The Booker Prize is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or Ireland.

The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968, and became commonly known as the “Booker Prize” or simply “the Booker”. When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain “Booker” as part of the official title of the prize. The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £21,000, and was subsequently raised to £50,000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group.

In 1927 Indian Olympics Association was formed. Dorabji Tata was the first president and Dr A C Northern of Young Men’s Christian Association, Madras was the secretary. Official representation was made by India in 1928 at Amsterdam Olympics. At Amsterdam Indian Hockey Team participated and won the Gold Medal under the captaincy of Jaipal Singh. India never allowed others to won the gold medal in hockey from 1928 to 1956.

With the inspiration of Yashoda in Mahabharata who cared and brought up lord Krishna, the Central Government with the help of Norway (Norway India Partnership Initiative (NIPI)) has launched “Yashoda Scheme” at Sambalpur for the first time in country.

NIPI wouldl contribute Rs.1.5 core for Orissa for implementation of the scheme. The Scheme was launched in the country after the success of ‘Janani Surakshya Yojana with an objective to bring a change in the post natal care.

Under the schemes the ”Yoshodas” would be recruited to look after the ”Bal Krishnas” on a monthly honorium of Rs 3000. Yashodas” would stay in hospitals for 48 hours and take care of the new born children. The ‘Yashodas’ would also look after the mothers of the new born children. Jharsuguda and Angul will be covered under the scheme very shortly.

1. Which organization is capital market regulator?

SEBI

2. What term is used for Money borrowed or lent for a day or overnight ?

Call Money

3 . Which bank uses punch line “India’s International Bank”

Bank of Baroda

4. Which bank uses punch line ” Trusted Family Bank”?
Dena Bank

5. What is NSCCL?

National Securities Clearing Corporation Ltd

6. In which year Bombay Stock Exchange was established?
1875

7. In which year NSE was established?
1994

8. Inflation is measured on basis of which index in India?
WPI wholesale price index

9. What is derived from total expenditure less total receipts excluding borrowing?

Fiscal Deficit

10. In the capital market , simultaneous purchase and sale of securities to reduce the loss on purchase is known as …..?

Arbitrage

11. Injecting liquidity by the central bank of a country through purchase of Govt. securities. What do we call this?

Reverse repo

12. What is used to manage cash flows in different currencies?

Currency Swap

Arjun Atwal became the first Indian and just the sixth Asian-born player to win on the PGA Tour when he secured a one-stroke victory at the Wyndham Championship on Sunday.

Atwal joined Japanese trio Isao Aoki, Shigeki Maruyama and Ryuji Imada and South Koreans K.J. Choi and Y.E. Yang in an elite but growing club of champions from world’s most populous continent.

The 37-year-old, who now lives in Florida, sank a pressure-packed seven-foot par putt at the final hole to edge American David Toms at Sedgefield.

His final round of 67 left him on 20-under 260, ignited by an opening day 61. Toms closed with a 64.

Jimena Navarrete, a 22-year-old brunette from Mexico, was named Miss Universe in Las Vegas on Monday.

The first runner-up was Miss Jamaica, Yendi Phillipps, while Miss Australia, Jesinta Campbell, was second runner-up.

Navarrete, a nature enthusiast from Guadalajara, defeated favorites from Ireland, the Philippines and Venezuela to become the 59th winner of the crown in a show broadcast live around the world.

She received the crown from reigning Miss Universe Stefania Fernandez, Venezuela’s second winner in as many years. In a major shock, this year’s Miss Venezuela failed to make it past the first cut, when the 83 contestants were whittled down to 15. Miss USA, another favored contender, was also eliminated at the outset.

Country                                                 EPI Score

1. Switzerland                                       95.5

2. =Norway                                           83.1

= Sweden                                          83.1

3. Finland                                              91.4

4. Costa Rica                                        90.5

6. Austria                                              89.4

7.New Zealand                                    88.9

8.Latvia                                                  88.8

9. Columbia                                           88.3

10.France                                             87.8

Body               Years     Days

1.Eris                   557           295

2.Makemake      310          33

3. Pluto              247         256

4. Neptune        164         298

5. Uranus           84            4

Venus and Mercury are the only planets in the solar system with years of shorter duration than earth years -225 and 88 days respectively .

Moon / Planet               KM          MILES

Ganymade(Jupiter)       5262.4     3,269.9

Titan (saturn)                   5150.0      3200.1

Callisto(Jupiter)             4820.6     2995.4

LO (Jupiter)                     3642.6      2995.4

Moon (Earth)                   3476.2      2160.0