Important Abbreviations for Upcoming Banking Exams

SAARC- South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
SAC- Space Application Center
SAFTA -South Asian Free Trade Association
SAI -Sports Authority of India
SAIL- Steel Authority of India Limited
SAPTA- South Asian Preferential Trade Arrangements
SARS- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
SC- Supreme Court / Security Council/schedule cast
SCI -Shipping Council of India
SCOPE- Standing Conference of Public Enterprises
SCRA -Special Class Railway Apprentice
SDR -Special Drawing Rights
SEBI- Security Exchange Board of India
SGPC -Siromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee
SHAR -Shri Haikota Range
SIDBI- Small Industries Development Bank of India
SIS -Secret Intelligence Service
SITA -Suppression of Immortal Traffic in Women and Girls Act
SLV -Satellite Launch Vehicle
SPCA -Society for Prevention of Cruelty of Animals
SPIC -MACAY Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture
STARS -Satellite Tracking and Ranging Station
STD -Subscribers Trunk Dialing
STPI- Software Technology Parks of India
SWAPO -South West African People’s Organization
TA- Traveling Allowances
TC- Transfer Certificate/ Ticket Checker
TELCO- Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company
TELEX- Teleprinter Exchange
TISCO- Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited
TNT -Tri-nitro-toluene
TOFEL- Test of English as a Foreign Language
TRAI -Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
TRIPS- Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights
TTE -Traveling Ticket Examiner
TTFI -Table Tennis Federation of India
TWA -Trans World Airlines

BANKING SPECIAL

Types of Cheque

1. Order Cheque: A cheque which is payable to a particular person or his order is called an order cheque.

2. Bearer Cheque: A cheque which is payable to a person whosoever bears, is called bearer cheque.

3. Blank Cheque: A cheque on which the drawer puts his signature and leaves all other columns blank is called a blank cheque.

4. Stale Cheque: The cheque which is more than six months old is a stale cheque.

5. Multilated Cheque: If a cheque is torn into two or more pieces, it is termed as mutilated cheque.

6. Post Dated Cheque: If a cheque bears a date later than the date of issue, it is termed as post dated cheque.

7. Open Cheque: A cheque which has not been crossed is called an open cheque. Even if a cheque is crossed and subsequently the drawer has cancelled the crossing at the request of the payee and affixes his full signature with the words “crossing cancelled pay cash”, it becomes an open cheque.

8. Crossed Cheque: A cheque which carries too parallel transverse lines across the face of the cheque with or without the words “I and co”, is said to be crossed.

9. Gift Cheques: Gift cheques are used for offering presentations on occasions like birthday, weddings and such other situations. It is available in various denominations.

10. Traveller’s Cheques: It is an instrument issued by a bank for remittance of money from one place to another.

Books and Authors

Books and Authors 

01. My experiments with Truth: Mahatma M.K.Gandhi 
02. Far from the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy 
03. Geetanjali: Rabindra Nath Tagore
 04. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch: Alexander Solzhenitsyn 
05. The Merchant of venice: William shakespeare 
06. The Moon and Six pense : Somerset Maughan 
07. Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come: John Bunyan 
08. A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
09. Utopia: Sir Thomas Moor 
10. Origin of species: Charles Darwin 
11. David Copperfield: Charles Dickens 
12. A passage to India: E.M.Forster 
13. Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift 
14. Discovery of India: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru 
15. The Vicar of Wakefield: Oliver Goldsmith 
16. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edward Gibbon 
17. The Lady of the Last Minstrel: Sir Walter Scott 
18. Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen 
19. Time Machine: H.G. Wells 
20. Arthashastra: Kautilya 
21. Le Contract Social: Jean Jacques Rousseau 
22. Avigyan Sakuntalam: Kalidas 
23. Anand Math: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay 
24. Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler 
25. Ain-i-Akbari: Abul Fazal 
26. Akbar-Nama: Abul Fazal 
27. Shakuntala: Kalidas 
28. War and peace: Leo Tolstoy 
29. A Dangerous place: D.P. Moynihan 
30. Raghuvamsa: Kalidas 
31. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle 
32. Adventures of Tom Saweyer: Mark Twain 
33. Agni Veena: Kazi Nasrul Islam 
34. Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carrol 
35. Ancient Mariner: Coleridge 
36. Animal Farm: George Orwell 
37. Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy 
38. Antony and Cleopatra: Shakespeare 
39. Arms and the Man: G.B.Shaw 
40. Around the World in eighty days: Jules Verne 
41. Baburnama: Babur 
42. Ben Hur: Lewis Wallace 
43. Bhagwat Gita: Ved Vyas 
44. Bisarjan: R.N.Tagore 
45. Canterbury Tales: Chaucer 
46. Chitra: R.N.Tagore 
47. Count of Monte Cristo: Alexander Dumas 
48. Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky 
49. Das Kapital : Karl Marx 
50. Divine Comedy: Dante

CURRENT AFFAIRS

CURRENT AFFAIRS


1)Who is chosen for "Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013" ?
 ➖ Gulzar
2)Who was crowned as the new Miss India in the 51st Femina Miss India contest ?
 ➖ Koyal Rana
3)Union Minister K. Sambasiva Rao was holding which portfolio? 
➖ Union Textiles Minister
4)Indian woman who won the "International Women of Courage Award 2014"? 
➖ Ms. Laxmi
5)Till now (2014) how many Bharat Ratna\'s have been awarded? 
➖ 43
6)Who was appointed as new Commerce Secretary on 15 Jan 2014? 
➖ Rajeev Kher
7)Rashtriya Kishore Swasthya Karyakaram program of Indian Govt targets which age group?
 ➖ 10-19 years
8)Football player-Eusebio known as "Black Panther" belonged to which country? 
➖ Portugal
9)New Fossil National Park is proposed in which state?
 ➖ Uttrakhand
10)Which state in India has proposed new Time Zone ? 
➖ Assam