Skip to main content

Translate Your Page

banking terms

  ✍️ CRR Cash Reserve Ratio is the minimum fraction of total deposits of a bank’s customers that banks have to hold as reserves with the central bank. ✍️ SLR Statutory Liquidity Ratio is the ratio of liquid assets to the net demand and time liabilities. ✍️ LAF Liquid Adjustment Facility is a tool to allow banks to borrow money through repurchase agreements. It consists of repo and reverse repo operations. ✍️ MSF Marginal Standing Facility allows scheduled banks to borrow funds overnight from RBI against approved government securities. ✍️ MSS Market Stabilization Scheme is a monetary policy intervention by RBI to withdraw excess liquidity by selling government securities in the economy. ✍️ OMO Open Market Operations refers to the buying and selling of government securities in the open market so as to expand or contract the amount of money in the banking system. ✍️ REPO Repo...

A Spring Festival (Holi)

1. India is a land of festivals. We celebrate our festivals with great enthusiasm. The festivals make us forget our cares and anxieties. They break the monotony of our everyday life. They provide great joy and fun. We celebrate the different festivals at different times. Holi perhaps the happiest festival of the Hindus. It is a spring festival. It is celebrated on the first day of Chaitra. It marks the beginning of the spring season. The beauty of nature makes this festival colourful. The lovely flowers with their dazzling colors and the sweet songs of the cuckoo provide a charming background to Holi.

2. The Holi celebrations begin on the last day of Phalgun. People collect sticks and straws lying in streets at a place. At night they gather at that place and set fire to the huge pile of sticks and straws. They sing songs to the accompaniment of drums. They are mad with joy. They break up when the fire fades out. They main celebration follows the next day. People are in a happy mood. They sprinkle colored water on one another. They colored water on the passers-by. Even the old people are mad with joy. All people are in a jolly mood. They forget social distinction. They mix with all freely. In our villages people move about with coloured water. They sing, dance, and jump about. They beat drums and sing loudly in a chorus. In the evening they visit their friends and neighbors.

3. Holi is an important festival of the Hindus. It is a festival of Joy. It gives us the message of friendship and goodwill. On this occasion we forget our old quarrels and mix with all freely. At least for one day we forget social distinctions completely. There is no difference between the rich and the poor. Holi gives us great joy. It is a happy occasion when forget our cares and anxieties.

4. Holi has got some evils. Many people get drunk on this day occasion. They indulge in rowdy behavior. Some people sing indecent songs and abuse women.

5. We should celebrate Holi in a decent way. WE must realize that it is a festival of joy and friendship. We should share our joy with others. We must no behave badly.

Comments

Popular Posts

History Of Education In South Asia

The remnants of the library of Nalanda, built in the 5th century BCE by Gupta kings. It was rebuilt twice after invasion, first after an invasion from the Huns in the 5th century BCE and then after an invasion from the Gaudasin the 7th century CE but abandoned after the third invasion by Turkic invaders in the 12th century. Takshasila (in modern-day Pakistan) was the earliest recorded centre of higher learning in India from possibly 8th Century BCE, and it is debatable whether it could be regarded a university or not in modern sense, since teachers living there may not have had official membership of particular colleges, and there did not seem to have existed purpose-built lecture halls and residential quarters in Taxila, in contrast to the later Nalanda university in eastern India. Nalanda was the oldest university-system of education in the world in the modern sense of university. There all subjects were taught in Ariano -páli Langua...

Important Facts of Solar System

We live on the planet named ‘Earth’. Likewise, Earth also exists in its home with other 7 planets, only star ‘Sun’ and many other small objects called asteroids, comets, dwarf planets, meteors etc. So basically the Solar system is a system of Sun, 8 planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, meteors and comets under the gravitational influence of the Sun. Origin There are 3 to 4 major theories of the evolution of the universe and ultimately of the solar system. The prominent theory among all of these is  Big Bang theory . According to this theory proposed  by Georges Lemaitre , the universe is evolved from a small singularity and then expands over the next 13.8 billion years and still expanding. It led to the formation of many billions of galaxies, solar systems, stars etc. Our solar system lies in a spiral-shaped galaxy called  ‘Milky Way’ . The nearest galaxy to us is  ‘Andromeda’ . Generally, there is a Black hole at the centre o...

Welfare Schemes and Policies in India

Welfare Schemes and Policies in India Financial assistance to fisherfolk in pipeline. = May 13, 2017 PRELIMS SPECIAL 2017 Schemes of Government of India. = May 11, 2017 PT 2017 Schemes/Meetings/Conferences in News. May 09, 2017 Over Rs.one lakh cr investment for housing of urban poor.   Apr 29, 2017 Portal and Mobile App of RashtriyaUchchatarShikshaAbhiyan (RUSA).   Apr 24, 2017 Removing cap on parent maintenance. Apr 11, 2017 Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana   Apr 11, 2017 Power Tex India Scheme for Textile sector.   Apr 11, 2017 Ratification of the Minimum Age Convention. Apr 10, 2017 Even hill stations will be hotter this year warns IMD. Mar 06, 2017 Supreme Court makes legal services affordable.   Feb 21, 2017 Single vaccine for dual protection against measles and rubella. Feb 13, 2017 labour and tax policies to make the Apparel and Leather sector globally competitive . Feb 08, 2017 Warning against spurious schemes being floated in the name of Beti Bachao Beti Padh...