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After analysing the recent trends, we have sorted out following questions/topics for IBPS PO 2013 to be held on 26th October'2013. 
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Probable Questions/Topics for 26th Oct'2013 IBPS PO
1. Current Bank Rate — 9.00 %
2. SLR full form — Statutory Liquidity Ratio
3. MICR full form — Magnetic Ink character Recognition
4. Max. Home loan limit to a person in metropolitan city
5. Interest Rate for Export
6. Chairman of Federal Reserve — Janet Yellen
7. About SARFAESI act — Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act,2002 related with NPA
8. Micro industry(service) set up cost limit
9. Who keeps all credit information of persons — CIBIL
10. CCTV Full Form
11.List of Microprocessor manufacturing company(options-intel,microsoft etc)
12. Name of tablet made by Microsoft — Surface
13. Term associated with cricket
14. Where is national institute of sports — Patiala
15. At Least two question from union budget
16. National award in “Best Entertaining Movie” category — Vicky Donor
17. About “Aam Admi Bima Yojana”
18. Inventor of mouse who died recently — Douglas Engelbert
19. Author of book “The lowland” — Jhumpa Lahri
20. Transfer & Withdrawl limit in BSBDA account.
21. Raghuram Rajan's recent RBI Monetary policy
22. Major applicant in new banking license
23. Which of the following not considered as proof of identity while opening account in bank(options-passport,electicity bill,adhar card,pan card,driving license)
24. Banking Ombudsman
25. Pan Card essential for how much money transaction
26. ‘Branch On Wheels’ scheme by which bank — ICICI
27. Australian PM — Tony Abbot
28. Britain PM — David Cameron
29. EU 28th Member — Croatia
30. NPA Category
31. Roshni Scheme
32. Tagore Award for cultural harmony — Zubin Mehta
33. About MNREGA period — 100 Days of work
34. INS Sindhurakshak Made by — Russia
35. Hummingbird Alogorithm deveoloped by — Google
36. Corporate Debt Limit- 25bn $
37. Limit of Micro Enterprise as per MSME act 2006- 25 lakh
38. Largest Producer of Gold — China

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IBPS III came with lot of surprises this time with loads of moderate to difficult questions in place. The GKCA section asked lot about b...

Questions Asked In IBPS PO 2013 on 20th October'13 - Morning Shift

IBPS III came with lot of surprises this time with loads of moderate to difficult questions in place. The GKCA section asked lot about banking related policies and recent developments. Below is a compilation of questions which candidates faced this time. We are in process of updating all the answers as early as possible
 It is highly recommended that you read RBI's Notifications section for your preparation ( http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/NotificationUser.aspx) and FAQ Section at (http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/FAQDisplay.aspx)

1. Director of the bollywood film Satyagraha — Prakash Jha
2. The first Indian-origin Miss America 2013 — Nina Davuluri
3. Reserve Bank of India hiked Repo Rate on Sept 20, 2013 by – 25 basis point to 7.5%
4. The limit of Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS) hiked to — Rs. 12 Lakh per year
5. Which bank's headquarter not in kolkata-( Awaited more Clarity on this question)
6. NEFT is used for- Interbank Fund Transfer
7. ATM wrong deduction to be refunded within -
8. Which country become the 28th member of EU — Croatia
9. When RBI wants to absorb liquidity from market increase reverse REPO,decrease repo or increase CRR -
10. Head of Committee on Gold — K U B Rao
11. Next G-8 Summit will be held in-
12. Which book is not written by Chetan Bhagat- ( Awaited more Clarity on this question)
13. Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana -( Awaited more Clarity on this question)
14. Wheat ,Bajra comes under rabi or kharif crop
15. GDP Growth Forecast by CSO for 2013-14-
16. Name the  joint venture of Tata Sons-Singapore Airlines — Tata SIA Airlines Ltd
17. No. 1 Stock Exchange in the World — NYSE/ Nasdaq
18. Award given to Finance Minister P Chidambaram by — Business Reformer Award
19. Balance Sheet indicates what- ( Awaited more Clarity on this question)
20. What do you understand by TLE in POS machine — Terminal Line Encryption
21. G20 Summit 2013 Venue — Saint Petersburg, Russia
22. At a time what is maximum limit of Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA) — Rs 50, 000
23. Infosys launches new version of banking solution — Finacle11
24. MacMohan Line between which countries – India and China
25. Who developed rupee symbol – Udaya Kumar
26. CEO of Women Bank – Usha Ananthasubramanian 
27. Full form of EASIEST — Electronic Accounting System in Excise and Service Tax
28. Who is the Chief of Forward Markets Commission (FMC) — Shri Ramesh Abhishek
29. Who among the following is not a member of Parliament - ( Awaited more Clarity on this question)
30. New Director General of CPRF – Dilip Trivedi
31. Micro finance Maximum investment Limit-  ( Awaited more Clarity on this question)

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contribu...

Nobel Prize 2013

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013
François Englert and Peter W. Higgs
"for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"




The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013
Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel
"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"






The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof
"for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"








The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013
Alice Munro
"master of the contemporary short story"









The Nobel Peace Prize 2013
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons"







The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013
Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller
"for their empirical analysis of asset prices"

IBPS III came with lot of surprises this time with loads of moderate to difficult questions in place. The GKCA section asked lot about ba...

Questions Asked In IBPS PO 2013 on 20th October'13 Evening Shift

IBPS III came with lot of surprises this time with loads of moderate to difficult questions in place. The GKCA section asked lot about banking related policies and recent developments. Below is a compilation of questions which candidates faced this time. We are in process of updating all the answers as early as possible
It is highly recommended that you read RBI's Notifications section for your preparation ( http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/NotificationUser.aspx)

1. Geeta Phogat related to which game — Wrestling 
2. Full form of IFSC – Indian Financial System Code
3. BTM stands for — Banking Through Mobile
4. PM of Bhutan — Tshering Tobgay
5. President of Pakistan – Mamnoon Hussain
6. Bengali director who died recently — Rituparno Ghosh
7. Janpith award 2012 – Ravuri Bharadwaja
8. Banking Ombudsman issued by — RBI
9. Current SLR – 23%
10. MSF on 20 sept. – 9.50% (But Current MSF – 9%)
10. 2020 olympic will be in which country — Tokyo
12. RBI is going to issue plastic note of ___ rupees — 10 Rs.
13. Indian Institute of Film is situated at — Pune
14. Which program has changed to “Swarnajyanti Rojgar Yojna”
15. Pranav Mukharjee recommended reconstruction of which university — Nalanda University
16. Question on Medium Scale industry ( Awaited more Clarity on this question)
17. Chemical name used in syria attack — Sarin
18. PSB’s dividend to RBI? ( Awaited more Clarity on this question)
19. External debt of India in 2013-14- $172 Billion
20. Maximun no. of Credit Limit in financial inclusion ( Awaited more Clarity on this question)
21. Head quarters of Bharatiya Mahila Bank – New Delhi
22. Prime Minister’s key economic adviser C Rangarajan lowered the growth forecast for the current fiscal to ……… per cent — 5.3%
23. Among BSE and NIFTY which has been established first in India — BSE
24. Food security bill to give right to food to what percentage of population — 67%
25. One question related to BSBDA
26. Who bought Nokia — Microsoft
27.  GDP in first quater of 2013-14 — 4.4 %
28. India announced an aid of____to Bhutan — 5000 Cr
29. Committee head who Reviewed Credit Guarantee Scheme for Micro & Small Enterprises — V K Sharma
30. Committee Suggested on Customer Service — Damodaran Committee
31. How much max. money is allowed by the RBI to take abroad — Rs.10,000

Thomas Bach 1) Thomas Bach elected as the President of International Olympic Committee.- Important 2) KC Ponnappa took over the Offi...

Recent Appointments In September 2013

Thomas Bach
1) Thomas Bach elected as the President of International Olympic Committee.-Important
2) KC Ponnappa took over the Office as Chairman of Nilgiri Planters’ Association.
3) Deepak Sandhu became the First Woman Chief Information Commissioner on 5th September, 2013. She took over from Satyananda Mishra.
4) Poonam Khetrapal Singh Elected Regional Director for WHO South-East Asia Region Court.
5) BN Talukdar, Director for exploration in Oil India Ltd. (OIL) was appointed as the new Director General of DGH.
6) The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) of incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen on 8th September, 2013 was reelected to power.
7) Harish Lakshman elected New President of Automotive Component Manufacturers Association.
8 )Sanjay Govind Dhande appointed as UGC Member.
Ruchira Kamboj 
9) Ruchira Kamboj appointed the Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO.- Important
10) Jawaid Akhtar elected as the Chairperson of International Coffee Council.
11) TV Narendran appointed as the New Managing Director Tata Steel.-Important
12) Ravindra Kumar elected as the President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS).
13) Ramlubhya appointed as the Rajasthan State Election Commissioner.
14) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appointed Rakesh Sood as his new Special envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.-Important
15) Ashok Vemuri appointed as the President and CEO of iGate Corporation.
16) National Spot Exchange on 16th September, 2013 appointed Saji Cherian as the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company.
17) P. Sudhakar appointed as the CMD of Electronics Corporation of India Ltd.
18) Justice Prafulla Chandra Pant appointed as the New Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court.
19) Nancy Gibbs appointed as the Managing Editor of Time Magazine.-Important
Tony Abbott






20) Tony Abbott was sworn in as Australia’s new Prime Minister on 18th September, 2013 at Government House in Canberra, Australia.-Important

Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola- Miss Muslimah World 2013 1. Who equaled the world record of eight golds at the 2013 World Athletics Championshi...

Very Important Current Affairs of SEPTEMBER -100 Sure Questions

Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola-Miss Muslimah World 2013
1. Who equaled the world record of eight golds at the 2013 World Athletics Championships?
Answer: Usain Bolt

2. The Chinese Navy hospital ship which paid a week-long goodwill visit to Bangladesh recently?
Answer: Peace Ark

3. Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the National School of Drama Society?
Answer: Ratan Thiyam

4. In which state did the Saharsha-Patna Rajyarani Express run over pilgrims killing 37 people?
Answer: Bihar

5. Where in India was the statue of Nobel Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug unveiled recently?
Answer: New Delhi

6. Whose new book, `My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions' has been released recently?
Answer: A.P.J Abdul Kalam

7. World Photography Day was celebrated on:
Answer: August 19

8. The scientists of the Smithsonian Institution of the United States have recently announced the discovery of a new mammal named

………….?
Answer: Olinguito

9. Who has been selected for Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal 2013?
Answer: Harshwanti Bisht

10. Who has been appointed as the Director General of the CRPF?
Answer: Dilip Trivedi

11. Who won the Men's singles in the Rogers Cup 2013, held in Montreal, Canada?
Answer: Rafael Nadal

12. In which state is the Election Commission planning to use Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT) system for the first time in the

country?
Answer: Nagaland

13. Who has been appointed as India's new Ambassador and the Permanent Representative on the U.N Conference on Disarmament?
Answer: Dr. Bala Venkatesh Varma

14. Which Indian squash player won gold in the Asian Youth Games held in Nanjing, China?
Answer: Kush Kumar

15. The Indian who won bronze medal in the 96 kg freestyle category at the recently held World junior Wrestling Championships held in

Sofia, Bulgaria?
Answer: Satywart Kadian

16. Which International Tennis player from France, who also won the Wimbledon Women's Singles title 2013, has announced her retirement

from the game?
Answer: Marion Bartoli

17. India has won 83 medals at the 2013 World Police & Fire Games held at ………….?
Answer: Belfast

18. What does RGGVY stand for?
Answer: Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana. The programme is aimed at providing electricity to all rural households. The

Government of India has recently decided to continue the programme.

19. The new mobile app devised by German scientists that helps locate lost items?
Answer: Find My Stuff

20. The Indian Newspaper Society has approved the proposal to hike the FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) in print media from 26 percent to

………….. percent?
Answer: 49

21. Who won the women's singles in the Cincinnati Open tennis tournament?
Answer: Victoria Azarenka.

22. Who is the Chairman of the newly constituted committee by the Central Government, to assess the status of Scheduled tribes?
Answer: Virginius Xaxa

23. The renowned Indian cricket coach and Dronacharya awardee who passed away on 16th August?
Answer: Desh Prem Azad

24. A Street in which foreign country has been named after Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of India's 67th Independence Day?
Answer: Canada.

25. Which space telescope built by NASA has stopped its mission of `searching for habitable planets' after its pointing system broke down?
Answer: Kepler telescope

26. Nouri-Al-Maliki, the prime minister of …………. recently visited India?
Answer: Iraq

27. Which country's Vice President, Mohammad Karim Khalili was on an official visit to India?
Answer: Afghanistan

28. Which Indian state has recently enacted anti-superstition law?
Answer: Maharashtra

29. Who became the first woman to take over as Chairman and Managing Director of HPCL?
Answer: Nishi Vasudeva

30. The airstrip in Ladakh, reopened by the Indian Air Force?
Answer: Daulat Beg Oldi

31. Who won the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix 2013?
Answer: Sebastian Vettel

32. Which Indian classical singer and music director from Odisha passed away on 25 August?
Answer: Raghunath Panigrahi

33. Which Indian won the Winston-Salem open tennis doubles title along with his Canadian partner Daniel Nestor?
Answer: Leander Paes

34. The Indian Navy's submarine that sank at the navel dockyard in Mumbai after fire on board on August 14?
Answer: INS Sindhurakshak

35. Who won this year's Children's Peace prize, instituted by the Dutch based Kids Rights Foundation?
Answer: Malala Yousafzai

36. Which country's army general, Lt Gen Maqsood Ahmed, has been appointed as the Military Advisor for United Nations Peace Keeping

operations?
Answer: Pakistan

37. …………… was observed as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its abolition?
Answer: August 23

38. On which day was the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's famous `I have a dream' speech celebrated?
Answer: August 28

39. In which country did many people including children die in attacks using chemical warfare?
Answer: Syria

40. Who heads the Tax Administration Reform Commission (TARC), recently set up by the Government of India?
Answer: Parthasarathy Shome

41. Facebook and Six other technology firms (Ericson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung) have launched an initiative

named ……….. to make internet access affordable for people across the globe?
Answer: Internet. org

42. As a measure to contain the downward trend of Rupee, the Government of India has banned the duty-free import of …………. by air

travelers?
Answer: Flat Screen Televisions

43. The scientists of which country have recently developed the most precise clock in the world?
Answer: United States

44. Who won the recently concluded Ashes Cricket test series?
Answer: England

45. Who received this year's Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation?
Answer: Brigalia Bam

46. Who took over as the President of Zimbabwe for another five year term?
Answer: Robert Mugabe

47. Who won this year's Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award?
Answer: Ronjon Sodhi

48. Who won this year's Dronacharya Award in connection with Athletics coaching?
Answer: K.P Thomas

49. International Day of the victims of enforced disappearances was observed on ……………..?
Answer: August 30

50. Who was honoured with the inaugural Mahathir award for Global Peace?
Answer: Nelson Mandela

51. The Life Sciences Park to be set up by the Kerala Government is named …………..?
Answer: Bio 360

52. Which country's foreign minister, Samuel Santos Lopez visited India recently?
Answer: Nicaragua

53. Which Indian has been appointed as the chairman of the Ethics Commission of the International Weightlifting Federation?
Answer: Birendra Prasad Baishya

54. Which Indian along with Zheng Jie of China won the women's doubles title at the WTA New Haven Open?
Answer: Sania Mirza

55. Which Gulf nation has passed the country's first law against domestic violence?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

56. Which neighbouring country's Prime Minister, Tshering Tobgay has paid a six day visit to India recently?
Answer: Bhutan

57. Who stepped down as the Chairman of the National Payments Corporation of India?
Answer: K. Narayana Murthy

58. …………… was celebrated as the National Sports Day?
Answer: 29 August. This day marks the birthday of Dhyan Chand.

59. The UN General Assembly has declared April 6 as the International Day for ……………?
Answer: Sport for Development and Peace

60. The UN Human Rights Commissioner who was on a week-long fact finding mission in Sri Lanka?
Answer: Navi Pillai

61. Which neighbouring country is set to introduce the Right to Information bill in the Parliament?
Answer: Pakistan

62. Which Asian country has unveiled `Izumo' , their largest warship after World War II?
Answer: Japan

63. The first prison in the country to have its own radio station?
Answer: Tihar Jail

64. The Irish writer and Nobel Prize recipient, who passed away on 30 August?
Answer: Seamus Heaney

65. Which software giant is to buy Nokia Company?
Answer: Microsoft

66. The Indian Air Force has inducted its biggest transport aircraft named ……………..?
Answer: C-17 Globemaster III

67. Who won the Asia Cup Men's Hockey title?
Answer: South Korea

68. Which former heavy weight boxing champion, nicknamed `The Duke', passed away recently?
Answer: Tommy Morrison

69. Which nation was chosen by the International Olympic Committee to host the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Tokyo

70. Where was this year's G-20 Summit held?
Answer: St. Petersburg, Russia

71. Who won the Men's singles at the US Open 2013?
Answer: Rafael Nadal

72. Which book written by Jhumba Lahiri has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2013?
Answer: The Lowland

73. The largest known volcano on the Earth, discovered recently?
Answer: Tamu Massif

74. Who has become India's first Woman Chief Information Commissioner?
Answer: Deepak Sandhu

75. Who lifted the Italian Grand Prix Formula One title?
Answer: Sebastian Vettel

76. What is the name given to the new Android 4.4 operating system?
Answer: KitKat

77. Which newly discovered painting has been confirmed as a work of Vincent Van Gogh?
Answer: Sunset at Montmajour

78. Who is the new President of the International Olympic Committee?
Answer: Thomas Bach

79. Who was conferred with the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development recently?
Answer: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

80. Which state Government has announced the scheme Manodhairya to help rape survivors and child victims of sexual abuse?
Answer: Maharashtra

81. Who won the South Asian Football Federation Championship 2013?
Answer: Afghanistan

82. Who becomes the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
Answer: Raghuram Govind Rajan

83. Who received Amnesty International Award 2013?
Answer: Malala Yousafzai

84. The International Day of Peace, also known as World Peace Day Observed On?
Answer: 21st September

85. Who becomes the first Indian to win bronze medal at World Wrestling Championship?
Answer: Sandeep Tulsi Yadav

86. Who is appointed as Rajasthan State Election Commissioner recently?
Answer: Ramlubhaya

87. Who won Miss World 2013?
Answer: Megan Young

88. Who conferred with the Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony for year 2013?
Answer: Zubin Mehta

89. Who is sworn in as the12th President of Pakistan?
Answer: Mamnoon Hussain

90. Who wins US Open 2013 title?
Answer: Serena Williams

91. Who has been elected as the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)?
Answer: Thomas Bach

92. World Tourism Day was observed on?
Answer: September 27, 2013
Theme for 2013: “Tourism and Water: Protecting our Common Future”

93. Union Government of India Finalised Setting up World’s Largest Solar Power Project in ......?
Answer: Rajasthan

94. A new Advanced universal banking solution that simplifies banking operations launched by Infosys is ?
Answer: Finacle 11E

95. Indian rollerskater entered into Guinness Book of record is ?
Answer: Rohan Kokane

96. World's highest civilian airport (to boost Tourism) opens by China located at ?
Answer: Sichuan

97. India's First Marine Eco-Sensitive Zone declared in....?
Answer: Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat

98. Which city won the right to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: Tokyo

99. Who has been awarded the Fifth Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics 2013 ?
Answer: Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan

100. Miss Nigeria, ______________ won the Miss Muslimah World 2013 Title ?
Answer: Obabiyi Aishah Ajibola