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Important Books And Authors

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:59:00 -0700

1. The Orphan Master’s Son: Adam Johnson’s novel The Orphan Master’s son won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013.

2. Religion, Law & Society –Authored by Prof. Tahir Mahmood

3. The First Woman President of India, Reinventing leadership, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil - written by Professor Sunaina Singh

4. Walking with Lions: Tales from a Diplomatic Past - written by K. Natwar Singh, the former Union Minister for External Affairs.

5. Ek Thhi Kusum - book by Prakash Pant

6. Water: Asia's New Battleground - by Brahma Chellaney

7. Behind the Beautiful Forever’s: Life, Death, and Hope -by Katherine Boo

8. Yuvi- Book on Cricketer Yuvraj Singh authored by Makarand Waingankar

9. Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil shortlisted for the Man Booker for his debut novel Narcopolis

10. Non-Stop India: written by Mark Tully

11. The Sense of an Ending: written by Julian Barnes

12. Joseph Anton - written by Salman Rushdie

13. Muslims In Indian Cities - By Laurent Gayer & Christophe Jaffrelot

14. When Loss is Gain – by Diplomat Pavan K. Varma

15. Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography- I K Gujral

Some Important Banking Terms

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 6 Feb 2013 01:16:00 -0800

1. Balance of Trade:

The value of a country’s exports minus the value of its imports. Unless specified as the balance of merchandise trade, it normally incorporates trade in services, including earnings (interest, dividends, etc.) on financial assets.

2. Balanced Trade:

When a balance of trade equal to zero. (exports – imports = 0)

3. Balance of Payments:

A list of all of a country’s international transactions for a given time period, usually one year. Payments into the country (receipts) are entered as positive numbers, called credits; Payments out of the country (payments) are entered as negative numbers called debits. A single numbers summarize all of a country’s international transactions: the balance of payments surplus.

4. MFN (Most Favoured Nation):

The principle, fundamental to the GATT, of treating imports from a country on the same basis as that given to the most favoured other nation. That is, and with some exceptions, every country gets the lowest tariff that any country gets, and reductions in tariffs to one country are provided also to others.

5. Balanced Budget:

A government budget surplus that is zero, thus with net tax revenue equaling expenditure. A balanced budget changes in policy or behavior is one which a component of the government budget, usually taxes, is adjusted as necessary to maintain a balanced budget.

6. Balanced Growth of an Economy:

Growth of an economy in which all aspects of it, especially factors of production, grow at the same rate.

7. Bank Rate:

The interest rate charges by a central bank to commercial banks for very short term loans.

8. Repo:

Repo is “Repurchase Agreement”. An agreement to sell a security for a specified price and to buy it back later at another specified price. A repo is essentially a secured loan.

9. Repo Rate:

Whenever the banks have any shortage of funds they can borrow it form RBI. Repo rate is the rate at which commercial banks borrows rupees from RBI. A reduction in the repo rate will help banks to get money at cheaper rate. When the repo rate increases borrowing form RBI becomes more expensive.

Current Repo Rate is: 7.75 %

10. Reverse Repo Rate:

Reverse Repo rate is the rate at which RBI borrows money from commercial banks. Banks are always happy to lend money to RBI since their money is in the safe hands with a good interest. An increase in reverse repo rate can cause the banks to transfer more funds to RBI due to this attractive interest rates.

Current R Repo Rate: 6.75%

11. CRR (Cash Reverse Ratio):

CRR is the amount of funds that the banks have to keep with RBI. If RBI increases CRR, the available amount with the banks comes down. RBI is using this method (increase of CRR), to drain out the excessive money from the banks.

Current CRR – 4.00%

12. SLR (Statutory Liquidity Ratio):

SLR is the amount a commercial banks needs to maintain in the form of cash, or gold, or govt. approved securities (Bonds) before providing credit to its customers. SLR rate is determined and maintained by RBI in order to control the expansion of the bank credit.

Current SLR is 23%

13. Need of SLR:

With the SLR, the RBI can ensure the solvency of a commercial banks. It is also helpful to control the expansion of the Bank credits. By changing SLR rates, RBI can increase or decrease bank credit expansion. Also through SLR, RBI compels the commercial banks to invest in the government securities like govt. bonds.

14. Main use of SLR:

SLR is used to control inflation and propel growth. Through SLR rate the money supply in the system can be controlled effectively.

15. Fiscal Deficit:

A deficit in the government budget of a country and represents the excess of expenditure over income. So this is the amount of borrowed funds require by the government to meet its expenditures completely.

16. Direct Tax:

A direct tax is that which is paid directly by someone to taxing authority. Income tax and property tax are an examples of direct tax. They are not shifted to somebody else.

17. Indirect Tax:

This type of tax is not paid by someone to the authorities and it is actually passed on to the other in the form of increased cost. They are levied on goods and services produced or purchased. Excise Tax, Sales Tax, Vat, Entertainment tax are indirect taxes.

18. NOSTRO Account:

A Nostro account is maintained by an Indian Bank in the foreign countries.

19. VOSTRO Account:

A Vostro account is maintained by a foreign bank in India with their corresponding bank.

20. SDR (Special Drawing Rights):

SDR are new form of International reserve assets, created by the International Monetary Fund in 1967. The value of SDR is based on the portfolio of widely used countries and they are maintained as accounting entries and not as hard currency or physical assets like Gold.

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Quantitative Concepts

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 6 Feb 2013 01:04:00 -0800

Multiplying 2 digit numbers where the tens’ digit is the same and the units’ digit add up to 10

E.g.: 42 x 48

1. First multiply the units digit of the two numbers: 2 x 8 = 16

2. Then multiply the tens digit by its succeeding number, 4x(4+1) = 4x5 = 20.

3. The final answer is 2016.

Multiplying 2 digit numbers where the tens’ digit numbers add up to 10 and the units’ digit is the same

E.g.: 44 x 64

1. First find the multiplication of the last 2 digits of both the numbers i.e. 4x4 = 16

2. Multiply the tens’ digits and add the common digit to the multiplication i.e. (4x6)+4 = 28

3. The final answer is 2816

Now try to solve these 10 questions as fast as possible (3-5min)
1.    74 x 76=?
   (a)  4924                            (b) 5624                                   (c) 5424                                   (d) 5024
2.    41 x 49=?
   (a)  1909                            (b) 2081                                   (c) 2009                                   (d) 2109
3.    81 x 89=?
   (a)  8109                            (b) 8181                                   (c) 7281                                   (d) 7209
4.    65 x 65 =?
   (a)  4225                            (b) 4275                                   (c) 3625                                   (d) 3675
5.    29 x 21=?
   (a)  409                              (b) 609                                     (c) 481                                     (d) 681
6.    45 x 65=?
   (a)  2975                            (b) 2925                                   (c) 2425                                   (d) 3025
7.    28 x 88 =?
   (a)  2664                            (b) 2648                                   (c) 2464                                   (d) 2848
8.    33 x 73=?
   (a)  2109                            (b) 2437                                   (c) 2327                                   (d) 2409
9.    81 x 21 =?
   (a)  1701                            (b) 1601                                   (c) 1621                                   (d) 1721
10.  67 x 47=?
   (a)  3049                            (b) 3149                                   (c) 2407                                   (d) 2449

SOLUTIONS
1 b 2 c 3 d 4 a   5 b
6 b 7 c 8 d 9 a   10 b

Time taken
Within 3 min: Excellent
3-5 min: You Can Do Better
More than 5 min: You Need To Work Hard.

K-5 ballistic missile successfully test fired

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:25:00 -0800

India successfully test fired a ballistic missile, with a strike range of around 1500 kilometres, from an underwater platform in Bay of Bengal.

Medium range K-5 ballistic missile was test-fired from an underwater ponto

K-5 missile, which is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).

About K-5 ballistic missile:
K-5 ballistic missiles is part of the family of underwatermissiles being developed by DRDO for the Indian strategic forces underwater platforms. This missile will help India to achieve the capability of launching nuclear warheads from underwater facilities.
This is the first missile in the underwater category to have been developed by India. So far, India had the capability of delivering nuclear weapons from land and aerial platforms only.
K-5 ballistic missile, which is also known as BO5, has been developed by DRDO's Hyderabad-based Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL).
Only a select few nations including the US, France, Russia and China have this type of missile capability.

Incredible India at EMITT 2013 in Istanbul

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:21:00 -0800

India Tourism is promoting the brand Incredible India at the ongoing Eastern Mediterranean International Tourism and Travel Exhibition, EMITT-2013 in Istanbul.

A team of tour and travel operators from different parts of India took part at the Mediterranean region’s largest tourism and travel festival.

The four day event was inaugurated by India’s Consul General in Istanbul, Shri Vanlalhuma on Thursday

The move is aimed at showcasing India’s tourism destinations and attract a large number of foreign tourist from Turkey and other parts of the region.

IT Professional Knowledge Syllabus:IBPS Specialist Officer

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:30:00 -0800

1. Basics of Computer (WINDOWS OS/DOS)

2. Office Applications.

3. RDBMS - Oracle etc

4. Networking

5. Hardware

6. Internet technologies

7. Other emerging technologies

Don't Forget To Study Previous Year Question Papers it will help You to Understand Pattern of Exam and type of questions that may be asked in the Exam.

HR Officer Syllabus: IBPS Specialist Officer

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:16:00 -0800

Dear Aspirants,

Please note under Industrial Relations only important Laws have been covered which are relevant for Bank Exams.

1. Nature and Functions of HRM

2. Personnel policies and procedures

3. Principles of HRM

4. Human resource Planning

5. Recruitment and selection

6. Orientation and Socialisation

7. Mobility of Personnel and Retirement(transfers, promotion, demotion, seperation)

8. Training and Development

9. Job analysis, Job design, job evaluation

10. Compensation (wages and salary), incentive plans

11. Performance and potential appraisal (MBO)

12. Employee morale and productivity

13. Personnel problems and employee counseling (labour turnover, absenteeism, alcoholic and drug abuse)

14. Employee health, safety and welfare

15. Trade unionism, collective bargaining, worker’s participation in management, discipline and grievance procedure, motivation (theories), job satisfaction

16. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS:

- THE PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT 1936

- THE MINIMUM WAGES ACT 1948

- THE PAYMENT OF GRATUITY ACT 1972 THE EMPLOYEE’S PROVODENT FUND AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISION ACT 1952

- THE MATERNITY BENEFIT ACT 1961

- THE INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE ACT 1947

- THE PAYMENT OF BONUS ACT 1965

- THE EQUAL REMUNERATION ACT 1976

- THE INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT (STANDING ORDER ACT) 1946

Rajnath Singh elected as the new National President of Bhartiya Janata Party

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:25:00 -0800

Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on 23 January 2013 elected Rajnath Singh as its new President. His appointment to the post was announced by Thawar Chand Gehlot, the Central Election Officer at the headquarters of the party, at New Delhi.

Rajnath Singh replaced Nitin Gadkari, who served the party as its President for a period of three years from December 2009 to January 2013.

Election Commission of India nominated Saina Nehwal and Mary Kom as the National Icons

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:24:00 -0800

The Election Commission (EC) of India on 22 January 2013 announced Saina Nehwal and Mary Kom as the National Icons to help promote, voter participation in India. Saina Nehwal and Mary Kom, both are Olympic Bronze Medalists in the London Olympics 2012, in Badminton and Boxing respectively.

Apart from these two, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Captain of the Indian National Cricket Team and former President of India, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam are the existing National Icons of the Board and they will continue to be at the position.

The third National Voters Day would be observed by the Poll Panel on 25 January 2013 and some of the first-time voters would be given their photo identity cards on this day. The National Voters day is celebrated on the foundation day of the Election Commission.

5. IBPS PO Common Interview Experience:Hemant Gupta

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:43:00 -0800

There were 4 members in intrvw board n asked only application based questions.

Introduce urself.

Why bank after mba.

Cross selling wid example.

About dicgc.

Why there is a frequent change in crr, not in slr?

Why msf came into existance if repo rate is already available.

What is laf. Explain d significance of it.

What is current a/c deficit n how 2 cntrl it.

What ur view on current eco condition of ind..

Today Exchange rate in terms of dollar 11. Where is turky?

About sawej nahar 13. Cts cheque n its obejective.

Why there is cut in crr jb ki inflation is still high.

or iske bad en sb se cross que the.. Sbki watt lga rhe the panel 2 wale.. 20 min tak hua intrvw.. but i answered almost every que except gk ques. Overall experience acha hi tha.. Al is well kh kar gus jao or jo v bolna yro confidnce k sath. Al d best jin k v intrvw hai.

4. IBPS PO Common Interview Experience:Vinod Dudhe

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:32:00 -0800

Hello evry1. My interview was scheduled on 16th jan morning. I reached the place at 8.30 am & aftr documnt verifctn my interview started at 12.00 pm. Following Questions was asked to me. There was no self intro. Direct questioning..

u r MBA so elaborate BEP.

What iz NWC?

what is contingent liabalities?

tell me about Managerial economics.

business laws?

RBI policies and act?

why banks maintain SLR when there is a facility that bank can borrow money from RBI with repo rate?

indian financial system.

indian banking system?

There were such questions asked me in an interview...

All the best to all of you.

SSC LDC Results 2012, Data Entry Operator (DEO) Result 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:24:00 -0800

SSC conducted Examination for the post of Lower Division Clerk (LDC) and Data Entry Operator (DEO) on 21st and 28th October 2012. Both are competitive examinations organized to get job in government sector whenever vacancies are available. About 20,165 candidates appeared in Lower Division Clerk (LDC) Exam and 10,639 candidates appeared in the Data Entry Operator (DEO) Exam.

Finally The result for this exam has been announced on official website. Here is the Direct link to View the result.

Click Here for the List Of Candidates Qualified For Data Entry Skill Test (FOR THE POST OF LDC)

Click Here for the List Of Candidates Qualified For Data Entry Skill Test (FOR THE POST OF DEO)

Congratulation to those candidates Who qualified and Gud Luck for Data Entry Skill Test :)

Important Current Affairs Questions With Answer

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:38:00 -0800

1. Recently World Bank slashed the Global Growth Forecast to ___?

(1) 4.5% (2) 2.4%

(3) 5.5% (4) 3.4%

(5) 6%

2. Recently Who among the following appointed as the new China envoy to India?

(1) Wei Wei (2) Hao Ting

(3) Chen Feng (4) Sun Yuxi

(5) Liu Xian

3. Which among the following has become first district court to use complete E-stamping Facility?

(1) Karkardooma (2) Patiala House

(3) Tis Hazari (4) Dwarka

(5) Rohini

4. Which among the following Telecom service provider has launched first video telephony service in India?

(1) Airtel (2) Vodafone

(3) Idea (4) Reliance

(5) MTNL

5. Recently UN projected how much percent of economic growth this year (2013) for India?

(1) 7.5% (2) 8%

(3) 6.2% (4) 9%

(5) None of these

6. Which among the following State of India launch ‘Atal Jyoti’ scheme?

(1) UP (2) MP

(3) HP (4) Rajasthan

(5) Andhra Pradesh

7. Which among the following scientists inducted into the “Satellite Hall of Fame”?

(1) UR Rao (2) T Shankar

(3) Dr James Van Allen (4) Dr. NK Trikha

(5) None of these

8. Recently deputy PM of Turkmenistan arrives in New Delhi? Identify the person.

(1) Sukhan Babayev (2) Rashid Meredov

(3) Chary Karriyez (4) Han Ahmedow

(5) None of these

9. Recently Govt. hikes import duty on gold, platinum to__?

(1) 9% (2) 7%

(3) 8% (4) 6%

(5) None of these

10. Recently which among the following Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel inducted into Indian Navy?

(1) INS Saryu (2) INS Arihant

(3) INS Prayag (4) INS Sukanya

(5) None of these

Answers:

1. (2)

2. (1)

3. (2)

4. (5)

5. (3)

6. (2)

7. (1)

8. (2)

9. (4)

10. (1)

SBI PO Recruitment Notification 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:21:00 -0800

State Bank of India (SBI) has finally released its much awaited notification for the Recruitment of Probationary Officers (POs) for the year 2013.

Important Dates:

Online Registration Of Application: 30.01.2013 to 23.02.2013
Payment of Fees - ONLINE : 30.01.2013 to 23.02.2013
Payment of Fees - OFFLINE : 01.02.2013 to 28.02.2013
Date of Written Examination : 28.04.2013
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Govt. declared use of MGNREGA linked Post Office Accounts for Direct Cash Transfer

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:06:00 -0800

The Union Government of India in the third week of January 2013 amended the August 2008 notification to allow MGNREGA beneficiaries to receive other Government benefits and deposits in their post office saving account. With this order of the Union Finance Ministry more than 3.5 crore post office accounts in existence has turned up to be ready for the Aadhaar-linked Cash Transfer Scheme of Government of India.

Earlier, the accounts linked with the MGNREGA workers of the country were used for receiving the wages under the rural employment guarantee scheme. The Aadhaar number would be used for authentication of the identities of the beneficiaries under the new Direct Cash Transfer initiative.

There exists of a total of 8.26 crore MGNREGA accounts in the country and out of this 43 percent (3.5 crore) of the accounts exists in post offices of India.

Google may soon replace passwords with 'physical keys'

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:03:00 -0800

Search giant Google is set to kill off passwords and is experimenting with USB keys, mobile phones and even jewelry that can act as a physical 'key' to give users access to their account.

Google Vice President of Security Eric Grosse said: we feel passwords and simple bearer tokens such as cookies are no longer sufficient to keep users safe," the pair write in their paper.To log, users simply place the tiny Universal Serial Bus (USB) drive into their computer.

The firm is also believed to be experimenting with wireless chips that are already built into some mobile phones, and can even be built in jewelry. "One option uses a tiny USB key called a YubiKey. When the user plugs the key into a latop, they are automatically logged into all of their Google accounts - without ever having to type in a password," .

3. IBPS PO Common Interview Experience:Preeti Rajgariya

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:56:00 -0800

My interview was on 14th in noida.There were 4 members in the panel. All were vry nice and friendly..ques asked..

about urself..
family background
i am an MCA so they asked y banking after MCA.
y shud we select u..
have u ever been in any village.?
how will u handle our customers residing in villages
CBS.?
balance sheet ( they asked mistakenly, thought m an MBA )
but after knowing they did not want any answer,even i said i know it. :)
1 ques on hobby that which kind of books u'v read..

thats it.. all the best :) :)

2. IBPS PO Common Interview Experience:Ashutosh Chalia

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:51:00 -0800

They were 4 members in the panel before interview, documents were verified. i was interviewed on 14th morning in noida.

As i m graduate n post graduate in engg so they askd me about the diff b/w electrical and electronics..

family background n hometown.

y r u choosing bank wid such a good qualification?

who scored 50th half century recently-yuvraj singh

which newspaper u read to update urself

wht r u doing dese days.

computer role in banking sector.

wht is cbs?

thts it!!!

1. IBPS PO Common Interview Experience:Sachin Shandil

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:48:00 -0800

Hello evry1. My interview was scheduled on 16th jan morning. I reached the place at 8.30 am n aftr documnt verifctn my intrvw strtd at 11.50 am. Following r d questions:

What is ur name?

Introduce urself. (as soon as i started, the intrvwr stopped me n sd dat u can answer in any language in which u feel comfortable. I startd in english).

As you are an MBA so what can you tell about analysis of variance or ANOVA?

You are a B tech plus MBA? So y banking sector.?

Functions of RBI.

What is personality and 2 or 3 related questions on it?

What is motivation.?

One question was on communication skills and body language.

Financial inclusion.

Role of banking in rural sector n what qualities should a branch manager have there?

Some questions were about the place where ma college was situated.

The intrvwrs were very nice n they wl b same 2 u.

I hope dis wil benefit u ol. ALL D BEST TO EVERYONE.

First Space Weather Reading Centre of India Scheduled to be opened by mid 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:45:00 -0800

The centre of excellence which specialises in reading the weather conditions of the space and helps the air traffic on their polar routes is scheduled to come up in Kolkata by the middle of 2013. The space weather reading centre in Kolkata will be first of its kind and is approved by Union HRD Ministry. This centre would be coming up at Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER) campus. The Union HRD Ministry sanctioned 4 crore Rupees for the centre.

With the help of this centre, there will be an availability of the prior information about these storms which originate in the space or the solar system. This information can eventually be passed on to the civil aviation department, which in turn can inform the airlines regarding the adverse effects of flying in Polar Regions or high altitudes.

In case the weather in solar system is not up to the mark, it would have an adverse effect on the functioning of the satellites as well, which eventually also affects the mobile networks and the GPS systems. The information about the poor weather conditions in the space can also be communicated to the telecommunication department. This would allow them to safeguard the satellites in the space.

This centre would initially offer the readings free of cost to the telecommunication department and the civil aviation, but later this data would be available commercially.

Must Buy Book For IBPS Specialist Officers CWE-2013

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:36:00 -0800

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Kamal Nath Elected As the Leader of Indian Delegation for World Economic Forum 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:04:00 -0800

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh elected Kamal Nath, the Union Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs, as a leader of Indian delegation for annual meetings for World Economic Forum which will be held in Davos from 23 to 27 January 2013.

There will be other three members in the delegation and these involve Power Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Heavy Industry Minister Praful Patel and Commerce & Industry Minister Anand Sharma.

Kamal Nath being chosen as the leader of the delegation surprised the government because this is the first time when someone not from the ministries of finance or commerce is leading the delegation. Back in 2006 as well, when the economy was at its boom, Kamal Nath launched India Everywhere campaign, depicting India as a lucrative destination for the investment purpose and for placing it in the top most table at the global level.

S.Africa retains top spot as world number one team in latest ICC rankings

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:03:00 -0800

South Africa retains its position as World number one team in the latest ICC Test cricket rankings followed by England and Australia. India continues to remain at the fifth spot after Pakistan.Australia’s star batsman Michael Clarke maintains his top billing among the test batsmen.He is closely followed by Protean Hashim Amla who replaces the Caribbean Shivnarain Chanderpaul at the second position.

South African paceman Dale Steyn leads the pack of bowlers followed by fellow paceman Vernan Philander.

India’s Pragyan Ojha is the lone Indian to figure in top ten. He is placed ninth among the test bowlers. Jacques Kallis remains as the number one test All rounder with his versatile performance.

The latest ICC teat rankings were released in Dubai yesterday.

Recruitment scam: Chautala convicted, sent to judicial custody

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:59:00 -0800

Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, his MLA-son Ajay Chautala and 54 others were on Wednesday convicted by a Delhi court for the illegal recruitment of over 3000 junior basic trained (JBT) teachers in the state. The court has fixed January 22 for pronouncing the quantum of sentence, all the convicts were taken into judicial custody.

Apart from the Chautalas, Sanjiv Kumar, the then Director of Primary Education, Chautala's former Officer on Special Duty Vidya Dhar and Sher Singh Badshami, political advisor to the then Haryana CM were convicted by the court in the case. The court had framed charges against them under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the IPC and and provisions of the PCA.