SPECIAL NOTES FOR SBI ASSO CLERK “FEB & MARCH FEB & MARCH 2015 Rail budget 2015 issued Union bUdget 2015 issued Feb march current issued CURRENT AFFAIRS VOL RAIL & UNION BUDGET FEB & MARCH: 14/15 2015-16 ISSUED UPDATED & POSTED UP TO 07/03/2015 FIND FROM “KUNAL_B ANK@GOO GLEGROUP S.COM” -------------- BRANCH @Dombivali, Dadar,Ghatkoper, Borivali, Andheri, Vasai & Ambernath !!BY- KUNAL SINGH!! JOIN : - “[email protected]” REGULAR ISSUE [Type text] Page 1 SBI ASSO CLERK 2015 SPECIAL ISSUE RATES % W.E.F Bank Rate 8.50% w.e.f. 04/03/2015 Cash Reserve Ratio 4.00% wef 09/02/2013 (CRR) Statutory Liquidity Ratio 21.50% w.e.f. 07/02/2015 (SLR) Repo Rate 7.50% w.e.f. 04/03/2015 Reverse Repo Rate 6.50% w.e.f. 04/03/2015 Marginal Standing 8.50% w.e.f. 04/03/2015 Facility (MSF) Arun Jaithley presented Economic Survey for FY 2015-16, the growth forecast is 8.1-8.5%. Sun Pharma's founder and MD, Dilip Shanghvi overtook Mukesh Ambani as the richest Indian, (Mr. Shanghvi moved up to the 37th position by FORBES magazine. 26 January 2015 posthumously awarded with the highest peacetime military honour the Ashok Chakra by President Pranab Mukherjee to Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh. Government will soon infuse Rs 6,990 crore in nine public sector banks including SBI, Bank of Baroda (BoB), Punjab National Bank (PNB) for enhancing their capital and meeting global risk norms (SBI leads the pack with a capitalization of Rs 2,970 ). Union Government in the recently decided to launch Operation “ All Out” against Bodo militants in Assam Maharashtra government, launched online Right to Information (RTI) application filing facility. YES Bank has succeeded in floating the country's maiden green infrastructure bond issue for Rs 500 crore. Union Government recently launched Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching. “CURRENT AFFAIRS” “February & March”, Rail & union budget issued. BRANCH @Dombivali, Dadar,Ghatkoper, Borivali, Andheri, Vasai & Ambernath FOCUS COMPETITION ZONE “MUMBAI” JOIN : - “[email protected]” 2 SBI ASSO CLERK 2015 SPECIAL ISSUE Larry Page was named as the Business person of the Year for 2014 on 6 January 2015 by Fortune magazine. The theme of the ISC was “Science and Technology for Human Development”, 102nd Indian Science Congress (ISC) was recently held @ Mumbai. APPOINTMENT APPOINTMENT PERSON POST Kolinda grabar-kitarovic President (croatia's ) Dr. S jaishankar Foreign secretary Alexis tsipras Prime minister (greece) Kanagasabapathy j sripavan Chief justice of sri lanka Justice surendra kumar sinha Chief justice of bangledesh Beji caid essebsi President of tunisia Arun singh Ambassador to us Sergio mattarella President of italy Arvind kejriwal Eighth chief minister of delhi Shekhar sen Chairman of the sangeet natak akademi Balasubramaniam venkataramani Md & ceo (mcx sx) Anil kumar sinha Cbi director Tapan mishra Isro chief Alur seelin kiran kumar Isro chairman Hari shankar bramha Cec chief election commissioner Jagmohan dalmiya President bcci Mufti md sayeed Cm j&k Nirmal singh Dupty cm j&k Kshatrapati shivaji Chairman & md (sidbi) ICICI Bank launched contactless credit cards and debits cards called Coral Contactless Credit Card and Expressions Wave Debit Card respectively in India. “CURRENT AFFAIRS” “February & March”, Rail & union budget issued. BRANCH @Dombivali, Dadar,Ghatkoper, Borivali, Andheri, Vasai & Ambernath FOCUS COMPETITION ZONE “MUMBAI” JOIN : - “[email protected]” 3 SBI ASSO CLERK 2015 SPECIAL ISSUE ICICI Bank launched 'Pockets', a digital banking service, enabling users to instantly send money to any e-mail id, mobile number, friends on Facebook and bank account (The limit for transaction is of worth Rs.10,000, if it is not linked to a savings account of ICICI Bank). The U.S. government has confirmed that effective May 26, 2015, some holders of the H-4 visa, who are spouses of high-skilled workers on the H- 1B visa, will be eligible for work authorization. Indian citizens living abroad will now be able to file consular grievances online as the government launched an e-portal “Madad” to address such complaints promptly with a high degree of "accountability". In order to facilitate 'Ease of Doing Business', the Government has launched a single window government-to-business (G2B) portal “eBiz”. Baba Ramdev was appointed as state brand ambassador of Haryana recently. European Union (EU) decided to lift a seven-month-long ban on the import of Mangoes. proposed merger deal of Rs 15,000-crore between Kotak Mahindra Bank and ING Vysya Bank got final approval by CCI. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) amended the mobile number portability (MNP) regulations yesterday to allow users to change their service provider in any part of the country while retaining the number. Malaysian government officially declared the disappearance of MH370 flight as an accident. “East Delhi Hub Project” agreemt for developing the first smart sub-city in east delhi was signed between National Building Construction Corporation Ltd (NBCC) and DDA Recently. A Documentary Filt “INDIA’S DAUGHTER” BBC under director LESLEE UDWIN has been banned in the country. NERPAP (National Electoral Roll Purificatin and Authentication Pragramme) launched by Election commission with the aim of Bringing a totally error free and authenticated electoral by linking AADHAR data of UIDAI. “CURRENT AFFAIRS” “February & March”, Rail & union budget issued. BRANCH @Dombivali, Dadar,Ghatkoper, Borivali, Andheri, Vasai & Ambernath FOCUS COMPETITION ZONE “MUMBAI” JOIN : - “[email protected]” 4 SBI ASSO CLERK 2015 SPECIAL ISSUE Rating Agency MOODY’s recently downgraded the rating of two PSB “cental Bank of India and Indian Overseas Bank. Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s name was included in the LIMCA book of records. Her name was included for being the only woman of the country to represent the same Lok Sabha constituency on the same party ticket for eight times in a row. The 14th Finance Commission has recommended a record increase of 10 per cent in the devolution of the divisible pool of resources to states. The states share will now be 42 per cent of the entire kitty as compared to 32 per cent previously. PADMA AWARDS 104 (9:20:75) Padma Vibhushan 9 1 LK Advani 2 Amitabh Bachchan 3 Prakash Singh Badal 4 Dr D Veerendra Heggade (Social Work 5 Dilip Kumar 6 Jagadguru Rambhadracharya others 7 Prof Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan (Science and Engg 8 Kottayan K Venugopal (Public Affairs), 9 Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan Trade and Industry Padma Bhushan 20 Jahnu Barua art Bill Gates (Social Work), USA Rajat Sharma (Literature and Education), Delhi Melinda Gates (Social Work), USA David Frawley (Others), USA Satpal (Sports), Delhi Swami Satyamitranand Giri (Others), Padma Shri 75 “CURRENT AFFAIRS” “February & March”, Rail & union budget issued. BRANCH @Dombivali, Dadar,Ghatkoper, Borivali, Andheri, Vasai & Ambernath FOCUS COMPETITION ZONE “MUMBAI” JOIN : - “[email protected]” 5 SBI ASSO CLERK 2015 SPECIAL ISSUE Former bihar CM jitam ram manjhi launch a new political party named “HINDUSTI AWAM MORCHA- HAM. RBS Royal Bank of Scotlant decided to close its banking operation in India recently. Ban on slaughter of COWS and sale of BEEF has recently been imposed in Maharashtra. Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar completed his SAARC Yatra of four nations @ Afganistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Bhutan. World’s largest and tallest Indian national flag was unfurled at Town Park in Faridabad, Haryana at high of 250 feet (75 meters), dimension of 96 feet by 64 feet and weighs 48 kilograms. Madhya Pradesh won the 10th National Award for excellent work in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA). YouTube will remain blocked in Pakistan. Apple Inc recorded the highest-ever profit of 18 billion US dollars in corporate history worldwide recently. Chhattisgarh was felicitated for emerging as one of the best performing states in the renewable energy segment. World Radio Day was observed globally on 13 February 2015 with the theme “Youth and Radio”. India was ranked 136 out of 180 nations worldwide in terms of press freedom in 2015. SpiceJet announced the launch of the ‘Cheaper Than Train Fares’ sale offer with one-way fares pegged at a starting price of just Rs 599. Himachal Pradesh is set to become the country's first state to present a 'paperless' budget. Modi flagged off the first express train from Naharlagun in Arunachal Pradesh to New Delhi . “CURRENT AFFAIRS” “February & March”, Rail & union budget issued. BRANCH @Dombivali, Dadar,Ghatkoper, Borivali, Andheri, Vasai & Ambernath FOCUS COMPETITION ZONE “MUMBAI” JOIN : - “[email protected]” 6 SBI ASSO CLERK 2015 SPECIAL ISSUE The Election Commission (CHIEF H S Brahma) has come out with its latest publication on Indian polls, 'India Votes' comprehensive review of 2014 election. Indo-Nepal Battalion level combined military training - 'Exercise Surya Kiran-VIII in Nepal. AWARDS AWARDS Miss universe 2014 Paulina vega, miss colombia Mo ibrahim award “hifikepunye pohamba”. Berlin international film festival. Film dhanak Dr. Y nayudamma memorial award Scientists dr. Tessy thomas and geeta varadan ‘Lifetime achievement award’ Dilip kumar Jnanpith AWARD Bhalchandra Nemade Charleston-efg john maynard keynes Amartya sen prize Grammy awards Ricky Kej and activist Neela Vaswani Yash bharti samman Vinod mehta Sahitya akademi award Prabhu nath dwivedi 87th“OSCAR AWARDS”, Best picture Birdman Director Alejandro gonzalez inarritu, birdman Actor: Eddie redmayne, the theory of everything Actress Julianne moore, still alice Documentary feature Citizen four Animated feature film Big hero 6l “CURRENT AFFAIRS” “February & March”, Rail & union budget issued. BRANCH @Dombivali, Dadar,Ghatkoper, Borivali, Andheri, Vasai & Ambernath FOCUS COMPETITION ZONE “MUMBAI” JOIN : - “[email protected]” 7 SBI ASSO CLERK 2015 SPECIAL ISSUE Chief Minister Raman Singh in Chhattisgarh has officially declared Valentine’s Day as Matru-Pitru Divas (Parents’ Day) HDFC bank (45th ranked) in India was recently named among 50 most valuable banks in 2014 with a market capitalisation of 41.58 billion US dollar.