BANKING & FINANCIAL CA IN MAY 2025

APPOINTMENTS - 

* Gyaneshwar Singh Takes Charge As The Director General And CEO Of Indian Institute Of Cooperative Affairs (IICA).

* Mr S M Ramanathan Has Took Charge As Director ( Engineering, Development & Research) BHEL.

* 1994 Batch IAS OFFICER Arvind Srivastava Assumed As The Secretary, Department of Revenue.

* The India Electronics And Semiconductor Association (IESA) Appointed Ruchir Dixit As It's Council Head.

* Sanjay Khanna Has Took Charge As Additional CMD Of BPCL Limited.

* Shri Raj Kumar Dubey Has Took Charge As The Additional Director ( Manager) Of BPCL LIMITED.

* Dr Ashok Kumar Panda Has Been Appointed As The Director (Finance) Of Steel Authority Of India Limited (SAIL).

* Mr Hari Kumar R Took Charge As The Director (Research & Development) Of BEL.

* FSIB Recommended Sanjay Joshi As CMD Of Oriental Insurance.

* 1994 Batch Odisha Cadre IAS OFFICER Officer Santosh Sadangi Gets Additional Charge Of CMD Of Solar Energy Corporation Of India Limited 

* Government Appoints Dinesh Pant Ratnakar Pattnaik As Managing Director Of LIC ( Life Insurance Corporation Of India) From 1st June 2025.

* Harvansh Chawala Appointed As The Chairman BRICS Chamber Of Commerce And Industry.

* Nobel Prize Winner And Development Economist Abhijit Banerjee Joins As Vision Board Of Telengana Rising As Advisor.

* Ram Mohan Appointed As The New MPEDA Director.

* Vikram Singh Mehta Has Been Appointed As The Chairman Of Indigo 

*  N Venu Has Been Appointed As The Managing Director Of Hitachi India.

* S Padmanabhan Has Been Appointed As The Chairman Of The Tata Chemicals.

ECONOMY - 

* Adani Ports Registered Record Net Profit Of Worth Rs 11,061 Crores In Financial Year 2024/25 (37% Increase Than Last FY).

* 2.37 Lakh Crores GST Collected By Indian Government In April 2025.

* Maharashtra With 41,645 Crores 

* Karnataka With 17,815 Crores 

* Gujarat With 14,970 Crores 

* Haryana With 14,057 Crores 

* Tamilnadu With 13,831 Crores 

* Uttar Pradesh With 13,600 Crores 

* Delhi With 8,200 Crores 

* West Bengal With 8,188 Crores 

* India's Total Export Grow By 6.01% To Reach Record 824.9 billion DOLLAR In 2024/25.

* India Became The Fourth Largest Economy in The World Surpassed Japan 

* 962 Acres Of Port Land Valued At Rs 7565 Crores Allocated For Port Led Industrialisation With Investment Potential Of Rs 68,780 Crores.

* Cargo Handled Increase From 819 Million Tonnes In FY 2023-24 To 855 Million Tonnes In FY 2024/25 With An Annual Growth Of 4.3%.

* Paradip Port Authority (PPA) And Deendayal Port Authority (DPA) Surpassed The 150 Million Tonne Cargo Handling Mark.

* Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) Set A Record By handling 7.3 million TEUS, 

* Indian National Received Highest Share Of UK Work Visas In 2024 

* 3,69,419 WORKED Visa Issued By UK ( 81,463 is Indian) 

* India's Retail Inflation Eases To 3.16% In April From 3.34% In March.

* Record 51,450 Tonnes Of Gypsum Discharge From MV Valiant Ship At Deendayal Port, Kandla in 24 Hours 

* India Has Officially Became 8th COUNTRY In The World To Adopt chip Based e-Passport.

* According Coal Ministry The Coal Imports During April 2024 To February 2025 Dropped By 9.2%.

* India's Total Trade Reached A Historic Figures Of USD 825 Billion in 2024/25 Growing At CAGR of 5.8%.

* UN Reports India Ranked Fastest Growing Major Economy Growth Country With 6.3% GDP GROWTH.

* India Became The Fourth Largest Economy In The World, Surpassed Japan 

* USA With USD 30.507 trillion 

* China With USD 19,231 trillion 

* Germany With 4.744 trillion 

* India With USD 4.187 trillion 

* Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Has Acquired Profit Of Rs 280 Crores in 4th Quarter.

* India Records £81.04 Billion FDI Inflow In FY 2024/25.

* Coal Imports During FY 2024/25 Dropped By 7.9% Compared To FY 2023/24.

NEW MINIRATNA - 

* Electronics Corporation Of India limited - ECIL Hyderabad, Schedule A CPSE Under DAE Is Came In Under MINIRATNA (Category 1) 

MINIRATANA (CATEGORY -1) 

* UNION DEFENCE MINISTER RAJNATH SINGH HAS APPROVED MINIRATNA (CATEGORY -1) Status FOR MUNITIONS INDIA LIMITED (MIL) & AVNL (ARMOURED VEHICLES NIGAM  LIMITED,) & INDIAN OPTEL LIMITED (IOL)

INAUGURATION - 

*  Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Has Virtually Inaugurated The Corporate Bhawan And PM Internship Scheme (PMIS) Facilitation Centre In Kolkata, West Bengal.

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BANKING - 

* 17.89 Billion UPI  Transaction Recorded By India In April 2025.

* Canara Bank Has Launched A New banking Solution Called CANARA TruEdge.

* Union Bank Of India Has Launched a New Scheme Called Wellness Deposit For Retail Customers.

* PayU Has Received RBI Approval To Operate As An Online Payment Aggregator Under The payment And Settlement Systems Act 2007.

* State Bank Of India (SBI) Recorded Profit Of £9.2 billion in FY 2025.

* Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Announced A Dividend Of Rs. 2.68 Lakh Crores To The Government.

* LIC Create History, Entered into Guinness World records 5,88,107 Insurance Policies Sold In 24 Hours.

* SEBI Approved Hero Fincorp Into IPO.

* Former SEBI Chief Madhabi Puri Buch Has Been Cleared In The Hindenburg Case.

* SEBI Bans Former CEO Of Indusind Bank Sumanth Kathalia 

* India's Index Of Industrial Production Records Growth Of 2.7% in April 2025.

* Delhi Host The Confederation Of Indian Industry (CII) Assembly.

AWARDS - 

* Indigo Air Has Been Honoured With Partner Of The Year At The 18th Edition Of The Changi Airlines Award 2025

* GRSE Won The Digital Transformation Excellence Award At 10th Governance PSU IT Awards 2025

* SUZLON Has Been Awarded With Rotary CSR Award 2025.

* Mazagon Dockyard Limited (MDL) Has Honours With Digital Transformation Excellence Award, Digital Transformation Leader Award, At 10th PSU IT AWARDS 2025.

* NHPC Has Been Awarded With Prestigious GEEF Global Environment Excellence Company Of The Year 2025 

REPORTS - 

* India Witnesses a Steady Downward Trend In Maternal And Child Mortality Towards Achievement Of SDG 2030.

* Maternal Mortality Ratio Drops Significantly From 130 To 93 Lakh Per Live Births.

* Infant Mortality Rate Declined From 39 Per 1000 Live Births in 2014 To 27 Per 1000 Live Births In 2021 

* Neonatal Mortality Rate Falls From 26 Per 1000 Live Births in 2014 To 19 Per 1000 live Births in 2021 

* Under 5 Mortality Rate Has Dropped From 45 Per 1000 Live Births in 2014 To 31 per 1000 live Births in 2021 

* Fertility Rate Is Consistent At 2.0 In 2021 

* Sex Ratio At Birth Improve From 899 To 913.

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