Current Affairs : February 2013

Current Affairs of Febraury 2013
  1. Australia win Women's World Cup for sixth time
  2. SBI’s net profit rises 4% to Rs 3,400 crore
  3. British PM arrives on three-day India visit
  4. Noted social worker  Ramesh Bhatt was on Monday conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development by President Pranab Mukherjee.
  5. India-US Joint Working Group held its 10th Meeting in Washington
  6. NACO signed MoU with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to Highlight Issues related to AIDS
  7. Victoria Azarenka Defeats Serena Williams to Win 2013 Qatar Open

IBPS Specialist IT Officers : Syllabus & Book

 Banking sector offers opportunities for career in specialized fields like Agriculture Field Officer, IT Officer, Law Officer, Technical Officer, Finance Executive, Marketing Officer, HR /Personnel Officer, Chartered Accountant etc. Here is  unique opportunity for aspirants for career in Public Sector Banks through  Single  Written Examination .

In this post I write about IT officers syllabus and related books  . This time IBPS conducted online exam then you need to prepare well according to a systematic  plan .Specialist Officers examination is slightly different from Probationary officer examination.In Specialist Officers examination candidate has to clear Professional Knowledge test.So how to prepare for Specialist Officers examination is a big challenge & candidates need to understand syllabus clearly. There are mainly four section in the paper.

first three subject common in all examination (IBPS)only fourth part is different so you make a plan for every subject. you should more focus on professional knowledge.

 Some Important topics (80% question comes from this section) :
1. Database Management (DBMS)
2. Networking
3. Network Security
4. Web Technologies
5. Programming concepts (Basics)
6. Basic hardware (Microprocessor, timer, ALU etc)

Book for IT Officers:

Current Affairs Feb:2013



BHEL & GAIL get Maharatna Status by Govt. of India

ADB gave 100 Million US Dollar Loan to Uttarakhand

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the captain of the Indian cricket team was appointed as the vice-president of India Cements

India dropped to 140th Rank in the Latest World Press Freedom Index

NASA launched a New Communication Satellite called TDRS

Expert committee under Sam Pitroda Constituted to review Working of Prasar Bharti

General studies


  1. The Netherlands is the new name of Holland 
  2. Panam Highway is the world’s longest road
  3. Middle East group of countries includes west Asian countries.
  4. The New York version of Statue of Liberty was engineered by A.G. Eiffel .
  5.  The prime Meridian passes through Great Britain.

Current affairs



ATP World Tour Tennis: Djokovic bags Men's Singles Title beating Federer.

Karishma Kapoor Appointed Brand Ambassador of McCain Food

Ranjit Sinha appointed as the New Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)

Former Brazilian President Lula Da Silva was conferred with the 2010 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development

Current Affairs October 2012 part 2


current affairs october 2012
  1. Brahma Chellaney won the Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award for his book Water: Asia's New Battleground 
  2. Sharmila Tagore  Awarded with an Honorary Doctorate of Arts  by the Edinburgh Napier University.
  3. The Union Government  constituted a National Committee on Direct Cash Transfers.The PM , Manmohan Singh would be the Chairperson of the committee
  4. India has been ranked 105 in World Economic Forum's global gender gap report 2012
  5. Delhi International Airport (P) Limited (DIAL)  got an ISO 20000 international certification for eliminating and controlling information technology-related threats.
  6. Salman Khurshid --New External Affairs Minister
  7. Ashwani Kumar--- New Law Minister
  8. Rehman Khan ---- New Minority Affairs 
  9. Ajay Maken-------New Housing and Urban Development 
  10. Veerappa Moily --- NewPetroleum Ministry 
  11. Manish Tiwari -----New Information & Broadcasting Ministry.

Current Affairs October 2012

    current affairs for fci exam
    1. Babu Jagjivan Ram was awarded with the Friends of Liberation War Honour by the Government of Bangladesh.
    2. RBI allowed domestic companies to make payments in SEZ in foreign currency.
    3. Ek Thhi Kusum a Book by Prakash Pant Released. 
    4. The Foreign Exchange Reserve of India are kept in the custody of  Reserve Bank of India  .
    5. BHEL Deployed Solar Panel on GSAT 10 Satellite
    6. The World No. 4 badminton player Saina Nehwal won the Denmark Open Super Series
    7. The Folded Earth written by Anuradha Roy and A Free Man by Aman Sethi won the 11th Economist Crossword Book Award.
    8. Hilary Mantel  won the prestigious literary prize, the Booker Prize for her novel Bring up the Bodies.

            General study

            • Red blood corpuscles are formed in the Bone marrow
            • The number of bones in the human body of an adult is approximately 206 
            • Lungs are situated in the Thoracic cavity
            • The pancreas secretes Insulin 
            • The seat of memory in the human brain is located in the Cortex 
            • Which Vitamin helps in clotting of blood --- Vitamin k
            • Total volume of blood in a normal human being is 5-6 litresb
              •
            • Which  soils found in India is the most useful for agriculture? --- Alluvial soil
            • Which is the gland that holds the body's thermostat ? --- Thyroid
            • Which agencies released the report Economic outlook for 2009-10?-- PM’s Economic Advisor
            • The exchange of commodities between two countries is referred as Volume of trade

            computer science question and answer

            Bellman ford algorithm does not work for graphs that
             Contains negative weight cycles 
            In queue an element can be inserted and deleted by using
             Rear and front 
            Time complexity for evaluating postfix expression
            O(n) 
            The maximum number of nodes at level i of a binary tree is
             2i 
            The maximum number of nodes in a binary tree of height k is
             2K+1 i>=1 
            The complexity of heap sort algorithm
             O(nlogn) 
            A full binary tree with n non leaf noad contains
             2n+1 nodes 
            What is the use of banker’s algorithm
             To prevent deadlock in os 
            What is the extension of backup file
             .bak 
            The number of process completed per unit time is known as 
             Throughput
             How many digit of DNIC identify country
             First three 
            If you wanted to locate the hardware address of a local device which protocol would you use 
             ARP 
             The dialogue control and token management are responsibility of which layer
             Session layer

            Download previous year papers of Bank exams

            Practice is the Secret to Success . There are lot of vacancy in banking sector . If you prepare for bank exam then you need a lot of practice regularly . Questions are easy in the banking exam but you need to do in the time . there are to important factor for success in the banking exam knowledge and techniques . techniques came with regular practice . so you need to practice the previous year paper with your study.
            Do not think about only qualifying the exam . you need to secure more marks because there are merit list and you are call for interview if you are in the merit list.

            Some important points:

            • Do not waste your time on hard question . you first attempt easy questions .
            • If the answer not in options then go for none of these . do not solve question again .
            • do not answer on wild guess . you go for intelligent guess according to options.
            • Try to achieve accuracy with speed.
            • You try for less rough works . go for mental calculation. you can find some tricks on my this post percentage tricks and fast calcultion
            • solve previous year paper of banks
            I found previous year question paper on http://www.ibpsexamsportal.com

             some other pepers at http://www.jagranjosh.com
            SBI Clerk Written Exam 2012: Solved Question Paper on Reasoning
            IBPS 2012 CWE for PO/MT : Solved Questions on Computer Knowledge

            IBPS CWE : clerk recruitment in banks 2012-2013

            IBPS clerk recuitment : jobs in bank
            IBPS clerk exam 2012 announcement has been released. It is most awaited exam for bank aspirants . Qualifying in IBPS clerical exam is necessary to apply for clerk vacancies in 20 public sector BANKS . The Common Written Examination (CWE Clerk-II) for selection of personnel for Clerical cadre posts in the Public Sector Banks will be conducted online in december.

            Eligibility:


            • Age to be min 20 years & max. 28 yrs, as on Oct 1.2012 (+5 yrs for sc/st & + 3 for obc)
            • Pass in degree (any discipline) from a recognized university, as on 1.10.2012
            • Ability to read/write/speak in local language of the state applying is necessary.
            • Computer knowledge is compulsory

            Selection Process:


            An online written test (objective type) shall be held in the month of December at
            numerous centres across India. For 200 marks, the exam will comprise of 200 questions .

            Structure of Examination:

            IBPS clerk exam syllabus



            HOW TO APPLY:


            Candidates can apply online only from 15.10.2012 to 05.11.2012 and no other mode
            of application will be accepted on www.ibps.in.


            Application Fees/ Intimation Charges :

            (Payable from 15.10.2012 to 05.11.2012 (Online payment) and 17.10.2012 to 09.11.2012 (Offline payment) both dates inclusive)
            - Rs. 50/- for SC/ST/PWD/EXSM candidates.
            - Rs. 400 /- for all others

            IMPORTANT DATES:

            Start date for Online Registration 15.10.2012
            Online Payment of Application Fees 15.10.2012- 05.11.2012
            Offline Payment of Application Fees 17.10.2012- 09.11.2012
            Last date for Online Registration 05.11.2012
            Download of Call letter for Examination After 03.12.2012

            Recommended books and Study material for clerk exam: 

            CWE IBPS Bank Clerk Exam   Price: Rs.225
            I found that Competition Master is an excellent resource which has good collection of
            online papers for Bank Clerical exams
            Previous Papers Ibps (Cwe) For Bank Clerk Exam             Price: Rs.320
            Solved Papers Bank Clerk Exam Price: Rs.265

            NMCCO Recruitment 1721 post

            NATIONAL MICRO CREDIT CONTROL ORGANISATION
            National Micro Credit Control Organisation (NMCCO) Kolkata is inviting online applications from eligible candidates for the 1721 Various Post
            Post Code                    Name of Post                         No. of Vacancies        Scale of Pay

               01                                Credit Manager                                242                9300-34000 G.P 4200
               02                                Junior Accountant                       618                5200-20200 G.P 2400
               03                         Multi Tasking Staff (Clerk)              720               5200-20200 G.P 1800
               04                                           Peon                                               121                 5200-20200 G.P 1400