State Bank Of India Technical Officer Recruitment 2013

Name : State Bank Of IndiaSBI

Name of Post: Technical Officer

Number of Post: 30 Posts

Qualification : Degree in engineering (Mechanical/ Production/ Electrical/ Electronics/ Chemical/ Pharma/ Textile Technology/ Metallurgy) from a recognized Indian / Foreign University / Institute

Age Limit: Maximum 65 years (Born on or after 02 October 1948)

Selection Process : The candidates will be selected according to their performance in the Personal interview.

How To Apply : Click to the below link of Application format to download the form and email the
duly filled application form to dgm.crpd@sbi.co.in latest by 16 November 2013.Send the hard copy of the filled application along with the photocopy of important documents to the mentioned address
before 23 November 2013.
The General Manager

State Bank of India Central Recruitment & Promotion Department
Atlanta Building, 3rd Floor,
Plot no. 209, BBR, Block No. III,
Nariman Point, Mumbai 400 021(Maharashtra)

Important Dates : 
• Opening Date for Registration: 28 October 2013
• Closing Date for Registration: 16 November 2013
• Last Date of Receipt of hard copy of the application: 23 November 2013

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Current Affairs : 31st October 2013

1. Nation pays tribute to the veteran freedom fighter and first Home Minister of Independent India, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel on his 137th birth anniversary. Born on 31st October, 1875 in Gujarat, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel is also known as the Iron Man Of India. Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel was awarded Bharat Ratna in the year 1999. He expired on 15th december, 1950 at the age of 76. His ideology continues to guide the nation.

2. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today laid foundation stone of Statute of Unity, a 182-metre tall statue of "iron man" Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 138th birth anniversary. The statue will be raised on a small rocky island in the middle of the Narmada riverbed facing Sardar Sarovar Dam at Kevadia. The Statue Of Unity will be double the height of the Statue of Liberty in the USA.

3. The world’s first Bitcoin ATM machine which can exchange digital currency - Bitcoins -for any official currency has launched in Vancouver, Canada on 29 October 2013. The ATM machine, named Robocoin, installed at Waves Coffee Shop at Howe and Smithe, allows users to buy or sell the digital currency known as bitcoins. The ATM in Vancouver is operated by Las Vegas-basedRobocoin and Vancouver-based Bitcoiniacs.

4. Srishti Rana of India on 30 October 2013 was crowned Miss Asia Pacific World 2013 in Busan, South Korea. Srishti Rana, 21, is the second Indian in a row to win the oldest Miss Asia Pacific World 2013. Earlier, Zeenat Aman (1970), Tara Anne Fonseca (1973), Dia Mirza(2000) and Himangini Singh Yadu(2012) won Miss Asia Pacific World titles. Srishti Rana is born in Haryana.

5. S. Masood Ahmed, chief scientist at the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), here has won the K.K. Menon Award for 2013. The award instituted by the Geological Society of India recognised his contributions in sedimentary geology. Earlier, Ahmed also won the National Geoscience Award for the year 2009. He is Indian leader of the International Geoscience Programme on ‘Evolution of Asian River Systems’. He has published more than 50 research papers in international and national journals.

6. Utpal Bhadra, senior scientist and group leader, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), has been selected for the Radhakrishnan Gold Medal for the year 2013 by the Global Economic Progress & Research Association (GEPRA), a Chennai-based research organisation engaged in academic research in economics and finance.

7. Bharat Joshi is the new British Deputy High Commissioner to be based in Chennai, replacing Mike Nithavrianakis. Born in Croydon in the UK in 1969, Joshi joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1995 and has had diplomatic postings to Gambia, Dhaka, Qatar and Cameroon, it said.

8. Subhas Goswami, director of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy appointed as the Director General (DG) of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on 30 October 2013. He will succeed Ajay Chadha, IPS. Subhas Goswami is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre. He was decorated with the Indian Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2001 and the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Services in 2007.   

9. Pankaj Razdan was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Birla Sun Life Insurance (BSLI), life insurance arm of Aditya Birla Group on 30 October 2013. He has 20 years of financial services industry experience across various functions and multiple lines of business. He acted as the managing director of ICICI Prudential. He joined in Aditya Birla Financial Services Group in 2007.

10. The Supreme Court today directed the Centre and State governments to pass an order within three months, on giving fixed tenure to civil servants. A bench headed by Justice K S Radhakrishnan said that fixed tenure of bureaucrats will promote professionalism, efficiency and good governance.

11. India has given Bhutan one hundred crore rupees as assistance for the new government ’s stimulus plan. India’s Ambassador to Bhutan V. P Haran handed over the cheque to Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay in Thimhpu.

12. Bharti Airtel has signed a managed Value Added Services (VAS) agreement with Mahindra Comviva for its Bangladesh operations. Under the three-year deal, Mahindra Comviva will manage Bharti Airtel’s service delivery platform inclusive of Mahindra Comviva’s deployed products like Messaging Service Delivery Platform (MSDP), Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), Bulk Messaging Gateway (BMG) and dBILL VAS Charging solution.

13. India and Cuba on 30 October 2013 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in broadcasting between Prasar Bharati and Cuban Radio and Television Institute (ICRT). The MoU was signed by India's ambassador to Cuba Chinthapalli Rajasekhar and vice-president of the ICRT Emillio Moises Garcia Borroto. Under the agreement both countries will explore co-production opportunites on matters of mutual interest. The MoU was signed during the official visit of India’s vice President Hamid Ansari to Cuba.

14. British Prime Minister David Cameron will come on his third visit to India in last two years on November 14 and will hold talks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on key bilateral and regional issues. This will be third visit by Cameron, who visited India in 2010 immediately after assuming charge as UK's Prime Minister.The second visit was in February this year. 

15. Bhubaneswar and Imphal airports were Declared as International Airports. The Union Cabinet of India on 30 October 2013 gave its approval for declaring the Bhubaneswar and Imphal airports as international airports to fulfill the long pending demand of people as well as the State Governments of Odisha and Manipur. Declaration of these airports as international airports will offer improved connectivity, wider choice of services at competitive cost to the air travelers resulting in boosting international tourism and economic development of the region and the country.

16. Russian President Vladimir Putin was ranked as the world's most powerful leader by Forbes after Russia managed to put US threat of an attack on Syria at bay. Russia also gave asylum to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who spilled the bins on US intelligence for the first time.

17. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been listed the third most powerful woman as Russian President Vladimir Putin beat President Barack Obama to the top spot on Forbes' list of "The World's Most Powerful People". Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 81, takes the 28th spot with two other Indians, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, 56, ranked 38th, and ArcelorMittal chairman and CEO Lakshmi Mittal, 63, in the 51st position. 

18. Saina Nehwal slips to 7th spot in BWF ranking. The second-round exit from French Open Super Series proved costly for Saina Nehwal as the Indian badminton ace continued her downward slide, slipping one more spot to be placed at world number seven in the latest BWF ranking released today. Among others, P.V Sindhu has improved one place to be back at her 10th spot with 52352 ranking points, while men’s singles player Parupalli Kashyap lost one place to slip to world number 12.

Important Books And Authors

1. India & Malaysia: Intertwined Strands by: Veena Sikri 

2. Mythily Sivaraman Wrote A Book Haunted by Fire Essays On Caste, Class, Exploitation And Emancipation 

3. “Ahmev Radha, Ahmev Krishnah” - Gulab Kothari (Chief Editor of Hindi newspaper Rajasthan Patrika) 

4. An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions - Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. 

5. A Brush with Life- Satish Gujral 

6. A Bend in the river- V.S. Naipaul 

7. God of Small things- Arundhati Rai 

8. Inheritance of Loss- Kiran Desai. 

9. Joseph Anton- Sulman Rushdie (Autobiography) 

10. “Khushwantnama-The Lessons of My Life “ –Khushwant singh 

11. Lajja- Taslima Nasrim. 

12. My Unforgettable Memories-Mamata Banerjee 

13. "Muslim in Indian cities”- Christophe Jaffrelot & Laurent Gayer 

14. My country My Life- L.K.Advani 

15. My Music My Life- Pt Ravi Shankar 

16. Revolution 2020- Chetan Bhagat 

17. Runs in Ruins — Sunil Gavaskar 

18. Satenic versus- Salman Rushdi 

19. True Colours — Adam Gilchrist 

20. The Heritage of Sikhs — Harbans Singh 

21. The Jewels of Happiness – Indian spiritual guru Sri Chinmoy. 

22. The Things About Thugs — Tabish Nair 

23. The Test of My Life'- Indian cricketer Yuvraj singh 

24. “Those were the Day and then-The Life & Times of Lal Krishna Advani”-Mira Govind Advani 

25. Turning Points-APJ Abdul Kalam 

26. What Young India Wants – Chetan Bhagat 

27. Ye Jo Hai Pakistan'- Shivendra Kumar Singh. 

28. Smritiyan - Garima Sanjay 

29. My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions - former President of India, Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (APJ 

30. How Not to Make Money -Raj Kundra, the millionaire businessman.

APPSC Clerk Recruitment 2013

Name: Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC)

Name of Post: Upper Division Clerk (UDC)

Number of Posts: 12

Location: Itanagar

Last Date: 25-11-2013

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Academy (Oscar) Awards for Best Actor since 1928

1928 Emil Jannings (for The Last 
Command)images (1)
1929-30 Warner Baxter (for In Old Arizona)
1930-31 George Arliss (for Desraeli)
1931-32 Lionel Barrymore (for A Free Soul)
1932-33 Wallace Beery (for The Champ)
1933-34 Charles Laughton(for The Private Life of Henry VIII)
1935 Clark Gable (for It Happened One Night)
1936 Victor McLaglen (for The Informer)
1937 Paul Muni (for The Story of Louis Pasteur)
1938 Spencer Tracy (for Captains Courageous)
1939 Spencer Tracy (for Boys Town)
1940 Robert Donat (for Goodbye Mr. Chips)
1941 Jimmy Stewart (for The Philadelphia Story)
1942 Gary Cooper (for Sergeant York)
1943 James Cagney (for Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1944 Paul Lukas (for Watch on the Rhine)
1945 Bing Crosby (for Going My Way)
1946 Ray Milland (for The Lost Weekend)
1947 Fredric March (for The Best Years of Our Lives)
1948 Ronald Colman (for A Double Life)
1949 Laurence Olivier (for Hamlet)
1950 Broderick Crawford (for All The King’s Men)
1951 Jose Ferrer (for Cyrano de Bergerac)
1952 Humphrey Bogart (for The Africa Queen)
1953 Gary Cooper (for High Noon)
1954 William Holden (for Stalag 17)
1955 Marlon Brando (for On the Waterfront)
1956 Ernest Borgnine (for Marty)
1957 Yul Brynner (for The King and I)
1958 Alec Guinness (for The Bridge on the River Kwai)
1959 David Niven (for Separate Tables)
1960 Charlton Heston (for Ben-hur)
1961 Burt Lancaster (for Elmer Gantry)
1962 Maximilian Schell (for Judgement at Nuremberg)
1963 Gregory Peck (for To Kill a Mockingbird)
1964 Sidney Poitier (for Lilies of the Field)
1965 Rex Harrison (for My Fair Lady)
1966 Lee Marvin (for Cat Ballou)
1967 Paul Scofield (for A Man For All Seasons)
1968 Rod Steiger (for In the Heat of the Night)
1969 Cliff Robertson (for Charly)
1970 John Wayne (for True Grit)
1971 George C. Scott (for Patton)
1972 Gene Hackman (for The French Connection)
1973 Marlon Brando (for The Godfather)
1974 Jack Lemmon (for Save the Tiger)
1975 Art Carney (for Harry and Tonto)
1976 Jack Nicholson (for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
1977 Peter Finch (for Network)
1978 Richard Dreyfuss (for The Goodbye Girl)
1979 Jon Voight (for Coming Home)
1980 Dustin Hoffman (for Kramer vs. Kramer)
1981 Robert De Niro (for Raging Bull)
1982 Henry Fonda (for On Golden Pond)
1983 Ben Kingsley (for Gandhi)
1984 Robert Duvall (for Tender Mercies)
1985 F. Murray Abraham (for Amadeus)
1986 William Hurt (for Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1987 Paul Newman (for The Color of Money)
1988 Michael Douglas (for Wall Street)
1989 Dustin Hoffman (for Rainman)
1990 Daniel Day-Lewis (for My Left Foot)
1991 Jeremy Irons (for Reversal of Fortune)
1992 Anthony Hopkins (for Silence of the Lambs)
1993 Al Pacino (for Scent of a Woman)
1994 Tom Hanks (for Philadelphia)
1995 Tom Hanks (for Forrest Gump)
1996 Nicolas Cage (for Leaving Las Vegas)
1997 Geoffrey Rush (for Shine)
1998 Jack Nicholson (for As Good as It Gets)
1999 Roberto Benigni (for Life is Beautiful)
2000 Kevin Spacey (for American Beauty)
2001 Russell Crowe (for Gladiator)
2002 Denzel Washington (for Training Day)
2003 Adrien Brody (for The Pianist)
2004 Sean Penn (for Mystic River)
2005 Jamie Foxx (for Ray)
2006 Philip Seymour Hoffman (for Capote)
2007 Forest Whitaker (for The Last King of Scotland)
2008 Daniel Day-Lewis (for There Will Be Blood)
2009 Sean Penn (for Milk)
2010 Jeff Bridges (for Crazy Heart)
2011 Colin Firth (for The King’s Speech)
2012 Jean Dujardin (for The Artist)
2013 Daniel Day-Lewis (for Lincoln)

Foreign Visitors to India in 2013

Foreign Visitors/ Dignitaries to India.

Chinese Premier Mr. Li Keqiang visited India on May 19-21, 2013.

Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Mr. Elmar Mammadyarov to India from May 2-5, 2013.

Prime Minister of Bhutan, Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay visited India from August 30 to September 4, 2013.

Prime Minister of Iraq, Mr. Nouri al-Maliki visited India from 22-25 August, 2013.

The King and Queen of Bhutan, His MajestyJigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Her Majesty Jetsun Pema, visited India from 23-30 January 2013.

President of Republic of Mauritius Mr. Rajkeswur Purryag visited India from 3rd to 10th January, 2013.

The 2nd Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Karim Khalili, visited India from August 20-22, 2013 upon the invitation of Vice President

The President of the Republic of Liberia Her Excellency Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will pay a State Visit to India from September 9 to 13, 2013 at the invitation of the President of India

Foreign Minister of Nicaragua, Mr. Samuel Santos Lopez visited India from August 19-23, 2013.

Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Yerlan Idrissov visited India on March 3-5, 2013.

Prime Minister of UK David Cameron visited India on February 18-20, 2013.

President of France Francois Hollande visited India from February 14-15, 2013.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, r. Pham Binh Minh visited India from 10-12 July, 2013.

Foreign Minister of Argentina Héctor Marcos Timerman vsited India from June 15-18, 2013.

The President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, visited to India from May 20-22, 2013.

Foreign Minister of Cuba, Mr. Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla visited to India from May 25-27, 2013.

President of Egypt Dr. Mohamed Morsy visited India from March 18-20, 2013.

Special Envoy of the Syrian President to India Ms. Bouthaina Shaaban visited India on March 6, 2013.

Foreign Minister of Romania, Mr. Titus Corlatean visited India from March 7-8, 2013.

Foreign Affairs of Portugal, Mr. Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas visited India from 03-07 March, 2013.

Prime Minister of Bhutan Jigmi Y. Thinley visited India from February 7-9, 2013.

Official Foreign Visits of Indian Dignitaries

Visit of Mrs. Preneet Kaur, Minister of State for External Affairs to Tanzania on 8-10 July, 2013.

National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon visited Srilanka on 8-9 July 2013.

Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Japan Dr. Ashwani Kumar’s visit to Tokyo in September, 2013.

The Foreign Secretary of India, Smt. Sujatha Singh, visited Nepal from September 14-15, 2013.

External Affairs Minister, Shri. Salman Khurshid visited Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan from September 12-15, 2013.

Special Envoy of India for Sudan and South Sudan, Shri P.S. Raghavan visited South Sudan between 8-9 August, 2013.

Minister of State for External Affairs Shri E.Ahamed will pay an official visit to Bahrain on 4-5 June 2013.

Vice President Shri M. Hamid Ansari visited Uzbekistan from 21 to 24 May 2013.

External Affairs Minister Shri Salman Khurshid visited Saudi Arabia on May 25-26, 2013.

External Affairs Minister Shri Salman Khurshid visited Bangladesh from February 16 -17, 2013.

External Affairs Minister Shri Salman Khurshid will pay an official bilateral visit to Bhutan on 14-15 January 2013.

External Affairs Minister Shri Salman Khurshid will visit France on 10-11 January 2013 for bilateral discussions with Mr. Laurent Fabius, the French Foreign Minister.

Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, visited Japan on May 27-29, 2013 and to the Kingdom of Thailand on May 30-31, 2013.

External Affairs Minister, Shri Salman Khurshid, visited the People’s Republic of China on May 09-10, 2013.

Minister of State for External Affairs Shri E. Ahamed visited Libya from April 14-16, 2013.

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh visited Germany on 10-12 April 2013.

External Affairs Minister Shri Salman Khurshid visited to Japan on 26-27 March, 2013.

President of India visited Bangladesh on March 3-5, 2013.

Foreign Secretary Shri Ranjan Mathai visited United States on February 20-22, 2013.

Visit of Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari visited Iran on August 4, 2013.

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid visited Iraq on June 19-20, 2013.

Catholic Syrian Bank Recruitment 2013

Name : Catholic Syrian Bank

Name of the Post : Probationary Assistant Managers (Scale I)

Number of Vacancies : 300 Posts

Qualification : Graduation

Eligibility : For Science / Engineering  - 60 % , For Arts / Commerce – 55 %

Age Limit : 28 Years – As on 30th September 2013

Selection Process : Based on a written test/skill test/group discussion and a personal interview

Application Fee : Rs 500 for General, Rs 200 for Others

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Current Affairs : 30 October 2013

1. Having outfoxed him on Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin has now pipped Barack Obama to the title of the world’s most powerful leader as ranked by Forbes today.

2. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave approval for declaring Bhubaneswar and Imphal airports as international.

3. 21 year old, Srishti Rana has won the coveted Miss Asia Pacific 2013 title outclassing 49 other contestants in Korea on Oct 30th. She has crowned by the reigning Miss Asia Pacific World 2012 Himangini Singh Yadu from India.

4. India’s Alok Kumar and Ashok Shandilya have entered the semi-finals of the World Billiards Championship at Leeds, England.

5. Market regulator Sebi has relaxed the norms for primary issuance of debt securities by companies, in a bid to develop the country’s corporate bond market.

6. India has imposed anti-dumping duty of USD 787 per tonne on import of Paracetamol, a widely used medicine, from China for five years to protect interest of domestic players from the cheap shipments.

7. Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan said “we are awaiting for the approval for the lander for Chandrayaan-2″. A rover was also being developed, he said.

8. It is easiest to start a business in New Delhi within India, while Hyderabad is the fastest for closing an enterprise, says a World Bank study.

9. Blocking egg development in malaria mosquito could reduce transmission of the deadly disease, a new Harvard study has found.

10. India is among the “extreme risk” countries of the world where economic impacts of climate change will be most keenly felt by 2025, according to new research released today.