Ga Points to Remember(Dec April2014)

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CURRENT AFFAI RS: DEC-MAY2014
POI NTS TO REMEMBER
• The Hollywood film based on the life of Julian Assange – The Fifth State
• India’s rank in terms of competitiveness in the ‘Global Competitiveness Report 2013-14’ released by
the World Economic Forum (WEF) recently – 60th
• The country hit by the powerful typhoon Usagi recently – China
• The Indian city that ranked as the world’s second most honest city in a recent survey carried out in
16 cities across four continents - Mumbai
• The Seventh Pay Commission approved by the Prime Minister recently is likely to be implemented
from – Jan 1, 2016
• The team to whom Indian women hockey team lost in the semifinals of the eighth Asia Cup hockey
tournament in Kuala Lumpur recently – South Korea

• The country in which China is in process to lease 3m hectare of arable farmland - Ukraine

• World Tourism Day is observed on – 27 Sep

• General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) provisions will come into effect from – 1 Apr, 2016

• The anti-chemical weapons activists who have won the Swedish Right Livelihood Award – Paul
Walker, Hans Herren and Denis Mukwege

• The person awarded with the fifth Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics 2013 – Raghuram
Rajan

• The least developed state as per the report submitted by the Raghuram Rajan committee – Odisha

• The Internet giant who celebrated its 15
th
birthday recently - Google

• The most developed states as per the Raghuram Rajan panel report – Kerala and Goa

• The winner of the 2013 women’s Table Tennis World Cup – Liu Siwen

• World Rabies Day is observed on – Sep 28

• The country to which India started exporting electricity recently - Bangladesh

• The country which will host the 2014 NATO summit for the first time in more than 20 years -
England

• World Heart Day is observed on – 29 Sep

• Miss World 2013 – Megan Young

• The present president of the BCCI – N Srinivasan

• The dedicated pin code issued by the postal department for the Supreme Court of India recently -
110201



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• The country that unveiled its most powerful super computer Raijin recently - Australia

• The country that won the 3
rd
Sultan of Johor Cup under-21 hockey tournament recently - India

• The satellite on which the US space agency NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene –
Titan (Saturn’s moon)

• The country where the Supreme Court has barred murder convicts from contesting in the
upcoming polls - Nepal

• International Day of Older Persons is observed on – 1 Oct

• The new Chairperson of the International Coffee Council – Jawaid Akhtar

• The country that signed the CTBT accord recently – Iraq

• The name of the campaign launched by the Ministry of Tourism to promote tourism in Himalayas
– 777 days of incredible Indian Himalayas

• The technology giant that has set up a new company called Calico to make improvements in
human health and well-being - Google

• The places at which India is building first-of-its-kind strategic oil storages – Padur, Mangalore and
Visakhapatnam

• The country with which India is set to sign a historic ‘Motor Vehicles Agreement’ - Bangladesh

• The university ranked on the top among the Indian institutions of higher education in the recent
Times Higher Education World University Rankings – Panjab University

• The country that announced to leave the 54-member Commonwealth group recently - Gambia

• The current global infant mortality rate (IMR) as per the recent report of the UNICEF - 37

• The challenge round in which Miss India Navneet Kaur won at the recent Miss World competition
held in Bali - Multimedia

• The indigenously developed nuclear-capable surface-to-surface missile successfully test-fired by
India – Prithvi-II

• The cricket team that created history by becoming the first team to win the Champions League T20
cricket tournament twice – Mumbai Indians

• The first Tamil Chief Minister of a Sri Lankan province sworn in recently – CV Wigneswaran

• The Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) elected for the second four-year term – Irina Bokova

• Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) and Indian Railways will jointly set up a forged wheel plant
at – Rae Bareli
• The first-ever woman chairperson of India’s largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI) – Arundhati
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• The new Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) set by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently – 9 per
cent

• The famed military commander of Vietnam who died recently and who had masterminded the
defeats of France and the United States in his country – General Vo Ngugen Giap

• The country in which the two-day summit of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) took place recently - Indonesia

• The winner of the Korean Grand Prix Formula One championship – Sebastian Vettel

• The person nominated by the US President Barack Obama to head Federal Reserve – Janet Yellen

• The retail chain run by Bharti group in India – Easy Day

• The population of world which will be online by the end of 2013 according to a recent report
published by the United Nations – 40 per cent

• The winner of the men’s singles title of the China Open tennis tournament – Novak Djokovic

• The country which is on the top among the recipients of foreign remittance in 2013, according to a
recent estimate released by the World Bank - India

• The country where M23 rebels are active – Democratic Republic of Congo

• The new president of Ethiopia – Mulatu Teshome

• The country to which the US govt suspended delivery of large-scale military systems and cash
assistance recently - Egypt

• The state that topped in terms of infant mortality rate (IMR) as per a recent report released by the
Registrar General of India - Kerala

• The winner of the women’s doubles title of the China Open tennis tournament – Sania Mirza and
Cara Black

• World Mental Health Day – 10 Oct

• The present Prime Minister of Libya who was held hostage by the rebel militiamen recently – Ali
Zeidan

• International Day of the Girl Child – 11 Oct

• The campaign launched by the govt to remove the stigma attached to leprosy - HEAL

• The person who has been given the Indira Gandhi National Integration Award 2012 – MS
Swaminathan

• The person who has been awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov human rights prize –
Malala Yousafzai

• The Indian shuttler who approached the high court challenging the decision of BAI to recommend
a life ban on her for alleged indiscipline in the IBL – Jwala Gutta



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• The country where the ASEAN-India Summit took place recently - Indonesia

• International Day for Disaster Reduction – 13 Oct

• The Indian state whose archers were issued stapled visas by China for Youth World Archery
Championship in central China’s Wuxi city – Arunachal Pradesh

• The cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India recently and forced to evacuate lakhs of people and
devastated property worth crores of rupees - Phailin

• The winner of the Japanese Grand Prix Formula One championship – Sebastian Vettel

• The winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize – Eleanor Catton

• The organisation which won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize – Organization for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

• Justice MB Shah Commission is associated with – Illegal mining across the country

• The state-of-the-art Geo-scientific research vessel that has been dedicated to the nation at Kandla
Port of Gujarat recently – RV Samudra Ratnakar

• The company that has become the first private company of the country to earn over Rs.1 lakh crore
in a quarter – Reliance Industries (RIL)

• The country that overtook Saudi Arabia to become world’s biggest oil producer recently - US

• The country that was lashed by typhoon Wipha recently – Japan

• India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index 2013 released by the IFPRI - 63

• The county in the P5+1 group along with the five permanent members of the United Nations
Security Council - Germany

• India’s GDP growth rate estimated by IMF for the current financial year – 8.5 per cent

• The state which has registered maximum number of human rights violations till 30 Sep 2013 as per
the data released by the NHRC – Uttar Pradesh

• The country which overtook US to become the world’s largest net oil importer - China

• The country where the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) took place – Sri
Lanka

• The first country in the world to implement a new financial transaction tax called ‘Tobin Tax’ -
Italy

• The first Indian to reach final stage of a world ranking Snooker event – Aditya Mehta

• The debt ceiling approved by the US Congress after the govt remained shut down for many days -
$17 trillion
• India’s GDP expansion in 2013-14 as pegged by the World Bank – 4.7 per cent



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• World Osteoporosis Day – 20 Oct

• The place where the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) started digging the earth for the
prophesied 1,000 tonnes of gold - Unnao

• The newly elected non-permanent member of the UN Security Council that rejected the seat
recently – Saudi Arabia

• The panel that has recommended prohibition on development activities in 60,000 sq km vast
ecologically sensitive area of Western Ghats – K Kasturirangan Panel

• The winner of the 2013 Macau Open Squash women’s single title – Dipika Pallikal

• The country where India has launched its ambitious pension scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi
Suraksha Yojana, for the Indians working there - UAE

• Mexico has announced to award its 2013 International Prize for Equality and Non-Discrimination
to – Malala Yousafzai

• The 22nd Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court appointed recently – Justice Ajay Manikrao
Khanwilkar

• The country which has emerged as the most attractive investment destination in the world – India

• The international bloc which has pledged to contribute substantially for the socio-economic growth
of India’s NE region at a two-day North East Business Summit - ASEAN

• The winner of the Formula One season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix – Sebastian Vettel

• The country to which India donated 2,500 metric tonnes of wheat recently – Yemen

• World Toilet Day – 19 Nov

• The country where the 4
th
edition of the biennial BRICS International Competition Conference
would be held – South Africa

• The Indian batsman who became the fastest batsman to reach the 5000-run mark in ODI cricket
recently – Virat Kohli

• National Education Day – 11 Nov

• The new penalty fixed by the DoT for companies whose mobile towers will be found violating
radiation emission levels – Rs.10 lakh

• The cyclone which hit the coastline of Andhra Pradesh recently – Helen

• The grandmaster who dethroned Viswanathan Anand as the World Champion recently – Magnus
Carlsen

• The country where the two-day biennial BRICS International Competition Conference was
organised recently – India
• The Tehelka editor who is facing rape charge – Tarun Tejpal



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• The new chairman of the 20
th
Law Commission of India – Ajit Prakash Shah

• The country that offered six oil and gas blocks to India’s ONGC Videsh Ltd without bidding in
South China Sea - Vietnam

• The country ranked on the top spot in the financial secrecy index (FSI) – Switzerland

• The actress conferred with the ‘Centenary Awards for Indian Film Personality of the Year’ at the
International Film Festival of India 2013 recently – Waheeda Rehman

• The percentage of Indian population that defecates in open according to a recent report by the
World Bank – 53 per cent

• The company that emerged as India’s top-notch brand in banking and financial services industry
(BFSI) category – LIC of India

• The country with which India signed an accord for mutual recognition of educational qualifications
recently – Mauritius

• The country that passed a bill called the HOPE Act that allows scientists to carry out research into
organ donations from one person with HIV to another – US

• The 23
rd
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will be held in 2015 in – Malta

• The rate at which the Reserve Bank of India has directed PSBs to provide credit to women SHGs –
7% pa

• The first CMD of the recently launched Bharatiya Mahila Bank – Usha Ananthasubramanian

• The rate at which Paris-based OECD has pegged Indian economy to grow in the current financial
year on market prices – 3.4 per cent

• The person who has been conferred with the European Union’s (EU) prestigious Sakharov Prize
2013 – Malala Yousafzai

• The Nobel laureate British scientist, known as ‘the father of genomics’, who died recently –
Frederick Sanger

• The countries between whom the Ashes cricket tournament is played – England and Australia

• The person slated to be the next President of the FICCI in 2014 – Siddhartha Birla

• The article of the Indian Constitution belonging to Andhra Pradesh that needs to be amended to
make way for the bifurcation of the state – Article 371(D)

• The country with which India is in process to develop fourth generation of anti-tank missile
Javelins – US

• The awardee of the coveted Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for
2013 – Angela Merkel

• The present president of Haiti – Michel Martelly



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• Male World Athlete of the year 2013 – Usain Bolt

• Female World Athlete of the year 2013 – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

• The completely refurbished 44,500-tonne carrier Admiral Gorshkov commissioned into the Indian
Navy recently – INS Vikramaditya

• The National Integration Day is observed every year on the birth anniversary of the first woman
prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi, on – 19 Nov

• The Indian-American nominated by the US President Barack Obama for the post of Surgeon
General – Vivek Murthy

• The person conferred with the ‘International Indian of the Decade’ award recently – Lord Paul
• World Diabetes Day – 14 Nov

• The new President of Maldives – Yameen Abdul Gayoom

• The award announced for cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and acclaimed scientist CNR Rao by the
govt recently – Bharat Ratna

• The Nobel Prize–winning author who died recently – Doris Lessing

• The country that unveiled its latest drone plane ‘Fotros’ – Iran

• The country where two volcanoes, Mount Sinabung and Merapi, erupted recently – Indonesia

• The operating system to which Microsoft Corporation has announced to discontinue its support
soon – Windows XP

• The winner of the ATP World Tour Finals – Novak Djokovic

• The disease from which India announced itself free as there has been no incidence of the disease in
the last three months – Bird Flu

• International Day for Tolerance – 16 Nov

• The fraction of those given employment under MGNREGA who should be women – One-third

• The winner of the 50
th
edition of the Indian Open golf tournament – Mohammad Siddikur

• The person whose autobiography ‘Smarte Trekk’ was unveiled recently – Magnus Carlsen

• The income exempt from income-tax as per the prevailing rules in India – agricultural income

• The winner of the gold medal in air pistol category in the ISSF World Cup Final – Henna Sidhu

• The investigation agency of India that completed fifty years in operation recently – Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI)

• The name of India’s first inter-planetary mission to Mars – Mangalayaan
• The cricketer ranked numero uno in the Reliance ICC Player Ranking for Test all-rounders released
recently – Ravichandran Ashwin


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• The assistance announced by the Prime Minister for the Phailin-affected states of Andhra Pradesh
and Odisha – Rs.1,000 cr each

• The high court which ruled that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is unconstitutional –
Gauhati High Court

• The reverse mortgage scheme floated by banks is related to – senior citizens

• The place where a year-long celebration to mark the 150
th
birth anniversary of the Assamese
literature pioneer Lakshminath Bezbruah kickstarted recently – New Delhi

• The cricketer who became the first victim of the third umpire system adopted by the ICC in 1992 –
Sachin Tendulkar
• The team to which women’s hockey team of India lost in the final of the Asian Championships in
New Delhi recently - Japan

• The country hit by the super typhoon ‘Haiyan’, which killed at least 10,000 people – The
Philippines

• The country which topped the recently launched 2013 World Prosperity Index – Norway

• The state with the lowest overall teledensity in the country (just 34.33) – Uttar Pradesh

• The country that released dengue-blocking mosquito recently – Vietnam

• The amount with which the govt has approved the launch of a new IPDS scheme for textile sector
in the 12
th
Plan – Rs.500 cr

• India’s rank in the 2013 World Prosperity Index – 106

• World Standards Days – 14 Oct

• The European country with which India suspended a two-decade-old tax benefits pact recently –
Cyprus

• The winner of the 2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Sebastian Vettel

• International Day of Rural Women – 15 Oct

• The naval exercise conducted between the navies of India and the US recently – Malabar exercise

• The amount the UN owes to India for costs relating to peacekeeping operations – USD 80 mn

• The person known as the father of IBM personal computer who died recently – William C Lowe

• The first country in South Asia to approve the cultivation of genetically modified food crops with
the approval of commercial cultivation of transgenic Bt brinjal – Bangladesh

• The Indian mobile operator which has started offering Apple’s iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c phones at
monthly instalments with free unlimited calls and data usages – Reliance Communications

• The first female managing director of the LIC of India appointed recently – Usha Sangwan

• The chairman of the four-member advisory committee set up by the RBI to vet the new bank
licence applications – Bimal Jalan


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• The US telecom major which is preparing to take over Europe’s largest mobile carrier Vodafone in
2014 – AT&T

• The organisation which has launched a nation wide campaign named ‘ Take the Poo to Loo’ in
India to raise awareness against open defecation – UNICEF

• India-born legendary Pakistani singer who passed away recently – Reshma

• The goods that are used in producing other goods, rather than being bought by consumers –
Capital goods

• The country which scrapped the visa bond imposed on visitors from some Asian the African
countries, including India, recently - UK

• The country with which Indian soldiers participated in a 10-day anti-terror exercise code-named
‘Hand-in-Hand 2013’ recently – China

• The country where 152 soldiers have been sentenced to death for 2009 mutiny – Bangladesh

• The veteran Indian diplomat who bid farewell to her diplomatic career recently – Nirupama Rao

• The noted Kannada film director and screenplay writer who died recently – D Rajendra Babu

• The present US ambassador to India – Nancy Powell

• The public broadcasters which completed 10 successful years in service recently – DD news

• The Indian batsmen, only the third in the world, to score a double century in the ODIs till date –
Rohit Sharma

• The head of the Pakistani Taliban killed in the drone attack by the US recently – Hakimullah
Mehsud

• The winner of the 2013 Singapore Grand Prix Formula One championship – Sebastian Vettel

• The growth rate of core sector in India in the month of Sep, the highest in last 11 months – 8 per
cent

• The countries where the Vice-President Hamid Ansari went on an eight-day official visit recently –
Cuba, Peru and the UK

• The Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh – Nabam Tuki

• The country with which India has signed a treaty for transfer of sentenced prisoners – Vietnam

• The regulator to which SC upheld the appointment of UK Sinha as the chairman recently – SEBI

• The girl crowned Miss Asia Pacific World 2013 – Srishti Rana

• India’s CAG elected to the UN Board of Auditors recently – Shashi Kant Sharma

• The district of Kerala which has become the first zero-landless district in the country – Kannur



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• The chairman of the panel which suggested that diesel prices should be hiked by Rs.5 per litre –
Kirit s Parikh

• The city which has got the world’s first publicly accessible ATM machine which can exchange
digital currency, bitcoins, for any official currency - Vancouver

• The player who has been named the International Tennis Federation’s women’s world champion
for 2013 – Serena Williams

• One of the most ambitious space missions launched by Europe in history which is going to map the
precise positions and distances to more than a billion stars – The Gaia satellite

• The state-owned miner allowed to produce coal-bed methane (CBM) along with coal – Coal India
Ltd (CIL)

• The winner of the ET Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 – Azim Premji

• The winner of the ATS 69
th
National team badminton titles, for the 15
th
year in succession –
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board

• Goa celebrated the 52
nd
liberation anniversary when the state was freed on 19 Dec 1961 from the
colonial power of - Portuguese

• The shortest day of the year and the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere – 21
December

• The person appointed the Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(NABARD) – Harsh Kumar Bhanwala

• The player who has been named the International Tennis Federation’s men’s world champion for
2013 – Novak Djokovic

• The player who has been conferred BCCI’s Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award for the
year 2013 – Kapil Dev

• The auto major which has announced to shift its entire export operations for the Middle East,
Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia to India – Suzuki Motor Corporation

• The first Indian squash player to win the IMET Open – Mahesh Mangaonkar

• The airline with which India’s second largest low-cost carrier SpiceJet has signed an interline
agreement - Tigerair

• The country that inked a deal enabling EU to send back illegal migrants who entered the 28-nation
bloc via it - Turkey

• The amount sought by the United Nations for humanitarian aid to Syria’s conflict-affected
population – USD 6.5bn

• The country which has been granted Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP Plus) status by
the European Parliament - Pakistan

• The Qatar-based bank which has been granted license to commence banking operations in India
recently – Doha Bank


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• The person who has been named Time Person of the Year 2013 – Pope Francis

• The person who has been named Guardian’s Person of the year 2013 – Edward Snowden
• The amount to be provided by the Centre under its flagship programme MNREGA for constructing
toilets – Rs.10,000

• The team which has lifted Men’s Junior Hockey World Cup for a record sixth time - Germany

• The CCEA has approved the continuation of the ongoing Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) in
the Twelfth Plan (2012-13 to 2016-17) with an outlay of – Rs.63,246 cr

• The team India defeated to emerge as champions of the fourth Kabaddi World Cup - Pakistan

• The state to which Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced to lend $350 mn for improving
power transmission and distribution system – Madhya Pradesh

• The Indian firm which has topped the wealth creation table, according to the Motilal Oswal annual
wealth creation study for the five-year period 2008-13 – Tata Consultancy Services

• The country which has become the first country to allow euthanasia for incurably ill children -
Belgium

• The richest person of India at present as per US-based business magazine Forbes’ annual list –
Mukesh Ambani

• The winner of the prestigious Mother Terasa Memorial International Award for Social Justice –
Sushmita Sen

• The act which the Supreme Court has held an offence punishable with up to life imprisonment
recently – gay sex

• The top Indian diplomat who was held for visa fraud in the US recently – Devyani Khobragade

• The new prime minister of Somalia – Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed

• The winner of the ‘Emerging Cricketer of the Year’ trophy at the 2013 ICC Annual Awards –
Cheteshwar Pujara

• The team which won women’s Kabaddi World Cup championship for the third time in a row –
India

• The international airport which has been renamed after Nadaprabhu Kempe Gowda – Bengaluru
International Airport

• The state whose legislative assembly has passed the Anti-Superstition Bill recently - Maharashtra

• The new Chairman and Managing Director of Andhra Bank – CVR Rajendran

• The new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of India unit of Walmart – Krish Iyer

• The winner of the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year Awards 2013 – Michael
Clarke

• The team to which visiting India lost a three-match ODI series recently – South Africa


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• The temperature, coldest ever recorded on Earth, hit by Antarctica recently - - ° 136 F (- ° 2 . 93 C)

• The WISH-2013 meet was organized recently in - Doha

• The person awarded with the highest civilian award of France, ‘Chevalier de la Legion d’ Honneur’
recently – Anjali Gopalan

• The first state to introduce Centre’s National Vocational Qualitative Framework (NVQF) Scheme -
Haryana

• The country where the senior Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah was executed for war
crimes recently - Bangladesh

• The country which has been elected to 193-member UN General Assembly replacing Saudi Arabia -
Jordan

• The first mega food park of the country is to come up at – Amethi, UP

• The bank fined by the US USD 100 mn for violating sanctions against Iran, Sudan, Burma and Cuba
– Royal Bank of Scotland

• The state which launched a scheme name Manodhariya Yojana aimed at compensating victims of
various crimes, especially rape, child sex abuse and acid attacks - Maharashtra

• The year by which the leading nations of the world have committed to developing a cure or
treatment for dementia - 2025

• The firm that has bagged three-year sponsorship rights for the Indian cricket team for all BCCI,
ACC and ICC events – Star India

• The new director General of the OPCW – Ahmet Uzumcu

• The country that hosted the 27
th
South East Asian Games, the biggest sporting event in South East
Asia - Myanmar

• The indigenously designed and developed fighter aircraft which is all set to its induction in the
Indian Air Force – LCA Tejas

• The body accorded statutory status under the provisions of the recently enacted Companies Act,
2013 – Serious Fraud Investigation Office

• The largest airborne survey of Earth’s polar ice to yield a three-dimensional view of Arctic and
Antarctic ice sheets – Ice Bridge

• The first nation of the world which has granted non-human personhood status to dolphins to
recognize their unique intelligence – India
• The fighter jet which was flown into history by the Indian Air Force recently – Mig-21 FL

• The party that emerged as the single largest party in the newly elected Constituent Assembly in
Nepal – Nepali Congress

• The World Trade Organization (WTO) held its crucial ministerial conference in - Bali



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• The first country of the world which legalized marijuana recently - Uruguay
• The person conferred 2013 Impact Person of the Year Award – Vineet Jain
• The name of the new ball unveiled for the 2014 FIFA World Cup - Brazuca
• The new Chief Information Commissioner of India – Sushma Singh
• The country that will host under-17 FIFA World Cup in 2017 – India
• The farthest object sent by India into the space so far - Mangalyaan
• The winner of the 2013 LG People’s Choice Award of ICC – MS Dhoni
• India is all set to raise a 10-metre high embankment running along the 197-km strech of the
International Border along - Pakistan
• The telecom firm on which DoT slapped Rs.600-cr penalty for its alleged violation of licence
conditions in its merger deal with Spice Communications – Idea Cellular
• The process that has been made compulsory by the RBI for all debit card transactions from 1
December, 2013 – Punching PIN
• The firm which has agreed to pay USD 2.5 bn as compensation to around 8000 US citizens for its
faulty hip implants – Johnson & Johnson
• The UNICEF’s first brand ambassador for South Asia – Sachin Tendulkar
• The three-member committee formed in the aftermath of the brutal gang rape in Delhi, to deal with
sexual assault cases, is headed by the former chief justice – JS Verma
• The CEO of India’s second largest private bank HDFC Bank – Aditya Puri
• A global electronic payments firm which rolled out Saral money - Visa international
• As per Indian laws, a resident Indian can invest in a fiscal in foreign currency assets up to -
$200,000
• The Bench of Justices that has given decision on Lokayukta appointment in Gujarat – BS Chauhan
and Ibhrahim Kalifulla
• The state which is planning to make its capital ‘Solar City’ by making the use of solar energy
mandatory for the owners of the building - Tripura
• The five-day centenary session of the Indian Science Congress was held in the month of January
2013 at - Kolkata
• The world’s largest private security services company which was found guilty of not paying full
provident fund dues to over 10,000 employees in Delhi alone – G4S
• The country whose central bank has come under considerable political pressure to adopt a higher
inflation target - Japan
• The state which celebrated 125 years of the historic journey of its legislature recently - UP
• The girl who was chosen for Ireland’s Prestigious Tripperary International Peace Prize for 2012 –
Malala Yousafzai
• The statement “We must create at least 2-3 world sized banks; even China has done it has been
given by – Finance Minister P Chidambaram
• The UT which has prescribed separate buses for schoolboys and schoolgirls, overcoats for girls and
restricted interaction of girls with boys - Puducherry
• The country which has declared activities such as surfing social media or engaging in personal
matters during office hours as an act of corruption - Malaysia


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• The town Dhule, where a quarrel between a Hindu vendor and two Muslim youths, escalated into
riots is in - Maharashtra

• The committee which in its reports has suggested raising diesel and kerosene rates – Vijay Kelkar
Committee

• A two-day meeting of health secretaries and senior advisors of BRICS was held in the month of
January in – New Delhi

• The Argentine star who won the FIFA Ballon d’ Or award for the fourth time – Lionel Messi

• The Delhi-based teenaged actor who has been nominated for rising star in the BAFTA Award –
Suraj Sharma

• The state which recently launched helicopter service for remote tribal areas – Himachal Pradesh

• NSE signed an LoI for launching Nifty futures, a representative stock price index of India, with –
Japan Exchange Group

• The Salma Dam Project, for which India has approved an additional Rs.600 crore recently, is in -
Afghanistan

• The fifth Annual Defence Dialogue between India and China was held in the month of January in -
Beijing

• The provisional of Chapter 10 A of income Tax Act dealing with the General Anti Avoidance Rules
(GAAR) will come into force from – April 1, 2016

• The National Security Adviser of India – Shiv Shankar Menon

• Ho Chi Minh, a historical city which was recently visited by the Vice-President of India, is situated
in - Vietnam

• India will set up languages labs to fulfil a commitment made in 2011 for setting up of a three-tier
English Language Training System in – Sri Lanka

• The country which has given to women a 20 per cent quota in its Consultative Assembly for the
first time – Saudi Arabia

• The country which recently boosted its defence budget for the first time in ten years - Japan

• The ‘Southern Weekend’ a newspaper that has a reputation for independent journalism, was
censored by its country - China
• A two-day congress Chintan Shivir was organized in - Jaipur
• The first-ever North East International Tourism Mart was held in the month of January in -
Guwahati

• Lance Armstrong, who recently confessed to using performance-enchancing drugs, is related with -
Cycling

• The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has slated its first launch of the year, the ocean
study spacecraft SARAL, with the help of - France

• The statement ‘Multiple roles of RBI create conflict’ was given by - IMF


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• United Nations has estimated the Indian economy to grow in 2013 by – 6.1%

• ‘World economic situation and prospects 2013 (WESP)’ report was released in the month of
January 2013 by – United Nations

• The world Future Energy Summit (WFES) was held in the month of January in – Abu Dhabi

• The winner of the 2014 Malaysian Grand Prix formula one championships – Lewis Hamilton
• The winner of the Candidates Chess tournament – Viswanathan Anand
• The Indian state which is the top recipient of foreign remittances into the country – Kerala
• The country which topped the Amnesty International’s Global Death Penalty Report 2013 – China
• The private sector lender which has introduced “Kisan Card” through which a farmer can withdraw
up to Rs.1 lakh per day from ATMs – Axis Bank
• The winner of the women’s singles of the 2014 Miami Masters tennis championships – Serena
Williams
• The new president of the 28-nation military alliance NATO who will take charge in October – Jens
Stoltenberg
• The host country of the 18
th
SAARC Summit – Nepal
• The newly acquired US-made multi-role special operations aircraft of the IAF that crashed near
Gwalior – C-130J
• The chairman of BCCI during IPL7 – Sunil Gavaskar
• The first missile developed by DRDO under the country’s prestigious Integrated Guided Missile
Development Program which was again test-fired recently – Prithvi II
• The date by which the Reserve Bank of India has extended the timeline for full implementation of
the Base III capital regulations – 31 March 2019
• The winner of the 2014 Deodhar Trophy - West Zone
• The country with which China has allowed direct domestic trading of its currency Yuan – New
Zealand
• India’s projected per capita income in 2013-14 based on current prices – Rs.74,920
• The winner of the men’s title of the 64
th
National Basketball Championships - Tamil Nadu
• The Indian writer who won the Yale University’s Windham Campbell Literature Prize in non-fiction
– Pankaj Mishra
• The winner of the 4
th
Hockey India Senior Women National Championship - Railways
• The first state in the country to declare all election booths in the Lok Sabha polls as not smoking
zones – Jammu & Kashmir
• The country from which a large number of people are feeling their homelands to seek asylum –
Syria
• The automaker in the US which will pay a record $ 1.2 bn to resolve a criminal probe into safety
issues – Toyota Motors
• World Tuberculosis Day – 24 March
• The new Secretary of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) – Amitabh Kant
• The two-month long campaign against dengue launched in six major cities in the country – U & Me
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• The two sites nominated by India as candidates for UNESCO’s World Heritage Site – GHNP and
Rani-ki-Vav
• Martyrdom Day – March 23
• The US-made robotic mini-submarine deployed to locate debris of the missing Malaysian aircraft –
Bluefin-21
• The export subsidy that the govt will provide on raw-sugar shipments for the Apr-May period to
help the cash-starved industry to pay arrears to sugarcane farmers – Rs.3,300 per tonnes
• The winner of the inaugural 10,000 US Dollar Richmond Open squash championship title – Joshana
Chinappa
• The two-week-long joint military exercise held between China and Pakistan – Peace Angel 2014
• The amount pumped by the investors in various mutual fund schemes during 2013-14 – Rs.54,000
crore
• Cash turnover on the nation’s three full-fledged stock exchanges NSE, BSE and MCX-SX in 2013-14
– Rs.33.41 lakh crore
• Winner of the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix 2014 – Lewis Hamilton
• The ten-day joint Air exercise scheduled to take place between India and France in June – Garuda-5
• The Nobel laureate novelist who died recently – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• World Heritage Day – 18 April
• The two Election Commissioners who make full election commission along with Chief Election
Commissioner VS Sampath – Nasim Zaidi and HS Brahma
• The new President of Algeria who won for the fourth time in a row recently – Abdelaziz Bouteflika
• NASA’s robotic lunar explorer which was annihilated as planned recently – LADEE
• Best Hindi Film at the 61
st
National Awards – Jolly LLB
• The infrastructure budget unveiled by the Brazilian authorities for the Rio Olympics 2016 – USD
10.76 bn (approx)
• The tax rate at the which individuals earning more than Rs.10 crore a year will be taxed under the
revised Direct Tax code – 35 per cent
• The software bug that is in news across the world – Heartbleed
• The new chief of the Indian Navy – Rabinder Kumar Dhowan
• The country which has announced to withhold funding to the Commonwealth Secretariat, pointing
to the Secretariat’s silence on alleged war crimes and rights abuse in Sri Lanka – Canada
• Best Feature Film at the 61
st
National Film Awards – Ship of Theseus
• The new Finance Secretary of India – Arvind Mayaram
• The state with the highest number of factories as per the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) 2010-11
– Tamil Nadu
• The number of products an insurer can file for approval as per new Irda product planner rule – Five
• The field in which the highest number of factories has been observed in the Annual Survey of
Industries (ASI) 2010-11 – Food products
• The country which decided to shut infamous Abu Ghraib prison over security fears recently – Iraq
• The India-born poet who won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category – Vijay
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• The per cent of branches new banks need to open in unbanked rural areas as per the RBI norms – 25
per cent
• The new Prime Minister of France – Manuel Valls
• The new Chief Justice of India – Justice RM Lodha
• The author of the book titled Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths – PC Parakh
• The PSB which has sold Rs.3,500 crore of its NPAs to ARCs recently – State Bank of India
• The book for which Donna Tartt has won fiction Pulitzer 2014 – Goldfinch
• The first woman Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court appointed recently – Justice G Rohini
• The person who has been conferred Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2013 – Gulzar
• The country which leads global remittances in the year 2013 with a whopping Rs.70 bn in its kitty –
India
• The ‘most powerful nation’ in world market according to the ‘world market power’ index – China
• The author of the recently published book titled The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and
Unmaking of Manmohan Singh – Sanjaya Baru
• Dr BR Ambedkar’s birth anniversary declared a public holiday – 14 April
• The new president of the industry body CII – Ajay Shriram
• The state capital in the northeast region to be put on Rail Map recently – Itanagar
• The Miss India 2014 – Koyal Rana
• The country that launched a new observation satellite “Ofek 10” into orbit recently – Israel
• The economic growth rate of India in 2014-15 projected by the World Bank – 5.7 per cent
• The world’s fastest growing vector-borne disease with a 30-fold increase in disease incidence over
the last 50 years – Dengue
• The tribals who cast their vote for the first time in the country’s history in the recent election –
Shompens
• Winner of the women’s singles title of the India Super Series 2014 badminton – Shixian Wang
• The international insurer with which SBI runs SBI Life Insurance joint venture – BNP Paribas
Cardif
• The winner of the 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix formula one championships – Lewis Hamilton
• The cinematographer awarded with Dada Saheb Phalke award, who passed away recently – VK
Murthy
• Winner of the men’s singles title of the India Super Series Badminton – Lee Chong Wei
• The Indian shooter who has clinched the World No. One spot in 10 metres air pistol event – Heena
Sidhu
• The drug maker which has announced to acquire Ranbaxy for $3.2 bn – Sun Pharmaceuticals
• World Health Day – 7 April
• The theme of the World Health Day for 2014 – Vector-borne diseases: small bite, big threat
• The team which has won the men’s 2014 ICC World T20 – Sri Lanka
• The country where the multilateral, humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) exercise,
dubbed Komodo 2014, was held recently – Indonesia


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• The new Prime Minister of Hungary – Viktor Orban
• The new President of Malta – Marie Louise Coleiro Preca
• The threatened species for whose protection IRV 2020 programme has been launched by WHO-
India – One-horned rhinoceros
• The firm authorized by the RBI to set up, own and operate 9,000 white-label ATMs in the next three
years in rural India – Srei Infrastructure Finance
• India’s second regional navigation satellite launched recently – IRNSS 1-B
• The Chairman of Samsung who has been directed to appear before a Ghaziabad court – Lee Kun-
hee
• The Rajya Sabha MP who has been indicted by a US jury – KVP Ramachandra Rao
• The state which emerged as the number one investment destination in the country – Maharashtra
• The RBI has capped the Ways and Means Advances (WMA) limit for the central govt in the first half
of the new financial year 2015 at – Rs.35,000 crore
• The headquarters of the 64-member Asian Development Bank (ADB) – Manila
• The India-born doctor who has worked out a 21-chemical solution named SOMAH that could
preserve a donated organ for up to a week before a transplant – Hemant Thatte
• The present Foreign Minister of Iran who was in New Delhi on a two day official visit recently –
Javad Zarif
• The Indian Navy Chief who resigned recently, taking responsibility of a slew of mishaps in Navy’s
submarines – DK Joshi
• The country which topped the list of 10 countries in their use of “digital govt” in a new study by
Accenture – Singapore – India’s rank – Eighth
• The player who was given the Lifetime Achievement award at the National Sports Award
presented by the FICCI recently – Rahul Dravid
• India’s most powerful rocket to date, scheduled for an experimental flight in April – GSLV Mk-III
• The present Governor General of Canada who visited India recently – David Johnston
• The cricketer who has been appointed the brand ambassador of Gujarat state Election Commission
recently – Cheteshwar Pujara
• The city in India where world’s longest (20 km) free Wi-Fi zone was inaugurated recently – Patna
• The first Indian to be elected as the president of Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development
Bank (ADB) for three years recently – Lakshmi Swaminathan
• The oldest Member of Parliament (MP) till date who retired after seven decades in politics recently –
Rishang Keishing
• The most expensive ($ 51-bn investment) Olympics event till date – Sochi Olympics
• The winner of the 2014 ONGC-GAIL Delhi Open tennis tournament – Somdev Devvarman
• The winner of the Rio Open 2014 tennis tournament – Rafael Nadal
• The language classified by the govt as the sixth Indian classical language – Odia
• India’s position in the ICC U-19 World Cup – Fifth
• The crown prince of Saudi Arabia who was on a three-day official visit to India recently – Salman
bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
• International Women’s Day – 8 March


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• The current President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) – Thomas Bach
• The telecommunication company which became the first company to cross 200 million mobile
subscribers mark in India – Bharti Airtel
• The country which topped the medal chart at the recently concluded Sochi Winter Olympics –
Russia
• The country where ICC T20 World Cup 2014 was organised – Bangladesh
• The mobile handset maker whose bid to transfer its Indian assets to Microsoft was denied by the
Supreme Court recently – Nokia
• The chairman of the Committee constituted by the govt to assess implementation of the Sachar
Committee recommendations – Amitabh Kundu
• The chairman of the MCX-SX who resigned recently – GK Pillai
• The new chairman of the MCX-SX stock exchange – Thomas Mathew T
• The Indian acid attack victim who has won the prestigious International Women of Courage Award
– Laxmi
• The Committee on whose recommendation the govt has decided to hike interest rates on fixed-
deposit schemes offered by post offices by up to 0.2% - Shyamala Gopinath Committee
• World’s richest person in the Forbes 2014 billionaire list – Bill Gates
• The cricketer who has been appointed by Canara Bank as its brand ambassador – Shikhar Dhawan
• The new President of Chile – Michelee Bachelet
• The present per capita steel consumption in India is around – 60 kg
• The Goods and Services Tax will replace – Excise duty, Service tax and Value – added tax (VAT)
• The present length of the National Highways in the country – 80, 000 km
• The size of SDR allocation to India from International Monetary Fund (IMF) – 3.29 bn
• The country where the funeral ceremony of its First Vice President Marshal Mohammad Qasim
Fahim was held at the presidential place recently – Afghanistan
• The country where the initial phase of the IPL 7 will be staged – United Arab Emirates
• The joint disaster relief operations carried out between the armies of India and Nepal in Pithoragarh
in Uttarakhand recently – Surya Kiran
• The team which won the Santosh Trophy 2014 football tournament – Mizoram
• The country where Muslim Brotherhood, which Saudi Arabia has formally designated as a terrorist
organisation recently is active – Egypt
• The Indian envoy to Saudi Arabia who regularised, the status of 14 lakh Saudi Indians and has been
conferred the SK Singh Award for excellence in Indian Foreign Service – Siby George
• The team which won the ICC Asia Cup cricket tournament recently – Sri Lanka
• The duration of President’s rule in a state in the first instance – Six months
• The state which is India’s fastest growing state a per the data of CSO with its GSDP growing at 15.05
per cent during 2012-13 – Bihar
• The country where the permanent secretariat of the BIMSTEC group is proposed to be set up –
Bangladesh
• The Indian city where the BIMSTEC Energy Centre is planned to be established – Beengalore


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• Jupiter’s moon to which the US space agency NASA is planning to send a robotic mission by 2025 –
Europa
• The Indian city which topped the list of word’s ten least expensive cities as per the Worldwide Cost
of Living 2014 index – Mumbai
• The present Secretary General of SAARC – Arjun Bahadur Thapa
• Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2013 has been awarded to – Chandi Prasad Bhatt
• The first universal bank of India – ICICI Bank
• The sports federation in India which has been accorded the status of National Sports Federation –
Hockey India
• Chief Election Commissioner of India – VS Sampath
• The newly appointed governor of Kerala – Sheila Dikshit
• In a ground-breaking discovery, researchers have found that nearly 4,200 years ago the Indus Valley
civilisation was doomed by – A monster drought
• The number of phases for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections – Nine
• The movie which has won the best picture Oscar at the 86
th
Academy Awards – 12 Years a Slave
• World Wildlife Day – 3 March
• The International governing body for the game of boxing – AIBA
• The first private bank of India which has commenced its operations in China recently – Axis Bank
• The country where the BIMSTEC Summit was held on 4 March – Myanmar
• The country which is planning to reduce its army to its lowest manning levels since 1940 –US
• The pair which won the doubles title of the 2014 Dubai Duty Free tennis championships – Rohan
Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi
• The country where Matteo Renzi was sworn in as the youngest-ever Prime Minster recently – Italy
• The country to which the World Bank has postponed a $ 90-mn loan for the health system after an
anti-gay bill was signed into law there – Uganda
• The winner of the men’s singles title of the 2014 Dubai Duty Free tennis championships – Roger
Federer
• The team which won the ICC U-19 World Cup – South Africa
• The Indian-origin scientist in the UK who has discovered an ultra-thin layer hidden deep in the eye
that may help cure blindness, caused by glaucoma recently – Harminder Dua
• The bank which had the highest share of NPA’s among the listed banks in 2013 – State Bank of
India
• The country which has overtaken India as the world’s largest gold consumer – China
• The amount the finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 (G20) have
vowed to add to world economy to lift growth – USD 2 tn
• World Water Day – 22 March
• The bank from which the govt sold 9 per cent stake held through SUUTI to garner over Rs.5,500
crore – Axis Bank
• The state where the foundation of a 70-storey temple ‘Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir’, billed to be
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• The public sector lenders which has announced, for the first time in its history, to offload around
Rs.5,000 crore of its Rs.67,799 crore dud assets to ARCs – State Bank of India
• The winner of the women’s singles title of the BNP Paribas Open 2014 – Flavia Pennetta
• The country to which the Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has extended a Line of Credit of
$89.90 mn for developing transportation system – Republic of Congo
• The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of HPCL appointed recently – Nishi Vasudeva
• The insurer which has come under the scanner of IRDA for alleged irregularities in implementation
of govt-sponsored insurance schemes meant for the poor – ICICI Lombard
• The Reserve Bank of India deputy governor who resigned recently – Kamalesh Chandra
Chakrabarty
• The new ceiling on poll expenditure for Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly candidates
respectively – Rs.70 lakh, Rs.28 lakh
• The present chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) – Swatanter Kumar
• The team which won the Vijay Hazare Trophy – Karnataka
• The mobile operator which has announced to buy Spanish cable operator Ono for 7.2 bn euros –
Vodafone
• The Bru or Reang refugees living in relief camps in Tripura originally belong to – Mizoram
• The bank which has launched its Namma Metro Transit cum Debit Card which is valid to travel in
Bangalore Metro as travel tokens – Federal Bank
• The regions declared independent from Ukraine in a recent referendum conducted there – Crimea
• Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) was instituted in – NABARD
• TRIPS agreement is associated with – Intellectual property rights
• The investment envisaged in the annual plan in the Interim Rail Budget for 2014-15 – Rs.64,305
crore
• The place in Andhra Pradesh chosen for one of two new govt-controlled ports in the country –
Dugarajapatnam
• The first rail system in the world to be awarded the Gold Standard foundation for energy efficiency
– Delhi Metro
• The youngest athlete (15 years old) to win Gold at Sochi Winter Olympics – Yulia Lipnitskaya
• The chairman of the Supreme Court-appointed committee which submitted its report on betting
and fixing in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) – Mukul Mudgal
• India’s indigenous intermediate jet trainer (IJT) aircraft whose development is in advanced stages of
certification – Sitara
• The South Korean city which will host the 2018 Winter Olympics – Pyeongchang
• The first state in the country to achieve 100 per cent sanitation in rural and urban households,
schools, sanitary complexes and Aanganwadi centres – Sikkim
• The newly elected Prime Minister of Nepal – Sushil Koirala
• The country which was in news, recently, regarding its alleged role in operation Blue Star – UK
• The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth pegged by CSO in its estimates for 2013-14 – 4.9 per
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• The denomination in which the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is gearing up to introduce about one
billion plastic notes on a trial basis – Rs.10
• The aggregate foreign investment (FDI, FII and NRI) limit for public sector banks (PSBs) – 20 per
cent
• The new president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) – N Ramachandran
• The telecom major whose proposal to increase its stake in the Indian entity to 100% was cleared by
the CCEA recently – Vodafone
• The model recalled recently by India’s largest passenger carmaker Maruti Suzuki – Maruti 800
• The state where the highest number of poor people (5.98 crore) live below the poverty line in 2011-
12 as per the Planning Commission – Uttar Pradesh
• The increased fair and remunerative price (FRP) for sugarcane approved by the govt for 2014-15 –
Rs.220
• The cloud computing project launched by the Union govt – Meghraj
• The limit to which FDI is allowed in private sector banks in India under the govt route – 74 per cent
• The number of people living below poverty line in 2011-12 as per the estimates of Planning
Commission – 27 crore
• The cricket cup played between the winner of the Ranji Trophy and a team representing Rest of
India – Irani Cup
• The new CEO of the software giant Microsoft – Satya Nadella
• The chairman of the 7
th
Central Pay Commission – Ashok Kumar Mathur
• The social networking site which completed 10 years in operation on 4 February 2014 – Facebook
• The president of Germany who visited India recently – Joachim Guack
• MGNREGA Divas – 2 Feb
• The position of India among crude oil importers in 2013 – Third
• The winner of Ranji Trophy 2013-14 – Karnataka
• The new chief minister of Uttarakhand – Harish Rawat
• The state govt which has decided to revoke foreign direct investment (FDI) in multibrand retail
recently – Rajasthan
• The state which has been ranked on top in the RBI’s report titled “State Finances – A study of
Budgets of 2013 – 14” based on different fiscal parameters – Chhattisgarh
• The first woman to be inducted in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC’s) umpires’ panel –
Kathy Cross
• India’s ranking in the 2014 Environment Performance Index (EPI) – 155
th

• The team which remained on the top with 92 medals at the end of the Lusofonia Games in Goa –
Goa (India)
• The city where country’s first monorail service commenced its operations recently – Mumbai
• The country with which India entered into a double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) for the
first time recently – Fiji
• The bank which raised Rs.8,032 crore by selling shares through QIP, making it the biggest ever
equity sale via this route recently – State Bank of India (SBI)


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• The country whose central bank approved domestic trading in the Chinese yuan, Japanese yen,
Australian dollar as well as Indian rupee to be legal tender recently – Zimbabwe
• The economic condition which causes a sustained increase in general price level over a particular
period of time and reduces the purchasing power of money – Inflation
• The top ULFA leader who has been sentence to death by a court in Bangladesh for being involved in
the country’s biggest weapons haul seized in 2004 – Paresh Barua
• The state where world’s largest 4,000-MW ultra mega solar power project will be set up – Rajasthan
• The Sub-Inspector in the anti-naxal force Greyhounds of Andhra Pradesh who was posthumously
conferred the Ashok Chakra – K Prasad Babu
• The Social Justice and Empowerment minister who resigned from the Union Cabinet recently –
Kumari Selja
• The country from which India is considering buying 15 ShinMaywa US-2 amphibious patrol
aircrafts – Japan
• The winner of the women’s singles title of the 2014 Australia Open Tennis tournament – Li na
• The winner of the men’s singles title of the 2014 Syed Modi International India Grand Prix Gold
badminton tournament – Xue Song
• The financial institution which has announced recently to instal 3000 ATMs and 1.35 lakh micro-
ATMs by September 2015 – India Post
• The community notified by the govt as national minority recently – Jain
• The team which won the Federation Cup football tournament recently – Churchill Brothers
• The winner of the men’s single title of the 2014 Australia Open – Stanislas Wawrinka
• The country where Laimdota Straujuma became the first woman Prime Minister – Latvia
• The India-born engineer-scientist who has been awarded the 2014 Marconi Prize – AJ Paulraj
• The new chief of the Hyderabad-based National Police Academy – Aruna Bahuguna
• The Managing Director of Tata Motors who died in Bangkok recently – Karl Slym
• The National Girl Child Day – 24 January
• The Indian-origin academician who has been appointed dean of the prestigious Harvard College
recently – Rakesh Khurana
• The RBI has decided to withdraw from circulation all currency notes issued prior to – 2005
• The new Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) – T. Nanda Kumar
• The National Voter’s Day – 25 January
• The state whose tourism department has been awarded ‘Ulysses Award’ by UNWTO – Kerala
• The country which has introduced new restrictions on online shopping as part of efforts to stop
foreign currency reserves from falling further – Argentina
• The city where annual meeting of World Economic Forum (WEF) was held recently – Davos
• The biodiversity hotspots in India named ‘destination flyways’ by UNWTO recently – Chilika
lagoon
• The state which has been given Krishi Karman award for overall foodgrain production (more than
10 million tonnes category) for 2012-13- Madhya Pradesh
• The National Women’s Day is celebrated in India on 13 February every year in the memory of –
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• The city where G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and central bank governors was held – Sydney
• The growth rate of India country in 2014-15 (at factor cost) projected by IMF – 5.4 per cent
• India’s surface-to-air missile successfully test-fired recently – Akash
• The CMD of Union Bank of India who resigned recently in the wake of a surge in bad loans at the
bank – Archana Bhargava
• The state which became the first state in the country to launch the NUHM – Uttar Pradesh
• The social media giant who acquired mobile messaging company WhatsApp – Facebook
• The new chairman of prestigious Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) – Kiran
Mazumdar Shaw
• The two states to be brought within the railway network this fiscal – Meghalaya and Arunachal
Pradesh.
• The amount of fund proposed for the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in the
Interim Union Budget for 2014-15 – Rs.1000 crore
• The country which ordered the immediate recall of its Ambassador in India, Daniele Mancini – Italy
• Bahrain’s crown king who visited India recently on a three-day official visit – Hamad bin Isa Al
Khalifa
• The shot putter who gave the lone gold to India in the 6
th
Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
event held at Hangzhou (China) recently – Om Prakash Singh Karhana
• The cellular operator which has acquired Mumbai based Loop Mobile for about Rs.700 crore
recently – Bharti Airtel
• The first country in the world to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children recently – Belgium
• India’s first dedicated military satellite – GSAT-7
• The Prime Minister of Italy who resigned recently – Enrico Letta
• The country which ranked at the bottom in the Global Gender Gap Report 2013 – Yemen
• The total amount of bids received by the govt after auction of the spectrum recently – Rs.61,000
crore
• The chairman of the six-member committee set up by the Govt to suggest remedial measures to
address concerns of people from the Northeast – MP Bezbaruah
• The author of the controversial book titled The Hindus: An Alternative History, which Penguin
announced to withdraw recently – Wendy Doniger
• India’s ranking in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index – 140
th

• The term which won the Irani Trophy 2013-14 – Karnataka
• The country where the military has imposed martial law amid a political crisis – Thailand
• The state where the SC banned ‘jallikattu’ (bull fighting) and bullock cart racing, recently – Tamil
Nadu
• The scientists who first theorised the technique to turn light into matter in 1934 – Gregory Breit
and John Wheeler
• The present Secretary General of the ASEAN group – Le Luong Minh
• The country where paleontologists have discovered fossils of the largest dinosaur ever to roam the
earth - Argentina
• The country with which Russia signed a major gas deal recently - China


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• The institution which is co-terminus with the Union Govt – Planning Commission
• Chief Minister of Bihar – Jitan Ram Manjhi
• The city where the fourth meet of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures
in Asia (CICA) was held recently – Shanghai
• The three-time Formula One champion who passed away recently – Sir Jack Brabham
• Chief Minister of Odisha – Naveen Patnaik
• The winner of the women’s singles title at the Rome Masters tennis tournament – Serena Williams
• Chief Minister of Sikkim – Pawan Chamling
• The chairman of the RBI’s committee constituted to review the governance of boards of banks in
India – P J Nayak
• The best-paid player in the world playing with Barcelona team – Lionel Messi
• The persons who have topped the recent list of UK billionaires – Srichand and Gopichand
Hinduja
• The Steel Man of India and former chief of Tisco (now Tata Steel) who passed away recently –
Russi Mody
• The country where citizens rejected adopting world’s highest minimum wage (25 dollars an hour)
in a referendum recently – Switzerland
• Thomas Cup is associated with – Men’s badminton
• Uber Cup is associated with – Women’s badminton
• Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh – Nabam Tuki
• The candidates who won the election with a margin of 5.7 lakh votes recently – Narendra Modi,
Vadodara
• The automaker in the US which will pay a record $35 mn fine over faulty ignition switches –
General Motors
• The project associated with submarine programme of the Indian Navy – Project-75India
• The stock exchange which ceased to exist from May 30 – Madras Stock Exchange
• The island which became the first island in the world fully energy self-sufficient through combined
water and wind power – EI Hierro
• The RBI has announced to launch much-awaited plastic currency notes of Rs.10 from – 2015
• The state whose co-operative bank became the first co-operative bank of the country to launch its
own ‘Ru Pay’ ATM-cum-debit card recently – Himachal Pradesh
• The militant group on which the Union Home Ministry extended the ban for five years – LTTE
• The game Shiv Chowrasia is associated with – Golf
• The car model which has became only the second in India to cross 25 lakh unit sales mark in
domestic market – Alto
• The country where at least 300 people were killed in a coal mine explosion and fire recently –
Turkey
• The country where the world’s highest tunnel for high-speed trains became operational at an
altitude of 3,607.4 metres recently – China


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• The group with which India is negotiating the Broad–based Trade and Investment Agreement
(BTIA) – EU
• The country which announced to abolish its controversial sponsorship system for foreign workers –
Qatar
• The first woman to command a UN peacekeeping force – Kristin Lund
• International Nurses Day (IND) – 12 May
• The economies of the world declared world’s most expensive economies in a recent ranking by the
World Bank – Switzerland and Norway
• The company which topped the Forbes‘ list of the world’s 2000 largest and most powerful public
companies – Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
• The next Army Chief appointed recently – Dalbir Singh Suhag
• The team which clinched the 20
th
Senior National Women’s Football Championships – Manipur
• The winner of the Spanish Grand Prix 2014 – Lewis Hamilton
• The country where the world’s biggest bio-bank imaging study is being conducted – UK
• The state which was adjudged to have the best land acquisition model in the report prepared by
consultancy firm Accenture on behalf of DIPP – Gujarat
• India’s ranking in the State of World’s Mothers’ Index 2014 – 137
th

• The space agency from which Afghanistan has leased its first-ever satellite AFGHANSAT 1 –
Eutelsat, EU
• The city declared the most polluted city in the 2014 version of the Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) by
the WHO – Delhi
• Number of Parliamentary and Assembly seats respectively in the new state of Telangana – 17 and
119
• The country where Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 schoolgirls recently – Nigeria
• The newly elected President of South Africa – Jacob Zuma
• The province of Afghanistan where a devastating landslide buried a village recently – Badakhshan
• The state where the High Court cancelled the appointment of 10,323 teachers recently - Tripura
• India’s own payment gateway launched recently – RuPay
• The firm which leads the list of 54 Indian Firms in the recently released Forbes ‘Global 2000’ list –
Reliance Industries
• The embattled premier of Thailand dismissed form the office by a court recently – Yingluck
Shinawatra
• The new airline granted the flying licence by aviation regulator DGCA recently – Air Asia India
• The flying test bed (FTB) aircraft developed by HAL and handed over to DRDO recently –
Nabhratna
• The chairman of the RBI panel on credit information which submitted its report recently – Aditya
Puri
• The newly elected President of Rajasthan Cricket Association – Lalit Modi
• The new name of the ING Vysya Life Insurance Company Limited – Exide Life Insurance
• The new President of Panama – Juan Carlos Varela


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• The annual exercise conducted between the US and the Philippines – Balikatan
• World Press Freedom Day – 3 May
• The winners of the WTA Portugal Open 2014 women’s doubles title – Sania Mirza and Cara Black
• India’s first indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range missile – Astra
• The state where a major field exercise by the Army, codenamed ‘Sarvada Vijay’, was conducted
recently – Rajasthan
• The film which won the Best Picture Award at the IIFA Award 2014 – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
• The surface-to-air missile successfully test-fired by India recently – Akash
• The country where a recent massive landslide claimed hundreds of lives – Afghanistan
• The country to which the former Chief of the Air Staff NAK Browne has been appointed India’s
Ambassador – UK
• The internet browser whose vulnerability is referred by ‘Operation Clandestine Fox’ – Internet
Explorer (IE)
• International Jazz Day – 30 Apr
• The new CEO of Ford Motors – Mark Fields
• The chairman of the SIT appointed by the SC to probe black money – MB Shah
• The new Deputy Chief of the Air Staff – SBP Sinha
• The winner of the prestigious Goldman Environment Prize called the Green Nobel for 2014 –
Ramesh Agrawal
• The world’s third-largest economy by PPP as per a World Bank report – India
• The Professional Footballers’ Association player of the year for 2013-14 – Luis Suarez
• The International Commonwealth Championships 2014 was held recently in – Perth
• The headquarters of the IMF – Washington
• The person who replaced Anand Sinha as the new RBI deputy governor – R Gandhi
• World’s largest steel producer – China
• A new purple mineral with a unique makeup discovered from a remote part of Australia recently –
Putnisite
• The winner of the 2014 Indonesian Masters golf tournament – Anirban Lahiri
• The country which has set up a Special Police Force to handle religious disputes – Sri Lanka
• The new President and CEO of Nokia - Rajeev Suri
• The country that successfully test-fired a short-range ballistic missile Hatf-III (Ghaznavi) recently –
Pakistan
• The Outstanding Asian Men’s Player of the Year 2013 adjudged by the Asian Squash Federation –
Saurav Ghosal
• Winner of the World Women’s Senior Snooker Championship 2014 – Chitra Magimairaj
• The country which signed a 10-year pact with the US to allow a bigger US military presence in its
territory – Philippines
• The Prime Minister of South Korea who tendered his resignation over ferry accident – Chung
Hong-won


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• The state which topped in creation of new jobs during the six years between 2004 and 2011 as per
the latest NSSO data – West Bengal
• World Intellectual Property Day – 26 April
• The country from which India’s first aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, was sourced in 1957 - UK
• The chairman of the RBI panel which released Draft Report on ‘Pricing of Credit’ recently – Anand
Sinha
• The world’s biggest military spender – US
• The issue of fresh securities by an unlisted company for the first time – Initial Public Offering
• The Indian satellite that retired after remaining 10 years in orbit – INSAT-3E
• The two states which together account for about half of the total mango production in India –
Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh
• The largest milk–producing state in India as of now – Uttar Pradesh
• The 2014 World Car of the Year – Audi A3
• The top export destination for India’s mangoes – UAE
• Insurance Day is celebrated in India on – Apr 19
• The Earth-sized discovered by the US space agency NASA which may sustain life – Kepler-186f
• The winner of the inaugural I-League football championships – Bengaluru FC
• Earth Day – 22 Apr
• The country which has become Africa’s biggest economy – Nigeria

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