Current Affairs Questions from September 2014 for competitive Exams

1) Recently India won the ODI Series in England with a winning margin of 3-1. This is the first win in a bilateral series for India in England after ....... years?

(A) 24

(B) 14

(C) 16

(D) 25

2) PM Narendra Modi in the first week of September 2014 visited which Asian Country on a 05 day visit?

(A) China

(B) Japan

(C) Nepal

(D) Bangladesh

3) NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed ..... days in Office on 3 September 2014?

(A) 50

(B) 200

(C) 75

(D) 100

4) P Sathasivam recently became the first retired Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India to become the Governor of an Indian state. On 3 Sep 2014 he was appointed as the governor of?

(A) Tamil Nadu

(B) Gujarat

(C) Kerala

(D) Maharashtra

5) Recently Union Government has declared heavy floods in which state as a National Calamity?

(A) Uttarakhand

(B) Jammu & Kashmir

(C) Odisha

(D) None of these

6) India celebrated Teacher's Day on 5 September 2014 on the birth anniversary of?

(A) Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

(B) Moulana Abdul Kalam Azad

(C) Jawaharlal Nehru

(D) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

7) India and which country recently signed a civil nuclear deal to allow export of uranium to India from that country for use in power generation?

(A) France

(B) Brazil

(C) Japan

(D) Australia

8) Sania Mirza and Bruno Soares won the US Open mixed doubles title 2014. Bruno Soares is from which country?

(A) Croatia

(B) Brazil

(C) Switzerland

(D) Italy

9) Onam is celebrated as the state festival of which state in India?

(A) Kerala

(B) Goa

(C) Karnataka

(D) Sikkim

10) International literacy day is observed across the globe on?

(A) 4 September

(B) 11 September

(C) 8 September

(D) 11 July

Answer

1) Ans. (A) 24

2) Ans. (B) Japan

3) Ans. (D) 100

4) Ans. (C) Kerala

5) Ans. (B) Jammu & Kashmir

6) Ans. (A) Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

7) Ans. (D) Australia

8) Ans. (B) Brazil

9) Ans. (A) Kerala

10) Ans. (C) 8 September

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PA/SA Exam 2014: Phase-2 Exam dates of Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, North East, Assam, Jharkhand, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujrat Out

Friends... As per the latest updates published in the official recruitment site for PA/SA Exam 2014 the exam dates for Computer Typing/Data Entry of Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, North East, Assam, Jharkhand, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujrat will be as follows:

Postal Circle	Exam Date	Exam Time
Tamil Nadu (29)	24 to 29 September 2014	Refer Admit Cards
Uttarakhand (31)	25 to 27 September 2014	Refer Admit Cards
Gujrat (16)	13 to 19 September 2014	Refer Admit Cards
Rajasthan (28)	16 to 24 September 2014	Refer Admit Cards
Punjab (27)	17 to 18 September 2014	Refer Admit Cards
Jharkhand (20)	17 to 18 September 2014	Refer Admit Cards
Assam (12)	20 to 21 September 2014	Refer Admit Cards
North East (25)	21 September 2014	Refer Admit Cards

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Daily Current Affairs: 10 September 2014

1) Subhash Chandra Garg appointed as World Bank Executive Director: Senior IAS officer Subhash Chandra Garg was appointed as Executive Director in World Bank. Garg, a 1983-batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, will have a tenure of three years from the date of assuming charge of the post, said an order issued by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC). The Executive Directors are responsible for the conduct of the general operations of the World Bank and exercise all the powers delegated to them by the Boards of Governors.

2) HMT loses race against time, to be shut soon: HMT Watches, the iconic brand that evokes nostalgia in most Indians, will be shutting shop soon. The government has decided to wind up the company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HMT Ltd, which has been incurring losses since 2000 and has been unable to generate adequate resources to pay salaries to its employees. Set up in 1961 in collaboration with Japan’s Citizen Watch, the company’s net loss rose to Rs 242.47 crore in 2012-13 from Rs 224.04 crore in 2011-12. At the end of March 2012, it also had government loan, including budgetary support for salary and statutory dues, amounting to Rs 694.52 crore.

3) Union Cabinet approve sale of shares in ONGC, Coal India, NHPC: The Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs has approved stake sales in state-run ONGC,  Coal India  and NHPC. The share sales are part of the government’s divestment program outlined in the Union Budget through which it hopes to raise about Rs 56,000 crore in fiscal year 2014-15. The Cabinet cleared a 5 percent stake sale in ONGC, 10 percent in Coal India and 11.36 percent in NHPC. The divestment will be taken up through the offers-for-sale (OFS) route.

4) Government asks UIDAI to generate 100 crore Aadhaar numbers by 2015: Government on 10 September 2014 approved Phase -V of Unique Identification project which entails generation of 100 crore Aadhaar numbers by 2015 including enrolments done under the National Population Register. The government has also given go-ahead to the Unique Identification Authority of India, which is implementing the Aadhaar project, to undertake enrolments in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand. UIDAI was established in 2009 with a mandate to generate and assign UID numbers to residents of India.

5) ICICI Bank offers Cardless Cash Withdrawal at ATMs: Customers of ICICI Bank can now transfer money from their account to anyone in India with a mobile number. The recipient — even if he/she does not have an account with any bank — can withdraw money round-the-clock from ICICI Bank ATMs across the country. The money can be withdrawn without having a debit card also. The private bank has just launched a new service called Cardless Cash Withdrawal. The facility can be initiated by any ICICI Bank savings account customer (sender) by logging into internet banking at www.icicibank.com. The sender first needs to register the recipient’s name, mobile number and address. The sender will get a four-digit verification code, while the recipient a six-digit reference code over SMS. The recipient can withdraw cash from almost all ICICI Bank ATMs by entering mobile number, cash amount along with the verification and reference code, within two days of the transaction.

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Employment News: Job Highlights ( 06thSep – 12th Sep 2014)

1. STATE BANK OF INDIA (SBI), MUMBAI

Name of Post- Probationary Officer

No. of Post-2986

Last Date-18.09.2014

2. INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LTD

Name of Post- Jr. Engineering Assistant-IV

No. of Post-113

Last Date-16.09.2014

3. INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION (ISRO)

Name of Post- Technical Assistant, Nurse, Lab Technician etc.

No. of Post-91

Last Date-26.09.2014

4. INDIAN AIR FORCE

Name of Post- Airmen in Group ‘X’ (Technical) or Group ‘Y’ (Non- Technical)

Last Date- 22.09.2014

5. NATIONAL DEFENCE ACADEMY (NDA) KHADAKWASLA PUNE

Name of Post- chemical Asstt., LDC, Games Coach , etc.

No. of Post-178

Last Date-21 days of Publication of Advertisement

6. HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD

Name of Post-Stenographer Grade III

No. of Post-327

Last Date-12.09.2014

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Questions from IBPS RRB Officers Scale I Exam held on 6 September 2014

Friends.. Here are some questions asked in IBPS RRB Officers Scale I Exam held on 6 September 2014 shared by our friend Mahesh Kumar.

1. World AIDS Day?- 1st December

2. ‘Strictly Personal: Manmohan and Gursharan’ Book which was released recently was written by?- Daman Singh

3. Name the present Minister of Road Transport and Highways?- Nitin Gadkari

4. 18th SAARC summit will be held in?- Kathmandu (Nepal)

5. Name the currency of Australia?- Australian Dollar

6. Indian Company to cross 5 cr market capitalization recently was?- TCS

7. Name the head of TARC Committee?- Parthasarathi Shome

8. Who was the head of Arujna award selection committee 2014? – Kapil Dev

9. Currency of Brazil?- Brazilian real

10. Tata SIA airlines will be known as?- Vistara

11. Name the commodity market regulator?- Forward Markets Commission

12. Gagan Narang is related to which sports? - Shooting

13. BBPS Full form?- Bharat Bill Payment System

14. PLR is also known as?- Base Rate

15. Chutak power plant is in which state?- Jammu & Kashmir

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US Open 2014- Complete list of Winners

The 2014 US Open Tennis Tournament was the 134th edition of the US Open, the fourth and final Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, and ran from August 25 – September 8 2014. 

In the men's singles competition, Marin Cilic won his maiden grand slam title; however, Serena Williams won her Open era record tying sixth title in the women's singles competition tying Chris Evert, and it was her eighteenth grand slam title tying Evert and Martina Navratilova. Winning the men's doubles, Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan became the most victorious doubles team in Open era history at the tournament.

Here is the complete list of winners with details

Men's Singles

Final between: Marin Cilic (Croatia) vs Kei Nishikori (Japan)

Winner- : Marin Cilic (Croatia) (6–3, 6–3, 6–3)

Women's Singles

Final between: Serena Williams (USA) vs Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark)

Winner: Serena Williams (USA) (6–3, 6–3)

Men's Doubles

Final between:  Bob Bryan(USA) & Mike Bryan(USA)  vs  Marcel Granollers (Spain) & Marc López (Spain)

Winners: Bob Bryan(USA) & Mike Bryan(USA) (6–4, 6–3)

Women's Doubles

Fianl between:

Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) &  Elena Vesnina (Russia) vs  Martina Hingis (Switzerland) &  Flavia Pennetta (Italy)

Winners: Ekaterina Makarova (Russia) &  Elena Vesnina (Russia) (2–6, 6–3, 6–2)

Mixed Doubles

Final between:  Sania Mirza (India) &  Bruno Soares (Brazil) vs Abigail Spears (USA) & Santiago González(Mexico)

Winners:  Sania Mirza (India) &  Bruno Soares (Brazil) (6–1, 2–6, [11–9])

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Daily Current Affairs Updates: 09 September 2014

1) Marin Cilic defeated Kei Nishikori to win US Open 2014: Marin Cilic clinched his first Grand Slam title on 8 September 2014, shattering Kei Nishikori's bid to become the first Asian man to win a major with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 victory in the US Open final. Cilic, the 14th-seeded 25-year-old, becomes the first Croatian man to win a major since Goran Ivanisevic, now his coach, at Wimbledon in 2001. 

Cilic, playing in his 28th Grand Slam event, is the lowest-ranked champion since Pete Sampras, then 17th in the world, claimed the 2002 title in New York. This year's final was the first at a major not to feature either Djokovic, Federer or Nadal since the 2005 Australian Open -- so long ago that it was pre-Twitter.

2) ICC suspended Pakistan's Saeed Ajmal for illegal bowling action: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has banned Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal from bowling in international cricket with immediate effect because his bowling action was found to be illegal. The ICC said in a statement that an independent analysis of Ajmal’s action found that “all his deliveries exceeded the 15 degrees level of tolerance permitted under the regulations.” The decision to ban Ajmal is a big blow for Pakistan, for whom he has been a consistent match-winner. Since the start of 2011, nobody has taken more international wickets than Ajmal's 328.

3) PM Narendra Modi to meet Obama on Sept 29-30:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was for years barred from visiting the United States, will meet President Barack Obama at the White House on September 29 and 30, US officials said. The meeting will mark Modi's first visit to Washington since he swept to power in May elections. The White House said the talks would "deepen the US-India strategic partnership."

4) Neel Mukherjee’s book makes the cut for Man Booker Prize: Kolkata-born British author Neel Mukherjee’s latest novel The Lives of Others, set in troubled Bengal of the 1960s and centred around a dysfunctional family, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize 2014, in its debut as a global literary award. Mr. Mukherjee, who studied at Oxford and Cambridge, was also the only Indian-origin author to be longlisted earlier this year, the first time the prestigious literary award opened up for anyone writing in English regardless of nationality. Previously, the prize was open only to authors from the U.K. and Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland and Zimbabwe. For the first time in its 46-year history, the £50,000-prize has been opened up to writers of any nationality, writing originally in English and published in the U.K.

5) RBI says 70 years upper age limit for private bank CEOs, whole-time directors: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday capped the maximum age at 70 years for a managing director, chief executive officer or whole time director in a private bank. The change has been made to align the rules for private sector bank in line with the provisions of the new companies law, which says, “No company shall appoint or continue the employment of any person as managing director, whole time director or manager who is below the age of 21 years or has attained the age of 70 years,” RBI said in a notification on its website.

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Call Letter/Admit Card of SSC CGL (Tier-II) 2013 Re-Examination

Friends.. Staff Selection Commission has published the Call Letter/Admit Card of SSC CGL 2013 (Tier-2) Re-Examination scheduled to be held on 20 and 21 September 2014. Admit Card can be downloaded by entering Roll Number of Tier-1 exam and Date of Birth. Admit Cards is to be downloaded from Regional SSC Websites; links of which have been provided below for quick navigation. Best Wishes to all candidates...

Northern Region: Click Here

Western Region: Click Here

MP Sub Region: Click Here

Kerala/Karnataka Region: Click Here

Southern Region: Click Here

North Western Sub Region: Click Here

Central Region: Click Here

North Eastern Region: Click Here

Eastern Region: Click Here

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Employment News: 30th August – 05th September 2014

1. SSC, KARNATAKA KERALA

Name of Post- Sr. Technical Assistant, Technical Assistant etc.

No. of Post-36

Last Date-26.09.2014

2. SSC, ALLAHABAD

Name of Post- Draughtsman grade-1, Scientific Assistant, Research Assistant, Jr. Cartographic Assistant.

No. of Post-53

Last Date-25.09.2014

3. OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORPORATION LIMITED (ONGC)

Name of Post- Graduate Trainees

No. of Post-745

4. NAVAL DOCKYARD, MUMBAI

Name of Post- Tradesman Mate

No. of Post-548

Last Date-14.09.2014

5. HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED (HPCL)

Name of Post- Experienced Refinery Professionals, Chartered Accountants Medical Official Officers etc.

No. of Post-85

Last Date-16.09.2014

6. BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION LTD. (BPCL)

Name of Post- General Workman-B (Chemical, Mechanical, Trainee etc).

No. of Post-71

Last Date-15.09.2014

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Daily Current Affairs Updates: 22 August 2014 to 31 August 2014

Friends.. Here are the daily current affairs from 22 August 2014 to 31 August 2014 which we have missed to update. 

31 August 2014

1) 'Jaipur Pink Panthers' clinches inaugural 'Pro Kabaddi League' by defeating 'U Mumba' in the final. 

2) P V Sindhu settles for Bronze in World Badminton Championship. She lost to ninth seed Carolina Marin 21-17, 21-15 in semis.

3) Veteran Telugu filmmaker Sattiraju Lakshmi Narayana aka Bapu passed away aged 80. 

30 August 2014

1) Manipur Governor Vinod Kumar Duggal resigned.

2) PV Sindhu storms into the semi-final of World Badminton Championship 2014.

3) Cristiano Ronaldo wins UEFA Best Player in Europe Award.

4) Modi begins his Japan visit. India, Japan sign MoU to develop Varanasi into ‘smart city’.

5) Noted historian Bipin Chandra passed away.

29 August 2014

1) Shah Rukh Khan becomes the first Indian to be appointed as ambassador for Interpol's ‘Turn Back Crime’ campaign. 

2) Spanish midfielder Xabi Alonso quits international football. 

3) Ganesh Chaturthi celebrated across India.

4) National Sports Day celebrated. It’s the birthday of Hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand.

5) President presents National sports & adventure awards.

6) India's GDP growth in the first quarter is 5.7 percent which is highest in last 2 and half years.

28 August 2014

1) EPFO retains interest rate on provident fund at 8.75%.

2) C.S.Verma elected as First President of Indian Steel Association.

3) Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched "Jan Dhan Yojana" scheme to provide a bank account to every household where account holders will get a debit card and accidental insurance cover of up to a lakh.

4) Wayne Rooney named as captain of the England national football team.

5) Government launched the .bharat domain name in devanagari script. 

27 August 2014

1) Sheila Dikshit has resigned as the Governor of Kerala.

2) BJP leader LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee have been dropped from the new BJP Parliamentary board.

3) England midfielder Frank Lampard retired from England's national team.

4) India’s first All India Institute of Ayurveda, along the lines of AIIMS, to come up at Jasola (Delhi). 

5) Textiles Ministry to collaborate with Flipkart to provide an online marketing platform to handloom weavers in the country. 

6) Ramesh Chand Tayal is appointed as the Special Director-General of CRPF.

7) Union Cabinet lifted the monthly cap on subsidised LPG cylinders, but retained the overall annual limit at 12 cylinders. LPG consumers can avail 12 cylinder quota anytime in the year.

8) Prime Minister Narendra Modi set up a committee to identify "obsolete" laws which will submit its report in three months.

26 August 2014

1) Supreme Court ruled all coal mining licences (218) awarded between 1993 and 2010 as illicit.  

2) Ahmet Davutoglu becomes the new Prime Minister of Turkey. 

3) 66th annual Emmy Award given at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

4) Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala and Mridula Sinha will take charge as the governors of Karnataka and Goa respectively.

5) Nagpur becomes the first Indian city to operate public buses running on ethanol. 

6) Kalyan Singh appointed as Governor of Rajasthan, while former union minister Vidyasagar Rao will be Governor of Maharashtra.

25 August 2014

1) British film director Richard Attenborough, best remembered for his Oscar-winning directorial "Gandhi", passed away aged 90. 

2) The U.S. Open Tennis Championships 2014 began.

3) Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar coalition party along with the Congress party won six of ten assembly seats in Bihar by-elections.

24 August 2014

1) West Bengal gets the nation's first 'Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology' (IIEST) at Shibpur, Howrah.

2) Maharashtra governor K. Sankaranarayanan resigned from the post after he has been transferred to Mizoram.

3) RN Ravi appointed new chief of Joint Intelligence Committee.

23 August 2014

1) Defence Minister Arun Jaitley commissioned India’s first indigenously-built stealth Anti-Submarine warfare INS Kamorta to the Indian Navy.

2) RBI has notified the increase in deposit money under Public Provident Fund, PPF to 1.5 lakh rupees from 1 lakh rupees.

3) Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Pradhan Mantri Krishi Seenchayi Yojana.

4) Guru Hanuman Akhara chosen for 2014 Rashtritya Khel Protsahan Puraskar.

22 August 2014

1) Renowned Kannada writer and Jnanpith award winner UR Ananthamurthy passed away.

2) Arvind Subramanian likely to be the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA).

3) Weightlifter Ragala Venkat Rahul bagged India's first medal of the second Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.

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