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Madhyanchal Gramin Bank Recruitment 2015 – Apply Online for 97 Officer Scale-I Posts: Madhyanchal Gramin Bank has issued notification fo...

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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Madhyanchal Gramin Bank Recruitment 2015 – Apply Online for 97 Officer Scale-I Posts:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Madhyanchal Gramin Bank has issued notification for the recruitment of 97 Officer Scale-I vacancies. Candidates who have been declared qualified at the Online Common Written Exam III for RRBs conducted by IBPS during September/ October 2014 may apply online from 01-09-2015 to 15-09-2015. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Madhyanchal Gramin Bank Vacancy details:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Total No.of Posts: 97</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Name of the Posts: Officer Scale-I</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">1. SC: 22 Posts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2. ST: 01 Post</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">3. OBC: 30 Posts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">4. General: 44 Posts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Age Limit:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Candidates age should between 18 years to 28 years for Officer Scale-I post as on 01-06-2014. Age relaxation is applicable as per rules.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Qualification:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Candidates should possess Degree in any discipline from a recognized University/ equivalent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Selection Process:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Candidates will be selected based on their performance in RRBs- CWE-III conducted by IBPS in September/ October 2014 and Personal Interview.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>IBPS Score Card (CWE) Details:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Candidates who have been declared qualified in RRBs-Online CWE conducted by IBPS in September/ October 2014 should have obtained the following marks…</span></div>
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<tr><td><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Sl No</b></span></span></td><td><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Name of the Post</b></span></span></td><td><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>SC/ ST/ SC-PWD/ STPWD/</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>SC-EXS/ ST-EXS</b></span></span></td><td><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>OBC/ GEN/ OBC-PWD/</b></span></span><br />
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<tr><td><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">1.</span></td><td><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Office Scale-I</span></td><td><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">70 & above</span></td><td><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">80 & above</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>How to Apply:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Eligible candidates can apply online through the website www.mgbank.co.in from 01-09-2015 to 15-09-2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Instructions to Apply Online:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">1. Log on to <a href="http://www.mgbank.co.in/">www.mgbank.co.in</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2. Click on <b>"Recruitment"</b> —> "Apply Online for Second Round Recruitment Process of Officer Scale-I".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">3. Read all the instructions carefully.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">4. Fill all the details & Submit the form.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">5. Now take the print out of online application form for future use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Important Dates:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Starting Date to Apply Online: 01-09-2015.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Last Date to Apply Online: 15-09-2015.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Last Date for Reprint: 30-09-2015.</b></span></div>
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benefits in the form of offers and discounts, and facilities such as free
ambulance services. </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">India to assume Presidency of
the 68th World Health Assembly </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
i. Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Jagat Prakash Nadda,
will preside over the 68th Session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) at Geneva
as India assumes the Presidency of the WHA, the high decision making body of
the World Health Organisation (WHO), after a gap of 19 years. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
ii. The Union Minister is leading a high level Indian delegation
to the WHA, to be held in Geneva From May 18-27, 2015.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
iii. According to a PIB release, the 68th World Health Assembly is
expected to deliberate on key issues of global interest including anti-microbial
resistance, air pollution and health, global health emergency, preparedness and
surveillance, global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation
and intellectual property, and research and development in neglected tropical
diseases.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
iv. The Union Minister will also participate in a number of
bilateral and multilateral meetings on the sidelines of the WHA including the
Commonwealth Health Ministers’ Meeting, 8th NAM Health Ministers’ Meeting and
BRICS Health Ministers’ meeting.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">World's oldest comatose patient
Aruna Shanbaug dead </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
i. Aruna Shanbaug, the former nurse at KEM Hospital here who was
brutally sexually assaulted by a ward boy at the facility 42 years ago and had
been lying in a vegetative state ever since, passed away today. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
ii. The 66-year-old was battling a serious bout of pneumonia and
was on ventilator support, King Edward Memorial (KEM) hospital sources
said. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
iii. She was in the medical ICU of the hospital located in Parel
area of Mumbai. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
iv. On November 27, 1973, while working as a junior nurse at KEM
Hospital, she was sexually assaulted by a ward boy. She was in a vegetative
state since the assault. On 24 January 2011, after she had been in this state
for 38 years, the Supreme Court responded to the plea for euthanasia filed by
Aruna's friend, journalist Pinki Virani, by setting up a medical panel to
examine her. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Brad Haddin: Australia
wicketkeeper quits one-day game</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
i. Brad Haddin, the Australia wicketkeeper, has formally announced
his retirement from ODI cricket, a day before leaving for Test tours of the
West Indies and England.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
ii. Amid the Australia team's celebrations after the World Cup
final victory over New Zealand in Melbourne in March, Haddin had revealed that
he was not going to play any more one-day games.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
iii. Haddin played 126 ODIs and scored 3122 runs at an average of
31.53 with two centuries and 16 fifties. He also had 170 catches and 11
stumpings, the third-most dismissals for Australia after Adam Gilchrist and Ian
Healy. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>PM's social security schemes: Canara Bank rolls out
awareness campaigns across Delhi</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>i. Building
on the success of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, the state-owned Canara Bank
on Sunday rolled out awareness campaigns across Delhi on the Prime Minister's
three latest social security schemes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>ii. Roadshows
were held in 16 clusters across Delhi to promote the three new social security
scheme</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Atal Pension Yojana (APY).</span></span></li>
</ul>
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</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>iii. For
the Delhi region, Canara Bank has enrolled the maximum number of persons
(1,12,929 lives) under the PMSBY among all banks till date. Even in the case of
PMJJBY, Canara Bank is leading the league table with 74,512 lives enrolled up
to May 13 this year, data available with the Delhi State level Bankers'
Committee showed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>CII welcomes biz outcomes of Modi’s China visit</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>i. According
to CII, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China has redefined the
economic partnership between the two largest and fastest-growing developing
economies in the world.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>ii. Welcoming
the business outcomes of the visit, it said: “Prime Minister Modi’s visit to
China has redefined the economic partnership of the two largest and
fastest-growing developing economies in the world.’’</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>iii. In
the presence of the Prime Minister at the India-China Business Forum in
Shanghai, Indian and Chinese companies exchanged 24 agreements for cooperation
totalling $22 billion, including investments and financing across sectors, the
statement said.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>iv. Chinese
initiatives in the sectors of railways, skill development, public health and
medical education will further build on economic cooperation between the two
countries, it added.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Govt contains fiscal deficit at 4% of GDP; beats its
own target</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>i. The
Government has managed to restrict the fiscal deficit to 4 per cent during
2014-15, which is even below the revised estimate announced in the budget.
Fiscal deficit is difference between the income and expenditure of the
Government.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>ii. The
fiscal deficit at the end of 2014-15, stands at Rs. 5,01,880 crore which is 98
per cent of the projected figure in RE (Revised Estimate) 2014-15. Fiscal
deficit as a percentage of GDP is 4 per cent as against the RE of 4.1 per cent
(4.4 per cent for the previous year i.e. 2013-14).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Revenue Deficit</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>The revenue
deficit also came down to 2.8 per cent as against the revised estimate of 2.9
per cent. This deficit refers to mismatch in the projected earning ad
expenditure. Since the Government managed to collect more taxes than it was
expecting, it impacted positively not just the revenue but also fiscal deficit
too.</span></span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Income</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Tax
authorities managed to collect over Rs. 12.45 lakh crore during the 2014-15,
which is 9 per cent more than 2013-14. This collection is 9.8 per cent of GDP.
Such earnings which also comprise of disinvestment stands at Rs. 43,439 crore
with an increase of 4 per cent.</span></span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Expenditure</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>In terms of
plan expenditure, the RE was Rs. 4.68 lakh crore, but actual was Rs. 4.36 lakh
crore. Similarly, non plan expenditure came down to Rs. 11.91 lakh crore from
the RE of of Rs. 12.13 lakh crore.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span>India grants
$1 bn credit to Mongolia; deepens defence ties</span></span></b></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>i. India
today announced a US$ one billion credit line to Mongolia for infrastructure
development as they upgraded their ties to “Strategic Partnership” and agreed
to deepen defense cooperation besides exploring potential for tie ups in areas
like the civil nuclear sector.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>ii. The
two Prime Ministers signed a joint statement committing to further consolidate
bilateral ties and upgrade the comprehensive partnership to “strategic
partnership” and agreed to renew their Treaty of Friendly Relations and
Cooperation.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>iii. The
two sides inked 13 other pacts that includes one on enhancing cooperation in
border guarding, policing and surveillance, air services, cyber security and
new and renewable energy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Airtel clinches $2.5 billion Chinese financing deals</span></b></span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>i. The
funds will help the company further diversify its global financing pool and
invest in growth of data networks.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>ii. Bharti
Airtel has received financing commitments of up to USD 2.5 billion from China
Development Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, with an average
maturity of about nine years.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>iii. The
company signed the term sheets for the financing options in the presence of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is currently on an official visit to
China. </span></span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Infosys to open first overseas campus in China</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>i. As
India pressed China to open its markets for Indian IT firms, technology major
Infosys on Sunday announced establishing its first overseas centre outside
India in China with an investment of about USD 120 million to tap in the
burgeoning Chinese market.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>ii. An
MOU in this regard was signed between Infosys and the local Chinese provincial
government at the India-China Business Forum, which was addressed by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi in Shanghai on Sunday.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">

</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>iii. The
development centre, to be established in China’s Guizhou province, with a staff
capacity of about 4,500 will help to focus on Chinese and global markets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Rome Masters 2015: Winners</span></b></span></div>
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</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><span>Women's Singles - Maria Sharapova</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Men's Singles - Roger Federer</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Women's Doubles - Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Men's Doubles - P. Cuevas  and D. Marrero</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Egypt's ousted President Morsy
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i. An Egyptian court has sentenced ousted President Mohammed Morsy
to death.</div>
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ii. Judge Shaaban el-Shami referred his death sentence on Morsy
and more than 20 others to the nation’s top Muslim theologian, or mufti, for
his non-binding opinion.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>iii. The ousted leader already is serving a
20-year sentence following his conviction on April 21 on charges linked to the
killing of protesters outside a Cairo presidential palace in December 2012.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Airtel clinches $2.5 billion Chinese
financing deals</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
i. Bharti Airtel has received financing commitments of up to USD
2.5 billion from China Development Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of
China, with an average maturity of about nine years.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
ii. This is the single-largest bilateral commitment by China
Development Bank to any telecom operator globally and the largest bilateral commitment
to a private Indian company.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
iii. Bharti Airtel announced a strategic collaboration with China
Mobile, under which the two companies will work towards growth of the Long-Term
Evolution (LTE) ecosystem and evolving mobile technology standards.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arun Shrivastava assumes charge
as Syndicate Bank MD and CEO<br />
</b>i. Arun Shrivastava assumed charge as Managing Director & CEO of
Syndicate Bank.<br />
ii. He was Executive Director of Bank of India, looking after Finance,
Strategy & Planning, Large Corporate & Mid Corporate Business,
Corporate Debt Restructuring, Project Finance & Syndication, Credit
Monitoring & Asset Recovery, Publicity & Public Relations portfolios of
the bank.<br />
iii. Earlier, Shrivastava was overseeing the foreign subsidiaries – BoI
Indonesia and Botswana and joint venture – India Zambia Bank.<br />
iv. He is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers and AIBM.
He started his career as direct recruit officer in Bank of Baroda in 1979.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Modi inaugurates ICICI Bank's first
branch in China</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
i. Top private sector lender ICICI Bank opened its first branch in
China, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
ii. The new branch would begin with 17 banking professionals
handling different functions including corporate banking, operations, finance
and treasury.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
iii. Some public sector banks including SBI, UCO Bank, Canara Bank
and Allahabad Bank have also expanded their presence in China in the recent
years to tap growing trade flows between the two countries.  </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">PM Modi extends e-visa for
Chinese nationals<br />
</b>i. Brushing aside objections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced
granting of e-visa (electronic visa also called visa on arrival) facility to
the Chinese nationals in Beijing even as he urged China to "reconsider its
approach" to issues that have long strained ties and complicated business
between the two Asian giants.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
ii. Pledging to improve historically weak economic links between
their countries, India and China also signed 24 deals worth over $10 billion,
including MOUs in the area of skill development, railways, establishing sister
relations between cities of the two countries among others.<br />
iii. Modi's announcement on e-visas took everyone by surprise as only a
couple of hours before had India's foreign secretary S Jaishankar said
categorically, "We are expanding it (e-visa) bit by bit. With regard to
China, no decision has been taken yet on extending e-visa."<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Shakuntala Gamlin takes charge as Delhi
chief secretary despite CM Arvind Kejriwal's directive<br />
</b>i. Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Shakuntala
Gamlin on Saturday took charge as acting Chief Secretary of Delhi Government
despite being asked by the Chief Minister not to do so.<br />
ii. A senior Delhi government official said that in his letter to Gamlin,
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said that her appointment is against
the set rule.<br />
iii. Lt Governor Najeeb Jung gave the additional charge of Chief Secretary
to Gamlin, a 1984-batch IAS officer, hours after she wrote a scathing letter to
Jung claiming that she was pressurised by a senior bureaucrat in Chief
Minister's office not to be in race for the post due to her alleged proximity
to BSES discoms.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gagan Narang wins World Cup bronze,
earns India quota for Rio Olympics<br />
</b>i. Gagan Narang won the bronze medal in the 50m Rifle Prone Event of
the ISSF World Cup at Fort Benning in USA, earning himself a quota place for
the 2016 Rio Olympics.<br />
ii. Narang, who won the bronze in 10m Rifle at the London Olympics, shot
185.8 overall to secure third place behind gold medalist Michael McPhail (208.8
points) of USA and Ole Kristian Bryhn (206.3) of Norway.<br />
iii. The other quota place from the event went to McPhail.<br />
iv. Earlier in the competition, Narang and India's only individual Olympic
gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, had failed to qualify for the 10m Rifle final.<br />
v. Narang is third Indian shooter to make the Rio cut after Jitu Rai and
Apurvi Chandela.</div>
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