Daily Update-- 9,10 July

1. Emma Watson appointed as UN Good Will Ambassador.
 
    British actress Emma Watson appointed as Un Good Will Ambassador for empowerment of Young women and will work for advocating UN Women's campaign.
This is the first appointment under Phumzle Mlambo Ngucka, the under secretary general and Executive Director of UN Women.

2. F- Cube technology Launched.

  F Cube technology to promote football at ground level was launched in association with Sports Authority of India(SAI) and thefootballlink.F Cube is an interactive software that has various entertaining and educational games and can create standardized tests.

3.FIFA suspended Nigeria from International Competitions.

4. Union Ministry of Health constituted a core group to eradicate the disease Kala Azar by 2015.

5. Union Budget for 2014-15 presented by Finance Minister.

   Read Budget Highlights @

       http://newupdatesexpress.blogspot.in/2014/07/union-budget-2014-15-highlights.html

Union Budget 2014-15 Highlights

Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley presented the annual Budget 2014-15 in Parliament on 10th July.

1. Fiscal deficit target retained at 4.1 pc of GDP for current fiscal.

2. Aims to achieve 7-8 pc growth rate in next 3 to 4 years.

3.FDI in defense raised to 49pc from 26pc.

4.Exemption limit of income tax set to 2.5 lakh from 2 lakh earlier.(limit for senior citizen will be now 3 lakh)

5.Annual PPF limit raised to 1.5 lakh from 1 lakh.

6.3600 cr for rural drinking water project.

7.500 crore for setting up 5 more IIM and IITs.

8.Rupees 50,548 crore for scheduled caste development.

9. Rupees 200 cr for Statue of Unity ,the dream project of PM Narendra Modi.

10. Rupees 2.29 lakh crore for defense ministry, marking an increase of around 12.5 pc.

11. Beti Bachao Beti Padao yojana to create awareness on Women's issues, rupees 100 cr allotted for the same.

12. Rupees 2037 cr for Ganga conservation mission 'Namami Ganga'.

13.Rupees 500 cr for 'Digital India' project to set up broadband connectivity in villages and promote local manufacturing of hardware and software.

14. Time bound program as "financial inclusion mission" to be launched on 15 august 2014.

15. Kisan Vikas Patra to be re introduced.

Daily Update-- 7, 8 July 2014

1. Union Rail budget 2014-15 presented.

     Railway minister DV Sadananda Gowda presented the union railway budget for the year 2014-15 on Tuesday.He highlighted the implementation of PPP models in projects and operation of this mammoth public sector enterprise throughout the budget speech.

Highlights of the budget.

   a. FOB, escalators, toilets on all stations
   b. Food court at major stations
   c. Separate house keeping wing at major stations
   d.17000 RPF personnel and 4000 women personnel for ensuring         safety of passengers.
   e. Setting up Railway university for technical and non-technical      studies.
   f.Ultrasonic broken rail detection system for identifying cracks in tracks.
   g. Bullet train service between Ahmadabad and Mumbai

   h. Special milk tanker for transport of milk.
   i.Office on Wheels,internet and workstations in selected stations.
   j.5 Jansadharan, 5 Premium, 6 AC, 27 Express, 8 Passenger trains are newly allotted.

2. Champions Tennis League launched.

   Veteran Tennis player Vijay Amritraj announced the launch of Champions Tennis League(CTL) . The league will have teams from six major cities playing thirteen matches each.The matches will be conducted over a 10 day period from November 17 to 26.

3. Supreme Court appointed three new Judges.

   Supreme court appointed Justice Arun Mishra, Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice Rohington F Nariman as Supreme court Judges.
Justice Mishra and Justice Goel were the Chief Justice of Calcutta and Orissa  High courts respectively. Rohington F Nariman was a senior advocate of Supreme Court.


 

Daily Update -- 4,5,6 July 2013

1. Union Govt issued 4 new vaccines as apart of UIP.

    Government of India introduced four new vaccines as a part of Universal immunization program .Vaccines for  rota virus ,rubella, polio,vaccine against Japanese encephalitis will be now available at free of cost from government hospitals.The last one will be available only in 179 districts of 9 states which are endemic to the disease.

2. President joined twitter.

   President of India Shri. Pranab Kumar Mukherjee joined twitter with his official twitter account @RashtrapatiBhvn. The account is run and managed by the President's secretariat,the tweets from the president are all signed.
People can follow the account for updates and news from Rashtrapathi Bhavan.

3.RBI restored limit of Overseas direct investment taken under automatic route.

    RBI restored limit of ODI by an Indian company ,under automatic routes of Foreign exchange management act.With this decision an Indian company can undertake financial commitment/investment upto 400 pc net worth in all its joint ventures or wholly owned subsidiaries.

4. Satya Nadella among 4  Indian-American felicitated on US.

    Satya Nadella and three other Indians were honored in US on it's Independence Day for their contributions to US in the great migrants tribute in New York.
   1. Satya Nadella (CEO Microsoft corporation)
   2.Aasif Mandari (Comedian & Actor)
   3.Subra Suresh
   4 Behniz Sethana

5.NABARD and SFAC ink deal to promote small Farmers.

    NABARD , and Small Farmers Agri Business Corporation have signed a MoU to jointly implement schemes for promotion of farm producer organisation.

6.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated Uri II hydroelectric project and Udhampur-Katra rail Line in Jammu & Kasmir.


      PM on a short visit to J&K ,inaugurated 240 MW Uri II hydroelectric project on Jhelum river in Uri area close to line of control(LoC) in Baramullah District.The new project will generate 240 MW from its four units of 60 MW each.
In an another event he inaugurated 25 km long Udhampur-Katra line.Train from Katra named 'Shrisakhthi' express will facilitate pilgrims visiting Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine.

   

Daily Update -- July 3 2013

1. Sardar Singh to lead Indian Squad for Commonwealth Games.

    Sardar Singh will lead the Indian Hockey team for the Commonwealth Games to be held in Glasgow,from July 23 to August 3.The 16 member squad will have Sreejesh as its vice Captain.


2.Ram Naresh Yadav sworn in as Governor of Chattisgarh.

   He will now have the additional charge of Chattisgarh along with MadhyaPradesh.


3. Tamil Nadu Government appointed Raghupathy Commission to probe Chennai building collapse.

     11 storied building under construction collapsed claiming lives of 56 workers


4. CCEA approved inclusion of onion and potato under essential commodities act 1955.

Daily Update-- July 2, 2014

1.Bank of Maharashtra bags best bank award.
 
     Bank of Maharashtra bags a total of five  awards in BFSI awards initiated by world HRD congress in recognition to it's performance in the last financial year.
    a. Best bank -public sector
    b. Bank with most admired service
    c. Best customer orientation
    d. Best technology Award
    e. Corporate communication Award

2.Sharp rise in cyber crimes in India.

    India recorded a sharp rise in cyber crimes registered under IT act in 2013.Total crimes rose up to 52 pc compared to the last  year.Maharashtra (681), Andhra Pradesh(635), Karnataka (535),Kerala(349) are the states which tops the list.



3. Nodal Officer appointed for the FIFA under 17 World Cup 2017.

    State government of kerala appointed senior IAS officer APM Mohammed Hanish as nodal Officer for matches likely  to be held in Kochi as a part of FiFA World Cup scheduled to be held during 2017.

4. Sandeep Jajodia All Set to become the President of Boxing India federation.


5. Jitu Rai Ranked No; 1 in Air Pistol shooting.

    Indian shooter Jitu Rai became world no: 1 in air pistol shooting after bagging three medals in the ISSF World cup in Munich.



6. IBA suggested RBI to charge customers on ATM usage.

   Indian Banks Association suggested RBI to rationalize ATM charges in Villages and Urban Areas,if accepted customers have to pay a fee from  the very first transaction after the first five free transaction.




7. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy Charged with corruption and influence peddling.

    Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was charged with corruption and influence peddling,the decision came after questioning Sarkozy for 15 hours with a suspected attempt to illegally influence judicial proceedings-in one of the corruption charges against him.

Baroda Manipal School Of banking -- Bank of Baroda PO recruitment 2014-15

Bank of Baroda has issued the notification for Bank of Baroda Manipal school of banking program for the Post of Probationary Officer 2014-15.

Important Dates:  Start date for Online Registration: 30.06.2014

Last date for Online Registration:16.07.2014

Download of Call letter for Examination From 04.08.2014

Date of Examination (Tentative) 14.08.2014 (Thursday)

Age (As on 16.07.2014) Minimum- 20 years & Maximum- 28 years

Education Qualification:
Qualification (As on 16.07.2014) – Degree (Graduation) with minimum 60% (55% for SC/ST/PWD) marks in any discipline from a recognized University OR any equivalent qualification as such recognized by Central Government.


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Daily Update -- July 1 2014

1. SBI launches touch banking branches 'sbiINTOUCH'

    SBI launches six digital banking branches as a part to offer next generation banking services to it's customers.The new branches are located at Delhi,Bangalore,Mumbai,Chennai and Ahmadabad. One of such branches in Delhi was inaugurated by Finance minister Arun Jaitley.
The bank has engaged Accenture to develop digital business strategy for its program.


2.IDBI bank launches mobile banking service.

  IDBI introduced mobile banking service to it's customers, that enables customers to meet all banking needs such as fund transfer, bill payment,DTH/mobile recharge and much more.

3. India announced new liberal visa policy for Afghanistan nationals. 

    India announced a new liberal visa policy that allows Afghanistan nationals to stay in India on stay visas for a period up to 2 years of time.Besides Afghanistan nationals below 12 years and above 65 years of age are exempted from police reporting.

4.Google to shut down 'Orkut'.

   Google decided to shut down it's first social networking site 'orkut' from September 30, as it has lost space to its rivals. Orkut was launched in 2004 as a result of '20 percent project' which Google workers got to spend a fifth of their time on ideas not necessarily related to their job responsibilities.