Bank PO/Clerk Exams 2014: General Awareness: Weekly Study Material: July 21 – July 27 2014

Banking General Awareness section is the vital and significant section for any bank recruitment exam. It is considered as the scoring section as well. To crack this section, candidates need to update their current affairs of the national and international importance along with the banking industry. Keeping an eye on the latest happenings can help candidates to perform well.

The banking experts of Jagranjosh.com team have arrived in with the General Awareness: Weekly Study Material to help the students to get a grip of the current updates weekly. The weekly section is divided into two categories- India Watch and World Watch which are further divided into many sub categories according to the news. Here are some of the happening from the month of June from 21 July – 27 July 2014.

For better understanding and suitability for the exams, weekly events have been divided into following heads:

India Watch (includes important updates from India related to banking, corporate, economy, sports, eminent personalities, different awards & honours and books and authors)

Banking News                                                

Banking news encircles updates on various banking related organizations or agencies that are operative all over the country.

• RBI penalised 12 Banks in Deccan Chronicle Holdings case

Corporate News

Updates of all the corporate houses of the country are covered in this category.

• Google announced to launch Hindi version of Google Maps on Android and PC
• National Geographic launched magazine Explorer for schoolchildren in India
• TCS became first Indian Company to achieve Market Capitalization of 5 lakh crore rupees

Economy News

Economy news covers issues on budget, stock market; monetary transactions, financial demands of the country.

• CCEA approved 49 percent Foreign Investment in Insurance Sector
• NCDEX announced to introduce Comprehensive Hedge Policy for Commodity Markets
• Union Government revised Investment target for DFC to 80000 crore rupees

Sports News

Every single update of what is happening in the sports world is available in this sub-category.

• Indian tennis star Sania Mirza appointed as Brand Ambassador of Telangana

Personalities in News

Eminent personalities and their whereabouts come under this category.

• Ram Naik sworn in as 27th Governor of Uttar Pradesh
• KN Tripathi sworn in as 22nd Governor of West Bengal
• Veteran BJP Leader Kaptan Singh Solanki Appointed Governor Of Haryana

World Watch (includes important updates from India related to banking, corporate, economy, sports, eminent personalities, different awards & honours and books and authors)

Sports News

Every single update of what is happening in the sports world is available in this sub-category.

• India won 5 medals at 45th International Physics Olympiad (IPHO2014) held at Astana
• Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014 got off at the Celtic Park in Glasgow in Scotland
• Cycling: Italian Vincenzo Nibali won 101st edition of Tour de France

Personalities in News

Eminent personalities and their whereabouts come under this category.

• Prime Minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk Resigned
• Iraqi Parliament elected Fuad Masum as the seventh President of Iraq
• CAG of India, Shashi Kant Sharma took charge as member of UN Board Of Auditors

Bangladesh freedom fighter Bir Bikrom UK Ching Marma died