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Current Affairs/General Awareness : updated as on 29.06.2013

Important:Please visit the web site of the company you are applying for. Have a thorough study of the

company before going for interview.

1. Chairman of SBI: Ms Arundhathi Bhattacharya

2. Chairman of Aditya Birla Group: Kumar Manglam Birla3. Direct Cash Transfer of subsidies started on: 01.01.2013 in 20 districts

4. Three steps advocated by Sri Raghuram Rajan : Now RBI Governor:

1. Good confidence- building Budget

2. Speeding up of clearance for new projects

3. Stock market reforms

5.Advisor to Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation: Sam Pitroda

6. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman: Rahul Khullar

7. New Japanese Prime Minister : Shinzo Abe

8. No of patents owned by Siemens : 57900

9.Most googled Indian Tourist destination: Kerala Tourism

10.Domestic retailers: Future group, Reliance Fresh, Bharati Retail, Aditya Birla Retail, Spencers,

Next Retail( Videocon group)Croma ( Tata owned Infinity Retail), PromartDiscount Chain

11.Which Management Institute in India has started a course for the first time with a degree MFAB(

Management of Family Business): Indian School of Business

12.Who is the promoter of NEXT Retail: Videocon Group

13.CEO of WIP{RO: T K Kurian

14.New Advisor to P Chidambaram: Mr Parthasathy Shome ( he headed committee on GAAR , proposing

progressive taxation)

15.CEO of Tata StarBucks : Ms Avani Sanglani from Tata Administrative Service:she is only 32 years old

16.Corruption Perception Index : India ranks : 94th


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44.MD & CEO of BSE : Ashish Kumar Chauhan

45.Indias foreign debt: USD 350 billion

46.Indias forex reserves: USD 291 billion ( it changes every day)

47.Arcellor Mittal: Lakshmi Mittalss acquisition of Francess Arcellor, Steel co. now faces a

nationalization threat from Govt of France for violation of MOU terms

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Which Country adopts Kerala Model of Women development ( Kudumbasree)-Ethiopia

49.Which Indian Co celebrated 50 years of presence in Egypt recently: Kirloskar

50.Which Automobiles co shut down its factory for three days because of excess stock and less

demand: Tata Motors

51.PVR Cinema is going to acquire which cinema company: Cinemax -69%

52.Which Indian Co. acquires Patton Inc of US : ELGI Equipments-Coimbatore based Co.

53.Asian Leadership Award was bagged by a prominent business women of India: Ms Mallika

Srinivasan ( TAFE-Chairperson)

54.Which Company manufactures Akash tablet: Data Wind ( Chairman Suneet Singh Tuli recently

met UN Secretary General and demonstrated Akash to them)

55.Flip cart opened a new store for e-books alone : Flyte

56.Unilever CEO : Paul Polman

57.Worlds greatest investor/ Investment Guru: Warren Buffet

58.Company of Warren Buffet: Berkshire Hathway

59.The book about his investing recently published : Tap dancing to Work

60.Which Cos Initial Public offer was recently oversubscribed by 41 times: CARE( Credit Analysis and

Research)

61.King of Goals ( football) Lionnel Messy86 goals

62.The new car of Bajaj Auto ( electric) : RE 60 ( battery operated)

63.Which Co to buy Appollos BPO for 1000 cr. : Sutherland

64.CEO of Sutherland: Dilip Vellodi

65.Which Bank had to remit a fine of $ 1.90 bn to settle Anti-Money laundering case in US: HSBC

66.Sunflower branch of Vanaspati of WIPROwas sold to Cargill of US

67.WIPRO: Western India Vegetable products : started in 1945

68.Current Chairman of WIPRO : Azim Premji( from 1966 at the age of 21 years!!!!!)

69.Soap to softwarecompany is WIPROand Salt to softwareCo: is Tatas


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70.Who is the new Dy Governor for RBI: Mr Urjit Patel ( replaces Mr.Subir Gokarn)

71.A prepaid Mobile Wallet called Mobi Cash was started by SBI

72.Starbucks C E O : Howard Schultz

73.Latest James Bond Movie: Skyfall

74.Forex Reserves of China: USD 1.2 trillion ( India is onlyUSD 291 billion)

75.Import duty on Gold :

76. Last years Gold import bill: Rs 3,30,000 crores

77. Who is the new (14th) Finance Commission Chairman: Y V Reddy ( former RBI Governor)

78. How much amount Govt is going to infuse to Banks as Capital now: Rs 12000 cr.

79.New Fed Chairman-Ms Janet Yellen will succeed Ben Bernanke

80. Mr Cyrus Mistry( new Tata Group Chairman ) said the group is committed to invest additional Rs

45000 crores in the next two years

81. Jet Airways confirms stake sale to Ethihad Air ( abudhabi)

82.. U S Vice President: Joe Byden

83.. Who succeeds Hilary Clinton as US Foreign Secretary for the next term of Obama: John Kerry

84..what happened in Infosys: Narayana Murthy came back as Chairman

85.Who is the Finance Minister of India :Mr P Chidambaram..

86. Who is the Governor of RBI : Dr Raghuram Rajan

87.Who is the Dy Chairman of Planning Commission:Montek Singh Aluvalia

88. Who is the Chief Economic advisor to Prime Minister: it is vacant after Raghuram Rajan quit -

89. What is the Current CRR : 4.00%

90. What is the current SLR :23%

91. What is the current Repo rate: 7.75% Refer RBI site.

92. Savings Bank Interest rate: 4%

93. Fixed Deposit rates: 7.50 % to 9.50%

94. Bank rate : 8.75% Refer RBI site

95. Marginal Standing Facility Rate: 8.75 % Refer RBI site96.

97. Currency rates: US DollarRs63

98. Euro -Rs 84

99.

Pound - Rs100

100. . Who is the Chairman of Economic Advisory Council to PM:Dr Rangarajan.


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101. Who is the founder of Microfinance?...Prof Muhammed Yunus.

102. First Quarterly Review of Policy by RBI :30thJuly

103. What is the current price of Brent crude oil in international market? . US Dollars /barrel

(approx)(check newspaper daily)

104. What is the current inflation rate?....... 2013-WPI based)take latest from net

105. What is the expected GDP growth rate for 2013 ?... take latest from net106. Who is the Chairman of Federal Reserve , USA? (at present )Ben Bernanke

107. What do you mean by sensex?.SENSEXis nothing but Bombay Stock Exchange SENSitive indEX. It

is the Bench mark index of the India's biggest and oldest stock exchange, BSE .

108. Name two International Rating AgenciesStandard & poors. & Moodys Investment services

109. 12thPlan Period : 2012-2017

110. GDP Growth target of 12thPlan : 8 %

111. QFI: Qualified Foreign Investor

112. Demographic Opportunity for India : Skill development

113. Voting rights in Private Bank increased to :26 % (from 10%)

114. NDC : National Development Council- Chairman _Prime Minister apex Centre-State body which

approves plans and attended by Chief Ministers and Cabinet Ministers

115. Minimum Support Price for wheat increased to Rs 1350. Per quintal

116. Tata has presence in 80 companies and 4.50 lacs employees

117. CAG( Comptroller and Auditor General ) to audit D6 Block of Reliance :( D6 is the biggest block of

natural gas discovered by Reliance in Krishna Godavari Basin of Andhra)

118. Commerce and Industry Minister: Anand Sharma

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1. Export target for 2013 March : USD 360 billion

2. CCEA: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs: This body takes major economic and financial decisions

3. Which Govt Cos share capital is going to be divested: RCF (Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers)

4. Aditya Birla plans to acquire Pantaloon Retail Brand from Kishore Biyani

5. Commission to probe into Delhi Rape case : Justice Usha Mehra Commissionto suggest measures for safety of

women

6. Commission to suggest amendments in law to tackle rape/molestation cases: Justice J S Verma (he died)

7. Which Govt Co. issued tax free bonds recently: Power Finance Corporation of India


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27. . Indian Woman in the top 50 most influential people ranked by Bloomberg Market magazine: Mamata

Banerjee ( WB Chief minister)

28.Who received US Congress highest civilian honour: Aung San Suu Ki ( Opposition leader of Myanmar)

29.Palestine National Authority President : Mahmoud Abbas( visited Indian in Sept2012)

30.US Open ChampionAndy Murray ( UK waited for 76 years to win a Grand Slam Cup)

31.What is the rate of interest on Marginal standing facility (MSF) , a facility offered by RBI for banks to pledge the

SLR securities for a loan other than Repo loans: repo rate +1 %

32.What is green field project: Manufacturing facility set up from scratch

33. Banking system in which banks are allowed to provide a wide variety of financial services, including both

commercial and investment services: Universal banking

34. Highest contribution to Direct tax is from : corporate Tax

35.Maharajas Express is a joint venture between Indian railways and Private sector COX & KINGS

36. Which Automobile company has launched its Vanquish sports car in India in July 2012: Aston Martin ( cost

Rs 4 crores)

37. Who is the first elected President of Egypt: Mohammed Murzi ( now Egypt is in deep trouble and he is out.)

38. IAS Topper for 2013. Haritha V Kumar from Trivandrum

39.Which language was given a classical status recently: Malayalam

40.Who won the elections in Pakistan: Nawas Sherif

41.Who won the IPL 2013: Mumbai Indians

42.Sreesanth was arrested for sport fixing. He belongs to which team: Rajasthan Royals

43.Tennis: Rafel Nadar wins Madrid open and Italian open 2013.

44.Serena Williams wins Italian open

45.P V Sindhu wins Malaysian Badminton Grand Prix

46. Inflation CPI ( Consumer Price Index) fell to 9.39 in April 2013.

47.Expected GDP growth rate for 2013-14 is 6.2% ( National Council for Applied Economic Research)

48. Indias most valued company 2013: ONGC ( second place TCS)

49.CTT: Commodity Transaction Tax is imposed on the transactions of commodity futures-

50. Inflation indexed Bonds: new introduction by RBI to float Bonds at weaning investors from investing in gold

and real estate ad channeling public savings into financial instruments51. Depreciation of Indian Rupee is good for exporters: they get more Indian money for export proceeds

52.Depreciation of Indian Rupee is not good for importers.

53. In India who formulates fiscal policy: Ministry of Finance

54.Who formulates monetary policy: RBI

55.Cong wins Karnataka elections defeating BJP: Sidharamiah new CM


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56.Attorney General of India: G E Vahanvati

57.Creamy layer limit has been increased from 4.50 lacs to 6.00 lacs p.a .

58.New CAG ( Comptroller and Auditor General) : Shashi kant Sharma

59.The first Indian to circumnavigate the Globe alone in a Boat: on non-stop basis: Lt Cdr Abhilash Tomy ( Indian

Navy)

60.CII President : Kris Gopalakrishnan of Infosys