STUDY NOTES FOR BANK EXAMS Important Headlines: # Jio Payments Bank commenced its banking services. # At the end of Financial Year 2017-18, 97.05 lakh Jio Payments Bank Limited has commenced operations subscribers have enrolled under Atal Pension Yojana. as a payments bank with effect from April 3, 201 # A meagre two Indian institutions (the IIT Delhi and # With an aim to promote breastfeeding, Himachal University of Delhi) figured in the world's top 200 Pradesh Health Minister Vipin Parmar launched universities, as per a joint study by industry body Mother's Absolute Affection (MAA) programme in ASSOCHAM and think tank Yes Institute. the state. # Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani, with a net worth # Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and of $38 billion, is Asia’s third-richest man and is Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin launched the ranked 19 in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Apart construction of Turkey´s first nuclear power plant in from Ambani, there are 23 Indians in the Bloomberg the Mediterranean Mersin region. Billionaires Index top 500 list, with Amazon’s Jeff # Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling Bezos and Bill Gates holding on to the top two spots. announced monthly pension of Rupees 1000 for # NTPC has commissioned the first unit of 1,320 MW farmers engaged in organic farming in the state. super-critical Meja thermal project at Allahabad in # The 21st Commonwealth Games begin in the Uttar Pradesh. Australian city of Gold Coast. 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Chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi. # A recent study suggests that India has witnessed the # Ajit Singh has been appointed as the head of Anti- highest increase in antibiotic consumption among Low Corruption Unit (ACU) of BCCI. and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) between 2000 # Mithali Raj has been adjudged as the 'Sportsperson and 2015. of the Year' at the Telangana Sports Journalists # Scientists have discovered a new organ 'Interstitium' Association annual awards for 2017. in the human body, a discovery that could help the # Sloane Stephens has won the Women's Singles title at scientists understand the spread of cancer within the Miami Open Tennis Tournament. body. # Tibetans started the year-long celebrations under # Ultra-clean Euro-VI grade petrol and diesel, at no “Thank You India” event to mark 60 years of the Dalai additional price, will be supplied in the national capital Lama’s arrival in India in Mcleodganj of Himachal from 1st April in a bid to combat alarming levels of air Pradesh. pollution. # Indians are consuming almonds like never before, Write us : [email protected] www.mahendras.org www.mahendraguru.com myshop.mahendras.org [3] STUDY NOTES FOR BANK EXAMS leaving behind China and Spain to emerge as the # The Reserve Bank of India kept repo rates unchanged world’s largest consumer of the nut in recent times. at 6 per cent. 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Sciences Lab to improve its forecasting, surveillance # India emerged as the third most vulnerable country in and early warning detection abilities which will aid terms of risk of cyber threats, such as malware, spam policy formulation. and ransomware, in 2017, moving up one place over previous year, according to ‘Internet Security Threat # The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has Report’. instituted a committee to regulate online portals, # India has overtaken Japan to become the world’s including news websites, entertainment sites and second largest producer of crude steel, according to the media aggregators. Steel Users Federation of India (SUFI). # Gymnastics coach Brij Kishore of Sports Authority of # Veteran actor Anupam Kher has secured a nomination Telangana State, whose trainee B. Aruna Reddy had in the Best Supporting Actor category at the British won bronze in World Cup gymnastics recently, passed Academy Television Awards 2018 for his role in the away. He was 50. drama The Boy with the Topknot. # India is hosting the 16thInternational Energy Forum # Malayalam actor Kollam Ajith passed away recently. (IEF) Ministerial Meeting in New Delhi. He was 56. # The Election Commission has decided to set up 450 # Subrata Bhattacharjee has been appointed as the next Sakhi Pink booths during the Karnataka Assembly Ambassador of India to the Republic of Serbia. elections. # Himanta Biswa Sarma has been elected as president of # Leading private lender ICICI Bank announced the Badminton Association of India (BAI). launch of a service 'Social Pay' that enables Non # Indian weightlifter Sanjita Chanu won gold medal after Resident Indians (NRIs) to send money to a beneficiary lifting a total of 192 kg in the women's 53 kg category in India using social media platforms like WhatsApp in Commonwealth games. and e-mail. # Cab aggregator Ola will offer in-trip insurance cover # India's youngest weightlifter at the 2018 to riders, who can avail the service by paying Re 1 for Commonwealth Games, 18-year-old Deepak Lather intra-city travel. won India a bronze medal in the 69-kg men's category. 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