Latest Current Affairs 2014 for SBI PO & Various Exams

• Narendra Kothari Appointed As new Chairman of NMDC(National Mineral Development Corporation Limited on 17 April

• Admiral Robin K Dhowan on 17 April took over as the 22nd Chief of Indian Navy

• State Bank of India (SBI) launched Tablet (Tab) Banking service for opening Savings Bank accounts

• The Supreme Court of India, in a landmark judgment on 15th April 2014, created the “third gender” status for transgenders.

• India-born poet Vijay Seshadri has won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize.

• Arvind Mayaram has been appointed as the new Finance Secretary on 15 April.

• Baroda won the National Syed Mustaq Ali Cricket T20 Trophy title after defeated Uttar Pradesh in the final match by three runs on 14 April at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

• ‘ The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh ‘ written by Dr. Sanjaya Baru.

• Veteran film lyricist and director Gulzar has been chosen for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2013.

• Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) .

• Ratan Tata, the former chairman of the Tata Group which is one of the largest employers in Britain, has been honoured by Queen Elizabeth with a GBE (Knight Grand Cross), one of the UK’s highest civilian awards.

• R Chandrasekaran Takes Over As NASSCOM chairman.

• Sachin Tendulkar Adorns Cover of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.

• Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian American novelist Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Lowland” has been shortlisted for the 2014 Baileys Prize, the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman.

• Ravi Chauhan was appointed as Managing Director for SAP India.

• Koyal Rana won the coveted Miss India 2014 crown at the 51st edition of the pageant.

• Indian Cricket Captain MS Dhoni has won United Kingdom’s 2014 Asian award for outstanding achievement in sports.

• Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) received the Most Efficient Navratna Award for the year 2013.

• The government has appointed R Gandhi as deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 3 April.

• Union Government appointed senior IPS officer D K Pathak as the new Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF).

• The seventh annual World Autism Awareness Day 2014 was celebrated across the world on 2 April 2014.

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Some Facts about Indian Railway

1. Oldest Preserved Locomotive------Fairy Queen (1855), still in working order

2. Daily Runs-----About 10,000 trains

3. Daily Carries-----More than 11 million passengers & 1 million tonnes of freight

4. Railway Station with all the Three Gauges------Siliguri Railway Station

5. People Employed-------About 1.6 million people, fourth largest employer in World

6. Train with Maximum Number of Halts-----Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts)

7. Stations across State Lines------Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat), Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)

8. Northernmost railway station------Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir

9. Western most station------Naliya near Bhuj in Gujarat

10. Southernmost railway station-----Kanyakumari

11. East most railway station------Ledo on branch line from Tinsukia

12. Least punctual train-------Guwahati-Trivandrum Express is said to be the most unreliable long-distance train in the country.

The charted journey time is 65 hours and 5 minutes, but the average delay on a trip is about 10-12 hours.

13. Longest non-stop travel/ Trains with most stops------Trivandrum - H. Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express travels the 528km stretch between Vadodara and Kota non-stop

14. First electric locomotive-------1908

15. UNESCO World Heritage Sites------Chat rapati Shivaji Terminus and the Mountain Railways of ( Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a

narrow gauge railway in West Bengal)

16. First double Decker train------Flying Rani introduced in 2005

17. Largest railway complex in India-----Howrah Station

18. Train crosses the largest number of states------Navyug express between Mangalore and Jammu Tawi

19. Train crossed maximum number of zones------Ernakulam-Barauni

20. The largest distance entirely in one state------Kolhapur-Gondia Maharashtra Exp,

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