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Manual on Financial and Banking Statistics
List of Abbreviations
ADB - Asian Development Bank
AFS - Annual Financial Statement
AIRCSC - All India Rural Credit Survey
Committee
ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BOI - Bank of India
BPSD - Balance of Payments Division,
DESACS, RBI
CAG - Controller and Auditor General of
India
CDBS - Committee of Direction on
Banking Statistics
CII - Confederation of Indian Industries
CPI-IW - Consumer Price Index for
Industrial Workers
CRR - Cash Reserve Ratio
DCM - Department of Currency
Management, RBI
ECB - European Central Bank
EEC - European Economic Community
EXIM Bank - Export Import Bank of India
FDI - Foreign Direct Investment
FICCI - Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GIC - General Insurance Corporation
HDFC - Housing Development Finance
Corporation
HUDCO - Housing & Urban
Development Corporation
IDBI - Industrial Development Bank of
India
IIP - Index of Industrial Production
IIBI - Industrial Investment Bank of India
ADR - American Depository Receipt
AGM - Annual General Meeting
ASSOCHAM - Associated Chambers of
Commerce and Industry of India
ATM - Automated Teller Machine
BoP - Balance of Payments
BSCS - Basel Committee on Banking
Supervision
CC - Cash Credit
CFRA - Combined Finance and Revenue
Accounts
CPI - Consumer Price Index
CSIR - Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research
DD - Demand Draft
DEIO - Department of External Investments
and Operations
ECS - Electronic Clearing Scheme
EUR - Euro
FCCB - Foreign Currency Convertible Bond
FEMA - Foreign Exchange Management Act
FII - Foreign Institutional Investor
GDR - Global Depository Receipt
G-Sec - Government Securities
HICP - Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices
ICICI - Industrial Credit and Investment
Corporation of India
IFCI - Industrial Finance Corporation of India
IMF - International Monetary Fund
INR - Indian Rupee
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IRBI - Industrial Reconstruction Bank of
India
LIC - Life Insurance Corporation of India
NABARD - National Bank for Agriculture
and Rural Development
NBFC -Non Banking Financial Companies
NHB - National Housing Bank
NPA - Non-Performing Assets
OD - Over Draft
PSE - Public Sector Enterprises
REC - Rural Electrification Corporation
SEBI - Securities and Exchange Board of
India
UCB - Urban Cooperative Bank
WPI - Wholesale Price Index
ISIC - International Standard Industrial
Classification
MoF - Ministry of Finance
NASSCOM - National Association of Software
and Services Companies
NGO - Non-Governmental Organization
NIC - National Industrial Classification
NRE - Non-Resident External
PNB - Punjab National bank
RBI - Reserve Bank of India
SBI - State Bank of India
SLR - Statutory Liquidity Ratio
UCB - Urban Cooperative Bank
List of important international officials:
1. President of the United States : Barack Obama
2. Prime Minister of Australia - Tony Abbott
3. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - David Cameron
4. Prime Minister of Pakistan - Nawaz Sharif
5. President of Sri Lanka - Mahinda Rajapaksa
6. Prime Minister of Bangladesh - Sheikh Hasina
7. President of Afghanistan - Ashraf Ghani
8. President of Russia - Vladimir Putin
9. Prime Minister of Nepal - Sushil Koirala
10. Prime Ministers of Bhutan - Tshering Tobgay
11. Bhutan King and Queen - Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queeen, Jetsun
Pema.
12. Prime Minister of Thailand - Prayuth Chan-ocha
13. President of France - François Hollande.
14. President of South Africa - Jacob Zuma.
15. President of Israel - Reuven Rivlin
16. Prime Minister of Japan - Shinzō Abe
17. President of the People's Republic of China - Xi Jinping
18. China's First Lady - Peng Liyuan.
19. Chairs of the Federal Reserve - Janet Yellen
20. Secretary-General of the United Nations - Ban Ki-moon.
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Christine Lagarde.
President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Takehiko Nakao.
World bank president president - Jim Yong
UNESCO head - Irina Bokova.
US First Lady - Michelle Obama.
List of Council of ministers in Modi Cabinet
The following is the list of council of ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's
Cabinet
Cabinet Ministers
Rajnath Singh: Home Minster
Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs & Overseas Indian Affairs
Arun Jaitley: Finance Corporate Affairs & Defence
M. Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation &
Parliamentary Affairs
Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways Shipping
D.V. Sadananda Gowda: Railway Minster
Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Dr. Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs
Gopinathrao Munde: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water and
Sanitation
Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Maneka Gandhi: Women and Child Development
Ananthkumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers
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Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology & Law and Justice
Ashok Gajapathi Raju: Civil Aviation
Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries
Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines & Steel Labour and Employment
Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs
Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture
Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment
Smriti Zubin Irani: Human Resource Development
Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare
Ministers of State
General V.K. Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge) &
External Affairs Overseas Indian Affairs
Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme
Implementation (Independent Charge) & Defence
Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs Water
Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Shripad Yesso Naik: Culture (Independent Charge) & Tourism (Independent Charge)
Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
Sarbananda Sonowal: Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports
(Independent Charge)
Prakash Javadekar: Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment,
Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) & Parliamentary Affairs
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Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge) & New and
Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
Dr. Jitendra Singh: Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences
(Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space
Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance Corporate
Affairs
G.M. Siddeshwara: Civil Aviation
Manoj Sinha: Railways
Upendra Kushwaha: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water and
Sanitation
Radhakrishnan P: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs
Krishan Pal: Road Transport and Highways Shipping
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture & Food Processing Industries
Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs
Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel & Labour and Employment
Sudarshan Bhagat: Social Justice and Empowerment
Nihalchand: Chemicals and Fertilizers
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International Currencies and Currency Codes
COUNTRY OR ECONOMIC
REGION
African Financial
Community
Argentina
Australia
Bahamas
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
China
Columbia
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Digital
Digital
Eastern Caribbean States
UNIT
NAME
CFA
Franc
Peso
Dollar
Dollar
Real
Lev
Dollar
Peso
Yuan
Peso
Kuna
Pound
Koruna
Krone
Litecoin
Bitcoin
East
Caribbea
n Dollar
SYMBOL CURRENCY NAME
Estonia
European Monetary Union
Fiji
French Polynesia
Kroon
Euro
Dollar
CFP Franc
EEK
EUR
FJD
XPF
Ghana
Guatemala
Cedi
Quetzal
GHS
GTQ
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Lempira
Dollar
Forint
Krona
Rupee
Rupiah
HLN
HKD
HUD
ISK
INR
IDR
XAF
ARS
AUD
BSD
BRL
BGN
CAD
CLP
CNY
COP
HRK
CYP
CZK
DKK
LTC
BTC
XCD
Central African
Franc
Argentine Peso
Australian Dollar
Bahamian Dollar
Brazilian Real
Bulgarian Lev
Canadian Dollar
Chilean Peso
Chinese Yuan
Colombian Peso
Croatian Kuna
Cyprus Pound
Czech Koruna
Danish Krone
Litecoin
Bitcoin
East Caribbean
Dollar
Estonian Kroon
Euro
Fiji Dollar
French Pacific
Franc
Ghanaian Cedi
Guatemalan
Quetzal
Honduran Lempira
Hong Kong Dollar
Hungarian Forint
Icelandic Krona
Indian Rupee
Indonesian Rupiah
Capital
Buenos Aires
Canberra
Nassau
Brasília
Sofia
Ottawa
Santiago
Beijing
Bogotá
Zagreb
Nicosia
Prague
Copenhagen
Tallinn
Suva
Papeete
Accra
Guatemala
City
Tegucigalpa
Budapest
Reykjavik
Delhi
Jakarta
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Israel
ILS
Israeli New Shekel
Jerusalem
Jamaica
Japan
Latvia
Lithuania
Malaysia
Mexico
Morocco
Myanmar
Netherlands Antilles
New
Shekel
Dollar
Yen
Lats
Litas
Ringgit
Peso
Dirham
Kyat
Florin
JMD
JPY
LVL
LTL
MYR
MXN
MAD
MMK
ANG
Kingston
Tokyo
Riga
Vilnius
Kuala Lumpur
Mexico City
Rabat
Naypyidaw
Willemstad
New Zealand
Dollar
NZD
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
Krone
Rupee
Balboa
NOK
PKR
PAB
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Sri Lanka
New Sol
Peso
Zloty
Riyal
Leu
Rouble
Riyal
Dinar
Dollar
Rand
Won
Rupee
PEN
PHP
PLN
QAR
RON
RUB
SAR
RSD
SGD
ZAR
KRW
LRK
Jamaican Dollar
Japanese Yen
Latvian Lats
Lithuanian Litas
Malaysian Ringgit
Mexican Peso
Moroccan Dirham
Myanmar Kyat
Netherlands
Antilles Florin
New Zealand
Dollar
Norwegian Krone
Pakistan Rupee
Panamanian
balboa
Peruvian New Sol
Philippine Peso
Polish Zloty
Qatari Riyal
Romanian Leu
Russian Rouble
Saudi Riyal
Serbian Dinar
Singapore Dollar
South African Rand
South Korean Won
Sri Lankan Rupee
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Trinidad & Tobago
Krona
Franc
Dollar
Baht
Dollar
SEK
CHF
TWD
THB
TTD
Tunisia
Dinar
TND
Swedish Krona
Swiss Franc
New Taiwan Dollar
Thailand Baht
Trinidad & Tobago
Dollar
Tunisian Dinar
Wellington
Oslo
Islamabad
Panama City
Lima
Manila
Warsaw
Doha
Bucharest
Moscow
Riyadh
Belgrade
Pretoria
Seoul
Sri
Jayawardenep
ura Kotte
Stockholm
Bern
Taipei
Bangkok
Port of Spain
Tunis
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Turkey
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States of America
Lira
Dirham
Pound
Dollar
TRY
AED
GBP
USD
Turkish Lira
U.A.E. Dirham
British Pound
American Dollar
Vietnam
Venezuela
Dong
Bolivar
Fuerte
VND
VEF
Vietnamese Dong
Venezuela Bolivar
Fuerte
Ankara
Abu Dhabi
London
Washington,
D.C.
Hanoi
Caracas
Computer Awareness
1. The earlier computers, which were massive in size, were based on vacuum tubes.
2. Early computing machines, like the ENIAC, were actually meant to assist the armed forces.
3. The printers in pre-1950s were punch cards.
4. An improvement on the ENIAC, which pioneered 'stored program', was made possible with the help
of the mathematician John von Neumann.
5. Before the 1950s, computers were mostly owned by universities and research labs.
6. The B-programming language was developed by Ken Thompson.
7. Famous people, associated with the ENIAC, EDVAC, UNIVAC computers are Eckert & Mauchly.
8. The 1st commercially produced and sold computer (1951) was UNIVAC.
9. IBM was provided software for PCs by Microsoft.
10. Time-sharing, teletyping, were associated with mainframe computers.
11. The transformation from heavy computers to PCs was made possible using microprocessors.
12. The first microprocessor was developed in 1971 by Intel.
13. The term 'micro' (extremely small) denotes 10-6m.
14. The Harvard student, who chose to write computer programs and dropped studies was Bill Gates.
15. A pentium 4 (P-4) employs roughly 40 million transistors.
16. Mark-1, Apple-1, and collossus were initial desktop computers.
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17. Binary digits are briefed as bit.
18. A collection of bits is called byte.
19. C++, is a computer language.
20. The process of eliminating programming faults is called debugging.
21. Starting up on operating system is called booting.
22. A program used to browse the web is called browser.
23. An error in software designing which can even cause a computer to crash is called bug.
24. Click and double-click are achieved using the mouse.
25. Java, C, ForTran, Pascal and BASIC are computer programming languages.
26. The device which sends computer data using a phone line is called MODEM.
27. 'Worm' and 'virus' are actually programs.
28. A 'file' is a unit of information.
29. A megabyte has 106(million) bytes.
30. A small, single-site network is called LAN.
31. A processor that collects several data and sends them over a single line is called bridge.
32. 'Nano' stands for one billionth part.
33. The number of bit patterns using an n-bit code is 2n.
34. The part of a computer that works with the data/programs is called CPU.
35. To convert a binary number to a decimal, we have to express it in power of 2.
36. www stands for world wide web.
37. Mathematics employed in computers is called Boolean algebra.
38. A collection of 8 bits is called byte.
39. The first home computer (1977), which was sold in millions of units was Apple II.
40. 'PARAM' is a supercomputer.
41. A website containing periodic posts is called blog.
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42. While cutting and pasting, the cutitem is temporarily stored in the clipboard.
43. http stands for hyper text transfer protocol.
44. The unwanted or non-requested emails are called "spam".
45. A computer framed to give various network services is called server.
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