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l The Chinese supercomputer which
l The state where the 10-day festival
Sangai Festival 2016 was held
recently Manipur
l The person awarded the Shakti Bhatt
First Book Prize for his book Gita
Press and the Making of Hindu India
Akshaya Mukul
l The range of the recently test-fired
nuclear-capable Agni-I ballistic missile
700 km
l The person bestowed with the 2016
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International Maritime Organization
(IMO) Award for Exceptional Bravery
at Sea recently at IMO headquarters
in London Radhika Menon
l The golfer who won the BANK BRI-
JCB Indonesia Open recently
Gaganjeet Bhullar
l The person honoured with Dr
Nagendra Singh International Peace
Award for his efforts in ensuring
world peace Sri Sri Ravishankar
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l The playback singer honoured with
Centenary Award for Indian Film
Personality of the year at the
47th International Film Festival of
India (IFFI) held in Goa SP
Balasubrahmanyam
l The person appointed CEO for its
India operations by the State Bank of
Mauritius (SBM) Siby Sebastian
l The person awarded with the
prestigious Mother Teresa
International Award Shaikh
Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
l The person appointed as the new
Executive Chairman of the National
Legal Services Authority (NALSA)
Jagdish Singh Khehar
l The advanced geostationary weather
satellite launched by NASA recently
GOES-R
l The short name of Geneva-based
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European Organisation for Nuclear
Research whose India has become an
associate member CERN
l The range of the Prithvi-II missile
which India test-fired recently 350
km
l The Thai Princess who was conferred
the first World Sanskrit Award for
her contribution towards promotion
of the language Maha Chakri
Sirindhorn
l The largest-ever Made-in-India
warship which was commissioned into
the Indian Navy recently INS
Chennai
l The state where Indias longest
expressway so far, six-lane 302-km-
long Agra-Lucknow expressway, was
opened recently Uttar Pradesh
l Winner of the ATP World Tour Finals
title in London recently Andy
Murray
l The Kenyan who won the mens Delhi
Half Marathon 2016 Eliud
Kipchoge
l The place where the worlds first
Bollywood-themed park opened
recently Dubai
l Winner of this years Sumitra Charat
Ram Award for lifetime achievement
in the field of Indian classical music
Hari Prasad Chourasia
l Winner of the Super Series Premier
title of the China Open badminton
tournament in Fuzhou, China PV
Sindhu
l The person appointed as the
Managing Director and CEO of the
Catholic Syrian Bank CVR
Rajendran
l The country with which India signed
a new double tax avoidance pact
recently Cyprus
won the fastest supercomputer title
in the recently released 48th edition
of Top 500 list of supercomputers
Sunway TaihuLight
l The sprinter from Haryana who has
been slapped an eight-year ban by the
National Anti-Doping Agency
Dharambir Singh
l The telecom operator which merged
its Bangladesh subsidiary with Robi
Axiata recently Bharti Airtel
l The firm which has been awarded
Digital Innovator of the Year in the
Ecosystem Excellence category at
GEs Minds + Machines event TCS
l The venues of the recently held 6th
Indo-China joint training exercise
Hand-in-Hand 2016 Pune
l The HDFC Bank MD who has been
ranked 36th in the US magazine
Fortunes top 50 businesspersons list
for 2016 Aditya Puri
l The date on which the Union Budget
2017-18 will be presented 01 Feb,
2017
l The tenth edition of the joint military
training exercise between India and
Nepal held recently Surya Kiran
2016
l The state which has launched a
programme named Har Ghar Bijli
Lagataar to provide free electricity
connection to about 50 lakh
households above the poverty line
Bihar
l The combat drone recently tested by
the Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO)
Rustom-2
l The first woman to be elected as
president of the national cricket board
of New Zealand recently Debbie
Hockley
l The deadline set by the RBI for banks
to clean up their balance sheets Mar
2017
l The former governor of Jammu and
Kashmir who passed away recently
Srinivas Kumar Sinha
l The firm which has launched Internet
of Things (IoT) services venture
named UNLIMIT in association

with Cisco Jasper Reliance Group
l The country which recently
inaugurated Gwadar port recently
Pakistan
l The international word of the year
named by Oxford Dictionaries Post-
truth
l The country which withdrew from
International Criminal Court (ICC)
recently Russia
l The first state in the country to pass
a motion in the assembly supporting
the demonetisation move of the
Central Govt Chhattisgarh
l The new Group President and Head
of Global Indian Banking of YES Bank
Amresh Acharya
l The head of the RBIs task force set
up to oversee recalibration of ATM
machines SS Mundra
l The person awarded the Global
Citizen Award Imtiaz Sooliman
l The person named by the Fortune
magazine as Business Person of the
Year, 2016 Mark Zuckerberg
l The commercial bank which has
received RBIs permission to open its
first international branch at the Dubai
International Financial Centre
Federal Bank
l The only greenfield bank license
awarded by the RBI in the last two
decades, associated with the finest
pedigree investors YES Bank
l The country which will preside over
the 8th edition of the Conference of
Parties (COP) to WHO Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control
(FCTC) to be held in Switzerlands
Geneva in 2018 India
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l The Executive Director in the RBI
who took charge as full-time member
of SEBI recently Gurumoorthy
Mahalingam
l The womens team which won the
33rd Indian Oil Servo Surjit Hockey
Tournament Western Railways
l The party which Donald Trump,
who was elected as the 45th president
in the recent US presidential elections,
belongs to Republican Party
l The person chosen for 2016 Tata
Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement
Award Amitav Ghosh
l The state to which the ADB issued
the second tranche of USD 300 mn
for the Power Sector Investment
Programme Assam
l The first Indian-American to win the
US Senate seat Kamala Harris

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l The country which has announced
two financial projects worth USD 95
mn for India US
l The city which has been termed as
the countrys breast cancer capital
with 40 cases per lakh of population
Thiruvananthapuram
l The first state to start Indias first
Cherry Blossom Festival, which is
widely celebrated in Japan
Meghalaya
l The Prime Minister of Bulgaria who
l The person elected as the President
of the International Hockey
Federation Narinder Batra
l The host of the 2018 Invictus Games
for wounded military personnel
Australia
l The India-China Joint Training
Exercise held recently in Pune Hand
in Hand 2016
l The country to which the IMF
recently approved a three-year $12-
bn loan, the largest such package to a
(Califonia)
l The Syrian journalist who won the
Reporters without Borders (RSF)s
RSF-TV5 Monde prize Hadi
Abdullah
l The year in which Masala bonds were
launched 2015
l The NASA mission which now holds
the Guinness World Record for
highest altitude (70,006.4 km) fix of a
GPS signal Magnetospheric
Multiscale mission (MMS)

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resigned recently Boyko Borisov
l The present Prime Minister of
Mauritius Anerood Jugnauth
l The first Indian woman golfer who
recently scripted history after winning
a Ladies European Tour title Aditi
Ashok
l The person chosen to be honoured
with 2016 Tata Literature Live! Poet
Laureate Award Gulzar
l The present President of Israel who
visited New Delhi recently Reuven
Rivlin
Middle East nation Egypt
l The private bank which has launched
Indias first banking robot named
Lakshmi City Union Bank
l The venue of the recent high-level
meeting of interior ministers of Indian
Ocean Region (IOR) to Counter Drug
Trafficking Colombo, Sri Lanka
l The state which has signed an
agreement with Canada to implement
a joint action plan on urban
infrastructure development in the
state Maharashtra
l The state where the Army recently
completed laying an irrigation pipeline
for residents of villages in the
Demchok region despite a face-off
with Chinese troops Jammu and
Kashmir
l The venue of the 12-day Global
Climate conference Marrakech,
Morocco
l The amount of penalty slapped by
the govt on Reliance, BP and Niko for
migrating natural gas from ONGC
block $1.55 bn

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l Indias present position among the
worlds largest economies as per a
report published in Forbes magazine
Fifth
l The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
who resigned recently Najeeb Jung
l The venue of the International Civil
Aviation Negotiations (ICAN) 2016
Nassau, Bahamas
l The bank which has bagged the
SKOCH silver award for attaining the
position of No. 1 channel partner of
l Miss World 2016 Stephanie Del
Valle
l The Managing Director of the IMF
who was found guilty of negligence
by a French court recently
Christine Lagarde
l The Russian ambassador to Turkey
who was shot dead recently Andrey
Karlov
l The noted economist and former
Planning Commission member who
passed away recently Saumitra
Bipin Rawat
l The person who topped the Forbes
2016 list of the Worlds Most
Powerful People Vladimir Putin
l The NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh
Kant
l The new UN deputy Secretary
General Amina Mohammed
l The person who has been awarded by
the Indian Council of Food and
Agriculture (ICFA) with the Global
Agriculture Leadership Award 2016
Ratan Tata
l The venue of the 5th India-Arab
partnership conference held recently
Muscat, Oman
l The seventh joint military exercise
between India and the Maldives held
recently EKUVERIN Exercise 2016
l The cruise missile test-fired by
Pakistan recently with a range of 700
km Babur

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LIC of India for the past three
financial years Corporation Bank
l The country which nationalised its
largest private bank PrivateBank
recently Ukraine
l The veteran Malayalam actor who
died recently Jagannatha Varma
l The justice appointed as the 44th
Chief Justice of India JS Khehar
l The team which won the 2016 Indian
Super League (ISL) Atletico de
Chaudhuri
l The state which has launched a
subsidised meal scheme Annapurna
Rasoi Rajasthan
l Winner of the 2016 Hockey Junior
World Cup India
l The city where the PM Narendra
Modi lay the foundation stone of the
countrys first ever Indian Institute
of Skills Kanpur
l The present President of Kyrgyzstan,
l The new Chief Executive Officer of
the Indian Banks Association (IBA)
VG Kannan
l The Gulf country which formally
announced the end of its controversial
kafala system recently Qatar
l Indias contribution to the UN Central
Emergency Response Fund (CERF)
for the year 2016-17 $500,000
l The Russian city from which the
2017 Bobsleigh and Skeleton world

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Kolkata
l The person voted as the BBC Sports
Personality of the Year 2016 Andy
Murray
l The actor appointed as the brand
ambassador of Assams tourism for
two years Priyanka Chopra
l The Indian batsman who scored triple
ton in the 5th Test match between
India and England played in Chennai
Karun Nair
l The interest rate on EPF deposits for
the current fiscal (FY17) as decided
by the EPFO 8.65 per cent
l Winner of the hockey junior World
Cup 2016 India
l The app launched by the govt to
ensure transparency in the
implementation of rural electrification
programme GARV-II
who visited New Delhi recently
Almazbek Sharshenovich
Atambayev
l The next Chief of Air Staff Air
Marshal BS Dhanoa
l Winner of the WBO-Asia Pacific
Super Middleweight boxing title
Vijender Singh
l The mobile wallet launched by BSNL
in association with SBI for smart as
well as feature phones MobiCash
l The next Director of the Intelligence
Bureau (IB) Rajiv Jain
l The new chief of the external
intelligence agency RAW Anil
Dhasmana
l The present President of Tajikistan
who visited India recently Emomali
Rahmon
l The next Indian Army chief Lt Gen
championships were taken away
recently Sochi
l The Brazilian city which officially
entered the UNs list of world heritage
sites recently Rio de Janeiro
l The entity whom the UN General
Assembly recently granted Observer
Status International Chamber of
Commerce (ICC)
l The chairman of International
Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Sunil
Bharti Mittal
l The person appointed as the chairman
of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC)
of India for five years VK Sharma
l The 15th king of Malaysia Sultan
Muhammad V
l Indias growth forecast for 2016 as
per ADB 7%
l ITF World Champions for 2016

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Andy Murray and Angelique
Kerber
l The Indo-Russian Bilateral Naval
Exercise held recently Indra Navy-
2016
l Winner of the Badminton World
Federation (BWF) 2016 Most
Improved Player of the Year award
PV Sindhu
l The person who was recently sworn
in as the ninth UN Secretary General
Antonio Guterres
l The present President of Indonesia
who visited India recently Joko
Widodo
l Winner of the 2016 World Billiards
(150-Up format) Championships title
Pankaj Advani
l The new Director-General of the
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of
Pakistan Naveed Mukhtar
l Winner of the prestigious Ballon dOr
to appear on a banknote in the country
Viola Desmond
l The severe cyclonic storm which hit
Chennai recently Vardah
l The newly launched 24-hour TV
channel for cashless transactions
lessons DigiShala
l The first US astronaut to orbit Earth
who died recently John Glenn
l The country which launched a
spaceship Kounotori 6 to deliver
supplies for International Space
Station (ISS) Japan
l Winner of the 2016 IBSF World
Billiards Long Up title Peter
Gilchrist
l The president of South Korea who
was impeached by the parliament
recently Park Geun-hye
l The country which passed a bill
recently declaring India a major
defence partner US
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l The exchange authorised by the RBI to
launch the countrys first trade
receivables exchange platform
Receivables Exchange of India
(RXIL)
l The person named the 2016 Time
Magazine person of the year Donald
Trump
l The new Chief Justice of Pakistan
Mian Saqib Nisar
l The person who won the recent
presidential elections in Uzbekistan
Shavkat Mirziyoyev
l The new chief of the Directorate
General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)
BS Bhullar
l The new Prime Minister of France
Bernard Cazeneuve
l The person who won the presidential
election in Austria Alexander Van
der Bellen
l The former Tamil Nadu CM who

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award at FIFA award 2016
Cristiano Ronaldo
l The country which recently launched
a new-generation weather satellite
Fengyun-4 China
l The new Prime Minister of Italy
Paolo Gentiloni
l The new Prime Minister of New
Zealand Bill English
l The present President of Philippines
Rodrigo Duterte
l The country where India has decided
to set up a Centre of Excellence in IT
at the Al-Azhar University Egypt
l The person who won the recent
presidential election in Ghana Nana
Akufo-Addo
l The venue of the Serendipity Arts
Festival (SAF) held recently Goa
l The remote sensing satellite recently
launched by the ISRO
RESOURCESAT-2A
passed away recently Jayalalithaa
Jayaraman
l The new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
O Panneerselvam
l The persons named Asian of the Year
2016 by Singapore-based newspaper
The Straits Times Sachin Bansal and
Binny Bansal
l The new king of Thailand Maha
Vajiralongkorn
l The President of the All India Football

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l The country with which India signed
a civil nuclear cooperation agreement
recently Vietnam
l The first Indian cricketer to score
three double hundreds in a year Virat
Kohli
l The head of the committee formed by
Finance Ministry to boost digital
payments which submitted its report
recently Ratan P Watal
l The black civil rights leader of Canada
who will soon become the first woman
l Winner of the CII National Quality
2016 Award BEML
l The bank adjudged Best Bank for
SME Lending in PSB category by
Assocham at the 4th SMEs Excellence
Awards Vijaya Bank
l The birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar
(Apr 14) will be observed as Water
Day
l The Gross Value Added (GVA) growth
for 2016-17 as announced by the RBI
on 7 Dec 7.1 per cent
Federation (AIFF) appointed as a
Senior Vice-President of Asian Football
Confederation Praful Patel
l The new ceiling of Market Stabilisation
Scheme (MSS) `6 lakh cr
l Winner of the readers poll for Time
Person of the Year 2016 Narendra
Modi
l The interim director of the Central
Bureau 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 Secretary
who got a one-year extension recently
S Jaishankar
l The new Ambassador of India to the
Republic of Burkina Faso Birender
Singh Yadav
l The first state govt to opt for an
initiative involving electronic
transmission of postal ballot Goa
K
l The new ambassador of India to the
Republic of Congo Ashok Warrier
l Winner of the Golden Peacock Award
for Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) in the transportation sector
Delhi International Airport
l The state where the new Universal
Rail Mill of SAIL at Bhilai was
inaugurated recently Chhattisgarh
l The renowned Urdu poet who died
recently Naqsh Lyallpuri
l The host of the National Games to be
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held in Nov 2017 Goa
l The new director of the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Alok
Verma
l The govts ambitious scheme under
which air fares have been capped at
`2,500 for a one-hour flight UDAN
l The chief guest at the 2017 Republic
Day celebrations Sheikh
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
l Winner of the womens singles of the
Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold
Saina Nehwal
l The state where the ISKCONs
Govardhan eco village is situated
which has won the UN award for
taking 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 Combined
Commanders Conference (CCC) of the
three military chiefs Dehradun
l The iron-reach asteroid to which a
mission has been approved by the
NASA 16 Psyche
l The state govt which has launched
Aanandam programme to help poor
Madhya Pradesh
l The city where the World Economic
Forum (WEF) holds its annual meeting
at the end of Jan Davos
l The India city which has been ranked
as the most dynamic city in the World
Bengaluru
l The newly elected president of the
European Parliament Antonio
Tajani
l Winner of the 15th edition of the
Delhi International chess tournament
Farrukh Amonatov
l The estimated global growth for 2016
as per the IMF 3.1 per cent
l The person who won The Hindu Prize
2016 Kiran Doshi
l The city where the Bharatiya Reserve
Bank Note Mudran Pvt Ltd is located
Mysuru
l The winner of the coveted Bharat
award given to brave children Late
Kumari Tarh Peju
l Indias economic growth rate forecast
for 2016-17 as per the IMF 6.6 per
cent
l The US footballer named Best FIFA
Womens Player of 2016 Carli
Lloyd
l The venue of the first edition of the
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
(ABU) International Television Dance
Festival Hyderabad
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l The state where the Border Security
Force (BSF) launched operation Sard
Hawa recently Rajasthan
l The year which was Indias warmest
year ever since the documenting of
meteorological records began in 1901
2016
l Indias ranking on the global index of
talent competitiveness 92nd
l The person honoured with the
Lifetime Achievement Award at the
62nd Filmfare Awards 2017
Shatrughan Sinha
l The new CEO of the public
broadcaster Prasar Bharti Rajeev
Singh
l The state where the scheme Digital
Dakiya was launched recently
Madhya Pradesh
l Winner of the Ranji Trophy 2016-17
played in Indore Gujarat
l The country from which the US
announced to end a 20-year economic
embargo recently Sudan
l The former Chief Minister of Punjab
who passed away recently Surjit
Singh Barnala
l The year in which the Central
Industrial Security Force (CISF) came
into existence 1969
l The initial investment with which
Airtel Payments bank started
operations recently `3,000 cr
l The country which has taken over as
chair of the Group of 77 Ecuador
l The city where Indias first Madame
Tussauds wax museum will open in
Jun 2017 New Delhi
l The state where the harvest festival
of Magh Bihu was celebrated recently
Assam
l The indigenously designed,
developed and manufactured artillery
gun Dhanush
l Indias GDP growth rate for 2016-17
as projected by NITI Aayog 8%
l The new CEO TCS Rajesh
Gopinathan
l The venue of the worlds first Gender
Literature Festival scheduled to be
held in Apr 2017 Patna
l The countrys industrial production
growth in Nov 2016 5.7%

l The headquarters of the International
Labour Organisation (ILO) Geneva
l The new chairman of Tata Group N
Chandrasekaran
l The state where the harvest festival
Thai Pongal is celebrated Tamil
Nadu
l The interest rate on savings accounts
being offered by Airtel Payments
Bank 7.25%
l The global growth rate for 2017 as
projected by the World Bank 2.7%
l The Line of Credit offered by India to
Kenya for agricultural mechanisation
USD 100 mn
l The new chairman of the Bureau of
Indian Standards (BIS) Alka Panda
l The city where PM Narendra Modi
inaugurated the The Nobel Prize
exhibition recently Gandhinagar
l The Portuguese footballer named Best
FIFA Mens Player of 2016
l The former President of Portugal who
passed away recently Mario
Soares
l Winner of the mens singles title of
the 2017 Chennai Open Roberto
Bautista 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 be
associated with the development of
Chennai, Ahmedabad and Varanasi as
smart cities Japan
l The first major PSU in the country to
be sold through strategic
disinvestment BEML
l NASAs spacecraft to study early
solar system Lucy and Psyche
l The first country in the world to
switch off its FM radio network
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day Chitwan Elephant Festival
Kathmandu, Nepal
l The person who won the recent
presidential election in Haiti Jovenel
Moise
l Winner of the South Asian Football
Federation (SAFF) womens football
championship title India
l The 44th Chief Justice of India (CJI)
Jagdish Singh Khehar
l The state which has launched Arogya
Raksha scheme for the people of the
Above Poverty Line (APL) Andhra
Pradesh
l The venue of the 104th Indian Science
Congress Tirupati, Andhra
Pradesh
l The new Chairman of the Union
Public Service Commission (UPSC)
David R Syiemlieh
l The persons chosen for Bharatiya
Jnanpith Navlekhan Award for the

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Cristiano Ronaldo
l Indias growth for 2016-17 fiscal as
per the World Bank 7 per cent
l Pakistans first submarine-launched
nuclear-capable missile which has a
range of 450 km Babur-3
l The new chief executive officer of the
online marketplace Flipkart Kalyan
Krishnamurthy
l The actor who has been awarded by
the US Embassy for his contributions
Norway
l The Portuguese PM who was the
chief guest at the 14th Pravasi
Bharatiya Divas celebrations held in
Bengaluru Antonio Costa
l The Indian island where the Island
Tourism Festival 2017 was held
recently Port Blair
l The Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
growth estimated for 2016-17 as per
the CSO 7.1 per cent
year 2016 GK Devansh &
Shraddha
l Winner of the Power & Energy
Personas Award for Individual
Excellence KM Singh (NHPC)
l The state where the world-famous
11-day festival Bargarh Dhanua
Jatra was observed recently Odisha
l Indias first fully organic state in 2016
Sikkim
l Winner of the 26th Bihari Puraskar,

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to the US-India partnership on
tuberculosis Amitabh Bachchan
l The 2nd Kalvari class submarine
INS Khanderi
l The former President of Iran who died
recently Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani
l The state govt which has come up
with Indias first student startup fund
of `200 cr Gujarat
l The online payments app launched
by the govt BHIM
l The new Executive Director
appointed by the Reserve Bank of
India Surekha Marandi
l The United Nations 70th General
Assembly has recognised the year
2017 as the International Year of
Sustainable Tourism for
Development
l The first country in the world to pay
a basic income to randomly picked
citizens on a national level Finland
l The venue of the 13th edition of five-
2016 Satya Narayan
l The new Lt Governor of Delhi Anil
Baijal
l The deputy governor of the RBI
appointed by the govt recently
Viral Acharya
l The Jnanpith Awardee and acclaimed
Bengali poet who passed away
recently Shankha Ghosh
l The state which has launched Atal
Amrit Abhiyan, a health assurance
scheme Assam

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Kolkata, Mohali, Muzaffarpur, Nagpur, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Samastipur and
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Match Point
l The desktop and mobile security
solution launched recently by the govt
through its Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERT-in) Cyber
Swachhta Kendra
l The venue of the recently held
National Biodiversity Congress
(NBC) 2017 Thiruvananthapuram
l The country with which India inked
three agreements recently in the fields
of innovation, aviation and visa
requirements Rwanda
l The five additional states to which the
K
Union Govt has announced the
expansion of rotavirus vaccine under
Universal Immunisation Programme
(UIP) Assam, Tripura, Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil
Nadu
l The state which recently passed
Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of
Financial and Other Subsidies,
Benefits and Services) Bill, 2017
Gujarat
KUNDAN
l The submerged continent beneath the
south-west Pacific Ocean which the
geologists claim to have discovered
Zealandia
l The island where Indias only live
volcano has become active again
Barren Island (Andaman and
Nicobar)
l The Indian Coast Guard ship which
was commissioned at Kochi, Kerala
recently ICGS AYUSH
l The Indian Navys second sailboat and
first all-woman global
circumnavigation which was inducted
recently at the INS Mandovi Boat
Pool INSV Tarini
l The state which has approved `250-
cr Cloud Seeding Programme for 2017
monsoon season to produce sufficient
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rain Maharashtra
l Indias vaccine regulatory body which
has been given the maximum ratings
by the WHO for vaccine regulations
National Regulatory Authority of
India
l Indias ranking in the annual Index of
Economic Freedom 2017 143rd
l The first indigenously built Airborne
Early Warning and Control System
(AEW&C) formally inducted by the
Indian Air Force NETRA
l The state whose large deposits of
uranium will be developed by the
Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)
Meghalaya
l The biannual multinational naval
exercise conducted by the Pakistan
Navy in Karachi recently AMAN
2017
l Indias ranking in 2017 International
Intellectual Property Index (IIPI)
43rd
l The head of the sub-committee of
Central Advisory Board of Education
(CABE) set up to look into issues of
girls education Kadiyam Srihari
l The Italian firm with which Ministry
of Railways has signed MoU for
technical cooperation in the area of
safety and modernisation Ferrovie
Dello Stato Italiane
l The programme for which the govt
has signed a financing agreement for
IDA (International Development
Association) credit of $201.50 mn
with the World Bank TEQIP III
l The Jammu and Kashmir Chief
Minister Mehbooba Mufti has
declared 2017 as the Year of Apple
l The bank with which SIDBI has
signed an MoU recently for providing
concessional finance to micro and
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small enterprises Vijaya Bank
l The state which recently signed an
MoU with NABARD for a loan of
`874 cr Telangana
l The present President of Azerbaijan
who appointed his wife Mehriban
Aliyev as the First Vice President of
the country recently Ilham Aliyev
l The person who has been appointed
as the chairman of Cauvery Water
Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) Justice
Abhay Manohar Sapre
l The country whose decision to
withdraw from the International
Criminal Court (ICC) has been ruled
unconstitutional and invalid by its
High Court South Africa
l Indias growth projection for 2016-
17 fiscal as per the annual report of
IMF 6.6 per cent
l The venue of the first Gramin Khel
Mahotsav to be held from 25th to 31st
of Mar 2017 New Delhi
l The present Chairman and Managing
Director of Dena Bank Ashwani
Kumar
l ISRO has successfully launched the
PSLV-37 rocket, which put into orbit
104 satellites
l The amount allocated by the govt to
India Post Payments Bank for the
financial year 2017-18 Rs 500 cr
l The first woman to be appointed as
the Foreign Secretary in Pakistan
Tehmina Janjua
l The renowned journalist who passed
away recently TV Parasuram
l The venue of the first ever
International Table Tennis Federation
(ITTF) World Tour event in India
New Delhi
l The AIADMK General Secretary
who was sentenced to a jail term of 4
years by the Supreme Court recently
VK Sasikala
l The state where Indias first floating
elementary school was inaugurated on
Loktak lake recently Manipur
l The venue of the 2017 Aero India
show Bengaluru
l The state which legalised Kambala,
the traditional buffalo race recently
Karnataka

l The player named by the FIFA
governing body as the new
Ambassador of the FIFA Diego
Maradona
l Indias new Ambassador to
Philippines Narinder Chauhan
l The new president of industry
chamber Assocham Sandeep
Jajodia
l The venue of the second edition of
the International Spice Conference
Thiruvananthapuram
l The state which recently hosted the
three-day National Womens
Parliament Andhra Pradesh
l The new chairman of Securities and
Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Ajay
Tyagi
l The present Director General of
WTO Roberto Azevedo
l The host of the 2017 BRICS Summit
China
l The UK physicist and Nobel laureate
sector banks in 2017-18 as proposed
in the Union Budget `10,000 cr
l The week celebrated as National
Productivity Week every year 12-
18 Feb
l The first woman to be appointed
director of an IIM (IIM Sirmaur)
Neelu Rohmetra
l The automaker which bought
Hindustan Motors iconic
Ambassador brand Peugeot
l The city where the IT giant Oracle
Corporation will set up its biggest
development centre outside the US
Bengaluru
l The sand artist who created a
Guinness World Record by creating a
48.8-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 Managing
Director of state-owned Life
Match Point
l The year in which ISRO is planning
to launch Chandrayaan-2 2018
l The opposition leader in Russia who
was found guilty of embezzlement
recently Alexei Navalny
l The present President of South Africa
Jacob Zuma
l Winner of the mens singles title of
the 81st Senior National Badminton
Championships tournament
Sourabh Verma
l The Indian-origin person who has won
2017 Genesis Prize from Israel
Anish Kapoor
l The present Indian ambassador to
UAE Navdeep Suri
l The first bank in India to connect with
Earthports global payments network
Axis Bank
l The city where India will host FIBA
Womens Asia Cup basketball
tournament in Jul 2017 Bengaluru
l The state where the Chief Minister

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and inventor of MRI who died
recently Sir Peter Mansfield
l The biggest school sport outreach
programme launched by the govt
recently Mission XI Million
l Indian Navys survey vessel which
has became the first naval ship to go
green by installing a solar power
system on board INS Sarvekshak
l The country in which people recently
voted to relax the countrys strict
Insurance Corporation of India
Hemant Bhargava
l The first state to establish a cashless
system in its public distribution
system of food grains Gujarat
l The Indian-origin person shortlisted
by NASA for its 2018 space mission
Shawna Pandya
l The economic growth of India pegged
by the RBI for 2017-18 in its Feb 8
monetary policy statement 7.4 per
Samagra Gramya Unnayan Yojana
(CMSGUY) was launched recently
Assam
l The state which has announced to
give two per cent reservation to sports
persons in govt jobs Jharkhand
l The city with the countrys first
centre of excellence for differently-
abled sportsmen Gandhinagar
l The renowned Urdu novelist and
playwright from Pakistan who passed

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citizenship rules Switzerland
l The newly elected President of
Germany
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
l The state where a 33-member
committee has been constituted for
the speedy implementation of the
Sagarmala Project Andhra Pradesh
l Winner of the 2017 T20 Blind Cricket
World Cup India
l The amount to be pumped into public
cent
l The economic growth of India pegged
by the RBI for 2016-17 6.9 per cent
l The first state in the northeast to
implement e-cabinet solution for the
state cabinet members Arunachal
Pradesh
l The host of the fourth edition of
BIMSTEC Summit-2017 Nepal
l The worlds largest producer of solar
energy in 2016 China
away recently Bano Qudsia
l The head of the six-member
committee to give a report on ways
to improve Indias Haj policy Afzal
Amanullah
l The most valuable global brand in the
annual Brand Finance Global 500
report Google
l Winner of the recent Indian National
Snooker Championship Pankaj
Advani

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to BSC or is using a fake logo, is spoiling his/her career. Please note BSC is running classroom
coaching at the following centres only Agartala, Balasore, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar,
Chandigarh, Cuttack, Dhanbad, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Faridabad, Gaya, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jammu,
Jamshedpur, Jorhat, Kolkata, Mohali, Muzaffarpur, Nagpur, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela,
Samastipur and Trivandrum. If you take admission at any fake centre, BSC is not responsible for
this. So beware and take admission at original BSC centres only.
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l The amount announced by the World
Bank in financing for sub-Saharan
Africa over the next three fiscal years
USD 57 bn
l The country where five people were
killed and about 40 injured in its capital
after a car plowed into pedestrians and
a terrorist stabbed a policeman near
parliament UK
l Indias ranking on the World
Happiness Report 2017 122nd
l India ranking on the Human
K
Development Index prepared by
UNDP, which now classifies India in
the category of medium human
development 131
l The Indian-American computer
scientist who won National Science
Foundation (NSF)s CAREER award
Anshumali Shrivastava
l Winner of the mens singles title of
the ATP Indian Wells Masters Roger
Federer
KUNDAN
l The first fully India-made train (rake)
which was flagged off at Dadar station
in Mumbai recently Medha
l The former Rajya Sabha MP, also
called the Chanakya of Odisha
politics, who passed away recently
Pyarimohan Mohapatra
l The state which recently decided to
provide 33 per cent reservation for
women in all govt jobs Punjab
l The cricketer who has become the first
Indian to face 500 balls in Test innings
Cheteshwar Pujara
l Indias wholesale price index-based
inflation in Feb 2017 6.55%
l The R&D organisation being set up
by the Indian Railways SRESTHA
l The Canadian teacher who won $1-m
Global Teacher Prize Maggie
MacDonnell
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l The public sector construction firm
which will execute `130-cr housing
project in Mauritius NBCC
l The country which has banned
laptops and iPads in handbags at
airports in West Asia and Africa US
l The limit at which the govt has
proposed to cap cash transactions in
an official amendment to the Finance
Bill, 2017 `2 lakh
l The bank with which the govt has
decided to merge the Bharatiya Mahila
Bank (BMB) SBI
l The bank which launched Mera
iMobile app for rural customers
ICICI Bank
l The country which has been named
the healthiest country in world by the
Bloombergs 2017 World Health
Index Italy
l The new Chief Minister of
Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh
Rawat
l Indias ranking in representation of
women in executive govt in 2017
Women in Politics Map report 148th
l The first private sector bank since
Independence launched in Kerala
recently ESAF Small Finance
Bank
l The date on which the rollout of the
Goods and Services Tax (GST) is
scheduled 1 Jul 2017
l The largest association in the country
in the field of real estate with which
SBI signed an MoU recently
CREDAI
l The mobile app launched by the govt
for monitoring of village electrification
Garv
l The person appointed as a Member
on the Western Area Local Board of
RBI Dilip S Shanghvi
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Match Point
l The country with which Saudi Arabia
signed preliminary deals worth about
$65 bn recently China
l The airport in Singapore voted the
Worlds Best Airport by air travellers
at the 2017 World Airport Awards
Changi Airport
l The badminton player appointed a
member of the governing body of the
Sports Authority of India (SAI)
Jwala Gutta
l The Union Minister of State for
Heavy Industries and Public
Enterprises who has been appointed
vice-president of the FIFA U-17 World
Cup organising committee Babul
Supriyo
l The bank which recently launched an
instant digital loan against securities
(LAS) facility HDFC Bank
l The govt scheme for developing
export-linked infrastructure TIES
l The state to which Central Govt
recently approved financial assistance
by way of special dispensation in
funding of externally aided projects
(EAPs) Andhra Pradesh
l The new Chief Minister of Punjab
Captain Amarinder Singh
l The mission launched by the govt to
bring blue revolution in the country
Mission Fingerling
l The bank which has announced a one-
time farm loan settlement scheme
worth `6,000 cr primarily for tractor
loans SBI
l The robot developed by the students
of the Maharashtra Institute of
Technology (MIT), Pune and IBM
to assist senior citizens Chintu
l The state where first-of-its-kind
women safety application called
Ammavin Aran was launched
recently Tamil Nadu
l The person who recently resigned as
the ICC Chairman Shashank
Manohar
l The city which has occupied first
place for overall quality of living
recently Vienna
l The place where the foundation stone
of the Banana Research Centre was
laid recently Vaishali, Bihar
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l The country which is set to conduct
its 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 and
newborn Telangana
l The state which has announced an
Idea2POC (Proof of Concept) fund
of `10 cr for women entrepreneurs
Karnataka
l The person appointed as the official
ambassador of Womens Cricket
World Cup 2017 Sachin
Tendulkar
l The Russian doctor whose lifetime
ban was upheld by the Court of
Arbitration for Sport (CAS) recently
Sergei Portugalov
l The country where the US aircraft
giant Boeing is in process to set up its
Protocol 2030
l The bank which has topped the list
of banks that witnessed the most
number of frauds during Apr-Dec
period of 2016 as per the RBI data
ICICI Bank
l The present Governor of Manipur
Najma Heptulla
l The former CMD of Exim Bank who
has been appointed as the new
Chairman of the Indian Overseas Bank
TCA Ranganathan
l The venue of the 12th CII-Exim bank
conclave on India Africa Project
Partnership held recently New
Delhi
l The new threshold set by the RBI
above which the NBFCs can disburse
loans against gold only by cheque
`20,000
l The biggest crude oil supplier to India
(ICEGOV 2017) held recently New
Delhi
l The country with which India
recently signed a pact related to
avoidance of double taxation
Belgium
l The state which has launched a web-
based platform Pratibimba to
showcase the govts performance
Karnataka
l The bank whose board recently
approved Work from Home policy
SBI
l Winner of mens singles title of the
2017 Brasil Open Pablo Cuevas
l The joint military exercise between
India and Nepal held in Pithoragarh,
Uttarakhand recently Surya Kiran-
XI
l The popular Bengali folk singer who
passed away recently Kalika

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first overseas factory China
l The deputy governor of the RBI
appointed in place of R Gandhi BP
Kanungo
l The consumer price index (CPI)-based
inflation in Feb 2017 3.65 per cent
l Winner of the mens singles crown at
the 2017 All England Open badminton
championships Lee Chong Wei
l Winner of the 2017 Hero Indian Open
golf title SSP Chawrasia
l The date on which all restrictions on
as of now Saudi Arabia
l The Konkani author honored with the
Saraswati Samman 2016 for his novel
Hawthan Mahabaleshwar Sail
l The country which recently tested a
ballistic missile named Hormuz 2
Iran
l The state where the NTPC recently
commissioned a 45-MW solar plant
at Bhadla Rajasthan
l The Water Jet Fast Attack Craft
commissioned by the Indian Navy
Prasad Bhattacharya
l The state where the first smart tribal
model village Habbi was inaugurated
recently Jammu & Kashmir
l The growth rate of the Indian
economy in the fiscal year 2016-2017
as per global rating agency Fitch 7.1
per cent
l The country whose banking system
is now the biggest in the world,
according to the Financial Times
China

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cash withdrawal from savings bank
accounts were removed 13 Mar
2017
l The bank which has floated its
wholly-owned subsidiary to manage
its premises and estate-related
matters SBI
l The new Chairman of the HSBC
Mark Tucker
l The year by which the Ozone-
depleting HCFCs have to be phased
out as required under the Montreal
recently in Karwar, Karnataka INS
Tillanchang
l The paid leave to be provided to
would-be mothers as per the new
Maternity Benefit Bill passed
recently 26 weeks
l The state which has launched a 24*7
helpline number 181 to assist
women in distress Odisha
l The venue of the 10th edition of the
International Conference on Theory
and Practice of Electronic Governance
l The bank which has launched Aadhaar
Pay, the countrys first Aadhaar-linked
cashless merchant solution IDFC
Bank
l The two-seater sports coupe
launched by Tata Motors recently
Racemo
l The new Chief Minister of Manipur
N Biren Singh
l The new Chairman of the Securities
and Exchange Board of India (Sebi)
Ajay Tyagi

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BSC or is using a fake logo, is spoiling his/her career. Please note BSC is running classroom coaching at
the following centres only Agartala, Balasore, Bangalore, Berhampur, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Dhanbad,
Delhi, Dibrugarh, Faridabad, Gaya, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Jorhat, Kolkata,
Muzaffarpur, Nagpur, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Samastipur and Trivandrum. If you take admission
at any fake centre, BSC is not responsible for this. So beware and take admission at original BSC centres
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l The South Korean firm with which
L&T has signed a contract to
manufacture the K9 Vajra-T artillery
guns Hanwa Techwin, S Korea
l The first unmanned cargo spacecraft
launched by China recently
Tianzhou-1
l The Kenyan who won the London
Marathon recently Daniel Wanjiru
K
l The app launched by Haryana govt
to create awareness about ante and
post natal care, institutional delivery
and immunisation Kilkari
l Winner of the men's singles title of
2017 Monte Carlo Masters Rafael
Nadal
l The govt bank in which LIC of India
is to infuse `406.9 cr IDBI Bank
l The game to be a full sport at the 2022
Asian Games Video Gaming
l The country which launched its first
KUNDAN
satellite named Mongol Sat-I recently
Mongolia
l Winner of the UNESCO Peace Prize
Giuseppina Nicolini
l The host of the 14th edition of the
United Nations International Day of
Vesak 2017 Sri Lanka
l The amount sanctioned by the govt
to the Election Commission to procure
EVMs with VVPAT for 2019 general
elections `3,200 cr
l Indias growth rate for FY18 as
projected by the IMF 7.2%
l The growth rate for the world
economy in 2017 as projected by the
IMF recently 3.5%
l The book authored by Perumal
Murugan which has won Sahitya
Akademis award for translation in
English 2016 Mathorubhagan
l The firm which became the most
valued public sector undertaking
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(PSU) stock in terms of market
capitalisation recently SBI
l Winner of the Hindustan PSU award
in Fastest Growing Organisation
Miniratna category BEML
l Indias economic growth rate in FY18
as per IMF 7.2 per cent
l The cities where new banking
ombudsman offices have been opened
recently by the RBI Jammu and
Raipur
l Indias ranking in the 2017 AT
Kearney Foreign Direct Investment
(FDI) Confidence Index Eighth
l The bank whose data centre in
Hyderabad has become countrys first
CII-IGBC Platinum-rated project
ICICI Bank
l The state where PM Narendra Modi
recently inaugurated phase-I of the
Link-II pipeline canal of SAUNI
project Gujarat
l Indias economic growth rate in 2017
as per recent World Bank report
7.2%
l The firm whose Aamby Valley
township is being sold as per orders
from the Supreme Court Sahara
Group
l The cyclone which made landfall on
Myanmars coast recently
Maarutha
l The firm which has introduced a 12-
week paid leave for commissioning
mothers who use surrogates to bear a
child RIL
l The winner of Time magazines
readers poll of the 100 most
influential people in the world
Rodrigo Duterte
l Winner of the Bahrain Grand Prix
2017 Sebastian Vettel
l The President of Nepal who visited
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India recently Bidya Devi
Bhandari
l Winner of the mens singles of the
Super Series at the Singapore Open
B Sai Praneeth
l Winner of the sixth prestigious MS
Swaminathan Award RR Hanchinal
l The country where a referendum was
held recently that granted sweeping
powers to the President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan Turkey
l The Internet giant which has launched
Areo app aggregating food delivery
and home services in India Google
l The present President of BRICS New
Development Bank (NDB) KV
Kamath
l The state where about 55 lakh farmers
will get free fertilisers from the next
financial year Telangana
l The first-ever joint military exercise
held recently between Nepal and
China Sagarmatha Friendship-
2017
l The target for loans under Pradhan
Mantri Mudra Yojana in the Union
Budget for FY18 `2.44 lakh cr
l The interest approved on provident
fund deposits for 2016-17 8.65 per
cent
l The country where the US dropped
the largest ever non-nuclear bomb -
GBU-43/B Afghanistan
l Winner of the 2017 Asian Billiards
Championship title Pankaj Advani
l The new pin code to the Central
Processing Centre (CPC) of the
Income Tax in Bengaluru 560500
l Indias ranking on the KPMG
Internationals global Through the
looking glass report 31st
l The state upon whom the Krishi
Karman Award 2015-16 for
commendable increase in food grains
production has been conferred
Himachal Pradesh
l The present chairman of Insolvency
and Bankruptcy Board of India
(IBBI) Madhusudan Sahoo
l The state govt which has announced
the launch of Durga Vahini police
squads to stop harassment of women
on public spaces Haryana
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l The state whose police department
has initiated Tare Zameen Par
programme to encourage children in
Naxal-affected areas to lead happy
lives Jharkhand
l The new MD and CEO of Karnataka
Bank MS Mahabaleshwara
l The new head of UN agency - UN
Development Programme (UNDP)
Achim Steiner
l The agency which has approved a
$375-mn loan to Indias first
waterway project World Bank
l The most followed world leader on
Instagram 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 for
l The 12th edition of the joint military
exercise between India and Mongolia
held recently in Vairengte in Mizoram
Nomadic Elephant
l The online marketplace which raised
$1.4 bn in the biggest-ever start-up
funding round and acquired eBay India
recently Flipkart
l The United Nations youngest-ever
Messenger of Peace appointed
recently Malala Yousafzai
l The Bollywood star who launched the
app and website BharatKeVeer
recently Akshay Kumar
l Winner of best Hindi film award at
the 64th National Film Awards
Neerja
l The train that runs between Dhaka
and Kolkata Maitree Express
Leading Cricketer in the World for 2016
Virat Kohli
l The country with which India has
inked mega defence deals worth over
$2 bn for advanced surface-to-air
missile (SAM) systems Israel
l The firm which has launched its digital
assistant named M for the users in
the US Facebook
l The state which has announced to
provide one-time grant of `21,000 to
all those families whose third girl child
was born after Aug 24, 2015
Haryana
l The new Reverse Repo rate after the
review 6 per cent
l The country which recently officially
recognised Bitcoin as currency
Japan

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fiction Colson Whitehead (The
underground Railroad)
l The year in which famous
Champaran Satyagraha was
launched 1917
l The newly appointed Executive
Director of the Reserve Bank of India
Malvika Sinha
l Indias next Ambassador to Germany
Mukta Dutta Tomar
l The new chairman of the Telecom
Disputes Settlement & Appellate
l The new Managing Director of
Saraswat Bank Smita Sandhane
l Winner of Chinese Grand Prix F1
championship Lewis Hamilton
l The country which has declared an
outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea
recently Ethiopia
l The new Director of IIM Trichy
Bhimaraya Metri
l Indias ranking in the current travel
and tourism competitive index
(TTCI) of the World Economic Forum
l The agency which has extended a
$175-mn loan to the Power Grid
Corporation of India ADB
l The first IIT in India to offer medicine
courses from the 2019 session IIT-
Kharagpur
l The state where the famous
Berhampur Thakurani Yatra was held
recently Odisha
l The state govt which recently
announced a crop loan waiver worth
over `36,000 cr Uttar Pradesh

KUNDAN
Tribunal (TDSAT) Shiva Kirti
Singh
l The Govt has reduced the number of
centrally sponsored schemes (CSS)
from 66 to 28
l The state which has launched the
ambitious Deendayal Rasoi Yojana
for subsidised meals Madhya
Pradesh
l The former Indian Naval officer who
has been awarded death sentence in
Pakistan Kulbhushan Jadhav
l The new Marginal Standing Facility
rate 6.50 per cent
40th
l The king of Thailand who signed the
draft of the constitution recently
Maha Vajiralongkorn
l The bank which has partnered with
BSNL to upgrade bandwidth at all its
branches Canara Bank
l The minimum capital required for
wholesale and long-term finance
(WLTF) banks `1,000 cr
l The new CEO and MD of L&T to
take over with effect from Jul 1 SN
Subrahmanyan
l The cricketer named Wisdens
l The person who won the recent
Presidential elections in Ecuador
Lenin Moreno
l The new chairman of NASSCOM for
2017-18 Raman Roy
l The first woman Director General of
Police (DGP) of Gujarat Geetha
Johri
l The legendary Hindustani classical
singer who passed away recently
Kishori Amonkar
l The official mascot of Kanha tiger
reserve Bhoorsingh the
Barasingha

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l Winner of the 2017 Federation Cup
football tournament Bengaluru FC
l The country which has become the
second-largest steel producer
(producing 3.32 mn tonnes) in the
world in 2016 India
l The present President of the African
Development Bank (AfDB)
Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina
K
l The insurer which has launched an
artificial intelligence-based email bot
SPOK to assist customers HDFC
Life
l The bank which has launched a new
trading platform called Selfie for
customers Federal Bank
l The venues of the recent 52nd Annual
Meeting of the African Development
Bank (AfDB) Gandhinagar
l The game with which Sudirman Cup
is associated Badminton
KUNDAN
l The mountaineer from Arunachal
Pradesh who has become the worlds
first woman to scale Mt Everest twice
in five days Anshu Jamsenpa
l Newly launched high-speed train
equipped with modern facilities like
automatic doors, LCD screens, Wi-Fi
and bio-toilets Tejas Express
l Winner of mens singles title of the
Italian Open 2017 Alexander
Zverev
l Winner of the 2017 Indian Premier
League (IPL) Mumbai Indians
l The railway station which has been
found to be the dirtiest among the 75
busiest stations in India Darbhanga
The cleanest railway station
Visakhapatnam
l The former coal secretary who has
been convicted by a special court
HC Gupta
l The city where Indias first bio-CNG
plant was inaugurated recently Pune
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l The joint naval exercise held recently
between India and Singapore
SIMBEX
l Winner of the Indira Gandhi Prize for
Peace, Disarmament
Development for the year 2014
ISRO
l The first private airline to get a licence
to fly under UDAN scheme Turbo
Megha Airways
l Indias position in the revised World
Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)
rankings for 2014 and 2015 24th
l The person re-elected as the 12th
President of Iran Hassan Rouhani
l The veteran actor and favourite
mother of Bollywood who died
recently Reema Lagoo
l The enterprise in which Japans
Softbank made its biggest investment
in India ($1.4 bn) recently Paytm
l The person appointed the CEO of the
newly launched Paytm Payments
Bank Renu Satti
l The automaker which has announced
to stop selling cars in the domestic
market in India by the end of 2017
General Motors
l The British actor known for playing
James Bond in seven films, who died
recently Roger Moore
l The worlds largest aircraft which
successfully completed a test flight
recently Airlander 10
l The state which has signed an MoU
with IIT Kharagpur to develop a
Happiness Index Madhya Pradesh
l The IAS officer who has authored a
philosophical novel on God titled
Confessions of a Dying Mind: The
blind faith of atheism Haulianlal
Guite
l Winner of the 2017 Dan David prize
Shrinivas Kulkarni
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l The host of the South Asian Junior
Table Tennis Championships where
India won all the 10 Gold Medals on
offer Sri Lanka
l The newly appointed Deputy Chief
of the Integrated Defence Staff
(Operations) PN Pradhan
l The new Chairman of the FIFA
Governance committee Mukul
Mudgal
l The IAS officer appointed as the next
defence secretary Sanjay Mitra
l The bilateral exercise between India
and Indonesia held recently India-
and Indonesia CORPAT
l The new headquarters of the CRPFs
anti-Naxal operations command
Raipur
l Chinas home-grown passenger jet
which completed its maiden flight
recently C919
l The year by which the RBI has asked
all the existing Asset Reconstruction
Companies (ARCs) to have a
minimum net-owned corpus of `100
cr Mar 2019
l The amount of black money that
entered India during 2005-2014 as per
Global Financial Integrity (GFI)
$770 bn
l The new artillery guns from the US
which arrived at New Delhi recently
nearly 30 years after the induction of
Bofors howitzers M777
l The chairman of the seven-member
High-Level Committee on Scouts and
Guides which submitted its final
report to Vijay Goel recently Harsh
Malhotra
l The chairman of the Committee set
up to prepare guidelines for desiltation
of the river Ganga from Bhimgauda
(Uttarakhand) to Farakka (West
Bengal) which suggested various
measures recently Madhav Chitale
l The Union Minister of State for
Environment, Forest and Climate
Change who passed away recently
Anil Madhav Dave
l Winner of the 2017 Spanish Grand
Prix F1 championship Lewis
Hamilton
l Winner of Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
hockey tournament Great Britain
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l The venue of Indias first Aquatic
Rainbow Technology Park, an ultra
modern facility for ornamental fish
Chennai
l The venue of the recent two-day
meeting of the Goods and Services Tax
(GST) Council to finalise tax rates
Srinagar
l The number of units of indigenous
Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors
(PHWR) of 700 MW each approved
recently Ten
l The person who has topped the
Forbes list of Global Game Changers
list in 2017 Mukesh Ambani
l The state ranked lowest in public
affairs index (PAI) in governance in
States this year Bihar
l Indias GDP growth for the fiscal year
2017-18 as per FICCIs latest
l The Indian batswoman who scored
188 runs, second highest in womens
ODIs recently Deepti Sharma
l The country which has declared a state
of emergency due to a deadly outbreak
of cholera Yemen
l The state where PM Narendra Modi
launched the Narmada Sewa Mission
recently Madhya Pradesh
l The state which has grabbed the first
position in public affairs index (PAI)
in governance in States this year
Kerala
l The state which recently hosted the
first outreach programme of the
Ministry of External Affairs, Videsh
Sampark Telangana
l The present President of Palestine
who visited New Delhi recently
Mahmoud Abbas
l The country from which India has
acquired the surface-to-air missile
Spyder Israel
l The actor appointed by the WHO as
its Goodwill Ambassador for
Hepatitis in South-East Asia Region
Amitabh Bachchan
l The first state to introduce a logo for
identifying vehicles driven by persons
with hearing impairment Telangana
l The three states whose residents have
been exempted from mandatory
quoting of Aadhaar to obtain PAN
cards and file tax returns
Meghalaya, Assam and J&K
l The Commission which has launched
a 24*7 National Contact Centre with
a toll-free No. 1800111950 Election
Commission
l The country with which Indian navy

K
Economic Outlook Survey 7.4 per
cent
l The IIT Bombay professor who won
the Indian National Science Academy
(INSA) medal for Young Scientist
(2017) Vikram Vishal
l The Sikkim CM who was conferred
the first Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
Lifetime Achievement Honour in
Public Service Pawan Kumar
Chamling
l The joint naval exercise carried out
by navies of India and Singapore
recently SIMBEX
l Winner of the mens singles title of
the 2017 Madrid Open Rafael
Nadal
l The person who was sworn in as the
youngest ever President of France
recently Emmanuel Macron
l The country which conducted its first
local-level polls in two decades
conducted Konkan-17 joint naval
exercise recently UK
l Indias first indigenously-built civilian
aircraft with seating capacity of 14
people Saras
l The headquarters of the International
Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI) Washington DC
l The base year of the new series of the
index of industrial production (IIP)
and the wholesale price index (WPI)

KUNDAN
l The state where Maa committee will
check mid-day meal quality in schools
Uttar Pradesh
l The former Puducherry CM who
passed away recently S
Ramassamy
l The new Prime Minister of France
Edouard Philippe
l Indias position in the renewable
energy country attractiveness index
prepared by EY Second
l The first state to record per capita
income of `3,03,073 per annum
(estimated in 2016-17) Delhi
recently Nepal
l The computer malware (ransomware
worm) which spread across the world
recently WannaCry
l The state where Indias longest river
bridge (9.15-km-long Dhola-Sadiya
bridge) was inaugurated recently
Assam
l The cricketer awarded with an
honorary life membership by the
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
recently VVS Laxman
l The new Prime Minister of Bahamas
Hubert Minnis
2011-12
l The present Chief Economic Advisor
in the Union Finance Ministry
Arvind Subramanian
l Indias position in global electricity
accessibility ranking as of now 26th
l The crop which got nod from Indias
central biotech regulator, Genetic
Engineering Appraisal Committee
(GEAC), recently Mustard
l The state where the worlds largest
solar park, Kurnool Ultra Solar Park,
is situated Tamil Nadu

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l The growth forecast for the IT sector
in 2017-18 (FY18) by Nasscom 7-8
per cent
l The amount the US will provide to
help advance Indias power grid $7.5
mn
l The teams which have been awarded
Test match status by the ICC Ireland
K
and Afghanistan
l The PM of Romania who was ousted
recently after a no-confidence vote
Sorin Grindeanu
l The President of Vanuatu who died
recently Womtelo Reverend
Baldwin Lonsdale
l The new Under-Secretary-General of
the UN Counter-Terrorism Office
Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov
l Indian agricultural microbiologist
conferred the Ministry of
KUNDAN
Environment Award for 2017 in Japan
Shrihari Chandraghatgi
l The country which has unveiled the
worlds first train that operates on a
virtual track using sensor technology
China
l The airline awarded as the Worlds
Best Airline at the SKYTRAX 2017
World Airline Awards Qatar
Airways
l The costliest city in the world,
according to the Mercers 23rd annual
Cost of Living Survey Luanda
l The first building in the country to
get intellectual property rights
protection for its architectural design
by acquiring an image trademark
Taj Mahal Palace Hotel
l The person regarded as the father of
Indias nuclear fusion programme who
died recently Predhiman Krishan
Kaw
l The bank against which the RBI has
directed to initiate insolvency
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proceedings for Lanco Infratech
IDBI Bank
l The agency which will implement the
interest subvention scheme
announced for farmers for 2017-18
NABARD
l Winner of the 2017 ICC Champions
Trophy Pakistan
l The state where the Vedanta group
will set up a steel plant in West
Singhbhum district Jharkhand
l Winner of the mens singles title of
the 2017 Indonesia Open Kidambi
Srikanth
l The amount earmarked for the Interest
Subvention Scheme (ISS) for 2017-
18 `20,339 cr
l The company which has topped the
Nikkei Asian Reviews Asia 300
Largan Precision
l The former Chief Justice of India who
passed away recently PN Bhagwati
l The first person in the world to reach
100 mn followers on Twitter Katy
Perry
l The venue of the 2017 BRICS
Summit scheduled in Sep 2017
Xiamen (China)
l The new Secretary of the Department
of Economic Affairs Subhash C
Garg
l The new Home Secretary Rajiv
Gauba
l The next ambassador of the US to
India Kenneth Juster
l The CEO of taxi-hailing start-up Uber
who resigned recently Travis
Kalanick
l The Judge nominated by India as its
candidate for the International Court
of Justice (ICJ) Dalveer Bhandari
l The Syrian refugee appointed as
Goodwill Ambassador by the
UNICEF Muzoon Almellehan
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l The country in which King Salman
recently appointed his son,
Mohammed bin Salman, as heir
Saudi Arabia
l The state which has announced free
education for girls in govt schools and
colleges from Nursery to PhD
Punjab
l The former Chancellor of Germany
who died recently Helmut Kohl
l The amount above which all
transactions will mandatorily require
Aadhaar number `50,000
l Indias ranking on the Global
Innovation Index (GII) 2017 60th
l The bank which the RBI placed under
prompt corrective action (PCA)
recently Central Bank of India
l The bank which has approved USD
150-mn equity investment loan to the
India Infrastructure Fund AIIB
l The country which has successfully
launched its first X-ray space
telescope named Insight China
l Winner of the Fifth Bhupen Hazarika
National Award, 2017 Yeshe
Dorjee Thongshi
l The country which has claimed the
top spot among the remittance-
receiving nations as per a recent report
by the United Nations for 2016
India
l The anti-tank missile test-fired by the
DRDO recently Nag
l The joint naval exercise conducted
between India and Australia recently
AUSINDEX
l The only PSB to get high rating for
its adherence to code compliance in
the Code Compliance Rating of banks
done by the BCSBI IDBI Bank
l Indias next ambassador to Belgium
and the EU Gaitri Issar Kumar
l The rate at which the farmers will get
short-term crop loan up to `3 lakh
under the interest subvention scheme
(ISS) approved for 2017-18 4 per
cent
l The Indian-origin doctor who has
become the new Prime Minister of
Ireland Leo Varadkar
l The state which has the highest
number (2,50,672) of children engaged
in labour as per recent CRY report
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Uttar Pradesh
l The venue of the G7 Environment
Ministers Meet held recently
Bologna, Italy
l The automaker which was imposed
upon a fine of `87 cr by the CCI for
unfair business practices Hyundai
Motor
l The agency which has approved
financing of more than USD 500 mn
to support the economy of
Afghanistan World Bank
l The bank which recently increased its
authorised capital to `2,500 cr ICICI
Bank
l The legendary poet and writer of
Telugu who passed away recently
2017 French Open Rafael Nadal
l Winner of the Mumbai Mayor Chess
title Nguyen Duc Hoa
l The insurer which settled 99.92 per
cent of death claims in 2016-17 LIC
of India
l The person conferred with the
Frances highest civilian honour, the
coveted Legion of Honour Soumitra
Chatterjee
l The lumpsum amount the retirement
fund body EPFO will park in exchange
traded funds this fiscal `22,500 cr
l Winner of the womens singles title
of the French Open 2017 Jelena
Ostapenko
l The host of the 2020 Olympic Games
qualified institutional placement
SBI
l The new statutory liquidity ratio
(SLR) decided by the RBI starting Jun
24 20 per cent
l The state for which the Centre has
approved the modifications in a Bill
to pave way for organising kambala
Karnataka
l The country with whose help the
National Human Milk Bank and
Lactation Counselling Centre was
launched in New Delhi recently
Norway
l The payments bank of which KG
Karmakar and Gauri Shankar were
appointed as Independent Directors

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C Narayana Reddy
l Winner of the 2017 Canadian Grand
Prix F1 championship Lewis
Hamilton
l The person who has topped the
Forbes list of worlds highest-paid
celebrities Sean Combs
l The city whose model of water
conservation has been selected for the
national award for excellence in the
MGNREGP Nalanda, Bihar
l The denomination of banknotes
in which the IOC will introduce new
events Tokyo
l The person who was given conditional
approval by the SEBI for the
appointment as the MD and CEO of
the NSE Vikram Limaye
l The bank which has cut the interest
rate on home loans above `75 lakh to
8.60 per cent SBI
l The chairman of the Parliamentary
Standing Committee (PSC) on Finance
Veerappa Moily
recently IPPB
l The pair which won the mixed
doubles title of 2017 French Open
Rohan Bopanna and Gabriela
Dabrowski
l The eminent historian who passed
away recently Basudev Chatterji
l The country with which Nepal has
signed a deal to develop a 1,200-MW
Budhigandaki Hydroelectric Project
China
l The new Prime Minister of Nepal

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which the RBI has issued with inset
letter A `500
l Winner of the Little Miss Universe
Internet 2017 crown Padmalaya
Nanda
l The insurer whose administration was
recently taken over by the IRDAI
Sahara India Life Insurance
l The rate of retail inflation in May
2017 which was all-time low 2.18
per cent
l Winner of the Kalinga Literary Award
2017 Haraprasad Das
l The country with which India
recently signed an MoU to
institutionalise cooperation between
Parliaments Mauritius
l Winner of mens singles title of the
l The Indian-origin person who has been
chosen as an astronaut by NASA l The country which officially joined
Raja Chari
l The first female Sikh MP elected to
the Parliament of the UK Preet
Kaur Gill
l The first bank in India to introduce
biodegradable cards (prepaid gift
cards) Axis Bank
l Winner of the International Tennis
Federation mens Futures tennis title
Ramkumar Ramanathan
l The first cricketer from Sri Lanka and
the 83rd overall to be inducted into
the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame
Muttiah Muralitharan
l The bank which recently raised
`15,000 cr equity capital through
Sher Bahadur Deuba
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
as 29th member recently
Montenegro
l The country to which India is
providing a line of credit of USD 318
mn for the development of the
railways Sri Lanka
l The cyclone which hit Bangladesh
recently Mora
l The person chosen to head the World
Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesu
l The state which has decided to form
good morning squads to monitor and
prevent open defecation
Maharashtra

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l The host city of the 2017 Womens
Asia Cup of Federation of
International Basketball (FIBA)
Bengaluru
l Asias longest earthen dam in
Sambalpur district in Odisha from
which the first flood waters of the
monsoon season were released
recently Hirakud Dam
K
l The country with which India
recently signed a pact to connect by
waterways Bangladesh
l The state where the scheme for free
power connection for the BPL card
holders was launched recently Uttar
Pradesh
l The host of the Global Conference on
Cyber Space (GCCS) 2017, the
worlds largest conference on cyber
space and related issues New Delhi
l The pension scheme launched
KUNDAN
recently by the govt with assured
return Pradhan Mantri Vaya
Vandana Yojana (PMVVY)
l Winner of the ICC Womens World
Cup 2017 England
l The state which has launched
Mission Football to help develop
skills of football enthusiasts
Meghalaya
l The present Prime Minister of
Hungary Viktor Orban
l The person appointed as Secretary to
President Ram Nath Kovind Sanjay
Kothari
l Indias discus throw player who won
bronze medal at the World Para
Athletics Championships 2017
Karamjyoti Dalal
l The automaker which recently
renewed its association with the Star
India-and IMG Reliance-promoted
Indian Super League (ISL) Hero
MotoCorp
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l The city which the UNESCO has
named as the World Book Capital
for 2019 Sharjah
l The state govt which has launched an
innovative programme Janahitha to
receive complaints from public
through a special portal Telangana
l The state with which the Paika
Rebellion is associated Odisha
l The country with which Indias
landmark civil nuclear agreement came
into force on 20 Jul 2017 Japan
l The state where the Tadoba-Andhari
Tiger Reserve (TATR) is situated
Maharashtra
l The bank which has launched a
facility whereby its existing
customers can avail personal loans up
to `15 lakh at its ATMs ICICI Bank
l The country which holds the top
position on the fifth annual Global
Retirement Index ranking Norway
l The MP who resigned from the Rajya
Sabha recently Mayawati
l The state which recently dedicated its
longest bridge (2.88 km) named after
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose to the
nation Odisha
l The MP who received the Lifetime
Achievement Award for his
contributions as a parliamentarian in
the Lok Sabha LK Advani
l The Minister of State for Tolerance
in UAE who topped a poll of the most
powerful Arab women in govt for
2017, according to Forbes Sheikha
Lubna al Qasimi
l The actress inducted as one of the
newest members of the Academy of
Motion Picture of Arts and Sciences
(AMPAS), Class of 2017 Deepika
Padukone
l The second life insurer in India to go
public soon SBI Life
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l The person sworn in as the 19th chief
minister of Nagaland recently TR
Zeliang
l The host of the meeting of 16 nations
on a mega Asia trade pact, the Regional
Comprehensive Economic
Partnership (RCEP), held recently
Hyderabad
l The present Foreign Minister of
Australia who visited India recently
Julie Bishop
l The country which has named the
waters in its exclusive economic zone
that overlap with Chinas expansive
claim to the South China Sea as the
North Natuna Sea Indonesia
l The next Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Nepal Gopal Prasad
Parajuli
l The firm which crossed the `5-lakh
cr market-capitalisation recently
Reliance Industries
l Winner of the mens singles title of
the 2017 Wimbledon Roger
Federer
l The former Chief Minister of Sikkim
who passed away recently Nar
Bahadur Bhandari
l The oil firm which recently made its
first purchase of oil from the US
Bharat Petroleum
l The amount the govt will invest in
railways in next five years `8.5
lakh cr
l The new Managing Director and CEO
of the National Stock Exchange (NSE)
Vikram Limaye
l Winner of the 2017 British Grand Prix
F1 championship Lewis Hamilton
l Winner of the womens singles title of
the 2017 Wimbledon Garbine
Muguruza
l The country which has topped in the
OECD Government at a Glance 2017
report India
l The film which won the best film
award at the 18th edition of the
International Indian Film Academy
Awards Neerja
l The person whose name has been
cleared for appointment as the new
Attorney General of India KK
Venugopal
l The newly appointed Global
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Goodwill Ambassador by the
UNICEF Lilly Singh
l The person appointed as the new
Managing Director and Chief
Executive Officer of the Oriental Bank
of Commerce Mukesh Kumar Jain
l The airport ranked first in Customer
Satisfaction among 49 airports in the
country Swami Vivekananda
Airport (Raipur)
l The highest ever foreign direct
investment (FDI) received by India
(in 2016-17) USD 43 bn
l The first state in the country to make
social boycott a crime Maharashtra
l The venue of the 22nd World
Petroleum Congress (WPC)
International Conference held recently
Nations (MUN) Regional Conference
held recently Kathmandu
l The country to which China
dispatched troops for its first overseas
military base Djibouti
l The new target year for elimination
of malaria 2027
l The state where the third phase of
Haritha Haram plantation programme
was launched recently Telangana
l The present governor of Jammu and
Kashmir NN Vohra
l The cricketer named as the head coach
of the Indian cricket team by the BCCI
Ravi Shastri
l The firm which is joint venture
partner of SBI in SBI Life BNP
Paribas
programme launched by CSIR with
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
JIGYASA
l The host of the 2017 Womens
Cricket World Cup England
l The autism activist who has been
appointed as the WHOs goodwill
ambassador for autism in Southeast
Asia region Saima Wazed Hossain
l The country where Guruswamy
Jayraman has been awarded the
highest civilian award Australia
l The person appointed as the head of
the Indian consulate in New York
Sandeep Chakravorty
l The country which renewed oil deal
with India in the tense South China
Sea recently Vietnam

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Istanbul, Turkey
l The bank which has received $150 mn
funding from the US govt and Wells
Fargo YES Bank
l The head of the Fiscal Responsibility
and Budget Management (FRBM)
committee NK Singh
l The present secretary of the
Department of Industrial Policy and
Promotion (DIPP) Ramesh
Abhishek
l The country in which Uber recently
l The person appointed as the new
Chairman and part-time non-official
Director of the Union Bank of India
Kewal Handa
l The firm which has launched `2,000-
cr Project Next programme to
transform customer experience
Bharti Airtel
l The countries which conducted
Malabar 2017 naval exercise recently
India, Japan and the US
l Winner of the 2017 Austrian Grand
l Indias ranking on the second Global
Cybersecurity Index (GCI) released
by the UNs International
Telecommunication Union (ITU)
23th
l The grouping whose heads of all
member nations will be invited for the
Republic Day parade in 2018
ASEAN
l The new chief of the National
Disaster Response Force (NDRF)
Sanjay Kumar

KUNDAN
merged its business with Yandex
Russia
l Indias ranking on the recent
sustainable development goals
(SDGs) index topped by Sweden
116th
l The Chinese Nobel laureate who
passed away in custody recently
Liu Xiaobo
l The NASA spacecraft which recently
peered into the giant storm raging on
Jupiter, known as the Great Red Spot
Juno
l The amount up to which the SBI has
waived charges for fund transfer
through IMPS mode `1,000
l The venue of the Model United
Prix F1 championship Valtteri
Bottas
l The country which topped the medal
tally (with 29 medals) in 2017 Asian
Athletics Championships in
Bhubaneswar India
l The city which has been declared as a
World Heritage City by the UNESCO
Ahmedabad
l The venue of the recent summit of
G20 Hamburg (Germany)
l The firm to which the govt is planning
to 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
l The avian influenza viruses from
which India has become free H5N8
& H5N1
l The net direct tax collection at the end
of first quarter (Apr-Jun) `1.42
lakh cr
l The head of the task force constituted
by PM Narendra Modi to improve
Indias data on jobs Arvind
Panagariya
l The first company to face bankruptcy
proceedings under the new
bankruptcy law Jyoti Structures
l The head of the nine-member council
set up to prepare final draft of the
New Education Policy K
Kasturirangan

DISCLAIMER
Any student taking admission in an institute that is not actually BSC, but has merely a name similar
to BSC or is using a fake logo, is spoiling his/her career. Please note BSC is running classroom
coaching at the following centres only Agartala, Balasore, Bangalore, Berhampur, Bhagalpur,
Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Chandigarh, Darbhanga, Dhanbad, Delhi, Dibrugarh, Faridabad, Gaya,
Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Jorhat, Kolkata, Murshidabad, Muzaffarpur, Nagpur,
Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, and Samastipur. If you take admission at any fake centre, BSC is
not responsible for this. So beware and take admission at original BSC centres only.

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