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CONTENTS VOL-14 ISSUE -10 Editor N.K. Jain Higher Education Commission Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India Bill 2018: An Analysis (25 December 1924 - 16 August 2018) Advisors Neeraj Chabra K.C.Gupta Registered Office Mahendra Publication Pvt. Ltd. 103, Pragatideep Building, Plot No. 08, Laxminagar, District Centre, New Delhi - 110092 TIN-09350038898 Blood Moon 2018: The longest 10th BRICS Summit 2018 w.e.f. 12-06-2014 lunar eclipse of the century Branch Office Mahendra Publication Pvt. Ltd. E-42,43,44, Sector-7, Noida (U.P.) For queries regarding promotion, distribution & advertisement, contact:- Interview 5 [email protected] Ph.: 09208037962 Current Affairs - One Liner 6-9 Spotlight 10 Owned, printed & published by The People 11-18 N.K. Jain News Bites 19-52 103, Pragatideep Building, World of English - Etymology 53 Plot No. 08, Laxminagar, Higher Education Commission of India Bill 2018: District Centre, New Delhi - 110092 An Analysis 54-55 Please send your suggestions and Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 - 16 August 2018) 56 grievances to:- Designation : Who's Who 57 Mahendra Publication Pvt. Ltd. 10th BRICS Summit 2018 61-62 CP-9, Vijayant Khand, Blood Moon 2018: The longest lunar eclipse of the Gomti Nagar Lucknow - 226010 century 63-64 E-mail:[email protected] Que Tm - General Awareness 65-75 RRB Clerk Mains : Model Paper 2018 76-99 © Copyright Reserved # No part of this issue can be printed in SSC Steno 'C & D' : Model Paper 2018 100-114 whole or in part without the written permission of the publishers. # All the disputes are subject to Delhi jurisdiction only. Mahendra Publication Pvt. Ltd. Editorial Good books and good people are not easily comprehensible they are to be read thoroughly. Dear Aspirants, We feel great pleasure in bringing the 'October 2018' edition of our very own 'Masters in Current Affairs', a platform where you get all the exam related information at a single place. It is designed especially for the forthcoming examinations. Its regular sections such as News Maker, News Diary, One liners etc. cover each and every news in details which is important for examinations. Rest of the news are covered in 'Chalte - Chalte' i.e. one liner news, which you can find at the bottom of each page. Some important issues of this month were discussed in featured articles. One among them is 'higher-education-commission-of-india-bill-2018'. Recently, the Higher Education Commission of India (Repeal of University Grant Commission Act) Bill, 2018 (HECI) was drafted by the Centre. The Bill will provide major reforms in higher education. This Act provides for establishing the Higher Education Commission of India repealing the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, and much more interesting facts and facets to know about this act. Then an article about ‘BRICS. The 2018 BRICS summit is the tenth annual BRICS summit, an international relations conference attended by the heads of state or heads of government of the five member states Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The summit was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, the second time after it was first held in the 2013. This years theme 'BRICS in Africa' All other details in the regards are mentioned inside. Blood Moon 2018: Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of Century Occurs on July 27. The longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century takes place on July 27. The total phase of the "blood moon" eclipse of July 27 will last 1 hour and 43 minutes, during which Earth's natural satellite will turn a spectacular red or ruddy-brown color. From start to finish, the entire celestial event will last nearly 4 hours. Other details are mentioned inside. And an article about the sad demise of the Bharat Ratna and former Prime Minister of India Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 16th of August 2018, the great loss of India and a black day of Indian Politics. In this edition we are providing the complete solution of RRB (MAINS) 2018 and PAPERS OF SSC STENOGRAPHER group C and D for your self assessment. There is a separate section named Que-TM for your self-evaluation, which includes all the possible MCQ's from this month's current affairs. This will be highly beneficial for all the upcoming examinations. Your advice or suggestions will be much appreciated and welcomed. With Best Wishes Mahendra Publication Pvt. Ltd. “Your Success is Our Success” RITIKA VERMA INTERVIEW PERSONAL DETAILS MICA : What is the role of “Time Management” in one’s Ritika Verma success? Father’s Name : Ashok Kumar Verma Ritika : I think time management Mother’s Name : Seema Verma plays a very important role in the Bank Examination. Hobbies : Listening To Music MICA : How did you prepare for Prior Selection : Probationary Officer & Office the Interview? Assistant Ritika : I take the Mahendra's Name of the Exam : IBPS RRB interview classes and Mocks. Roll No. of Qualified Exam : 3691112419 & 3070538308 MICA : Tell us about the Interview Roll No. of Mahendra Institute : PDH 0270841332 Board and the questions asked? very helpful and it played a big role in my selection. Ritika : Interview Board members were very good and MICA : How did you prepare for cooperative. the examination? The questions asked were: Ritika : (I) Tell us about yourself? English Language (II) About Lucknow? By watching Mahendra's Guru YouTube channel, reading newspaper (III) Difference between RRB's and and learn vocabulary on daily basis. PSB's ? Reasoning Ability & Computers (IV) What is monetary policy and Started solving quizzes, puzzles and base role?. ST of Mahendra's. MICA : By whom did you get MICA : Mahendra's family expresses Data Interpretation information of your its heartiest congratulations selection and what was on your success. By revising table till 20, squares till 50 your reaction? & cubes till 30 from Mahendra's book Ritika : Thank You so much. and by given speed test of Mahendra's. Ritika : Through website, and obviously I was very happy. MICA : To whom do you want General Awareness to give the credit of your MICA : What message do you By Mahendra's materials such as selection? want to convey to other Newspaper, MICA, Books and aspirants? Ritika : My family, Friends and Mahendra's Notes. faculty of Mahendra's. Ritika : I must tell you this when MICA : What you say about “Master you are best confident in MICA : After how many attempts in Current Affairs” Magazine yourself, when you believe did you succeed in this and Mahendra Guru Website? in yourself. You have examination? Ritika : Both are very helpful. already won half of the st Ritika : 1 attempt. MICA : What is the best thing about battle. our coaching institute, MICA : What is the role of according to you? MICA : Congratulations once again Mahendra's institute in your on your success. Your Ritika : The faculty of Mahendra's selection? is very helpful which success is our success. Ritika : I would like to say that the is the best thing about Ritika : Thank You ! Speed Test of Mahendra's is Mahendra's. Vivek Srivastava of Healthcare at HOME (HCAH) has won the "Entrepreneur of the year Award". OCTOBER 2018 MICA 5 CURRENT AFFAIRS One Liner ONE Liner PERSONS IN NEWS # Government has decided to set up a committee to # Who has become Pakistan's first blind judge? suggest measures to strengthen National Cadet Corps w Yousaf Saleem (NCC) and National Service Scheme (NSS). Who is # Who has become the country's first transgender the Chairman of this committee? lawyer? w Sathyasri Sharmila w Anil Swarup # Who has become the first Indian woman to win # B Sujatha Devi has passed away recently. She was a gold medal at IAAF World Under-20 Athletics a_________. w Poet Championships? w Hima Das # Claude Lanzmann has passed away recently. He was # Who has been appointed as a whole time member of a_______. w French Filmmaker the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)? # Gopal Das Neeraj has passed away recently. He was w Anant Barua ________. w Poet # Who has been appointed as the chairman and additional # J N Sadhu has passed away recently. He was a director of Bhushan Steel Ltd? w T.V. Narendran ________. w Journalist # Who has been appointed as the chairman of ICICI # Kabutari Devi has passed away recently. She was Bank? w Girish Chandra a________. w Singer Chaturvedi # Kalpesh Yagnik passed away recently. He was # Who has been appointed as the chairman of the Central a_______. w Journalist Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)? w S Ramesh # Kim Jong-pil has passed away recently. He was Former Prime Minister of which country? # Who has been appointed as the CMD of Steel Authority w South Korea of India (SAIL)? w Saraswati Prasad # Krishna Kumari has passed away recently. She was # Who has been appointed as the Director General of the ______. w Politician ICWA? w T.C.A. Raghavan # M M Jacob has passed away recently. He was the # Who has been appointed as the interim coach of the former governor of which state? Indian women's team? w Ramesh Powar w Meghalaya # Who has been appointed as the Managing Director of # Mahendra Kaul has passed away recently. He was State Bank of India? w Arijit Basu a________. w Journalist # Who has been appointed as the Managing Director of Tata # Rita Bhaduri has passed away recently. She Capital Housing Finance? w Anil Kaul was_____. w Actress # Who has been appointed as the Secretary of Central Vigilance # Surinder Singla has passed away recently. He was Commission (CVC)? w Alka Tiwari the______. w Politician # Who has been appointed by President Halimah # What is the Name of Former chief of Naval Staff Yacob as the country's Supreme Court judicial Admiral who has passed away? commissioner? w Dedar Singh Gill w J G Nadkarni # Who has been appointed the chairperson of the National # What is the Name of Spiritual leader and head of Green Tribunal (NGT)? w Adarsh Kumar Goel Sadhu Vaswani mission who has passed away? # Who is the Chairman of Securities and Exchange w Dada JP Vaswani Board of India (SEBI)? w Ajay Tyagi 6 MICA OCTOBER 2018 Arvind Kumar, writer of Hindi Samantar Kosh has been awarded with the 'Hindi Ratna' award.
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