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Match Pointl Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) was

instituted in – NABARDl TRIPS agreement is associated with – Intellectual property

rightsl The investment envisaged in the annual plan in the Interim

Rail Budget for 2014-15 – `64,305 crl The place in Andhra Pradesh chosen for one of two new

govt-controlled ports in the country – Dugarajapatnaml The first rail system in the world to be awarded the Gold

Standard foundation for energy efficiency – Delhi Metrol The youngest athlete (15 years old) to win Gold at Sochi

Winter Olympics – Yulia Lipnitskayal The chairman of the Supreme Court-appointed committee

which submitted its report on betting and fixing in the sixthedition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) – Mukul Mudgal

l India’s indigenous intermediate jet trainer (IJT) aircraftwhose development is in advanced stages of certification –Sitara

l The South Korean city which will host the 2018 WinterOlympics – Pyeongchang

l The first state in the country to achieve 100 per centsanitation in rural and urban households, schools, sanitarycomplexes and Aanganwadi centres – Sikkim

l The newly elected Prime Minister of Nepal – SushilKoirala

l The country which was in news, recently, regarding its allegedrole in operation Blue Star – UK

l The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth pegged byCSO in its estimates for 2013-14 – 4.9 per cent

l The denomination in which the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)is gearing up to introduce about one billion plastic notes ona trial basis – `10

l The aggregate foreign investment (FDI, FII and NRI) limitfor public sector banks (PSBs) – 20 per cent

l The new president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA)– N Ramachandran

l The telecom major whose proposal to increase its stake inthe Indian entity to 100% was cleared by the CCEA recently– Vodafone

l The model recalled recently by India’s largest passengercarmaker Maruti Suzuki – Maruti 800

l The state where the highest number of poor people (5.98crore) live below the poverty line in 2011-12 as per thePlanning Commission – Uttar Pradesh

l The increased fair and remunerative price (FRP) forsugarcane approved by the govt for 2014-15 – `220

l The cloud computing project launched by the Union govt –Meghraj

l The limit to which FDI is allowed in private sector banks inIndia under the govt route – 74 per cent

l The number of people living below poverty line in 2011-12as per the estimates of Planning Commission – 27 crore

l The cricket cup played between the winner of the RanjiTrophy and a team representing Rest of India – Irani Cup

l The new CEO of the software giant Microsoft – SatyaNadella

l The chairman of the 7th Central Pay Commission – AshokKumar Mathur

l The social networking site which completed 10 years inoperation on 4 Feb 2014 – Facebook

l The president of Germany who visited India recently –Joachim Guack

l MGNREGA Divas – 2 Febl The position of India among crude oil importers in 2013 –

Thirdl The winner of Ranji Trophy 2013-14 – Karnatakal The new chief minister of Uttarakhand – Harish Rawatl The state govt which has decided to revoke foreign direct

investment (FDI) in multibrand retail recently – Rajasthanl The state which has been ranked on top in the RBI’s report

titled “State Finances — A study of Budgets of 2013-14”based on different fiscal parameters – Chhattisgarh

l The first woman to be inducted in the International CricketCouncil’s (ICC’s) umpires’ panel – Kathy Cross

l India’s ranking in the 2014 Environmental Performance Index(EPI) – 155th

l The team which remained on the top with 92 medals at theend of the Lusofonia Games in Goa – Goa (India)

l The city where country’s first monorail service commencedits operations recently – Mumbai

l The country with which India entered into a double taxationavoidance agreement (DTAA) for the first time recently –Fiji

l The bank which raised `8,032 cr by selling shares throughQIP, making it the biggest ever equity sale via this routerecently – State Bank of India (SBI)

l The country whose central bank approved domestic tradingin the Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, Australian dollar as wellas Indian rupee to be legal tender recently – Zimbabwe

l The economic condition which causes a sustained increasein general price level over a particular period of time andreduces the purchasing power of money – Inflation

l The top ULFA leader who has been sentenced to death by acourt in Bangladesh for being involved in the country’sbiggest weapons haul seized in 2004 – Paresh Barua

l The state where world’s largest 4,000-MW ultra mega solarpower project will be set up – Rajasthan

l The Sub-Inspector in the anti-naxal force Greyhounds ofAndhra Pradesh who was posthumously conferred theAshok Chakra – K Prasad Babu

l The Social Justice and Empowerment minister who resignedfrom the Union Cabinet recently – Kumari Selja

l The country from which India is considering buying 15ShinMaywa US-2 amphibious patrol aircrafts – Japan

l The winner of the women’s singles title of the 2014 AustraliaOpen tennis tournament – Li Na

l The winner of the men’s singles title of the 2014 Syed ModiInternational India Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament– Xue Song

l The financial institution which has announced recently toinstal 3000 ATMs and 1.35 lakh micro-ATMs by Sep 2015– India Post

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l The CMD of Union Bank of India who resigned recently inthe wake of a surge in bad loans at the bank – ArchanaBhargava

l The state which became the first state in the country tolaunch the NUHM – Uttar Pradesh

l The social media giant who acquired mobile messagingcompany WhatsApp – Facebook

l The new chairman of prestigious Indian Institute ofManagement Bangalore (IIMB) – Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

l The two states to be brought within the railway networkthis fiscal – Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh

l The amount of fund proposed for the National SkillDevelopment Corporation (NSDC) in the Interim UnionBudget for 2014-15 – `1000 cr

l The country which ordered the immediate recall of itsAmbassador in India, Daniele Mancini – Italy

l Bahrain’s crown king who visited India recently on a three-day official visit – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

l The shot putter who gave the lone gold to India in the 6thAsian Indoor Athletics Championships event held atHangzhou (China) recently – Om Prakash Singh Karhana

l The cellular operator which has acquired Mumbai basedLoop Mobile for about `700 cr recently – Bharti Airtel

l The first country in the world to allow euthanasia forterminally ill children recently – Belgium

l India’s first dedicated military satellite – GSAT-7l The Prime Minister of Italy who resigned recently – Enrico

Lettal The country which ranked at the bottom in the Global Gender

Gap Report 2013 – Yemenl The total amount of bids received by the govt after auction

of the spectrum recently – `61,000 crl The chairman of the six-member committee set up by the

Govt to suggest remedial measures to address concerns ofpeople from the Northeast – MP Bezbaruah

l The author of the controversial book titled The Hindus: AnAlternative History, which Penguin announced to withdrawrecently – Wendy Doniger

l India’s ranking in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index –140th

l World Radio Day – 13 Febl The team which won the Irani Trophy 2013-14 –

Karnataka

l The community notified by the govt as national minorityrecently – Jain

l The team which won the Federation Cup football tournamentrecently – Churchill Brothers

l The winner of the men’s single title of the 2014 AustraliaOpen – Stanislas Wawrinka

l The country where Laimdota Straujuma became the firstwoman Prime Minister – Latvia

l The India-born engineer-scientist who has been awardedthe 2014 Marconi Prize – AJ Paulraj

l The new chief of the Hyderabad-based National PoliceAcademy – Aruna Bahuguna

l The Managing Director of Tata Motors who died in Bangkokrecently – Karl Slym

l The National Girl Child Day – 24 Janl The Indian-origin academician who has been appointed dean

of the prestigious Harvard College recently – RakeshKhurana

l The RBI has decided to withdraw from circulation allcurrency notes issued prior to – 2005

l The new Chairman of the National Dairy DevelopmentBoard (NDDB) – T Nanda Kumar

l The National Voters’ Day – 25 Janl The state whose tourism department has been awarded

‘Ulysses Award’ by UNWTO – Keralal The country which has introduced new restrictions on online

shopping as part of efforts to stop foreign currency reservesfrom falling further – Argentina

l The city where annual meeting of World Economic Forum(WEF) was held recently – Davos

l The biodiversity hotspots in India named ‘destinationflyways’ by UNWTO recently – Chilika lagoon

l The state which has been given Krishi Karman award foroverall foodgrain production (more than 10 million tonnescategory) for 2012-13 – Madhya Pradesh

l The National Women’s Day is celebrated in India on 13 Febevery year in the memory of – Sarojini Naidu

l The city where G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and centralbank governors was held – Sydney

l The growth rate of India economy in 2014-15 (at factorcost) projected by IMF – 5.4 per cent

l India’s surface-to-air missile successfully test-fired recently– Akash