18 JULY 2012 :- Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna is no more. A day after being discharged from the hospital, Rajesh Khanna’s health deteriorated again, following which the veteran actor was put on ventilator.

LONDON OLYMPIC 2012 QUIZ QUESTIONS - SPORTS QUIZ
This quiz is based on London Olympic 2012, Which are going to start on 27 July 2012 every one is waiting for 27 July 2012.. So we came with few questions set based on London Olympic 2012..
Answers. 
1-> London 2012,   2-> London (United Kingdom)  3-> 10,500,  4-> London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG),   5-> Lord Coe,   6-> Government Olympic Executive (GOE),   7-> Three (the Olympic Zone, the River Zone and the Central Zone),  8-> 4000 Train Services,   9-> 64% from Central Government, 23% from National Lottery, 13% from the Mayor of London  and the London Development Agency,   10-> Games Makers (Unpaid volunteers)


LONDON OLYMPIC 2012 QUIZ QUESTIONS 
Q1. What is formal name of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games?


Q2. First city which is hosting the Olympic Games three times?


Q3. How many Athletes are participating in Olympic 2012?


Q4. Which committee was created to oversee the staging of the Games after the success of the bid?


Q5. LOCOG committee was chaired by which person?


Q6. Which unit within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), is the lead Government body for coordinating the London 2012 Olympics?


Q7. The majority of venues have been divided into zones within Greater London?


Q8. According to Network Rail, how many additional train services will run during the Games?


Q9. According to Games organizers, the funding for Olympic 2012 budget broadly breaks down as?


Q10. They will perform a variety of tasks before and during the Games know as ?

RBI has launched a website www.paisaboltahai.rbi.org.in - which gives visual presentation with pointers on currency notes of 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000 rupee denominations.

Consumers have the option to download posters of these currency notes, which can be used as reference to identify counterfeit notes. A documentary film on it can also be downloaded. The link for this website is available on RBI's main website as well. The site also gives details of the number of fake currency notes detected.


RBI said considering there were 64,577 million pieces of banknotes in circulation as on March 31, 2011, the detection of forged notes during 2010-11 was to the tune of 6.74 pieces per million pieces of banknotes in circulation.
www.paisaboltahai.rbi.org.in

SPORTS CURRENT AFFAIRS 2012| Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2012
मुंबई।। भारतीय क्रिकेट कंट्रोल बोर्ड (BCCI) ने हाल ही में खेल को अलविदा कह चुके राहुल द्रविड़ को राजीव गांधी खेल रत्न और वर्ल्ड कप के मैन ऑफ द टूर्नामेंट युवराज सिंह को अर्जुन पुरस्कार के लिए नॉमिनेट किया है।

बीसीसीआई के मुख्य कार्यकारी अधिकारी रत्नाकर शेट्टी ने कहा, 'हम खेल रत्न के लिए राहुल द्रविड़ और अर्जुन पुरस्कार के लिए युवराज सिंह का नाम भेज रहे हैं।'

द्रविड़ इंटरनैशनल क्रिकेट को अलविदा कह चुके हैं। उन्होंने टेस्ट और वनडे में 1996 में डेब्यू के बाद से कुल 23 हजार रन बनाए हैं। उन्हें यदि देश का सर्वोच्च खेल सम्मान दिया गया तो वह सचिन तेंडुलकर (1997-98) और महेंद्र सिंह धोनी (2007-08) के बाद यह सम्मान पाने वाले तीसरे क्रिकेटर बन जाएंगे। खेल रत्न अभी तक 20 खिलाड़ियों को मिल चुका है।
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In order to attract new customers, State Bank of India (SBI) has done away with minimum balance criteria for saving banks account.

The bank will not levy any charge for breaching minimum balance criteria.
The facility is available to existing customers also, SBI said in an advertisement.
For the normal SBI savings account with cheque book facility, a customer had to maintain a minimum balance of Rs 1,000 in his or her account failing which it attracted penalty.
There are certain saving account products of the bank where the minimum monthly balance is as low as Rs 50. Depending on features and facility, the minimum average monthly balance varies.

The waiver would help the bank in improving customer base, an official said, adding, it will also help the bank inc generating low cost deposits as the savings bank account earns interest rate of just 4 percent.

As of March 2012, SBI had 15.39 crore saving banks accounts. During 2011-12, the bank opened 2.19 crore such accounts.

On the other hand, the minimum balance requirement for savings bank account of private sector bank like ICICI Bank, and HDFC Bank is Rs 10,000. This is for an individual having account in any branch in a metro centre.

Failing to maintain minimum average monthly balance in ICICI Bank attracts a fine of Rs 250 per month for the metro region.

In case of savings bank account with foreign banks like Citibank, the minimum average monthly balance criteria Rs 25,000 for metro centres.
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