Current Affairs September 5, 2017

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INDIAN AFFAIRS

President Ram Nath Kovind lays foundation stone for Link-4 of SAUNI Scheme
On 4^th September 2017, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind, President of India laid the foundation for Link-4 pipeline canal of SAUNI Scheme at Jasdan in Rajkot district of Gujarat.
SAUNI Scheme
i. Saurashtra Narmada Avataran Irrigation (SAUNI) Scheme was conceived by Mr. Narendra Modi when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.
ii. This project aims to fill up 115 dams of 11 districts of Saurashtra by overflowing water from Sardar Sarovar Dam on Narmada River by a web of 1126 km long pipeline network.
iii. The unique feature of this project is making pipe canals instead of conventional open canals which leads requires no acquisition of land and involves less water loss.

vii. This project consists of four links:

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IBPS PO-RRB QUANT NIGHT REVISION PART-1

Compound Interest

• Assume that two persons together lent Rs. P at R% compound interest in such a way that the amount one person gets after T₁ years is same as the amount other person gets at the end of T₂ years. Then,
  
  Share of the first person in the principal = P1+(100100+R)n    where n = T₂ - T₁

Current Affairs September 4, 2017

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Indian Affairs

Swiss president Doris Leuthard is on a three-day visit to India
Swiss president Doris Leuthard will begin her three day visit to India on August 30 2017. She will be received gladly by India’s president Ram nath govind and PM Narendra Modi. These talks will strengthen bilateral ties and it will ramp up trade and investment ties.
Issues to be discussed in the meet: – 
i) The visit is significant as Switzerland is the chair of the Nuclear Suppliers Groupwhere India has been seeking membership.
ii) Both countries will sign trade agreements and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on railway infrastructure.
iii) India and Switzerland will try having new investment protection agreement.

Current Affairs September 3rd, 2017

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Indian Affairs

Narendra Modi Cabinet reshuffle with 9 New Faces as Ministers

On September 3,2017, the cabinet got extended and reshuffled for the third time. Modi expanded his council of ministers twice–first on November 9, 2014 and then on July 5, 2016. Nine new Ministers of state were inducted into the Union Council of Ministers. Four Ministers of state were elevated to the cabinet rank.

Ministers of State who got into Cabinet Rank: –

The ministers promoted were Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Dharmendra Pradhan, Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman.

Current Affairs September 2, 2017

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INDIAN AFFAIRS

Karnataka launches unified health scheme ‘Arogya Bhagya’
Karnataka government will merge the existing seven health schemes to launch a unified health scheme- ‘Arogya Bhagya’. It will cover all 1.4 crore households of the state.
Key Points:
i.The main theme of the ‘Arogya Bhagya’ scheme is ”Treatment Firstand Payment Next”.
ii.All the health facilities will be provided through Aadhaar linked Universal Health Card.
iii.Universal Health Coverage scheme would help the card holder to get treatment in all the enroll private hospitals besides government hospitals to get treatment without paying any cash.

Current Affairs September 1, 2017

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Indian Affairs

Narendra Modi inaugurate annual conference ‘Rajaswa Gyan Sangam’ in New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the annual conference – Rajaswa Gyan Sangam, 2017 in New Delhi on 1^st of Sep. He addressed the tax administrators during the conference.
Key Points:

Current Affairs 31st August, 2017

Indian Affairs

Government approves first phase of Army reforms
On 30^th august ,2017, The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) approved implementation of the first phase of recommendations of Shekatkar Committee. This committee was formed to recommend measures to enhance combat capability and rebalancing Defence Expenditure of the Armed Forces with an aim to increase “teeth to tail ratio”, It had given 99 recommendations to the government on December 2016, out of which the Ministry of Defence has decided to implement 65 suggestions in phased manner.

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Current Affairs 29th August, 2017

Indian Affairs

Tirumala Tirupati temple deposits 2780 kg gold with SBI
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams which is the famous temple of Lord Venkateswara and of the richest Hindu temple in India has deposited 2,780 kg of gold with State Bank of India under long term deposit schemeannounced on 29^th Aug 2017.
Key Points:
i.The gold deposits have been converted into the Long Term Deposit Scheme at a rate of 2.5% per annum for a period of 12 years from the date of investment under the Gold Monetisation Scheme.
ii.The temple receives offerings from devotees in cash, jewellery, gold, silver, property deeds, and Demat share

Current Affairs 26th August, 2017

Indian Affairs

Parliamentary panel under Renuka Chowdhury suggested GM crops only after biosafety, socio-economic evaluation
On 25^th Aug 2017 according to the Parliamentary panel no Genetically Modified (GM)crop should be introduced in India unless the bio safety and socio- economic appeal is evaluated in a “transparent” process and an accountability regime is put in place. It was announced.
Key Points:
i.The report of the committee, chaired by Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury was presented to the Rajya Sabha chairman.
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Current Affairs 25th August, 2017

Indian Affairs

Odisha launches grid connected roof top solar projects
Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik has inaugurated grid connected roof top solar programme to encourage the public participation to harness renewable energy.
Under this programme, the consumers can introduce small solar plants on their rooftops and consume the generated solar power during day time. Excess power can be exported to the grid through their service cable.
Key Points:
i.These decentralized systems also have the ability to strengthen the grid. It will reduce power loses .Grid connected roof top solar systems are best options for adding renewable solar capacity.

Evening Study- English Fillers

Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate word to form a meaningful sentence.

1.) India’s navy is beginning to see the end product of decades of ______ and a continuing ______ of strategic planning.

A) agitation, praise

B) calmness, disdain

C) confusion, neglect

D) amazement, despite

2.) Recent moves by the government to try and _________the ___________ of savings rates in the country — many of which are still administratively set — are welcome and praiseworthy.

A) resolve, diversity

B) rationalize, multitude

C) elucidate, phenomenon

D) accumulate, majority

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§  MODEM: Modulator-Demodulator 

§  RAM: Random Access Memory 

§  ROM: Read Only Memory 

§  SMPS: Switch Mode Power Supply 

§  OMR: Optical Mark Reader / Recognition 

§  OCR: Optical Character Reader / Recognition 

§  BCR: Bar Code Reader 

§  MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Reader / Recognition 

§  BPS: Bit Per Second 

§  DNS: Domain Name Server 

§  EDI: Electronic Data Interchange 

Current Affairs 22nd August, 2017

INTERNATIONAL

1. Festival of India being Organized in Cote D’ivoire, Liberia and Guinea

A Festival of India is being organized in Cote d’Ivoire and concurrently accredited countries of Liberia and Guinea from 15 August, 2017 – 28 January, 2018.

• The Festival will showcase diverse Indian culture, i.e. classical and folk dances.
• The events will be held in four cities of Cote d’Ivoire, namely, Abidjan, Yamassoukro and Grand Bassam and Daloa and capital cities of Monrovia of Liberia and Conakry of Guinea.

Machine Input Output: Quiz

Direction (1 - 5): Study the given information and answer the following questions.

Input : 40 made butter 23 37 cookies salt extra 52 86 92 fell now 19

1. Step I: butter 19 40 made 23 37 cookies salt extra 52 86 92 fell now
2. Step II: cookies 23 butter 19 40 made 37 salt extra 52 86 92 fell now
3. Step III: extra 37 cookies 23 butter 19 40 made salt 52 86 92 fell now
4. Step IV: fell 40 extra 37 cookies 23 butter 19 made salt 52 86 92 now
5. Step V: made 52 fell 40 extra 37 cookies 23 butter 19 salt 86 92 now
6. Step VI: now 86 made 52 fell 40 extra 37 cookies 23 butter 19 salt 92
7. Step VII: salt 92 now 86 made 52 fell 40 extra 37 cookies 23 butter 19

Reasoning : Quiz

Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions:

Eight people J, K, L, M, N, O, P and Q are the member of the family. Among them four are males and four are females. There are three husbands, three wives, two daughters, and two sons in the family. Each member of the family likes different colour i.e. Red, Black, White, Yellow, Blue, Pink, Violet and Orange. They all are sitting around a circular table facing the center. 

No male like White. Q likes Blue and married to the one who likes Pink. J is the father of L and O, who is a male and likes Pink. J and K cannot sit adjacent to each other. All females sit together. M likes Orange and is sitting second to the left of her father. M is the daughter of L, who is second to the right of her son. The one who likes Violet is married to the one who like Yellow and neither J nor K likes Yellow. N likes White and is sitting between the one who likes Black and the one who like Violet. P is the father of K and is sitting between two male members.

Q1. How is O related to K?

(a) Uncle
(b) Father
(c) Maternal Uncle
(d) Grandfather
(e) None of these

Tricks and Short-cuts: Part 1

Multiplication using multiples
12 x 15
= 12 x 5 x 3
= 60 x 3
= 180

Multiplication by distribution 
12 x 17
= (12 x 10) + (12 x 7) —> 12 is multiplied to both 10 & 7
= 120 + 84
= 204

Current Affairs 19th August, 2017

INTERNATIONAL

1. Emma Stone Named as 2017’s Highest-Paid Female Actor

Emma Stone has been named Hollywood’s best-paid female actor in Forbes’ annual list of top earners.

• The 28-year-old made $26m in the last 12 months, the majority of which was earned from her Oscar-winning performance in the musical romance La La Land. The film made over $445m worldwide.
• Stone was closely followed by Jennifer Aniston with $25.5m, yet the majority of Aniston’s earnings have come from endorsements, such as SmartWater and Emirates airlines.
• Last year’s no 1, Jennifer Lawrence, is in third place with $24m.