March 2011 General awerness

3:11 PM Thinker

1-Posco steel plant-In odissa
                             -54000cr plant
                             -protested by two village ie Dhinkia &Gobindpur.
2-GSLV-F06 -Failed on 25 dec2010
                     -made by ISRO
                    -Geo-stationery satellite.
3-Praja Rajyum Party-Founder Film actor Chirenjeevi
                                 -merged with state congress
                                 have 18 out of 294 MLA.
4-world economic forum annual meeting held in Davos(Switzerland)
5-Laureus Sportsman of the year2011-Man - Rafel Nadal
                                                         Female- Lindsey Vonn(Alpine Skiing)
                                                           Team - Spain world cup Football team
                              life time achivment award -Zinden zidance(france Football)
Laureus sportsman of the year2010-Usain Bolt.

6-Sachin Tendulker and Priyanka Chopra to be Census ambassador
7-ISRO s band scam-2lack cr Rupees
                               between Antrix and Devas multimedia
                              Antrix is marketing unit of ISRO
                              ISRO head-K.Radhakrishnan.
8-Newsest country of world-southern Sudan(capital Juba)
9-world Bank President-Mr Robert Zoellick
10-ESOP-Employee stock option
11-PNB acquire 63.64% stake of JSC DANA Bank Kazakhistan,Value $23.675million
12-BOB take over Memon copertaion Bank (Mumbai Based)
13-Bank of Rajasthan and ICICI bank merger.
14-Ranji Trophy winner2010-Rajasthan
15-TIEA-tax information exchange agreement with 10 countries.
16-SWABHIMAAN-Movement to bring basic banking service to all 73000 unbanked villages with over   2000/population by March2012,
                      -5 cr new rural account with help of IBA and GOI.
17-CSR-(Corporate Social Responsibilities)  Companies whose turnover is 1000cr or net profit is 5cr or more have to give 2% of net profit for preceding 3 yrs as csr.

18-ADAG(Anil DhiruBhai Ambani Gp)
19-UNO Theme2011-"Promoting peace Reducing poverty and protecting the environmental".

20-PLR(Prime landing Rate)Bank can manipulate PLR to offer cheapest loan to selected customer.Now Base Rate system-no preferred customer excluding Agricultural loan,loan given to own employee,loan against deposit,export credit,

                              -set minimum level interest rate charges while giving out loan.

                             -Greater transperance.

21-Prime Minister Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) -Chairman Mr C.Rangarajan.

22-EXIM Bank of india will give-$1 billion to Bangladesh

                                                      -$416.39 million to srilanka for 3 infrastructure project

                                                      -$61.6 million to KEnya for power project

                                                      -$213 Million to Ethopia for sugar Industry.

23-Coinage Bill 2009 Amendment -July 2009,cabinet approved the introduction of Coinage bill 2009 to parliament to merge the four existing Acts relating to coinage,

• Indian Coinage act 1906
• The Small coin(offences)Act 1971
• The metal Token Act 1889
• The Bronze Coin(Legal Tenders)1918

Small coins-25 paisa,50 paisa,

Rupee coin-1 and above

Coin can be issue to the denomination of rupees 1000 as per Indian Coinage act(1906)

24-1 bn pound aid to India for four yrs(2015) by UK

25- $3.1bn to Pakistan for 2012 by USA.

26-GRAMMY 53rd Annual 2011 Award-

• Record of the year-Need you Now( by Lady Antebellum)
• Best country Album-Need you Now.
• Album of the year-The Suburbs (by arcade fire)
• Best New Artist- Esperanza Spalding
• Best pop Vocal Album-The fame Monster (by Lady Gaga)

27-HDFC bank likely to enter in education foray from k to x11

28-HDFC bank acquire CREDILLA(education loan finance company)

29-PIPE-(Private investment in public equity)

30-UIDAI

• Unique Identification Authority of India.
• chairperson-Mr Nandan Nilkani
• Launched under scheme AADHAR 29 sept 2010 in Mahahrastra Dist Nandrbar,vill Tembhalii
• BPL family get 100 Rs for enrollment in AADHAR scheme.
• 12 digit no will issue in this scheme
• contain scan of photograph,IRIS,ten finger print

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