SSC Exams 2017-2018 Revised Schedule out

SSC Exam 2017 Updated Schedule / Time Table
Friends, the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has released the revised Schedules of SSC Examinations which are being conducted by the commission during the years 2017-18. Earlier, the organization has released a schedule for the upcoming exams on 18th October 2016. But due to some unavoidable circumstances the organization couldn't conduct some exams according to these dates. So it has released a revised time table for the exams which are to be held during 2017-18. According to this new schedule, the SSC CGL 2017 (Combined Graduate Level Exam) will be held during 1st August 2017 to 20th August 2017. The SSC CHSL 2017 (Combined Higher Secondary 10+2) Exam will be held on 20th March 2018 to 20th April 2018.  You can check this calendar from the official website of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) www.ssc.in or from below link. All the Best :)

Check Revised SSC Exam Schedule / Calendar 2017 from here 

Daily Current Affairs Update --- 9th & 10th April 2017

• Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina  have flagged off the trial run of a passenger train service between Kolkata and Bangladesh's Khulna.
Named Maitree Express-2, it is the second passenger train between India and Bangladesh.


• The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has approved 26 projects worth ₹2,154.28 crore under the Centre's 'Namami Gange' programme, aiming to reduce the river's pollution load.


• Lewis Hamilton defeated Ferrari's four-time Formula One World Champion Sebastian Vettel to lift his fifth title at the Chinese Grand Prix .


• Vriksh organized India’s first micro-drama festival,Titled “Thespis” in Delhi .


• Indian-origin educationist Asha Khema in UK named ‘Asian Businesswoman of the Year’ .


• Smita Sandhane has taken charge as Managing Director of the Saraswat Co-operative Bank .


• The Agriculture Ministry joined hands with the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), a wing of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to geo-tag agricultural assets for their real-time monitoring and effective utilization.


• The 12th edition Indo-Mongolian Joint Military Exercise Nomadic Elephant 2017 has begun at Vairengte in Mizoram.


• The Bengaluru Police have launched 51 'Pink Hoysalas', the new patrol vehicles, to address complaints related to women and child safety.


• Andhra Pradesh government is going to construct a 125-foot tall bronze statue of BR Ambedkar in its upcoming capital Amaravati.


• Today (10th April) is World Homoeopathy Day.


• Narendra Modi today inaugurated an exhibition ”swachagraha” Bapu Ko Karyanjali” – A Mission, An Exhibition, at the National Archives of India, Janpath, New Delhi.


• To mark 100 years of his Satyagrah movement, three old and seminal publications on Mahatma Gandhi, were today relaunched by the government of India in a "restored" format.
Minister for Information & Broadcasting, M Venkaiah Naidu released these publications.
The 3 publication are :
'Gandhi in Champaran (1957)'
'Romain Rolland and Gandhi Correspondence (1976)'
'Eight-volume biography of Gandhi (1951)'
These were authored by D G Tendulkar.


• Indian team was crowned champions of the Women's Hockey World League Round 2 today after defeating Chile on penalties in the tournament final in Canada.


• Tej Bhadur Singh has set a Guinness World Record for disposing of 6065 cases in just 327 working days.


• Ajit Kumar Srivastava and Shabri Bhattsali appointed members of Cental Board Of Direct Taxes (CBDT).

Quadratic Equation Set 2 For SBI PO PRE

Directions (Q. 1-10): Two equations (I) and (II) are given in each question. On the basis of these
equations you have to decide the relation between ‘x’ and ‘y’ and give answer.

(1) if x > y
 (2) if x < y
(3) if x ≥ y
(4) if x ≤ y
(5) if x = y or no relation can be established between ‘x’ and ‘y’.


1) x² – 6√3x - 48 =0
    y² - √2y - 24 = 0

2) x² + 5√3x - 42 = 0
    y² - 8√2y + 30 = 0


3) x² - √2x - 24 = 0
    y² - 8√3y + 45 = 0


4)   5x² + 4√10x + 8 = 0
     4√3y² + 5y - 2√3 = 0


5)  2x² - ( 4+√13)x + 2√13 = 0
    10y² - ( 18+5√13)y +9√13 = 0


6) x² + ( √7 - 4)x - 2√28 = 0
   √3y² - ( 6-√21)y - 6√7 = 0

7) x² -x - √2x + √2 = 0
    y² - 3y + 2 = 0


8) x² - 2x - √5x + 2√5 = 0
    y² - √3y - √2y + 6 = 0

9) x² - 7√3x + 36 = 0
    y² - 12√2y + 70 = 0

10) x² - 7√7x + 84 = 0
      y² - 5√5y + 30 = 0


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Answer :-


1) 5

2) 2

3) 5

4) 5

5) 3

6) 5

7) 5

8) 1

9) 5

10) 1

Daily Current Affairs Update --- 7th & 8th April 2017

• The World Health Day, a global health awareness day, is being observed today (7th April 2016).
World Health Day 2017 Theme : “Depression: Let’s talk”.


• Uruguay will become the first country in the world to allow pharmacies to sell recreational marijuana, starting July.


• Iceland is set to become the first country in the world to neutralise gender pay gap.


•  64th National Film Awards 

° Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar has won best actor for Rustom.

° Malayalam Actress Surabhi Lakshmi won best actress for the film Minnaminungu (The Firefly).

° Best Feature Film went to Marathi film Kaasav (Turtle).

° Sonam Kapoor’s  biographical thriller film Neerja, directed by Ram Madhvani, bagged the Best Hindi film for the year 2016.


• Indian bank has appointed Kishor Kharat as the new Managing Director and CEO of the bank.


• Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has launched subsidized meal scheme at Rs.5 in Gwalior. This scheme helps people to get economical nutritious and good quality food under the Deendayal Rasoi Yojana at cheaper rates.


• India has ranked 40th out of 136 countries on Global Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2017 published by World Economic Forum (WEF).Spain topped the list, followed by France and Germany.


• India’s first DNA bank for wild animals will be setup by the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) at Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.


• US based National Basketball Association (NBA) has launched its first basketball school in Mumbai, India .


• Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated a three-day National Children’s Film Festival in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.


• Ratnakar Bank limited (RBL) Bank announced the opening of its Indian Financial System Code (IFSC) Banking Unit (IBU) at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City).


• Modi will launch a special digital exhibition titled 'Bapu Ko Karyanjali' on the Champaran Satyagraha .


• Malala Yousafzai is set to become the United Nations’ youngest-ever ‘Messenger of Peace’.


• The Uttar Pradesh government has given its clearance to the project of building a music village in Varanasi in honour of legendary shehnai player Ustad Bismillah Khan.


• Indian boxer K Shyam Kumar won a Gold medal at the Thailand International Tournament.


• Pakistan's former captain Younis Khan announced today that he will retire from Test cricket .


• Retired Supreme Court judge Shiva Kirti Singh has been appointed as the chairman of the Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal(TDSAT).


• President Pranab Mukherjee has released the book on Draupadi authored by Veerappa Moily .


• India extends $4.5 billion new line of credit to Bangladesh .

SBI PO & NIACL Assistant 2017 Prelims Call Letter Out

SBI PO 2017 Prelims Call Letter Out


State Bank of India (SBI) has released the call letter for the Online Preliminary Exam for the recruitment of Probationary Officers 2017.



Click here to download the Call letter



NIACL Assistant 2017 Call Letter for Phase 1 Out



The New India assurance Co. Ltd has released the call letter for the Phase 1 (Prelims) Exam for the recruitment process for Assistant in Class III cadre.


Click here to Download the Call letter

All the best!!

Daily Current Affairs Update --- 5th & 6th April 2017

• Russia has sought India's EVM technology for 2018 presidential elections.


• China has announced plans to build a new city, a special economic zone, in Hebei province to decongest its capital Beijing.


• Nitin Gadkari said that the first express highway project in India's Northeast region will be developed along the Brahmaputra river in Assam at an estimated cost of ₹40,000 crore.


• World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has won the 2016 Turing Award.


• Virat Kohli has been named as the Leading Cricketer in the World for 2016, in this year's edition of the Wisden Cricketer's Almanack.


• According to a new report released by World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), India’s is the world’s 7th largest tourism economy in terms of GDP .


• Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank Ltd. has become the seventh entity to receive a final licence from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for carrying out the business of payments bank in India.


• Mashrafe Mortaza(33) who led the Bangladesh international cricket team for One day and Twenty20 international matches has announced retirement from T20Is .


• Today (6th April) is International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.


• The 2017 National conference on Communicating India was held in New Delhi.


• The Keibul Lamjao National Park, located in the Loktak Lake in Manipur, India, is known as the only floating national park in the world.


• Renowned playback singer, actor and music director S.P. Bala Subramanyam was today honored with the NTR National Film Award for the year 2012.
Noted Bollywood actress Hema Malini was awarded the same award for the year 2013.


• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed Malvika Sinha as Executive Director (ED).


• The Indian football team jumped 31 places to reach the 101st rank, its best in 20 years, in the latest FIFA rankings .


• Kenichi Yokoyama appointed as the new Country Director of India Resident Mission of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).


• Raman Roy, was a chairman and managing director of Quatrro, been appointed as the new Chairman of National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) for the year 2017-18.


• The Reserve Bank of India has released the first Bi-monthly Monetary policy of the new financial year (2017-18). GDP growth has hiked to 7.4% from 6.7%. Rates in the newly released Monetary policy are as follows-

Repo Rate under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.25%.

The Reverse Repo Rate (RRR) under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) has been hiked to 6% from 5.75%.

The Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate are at 6.50% decline from 6.75%.

Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) remains unchanged at 4%

Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) also remains unchanged at 20.50%.


• The Manila-headquartered  Asian Development Bank (ADB) lends a $175 million loan to the Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.

Daily Current Affairs Update --- 3rd & 4th April 2017

• Germany has become the 1st NATO member to launch a "self-contained" cyber command unit designed to shield IT and weapons systems from growing attacks.


• The Union Tourism Ministry today sanctioned nearly ₹100 crore for a Heritage Circuit in Assam under the Swadesh Darshan scheme.


• Tax evasion of over ₹5 crore under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime would be non-bailable offence with the police having authority to make an arrest without a warrant.


• PV Sindhu defeated Carolina Marin in straight sets to clinch her maiden India Open title today.


• Switzerland's Roger Federer defeated Spanish rival Rafael Nadal in straight sets to clinch his third Miami Open title .
The other winners in Miami Open 2017 are as follows-
1. Women's Singles- Johanna Konta (United Kingdom)
2. Men's Doubles- Łukasz Kubot (Poland)/ Marcelo Melo (Brazil)
3. Women's Doubles- Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) / Xu Yifan (China)


• The 19th Commonwealth Forestry Conference (CFC), 2017 begins at Forest Research Institute (FRI) in Dehradun, Uttarakhand on April 3, 2017.
The theme of conference is ‘Forests for Prosperity and Posterity’


• Dawit Isaak, an imprisoned Eritrean-Swedish journalist has been chosen for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2017 dedicated to promoting press freedom.


• Lenin Moreno to sworn in as the Ecuador President.


• Ajey Jhankar, the noted author and filmmaker passed away .


• The Government has launched PowerTex India, a comprehensive scheme for power loom sector development, simultaneously at over 45 locations in the country.


• The Aastha Tourist Special Train, which is taking travellers to pilgrimage sites in North India, departed from Puri .


• The board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cleared a proposal to introduce banknotes of ₹200 denomination.


• Former Indian captain MS Dhoni was appointed as the CEO of Gulf Oil India for a day today, as he wanted to understand how a corporate CEO works.


• In a bid to promote electric mobility and manufacturing of electric/hybrid vehicles and their components, Central Government constituted National Board for Electric Mobility (NBEM) on 3rd April 2017.
Chairperson: Secretary of Department of Heavy Industry.


• India has been ranked 3rd in the doping violation report published by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for the year 2015.


• Indian Army Chief  General Bipin Rawat, conferred with Honorary General of the Nepalese Army title by the President of Nepal .


• The Former MD and CEO of Indian Bank, Mahesh Kumar Jain took charge as the MD and CEO of Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) Bank.


• DGP Geetha Johri – Gujarat’s first woman police chief.


• Classical singer Kishori Amonkar passed away.


• International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action – April 4, 2017
The theme of this year was “Needs driven. People Centered”.