Ramon Magsaysay Award 2017 Winners List

The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation has recently announced the winners of prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2017, which is also known as the Asia's Nobel Prize. A Japanese historian who helped Cambodians preserve the Angkor temples and a Sri Lankan teacher who counseled war widows and orphans to overcome their nightmares are among the six winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Awards. There were no Indian's in this year's awardees.  

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RBI Monetary Policy Review Highlights : Cuts Repo Rate by 25 bps to 6%

After keeping its key policy rate unchanged at 6.25% for a long time, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today cuts its repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.00% during bi-monthly policy review. This is the lowest in more than six-and-a-half years. The Reverse repo rate has also been cut by 0.25 per cent to 5.75 per cent.

The rate cut comes after a slump in food prices sent June consumer inflation to a record low of 1.54%. The rate cut will boost credit growth which has been sluggish over last few quarters. Here are the major highlights of today's monetary policy review.

Highlights RBI's Third Bi-monthly Monetary Policy

• Key policy rate reduced by 0.25 percent to 6 percent.
• Reverse repo rate cut by 0.25 percent to 5.75 percent.
• Focus on keeping headline inflation close to 4 percent on Durable basis.

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English Vocabulary from "The Hindu News Paper" - 2nd August 2017

Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 2nd August 2017. Happy reading :)

Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials


Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A clear failure: On Tamil Nadu and NEET"

• Mishandle -  to deal with a situation or process badly or without enough care
• Upgrading - to improve the quality of a service or product
• Live down - to make people forget about something embarrassing or silly that you have done
• Solely - involving nothing except the person or thing mentioned / only
  
• Disaster - something that is annoying or a failure
• Controversial - a controversial subject, opinion, or decision is one that people disagree about or do not approve of
• Let down -  to make someone disappointed by not doing something that they are expecting you to do
• Aspiring - hoping and trying to be successful at something, especially in your career
• Beset - to cause someone difficulty or danger over a period of time

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SSC CGL 2017 Special : Indian History Quiz from Previous Papers - set 4

1. Off the following scholars, who was the first to discover the traces of the Harappan Civilization ?
1. Sir John Marshall
2. Rs. D. Bangeji
3. A. Cunningham
4. Daya Ram Sahni
2. "Monolithic Rathas" of the Pallavas are found at 
1. Kanchipuram
2. Puri
   
3. Mahabalipuram
4. Agra
3. The paintings of Ajanta depict the stories of 
1. Ramayana
2. Mahabharata
3. Jataka
4. Panchatantra
4. Which is the port-town of Indus valley civilisation ?
1. Kalibangan
2. Lothal
3. Ropar
4. Mohenjodaro
5. Poet Kalidasa lived in the court of 
1. Chandragupta Maurya
2. Samudragupta
3. Chandragupta Vikramaditya
4. Harsha

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One Word Substitutions for IBPS Bank Exams 2017 - Lesson 75

Friends, this is the 75th Lesson of our One Word Substitutions lesson series. Today we are giving you one word substitutes of the letter 'F'. Read and practice well. Happy Reading :)

One Word Substitutes Practice Test - 75

• Sensitive and strange
• fey (adjective)
• The man engaged to a woman
• fiance (noun)
  
• The woman engaged to a man
• fiancee (noun)
• A failure causing embarrassment 
• fiasco (noun)
• A false statement
• fib (noun)
• Often changing suddenly
• fickle (adjective)
• Touch and move something as one is bored 
• fiddle (adjective)
• The quality of being faithful to someome or something 
• fidelity (noun)
• Move hands or feet as one is bored or nervous
• fidget (verb)

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3rd Lagos International Badminton Classics Winners List

The 3rd Lagos International Badminton Classics (also known as Lagos International) was recently held at Lagos, Nigeria from 26th July to 29th July 2017. A total of 70 players from 11 countries participated in men’s singles, women’s singles, mixed double and double events. This tournament is important for us because Indian's clinched medals in Men's Singles, Men's Doubles and Women's Singles events. Here is the complete winners list. Happy Reading :)

Winners of Lagos International 2017

• Men's Singles :
• Rahul Yadav Chittaboina  (India)
• Women's Singles :
• Thilini Pramodika Hendahewa (Sri Lanka)
• Men's Doubles :
• Manu Attri (India)
• B. Sumeeth Reddy (India)

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1st August 2017 Important Daily Current Affairs

Dear Great Ambitionists, here are today's (1st August 2017) Important Current Affairs updates. Happy Reading :)

Daily Current Affairs of 1st August 2017

International Current Affairs

• World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), an annual celebration which is being held every year from 1 to 7 August in more than 120 countries, has started today.
• Being organized by WABA (World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action), WHO (World Health Organization) and UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), WBW came
  
  up with the goal to promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life which yields tremendous health benefits, providing critical nutrients, protection from deadly diseases such as pneumonia and fostering growth and development for the first time in 1991.
• Themes of World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) 2017 : "SUSTAINING BREASTFEEDING TOGETHER"

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English Vocabulary from "The Hindu News Paper" - 1st August 2017

Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 1st August 2017. Happy reading :)

Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials

Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Dangerous escalation: On Russia’s expulsion U.S. staff"

• Escalation - to become much worse or more serious
• Expulsion -  an occasion when someone is officially forced to leave an organization or activity permanently because of their bad behaviour
  
• Retaliatory - intended to do something harmful or unpleasant to someone because they have done something harmful or unpleasant to you
• Spiral - a situation that gets worse and worse
• Diplomatic - relating to the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
• Superpower - a country that has great military, economic, and political power
• Senate -  the more senior part of a law-making institution

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SSC CGL 2017 Special : Physics Questions from Previous Papers - Set 2

1. Surface tension in a liquid is due to :
1. Adhesive force between molecules
2. Cohesive force between molecules
3. Gravitational force between molecules
4. Electrical force between molecules
2. A circular plate, a cube and  a sphere, all made up of same material and having the same mass, are heated to 300°C and left in a room. Which of them will have the slowest rate of cooling ?
1. Circular plate
   
2. Cube
3. Sphere
4. All will cool at the same rate
3. Optic fibres are used in ?
1. CAT scans
2. X-ray photos
3. Ultrasound Scans
4. Endoscopy
4. Two waves, each of amplitude 1.5 mm and frequency 10Zz, are traveling in opposite direction with a speed of 20 mm/s. The distance in mm between adjacent nodes is :
1. 1.0
2. 1.2
3. 1.5
4. 2.0

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July 2017 Current Affairs Quiz - Set 15

Canara Bank, which has set an ambitious target of moving to ‘paperless’ futuristic banking, launched its first ‘Digital Banking Branch’ at ____________ ?

A former Union Minister was recently conferred with the Japan’s imperial decoration ‘Order of the Rising Sun’ award for his contribution to fostering Japan-India ties. Name him ?

The Reliance Defence and Engineering Limited (RDEL) has launched two Naval Offshore Patrol Vessels (NOPVs). These are the first warships to be launched by a private sector shipyard in India. Name them ?

The world's smallest spacecraft ever launched have successfully been placed in low Earth orbit by ISRO's PSLV rocket. Name it ?

Which state government has recently banned the use of liquid nitrogen in drinks and food ?

World Day against Trafficking in Persons is observed on ?

What is the Theme of World Day against Trafficking in Persons 2017 ?

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