GENERAL AWARENESS STUDY NOTES FOR BANK EXAM Write us : [email protected] www.mahendras.org www.mahendraguru.com myshop.mahendras.org GENERAL AWARENESS STUDY NOTES FOR BANK EXAM NEWS HEADLINES ECONOMICS NEWS face of demand draft, pay order, banker’s cheques and other Karnataka Bank has launched instruments to prevent money 'Cash@PoS' facility to withdraw cash laundering. from PoS terminals. The Life Insurance Corporation, LIC The Asian Development Bank (ADB) board gave approval to the acquisition has approved USD 503-million lining of up to 51 per cent stake in debt- project of the Son canal in Shahabad- ridden IDBI Bank. Bhojpur region of Bihar. The Inflation, based on wholesale Rajasthan government and Software prices, shot up to 5.77 per cent in Company Microsoft has signed a June. Memorandum of Understanding According to International Monetary (MoU) to provide digital training to Fund (IMF), India's Gross Domestic 9,500 college students of Rajasthan. Product Growth Rate is expected to India and China have agreed to 7.3 % in the Financial Year 2018-1 reduce tariffs on Chinese imports of Jana Small Finance Bank officially Indian medicines. launched its commercial banking South Asia's largest hotel chain OYO operations. has acquired Mumbai-based Internet RBI to Issue New Design ₹ 100 of Things (IoT) technology company Denomination Banknote. The color of AblePlus. this note will be lavender and it will The market capitalisation of the listed have a motif of Rani ki vav, a stepwell firms of Deepak Parekh-led financial located on the banks of Saraswati services conglomerate HDFC group river in Gujarat's Patan. crossed Rs 10 lakh crore mark. It is SBI has Organised Kisan Mela to only the second Indian business group Educate Farmers on Financial to achieve this feat after Tata Group. Literacy. India has formally become the 69th shareholder of the European Bank for INTERNATIONAL NEWS Reconstruction and Development. Public sector lender Bank of Baroda Human Resource Development has inked an agreement with South Minister Prakash Javadekar has Korea's KB Financial Group to set-up inaugurated the 17th World Sanskrit financing corridor and development Conference at Vancouver, Canada. of digital payment ecosystem. India’s latest frontline warship INS India's largest electricity generating Trikand has reached Sri Lanka in a company, NTPC has signed a term goodwill visit. loan agreement with HDFC Bank for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and availing a loan of Rs 1,500 crore. South Korean President Moon Jae-in Indian Army and SBI have signed inaugurated Samsung India's new Memorandum of Understanding mobile phone manufacturing facility (MoU) on the Defence Salary in Noida. This is the world’s largest Package. mobile factory. 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World Customs Organisation Indian naval ship INS Sumitra (WCO). became the first-ever warship to enter Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos port of Sabang in Indonesia. becomes the richest person in modern The Minister of State (I/C) MSME history. Giriraj Singh and Minister of SMEs Austin Fernando, Sri Lankan and Start-ups of Republic of Korea, President Maithripala Sirisena's Hong Jong- hak, inaugurated the former secretary, has been named Sri India-Korea Technology Exchange Lanka's next High Commissioner to Centre in New Delhi. India. India and the United Kingdom signed Prime Minister Narendra Modi will an agreement on exchange of embark on a five day visit to Rwanda, experience by legal professionals and Uganda and South Africa from 23rd government functionaries for July. resolution of disputes before various courts. NATIONAL NEWS UN chief Antonio Guterres has established a first-of-its-kind panel on Law Commission recommends digital cooperation aimed at regulating betting. addressing concerns of cybersecurity International Round Table threats and rise in hate speech and Conference on “Data for New India’’ named senior Indian diplomat has been started in New Delhi. Amandeep Singh Gill as the Human Resource Development executive director of the panel’s Ministry granted Institution of secretariat. eminence status to IIT Delhi, IIT Ishwar Sharma, 8 Year Old Indian Bombay and IISc Bangalore. Boy has been named as 'British Indian Uttarakhand Chief Minister, of the Year. Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurated India became Vice-Chair or regional the country's first Drone Application head of Asia Pacific Region of the Research Laboratory and Cyber World Customs Organisation (WCO) Security centre in Dehradun. for two years. 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(DD X) has been started in New The first "India Tourism Mart (ITM)" Delhi. will be organized in New Delhi from Bihar Government has decided to 16th to 18th September 2018. give reservation in promotions to the State-run telecom company BSNL Scheduled Castes and Scheduled has unveiled the country's first Tribes personnel in its services. internet telephony service. Now National Council of Educational BSNL customers will be able to make Research and Training (NCERT) has calls using the company's mobile app initiated the process of introducing "Wings" to any phone number in the QR code in their textbooks. country. 734 youngsters shortlisted for Indian Batsman Mohammad Kaif, complete scholarship under the who was one of the best fielders of the KHELO INDIA TALENT Indian cricket team, announced his DEVELOPMENT Scheme. retirement from competitive cricket. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has launched the Student Police Cadet launched the first consolidated Bridge (SPC) programme for nationwide Management System of Railways, a implementation in Gurugram. web-enabled IT application to store data on its one lakh 50 thousand EVENT NEWS bridges. The Ministry of Drinking Water and The 6th edition of the biennial World Sanitation launches the Swachh Cities Summit was held in Singapore. Survekshan Grameen 2018 in New The Ministry of Mines organized the Delhi. 4th National Conclave on Mines & Himachal Pradesh’s Kagra district Minerals at Indore, Madhya Pradesh. has introduced a new rule at its petrol First one-on-one summit between US pumps –‘No helmet, no petrol’. President Donald Trump and his The Odisha government has Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin constituted a 'Heritage Cabinet,' was held at Helsinki, capital of headed by Chief Minister Naveen Finland. Patnaik. 7th Defence Technology and Trade Union minister for electronics, IT and Initiative (DTTI) meeting between law & justice Ravi Shankar Prasad India and the US delegation was held unveiled the Goa IT Policy 201 in New Delhi. The Telecom Commission has First India-US '2+2 dialogue' will be approved the Telecom Regulatory held in New Delhi. Authority of India's (TRAI) net Fourth BIMSTEC Summit will be neutrality recommendations. held in Kathmandu. First edition of the Pondicherry 8th BRICS Health Ministers Meeting International Film Festival (PIFF) was held at Durban, South Africa. will begin on September. Write us : [email protected] www.mahendras.org www.mahendraguru.com myshop.mahendras.org GENERAL AWARENESS STUDY NOTES FOR BANK EXAM REPORT NEWS According to Asian Development Bank (ADB), India's Gross Domestic Andhra Pradesh has topped the ease Product Growth Rate is expected to of doing annual business ranking of 7.3 % in the Financial Year 2018-19. states and Union Territories by the World Bank and Department of AGREEMENTS NEWS Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP). Telangana and Haryana are at The University of Houston has signed the second and third positions, a memorandum of understanding respectively in the rankings. (MoU) with the Indian Institute of According to property consultant Petroleum and Energy (IIPE) to build CBRE, New Delhi’s Connaught Place scientific and technical knowledge has moved one position higher to through joint research. become ninth most expensive office An agreement was signed between location in the world with an annual IIT Delhi and the All India Institute of rent of $153 (Rs 10, 512 approx.) per Ayurveda (AIIA) to give "scientific sq. ft. validation" to the ancient medical According to Forbes Magazine, science and integrate it with Indian-origin technology executives technology. Jayshree Ullal and Neerja Sethi have Union Cabinet has approved the made it to the list of America’s 60 signing of Memorandum of richest women. Jayshree is ranked Understanding (MoU) amongst 18th in the list of 60 self-made BRICS Nations on the Regional women, having a net worth of 1.3 Aviation Partnership Cooperation. billion dollars while Sethi is ranked The Cabinet has approved a MOU 21st with a net worth of a billion between India and Indonesia on dollars.