Sunday, 3 September 2017

Latest Current Affairs Questions – Who is Who/ Persons in News 2017



Latest Current Affairs Questions – Who is Who/ Persons in News 2017

  1. Railway Protection Force (RPF) Director General - Rajiv Ranjan Verma
  2. Rajya Sabha Chairman - Mohammad Hamid Ansari
  3. Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman - P. J. Kurien
  4. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India - Sailesh
  5. Registrar of Copyrights - Hoshiar Singh
  6. Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) Chief - Anil Dhasmana
  7. Reserve Bank of India Governor - Urjit R. Patel
  8. Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governors
  • S. Mundra
  • N S Vishwanathan
  • Viral Acharya
  • B.P. Kanungo
  1. Securities and Exchange Board of India SEBI Chairman - Ajay Tyagi
  2. Solicitor General of India - Ranjit Kumar
  3. Staff Selection Commission SSC Chairman - Ashim Khurana
  4. Surveyor General of India - Dr Swarna Subba Rao
  5. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman - Ram Sewak Sharma
  6. Union Public Service Commission UPSC Chairman - David R. Syiemlieh
  7. Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Chairman - J. Satyanarayana (part time)
  8. Vice President of India - Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Books & Authors List 2016 - December Month


Books & Authors List 2016 - December Month

Source: BSC Academy
When Stone Walls Cry: The Nehrus in Prison – Mushirul Hasan
A City in the Making: Aspects of Calcutta’s Early Growth – Ranabir Ray Choudhury
Choices: Inside the Making of India’s Foreign Policy – Shivshankar Menon
Deadly Impasse: Indo-Pakistani Relations at the Dawn of a New Century – Sumit Ganguly
Things to Leave Behind – Namita Gokhale
The Other One Per cent: Indians in America – Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur and Nirvikar Singh
Swing Time – Zadie Smith
Faith, Unity, Discipline: The ISI of Pakistan – Hein G Kiessling
Feroze: The Forgotten Gandhi – Bertil Falk
Deep Singh Blue – Ranbir Singh Sidhu
Rain – Sriram Subramaniam
Kohinoor: The Story of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond – William Dalrymple, Anita Anand
Living With Tigers – Valmik Thapar
Exile – Taslima Nasree

Books & Authors List 2016 - November Month

An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India - Shashi Tharoor
The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad - Twinkle Khanna
‘Death under the Deodars: The Adventures of Miss Ripley Bean’ - Ruskin Bond
Rajiv Gandhi assassin, hidden truths - Nalini
“Playing it my way”  – Sachin Tendulkar’s Autobiography: Crossword Book of the Year Award
Conflicts of Interest: My Journey through India's Green Movement - Sunita Narain

Books & Authors List 2016 - October Month

Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India - Akshaya Mukul (shakti bhatt first book prize 2016)
Ashoka in Ancient India - Nayanjot Lahiri
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Arundhati Roy
The Sleepwalker's Dream - Dhrubajyoti Borah
The Adivasis will Not Dance - Hansda Sowendra Shekhar
His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
Selection Day – Arvind Adiga
Chain of Custody – Anita Nair
Tiger: The Life of Tipu Sultan – Kate Brittlebank
The Burning Forest: India’s War in Bastar – Nandini Sundar
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable - Amitav Ghosh
The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History – Sanjeev Sanyal
Rage of the River: The Untold Story of Kedarnath Disaster – Hridayesh Joshi
The Secret Diary of Kasturba – Neelima Dalmia Adhar
1991: How PV Narasimha Rao Made History – Sanjaya Baru
Not War Not Peace: Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border Terrorism – George Perkovi & Toby Dalton
Sleepwalking to Surrender: Dealing With Terrorism in Pakistan – Khaled Ahmed
Andal: The Autobiography of a Goddess – Priya Sarukkai Chhabria & Ravi Shankar
Commonwealth – Ann Patchett
The Deed of Words: Two Considerations on Politics of Literature – Pothik Ghosh
Being the Other: The Muslim in India – Saeed Naqvi
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
City of Death – Abheek Baru
The Battlefields of Imphal: The Second World War and North East India – Hemant Singh
Democratic Dynasties; State, Party and Family in Contemporary Politics – Ed Kanchan Chand
Remember Death – Ankush Saikia
Democrats and Dissenters – Ramachandra Guha
India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire – Jon Wilson
The Man Who Wouldn’t Be God – Shashi Warrier
Second-Hand Time – Svetlana Alexievich
Not Out: The Incredible Story of The IPL – Desh Gaurav Sekhri
The Rise and Fall of Nations: Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World – Ruchir Sharma
Once Upon a Time – Ashok Srinivasan
What is Remembered – Suketu Mehta

Books & Authors List 2016 - August/ September Month

Citizen and Society – Hamid Ansari (Vice President)
Driven: The Virat Kohli Story – Vijay Lokapally
One Indian girl (Genre: Fiction) - Chetan Bhagat
Six Machine (I Don't Like Cricket ... I Love It) - autobiography of Chris Gayle
AB The autobiography - autobiography of AB De villiers (South African cricketer)
The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History - Sanjeev Sanyal (Indian economist)
R D Burmania: Panchamemoirs - Chaitanya Padukone
India Rising: Fresh Hope, New Fears - Ravi Velloor
Maoism in India and Nepal – Ranjit Bhushan
Old History, New Geography – Jairam Rames
A Book of Light: When A Loved One Has a Different Mind – Jerry Pinto
India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity – Vijay Joshi
She Walks, She Leads – Gunjan Jain
Chronicles On Our Troubled Times – Thomas Piketty
The Association of Small Bombs – Karan Mahajan
Bicycle Dreaming – Mridula Koshy
Things That Can and Cannot Be Said – Arundhati Roy and John Cusack
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics – David Goldblatt
Shashi Kapoor: The Householder, the Star – Aseem Chhabra

Books & Authors List 2016 - June/ July Month

Half - Lion: How P.V Narasimha Rao Transformed India - Vinay Sitapati
Love of Indian history (Scholastic Asian Book Award) - Aditi Krishnakumar
A Life in Diplomacy - Maharajakrishna Rasgotra
The Unseen Indira Gandhi - Dr KP Mathur
Ace Against Odds – autobiography of Sania Mirza (Indian professional tennis player)
Who Moved My Interest Rate - Duvvuri Subbarao (former Governor of RBI)
Ringside With Vijender - Rudraneil Sengupta
Courage & Commitment - An Autobiography by Margaret Alva (Veteran Congress leader)
Anything But Khamosh: The Shatrughan Sinha Biography - Bharathi S Pradhan
Blood on my Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters - Kishlay Bhattacharjee
The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprises - Kartar Lalvani
India vs Pakistan. Why Can’t we just be Friends? - Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqan
The Kiss of Life: How a serhero & my son defeated cancer - Emraan Hashmi coauthored the book with author Bilal Siddiqi
The Drowned Detective - Neil Jordan
Book titled “Who was Shivaji? ” - Govind Pansare
Endurance: My Year in Space & Our Journey to Mars - Scott Kelly

Books & Authors List – March/ April/ May 2016 Month

Source: BSC Academy
  1. Framed as a Terrorist – Mohammad Aamir Khan
  2. Standing Guard: A Year in Opposition – P Chidambaram
  3. The Forgotten Room – Lincoln Child
  4. Cometh the Hour – Jeffery Archer
  5. China: Behind the Miracle – Sumita Dawra
  6. Swimmers among the Stars – Kanishk Tharoor
  7. The Golden Son – Shilpi Somaya Gowda
  8. Alphabet Soup for Lovers – Anita Nair
  9. Incarnations: India in 50 Lives – Sunil Khilnani
  10. Life Mantras – Subrata Roy
  11. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
  12. India-Myanmar Relations: Changing Contours – Rajiv Bhatia
  13. Erotext – Sudeep Sen
  14. The Story of the Lost Child – Elena Ferrante
  15. The Invisible Man from Salem – Christoffer Carlsson
  16. Baat Niklegi Toh Phir: The Life and Music of Jagjit Singh – Sathya Saran
  17. Woodsmoke and Leafcups – Madhu Ramnath

Books & Authors List – February 2016 Month

Source: BSC Academy
  1. Ghosts of Kingdoms past – Satyajit Ray
  2. The Sea Lies Ahead – Intizar Husain
  3. The Eighth Ring: An Autobiography – KM Mathew
  4. JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA and the Sino-India War – Bruce Riedel
  5. The Noise of Time – Julian Barnes
  6. Offend, Shock or Disturb: Free Speech under the
  7. Indian Constitution – Gautam Bhatia
  8. The Turbulent Years: 1980-1996 – Pranab Mukherjee (Memoir)
  9. Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography – Pramod Kapoor
  10. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  11. In Other Words – Jhumpa Lahiri
  12. Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right Time – Subhash Chandra
  13. On My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power – Sharad Pawar
  14. Going for Gold – Nanda Menon
  15. A Handbook for My Lover – Rosalyn D’Mello
  16. 1962: The War That Wasn’t – Shiv Kunal
  17. Three Seasons – Latha Anantharaman
  18. Slade House – David Mitchell
  19. Godfathers of Crime: Face to Face with India’s Most Wanted – Sheela Raval
  20. The Window – Fiona Barton
  21. The New Xenophobia – Tabish Khair

Books & Authors List – January 2016 Month

Source: BSC Academy
  1. Sleeping on Jupiter – Anuradha Roy
  2. Maru Bharat Saru Bharat (My India Noble India) – Acharya Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj
  3. The Lives of Others – Neel Mukherjee
  4. Family Life – Akhil Sharma
  5. Legal Confidential: Adventures of an Indian Lawyer – Ranjeev C Dubey
  6. For King and another Country – Shrabani Basu
  7. One Point Two Billion – Mahesh Rao
  8. The Private Life of Ms Sharma – Ratika Kapur
  9. Hangwoman – KR Meera (translated by J Devika)
  10. The Book of Gold Leaves – Mirza Waheed
  11. She will build Him a City – Raj Kamal Jha
  12. Odysseus Abroad – Amit Chaudhuri
  13. Flood of Fire – Amitav Ghosh
  14. Seahorse – Janice Pariat
  15. The Patna Manual of Style – Siddharth Chowdhury
  16. When the River Sleeps – Easterine Kire
  17. The Phoenix Moment: Challenges Confronting the Indian Left – Praful Bidwai
  18. Eat Dust: Mining and Greed in Goa – Hartman De Souza
  19. The Marvels – Brian Selznick
  20. Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
  21. This Unquiet Land: Stories from India’s Fault Lines – Barkha Dutt
  22. The Last Raja of West Pakistan – Priyajit Debsarkar
  23. Red River Blue Hills – Ankush Saikia
  24. Swimmer among the Stars – Kanishk Tharoor
  25. The New Xenobhobia – Tabish Khair
  26. Sikhs: The Untold Agony of 1984 – Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
  27. Kalkatta – Kunal Basu
  28. Ancestral Affairs – Keki Daruwala
  29. The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins

Latest & Current Books & Authors List for Bank Exams

List of Latest Books Monthly WiseList of Authors Name
MARU BHARAT SARU BHARAT (My India Noble India)Jain Acharya Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj
Go Set a Watchman (it topped the 2015 US bestseller list)Harper Lee
A Kingdom For His LoveAmar Chitra Katha (ACK)
Nathuram Godse - The Story of an AssassinAnup Ashok Sardesai
The Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right TimeSubhash Chandra
The White TigerAravind Adiga
A well-known author of children's booksKamala Laxman, passed away in Pune
What Happened to Netaji?Anuj Dhar (former journalist)
Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion AspirationsNandan Nilekani & Viral Shah
Interlinking of Indian RiversRadha Kant Bharati
Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect IndiaSam Pitroda (Auto biography)
Smita Patil: A Brief IncandescenceMaithili Rao
Ruled or Misruled: Story and Destiny of BiharSantosh Singh
The Clintons' War on WomenRoger Stone & Robert Morrow
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight NightsSalman Rushdie
To the Brink and Back: India's 1991 Story Jairam Ramesh (Forest Minister - Independent Charge)
 30 Women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories Naina Lal Kidwai
Making India AwesomeChetan Bhagat

Books & Authors Names for IBPS Genel Knowledge

S.NoBook TitleAuthor
1Das KapitalKarl Marx
2A Suitable BoyVikram Seth
3My TruthIndira Gandhi
4A bend in the RiverV.S. Naipal
5Between the LinesKuldeep Nayyar
6Envisioning an Empowered NationDr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
7Indira Gandhi ReturnsKhushwant Singh
8Interpreter of MaladiesJhumpa Lahiri
9My President YearsR. Venkataraman
10Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other TruthsPC Parakh

IBPS Famous Books & Authors List

S.NoBook TitleAuthor
11The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan SinghSanjaya Baru
12One Life is Not EnoughNatwar Singh
13The Lives of OthersNeel Mukherjee
14LowlandJhumpa Lahiri
15Playing It My WaySachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder
16The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthRichard Flanagan (Australian)(Man Booker)
17Half GirlfriendChetan Bhagat
18My Name is Abu SalemHussain Zaidi
19Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi YearsPranab Mukherjee
20Letters for a NationJawaharlal Nehru & Madhav Khosla

List of Books & Authors for Competitive Exams

S.NoBook TitleAuthor
21Born Again on the MountainArunima Sinha
22The Red Sari(Unofficial and Controversial Autobiography of Sonia Gandhi)Javier Moro
23Flood of FireAmitav Ghosh
24Unbreakable (Autobiography of Mary Kom)Mary Kom
25India at RiskJaswant Singh
26My country My LifeL.K.Advani
27Strictly Personal, Manmohan and GursharanDaman Singh
2812 Years A SlaveSolomon Northup Pirates
29A House For Mr. BiswasV.S. Naipaul
30Five Point SomeoneChetan Bhagat

Books & Authors List 2017 - January Month



Books & Authors List 2017 - January Month

Source: BSC Academy
Khullam Khulla - Rishi Kapoor's Autobiography
Jinnah often came to our house - Kiran Doshi (Hindu Prize 2016 Winner)
The People's President: Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam - S M Khan
The Adivasi Will Not Dance - Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
Kalkatta - Kunal Basu
Half of What I Say - Anil Menon
The Island of Lost Girls - Manjula Padmanabhan
Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhan Award 2016 - Shraddha (short story: Hawa Mein Phadphadati Chitthi), Ghyansham Kumar Devansh (poem: Akash Mein Deh)
Son of the Thundercloud – Easterine Kire
From Mumbai to Durban: India’s Greatest Tests – S Giridhar and VJ Raghunath
The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox – Ullekh NP
My Odyssey: Memoirs of the Man Behind the Mangalyaan Mission – K Radhakrishnan with Nilanjan Routh
The Front Page Murders – Puja Changoiwala
Faith, Unity and Discipline: The ISI of Pakistan – Hein G Kiessling
A Full Night’s Thievery: Stories – Mitra Phukan
A Life in Science – CNR Rao
The Sellout – Paul Beatty (Man Booker Prize 2016 Winner)
The Pigeon Tunnel – John Le Carre
Cambridge Company – Farrukh Dhondy
Pakistan: Courting the Abyss – Tilak Devasher
An Unsuitable Boy – Karan Johar with Poonam Saxena