Books & Authors List 2017 - February Month

Books & Authors List 2017 - February Month

Hema Malini: Beyond the Dream Girl - Ram Kamal Mukherjee (Hema Malini Biography)

Veerappan, Chasing the Brigand - K Vijay Kumar

The Golden House - Salman Rushdie

Akhada: The Authorized Biography of Mahavir Singh Phogat – Saurabh Duggal

Black Water Lilies – Michel Bussi

The Trespasser – Tana French

Goras and Desis: Managing Agencies and the Making of Corporate India – Omkar Goswami

Thamel: Dark Star of Kathmandu – Rabi Thapa

Books & Authors List 2017 - March Month

Books & Authors List 2017 - March Month

My Story – An autobiography of Michael Clarke (former international cricketer and captain of Australia)

Rekha: The Untold Story - Yasser Usman

The Rise of Sivagami: Book 1 of Baahubali - Anand Neelakanthan

Numbers Do Lie - Akash Chopra (Former Indian cricketer)

Books & Authors List 2017 - April Month

Books & Authors List 2017 - April Month

Matoshree - Sumitra Mahajan (Lok Sabha Speaker)

The Flaming Tresses of Draupadi - M Veerappa Moily

Hope in a Challenged Democracy: An Indian Narrative - Ashwani Kumar

Gandhi in Champaran - Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar

Home of the Brave - Nitin A Gokhale & Brig S K Chatterji

Books & Authors List 2017 - May Month

Books & Authors List 2017 - May Month

Confessions of a dying mind: The blind faith of atheism - Kiren Rijiju

President Pranab Mukherjee has received the first copy of two books 'Mann Ki Baat-A Social Revolution on Radio' and 'Marching with a Billion-Analysing Narendra Modi’s Government at Mid term' at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi

Winning like Virat: Think & Succeed like Kohli - Abhirup Bhattacharya

Asha Parekh: The Hit Girl (Asha Parekh’s autobiography) - Khalid Mohamed

Books & Authors List 2017 - June Month

Books & Authors List 2017 - June Month

The Emergency-Indian Democracy’s Darkest Hour - Surya Prakash (Chairman of Prasar Bharati)

Israeli author David Grossman has won the Man Booker International Prize 2017 for his novel `A Horse Walks Into a Bar'

Ex-Uttarakhand CM Pokhriyal authors book on Vajpayee ‘Yug Purush, Bharat Ratna, Atal Ji’

Legendary poet and essayist Haraprasad Das was conferred with the covetous Kalinga Literary Award

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Arundhati Roy

Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature - Jairam Ramesh

India might become an educationally failed nation - Ganesh Devy

Beren And Luthien - J.R.R. Tolkien

Books & Authors List for Bank Exams 2017

Books & Authors List for Bank Exams 2017

Book Name	Author Name - Award Name
A Horse Walks Into a Bar	David Grossman - Man Booker International Prize 2017
for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition	Bob Dylan - Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
The Sellout	Paul Beatty - Man Booker Prize 2016 Winner
The Vegitarian	Han Kang (Author), Deborah Smith (Translator) - Man Booker International Prize 2016 Winners
Bengali poet and literary critic Shankha Ghosh was selected for the Jnanpith Award 2016	Shankha Ghosh - Jnanpith Award 2016
The Sympathizer	Viet Thanh Nguyen -Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2016 Winner
Ananta Jeevanam (Novel)	Prof. Kalakaluri Enoch –2016 Moortidevi Award Winner
"Chitt-Chete"(Autobiography)	Padma Sachdev – 2015 Saraswati Samman
A monument to suffering and courage in our time	Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) - Nobel Prize in Literature 2015
Gujarati litterateur Raghuveer Chaudhary was selected for the 51st Jnanpith award 2015 for his contribution to the Indian literature	Raghuveer Chaudhary -Jnanpith award 2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings	Marlon James (Jamaica) -Man Booker prize 2015 Winner

• Saraswati Samman 2016 - Mahabaleshwar Sail (Konkani) - "Hawthan" (Novel)
• Vyas Samman 2016 - Surinder Verma for poetry collection "Kaatna shami ka vriksha padma-pankhuri ki dhar se"
• Jnanpith Award 2016 - Shankha Ghosh (Baengali)
• Moortidevi Award 2016 - MP Veerendrakumar (Malayalam - for his work – Hymavathabhoovil)
• Pulitzer Prize 2017 Winners (Category – Book - Author)
  • Fiction: The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
  • History: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy - Heather Ann Thompson
  • Biography: The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between - Hisham Matar
  • Poetry: Olio - Tyehimba Jess

List of Famous Persons in India – General Studies 2017

List of Famous Persons in India – General Studies 2017

19. Home secretary - Rajiv Gauba
20. Indian Air Chief – Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa
21. Indian Army Chief – General Bipin Rawat
22. Indian Navy Chief - Admiral Sunil Lanba
23. Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO Chairman – A S Kiran Kumar
24. Intelligence Bureau (IB) Director - RajivJain
25. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) Chairman - T.S. Vijayan
26. Law Commission of India Chairman –Balbir Singh Chauhan
27. Lok Sabha Speaker - Sumitra Mahajan
28. Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker - M. Thambidurai
29. National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Chairman - Raman Roy
30. National Commission for Backward Classes Chairperson - Justice V.Eswaraiah
31. National Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson - Lalitha Kumaramangalam
32. National Commission on Farmers (NCF) Chairman - M. S. Swaminathan
33. National Human Rights Commission Chairman -Justice H. L. Dattu
34. National Institution for Transforming India NITI Aayog

• Chairperson - Prime Minister Narendra Modi
• Chief Executive Officer CEO - Amitabh Kant
• Vice Chairperson - Arvind Panagariya

34. National Security Advisor (NSA India) - Ajit Doval
35. National Security Guard (NSG) Director General – R C Tayal
36. Prasar Bharati: Chairman - Dr A Surya Prakash; CEO - Shashi Shekar Vempati
37. President of India - Pranab Mukherjee
38. Prime Minister of India - Narendra Modi
39. Public Accounts Committee PAC chairman - Mallikarjun Kharge

List of Current Important Personalities of India – General Awareness 2017

List of Current Important Personalities of India – General Awareness 2017

1. Attorney General of India - Mukul Rohatgi
2. Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) President - Sandeep Jajodia
3. Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI Chief - Vinod Rai
4. Banks Board Bureau (BBB) Chairman- Vinod Rai
5. Border Security Force BSF Director General - K.K Sharma
6. Central Board of Direct Taxes CBDT Chairperson - Sushil Chandra
7. Central Bureau of Investigation CBI Director – Alok kumar verma
8. Central Industrial Security Force CISF Director General - Surender Singh
9. Central Reserve Police Force CRPF Director General - Prakash Mishra
10. Central Vigilance Commissioner - K V Chowdary
11. Central Water Commission (CWC) Chairman - Narendra Kumar
12. Chief Election Commissioner of India - Achal Kumar Joti
13. Confederation of Indian Industry CII President - Shobana Kamineni
14. Controller General of Accounts - Mr. Anthony Lianzuala
15. Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) – R. K. Mathur
16. Chief Justice of India - Jagdish Singh Kehar
17. Competition Commission of India CCI Chairman - Devender Kumar Sikri
18. Comptroller and Auditor General of India CAG - Shashi Kant Sharma
19. Economic Affairs Secretary - Tapan Ray
20. Election Commissioner of India - Om Prakash Rawat
21. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) President -Pankaj R Patel
22. Finance Commission of India Chairman – Dr. Y. Venugopal Reddy
23. Food Corporation of India (FCI) Chairman & MD - Yogendra Tripathi

List of Union Cabinet Ministers of India 2017

List of Union Cabinet Ministers of India 2017

The Cabinet of India, also known as the Union Cabinet of India, is the collective decision-making body of the Government of India, consists of the Prime Minister and the cabinet ministers. List of Union Cabinet Ministers of India & Ministers of State of India is given below.

Prime Minister
	Narendra Modi	Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister
Union Cabinet Ministers of India
1	Raj Nath Singh	Home Affairs
2	Sushma Swaraj	External Affairs
3	Arun Jaitley	Finance, Corporate Affairs
4	Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
5	Suresh Prabhu	Commerce and Industry
6	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	Statistics & Programme Implementation
7	Uma Bharati	Drinking Water and Sanitation
8	Ramvilas Paswan	Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
9	Maneka Sanjay Gandhi	Women and Child Development
10	Ananthkumar	Chemicals and Fertilizers Parliamentary Affairs
11	Ravi Shankar Prasad	Law & Justice Electronics & Information Technology
12	Jagat Prakash Nadda	Health and Family Welfare
13	Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati	Civil Aviation
14	Anant Geete	Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
15	Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Food Processing Industries
16	Narendra Singh Tomar	Rural Development Panchayati Raj Mines
17	Chaudhary Birender Singh	Steel
18	Jual Oram	Tribal Affairs
19	Radha Mohan Singh	Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
20	Thawar Chand Gehlot	Social Justice and Empowerment
21	Smriti Zubin Irani	Textiles Information & Broadcasting
22	Dr. Harsh Vardhan	Science and Technology, Earth Sciences Environment, Forest & Climate Change
23	Prakash Javadekar	Human Resource Development
24	Dharmendra Pradhan	Petroleum and Natural Gas Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
25	Piyush Goyal	Railways Coal
26	Nirmala Sitharaman	Defence
27	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Minority Affairs

Narendra Modi Cabinet reshuffled- 9 New Faces as Ministers

Narendra Modi Cabinet reshuffled- 9 New Faces as Ministers

Nine new Ministers of state were inducted into the Union Council of Ministers. Four Ministers of state were elevated to the cabinet rank. They are Minister of State for Commerce and Industries Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State For Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. President Ram Nath Kovindadministered the oath of office and secrecy to them at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The portfolios of the Ministers will be announced later.

Here is the 9 New Ministers, who take oath-

1. Former IFS officer Hardeep Puri

2. Former Mumbai Police chief Satyapal Singh 

3. Former IAS officer Alphons Kannanthanam

4. Lok Sabha MP's from Madhya Pradesh Virendra Kumar

5. From Karnataka Anant Kumar Hegde 

6. From Rajasthan Gajendra Singh Shekhawat 

7. From Bihar Ashwini Kumar Choubey 

8. From Bihar Raj Kumar Singh and 

9. Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh Shiv Pratap Shukla 

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Daily GK Update 02nd September 2017

1. PM Modi Leaves For Two Nation Visit

i. PM Narendra Modi will leave for a two nation tour to China and Myanmar. In the first leg of his three-day tour to China, Mr Modi will reach Xiamen to attend the 9th BRICS Summit there.

ii. Then, the Prime Minister will leave for Myanmar. This will be Prime Minister Modi’s first bilateral State visit to that country. Mr. Modi will hold discussions with State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on matters of mutual interest and also call on President U Htin Kyaw.

Important Takeaways from above News-

• Naypyidaw is the Capital of Myanmar.
• The 8th BRICS Summit held on 16th October 2016 at Goa, India.

2. Ahmedabad Formally Accorded Status of India’s First World Heritage City by UNESCO

i. Gujarat’s commercial capital Ahmedabad was formally accorded the status of India’s first World Heritage City by UNESCO. UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova handed over the certificate declaring Ahmedabad as a ‘World Heritage City’ to Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani in Gandhinagar.

ii. In July, the UN agency had inscribed Ahmedabad as India’s first World Heritage City at a meeting held in Poland.

Important Takeaways From Above News-

• UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization.
• Irina Bokova is the Present Director-General of UNESCO.

3. Annual Conference ‘Rajaswa Gyan Sangam’ in New Delhi

i. PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the two-day annual conference, Rajaswa Gyan Sangam, 2017 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The conference, jointly organized by the Central Board of Direct Taxes and the Central Board of Excise and Customs.

ii. The main objective of the conference is to enable a two-way communication between the policy-makers and senior officers in the field offices with a view to increase revenue collection and facilitate effective implementation of law and policies in key result areas.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• In 2016, the first time joint Conference of the two Boards was held under the umbrella of ‘Rajaswa Gyan Sangam’.

4. Anita Karwal Replaces RK Chaturvedi as CBSE Chairperson

i. IAS officer Anita Karwal was appointed as the new Chairperson of Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE. The 1988-batch officer from Gujarat cadre is currently serving as additional secretary in HRD Ministry.

ii. She would be replacing Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi, who has been appointed as Director General of the National Skill Development Agency.

5. SAAB Ties up With Adani Group to Build Gripen E fighter jets in India

i. Swedish defence major SAAB announced its tie-up with Adani Group to manufacture the Gripen E fighter jets in India under the Defence Ministry’s $10 billion single-engine fighter jet procurement programme.

ii. The announcement comes within months of US’ Lockheed Martin announcing its joint venture with Tata Advanced Systems for producing the latest version of F-16 in India.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Mr Gautam Adani is the Chairman and Founder of the Adani Group.
• Gripen is now being used by the air forces of Hungary, Thailand, South Africa, Brazil and the Czech Republic.

6. World's Highest Sandcastle Built in German City

i. The world's highest sandcastle is now standing 16.68 meters tall in the German city of Duisburg. A German travel operator organized the construction of the mammoth sandcastle, bringing in 3,500 tons of sand over the past three and a half weeks to the site at a former steelworks in the inland city. 

ii. It takes the title from a 14.84-metre sandcastle built early this year in India by sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Berlin is the Capital of Germany.
• Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany.

7. Indian-origin Joseph Yuvaraj Pillay Appointed Interim President of Singapore

i. Indian-origin veteran civil servant JY Pillay took over as Singapore's acting President until a new head of the state is elected later September.

ii. The temporary appointment of Pillay, Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisers (CPA), follows the completion of President Tony Tan Keng Yam's six-year term.

8. Kenneth I. Juster Named U.S Ambassador to India

i. Kenneth I. Juster, deputy director of the National Economic Council at the White House, has been nominated as the next U.S ambassador to India.

ii. The appointment will take effect once the U.S Senate confirms him. The post has been vacant since January 20, 2017.

Important Takeaways from Above News-

• Donald Trump is the Present and 45th President of India.