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GK Digest – RBI ASSISTANT Exam GK Digest – RBI ASSISTANT Exam Download from Bankexamstoday.com GK Digest – RBI ASSISTANT Exam Written by Ramandeep Singh Ramandeep Singh 9/5/2014 GK Digest – RBI ASSISTANTManaging Exam Director of Bharatiya Mahila Bank is Appointments Smt. Usha Ananthasubramanian. Recently, 1. General Dalbir Singh Suhag takes over as the Bharatiya Mahila Bank awarded with Core new Army Chief. He takes the charge from Banking System Initiative Award 2014. General Bikram Singh. Before taking the charge 11. Ravi Shastri appointed as Team Director of of Army Chief, General Dalbir Singh Suhag was Indian Cricket team for ODI series agaisnt Lieutenant General in the Army. England. He is former Indian Captain of Cricket 2. Chief Marshal Arup Raha took over as the team. The Coach of Indian Cricket team is Chairman of the Chief of Staff Committee Duncan Fletcher. th (COEC) on 30 July 2014. 12. Prayuth Chan-Ocha became the Prime Minister 3. K.V. Chowdhary appointed as new Chairman of of Thailand. Recently, Yinguluck Shinawatra was CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) resigned from the post. succeeded by R.K. Tewari. The appointment of 13. Tejendra Mohan Bhasin (T.M. Bhasin) elected as the Chairman of CBDT was confirmed by the Chairman of Indian Banks Association (IBA) Appointments Committee of Cabinet which while Arundhati Bhattacharya elected as the Committee headed by Prime Minister Shri Honorary Secretary of Indian Banks Association. Narendra Modi. 14. Ahmet Davutogul appointed as the Prime th 4. On 12 August 2014, the Government of India Minister of Turkey replaced with Recep Tayyip decided to appoint Shri Bimal Jalan as the Head Erdogan. The capital of Turkey is Ankara. of Expenditure Management Commission set up 15. Keshri Nath Tripathi appointed as the Governor by the Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley. Shri of West Bengal. He became 22nd Governor of Bimal Jalan is the former Governor of Reserve West Bengal. He awarded with Vishwa Bharati Bank of India. Samman, Bharat Gaurav and Uttar Pradesh 5. United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Samman etc. appointed the Commission, consisted three 16. Ramesh Chand Tayal appointed as Special members to conduct the inquiry to probe war Director Genral of Central Reserve Police Force crimes and human rights violations conflict in (CRPF). Gaza. The Head of this Commission will William 17. R.N. Ravi appointed as Chief of Joint Schabas. The conflict on the Gaza strip began in Intelligence Committee, a committee works nd th the 2 week of June 2014 i.e. 13 June 2014. under the National Security Council Secretariat. 6. Rajni Razdan became the Chairperson of Union 18. C.S. Verma became the first President of Indian Public Service Commission replaced with Prof. Steel Association, the association launched by D.P. Agrawal. domestic steel producer of India. The aim of this 7. K.V. Thomas appointed as the Chairman of the association is to work towards transforming the Public Accounts Committee which Committee is Indian steel industry as the global leader. analyze the expenditures of Government of India. 8. Dr.Murli Manohar Joshi appointed as the Chairman of Estimates Committee which Deaths Committee is working to increase the efficiency 1. Madhukar Singh died on 21st July 2014 at his in the administration. residence in village Dharahara of Bhojpur 9. V. Shanta Kumar appointed as the Chairman of District. He was a famous Hindi literaturer. Committee on Public Undertakings which 2. Pran Kumar Sharma the famous cartoonist known Committee is working upon the reports which are as comic character Chacha Choudhary died. He examined by this Committee and also examine was 75 years old. the accounts of the public undertakings. 3. The politician Reshamlal Jangade died on 11th 10. S.M. Swathi the General Manager of Corporation August 2014. He was the Member of Parliament Bank appointed as the Executive Director of of the first Lok Sabha of the country which Bharatiya Mahila Bank. The Chairman and started in the year 1952 after held the General 2 BankExamsToday.com TestPanda.com IBPStoday.com elections. He was relatedGK to DigestIndian National– RBI ASSISTANT3. Union ExamGovernment of India has launched the Congress Party. Rashtriya Gokul Mission to protect the 4. Burra Katha, the famous Folk Artist passed away. “indigenous breed” of cows. Under this scheme, He is a Telegu art of oral story telling. Burra some Integrated Indigenous Cattle Centres will Katha is generally known as Jangam Katha. be set up which will be useful for improving milk 5. The famous poet of Iran Simin Behbahani died productivity in India. The aim of the government on 19th August 2014. She had remained the is to improving milk productivity in India. President of Iranian Writers Association. She is Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh known as Lioness of Iran. announced this scheme. The Union Government 6. Yoga guru Bellur Krishnamachar Sundaraja passed Rs.150 Crore to reach its peak of the Iyengar (B.K.S. Iyengar) died on 20th August mission. 2014. He is the founder of Iyengar Yoga. He 4. The Government of Maharashtra appointed bagged three civilian awards of India i.e. Padma Amitabh Bachchan, the Indian Megastar as Shri, Padma Bhushan and recently Padma Horticulture Ambassador of Maharashtra to Vibhushan. His book ‘Light on Yoga’ known as increase the revenue of State. the ‘Bible of Modern Yoga’. 5. Gujarat tops the charts in e-transactions across 7. The famous American Journalist James Foley the nation with 26% share. It is revealed from the was killed by the militants of ISIS. report of Union Government by analyzing 8. Amitava Nandy, the famous former leader of through E-Transactions Aggregation and Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPI-M) Analysis Layer (E-TAAL) and announced by the died due to cancer. He was the Member of present Secretary of Electronics and Information Parliament of 14th Lok Sabha. Technology Department Shri R.S. Sharma. From 9. Chemancherry Narayanan Nair, the famous this layer, we came to know that what the Malyalam actor died on 25th August 2014. He flexibility of e-transactions is. awarded with Special Jury Prize by the 6. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi concluded Government of Kerela. the visit to Nepal on 4th August, 2014. This is the 10. Richard Attenborough, the famous British first bilateral meeting between India and Nepal in filmmaker and Oscar winner, died at the age of past 17 years. During this visit, Prime Minister 90. Generally he is known for his critically Shri Narendra Modi announced to give help to acclaimed biopic on India’s Mahatama Gandhi Nepal for development. which film won 8 Oscar Awards in the year 1982. 7. On 4th August, 2014 completed the 100 years of 11. Douglasw McAuthur McCain is the first citizen First World War which was started on 4th August, of United States of Amercia who died in Syria. 1914 and was ended on 11th November 1918. He is American Jihadi. First World War also called as ‘THE GREAT WAR’. 8. The Ministry of Human Resource Development Politics set up a four member committee to review and analyse the status of University Grants th 1. On 26 August 2014, former Chief Minister of Commission. UGC Chairman Shri Hari Gautam Delhi Smt.Sheela Dixit resigned from the will be the Head of this committee. th Governor of the State of Kerela. She became 8 9. In the 6th Brics Summit, 3 bilateral agreements Governor to who resigned from the near past. are signed between India and Brazil. Three 2. The parliament of Iraq elected Fuad Masum as bilateral agreements are MOU on Cooperation in the President of Iraq in Baghdad. He became the the field of environment, Agreement on Space, th 7 President of Iraq. He is a Kurdish Politician. MOU on Cooperation in consultation mechanism. Moreover, Mr.Jubouri elected as the new speaker 7th Brics Summit will be held in Russia. to form the new government in Iraq and to ending the political deadlock. 3 BankExamsToday.com TestPanda.com IBPStoday.com 10. India became the first GKcountry Digest to ratify– RBIthe ASSISTANT19. The Government Exam of India raised the limit of Marrakesh Treaty. This treaty will work for blind Foreign Direct Investment in the Defence Sector people, visually impaired peopoe and other from 26% to 49%. Foreign Direct Investment is a disable persons and will give equal rights and direct investment in the production of the country opportunities of education and employment for by the company of another country or individual. blind people. 20. Securities Laws (Amendment) Bill 2014 passed 11. India and World Bank signed MOUs for in Lok Sabha to empower Securities Exchange URWSSP (Uttarakhand Rural Water Suply and Board of India (SEBI) and also strenthen it. This Sanitation Project), UDWDP (Uttarakahand bill will give express powers for any settlement Decentralized Watershed Development Project), and also empowers SEBI to establish the special MRWSSP (Maharashtra Rural Water Supply and courts to strenthen it. Sanitation Programme). There is need to well 21. The Government of India has raised to 100% known to you that water supply, santitation and Foreign Direct Investment in the Railway decentralization are the keys to develop any Department. This is happeing first time in India. nation. The FDI raised to 100% by the Union 12. India ranked 8th in Global Rich List with 14800 Government with the hope to expansion the multimillionaires. United States of America tops railway and to make India a strong economy. the list followed by China and Germany. 22. The United States of America has taken the 13. The Governor of Uttar Pradesh Shri Ram Naik action agaisnt the ISIS terrorists. The bombs have and Governor of Gujarat Shri Om Prakash Kohli dropped by the USA namely F/A-18 from the have given additional charge of Rajasthan and aricraft of USA.
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