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l The state where the 10-day festival‘Sangai Festival 2016’ was heldrecently – Manipur
l The person awarded the Shakti BhattFirst Book Prize for his book GitaPress and the Making of Hindu India– Akshaya Mukul
l The range of the recently test-firednuclear-capable Agni-I ballistic missile– 700 km
l The person bestowed with the 2016International Maritime Organization(IMO) Award for Exceptional Braveryat Sea recently at IMO headquartersin London – Radhika Menon
l The golfer who won the BANK BRI-JCB Indonesia Open recently –Gaganjeet Bhullar
l The person honoured with “DrNagendra Singh International PeaceAward” for his efforts in ensuringworld peace – Sri Sri Ravishankar
l The playback singer honoured with‘Centenary Award for Indian FilmPersonality of the year’ at the47th International Film Festival ofIndia (IFFI) held in Goa – SPBalasubrahmanyam
l The person appointed CEO for itsIndia operations by the State Bank ofMauritius (SBM) – Siby Sebastian
l The person awarded with theprestigious Mother TeresaInternational Award – ShaikhAbdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
l The person appointed as the newExecutive Chairman of the NationalLegal Services Authority (NALSA) –Jagdish Singh Khehar
l The advanced geostationary weathersatellite launched by NASA recently– GOES-R
l The short name of Geneva-based
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European Organisation for NuclearResearch whose India has become anassociate member – CERN
l The range of the Prithvi-II missilewhich India test-fired recently – 350km
l The Thai Princess who was conferredthe first “World Sanskrit Award” forher contribution towards promotionof the language – Maha ChakriSirindhorn
l The largest-ever ‘Made-in-India’warship which was commissioned intothe Indian Navy recently – INSChennai
l The state where India’s longestexpressway so far, six-lane 302-km-long Agra-Lucknow expressway, wasopened recently – Uttar Pradesh
l Winner of the ATP World Tour Finalstitle in London recently – AndyMurray
l The Kenyan who won the men’s DelhiHalf Marathon 2016 – EliudKipchoge
l The place where the world’s firstBollywood-themed park openedrecently – Dubai
l Winner of this year’s Sumitra CharatRam Award for lifetime achievementin the field of Indian classical music –Hari Prasad Chourasia
l Winner of the Super Series Premiertitle of the China Open badmintontournament in Fuzhou, China – PVSindhu
l The person appointed as theManaging Director and CEO of theCatholic Syrian Bank – CVRRajendran
l The country with which India signeda new double tax avoidance pactrecently – Cyprus
l The Chinese supercomputer whichwon the fastest supercomputer titlein the recently released 48th editionof Top 500 list of supercomputers –Sunway TaihuLight
l The sprinter from Haryana who hasbeen slapped an eight-year ban by theNational Anti-Doping Agency –Dharambir Singh
l The telecom operator which mergedits Bangladesh subsidiary with RobiAxiata recently – Bharti Airtel
l The firm which has been awarded“Digital Innovator of the Year” in theEcosystem Excellence category atGE’s Minds + Machines event – TCS
l The venues of the recently held 6thIndo-China joint training exercise“Hand-in-Hand 2016” – Pune
l The HDFC Bank MD who has beenranked 36th in the US magazineFortune’s top 50 businesspersons listfor 2016 – Aditya Puri
l The date on which the Union Budget2017-18 will be presented – 01 Feb,2017
l The tenth edition of the joint militarytraining exercise between India andNepal held recently – Surya Kiran2016
l The state which has launched aprogramme named “Har Ghar BijliLagataar” to provide free electricityconnection to about 50 lakhhouseholds above the poverty line –Bihar
l The combat drone recently tested bythe Defence Research andDevelopment Organisation (DRDO)– Rustom-2
l The first woman to be elected aspresident of the national cricket boardof New Zealand recently– DebbieHockley
l The deadline set by the RBI for banksto clean up their balance sheets – Mar2017
l The former governor of Jammu andKashmir who passed away recently– Srinivas Kumar Sinha
l The firm which has launched Internetof Things (IoT) services venturenamed “UNLIMIT” in association
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with Cisco Jasper – Reliance Groupl The country which recently
inaugurated Gwadar port recently –Pakistan
l The international word of the yearnamed by Oxford Dictionaries – Post-truth
l The country which withdrew fromInternational Criminal Court (ICC)recently – Russia
l The first state in the country to passa motion in the assembly supportingthe demonetisation move of theCentral Govt – Chhattisgarh
l The new Group President and Headof Global Indian Banking of YES Bank– Amresh Acharya
l The head of the RBI’s task force setup to oversee recalibration of ATMmachines – SS Mundra
l The country which has announcedtwo financial projects worth USD 95mn for India – US
l The city which has been termed asthe country’s breast cancer capitalwith 40 cases per lakh of population– Thiruvananthapuram
l The first state to start India’s firstCherry Blossom Festival, which iswidely celebrated in Japan –Meghalaya
l The Prime Minister of Bulgaria whoresigned recently – Boyko Borisov
l The present Prime Minister ofMauritius – Anerood Jugnauth
l The first Indian woman golfer whorecently scripted history after winninga Ladies European Tour title – AditiAshok
l The person chosen to be honouredwith 2016 Tata Literature Live! PoetLaureate Award – Gulzar
l The present President of Israel whovisited New Delhi recently – ReuvenRivlin
l The person awarded the GlobalCitizen Award – Imtiaz Sooliman
l The person named by the Fortunemagazine as Business Person of theYear, 2016 – Mark Zuckerberg
l The commercial bank which hasreceived RBI’s permission to open itsfirst international branch at the DubaiInternational Financial Centre –Federal Bank
l The only greenfield bank licenseawarded by the RBI in the last twodecades, associated with the finestpedigree investors – YES Bank
l The country which will preside overthe 8th edition of the Conference ofParties (COP) to WHO FrameworkConvention on Tobacco Control(FCTC) to be held in Switzerland’sGeneva in 2018 – India
l The person elected as the Presidentof the International HockeyFederation – Narinder Batra
l The host of the 2018 Invictus Gamesfor wounded military personnel –Australia
l The India-China Joint TrainingExercise held recently in Pune – Handin Hand 2016
l The country to which the IMFrecently approved a three-year $12-bn loan, the largest such package to aMiddle East nation – Egypt
l The private bank which has launchedIndia’s first banking robot named“Lakshmi” – City Union Bank
l The venue of the recent high-levelmeeting of interior ministers of IndianOcean Region (IOR) to Counter DrugTrafficking – Colombo, Sri Lanka
l The state which has signed anagreement with Canada to implementa joint action plan on urbaninfrastructure development in thestate – Maharashtra
l The Executive Director in the RBIwho took charge as full-time memberof SEBI recently – GurumoorthyMahalingam
l The women’s team which won the33rd Indian Oil Servo Surjit HockeyTournament – Western Railways
l The party which Donald Trump,who was elected as the 45th presidentin the recent US presidential elections,belongs to – Republican Party
l The person chosen for 2016 TataLiterature Live! Lifetime AchievementAward – Amitav Ghosh
l The state to which the ADB issuedthe second tranche of USD 300 mnfor the Power Sector InvestmentProgramme – Assam
l The first Indian-American to win theUS Senate seat – Kamala Harris(Califonia)
l The Syrian journalist who won theReporters without Borders (RSF)’sRSF-TV5 Monde prize – HadiAbdullah
l The year in which Masala bonds werelaunched – 2015
l The NASA mission which now holdsthe Guinness World Record forhighest altitude (70,006.4 km) fix of aGPS signal – MagnetosphericMultiscale mission (MMS)
l The state where the Army recentlycompleted laying an irrigation pipelinefor residents of villages in theDemchok region despite a face-offwith Chinese troops – Jammu andKashmir
l The venue of the 12-day GlobalClimate conference – Marrakech,Morocco
l The amount of penalty slapped bythe govt on Reliance, BP and Niko formigrating natural gas from ONGCblock – $1.55 bn
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l India’s present position among theworld’s largest economies as per areport published in Forbes magazine– Fifth
l The Lieutenant Governor of Delhiwho resigned recently – Najeeb Jung
l The venue of the International CivilAviation Negotiations (ICAN) 2016– Nassau, Bahamas
l The bank which has bagged theSKOCH silver award for attaining theposition of No. 1 channel partner ofLIC of India for the past threefinancial years – Corporation Bank
l The country which nationalised itslargest private bank ‘PrivateBank’recently – Ukraine
l The veteran Malayalam actor whodied recently – Jagannatha Varma
l The justice appointed as the 44thChief Justice of India – JS Khehar
l The team which won the 2016 IndianSuper League (ISL) – Atletico deKolkata
l The person voted as the BBC SportsPersonality of the Year 2016 – AndyMurray
l The actor appointed as the brandambassador of Assam’s tourism fortwo years – Priyanka Chopra
l The Indian batsman who scored tripleton in the 5th Test match betweenIndia and England played in Chennai– Karun Nair
l The interest rate on EPF deposits forthe current fiscal (FY17) as decidedby the EPFO – 8.65 per cent
l Winner of the hockey junior WorldCup 2016 – India
l The app launched by the govt toensure transparency in theimplementation of rural electrificationprogramme – GARV-II
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l Miss World 2016 – Stephanie DelValle
l The Managing Director of the IMFwho was found guilty of negligenceby a French court recently –Christine Lagarde
l The Russian ambassador to Turkeywho was shot dead recently – AndreyKarlov
l The noted economist and formerPlanning Commission member whopassed away recently – SaumitraChaudhuri
l The state which has launched asubsidised meal scheme ‘AnnapurnaRasoi’ – Rajasthan
l Winner of the 2016 Hockey JuniorWorld Cup – India
l The city where the PM NarendraModi lay the foundation stone of thecountry’s first ever Indian Instituteof Skills – Kanpur
l The present President of Kyrgyzstan,who visited New Delhi recently –Almazbek SharshenovichAtambayev
l The next Chief of Air Staff – AirMarshal BS Dhanoa
l Winner of the WBO-Asia PacificSuper Middleweight boxing title –Vijender Singh
l The mobile wallet launched by BSNLin association with SBI for smart aswell as feature phones – MobiCash
l The next Director of the IntelligenceBureau (IB) – Rajiv Jain
l The new chief of the externalintelligence agency RAW – AnilDhasmana
l The present President of Tajikistanwho visited India recently – EmomaliRahmon
l The next Indian Army chief – Lt Gen
Bipin Rawatl The person who topped the Forbes
2016 list of the World’s MostPowerful People – Vladimir Putin
l The NITI Aayog CEO – AmitabhKant
l The new UN deputy SecretaryGeneral – Amina Mohammed
l The person who has been awarded bythe Indian Council of Food andAgriculture (ICFA) with the “GlobalAgriculture Leadership Award 2016”– Ratan Tata
l The venue of the 5th India-Arabpartnership conference held recently– Muscat, Oman
l The seventh joint military exercisebetween India and the Maldives heldrecently – EKUVERIN Exercise 2016
l The cruise missile test-fired byPakistan recently with a range of 700km – Babur
l The new Chief Executive Officer ofthe Indian Banks’ Association (IBA)– VG Kannan
l The Gulf country which formallyannounced the end of its controversial“kafala” system recently – Qatar
l India’s contribution to the UN CentralEmergency Response Fund (CERF)for the year 2016-17 – $500,000
l The Russian city from which the2017 Bobsleigh and Skeleton worldchampionships were taken awayrecently – Sochi
l The Brazilian city which officiallyentered the UN’s list of world heritagesites recently – Rio de Janeiro
l The entity whom the UN GeneralAssembly recently granted ObserverStatus – International Chamber ofCommerce (ICC)
l The chairman of InternationalChamber of Commerce (ICC) – SunilBharti Mittal
l The person appointed as the chairmanof Life Insurance Corporation (LIC)of India for five years – VK Sharma
l The 15th king of Malaysia – SultanMuhammad V
l India’s growth forecast for 2016 asper ADB – 7%
l ITF World Champions for 2016 –
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l The Indo-Russian Bilateral NavalExercise held recently – Indra Navy-2016
l Winner of the Badminton WorldFederation (BWF) 2016 MostImproved Player of the Year award –PV Sindhu
l The person who was recently swornin as the ninth UN Secretary General– Antonio Guterres
l The present President of Indonesiawho visited India recently – JokoWidodo
l Winner of the 2016 World Billiards(150-Up format) Championships title– Pankaj Advani
l The new Director-General of theInter-Services Intelligence (ISI) ofPakistan – Naveed Mukhtar
l Winner of the prestigious Ballon d’Oraward at FIFA award 2016 –Cristiano Ronaldo
l The country which recently launcheda new-generation weather satellite‘Fengyun-4’ – China
l The new Prime Minister of Italy –Paolo Gentiloni
l The new Prime Minister of NewZealand – Bill English
l The present President of Philippines– Rodrigo Duterte
l The country with which India signeda civil nuclear cooperation agreementrecently – Vietnam
l The first Indian cricketer to scorethree double hundreds in a year – ViratKohli
l The head of the committee formed byFinance Ministry to boost digitalpayments which submitted its reportrecently – Ratan P Watal
l The black civil rights leader of Canadawho will soon become the first woman
to appear on a banknote in the country– Viola Desmond
l The severe cyclonic storm which hitChennai recently – Vardah
l The newly launched 24-hour TVchannel for cashless transactionslessons – DigiShala
l The first US astronaut to orbit Earthwho died recently – John Glenn
l The country which launched aspaceship Kounotori 6 to deliversupplies for International SpaceStation (ISS) – Japan
l Winner of the 2016 IBSF WorldBilliards Long Up title – PeterGilchrist
l The president of South Korea whowas impeached by the parliamentrecently – Park Geun-hye
l The country which passed a billrecently declaring India a ‘majordefence partner’ – US
l The country where India has decidedto set up a Centre of Excellence in ITat the Al-Azhar University – Egypt
l The person who won the recentpresidential election in Ghana – NanaAkufo-Addo
l The venue of the Serendipity ArtsFestival (SAF) held recently – Goa
l The remote sensing satellite recentlylaunched by the ISRO –RESOURCESAT-2A
l Winner of the ‘CII National Quality2016 Award’ – BEML
l The bank adjudged ‘Best Bank forSME Lending’ in PSB category byAssocham at the 4th SMEs ExcellenceAwards – Vijaya Bank
l The birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar(Apr 14) will be observed as – WaterDay
l The Gross Value Added (GVA) growthfor 2016-17 as announced by the RBIon 7 Dec – 7.1 per cent
l The exchange authorised by the RBI tolaunch the country’s first tradereceivables exchange platform –Receivables Exchange of India(RXIL)
l The person named the 2016 TimeMagazine person of the year – DonaldTrump
l The new Chief Justice of Pakistan –Mian Saqib Nisar
l The person who won the recentpresidential elections in Uzbekistan –Shavkat Mirziyoyev
l The new chief of the DirectorateGeneral of Civil Aviation (DGCA) –BS Bhullar
l The new Prime Minister of France –Bernard Cazeneuve
l The person who won the presidentialelection in Austria – Alexander Vander Bellen
l The former Tamil Nadu CM whopassed away recently – JayalalithaaJayaraman
l The new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu– O Panneerselvam
l The persons named “Asian of the Year2016” by Singapore-based newspaperThe Straits Times – Sachin Bansal andBinny Bansal
l The new king of Thailand – MahaVajiralongkorn
l The President of the All India FootballFederation (AIFF) appointed as aSenior Vice-President of Asian FootballConfederation – Praful Patel
l The new ceiling of Market StabilisationScheme (MSS) – `6 lakh cr
l Winner of the reader’s poll for Time‘Person of the Year 2016’ – NarendraModi
l The interim director of the CentralBureau of Investigation (CBI) –Rakesh Asthana
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l The Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)starting 7 Jan 2017 – 20.5 per cent
l The present Union Foreign Secretarywho got a one-year extension recently– S Jaishankar
l The new Ambassador of India to theRepublic of Burkina Faso – BirenderSingh Yadav
l The first state govt to opt for aninitiative involving electronictransmission of postal ballot – Goa
l The new ambassador of India to theRepublic of Congo – Ashok Warrier
l Winner of the Golden Peacock Awardfor Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) in the transportation sector –Delhi International Airport
l The state where the new UniversalRail Mill of SAIL at Bhilai wasinaugurated recently – Chhattisgarh
l The renowned Urdu poet who diedrecently – Naqsh Lyallpuri
l The host of the National Games to beheld in Nov 2017 – Goa
l The new director of the CentralBureau of Investigation (CBI) – AlokVerma
l The govt’s ambitious scheme underwhich air fares have been capped at`2,500 for a one-hour flight – UDAN
l The chief guest at the 2017 RepublicDay celebrations – SheikhMohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
l Winner of the women’s singles of theMalaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold –Saina Nehwal
l The state where the ISKCON’sGovardhan eco village is situatedwhich has won the UN award fortaking innovative measures of‘sustainable tourism’ in the country –Maharashtra
l The town declared as the second
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capital city of Himachal Pradesh –Dharamsala
l The venue of the recent CombinedCommanders Conference (CCC) of thethree military chiefs – Dehradun
l The iron-reach asteroid to which amission has been approved by theNASA – 16 Psyche
l The state govt which has launched‘Aanandam’ programme to help poor– Madhya Pradesh
l The city where the World EconomicForum (WEF) holds its annual meetingat the end of Jan – Davos
l The India city which has been rankedas the most dynamic city in the World– Bengaluru
l The newly elected president of theEuropean Parliament – AntonioTajani
l Winner of the 15th edition of theDelhi International chess tournament– Farrukh Amonatov
l The estimated global growth for 2016as per the IMF – 3.1 per cent
l The person who won The Hindu Prize2016 – Kiran Doshi
l The city where the Bharatiya ReserveBank Note Mudran Pvt Ltd is located– Mysuru
l The winner of the coveted Bharataward given to brave children – LateKumari Tarh Peju
l India’s economic growth rate forecastfor 2016-17 as per the IMF – 6.6 percent
l The US footballer named Best FIFAWomen’s Player of 2016 – CarliLloyd
l The venue of the first edition of theAsia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU) International Television DanceFestival – Hyderabad
l The state where the Border SecurityForce (BSF) launched operation ‘SardHawa’ recently – Rajasthan
l The year which was India’s warmestyear ever since the documenting ofmeteorological records began in 1901– 2016
l India’s ranking on the global index oftalent competitiveness – 92nd
l The person honoured with theLifetime Achievement Award at the62nd Filmfare Awards 2017 –Shatrughan Sinha
l The new CEO of the publicbroadcaster Prasar Bharti – RajeevSingh
l The state where the scheme DigitalDakiya was launched recently –Madhya Pradesh
l Winner of the Ranji Trophy 2016-17played in Indore – Gujarat
l The country from which the USannounced to end a 20-year economicembargo recently – Sudan
l The former Chief Minister of Punjabwho passed away recently – SurjitSingh Barnala
l The year in which the CentralIndustrial Security Force (CISF) cameinto existence – 1969
l The initial investment with whichAirtel Payments bank startedoperations recently – `3,000 cr
l The country which has taken over aschair of the Group of 77 – Ecuador
l The city where India’s first MadameTussauds wax museum will open inJun 2017 – New Delhi
l The state where the harvest festivalof Magh Bihu was celebrated recently– Assam
l The indigenously designed,developed and manufactured artillerygun – Dhanush
l India’s GDP growth rate for 2016-17as projected by NITI Aayog – 8%
l The new CEO TCS – RajeshGopinathan
l The venue of the world’s first ‘GenderLiterature Festival’ scheduled to beheld in Apr 2017 – Patna
l The country’s industrial productiongrowth in Nov 2016 – 5.7%
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l The headquarters of the InternationalLabour Organisation (ILO) – Geneva
l The new chairman of Tata Group – NChandrasekaran
l The state where the harvest festivalThai Pongal is celebrated – TamilNadu
l The interest rate on savings accountsbeing offered by Airtel PaymentsBank – 7.25%
l The global growth rate for 2017 asprojected by the World Bank – 2.7%
l The Line of Credit offered by India toKenya for agricultural mechanisation– USD 100 mn
l The new chairman of the Bureau ofIndian Standards (BIS) – Alka Panda
l The city where PM Narendra Modiinaugurated the “The Nobel Prize”exhibition recently – Gandhinagar
l The Portuguese footballer named BestFIFA Men’s Player of 2016 –Cristiano Ronaldo
l India’s growth for 2016-17 fiscal asper the World Bank – 7 per cent
l Pakistan’s first submarine-launchednuclear-capable missile which has arange of 450 km – Babur-3
l The new chief executive officer of theonline marketplace Flipkart – KalyanKrishnamurthy
l The actor who has been awarded bythe US Embassy for his contributionsto the US-India partnership ontuberculosis – Amitabh Bachchan
l The 2nd Kalvari class submarine –INS Khanderi
l The former President of Iran who diedrecently – Akbar HashemiRafsanjani
l The state govt which has come upwith India’s first student startup fundof `200 cr – Gujarat
l The online payments app launchedby the govt – BHIM
l The former President of Portugal whopassed away recently – MarioSoares
l Winner of the men’s singles title ofthe 2017 Chennai Open – RobertoBautista Agut
l The date by which the General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR) will kick in– Apr 1, 2017
l The present Chief Statistician of India(CSI) – TCA Anant
l The country which has decided to beassociated with the development ofChennai, Ahmedabad and Varanasi assmart cities – Japan
l The first major PSU in the country tobe sold through strategicdisinvestment – BEML
l NASA’s spacecraft to study earlysolar system – Lucy and Psyche
l The first country in the world toswitch off its FM radio network –Norway
l The Portuguese PM who was thechief guest at the 14th PravasiBharatiya Divas celebrations held inBengaluru – Antonio Costa
l The Indian island where the IslandTourism Festival 2017 was heldrecently – Port Blair
l The Gross Domestic Product (GDP)growth estimated for 2016-17 as perthe CSO – 7.1 per cent
l The new Executive Directorappointed by the Reserve Bank ofIndia – Surekha Marandi
l The United Nations 70th GeneralAssembly has recognised the year2017 as the International Year of –Sustainable Tourism forDevelopment
l The first country in the world to paya basic income to randomly pickedcitizens on a national level – Finland
l The venue of the 13th edition of five-
day Chitwan Elephant Festival –Kathmandu, Nepal
l The person who won the recentpresidential election in Haiti – JovenelMoise
l Winner of the South Asian FootballFederation (SAFF) women’s footballchampionship title – India
l The 44th Chief Justice of India (CJI)– Jagdish Singh Khehar
l The state which has launched ArogyaRaksha scheme for the people of theAbove Poverty Line (APL) – AndhraPradesh
l The venue of the 104th Indian ScienceCongress – Tirupati, AndhraPradesh
l The new Chairman of the UnionPublic Service Commission (UPSC)– David R Syiemlieh
l The persons chosen for BharatiyaJnanpith Navlekhan Award for theyear 2016 – GK Devansh &Shraddha
l Winner of the ‘Power & EnergyPersona’s Award for IndividualExcellence’ – KM Singh (NHPC)
l The state where the world-famous11-day festival Bargarh DhanuaJatra was observed recently – Odisha
l India’s first fully organic state in 2016– Sikkim
l Winner of the 26th Bihari Puraskar,2016 – Satya Narayan
l The new Lt Governor of Delhi – AnilBaijal
l The deputy governor of the RBIappointed by the govt recently –Viral Acharya
l The Jnanpith Awardee and acclaimedBengali poet who passed awayrecently – Shankha Ghosh
l The state which has launched ‘AtalAmrit Abhiyan’, a health assurancescheme – Assam
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l The desktop and mobile securitysolution launched recently by the govtthrough its Computer EmergencyResponse Team (CERT-in) – CyberSwachhta Kendra
l The venue of the recently heldNational Biodiversity Congress(NBC) 2017 – Thiruvananthapuram
l The country with which India inkedthree agreements recently in the fieldsof innovation, aviation and visarequirements – Rwanda
l The five additional states to which theUnion Govt has announced theexpansion of rotavirus vaccine underUniversal Immunisation Programme(UIP) – Assam, Tripura, MadhyaPradesh, Rajasthan and TamilNadu
l The state which recently passedAadhaar (Targeted Delivery ofFinancial and Other Subsidies,Benefits and Services) Bill, 2017 –Gujarat
l The submerged continent beneath thesouth-west Pacific Ocean which thegeologists claim to have discovered –Zealandia
l The island where India’s only livevolcano has become active again –Barren Island (Andaman andNicobar)
l The Indian Coast Guard ship whichwas commissioned at Kochi, Keralarecently – ICGS AYUSH
l The Indian Navy’s second sailboat andfirst all-woman globalcircumnavigation which was inductedrecently at the INS Mandovi BoatPool – INSV Tarini
l The state which has approved `250-cr Cloud Seeding Programme for 2017monsoon season to produce sufficient
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rain – Maharashtral India’s vaccine regulatory body which
has been given the maximum ratingsby the WHO for vaccine regulations– National Regulatory Authority ofIndia
l India’s ranking in the annual Index ofEconomic Freedom 2017 – 143rd
l The first indigenously built AirborneEarly Warning and Control System(AEW&C) formally inducted by theIndian Air Force – NETRA
l The state whose large deposits ofuranium will be developed by theDepartment of Atomic Energy (DAE)– Meghalaya
l The biannual multinational navalexercise conducted by the PakistanNavy in Karachi recently – AMAN2017
l India’s ranking in 2017 InternationalIntellectual Property Index (IIPI) –43rd
l The head of the sub-committee ofCentral Advisory Board of Education(CABE) set up to look into issues ofgirl’s education – Kadiyam Srihari
l The Italian firm with which Ministryof Railways has signed MoU fortechnical cooperation in the area ofsafety and modernisation – FerrovieDello Stato Italiane
l The programme for which the govthas signed a financing agreement forIDA (International DevelopmentAssociation) credit of $201.50 mnwith the World Bank – TEQIP III
l The Jammu and Kashmir ChiefMinister Mehbooba Mufti hasdeclared 2017 as the – Year of Apple
l The bank with which SIDBI hassigned an MoU recently for providingconcessional finance to micro and
small enterprises – Vijaya Bankl The state which recently signed an
MoU with NABARD for a loan of`874 cr – Telangana
l The present President of Azerbaijanwho appointed his wife MehribanAliyev as the First Vice President ofthe country recently – Ilham Aliyev
l The person who has been appointedas the chairman of Cauvery WaterDisputes Tribunal (CWDT) – JusticeAbhay Manohar Sapre
l The country whose decision towithdraw from the InternationalCriminal Court (ICC) has been ruledunconstitutional and invalid by itsHigh Court – South Africa
l India’s growth projection for 2016-17 fiscal as per the annual report ofIMF – 6.6 per cent
l The venue of the first Gramin KhelMahotsav to be held from 25th to 31stof Mar 2017 – New Delhi
l The present Chairman and ManagingDirector of Dena Bank – AshwaniKumar
l ISRO has successfully launched thePSLV-37 rocket, which put into orbit– 104 satellites
l The amount allocated by the govt toIndia Post Payments Bank for thefinancial year 2017-18 – Rs 500 cr
l The first woman to be appointed asthe Foreign Secretary in Pakistan –Tehmina Janjua
l The renowned journalist who passedaway recently – TV Parasuram
l The venue of the first everInternational Table Tennis Federation(ITTF) World Tour event in India –New Delhi
l The AIADMK General Secretarywho was sentenced to a jail term of 4years by the Supreme Court recently– VK Sasikala
l The state where India’s first floatingelementary school was inaugurated onLoktak lake recently – Manipur
l The venue of the 2017 Aero Indiashow – Bengaluru
l The state which legalised “Kambala”,the traditional buffalo race recently –Karnataka
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l The player named by the FIFAgoverning body as the newAmbassador of the FIFA – DiegoMaradona
l India’s new Ambassador toPhilippines – Narinder Chauhan
l The new president of industrychamber Assocham – SandeepJajodia
l The venue of the second edition ofthe International Spice Conference –Thiruvananthapuram
l The state which recently hosted thethree-day National Women’sParliament – Andhra Pradesh
l The new chairman of Securities andExchange Board of India (SEBI) – AjayTyagi
l The present Director General ofWTO – Roberto Azevedo
l The host of the 2017 BRICS Summit– China
l The UK physicist and Nobel laureateand inventor of MRI who diedrecently – Sir Peter Mansfield
l The biggest school sport outreachprogramme launched by the govtrecently – Mission XI Million
l Indian Navy’s survey vessel whichhas became the first naval ship to gogreen by installing a solar powersystem on board – INS Sarvekshak
l The country in which people recentlyvoted to relax the country’s strictcitizenship rules – Switzerland
l The newly elected President ofGermany– Frank-Walter Steinmeier
l The state where a 33-membercommittee has been constituted forthe speedy implementation of theSagarmala Project – Andhra Pradesh
l Winner of the 2017 T20 Blind CricketWorld Cup – India
l The amount to be pumped into public
sector banks in 2017-18 as proposedin the Union Budget – `10,000 cr
l The week celebrated as NationalProductivity Week every year – 12-18 Feb
l The first woman to be appointeddirector of an IIM (IIM Sirmaur) –Neelu Rohmetra
l The automaker which boughtHindustan Motors’ iconicAmbassador brand – Peugeot
l The city where the IT giant OracleCorporation will set up its biggestdevelopment centre outside the US –Bengaluru
l The sand artist who created aGuinness World Record by creating a48.8-foot-tall sand castle at Puri –Sudarsan Pattnaik
l The official mascot of FIFA Under-17 World Cup India 2017 – Kheleao
l The person appointed as ManagingDirector of state-owned LifeInsurance Corporation of India –Hemant Bhargava
l The first state to establish a cashlesssystem in its public distributionsystem of food grains – Gujarat
l The Indian-origin person shortlistedby NASA for its 2018 space mission– Shawna Pandya
l The economic growth of India peggedby the RBI for 2017-18 in its Feb 8monetary policy statement – 7.4 percent
l The economic growth of India peggedby the RBI for 2016-17 – 6.9 per cent
l The first state in the northeast toimplement e-cabinet solution for thestate cabinet members – ArunachalPradesh
l The host of the fourth edition ofBIMSTEC Summit-2017 – Nepal
l The world’s largest producer of solarenergy in 2016 – China
l The year in which ISRO is planningto launch Chandrayaan-2 – 2018
l The opposition leader in Russia whowas found guilty of embezzlementrecently – Alexei Navalny
l The present President of South Africa– Jacob Zuma
l Winner of the men’s singles title ofthe 81st Senior National BadmintonChampionships tournament –Sourabh Verma
l The Indian-origin person who has won2017 Genesis Prize from Israel –Anish Kapoor
l The present Indian ambassador toUAE – Navdeep Suri
l The first bank in India to connect withEarthport’s global payments network– Axis Bank
l The city where India will host FIBAWomen’s Asia Cup basketballtournament in Jul 2017 – Bengaluru
l The state where the Chief MinisterSamagra Gramya Unnayan Yojana(CMSGUY) was launched recently –Assam
l The state which has announced togive two per cent reservation to sportspersons in govt jobs – Jharkhand
l The city with the country’s firstcentre of excellence for differently-abled sportsmen – Gandhinagar
l The renowned Urdu novelist andplaywright from Pakistan who passedaway recently – Bano Qudsia
l The head of the six-membercommittee to give a report on waysto improve India’s Haj policy – AfzalAmanullah
l The most valuable global brand in theannual Brand Finance Global 500report – Google
l Winner of the recent Indian NationalSnooker Championship – PankajAdvani
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l The amount announced by the WorldBank in financing for sub-SaharanAfrica over the next three fiscal years– USD 57 bn
l The country where five people werekilled and about 40 injured in its capitalafter a car plowed into pedestrians anda terrorist stabbed a policeman nearparliament – UK
l India’s ranking on the WorldHappiness Report 2017 – 122nd
l India ranking on the HumanDevelopment Index prepared byUNDP, which now classifies India inthe category of “medium” humandevelopment – 131
l The Indian-American computerscientist who won National ScienceFoundation (NSF)’s CAREER award– Anshumali Shrivastava
l Winner of the men’s singles title ofthe ATP Indian Wells Masters – RogerFederer
l The first fully India-made train (rake)which was flagged off at Dadar stationin Mumbai recently – Medha
l The former Rajya Sabha MP, alsocalled the ‘Chanakya of Odishapolitics,’ who passed away recently– Pyarimohan Mohapatra
l The state which recently decided toprovide 33 per cent reservation forwomen in all govt jobs – Punjab
l The cricketer who has become the firstIndian to face 500 balls in Test innings– Cheteshwar Pujara
l India’s wholesale price index-basedinflation in Feb 2017 – 6.55%
l The R&D organisation being set upby the Indian Railways – SRESTHA
l The Canadian teacher who won $1-mGlobal Teacher Prize – MaggieMacDonnell
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l The public sector construction firmwhich will execute `130-cr housingproject in Mauritius – NBCC
l The country which has bannedlaptops and iPads in handbags atairports in West Asia and Africa – US
l The limit at which the govt hasproposed to cap cash transactions inan official amendment to the FinanceBill, 2017 – `2 lakh
l The bank with which the govt hasdecided to merge the Bharatiya MahilaBank (BMB) – SBI
l The bank which launched ‘MeraiMobile’ app for rural customers –ICICI Bank
l The country which has been namedthe healthiest country in world by theBloomberg’s 2017 World HealthIndex – Italy
l The new Chief Minister ofUttarakhand – Trivendra SinghRawat
l India’s ranking in representation ofwomen in executive govt in 2017Women in Politics Map report – 148th
l The first private sector bank sinceIndependence launched in Keralarecently – ESAF Small FinanceBank
l The date on which the rollout of theGoods and Services Tax (GST) isscheduled – 1 Jul 2017
l The largest association in the countryin the field of real estate with whichSBI signed an MoU recently –CREDAI
l The mobile app launched by the govtfor monitoring of village electrification– Garv
l The person appointed as a Memberon the Western Area Local Board ofRBI – Dilip S Shanghvi
l The country with which Saudi Arabiasigned preliminary deals worth about$65 bn recently – China
l The airport in Singapore voted theWorld’s Best Airport by air travellersat the 2017 World Airport Awards –Changi Airport
l The badminton player appointed amember of the governing body of theSports Authority of India (SAI) –Jwala Gutta
l The Union Minister of State forHeavy Industries and PublicEnterprises who has been appointedvice-president of the FIFA U-17 WorldCup organising committee – BabulSupriyo
l The bank which recently launched aninstant digital loan against securities(LAS) facility – HDFC Bank
l The govt scheme for developingexport-linked infrastructure – TIES
l The state to which Central Govtrecently approved financial assistanceby way of special dispensation infunding of externally aided projects(EAPs) – Andhra Pradesh
l The new Chief Minister of Punjab –Captain Amarinder Singh
l The mission launched by the govt tobring blue revolution in the country –Mission Fingerling
l The bank which has announced a one-time farm loan settlement schemeworth `6,000 cr primarily for tractorloans – SBI
l The robot developed by the studentsof the Maharashtra Institute ofTechnology (MIT), Pune and IBMto assist senior citizens – Chintu
l The state where first-of-its-kindwomen safety application called“Ammavin Aran” was launchedrecently – Tamil Nadu
l The person who recently resigned asthe ICC Chairman – ShashankManohar
l The city which has occupied firstplace for overall quality of livingrecently – Vienna
l The place where the foundation stoneof the Banana Research Centre waslaid recently – Vaishali, Bihar
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l The country which is set to conductits first national census in 19 years –Pakistan
l The state which has come out with a`605-cr innovative scheme named“KCR Kit” for pregnant women andnewborn – Telangana
l The state which has announced anIdea2POC (Proof of Concept) fundof `10 cr for women entrepreneurs –Karnataka
l The person appointed as the officialambassador of Women’s CricketWorld Cup 2017 – SachinTendulkar
l The Russian doctor whose lifetimeban was upheld by the Court ofArbitration for Sport (CAS) recently– Sergei Portugalov
l The country where the US aircraftgiant Boeing is in process to set up itsfirst overseas factory – China
l The deputy governor of the RBIappointed in place of R Gandhi – BPKanungo
l The consumer price index (CPI)-basedinflation in Feb 2017 – 3.65 per cent
l Winner of the men’s singles crown atthe 2017 All England Open badmintonchampionships – Lee Chong Wei
l Winner of the 2017 Hero Indian Opengolf title – SSP Chawrasia
l The date on which all restrictions oncash withdrawal from savings bankaccounts were removed – 13 Mar2017
l The bank which has floated itswholly-owned subsidiary to manageits premises and estate-relatedmatters – SBI
l The new Chairman of the HSBC –Mark Tucker
l The year by which the Ozone-depleting HCFCs have to be phasedout as required under the Montreal
Protocol – 2030l The bank which has topped the list
of banks that witnessed the mostnumber of frauds during Apr-Decperiod of 2016 as per the RBI data –ICICI Bank
l The present Governor of Manipur –Najma Heptulla
l The former CMD of Exim Bank whohas been appointed as the newChairman of the Indian Overseas Bank– TCA Ranganathan
l The venue of the 12th CII-Exim bankconclave on India Africa ProjectPartnership held recently – NewDelhi
l The new threshold set by the RBIabove which the NBFCs can disburseloans against gold only by cheque –`20,000
l The biggest crude oil supplier to Indiaas of now – Saudi Arabia
l The Konkani author honored with theSaraswati Samman 2016 for his novelHawthan – Mahabaleshwar Sail
l The country which recently tested aballistic missile named “Hormuz 2” –Iran
l The state where the NTPC recentlycommissioned a 45-MW solar plantat Bhadla – Rajasthan
l The Water Jet Fast Attack Craftcommissioned by the Indian Navyrecently in Karwar, Karnataka – INSTillanchang
l The paid leave to be provided towould-be mothers as per the newMaternity Benefit Bill passedrecently – 26 weeks
l The state which has launched a 24*7helpline number “181” to assistwomen in distress – Odisha
l The venue of the 10th edition of theInternational Conference on Theoryand Practice of Electronic Governance
(ICEGOV 2017) held recently – NewDelhi
l The country with which Indiarecently signed a pact related toavoidance of double taxation –Belgium
l The state which has launched a web-based platform ‘Pratibimba’ toshowcase the govt’s performance –Karnataka
l The bank whose board recentlyapproved ‘Work from Home’ policy– SBI
l Winner of men’s singles title of the2017 Brasil Open – Pablo Cuevas
l The joint military exercise betweenIndia and Nepal held in Pithoragarh,Uttarakhand recently – Surya Kiran-XI
l The popular Bengali folk singer whopassed away recently – KalikaPrasad Bhattacharya
l The state where the first smart tribalmodel village ‘Habbi’ was inauguratedrecently – Jammu & Kashmir
l The growth rate of the Indianeconomy in the fiscal year 2016-2017as per global rating agency Fitch – 7.1per cent
l The country whose banking systemis now the biggest in the world,according to the Financial Times –China
l The bank which has launched AadhaarPay, the country’s first Aadhaar-linkedcashless merchant solution – IDFCBank
l The two-seater sports coupelaunched by Tata Motors recently –Racemo
l The new Chief Minister of Manipur– N Biren Singh
l The new Chairman of the Securitiesand Exchange Board of India (Sebi) –Ajay Tyagi
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l The South Korean firm with whichL&T has signed a contract tomanufacture the K9 Vajra-T artilleryguns – Hanwa Techwin, S Korea
l The first unmanned cargo spacecraftlaunched by China recently –Tianzhou-1
l The Kenyan who won the LondonMarathon recently – Daniel Wanjiru
l The app launched by Haryana govtto create awareness about ante andpost natal care, institutional deliveryand immunisation – Kilkari
l Winner of the men's singles title of2017 Monte Carlo Masters – RafaelNadal
l The govt bank in which LIC of Indiais to infuse `406.9 cr – IDBI Bank
l The game to be a full sport at the 2022Asian Games – Video Gaming
l The country which launched its firstsatellite named Mongol Sat-I recently– Mongolia
l Winner of the UNESCO Peace Prize– Giuseppina Nicolini
l The host of the 14th edition of theUnited Nations International Day ofVesak 2017 – Sri Lanka
l The amount sanctioned by the govtto the Election Commission to procureEVMs with VVPAT for 2019 generalelections – `3,200 cr
l India’s growth rate for FY18 asprojected by the IMF – 7.2%
l The growth rate for the worldeconomy in 2017 as projected by theIMF recently – 3.5%
l The book authored by PerumalMurugan which has won SahityaAkademi’s award for translation inEnglish 2016 – Mathorubhagan
l The firm which became the mostvalued public sector undertaking
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(PSU) stock in terms of marketcapitalisation recently – SBI
l Winner of the Hindustan PSU awardin ‘Fastest Growing Organisation –Miniratna’ category – BEML
l India’s economic growth rate in FY18as per IMF – 7.2 per cent
l The cities where new bankingombudsman offices have been openedrecently by the RBI – Jammu andRaipur
l India’s ranking in the 2017 ATKearney Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) Confidence Index – Eighth
l The bank whose data centre inHyderabad has become country’s firstCII-IGBC Platinum-rated project –ICICI Bank
l The state where PM Narendra Modirecently inaugurated phase-I of theLink-II pipeline canal of SAUNIproject – Gujarat
l India’s economic growth rate in 2017as per recent World Bank report –7.2%
l The firm whose Aamby Valleytownship is being sold as per ordersfrom the Supreme Court – SaharaGroup
l The cyclone which made landfall onMyanmar’s coast recently –Maarutha
l The firm which has introduced a 12-week paid leave for ‘commissioning’mothers who use surrogates to bear achild – RIL
l The winner of Time magazine’sreaders’ poll of the 100 mostinfluential people in the world –Rodrigo Duterte
l Winner of the Bahrain Grand Prix2017 – Sebastian Vettel
l The President of Nepal who visited
India recently – Bidya DeviBhandari
l Winner of the men’s singles of theSuper Series at the Singapore Open –B Sai Praneeth
l Winner of the sixth prestigious MSSwaminathan Award – RR Hanchinal
l The country where a referendum washeld recently that granted sweepingpowers to the President RecepTayyip Erdogan – Turkey
l The Internet giant which has launchedAreo app aggregating food deliveryand home services in India – Google
l The present President of BRICS NewDevelopment Bank (NDB) – KVKamath
l The state where about 55 lakh farmerswill get free fertilisers from the nextfinancial year – Telangana
l The first-ever joint military exerciseheld recently between Nepal andChina – Sagarmatha Friendship-2017
l The target for loans under PradhanMantri Mudra Yojana in the UnionBudget for FY18 – `2.44 lakh cr
l The interest approved on providentfund deposits for 2016-17 – 8.65 percent
l The country where the US droppedthe largest ever non-nuclear bomb -GBU-43/B – Afghanistan
l Winner of the 2017 Asian BilliardsChampionship title – Pankaj Advani
l The new pin code to the CentralProcessing Centre (CPC) of theIncome Tax in Bengaluru – 560500
l India’s ranking on the KPMGInternational’s global “Through thelooking glass” report – 31st
l The state upon whom the KrishiKarman Award 2015-16 forcommendable increase in food grainsproduction has been conferred –Himachal Pradesh
l The present chairman of Insolvencyand Bankruptcy Board of India(IBBI) – Madhusudan Sahoo
l The state govt which has announcedthe launch of “Durga Vahini” policesquads to stop harassment of womenon public spaces – Haryana
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l The state whose police departmenthas initiated ‘Tare Zameen Par’programme to encourage children inNaxal-affected areas to lead happylives – Jharkhand
l The new MD and CEO of KarnatakaBank – MS Mahabaleshwara
l The new head of UN agency - UNDevelopment Programme (UNDP) –Achim Steiner
l The agency which has approved a$375-mn loan to India’s firstwaterway project – World Bank
l The most followed world leader onInstagram – Narendra Modi
l The firm which has launched a Made-in-India robot - Brabo - for SMEs –TAL Manufacturing Solutions
l Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize forfiction – Colson Whitehead (Theunderground Railroad)
l The year in which famous“Champaran Satyagraha” waslaunched – 1917
l The newly appointed ExecutiveDirector of the Reserve Bank of India– Malvika Sinha
l India’s next Ambassador to Germany– Mukta Dutta Tomar
l The new chairman of the TelecomDisputes Settlement & AppellateTribunal (TDSAT) – Shiva KirtiSingh
l The Govt has reduced the number ofcentrally sponsored schemes (CSS)from 66 to – 28
l The state which has launched theambitious ‘Deendayal Rasoi Yojana’for subsidised meals – MadhyaPradesh
l The former Indian Naval officer whohas been awarded death sentence inPakistan – Kulbhushan Jadhav
l The new Marginal Standing Facilityrate – 6.50 per cent
l The 12th edition of the joint militaryexercise between India and Mongoliaheld recently in Vairengte in Mizoram– Nomadic Elephant
l The online marketplace which raised$1.4 bn in the biggest-ever start-upfunding round and acquired eBay Indiarecently – Flipkart
l The United Nations’ youngest-ever“Messenger of Peace” appointedrecently – Malala Yousafzai
l The Bollywood star who launched theapp and website ‘BharatKeVeer’recently – Akshay Kumar
l Winner of best Hindi film award atthe 64th National Film Awards –Neerja
l The train that runs between Dhakaand Kolkata – Maitree Express
l The new Managing Director ofSaraswat Bank – Smita Sandhane
l Winner of Chinese Grand Prix F1championship – Lewis Hamilton
l The country which has declared anoutbreak of acute watery diarrhoearecently – Ethiopia
l The new Director of IIM Trichy –Bhimaraya Metri
l India’s ranking in the current traveland tourism competitive index(TTCI) of the World Economic Forum– 40th
l The king of Thailand who signed thedraft of the constitution recently –Maha Vajiralongkorn
l The bank which has partnered withBSNL to upgrade bandwidth at all itsbranches – Canara Bank
l The minimum capital required forwholesale and long-term finance(WLTF) banks – `1,000 cr
l The new CEO and MD of L&T totake over with effect from Jul 1 – SNSubrahmanyan
l The cricketer named Wisden’s
Leading Cricketer in the World for 2016– Virat Kohli
l The country with which India hasinked mega defence deals worth over$2 bn for advanced surface-to-airmissile (SAM) systems – Israel
l The firm which has launched its digitalassistant named “M” for the users inthe US – Facebook
l The state which has announced toprovide one-time grant of `21,000 toall those families whose third girl childwas born after Aug 24, 2015 –Haryana
l The new Reverse Repo rate after thereview – 6 per cent
l The country which recently officiallyrecognised Bitcoin as currency –Japan
l The agency which has extended a$175-mn loan to the Power GridCorporation of India – ADB
l The first IIT in India to offer medicinecourses from the 2019 session – IIT-Kharagpur
l The state where the famousBerhampur Thakurani Yatra was heldrecently – Odisha
l The state govt which recentlyannounced a crop loan waiver worthover `36,000 cr – Uttar Pradesh
l The person who won the recentPresidential elections in Ecuador –Lenin Moreno
l The new chairman of NASSCOM for2017-18 – Raman Roy
l The first woman Director General ofPolice (DGP) of Gujarat – GeethaJohri
l The legendary Hindustani classicalsinger who passed away recently –Kishori Amonkar
l The official mascot of Kanha tigerreserve – Bhoorsingh theBarasingha
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l Winner of the 2017 Federation Cupfootball tournament – Bengaluru FC
l The country which has become thesecond-largest steel producer(producing 3.32 mn tonnes) in theworld in 2016 – India
l The present President of the AfricanDevelopment Bank (AfDB) –Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina
l The insurer which has launched anartificial intelligence-based email bot‘SPOK’ to assist customers – HDFCLife
l The bank which has launched a newtrading platform called “Selfie” forcustomers – Federal Bank
l The venues of the recent 52nd AnnualMeeting of the African DevelopmentBank (AfDB) – Gandhinagar
l The game with which Sudirman Cupis associated – Badminton
l The mountaineer from ArunachalPradesh who has become the world’sfirst woman to scale Mt Everest twicein five days – Anshu Jamsenpa
l Newly launched high-speed trainequipped with modern facilities likeautomatic doors, LCD screens, Wi-Fiand bio-toilets – Tejas Express
l Winner of men’s singles title of theItalian Open 2017 – AlexanderZverev
l Winner of the 2017 Indian PremierLeague (IPL) – Mumbai Indians
l The railway station which has beenfound to be the dirtiest among the 75busiest stations in India – Darbhanga
– The cleanest railway station –Visakhapatnam
l The former coal secretary who hasbeen convicted by a special court –HC Gupta
l The city where India’s first bio-CNGplant was inaugurated recently – Pune
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l The joint naval exercise held recentlybetween India and Singapore –SIMBEX
l Winner of the Indira Gandhi Prize forPeace, Disarmament andDevelopment for the year 2014 –ISRO
l The first private airline to get a licenceto fly under UDAN scheme – TurboMegha Airways
l India’s position in the revised WorldTourism Organisation (UNWTO)rankings for 2014 and 2015 – 24th
l The person re-elected as the 12thPresident of Iran – Hassan Rouhani
l The veteran actor and favouritemother of Bollywood who diedrecently – Reema Lagoo
l The enterprise in which Japan’sSoftbank made its biggest investmentin India ($1.4 bn) recently – Paytm
l The person appointed the CEO of thenewly launched Paytm PaymentsBank – Renu Satti
l The automaker which has announcedto stop selling cars in the domesticmarket in India by the end of 2017 –General Motors
l The British actor known for playingJames Bond in seven films, who diedrecently – Roger Moore
l The world’s largest aircraft whichsuccessfully completed a test flightrecently – Airlander 10
l The state which has signed an MoUwith IIT Kharagpur to develop aHappiness Index – Madhya Pradesh
l The IAS officer who has authored aphilosophical novel on God titledConfessions of a Dying Mind: Theblind faith of atheism – HaulianlalGuite
l Winner of the 2017 Dan David prize– Shrinivas Kulkarni
l The host of the South Asian JuniorTable Tennis Championships whereIndia won all the 10 Gold Medals onoffer – Sri Lanka
l The newly appointed Deputy Chiefof the Integrated Defence Staff(Operations) – PN Pradhan
l The new Chairman of the FIFAGovernance committee – MukulMudgal
l The IAS officer appointed as the nextdefence secretary – Sanjay Mitra
l The bilateral exercise between Indiaand Indonesia held recently – India-Indonesia CORPAT
l The new headquarters of the CRPF’santi-Naxal operations command –Raipur
l China’s home-grown passenger jetwhich completed its maiden flightrecently – C919
l The year by which the RBI has askedall the existing Asset ReconstructionCompanies (ARCs) to have aminimum net-owned corpus of `100cr – Mar 2019
l The amount of black money thatentered India during 2005-2014 as perGlobal Financial Integrity (GFI) –$770 bn
l The new artillery guns from the USwhich arrived at New Delhi recentlynearly 30 years after the induction ofBofors howitzers – M777
l The chairman of the seven-memberHigh-Level Committee on Scouts andGuides which submitted its finalreport to Vijay Goel recently – HarshMalhotra
l The chairman of the Committee setup to prepare guidelines for desiltationof the river Ganga from Bhimgauda(Uttarakhand) to Farakka (WestBengal) which suggested variousmeasures recently – Madhav Chitale
l The Union Minister of State forEnvironment, Forest and ClimateChange who passed away recently –Anil Madhav Dave
l Winner of the 2017 Spanish GrandPrix F1 championship – LewisHamilton
l Winner of Sultan Azlan Shah Cuphockey tournament – Great Britain
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l The venue of India’s first AquaticRainbow Technology Park, an ultramodern facility for ornamental fish –Chennai
l The venue of the recent two-daymeeting of the Goods and Services Tax(GST) Council to finalise tax rates –Srinagar
l The number of units of indigenousPressurised Heavy Water Reactors(PHWR) of 700 MW each approvedrecently – Ten
l The person who has topped theForbes list of Global Game Changerslist in 2017 – Mukesh Ambani
l The state ranked lowest in publicaffairs index (PAI) in governance inStates this year – Bihar
l India’s GDP growth for the fiscal year2017-18 as per FICCI’s latestEconomic Outlook Survey – 7.4 percent
l The IIT Bombay professor who wonthe Indian National Science Academy(INSA) medal for Young Scientist(2017) – Vikram Vishal
l The Sikkim CM who was conferredthe first Bhairon Singh ShekhawatLifetime Achievement Honour inPublic Service – Pawan KumarChamling
l The state where ‘Maa’ committee willcheck mid-day meal quality in schools– Uttar Pradesh
l The former Puducherry CM whopassed away recently – SRamassamy
l The new Prime Minister of France –Edouard Philippe
l India’s position in the renewableenergy country attractiveness indexprepared by EY – Second
l The first state to record per capitaincome of `3,03,073 per annum(estimated in 2016-17) – Delhi
l The Indian batswoman who scored188 runs, second highest in women’sODIs recently – Deepti Sharma
l The country which has declared a stateof emergency due to a deadly outbreakof cholera – Yemen
l The state where PM Narendra Modilaunched the Narmada Sewa Missionrecently – Madhya Pradesh
l The state which has grabbed the firstposition in public affairs index (PAI)in governance in States this year –Kerala
l The state which recently hosted thefirst outreach programme of theMinistry of External Affairs, ‘VideshSampark’ – Telangana
l The present President of Palestinewho visited New Delhi recently –Mahmoud Abbas
l The joint naval exercise carried outby navies of India and Singaporerecently – SIMBEX
l Winner of the men’s singles title ofthe 2017 Madrid Open – RafaelNadal
l The person who was sworn in as theyoungest ever President of Francerecently – Emmanuel Macron
l The country which conducted its firstlocal-level polls in two decadesrecently – Nepal
l The computer malware (ransomwareworm) which spread across the worldrecently – WannaCry
l The state where India’s longest riverbridge (9.15-km-long Dhola-Sadiyabridge) was inaugurated recently –Assam
l The cricketer awarded with anhonorary life membership by theMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC)recently – VVS Laxman
l The new Prime Minister of Bahamas– Hubert Minnis
l The country from which India hasacquired the surface-to-air missile‘Spyder’ – Israel
l The actor appointed by the WHO asits Goodwill Ambassador forHepatitis in South-East Asia Region– Amitabh Bachchan
l The first state to introduce a logo foridentifying vehicles driven by personswith hearing impairment – Telangana
l The three states whose residents havebeen exempted from mandatoryquoting of Aadhaar to obtain PANcards and file tax returns –Meghalaya, Assam and J&K
l The Commission which has launcheda 24*7 National Contact Centre witha toll-free No. 1800111950 – ElectionCommission
l The country with which Indian navyconducted “Konkan-17” joint navalexercise recently – UK
l India’s first indigenously-built civilianaircraft with seating capacity of 14people – Saras
l The headquarters of the InternationalFood Policy Research Institute(IFPRI) – Washington DC
l The base year of the new series of theindex of industrial production (IIP)and the wholesale price index (WPI)– 2011-12
l The present Chief Economic Advisorin the Union Finance Ministry –Arvind Subramanian
l India’s position in global electricityaccessibility ranking as of now – 26th
l The crop which got nod from India’scentral biotech regulator, GeneticEngineering Appraisal Committee(GEAC), recently – Mustard
l The state where the world’s largestsolar park, Kurnool Ultra Solar Park,is situated – Tamil Nadu
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l The growth forecast for the IT sectorin 2017-18 (FY18) by Nasscom – 7-8per cent
l The amount the US will provide tohelp advance India’s power grid – $7.5mn
l The teams which have been awardedTest match status by the ICC – Irelandand Afghanistan
l The PM of Romania who was oustedrecently after a no-confidence vote –Sorin Grindeanu
l The President of Vanuatu who diedrecently – Womtelo ReverendBaldwin Lonsdale
l The new Under-Secretary-General ofthe UN Counter-Terrorism Office –Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov
l Indian agricultural microbiologistconferred the Ministry ofEnvironment Award for 2017 in Japan– Shrihari Chandraghatgi
l The country which has unveiled theworld’s first train that operates on avirtual track using sensor technology– China
l The airline awarded as the World’sBest Airline at the SKYTRAX 2017World Airline Awards – QatarAirways
l The costliest city in the world,according to the Mercer’s 23rd annualCost of Living Survey – Luanda
l The first building in the country toget intellectual property rightsprotection for its architectural designby acquiring an ‘image trademark’ –Taj Mahal Palace Hotel
l The person regarded as the father ofIndia’s nuclear fusion programme whodied recently – Predhiman KrishanKaw
l The bank against which the RBI hasdirected to initiate insolvency
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proceedings for Lanco Infratech –IDBI Bank
l The agency which will implement theinterest subvention schemeannounced for farmers for 2017-18 –NABARD
l Winner of the 2017 ICC ChampionsTrophy – Pakistan
l The state where the Vedanta groupwill set up a steel plant in WestSinghbhum district – Jharkhand
l Winner of the men’s singles title ofthe 2017 Indonesia Open – KidambiSrikanth
l The amount earmarked for the InterestSubvention Scheme (ISS) for 2017-18 – `20,339 cr
l The company which has topped theNikkei Asian Review’s Asia 300 –Largan Precision
l The former Chief Justice of India whopassed away recently – PN Bhagwati
l The first person in the world to reach100 mn followers on Twitter – KatyPerry
l The venue of the 2017 BRICSSummit scheduled in Sep 2017 –Xiamen (China)
l The new Secretary of the Departmentof Economic Affairs – Subhash CGarg
l The new Home Secretary – RajivGauba
l The next ambassador of the US toIndia – Kenneth Juster
l The CEO of taxi-hailing start-up Uberwho resigned recently – TravisKalanick
l The Judge nominated by India as itscandidate for the International Courtof Justice (ICJ) – Dalveer Bhandari
l The Syrian refugee appointed asGoodwill Ambassador by theUNICEF – Muzoon Almellehan
l The country in which King Salmanrecently appointed his son,Mohammed bin Salman, as heir –Saudi Arabia
l The state which has announced freeeducation for girls in govt schools andcolleges from Nursery to PhD –Punjab
l The former Chancellor of Germanywho died recently – Helmut Kohl
l The amount above which alltransactions will mandatorily requireAadhaar number – `50,000
l India’s ranking on the GlobalInnovation Index (GII) 2017 – 60th
l The bank which the RBI placed underprompt corrective action (PCA)recently – Central Bank of India
l The bank which has approved USD150-mn equity investment loan to theIndia Infrastructure Fund – AIIB
l The country which has successfullylaunched its first X-ray spacetelescope named ‘Insight’ – China
l Winner of the Fifth Bhupen HazarikaNational Award, 2017 – YesheDorjee Thongshi
l The country which has claimed thetop spot among the remittance-receiving nations as per a recent reportby the United Nations for 2016 –India
l The anti-tank missile test-fired by theDRDO recently – Nag
l The joint naval exercise conductedbetween India and Australia recently– AUSINDEX
l The only PSB to get ‘high’ rating forits adherence to code compliance inthe Code Compliance Rating of banksdone by the BCSBI – IDBI Bank
l India’s next ambassador to Belgiumand the EU – Gaitri Issar Kumar
l The rate at which the farmers will getshort-term crop loan up to `3 lakhunder the interest subvention scheme(ISS) approved for 2017-18 – 4 percent
l The Indian-origin doctor who hasbecome the new Prime Minister ofIreland – Leo Varadkar
l The state which has the highestnumber (2,50,672) of children engagedin labour as per recent CRY report –
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Uttar Pradeshl The venue of the G7 Environment
Ministers Meet held recently –Bologna, Italy
l The automaker which was imposedupon a fine of `87 cr by the CCI forunfair business practices – HyundaiMotor
l The agency which has approvedfinancing of more than USD 500 mnto support the economy ofAfghanistan – World Bank
l The bank which recently increased itsauthorised capital to ̀ 2,500 cr – ICICIBank
l The legendary poet and writer ofTelugu who passed away recently –C Narayana Reddy
l Winner of the 2017 Canadian GrandPrix F1 championship – LewisHamilton
l The person who has topped theForbes list of world’s highest-paidcelebrities – Sean Combs
l The city whose model of waterconservation has been selected for thenational award for excellence in theMGNREGP – Nalanda, Bihar
l The denomination of banknoteswhich the RBI has issued with insetletter “A” – `500
l Winner of the Little Miss UniverseInternet 2017 crown – PadmalayaNanda
l The insurer whose administration wasrecently taken over by the IRDAI –Sahara India Life Insurance
l The rate of retail inflation in May2017 which was all-time low – 2.18per cent
l Winner of the Kalinga Literary Award2017 – Haraprasad Das
l The country with which Indiarecently signed an MoU toinstitutionalise cooperation betweenParliaments – Mauritius
l Winner of men’s singles title of the
2017 French Open – Rafael Nadall Winner of the Mumbai Mayor Chess
title – Nguyen Duc Hoal The insurer which settled 99.92 per
cent of death claims in 2016-17 – LICof India
l The person conferred with theFrance’s highest civilian honour, thecoveted Legion of Honour – SoumitraChatterjee
l The lumpsum amount the retirementfund body EPFO will park in exchangetraded funds this fiscal – `22,500 cr
l Winner of the women’s singles titleof the French Open 2017 – JelenaOstapenko
l The host of the 2020 Olympic Gamesin which the IOC will introduce newevents – Tokyo
l The person who was given conditionalapproval by the SEBI for theappointment as the MD and CEO ofthe NSE – Vikram Limaye
l The bank which has cut the interestrate on home loans above `75 lakh to8.60 per cent – SBI
l The chairman of the ParliamentaryStanding Committee (PSC) on Finance– Veerappa Moily
l The Indian-origin person who has beenchosen as an astronaut by NASA –Raja Chari
l The first female Sikh MP elected tothe Parliament of the UK – PreetKaur Gill
l The first bank in India to introducebiodegradable cards (prepaid giftcards) – Axis Bank
l Winner of the International TennisFederation men’s Futures tennis title– Ramkumar Ramanathan
l The first cricketer from Sri Lanka andthe 83rd overall to be inducted intothe ICC Cricket Hall of Fame –Muttiah Muralitharan
l The bank which recently raised`15,000 cr equity capital through
qualified institutional placement –SBI
l The new statutory liquidity ratio(SLR) decided by the RBI starting Jun24 – 20 per cent
l The state for which the Centre hasapproved the modifications in a Billto pave way for organising ‘kambala’– Karnataka
l The country with whose help theNational Human Milk Bank andLactation Counselling Centre waslaunched in New Delhi recently –Norway
l The payments bank of which KGKarmakar and Gauri Shankar wereappointed as Independent Directorsrecently – IPPB
l The pair which won the mixeddoubles title of 2017 French Open –Rohan Bopanna and GabrielaDabrowski
l The eminent historian who passedaway recently – Basudev Chatterji
l The country with which Nepal hassigned a deal to develop a 1,200-MWBudhigandaki Hydroelectric Project –China
l The new Prime Minister of Nepal –Sher Bahadur Deuba
l The country which officially joinedNorth Atlantic Treaty Organizationas 29th member recently –Montenegro
l The country to which India isproviding a line of credit of USD 318mn for the development of therailways – Sri Lanka
l The cyclone which hit Bangladeshrecently – Mora
l The person chosen to head the WorldHealth Organisation (WHO) – TedrosAdhanom Ghebreyesu
l The state which has decided to form‘good morning’ squads to monitor andprevent open defecation –Maharashtra
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l The host city of the 2017 Women’sAsia Cup of Federation ofInternational Basketball (FIBA) –Bengaluru
l Asia’s longest earthen dam inSambalpur district in Odisha fromwhich the first flood waters of themonsoon season were releasedrecently – Hirakud Dam
l The country with which Indiarecently signed a pact to connect bywaterways – Bangladesh
l The state where the scheme for freepower connection for the BPL cardholders was launched recently – UttarPradesh
l The host of the Global Conference onCyber Space (GCCS) 2017, theworld’s largest conference on cyberspace and related issues – New Delhi
l The pension scheme launchedrecently by the govt with assuredreturn – Pradhan Mantri VayaVandana Yojana (PMVVY)
l Winner of the ICC Women’s WorldCup 2017 – England
l The state which has launched‘Mission Football’ to help developskills of football enthusiasts –Meghalaya
l The present Prime Minister ofHungary – Viktor Orban
l The person appointed as Secretary toPresident Ram Nath Kovind – SanjayKothari
l India’s discus throw player who wonbronze medal at the World ParaAthletics Championships 2017 –Karamjyoti Dalal
l The automaker which recentlyrenewed its association with the StarIndia-and IMG Reliance-promotedIndian Super League (ISL) – HeroMotoCorp
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l The city which the UNESCO hasnamed as ‘the World Book Capital’for 2019 – Sharjah
l The state govt which has launched aninnovative programme “Janahitha” toreceive complaints from publicthrough a special portal – Telangana
l The state with which the PaikaRebellion is associated – Odisha
l The country with which India’slandmark civil nuclear agreement cameinto force on 20 Jul 2017 – Japan
l The state where the Tadoba-AndhariTiger Reserve (TATR) is situated –Maharashtra
l The bank which has launched afacility whereby its existingcustomers can avail personal loans upto ̀ 15 lakh at its ATMs – ICICI Bank
l The country which holds the topposition on the fifth annual GlobalRetirement Index ranking – Norway
l The MP who resigned from the RajyaSabha recently – Mayawati
l The state which recently dedicated itslongest bridge (2.88 km) named afterNetaji Subhas Chandra Bose to thenation – Odisha
l The MP who received the LifetimeAchievement Award for hiscontributions as a parliamentarian inthe Lok Sabha – LK Advani
l The Minister of State for Tolerancein UAE who topped a poll of the mostpowerful Arab women in govt for2017, according to Forbes – SheikhaLubna al Qasimi
l The actress inducted as one of thenewest members of the Academy ofMotion Picture of Arts and Sciences(AMPAS), Class of 2017 – DeepikaPadukone
l The second life insurer in India to gopublic soon – SBI Life
l The person sworn in as the 19th chiefminister of Nagaland recently – TRZeliang
l The host of the meeting of 16 nationson a mega Asia trade pact, the RegionalComprehensive EconomicPartnership (RCEP), held recently –Hyderabad
l The present Foreign Minister ofAustralia who visited India recently– Julie Bishop
l The country which has named thewaters in its exclusive economic zonethat overlap with China’s expansiveclaim to the South China Sea as theNorth Natuna Sea – Indonesia
l The next Chief Justice of the SupremeCourt of Nepal – Gopal PrasadParajuli
l The firm which crossed the `5-lakhcr market-capitalisation recently –Reliance Industries
l Winner of the men’s singles title ofthe 2017 Wimbledon – RogerFederer
l The former Chief Minister of Sikkimwho passed away recently – NarBahadur Bhandari
l The oil firm which recently made itsfirst purchase of oil from the US –Bharat Petroleum
l The amount the govt will invest inrailways in next five years – `8.5lakh cr
l The new Managing Director and CEOof the National Stock Exchange (NSE)– Vikram Limaye
l Winner of the 2017 British Grand PrixF1 championship – Lewis Hamilton
l Winner of the women’s singles title ofthe 2017 Wimbledon – GarbineMuguruza
l The country which has topped in theOECD Government at a Glance 2017report – India
l The film which won the best filmaward at the 18th edition of theInternational Indian Film AcademyAwards – Neerja
l The person whose name has beencleared for appointment as the newAttorney General of India – KKVenugopal
l The newly appointed Global
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Goodwill Ambassador by theUNICEF – Lilly Singh
l The person appointed as the newManaging Director and ChiefExecutive Officer of the Oriental Bankof Commerce – Mukesh Kumar Jain
l The airport ranked first in CustomerSatisfaction among 49 airports in thecountry – Swami VivekanandaAirport (Raipur)
l The highest ever foreign directinvestment (FDI) received by India(in 2016-17) – USD 43 bn
l The first state in the country to makesocial boycott a crime – Maharashtra
l The venue of the 22nd WorldPetroleum Congress (WPC)International Conference held recently– Istanbul, Turkey
l The bank which has received $150 mnfunding from the US govt and WellsFargo – YES Bank
l The head of the Fiscal Responsibilityand Budget Management (FRBM)committee – NK Singh
l The present secretary of theDepartment of Industrial Policy andPromotion (DIPP) – RameshAbhishek
l The country in which Uber recentlymerged its business with Yandex –Russia
l India’s ranking on the recentsustainable development goals(SDGs) index topped by Sweden –116th
l The Chinese Nobel laureate whopassed away in custody recently –Liu Xiaobo
l The NASA spacecraft which recentlypeered into the giant storm raging onJupiter, known as the Great Red Spot– Juno
l The amount up to which the SBI haswaived charges for fund transferthrough IMPS mode – `1,000
l The venue of the Model United
Nations (MUN) Regional Conferenceheld recently – Kathmandu
l The country to which Chinadispatched troops for its first overseasmilitary base – Djibouti
l The new target year for eliminationof malaria – 2027
l The state where the third phase ofHaritha Haram plantation programmewas launched recently – Telangana
l The present governor of Jammu andKashmir – NN Vohra
l The cricketer named as the head coachof the Indian cricket team by the BCCI– Ravi Shastri
l The firm which is joint venturepartner of SBI in SBI Life – BNPParibas
l The person appointed as the newChairman and part-time non-officialDirector of the Union Bank of India –Kewal Handa
l The firm which has launched `2,000-cr ‘Project Next’ programme totransform customer experience –Bharti Airtel
l The countries which conductedMalabar 2017 naval exercise recently– India, Japan and the US
l Winner of the 2017 Austrian GrandPrix F1 championship – ValtteriBottas
l The country which topped the medaltally (with 29 medals) in 2017 AsianAthletics Championships inBhubaneswar – India
l The city which has been declared as aWorld Heritage City by the UNESCO– Ahmedabad
l The venue of the recent summit ofG20 – Hamburg (Germany)
l The firm to which the govt is planningto sell its 51.11 per cent stake in HPCL– ONGC
l The venue of the 2018 G20 Summit –Buenos Aires (Argentina)
l The student-scientist connect
programme launched by CSIR withKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan –JIGYASA
l The host of the 2017 Women’sCricket World Cup – England
l The autism activist who has beenappointed as the WHO’s goodwillambassador for autism in SoutheastAsia region – Saima Wazed Hossain
l The country where GuruswamyJayraman has been awarded thehighest civilian award – Australia
l The person appointed as the head ofthe Indian consulate in New York –Sandeep Chakravorty
l The country which renewed oil dealwith India in the tense South ChinaSea recently – Vietnam
l India’s ranking on the second GlobalCybersecurity Index (GCI) releasedby the UN’s InternationalTelecommunication Union (ITU) –23th
l The grouping whose heads of allmember nations will be invited for theRepublic Day parade in 2018 –ASEAN
l The new chief of the NationalDisaster Response Force (NDRF) –Sanjay Kumar
l The avian influenza viruses fromwhich India has become free – H5N8& H5N1
l The net direct tax collection at the endof first quarter (Apr-Jun) – `1.42lakh cr
l The head of the task force constitutedby PM Narendra Modi to improveIndia’s data on jobs – ArvindPanagariya
l The first company to face bankruptcyproceedings under the newbankruptcy law – Jyoti Structures
l The head of the nine-member councilset up to prepare final draft of theNew Education Policy – KKasturirangan
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l The new chairman of the RailwayBoard – Ashwani Lohani
l The former Chief Minister ofManipur who passed away recently– Rishang Keishing
l The convener of the committee toselect movies for the International FilmFestival of India (IFFI) – VivekAgnihotri
l The state to which the NABARD hassanctioned a loan assistance of`1,349.55 cr – Rajasthan
l The official name of Google’s Android8.0 mobile operating system –Android Oreo
l The firm whose board has approvedthe acquisition of (51.11% equitystake) HPCL – ONGC
l The number of regional rural banks(RRBs) functioning in the country atpresent – 56
l The city where the first regional centreof the New Development Bank (NDB)was officially opened recently –Johannesburg
l The state which has taken the cloud-seeding project called ‘Varshadhare’ toharness rain-bearing clouds –Karnataka
l The winner of the Indian Council ofFood and Agriculture (ICFA)’s GlobalAgriculture Leadership Award – KChandrasekhar Rao
l The new High Commissioner ofPakistan to India – Sohail Mahmood
l The bank which accounts for over 27per cent of the total amount owed topublic sector banks by wilfuldefaulters – SBI
l The number of medals won by theIndian contingent at the World DwarfGames in Toronto, Canada – 37
l The new Goodwill Ambassador forHandicap International – Neymar
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l The new Executive Director ofInsolvency and Bankruptcy Board ofIndia (IBBI) – Mamta Suri
l The host city of the 2017 Women’sAsia Cup of International BasketballFederation (FIBA) – Bengaluru
l The new Managing Director and CEOof Industrial Finance Corporation ofIndia – E Sankara Rao
l The present President of Sierra Leone– Ernest Bai Koroma
l The financial year followed by theRBI – Jul 1 to Jun 30
l The revised penalty set by TRAI onmobile operators for not meeting thebenchmarks – `5 lakh
l The joint venture life insurance firmbetween HDFC and Standard Life –HDFC Life
l The sponsor bank of the AndhraPradesh Grameena Vikas Bank(APGVB) – State Bank of India
l The banknote denomination whichwill soon be introduced in fluorescentblue colour bearing the motif of‘Hampi with Chariot’ – `50
l The chairman of the Committee onDoubling Farmers’ Income whichsubmitted its report recently – AshokDalwai
l The new Chairman and ManagingDirector of Hindustan CopperLimited – Santosh Sharma
l The country where more than 400people died in its capital in the recentmudslides caused by heavy rain –Sierra Leone
l The growth rate of India’s exports inJul 2017 – 3.9 per cent
l The retail inflation as measured bythe consumer price index (CPI) in Jul2017 – 2.36 per cent
l The portal started by Akshay Kumarsupported by National Informatics
Centre (NIC) and powered by SBI –Bharat Ke Veer
l The President of Kenya who was re-elected in the recent elections – UhuruKenyatta
l The new Chairman of the CentralBoard of Film Certification (CBFC)– Prasoon Joshi
l The firm which has launched a rivalto the Google-owned YouTube named‘Watch’ – Facebook
l The estimated fiscal deficit as a percent of GDP in 2017-18 as per thesecond volume of the EconomicSurvey for 2016-17 – 3.2 per cent
l The amount to be paid by the RBI asdividend to the govt for the year endedJun 30 – `30,659 cr
l The online marketplace which hasreceived an investment of $2.5 bn fromSoftBank Vision Fund – Flipkart
l The state govt which has launched anew awareness drive called NamamiGange Jagriti Yatra – Uttar Pradesh
l NASA’s spacecraft which is set tobegin its final ultra-close orbits aroundSaturn before it ends its journey –Cassini
l India’s ranking on 2017 GlobalRetirement Index (GRI) topped byNorway – 43rd
l The first Indian to qualify for the finalround of the World Championshipsin javelin throw – Davinder SinghKang
l The former Union Minister of Statefor Water Resources who passedaway recently – Sanwar Lal Jat
l The venue of the recently concluded15th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting– Kathmandu, Nepal
l The new Chief Justice of India –Dipak Misra
l The US athlete who defeated UsainBolt to win 100m WorldChampionships recently – JustinGatlin
l The state whose entire area wasdeclared as “disturbed” under theAFSPA by the Centre recently –Assam
l The bureaucrat who has beenappointed as an Executive Director inthe World Bank – S Aparna
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l The state which will get help from2030 Water Resources Group(2030WRG) to raise $270 mn fromthe Green Climate Fund –Maharashtra
l The first state to implement coalutilisation between power units in thecountry – Gujarat
l The new Vice-Chairman of the NITIAayog – Rajiv Kumar
l The head of the High-LevelCommittee set up to review theInstitutionalisation of ArbitrationMechanism in India – BNSrikrishna
l The newly elected 13th Vice Presidentof India – Venkaiah Naidu
l Indian boxer who defeated ZulpikarMaimaitiali to retain the WBO AsiaPacific Super Middleweight title –Vijender Singh
l The new increased authorised capitalof NABARD – `30,000 cr
l The new Chairman and ManagingDirector (CMD) of the SmallIndustries Development Bank of India– Mohammad Mustafa
l The telecom firm whose merger withBharti Airtel was cleared by the NCLTrecently – Telenor
l The city where a regional centre ofthe global rice research institute IRRIis to come up – Varanasi
l The agency with which India hassigned a pact for financing USD 329mn for the rural roads in Gujarat –Asian Infrastructure InvestmentBank (AIIB)
l The person who won the recentPresidential elections in Rwanda –Paul Kagame
l The country which has announcedplans to protect demobilised membersof the FARC rebel force – Colombia
l The community in India whichcelebrated its New Year ‘Navroz’ on17 Aug – Parsi
l The new Managing Director andChief Executive Officer of KarurVysya Bank – PR Seshadri
l The interest subvention to beprovided to banks on short-term croploans of up to `3 lakh – 2 per cent
l The city named world’s most liveablecity in the Global Liveability Report2017 – Melbourne– The least leavable city as per thereport – Damascus
l The bank which has bagged the bestperformance award for SHG-banklinkage programme for Karnataka for2015-16 and 2016-17 from Nabard –Corporation Bank
l Winner of the Rogers Cup 2017 –Alexander Zverev
l The city where India’s first museumon Partition of the Indian subcontinenthas been set up – Amritsar
l The country which has the fastestmobile Internet in the world as perOokla –Norway
l The state govt which has launched“Durgama Anchalare MalariaNirakaran” (DAMON) programme toprevent the spread of malaria –Odisha
l The bank which has been conferred‘best performance award’ for 2015-16 and 2016-17 by Nabard –Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank
l The state which has launched ‘IndiraCanteen’ scheme to provide food atlow cost to the urban poor –Karnataka
l The present Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Prasar Bharati – ShashiShekhar Vempati
l The country which was declared freefrom polio by the WHO recently –Somalia
l The firm which has topped Forbes’list of the world’s 100 most innovativecompanies – salesforce.com
l Winner of the 65th edition of theprestigious Nehru Trophy (Boat Race)– Gabriel Chundan
l The venue of the recent five-dayIndia-ASEAN Youth Summit –Bhopal
l Winner of the first Kesari MediaAward –TJS George
l The host of the Summer Olympics in2028 – Los Angeles
l The population of elephants in Indiaas per the Elephant Census 2017 –27,312
l The world’s oldest man certified byGuinness World Records who diedrecently aged 113 – Yisrael Kristal
l The venues of the country’s firstaviation university – Rae Bareli,Uttar Pradesh
l The Indian sportsperson who hasbeen appointed as the WHO GoodwillAmbassador for Physical Activity inSouth-East Asia Region – MilkhaSingh
l India’s next ambassador to theRepublic of San Marino – ReenatSandhu
l The German nun also known as theMother Teresa of Pakistan whopassed away recently – Ruth Pfau
l The new Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Jet Airways – Vinay Dube
l The acting chief executive officer ofthe National Payment Corporation ofIndia – Dilip Asbe
l The state which has passed a billwhich reclassifies coconut as a ‘tree’– Goa
l The firm which has launched‘Budding Star Programme’ to help itsemployees achieve their dreams –Flipkart
l The newly re-elected Prime Ministerof Papua New Guinea – PeterO’Neill
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MATCH POINT BSC NOVEMBER 2017◆The company which recently received its shareholders' approval to convert its legal status to a privatecompany - Tata Sons◆The train PM Narendra Modi flagged of recently to connect Varanasi with Surat and Vadodara - MahamanaExpress◆The first hill state in the country to run electric buses - Himachal Pradesh◆India's official entry to the The Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars 2018 - Newton◆The venue of the 6th edition of four-day international textile and apparel fair VASTRA - Jaipur◆The legendary boxer who passed away recently - Jake LaMotta◆The country with which India collaborating to build Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh - Russia◆India's new brand ambassador to China - Gautam Bambawale◆The Indian Bowler who too a hattrick in the second ODI against Australia at the Eden Gardens recently- Kuldeep Yadav◆The first of the six Scorpene-class submarines handed over to the Indian Navy recently - INS Kalvari◆The steelmaker with which Tata Steel has formed Europe's biggest steel firm - Thyssenkrupp◆The venue of 5th Asian Indian and Martial Arts Games - Ashgabat,Turkmenistan◆The NGO which has won 2017 UN Equator prize - Swayam Shikshan Prayog◆India's new ambassador to Pakistan - Ajay Bisaria◆The new brand ambassador of the Swach Bharat Mission in Uttarakhand - Akshay Kumar◆The country whose sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, reached the value of $1 tn recently- Norway◆The new chief of the National Investigation Agency - YC Modi◆The prime minister of Iceland who resigned recently - Bjarni Benediktsson◆The cricketer who completed 100 international half-centuries across all three formats recently - MS Dhoni◆Winner of the 2017 Singapore Grand Prix F-1 championship - Lewis Hamilton
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◆The military exercise held recently between the US and the UAE - Iron Union 5◆The automaker with which Mahindra & Mahindra has formed an alliance for making electric vehicles - Ford◆The first state in the country to set up family welfare district committees to deal with fake complaints by women- Tripura◆The first payment bank to integrate the Unified Payments interface(UPI) on its digital platform - AirtelPayments Bank◆The capital account deficit in the first quarter of 2017-18 - 2.4 per cent of GDP◆The number of member states in the organisation of Islamic Cooperation(OIC) - 57◆The new prime minister of Peru - Mercedes Araoz◆The person regarded as the father of nephrology who passed away recently - Dr KS Chug◆The amount govt pays to the elite athletes preparing for international games - ₹50000/month◆The record level to which India's foreign-exchange rose recently - $400bn◆Winner of the Global Diversity Award 2017 in the British Parliament House - Salman Khan◆The operation launched by India to send relief to Bangladesh to help the Rohingyas - Operation Insaniyat◆The new chairman of the International Olympic Committee's ethics commission - Ban-ki-moon◆The country with which India has signed a $76-mn loan deal to upgrade Alang-Sosiya ship recycling yards inGujarat - Japan◆The new chairman and managing director of Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation(IRCTC)- Mahendra Pratap Mall◆The head of the group of ministers constituted to monitor and resolve the IT challenges faced in theimplementation of GST - Sushil Kumar Modi◆The loan extended by Japan at 0.1 per cent interest for the construction on bullet train in India - ₹88000 cr◆The state govt which has announced to waive all farm loans up to ₹50000 per farmer - Rajasthan◆NASA's spacecraft which ended its 20-year-long journey by plunging into Saturn - Cassini◆The firm which has launched a payment service called 'Tez' in India - Google◆The banks which has secured up to $200-mn loan from ADB to serve women borrowers - IndusInd Bank◆The country which has topped the World Economic Forum's(WEF) Human Capital Index 2017 - Norway ◆The host city of the 2024 Summer Olympics - Paris◆The city where India's first virology laboratory has been inaugurated at Dr Anjali Chatterjee Regional ResearchInstitute for Homeopathy(RRIH) - Kolkata◆The state which has approved 'Electric Vehicle and Energy Storage Policy 2017' - Karnataka◆The first special envoy for the oceans appointed by the UN - Peter Thomson◆The new chairman-cum-managing director(CMD) of United India Insurance - M Nagaraja Sarma ◆The banked which has bagged the first prize under the Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar(Region C) for the year 2016-17 - Vijaya Bank◆The stated which accounted for the highest share in total cost of private corporate investment for financial year2016-17 - Gujarat◆The denomination of coin the RBI will introduce to mark the birth centenary of the Late Dr MG Ramachandran- 100 rupees◆The country whose president Aleksandr Grigoryevich Lukashenko visited New Delhi recently - Belarus◆The host city of the 2028 Summer Olympics - Los Angeles ◆The player who has topped the Women's ATP world singles ranking - Garbine Muguruza◆The state which won the Chief Minister's cup with 45 gold medals at National Kickboxing Championship- Maharastra◆The venue of the 12th annual summit of India and Japan - Ahmedabad◆The first female president of Singapore of Malay ethnicity - Hallimah Yacob◆The venue of the four-day annual BSF sports meet 2017 - Jammu◆The player ranked on the number one spot in the current Men's ATP world singles rankings - Rafael Nadal◆The shuttler selected for the first lifetime award by the Badminton Association of India - Prakash Padukone◆The govt has decided to double the upper limit of tax-free gratuity payable to an employee - ₹20 Lakh◆The venue of the 2018 Winter Olympics - Pyeongchang, South Korea◆The deadline for mobile SIM cards linking with Aadhaar - Feb 2018◆Winner of the men's singles title of the 2017 US Open - Rafael Nadal
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•Winner of the women's singles title of the - Sloane Stephens◆The exercise held between Pakistan and China - Shaheen◆The bank with which BSNL has launched mobile wallet Speedpay - PNB◆The bank with which Bharat Financial(formerly SKS microfinance) has a merger deal - IndusInd Bank ◆India's position in the medal tally at the Moscow Shotgun World Championship 2017 - 5th◆The country which has won the 2017 South Asian Basketball (SABA) Under-16 Championship - India ◆The country which was hit by 8.1 magnitude earthquake recently - Mexico◆The hurricane which hit The US recently - Irma◆The new chief coach of the Indian men's hockey team - Sjored Marijne◆The Pakistani private bank which has been asked by The US banking regulators to shut down its New YorkOffice - Habib Bank ◆India's first operarational Smart City and International Financial Services - GIFT City◆The country where the NHAI has awarded its first International Project to Punj Llyod-Varaha - Myanmar◆The country where EESL of India launched UJALA scheme in the state of Melaka - Malaysia◆The joint military exercise held recently between India and The US - Yudh Abhyas 2017◆The country which has banned the practice of raising funds through launches of token-based digital currencies- China◆The first Indian woman ambassador in the 'Friends of Australia' advocacy panel by Tourism Australia- Parineeti Chopra◆The host of the 2019 Commonwealth(Youth, Junior and Senior) Weightlifting Championships - India◆The head of NITI Ayog's task force to provide a major thrust to job creation - Rajiv Kumar◆The bank which has been declared a domestic-systemically important bank by the RBI - HDFC Bank◆The new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Vijaya Bank - RA Sankara Narayanan◆Winner of the 2017 PluS Alliance prize - Veena Sahajwalla & NR Narayana Murthy◆The country which has scrapped the DACA(Deferred Action For Children Arrival) programme related tomigrants - US◆The 12th editon of the joint military exercise held recently between India and Nepal - Surya Kiran XII◆Winner of the global media rights to the Indian Premier League(IPL) - STAR India ◆The Singapore-based bank which has received in-principle approval from the RBI to operate a wholly-ownedsubsidiary - DBS Bank◆The new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Karur Vysya Bank - PR Shesadri◆Winner of the 'Best Bank' award at the 13th IDRBT Banking Technology Excellence Awards 2016-17- Karnataka Bank◆New Union Railway Minister - Piyush Goyal◆New Defence Minister - Nirmala Sitharaman
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