Andhra Pradesh, Telangana top Ease of Doing Business list Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have jointly topped the Ease of Doing Business Reforms Ranking 2015-16. The ranking of the states was conducted by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) and the World Bank. States were ranked on their implementation of DIPP-proposed 340-point Business Reform […]
Union Government constitutes Munialappa Committee to monitor bird flu situation Terms of reference of the committee • Munialappa will be the nodal officer and will be available to provide advice and help round the clock. • A control room, with telephone numbers 011-23384190 […]
Justice Reddy committee on One Rank One Pension submits report The one-man judicial committee on One Rank One Pension submitted its report to the Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar. The Central Government had appointed the committee under the Chairmanship of Justice L Narasimha Reddy retired Chief Justice of Patna High Court. MMTC ties up with […]
PM Narendra Modi to review expansion plan for NH-24 Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to take stock of the expansion work of NH-24 on Wednesday in his monthly Pragati meeting. The project has been moving at snail’s pace 10 months after Modi laid the foundation stone for this project due to several hurdles including […]
. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has signed up Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bank of Israel (BOI) for exchange of information pertaining to supervision of banking. 2. State Bank Of India has recently launched SBI e-Smart SME for providing the working capital loan for sellers on ecommerce platforms. The seller available on […]
Current Affairs: 25 September 2016 Sanjiv Singh is new Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation Sanjiv Singh (56-year) will be the new Chairman of nation’s biggest company (by revenue) Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). He will replace B Ashok on his superannuation at end of May 2017. Singh is currently Director of Refineries at IOC since 1st […]
Current Affairs : 23 September 2016 Oxford tops world university rankings Oxford University (UK) topped the list as the world’s leading university in the latest Times Higher Education world rankings index. The United States had 63 institutions in the top 200, while the UK had 32 and Australia had 8. Asian region’s top institution, National […]
Current Affairs: 16 September 2016 Graeme Hick signs deal to become Australia’s batting coach Former England batsman Graeme Hick (50-year)has been appointed as Australia’s new full-time batting coach until March 2020. Hick has been Cricket Australia’s high-performance coach since 2013. Hick will take up his post before Australia host South Africa for three tests later […]
Current Affairs: 15 September 2016 Devendra Jhajharia wins gold medal at 2016 Rio Paralympics DOWNLOAD PDF current-affairs-15-9-16 India’s Devendra Jhajharia (36-year) has won Gold Medal in the men’s javelin throw, F46 event at the Rio Paralympics 2016. He becomes only the second gold medallist at the Paralympics for the country. Earlier, Jhajharia won gold in […]
Current Affairs September 2016 DOWNLOAD PDF Current Affairs Sept.2016 Monetary Policy Review After 3rd Bi-Monthly 2016 Repo Rate – 6.50% (Unchanged) Reverse Repo Rate – 6.00% (Unchanged) CRR (Cash Reserve ratio) – 4% (Unchanged) Bank Rate – 7.00% (Unchanged) MSF (Marginal Standing Facility) – 7.00% (Unchanged) SLR (Statutory Liquidity […]
