GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Establishment of NSBL: 7
th
July, 1993
2. Subsidiary of SBI:14
th
June, 2009
3. First MD of SBI: A.B Chakravarty
4. No. of Branches: 56, ATM: 75, Ext. Counter: 6,
Office: 3
5. MICR- Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
6. VSAT- Very Small Aperture Terminal
7. IFSC- Indian Financial System Code
8. ICAAP- Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment
Process
9. SWIFT Society for World Wide International
Financial Telecommunication
10. RTGS- Real Time Gross Settlement
11. First King of Nepal: Dharmakar / Bhuktaman
12. Swarnayug Regime: Lichhavi Kal
13. Nepalese Time: Faster than Greenwich time by 5
hours 45 min.
14. Area of Nepal: 147181 sq. km.
15. Longest River of Nepal: Karnali
16. Biggest River of Nepal : Koshi
17. Biggest Tal of Nepal: Mahendra (Rara) Tal of Mugu
18. Biggest Rastriya Nikunja of Nepal: Se-Foksundo
19. Volcanos symptom seen on : Dullu
20. Date when Nepal was divided into 14 zones & 75
districts: 2018 B.S , Baisakh-1
st

21. Nepal was divided into 5 Regions on 2037 B.S
22. Who introduced holiday on Saturday- Bhim Samsher
23. Longest Highway- Mahendra Rajmarga
24. Smarak on Pashupati - 492
25. VAT introduced in Nepal Bhadra 1
st
, 2056
26. 73
rd
member of UNO-Nepal- 14 December, 1955
27. Kinds of Lokbaja in Nepal- 250
28. First President of America- George Wasington
29. Biggest Lake of the World: Caspean
30. Shortest Day: 22
nd
December
31. Longest Day: 21
st
June
32. International Literacy Day- 8
th
September
33. Day & Night Equal: 21
st
March and 22
nd
September
34. Labour Day- 1
st
May
35. Human Right Day- 10
th
December
36. Zero Net Aid- No need of Foreign Help Aid
37. Light of the World- Jesus Christ
38. National Flower of Britain- Rose
39. Establisment of Nepal Rastra Bank 2012 Baisakh
13
40. WTO Membership taken by Nepal- 23
RD
April, 2004
41. NIC & Bank of Asia Merged : 15
th
Asadh, 2070
42. Election Date: 19
th
November, 2013/ Mangshir 4
th
,
2070
43. Transparency International- Nepal Positions in
Corruption- 139
th

44. Human Development Index- Nepal Position- 157
th

45. Ma.Pa.Se Started: 2068 Mangshir-17
th

46. Gov. Uniform Executed- Shrawan 1
st
, 2068
47. Seti Flood- Baisakh 23
rd
, 2069
48. Miss Nepal-2013: Ishani Shrestha
49. Removal of Maoist from Terrorist List (USA): 2069,
Bhadra 21
50. NRN Chairman: Jeeba Lamichhane
51. Position of Nepal in Inward Remittance: 10
th

52. Occupy Baluwatar: Women Violence
53. Aaaha Goldcup 2069: Three Star Club
54. Death of Nil Arm Strong: August-16
th
, 2012
55. Work Permit for Nepalese: 109 countries
56. Division 4 Match: Highest Scorer: Subash Khakurel-
(151 Run)
57. Padmashree Award: Khagendra Sangraula & Madan
Mani Dixit
58. TSA : started from Bhaktapur from 2066, mangshir
59. Death of Mendi Hasan: 2012, June 13
th

60. Cancellation of DPR Tax between Nepal and India:
2012 March-01
61. Bippa Agreement Date: 2068 Kartik 4
th

62. Abdul Saleha President of Yeman Removed: 2012
Feb, 27
th

63. Ben Jiya Bao (PM of China) Nepal Visit: 2068
Poush-30
64. Forbes Richet Country- 2012: Qatar- per Capita
Income- $88,000
65. 1
st
MRP Passport issued: 2067, 11
th
Poush
66. Maoist Camp Handover to Army: Chaitra 28
th
,
Chaitra
67. Crown Surrender by King: 2065 Jestha, 29
th

68. ICC 2012 Cricketer of the Year: Kumar Sangakara
69. Head World Bank: Jim Yong Kim
70. Ganatantra Smarak:2068 Chaitra 14
th
by Baburam
bhattarai
71. Death of Hugo Chavez (Bolivias president): March
5
th
, 2013
72. Time Magazines Personality of the Year: Obama
Barrack
73. Ram Baran India Visit: Poush 9
th
to 14
th
, 2069
74. 17
th
Asian Games 2014: South Korea
75. Populatoin of Nepal (Census-2011): 2,64,94,504
76. Nepals Army Chief- Gaurav Samsher Rana
77. Brand Ambasador of Nepals Cricket Assosciation-
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
78. Current Indian Ambassador to Nepal- `Jayant Prasad
up to August, 2013 then after Ranjit Rao.
79. US Ambassador to Nepal- Peter W Bodde
80. Nepali- Ambassador of US Shankar Sharma
81. 8 Countries on SAARC- Latest- Afghanistan
82. Indias External Affair Minister Salman Khurshid
visited on 9
th
July, 2013.
83. India and Nepal Agreement on Cooperation in Tourism on 2
nd
July, 2013.
84. Nepal and United States decided to conduct Joint Military Exercises called Shanti Prayas-2 for promotion of
security as well as regional peace. Training conducted from 25
th
March, 2013 to 7
th
April, 2013 on Panchkhal.
85. Nepal was elected as a board member of ECOSOC- UN Economic & Social Council for 3 year from Jan, 2013.
86. Shri Mahendra Higher Secondary School, Achham- grant by EOI, MOU signed on 19
th
Sep, 2012.
87. World richest person-Carlos Slim Helu from Maxico,2
nd
-Bill Gates
88. World richest person female-Liliane Bett court.
89. Facebook founder-Mark Zuckerberg
90. Apple founder-Steve Jobs-California
91. Tittwer founder-Jack Dorsey
92. Google founder-Larry Page(+ CEO) & Sergey Brin
93. Wikileaks founder-Julian Assange
94. Founder(Father of the computer)-Charles Babbage
95. Loktantra diwas:Baisakh 11 2063 Ganatantra diwas: Jestha 15, Sahid diwas: Magh 16
96. Indian Ambassador Jayant Prasad,British Ambassador-Andrew James Sparkes,US Ambassador-Peter
W.Bodde, Acting Nepalese Ambassador for India: Thirtha Raj Wagle
97. 1
st
Governor of Nepal Himalaya Samser Rana,recent-Yuba Raj Khatiwada
98. Nepal 1
st
Nepalese Prime minister- Female-Dwarika Devi Thakurani
99. 1
st
Commerical Bank of Nepal-Nepal Bank Limited-1990 B.S
100. BankerAssociation President- Rajan Singh Bhandari(Citizen Bank)
101. Hewlett-Packard HP
102. First computer - MARK 1
103. WTO- Nepal member 2004,headquater-Jeneva
104. Operating profit this year -1,317,343,530.37 last year-66crore
105. Council Miniters:
a. Mr. Khil Raj Regmi (2069, 1st Chaitra) - Chairman, Council of Ministers , Defense; Cooperatives and Poverty
Alleviation
b. Mr. Madhav Prasad Ghimire- Home Affairs; Foreign Affairs
c. Mr. Hari Prasad Neupanev - Law, Justice, Constituent Assembly & Parliamentary Affairs; Labour and
Employment
d. Mr. Rhidhi Baba Pradhan- Women, Children and Social Welfare; Land Reform and Management
e. Mr. Bidhyadhar Mallik- Federal Affairs and Local Development ; Health and Population
f. Mr. Madhav Prasad Paudel - General Administration; Information and Communication; Education;
g. Mr. Shankar Prasad Koirala - Finance; Industry; Commerce and Supplies
h. Mr. Chhabi Raj Panta - Physical Infrastructure and Transportation; Urban Development
i. Mr. Tek Bahadur Thapa- Agricultural Development; Forest and Soil Conservation
j. Mr. Ram Kumar Shrestha - Youth and Sports; Peace and Reconstruction; Cultural, Tourism and Civil Aviation
k. Mr. Uma Kanta Jha - Energy; Science, Technology & Environment; Irrigation;

106. Standing Liquidity Facility: The SLF is a short-term cash injection by Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) into
bank s and financial institutions (BFIs) facing a short-term liquidity problem or mismatch. NRB charges 8
percent interest on the SLF which is higher than the interest rate on the inter- bank lending and treasury bills.
107. In a repo transaction, NRB repurchases government securities from banks and provides funds to
banks. In a reverse repo transaction, banks purchase government securities form NRB and lend money to NRB.
108. Statutory Liquidity Ratio: 12 % , CRR- 5%
109. Targeted Inflation this year: 8%
110. Targeted Economic Growth Rate this year: 5.5%