List of the Jnanpith Award Winners from 1965to 2010

List of the Jnanpith Award Winners from 1965to 2010 - Improve Your General Knowledge

The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Prior to 1982, the awards were given for a single work by a writer .Since then, the award has been given for a lifetime contribution to Indian Literature
Name	Language/State	Year
Shankara Kurup	Malayalam	1965
Trashankar Bandopadjya	Bengali	1966
Dr K V Puttappa	Kannada	1967
Uma Shankar Joshi	Gujarati	1967
Smitra Nandan Pant	Hindi	1968
Firaq Gorakhpuri	Urdu	1969
Vishanath Satyanaryanan	Telugu	1970
Bishnu Dey	Bengali	1971
Ramdhari Singh Dinakar	Hindi	1972
Dattaterya Ramachandran Bendre	Kannada	1973
Gopinath Mohanty	Oriya	1973
Vishnu Sakaram Khandekar	Marathi	1974
P V Akilandam	Tamil	1975
Ashapurna Devu	Bengli	1976
K Shivaram Karanth	Kannada	1977
S H V Ajneya	Hindi	1978
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya	Assamese	1979
S K Pottekkatt	Malayalam	1980
Amrita Pritam	Punjabi	1981
Mahadevi Varma	Hindi	1982
Masti Venkatesh Ayengar	Kannada	1983
Takazhi Sivashankar Pillai	Malayalam	1984
Pannaalal Patel	Gujarati	1985
Sachianand Rout Roy	Oriya	1986
Vihnu Varman Shirwadkar Kusumagraj	Marathi	1987
C Narayanan Reddy	Telugu	1988
Qurrtul –ain haider	Urdu	1989
V K Gokk	Kannada	1990
Subhash Mukhopadhya	Bengali	1991
Naresh Mehta	Hindi	1992
Sitakant Mahapatra	Oriya	1993
U R Anantha Murthy	Kannada	1994
M T Vasudevan Nair	Malayalam	1995
Mahashveta Devi	Bengali	1996
Ali Sardar Jafri	Urdu	1997
Girish Karnad	Kannada	1998
Nirmal Varma	Hindi	1999
Gurudial Singh	Punjabi	1999
Dr indira Goswami	Assamese	2000
Rajendra Keshavlal Shah	Gujarati	2001
D Jayakanthan	Tamil	2002
Vinda Karandikar	Marathi	2003
Rahman Rahi	Jammu & Kashmir	2004
Kunwar Narayan	UP	2005
Ravindra Kelekar	Goa	2006
Satya Vrat Shastri	UP	2006
O N V Kurup	Kerala	2007
Akhlaq Mohammed Khan	UP	2008
Amar Kant	UP	2009
Shrilal Shukla	UP	2009
Chandrasekhara Kambara	Karnataka	2010

WHAT IS NSTSE?

WHAT IS NSTSE?

National Level Science Talent Search Examination

NSTSE is a diagnostic test which actually helps students improve.

Unlike regular tests which try only to find out how much a child knows (or has memorized), NSTSE measures how well a student has understood concepts and gives detailed feedback on the same, to help them improve.

Thus NSTSE helps each student know whether he/she has actually understood a concept early on so that immediate action can be taken. Often students have conceptual gaps which increase as they progress and when they reach the higher classes, they develop a "phobia" for the subject.

School tests - including board exams - tend to be superficial, testing what children have memorised. But the important skills like the ability to think independently and reason logically - critical in today's world - are often not emphasised in school tests.

The focus on fundamentals is so important that when the child finishes studies he/she will have to face the competitive world armed with these fundamentals. Even while opting for higher studies, the student has to go through a complete scan of what he/she knows and how much. Exams like IIT-JEE, AIEEE, AFMC, AIIMS, GRE, GMAT, CAT etc., are so designed to test the fundamental strength of student. Hence the need of the hour is building the fundamentals base as strong as possible.

This exactly is the philosophy behind the Unified Council's NSTSE.

NSTSE is unlike other tests in many different ways. It

• has interesting questions that require thinking, not simply recall.
• provides detailed skill-wise feedback highlighting strengths and weaknesses
• provides a benchmark of the student's performance with peers all over the country.

Thus, NSTSE focuses on IMPROVEMENT rather than comparison or grading. It also reduces the stress of exams by checking UNDERSTANDING rather than FACTS.

Web Address : http://www.unifiedcouncil.com/

All India Engineering Entrance Examination 2012

All India Engineering Entrance Examination 2012

Last date for online submission: 31.12.2011

Date of Examination (off-line): 29.04.2012

Date of Examination (on-line): 07.05.2012 To 26.05.2012

FAQ on All India Engineering Entrance Examination 2012

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Revision of Interest Rates and Various Changes in SB rulings (5)

1.	Even after running the ‘MoF_RateChange.exe’ patch, the software shows wrong maturity date for MIS and NSC 5 Year Issue.
	The maturity date shown in the software will continue to show the older maturity period and will not affect any present activity and hence you can ignore the maturity date displayed in the software. As per the SB order No 23/2011 the certificates needs to be stamped and signed by the Postmaster before being given to the customer.
2.	What is the procedure to follow for allotting registration number for the NSC issue after the implementation of the new SB orders?
	For NSC 5 Year issue the previous block of registration number allotted for NSC 6 Year issue should be continued without break. For the new NSC 10 Year issue, a new block of registration number is to be allotted. At present, NSC 10 Year issue is to be handled manually and is NOT available in the Sanchay Post software.
3.	What is the procedure to follow for return of KVP stock and for issue of duplicate KVP?
	A report is provided in DBAnalyzer (dated 02/12/2011) under Database Discrepancies >> KVP >> KVP Stock to list the KVP unsold stock from the Sanchay Post database. This report can be printed at each office and sent to HO along with the stock. These reports should be consolidated at HO while returning the stock to CSD. A provision to make the stock ‘NIL’ will be provided later.
4.	Should some stock for issue of duplicate KVP be retained at the HO while sending unsold stock to CSD?
	No, all the stock of unsold should be returned to CSD.
5.	Is the new rate of one percent deduction on the rate specified applicable for TD PMC for TD accounts opened before 01/12/2011?
	Yes, the new rate of TD PMC is applicable for all TD accounts opened before or after 01/12/2011, but prematurely closed on or after 01/12/2011.

Source : http://www.tamilnadupost.nic.in/sdc/sblan.htm

WEB SITES OF LEADING BANKS IN INDIA

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Bank of India

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Corporation Bank

Federal Bank

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Indian Overseas Bank

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State Bank of India

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National Pension Scheme offers investors a low-cost avenue to save for retirem

Does retirement planning mean simply putting surplus funds into a well-guarded piggy bank and never looking at it till one reaches the age of 60? How should an investor plan his/her retirement through regular investments or via cautious savings?

And the bigger question: why should I sacrifice today to fend for tomorrow? These are never-ending questions, with no definite answers. The key point to understand is that proactive investors can make judicious investment decisions throughout their life span to create a savings pool, which comes handy post retirement.

Irrespective of the lifestyle, work profile or financial commitments, it is imperative that an investor has a strong corpus to finance his/her post-retirement needs. Building such a corpus calls for meticulous planning on the part of investors, that, too, across their lifespan.


The National Pension Scheme (NPS) provides investors across age groups (18-55) a lowcost avenue to do financial planning. Under NPS, an investor can start with an amount of Rs 6,000 annually and at the same time take exposure to multiple asset classes. The scheme would invest via professional fund managers and also provide tax benefits.

The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) opened this scheme for the general public in 2009. Having been in existence for over two years, the performance so far reflects that NPS has delivered returns higher than traditional saving instruments like corporate bond funds and government securities funds.

If this performance continues over longer time frames, then it can help generate sizeable corpus for retirement savings. Such performance clearly indicates the usefulness of the scheme to generate higher inflation-adjusted returns for a safe and secure retired life.

NPS is a savings-cum-investment alternative, which gives investors the best of both worlds. While it offers investors flexibility in terms of the amount they wish to invest, it also gives them an opportunity to diversify investments into different streams. Investors, based on their risk-bearing capacity, have the discretion to allocate funds towards any of three asset classes . E (equity), C (corporate bond fund) and G (government securities fund).

The risk-return tradeoff is as follows: E - high risk and high returns; C - medium risk, moderate returns; G - low risk, low returns Investors can seek a choice of six fund managers to make their investments as well as switch across fund managers.

This ensures an element of competition between fund managers and helps the scheme generate market-linked returns. Investors can either choose the asset class/classes they want to invest in the desired proportion or choose the auto choice or lifecycle fund scheme by default.

Here, at the lowest entry age (18 years), the asset allocation would be 50% in E, 30% in C and 20% in G till the investor turns 35. The ratio of investment in E and C will then decrease annually, while the proportion of G will rise. At 55 years, G will account for 80% of the corpus, while the share of E and C will fall to 10% each.

Courtesy : Economic Times

DBAnalyzer (Exe dated 02/12/2011 with option to print KVP stock report)

DBAnalyzer (Exe dated 02/12/2011 with option to print KVP stock report)

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Source : SDC, Chennai

Group 'C' Govt employees out of Lokpal's ambit

After agreeing to inclusion of Group C government employees within the ambit of Lokpal, thestanding committee on law and justice examining the bill recommended its exclusion from the proposed ombudsman's jurisdiction.

The standing committee, which completed its work on Wednesday after deliberating on various points contained in the draft Lokpal bill, had asked BJP, Left and other members to submit their dissenting notes to the panel.

Members, therefore, were surprised when they were told about another standing committee meeting on Thursday evening. Group C category, accounting for 57 lakh, is the largest component of central government employees and have a direct interaction with people in general. It is corruption at the lower bureaucracy level which affects the common man the most.Exclusion of this category at the last moment, therefore, saw members of BJP, Left and Samajwadi Party crying foul. "If Opposition members felt Group C had been included in yesterday's (Wednesday) meetings, that's their point of view. Wait for the report,'' Singhvi told newspersons after the panel's meeting. The meeting, which lasted about two hours, saw BJP MPs tabling their dissent on as many as 18 recommendations.

They included exclusion of Group C employees, omission of the prime minister from Lokpal's ambit till the time he demits office, maintaining status quo on CBI, citizen's charter, grievance redressal mechanism and protection of whistleblowers.

Left members too expressed reservations on these points and were planning to submit their dissenting notes on Monday. SP, BJD and AIADMK also expressed dissent on a few recommendations. The last meeting of the standing committee, headed by Congress Rajya Sabha member Abhishek Manu Singhvi, saw members deliberating on the fate of Group C employees and the status of CBI.

Opposition members on the panel are also said to have resisted the draft legislation's recommendation on the status of CBI. Contrary to the views expressed on the issue by Team Anna, which had sought the agency's bifurcation by chipping away its anti-corruption wing and placing it under the proposed ombudsman.

Source : Economic Times 2.12.2011

Options Exercised Earlier on TBOP will not be a Bar for regular promotion as LSG Accountants

MNOP update Scripts dated 30.11.2011

MNOP update scripts dated 30.11.2011 had been released.

POS Script

Speednet Script

SpeedNet: Script is compulsorily to be updated in concerened Hub or IC Hub as well as in all offices using

SpeedNetwhose Pin Code is covered under Pin Range Modification / Hub – Addition/Deletion.

At other SpeedNet offices the script may be executed so that the Hub Details option in the SpeedNet

Module, will show the latest MNOP Pin Range for all hubs.


POS: All offices Booking Speed Post Articles have to update the script.