Country & Capital & Currency

SRI LANKA

Capital : Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Colombo

Currency : Sri Lankan Rupee

President : Maithripala Sirisena

Prime Minister : Ranil Wickremesinghe

Language : Sinhala, Tamil

Central Bank : Central Bank of Sri Lanka

Head Quarters : Colombo

Stock Market : Colombo Stock exchange

Stock Index : ASPI, S&P SL20

Daily Gk - 3/2/2015

1) PM to Visit Sri Lanka in March

• PM Narandra Modi to visit the island Nation Sri Lanka after 25 Years.
• After Rajiv Gandhi in 1987, He is going to Sri Lanka for a Bi-Lateral Visit

2) Big company's wishes to be a Payment Bank

• Reliance Industries Ltd, Bharathi Airtel, Aditya Brila Nuvo, Future group few names registered for Payment Banks.

3) TCS BPO head quits

• Abid Ali Neemuchwala quits Head of TCS BPO arm of Tata Consiltency Services. 

4) LIC brought major shares 

• Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) brought Rs.28.47 Crore which is 4.51% of proposed 10% Stake in CIL.

5) Kokuyo Camlin unit to be set up near Mumbai

• Kokuyo Camlin would invest Rs 100 Crore to set up manufacturing unit at Patalganaga in Maharastra.

6) Obama proposes $3.99 trillion budget

7) Warning for India's interest in FDI

• RBI Governor Reghuram Rajan warned India for showing more interest in FDI

8) Punjab National Bank receives MSME banking excellence Award 2014

9) State bank of India and European Investment Bank sign Loan Agreement

• A loan Amount of Euro 100 Million from EIB to SBI for on-lending to private business in the country.

10) NMDC receives Golden Peacock Award

11) Govt of India Appointed M.K.Goel as CMD of PFC

• Government of India has Appointed CMD of Power FInance Corporation Ltd for a period of 5 years.

GK Daily - 2/2/15

1) One Rank One Pension Scheme

• "One Rank, One Pension" scheme soon says Defense Minister Manohar Pariker.

2) SIT for Anti Sikh Riots

• Prakash Singh Badal Seek Special investigation team for Anti Sikh Riot in 1984.

3) Labour Minister promises to prevent child labour

• Hydrabad Police rescued 400 children from Bangle making Industry.
• Mos for Labour and Employment, Bandaru Dattatreya said serious steps will be taken to track Child Trafficking.

4) Former CM affected with Swine Flu

• Former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gelot tested positive for Swine Flu (H1N1 Influenza). 
• deadly disease eats 49 in January.
• 203 persons tested positive in January.

5) Novak Djokovic wins Australian Open Mens title.

• Djokovic (Serbia) wins Australian Open against Andy Murry (UK).

6) Mixed doubles title for Indian and Swiss

• Leander Pars and Martina Hingis won Mixed Doubles Tennis in Australian Open.

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Country & Capital & Currency - 3/2/15

UKRAINE

Capital : Kiev

Currency : Ukrainian hryvnia

President : Petro Poroshenko

Prime Minister : Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Language : Ukranian

Central Bank : National Bank Of Ukraine

Head Quarters : Kiev

Stock exchange : Ukranian Stock Exchange

Stock Index : UX Index

Banking term for the day

Credit Market:
               Credit market is a place where banks, FI's and NBFC's give away short, medium and long term loans to Corporate and Individuals. they are also called debt market or bond  market.