MONTHLY ISSUE - AUGUST - 2017 CurrVanik’s ent Affairs Banking | Railway | Insurance | SSC | UPSC | OPSC | PSU IAS Vanik’s Question Hub Preparation Strategy for Vanik’s Practice Set UPSC Civil Service Vanik’s Extra Dose Examination Main-2017 Vanik’s Knowledge Garden VA N I K S A H E E D N A G A R C E N T R E VA N I K C U T TA C K C E N T R E Centralized A/C Counseling Central A/C Classroom Fully Wi-Fi Enabled Lab Interview Grooming Session Food Court WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN VANIK INSTITUTE FOR “BANKING, RAILWAY AND SSC” 1. BEST FACULTY OF INDIA FOR CLASSES COMPARE TO ALL 18. Weekly Current Affairs handout separately. OTHER INSTITUTE. 19. Weekly newspaper reading classes. 2. Highest no of Classes from basic to advance level. 20. One month free online test (MTD – Banking Test & Discussion) 3. Highest no of hours in every subject for better understanding. and six month free practice test (TBT, SBT, MCT, FPT & PPT) Total hours for banking - 450+HRS (6 MONTHS DAILY 2 HRS 21. 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Development & Scheme 21 Bilateral 23 State news 24 Award and Honour 26 Person in news 28 Places in news 29 Sports 30 Science and Technology 32 Environment and Ecology 34 Defence 34 Recent Summit in News 35 Committee and its Function 36 Book and Author 37 Miscellaneous 37 Date and Observation 38 Vanik Question Hub 200 MCQ on Current Affairs - 39 100 MCQ on SSC/Railway - 47 40 MCQ on Computer - 51 20 Special MCQ on Banking - 53 Practice Set Vanik Extra Dose NICL-AO (Main) - 55 Who’s Who - 124 DENA BANK-PO (PGDBF) - 75 Abbreviation - 130 SSC-CGL (Tier-I) - 94 Editorial word from Hindu - 131 SSC-CPO (SI) (Tier-I) - 103 May Pocket Capsule - 133 Preparation Strategy for UPSC Civil Service Examination Main-2017 - 135 MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST-2017 EVENTS OF THE MONTH promise to expand American exports and create more jobs at home. As global nonproliferation partners, the United States expressed strong support for India’s early membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Wassenaar Arrangement, and the Australia Group. President Trump also reaffirmed his country’s support for India’s permanent membership on a reformed UN Security Council. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President 1. WHEN “MAKE IN Donald Trump have vowed to further strengthen the already expansive India-US defence and security partnership, a highly visible symbol of which will be the massive Malabar INDIA” MEETS naval exercise with Japan as the third participant in the Bay of Bengal next month. The joint statement after the Modi- “AMERICA FIRST” Trump summit noted Washington’s “offer” to sell 22 Predator Warm sentiments were expressed on a warm evening Sea Guardian surveillance drones worth over $2 billion to at a White House Rose Garden when “Make in India” meets New Delhi, even as the Pentagon also notified the US “America First”. Both leaders made elaborate statements but Congress about the sale of another C-17 Globemaster-III took no questions, and then at an official dinner that followed. strategic airlifter to India for $366 million. The US, of course, Trump reiterated he was a “true friend” of India and spoke of is also hard-selling its F-16 and FA-18 fighters to India, which “a wonderful relationship... that has never been better than is keen on jump-starting a second jet production line after it is today”. Modi gushed about the reception he received the Tejas light combat aircraft under the “Make in India” while expressing gratitude for US backing. Modi also thanked framework. But there is no clarity on how this proposed Trump for supporting India’s bid for a permanent seat in a project will square up with Trump’s hardline policy on not reformed UN Security Council and in other multilateral allowing jobs to be shifted out of the US.