V. K. Saraswat
20. SBI Prateep Chaudhary
21. IRDA T.S.Vijayan
22. TRAI Rahul Khullar
23. CCI Vinod Dhal
24. World Bank Jim Yong Kim
25. IMF Christane Legarde
26. IFC Jim Yong cai
27. WHO Margrate Chan
28. WTO Paschal Lami
29. National Stock Exchange Chitra Ramkrishna
30. Bombay Stock Exchange Ashish Chauhan
31. CBDT Poonam K. Saxena
32. National Security Council Naresh Chandra
33. National Security Advisor Shivashankar Menon
34. Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Raja
35. Attorney General of India G.E. Vahanvati
36. PM Economic Advisor C.Rangrajan
37. CAG Vinod Rai
38. Chief Election Commissionor V.S.Sampath
39. National Commission for women Mamta Sharma
40. National Innovation Commission Sam Pitroda
41. Press Council of India Marandey Katju
42. Chief Economic advisor and Vice President of IMF Kaushik Basu
43. Confederation of Indian Industries S Gopalakrishnan

IMPORTANT COMMITTEES
Sr no. Committee Name Acted for
1. B. Shivraman Committee NABARD
2. Ms. Swami Nathan Committee Father of Green Revolution
3. Abid Hussain Committee Small Industry Reform
4. Radha Krishna Committee National Rural Livelihood Mission
5. Tarapore Committee On Capital A/C Convertibility
6. Narshiman Home Committee SEBI Establishment
7. Hazari Samiti Committee Nationalization of Banks
8. Hilton & Young Committee establishment of RBI (1926)
9. Herar & Domor Committee Five Year Plan
10. K.C. Niyogi Committee Planning Commission / Financial Commission
11. C.Rangrajan Committee Financial Inclusion Policy
12. Jeevan Reddy Committee Armed Forces Special Power Act.
13. Suresh Tendulkar Committee Poverty
14. J.J. Irani Committee Company Law
15. Nanawati Ayog Committee 1984 Shikhs Riots & Gujrat Riots
16. Parikh Committee Hike Petroleum Prices
17. Khusro Committee Merger RRBs with their sponsor Banks
18. Y.H. Malegam Committee Micro Financial / Int. on Micro financial Loan
19. Libraham Committee Babri Masjid Kand
20. U.C. Banerjee Committee Godra Railway Riots
21. S.Chakerverty Committee Fiscal Deficit Concept
22. Yashpal Committee Review of School Education on System
23. Y.V. Reddy Committee Liquidity Aggregate M3+M4
24. Kelkar Committee DTC (Direct Tax Code)
25. Narshiman, K.C.Chakarverty Committee Banking Sector Reforms
26. Ghosh Committee Bannk should obtain Photography in Deposit A/V
27. C.S. Murthy Committee Priority Sector Lending Targets
28. All India Rural Survey Committee State Bank Of India
29. Damodar P. Committee Customer Services in Banks
30. Shayamala Committee Review of National Small Saving Fund (NSSF)

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32. R.G. Surayiya Committee RRB’s
33. Padmanabhan Committee To Help Boost Bank Finance For Exports

INDIAN DEFENCE  ISRO has launched Indo-French satellite 'SARAL'(410-kg)

Missiles in use of Indian Army:
1. Prithvi I - 150km
2. Prithvi II - 350km
3. Prithvi III - 350km - 600km
4. Agni I - 700km -1250km
5. Agni II - 2000km -3500km
6. Agni III - 3500km -5000km
7. Agni IV - 3000km -4000km (test fired only)
8. Agni V - 5500km -5800km
9. Agni VI - 8000km -3500km
10. Akash- 30 km
 NASA Spacecraft "Voyager 1" Drifted Into Unknown Region
of the Space
 Russia has delivered the first three of the upgraded MiG-29
fighters to India, more than 2 years behind schedule.
 India successfully test-fired it’s indigenously developed
nuclear capable Agni-I ballistic missile with a strike range of
700 km from a test range off Odisha coast.
 First of the Eight P-8I Maritime Surveillance Aircraft
received by Indian Navy from Boeing India successfully test-
fired its indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II
missile with a strike range of 350 km from a test range at
Chandipur.
 China became the World's Fifth-Largest Arms Exporter.
 Indian Navy successfully test-fired the 290-km range
Bramhos Supersonic Cruise Missile, capable of carrying a
conventional warhead of 300 kg, from a warship off the
Goa coast.
 Pakistan test fired cruise missile Babur with a range of
700km
 Iran has tested Fateh 110 missiles (Range - 300 km).
 Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel INS Saryu inducted into Indian
Navy.
 Cochin Shipyard launched Aadesh the First Fast Patrol
Vessel for Coast Guard.
 K-5 ballistic missile (strike range around 1500 kms)
successfully test fired from an underwater platform in Bay
of Bengal.
 India Successfully Test Fired K-15 Ballistic Missile in Bay of
Bengal
 Indian Army gets its first indigenously-made Rudra attack
chopper.
with the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C20
from Sriharikota. It will support in marine meteorology and
sea state forecasting, operational oceanography, seasonal
forecasting, climate monitoring, ocean, earth system and
climate research.
 India successfully test-fired indigenously developed Astra
air-to-air interceptor missile from Integrated Test Range
(ITR) in Chandipur.
 "EKUVERIN 2012" an India-Maldives joint military training
exercise organized in Belgaum.
 Russia has delivered the first three of the upgraded MiG-29
fighters to India, more than two years behind schedule.
 ISRO launches its 100th space program named PSLV C21
from Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh)
 US and South Korea did Joint Annual Military Drills called
Key Resolve on 11 March 2013. Apart from Key Resolve,
another joint drill called Foal Eagle was on its way since the
starting of March 2013.
 Nepal & United States Conducted joint Military Exercises
called Shanti Prayas-2 or Peace Initiatives in Panchkhal, 50
km east of Kathmandu from 25 March 2013 to 7 April 2013,
India also participated in it.
 The medium range nuclear capable Agni-II missile was
successfully test-fired with a strike range of more
than 2,000 km from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.
 Indian Army going to launch a New Scheme of Old Age
Homes for ex-Servicemen
 India's heaviest rocket (4-5 tonnes) ever is expected to take
to the sky next January (2014) on an experimental flight.
The mainstay of the Geosynchronous Satellite
Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III).
 Pakistan successfully test-fired the nuclear-capable Hatf-IV
ballistic missile of range of 900 km.

IMPORTANT DATES & DAYS:

Sr. no. DATE DAY
th
1. 12 January National Youth day (Birthday of Vivekananda).
th
2. 15 January Army day.
th
3. 24 Jan National Girl Child Day.
th
4. 25 January National tourism day/ Voters day
th
5. 30 January National Martyrs day & World anti Leprosy Day
rd
6. 3 Feb World Cancer Day.
th
7. 28 Feb National science day
th
8. 8 March International women day
th
9. 9 March World Kidney day
th
10. 15 March World Consumer rights Day, (the theme for 2013 is, ‘Consumer Justice Now).
th
11. 20 March World Sparrow Day & International Happiness Day.
st
12. 21 March World Forestry day

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13. 22 March World water day (For the year 2013, the theme is ‘Water Cooperation’).
rd
14. 23 March World Meteorological day
th
15. 24 March World T.B. day
16. 2 April World Autism Awareness Day
th
17. 7 April World Health day
st
18. 21 April Civil service day
nd
19. 22 April World Earth day
rd
20. 23 April World Books day
th
21. 24 April Panchayat Divas
st
22. 1 May International Labour day
th
23. 11 May National Technology day
st
24. 21 May Anti Terrorism day (Death day of Rajiv Gandhi)
st
25. 31 May Anti Tobacco day (No smoking day)
th
26. 5 June World Environment day
st
27. 1 July Doctors day
th
28. 11 July World population day
th
30 6 August Hiroshima day
th
31. 9 August Nagasaki day
th
32. 12 August International youth day
th
33. 29 August National Sports day (Birthday of Dhyan Chand)
th
34. 5 September Teachers day
th
35. 8 September World Literacy day
th
36. 14 September Hindi Divas
th
37. 15 September Engineers day
th
38. 16 September Ozone day
nd
39. 2 October International Non-violence day
th
40. 8 October Air force day
th
41. 9 October World post day
th
42. 24 October United nation day
th
43. 17 November Students day
th
44. 18 November Adults day
th
45. 19 November Citizens day
th
46. 27 November National law day
st
47. 1 December AIDS day
th
48. 4 December Navy day
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49. 10 December Human Rights day
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50. 14 December National consumers day & National Energy Conservation Day.

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ABBREVIATION IN NEWS
ALM- Asset Liability Management
AMFI- Association of Mutual Fund in India.
ARC – Asset Reconstruction Companies
ASEAN – Association of South East Asian Nation
ASSOCHAM – Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry
of India
BASIC – Brazil, South Africa, India and China
BCCI - Board of Control for Cricket in India
BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
BSE-Bombay Stock Exchange
BTIA -Broad-based Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement
CAG – Comptroller and Auditor General Of India
CAR – Cash Adequacy Ratio
CBDT – Central Board for Direct Taxes.
CCEA – Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
CECA - Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement
CEPA – Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
CIC - Central Information Commission
CRIS – Comparative Rating Index for Sovereign
CRM- Customer Relationship Management
CRR-Cash Reserve Ratio
CTT- Commodities Transaction Tax
DII – Domestic Institutional Investor
DRT – Debt Recovery Tribunals
DRDO - Defence Research and Development Organisation
DTAA – Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
DTC – Direct Tax Code
ECBs - External Commercial Borrowings
EEFC - Exchange Earner's Foreign Currency
EFSF – European Financial Stability Facility
FCNRA – Foreign Currency Non Resident account
FEMA- Foreign Exchange Management Act
FII – Foreign Institutional Investor.
FICCI – Federation Of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry
FINO- Financial Inclusion Network Operation
FIPB – Foreign Investment Promotion board
FPI- Foreign portfolio Investment
FSLRC – Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission
FTA- Free trade agreement
GAAR - General anti avoidance rule
GDR – Global Depository Receipts
GSLV - Geo-Synchronous Launch Vehicle
GST – Goods and Services Tax
IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency
IBRD- International Bank for reconstruction and development
ICBM – Inter-continental Ballistic missile
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IDF – Infrastructure Debt Fund
IFSC- Indian Financial System Code
ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization.
KYC-Know Your Customer
LAF – Liquidity Adjustment Facility
MIRV - Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle
NHRC - National Human Rights Commission
MPLADS – MP Local Area Development Scheme
MFI - Micro Finance Institutions
MFDC – Micro Finance Development Council
MOU- memorandum of understanding
MMRCA – Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft
MEMUs-Mainline Electrical Multiple Units
MSF-Marginal Standing Facility
MTCR – Missile Technology Control Regime.
NASSCOM – National Association of Software & Services
Companies
NBFC-Non Banking Finance Companies
NCHER – National Commission for Higher Education and
Research
NCHRH - National Commission for Human Resources for Health
NCTC - National Counter-Terrorism Centre
NDMA – National Disaster Management Authority
NEFT - National Electronic Funds Transfer
NIA - National Investigation Agency
NLD –National League for Democracy
NPS – New Pension Scheme
NSG – Nuclear Suppliers Group
NSE-National Stock Exchange
OSMOS- Off-Site Monitoring & Surveillance
OIC-Organization of Islamic Cooperation
PPP – Public Private Partnership & Purchasing Power parity
PSLV – Polar Satellite Launch vehicle
RAIL – Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
REPO-Repurchase Option
RGSSBY- Rajiv Gandhi Shilpi Swasthya Bima Yojana.
RTGS - Real Time Gross Settlement
SAARC - South-Asian Association for Regional Co-operation
S&P - Standard and Poor’s
SLR-Statutory Liquidity Ratio
SRO- Self Regulatory Organisation.
SWIFT- Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication
TAPI - Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India
TCS -Tax Collection at Source
TDSAT- Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal
TIEA – Tax Information exchange Agreement
TRAI - Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
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