This is default featured slide 1 title
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.
This is default featured slide 2 title
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.
This is default featured slide 3 title
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.
This is default featured slide 4 title
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.
This is default featured slide 5 title
Go to Blogger edit html and find these sentences.Now replace these sentences with your own descriptions.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
SBI Notified Recruitment in the Clerical Cadre for various posts 2013
SBI
Notified Recruitment in the Clerical Cadre for various posts 2013
Friends....State
Bank of India has Notified Recruitment in the Clerical Cadre Post of
Pharmacists, CROs & Armourers 2013. The eligible candidates have to send
their completely filled application in the prescribed format before on 22
November 2013.
Details of Posts
Armourer (Reserved
for Ex-servicemen): 12 Posts
Control Room
Operators (CROs) (Reserved for Ex-Servicemen/State Fire Service Personnel): 36
Posts
Pharmacists: 28
Posts
Total Number of
Posts: 76 Posts
Important Dates
Start Date of
On-line registration: 08 November 2013
Close Date of
On-line registration: 22 November 2013
Last Date of
Payment of fees - online : 08 November 2013 – 22 November 2013
Last Date of
Payment of fees - offline : 11 November 2013 – 26 November 2013
Last Date of Hard
Copy of the application Fee: 03 December 2013
Tentative Date of
Examination: 29 December 2013
Educational Qualification
Armourer: Minimum
class 10+2 examination Pass or equivalent or armed forces certificate
equivalent to 10+ 2
Control Room
Operators: Minimum Class 10+2 examination Pass or equivalent with 60% marks or
Armed Forces Special Certificate equivalent to Class 10+2 or a Graduate Degree
from a recognized university.
Pharmacists: SSC or
its equivalent examination Pass and minimum Diploma in Pharmacy from recognized
university or Board
Pay Scale:
7200-400/3-8400-500/3-9900-600/4-12300-700/7-17200-1300/1-18500-800/1-19300
Age Limit
Armourer: Minimum
18 Years and Maximum 28 Years and for ex-servicemen 45 years
Control Room
Operators: Minimum 18 Years and Maximum 28 years
Pharmacists:
Minimum 18 years & Maximum 28 years
Application Fee
For SC / ST / PWD /
EXS: Rs. 50/- (Intimation Charges only)
For All others: Rs.
200/- (App. fees plus Intimation charges)
How to Apply
The On-line
registration of application & fee payment will starts from 08 November 2013
to 22 November 2013. The last date for submitting the application fee is 26
November 2013. Eligible candidates have to send the completely filled
application online and take a print out of the application which should reach to
the mentioned address along with the mandatory certificates before or on 03
December 2013.
State Bank of India,
Central Recruitment
And Promotion Department,
3 Floor, Atlanta
Building, rd
Plot No. 209, BBR,
Block No.III,
Nariman Point,
Mumbai-400 021.
Selection Process
Control Room
Operators and Armourers: The candidates will be selected on the basis of short
listing and interview. Bank will conduct written test if required.
Pharmacists: The
candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of their performance in written
test and interview.
Daily Current Affairs: 6 November 2013
Daily Current Affairs: 6 November
2013
1) Swedish
Embassy celebrates 100 years of Tagore’s Nobel Prize: Rabindranath Tagore,
the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature will be at the centre
of celebrations of the Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week in the country. The
seventh edition of the week is dedicated to Rabindranath Tagore to mark the
centenary of his Nobel Prize in Literature which will be organized by the
Swedish Embassy.
2) Nirupama
Rao, Indian envoy to the US, bid farewell to her career of diplomacy, as
members of the American diplomatic corps and her counterparts from countries
like China and Brazil gathered at a reception hosted in her honour by the State
Department. She served as India’s Foreign Secretary, External Affairs
Ministry’s spokesperson and envoy to important countries like China and Sri
Lanka in four decades as a diplomat.
3) India’s
Masterchef Tarla Dalal dead: Tarla Dalal, India’s first celebrity chef, who
died at the age of 77 in Mumbai on Wednesday, brought the world into Indian
kitchens; she took Indian cooking to homes across the world as well.
4) Charkha
of Mahatma Gandhi that he used in Yerwada Jail during the Quit India Movement
was auctioned in UK for £110000 at England. The charkha of Mahatma Gandhi
is about eight decades old. His
last/final will was also auctioned over £20000 for historical documents and
artefacts by the Mullock’s Auction house in Shropshire, England. The name of
the buyer was kept secret.
5) Mars
Mission on track, orbit-raising to begin on 07 Nov 2013: A day after its
successful launch, India’s Mars Orbiter spacecraft was functioning smoothly in
the Earth’s orbit and ready for orbit-raising operations tomorrow. “Since its
injection into Earth’s orbit yesterday, it has been functioning smoothly on the
orbit. We are planning to perform orbit-raising manoeuvres in the early hours
of tomorrow,” an ISRO spokesman told PTI over phone.
6) Prof
Hangloo appointed Kalyani University VC: Rattan Lal Hangloo, senior faculty
in Department of History at the University of Hyderabad (UoH), has been
appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Kalyani University in West Bengal for a
term of four years.
7) Day
1: India vs West Indies: Shami shines on debut as India take control- A four-wicket burst by debutant pacer
Mohammad Shami rocked the West Indies middle-order as they were all out for 234 runs on the opening day of the first Test against India.
8) Tata Communications has appointed Tri
Pham as Chief Strategy Officer of the company.
9) RBI
unveils norms for foreign banks to set up wholly-owned units: Foreign banks
that want to set up operations in India will have to do so through an
independent subsidiary. This means they cannot operate as a branch of the
parent bank. The Reserve Bank of India has announced new guidelines with a view
to ring-fence the local operations of foreign banks from adverse developments
in their home countries.
10) SBI
hikes base rate, benchmark prime lending rate by 20 bps: State Bank of
India (SBI) has hiked its base rate by 20 basis points to 10 per cent from 9.8
per cent. The country's largest commercial bank has also increased its
benchmark prime lending rate by 20 basis points from 14.55 per cent to 14.75
per cent. These changes will come into effect from November 7 (Thursday), SBI
said in a filing with the stock exchanges.
11) Prem
Narain appointed as Secretary of Ministry of Overseas Affairs: government
today appointed Prem Narain as the Secretary of Overseas Indian Affairs
Ministry in place of Rajiv Mehrishi, who is now new Fertilisers Secretary.
12) India and China started a 10 day joint
training exercise 'Hand in Hand’, aimed at enhancing counter terrorism skills
in Miao ergang, China.
13) Jammu and Kashmir Bank has reappointed
Mushtaq Ahmad as its Chairman and CEO for a period of another three years.
14) LIC Housing Finance Ltd has appointed
Sunita Sharma as Managing Director and CEO with effect from November 5, 2013.
15) Assamese music director Sher Choudhury
passed away on 6 November 2013 at B. Baruah Cancer Institute in Guwahati,
Assam. He was 69. Sher Choudhury received National Award for best music
director for the Gautam Bora directed film 'Wosobipo' in 1990.
Final Results of NICL Assistants 2013 published
Final Results of NICL Assistants 2013
published
Friends....National Insurance Company Ltd
(NICL) has declared the Final results (written and interview) of its Assistants
Recruitment. The examination for the recruitment was conducted by NICL on 14th
and 21st July 2013. Interviews for the
shortlisted candidates were held during September 2013.
The state wise shortlisted candidates for
per-employment medical examination can be seen from the link below.
Intimation through email and SMS about
their selection for their pre-employment medical examination will be sent to
the individual candidates. Candidates are advised to check the website of the
company in which he/she has been selected to know where and when they have to
report for Pre-employment Medical Examination. The schedule for pre-employment
medical examination will be displayed in the website in due course.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Current Affairs updates from 05 November 2013
Current
Affairs updates from 05 November 2013
1) ISRO successfully launched its historic mission
to Mars from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, about 100 from
Chennai. It was India’s first mission to the red planet. The mission follows
India’s successful 2008-2009 Chandrayaan-1 moon probe, which discovered water
molecules in the lunar soil. The total cost of the Mars mission is 73 million
US dollars.
2) Bangladeshi court on 5 November 2013
sentenced to death 152 soldiers for their role in a 2009 mutiny. The life
includes massacre of 74 people, including top army officers. The trial is considered one of the world’s
biggest ever mass criminal trials.
3) US software
company Microsoft recently developed a new cost-effective sign language
translator that converts signs into spoken and written language - and vice
versa.
4) Indian Institute
of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, recently received over 50 samples for
detection of chemical weapons from the Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons (OPCW). The IICT was one of the 21 labs in 17 countries that were
designated by OPCW for off-site analysis of chemical weapons.
5) Bharti Airtel on
5 November 2013 entered into an agreement with the Warid Group to acquire its
Congo operations with the objective of strengthening its stronghold in the
African market.
6) 12th edition of
Pravasi Bhartiya Divas will be held in New Delhi from 7th to 9th of January
2014. This was announced by Vayalar Ravi, Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs
on 5 Novemeber 2013 in New Delhi. The theme of the convention is -Engaging
Diaspora - Connecting across Generations- with a special focus on the younger
generation.
7) Indian
Weightlifting Federation Joint Secretary Abraham K Techi appointed as an
international Weightlifting referee.
West Bengal Circle PA/SA Exam 2013 Final Results
West Bengal Circle PA/SA Exam 2013 Final Results
Friends...you can
now check the West Bengal Circle PA/SA Exam Final Results.
Jharkhand Circle PA/SA Exam 2013 Final Results
Jharkhand
Circle PA/SA Exam 2013 Final Results
Friends...you can
now check the Final Results of Postal/Sorting Assistant Exam 2013 held in
Jharkhand Circle.
The
write up along with the results is as follows:
In accordance with
the provisions contained in PA/SA Recruitment Rules 2011, read with
instructions contained in Director General, Department of Posts letter no.
60-9/2009-SPB-I dated 08.05.2012, notification to hold Direct Recruitment to
fill up vacancies in PA/SA cadre in Jharkhand Postal Circle was issued on
11.08.2012. Aptitude Test (Paper-I) was held on 05.05.2013 and Computer
Test/Typing Test for short listed candidates was held on 24/25.08.2013.
2. The names of candidates who have been
declared provisionally selected to the posts of Postal Assistant (PO)/Postal
Assistant (SBCO)/Sorting Assistant/Postal Assistant (MMS), the category against
which they are selected and the names of Postal/RMS divisions to which they are
allotted are indicated in the Annexure.
Haryana Circle PA/SA Exam 2013 Final Results
Haryana
Circle PA/SA Exam 2013 Final Results
Friends...today the
Result of Postal/Sorting Assistant Exam 2013 of Haryana Circle which was
declared on 01.11.2013 has been published in India Post Website.
The
write up along with the results is as follows:
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
IBPS RRBs CWE II 2013 Results Published
IBPS RRBs CWE II 2013 Results Published!!!!!
Friends.....today
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) has declared result of the
Common Written Examination (CWE-II) for recruitment to the post of Officers
(Scale-I, II & III) and Office Assistant (Multipurpose) in Regional Rural
banks for 2013. IBPS has conducted the examination for the posts on 28 September2013,
29 September 2013, 05 October 2013 and 06 October 2013.
To
check the results you need to provide Registration Number/ Roll Number/ and
Password/Date of Birth. The candidates who have obtained the minimum qualifying
marks are eligible for the second round i.e Personal Interview. Dates for
Interview round is expected soon.
For
successful candidates following message will come "You have secured the
mimimum qualifying marks..... ". If you couldn't crack it the following message will be displayed "We regret to convey
that you have secured less than the minimum qualifying scores....".
India’s first ever mission to Mars "Mangalyaan" completed its first stage
India’s first ever mission to Mars "Mangalyaan"
completed its first stage
>>India’s
first ever mission to Mars successfully completed its first stage on Tuesday,
as a rocket carrying the Mangalyaan Mars orbiter delivered the spacecraft into
earth’s orbit, some 45 minutes after lift-off.
>> "I am
happy to announce that the Mars orbiter mission first phase is a success,"
said Indian Space Research Organisation chairman K Radhakrishnan soon after the
rocket injected the spacecraft into an Earth orbit about 45 minutes of flight.
About 90 minutes after a drizzle raised minor concerns about weather among lay
people, the 44.4m PSLV-C25 carrying in its head India's first Mars orbiter,
lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 2.38pm.
>> The
textbook lift-off of ISRO’s workhorse launch vehicle PSLV C25 at 2.38 p.m. from
Satish Dhawan Space Centre here, about 100 km from Chennai, was witnessed among
others by Minister of State in PMO, V. Narayanasamy, US Ambassador to India,
Nancy Powell, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman, K. Radhakrishnan,
and a host of other officials.
>> The XL
version of PSLV C 25 had carried Chandrayaan 1, the country’s maiden moon
mission, in 2008.
>> After
going around Earth for 20-25 days in an elliptical orbit (perigee of 250 km and
apogee of 23,500 km), the Rs 450-crore orbiter would begin a nine-month long
voyage to Mars around 12.42 a.m. on December 1.
>> It is
expected to reach the red planet’s orbit by September 24, 2014 and go around in
an elliptical orbit (periapsis of 366 km and apo-apsis of 80,000 km).
>> The Mars
mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation is aimed at establishing the
country’s capability to reach the red planet and focus on looking for the
presence of methane, an indicator of life in Mars.
>> Mars
Orbiter has five scientific instruments — Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP), Methane
Sensor for Mars (MSM), Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA),
Mars Colour Camera (MCC) and Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS).
>> European
Space Agency (ESA) of the European consortium, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) of the US and Roscosmos of Russia are the three agencies
which have successfully sent their missions to the red planet.
>> India
would be the sixth after the US, USSR/Russia, European Union, China and Japan
to launch a Mars mission.
TamilNadu Circle PA/SA Exam 2013 Final Results Published
TamilNadu Circle PA/SA
Exam 2013 Final Results Published
Friends..today TamilNadu Postal Circle has
published the PA/SA Exam results 2013.
Write
Up along with the results is as follows:
1. This is regarding declaration of Results
for Direct Recruitment to the Cadre of Postal Assistants in Post Offices,
Savings Bank Control Organization and Foreign Post and Sorting Assistants in
RMS Divisions conducted by CMC India Ltd. for the vacancies of 2011 and 2012 of
Tamilnadu Circle. The Aptitude Test (Paper I) was held on 21.04.13 and
Computer/Typing Test for short listed candidates was held on 10/11th August
2013.
2. As per the Merit list given by the CMC
India Ltd., received through Dte. D.O. letter no. A-34012/05/2011-DE (PART)
dated 30.09.2013, list of candidates selected category wise is furnished in the
Annexure along with Division/Unit to which they are allotted.
Download Results- Click Here
Daily Current Affairs updates: 04 November 2013
Daily Current
Affairs updates: 04 November 2013
1) Countdown for Mars Orbiter Mission
progressing smoothly: ISRO- India is inching towards a milestone in space
technology with preparatory work in full swing at the Satish Dhawan Space
Centre at Sriharikota to launch the country’s first inter-planetary satellite
to Mars. PSLV C 25 is scheduled to lift off at 2.38 p.m on 05 November 2013
from the spaceport at Sriharikota.
2) US, India to undertake joint naval exercise:
United States and India would undertake a joint naval exercise later this week
as part of enhancing ties between the two countries, a top US Naval officer
said.
3) Gandhi Maidan thrown open for public: A
week after serial bomb blasts, Gandhi Maidan in Patna, which was the venue of
the public meeting of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, has been
thrown open for the public.
4) Fog effect: Train services to be hit from
Dec 28- Gearing up to meet the fog situation in the ensuing winter months,
railways has decided to cancel and divert as many as 30 trains during the
period.
5) 7 killed in militant attack in Assam’s
Goalpara: Death toll in the attack by suspected Garo National Liberation
Army insurgents on a group of people gambling on the occasion of Diwali in
Assam’s Goalpara district has risen to seven.
6) Pervez Musharraf granted bail in Lal Masjid
case: Beleaguered former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf was
granted bail in a case related to the death of a cleric of the radical Lal
Masjid during a 2007 military operation, paving the way for his possible
release after over six months of house arrest.
7) Eminem, Korean Girls group, nab top YouTube
Music Awards: Controversial rapper Eminem was named 'artist of the year' at
the inaugural YouTube Music Awards on Sunday, but in many ways it was the
awards themselves that were the star of the show. With prize winners decided
solely by fans who shared the YouTube nominees video on Facebook, Twitter or
Google+, the video of the year award went to the South Korean girl band Girls’
Generation’s “I Got a Boy.”
8) Cong calls for ban on opinion polls:
Congress party has sought a ban on opinion polls with its leaders alleging
corruption in the surveys and claiming that these are exercises in
manipulation, inviting the Opposition ire.
9) After Mars comes Aditya: Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) has plenty of space ambitions and a successful Mars
mission will be crucial in moving towards them, both in terms of confidence and
funds. ISRO wants to study the Sun from close quarters. After Chandrayaan and
Mangalyaan, it will be Aditya. The idea is to study the Sun’s corona, the outer
atmosphere and also the hottest part of the Sun.
10) 84th
birth anniversary of Shakuntala Devi, popularly known as the “human computer”
celebrated: Best known for her ability to do complex mathematical
calculations mentally, Shakuntala Devi was a child prodigy. Hailing from a
humble family, her talent was first noticed by her father during a game of
cards. She was all of three. In 1977, she was able to extracted the 23rd root
of a 201-digit number through her mental calculations. She even multiplied two
randomly selected 13-digit numbers in just about 28 seconds. Apart from making
it to the Guinness Book of World Record, she was also known for authoring
several books such as “Fun With Numbers”, “Astrology for You”, “Mathablit”,
among others. She breathed her last in April this year.
Monday, November 4, 2013
Current Affairs updates: 03 November 2013
Current
Affairs updates: 03 November 2013
1) Countdown begins for Mars mission:
India’s ambitious mission to Mars moved ahead smoothly on Sunday with the 56.5-
hour countdown beginning at 6.08 a.m. at the Sriharikota spaceport. If the countdown progresses without any
“hold,” the four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C25) will lift off from
the first launch pad at 2.38 p.m. on Tuesday (November 5) and put the 1,350-kg
Mars Orbiter in a long, elliptical earth-orbit.
2) Nitaqat: grace period ends- Saudi Arabian government will impose the
Nitaqat law from Monday, sending fears among large sections of expatriates from
Kerala. The law, meant to put an end to illegal immigrants, is being imposed
after having given a grace period of seven months for expatriates to leave that
country.
3) Pakistani folk singer Reshma died:
Legendary Pakistani folk singer Reshma, 66, who mesmerised music lovers with
soulful rendition of songs like Lambi Judai and Dama Dam Mast Kalandar in her
trademark rustic voice, died in Lahore on Sunday after a prolonged battle with
throat cancer.
4) Sensex touches record high on Muhurat
trading: In a special session of Muhurat trading on Sunday stock market indices
surged ahead as the benchmark Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) 30-share Sensitive
Index (Sensex) ended up at its second consecutive record high of 21,239.36 with
a gain of 42.55 points or 0.20 per cent.
5) Nitish Sengupta passes away: Former Lok
Sabha MP and Revenue Secretary Nitish Sengupta passed away after a massive
cardiac arrest on Sunday.
6) Vettel makes it seven on the trot:
Sebastian Vettel eased to victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday for his
seventh successive victory and 11th of the season. The 26-year-old German led
home a Red Bull 1-2 for the 15th time in Formula One, giving the team its100th
podium finish, as Australian Mark Webber’s second-place finish saw him crossing
1,000 points in his Formula One career, which comes to an end at the end of the
season. German Nico Rosberg was third for Mercedes.
7) Kohli is No. 1 ranked ODI batsman:
Virat Kohli on Sunday became the No. 1 batsman in One-day cricket after a
superb batting show against Australia in the just-concluded series, in which he
scored 344 runs. Kohli has now become the third India batsman to hold the No. 1
batting rank in ODI cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar and M.S. Dhoni. Tendulkar
first claimed the No. 1 position when he took over from Brian Lara in February
1996. He was last No. 1 in March 2008.
8) Indian men qualify for 2014 Hockey World
Cup: Indian men officially confirmed their presence at the 2014 hockey
World Cup following Australia’s success in the Oceania Cup on Sunday.The 2014
World Cup will be held from May 31 to June 15 at The Hague, the Netherlands.
Eleven out of 12 men’s teams have been confirmed while the final spot will go
to the winner of the Africa Cup of Nations.
9) Kanpur to host third ODI: BCCI on
Saturday officially allotted the third ODI between India and West Indies,
scheduled on November 27, to Kanpur.
10) World Number Two Serbia's Novak Djokovic
has lifted the Paris Masters Tennis tournament. In the title clash at at
the Bercy arena last night, Djokovic defeated defending champion David Ferrer
of Spain in straight sets, 7-5, 7-5.
11) Festival of Lights, Diwali celebrated
across the nation. The festival marks the triumph of good over evil, of
righteousness over treachery, of truth over falsehood, and of light over
darkness.