New Appoinments

1) Minority Affairs Secretary - Arvind Mayaram


2) CEO of TATA-AIA life insurance company- Naveen Tahilyani


3) Head of Future Earth Engagement Committee - Jayram Ramesh


4) Maharastra Chief Minister - Devendra Fadnavis


5) Chairperson of Prasar Bharati - Surya Prakash 

6) MD, Adidas group India - Dave Thomas


7) US ambassador to Sweden - Ajitha Raji


8) Chairman of CBEC - Kaushal Srivastava 

9) Chief of core Google products - Sundra Pichai


10) COO, WALMART India - Murali Lanka


11) President of Hockey India - Narinder Batra 

12) Haryana Chief Minister - Manohar Lal Khattar


13) President of Indonesia - Joko Widodo


14) Chief Economic Advisor  of India -Arvind Subramanian 

15) Coal Secretary - Anil Swaroop


16) Economic affairs secretary - Rajiv Mehershi


17) MD of CPCL - Gautham Roy


18) Prime Minister of Yemen - Khaled Bahah


19) First woman director of HUL - Kalpana Morparia


20) CEO, Jet Airways - Cramer Ball


21) MD, Nissan India - Arun Malhotra


22) Secretary General of Independent Commission on Multilateralism - HardeepSingh Puri


23) Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) Pakistan- Rizwan Akhtar


24) Chairman of Audit Beaureu of Circulation - Amit Mathew


25) MD ad CEO of Kerala based South Indian Bank - V.G. Mathew


26) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister - O. Paneerselvam


27)PFRDA Chairman - Hemant Contractor

Saterday Trick

Trick to learn ASEAN Countries

BRUNEI PM wants VIETNAM CM's LIST 

1. BRUNEI
2. P - Philippians
3. M - Myanmmar
4. V - Vietnam
5. C - Cambodia 
6. M - Malasiya
7.   L - Laos
8.   I - Indonesia
9.   S - Singapure
10. T - Thailand

CENSUS 2011

Census 2011 is the 15th Census of India since 1872. 

The motto of census 2011 was 'Our Census, Our future'. 

Important Questions 

1. Who is the 2011 Census Commissioner of India? C Chandramouli 

2. What is the total population of India according to 2011 census? 121cr. 

3. Which is the most populous state in India? UP 

4. Which is the least populous state in India? Sikkim 

5. What is the rate of growth  of population of India according to 2011 census? 17.64% 

6. Which state has highest fertility rate in India? Meghalaya 

7. Literacy rate in India  according to Census 2011? 74.04% 

8. Male Literacy rate in India according to Census 2011? 82.14% 

9. Female Literacy rate in India according to Census 2011? 65.46% 

10. Which is the most literate state in India? Kerala (93.9%) 

11. Which is the least literate state in India? Bihar(63.82%) 

12. Which is the most literate Union territory in India? Lakshwadeep (92.9%) 

13. Which is the least literate Union territory in India? Dadra & nagar Haveli 

14. Which state has high density of population? Bihar 

15. Which state has low density of population? Arunachal Pradesh 

16. Which state has highest sex ratio? Kerala (1084/1000) 

17. Which state has lowest sex ratio? Haryana 

18. What is the density of Population of India? 382 

19. What is the sex ratio of India? 940/1000 

20. Which Union territory has highest sex ratio? Pondicherry 

21. Which Union territory has lowest sex ratio? Lakshwadeep 

22. What is the number of districts in India according to census 2011? 640 

23. Which state has highest rural population according to census 2011? UP 

24. Which state has lowest rural population according to census 2011? Sikkim 

25. Which state has highest urban population according to census 2011? Maharashtra 

26. Which state has lowest urban population according to census 2011? Sikkim

FDI - Sunday Special

Foreign Direct investment (FDI) is a direct investment into production or business in a country by an individual or company of another country, either by buying a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country. Foreign direct investment is in contrast to portfolio investment which is a passive investment in the securities of another country such as stocks and bonds.
The Foreign Direct Investment means “cross border investment made by a resident in one economy in an enterprise in another economy, with the objective of establishing a lasting interest in the investee economy. FDI works at the international and national levels through its own activities and those of its members.
FDI is in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO) and a member of the World Health Professionals Alliance (WHPA). India is the 3rd largest economy of the world in terms of purchasing power parity and thus looks attractive to the world for FDI. Even Government of India, has been trying hard to do away with the FDI caps for majority
of the sectors, but there are still critical areas like retailing and insurance where there is lot of opposition from Indian companies.
Some of the major economic sectors where India can attract investment are:
Telecommunications, Apparels, Information Technology, Pharma, Auto parts, Jewelry, Chemicals.

Benefits of FDI Improves forex position of the country;
Employment generation and increase in production;
Help in capital formation by bringing fresh capital;
Helps in transfer of new technologies, management skills, intellectual property Increases competition within the local
market and this brings higher efficiencies Helps in increasing exports;
Increases tax revenues Types of FDI Horizontal FDI arises when a firm duplicates its home country-based activities at the same value chain stage in a host country through FDI. Platform FDI from a source country into a destination country for the purpose of exporting to a third country.
Vertical FDI takes place when a firm through FDI moves upstream or downstream in different value chains i.e., when firms
perform value-adding activities stage by stage in a vertical fashion in a host country.
Foreign investment was introduced in 1991 under Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), driven by then finance minister
Manmohan Singh. As Singh subsequently became the prime minister, this has been one of his top political problems, even in the current times.
India disallowed overseas corporate bodies (OCB) to invest in India. India imposes cap on equity holding by foreign investors in various sectors, current FDI limit in aviation sector is maximum 49%.

Sunday Special - NABARD

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is an apex development bank in India having headquarters based in Mumbai (Maharashtra) and other branches are all over the country. The Committee to Review Arrangements for Institutional Credit for Agriculture and Rural Development (CRAICARD), set up by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under the Chairmanship of Shri B. Sivaraman, conceived and recommended the establishment of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). 

NABARD was established on the recommendations of Shivaraman Committee on 12 July 1982 to implement the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act 1981. A special act by the parliament and its main focus was to uplift rural India by increasing the credit flow for elevation of agriculture & rural non-farm sector and completed its 25 years on 12 July 2007. It has been accredited with “matters concerning policy, planning and operations in the field of credit for agriculture and other economic activities in rural areas in India”. Promoting sustainable and equitable agriculture and rural development through effective credit support, related services, institution building and other innovative  initiatives. In pursuing this mission, NABARD focuses its activities on: Credit functions: involving preparation of potential-linked credit plans annually for all districts of the country for identification of credit potential, monitoring the flow of ground level rural credit, issuing policy and operational guidelines to rural financing  institutions and providing credit facilities to eligible institutions under various programmes. Development functions: concerning reinforcement of the credit functions and making credit more productive.

Supervisory functions:
ensuring the proper functioning of cooperative banks and regional rural banks. NABARD operates throughout the country through its 28 Regional Offices and one Sub-office, located in the capitals of all the states/union territories. NABARD is also known for its ‘ SHG Bank Linkage Programme’ which encourages India’ s banks to lend to Self  Help Group (SHGs). Because SHGs are composed mainly of poor women, this has evolved into an important Indian tool for microfinance. NABARD also has a portfolio of Natural Resource Management Programmes involving diverse fields like Watershed Development, Tribal Development and Farm Innovation through dedicated funds set up for the purpose.