Current Affairs Quiz

Google and IEEE to offer $1 million as prize for Little Box Challenge


Google and IEEE start 'Little Box Challenge' to build a (compact) kW-scale power inverter for home that can transform renewable energy into a power source.


LAST date for registration: 30th September 2014


REGISTERED teams must submit a technical approach and testing application by 22nd July 2015


GRAND prize to be announced in January 2016


Web: www.littleboxchallenge.com

List of Sports at 20th Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014


Dates: 23rd July to 3rd August 2014

Venue: Glasgow


List of Sports at commonwealth games 2014

Aquatics
Athletics
Badminton
Boxing
Cycling
Gymnastics
Hockey
Judo
Lawn Bowls
Netball
Rugby Sevens
Shooting
Squash
Table Tennis
Triathlon
Weightlifting
Wrestling

14 sports venues commonwealth games 2014


Athletes Village

Barry Buddon Shooting Centre

Cathkin Braes Mountain Bike Trails

Celtic Park

Emirates Arena including the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome

Glasgow National Hockey Centre

Hampden Park

Ibrox Stadium

Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre

Royal Commonwealth Pool

SECC Precinct

Scotstoun Sports Campus

Strathclyde Country Park

Tollcross International Swimming Centre

List of Education websites and teach rural India online


Educationtimes - www.educationtimes.com

Shiksha - www.shiksha.com

Vidyarthy - www.vidyarthy.com

Vidyavision - www.vidyavision.com

Classteacher - www.classteacher.com

Kids Web India - www.kidswebindia.com

Pearson Education India - www.pearsoned.co.in





Education and Opportunity - www.opportunity.org

Teach Rural India Online - www.evidyaloka.org

Mental Health Education in Rural India - www.mindsfoundation.org

Social Responsibility - www.roomtoread.org

Distance Learning to Rural Schools - www.self.org

Caribbean Premier League 2014  teams and venue


Dates: 11th July 2014 to 16th August 2014


List of teams CPL 2014

Antigua Hawksbills

Barbados Tridents

Guyana Amazon Warriors

Jamaica Tallawahs

St Lucia Zouks

T & T Red Steel


List of CPL 2014 venue

Antigua

Barbados

Grenada

Guyana

Jamaica

Port of Spain

St Kitts

St Lucia

FIFA 2014 Awards


Budweiser Man of the match (Finals) - Gotze, Germany

Adidas Golden Ball - Lionel Messi, Argentina

Adidas Golden Boot - James Rodriguez, Colombia

Adidas Golden Glove - Manuel Neuer, Germany

Hyundai Young Player Award - Paul Pogba, France

Fair Play Award - Team Colombia

Governor:

Governor of Reserve Bank of India: Dr. Raghuram Rajan


Deputy Governor:

1. Shri H.R. Khan
2. Dr. Urjit R. Patel
3. Shri R.Gandhi

Rates:

1. Bank Rate: 9%
2. Repo Rate: 8%
3. Reverse Repo rate: 7%


Reserve Ratios:

1. Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR): 22.5%
2. Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR): 4%

Who is the Governor of Andhra Pradesh?
E. S. L. Narasimhan

Who is the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh?
Nirbhay Sharma

Who is the Governor of Assam?
J B Patnaik

Who is the Governor of Bihar?
D. Y. Patil

Who is the Governor of Chhattisgarh?
Ram Naresh Yadav

Who is the Governor of Goa?
Margaret Alva

Who is the Governor of Gujarat?
Margaret Alva

Who is the Governor of Haryana?
Jagannath Pahadia

Who is the Governor of Himachal Pradesh?
Urmila Singh

Who is the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir?
Narinder Nath Vohra

Who is the Governor of Jharkhand?
Syed Ahmed

Who is the Governor of Karnataka?
K Rosaiah

Who is the Governor of Kerala?
Sheila Dikshit

Who is the Governor of Madhya Pradesh?
Ram Naresh Yadav

Who is the Governor of Maharashtra?
K. Sankaranarayanan

Who is the Governor of Manipur?
Vinod Kumar Duggal

Who is the Governor of Meghalaya?
Krishan Kant Paul (K.K.Paul)

Who is the Governor of Mizoram?
Kamla Beniwal

Who is the Governor of Nagaland?
Vakkom Purushothaman

Who is the Governor of Orissa?
S.C.Jamir

Who is…

6th BRICS Summit, BRICS July 2014

BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

Dates: 15th to 17th July 2014

Host Country: Brazil

Host City: Fortaleza


Participants at BRICS Summit 2014


Member and its Representatives

Brazil: Dilma Rousseff, President

Russia: Vladimir Putin, President

India: Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

China: Xi Jinping: President

South Africa: Jacob Zuma, President

Union Budget July 2014 updates

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's maiden Budget 2014


Media:Times of IndiaNITI CENTRALThe Hindu

India tour of England July 2014

MS Dhoni (Captain/Wicket keeper)
Murali Vijay
Shikhar Dhawan
Gautam Gambhir
Cheteshwar Pujara
Virat Kohli
Ajinkya Rahane
Rohit Sharma
Ravindra Jadeja
R Ashwin
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Mohammed Shami
Ishwar Pandey
Ishant Sharma
Stuart Binny
Varun Aaron
Wriddhiman Saha
Pankaj Singh

India final budget July 2014



Railway Budget 2014: 8th July, Tuesday

Railway Minister: Sadananda Gowda's maiden rail budget

Web:Indianrailways

Media: NDTVTimes of India

Star Sports Live broadcast in India MCC Teams, Rest of the world teams for Lords World bicentenary match 5th July 2014

MCC players list


Sachin Tendulkar (Captain) India
Saeed Ajmal Pakistan
Shivnarine Chanderpaul West Indies
Rahul Dravid India
Aaron Finch Australia
Umar Gul Pakistan
Brian Lara West Indies
Brett Lee Australia
Chris Read England
Shaun Tait Australia
Daniel Vettori New Zealand

Tickets

Rest of the World players list

Shane Warne (Captain) Australia
Shahid Afridi Pakistan
Tino Best West Indies
Paul Collingwood England
Adam Gilchrist Australia
Tamim Iqbal Bangladesh
Muttiah Muralitharan Sri Lanka
Kevin Pietersen England
Virender Sehwag India
Peter Siddle Australia
Yuvraj Singh India