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Gross NPAs of PSBs touch over 6 lakh crores in July-September 2016

The Union Government has announced that the gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of the Public sector banks (PSBs) have touched around 66 lakh 40 thousand in the three months...

November 30, 2016

Union Government to introduce Direct Transfer of Fertilizer Subsidy

The Union Government has decided to introduce Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) system for fertilizer subsidy payments. Under the proposed system, 100% subsidy on various fertilizer grades will be...

November 30, 2016

Lt General AK Bhatt appointed as new DGMO

The Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has appointed Lt-General A K Bhatt as the new director-general of military operations (DGMO). He will succeed Lt-General Ranbir Singh who has...

November 30, 2016

Taiwan carries out Rescue Exercise in Disputed South China Sea

Taiwan carried out a search-and-rescue exercise in the South China Sea to cement its hold over Taiping in the Spratly island group. Even though Taiwan claims all of...

November 29, 2016

Gross Non-Performing Assets of PSU banks touch over 6 lakh crores

The government has said that the Gross Non-Performing Assets (NPA) of public sector banks as of September 2016 has touched nearly six lakh thirty thousand crore rupees. The...

November 29, 2016

Biggest Ever Coral Die-Off Recorded On Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

It is estimated that warm seas have killed nearly two-thirds of a 700 km stretch of coral in the reef’s north in the past nine months. This is...

November 29, 2016

Answers: GS Mains Test Series – 2016 : GS Paper-3 (Set-2)

1.       Many suggest that Government should dismantle the minimum support price regime and Indian futures/spot markets should be used for estimating prices and enabling price discovery. Keeping in...

November 29, 2016

Answers: GS Mains Test Series – 2016 : GS Paper-2 (Set-2)

1.       To what extent, the doctrine of basic structure has established the Judicial Supremacy in the area of “amendment of the Constitution”? Explain. The Constitution makers had given...

November 29, 2016

Answers: GS Mains Test Series – 2016 : GS Paper-1 (Set-2)

1.       “The Indus Civilization arose and flourished by processes of change that were essentially local, yet it participated in a much larger world of trade, commerce and cultural...

November 29, 2016

NRI Woman completes solo car journey and creates Guinness Records

A 43-year-old NRI woman, Bharulata Kamble has completed her solo car journey of 32,000 kilometres from the United Kingdom to India traversing 32 countries in record 57 days....

November 29, 2016

GK & Current Affairs : November 28, 2016

1. The book “Swimmer Among the Stars” has been authored by whom? [A]Kanishk Tharoor [B]Nikunj Juneja [C]Amitav Ghosh [D]AK Ramanujan Answer: Kanishk TharoorNotes: The book “Swimmer Among the...

November 29, 2016

Archaeological excavation

Archaeological excavation is a core methodological process within the discipline of archaeology, involving the careful exposure, processing and recording of material evidence from past human activities. Excavation sites...

November 29, 2016