2015 jan bankin chronicle

Match Point 12 BANKING SERVICES CHRONICLE JANUARY 2015

 

 

Chief guest for the Republic Day ceremony 2015

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 Barack Obama The bank which has acquired ING Vysya Bank

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 Kotak Mahindra Bank The lines of credit announced by PM Narendra Modi for Fiji

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 USD 80 mn The lock-in period for investments in re-launched Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP)

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 2.5 years The country ranked on top in Global Terrorism Index released recently

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 Iraq The Commission which submitted its final report to Gujarat CM in 2002 riots

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 Justice Nanavati Commission

The winner of the men’s singles title of th

e ATP World Tour finals

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 Novak Djokovic The cricketer named by the

BCCI for this year’s CK

Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award

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 Dilip Vengsarkar The country with the largest youth population in the world as per a UN report

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 India The fourth joint military exercise between India and China conducted in Pune

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 Hand-in-Hand 2014 Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas

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 7 Jan The country that has recently slipped into recession

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 Japan The upper ceiling on investment through Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP)

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 None The period in which the invested money will get doubled in Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP)

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 100 months The surface-to-air missile successfully launched by India recently

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 Akash The country with which Australia has signed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) recently

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 China The city where the 2014 G20 Summit was held in Australia

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 Brisbane 2015 summit of the G20 will be held in

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 Turkey 2016 summit of the G20 will be held in

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 China The winner of the LG P

eople’s Choice award at the ICC

annual awards for 2014

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 Bhuvaneshwar Kumar The present Prime Minister of Fiji

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 Frank Bainimarama

The winner of the Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year

award at the ICC annual awards for 2014

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 Sarah Taylor The bank which has extended a loan of up to USD 1 bn to Adani group for its assets in Australia

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 SBI

The winner of the men’s singles title of the China Open

 Super Series Premier in Fuzhou

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 Kidambi Srikanth The w

inner of the women’s singles – 

 Saina Nehwal 2014 ICC Cricketer of the Year

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 Mitchell Johnson The bank whose proposal to hike foreign holding to 74 per cent has been cleared by FIPB

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 HDFC Bank The state which has made voting in local body elections compulsory

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 Gujarat

 

 

 

WPI inflation recorded in Oct

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 1.77 per cent

India’s position among the world’s largest passport

-issuing countries

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 Third The country that ranks first

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 China

India’s position in the production o

f crude steel in the world

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 Fourth The Indian who has become the quickest cricketer in history to reach 6000 runs in ODI

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 Virat Kohli

The world’s only cricketer

 to hit two double centuries in ODI till now

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 Rohit Sharma The first ever spacecraft to land on a comet

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 Philae The capital city of Myanmar which hosted ASEAN Summit recently

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 Naypyidaw The current contribution of services sector in the

country’s

GDP

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 57 per cent The city where the 22nd Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit was held recently

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 Beijing The state where the institute of livestock management and entrepreneurship of North East is being set up

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 Assam The number of member countries of the ASEAN group

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 10 National Education Day

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 11 Nov The person whose birth anniversary is observed as the National Education Day

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 Mulana Abul Kalam Azad The country with which India has jointly developed long range surface-to-air missile (LRSAM) recently

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 Israel The newly elected Speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly

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 Haribhau Bagde Public Service Broadcasting Day

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 12 Nov The country where 47 students were killed in a suicide attack at a school assembly recently

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 Nigeria The Commission which submitted its report on Saradha Scam

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 Justice Shyamal Sen Commission The participating countries of the fourth edition of the biennial drill IBSAMAR

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 India, Brazil and South Africa The no. one in badminton who has been suspended due to an apparent anti-doping regulation violation recently

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 Lee Chong Wei The first state in the country with bank accounts for all families

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 Kerala The current milk production of India

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 137 million tonnes per year The two countries where the govt. is planning to legalise all Indian currency notes

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 Nepal and Bhutan The state which has the largest chunk of the total SC population in the country

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 Uttar Pradesh

The name of Telangana’s fina

ncial assistance scheme for the aged and the physically handicapped

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 Aasara The new Union Defence Minister of India

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 Manohar Parrikarr

 

 

 

Match Point 12 BANKING SERVICES CHRONICLE JANUARY 2015

 

 

 

The new Union Railway Minister of India

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 Suresh Prabhu The place where Interpol General Assembly was held from Nov 3 to 7

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 Monaco The Kerala board prominent communist leader who died recently

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 MV Raghavan The 2-seater trainer jet which made its maiden flight on 8 Nov

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 Tejas PV6 World Diabetes Day (WDD)

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 14 Nov The new chief minister of Goa

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 Laxmikant Parsekar

The country which India’s

 

men’s hockey team defeated 3

-1 recently

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 Australia The village adopted by the PM in his parliamentary constituency under SAGY scheme

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 Jayapur The border between India and China

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 Mc Mahon Line The border between India and Pakistan

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 Radcliffs Line The border between India and Afghanistan

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 Durand Line The former president of Israel who visited India recently

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 Shimon Peres The country which hosted the international conference on climate change from Nov 9-12

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 Nepal

PM Narendra Modi’s position in the Forbes world’s most

powerful

people’s list of 2014 – 

 15th The state which launched Samajwadi Pension Scheme to benefit poor families

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 Uttar Pradesh The city known for its world-famous cattle fair

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 Sonepur The telecom major which called off `700 cr deato acquire Loop Mobile based in Mumbai

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 Bharti Airtel

The title of Sachin’s autobiography – 

 Playing It My Way

The Forbes’ 2014 list of 

 72 most-powerful people in the world has been topped by

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 Vladimir Putin The Indian politician

who has received Japan’s Grand

Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers award

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 Manmohan Singh The new Financial Services Secretary

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 Hasmukh Adhia The chairman of the review committee set up to look into restructuring of the AICTE

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 MK Kaw The noted Bollywood actor who died recently

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 Sadashiv Amrapurkar The 14th and current Attorney General of India

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 Mukul Rohatgi The businessman wanted in Bhopal Gas Tragedy case who died recently

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 Warren Anderson

India’s current ranking in th

e 2014

“Ease of Doing Business”

report by the WB

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 142nd  

 

 

 

The country to which India has offered a USD 300-mn credit line

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 Vietnam The theme of the 18th SAARC summit

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 Deeper integration for peace, prosperity The new MSP for wheat

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 `1,450 The winner of the 2014 World Billiards Championship

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 Pankaj Advani The founder of e-commerce site Alibaba who has become the richest man in China

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 Jack Ma The govt. has declared the birth anniversary (31 Oct) of Sardar Vallabhbhai Pateas

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 NationaUnity Day The scheme launched by the govt for comprehensive development of tribals

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 Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana The new Chief Minister of Maharashtra

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 Devendra Fadnavis The Commerce and Industry Minister of Oman who visited India recently

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 Ali bin Masoud al Sunaidy The district in Guja

rat where the ‘Statue of Unity’ will

 come up

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 Narmada The country that had suggested the name of the cyclonic storm arisen in the Arabian Sea as Nilofar

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 Pakistan

India’s current ranking in the World Economic Forum’s

2014 gender gap index

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 114th The cit

y where the country’s first hospita

l to treat abnormalities and diseases in fish is set to come up

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 Kolkata The Indian-American named by the US President Barack Obama as the US Ambassador to Sweden

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 Azita Raji The Vietnamese PM who visited India recently

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 Nguyen Tan Dung The Indian boxer suspended by the International Boxing Association (AIBA)

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 Sarita Devi The winner of the Madhya Pradesh govt.

’s prestigious

 National Kalidas Samman for the year 2012-13

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 Kanhailal

India’s first long

-range subsonic cruise missile test-fired on 17 Oct

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 Nirbhay The new CM of Haryana

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 Manohar Lal Khattar The city where the Asian Infra Investment Bank (AIIB) wilbe headquartered

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 Beijing Its first Secretary Genera

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 Jin Liqun The team with which BCCI has suspended all bilateral cricket tours

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 West Indies The group which has bought two operational power units of JP Group recently

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 JSW Energy The current President of Finland

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 Sauli Niinisto