ATM withdrawal norms in India from 1st July 2011

5 Free ATM transactions including Balance Enquiry, PIN Change etc.


Financial Transaction or Withdrawal of money beyond 5 transactions customer to be charged Rs.20 per transaction


Non-Financial Transaction, a customer to be charged Rs.8.5 per transaction


Wrongly debited amount to be credited to customer's account within 7 days failing which a bank would have to pay Rs.100 per day, provided the complaint was logged within 30 days of transaction

Science Quiz - Biology quiz

What is the common name for Vicia Fabe?
Broad Bean

What is the other name of the plants which is also called as Gramineae?
Grasses

What is the other name for leaf?
Phyllode


Who is the Father of Taxonomy?
Carlus Linnaeus

What is the top of the flower stalk called?
Receptacle

What is the name of the fruit of rose is called as?
Hip

The name given to the division of nucleus of a cell is?
Karyokinesis

Which apparatus is used to measure the growth of the plants?
Auxanometer

IIFA(International Indian Film Academy) Awards 2011

Best Film	Dabangg
Best Performance Leading Role(Male)	Shahrukh Khan-My Name is Khan
Best Performance Leading Role(Female)	Anushka Sharma-Band Baaja Baaraat
Best Direction	Karan Johar-My Name is Khan
Best Performance Comic Role	Rithesh Deshmukh
Best Performance Negative Role	Sonu Sood
Best Performance Supporting Role(Male)	Arjun Rampal -Rajneeti
Best Performance Supporting Role(Female)	Prachi Desai-Once upon a time in Mumbai
Debut of the Year(Male)	Ranveer Singh
Debut of the Year(Female)	Sonakshi Sinha
Best Story	Shivani Bhatia-My Name is Khan
Best Lyrics	Niranjan Iyengar-Sajda and Noor-e-Khuda-My name is Khan
Playback Singer(Male)	Rahat Fateh Ali Khan -Tere Mast Mast Do Nain
Playback Singer(Female)	Mamta Sharma-Munni Badnaam hui
Music Direction	Sajid Wajid,Lalit Pandit
Cinematographer	Sudeep Chaterjee-Gujaarish
Editing	Namrata Rao-Band Baaja Baaraat
Art Director	Sabu Cyril-Robot
Choreography	Farah Khan-Dabangg
Action	S.Vijayan-Dabangg
Sound Recording	Pritam Das-Love,Sex Aur Dhoka
Song Recording	Vijay Dayal-Ainvayi Ainvayi
Sound Re-Recording	Leslie Fernandes-Dabangg
Special Effects	Indian Artists-Robot
Background Score	Shankar,Ehsaan,Loy-My name is Khan
Costume Designing	Niharika Khan-Band Baaja Baaraat
Make-up	Banu(for Rajnikanth)-Robot

Current Affairs June 2011 - 2

Which ID is now valid ID proof for LPG gas connection in India?
Aadhaar

Which grammy award nominee is all set to perform at IIFA?
Jermaine Jackson

Who has been promoted as VP of Wipro?
Rishad Premji

Under which category India won gold at Cannes Lions?
Design category

With which country India inked pact to boost apparel, textile industry?
Russia

Which award did Sunil Mittal receive recently?
INSEAD award

Which is the latest launch from Research In Motion (RIM) in India?
BlackBerry Playbook

Which software training major has decided to setup 100 One World centres in a year's time?
NIIT

Who has been unanimously re-elected as UN chief?
Ban Ki-moon

Toyota is all set to launch its latest model in India. Which is it?
Etios Liva

Who has been elected as Captain of New Zealand Cricket for all 3 formats of game?
Ross Taylor

Which airbus was grounded for clipping a wing at the Paris Air Show recently?
A380

Which actor of Jackass movie was killed in car accident in Pennsylvania?
Ryan Dunn

Country's largest 2 wheeler maker Hero Honda's board have approved the changing of the company name to?
Hero MotoCorp Ltd

Which 2 dual sim models have Nokia unveiled in India recently?
C2-00 dual sim Internet and X1-01 dual sim

Current Affairs June 2011

When is the Champions League Twenty20 2011 scheduled?
September 23rd to October 9th 2011


Which company has stuck a deal with British Library to digitise books?
Google


Which former Vice-Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited is all set to join Wipro Board?
Mahendra Kumar Sharma


Which two stocks of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group has BSE decided to take out of the elite sensex index?
RCOM and R-Infra


Which Amir Khan movie celebrated 10 years recently?
Lagaan


When was World No Tobacco day observed?
May 31st


Who has been appointed as head of UN Change Management Team?
Atul Khare


Which Under-19 cricketer drowned in Ganga recently?
Shamsher Singh Yadav


How many satellites has India planned to launch in next 2 years?
12


What is the name of the insurance plan launched by LIC recently?
Jeevan Arogya

Who won the 5th ODI in India vs West Indies match played at Jamaica?
West Indies


Which Olympic boxer was shot dead in Pakistan recently?
Abrar Hussain


Which automobile major's 13 day long strike ended after the acceptance of Union registration with management?
Maruti


What is current Repo and Reverse Repo rate hiked by RBI?
Repo - 7.5% and Reverse Repo - 6.5%


Which US technology major turned 100 years recently?
IBM

Champions League Twenty20 2011 - In Brief

Number of Participating Teams 13


Venue - Chennai, Bangalore and Kolkata


Event Date - September 23rd to October 9th 2011


Teams Qualified Automatically - Chennai Super Kings, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai Indians, South Australian Redbacks, New South Wales Blues, Warriors and Cape Cobras


6-Team Qualifier to be held at Hyderabad from September 19th to 21st 2011

Numerical Ability for bank po exams (16)

1. Express 12.5 percent as fraction.
1/8


2. Ajay earns 10% more than Bijay but 15% less than Cathy. If Bijay earns Rs.85/-, then Cathy earns?
Ajay's earnings = 85 + 10% of 85 = 93.5. So, Cathy's earnings = 93.5/85 * 100 = 110 


3. 6 4/7 +8 2/5 - 5 3/4 = ?
9 31/140


4. If Rs.91/- is divided among P, Q, R in the ratio 1 1/2 : 3 1/3 : 2 3/4, Q will get?
Q's share Rs.40


5. Average of 6 numbers is 8, what number should be added to it to make the average 9?
15


6. 40 is what percent of 1200?
3 1/3


7. The H.C.F of two numbers is 11 and their L.C.M is 7700. If one of the numbers is 275, the other is?
308


8. In a triangle ABC, AB = AC = 2.5cm, BC = 4cm. Find the height from A to the opposite base.
1.5cm

DRDO Awards 2011

Award	Winner
Agni Award for Excellence in self-reliance	A K Singh(LRDE) M Z Siddique(GTRE)
Performance Excellence Award	P S Krishnan
DRDO Scientist of the Year	Dipti Deodhare(CAIR) Padmavati(ADA) P Sivakumar(CVRDE) K S Premavalli(DFRL) M S Easwaran(CABS) Maheshwara Reddy(DARE)
The Defence Technology Spin-off Award	Defence Food Research Laboratory, Mysore

Top 50 Engineering Colleges in India in 2011

Rank	Name of College	Rank	Name of College
1	IIT-Bombay	26	DA-IICT,Ahmedabad
2	IIT-Delhi	27	JNTU-Hyderabad
3	IIT-Madras	28	PSG Tech, Coimbatore
4	IIT-Kanpur	29	VNIT-Nagpur
5	IIT-Kharagpur	30	NIT-Jamshedpur
6	IIT-Roorkee	31	College of Engineering, Pune
7	IIT-Guwahati	32	HBTI, Kanpur
8	IT-BHU, Varanasi	33	NIT-Kurukshetra
9	BITS, Pilani	34	Thiagarajar CoE, Madurai
10	Jadavpur University, Jadavpur	35	NIT-Durgapur
11	Anna University, Chennai	36	Amrita University, Coimbatore
12	NIT-Tiruchirapalli	37	PEC University of Tech, Chandigarh
13	NIT-Rourkela	38	MIT, MAnipal
14	BIT-Mesra	39	Nirma University-IT, Ahmedabad
15	ISM-Dhanbad	40	IIIT-Allahabad
16	VIT University, Vellore	41	SVNIT-Surat
17	Thapar University, Patiala	42	VJTI-Mumbai
18	NIT-Warangal	43	PES Institute of Tech, Bangalore
19	NIT-Surathkal	44	Sir MV Insititute of Tech, Bangalore
20	NSIT-New Delhi	45	MANIT, Bhopal
21	IIIT-Hyderabad	46	NIT-Hamirpur
22	ICT Mumbai(UDCT)	47	ITM(GITAM), Visakhapatnam
23	NIT-Calicut	48	SGSITS, Indore
24	Delhi Technological University	49	MNIT, Jaipur
25	MNNIT-Allahabad	50	SSN College of Engineering, Chennai

Past Tense and Past Participle

Bet	Bet	Bet/Betted
Become	Became	Become
Beat	Beat	Beaten
Do	Did	Done
Get	Got	Got
Go	Went	Gone
Learn	Learnt	Learnt
Sit	Sat	Sat
Shine	Shone	Shone
Shoot	Shot	Shot

Insurance Quiz - 2

1. Insurance policies carry special exemption from customs duty


2. Fire insurance was originated from Austria


3. The oldest form of insurance is  Non-life insurance


4. The first insurance company was established in India in the year  1610


5. Insurable interest has to be a  trustee protected


6. Lumpsum payment of premium is made under fire insurance


7. Liability Insurance is a classification based on risk involved


8. An insurance agent for a life insurer is called corporate agent 

20th annual MTV Movie Awards

Best Movie	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Best Male Performance	Robert Pattinson,  The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Best Female Performance	Kristen Stewart,  The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Best Kiss	Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Best Fight	Robert Pattinson vs. Bryce Dallas Howard and Xavier Samuel,  The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Best breakout star	Chloe Grace Moretz, Kick-Ass
Biggest badass star	Chole Grace Moretz, Kick-Ass
Best comedy performance	Emma Stone, Easy A
Best line from a movie	Alexys Nycole Sanchez,  I want to get chocolate wasted  (from Grownups)
Best Villian	Tom Felton, Harry Potter and  the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
Best jaw dropping moment	Justin Bieber, Never say never

French Open 2011 Results

Men's Singles	Rafal Nadal
Women's Singles	Li Na
Men's Doubles	Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor
Women's Doubles	Andrea Hlavakova and Lucie Hradecka
Mixed Doubles	Casey Dellacqua and Scott Lipsky

2010 Year Book - Part 3

Acquisitions and Sale 2010




2010 Acquisitions and sale




Business 2010




2010 Business

Inventions

1. In which year was MIDI introduced?
1983


2. In which decade was telephone invented?
1870s


3. In which decade was Internet first implemented?
1960s


4. When were the blue jeans invented?
1850s


5. When was toothbrush invented?
1770


6. When were bar code scanners invented?
1970s


7. Who invented battery?
Alessandro Volta


8. When was the first elevator built?
1743

Sports Quiz

1. In tennis, what is 'no man's land'?
Midcourt (neither at the net nor the baseline)


2. Which track and field event is known as 'Suicide in 10 installments'?
The Decathlon, a gruelling event


3. The highest belt in Karate is black. What is the colour of the lowest belt?
White


4. Excluding the striker, how many pieces are there on the board when a carrom game starts?
19


5. What are the 2 basic categories in diving events at the Olympic Games?
Platform (or highboard) and Spring board


6. What is the colour a the centre of an archery target?
Gold


7. What are the colours of the chequered flag waved at the end of a motor race?
Black and White


8. Which game is played in 3 varieties - horse, cycle and elephant?
Polo

BCCI Cricket Awards 2010-11

Sachin Tendulkar	India's Cricketer of the Year
Salim Durani	Lifetime Achievement Award
Manish Pandey	Highest run scorer in Ranji Trophy
Abhimanyu Mithun	Highest Wicket-taker in Ranji Trophy
M D Thirushkamini	Best Woman Cricketer
K Hariharan	Best Umpire
Maharashtra	Best Overall Performance

History Quiz

1. If Pataliputra is to Patna, then Kashi is to which city?
Varanasi


2. There are 2 main entrances to the Fathepur Sikri, one is the Shahi Darwaza. Name the other.
The Buland Darwaza


3. The largest Mangrove forest in the world lies in Eastern India. What is it called?
The Sunderbans


4. The Mughal Emperor in 1803 was blind. Name him.
Shah Alam


5. Which Indian monument, located in Delhi, was built by the British in memory of 90,000 soldiers killled during World War I?
India Gate


6. Which invader of India was known as the 'Sword of Islam'?
Mahmud of Ghazni


7. From which dynasty did Babur obtain the Kohinoor Daimond?
The Lodhis


8. Which Mughal emperor issued gold and silver coins bearing the signs of the Zodiac?
Jahangir