SBI PO 2017 Notification OUT

State Bank of India has released the Notification for the recruitment of PO 2017.

Number of vacancies are 2403

The tentative schedule of events is as follows :
On-line registration including Edit/Modification of Application by candidates 07-02-2017 to 06-03-2017
Payment of Application Fees/Intimation Charges 07-02-2017 to 06-03-2017
Download of call letters for online Preliminary Examination 15-04-2017 onwards
Online Examination – Preliminary 29th & 30th Apr and 6th & 7th May'17
Result of Online exam – Preliminary 17-05-2017
Download of Call letter for Online Main Exam 22-05-2017 onwards
Conduct of Online Examination – Main 4th June 2017
Declaration of Result – Main 19th June 2017
Download Call Letter for Interview 26th June 2017
Conduct of Group Exercises & Interview - 10th July 2017 onward
Declaration of Final Result -  5th Aug 2017


Click on below link to view the official Notification

https://www.sbi.co.in/webfiles/uploads/files/SBI_PO_Rectruitment_Eng_06022017.pdf
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Daily Current Affairs Update --- 5th February, 2017

• India is going to host a key meet on nuclear security in New Delhi next week.


• Anand Kumar Gupta has taken over the charge as Director commercial at National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC).


• AIADMK General Secretary VK Sasikala elected as the President of the legislature party.
Important Note : She is expected to take over as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister on February 9.


• A penalty of equal amount will be levied for any cash transaction of over ₹3 lakh from April 1, Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia has announced .

°Note : A ban on cash transaction of over ₹3 lakh has been proposed in the Union Budget.


• England Test captain Alastair Cook has been honoured with Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE).


• The Ministry of AYUSH has constituted a 16-member committee under the chairmanship of Dr. H.R. Nagendra, Chancellor, S-Vyasa University, to prepare a Yoga Protocol for Diabetes Control.


• In a move to encourage active participation in the assembly poll especially by women voters, the government of Goa conducted a unique experiment, which involved giving away 600 pink teddy bears to first time women voters across the state.


• The Qatar Airways has launched the World’s longest scheduled commercial service to ply between Doha to Auckland. The inaugural service of Flight QR920 took off on February 5, 2017 from Doha and will take 16 hours and 20 minutes to travel 14,535 kilometers to reach Auckland in New Zealand.


• KPMG India has appointed the former US government official Arun M Kumar as the Chairman and CEO to lead KPMG India operations.


• Google has announced to sell its Terra Bella business which includes a group of SkySat Earth imaging satellites to an imaging start-up, Planet Labs .


• Sports Minister Vijay Goel  laid the foundation stone of the India’s first Center of Excellence for Para Sports to help para athletes in showcasing their skills and talent further both at the national and international level in Gujarat for Rs 50 Cr.


• Basketball Federation of India announced that India will host FIBA Women’s Asia Cup basketball tournament in July 2017 in Bengaluru .
India also set to host the FIBA U-16 Women’s Asian Championship from October 22 to 28 in Hyderabad .


• Indian team defeated Malaysia 2-0 in Hong Kong to clinch the gold medal at the Asian Junior Squash championship.

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Daily Current Affairs Update --- 3rd & 4th February, 2017

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• India and Sri Lanka have signed an MOU to construct a new multi-ethnic tri-lingual secondary school in Polonnaruwa District of Sri Lanka.


•The National Rail Museum in New Delhi celebrated its 40th anniversary .


• Finance Minister Arun Jaitley introduced the Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Bill 2017 in Lok Sabha.


• China has successfully tested a new version of a DF-5C missile that can carry up to 10 nuclear warheads.


• Pankaj Advani has won the Indian National Snooker Championship in Pune to register his 29th national title.


• Sanjeev Sanyal, former global strategist and Managing Director of Deutshe Bank, was today appointed as Principal Economic Adviser.


• India's Lakshya Sen has become the World No 1 Junior Badminton player.


• The most expensive silk saree was made by Chennai Silks and was sold for around Rs.40 lakh according to Guinness World Records.


• The Centre of Integrative Oncology is going to be inaugurated on 3 February 2017 at the National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research (NICPR), Noida.


• National Stock Exchange selected IDFC chief Vikram Limaye as its new CEO and Managing Director .


• The 19th edition of Bharat Rang Mahotsav or International Drama Festival kicked off in New Delhi.


• Right to Information (RTI) Act has come into effect in Sri Lanka from February 3, 2017.


•  A premium digital marketing agency LIQVD ASIA collaborate with iKarmik.com, has launched India’s First Ever Online Exhibition gateway – ExFirst.com .


• Former Deputy CAG Suman Saxena, Mukulita Vijaywargiya and Navrang Saini have been appointed as whole-time members for 5 years or till completion of 65 years in Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) .


• Today (4th February) is World Cancer Day.
Theme of World Cancer Day 2016-18 : 'We can. I can'


• Today (4th February) is Independence Day of Sri Lanka.


• West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced a "cremation/burial allowance" of ₹2,000 for people of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families in the state.


• Indian skipper Virat Kohli features on Cover Page of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.

Note : Kohli becomes only the third Asian origin player after Sachin Tendulkar and England all-rounder Moeen Ali to be featured on the cover of the magazine.


• Pedro Almodovar will head the jury at the 70th Cannes Film Festival which will be held from May 17 to 28 this year.


• The Union Ministry of Railways and Italy’s public sector rail company Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane Group (FS Group) has signed MoU for technical cooperation in rail sector especially in the area of safety and modernisation.


• India’s first Centre of Excellence in Automation Technology was inaugurated by the Gujarat Technological University at its campus at Vishwakarma Government Engineering College in Ahmedabad .


• Pranab Mukherjee opened the annual ‘Udyanotsav‘ of the Rashtrapati Bhavan on February 4, 2017. The Mughal Gardens will remain open for general public from February 4, 2017 to March 12, 2017.


• Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State for Home Affairs inaugurated the programme on ‘Inner Strength and Disaster Resilience’ in New Delhi. The programme was organised by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).


• Centre Forms Six-Member Committee to Look into Haj Subsidy Issue. Jeddah Afzal Amanullah will be the head of the committee.


• Iran government banned the United States wrestlers from participating in the freestyle World Cup to be held in February 2017 as a counter-move against President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending visas for Iran.


• Former CBI Director Joginder Singh passed away after a prolonged illness in New Delhi. He was 77.



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DATS Result 2016-17

                 

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Dear Candidates,

Click on below link to know your result of DATS 2016-17.

http://www.dight.in/uploads/DATS%202016-17%201ST%20LIST%20FINAL%20RESULT.pdf


All the Best

Dight Foundation

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Daily Current Affairs Update --- 30th & 31st January, 2017 http://ssksuraj.blogspot.in/2017/02/daily-current-affairs-update-30th-31st.html?m=1




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Daily Current Affairs Update --- 1st & 2nd February, 2017

• Today (1st February) is 40th Indian Coast Guard Day.


• India and Russia have held high-level consultations on counter-terrorism issues in New Delhi.


• Arun Jaitley announced the launch of Swayam, an online education platform that will give students access to over 350 courses, while presenting the Union Budget . Jaitley also announced the launch of a skill acquisition fund, at an investment of ₹400 crore.


• 31st Surajkund International Crafts Mela began .
The mela is being hosted jointly by the Haryana Tourism Corporation and Surajkund Mela Authority, in collaboration with the Union Ministries of Tourism, Textiles, Culture and External Affairs.
Theme state : Jharkhand
Partner nation : Egypt


• The Income Tax Department (ITD) launched Swachh Dhan Abhiyan (Operation Clean Money), an e-platform to analyse large cash deposits made during the demonetisation window (9 November to 30 December 2016).


• Ministry of Defence to Set up Rs 1500 cr Defence Unit in Madhya Pradesh.


• Ireland became the world’s first country to stop investing in fossil fuels.


• India signs Financing Agreement with World Bank for $201.50 million for the 'Third Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme' (TEQIP III)


• Meghalaya’s first ever Apparel and Garment Centre inaugurated at Ampati.


• The 19th Bharat Rang Mahotsav or International Theatre Festival of India commenced on 1 February 2017 in New Delhi.


• Rex Tillerson, the former chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil has been sworn in as the 69th US Secretary of State under the new President Donald Trump’s government.


• The ‘Winners of Excellence’ under the state category of the eGovernance Awards for the year 2017 are Rajasthan and Telangana.


• Neeti Mohan has become the first Indian female singer to collaborate with the United Nations on a project aimed at empowering women, ending human trafficking and promoting gender equality.


• Today (2nd February) is World Wetlands Day.
Theme of World Wetlands Day 2017 :  “Wetlands for Disaster Risk Reduction”


• • The Centre today approved an investment of Rs 1,350 crore to Andhra Pradesh for improvement of basic urban infrastructure under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) over the next three fiscals.


• The Sports Ministry received a hike of ₹350 crore in the Union Budget, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday.
Jaitley allocated a total of ₹1,943 crore to sports, compared to the ₹1,592 crore given last year.


• To augment income of farmers budget has proposed setting-up of a Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund with a corpus of Rs 8,000 crores over three years.


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Daily Current Affairs Update --- 30th & 31st January, 2017

               

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• Today (30th January) is National Martyrs' Day.
This day is also known as Sarvodaya day / Shaheed Diwas.


• Members of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to meet this week on Wednesday & Thursday at Kathmandu.


• Miss France Iris Mittenaere was crowned as the 65th Miss Universe in the Philippines.


• The Supreme Court today named a 4-member administrative panel to head the BCCI, naming former Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Vinod Rai, as the panel's head.
The panel includes historian Ramachandra Guha, former women's cricketer Diana Edulji and IDFC Bank CEO Vikram Limaye.


• Indian shuttler PV Sindhu has won the Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold after beating Indonesia's Gregoria Mariska in the final .


• Roger Federer became the oldest Grand Slam champion, after his Australian Open title against rival Rafael Nadal .


• Boxer Sarita Devi, who recently became India's first female professional boxer, won her debut pro bout in Imphal  by defeating Hungary's Zsofia Bedo by unanimous decision.


• The Centre has appointed AP Singh, who was earlier Joint Secretary in the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management, as the interim Managing Director and CEO of IPPB.


• Prince Mahidol Award 2015 was conferred upon Professor Morton Mower and Sir Michael Marmot for outstanding achievements in medicine and public health worldwide.


• Actress Anushka Sharma has been appointed the Ambassador of the Swachh Bharat campaign by the Ministry of Urban Development.


• Chad's Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat was elected as the Chairman of the African Union (AU) commission at the 28th AU summit in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa.


• On the occasion of Anti-Leprosy Day, the Union Government has launched nationwide “Sparsh Leprosy Awareness Campaign (SLAC)”.


• India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) kicked off its operations by rolling out pilot services in Raipur and Ranchi.The bank will offer an interest rate of 4.5% on deposits up to Rs25,000; 5% on deposits of Rs25,000-50,000 and 5.5% on Rs50,000-1,00,000.


• Future Generali India Insurance Company (FGII) Enters Into Bancassurance Tie-Up With Bank Of Maharashtra .


• The first edition of the North East Investors Summit was inaugurated on January 29, 2017 by the Union Textiles Minister, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani in Shillong, Meghalaya.


• Dushyant Chautala has been appointed as the president of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI). Chautala is the youngest president of the apex body.


• Film producer and Wimbledon tennis player, Ashok Amritraj has been appointed the United Nations in India Goodwill Ambassador for the Sustainable Development Goals .


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Daily Current Affairs Update --- 29th January, 2017

                   

• Today (29th January 2017) is National Immunization Day.


• The Arunachal Pradesh tableau has bagged the 1st position among the 17 state tableaux that took part in this year's Republic Day parade. The tableau had depicted the Yak Dance, a popular pantomime of the Mahayana sect of Buddhist Tribes in the state.

Note : Tripura's tableau got the second place while the Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu tableaux were jointly adjudged third.


• The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has been adjudged the best marching contingent for the 5th time among the different paramilitary forces that took part in the Republic Day parade.


• Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been appointed to US President Donald Trump's manufacturing council, led by Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris.


• The India Post has received payments bank licence from the Reserve Bank of India to start rollout of banking operations commercially.

° Important Points to Note :
  India Post Payments Bank is the 3rd entity to receive payments bank permit after telecom major Airtel and digital payments startup Paytm.

  Payments banks can accept deposits  up to ₹1 lakh per account from individuals and small businesses.


• Swiss tennis player Roger Federer defeated Spain's Rafael Nadal in five sets in the Australian Open men's singles final today, to win a record 18th Grand Slam title.


• In Australian Open Tennis, American-Colombian duo of Abigail Spears and Juan Sebastian Cabal defeated Indo-Croatian pair of Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig in Mixed doubles final.


• In Australian Open tennis, Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams in the final to win her 23rd Grand Slam singles title.


• Ant Financial, e-commerce giant Alibaba’s financial arm, has reached an agreement to acquire American money-transfer major MoneyGram for $880 million, in a deal that will expand the firm’s business in the US after India and Thailand.


• The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has decided to set up weather stations in 660 districts of the country for better and prompt weather forecasting with major focus on rain-fed and non-rain-fed areas to give crop specific advisories. The system would be launched in phased manner. Initially, IMD has planned to set up the system in 130 districts and gradually increase it to 660 by 2019.The IMD has also tied up with the Ministry of Agriculture to use the Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs).


• The Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Shipping, Nitin Jairam Gadkari, inaugurated a 3-lane Brahmaputra Bridge at Saraighat  in Guwahati on January  29, 2017. As a part of the event, the Minister announced that the government would spend Rs 15,000 crores to develop 1,253 kilometres of roads in Assam into National Highways over the next few years.


• Indian-American entrepreneur,  Gururaj Deshpande has decided to launch India’s largest startup incubation centre at Hubballi (earlier Hubli) in Karnataka.


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Daily Current Affairs Update --- 28th January, 2017
Daily Current Affairs Update --- 28th January, 2017 http://ssksuraj.blogspot.in/2017/01/daily-current-affairs-update-28th.html?m=1


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