Gr8 Motivational Story of the Day - 3

Today's Motivational Story : Practice Makes you Perfect

A young Chinese boy from a tiny hamlet dreamt of becoming a Kung Fu expert like Bruce Lee and pestered his parents to admit him to a monastery where he could train to realize his dream. Reluctantly his parents agreed to send him, warning him that he would be able to return home only at the end of the term. The boy assured his parents that he would not feel homesick and would give it his best shot. He was given a grand send off by his friends who looked upon him already like a super hero. 

Once at the monastery the little boy was eager to learn the kicks and moves and wow his master with his eagerness and enthusiasm. On the first day of training, his instructor - a Monk - asked him to fetch a pot of water from a nearby well and fill a huge cask that was kept in the courtyard. After several trips the cask got filled with water to the brim. The monk now asked the little boy to splash his hands in the water really hard as if he was hitting someone. As he splashed, the water overflowed on all sides of the cask and fell to the ground. The boy was asked to continue this exercise till the water level in the cask came down.

The boy was then commanded to fetch water and refill the cask again. This process went on for the entire day, at the end of which the boy was dead tired. He however hoped that the Master would teach him the moves the following day.

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25th December 2016 Important Daily Current Affairs

Dear Great Ambitionists, here are today's (25th December 2016) Important Current Affairs updates. Happy Reading :)

Daily Current Affairs of 25th December 2016

International Current Affairs

• Christmas being celebrated across the world with traditional fervour and gaiety.
• US President Barack Obama has signed a $618-billion (around ₹42 lakh crore) defence policy bill, which "enhances security cooperation between the US and India".
• The bill also provides aid for Pakistan, on the condition that it can prove it is taking "demonstrable steps" against the militant Haqqani network.
• Hindus and other minority communities from Pakistan, living in India on long-term visa, can now register for the Indian citizenship for ₹100. 
  
• Earlier, this fee used to be as high as ₹15,000. 
• The relaxation also applies for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
• For other countries, the fee will be ₹10,000.
• In a bid to lessen the power shortage of Nepal, India today agreed to export an additional 240 MW of electricity.
• In this regard, an agreement was signed between Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and state-owned NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN). 

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One Word Substitutions - Lesson 8

Friends, this is the 8th Lesson of our One Word Substitutions lesson series. Today we are giving you 20 one word substitutes of the letter 'G'. Read and practice well. Happy Reading :)

One Word Substitutes Practice Test - 8

• Talk quickly and confuse people
• gabble (verb)
• A meeting where members talk informally and exchange news
• gabfest (noun)
• Go to different places to have fun
  
• gad (verb)
• Someone who criticizes other people to make them do something 
• gadfly (noun)

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New Development Schemes (Yojanas) Launched by PM Modi in year 2016

Hi I am Uma Maheshwara Reddy. Today I am sharing some important Schemes launched by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the year 2016 and their aims. Happy Reading :)

New Development Schemes (Pradhan Mantri Schemes) 2016

AMRUT - Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and UrbanTransportation :

Aim :To rejuvenate 500 cities over 5 years. 

Apprentice Protsahan Yojana 

Aim : To support manufacturing units and other establishments by reimbursing 50% of the stipend paid to apprentices during first two years of their training. It also aims to create a new perception to respect labour. The revamped apprenticeship scheme and Industrial Training Institutes would have a total of 34 lakh seats for students. 

Atal Pension Yojana Aim :
To provide for a monthly pension of Rs. 1000 to Rs. 5000 from the age of 60 years for all bank account holders in the unorganised sector which does not pay any income tax and whose age is between 18 to 40 years. The monthly pension will depend on the contribution made, ie., from z 42 to 2210 per month beginning at 18 years. 

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IBPS Clerks VI Main Grand Test : General Awareness with Special reference to the Banking Industry

1. Which country has decided to remove the 100-bolivar bank note from circulation in December 2016?
1. Venezuela
2. Colombia
3. Brazil
4. Bolivia
5. Argentina
2. Which is the first entity in India to start a Payments Bank ?
1. Reliance
2. Airtel
   
3. Paytm
4. India Post
5. Vodafone 
3. What is the present reverse repo rate?
1. 6.25%
2. 5.25%
3. 5.75%
4. 5.5%
5. None of these 

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December 2016 : Expected Current Affairs Quiz - Set 17

National Mathematics Day is observed on ?

National Mathematics Day is observed to commemorate birthday of which great Indian Mathematician ?

Who has been recently appointed as the new Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary ?

Creating history, which city of Mizoram has recently became the first free Wi-Fi city in the North-East region ?

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Gr8 Motivational Story of the Day - 2

Hello all, this is Ankita again. First of all, let me thank you all for the wonderful support to my yesterday's motivational story. I didn't expect such a great response to my yesterday's story. I was very  nervous while sharing that story with you, because many of my friends warned me that people are going to ridicule me if I share silly stuff like this. But, you guys proved them wrong. My post got around 20k views in a day. I feel motivated enough to share more stories. Here is the second story of the series.

Today's Motivational Story : Who Are You Listening To ?

Once upon a time, there was an ambitious group of tiny frogs who arranged a climbing competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tree. A huge crowd of frogs had gathered around the tree to watch the race and cheer on the contestants. The race began.

Not one tiny frog in the crowd really believed that the tiny frog contestants would ever reach the top of the really big tree.  After all, it was a really big tree. The crowd grew and they were yelling,

“Oh, that is WAY too difficult!!’

“They will NEVER make it to the top.”

“Not a chance that they will succeed. The tree is too high!”

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24th December 2016 Important Daily Current Affairs

Dear Great Ambitionists, here are today's (24th December 2016) Important Current Affairs updates. Happy Reading :)

Daily Current Affairs of 24th December 2016

MOUs & Agreements

• US President Barack Obama signs National Defence Authorisation Act 2017 to recognise India as America's major defence partner.
• India and Kazakhstan today inked a new protocol to take forward bilateral ties, especially in trade and economic spheres.
• Both parties discussed prospects for cooperation in fields like energy, investment, tourism, and agriculture.
• The protocol was signed during the 5th Kazakh-Indian Joint Working Group on trade and economic cooperation meeting.

National Current Affairs

• National Consumers Day / National Consumers Right Day is observed today with the objective of providing better protection of consumer’s interest.
• This day is being observed since the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 was enacted on this day in 1986.
• Theme of the year 2016 : Alternate Consumer Disputes Redressal
  
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone (performed Jal Pujan) of 'Shiv Smarak', a ₹3,600-crore memorial of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Mumbai. 
• Located 1.5 km off the coast, it will house Shivaji's 192 m tall statue. 
• Taller than New York's Statue of Liberty, it would reportedly be the world's tallest statue once completed.

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Today's RBI Assistant Preliminary Online Exam Review

Hi guys, I am Uma Maheshwara Reddy. Today I am sharing the review of today's Preliminary Online Exam of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Assistants.

The exam was very easy than IBPS Clerks Prelims. All 3 sections (English, Reasoning and Numerical Ability) are very easy compared to IBPS Clerks VI. Numerical Ability was little time consuming, needs more calculations. Here is the section wise review.

Numerical Ability

• Total Questions - 35
• My attempts - 21
  
• Topics Covered
• Simplification
• Approximation
• Number Series
• SI & CI
• Profit Loss
• Boats streams
• Time and work
• Mixture and Allegation
• Partnership
• Pipes & Cisterns
• Probability
• DI (about the production of various companies on different days of week)

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Meet the winner of 52nd Jnanpith Award Winner - Shankha Ghosh

Veteran Bengali poet and literary critic Shankha Ghosh has been choosen for this year's Jnanpith Award 2016 - India's highest literary award.  The award is given for exceptional contribution in the fielf of literature. He is the 52nd recipient of Jnanpith Award. The decision was announced by the Jnanpith Board in New Delhi yesterday. He is sixth Bengali litterateur to bag this prestigious literary award after Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1966), Bishnu Dey (1971), Ashapoorna Devi (1976), Subhash Mukhopadhyay (1991) and Mahasweta Devi (1966).

About Jnanpith Award

• Jnanpith Award is an India's Highest literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith, a literary and research organization to an author for the "outstanding contribution towards literature".
• This award was first instituted in the year 1961.
• This award comprises a citation plaque, a cash prize of ₹11 lakh, and a bronze replica of goddess Saraswati.
• First winner of this award : G. Sankara Kurup (Malayalam)
• Recent Winner of this award : Shankha Ghosh (Bengali)

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