{"id":6606,"date":"2023-02-03T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/?p=6606"},"modified":"2023-02-03T23:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:52:53","slug":"02-february-2023-current-affairs-banking-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/02-february-2023-current-affairs-banking-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"02 February 2023 | Current Affairs &#038; Banking Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All SBI PO, SBI CLERK, IBPS PO, IBPS CLERK, RRB PO, RRB CLERK, NIACL, LIC, RBI grade B, RBI ASSITANT, IBPS, SSC, UPSC, SBI, LIC AAO, CHSL, State Level Competitive Exams Require Current Affairs: For candidates studying for banking and insurance exams or any other Competitive exam, the part on current affairs is crucial. The general awareness component of the bank exams includes a question on Banking Awareness &amp; Current Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Affairs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td>1.<\/td><td>A $3 billion <strong>MQ-9B predator drone <\/strong>agreement between India and the United States is eagerly awaited.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2.<\/td><td>The Budget for 2023\u20132024 includes 5.94 lakh crore rupees for<strong> defence.<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3.<\/td><td>On February 1st, <strong>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman<\/strong> delivered the Union Budget for 2023\u201324 to Parliament.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4.<\/td><td>The Union Budget for 2023 includes funding for<strong> higher education <\/strong>of Rs 44,094 crore.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5.<\/td><td>The<strong> Indian Railways<\/strong> received a capital outlay of Rs. 2.4 lakh crore.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6.<\/td><td>In Washington, the <strong>US-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies<\/strong> was launched.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7.<\/td><td><strong>Manuela Roka Botey<\/strong> has been named as Equatorial Guinea&#8217;s first female prime minister.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8.<\/td><td>The <strong>Fiscal Policy<\/strong> statements predict that in FY2022-23, the nominal GDP will increase by 15.4% YoY.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9.<\/td><td>February 2 is <strong>World Wetlands Day<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10.<\/td><td>From January 21 to January 31, 2023, North Bengal underwent <strong>&#8220;Exercise Trishakti Prahar.&#8221;<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11.<\/td><td>While presenting the Union Budget 2023\u201324, FM Nirmala Sitharaman made five significant announcements regarding personal <strong>income tax.<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12.<\/td><td>The updated <strong>MSMEs <\/strong>credit guarantee programme will go into effect on April 1, 2023.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>13.<\/td><td>In the UK, <strong>Manmohan Singh<\/strong> received the Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14.<\/td><td>In order to foster cooperation in the<strong> semiconductor industry,<\/strong> India and the US have decided to establish a task force.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Banking Awareness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td>1.<\/td><td>According to a government report, the sector with the most delayed projects is road transportation and highways.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2.<\/td><td>Jigarthanda will be subject to 12% GST, according to a decision made by <strong>Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Authority for Advance Ruling (TNAAR).<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3.<\/td><td>It is predicted that Indian leather and footwear exports will increase to almost $6 billion in the current fiscal year.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4.<\/td><td>The <strong>PepsiCo Foundation<\/strong> and<strong> CARE <\/strong>have introduced the <strong>&#8220;She Feeds the World&#8221;<\/strong> programme in India.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5.<\/td><td>For online retail merchants, <strong>CCAvenue <\/strong>has become the first payment gateway to handle CBDC or Digital Rupee transactions.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6.<\/td><td>For the period of April to December 2022, Russia has surpassed Taiwan to become India&#8217;s fourth-largest steel importer.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7.<\/td><td>SBM Bank (India) received 99 crore from Life Insurance Corporation of India.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8.<\/td><td>The <strong>IMF <\/strong>kept its 6.1% growth forecast for India for 2023.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9.<\/td><td><strong>Nikhat Zareen <\/strong>has been named the NMDC&#8217;s ambassador.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All SBI PO, SBI CLERK, IBPS PO, IBPS CLERK, RRB PO, RRB CLERK, NIACL, LIC, RBI grade B, RBI ASSITANT, IBPS, SSC, UPSC, SBI, LIC AAO, CHSL, State Level Competitive Exams Require Current Affairs: For candidates studying for banking and insurance exams or any other Competitive exam, the part on current affairs is crucial. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":6609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,23],"tags":[324,167,160,224,325],"class_list":["post-6606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-education","tag-02-february","tag-banking-awareness","tag-current-affairs","tag-february-2023","tag-lic-aao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6613,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606\/revisions\/6613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}