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MONTHLY ISSUE - NOVEMBER - 2015 CurrVanik’s ent Affairs Banking | Railway | Insurance | SSC | UPSC | OPSC | PSU ARCHITECH OF THE RISE OF CRICKET IN INDIA ONE RANK ONE PENSION ““BRAINBRAIN DRAINDRAIN”” cancan becomebecome ““BRAINBRAIN GAINGAIN”” EU REFUGEE CRISES HAJJ STAMPEDE New OPSC OCS-2015 Special Volume-3y Govt. of Odisha US OPEN-2015 aunched b New Scheme L Two Practice Set for IBPS-PO (Preliminary) One Practice Set for CSAT 40 MCQs on Computers Vanik’s Page 200 Updated MCQs 100 One Liners 100 GK for SSC & Railway Vanik’s Knowledge Garden Leading Institute for Banking, Railway & SSC P u b l i c a t i o n s VANIK'S PAGE COUNTRY, CAPITAL & CURRENCY African Nations Capital Currency Afric an Nations Capital Currency Malawi Lilongwe Mala wian kwacha Algeria Algiers Algerian dinar Mali Bamako West African CFA franc Angola Luanda Kwanza Mauritania Nouakchott Maurit anian Ouguiya Benin Porto Novo W est African CFA franc Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian rupee Botswana Gaborone Pula Morocco Rabat Mor occan dirham Burkina Faso Ouagadougou West African CFA franc Mozambique Maputo Mozambic an metical Burundi Bujumbura Burundi franc Namibia Windhoek Namibian dollar Cameroon Yaoundé Cen tral African CFA franc Niger Niamey W es t African CFA franc Cape Verde Praia Cape Verdean escudo Nigeria Abuja Nigerian naira Central African Republic Bangui Central African CFA franc Republic of Congo Brazzaville Central African CFA franc Chad N'Djamena Central African CFA franc Rwanda Kigali Rwandan franc Comoros Moroni Comorian franc Senegal Dakar West African CFA franc Congo Kinshasa Congolese franc Seychelles Victoria Seychellois rupee Djibouti Djibouti Djiboutian Franc Sierra Leone Freetown Leone Somalia Mogadishu Somali shilling Egypt Cairo Egyptian Pound South Africa Cape Town, and South African rand Equa torial Guinea Malabo Central African CFA franc Pretoria Eritrea Asmara Nakfa South Sudan Juba South Sudanese pound Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ethiopian birr Gabon Libreville Centr al African CFA franc Sudan Khartoum Sudanese pound Gambia Banjul Dalasi Swaziland Lobamba Lilang eni São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé São Tomé and Príncipe Dobra Ghana Accra Ghanaian cedi Tanzania Dodoma Tanz anian shilling Guinea-Bissau Bissau West African CFA franc Togo Lomé Wes t African CFA franc Guinea Conakry Guinean franc Tunisia Tunis Tunisian dinar Ivory Coast Yamoussoukro West African CFA franc Uganda Kampala Ugandan shilling Kenya Nairobi Ken yan shilling Zambia Lusaka Zambian kwacha Lesotho Maseru Loti Zimbabwe Harare United States dollar and Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar South African rand Libya Tripoli Libyan dinar Oceania Nations Capital Currency Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy Ariary Australia Canberra Australian dollar Fiji Suva Fijian dollar Kiribati Tarawa Kiriba ti dollar Australian dollar Marshall Islands Majuro United States dollar Micronesia Palikir Unit ed States dollar Nauru No official Capit al Australian dollar New Zealand Wellington New Zealand dollar Palau Ngerulmud , Unit ed States dollar Melekeok Papua New Guinea Port Moresby Kina Samoa Apia Tala Solomon Islands Honiara Solomon Islands dollar Tonga Nuku'alofa Pa’ anga Tuvalu Funafuti Tuvaluan dollar Australian dollar Vanuatu Port Vila Vanuatu vatu MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER - 2015 VANIK’S MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER - 2015 B – 61 A & B, Saheed Nagar & Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar 1 Leading Institute for Banking, Railway & SSC Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] Message from Director Vanik Publications EDITOR Dear Students, Mr. Pramod Padhi ASSOCIATE EDITORS Durga Puja is the period of enrichment & empowerment for the entire Satabdi Sagar Mohanty Samarendra Narayan Sahoo himanity along with happiness and celebration. Our committment for your enrichment ADVISORS & empowerment will continue with the power packed contents in the Vanik Current G. Khatua B. R. Das Affairs Magazine. Apart from the regular features this special issue contains a PUBLISHING MANAGER section for the forth coming OPSC Prelime by our Editor Mr. Pramod Padhi on the Smrutiranjan Chhatoi Socio-Economic developmental measure launched by Odisha govt. & CSAT model DESIGNING & LAYOUT question. Vijaya Moharana Publisher : Subrat Kumar Chhatoi Hope it will be useful for you like the earlier issues. Printed and Published by : Vanik Publication Printed at : Bhagabati Press Plot-1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRP Square, Bhubaneswar Website : www.vanik.org | Phone : 0674-6556677, 8093-556677 _____________________________________________________ © Copyright Reserved No part of this magazine can be printed in Best of Luck whole or part without the written permission of the publisher. Subrat Kumar Chhatoi The editor and publisher have tried their best to verify the factual accuracy of the informations published, but do not take any responsibility for the absolute accuracy of the informations in the magazine. All disputes subject to Bhubaneswar (Odisha) Jurisdiction. CONTENTS Topics Page No Events of the Month 4 International news 10 National news 13 Bilateral 15 Economy and Banking 17 Award and Honour 19 Book and Author 20 Person in news 21 Places in news 23 Sports 24 Science and Technology 26 Environment and Ecology 27 Defence 27 Recent Summit in News 28 Committee and its Function 28 International and National institution 29 Recent visit and visitor 30 Date and Observation 30 State news 31 Recent government devlopement and scheme 33 200 MCQ current affairs 35 40 MCQ of Computer 43 Abbreviation 44 Descriptive English 45 Word of the Month 46 Banking Terminology 47 Miscellaneous G.K. for SSC and Railway 51 Practice Set : IBPS-PO-Preliminary -1 56 IBPS-PO-Preliminary -2 63 Who’s Who? 71 One Liner 73 OPSC CSE-2015 Special Volume-3 (Analysis of programme launched by Odisha govt) 77 MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER - 2015 EVENTS OF THE MONTH The project will make Internet hot-spots available to more than 10 PM MODI AT SILICON VALLEY million people just with the first 100 stations online. This will make it the largest Wi-Fi project in the country. : ‘BRAIN DRAIN’ CAN BECOME The Access & Energy team of Google together with Indian Railways and RailTel, which provides Internet services as RailWire via its ‘BRAIN GAIN’ FOR INDIA extensive fiber network, will bring the first station online in the coming months. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the tech capital of the world As per the initial plan, Indian Railways will introduce Wi-Fi services - Silicon Valley - to further his dream of ‘Digital India.’ This rare at 400 A1 and A category stations throughout the country and in visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the region that houses the select trains in a phase-wise manner. Indian Railways will introduce who’s who of the technology world has captivated his extensive Wi-Fi services at 75 A1 category station by the end of 2015. fan club in the area and commanded the attention of major US Google on 28 September 2015 has released a map of the first 100 technology companies eager to extend their reach into a promising stations online that will get high-speed Wi-Fi hot spots in India. overseas market. Modi’s arrival marks the first time an Indian head 2. Microsoft to take low-cost broadband tech to 5 lakh villages of state has been in California in 33 years. 3. Microsoft to set up cloud computing systems The PM has met representatives of the Sikh and Gujarati 4. Qualcomm to invest $150 million in India communities. Modi visited the Tesla Motors factory and was taken In an effort to push Digital India initiative, chipmaker Qualcomm around the factory by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. He also met Apple said it will invest $150 million for Indian start-ups in the mobile CEO Tim Cook.Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the world’s and internet-of-everything (IoE) ecosystem. It has committed to top tech chiefs, including Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen, Qualcomm’s providing local innovative start-ups with the support needed to Paul Jacobs, Cisco’s John Chambers, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella help India’s IOE (Internet of Everything) ecosystem grow, and Google’s Sundar Pichai on the occasion of the “Digital India” increasing consumer choice and availability. dinner held at San Jose, California on 26 September. The large 5. Qualcomm innovation lab to be set up in Bengaluru concentration of high-technology engineering, computer, and An innovation lab will be set up in Bengaluru to provide technical microprocessor companies around San Jose has led the area to be and engineering support to Indian companies, and we will support known as “Silicon Valley”. Prime Minister’s pitch to the gathering multiple Indian mobile device design companies. Through a design of tech elites was his promise to take India up to the next stage of challenge, innovative product and hardware companies will be its development, a vision that he intended to achieve through policy identified who will receive technical and engineering support in the campaigns such as Digital India and Make in India. Placing the Qualcomm innovation lab. entire digital campaign in context he said it was possible to rapidly Modi -Barack Obama bilateral discussion transform the lives of people on margins and touch the lives of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Barack Obama weakest, farthest and the poorest citizen of India as also change and discussed a host of issues, including stepping up economic the way our nation will live and work. engagement and climate change, during their third meeting in about a year. A joint editorial released by India and US highlighted the Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed more than 350 following developments in the bilateral relationship of the two business leaders on Saturday during his tour to the Silicon countries:- Valley. Who’s who from the tech world gave a ringing Indo- US Investment Initiative endorsement to PM’s ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme. Establishment of an Indo- US Investment Initiative led by the Here are five key announcements made during PM Modi’s Ministry of Finance on the Indian side and the Department of visit.
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