Month | Visitors |
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January | |
January 03, 2013 | State visit of President of Republic of Mauritius H.E. Mr. Rajkeswur Purryag (January 3-10, 2013) |
January 20, 2013 | Visit of Foreign Minister of Australia to India (January 19-22, 2013) |
January 21, 2013 | Visit of Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka to India (January 21-23, 2013) |
January 21, 2013 | Visit of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan to India (January 21-22, 2013) |
January 22, 2013 | State visit of the King of Bhutan H.M. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (January 23-30, 2013) |
February | |
February 17, 2013 | Official Visit of Prime Minister of UK to India (February 18-20, 2013) |
February 06, 2013 | Visit of Prime Minister of Bhutan Jigmi Y. Thinley to India (February 7-9, 2013) |
February 15, 2013 | State Visit of H.E. Mr. Francois Hollande President of the Republic of France to India (February 14-15, 2013) |
March | |
March 02, 2013 | Visit of Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan to India (March 3-5, 2013) |
March 03, 2013 | Visit of Foreign Minister of Portugal to India (March 3-7, 2013) |
March 10, 2013 | Visit of Minister of Amiri Dewan Affairs of Kuwait to India (March 10-13, 2013) |
March 17, 2013 | State visit of His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Morsy, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt to India (March 18-20, 2013) |
March 23, 2013 | Visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr. Zlatko Lagumdzija (24-28 , March, 2013) |
March 31, 2013 | Visit of His Excellency Dr. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland to India (March 31-April 06, 2013) |
May | |
May 02, 2013 | Visit of His Excellency Mr. Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan (May 2-5, 2013) |
May 06, 2013 | Visit of Mr. Erkki Tuomioja, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland to India (May 06-08, 2013) |
May 14, 2013 | State Visit of Chinese Premier Mr. Li Keqiang to India (May 19-21, 2013) |
May 18, 2013 | Visit of President of Afghanistan (May 20-22, 2013) |
May 23, 2013 | Visit of Foreign Minister of Cuba (May 25-27, 2013) |
June | |
June 03, 2013 | Visit of Foreign Minister of New Zealand to India (June 4, 2013) |
June 14, 2013 | Visit of Foreign Minister of Argentina to India (June 15-18, 2013) |
June 17, 2013 | Visit of Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic (June 17- 20, 2013) |
June 22, 2013 | Visit of US Secretary of State Mr. John Kerry (June 23-25, 2013) |
July | |
July 09, 2013 | Visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam (July 10-12, 2013) |
July 22, 2013 | Visit of Vice President of USA (July 22-25, 2013) |
July 25, 2013 | Visit of Minister of Finance and National Economy of Sudan (July 24-26, 2013) |
August | |
August 12, 2013 | Visit of Foreign Minister of Republic of Chad (August 12-13, 2013) |
August 18, 2013 | Visit of Minister of External Affairs of Sri Lanka (August 18-19, 2013) |
August 19, 2013 | Visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Nicaragua to India (August 20-23, 2013) |
August 19, 2013 | Official visit of Vice President of Afghanistan to India (August 20-22, 2013) |
August 21, 2013 | State visit of Prime Minister of Iraq to India (August 22-25, 2013) |
August 23, 2013 | Visit of Foreign Minister of Tuvalu to India (August 21-25, 2013) |
August 05, 2013 | Visit of Mr. Sushil Kumar Koirala, President of Nepali Congress to India (August 4-9, 2013) |
September | |
September 02, 2013 | Visit of Prime Minister of Bhutan to India (August 30-September 4, 2013) |
September 06, 2013 | State Visit of the President of Republic of Liberia to India (September 9-13) |
September 17, 2013 | Visit of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia (September 14-20, 2013) |
September 18, 2013 | Official Visit of His Highness The Aga Khan to India (September 17-28, 2013) |
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List of important foreign visitors to India in 2013 ( From Jan'2013 to Sep'18-2013)
Salient Points of India's 5 Year Plans ( Upto 11th Plan Period) Plan Notes First Plan(1951 - 56) It was based on Harrod-Domar Mod...
Summary of India's 5 Year Plans ( Upto 11th Plan Period)
Plan | Notes |
---|---|
First Plan(1951 - 56) | It was based on Harrod-Domar Model. |
Community Development Program launched in 1952 | |
Focus on agriculture, price stability, power and transport | |
It was a successful plan primarily because of good harvests in the last two years of the plan | |
Second Plan(1956 - 61)Target Growth: 4.5% Actual Growth: 4.27% | Also called Mahalanobis Plan named after the well known economist |
Focus - rapid industrialization | |
Advocated huge imports through foreign loans. | |
Shifted basic emphasis from agriculture to industry far too soon. | |
During this plan, prices increased by 30%, against a decline of 13% during the First Plan | |
Third Plan (1961 - 66)Target Growth: 5.6% Actual Growth: 2.84% | At its conception, it was felt that Indian economy has entered a take-off stage. Therefore, its aim was to make India a 'self-reliant' and 'self-generating' economy. |
Based on the experience of first two plans, agriculture was given top priority to support the exports and industry. | |
Complete failure in reaching the targets due to unforeseen events - Chinese aggression (1962), Indo-Pak war (1965), severe drought 1965-66 | |
Three Annual Plans (1966-69) Plan holiday for 3years. | Prevailing crisis in agriculture and serious food shortage necessitated the emphasis on agriculture during the Annual Plans |
During these plans a whole new agricultural strategy was implemented. It involving wide-spread distribution of high-yielding varieties of seeds, extensive use of fertilizers, exploitation of irrigation potential and soil conservation. | |
During the Annual Plans, the economy absorbed the shocks generated during the Third Plan | |
It paved the path for the planned growth ahead. | |
Fourth Plan(1969 - 74)Target Growth: 5.7% Actual Growth: 3.30% | Main emphasis was on growth rate of agriculture to enable other sectors to move forward |
First two years of the plan saw record production. The last three years did not measure up due to poor monsoon. | |
Influx of Bangladeshi refugees before and after 1971 Indo-Pak war was an important issue | |
Fifth Plan(1974-79)Target Growth: 4.4% Actual Growth: 3.8 | The fifth plan was prepared and launched by D.D. Dhar. |
It proposed to achieve two main objectives: 'removal of poverty' (Garibi Hatao) and 'attainment of self reliance' | |
Promotion of high rate of growth, better distribution of income and significant growth in the domestic rate of savings were seen as key instruments | |
The plan was terminated in 1978 (instead of 1979) when Janta Party Govt. rose to power. | |
Rolling Plan(1978 - 80) | There were 2 Sixth Plans. Janta Govt. put forward a plan for 1978-1983. However, the government lasted for only 2 years. Congress Govt. returned to power in 1980 and launched a different plan. |
Sixth Plan(1980 - 85) Target Growth: 5.2% Actual Growth: 5.66% | Focus - Increase in national income, modernization of technology, ensuring continuous decrease in poverty and unemployment, population control through family planning, etc. |
Seventh Plan (1985 - 90) Target Growth: 5.0% Actual Growth: 6.01% | Focus - rapid growth in food-grains production, increased employment opportunities and productivity within the framework of basic tenants of planning. |
The plan was very successful, the economy recorded 6% growth rate against the targeted 5%. | |
Eighth Plan (1992 - 97) | The eighth plan was postponed by two years because of political uncertainty at the Centre |
Worsening Balance of Payment position and inflation during 1990-91 were the key issues during the launch of the plan. | |
The plan undertook drastic policy measures to combat the bad economic situation and to undertake an annual average growth of 5.6% | |
Some of the main economic outcomes during eighth plan period were rapid economic growth, high growth of agriculture and allied sector, and manufacturing sector, growth in exports and imports, improvement in trade and current account deficit. | |
Ninth Plan (1997- 2002)Target Growth: 6.5% Actual Growth: 5.35% | It was developed in the context of four important dimensions: Quality of life, generation of productive employment, regional balance and self-reliance. |
Tenth Plan(2002 - 2007) | Goals: |
To achieve 8% GDP growth rate | |
Reduction of poverty ratio by 5 percentage points by 2007. | |
Providing gainful high quality employment to the addition to the labour force over the tenth plan period. | |
Universal access to primary education by 2007. | |
Reduction in gender gaps in literacy and wage rates by atleast 50% by 2007. | |
Reduction in decadal rate of population growth between 2001 and 2011 to 16.2%. | |
Increase in literacy rate to 72% within the plan period and to 80% by 2012. | |
Reduction of Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) to 45 per 1000 live births by 2007 and to 28 by 2012. | |
Increase in forest and tree cover to 25% by 2007 and 33% by 2012. | |
All villages to have sustained access to potable drinking water by 2012. | |
Cleaning of all major polluted rivers by 2007 and other notified stretches by 2012. | |
Eleventh Plan(2007 - 2012) | Goals: |
Accelerate GDP growth from 8% to 10%. Increase agricultural GDP growth rate to 4% per year. | |
Create 70 million new work opportunities and reduce educated unemployment to below 5%. | |
Raise real wage rate of unskilled workers by 20 percent. | |
Reduce dropout rates of children from elementary school from 52.2% in 2003-04 to 20% by 2011-12. Increase literacy rate for persons of age 7 years or above to 85%. | |
Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage point. Increase the percentage of each cohort going to higher education from the present 10% to 15%. | |
Reduce infant mortality rate to 28 and maternal mortality ratio to 1 per 1000 live births | |
Reduce Total Fertility Rate to 2.1 | |
Provide clean drinking water for all by 2009. Reduce malnutrition among children between 0-3 years to half its present level. Reduce anaemia among women and girls by 50%. | |
Raise the sex ratio for age group 0-6 to 935 by 2011-12 and to 950 by 2016-17 | |
Ensure that at least 33 percent of the direct and indirect beneficiaries of all government schemes are women and girl children | |
Ensure all-weather road connection to all habitation with population 1000 and above (500 in hilly and tribal areas) by 2009, and ensure coverage of all significant habitation by 2015 | |
Connect every village by telephone by November 2007 and provide broadband connectivity to all villages by 2012 | |
Increase forest and tree cover by 5 percentage points. | |
Attain WHO standards of air quality in all major cities by 2011-12. | |
Treat all urban waste water by 2011-12 to clean river waters. | |
Increase energy efficiency by 20 percentage points by 2016-17. |
BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summits • 4th BRICS Summit 2012 – New Delhi, India • 5th BRICS Summit 2013 – Du...
Important World Summits ( Frequently asked in Exams)
BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summits
• 4th BRICS Summit 2012 – New Delhi, India
• 5th BRICS Summit 2013 – Durban, South Africa
G-8 Annual Summits Group of Eight (G8) Countries – France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, Russia.
• 37th G8 Meeting 2011 – Deauville, France
• 38th G8 Meeting 2012 – David camp, USA
• 39th G8 Summit 2013 – County Fermanagh, UK
• 40th G8 Summit 2014 – Russia
G-20 Summits
• 7th G 20 Meeting 2012 – Los Cabos, Mexico
• 8th G 20 Meeting 2013 – Saint Petersburg, Russia
• 9th G 20 Meeting 2014 – Brisbane, Australia
SAARC Summits SAARC – South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
• 17th SAARC Summit 2011– Addu, Maldives
• 18th SAARC Summit 2013 – Kathmandu,Nepal
ASEAN Summits ASEAN – Association of South East Asian Nation
• 19th ASEAN Summit 2011 (November) – Bali, Indonesia
• 20th ASEAN Summit 2012 (April)– Phnom penh, Cambodia
• 21th ASEAN Summit 2012 (November)– Phnom penh, Cambodia
ASEAN-India Summit
• 9th ASEAN-India Summit 2011 – Bali, Indonesia
• 10th ASEAN-India Summit 2012 – Phnom penh, Cambodia
East Asia Summit (EAS) EAS meetings are held after annual ASEAN leaders’ meetings.
• 6th East Asia Summit 2011 – Bali, Indonesia
• 7th East Asia Summit 2012 – Phnom penh, Cambodia
IBSA Summits IBSA Dialogue Forum – India, Brazil, South Africa.
• 5th IBSA Summit 2011 – Pretoria, South Africa
• 6th IBSA Summit 2013 – India
APEC Summits APEC – Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
• 23rd APEC summit 2011 – Honolulu, USA
• 24th APEC Summit 2012 – Vladivostok,Russia
• 25th APEC Summit 2013 – Medan/Jakarta, Indonesia
• 26th APEC Summit 2014 – China
• 27th APEC Summit 2015 – Philippines
• 28th APEC Summit 2016 – Lima, Peru
OPEC Seminars OPEC – Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• 4th OPEC International Seminar 2009 – Vienna, Austria
• 5th OPEC International Seminar 2012 – Vienna, Austria
NAM Summits NAM – Non-aligned Movement
• 16th NAM Summit 2012 – Tehran, Iran
• 17th NAM Summit 2015 – Caracas,Venezuela
SCO Meetings SCO – Shanghai Cooperation Organization
• SCO Meeting 2011 – Astana, Kazakhstan
• SCO Meeting 2012 – Beijing, China
• SCO Meeting 2013 – Kyrgyzstan
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Annual Meetings Annual meeting of the board of governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held every year.
• ADB Annual Meeting 2012 – Manila, Philippines
• ADB Annual Meeting 2013 – New Delhi, India
WTO Ministerial Conferences
• 8th WTO Ministerial Conferences2011 – Geneva, Switzerland
• 9th WTO Ministerial Conferences2013 (Expected) -Bali, Indonesia
Picture Courtesy: PTI Graphics Complete List of Governors of Reserve Bank of India Sr. No. Name Tenure 1 Sir Osborne Smith 1 Ap...
Governors of Reserve Bank of India
Complete List of Governors of Reserve Bank of India
Sr. No. | Name | Tenure |
---|---|---|
1 | Sir Osborne Smith | 1 April 1935 – 30 June 1937 |
2 | Sir James Braid Taylor | 1 July 1937 – 17 February 1943 |
3 | Sir C. D. Deshmukh | 11 August 1943 – 30 June 1949 |
4 | Sir Benegal Rama Rau | 1 July 1949 – 14 January 1957 |
5 | K. G. Ambegaonkar | 14 January 1957 – 28 February 1957 |
6 | H. V. R. Iyengar | 1 March 1957 – 28 February 1962 |
7 | P. C. Bhattacharya | 1 March 1962 – 30 June 1967 |
8 | L. K. Jha | 1 July 1967 – 3 May 1970 |
9 | B. N. Adarkar | 4 May 1970 – 15 June 1970 |
10 | S. Jagannathan | 16 June 1970 – 19 May 1975 |
11 | N. C. Sen Gupta | 19 May 1975 – 19 August 1975 |
12 | K. R. Puri | 20 August 1975 – 2 May 1977 |
13 | M. Narasimham | 3 May 1977 – 30 November 1977 |
14 | Dr. I. G. Patel | 1 December 1977 – 15 September 1982 |
15 | Dr. Manmohan Singh | 16 September 1982 – 14 January 1985 |
16 | A. Ghosh | 15 January 1985 – 4 February 1985 |
17 | R N Malhotra | 04 February 1985 to 22 December 1990 |
18 | S. Venkitaramanan | 22 December 1990 – 21 December 1992 |
19 | C. Rangarajan | 22 December 1992 – 21 November 1997 |
20 | Dr. Bimal Jalan | 22 November 1997 – 6 September 2003 |
21 | Dr. Y V Reddy | 6 September 2003 – 5 September 2008 |
22 | D. Subbarao | 5 September 2008 to 04 September 2013 |
23 | Raghuram Rajan | 05 September 2013 to Present |
There has been several new appointments in Power Centers, important Government Posts, organizations - both in India and across the globe. ...
Key Appointments of 2013 - India & World
Sl No | Post/Appointment | Name | Month |
---|---|---|---|
Banking | |||
1 | Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of Baroda | S. S. Mundra | Jan-13 |
2 | Executive Director of Central Bank of India | Raj Kumar Goyal | Jan-13 |
3 | Who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Canara Bank | R K Dubey | Jan-13 |
4 | Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) | Urjit Patel | Jan-13 |
5 | Executive Director of the Reserve Bank of India | Deepali Pant Joshi | Jan-13 |
6 | Non-executive Chairman of Axis Bank | Sanjiv Misra | Mar-13 |
7 | Governor of the Bank of Japan | Haruhiko Kuroda | Mar-13 |
8 | President – Retail Banking of Axis Bank | Rajiv Anand | Apr-13 |
9 | Chairman and Managing Director of United Bank of India (UBI) | Archana Bhargava | Apr-13 |
10 | President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) | Takehiko Nakao | Apr-13 |
Business/Market Related | |||
11 | CEO of Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) | Sanjoy Chowdhury | Jan-13 |
12 | New country manager for India LinkedIn | Nishant K Rao | Jan-13 |
13 | Managing director of CSC in India | Neeraj Nityanand | Jan-13 |
14 | Managing Director of IBM India Pvt Ltd | Vanitha Narayanan | Jan-13 |
CEO of HCL Technologie Ltd. | Anant Gupta | Jan-13 | |
15 | Deputy Managing Director of Yamaha India | Masaki Asano | Jan-13 |
16 | Whole Time Member of SEBI | S Raman | Jan-13 |
17 | Secretary of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) | MS Sahoo | Jan-13 |
18 | President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) | Subodh Kumar Agrawal | Feb-13 |
19 | Vice Preident of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) | K Raghu | Feb-13 |
20 | Chairman of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) | T S Vijayan | Feb-13 |
21 | Managing Director and CEO Maruti Suzuki India Ltd | Kenichi Ayukawa | Mar-13 |
22 | Head of Google’s Android division | Sunder Pichai | Mar-13 |
23 | Chairman of CII–Southern Region for 2013-14 | B. Santhanam | Mar-13 |
24 | President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India | Rajan Bharti Mittal | Mar-13 |
25 | President of CII for the year 2013-14 | S. Gopalakrishnan | Apr-13 |
26 | Chairman of Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd | G V Prasad | Apr-13 |
27 | President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) India, Indian affiliate of the Paris-based ICC | Rajan Bharti Mittal | Apr-13 |
28 | President Designate of CII for the year 2013-14 | Ajay S Shriram | Apr-13 |
29 | Chairman of National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) | Krishnakumar Natarajan | Apr-13 |
30 | Head of the Securities and Exchange Commission | Mary Jo White | Apr-13 |
31 | Vice Chairman of National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) for the year 2013-14 | R Chandrasekaran | Apr-13 |
32 | Vice-Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) | Sunil Bharti Mittal | Apr-13 |
33 | Managing Director of Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) | Narendra Kumar | Apr-13 |
Government Appointment | |||
34 | Secretary of Ministry of Water Resources | Syamal Kumar Sarkar | Jan-13 |
35 | Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India | Justice D K Jain | Jan-13 |
36 | Secretary of the Department of Disinvestment | Ravi Mathur | Jan-13 |
37 | Chairman of 14th finance commission | Y V Reddy | Jan-13 |
38 | First woman Speaker of the Singapore parliament | Halimah Yacob | Jan-13 |
39 | New China envoy to India | Wei Wei | Jan-13 |
40 | Commandant of National Defence Academy | Kulwant Singh Gill | Jan-13 |
41 | Speaker of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly | Brij Bihari Lal Butail | Jan-13 |
42 | Who has been appointed as the new Solicitor-General of India | Mohan Parasaran | Feb-13 |
43 | Who has been appointed as the new Lokayukta of Karnataka | Y. Bhaskar Rao | Feb-13 |
44 | Next Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York | Asoke Kumar Mukerji | Feb-13 |
45 | 20th Director General of Indian Coast Guard | Anurag G Thapliyal | Mar-13 |
46 | Goa’s first Lokayukta | B. Sudershan Reddy | Mar-13 |
47 | First Chief Justice of the new Manipur High Court | Abhay Manohar Sapre | Mar-13 |
48 | Lokayukta of Rajasthan | Sajjan Singh Kothari | Mar-13 |
49 | First Chief Justice of the new Meghalaya High Court | T Meena Kumari | Mar-13 |
50 | First Chief Justice of the new Tripura High Court | Dr. D Y Patil | Mar-13 |
51 | Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) in National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) | MRP Rao | Mar-13 |
52 | Secretary of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) | M F Farooqui | Apr-13 |
53 | President of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI) | C. Shekhar Reddy | Apr-13 |
54 | Director (Personnel) of Electronics Corporation of India Ltd | V.S.B. Babu | Apr-13 |
55 | Secretary in Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) | Amarjit Singh | Apr-13 |
56 | Chairman Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA) | Amarnath Sengupta | Apr-13 |
57 | President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) | Raninder Singh | Apr-13 |
58 | Chairman of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) | Amitava Bhattacharyya | Apr-13 |
59 | Vice Chairman of Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA) for fiscal 2013-14 | P. Devadas | Apr-13 |
60 | Special Director General of CRPF | Aruna Bahuguna | Apr-13 |
61 | Secretary of Minority Affairs Ministry | Lalit K Panwar | Apr-13 |
62 | Home Secretary of India | Anil Goswami | Apr-13 |
63 | Chief Justice for High Court of Himachal Pradesh | Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar | Apr-13 |
Others | |||
64 | Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) | S. Ramakrishnan | Jan-13 |
65 | Director of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) | M.C. Dathan | Jan-13 |
66 | Director of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) | M.Y.S. Prasad | Jan-13 |
67 | Who has been appointed as the new Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) | P.R.Vasudeva Rao | Feb-13 |
68 | The President of India has appointed whom as Chairman of Lalit Kala Akademi | Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty | Feb-13 |
69 | First non-American Editor of Time International | Bobby Ghosh | Mar-13 |
70 | 266th Pope | Argentina’s Jorge Bergoglio | Mar-13 |
71 | Vice-President-Cum-President of Computer Society of India | H.R. Mohan | Apr-13 |
72 | President of Editors Guild of India | Narasimhan Ravi | Apr-13 |
73 | Chairman of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on population and Development | PJ Kurien | Apr-13 |
Politics | |||
74 | Czech Republic’s first direct President | Milos Zeman | Jan-13 |
75 | New president of Bharatiya Janata Party | Rajnath Singh | Jan-13 |
76 | First Hindu member of the US House of Representatives | Tulsi Gabbard | Jan-13 |
77 | US secretary of state | John Kerry | Jan-13 |
78 | US President Barack Obama has nominated as the new U.S. interior secretary for looking after the huge energy reserves as well as the national parks | Sally Jewell | Feb-13 |
79 | US Defense Secretary by the US Senate | Chuck Hagel | Feb-13 |
80 | President of Ecuador for the 3rd term | Rafael Correa | Feb-13 |
81 | Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba | Miguel Diaz-Canel | Feb-13 |
82 | President of Cyprus | Nicos Anastasiades | Feb-13 |
83 | Chief Minister of Nagaland for the third consecutive term | Neiphiu Rio | Mar-13 |
84 | Chief minister of Meghalaya for a second straight term | Mukul Sangma | Mar-13 |
85 | Chief minister of Tripura for the record 5th Consecutive time | Manik Sarkar | Mar-13 |
86 | Governor of Nagaland | Ashwani Kumar | Mar-13 |
87 | Governor of Odhisa | S C Jamir | Mar-13 |
88 | Governor of Tripura | Devanand Konwar | Mar-13 |
89 | Governor of Bihar | D Y Patil | Mar-13 |
90 | President of Kenya | Uhuru Kenyatta | Mar-13 |
91 | Prime Minister of Nepal to head interim government | Khil Raj Regmi | Mar-13 |
92 | Prime Minister of Israel | Benjamin Netanyahu | Mar-13 |
93 | 20th Governor of Kerala | Nikhil Kumar | Mar-13 |
94 | President of Venezuela after death of Hugo Chavez | Nicolas Maduro | Apr-13 |
95 | 20th president of Bangladesh | Abdul Hamid | Apr-13 |
96 | Prime Minister of Italy | Enrico Letta | Apr-13 |
97 | Governor of Jammu and Kashmir for the second term | N N Vohra | Apr-13 |
98 | National President of Janata Dal (re-elected) | Sharad Yadav | Apr-13 |
99 | President of Italy | Giorgio Napolitano | Apr-13 |
Sports | |||
100 | Chairman of the All India Football Federation’s technical committee | Baichung Bhutia | Mar-13 |
101 | Coach of the Junior Hockey Men’s National Team | Gregg Clark | Apr-13 |
102 | Managing Director of Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) | Sunil Kumar | Apr-13 |
1. Which Indian brand tops the list in the first edition of Inter brands Best Indian Brands study published in July 2013? A) Reliance ...
Important Current Affair MCQ -2013 ( July/Aug/Sep)
1. Which Indian brand tops the list in the first edition of Inter brands Best Indian Brands study published in July 2013?
A) Reliance
B) Birla
C) Tata
D) Essar
Ans) Tata
2. Which Indian athlete won gold medal of World Snooker Championship held at Colombia in July 2013?
A) Pankaj Advani
B) Aditya Mehta
C) Yasin Merchant
D) None of These
Ans) Aditya Mehta
3. The RBI has kept Statutory Liquidity Ratio unchanged at _______ during its monetary policy review meet in July 2013.
A) 23%
B) 23.5%
C) 24%
D) 25%
Ans) 23%
4. Which country won the second edition of the South Asian Football Federation Championship held in July 2013?
A) Nepal
B) India
C) Bangladesh
D) Afghanistan
Ans) India
Important Dates and Days that occurs frequently in various competitive exam. This is extremely important from IBPS/CSAT/UPSC exam and ca...
List of Important National/International Days/Dates
Important Dates and Days that occurs frequently in various competitive exam. This is extremely important from IBPS/CSAT/UPSC exam and can fetch easy marks.Try to memorize the days month wise to avoid confusion.
Sr No | DATE | DAY |
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1 | 12th January | National Youth day (Birthday of Vivekananda). |
2 | 15th January | Army day. |
3 | 24th Jan | National Girl Child Day. |
4 | 25th January | National tourism day/ Voters day |
5 | 30th January | National Martyrs day & World anti Leprosy Day |
6 | 3rd Feb | World Cancer Day. |
7 | 28th Feb | National science day |
8 | 8th March | International women day |
9 | 9th March | World Kidney day |
10 | 15th March | World Consumer rights day , (the theme for 2013 is, ‘Consumer Justice Now) |
11 | 20th March | World Sparrow Day & International Happiness Day. |
12 | 21st March | World Forestry day |
13 | 22nd March | World water day (For the year 2013, the theme is ‘Water Cooperations) |
14 | 23rd March | World Meteorological day |
15 | 24th March | World T.B. day |
16 | 02-Apr | World Autism Awareness Day |
17 | 7th April | World Health day |
18 | 21st April | Civil service day |
19 | 22nd April | World Earth day |
20 | 23rd April | World Books day |
21 | 24th April | Panchayat Divas |
22 | 1st May | International Labour day |
23 | 11th May | National Technology day |
24 | 21st May | Anti Terrorism day (Death day of Rajiv Gandhi) |
25 | 31st May | Anti Tobacco Day |
26 | 5th June | World Environment day |
27 | 1st July | Doctors day |
28 | 11th July | World population day |
30 | 6th August | Hiroshima day |
31 | 9th August | Nagasaki day |
32 | 12th August | International youth day |
33 | 29th August | National Sports Day |
34 | 5th September | Teachers day |
35 | 8th September | World Literacy day |
36 | 14th September | Hindi Divas |
37 | 15th September | Engineers day |
38 | 16th September | Ozone day |
39 | 2nd October | International Non-violence day |
40 | 8th October | Air force day |
41 | 9th October | World post day |
42 | 24th October | United nation day |
43 | 17th November | Students day |
44 | 18th November | Adults day |
45 | 19th November | Citizens day |
46 | 27th November | National law day |
47 | 1st December | AIDS day |
48 | 4th December | Navy day |
49 | 10th December | Human Rights day |
50 | 14th December | National consumers day & National Energy Conservation Day. |
1. BSBDA - Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account 2. FCNR(B) - Foreign Currency Non-Resident Bank 3. TARC - Tax Administration Reform Co...
52 Important Abbreviations for IBPS/CSAT/UPSC and other Exams 2013
2.FCNR(B) - Foreign Currency Non-Resident Bank
3.TARC - Tax Administration Reform Commission
4.ITEs: I ntra-Group Transactions and Exposures
5.LCR: Liquidity Coverage Ratio
6.NSFR: Net Stable Funding Ratio
7.LRMT: Liquidity risk monitoring tools
8.CBS: Core Banking Solution
9.DEAF: Depositor Education and Awareness Fund
10.CRAR: Capital to Risk-weighted Assets Ratio
11.ECB : External Commercial Borrowings
12.SWIFT: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
13.FSLRC: Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission
14.MIBOR: Mumbai Inter-Bank Offer Rate
15.LIBOR: London Inter-Bank Offer Rate
16.LAF – Liquidity Adjustment Facility
17.GIRO - Government Internal Revenue Order
18.EEFC - Exchange Earner's Foreign Currency
19.FRBMA: Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act
20.ALM- Asset Liability Management
21.AMFI- Association of Mutual Fund in India. 22.TIEA – Tax Information exchange Agreement 23.CAR – Cash Adequacy Ratio
24.CCEA – Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
25.CECA - Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement
26.CEPA – Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
27.DTAA – Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
28.DTC – Direct Tax Code
29.ECBs - External Commercial Borrowings
30.EEFC - Exchange Earner's Foreign Currency
31.EFSF – European Financial Stability Facility
32.FEMA- Foreign Exchange Management Act
33.FII – Foreign Institutional Investor.
34.FINO- Financial Inclusion Network Operation
35.FIPB – Foreign Investment Promotion board
36.FSLRC – Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission
37.FTA- Free trade agreement
38.GAAR - General anti avoidance rule
39.GSLV - Geo-Synchronous Launch Vehicle
40.MSF-Marginal Standing Facility
41.NBFC-Non Banking Finance Companies
42.NCTC - National Counter-Terrorism Centre
43.NEFT - National Electronic Funds Transfer
44.NSG – Nuclear Suppliers Group
45.PPP – Public Private Partnership & Purchasing Power parity
46.PSLV – Polar Satellite Launch vehicle
47.RTGS - Real Time Gross Settlement
48.SLR-Statutory Liquidity Ratio
49.TAPI - Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India.
50.QFI -Qualified Foreign Investors
51.VVPAT -'Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail'
52.TIEA:Tax Information Exchange Agreement
a) The food security bill approved is directed towards giving the right to food to around 67 per cent of India's 120-crore populatio...
India's Food Security Bill 2013 - Important Points
India's Ranking in different Global Indexes for 2013: a) Global Hunger Index - 66. b) Global Peace Index – 141 c) Human Devel...
India's Ranking in different Global Indexes for 2013
a) Global Hunger Index- 66.
b) Global Peace Index – 141
c) Human Development Report – 136
d) Global Corruption Index – 94
e) Global Competitiveness Index-60 for 2013 (Switzerland top in this report)
f) Gender Inequality Index - 132nd (UN Human Development (Index) Report)
g) In List of High Net worth Individuals – 5th acc to the Knight Frank Wealth Report 2013
h) In The List of Spam Spewing Nation in the World- 3rd after US and China (as per the new report of Sophos Labs)
i) India has been ranked as the 119th freest country in the world out of 177 in the 2013 index of economic freedom.
FDI in India has been quite controversial issue as far as India's economic policy is concerned. The FDI Limits as decided by the union...
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) Limits in India- Awesome Infographics
FDI in India has been quite controversial issue as far as India's economic policy is concerned. The FDI Limits as decided by the union government has been quite interesting. While Single Brand Retail Outlet, Tourism, Pharma & Telecom sector can have 100% FDI, Govt. has been quite cautious to allow only 26% FDI Limit for Defence Sector.
1.RBI has launched a website explaining ways to detect counterfeit notes with a tagline 'Pehchano Paise Ki Boli, Kyunki Paisa Bolta Ha...
Important Fact and news of RBI 2013
a. CRR – 4% b. SLR – 23% c. Repo Rate – 7.25% d. Reverse Repo– 6.25% e. MSF– 10.25% f. Bank Rate – 10.25% Download...
1. Who is the winner of Australian Open 2013 Women's title ? Answer: Victoria Azarenka 2. Who is the winner of Australian Open ...
Important Current Affair Questions till August 2013 for IBPS, RBI, SSC
1. Who is the winner of Australian Open 2013 Women's title ?
Answer: Victoria Azarenka
2. Who is the winner of Australian Open 2013 men's title ?
Answer: Novak Djokovic
3. Who is the chief guest of 2013 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas ?
Answer: Rajkeswur Purryag, President of Mauritius (Held in Kochi)
4. Who is the chief guest of republic day 2013 ?
Answer: Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
August, 2013 31st August: Hyderabad Hotshots wins the first Indian Badminton League (IBL). 30th August: ...
Current Affair: August 2013
August, 2013
- Hyderabad Hotshots wins the first Indian Badminton League (IBL).
- India's economy grew at 4.4 per cent in the April-June 2013 quarter, the slowest quarterly rate in last 4 years.
- India becomes the first nation to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to Australia as Air India's first commercial flight landed in Australia.
- Indian Hockey Team assured of a berth in next year's World Hockey Cup in Netherland after defeating Malaysia 2-0 in the semifinal of Asia Cup.
- The Land Acquisition Bill passed in Lok Sabha.
- Indian Mujahideen chief Yasin Bhatkal arrested near India-Nepal Border.
- India's Chandrayan mission data helped NASA to detected magmatic water locked under the surface of the Moon.
After a long battle against the newly imposed Educational Qualification for the post of Probationary Officers (PO) / Management Trainee...