List of CEO's of National Bank of India | Updated November 2020 | Banking and Finance Awareness

 

List of Chief Executive Officer of all National Banks of India. This is updated list and will be very helpful for banking examination and interviews like IBPS, ICICI, sbi etc. These can also helpful in all India competitive examinations.  

Indian National Bank CEO's List

Bank	Chief Executive Officer
State Banks of India	Dinesh Kumar Khara
Bank of Baroda	Sanjiv Chadha
Bank of India	Atanu Kumar Das
Bank of Maharashtra	Shri A.S Rajeev
Canara Bank	Lingam Venkat Prabhakar
Central Bank of India	Shri Pallav Mahapatra
Indian Bank	Ms. Padmaja Chunduru
Indian Overseas Bank	Partha Pratim Sengupta
Punjab And Sind Bank	S Krishnan
Punjab National Bank	S.S. Mallikarujuna Rao
UCO Bank	Mr. Atul Kumar Goel
Union Bank of India	Shri Rajkiran Rai G

 

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Current Affairs November 2020 | NOTES, PDF, VIDEO | All Important Events with bullet points | 3 in 1 | EXAM FOCUS Channel

Top selected current affairs of November 2020 for competitive exams and interviews (PDF at bottom of page)

India’s first seaplane service in Gujarat
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the country’s first seaplane service between the Statue of Unity (Sardar Patel statue) near Kevadiya in Gujarat’s Narmada district and Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad.

• The 19-seater seaplane will be operated by SpiceJet

• Can accommodate 12 passengers and tickets will cost Rs 4,800 per person

• There will be four flights a day between Ahmedabad and Kevadia (4 arrivals - 4 departures)

NATO to set Space center in Germany

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance in Ramstein in Germany, in preparation of Chinese treats. It will also help in weather forecast, communication among NATO nation, security and vigilance on enemies. 

• Number of NATO countries - 30 

• Founded - April 4th, 1949

• Headquarters - Brussels, Belgium

"KAPILA kalam" program launced by Union education ministry

KAPILA stands for Kalam Program for Intellectual Property Literacy and Awareness campaign. Union Education Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has virtually launched the campaign ‘KAPILA’, on 15th October 2020 on the occasion of 89th birth anniversary celebration of former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.

• To create awareness on importance of patenting an invention.

• Ministry has decided to celebrate the week from 15 to 23 October as ‘Intellectual Property Literacy Week.

SERB Power scheme to support woman scientists

SERB-POWER stands for Science and Engineering Research Board – Promoting Opportunities For Women in Exploratory Research. It is launched by union minister of Science & Tech Harsh Vardhan.
Scheme will facilitate two categories of research

• SERB – POWER Fellowship - This scheme will encourage emerging and eminent women researchers for the individual-centric and competitive mode of research funding.

• SERB – POWER Research Grants - Reward outstanding women researchers and innovators working in Indian academic institutions and R&D laboratories, holding Ph.D.degree in any branch of science and engineering.

• SERB is a statutory body under the Department of Science and Technology, GOI, established by an Act of the Parliament of India in 2009 (SERB ACT,2008).

China's new space mission - Became 3rd nation after USA, Russia to do so

• China has successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft to the moon on November 24, 2020, to collect samples and bring them back to Earth.

• It is named after the ancient Chinese Goddess of the moon, Chang’e-5.

• Launched by China from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the Southern Province of Hainan

• Spacecraft has been was launched by a Long March-5 rocket at 4.30 am (Beijing Time).

• China also plans on retrieving the samples from Mars by 2030

G20 Summit in 2023 will be hosted by India

• G20 announced on November 22, 2020 that India will now host the Group of 20 Summit in 2023
• Next meetings in Italy in 2021, Indonesia in 2022, India in 2023 and Brazil in 2024
• The focus of 2020s summit, which mostly took place virtually was the Coronavirus pandemic
• The leaders of G20 also extended support to the Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing policy responses detailed in the paper of Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) on COVID-19 pandemic.

World's 1st bank with million twitter followers

• RBI, the apex bank of India became 1st bank to get 1 M twitter follower on its official handle.
• Shaktikanda Das, RBI Governor congratulated his mates on this occasion. He also has a separate Twitter Handle with 1.37 lakh followers
• Next meetings in Italy in 2021, Indonesia in 2022, India in 2023 and Brazil in 2024
• The focus of 2020s summit, which mostly took place virtually was the Coronavirus pandemic

Top 5 banks with twitter followers

India-Singapore joint maritime exercise update : SIMBEX 2020

• 27th edition of India - Singapore Bilateral Maritime Exercise (SIMBEX-20) from November 23-25, 2020 
• Location: Andaman sea
• The exercise is regularly conducted between the two navies since 1994 to boost navy capabilities, war preparation, anti-terror operation and mutual sharing of tactics and war readiness. 
• SIMBEX-20 will witness participation from INS Rana, corvettes Kamorta and Karmuk from the Indian side

Asia's 1st ever solar power textile mill to be established in Maharastra

• Location - Parbhani district, Maharashtra
• Many women in the region will get direct and indirect employment on commission of project. 
• The Jai Bhawani Women cooperative textile mill is spread across 30 acres of land. It will majorly process cotton to cloth.
• Cost of the project will be Rs 100 crore

31st district of karnataka confirmed : Will be carved out from Ballari

• Name - Vijayanagara, named after the capital of the historic Vijayanagara empire
• 6 out of 11 talluks from Ballari will be carved out for Vijayanagara
• The Jai Bhawani Women cooperative textile mill is spread across 30 acres of land. It will majorly process cotton to cloth.
• Chief minister BS Yediyurappa agreed to the proposal of Anand singh (MLA and Forest minister of Karnataka) who played crucial role in establishing BJP government back in Karnataka
• Proposal will be approved by cabinet by next meeting

Rs 234.68 crores approved under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana by government

• It was introduced in 2016 as SAMPADA, 
• Later in 2017, it was renamed as Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana
• There are seven components included in the scheme are

1. Infrastructure for Agro-Processing Clusters
2. Mega food parks
3. Clusters, Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure
4. Human resource and institutions
5. Food Safety and Quality Assurance Infrastructure
6. Creation and Expansion of Food Processing and Preservation Capacities
7. Infrastructure for agro-processing clusters

• On November 24, 2020, the Union Minister Shri Narendra Singh Tomar approved food processing projects of Rs 234.68 crores
• As per National Food Processing Policy, India aims to boost investment in the food processing sector by six times by 2035.

120 million USD to modernize transport sector : India and World Bank signed  in the state of Meghalaya

• Total roads connectivity of 300 km proposed (all-weather and resilient).  
• Plan is to organize Meghalaya as major hub for export and Import and transport to countries like Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. 
• It will also help in security and military movement in case of emergency.
• The project is expected to generate direct employment of 8 million person days
• It will also boost “Restart Meghalaya Mission”
• The speed of development activities in the North East Region was increased by GoI after the standoff with China in Siliguri Corridor. Due to present government higher focus on North-East, the developmental activities in Norh -East India has increased.
• In 2018, Rs 1.9 lakh crores were sanctioned to build 14,000 km of roads in the North East region.

World's strongest super typhoon struck Philippines

• Name - Goni (Typhoon Rollyin in Philippines)
• The Typhoon Goni has attained its maximum speed of 310 km per hour
• The typhoon is expected to damage more than 928,000 hectares of land
• Corn farm damaged upto 58,431 hectares.
• 347,000 people have been evacuated
• Typhoons with speed more than 194kmph are called super strong typhoons

Cyclone Nivar struck south India : Update

• Name Nivar given by Iran
• Region affected  - Tamil Nadu and Puducherry
• Wind Speed - 120 kmph - 145 kmph

India's AI supercomputer "PARAM SIDDHI" ranked 63 among top 500 super computers. 

• Param Siddhi is a high-performance computing-artificial intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer that was established at C-DAC under the National Supercomputing Mission
• Developed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Department of Science and Technology.
• Speed - 5.267 petaflops which has now got credits of non-distributed supercomputer system
• China has maximum number of super computers followed by US, Japan, France, and Germany

"The Promised Land" book written by former US president Barack Obama released

• It is the first of the two volumes that Obama had written during his tenure as President (2009-2017)
• He was 1st African-American president of USA
• Highlights of book

1. Mention of Ramayana and Mahabharata in his book.
2. killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011
3. Fascinations about Mahatma Gandhi
4. Iraq war and many more

 book is to be translated in several foreign languages such as Chinese, Polish, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, French and many more

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Sikh Gurus : Important Oneliners and bullet points for quick revision for competitive exams like SSC, PSC, DDA, DMRC, DDA, JE ETC

Important oneliners and bullet points on Sikh religion and sikh gurus for competitive exams and general awareness. Watch video with detailed analysis on EXAM FOCUS channel on Youtube

The 10 Gurus

Guru Nanak

Guru Angad Dev

Guru Amardas

Guru Ramdas

Guru Arjundev

Guru Hargovind

Guru Har Rai

Guru Har Krishna

Guru Teg Bahadur

Guru Govind Singh

GURU NANAK – (1469 – 1538) 

• Founder of Sikh religion.
• Main teachings of Guru Nanak are:-
• Vand Chhakkna –Sharing and helping those who are in need.
• Kirat Karna – Earning honestly without fraud.
• Naam Japna – Chanting god’s name with devotion

GURU ANGAD (1538- 1552)

• Compiled writing of Guru Nanak.
• Started script called Gurumukhi

GURU AMARDAS (1552-1574)

• Started community kitchen
• Opposed Purdah system
• Opposed Sati pratha.

GURU RAMDAS (1574-1581)

• Founder of “AMRITSAR”
• GURU ARJUN DEV (1581-1606)
• Founded Golden Temple
• Composed Adi Granth -1604
• Executed by Jahangir on helping Prince KHUSRAO with money and prayer.

GURU HARGOVIND (1606-1645)

• Transformed Sikh into military community.
• Established akal takth.
• Fortified Amritsar.

GURU HAR RAI (1645-1661)

• Maintained cavalry of 20,000 as force.
• Established hospitals and zoo.

GURU HAR KISHAN (1661-1664)

• Youngest Sikh Guru
• Died at age of 8.

GURU TEG BAHADUR (1664-1675)

• He protected Hindu Pujaries and pandits and Sikh brothers from forceful conversion to ISLAM.
• Aurangzeb executed him.

GURU GOVIND SINGH (1675 -1708)

• Founded KHALSA IN 1699
• Noble at Bhadur Shah Zafar court
• Pahul was introduced.

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The Vedic period : Summary of Vedic age | Important points to revise just before exams in easy words and quick retention

The vedic period : Important bullent points for quick revision before exams

Vedic age can be classified into the following

Early Vedic Period (1500-1000 BC), also known as Rig Vedic Period.
Later Vedic Period (1000- 600 BC)

The term Veda means “superior knowledge” in Sanskrit. The 4 major vedas are 

• Rigveda
• Samaveda
• Yajurveda
• Atharvaveda

Besides these Vedas, there were Brahmanas, Upnishads, Aryankas, and epics- Ramayana and Mahabharata.

• Brahmmanas
• Upanishads
• Aryankas
• Mahabharat
• Ramayan

RIGVEDA

• Oldest text known to mankind (around 1700 BC).
• It was collection of hymns.
• It deals with secrets and explanation about origin of earth, greatness of god and how to live fruitful life.
• Rig Vedic Aryans worshiped natural forces like earth, fire, wind, rain and thunder by personifying them into many gods.
• Lord Indra was the supreme God as mentioned in rigveda.
• Chief was the protector of the tribe or Jana.
• Experts were called HOTRI/HOTRA
• AVESTA – oldest text in Iranian language has similarity with Rig-Veda text. 

Social Aspects of Rigvedic period

• Women had respectable position in the society
• Sati pratha, Child marriage exsits
• Poligamy, monogamy evident in society
• Evidence of idol worship and temple visit was found

Later vadic age (1000 BC - 600 BC) show trend and popularity in agricultural activity as principal economic activity and cattle rearing became second major activity. Land became important to people and gaining control over it subsequently led to establishment of kingdom in later days.

• Indra and Agni lost their importance.
• The Varna system became prevalent- four divisions of society :Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas and Sudras.
• Caste system based on occupation emerged.

SAMAVEDA

• Second most important Veda.
• Hymns of Rig-Veda are compiled and set into tune.
• Origin of Indian music.
• Very particular the pronunciation of hymns.
• Experts were known as UDGATAR/UDGATRI

YAJURVEDA

• Sacrificial formulae and prayers.
• Experts were known as ADHVARYU.
• It has 1875 verses.

ATHAVAVEDA

• It deals with death, spirit and afterlife.
• Contains 730 hymns and 6000 mantras devided in 20 books.
• It contains magical formulae and spells.
• Ayurveda has origin in Atharvaveda.

UPVEDA

• Ayurveda
• Dhanurveda
• Gandharvveda
• Shilpveda 

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Chargesheet filed by NIA in Pulwama attack case | Current Affairs | Exam Focus Channel

• 40 CRPF personnel were martyred by a car-borne suicide bomber in Pulwama terror attack on Feb.14,2019.the National investigation agency (NIA) filed a charge-sheet, comprising more than 13,000 pages, in Jammu court.
• The charge-sheet said the attack was planned by Pakistan based terror group jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and the “Pakistani establishment”, the organisations were involved in the making since 2016.
• The charge-sheet said that the car that blew up the bus carrying the Jawans on February 14, 2019,on Jammu Srinagar highway was packed with tw0 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) weighing 200 kg. The IEDs contained 35kg high-grade RDX explosives that was brought in by Pakistani terrorists in three tranches between March-May of 2018 when they infiltrated in groups of five each from the Hiranagar sector along the Pakistan-Jammu border.
• The NIA said an attempt was made on Feb, 2019 to attack a convoy but was unsuccessful amids heavy rainfall.
• Seven Pakistanis in the list of NIA, the chargesheet has been filed against JeM chief Masood Azhar and 18 others. In all, seven Pakistanis have been indicted, including Mashood Azhar’s nephew Umar Farooq, who was killed in an encounter in south Kashmir and is considered as mastermind of the attack.

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FACTS RELATED TO AIRPORTS IN INDIA | GK Preparation | Exam Focus Channel

 FACTS on Indian Airports

•Largest Airport : Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad(5945 acres)

•2nd largest airport: Indira Gandhi international airport, Delhi (5220 acres)

•3rd largest airport : Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj international airport(4000 acres)

•BONUS FACT : Singapore Changi International airport is the world’s best airport for the 7th year in a row

•A total of 26 airlines are currently operating in Indian domestic sector.

•Highest airport in India: kushok bakula rimpochee airport . Leh-Ladhak, also 22nd highest airport in the world at 3,256 metres i.e. 10,682 ft above mean sea level.

•Smallest airport in India: Trichy (Tiruchirappalli)

•Number of airports in India: 449

•Number of airports operated by Airport Authority of India(AAI): 126

•1st airport in India: Juhu Aerodrome, this airport was built in the year 1928.

•State having most number of airports: Gujarat

•Airport named after Maithili poet Vidyapati: Kavi Kokil Vidyapati airport, Darbhanga(Bihar).

•Number of private airports in India (owned by DGCA): 16

•State which do not have any airport in India: Arunachal Pradesh

•BONUS FACT: Jackson Atlanta International airport(Hartsfield) is the biggest airport in the world

•State having most numbers of international airports: Kerala

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Supreme court criticizes center on loan moratorium scheme | Current Affairs | Exam Focus Channel

• The top court on Wednesday hits the Union government for “hiding behind the Reserve Bank of India” without making its stand clear on the loan moratorium scheme introduced during covid-19 pandemic lock down.

• The SC wanted to know whether the postponement of loan interest to support the financial crisis of borrowers during the national lock down would lead to accumulation of further interest once the freeze is lifted on 31st of August.
• The court advised the government to focus only on issues related to the business of banks and not looking at unfortunate financial situation of the people created by the lock down implemented by the government.
• “The problem was created by your lockdown…it appears the union of India is not taking an independent stance and is relying on the Reserve bank of India (RBI)…This is not the time to look after business only, consider providing relief,’’ a bench, led by Justice Ashok Bhushan, addressed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.

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