Kishan Vikas Patra Relaunched By Arun Jaitley

KVP - Kishan Vikas Patra is reloaded in Indian Financial Market by Minister of Finance (Arun Jaitley). Money will be doubled in 100 Months

KVP aims at raising savings, Modi Government focusing on money collection through out from Indian as well as International market for better development in India. This kind of scheme is being launched to all Indian origin to get attract more investors. Kisan Vikas Patra resumed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at Delhi.

Government aiming to motivate investors that's why they resumed KVP again in Indian Economy.

New KVP Features :

-) The amount will be doubled to 8 years and 4 months
-) There is no limit in investment
-)  at least Rs 1,000 can be  invest in Kisan Vikas Patra
-) The annual interest rate is 8.7 per cent of scheme
-) You may not carry interest in Two and a half years
-) This facility was not only far post but the bank is also available now

However, savers would not get any tax benefit for their investment in KVP

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About Asian Games - General Knowledge

Guys, Biggest sports event in Asia is started tonight and will ended up on 4th October 2014. here is some facts to know about Asian games. The first event organized at India - New Delhi on 1951. Asian games played on every four years, last Asian games were hosted on Guangzhou - China. the purpose of program is to multi sport event for nations on the Asian continent

Asian Games 2014 Event Information

Slogan of Asian games is "Diversity Shines Here" which was officially used on 2010 onwards. There are more than 45 countries which is participating with 439 events on XVII Asiad. 

South Korea is host country for 2014 Asian games which was nominted earlier with 32 points. India got 13 points amongst 45 nations.

Previous Asian Games Events List

1951	New Delhi, India
1954	Manila, Philippines
1958	Tokyo, Japan
1962	Jakarta, Indonesia
1966	Bangkok, Thailand
1970	Bangkok, Thailand
1974	Tehran, Iran
1978	Bangkok, Thailand
1982	New Delhi, India
1986	Seoul, South Korea
1990	Beijing, China
1994	Hiroshima, Japan
1998	Bangkok, Thailand
2002	Busan, South Korea
2006	Doha, Qatar
2010	Guangzhou, China
2014	Incheon, South Korea

Sports Details 

Aquatics

Archery

Athletics

Badminton

Baseball

Basketball

Board games

Bodybuilding

Bowling

Boxing

Canoeing

Cricket

Cue sports

Cycling

Dance sport

Dragon boat

Equestrian

Fencing

Field hockey

Football

Golf

Gymnastics

Handball

Judo

Kabaddi

Karate

Modern pentathlon

Roller sports

Rowing

Rugby union

Sailing

Sepaktakraw

Shooting

Softball

Soft tennis

Squash

Table tennis

Taekwondo

Tennis

Triathlon

Volleyball

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Wushu

Official Mascot 

Three Spotted seal siblings was unveiled on November 4, 2010 as official mascot of the Games.

Cost 

The cost of the Games was estimated at approximately US$1.62 billion, with the Korean government and Incheon government covering 19% and 78.9% respectively. Of the total budget, some US$1.39 billion will be used for the construction of venue and infrastructure, while approximately US$11 million will cover the building and maintenance of training grounds. Around US$103 million will be used for road and transportation projects. (source Wikipedia)

Participating Countries 

Afghanistan  

Bahrain 

Bangladesh  

Bhutan 

Brunei  

Cambodia 

China  

North Korea  

Hong Kong 

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Japan

Jordan

Kazakhstan

SouthKorea(hosts)

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Lebanon

Macau

Malaysia

Maldives

Mongolia

Myanmar

Nepal

Oman

Pakistan

Palestine

Philippines

Qatar

SaudiArabia

Singapore

SriLanka

Syria

ChineseTaipei

Tajikistan

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Turkmenistan

UnitedArabEmirates

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Yemen

9535 athletes will participate in INCHEON Asian Games 2014  

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Sports Field Association with Names - General Knowledge

In General Knowledge Questions, Sometimes confusing questions came around through sports. we never know different kind of Field Names in different sports until we have interests or when we read from news paper. generally newspaper wont mentioned about that pitches or courts which is called in different terms in different sports. here is the list of all courts, fields, campus names in different kind of sports associated.

Sports Field, Pitches, Campus, Court Name with their associations

Field Name	Sports Name
Arena	Horse Riding
Board	Table Tennis
Course	Golf
Court	Tennis, Badminton, Net Ball, Handball, Volleyball, Squash, Kho – Kho, Kabaddi
Diamond	Baseball
Field	Polo, Football, Hockey
Greens	Bowls
Mat	Judo, Karate, Taekwondo
Pitch	Cricket
Pool	Swimming
Range	Shooting, Archery
Ring	Skating, Boxing
Rink	Curling, Ice Hockey
Track	Athletics
Vellodrome	Cycling

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wholesale banking / corporate banking in india

wholesale banking 

Banking products or services for and between merchant banks and other financial institutions is called as a wholesale banking or in other words corporate banking (not co-orporate).
in Retail Banking we observe that retail banking deals with individuals at the same point, whole sale banking or corporate banking deals with larger institutions such as companies, big corporates.

wholesale banking products and services in india

generally bank manages funding services, stock broking, forex, derivatives, treasury research and management, global trade services, cash management services, financial advisory and maintenance services to their corporate clients. do note that there are too many services in wholesale banking, as retail banking is for common public and wholesale banking is for big fellas, thats the reason most of the people do not know about wholesale banking services.
bill discounting, working capital finance, short term - long term finance, letter for credits, bank guarantee, collection of documents, money market, real time gross settlement, channel financing, reimburesement accounts, public issues etc. there are many names in whole sale banking.


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Retail Banking In India, Important Notes

what is the meaning of retail banking

Retail Banking denotes banking products and services for Individuals and includes segments like Associations, Trust, Clubs, Foundations, Small business with Proprietary / Partnership Constitutions. Broadly all the non corporate segments (Non Manufacturers and non limited companies) come under Retail Banking.

Retail banking in India

Retail banking in india is not a new era in indian economy. Retail banking came in to focus around last few years of 19th century. it was always been prevalent in verious terms. in past typical products offered in indian retail banking sector were housing loans, consumption loans for purchase of durables, auto loans, credit cards and educational loans.
Retail Banking in India has been focused on 2 major activities.
1.Transaction banking
2.Credit Products

Products & Services under retail banking in india
Retail Banking Sector is characterized by three main fundamentals

• multiple products
• multiple channels of distribution 
• multiple customer groups 

-> multiple products includes deposits, credit cards, insurance, investments and securities, lockers etc.
-> channels of distribution contains call centre, branch, Internet and kiosk etc.
-> multiple customer contains Individuals, Trust, Clubs, Foundations, Small business with Proprietary / Partnership

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First In India, Male and Female - General Knowledge

First in india questions not asked too much in recent competitive examination, but in past general knowledge section of any banking and government competitive examination had 2 to 3 questions of First's in india (male - female). Paper creators skipping this part in GK just because this portion is either old enough or its kind of a real general knowledge that commonly known in public. (basically general knowledge is not so easy :P ) but precaution is better than cure, read it & share it.

any ways keep read once to know about who is first in india. list will be available in pdf. you can convert it to hindi by using google translator.

First in india - Male

The first President of India	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
The first Prime Minister of free India	Jawahar Lal Nehru
The first Indian to win Nobel Prize	Rabindranath Tagore
The first President of Indian National Congress	W.C. Banerjee
The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress	Badruddin Tayyabji
The first Muslim President of India	Dr. Zakir Hussain
The first British Governor General of India	Lord William Bentinck
The first British Viceroy of India	Lord Canning
The first Governor General of free India	Lord Mountbatten
The first and the last Indian to be Governor General of free India	C. Rajgopalachari
The first man who introduced printing press in India	James Hicky
The first Indian to join the I.C.S	Satyendra Nath Tagore
India’s first man in Space	Rakesh Sharma
The first Prime Minister of India who resigned without completing the full term	Morarji Desai
The first Indian Commander-in-Chief of India	General Cariappa
The first Chief of Army Staff	Gen. Maharaj Rajendra Singhji
The first Indian Member of the Viceroy’s executive council	S.P.Sinha
The first President of India who died while in office	Dr. Zakhir Hussain
The first Muslim President of Indian Republic	Dr. Zakhir Hussain
The first Prime Minister of India who did not face the Parliament	Charan Singh
The first Field Marshal of India	S.H.F. Manekshaw
The first Indian to get Nobel Prize in Physics	C.V.Raman
The first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna award	Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first Indian to cross English Channel	Mihir Sen
The first Person to receive Jnanpith award	Sri Shankar Kurup
The firs Speaker of the Lok Sabha	Ganesh Vasudeva Mavalankar
The first Vice-President of India	Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first Education Minister	Abdul Kalam Azad
The first Home minister of India	Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
The first Indian Air Chief Marshal	S. Mukherjee
The first Indian Naval Chief	Vice Admiral R.D. Katari
The first Judge of International Court of Justice	Dr. Nagendra Singh
The first person to reach Mt. Everest without oxygen	Sherpa Anga Dorjee
The first person to get Param Vir Chakra	Major Somnath Sharma
The first Chief Election Commissioner	Sukumar Sen
The first person to receive Magsaysay Award	Acharya Vinoba Bhave
The first person of Indian origin to receive Nobel Prize in Medicine	Hargovind Khurana
The first Chinese traveller to visit India	Fahein
The first person to receive Stalin Prize	Saifuddin Kitchlu
The first person to resign from the Central Cabinet	Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
The first person to receive Nobel Prize in Economics	Amartya Sen
The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court	Justice Hirala J. Kania
The first Indian Pilot	J.R.D. Tata (1929)

 First In India - Female

The first woman president of India	Smt. Pratibha Patil
The first lady to become "Miss World"	Rita Faria
The first woman judge in Supreme Court	Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
The first woman Ambassador	Miss C.B. Muthamma
The first woman Governor of a State in free India	Mrs. Sarojini Naidu(1925)
The first woman Prime Minister	Mrs. Indira Gandhi
The first woman to climb Mount Everest	Bachhendri Pal
The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice	Santosh Yadav
The first woman President of the Indian National Congress	Mrs. Annie Besant
The first woman chief justice of a High Court	Mrs. Leela Seth
The first woman pilot in Indian Air Force	Harita Kaur Dayal
The first woman President of the United Nations General Assembly	Mrs. Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
The first woman Chief Minister of an Indian State	Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani
The first woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission	Roze Millian Bethew
The first woman Director General of Police (DGP)	Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
The first woman Lieutenent General	Puneeta Arora
The first woman Air Vice Marshal	P. Bandopadhyaya
The first woman chairperson of Indian Airlines	Sushma Chawla
The first woman I.P.S. Officer	Mrs. Kiran Bedi
The first and the last Muslim woman ruler of Delhi	Razia Sultan
The first woman to receive Ashoka Chakra	Nirja Bhanot
The first woman to cross English Channel	Aarti Saha
The first woman to receive Nobel Prize	Mother Teresa
The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna	Mrs. Indira Gandhi
The First woman to get Ashok Chakra	Nirja Mishra
The first woman to receive Jnanpith Award	Ashapurna Devi
First Indian woman to swim across the English Channel	Miss Arati Saha
First Indian woman to win WTA Title	Sania Mirza
First Indian woman Airline Pilot	Durga Banerjee
First Indian woman to win a Gold Medal in Asian Games	Kamaljeet Sandhu
First Indian woman to win the Booker Prize	Arundhati Roy
First Indian woman to go into space	Kalpana Chawla
First Indian Woman Minister of Indian Railways	Mamata Banerjee

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Heads Of Important Offices in India List 2014 [Updated]

Heads of Important Offices in India 2014. here is the list of important Directors, Presidents, and chairmen in important offices in india. list is updated till 10th july. if you are reading this and found any latest update then do comment and remind us to change. thanks for reading. 

List of Heads In Important Offices - India 2014

Chairman, Planning Commission: Shri Narendra Modi

Attorney General of India: Mr. Mukul Rohatagee

Cabinet Secretary of India: Mr. Ajit Kumar Seth

Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC): Mr. Pradeep Kumar

CEO, Prasar Bharti Board: Mr. Jawahar Sircar

Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Dept. of Atomic Energy: Mr. Ratan Kumar Sinha

Chairman of Space Commission and ISRO: Mr. K. Radhakrishnan

Chairman of Staff Selection Commission (SSC): Mrs. Amitva Bhattacharya

Chairman, 14th Finance Commission: Dr. Y. V. Reddy

Chairman, Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC): Mr. Ravindra Pisharody

Chairman, Central Administrative Tribunal: Justice Syed Rafat Alam

Chairman, Central Board of Excise & Customs: Mrs. J. M. Shanti Sudharam

Chairman, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE): Mr. Vineet Joshi

Chairman, Central Water Commission: Mr. Ashvin Pandaya

Chairman, Company Law Board: Justice Dilip Raosaheb Deshmukh

Chairman, IDBI: Mr. M. S. Raghavan

Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC): Mr. S. Behuria

Chairman, Investment Commission: Mr. Ratan Tata

Chairman, Law Commission: Mr. D. K. Jain

Chairman, Life Insurance Corporation (LIC): Mr. S. K. Roy

Chairman, NASSCOM: Mr. R. Chandrasekran

Chairman, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD): Mr. Harsha Kumar Bhanwala

Chairman, National Commission for Backward Classes: Justice V. Eshwaraiah

Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Castes: Mr. P. L. Punia

Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes: Dr. Rameshwar Oraon

Chairman, National Commission on Farmers (NCF): Dr. M. S. Swaminathan

Chairman, National Film Development Corporation (NFDC): Mr. Ramesh Sippy

Chairman, National Forest Commission: Mr. Justice (Retd.) B. N. Kirpal

Chairman, National Knowledge Commission: Mr. Sam Pitroda

Chairman, National Statistical Commission: Prof. Pronob Sen

Chairman, Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority(PFRDA): Mr. R. V. Verma

Chairman, Press Council of India: Justice Markandey Katju

Chairman, Press Trust of India (PTI): Mr. K. N. Shanthkumar

Chairman, Railway Board: Mr. Arunendra Kumar

Chairman, Rajya Sabha: Mohammad Hamid Ansari.

Chairman, Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI): Mr. U. K. Sinha

Chairman, State Bank of India (SBI): Mrs. Arundhati Bhattachrya

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

Chairman, United News of India: Mr. P.K. Maheshwari

Chairman, University Grant Commission (UGC): Prof. Ved Prakash

Chairman, UPSC: Prof. D. P. Agrawal

Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT): Mr. R. K. Tiwari

Chairperson, Central Board of Film Certification: Ms. Leela Samson

Chairperson, Competition Appellate Tribunal: Justice Arijit Pasayat

Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities: Mr. Naseem Ahmed

Chairperson, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights: Ms. Shanta Sinha

Chairperson, National Commission for Women: Ms. Mamta Sharma

Chairperson, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB): Mr. T. Nanda Kumar

Chairperson, National Human Right Commission (NHRC): Mr. Justice K. G. Balakrishnan.

Chairperson, Prasar Bharti Board: Mr. Mrinal Pandey

Chief Election Commissioner: Mr. V. S. Sampath

Chief Information Commissioner: Mrs. Deepak Sandhu (The first woman to get this post.)

CMD, Gas Authority of India Ltd. (GAIL): Mr. B. C. Tripathi

CMD, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC): Mr. G. Sai Prasad

CMD, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC): Mr. R. S. Sharma

CMD, Oil India Ltd: Mr. Sunil Kumar Srivastava

Comptroller and Auditor-General of India: Mr. Shashi Kant Sharma

Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission: Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha: Mr. P. J. Kurien.

Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC): Dr. Shekhar Basu

Director, CBI: Mr. Ranjit Sinha

Director, Enforcement Directorate: Mr. Ranjan Katoch

Director, IB: Mr. Syed Asif Ibrahim

Director, National Council Of Educational Research and Training (NCERT): Prof. P. Sinclair

Director, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW): Mr. Alok Joshi

Director-General, Archaeological Survey of India: Mr. Rakesh Tiwari

Director-General, Border Roads Organisation: Lt. Gen. A. T. Parnaik

Director-General, Border Security Force (BSF): Mr. Devendra Kumar Pathak

Director-General, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF): Mr. Arvind Ranjan

Director-General, CRPF: Mr. Dilip Trivedi

Director-General, Defense Intelligence Agency: Lt. Gen. Avtar Singh

Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research: Dr. Vishwa Mohan Katoch

Director-General, IndianCoast Guard: Vice-Admiral Anurag G. Thapliyal

Director-General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP): Mr. Subhash Goswami

Director-General, National Investigation Agency (NIA): Mr. Sharad Kumar

Director-General, National Security Guard (NSG): Mr. Jayanto Narayan Choudhury

Director-General, Railway Protection Force(RPF): Mr. P.K. Mehta

Director-General, Sashastra Seema Bal: Mr. Arun Choudhury

Election Commissioner: Mr. Harishankar Brahma

Election Commissioner: Mr. Nasim Zaidi.

Governor, Reserve Bank of India: Mr. Raghuram Rajan

India’s Permanent Representative to UN: Mr. Hardeep Singh Puri

Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha): Ghulam Nabi Azad

National Security Adviser and Special Adviser to PM (Internal Security): Mr. Ajit Kumar Doval

President, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI): Mr. Shivlal Yadav

President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII): Mr. S. Gopalakrishanan

President, Federation of Indian Chambrs of Commerce and Industry (FICCI): Mr. Siddharth Birla

President, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE): Mr. Baldev Raj

President, Indian Newspaper Society (INS): Mr. Ravindra Kumar

President, Indian Olympic Association: Mr. N. Ramchandran

President, The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM): Mr. Rana Kapoor

Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government: Mr. R. Chidambaram

Principal Secretary to Prime Minister: Mr. Nrapendra Mishra

Registrar-General of India and Census Commissioner: Mr. C. Chandramouli

Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister and Secretary, DRDO: Mr. Avinash Chander

Secretary-General, Lok Sabha: Mr. T. K. Viswanathan

Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha: Mr. Shumsher K. Sheriff

Speaker of Lok Sabha: Sumitra Mahajan

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