1. Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has slapped a penalty of Rs 13 crore on Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on the issue of corre...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 8th August, 2014
1. President Pranab Mukherjee received the first copy of a book, 'Munger Through The Ages', written by late D P Yadav, a former parl...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 7th August, 2014
1. Union Cabinet cleared the proposal to set the composite cap for foreign investment in the defence sector at 49 per cent with management c...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 6th August, 2014
RBI MONETARY POLICY announced on 6th Aug., 2014 RBI Third Bi-monthly Monetary policy statement- August 2014 1. Monetary and Liquidity measur...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 5th August, 2014
1. According to Hong Kong-based Counterpoint Technology Market Research, in the April-June period, Micromax has sold the highest number of h...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 3rd August, 2014
1. A memorandum of understanding was signed by E- retailer Flipkart with the labour ministry for short-term training of its new employees. T...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 4th August, 2014
1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a $1-billion line of credit for Nepal’s infrastructure development and promised to help Nepal in t...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 1st August, 2014
1. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) will set up a first of its kind Centre of Excellence in Entrepreneurship Trai...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 2nd August, 2014
1. RBI had inked agreement with the government on March 20 for transfer of the government's SDR holdings in its SDR account with the IMF...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 31st JULY, 2014
1. The government has come up with a new financial inclusion plan that aims to open 7.5 crore bank accounts in rural and urban areas and ext...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 29th JULY, 2014
1. World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Roberto Azevêdo has called a meeting of G-33 and G-20 countries in an effort to save the ...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 30th JULY, 2014
1. India’s leading e-commerce retailer Flipkart has raised funds worth $1 billion (over Rs.6,000 crore), the largest-ever by an Indian Inter...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 28th JULY, 2014
1. Wipro company has set up a venture capital with an initial corpus of $100 million (around Rs 600 crore) to explore investment opportuniti...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 27th JULY, 2014
1. The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) has adopted new standards for rice exports to protect consumer he...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 26th JULY, 2014
1. Government will sell 10 per cent stake each in Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) and 5 per cent in Ste...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 25th JULY, 2014
1. The Cabinet committee on economic affairs cleared a Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, to raise the foreign investment ceiling in private i...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 24th JULY, 2014
1. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) became the first Indian company to exceed Rs 5 lakh crore in market capitalisation. It may reach a $100-b...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 22nd JULY, 2014
1. The Bank of Maharashtra has sought Rs 1,000 crore capital infusion from the government to meet its fund requirement next year. Government...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 23rd JULY, 2014
1. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed a Trade Receivables Discounting System (TReDS) - a scheme for setting up institutional mechanism...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 21st JULY, 2014
1. A study 'Debt Sustainability at the State Level in India' by RBI showed that state governments' debt position is sustainable ...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 19th JULY, 2014
1. According to the annual Global Innovation Index (GII) survey 2014, India stands at 76th position which is 10 places lower than the last y...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 20th JULY, 2014
1. The government has set up an expert committee chaired by RS Sharma, which will study the recently notified rules and issues relevant to c...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 18th JULY, 2014
1. RBI has allowed existing credit card companies, non-banking finance companies, mobile telephone companies, supermarket chains, real secto...
CURRENT AFFAIRS 16th JULY, 2014
1. Reserve Bank of India, exempts long-term bonds from the mandatory regulatory norms such as the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR), the Statutory Li...