Tennis French Open: Maria Sharapova wins women’s title

Maria Sharapova won French Open women’s title after defeating Simona Halep in the final. It was Sharapova’s second French Open title victory. She has now won five Grand Slam titles, taking her to joint-11th on the Open era list alongside Martina Hingis. The Russian rallied from a set down three straight times to reach this ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2014

Topics: Current Affairs 2014 • IBPS • Tennis

ICICI Bank leaves behind HDFC Bank as biggest private bank employer

ICICI Bank has overtaken its competitor HDFC in terms of employee number with addition of over 10,000 jobs in the last fiscal. With this, ICICI has emerged as the biggest employer in the private banking space with more than 72,000 employees. Except HDFC, the employee strength of other five lenders – ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2014

Topics: Current Affairs 2014 • HDFC Bank • IBPS • ICICI Bank

Chandrababu Naidu takes oath as Andhra Pradesh CM

Head of Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Nara Chandrababu Naidu (64) has been sworn-in as the first Chief Minister of the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh. Mr. Naidu was administered the oath of office by Governor E S L Narasimhan. Mr. Naidu has served as the CM of (united) Andhra Pradesh for 8 years (from 1995 to ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2014

Topics: Andhra Pradesh • Current Affairs 2014 • IBPS

RBI's second Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2014-15

Monetary and Liquidity Measures On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation, RBI has been decided the following key rates: RR (Reverse Repo Rate) RRR (Reverse Repo Rate) LAF (Liquidity Adjustment Facility) CRR (Cash Reserve Ratio) SLR (Statutory Liquidity Ratio) NDTL (Net Demand and Time Liabilities) ECR (Export Credit Refiance)

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2014

Topics: Current Affairs 2014 • IBPS • RBI

Delhi LG sets up Expenditure Finance Committee

Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor, Najeeb Jung, has set up Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) of the Delhi government under the chairmanship of S K Srivastava who is also the Chief Secretary of Delhi government. The panel will concur expenditure on Schemes/Projects/Capital works relating to construction of roads, flyovers, footover bridges, subways, school buildings, hospital buildings etc. up ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2014

Topics: Current Affairs - 2017 • Current Affairs 2014 • Delhi • IBPS