Important Committees related to Banking and Finance****************************************************************1. Abid Hussain Committee : On Small Scale Industries2. A C Shah Committee : Reforms Relating To Non Banking Financial Companies (NFBC)3. Aditya Puri Committee : Dissemination of Credit Information4. Anil Kaushal committee : To examine the recommendations made by the TRAI on pricing of Spectrum.5. Arvind Mayaram Panel : Report on the alleged irregularities at the National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL)6. Arvind Mayaram Committee : For giving clear definitions to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investment (FII)7. Athreya Committee : Restructuring Of IDBI8. Basel Committee : Banking Supervision9. Bimal Jalan panel : To scrutinize applications for new bank licenses.10. Bhandari Committee : Reconstruction of RRBs11. B. Mahapatra Committee : To review the existing prudential guidelines on restructuring of advances by banks/financial institutions12. Cook Committee : Capital adequacy of banks.13. C Rangarajan committee : For poverty scale estimates in the country14. C Rangarajan Panel : Recommended the pricing of natural gas by a complex methodology of arriving at an average of International gas hub prices15. Committee On Uttarakhand Floods : The committee headed by AK Ganju16. Damodran Committee : On improvement of customer services in banks17. Dave Committee (2000) : Pension Scheme For Unorganized Sector18. Deepak Parekh committee : For Financing Infrastructure sector19. Janakiraman Committee : To investigate the security transactions of the bank20. JS Mathur committee : To revise Newspaper Advertisement Rates.21. Justice A.P. Shah committee : To head panel on road safety22. Kelkar Committee : Tax Structure Reforms23. Kirit Parikh panel : On fuel pricing has suggested that the diesel prices should be increased by Rs 1-1.50 a litre every month as against the 45-50 paise monthly hike followed currently.24. K M Chandrasekhar committee : For rationalization of foreign investment norms25. K. Ratna Prabha : Committee on indecent depiction of women in media26. K U.B. Rao : The idea of setting up Bullion Bank or Bullion Corporation of India27. K.U.B. Rao Committee : Recommended aligning gold import regulations28. MBN Rao Committee : To prepare the blueprint of India’s first women’s bank29. MB Shah committee : For inspection of illegal mining activities30. Mckinsey Report : Merger Of 7 Associate Banks With SBI31. M. Narasimham Committee : On Banking Sector Reforms32. Mukul Mudgal member panel : To probe IPL spot-fixing33. Mukul Mudgal Committee : To look at process of film clearance34. Mukul Mudgal Committee : Looking into US giant Walmart’s lobbying activities to enter India35. Nachiket Mor : Committee on comprehensive financial services for small businesses and low-income households.36. Naresh Chandra committee : 14 member task force on security issues37. Narismhan Committee : Banking Reforms

38. N Rangachary committee : To examine taxation policies for I.T. sector39. N R Narayana Murthy committee : For evaluation of corporate sector participation in Higher Education.40. Parthasarathi Shome. : For Tax Administration Reform Commission (TARC), Suggest a system to enforce better tax compliance41. Parthasarathi Shome committee : Implementation of GAAR (General Anti Avoidance Rule)42. Percy Mistry Committee : Making Mumbai An International Financial Center43. Prasad Panel : International Trade And Services44. Pulak Kumar Sinha Committee : To study the feasibility of Aadhaar as an additional factor for authentication of card present transactions45. Raghuram Rajan Committee : On Financial Sector Reforms46. R V Gupta Committee : Small Savings47. Raja Chelliah Committee : Tax Reforms48. Rekhi Committee : Indirect Taxes49. RS Gujral Committee : Suggest measures to boost MSME exports.50. Sitakant Mahapatra committee : For inclusion of Bhojpuri language in eighth schedule of constitution51. Shyamala Gopinath Committee : Suggestions on Post office Small saving schemes52. SK Srivastava Committee : To formulate a policy on public-private partnership model to raise coal output53. S P Talwar Committee : Restructuring Of Weak Public Sector Bank54. SN Verma Committee (1999) : Restructuring The Commercial Banks55. Suma Verma Committee : To update, and revise the Banking Ombudsman Scheme, 200656. UK Sharma Committee : NABARD’s Role In RRB57. Urjit Patel Committee : To examine the current monetary policy framework58. Vaghul Committee : Money Market In India59. Vasudev Committee : NBFC (Non Banking Finance Corp) Sector Reforms60. Y B Reddy Committee (2001) : Review Of Income Tax

MPORTANT HEADS ***************************

1. Chief of Army Staff – General Dalbeer Singh Suhag2. Air Chief Marshal – Arup Raha3. Chief of Naval Staff – Admiral Robin K. Dhowan4. Chief of Integrated Defense Staff – Lieutenant Genl. Anil Chait5. Director General of Border Security Force – D. K. Pathak6. Director General of Central Reserve Police Force – Dilip Trivedi7. Director General of Central Industrial Security Force – Arvind Rajan8. Director General of Military Intelligence – R. K. Loomba9. Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) – Ranjit Sinha10. Director, Intelligence Bureau (IB) – Syed Asif Ibrahim11. Director General, National Investigation Agency – Sharad Kumar12. Central Vigilence Commissioner (CVC) – Pradeep Kumar13. Chief, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) – Alok Joshi

14. National Security Guards Director General – J. N. Chaudary15. Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) – Subhash Goswami16. Director General of Indian Coast Guards – A. G. Tapliyal17. CISF Director – Arvind Ranjan18. Army Vice Chief – Lt Gen Philip Campose19. Navy Vice Chief – Sunil Lanba20. Vice Chief of Indian Air Force – RK Sharma

2014 US OPEN********************

Date: August 25 – September 8Edition: 134thCategory: Grand Slam (ITF)Location: New York, New York, United StatesVenue: USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis CenterChampions:[1] Men's Singles ------- Marin Čilić (Croatia)[2] Women's Singles -------Serena Williams( United States )[3] Men's Doubles ---------- Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan(United States)[4] Women's Doubles ---------Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina( Russia )[5] Mixed Doubles -------- Sania Mirza(India) and Bruno Soares (Brazil

IMPORTANT SUMMITS :1.BRICS summit ( Brazil, Russia, India, China, South‐Africa.) :-● 5th Summit 2013 : (Durban) South Africa:● 6th BRICS Summit 2014: to be held in Fortaleza, Brazil from 15‐17 July 2014.● Next 7th BRICS Summit to be held in Ufa, Russia2. BIMSTEC Summit :-● 3rd BIMSTEC summit 2014: Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar)● 4th BIMSTEC summit will be held in Nepal.3. Nuclear security summit :-● 2nd Summit 2012 – Seoul, South Korea.● 3rd Summit 2014 - Hague, Netherland● 4th Summit 2016 - United States4.G 8 Summit :-● 39th Summit 2013: United Kingdom. (Northern Ireland)● G‐8 Countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Britain and the US.● 40th G‐7 summit 2014 held at Brussels.5. G 20 Summit :-● G‐20 meeting (2014) of Finance ministers and central bank governors held in Sydney (Australia).● G20 Leaders Summit (2014) will be held in Brisbane, Queensland Australia, in November 2014.6. SAARC Summit :-● 3rd SAARC ministerial meet on poverty alleviation 2013 Kathmandu (Nepal)● 18th SAARC Summit 2014‐ Kathmandu (proposed)7. NATO Summit :‐

● NATO Summit 2014 will be held in Britain. (Britain last hosted the summit in 1990, when Margret Thatcher was Prime Minister).8. IBSA Summit :-● India will host the next summit of IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa) in New Delhi in 2015.→ » OTHERS SUMMITS :● 18th BASIC Ministerial Meeting held in New Delhi.BASIC - (Brazil, South Africa, India and China)Note : 17th Meeting on Climate Change was held in Hanzghou, China● ASEAN foreign-minister-meeting held in Myanmar.● Fifth Indo-US Strategic Dialogue held in New Delhi during whichthe two sides discussed “transformativeinitiatives” in key areas ofsecurity and energy.● 3rd India-Africa Summit will be held in New Delhi.● 6th International Nuclear Energy Forum ATOMEXPO-2014 heldin Moscow.● World Economic Forum 2014: held in Abuja (Nigeria). Bharti Enterprises founder and Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal co– chair this year’s edition of the World Economic Forum on Africa

IMPORTANT RIVER VALLEY PROJECTS IN INDIA************************************************************

[1] Bhakra Nangal Project ------- On Sutlej in Punjab. Highest in India.Ht. 226m. Reservoir is called Gobind Sagar Lake.[2] Mandi Project ----- On Beas in HP[3] Chambal Valley Project ------ On Chambal in MP & Rajasthan, 3 dams are there:- Gandhi Sagar Dam, Rana Pratap Sagar Dam and Jawahar Sagar Dam[4] Damodar Valley Project ----- On Damodar in Bihar, Based on Tennessee Valley Project USA[5] Hirakud Project ------- On Mahanadi in Orrisa, World’s Longest Dam: 4801m[6] Rihand Project ------ On Son in Mirzapur, Reservoir is called Gobind Vallabh Pant reservoir.[7] Kosi Project ------ On Kosi in N.Bihar[8] Mayurkashi Project ------- On Mayurkashi in West Bengal[9] Kakrapara Project ------ On Tapi in Gujrat[10] Nizamsagar Project ------- On Manjra in Andhra Pradesh[11] Nagarjuna Sagar Project On Krishna in Andhra Pradesh[12] Tugabhadra Project ------ On Tugabhadra in Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka[13] Shivasamudram Project ------- On Cauvery in Karnataka. It is the older river valley project in India.[14] Tata Hydel Scheme ------ On Bhima in Maharashtra[15] Sharavathi Hydel Project ------- On Jog Falls in Karnataka

*****************LATEST UPDATES***************[1] Singapore's former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong is on a five-day visit to India.[2] German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday.[3] US Open: Serena Williams beats Caroline Wozniacki for 18th grand slam title.

[4] Australia have named swashbuckling batsman Aaron Finch captain of the Twenty20 cricket team, replacing George Bailey.[5] Bob and Mike Bryan won their milestone 100th ATP doubles title after beating Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the men’s doubles US Open.[6] Portugal failed to put their FIFA World Cup disappointment behind them at the Estadio Municipal de Aveiro in their opening Euro 2016 qualifier, losing 0-1 to Albania.

Union Budget 2014-15 Highlights

• FDI in defence sector to go up to 49%• Greater autonomy to banks• PSU 247,944 cr capex to create industrial cycle• Smart cities: PM has vision of developing 100 new cities• Rs 7,060 cr fund for smart cities• Tourism: e-visas to be introduced at nine airports in the country in a phased manner• Real estate investment trusts – modified REITS is being announced for infrastructure projects to reduce pressure on banking system• Kisan Vikas Patra to be pushed further• New scheme for skill development called Skill India to be launched• Sanitation in every household by 2019• Shyama Prassad Mukherjee Rozgaar mission to be launched• New scehme for agricultural irrigation• Rs 500 cr for rural electrification• Rs 200 cr for sardar vallabbhai statue in Gujarat• Rs 50000 cr for SC/st schemes• Social security: minimum pension of rs 1000 pm for all subscribers of EPFO scheme• National level insistute for mental health to be ste up• Currency notes with braile like signs to help the blind• Rs 150 cr on new scehme to improve safety of women in big cities• Beti bacahao beti padahao yojna to be launched – RS 100 allocation• Gender main-streaming: School curriculum to have a chapter on the issue• Fiscal deficit for 2014-15 pegged at 4.3% and for next year at 3%• Revenue Deficit seen at 2.9% for FY15• Aim to achieve 7-8 per cent economic growth rate in next 3-4 years: FM• Committed for growth of agriculture at the rate of 4 per cent.• Defence FDI cap raised to 49% from 26% at present• Exemption limit on income tax from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs. 2.5 lakh.• For senior citizens, the exemption on income has been raised to Rs. 3 lakh per annum.• Tax-free cap on home loan interest from Rs. 1.5 to Rs. 2 lakh.• No change in Income tax rates and slabs .• Annual PPF ceiling to be enhanced to Rs 1.5 lakh, from Rs 1 lakh• Women Safety:o Outlay of Rs. 50 crores for a pilot scheme on road safetyo Another 150 crores to be spent by MHA on safety on women in larger citieso 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana' - 100 crores

• Rs 3600 cr set aside for National Rural Drinking Water: FM• Rural housing: Rs 8000 crore for national housing banking programme• Metro rails in PPP mode; Rs. 100 cr set aside for metro scheme in Ahmadabad and Lucknow• Each year government will be adding AIIMS to ensure there is an AIIMS in every state: Jaitley• Rs 100 crores to set up virtual classrooms• Rs 500 crores for setting up 5 more IIMs and IITs• FM Proposes to enhance the scope of income tax settlement commission• Rs 7,060 crore allocated for building new cities• Jaitley announces e-visas to promote tourism• The government is committed to the welfare of scheduled castes and tribes.• Rs 200 crores credit scheme for start-ups by those from scheduled castes and tribes• Government is committed to providing 24x7 electricity in all houses• 15 Braille press to come up.• Currency note with Braille-like signs• Promote FDI selectively in sectors. India needs a boost in job creation in the manufacturing sector• 24x7 electricity in all houses• Minimum pension of Rs.1000 per month to all PP schemes.• Rs 50,548 cr proposed for SC development• Bharat Swach Yojna proposed for hygiene and cleanliness.• Rs. 200 crore for Statue of Unity, a statue of Sardar Patel in Gujarat.• Rs. 1000 cr for irrigation plan named Pradhan mantri krishi sichayin yojana.• Skill India initiative to make youth employable and create more entrepreneurs.• Kisan Vikas Patra to be expanded.• e-visa for nine cities.• Rs. 7060 cr for creating smart cities.• Assam and Jharkhand to get Centre of Excellence on farming• Rs. 100 crores for modernization of Madrasas• Jaitley announces Skill India, a programme to train youth for jobs• Equity in PSU banks to be raised through share sale to the public• Rural housing: Rs 8000 crores for national housing banking programme• MGNREGA programme to made more productive• Senior Citizens Pension Plan Extended Till August 2015• National Adaption Fund for climate change to be set up• Rs. 500 crore for price stabilization fund.• 100 soil testing laboratories across the country.• House resumes. Budget Speech continues.• Agriculture University in AP and Rajasthan, and Horticulture University in Haryana, Telangana; Rs. 200 cr set aside• An AIIMS will be created in every state.• All six new AIIMS are functional. Four more AIIMS under consideration. 12 more medical colleges will be added. Rs. 500 crore allocated for this.• MGNREGA programme will be made more productive• Crisis Management Center for women at Delhi• Start up village at Rs 100 crore to promote entrepreneurship among rural youth.

• Rs. 14,389 crores for PM Sadak Yojana• Rs 200 crore allocated to set up six textiles clusters

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1) The Union Govt. on 26 July 2014 launched a web portal for enabling government-citizen discussions on several issues. What is the name of this portal which was inaugurated by Prime

Minister Narendra Modi? – MyGovExplanation : The main objective of MyGov is to engage the youth of the country in the nation’s development. It presents an opportunity to citizens to both discuss and do constructive work. There are multiple theme-based discussions on MyGov where a range of people would share their thoughts and ideas. The portal is implemented and managed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY).………………………………………………………………………….2) Public sector based Central Bank during July 2014 announced its plans to sell 4% of its stake to LIC for Rs. 581 crore. This stake sale is planned to meet bank’s capital requirement of Rs. 2,000 crore this fiscal. With this proposed sale Union Govt.’s holding in Central Bank would come down to – 84%Explanation : Presently the Union Govt. holds 88% stake in Central Bank. Once the bank gets funds from LIC, it will then approach the government for around Rs. 1,500 crore of additional capital. The government has earmarked only Rs.11,200 crore for fund infusion into public sector banks this current fiscal, down from Rs.14,000 crore in the last fiscal.………………………………………………………………………….3) How many banks were fined by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 25 July 2014 for violating central bank rules in the case of Deccan Chronicle Holdings? – TwelveExplanation : These 12 banks are – Andhra Bank (Rs 10 lakh), Axis Bank (Rs 15 lakh), Canara Bank (Rs 10 lakh), Corporation Bank (Rs 10 lakh), HDFC Bank (Rs 5 lakh), ICICI Bank (Rs 40 lakh), IDBI Bank (Rs 15 lakh), IndusInd Bank (Rs 10 lakh), Kotak Mahindra Bank (Rs 10 lakh), Ratnakar Bank (Rs 5 lakh), State Bank of Hyderabad (Rs 10 lakh) and Yes Bank (Rs 10 lakh). The RBI had carried out a scrutiny of the loan and current accounts of Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd., in certain branches of these banks in late 2013. After this scrutiny it came to the conclusion that some of the violations were substantiated and warranted imposition of monetary penalty.………………………………………………………………………….4) The government of Portugal on 4 August 2014 announced how much relief package for country’s largest listed bank – Banco Espirito Santo (BES) to bill out the beleaguered bank? – 4.9 billion euros ($6.58 billion)Explanation : This relief package was announced just months after Portugal exited an international bailout and is therefore expected to test the Euro Zone’s resilience to another banking crisis. The rescue of Banco Espirito Santo would include split of the bank into a “good bank”, renamed Novo Banco, and a “bad bank”, which will house BES’ exposures to the troubled Espirito Santo business empire as well as its subsidiary.………………………………………………………………………….5) Which telecom company during July 2014 became the first in India to have a combined subscriber base of over 300 million? – Bharti AirtelExplanation : Bharti Airtel’s subscriber base across mobile, fixed line and DTH services crossed 300 million recently. Company’s latest 100 million subscribers were added in less than 2 years. Bharti Airtel has been ranked as the fourth-largest mobile service provider globally and second-largest globally outside of China. It started its operations in 1995 and had touched 100-million customer mark in 2009 and the 200 million mark in 2012.………………………………………………………………………….6) S.K. Jain, who was arrested by the CBI on charges of allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50 lakh to

enhance the credit limit of some companies, was the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of which public-sector bank? – Syndicate BankExplanation : He was arrested on 2 August 2014 by the CBI and was suspended by the Union Govt. on 4 August 2014. Jain was appointed CMD of state-owned Syndicate Bank in July last year for a period of five years. He was one of the youngest CMDs of a public sector bank and was due to retire in 2020.………………………………………………………………………….7) What is the name of the mission announced by the Union Govt. on 28 July 2014 envisioned to protect the indigenous breeds of cows in the country? – Rashtriya Gokul MissionExplanation : Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM) was announced as part of BJP’s poll promise to protect the cow and its progeny. To protect indigenous breeds, such as Punganur, Vechur and Krishna Valley, the Government plans to set up ‘Gokul Grams’ (cow sanctuaries), for which public-private partnerships as well as NGOs will be involved. The Government has kept aside Rs. 500 crore for the mission out of the Rs. 1,200 crore allocated for cattle and dairy development during the 12th Plan. Of this Rs. 150 crore will be spent this fiscal.………………………………………………………………………….8) Which Indian online retailer, during July 2014 raised $1-billion (Rs 6,013 crore) of fresh funds in one of the largest funding for any e-commerce company globally? – FlipkartExplanation : Flipkart is the largest online retailer of India with around 22 million registered users and five million shipments in a month. This massive funding was co-led by existing investors Tiger Global Management and Naspers. Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, along with existing investors Accel Partners, DST Global, ICONIQ Capital, Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Sofina, also participated in the fund-raising. The company will utilise the proceeds to make long-term strategic investments in India. It is estimated that the firm has, so far, raised over $1.7 billion from investors, including the current transaction.………………………………………………………………………….9) Palghar became the 36th and the newest district of Maharashtra on 1 August 2014. It was carved out from which district, which was India’s most populous district? – ThaneExplanation : The proposal for a new, smaller and manageable Palghar district was hanging fire for over two decades. The proposal was finally cleared by the Maharashtra Cabinet on 13 June 2014. With a population of over 12 million, till 31 July 2014, Thane held the distinction of being the most populated district in the country, spread across 9,600 sq.kms of hills, forests and coastal areas.………………………………………………………………………….10) Which city would host the 21st Commonwealth Games of 2018? – Gold Coast City (Australia)Explanation : Gold Coast City is situated in the Queensland province of Australia. The city would host the 21st Commonwealth Games from 4 to 15 April 2018. The hosting rights to Gold Coast City were awarded in November 2011. It thus would be the fifth hosting of these games in Australia, with the earlier stagings in 1938 (Sydney), 1962 (Perth), 1982 (Brisbane), and 2006 (Melbourne).

LIST OF MEASURING DEVICES• Accelerometer— Accelerations• Actinometer— Heating Power Of Sunlight• Alcoholmeter— Alcoholic Strength Of Liquids• Altimeter— Altitude

• Ammeter— Electric Current• Anemometer— Windspeed• Evaporimeter— Rate Of Evaporation• Audiometer— Hearing• Barkometer— Tanning Liquors Used In Tanning Leather• Barometer— Air Pressure• Bettsometer— Integrity Of Fabric Coverings On Aircraft• Bevameter— Mechanical Properties Of Soil• Bolometer— Electromagnetic Radiation• Breathalyzer— Breath Alcohol Content• Caliper— Distance• Calorimeter— Heat Of Chemical Reactions• Cathetometer— Vertical Distances• Ceilometer— Height Of A Cloud Base• Chronometer— Or Clock Time• Clap-O-Meter— Volume Of Applause• Colorimeter— Colour• Creepmeter— Slow Surface Displacement Of An Active Geologic Fault In The Earth• Declinometer— Magnetic Declination• Densimeter— Specific Gravity Of Liquids• Densitometer— Degree Of Darkness In Photographic Or Semitransparent Material• Diffractometer— Structure Of Crystals• Dilatometer— Volume Changes Caused By A Physical Or Chemical Process• Disdrometer— Size, Speed, And Velocity Of Raindrops• Dosimeter— Exposure To Hazards, Especially Radiation• Elaeometer— Specific Gravity Of Oils• Electrometer— Electric Charge• Eudiometer— Change In Volume Of A Gas Mixture Following Combustion• Evaporimeter— Rate Of Evaporation• Fathometer— Ocean Depth• Galvanometer— Electricity• Gas Pycnometer —Volume And Density Of Solids• Graphometer— Angles• Heliometer— Variation Of The Sun's Diameter• Hydrometer— Specific Gravity Of Liquids (Density Of Liquids)• Hygrometer— Humidity• Inkometer— Ink• Interferometer— Wave Interference

COMPLITE SET OF RRB EXAM QUESTIONS *********************************************************

1. Capital of Bhutan – Timbhu.2. Children under 10 cannot hold which account – Current account.3. External affairs minister – Sushma Swaraj.4. Comedian Rran kumar sharma who died recently is a creator of – Chacha Chaudhury.5. Bagat Sanctuary in – Uttar Pradesh.

6. Currency of Italy – Euro.7. World Habitat Day – October 6.8. CSAT Full form9. Current CRR – 4%.10. Rural population as per 2011 census – 68.84%.11. Minimum RTGS Transfer Amount – 2 lakhs.12. Face to face video communication in which bank – IndusInd Bank.13. Palestinian Hamas is – Palestinian Islamist political organization and militant group.14. India and Brazil agreement 2014 – trade and investment flows.15. Ebola first discovered in which country – Democratic Republic of the Congo16. Which memory will lose its data when the system is suddenly turned off – RAM.17. which author was awarded with Padma award recently – Ruskin Bond.18. Cauvery wildlife sanctuary located in – Karnataka.19. Sania Mirza is aappointed as brand ambassador of which state – Telangana.20. Work of Banking Ombudsman – Solving customer complaints.21. Prakash Nanjappa related to – Shooting(India).22. Which International passenger Airline crashed down – Malaysian Airline.23. Maximum antibiotics consuming country – India24. Kms for train routes in rail budget – 14,500 km (9,000 mi) 25. Kyc for what purpose – a term used for customer identification 26. G20 summit place – Australia(2014).turkey(2015)27. Parupalli kashyap which sport – Badminton 28. Boeing plane crashed down in which country- Ukraine –29. ISIS – is a Jihadist militant group in Iraq and Syria – 30. Mettur Dam on Kaveri River is in which state? Tamil Nadu –31. Scanner & monitor ?--peripheral device32. Time taken by process in comp called ?--processing time33. “aajeevika” scheme” is also now know as—NRLM34. Oslo accord between.—israel and palastenLiteracy 35. Rate of female in india as per census 2011--65.4636. Where is SHIGMO festival celebrated – Goa37. First Bank to set up Payment Gateway – SB38. Prakash Jonappa related to- 39. author who got padma award is Ruskin bond.40. LIC micro finance limit-Rs 10,000 to maximum of Rs 50,000

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1. 18th SAARC summit held in – Kathmandu (Nepal)2. Indian Company to cross 5 cr market capitalizations? TCS3. Austria Currency-Euro4. TARC Committee head- Parthasarathi Shome5. Road development minister? – Nitin Gadkari6. ‘Strictly Personal: Manmohan and Gursharan’ Book writer - by Daman Singh7. World AIDS Day- 1st December

8. Who elected head of Arujna award selection committee – Kapil Dev9. Commodity market regulator – Forward Markets Commission10. Gagan narang is related to which sports - Shooting11. Van bandhu scheme- for holistic development of tribal people12. Chutak power plant in which state – Jammu & Kashmir13. Brazil capital – Brasília14. BBPS Full form – Bharat Bill Payment System15. Largest solar power plant in which district of MP - Rewa district16. NTCA full form - 17. Union budget allocated for Sc development - Rs 50,548 cr18. PLR is also known as – Base Rate19. Tata SIA airlines known as – Vistara20. One questions is related to Ebola scientist.

07-09-2014 Morning ShifT**********************************1. Pongal Festival State- Tamil nadu2. Governance of Board of banks committee headed by- P.J. Nayak3. Chandraprabha wildlife sanctuary state- U.P. Varansi4. Dipika pallikal and Josna Chinappa with which game - Squash5. Railway passenger per day Travel according to Budget- 6. Tribal Minister Jual Oram constituency - Sundargarh Odisha7. First Skill Development Centre - Jaipur rajasthan8. Finland Currency- Euro9. CTBT full form - Comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty10. ATM Transaction reduced 5 to 3 in 6 city - Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai.(Pune and Jaipur is wrong answer)11. RBI panel head who recommend CPI formula - Urjit Patel Committee12. SIT head- Justice M.B. Shah.13. Comet for which European Space Agency made a Rosettaspacecraft - 67P/C-G14. Egypt capital - cairo15. Require minimum paid-up capital for Small and Payment bank- 100 cr16. E-baat full form - Electonic Banking Awareness and technology7- sep- 14 (Evening shift)        1. Capital of Australia-Canberra2. Netherlands currency–Euro3. Roger federer belong which game-tennis4. Highest urban population–Maharashtra5. The next IBSA summit will be hosted by which country —India6. The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held at? – Najing, China7. A question from railway budget8. Who is Minister of Consumer affairs, Food and Public Distribution – Ram Vilas Paswan09. What is Stale Cheque- Cheques that are dated as old as 6 months

10. Who is Food Processing Minister - Harsimrat Kaur Badal11. Which OS is used in ATM -11. AIMA full form- All India Management Association12. RBI given license to which micro finance institute- IDBI & Bandhan13. Forward and Future Market Regulator - Forward Markets Commission14. What is CTS – Cheque truncation System15. Human Rights is observed on – December, 10th16. Which bank started EMI on debit cards – ICICI17. Minister Of Consumer Affairs And Food And Public Development ? = Ram Vilas Paswan18. Who is administerd “Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana” = LIC19. Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned________at the Naval base and most powerfulguided missile-destroyer? – INS Kolkata20. Who is the B.K.S Iyengar recently passed away…? = Yoga Guru21. Which of the following are not true about RTGS ..? = Answer: It takes very long time.22. How much amount for ” Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana”? = Rs. 500 cr.23. Surya Kiran-7 military exercise is being held between india and?= Nepal

COUNTRY AND CAPITAL (PART - 3)

[1] Serbia ----- Belgrade[2] Seychelles ------ Victoria[3] Sierra Leone ------- Freetown[4] Singapore ----- Singapore[5] Slovakia ------- Bratislava[6] Slovenia ------- Ljubljana[7] Solomon Islands ----- Honiara[8] Somalia ------ Mogadishu[9] South Africa ------ Pretoria[10] Spain ----- Madrid[11] Sri Lanka ----- Colombo[12] Sudan ----- Khartoum[13] Sweden ------ Stockholm[14] Switzerland ----- Bern[15] Syria ------ Damascus[16] Taiwan ----- Taipei[17] Tajikistan ------ Dushanbe[18] Tanzania ------ Dar es Salaam[19] Thailand ------- Bangkok[20] Togo ----- Lome[21] Trinidad and Tobago ------ Port-of-Spain[22] Tunisia ------ Tunis[23] Turkey ----- Ankara[24] Uganda ------- Kampala[25] Ukraine ------ Kiev

[26] United Arab Emirates ------- Abu Dhabi[27] United Kingdom ------ London[28] United States ------- Washington, DC[29] Uruguay ----- Montevideo[30] Uzbekistan -------Tashkent (Toshkent)[31] Vatican City ------ Vatican City[32] Venezuela ------ Caracas[33] Vietnam ------ Hanoi[34] Yemen ---- Sana[35] Zambia ------- Lusaka[36] Zimbabwe -------- Harare

COMPUTER SHORTCUTS***********************************

[1] Alt + F ---- File menu options in current program.[2] Alt + E ---- Edit options in current program[3] F1 ----- Universal Help in almost every Windows program.[4] Ctrl + A ----- Select all text.[5] Ctrl + F ------ Open find window for current document or window.[6] Ctrl + S ----- Save current document file.[7] Ctrl + X ----- Cut selected item.[8] Shift + Del ----- Cut selected item.[9] Ctrl + C ----- Copy selected item.[10] Ctrl + Ins ----- Copy selected item[11] Ctrl + V ----- Paste[12] Shift + Ins ----- Paste[13] Ctrl + P ----- Print the current page or document.[14] Home ----- Goes to beginning of current line.[15] Ctrl + Home ------ Goes to beginning of document.[15] End ------ Goes to end of current line.[16] Ctrl + End ----- Goes to end of document.[17] Shift + Home ----- Highlights from current position to beginning of line.[18] Shift + End ----- Highlights from current position to end of line.[19] Ctrl + Left arrow ---- Moves one word to the left at a time.[20] Ctrl + Right arrow ------- Moves one word to the right at a time.

RRB EXAM QUESTIONS ASKED IN AFTERNOON SECTION YESTERDAY

1) Abbreviation of AIMA ? AllIndia ManagementAssociation2) Human Rights Day

Observed on ? 10thDecember3) Minister Of ConsumerAffairs And Food AndPublic distribution? RamVilas Paswan4) 7th IBSA Summit 2015will be held in? India5) Who is administerd"Varishtha Pension BimaYojana" ? LIC6) Currency OfNetherlands ? Euro7) Roger Federer related towhich Sport ? Tennis8) Capital of Australia ?Canberra9) 1's Complement of 10 ?10) Prime Minister NarendraModi commissioned________at the Naval base andmost powerful guidedmissile-destroyer? - INSKolkata (but i choosed INSKamorta in confusion )11) Who is B.K.S Iyengar,who passed away recently?Yoga Guru12) Which largest privatesector bank, has launchedEMI (equated monthlyinstallments) facility on debitcards ? ICICI.13) RBI recently give licenceof which Microfinanceinstiution ? Bandhan14) Which of the followingare not true about RTGS? Ithas no upper limit.15) Which of the followingare true about Stalecheque..?= the validityperios of 3 months isalreasy over

16) How much amount for" Deen Dayal UpadhyayGram Jyoti Yojana"?17) Full form of CTS?Cheque TransactionSystem..18) Surya Kiran-7 militaryexercise is being heldbetween India and? Nepal19) Youth olympics held at -Nanjing, China20) NEFT limit for Nepal -5000021) Which country tops inwind power production -China22) TARC Committee -Parthasarathi Shome23) AIMA Business leader ofthe year - Adi Godrej24) Overall Non performingassets percentage in allbanks -25) Forward and futuremarket regulator - FMC26) First indian to win fieldsmedal - Manjul Bhargava27) The term "dracula" wasfirst coined by whom in hisnovels -28) Highest Urbanpopulation in - Maharashtra29) One question fromrailway budget30) Nimoo bazgo powerplant is in - Leh, Jammuand Kashmir31) Parliamentarianawardgiven to whom along witharun jaitley, sharad yadav -Karan Singh32) The Ken-Betwa LinkProject links - UP and MP33) Approximately there are

how many ATMs in 2014 -34) Which companylaunched first smartphonein India in 1994

QUESTIONS ASKED IN RRB PO EXAM TODAY**********************************************************

1. Pongal Festival State- Tamil Nadu2. Governance of Board of bankscommittee headed by- P.J. Nayak3. Chandraprabha wildlife sanctuarystate- U.P. Varansi4. Dipika pallikal and Josna Chinappa withwhich game - Squash5. Railway passenger per day Travelaccording to Budget- 23 million6. Tribal Minister Jual Oram constituency- Sundargarh Odisha7. First Skill Development Centre - Jaipurrajasthan8. Finland Currency- Euro9. CTBT full form - Comprehensivenuclear test ban treaty10. ATM Transaction reduced 5 to 3 in 6city - Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi,Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai. (Puneand Jaipur is wrong answer)11. RBI panel head who recommend CPIformula - Urjit Patel Committee12. SIT head- Justice M.B. Shah.13. Comet for which European SpaceAgency made a Rosetta spacecraft -67P/C-G14. Egypt capital - cairo15. Require minimum paid-up capital forSmall and Payment bank- 100 cr16. E-baat full form - Electonic BankingAwareness and Technology17. Commercial paper issued in form of-Promissory note18. The Vijay Mallya Story written by - K.Giriprakash19. World Diabetes day - 14th November

20. BRICS Summit 2015 - Ufa, Russia21. Lanco Udupi Coal Mega Power Plantbought by - Adani group22. Any note which is partially- fully22. Any note which is partially- fullyobiliterated, shrunk, washed, alteredor indecipherable but does not includea mutilated notes - Imperfect notes23. Rurban schmes for - Semi-UrbanAreas24. Health ministry launches "Anti tobaccocampaign" named- Sunita25. Physics nobel prizi 2013- FrancoisEnglert + Peter W. Higgs26. FII must registered under - SEBI27. Chit Fund regulated by - SEBI28. Dhronacharya award committeeheaded by - Ajitpal singh29. Muzaffar Ali winner of Rajiv GandhiNational Sadbhawna award fordirected- Umrao Jaan30. Rural population Highest in whichstate- UttarPradesh31. Sherlock Holmes a fictional detectivecreated by - A. C. Doyle32. Champions tennis league launch bytennis star - Vijay Amritraj

General Awareness Questions asked in todays exam********************************************************************1. Next G-20 summit (2015) is to be held in – Turkey2. Capital of Bhutan – Thimpu3. Currency of Italy – Euro4. Current CRR – 4%5. Minimum RTGS – 2 lakh6. External Affair Minister of India – Sushma Swaraj7. Work of Banking Ombudsman – Solving customer complaints.8. What is not true about credit card?9. What is not true about mobile alert?10. ISIS is active in which states – Iraq & Syria11. Where is SHIGMO festival celebrated – Goa12. President gave Padma Vibhushan to which eminent author? – Ruskin Bond13. Children above 10 yrs of age are not allowed which facility – Banking Facility14. Face to face video communication in which bank – Indusind Bank.15. First Bank to set up Payment Gateway – SBI16. India and Brazil agreement 2014 – trade and investment flows.

17. Palestinian Hamas is – Palestinian Islamist political organization and militant group.18. Max amount of credit card transaction on which we get message on our phone.19. Rural population as per 2011 census – 68.84%.20. EBOLA first discovered in which country – Democratic Republic of Congo21. Cartoonist Rran kumar sharma who died recently is a creator of – Chacha Chaudhury22. World habitat day – October 6th23. Maximum antibiotics consuming country – India24. Which International passenger Airline crashed down – Malaysian Airline.25. Prakash Nanjappa related to – Shooting (India).26. Cauvery wildlife sanctuary located in – Karnataka.27. Sania Mirza brand is the ambassador of which state - Telangna28. Mettur Dam on Kaveri River is in which state – Tamil Nadu29. KYC for what purpose - to prevent banks from money laundering activities30. Aajeevika " scheme" is also known as - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM)

Complete List of Awards 2014Abhishikta S Shetty - Miss South India 2014 Ahmet Sik (Turkish journalist) - UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2014 Amitabh Bachchan - India's Global Icon of the Year Amul (Milk Product Brand) - High Performance Brand Award 2013 Anand Kumar - Ramanujan Mathematics Award 2014 Anees Salim - The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013 Angela Merkel - Israel's highest civilian honour (the "Medal of Distinction") Aniket Bajpai - Gold medal in 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014)APJ Abdul Kalam - honorary degree from University of Edinburgh Arogya Swami Joseph Paulraj - 2014 Marconi Society Prize Arun Jaitley - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2010Assamese Film Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare (As River Flows) - Audience choice award in North Carolina film festival Bank of Maharashtra - BFSI Best Public Sector Bank 2014Bharat Gupta - Youth Achievers Award Bipan Chandra - Itihas Ratna Award 2014 C Radhakrishnan (Writer, Theekkadal Katanhu Thirumadhuram) - Moortidevi Award for 2013Caparo Group - International Business of the Year award 2014 Chandi Prasad Bhatt (Chipko) - Gandhi Peace Prize (2013) Chitraang Murdia - Gold medal in 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014)Cristiano Ronaldo - UEFA Best Player in Europe Cristiano Ronaldo - world's best soccer player for the 2012/2013 season (FIFA) Cyrus Mistry - DSC prize for South Asian literature Donna Tartt (for the book Goldfinch) - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Fiction) Dr Sumeet Chugh - Simon Dack Award Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram - World Food Prize 2014Dr. Tej Vir Singh - UNWTO Ulysses Prize for Excellence 2013 in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge Eimear McBride (Author, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing) - Bailey's Women's Prize 2014 

Gabriela Isler – Miss Universe 2013 Govind Mishra (for the book Dhool Paudho Par) - Sarawasti Samman (2013) Gulzar - Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013 Gyan Correa - Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) - Navaratna award ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - Morningstar India‘s best fund house award in the debt Iwao Hakamada - WBC honorary Championship Belt Javed Aktar (for the book Lava) - Sahitya Akademi Award 2013 Jeev Milkha Singh - Asian Tour‘s Player of the Decade Jhumpa Lahiri (for the book Lowland) - Baileys Prize 2014(Shortlisted) Kapil Dev - C. K. Naidu Award Karan Singh - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2011Kathy Cross - First woman to be inducted in an ICC umpires' panel Kedarnath Singh - Jnanpith award 2013 Kerala Tourism - United Nations Award Killa (a Marathi film) - Crystal Bear (Glasernen Bar)Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Kolkata Airport - Airport Service Quality AwardKoyal Rana - 51st Femina Miss India Laxmi (an acid attack victim) - International Women of Courage Award, US Lewis Hamilton - Chinese F1 Grand Prix Lingaiah Nagarapu - STF Best Scientist Award Lord Swraj Paul - Lifetime Achievement Award, Black Country Asian Business AssociationLuis Suarez - PFA Player of the year Madan Babu - Protein Science Young Investigator Award 2014 Malala Yousafzai - Children’s Nobel Prize (Nominated) Malala Yousafzai - Liberty medal for the year 2014Manjul Bhargava - Field Medal (Maths)Maryam Mirzakhani - Field Medal (1st woman to win this medal) Mathangi Sathyamurthy - M S Subbulakshmi Award Meb Keflezighi - First US male athlete to win the Boston Marathon Meera Chandrasekhar - Robert Foster Cherry Award for Teaching 2014 Mitchell Johnson - Allan Border medal Mitul Kadakia - Gregory Braden Memorial Fellow of the Year Award 2014 MS Dhoni - UK’s 2014 Asian Award Muzaffar Ali - Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana AwardN R Narayana Murthy (Infosys) - Canada India Foundation Chanchalani Global Indian Award 2014 Nadine Angerer - Best women's football player in the world (2013) Nalco - first Eastern Region Export Excellence Award 2012 - 13Nirendranath Chakraborty - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2012) Pallava Bagla - ICAR Chaudhary Charan Singh Award 2013Pankaj Mishra - Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014 (Non-Fiction) Pope Francis - Time Person of the year 2013 Pranab Mukherjee - Award of Honor from Rotary International Prof C N R Rao - Bharat Ratna Prof Stuart Parkin - Millennium technology Prize 2014 

Queen Latifah - 2014 Matrix AwardRajesh Gopakumar - 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research (2013) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport - Sword of Honour award Ramesh Agrawal - Goldman Prize Ratan Tata - UK's highest civilian award (Knight Grand Cross) Richard Quest - UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement 2013Sachin Tendulkar - Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar - Cricketer of Generation Award Samraz (Magician) - Merlin Award 2014Sankha Ghosh - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2013) Shahrukh Khan - Knight of the Legion of Honour Shahrukh Khan - Interpol AmbassadorShamtorf Azad (Uzbekisthan) - Dr George Grierson Award (Hindi)Sharad Yadav - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2012Shigeru Ban - Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014 Shikhar Dhawan - Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year Shubhranshu Choudhary - Digital activism award Sikkim - National Tourism Award Silent Screams : India's Fight Against Rape (documentary) - New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2014 Slaman Rushdie - Pen Pinter Prize 2014 Sourav Ganguly - Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by BESU Sriprakash KS - Asia Pacific Academy Award Stanislas Wawrinka - Monte Carlo Masters Title Subhash Khot - Field Medal (Maths)Sudarsan Pattnaik - People's Choice prize at World Cup of Sand Sculpting-2014Swraj Paul - International Business of the Year award 2014 TCS - Top Employer in Europe Tejinder Virdee - Knighthood BachelorTomas Halik - Templeton Prize 2014 T-TBI (Technopark Technology Business Incubator) - Golden Peacock Award 2014 V. Somasundaram - Bharat Ratna JRD Tata Award 2013 Vijay Seshadri - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Poetry) Vishwanath Tripathi - Vyas Samman 2013 Woo Jo Kim (South Korea) - Dr George Grierson Award (Hindi)Yakov Grigorevich Sinai - Abel Prize 2014 Yushi (Taiwanese poet) - Thiruvalluvar award

Complete List of Awards 2014Abhishikta S Shetty - Miss South India 2014 Ahmet Sik (Turkish journalist) - UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2014 Amitabh Bachchan - India's Global Icon of the Year Amul (Milk Product Brand) - High Performance Brand Award 2013 Anand Kumar - Ramanujan Mathematics Award 2014 Anees Salim - The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013 

Angela Merkel - Israel's highest civilian honour (the "Medal of Distinction") Aniket Bajpai - Gold medal in 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014)APJ Abdul Kalam - honorary degree from University of Edinburgh Arogya Swami Joseph Paulraj - 2014 Marconi Society Prize Arun Jaitley - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2010Assamese Film Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare (As River Flows) - Audience choice award in North Carolina film festival Bank of Maharashtra - BFSI Best Public Sector Bank 2014Bharat Gupta - Youth Achievers Award Bipan Chandra - Itihas Ratna Award 2014 C Radhakrishnan (Writer, Theekkadal Katanhu Thirumadhuram) - Moortidevi Award for 2013Caparo Group - International Business of the Year award 2014 Chandi Prasad Bhatt (Chipko) - Gandhi Peace Prize (2013) Chitraang Murdia - Gold medal in 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014)Cristiano Ronaldo - UEFA Best Player in Europe Cristiano Ronaldo - world's best soccer player for the 2012/2013 season (FIFA) Cyrus Mistry - DSC prize for South Asian literature Donna Tartt (for the book Goldfinch) - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Fiction) Dr Sumeet Chugh - Simon Dack Award Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram - World Food Prize 2014Dr. Tej Vir Singh - UNWTO Ulysses Prize for Excellence 2013 in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge Eimear McBride (Author, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing) - Bailey's Women's Prize 2014 Gabriela Isler – Miss Universe 2013 Govind Mishra (for the book Dhool Paudho Par) - Sarawasti Samman (2013) Gulzar - Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013 Gyan Correa - Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) - Navaratna award ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - Morningstar India‘s best fund house award in the debt Iwao Hakamada - WBC honorary Championship Belt Javed Aktar (for the book Lava) - Sahitya Akademi Award 2013 Jeev Milkha Singh - Asian Tour‘s Player of the Decade Jhumpa Lahiri (for the book Lowland) - Baileys Prize 2014(Shortlisted) Kapil Dev - C. K. Naidu Award Karan Singh - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2011Kathy Cross - First woman to be inducted in an ICC umpires' panel Kedarnath Singh - Jnanpith award 2013 Kerala Tourism - United Nations Award Killa (a Marathi film) - Crystal Bear (Glasernen Bar)Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Kolkata Airport - Airport Service Quality AwardKoyal Rana - 51st Femina Miss India Laxmi (an acid attack victim) - International Women of Courage Award, US Lewis Hamilton - Chinese F1 Grand Prix Lingaiah Nagarapu - STF Best Scientist Award Lord Swraj Paul - Lifetime Achievement Award, Black Country Asian Business Association

Luis Suarez - PFA Player of the year Madan Babu - Protein Science Young Investigator Award 2014 Malala Yousafzai - Children’s Nobel Prize (Nominated) Malala Yousafzai - Liberty medal for the year 2014Manjul Bhargava - Field Medal (Maths)Maryam Mirzakhani - Field Medal (1st woman to win this medal) Mathangi Sathyamurthy - M S Subbulakshmi Award Meb Keflezighi - First US male athlete to win the Boston Marathon Meera Chandrasekhar - Robert Foster Cherry Award for Teaching 2014 Mitchell Johnson - Allan Border medal Mitul Kadakia - Gregory Braden Memorial Fellow of the Year Award 2014 MS Dhoni - UK’s 2014 Asian Award Muzaffar Ali - Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana AwardN R Narayana Murthy (Infosys) - Canada India Foundation Chanchalani Global Indian Award 2014 Nadine Angerer - Best women's football player in the world (2013) Nalco - first Eastern Region Export Excellence Award 2012 - 13Nirendranath Chakraborty - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2012) Pallava Bagla - ICAR Chaudhary Charan Singh Award 2013Pankaj Mishra - Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014 (Non-Fiction) Pope Francis - Time Person of the year 2013 Pranab Mukherjee - Award of Honor from Rotary International Prof C N R Rao - Bharat Ratna Prof Stuart Parkin - Millennium technology Prize 2014 Queen Latifah - 2014 Matrix AwardRajesh Gopakumar - 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research (2013) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport - Sword of Honour award Ramesh Agrawal - Goldman Prize Ratan Tata - UK's highest civilian award (Knight Grand Cross) Richard Quest - UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement 2013Sachin Tendulkar - Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar - Cricketer of Generation Award Samraz (Magician) - Merlin Award 2014Sankha Ghosh - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2013) Shahrukh Khan - Knight of the Legion of Honour Shahrukh Khan - Interpol AmbassadorShamtorf Azad (Uzbekisthan) - Dr George Grierson Award (Hindi)Sharad Yadav - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2012Shigeru Ban - Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014 Shikhar Dhawan - Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year Shubhranshu Choudhary - Digital activism award Sikkim - National Tourism Award Silent Screams : India's Fight Against Rape (documentary) - New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2014 Slaman Rushdie - Pen Pinter Prize 2014 Sourav Ganguly - Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by BESU Sriprakash KS - Asia Pacific Academy Award 

Stanislas Wawrinka - Monte Carlo Masters Title Subhash Khot - Field Medal (Maths)Sudarsan Pattnaik - People's Choice prize at World Cup of Sand Sculpting-2014Swraj Paul - International Business of the Year award 2014 TCS - Top Employer in Europe Tejinder Virdee - Knighthood BachelorTomas Halik - Templeton Prize 2014 T-TBI (Technopark Technology Business Incubator) - Golden Peacock Award 2014 V. Somasundaram - Bharat Ratna JRD Tata Award 2013 Vijay Seshadri - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Poetry) Vishwanath Tripathi - Vyas Samman 2013 Woo Jo Kim (South Korea) - Dr George Grierson Award (Hindi)Yakov Grigorevich Sinai - Abel Prize 2014 Yushi (Taiwanese poet) - Thiruvalluvar award

Complete List of Awards 2014Abhishikta S Shetty - Miss South India 2014 Ahmet Sik (Turkish journalist) - UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2014 Amitabh Bachchan - India's Global Icon of the Year Amul (Milk Product Brand) - High Performance Brand Award 2013 Anand Kumar - Ramanujan Mathematics Award 2014 Anees Salim - The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013 Angela Merkel - Israel's highest civilian honour (the "Medal of Distinction") Aniket Bajpai - Gold medal in 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014)APJ Abdul Kalam - honorary degree from University of Edinburgh Arogya Swami Joseph Paulraj - 2014 Marconi Society Prize Arun Jaitley - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2010Assamese Film Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare (As River Flows) - Audience choice award in North Carolina film festival Bank of Maharashtra - BFSI Best Public Sector Bank 2014Bharat Gupta - Youth Achievers Award Bipan Chandra - Itihas Ratna Award 2014 C Radhakrishnan (Writer, Theekkadal Katanhu Thirumadhuram) - Moortidevi Award for 2013Caparo Group - International Business of the Year award 2014 Chandi Prasad Bhatt (Chipko) - Gandhi Peace Prize (2013) Chitraang Murdia - Gold medal in 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014)Cristiano Ronaldo - UEFA Best Player in Europe Cristiano Ronaldo - world's best soccer player for the 2012/2013 season (FIFA) Cyrus Mistry - DSC prize for South Asian literature Donna Tartt (for the book Goldfinch) - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Fiction) Dr Sumeet Chugh - Simon Dack Award Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram - World Food Prize 2014Dr. Tej Vir Singh - UNWTO Ulysses Prize for Excellence 2013 in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge Eimear McBride (Author, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing) - Bailey's Women's Prize 2014 Gabriela Isler – Miss Universe 2013 Govind Mishra (for the book Dhool Paudho Par) - Sarawasti Samman (2013) 

Gulzar - Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013 Gyan Correa - Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) - Navaratna award ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - Morningstar India‘s best fund house award in the debt Iwao Hakamada - WBC honorary Championship Belt Javed Aktar (for the book Lava) - Sahitya Akademi Award 2013 Jeev Milkha Singh - Asian Tour‘s Player of the Decade Jhumpa Lahiri (for the book Lowland) - Baileys Prize 2014(Shortlisted) Kapil Dev - C. K. Naidu Award Karan Singh - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2011Kathy Cross - First woman to be inducted in an ICC umpires' panel Kedarnath Singh - Jnanpith award 2013 Kerala Tourism - United Nations Award Killa (a Marathi film) - Crystal Bear (Glasernen Bar)Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Kolkata Airport - Airport Service Quality AwardKoyal Rana - 51st Femina Miss India Laxmi (an acid attack victim) - International Women of Courage Award, US Lewis Hamilton - Chinese F1 Grand Prix Lingaiah Nagarapu - STF Best Scientist Award Lord Swraj Paul - Lifetime Achievement Award, Black Country Asian Business AssociationLuis Suarez - PFA Player of the year Madan Babu - Protein Science Young Investigator Award 2014 Malala Yousafzai - Children’s Nobel Prize (Nominated) Malala Yousafzai - Liberty medal for the year 2014Manjul Bhargava - Field Medal (Maths)Maryam Mirzakhani - Field Medal (1st woman to win this medal) Mathangi Sathyamurthy - M S Subbulakshmi Award Meb Keflezighi - First US male athlete to win the Boston Marathon Meera Chandrasekhar - Robert Foster Cherry Award for Teaching 2014 Mitchell Johnson - Allan Border medal Mitul Kadakia - Gregory Braden Memorial Fellow of the Year Award 2014 MS Dhoni - UK’s 2014 Asian Award Muzaffar Ali - Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana AwardN R Narayana Murthy (Infosys) - Canada India Foundation Chanchalani Global Indian Award 2014 Nadine Angerer - Best women's football player in the world (2013) Nalco - first Eastern Region Export Excellence Award 2012 - 13Nirendranath Chakraborty - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2012) Pallava Bagla - ICAR Chaudhary Charan Singh Award 2013Pankaj Mishra - Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014 (Non-Fiction) Pope Francis - Time Person of the year 2013 Pranab Mukherjee - Award of Honor from Rotary International Prof C N R Rao - Bharat Ratna Prof Stuart Parkin - Millennium technology Prize 2014 Queen Latifah - 2014 Matrix AwardRajesh Gopakumar - 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research (2013) 

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport - Sword of Honour award Ramesh Agrawal - Goldman Prize Ratan Tata - UK's highest civilian award (Knight Grand Cross) Richard Quest - UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement 2013Sachin Tendulkar - Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar - Cricketer of Generation Award Samraz (Magician) - Merlin Award 2014Sankha Ghosh - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2013) Shahrukh Khan - Knight of the Legion of Honour Shahrukh Khan - Interpol AmbassadorShamtorf Azad (Uzbekisthan) - Dr George Grierson Award (Hindi)Sharad Yadav - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2012Shigeru Ban - Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014 Shikhar Dhawan - Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year Shubhranshu Choudhary - Digital activism award Sikkim - National Tourism Award Silent Screams : India's Fight Against Rape (documentary) - New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2014 Slaman Rushdie - Pen Pinter Prize 2014 Sourav Ganguly - Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by BESU Sriprakash KS - Asia Pacific Academy Award Stanislas Wawrinka - Monte Carlo Masters Title Subhash Khot - Field Medal (Maths)Sudarsan Pattnaik - People's Choice prize at World Cup of Sand Sculpting-2014Swraj Paul - International Business of the Year award 2014 TCS - Top Employer in Europe Tejinder Virdee - Knighthood BachelorTomas Halik - Templeton Prize 2014 T-TBI (Technopark Technology Business Incubator) - Golden Peacock Award 2014 V. Somasundaram - Bharat Ratna JRD Tata Award 2013 Vijay Seshadri - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Poetry) Vishwanath Tripathi - Vyas Samman 2013 Woo Jo Kim (South Korea) - Dr George Grierson Award (Hindi)Yakov Grigorevich Sinai - Abel Prize 2014 Yushi (Taiwanese poet) - Thiruvalluvar award

Complete List of Awards 2014Abhishikta S Shetty - Miss South India 2014 Ahmet Sik (Turkish journalist) - UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2014 Amitabh Bachchan - India's Global Icon of the Year Amul (Milk Product Brand) - High Performance Brand Award 2013 Anand Kumar - Ramanujan Mathematics Award 2014 Anees Salim - The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013 Angela Merkel - Israel's highest civilian honour (the "Medal of Distinction") Aniket Bajpai - Gold medal in 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014)APJ Abdul Kalam - honorary degree from University of Edinburgh Arogya Swami Joseph Paulraj - 2014 Marconi Society Prize 

Arun Jaitley - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2010Assamese Film Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare (As River Flows) - Audience choice award in North Carolina film festival Bank of Maharashtra - BFSI Best Public Sector Bank 2014Bharat Gupta - Youth Achievers Award Bipan Chandra - Itihas Ratna Award 2014 C Radhakrishnan (Writer, Theekkadal Katanhu Thirumadhuram) - Moortidevi Award for 2013Caparo Group - International Business of the Year award 2014 Chandi Prasad Bhatt (Chipko) - Gandhi Peace Prize (2013) Chitraang Murdia - Gold medal in 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014)Cristiano Ronaldo - UEFA Best Player in Europe Cristiano Ronaldo - world's best soccer player for the 2012/2013 season (FIFA) Cyrus Mistry - DSC prize for South Asian literature Donna Tartt (for the book Goldfinch) - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Fiction) Dr Sumeet Chugh - Simon Dack Award Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram - World Food Prize 2014Dr. Tej Vir Singh - UNWTO Ulysses Prize for Excellence 2013 in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge Eimear McBride (Author, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing) - Bailey's Women's Prize 2014 Gabriela Isler – Miss Universe 2013 Govind Mishra (for the book Dhool Paudho Par) - Sarawasti Samman (2013) Gulzar - Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013 Gyan Correa - Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) - Navaratna award ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - Morningstar India‘s best fund house award in the debt Iwao Hakamada - WBC honorary Championship Belt Javed Aktar (for the book Lava) - Sahitya Akademi Award 2013 Jeev Milkha Singh - Asian Tour‘s Player of the Decade Jhumpa Lahiri (for the book Lowland) - Baileys Prize 2014(Shortlisted) Kapil Dev - C. K. Naidu Award Karan Singh - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2011Kathy Cross - First woman to be inducted in an ICC umpires' panel Kedarnath Singh - Jnanpith award 2013 Kerala Tourism - United Nations Award Killa (a Marathi film) - Crystal Bear (Glasernen Bar)Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Kolkata Airport - Airport Service Quality AwardKoyal Rana - 51st Femina Miss India Laxmi (an acid attack victim) - International Women of Courage Award, US Lewis Hamilton - Chinese F1 Grand Prix Lingaiah Nagarapu - STF Best Scientist Award Lord Swraj Paul - Lifetime Achievement Award, Black Country Asian Business AssociationLuis Suarez - PFA Player of the year Madan Babu - Protein Science Young Investigator Award 2014 Malala Yousafzai - Children’s Nobel Prize (Nominated) Malala Yousafzai - Liberty medal for the year 2014

Manjul Bhargava - Field Medal (Maths)Maryam Mirzakhani - Field Medal (1st woman to win this medal) Mathangi Sathyamurthy - M S Subbulakshmi Award Meb Keflezighi - First US male athlete to win the Boston Marathon Meera Chandrasekhar - Robert Foster Cherry Award for Teaching 2014 Mitchell Johnson - Allan Border medal Mitul Kadakia - Gregory Braden Memorial Fellow of the Year Award 2014 MS Dhoni - UK’s 2014 Asian Award Muzaffar Ali - Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana AwardN R Narayana Murthy (Infosys) - Canada India Foundation Chanchalani Global Indian Award 2014 Nadine Angerer - Best women's football player in the world (2013) Nalco - first Eastern Region Export Excellence Award 2012 - 13Nirendranath Chakraborty - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2012) Pallava Bagla - ICAR Chaudhary Charan Singh Award 2013Pankaj Mishra - Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014 (Non-Fiction) Pope Francis - Time Person of the year 2013 Pranab Mukherjee - Award of Honor from Rotary International Prof C N R Rao - Bharat Ratna Prof Stuart Parkin - Millennium technology Prize 2014 Queen Latifah - 2014 Matrix AwardRajesh Gopakumar - 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research (2013) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport - Sword of Honour award Ramesh Agrawal - Goldman Prize Ratan Tata - UK's highest civilian award (Knight Grand Cross) Richard Quest - UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement 2013Sachin Tendulkar - Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar - Cricketer of Generation Award Samraz (Magician) - Merlin Award 2014Sankha Ghosh - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2013) Shahrukh Khan - Knight of the Legion of Honour Shahrukh Khan - Interpol AmbassadorShamtorf Azad (Uzbekisthan) - Dr George Grierson Award (Hindi)Sharad Yadav - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2012Shigeru Ban - Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014 Shikhar Dhawan - Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year Shubhranshu Choudhary - Digital activism award Sikkim - National Tourism Award Silent Screams : India's Fight Against Rape (documentary) - New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2014 Slaman Rushdie - Pen Pinter Prize 2014 Sourav Ganguly - Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by BESU Sriprakash KS - Asia Pacific Academy Award Stanislas Wawrinka - Monte Carlo Masters Title Subhash Khot - Field Medal (Maths)Sudarsan Pattnaik - People's Choice prize at World Cup of Sand Sculpting-2014Swraj Paul - International Business of the Year award 2014 

TCS - Top Employer in Europe Tejinder Virdee - Knighthood BachelorTomas Halik - Templeton Prize 2014 T-TBI (Technopark Technology Business Incubator) - Golden Peacock Award 2014 V. Somasundaram - Bharat Ratna JRD Tata Award 2013 Vijay Seshadri - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Poetry) Vishwanath Tripathi - Vyas Samman 2013 Woo Jo Kim (South Korea) - Dr George Grierson Award (Hindi)Yakov Grigorevich Sinai - Abel Prize 2014 Yushi (Taiwanese poet) - Thiruvalluvar award

Complete List of Awards 2014Abhishikta S Shetty - Miss South India 2014 Ahmet Sik (Turkish journalist) - UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2014 Amitabh Bachchan - India's Global Icon of the Year Amul (Milk Product Brand) - High Performance Brand Award 2013 Anand Kumar - Ramanujan Mathematics Award 2014 Anees Salim - The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013 Angela Merkel - Israel's highest civilian honour (the "Medal of Distinction") Aniket Bajpai - Gold medal in 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014)APJ Abdul Kalam - honorary degree from University of Edinburgh Arogya Swami Joseph Paulraj - 2014 Marconi Society Prize Arun Jaitley - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2010Assamese Film Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare (As River Flows) - Audience choice award in North Carolina film festival Bank of Maharashtra - BFSI Best Public Sector Bank 2014Bharat Gupta - Youth Achievers Award Bipan Chandra - Itihas Ratna Award 2014 C Radhakrishnan (Writer, Theekkadal Katanhu Thirumadhuram) - Moortidevi Award for 2013Caparo Group - International Business of the Year award 2014 Chandi Prasad Bhatt (Chipko) - Gandhi Peace Prize (2013) Chitraang Murdia - Gold medal in 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014)Cristiano Ronaldo - UEFA Best Player in Europe Cristiano Ronaldo - world's best soccer player for the 2012/2013 season (FIFA) Cyrus Mistry - DSC prize for South Asian literature Donna Tartt (for the book Goldfinch) - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Fiction) Dr Sumeet Chugh - Simon Dack Award Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram - World Food Prize 2014Dr. Tej Vir Singh - UNWTO Ulysses Prize for Excellence 2013 in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge Eimear McBride (Author, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing) - Bailey's Women's Prize 2014 Gabriela Isler – Miss Universe 2013 Govind Mishra (for the book Dhool Paudho Par) - Sarawasti Samman (2013) Gulzar - Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013 Gyan Correa - Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) - Navaratna award ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - Morningstar India‘s best fund house award in the debt 

Iwao Hakamada - WBC honorary Championship Belt Javed Aktar (for the book Lava) - Sahitya Akademi Award 2013 Jeev Milkha Singh - Asian Tour‘s Player of the Decade Jhumpa Lahiri (for the book Lowland) - Baileys Prize 2014(Shortlisted) Kapil Dev - C. K. Naidu Award Karan Singh - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2011Kathy Cross - First woman to be inducted in an ICC umpires' panel Kedarnath Singh - Jnanpith award 2013 Kerala Tourism - United Nations Award Killa (a Marathi film) - Crystal Bear (Glasernen Bar)Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Kolkata Airport - Airport Service Quality AwardKoyal Rana - 51st Femina Miss India Laxmi (an acid attack victim) - International Women of Courage Award, US Lewis Hamilton - Chinese F1 Grand Prix Lingaiah Nagarapu - STF Best Scientist Award Lord Swraj Paul - Lifetime Achievement Award, Black Country Asian Business AssociationLuis Suarez - PFA Player of the year Madan Babu - Protein Science Young Investigator Award 2014 Malala Yousafzai - Children’s Nobel Prize (Nominated) Malala Yousafzai - Liberty medal for the year 2014Manjul Bhargava - Field Medal (Maths)Maryam Mirzakhani - Field Medal (1st woman to win this medal) Mathangi Sathyamurthy - M S Subbulakshmi Award Meb Keflezighi - First US male athlete to win the Boston Marathon Meera Chandrasekhar - Robert Foster Cherry Award for Teaching 2014 Mitchell Johnson - Allan Border medal Mitul Kadakia - Gregory Braden Memorial Fellow of the Year Award 2014 MS Dhoni - UK’s 2014 Asian Award Muzaffar Ali - Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana AwardN R Narayana Murthy (Infosys) - Canada India Foundation Chanchalani Global Indian Award 2014 Nadine Angerer - Best women's football player in the world (2013) Nalco - first Eastern Region Export Excellence Award 2012 - 13Nirendranath Chakraborty - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2012) Pallava Bagla - ICAR Chaudhary Charan Singh Award 2013Pankaj Mishra - Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014 (Non-Fiction) Pope Francis - Time Person of the year 2013 Pranab Mukherjee - Award of Honor from Rotary International Prof C N R Rao - Bharat Ratna Prof Stuart Parkin - Millennium technology Prize 2014 Queen Latifah - 2014 Matrix AwardRajesh Gopakumar - 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research (2013) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport - Sword of Honour award Ramesh Agrawal - Goldman Prize Ratan Tata - UK's highest civilian award (Knight Grand Cross) Richard Quest - UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement 2013

Sachin Tendulkar - Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar - Cricketer of Generation Award Samraz (Magician) - Merlin Award 2014Sankha Ghosh - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2013) Shahrukh Khan - Knight of the Legion of Honour Shahrukh Khan - Interpol AmbassadorShamtorf Azad (Uzbekisthan) - Dr George Grierson Award (Hindi)Sharad Yadav - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2012Shigeru Ban - Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014 Shikhar Dhawan - Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year Shubhranshu Choudhary - Digital activism award Sikkim - National Tourism Award Silent Screams : India's Fight Against Rape (documentary) - New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2014 Slaman Rushdie - Pen Pinter Prize 2014 Sourav Ganguly - Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by BESU Sriprakash KS - Asia Pacific Academy Award Stanislas Wawrinka - Monte Carlo Masters Title Subhash Khot - Field Medal (Maths)Sudarsan Pattnaik - People's Choice prize at World Cup of Sand Sculpting-2014Swraj Paul - International Business of the Year award 2014 TCS - Top Employer in Europe Tejinder Virdee - Knighthood BachelorTomas Halik - Templeton Prize 2014 T-TBI (Technopark Technology Business Incubator) - Golden Peacock Award 2014 V. Somasundaram - Bharat Ratna JRD Tata Award 2013 Vijay Seshadri - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Poetry) Vishwanath Tripathi - Vyas Samman 2013 Woo Jo Kim (South Korea) - Dr George Grierson Award (Hindi)Yakov Grigorevich Sinai - Abel Prize 2014 Yushi (Taiwanese poet) - Thiruvalluvar award

Complete List of Awards 2014Abhishikta S Shetty - Miss South India 2014 Ahmet Sik (Turkish journalist) - UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2014 Amitabh Bachchan - India's Global Icon of the Year Amul (Milk Product Brand) - High Performance Brand Award 2013 Anand Kumar - Ramanujan Mathematics Award 2014 Anees Salim - The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013 Angela Merkel - Israel's highest civilian honour (the "Medal of Distinction") Aniket Bajpai - Gold medal in 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014)APJ Abdul Kalam - honorary degree from University of Edinburgh Arogya Swami Joseph Paulraj - 2014 Marconi Society Prize Arun Jaitley - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2010Assamese Film Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare (As River Flows) - Audience choice award in North

Carolina film festival Bank of Maharashtra - BFSI Best Public Sector Bank 2014Bharat Gupta - Youth Achievers Award Bipan Chandra - Itihas Ratna Award 2014 C Radhakrishnan (Writer, Theekkadal Katanhu Thirumadhuram) - Moortidevi Award for 2013Caparo Group - International Business of the Year award 2014 Chandi Prasad Bhatt (Chipko) - Gandhi Peace Prize (2013) Chitraang Murdia - Gold medal in 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014)Cristiano Ronaldo - UEFA Best Player in Europe Cristiano Ronaldo - world's best soccer player for the 2012/2013 season (FIFA) Cyrus Mistry - DSC prize for South Asian literature Donna Tartt (for the book Goldfinch) - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Fiction) Dr Sumeet Chugh - Simon Dack Award Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram - World Food Prize 2014Dr. Tej Vir Singh - UNWTO Ulysses Prize for Excellence 2013 in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge Eimear McBride (Author, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing) - Bailey's Women's Prize 2014 Gabriela Isler – Miss Universe 2013 Govind Mishra (for the book Dhool Paudho Par) - Sarawasti Samman (2013) Gulzar - Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013 Gyan Correa - Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) - Navaratna award ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund - Morningstar India‘s best fund house award in the debt Iwao Hakamada - WBC honorary Championship Belt Javed Aktar (for the book Lava) - Sahitya Akademi Award 2013 Jeev Milkha Singh - Asian Tour‘s Player of the Decade Jhumpa Lahiri (for the book Lowland) - Baileys Prize 2014(Shortlisted) Kapil Dev - C. K. Naidu Award Karan Singh - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2011Kathy Cross - First woman to be inducted in an ICC umpires' panel Kedarnath Singh - Jnanpith award 2013 Kerala Tourism - United Nations Award Killa (a Marathi film) - Crystal Bear (Glasernen Bar)Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Kolkata Airport - Airport Service Quality AwardKoyal Rana - 51st Femina Miss India Laxmi (an acid attack victim) - International Women of Courage Award, US Lewis Hamilton - Chinese F1 Grand Prix Lingaiah Nagarapu - STF Best Scientist Award Lord Swraj Paul - Lifetime Achievement Award, Black Country Asian Business AssociationLuis Suarez - PFA Player of the year Madan Babu - Protein Science Young Investigator Award 2014 Malala Yousafzai - Children’s Nobel Prize (Nominated) Malala Yousafzai - Liberty medal for the year 2014Manjul Bhargava - Field Medal (Maths)Maryam Mirzakhani - Field Medal (1st woman to win this medal) 

Mathangi Sathyamurthy - M S Subbulakshmi Award Meb Keflezighi - First US male athlete to win the Boston Marathon Meera Chandrasekhar - Robert Foster Cherry Award for Teaching 2014 Mitchell Johnson - Allan Border medal Mitul Kadakia - Gregory Braden Memorial Fellow of the Year Award 2014 MS Dhoni - UK’s 2014 Asian Award Muzaffar Ali - Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana AwardN R Narayana Murthy (Infosys) - Canada India Foundation Chanchalani Global Indian Award 2014 Nadine Angerer - Best women's football player in the world (2013) Nalco - first Eastern Region Export Excellence Award 2012 - 13Nirendranath Chakraborty - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2012) Pallava Bagla - ICAR Chaudhary Charan Singh Award 2013Pankaj Mishra - Windham Campbell Literature Prize 2014 (Non-Fiction) Pope Francis - Time Person of the year 2013 Pranab Mukherjee - Award of Honor from Rotary International Prof C N R Rao - Bharat Ratna Prof Stuart Parkin - Millennium technology Prize 2014 Queen Latifah - 2014 Matrix AwardRajesh Gopakumar - 23rd G D Birla Award for scientific research (2013) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport - Sword of Honour award Ramesh Agrawal - Goldman Prize Ratan Tata - UK's highest civilian award (Knight Grand Cross) Richard Quest - UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement 2013Sachin Tendulkar - Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar - Cricketer of Generation Award Samraz (Magician) - Merlin Award 2014Sankha Ghosh - Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award (2013) Shahrukh Khan - Knight of the Legion of Honour Shahrukh Khan - Interpol AmbassadorShamtorf Azad (Uzbekisthan) - Dr George Grierson Award (Hindi)Sharad Yadav - Outstanding Parliamentarian Award 2012Shigeru Ban - Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014 Shikhar Dhawan - Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year Shubhranshu Choudhary - Digital activism award Sikkim - National Tourism Award Silent Screams : India's Fight Against Rape (documentary) - New York Festivals TV & Film Awards 2014 Slaman Rushdie - Pen Pinter Prize 2014 Sourav Ganguly - Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by BESU Sriprakash KS - Asia Pacific Academy Award Stanislas Wawrinka - Monte Carlo Masters Title Subhash Khot - Field Medal (Maths)Sudarsan Pattnaik - People's Choice prize at World Cup of Sand Sculpting-2014Swraj Paul - International Business of the Year award 2014 TCS - Top Employer in Europe Tejinder Virdee - Knighthood Bachelor

Tomas Halik - Templeton Prize 2014 T-TBI (Technopark Technology Business Incubator) - Golden Peacock Award 2014 V. Somasundaram - Bharat Ratna JRD Tata Award 2013 Vijay Seshadri - Pulitzer Prize 2014 (Poetry) Vishwanath Tripathi - Vyas Samman 2013 Woo Jo Kim (South Korea) - Dr George Grierson Award (Hindi)Yakov Grigorevich Sinai - Abel Prize 2014 Yushi (Taiwanese poet) - Thiruvalluvar award

WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES IN INDIA

UTTAR PRADESH:[1] Chandra Prabha Sanctuary ------ Uttar Pradesh[2] Kaimoor Sanctuary -------- Uttar Pradesh[3] Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary -------- Uttar Pradesh[4] Ranipur Sanctuary ------ Uttar Pradesh[5] Sohagi Barwa Sanctuary ------ Uttar Pradesh[6] Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary ------ Uttar Pradesh[7] Hastinapur Sanctuary ------ Uttar Pradesh[8] Samaspur ------- Uttar Pradesh[9] Okhla Bird Sanctuary ------ Uttar Pradesh[10] Sandi Bird Sanctuary ------- Uttar Pradesh[11] National Chambal Sanctuary ------ Uttar PradeshUTTRAKHAND:[1] Askot Musk Deer Sanctuary ------ Uttarakhand[2] Binsar ------ Uttarakhand[3] Govind Pashu Vihar Wildlife Sanctuary ------- Uttarakhand[4] Kedarnath Wild Life Sanctuary ------- Uttarakhand

BUDGET DEFICIT***********************

Here we are presenting a post on "Understanding Budget Deficit". Hope you like the post!!

A budget deficit occurs when expenditures exceed revenue. The term "budget deficit" is most commonly used to refer to government spending rather than business or individual spending. When referring to accrued federal government deficits, the term "national debt” is also used.

The opposite of a budget deficit is a budget surplus, and when total expenditure equals total revenue, the budget is considered balanced. When countries or businesses experience budget deficits, they have to borrow money in order to avoid bankruptcy.

Investors and analysts use budget deficits to measure the overall health of a business, local government or country. While budget deficits are always a warning signal for analysts and investors, it is important to understand why the country or business is experiencing a deficit. A country or business experiencing budget deficits due to building infrastructure or making profitable investments that will generate higher revenue or taxes in the future are often considered healthier than entities experiencing deficits due to unsustainable expenses.

Typical factors that contribute to a government budget deficit are: slower economic growth than trading partners, high governmental spending, high unemployment rates, or a combination of these factors.

Typical factors that contribute to business budget deficits are: Capital expenditures due to quarter losses, economic crisis, high operating costs, expansion and business opportunities

CCURRENT AFFAIRS TODAY***************************************

1. Reserve Bank to pick talent via UPSC-like testi. The Reserve Bank of India will adopt a common recruitment system from next year to tap talent for its core functions. The larger objective is to strengthen itself in the changing economic scenario.ii. “Starting from 2015, there shall be common recruitment for all core functions of the bank,” the RBI said in an internal report on HR initiatives.iii. At present, it recruits officers and support staff for core and non-core functions through different examinations, such as the Grade ‘B’ officers level exam. The RBI now has about 17,000 employees.iv. The proposed common recruitment will not only cover traditional areas such as economics and statistics but also include niche skills, such as risk management, financial markets trading, accounting, legal, human resources management and counselling.v. The officers that are recruited will have a common seniority. In effect, it will be like the common cadre under the All India Services of the Union Public Service Commission.vi. The Reserve Bank Services Board hopes to complete the entire recruitment cycle within three to four months.

2. RBI sets 70 years as upper age limit for MD, CEO of pvt banksi. The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday decided to fix the maximum age for Managing Directors and Chief Executive Officers in private sector banks at 70.ii. RBI said in the light of the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013, the upper age limit for Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer (MD & CEO) and other Whole Time Directors (WTDs) of banks in the private sector should be 70 years.iii. Within the overall limit of 70 years, individual bank’s boards are free to prescribe a lower retirement age for WTDs, including MD & CEO, as an internal policy, RBI said in a circular.iv. RBI said the Companies Act, 2013 prescribes that "no company shall appoint or continue the employment of any person as Managing Director, Whole Time Director or Manager who is below the age of 21 years or has attained the age of 70 years''.

3. Scientist Kamal Bawa gets 2014 Midori Prize in Biodiversity

i. Indian scientist Kamal Bawa, a distinguished professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, has won the 2014 Midori Prize in Biodiversity for his research, including in climate change in the Himalayas.ii. Bawa, founder president of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) in Bangalore, will receive the prize with a cash award of $100,000 during the Oct 16-17 Conference of Parties (COP-12) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in South Korea. iii. The prize also honours his contributions to research in ecology of tropical forests, sustainable use of tropical forests, promoting engagement of civil society in conservation efforts, and for his

leadership role in setting up ATREE. iv. The announcement of the prize was made Monday at the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat in Montreal, and at the AEON Environmental Foundation in Japan, co-hosts of the prize, according to a media release from ATREE.v. The prize honours individuals who have made outstanding contribution to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of resources at local and global levels, and raised awareness about biodiversity.vi. The Midori Prize is regarded a major element "at the service of the objectives of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011-2020".

4. US open: Marin Cilic wins Men's Singles title

i. Croatia's Marin Cilic has won Men's Singles title at the US Open Tennis. Cilic defeated Kei Nishikori of Japan in straight sets to clinch the title in New York last night.ii. He appeared to be the dominant side throughout the match and capped the final set in convincing fashion. iii. The 25-year-old Cilic's strong service gave him a dominant advantage against Nishikori who held tough, but never really appeared to threaten Cilic. iv. World No.14 Cilic claimed his first Grand Slam title with the win in his first appearance in a Grand Slam final. His previous best finish was a semifinal appearance at the 2010 Australian Open.

5. ICC suspends Pakistan's Saeed Ajmal for illegal bowling actioni. The International Cricket Council, ICC, today suspended Saeed Ajmal, Pakistan's off spin bowler, for illegal action.ii. Ajmal has been suspended from bowling in international cricket with immediate effect. An analysis of Ajmal's action revealed that all his deliveries exceeded the 15 degrees level of tolerance permitted under the regulations. iii. However, Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Shaharyar Khan said that the board will challenge the decision.iv. Meanwhile, Saeed Ajmal today said that he has not given up and is ready to fight his way back and represent the country in next year's ICC World Cup. v. Saeed was reported after the first Test match against Sri Lanka in Galle last month. He can apply for a e-assessment after he has modified his bowling action. Ajmal has played 35 Tests , grabbing 178 wickets.

6. Former NASA Scientist Dr. Noel W. Hinners diedi. A former NASA chief scientist Dr. Noel W. Hinners died on 5 September 2014 due to brain tumor. He was 78.ii. He was involved in the scientific exploration of the moon for the Apollo program and later oversaw projects such as the Mars Surveyor Program.

7. Indian movie Court won best debut award at Venice Film Festivali. Court, an Indian movie written and directed by Indian writer Chaitanya Tamhane, on 7 September 2014 won the Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis award for a Debut Feature at the 71st Venice Film Festival. The film that is a multilingual courtroom drama, won the award for its striking narrative style. ii. With this award, the film won a monetary prize of 100000 US dollars that was donated by Filmauro di Aurelio e Luigi De Laurentiis. This amount should be divided between director and producer. iii. Court was also was awarded with the Orizzonti award for best film