KNOW BANKING AWARENESS FOR SBI PO

First In Banks In India
1. The First Bank in India – Bank of Hindustan (1770- Calcutta )
2. First Governor of RBI – Mr. Osborne Smith
3. First Indian governor of RBI – Mr. C D Deshmukh
4. First Bank to Introduce ATM in India – HSBC
5. First Bank to introduce saving Bank in India – Presidency bank in 1830
6. First Bank to Introduce Cheque system in India – Bengal Bank 1784
7. First Bank to introduce Internet Banking – ICICI BANK
8. First Bank to introduce Mutual Fund – State Bank of India
9. First Bank to introduce Credit Card in India – Central Bank of India
10. First Foreign Bank in India – Comptoire d’Escompte de Paris of France in 1860
11. First Joint Stock Bank of India – Allahabad Bank
12. First Indian bank to open branch outside India in London in 1946 – Bank of India
13. First Indian Bank started with Indian capital indigenous Bank -- Punjab National Bank
14. First Regional Rural Bank - Prathama Grameen Bank ( Sponsoring Bank- Syndicate Bank)
15. First Universal Bank in India – ICICI Bank
16. First bank in India listed in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) – ICICI Bank
17. First Bank in India to launch Talking ATMs for differently able person – Union Bank of India
18. First Bank in India to launch its own Payment Aggregators – State Bank of India. (SBIePay)
19. Country’s first all woman bank – Bhartiya Mahila Bank
20. First Indian private sector bank to open a branch in the African continent – ICICI Bank
21. First private sector bank to open dedicated branch for Startups - RBL
22. First Aadhaar-based ATM launched by – DCB Bank
23. First bank to sell Indian gold coins - IOB
24. First India bank Got ISO – Canara Bank
25. First Bank to introduce Internet Banking – ICICI BANK

RESONING FOR SBI / NIACL ASST 2017

Directions (1-5): These questions are based on the following information.

In a horse racing each of the six Jockeys – M, N, O, P, Q and R is riding a different horse namely- Tiger, Tuffy, Vicky, Jacky, Rockey and Tommy but not necessarily in the same order. Each of the six gamblers Ravi, Ritesh, Raman, Rakesh, Rahul and Rohan bet on exactly one among the given horses. These horses made to participated exactly in one race among Endurance race, Harness race, Flat race and Hunt race and finished the race in the top three positions only. No two of them got the same position in the same type of racing.

Only Tiger participates in Endurance race and its jockey is P. Only Rocky finished the race at the 3^rd position. Raman bets on the horse which participates in Harness race, but did not finish the race at the 3^rd position. Rakesh bets on the horse, whose jokey is R and finished the race either at the 1^st or at the 2^nd position. Vicky’s jockey is M and participates in flat race. Tuffy finished the race at the 1^st position but its jockey is neither N nor Q. Among the given horses only two horses participate in Harness race, neither of whose jockey is N. Tuffy, Tiger and the horse whose jockey is R finished the race at the same position. N finished the race at the 2^ndposition. Rahul bets on a horse which finished the race at the 2^nd position, but its jockey is not N. Ravi bets on Tommy, which participates with Jacky in the same race. Rohan does not bet on Tiger.

1.       Which of the following statements is/are true?

(i) Tommy participates in Hunt race.

(ii) Ritesh bets on Tiger.

(iii) Tommy finished the race in the 1^st position.

(a) Only (i)                    

(b) All the three          

(c) Only (ii)   

(d) Only (i) and (ii)      

(e) None of these

2.       Which jockey finished the race at the 1^stposition in Harness race?

(a) M                             

(b) N                              

(c) O                              

(d) R                               

(e)None of these    

3.       Who bets on Jacky?

(a) Raman                     

(b) Rahul       

(c) Rakesh     

       (d) Cannot be determined                        

(e) Ritesh

4.       Who among the following Gambler bets on the Horse Tuffy?

(a)Rahul             

 (b) Raman                       

(c) Ritesh

(d)Rohan            

(e) None of these                                                                                                            

5.       Which of the following combination is incorrect?

(a) M- Vicky- Flat- Rahul- 2^nd

(b) Q- Rockey- Harness- Rohan- 3^rd

(c) R- Jacky- Hunt- Rakesh- 2^nd

(d) N- Tommy- Hunt- Ravi- 2^nd

(e) None of these

ENGLISH VINGLISH

English Vocabulary from "The Hindu News Paper" - 25th February 2017

Hai Friends I'm Atul Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 25th February 2017.


Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials

Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A significant victory"

Significant - important or noticeable

Facile - too simple to deal with the difficulties of a real situation

Mandate - kjthe authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or govern a country

Squeaked - succeed in achieving something by a very narrow margin

Affirmation - an action of support or approval

Reputation - the opinion that people have about how good or how bad someone or something is

Woo - to try to persuade people to support you, especially by saying and doing nice things

Viable - capable of working successfully

Contestant - someone who competes in a contest

Yielded - produced
Regionalist party - a political party that supports the division of a country into smaller areas that govern themselves

Consolidate - to make the power, position, or achievements you already have stronger or more effective so that they are likely to continue

Undisputed - if something is undisputed, everyone agrees about it

Stronghold - a place where the majority of people have the same political or religious belief
Patronage - the support given to an organization by someone

Dismal - very bad
Sanitation - the systems for taking dirty water and other waste products away from buildings in order to protect people's health
Infrastructure - the basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to work effectively

Endorsement - an occasion when someone gives official or public support to a particular person or thing

Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
Unlikely - not probable or likely to happen

Prospects - the possibility of being successful, especially at work

Corps - a group of people who are connected because they are involved in a particular activity
Lacking in something - to not have a quality

Strategy - a detailed plan for achieving success in situations such as war, politics, business, industry, or sport etc

Relevance - the quality of being directly connected with and important to something else

Revive - to become, or to make something become, active, successful, or popular again

Cache - a quantity of things that have been hidden
Regional - local (relating to a particular area of a country or the world)