IMPORTANT STUDY MATERIAL FOR IBPS PO EXAM 2014 BY CURRENTAFFAIRSEDU.COM Manual on Financial and Banking Statistics List of Abbreviations
ADB - Asian Development Bank AFS - Annual Financial Statement AIRCSC - All India Rural Credit Survey Committee ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode BOI - Bank of India BPSD - Balance of Payments Division, DESACS, RBI CAG - Controller and Auditor General of India CDBS - Committee of Direction on Banking Statistics CII - Confederation of Indian Industries CPI-IW - Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers CRR - Cash Reserve Ratio DCM - Department of Currency Management, RBI ECB - European Central Bank EEC - European Economic Community EXIM Bank - Export Import Bank of India FDI - Foreign Direct Investment FICCI - Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry GDP - Gross Domestic Product GIC - General Insurance Corporation HDFC - Housing Development Finance Corporation HUDCO - Housing & Urban Development Corporation IDBI - Industrial Development Bank of India IIP - Index of Industrial Production IIBI - Industrial Investment Bank of India
ADR - American Depository Receipt AGM - Annual General Meeting ASSOCHAM - Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India ATM - Automated Teller Machine BoP - Balance of Payments BSCS - Basel Committee on Banking Supervision CC - Cash Credit CFRA - Combined Finance and Revenue Accounts CPI - Consumer Price Index CSIR - Council of Scientific and Industrial Research DD - Demand Draft DEIO - Department of External Investments and Operations ECS - Electronic Clearing Scheme EUR - Euro FCCB - Foreign Currency Convertible Bond FEMA - Foreign Exchange Management Act FII - Foreign Institutional Investor GDR - Global Depository Receipt G-Sec - Government Securities HICP - Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices ICICI - Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India IFCI - Industrial Finance Corporation of India IMF - International Monetary Fund INR - Indian Rupee 1
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IMPORTANT STUDY MATERIAL FOR IBPS PO EXAM 2014 BY CURRENTAFFAIRSEDU.COM IRBI - Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India LIC - Life Insurance Corporation of India NABARD - National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development NBFC -Non Banking Financial Companies NHB - National Housing Bank NPA - Non-Performing Assets OD - Over Draft PSE - Public Sector Enterprises REC - Rural Electrification Corporation SEBI - Securities and Exchange Board of India UCB - Urban Cooperative Bank WPI - Wholesale Price Index
ISIC - International Standard Industrial Classification MoF - Ministry of Finance NASSCOM - National Association of Software and Services Companies NGO - Non-Governmental Organization NIC - National Industrial Classification NRE - Non-Resident External PNB - Punjab National bank RBI - Reserve Bank of India SBI - State Bank of India SLR - Statutory Liquidity Ratio UCB - Urban Cooperative Bank
List of important international officials: 1. President of the United States : Barack Obama 2. Prime Minister of Australia - Tony Abbott 3. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - David Cameron 4. Prime Minister of Pakistan - Nawaz Sharif 5. President of Sri Lanka - Mahinda Rajapaksa 6. Prime Minister of Bangladesh - Sheikh Hasina 7. President of Afghanistan - Ashraf Ghani 8. President of Russia - Vladimir Putin 9. Prime Minister of Nepal - Sushil Koirala 10. Prime Ministers of Bhutan - Tshering Tobgay 11. Bhutan King and Queen - Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queeen, Jetsun Pema. 12. Prime Minister of Thailand - Prayuth Chan-ocha 13. President of France - François Hollande. 14. President of South Africa - Jacob Zuma. 15. President of Israel - Reuven Rivlin 16. Prime Minister of Japan - Shinzō Abe 17. President of the People's Republic of China - Xi Jinping 18. China's First Lady - Peng Liyuan. 19. Chairs of the Federal Reserve - Janet Yellen 20. Secretary-General of the United Nations - Ban Ki-moon. 2 More on - http://www.currentaffairsedu.com
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Christine Lagarde. President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Takehiko Nakao. World bank president president - Jim Yong UNESCO head - Irina Bokova. US First Lady - Michelle Obama.
List of Council of ministers in Modi Cabinet The following is the list of council of ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet
Cabinet Ministers Rajnath Singh: Home Minster Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs & Overseas Indian Affairs Arun Jaitley: Finance Corporate Affairs & Defence M. Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation & Parliamentary Affairs Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways Shipping D.V. Sadananda Gowda: Railway Minster Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Dr. Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs Gopinathrao Munde: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water and Sanitation Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Maneka Gandhi: Women and Child Development Ananthkumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers 3 More on - http://www.currentaffairsedu.com
IMPORTANT STUDY MATERIAL FOR IBPS PO EXAM 2014 BY CURRENTAFFAIRSEDU.COM Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology & Law and Justice Ashok Gajapathi Raju: Civil Aviation Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines & Steel Labour and Employment Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment Smriti Zubin Irani: Human Resource Development Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare
Ministers of State General V.K. Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge) & External Affairs Overseas Indian Affairs Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge) & Defence Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Shripad Yesso Naik: Culture (Independent Charge) & Tourism (Independent Charge) Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) Sarbananda Sonowal: Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) Prakash Javadekar: Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) & Parliamentary Affairs
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IMPORTANT STUDY MATERIAL FOR IBPS PO EXAM 2014 BY CURRENTAFFAIRSEDU.COM Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge) & New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) Dr. Jitendra Singh: Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance Corporate Affairs G.M. Siddeshwara: Civil Aviation Manoj Sinha: Railways Upendra Kushwaha: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water and Sanitation Radhakrishnan P: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs Krishan Pal: Road Transport and Highways Shipping Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture & Food Processing Industries Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel & Labour and Employment Sudarshan Bhagat: Social Justice and Empowerment Nihalchand: Chemicals and Fertilizers
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International Currencies and Currency Codes COUNTRY OR ECONOMIC REGION African Financial Community Argentina Australia Bahamas Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Columbia Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Digital Digital Eastern Caribbean States
UNIT NAME CFA Franc Peso Dollar Dollar Real Lev Dollar Peso Yuan Peso Kuna Pound Koruna Krone Litecoin Bitcoin East Caribbea n Dollar
SYMBOL CURRENCY NAME
Estonia European Monetary Union Fiji French Polynesia
Kroon Euro Dollar CFP Franc
EEK EUR FJD XPF
Ghana Guatemala
Cedi Quetzal
GHS GTQ
Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia
Lempira Dollar Forint Krona Rupee Rupiah
HLN HKD HUD ISK INR IDR
XAF ARS AUD BSD BRL BGN CAD CLP CNY COP HRK CYP CZK DKK LTC BTC XCD
Central African Franc Argentine Peso Australian Dollar Bahamian Dollar Brazilian Real Bulgarian Lev Canadian Dollar Chilean Peso Chinese Yuan Colombian Peso Croatian Kuna Cyprus Pound Czech Koruna Danish Krone Litecoin Bitcoin East Caribbean Dollar
Estonian Kroon Euro Fiji Dollar French Pacific Franc Ghanaian Cedi Guatemalan Quetzal Honduran Lempira Hong Kong Dollar Hungarian Forint Icelandic Krona Indian Rupee Indonesian Rupiah
Capital
Buenos Aires Canberra Nassau Brasília Sofia Ottawa Santiago Beijing Bogotá Zagreb Nicosia Prague Copenhagen
Tallinn Suva Papeete Accra Guatemala City Tegucigalpa Budapest Reykjavik Delhi Jakarta 6
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IMPORTANT STUDY MATERIAL FOR IBPS PO EXAM 2014 BY CURRENTAFFAIRSEDU.COM Israel
ILS
Israeli New Shekel
Jerusalem
Jamaica Japan Latvia Lithuania Malaysia Mexico Morocco Myanmar Netherlands Antilles
New Shekel Dollar Yen Lats Litas Ringgit Peso Dirham Kyat Florin
JMD JPY LVL LTL MYR MXN MAD MMK ANG
Kingston Tokyo Riga Vilnius Kuala Lumpur Mexico City Rabat Naypyidaw Willemstad
New Zealand
Dollar
NZD
Norway Pakistan Panama
Krone Rupee Balboa
NOK PKR PAB
Peru Philippines Poland Qatar Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore South Africa South Korea Sri Lanka
New Sol Peso Zloty Riyal Leu Rouble Riyal Dinar Dollar Rand Won Rupee
PEN PHP PLN QAR RON RUB SAR RSD SGD ZAR KRW LRK
Jamaican Dollar Japanese Yen Latvian Lats Lithuanian Litas Malaysian Ringgit Mexican Peso Moroccan Dirham Myanmar Kyat Netherlands Antilles Florin New Zealand Dollar Norwegian Krone Pakistan Rupee Panamanian balboa Peruvian New Sol Philippine Peso Polish Zloty Qatari Riyal Romanian Leu Russian Rouble Saudi Riyal Serbian Dinar Singapore Dollar South African Rand South Korean Won Sri Lankan Rupee
Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Trinidad & Tobago
Krona Franc Dollar Baht Dollar
SEK CHF TWD THB TTD
Tunisia
Dinar
TND
Swedish Krona Swiss Franc New Taiwan Dollar Thailand Baht Trinidad & Tobago Dollar Tunisian Dinar
Wellington Oslo Islamabad Panama City Lima Manila Warsaw Doha Bucharest Moscow Riyadh Belgrade Pretoria Seoul Sri Jayawardenep ura Kotte Stockholm Bern Taipei Bangkok Port of Spain Tunis 7
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IMPORTANT STUDY MATERIAL FOR IBPS PO EXAM 2014 BY CURRENTAFFAIRSEDU.COM Turkey United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America
Lira Dirham Pound Dollar
TRY AED GBP USD
Turkish Lira U.A.E. Dirham British Pound American Dollar
Vietnam Venezuela
Dong Bolivar Fuerte
VND VEF
Vietnamese Dong Venezuela Bolivar Fuerte
Ankara Abu Dhabi London Washington, D.C. Hanoi Caracas
Computer Awareness 1. The earlier computers, which were massive in size, were based on vacuum tubes. 2. Early computing machines, like the ENIAC, were actually meant to assist the armed forces. 3. The printers in pre-1950s were punch cards. 4. An improvement on the ENIAC, which pioneered 'stored program', was made possible with the help of the mathematician John von Neumann. 5. Before the 1950s, computers were mostly owned by universities and research labs. 6. The B-programming language was developed by Ken Thompson. 7. Famous people, associated with the ENIAC, EDVAC, UNIVAC computers are Eckert & Mauchly. 8. The 1st commercially produced and sold computer (1951) was UNIVAC. 9. IBM was provided software for PCs by Microsoft. 10. Time-sharing, teletyping, were associated with mainframe computers. 11. The transformation from heavy computers to PCs was made possible using microprocessors. 12. The first microprocessor was developed in 1971 by Intel. 13. The term 'micro' (extremely small) denotes 10-6m. 14. The Harvard student, who chose to write computer programs and dropped studies was Bill Gates. 15. A pentium 4 (P-4) employs roughly 40 million transistors. 16. Mark-1, Apple-1, and collossus were initial desktop computers.
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IMPORTANT STUDY MATERIAL FOR IBPS PO EXAM 2014 BY CURRENTAFFAIRSEDU.COM 17. Binary digits are briefed as bit. 18. A collection of bits is called byte. 19. C++, is a computer language. 20. The process of eliminating programming faults is called debugging. 21. Starting up on operating system is called booting. 22. A program used to browse the web is called browser. 23. An error in software designing which can even cause a computer to crash is called bug. 24. Click and double-click are achieved using the mouse. 25. Java, C, ForTran, Pascal and BASIC are computer programming languages. 26. The device which sends computer data using a phone line is called MODEM. 27. 'Worm' and 'virus' are actually programs. 28. A 'file' is a unit of information. 29. A megabyte has 106(million) bytes. 30. A small, single-site network is called LAN. 31. A processor that collects several data and sends them over a single line is called bridge. 32. 'Nano' stands for one billionth part. 33. The number of bit patterns using an n-bit code is 2n. 34. The part of a computer that works with the data/programs is called CPU. 35. To convert a binary number to a decimal, we have to express it in power of 2. 36. www stands for world wide web. 37. Mathematics employed in computers is called Boolean algebra. 38. A collection of 8 bits is called byte. 39. The first home computer (1977), which was sold in millions of units was Apple II. 40. 'PARAM' is a supercomputer. 41. A website containing periodic posts is called blog.
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IMPORTANT STUDY MATERIAL FOR IBPS PO EXAM 2014 BY CURRENTAFFAIRSEDU.COM 42. While cutting and pasting, the cutitem is temporarily stored in the clipboard. 43. http stands for hyper text transfer protocol. 44. The unwanted or non-requested emails are called "spam". 45. A computer framed to give various network services is called server.
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