The 2-day 9th East Asia Summit started on 12 November 2014 with heads of 18 countries participating in it. This summit is being held in which city?
- Nay Pyi Taw (capital of Myanmar)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed 9th East Asia Summit’s inaugural session on 12 November. He gave the call for ‘Act Asia Policy’ by amending the traditional ‘Look East Policy’. The 12thedition of ASEAN-India Summit was also held simultaneously. The East Asia Summit (EAS) is a forum held annually by leaders of 18 countries – Australia, Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, The United States and Vietnam.
The United States and China on 12 November 2014 unveiled ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gases. What is this new target for United States, which is a move to cut pollution levels at a much fast rate?
- Reduction in emission of greenhouse gases by 26% to 28% by year 2025 as compared with 2005 levels
Both countries agreed to reduce emissions on the occasion of bilateral talks held on the sidelines of the 9th East Asia Summit held at Myanmar. US President Barack Obama announced that his country would move much faster in cutting pollution, with a goal to reduce by 26% to 28% by 2025, compared with 2005 levels. Earlier in his presidency, he had set a goal to cut emissions by 17% by 2020. China on the other hand didn’t commit to cut emissions by a specific amount. Instead, it set a target for country’s emission to peak by 2030, or earlier if possible. United States and China are two of the largest polluters in the world and the breakthrough achieved by them displays their desire to display a united front on climate change.
Indian Railways had identified how many areas in its operations to allow 100% foreign/private investment as stated in the new guidelines under the Railway FDI policy that was approved by the Union Govt.?
- 17 sectors
Broadly, the Railway Ministry is putting up for private participation projects that are expected to be financially remunerative and on which construction work has not started. The Railways has sanctioned projects running into lakhs of crores on which work has not started because of dearth of funds.
What was the consumer inflation for October 2014, which is the slowest pace of price rise since retail inflation numbers were first published in January 2012?
- 5.52%
Consumer inflation for September 2014 stood at 6.46%. Sharp drops in food and oil prices were the major reasons for significant drop in inflation. On the other hand food price inflation, under a new series published by the government, eased to 5.59% in October from 7.67% in September. With consumer inflation coming below the Reserve Bank of India’s target level of 6%, and global oil prices hovering near 4-year lows, expectations are high that the central bank could cut rates.
The Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP govt. in Maharashtra won the much-awaited trust vote in Assembly on 12 November 2014 with the motion being carried by a voice vote on the floor of the Maharashtra Assembly. Who was unanimously elected Maharashtra Assembly Speaker on the same day?
- BJP’s Haribhau Bagde
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The exercise of choosing Assembly Speaker became a mere formality after the Sena and Congress withdrew their nominee for the post of Speaker paving way for unanimous election of the BJP’s candidate as the new Speaker. This controversial trust vote was won as the Shiv Sena and the Congress, which had said that they would vote against the motion, chose not to exercise the option. Sharad Pawar’s NCP also did not participate in the voting. Later Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde was Maharashtra’s new Opposition leader.
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List of RBI Governors Banking Awareness Material for IBPS/SBI/RRB
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List of RBI Governors
SL.NO Name of The Governor Joining and Leaving Dates 1 Sir Osborne A. Smith April 1st 1935 – June 30th , 1937 2 Sir James Braid Taylor July 1st 1937 – February 17th , 1943 3 Sir Chintaman D. Deshmukh August 11th 1943 – June 30th ,1949 4 Sir Benegal Rama Rau July 1st 1949 – January 14th 1957 5 K.G. Ambegaonkar January 14th 1957 – February 28th 1957 6 H.V.R. Ienger March 1st 1957 – February 28th 1962 7 P.C. Bhattacharyya March 1st 1962 – June 30th 1967 8 L.K. Jha July 1st 1967 – May 3rd 1970 9 B.N. Adarkar May 4th 1970 – June 15th 1970 10 S. Jagannathan June 16th 1970 – May 19th 1975 11 N.C. Sen Gupta May 19th 1975 – August 19th 1975 12 K.R. Puri August 20th 1975 – May 2nd 1977 13 M. Narasimham May 2nd 1977 – November 30th 1977 14 Dr. I.G. Patel December 1st 1977 – September 15th 1982 15 Dr. Manmohan Singh September 16th 1982 – January 14th 1985 16 A. Ghosh January 15th 1985 – February 4th 1985 17 R.N. Malhotra February 4th 1985 – December 22nd 1990 18 S. Venkitaramanan December 22nd 1990 – December 21st 1992 19 Dr. C. Rangarajan December 22nd 1992 – November 22nd 1997 20 Dr. Bimal Jalan November 22nd 1997 – September 5th 2003 21 Dr. Y.V.Reddy September 6th 2003 – September 5th 2008 22 Dr. D. Subbarao September 5th 2008 –September 4th 2013 23 Dr. Raghuram Rajan September 4th 2013
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