Bank Mentor

1.  Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Ltd  is a  wholly-owned subsidiary of Ujjivan Financial Services Ltd , has been  included in the second scheduled to the RBI Act 1934. This grants the  ‘Scheduled Bank’ status to Ujjivan Small Finance Bank’ from the date of notification. It is Headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Samit Ghosh is the MD & CEO of Ujjivan SFB. 2.  Unicity International  has  launched world’s first ever Genomeceutical (gene controlling) range of products to India. Unicity International  headquartered in Orem, Utah, United States 3.  Dr.  R.K. Raghavan  has been  appointed  as the  next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Cyprus. Cyprus Capital: Nicosia President: Nicos Anastasiades Currency: Euro 4.  Tyre major Bridgestone India  has  announced badminton player and Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu  as its first brand ambassador 5.  Drug pricing regulator NPPA  has  tied up with National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).  It will  help athletes  to 

1.  Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams  which is the famous temple of Lord Venkateswara and of the richest Hindu temple in India has  deposited 2,780 kg of gold with State Bank of India under long term deposit scheme. The gold deposits have been converted into the Long Term Deposit Scheme  at a rate of 2.5% per annum for a period of 12 years from the date of investment under the Gold Monetisation Scheme. 2.  First Synergy Conference on Defence Pension Organised by Defence Accounts Department held in New Delhi 3.  Small Industries development Bank of India  (Sidbi) has  appointed Mohammad Mustafa  as the  chairman and managing director. 4.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend  the 9th BRICS Summit, Xiamen in China’s Fujian province  during 3rd to 5th of September.. 5.  The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurated the  YUVA – a skill development program.  It is an initiative by Delhi Police under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. 6.  The Fourth Session of th

1.  Nepal’s PM Sher Bahadur Deuba  made his maiden visit to India as prime minister.  2.  Karnataka’s Department of Tourism  has  announced Dasara Special Tour Packages  . The department has planned to  launch the ‘Dasara Special Tour Package’ in the Golden Chariot Luxury Train , to  promote the state festival . The  Golden Chariot  is  South India’s first and only luxury tourist train   run by  Karnataka State Tourist Department Corporation  (KSTDC). 3.  India and Germany  has  signed an agreement  on  technical cooperation under the Indo-German Energy Programme – Green Energy Corridors (IGEN-GEC)   About Germany Capital: Berlin President: Frank-Walter Steinmeier Chancellor: Angela Merkel 4.  France holds migrant summit seeking European unity The  main focus  of a  summit of Europe’s ‘big four’  continental powers is getting  Europe’s migrant crisis under control . It is  hosted  on 28 th  of Aug 2017  by French President Emmanuel Macron.   5.  Uber  has  announced  a  tw

1.  American Navy’s amphibious dock landing ship  USS Pearl Harbor   arrived in Goa  on 24 th  Aug 2017 as  part of defense cooperation   between the two countries . It is the   American Ship USS Pearl Harbor first visit to India. 2.  Defence Minister  Arun Jaitley  has  launched BEML’s third Line Ultra Modern Metro Manufacturing Facility  announced on 26 th  Aug 2017. It has been  launched  to  enhance the production of metro cars for the forthcoming metro projects in India. Jaitley also  inaugurated  the  indigenously designed and developed  biggest ever  diesel excavator BE1800D and crawler dozer BD475-1 and T-72 hull. 3.  Assam forest department deployed  around  10000 security  and  State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel, 20 elephants and 20 excavators to evict 1400 families  that have been  encroaching upon Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary  on the northeastern fringe of Guwahati. 4.  Supertech  has  received green nod  for  developing a sports-centric housing project in

1.  Minister of State Shri MJ Akbar  made official visits to Ghana and Equatorial Guinea from August 14 to August 18, 2017 to launch the  Freedom@70  celebrations and to inaugurate FICCI’s ‘Namaskar Africa’ trade show. 2.  RBI panel under Tarun Ramadorai seeks rights-based data privacy in household finance. ommittee has recently recommended that banks should link home loan rates to repo rate. 3.  The  fifth round of Foreign and Security Policy Consultations   between India and the European Union were held in New Delhi  on 25 th  of Aug 2017. 4.  Manipur’s Nungthaang Tampak village  has  emerged as the ‘100% computer literate’  in the entire  North East   N Biren Singh is the present CM of Manipur. Dr. Najma Heptulla is the present Governor of Manipur. 5.  The State Administration of Work Safety announced in a five-year plan that  China  will  shut 6,000 non-coal mines to reduce mining accidents and deaths by 2020. 6.  According to  Canadian Government Canadians who do no