General Knowledge and Current Affairs dated 26th August 2014: BJP senior leader Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao was appointed as the Governor of Maharashtra. ------------------ Archer Atul Verma won bronze in Youth Olympic Games at Nanjing (Eastern China). ------------------ Google to build the largest storage of information in human history, a knowledge base that autonomously gathers and merges data from across the web to provide unprecedented access to all facts about the world.The search giant is building Knowledge Vault, a system that stores information so that machines as well as people can read it. ------------------ State Bank of India slashed its home loan rates by 0.15 percentage points for loan seekers of Rs.75 lakh and above. With this, the loan seekers for Rs.75 lakh and above will be benefited as their interest rate will now be 10.15% against the earlier 10.30%. ------------------ Kingfisher Airlines moved the Delhi High Court against Punjab National Bank’s notice alleging the carrier has wilfully defaulted in payment of outstanding dues of over Rs 770 crore. ------------------ Online marketplace Snapdeal and Tata Value Homes, a subsidiary of Tata Housing announced partnership to enable users to buy houses online. ------------------ TASL (Tata Advanced Systems Ltd) has signed an agreement with Switzerland based Pilatus Aircraft for the manufacture and supply of Pilatus PC-12 Aerostructures at the Tata facility in Hyderabad.
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 13:34:06 +0000
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