1) The three day 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) started from 7 January 2014 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. What is the theme of this year’s PBD? – Engaging Diaspora: Connecting Across Generations (PBD is celebrated on 9th
January every year to mark the contribution of Overseas Indian
community in the development of India. January 9 was chosen as the day
to celebrate this occasion since it was on this day in 1915 that Mahatma
Gandhi, the greatest Pravasi (non-resident citizen), returned to India
from South Africa, led India’s freedom struggle and changed the lives of
Indians forever)
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2)
The Government has introduced a programme for young persons of overseas
Indians (POIs) with a view to provide them an exposure to the country of
their origin so that they can understand it better and more intimately.
This programme was launched on the occasion of the 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) organized in Delhi. What is the name given to this programme? – ‘Know India Programme’
(Under the Programme, 20 young persons of Indian origin in the age
group of 18 to 24 from different countries visit India extensively every
year, which will provide them an opportunity to have a deeper insight
into Indian people and society)
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3)
Which corporate group was the top donor to both the key national
political parties – Congress and BJP, as declared by the parties to the
Election Commission? – Aditya Birla group
(Gujarat-based Torrent Power was second largest donor to political
parties. Among the national parties, BJP got the maximum corporate
donations of Rs 192.47 crore from 1,334 entities, followed by Congress,
which got Rs 172.25 crore from 418 corporate/business donors. In fact,
business donations constituted 87% of the total contribution to
political parties from known sources, establishing the growing link
between corporate money and politics)
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4) Which bank recently became the first Indian domestic private sector bank to have a branch presence in China? – Axis Bank
(Axis Bank recently opened its branch in Shanghai after receiving
permission from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC). The
branch will engage in foreign currency businesses that includes all
business approved by the banking supervision and regulatory authorities
of the China. With opening of Shanghai branch, Axis Bank’s overseas
presence has grown to eight – one each in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai,
Colombo, and Shanghai, two representative offices at Dubai and Abu Dhabi
and an overseas subsidiary in London)
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5)
Which private asset management company (AMC) recently became the first
private sector fund house to launch an inflation indexed fund that aims
to provide inflation-adjusted returns to investors? – Deutsche Asset Management India – DAMI
(DAMI’s scheme, ‘DWS Inflation—Indexed Bond Fund’ is an open—ended debt
fund and will open for subscription on 16 January 2014, and close on 27
January. Inflation indexed bonds (IIBs) are instruments where interest
payment and principal are linked to whole sale price index (WPI)
inflation and these bonds are currently available at an attractive yield
of 3.6% above WPI. Government has been issuing IIBs on a monthly basis
since June, 2013 and the current outstanding issuance stands at Rs 6,500
crore as of now)
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6)
Facebook Inc. on 7 January 2014 announced its first deal in India in
which it will purchase an Indian startup that builds performance
analysis and monitoring tools for mobile Android applications. What is
the name of this startup? – Little Eyes Labs
(With this deal Bangalore-based Little Eyes Labs will move to
Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. It was founded around
a year ago by 4 Bangalore-based technology professionals)
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7)
Nine persons were killed and over ten were injured after a sleeper coach
of a Dehradun-bound train caught fire early on 8 January 2014 between
Gholwad and Dahanu Road station in Maharashtra’s Thane district. What is
the name of the train involved in this accident? – Bandra-Dehradun Express (The fire broke in one of the sleeper coaches and then spread to three boogies of the train (S3, S4 and S5) around 2.30 am.)
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