AND THE OSCAR GOES TO.....

The 89th Academy awards ceremony was presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and sciences took place at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood in Los Angeles.The Show is Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.Here is the List of Oscar award winners for the year 2016...

1. Best Picture : Moonlight
2. Best Actor  :Casey Afflick for Manchester by The Sea
3. Best Actress:Emma stone(La La Land)
4. Best Director:Damiene Chazelle (La La Land)
5. Best Cinematography:Linus Sand Gren(La La Land)
6. Best Foreign Language Film:The Salesman (Iranian Director Asghar Farhedi)
7. Best Animated Feature film:zootopia
8. Best Supporting Actor:Mahershala Ali(Moonlight)
9. Best Supporting Actress:Viola Davis (Fences)
10. Best supporting Documentary Feature:OJ:Made in America
11. Best Original Music Score:Justin Hurwitz (La La Land)
12. Best Original Screen Play:Kenneth Lonergan(Manchester by the Sea)
13. Best Original Song:City of Stars
14. Best writing Adapted screenplay:Moonlight
15. Best Costume Designer:Collen Atwood
16. Best Animated Short film:Piper
17. Best Visual Effects:Jungle Book
18. Best Documentary Short subject:The White Helmets
19. Best Film Editing:John Gillbert
20. Best Make up:Christopher Allen Nelson
    
    
    
    
    

GK QUESTIONS ASKED SYNDICATE BANK MANIPAL PGDBF 2017-18

1.Valley of flowers national park-Uttarakhand
2.Peking is the old name of capital of which country-china
3.In FATF,T means Task
4.March 24 is world tuberculosis day
5.Syndicate bank head quarters-Manipal
6.Ippb ties up with Punjab national Bank
7.PMMY budget allocation-2.44lakh crore
8.MGNREGA amount-48000crore
9.Who attends SPIEF meeting from india-Narendra Modi
10.one question from Pmjdy
11.Tata communication got payments bank license 
12.Jio filmfare best actress in a supporting role-shabana azmi for neerja

INDIAN BANK PGDBF MAINS EXAM CALL LETTERS OUT...!

Indian bank has released Main exam call letter for the recruitment into the admission of 1 year Post Graduation diploma in Banking and Finance.

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DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS -FEB16TH

1.E.K Palaniswamy was sworn in as the 13th Chief minister of Tamil Nadu by Governor Ch.Vidya Sagar rao at Raj Bhavan.

2.Nearly,half of the 18 lakh people under the IT scanner for suspicious bank deposits post cash ban have been put in the double category,said IT officials.

3.United Arab Emirates has unveiled plans to build the first city on Mars by 2117 as the energy rich country looks to transport people to the planet over the next few decades.

4.The Merger of 5 Associate banks with the SBI will be completed in the fiscal year 2018 even as the cabinet has given a green signal for it on wednesday.

5.Regional Rural banks has raised the ceiling of Gold loan given by RRBs to 2 lakhs from 1 Lakh expanding the access to credit for Farmers and Artisans willing to pledge gold as Collateral.

6.TATA motors and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership to leverage the latters cloud based connected vehicle technology that uses Artificial Intelligence Advanced Machine learning and Internet of Things to enhance driving experiences.

7.The 12000 crore Chardham highway project in Uttarakhand will be completed by the end of 2018,Nitin Gadkari said.

8.Soft bank group is buying Alternate Asset Manager Forters Investment Group LLC for $3.36 in cash to operate alongside the Japanese Company's soon to be established tech investment fund.

9.Ujjivan Financial Services limited, a Bengaluru based MFI has struck a 150 crore securitisation deal with Birla Sun life Mutual Fund.The Transaction comprises Individual loans as Underlying Assets.

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS-FEB 15TH

1.CBDT is working on  Issuing PAN on a Real time basis using Aadhar's e-KYC,which allows an Individual to verify his or her details such as Address using Bio metric Identity features like Thumb Impressions.This enables a person can easily  gets his PAN card in 5-6 minutes instead of 15 days and he can Income tax returns through his smart phone.

2.Kerala cabinet gave in principle approval for setting up a greenfield airport at Sabarimala to cater to lakhs of Devotees who visit the famous Lord Ayyappa shrine every year.Presently, the only way to reach the hill shrine is by road.


3.World's greatest Player Usain bolt wins Laureas Sportsman of the year for the record 4th time.He joins Roger Federer,Serena williams and Kelly slater for winning most titles.In the women's category,Gymnast Simona Biles, wins Laureas sportswoman of the year .

4.Australian cricketer Adam voges has decided to announce retirement from All forms of Cricket.

5.Kalimpong sub division of the Darjeeling hill become 21st district of the west Bengal state.

6.Union cabinet chaired by Prime minister Narendra Modi has given approval for the Merger of SBI and its Five associates thus clearing a way for one of the largest banks in the world in terms of Size.The move is aimed at strengthening the banking sector through consolidation of public banks.The cabinet has not taken any decision on the proposal to also merge the Bharatiya Mahila bank with SBI.
The associated banks which will be merged with SBI are State bank of Bikaner&Jaipur,State bank of Travencore,State bank of Mysore,State bank of Hyderabad, and State bank of Patiala.

HEAD QUARTERS OF SOME INTERNATIONAL BANKS

1. Banco Santander-Madrid,Spain
2. Bank of America-Charlotte,USA
3. Citi bank-New york,USA
4. HSBC-London
5. Well Fargo-San Fransisco,USA
6. JP Morgan-Manhattan,USA
7. Bank of China-Beijing,China
   
8. Agriculture Bank of china-Beijing,China
9. China Construction bank-Beijing,China
10. Industrial and Commercial bank of China-Beijing,China
11. Lloyds group-London,Britain

HEAD QUARTERS OF SOME IMPORTANT PRIVATE BANKS IN INDIA

1. ICICI bank-Mumbai
2. Axis bank-Mumbai
3. HDFC bank-Mumbai
4. Kotak Mahindra Bank-Mumbai
5. Karur Vysya bank-Karur,Tamil nadu
6. Catholic Syrian bank-Thrissur,kerala
7. South Indian bank-Thrissur,kerala
8. Karnataka bank-Mangalore
9. Ratnakar Bank ltd-Kolahapur,Maharashtra
10. Yes bank-Mumbai
11. Indusind bank-Mumbai
12. DCB bank-Mumbai,Maharashtra
13. Bandhan bank-Kolkata
14. IDFC bank-Mumbai
15. Lakshmi Vilas bank-Chennai,Tamil Nadu
16. Federal bank-Aluva,Kerala
17. Jammu and Kashmir bank-Srinagar
18. City Union bank-Kumbakonam,Tamil nadu
19. Tamil Nadu Mercantile bank--Tuticorin,Tamil Nadu
20. Nainital bank-Nainital,Uttarakhand(BOB subsidiary)

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS -FEB14TH

1.Inside sport,India's first sports business intelligence portal,will organise a 2 day sport themed literary festival --Sport tale.The never before seen event will feature sports,media,cinema,books and autobiography.

2.Jehan Dharuvala wont the Toyota Racing series's New zealand Grand prix,thus becoming the first Indian to win a motorsports GP event.

3.Reserve Bank of India asked banks to treat the withdrawn currencies intheir currency chests deposited since November 9 as Soiled. 

4.Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici won the 2017 World press photo competition for his image of a gun wielding off duty Turkish policeman who shot and killed Russia's Ambassador Andrei Karlov on December 19 last year.

5.Anil Ambani group's Reliance Defence and Engineering has inked a Major contract with the US Navy to provide repair and alteration services for ships of the 7th fleet.This would be the first indian company either public or private providing logistical support to the US military with Indian territory.

6.The centre is targeting an investment of about 2200 crore by 2019 in startups working on new technologies in the electronic development fund(EDF).

SBI PO NOTIFICATION 2017 RELEASED

India's Largest bank State bank of India has released notification for the recruitment of Probationary officers.This time SBI hasn't made any changes to the examination pattern.For the past 2 years, we have seen  SBI has come up with new pattern examinations to eliminate the scrap and the same pattern is followed by IBPS.Now,The Exam will be held in two stages prelims and Mains followed by Group Discussion and Interview. 

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70TH BAFTA AWARDS 2017

70th British Academy film awards  were announced today at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

• Best Film--La La Land.
• Best Director--Damien Chazelle(La La Land)
• Best Actor in a Leading role--Casey Afflick(Manchester by Sea)
• Best Actress in a leading role--Emma stone (La La Land)
• Best Actor in a supporting role--Dev Patel(Lion)
• Best Actress in a supporting role--Viola Davis(Fences)
• Best original Screenplay--Kenneth Lonergan(Manchester by the sea)
• Best Adapted Screenplay--Luke Davis(Lion)
• Best Cinematography--Linus Sandgren(La la land)
• Outstanding British Film--I,Daniel Blake
• Best Documentary--Ava du verney
• Best Original Music--Justin Hurwitz(La La land)
• Best Special Visual effects--The Jungle book
• Best costume design--Jackie
• Best Animated film--Kubo and the two strings-Travis knight
• EE rising star Award--Tom holland.

GK QUESTIONS ASKED IN IDBI ASSISTANT MANAGER 2017-18

1.INS khanderi launched at mazagon docks ltd.

2.Karnataka bank head quarters-mangalore

3.Tamor pingla wild life sanctuary-chattisgarh

4.Digi Shan Mela was first launched in -Gurugram

5.Question on pmjdy?

6.South Indian bank hq-Thrissur

7.Babur3 Missile-Pakistan

8.National science day-feb 28

9.stand up scheme-10lakh to 100 lakh

10.Non aligned movement held in Venezuela 

INDIAN BANK RELEASED PGDBF PRELIMS EXAM RESULT...

Indian bank released online prelims examination result for admission into Post Graduation diploma in Banking and Finance for the year 2017-18

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UNION BUDGET 2017-18 PART-1

Finance minister Arun Jaitley announced his 4th budget today in his tenure.For the first time since India got independence,Railway Budget was presented for the first time  in the parliament along with the General Budget.The railway budget was first presented in the parliament in the year 1924.From this year's budget the NDA government has put an end in presenting the railway budget on a separate day and merged the same with the General budget.Let's take a glance at the general budget 2016-17.

Jaitley's budget mainly concentrated on Agriculture,Skill development,Financial support for stronger institutions,Transparency in accountability,rural population,Health sector,Infrastructure.

1.When it comes to Agriculture sector,Jaitley announced a sum of 10lakh crore as credit to farmers,with 60 days as interest waiver.

2.Fund to NABARD will be increased to 40000 crore.

3.A dedicated irrigation fund will be set up for NABARD with 5000 crore initial corpus.

4.Irrigation corpus increased from 20000 crore to 40000 crore.

5.Daily processing infrastructure fund will be initially created with a corpus fund of 2000 crore.

6.The government keeps a target of 1 crore house holds to bring out of poverty.

7.For the FY 2017-18, 5 lakh farm ponds will be taken up under the MGNERGA scheme.

A REVOLUTIONARY MOVE IN BANKING OPERATIONS

As the technology keeps on changing banks are showing more interest towards adopting newer technologies.Earlier we have seen ICICI bank and Axis bank have adopted Block chain technologies,which stands as the proof of all transactions on the network