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Union Budget 2017-18: PERSONAL INCOME-TAX

2017-02-06T13:16:00.000+05:30

Union Budget 2017-18: PERSONAL INCOME-TAX

1. Existing rate of taxation for individual assesses between income of 2.5 lakhs to 5 lakhs reduced to 5% from the present rate of 10%

1. Surcharge of 10% of tax payable on categories of individuals whose annual taxable income is between `50 lakhs and ` 1 crore

3. Simple one-page form to be filed as Income Tax Return for the category of individuals having taxable income upto ` 5 lakhs other than business income

4. Appeal to all citizens of India to contribute to Nation Building by making a small payment of 5% tax if their income is falling in the lowest slab of 2.5 lakhs to 5 lakhs.

Union Budget 2017-18: TRANSPARENCY IN ELECTORAL FUNDING

2017-02-06T13:14:00.001+05:30

Union Budget 2017-18: TRANSPARENCY IN ELECTORAL FUNDING

1. Need to cleanse the system of political funding in India
2. Maximum amount of cash donation, a political party can receive, will be 2000/- from one person.

Union Budget 2017-18: DIGITAL ECONOMY

2017-02-06T13:12:00.001+05:30

Union Budget 2017-18: DIGITAL ECONOMY

2. A Mission will be set up with a target of 2,500 crore digital transactions for 2017-18 through UPI, USSD, Aadhar Pay, IMPS and debit cards

3. Banks have targeted to introduce additional 10 lakh new POS terminals by March 2017. They will be encouraged to introduce 20 lakh Aadhar based POS by September 2017

Union Budget 2017-18: FINANCIAL SECTOR

2017-02-06T13:09:00.003+05:30

Union Budget 2017-18: FINANCIAL SECTOR

1. Foreign Investment Promotion Board to be abolished in 2017-18 and further liberalisation of FDI policy is under consideration

2. A mechanism to streamline institutional arrangements for resolution of disputes in infrastructure related construction contracts, PPP and public utility contracts will be introduced as an amendment to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996.

3. In line with the ‘Indradhanush’ roadmap, ` 10,000 crores for recapitalisation of Banks provided in 2017-18

4. Lending target under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana to be set at ` 2.44 lakh crores. Priority will be given to Dalits, Tribals, Backward Classes and Women.

Union Budget 2017-18: INFRASTRUCTURE

2017-02-06T13:06:00.001+05:30

Union Budget 2017-18: INFRASTRUCTURE

3. For passenger safety, a Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh will be created with a corpus of ` 1 lakh crores over a period of 5 years

4. Railway lines of 3,500 kms will be commissioned in 2017-18. During 2017-18, at least 25 stations are expected to be awarded for station redevelopment.

5. SMS based Clean My Coach Service has been started

‘Coach Mitra’, a single window interface, to register all coach related complaints and requirements to be launched

6. In the road sector, Budget allocation for highways increased from ` 57,976 crores in BE 2016-17 to ` 64,900 crores in 2017-18

Union Budget 2017-18: THE POOR AND THE UNDERPRIVILEGED

2017-02-06T13:02:00.000+05:30

Union Budget 2017-18: THE POOR AND THE UNDERPRIVILEGED

1. Under Maternity Benefit Scheme ` 6,000 each will be transferred directly to the bank accounts of pregnant women who undergo institutional delivery and vaccinate their children

2. Affordable housing to be given infrastructure status

National Housing Bank will refinance individual housing loans of about ` 20,000 crore in 2017-18

3. To create additional 5,000 Post Graduate seats per annum to ensure adequate availability of specialist doctors to strengthen Secondary and Tertiary levels of health care

4. Two new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences to be set up in Jharkhand and Gujarat

5. The allocation for Scheduled Castes has been increased by 35% compared to BE 2016-17. The allocation for Scheduled Tribes has been increased to ` 31,920 crores and for Minority Affairs to ` 4,195 crores

Union Budget 2017-18: YOUTH

2017-02-06T12:59:00.005+05:30

Union Budget 2017-18: YOUTH

3. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras to be extended to more than 600 districts across the country. 100 India International Skills Centres will be established across the country.

4. Skill Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion programme (SANKALP) to be launched at a cost of ` 4000 crores. SANKALP will provide market relevant training to 3.5 crore youth

5. Next phase of Skill Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement (STRIVE) will also be launched in 2017-18 at a cost of ` 2,200 crores

Union Budget 2017-18: RURAL AREAS

2017-02-06T12:55:00.002+05:30

1. Against target of 5 lakh farm ponds under MGNREGA, 10 lakh farm ponds would be completed by March 2017. During 2017-18, another 5 lakh farm ponds will be taken up

2. Women participation in MGNREGA has increased to 55% from less than 48%

3. MGNREGA allocation to be the highest ever at ` 48,000 crores in 2017-18.

4. Government has taken up the task of connecting habitations with more than 100 persons in left wing extremism affected Blocks under PMGSY. All such habitations are expected to be covered by 2019 and the allocation for PMGSY, including the State's Share is ` 27,000 crores in 2017-18

5. Allocation for Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin increased from ` 15,000 crores in BE 2016-17 to ` 23,000 crores in 2017-18 with a target to complete 1 crore houses by 2019 for the houseless and those living in kutcha houses.

6. Total allocation for Rural, Agriculture and Allied sectors is ` 187223 crores

Union Budget 2017-18: FARMERS

2017-02-06T12:53:00.002+05:30

1. Target for agricultural credit in 2017-18 has been fixed at a record level of ` 10 lakh crores.
2.Farmers will also benefit from 60 days’ interest waiver announced on 31 Dec 2016

3. To ensure flow of credit to small farmers, Government to support NABARD for computerisation and integration of all 63,000 functional Primary Agriculture Credit Societies with the Core Banking System of District Central Cooperative Banks. This will be done in 3 years at an estimated cost of 1,900 crores

4. Coverage under Fasal Bima Yojana scheme will be increased from 30% of cropped area in 2016-17 to 40% in 2017-18 and 50% in 2018-19 for which a budget provision of ` 9000 crore has been made

5. As announced by the Honourable Prime Minister, the Long Term Irrigation Fund already set up in NABARD to be augmented by 100% to take the total corpus of this Fund to ` 40,000 crores.

6. Dedicated Micro Irrigation Fund in NABARD to achieve ‘per drop more crop’ with an initial corpus of 5,000 crores

7. Coverage of National Agricultural Market (e-NAM) to be expanded from 250 markets to 585 APMCs. Assistance up to ` 75 lakhs will be provided to every e-NAM

8. Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund to be set up in NABARD with a corpus of ` 2000 crores and will be increased to ` 8000 crores over 3 years

Union Budget: Key Features of Budget 2017-2018

2017-02-01T18:44:00.001+05:30

Key Features of Budget 2017-2018

INTRODUCTION

1. Inflation brought under control. CPI-based inflation declined from 6% in July 2016 to 3.4% in December, 2016.

2. Economy has moved on a high growth path. India’s Current Account Deficit declined from about 1% of GDP last year to 0.3% of GDP in the first half of 2016-17. FDI grew 36% in H1 2016-17 over H1 2015-16, despite 5% reduction in global FDI inflows. Foreign exchange reserves have reached 361 billion US Dollars as on 20th January, 2017

3. The Indian economy has been robust to mild shocks and IMF forecasts, India to be one of the fastest growing major economies in 2017

FARMERS

1. Target for agricultural credit in 2017-18 has been fixed at a record level of ` 10 lakh crores.

2.Farmers will also benefit from 60 days’ interest waiver announced on 31 Dec 2016

3. To ensure flow of credit to small farmers, Government to support NABARD for computerisation and integration of all 63,000 functional Primary Agriculture Credit Societies with the Core Banking System of District Central Cooperative Banks. This will be done in 3 years at an estimated cost of ` 1,900 crores

4. Coverage under Fasal Bima Yojana scheme will be increased from 30% of cropped area in 2016-17 to 40% in 2017-18 and 50% in 2018-19 for which a budget provision of ` 9000 crore has been made

5. As announced by the Honourable Prime Minister, the Long Term Irrigation Fund already set up in NABARD to be augmented by 100% to take the total corpus of this Fund to ` 40,000 crores.

6. Dedicated Micro Irrigation Fund in NABARD to achieve ‘per drop more crop’ with an initial corpus of ` 5,000 crores

7. Coverage of National Agricultural Market (e-NAM) to be expanded from 250 markets to 585 APMCs. Assistance up to ` 75 lakhs will be provided to every e-NAM

8. Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund to be set up in NABARD with a corpus of ` 2000 crores and will be increased to ` 8000 crores over 3 years

RURAL AREAS

1. Against target of 5 lakh farm ponds under MGNREGA, 10 lakh farm ponds would be completed by March 2017. During 2017-18, another 5 lakh farm ponds will be taken up

2. Women participation in MGNREGA has increased to 55% from less than 48%

3. MGNREGA allocation to be the highest ever at ` 48,000 crores in 2017-18.

4. Government has taken up the task of connecting habitations with more than 100 persons in left wing extremism affected Blocks under PMGSY. All such habitations are expected to be covered by 2019 and the allocation for PMGSY, including the State's Share is ` 27,000 crores in 2017-18

5. Allocation for Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin increased from ` 15,000 crores in BE 2016-17 to ` 23,000 crores in 2017-18 with a target to complete 1 crore houses by 2019 for the houseless and those living in kutcha houses.

6. Total allocation for Rural, Agriculture and Allied sectors is ` 187223 crores

YOUTH

1. To introduce a system of measuring annual learning outcomes in our Schools.

2. SWAYAM platform, leveraging IT, to be launched with at least 350 online courses. This would enable students to virtually attend courses taught by the best faculty

3. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras to be extended to more than 600 districts across the country. 100 India International Skills Centres will be established across the country.

4. Skill Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion programme (SANKALP) to be launched at a cost of ` 4000 crores. SANKALP will provide market relevant training to 3.5 crore youth

5. Next phase of Skill Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement (STRIVE) will also be launched in 2017-18 at a cost of ` 2,200 crores

THE POOR AND THE UNDERPRIVILEGED

1. Under Maternity Benefit Scheme ` 6,000 each will be transferred directly to the bank accounts of pregnant women who undergo institutional delivery and vaccinate their children

2. Affordable housing to be given infrastructure status

National Housing Bank will refinance individual housing loans of about ` 20,000 crore in 2017-18

3. To create additional 5,000 Post Graduate seats per annum to ensure adequate availability of specialist doctors to strengthen Secondary and Tertiary levels of health care

4. Two new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences to be set up in Jharkhand and Gujarat

5. The allocation for Scheduled Castes has been increased by 35% compared to BE 2016-17. The allocation for Scheduled Tribes has been increased to ` 31,920 crores and for Minority Affairs to ` 4,195 crores

INFRASTRUCTURE

1. For transportation sector as a whole, including rail, roads, shipping, provision of ` 2,41,387 crores has been made in 2017-18.

2. For 2017-18, the total capital and development expenditure of Railways has been pegged at ` 1,31,000 crores. This includes ` 55,000 crores provided by the Government

3. For passenger safety, a Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh will be created with a corpus of ` 1 lakh crores over a period of 5 years

4. Railway lines of 3,500 kms will be commissioned in 2017-18. During 2017-18, at least 25 stations are expected to be awarded for station redevelopment.

5. SMS based Clean My Coach Service has been started

‘Coach Mitra’, a single window interface, to register all coach related complaints and requirements to be launched

6. In the road sector, Budget allocation for highways increased from ` 57,976 crores in BE 2016-17 to ` 64,900 crores in 2017-18

FINANCIAL SECTOR

1. Foreign Investment Promotion Board to be abolished in 2017-18 and further liberalisation of FDI policy is under consideration

2. A mechanism to streamline institutional arrangements for resolution of disputes in infrastructure related construction contracts, PPP and public utility contracts will be introduced as an amendment to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996.

3. In line with the ‘Indradhanush’ roadmap, ` 10,000 crores for recapitalisation of Banks provided in 2017-18

4. Lending target under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana to be set at ` 2.44 lakh crores. Priority will be given to Dalits, Tribals, Backward Classes and Women.

DIGITAL ECONOMY

1. 125 lakh people have adopted the BHIM app so far. The Government will launch two new schemes to promote the usage of BHIM; these are, Referral Bonus Scheme for individuals and a Cashback Scheme for Merchants

2. A Mission will be set up with a target of 2,500 crore digital transactions for 2017-18 through UPI, USSD, Aadhar Pay, IMPS and debit cards

3. Banks have targeted to introduce additional 10 lakh new POS terminals by March 2017. They will be encouraged to introduce 20 lakh Aadhar based POS by September 2017

TRANSPARENCY IN ELECTORAL FUNDING

1. Need to cleanse the system of political funding in India

2. Maximum amount of cash donation, a political party can receive, will be 2000/- from one person.

PERSONAL INCOME-TAX

1. Existing rate of taxation for individual assesses between income of 2.5 lakhs to 5 lakhs reduced to 5% from the present rate of 10%

1. Surcharge of 10% of tax payable on categories of individuals whose annual taxable income is between `50 lakhs and ` 1 crore

3. Simple one-page form to be filed as Income Tax Return for the category of individuals having taxable income upto ` 5 lakhs other than business income

4. Appeal to all citizens of India to contribute to Nation Building by making a small payment of 5% tax if their income is falling in the lowest slab of 2.5 lakhs to 5 lakhs.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Presented Economic Survey 2016-17 in the Parliament

2017-02-01T11:38:00.000+05:30

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Presented Economic Survey 2016-17 in the Parliament

The Indian Economy has sustained a macro-economic environment of relatively lower inflation, fiscal discipline and moderate current account deficit coupled with broadly stable rupee-dollar exchange rate. The Economic Survey 2016-17 presented in the Parliament today by the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley states that such a sustenance is despite continuing global sluggishness.

· As per the advance estimates released by the Central Statistics Office, the growth rate of GDP at constant market prices for the year 2016-17 is placed at 7.1 per cent, as against 7.6 per cent in 2015-16.This estimate is based mainly on information for the first seven to eight months of the financial year. Government final consumption expenditure is the major driver of GDP growth in the current year.

· Fixed investment (gross fixed capital formation) to GDP ratio (at current prices) is estimated to be 26.6 per cent in 2016-17, vis-à-vis 29.3 per cent in 2015-16.

· For 2017-18, it is expected that the growth would return to normal as the new currency notes in required quantities come back into circulation and as follow-up actions to demonetisation are taken. On balance, there is a likelihood that Indian economy may recover back to 6 ¾ per cent to 7 ½ per cent in 2017-18.

Fiscal

· Indirect taxes grew by 26.9 per cent during April-November 2016.

· The strong growth in revenue expenditure during April-November 2016 was boosted mainly by a 23.2 per cent increase in salaries due to the implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission and a 39.5 per cent increase in the grants for creation of capital assets.

Prices

· The headline inflation as measured by Consumer Price Index (CPI) remained under control for the third successive financial year. The average CPI inflation declined to 4.9 per cent in 2015-16 from 5.9 per cent in 2014-15 and stood at 4.8 per cent during April-December 2015.

· Inflation based on Wholesale Price Index (WPI) declined to (-) 2.5 per cent in 2015-16 from 2.0 per cent in 2014-15 and averaged 2.9 per cent during April-December 2016.

· Inflation is repeatedly being driven by narrow group of food items, of these pulses continued to be the major contributor of food inflation.

· The CPI based core inflation has remained sticky in the current fiscal year averaging around 5 per cent.

Trade

· The trend of negative export growth was reversed somewhat during 2016-17 (April-December), with exports growing at 0.7 per cent to US$ 198.8 billion. During 2016-17 (April-December) imports declined by 7.4 per cent to US$ 275.4 billion.

· Trade deficit declined to US$ 76.5 billion in 2016-17 (April-December) as compared to US$ 100.1 billion in the corresponding period of the previous year.

· The current account deficit (CAD) narrowed in the first half (H1) of 2016-17 to 0.3 per cent of GDP from 1.5 per cent in H1 of 2015-16 and 1.1 per cent in 2015-16 full year.

· Robust inflows of foreign direct investment and net positive inflow of foreign portfolio investment were sufficient to finance CAD leading to an accretion in foreign exchange reserves in H1 of 2016-17.

· In H1 of 2016-17, India’s foreign exchange reserves increased by US$ 15.5 billion on BoP basis.

· During 2016-17 so far, the rupee has performed better than most of the other emerging market economies.

External Debt

· At end-September 2016, India’s external debt stock stood at US$ 484.3 billion, recording a decline of US$ 0.8 billion over the level at end-March 2016.

· Most of the key external debt indicators showed an improvement in September 2016 vis-à-vis March 2016. The share of short-term debt in total external debt declined to 16.8 per cent at end-September 2016 and foreign exchange reserves provided a cover of 76.8 per cent to the total external debt stock.

· India’s key debt indicators compare well with other indebted developing countries and India continues to be among the less vulnerable countries.

Agriculture

· Agriculture sector is estimated to grow at 4.1 per cent in 2016-17 as opposed to 1.2 per cent in 2015-16; the higher growth in agriculture sector is not surprising as the monsoon rains were much better in the current year than the previous two years.

· The total area coverage under Rabi crops as on 13.01.2017 for 2016-17 is 616.2 lakh hectares which is 5.9 per cent higher than that in the corresponding week of last year.

· The area coverage under wheat as on 13.01.2017 for 2016-17 is 7.1 percent higher than that in the corresponding week of last year. The area coverage under gram as on 13.01.2017 for 2016-17 is 10.6 percent higher than that in the corresponding week of last year.

Industry

· Growth rate of the industrial sector is estimated to moderate to 5.2 per cent in 2016-17 from 7.4 per cent in 2015-16.During April-November 2016-17, a modest growth of 0.4 per cent has been observed in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).

· The eight core infrastructure supportive industries, viz. coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilizers, steel, cement and electricity registered a cumulative growth of 4.9 per cent during April-November 2016-17 as compared to 2.5 per cent during April-November 2015-16. The production of refinery products, fertilizers, steel, electricity and cement increased substantially, while the production of crude oil, natural gas fell during April-November 2016-17. Coal production attained lower growth during the same period.

· The performance of corporate sector (Reserve Bank of India, January 2017) highlighted that the growth of sales grew by 1.9 per cent in Q2 of 2016-17 as compared to near stagnant growth of 0.1 per cent in Q1 of 2016-17. Growth in net profit registered a remarkable growth of 16.0 per cent in Q2 of 2016-17 as compared to 11.2 per cent in Q1 of 2016-17.

Services

· Service sector is estimated to grow at 8.9 per cent in 2016-17, almost the same as in 2015-16. It is the significant pick-up in public administration, defence and other services, boosted by the payouts of the Seventh Pay Commission that is estimated to push up the growth in services.

Income Tax Department (ITD) launches Operation "Clean Money"

2017-02-01T11:26:00.000+05:30

Income Tax Department (ITD) launches Operation Clean Money

Income Tax Department (ITD) has initiated Operation Clean Money, today. Initial phase of the operation involves e-verification of large cash deposits made during 9th November to 30th December 2016. Data analytics has been used for comparing the demonetisation data with information in ITD databases
. In the first batch, around 18 lakh persons have been identified in whose case, cash transactions do not appear to be in line with the tax payer’s profile.

ITD has enabled online verification of these transactions to reduce compliance cost for the taxpayers while optimising its resources. The information in respect of these cases is being made available in the e-filing window of the PAN holder (after log in) at the portal https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in. The PAN holder can view the information using the link “Cash Transactions 2016” under “Compliance” section of the portal. The taxpayer will be able to submit online explanation without any need to visit Income Tax office.

Email and SMS will also be sent to the taxpayers for submitting online response on the e-filing portal. Taxpayers who are not yet registered on the e-filing portal (at https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in) should register by clicking on the ‘Register Yourself’ link. Registered taxpayers should verify and update their email address and mobile number on the e-filing portal to receive electronic communication.

A detailed user guide and quick reference guide is available on the portal to assist the taxpayer in submitting online response. In case of any difficulty in submitting on line response, help desk at 1800 4250 0025 may be contacted.

Data analytics will be used to select cases for verification, based on approved risk criteria. If the case is selected for verification, request for additional information and its response will also be communicated electronically. The information on the online portal will be dynamic getting updated on receipt of new information, response and data analytics.

The response of taxpayer will be assessed against available information. In case explanation of source of cash is found justified, the verification will be closed without any need to visit Income Tax Office. The verification will also be closed if the cash deposit is declared under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojna (PMGKY).

The taxpayers covered in this phase should submit their response on the portal within 10 days in order to avoid any notice from the ITD and enforcement actions under the Income-tax Act as also other applicable laws.

RBI Gives Final License to India Post to Start Payment Bank Operations

2017-01-30T19:51:00.001+05:30

RBI Gives Final License to India Post to Start Payment Bank Operations. India Post has received payments bank licence from the Reserve Bank of India to start banking operations payment bank India Post Payment Bank (IPPB).

Miss France Iris Mittenaere wins Miss Universe

2017-01-30T19:48:00.003+05:30

France’s Iris Mittenaere was crowned the Miss Universe. Haiti's Raquel Pelissier was placed the first runner-up, while Colombia's Andrea Tovar finished as the second runner-up.

Australian Open: Roger Federer beats Rafael Nadal to win 18th Grand Slam title

2017-01-30T19:46:00.001+05:30

Australian Open: Roger Federer beats Rafael Nadal to win 18th Grand Slam title. Roger Federer beat Rafael Nadal from 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 for a fifth Australian Open title and 18th grand slam success overall.

Sania and Dodig end runner-up at Australian Open

2017-01-30T19:44:00.000+05:30

Sania and Dodig end runner-up at Australian Open. Sania and her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig lost the Australian Open mixed doubles final 2-6 4-6 to Abigail Spears and Juan Sebastian Cabal.

Serena Williams beats Venus Williams to win the 2017 Australian Open

2017-01-30T19:40:00.001+05:30

Serena Williams beats Venus Williams to win the 2017 Australian Open .Serena Williams beats sister Venus 6-4, 6-4 to claim open-era record 23rd Grand Slam title.

Governors Banwarilal Purohit, PB Acharya to take additional charge of Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh

2017-01-30T19:37:00.001+05:30

With the governor’s post in two states – Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh – falling vacant due to the resignation of Meghalaya governor V Shanmuganathan. Assam governor Banwarilal Purohit was given additional charge of Meghalaya and

Nagaland governor PB Acharya was asked to take additional charge of Arunachal Pradesh.

ORF top think tank in India: Global Report

2017-01-30T19:34:00.004+05:30

Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation has emerged as the top think tank in the country, according to a global report. ORF bagged the top spot in the country in the China, India, Japan and the Republic of Korea category, according to the latest "Global Go To Think Tank Index Report".

Padma Awards 2017 Announced Winner List

2017-01-25T23:33:00.001+05:30

Padma Awards 2017 announced

Padma Awards - one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz.- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc.

These awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year. This year the President of India has approved conferment of Padma Awards to 89 persons as per the list below.

PADMA VIBHUSHAN

Sl. No	Name	Field	State
1.	Shri K J Yesudas	Art-Music	Kerala
2.	Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev	Others-Spiritualism	Tamil Nadu
3.	Shri Sharad Pawar	Public Affairs	Maharashtra
4.	Shri Murli Manohar Joshi	Public Affairs	Uttar Pradesh
5.	Prof. Udipi Ramachandra Rao	Science & Engineering	Karnataka
6.	Late Shri Sunder Lal Patwa (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Madhya Pradesh
7.	Late Shri PA Sangma (Posthumous)	Public Affairs	Meghalaya

Padma Bhushan

Sl. No.	Name	Field	State
8.	Shri Vishwa Mohan Bhatt	Art-Music	Rajasthan
9.	Prof. (Dr.) Devi Prasad Dwivedi	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh
10.	Shri Tehemton Udwadia	Medicine	Maharashtra
11.	Shri Ratna Sundar Maharaj	Others-Spiritualism	Gujarat
12.	Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati	Others-Yoga	Bihar
13.	H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (Foreigner)	Literature & Education	Thailand
14.	Late Shri Cho Ramaswamy (Posthumous)	Literature & Education –Journalism	Tamil Nadu

Padma Shri

Sl. No	Name		Field	State
15.	Smt. Basanti Bisht		Art-Music		Uttarakhand
16.	Shri Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair		Art-Dance		Kerala
17.	Smt. Aruna Mohanty		Art-Dance		Odisha
18.	Smt. Bharathi Vishnuvardhan		Art-Cinema		Karnataka
19.	Shri Sadhu Meher		Art-Cinema		Odisha
20.	Shri T K Murthy		Art-Music		Tamil Nadu
21.	Shri Laishram Birendrakumar Singh		Art-Music		Manipur
22.	Shri Krishna Ram Chaudhary		Art-Music		Uttar Pradesh
23.	Smt. Baoa Devi		Art-Painting		Bihar
24.	Shri Tilak Gitai		Art-Painting		Rajasthan
25.	Dr. Prof. Aekka Yadagiri Rao		Art-Sculpture		Telangana
26.	Shri Jitendra Haripal		Art-Music		Odisha
27.	Shri Kailash Kher		Art-Music		Maharashtra
28.	Smt. Parassala B Ponnammal		Art-Music		Kerala
29.	Smt. Sukri Bommagowda		Art-Music		Karnataka
30.	Shri Mukund Nayak		Art-Music		Jharkhand
31.	Shri Purushottam Upadhyay		Art-Music		Gujarat
32.	Smt. Anuradha Paudwal		Art-Music		Maharashtra
33.	Shri Wareppa Naba Nil		Art-Theatre		Manipur
34.	Shri Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary		Civil Service		Telangana
35.	Shri T.K. Viswanathan		Civil Service		Haryana
36.	Shri Kanwal Sibal		Civil Service		Delhi
37.	Shri Birkha Bahadur Limboo Muringla		Literature & Education		Sikkim
38.	Smt. Eli Ahmed		Literature & Education		Assam
39.	Dr. Narendra Kohli		Literature & Education		Delhi
40.	Prof. G. Venkatasubbiah		Literature & Education		Karnataka
41.	Shri Akkitham Achyuthan Namboothiri		Literature & Education		Kerala
42.	Shri Kashi Nath Pandita		Literature & Education		Jammu & Kashmir
43.	Shri Chamu Krishna Shastry		Literature & Education		Delhi
44.	Shri Harihar Kripalu Tripathi		Literature & Education		Uttar Pradesh
45.	Shri Michel Danino		Literature & Education		Tamil Nadu
46.	Shri Punam Suri		Literature & Education		Delhi
47.	Shri VG Patel		Literature & Education		Gujarat
48.	Smt. V Koteswaramma		Literature & Education		Andhra Pradesh
49.	Shri Balbir Dutt		Literature & Education-Journalism	Jharkhand
50.	Smt. Bhawana Somaaya		Literature & Education-Journalism	Maharashtra
51.	Shri Vishnu Pandya		Literature & Education-Journalism	Gujarat
52.	Dr. Subroto Das		Medicine	Gujarat
53.	Dr. (Smt.) Bhakti Yadav		Medicine	Madhya Pradesh
54.	Dr. Mohammed Abdul Waheed		Medicine	Telangana
55.	Dr. Madan Madhav Godbole		Medicine	Uttar Pradesh
56.	Dr. Devendra Dayabhai Patel		Medicine	Gujarat
57.	Prof. Harkishan Singh		Medicine	Chandigarh
58.	Dr. Mukut Minz		Medicine	Chandigarh
59.	Shri Arun Kumar Sharma		Others-Archaeology	Chhattisgarh
60.	Shri Sanjeev Kapoor		Others-Culinary	Maharashtra
61.	Smt. Meenakshi Amma		Others-Martial Art	Kerala
62.	Shri Genabhai Dargabhai Patel		Others-Agriculture	Gujarat
63.	Shri Chandrakant Pithawa		Science & Engineering	Telangana
64.	Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray		Science & Engineering	West Bengal
65.	Shri Chintakindi Mallesham		Science & Engineering	Andhra Pradesh
66.	Shri Jitendra Nath Goswami		Science & Engineering	Assam
67.	Shri Daripalli Ramaiah		Social Work	Telangana
68.	Shri Girish Bhardwaj		Social Work	Karnataka
69.	Shri Karimul Hak		Social Work	West Bengal
70.	Shri Bipin Ganatra		Social Work	West Bengal
71.	Smt. Nivedita Raghunath Bhide		Social work	Tamil Nadu
72.	Shri Appasaheb Dharmadhikari	Social Work		Maharashtra
73.	Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal	Social Work		Punjab
74.	Shri Virat Kohli	Sports-Cricket		Delhi
75.	Shri Shekar Naik	Sports-Cricket		Karnataka
76.	Shri Vikasa Gowda	Sports-Discus Throw		Karnataka
77.	Smt. Deepa Malik	Sports-Athletics		Haryana
78.	Shri Mariyappan Thangavelu	Sports-Athletics		Tamil Nadu
79.	Smt. Dipa Karmakar	Sports-Gymnastics		Tripura
80.	Shri P R Shreejesh	Sports-Hockey		Kerala
81.	Smt. Sakshi Malik	Sports-Wrestling		Haryana
82.	Shri Mohan Reddy Venkatrama Bodanapu	Trade & Industry		Telangana
83.	Shri Imrat Khan (NRI/PIO)	Art-Music		USA
84.	Shri Anant Agarwal (NRI/PIO)	Literature & Education		USA
85.	Shri H.R. Shah (NRI/PIO)	Literature & Education-Journalism		USA
86.	Late (Smt.) Suniti Solomon (Posthumous)	Medicine		Tamil Nadu
87.	Shri Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (Posthumous)	Others-Archaeology		West Bengal
88.	Dr. Mapuskar (Posthumous)	Social Work		Maharashtra
89.	Smt. Anuradha Koirala (Foreigner)	Social Work		Nepal

Miscellaneous Affairs: For IBPS Clerk Mains and SSC CHSL Exams Special

2016-12-23T13:25:00.000+05:30

Q.1. Which of the Indian states has attained 100% Aadhaar saturation?

A. Haryana
B. Karnataka
C. Kerala
D. Himachal Pradesh
E. Gujarat

Q. Which Indian has been appointed as the UNICEF`s Global Goodwill Ambassador?
A. MS Dhoni
B. Virat Kohli
C. Amitabh Bachchan
D. Priyanka Chopra
E. None of these.

Q. Bad advances of a Bank are called ?
A. Bad debt
B. Book debt
C. NPA
D. Out of order accounts
E. Overdrawn accounts.

Q. Cobalt 60 is commonly used in radiation therapy because it ?
A. Alpha - Rays
B. Beta - Rays
C. Gamma - Rays
D. None of these.

Q. The first round table conference in London was held in the year ?
A. 1930
B. 1928
C. 1931
D. 1925

Q. Who was the first woman president of Indian National Congress ?
A. Annie Besant,
B. Sarojini Naidu,
C. Indira Gandhi,
D. None of these.

Virat Kohli captain of ICC ODI team of 2016

2016-12-23T13:18:00.001+05:30

Virat Kohli was named captain of the ICC ODI Team of the Year. ICC ODI Team of the Year:-Virat Kohli (C), David Warner, Quinton De Kock, Rohit Sharma, AB de Villiers, Jos Buttler, Mitchell Marsh, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Starc, Kagiso Rabada, Sunil Narine and Imran Tahir.

Ravichandran Ashwin wins ICC "Cricketer of the Year" award

2016-12-23T13:14:00.001+05:30

Indian off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, was win the "Cricketer of the Year" and the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year 2016 by the International Cricket Council.

India ranks 4th in Global Wind Power Installed Capacity Index

2016-12-23T13:12:00.001+05:30

India in the third week of December 2016 was ranked 4th in the Global Wind Power Installed Capacity Index. The Index was topped by China, USA and Germany.

Karun Nair becomes second Indian to score triple century in test

2016-12-23T13:10:00.001+05:30

Karun Nair becomes second Indian cricketer to score triple century in Test Cricket after Virendra Sehwag. He scored 303 not out in 381 balls.