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The person to head a new innovative council of Indian


Railways called Kaya Kalp Ratan Tata
The person appointed as the brand ambassador for the
Northeast Mary Kom
The present tiger population in the country 2,226
The winner of the Womens Hockey World League Round
2 India
The first bank to offer contactless card in India using
NFC technology ICICI Bank
The firm on which the Income Tax Department has
slapped `20,495 cr tax notice Cairn India
The worlds largest arms importer for the period 2010-14
India
The winner of the Australian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton
The country which is promoting Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank (AIIB) China
The number of health workers in India for every 1000
people 19
The number prescribed by WHO 25
The staunch Gandhian who died recently Narayan
Desai
The present Managing Director of IMF who visited India
recently Christine Lagarde
World Consumer Rights Day 15 Mar
The article of the Constitution which empowers the
President to promulgate ordinances Article 123
The scheme with which the National Mission for a Green
India has been converged MGNREGA
The number of PSBs in India at present 27
The winner of the 2015 Santosh trophy Services
The island India has leased from Mauritius Agalega
The island India has leased from Seychelles
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The PSB which opened its British subsidiary recently


Union Bank of India
The present CMD of the UBI Arun Tiwari
Mudra Bank will be first set up as a subsidiary of
SIDBI
The winner of the mens singles of the Swiss Open Grand
Prix Gold title Srikanth Kidambi
The number of Indian satellites which are currently
operational 27
National Science Day 28 Feb
The winner of the 2015 Ranji Trophy Karnataka
The capital infused by the govt in 2013-14 in 14 PSBs
`14,000 cr
The capital infusion targeted by the govt in 2014-15 in
nine PSBs `6,990 cr
The proposed capital infusion by the govt in 2015-16 in
PSBs `7,940 cr
The GDP growth of India in 2015-16 as projected by the
IMF 7.5 per cent
The year in which the US had imposed sanctions against
Iran 1979
The plan outlay proposed in the Railway Budget for the
FY16 `1,00,011 cr
The percentage to which the govt has decided to reduce
its shareholding in PSBs 52 per cent
The present Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha PJ
Kurien
The new Insurance Law raised foreign investment cap in
insurance sector to 49 per cent
The current insurance penetration in the country 3 per
cent
The amount LIC of India will invest in the Indian Railways
over the next five years `1.5 lakh cr
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The non-tax revenue estimated in the General Budget for


FY16 `2,21,733 cr
The Plan expenditure estimated in the General Budget of
FY16 `4,65,277 cr
World Tuberculosis Day 24 Mar
The country which on 9 Mar successfully test-fired its
surface-to-surface Shaheen-III ballistic missile Pakistan
The Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and
Public Distribution who resigned recently Raosaheb
Dadarao Danve
The senior journalist and founder-editor of Outlook
magazine who died recently Vinod Mehta
The no. of accounts linked with Aadhaar numbers by
NPCI under the Jan Dhan scheme so far 15 crore
The controversial documentary on interview of accused
of Nirbhaya rape case Indias Daughter
The present PM of Mauritius Anerood Jugnauth
The capital with which MUDRA Bank will be set up $3.2
bn
The firm which bought Pipavav Defence in all-cash deal
recently Reliance Infra
International Womens Day 8 Mar
The richest person of India with a wealth of `1.3 lakh cr
Dilip Shanghvi
The three Indian Ocean countries PM visited from Mar
10 to 14 Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Seychelles
The date for RBIs first bi-monthly monetary policy
statement for the fiscal of 2015-16 Apr 7
The countrys umbrella body for all retail payments
system NPCI
The present President of Seychelles James Alexis
Michel
The new repo rate 7.5 per cent
The new reverse repo rate 6.5 per cent
The date till the implementation of GAAR has been
deferred Apr 1, 2017
Insurance Day 19 Apr
The new chairman of the National Book Trust (NBT)
Baldev Sharma
The initial allocation proposed in the Budget for FY16
for the MGNREGA scheme `34,699 cr
The commodity market regulator at present FMC
The Namibian President who has won Mo Ibrahim award
for African leadership Hifikepunye Pohamba
The cheapest cities to live in globally Bangalore and
Karachi
The costliest city to live in globally Singapore
The country which is home to the largest number of
billionaires across the world US

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The country in which the PM launched India-supplied


offshore patrol vessel Barracuda Mauritius
The reduced number of mandatory documents required
for import and export of goods Three
The bank which is to auction repossessed property worth
nearly $200 mn State Bank of India
The Financial Services Secretary in the Ministry of
Finance at present Hasmukh Adhia
The country to which the Shinkansen bullet train
technology belongs Japan
The former chief minister of Bihar who passed away
recently Ram Sundar Das
The country with which India, on 5 Mar, signed pact on
Mutual Protection of Classified Information Spain
The Indian-American re-nominated as the Alternative
Executive Director at IMF by the US Sunil Sabharwal
The consumer inflation target set by the RBI governor
and the govt to be met by the end of Mar 2017 4 per
cent ( 2 per cent)
Income tax deduction for contributions made to Swachh
Bharat Fund, other than CSR 100 per cent
The top-up pledged in the Budget for 2015-16 to the
Nirbhaya Fund `1,000 crore
The range of the 3-digit CIBIL TransUnion Score 300900
The new Chief Secretary of Delhi KK Sharma
The FDI cap in credit information companies in India at
present 74
The Gulf country where India is to set up a 1.3-mn-tonne
urea plant for about `5k cr Iran
Indias largest corporate with assets worth `3.68 lakh
crore as of now RIL
The Indian software firms named as the top employer in
Europe for the third year in a row TCS
The loss to exchequer estimated by the CAG due to
faulty allotment of coal blocs earlier `1.86 lakh cr
The former first lady of Ivory Coast jailed for 20 years
recently Simone Gbagbo
Tibetan Uprising Day 10 Mar
The institution that manages the Domain Name System
(DNS) internationally ICANN
The present chief executive of the ICANN Fadi Chehade
The two drug-makers whose $4-bn merger crossed the
final hurdle with the Punjab & Haryana HC approval
recently Sun and Ranbaxy
The industrialist known for Eveready Industries India
who died recently Deepak Khaitan
The penalty the RBI imposes per KYC violation `5
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The winner of the womens singles title of the 2015 Dubai


Tennis Championships Simona Halep
The headquarters of the New Development Bank (or
BRICS Bank) Shanghai
The country which will hold the Presidency of the NDB
for the first six years India
The winner of the Zurich Chess Classic Hikaru
Nakamura
The first woman president of Croatia who was sworn in
recently Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic
The countrys first state to present a paperless budget
recently Himachal Pradesh
The batsman who hit the first-ever double century in the
ICC Cricket World Cup on 24 Feb Chris Gayle
The chairman of the 14th Finance Commission Y
Venugopal Reddy
The country which passed legislation banning
commercial surrogacy recently Thailand
The new chief minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar
The winner of the third edition of the Hockey India
League (HIL) Ranchi Rays
The combined military training exercise held between
India and Nepal recently Surya Kiran VIII
The Indian player who became the 77th member of the
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame recently Anil Kumble
The capital and largest city of Mali Bamako

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Indias next ambassador to the US Arun K Singh


The Minister of State for Finance in the present Union
Cabinet Jayant Sinha
The new Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed
The new president of the BCCI Jagmohan Dalmiya
The date on which NASSCOM celebrated its silver
jubilee 1 Mar
The present chairman of NASSCOM R
Chandrasekaran
The winner of the mens singles title of the 2015 Dubai
Tennis Championships Roger Federer
The new increased services tax as proposed in the General
Budget for 2015-16 14 per cent
The Chief Justice of Orissa HC who joined SC recently
Justice Amitava Roy
The sanctioned strength of the Supreme Court, including
CJI 31
The person who presented the first budget of
independent India on 26 Nov 1947 RK Shanmukham
Chetty
The present Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) to the
Finance Minister Arvind Subramanian
The Indian priest who was abducted in Afghanistan and
released recently Father Alexis Prem Kumar

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The bank which leads in mobile banking transactions as


of Jan 2015 HDFC Bank
The bank which acquired the diamond/jewellery
financing business of RBS recently IndusInd Bank
The German Nobel laureate who died recently Gunter
Grass
The country which topped the global remittances in 2014,
receiving USD 70 bn India
The North Korean foreign minister who visited New Delhi
recently Ri Su Yong
Winner of the Chinese Grand Prix Formula One Lewis
Hamilton
Winner of the Azlan Shah Cup hockey title New Zealand
Indias position in the 24th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey
tournament Third
The first female Indian tennis player to achieve the world
No. 1 rank in doubles Sania Mirza
The first female Indian shuttler to achieve the world No.
1 rank in singles Saina Nehwal
The former Air Chief Marshal who died recently
Hrushikesh Moolgaonkar
The country with which India has signed a Memorandum
of Cooperation in transport US
The total upfront payment received by the govt from
telecom players in the recent auction `32,300 cr
(approx)
The US state which allowed nitrogen gas as an execution
method recently Oklahoma
The first Indian bank whose mobile banking application
(app) will be available in Apple Watches HDFC Bank
The country which has put off its infamous Nitaqat III
scheme recently Saudi Arabia

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The new Chief Executive Officer of Khadi and Village


Industries Commission (KVIC) Arun Kumar Jha
The chair of the ninth meeting of the IRENA to be held in
Abu Dhabi India
The city declared Global Earth Hour Capital 2015 Seoul
The city declared Indias Earth Hour Capital 2015 Thane
National Safe Motherhood Day 11 Apr
The former Australian captain known as voice of cricket,
who died recently Richie Benaud
Paris in situated on the river Seine
The headquarters of the UNESCO is situated in Paris
The amount to be invested by France in India 2 bn
euros
The Indo-French satellite mission to study the water
cycle in the tropical atmosphere Megha-Tropiques
International Day of Human Space Flight 12 Apr
The host city of the UN Climate Change Conference
Paris
The new Chief Election Commissioner of India Nasim
Zaidi
The country from which India evacuated around 5,600
people recently Yemen
World Meteorological Day 23 Mar
The biologist chosen recently for the prestigious US
presidential award Murty S Kambhampati
The new chairperson of NGT Swatanter Kumar
The bank which is going to offer loan products named
Shishu, Kishor and Tarun MUDRA Bank
The corpus of MUDRA Bank launched on 8 Apr
`20,000 cr
The chairman of the 11-member committee set up to work
out single framework for govt clearances Ajay Shankar
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For all-round development of this Island the World Bank


has sanctioned `100 cr Sagar Island
The Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State
Finance Ministers on GST KM Mani
The Independence Day of Bangladesh 26 Mar
The navigation satellite the ISRO launched on 28 Mar
IRNSS-1D
The country where 147 students were massacred by
Shebab Islamist group in Garissa recently Kenya
The regulator of health insurance business in India
IRDA of India
Japans largest warship that Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar visited recently Izumo
Indias ranking in the 2015 FM Global Resilience Index
on business resilience 119th
The richest woman of China at present as per Forbes list
Zhou Qunfei
RBI started its operations as a shareholders bank in
1935 on 1 Apr
The first governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Osborne Smith
The value of export targeted by the new Foreign Trade
Policy (FTP) USD 900 bn
Femina Miss India 2015 Aditi Arya
The only team to win the ICC Cricket World Cup five
times Australia
The first ICC Cricket World Cup was played in 1975
The man of the match in the 2015 ICC Cricket World
Cup final James Faulkner
The man of the tournament in the 2015 ICC Cricket
World Cup Mitchell Starc
The captain of the winning Australian team who retired
from ODIs after the World Cup final Michael Clarke
The winner of the first ICC Cricket World Cup West
Indies
The new Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court Ashok
Bhooshan
The estimated cost of the National Supercomputing
Mission launched recently `4,500 cr
The host of the ICC Cricket World Cup to be held in 2019
England
Winner of the womens singles title of the India Open
Super Series title Saina Nehwal
Indias ranking on UNCTADs new index for assessing
the readiness of countries for e-commerce 83rd
Winner of the mens singles title of the India Open Super
Series Kidambi Srikanth
The worlds largest B2C market measured in terms of
revenue and the number of online buyers China

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Winner of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T-20 cricket tournament


Gujarat
The Pakistan Taliban chief banned by the UN Security
Council Mullah Fazlullah
The city where the 5th meeting of the Health Ministers
of SAARC countries was held on 8 Mar New Delhi
The single number proposed by TRAI for all emergency
phone calls across the country 112
The minimum interest rate at which a bank can lend
Base rate
NH-56 connects Lucknow and Varanasi
The capital of Turkmenistan Ashgabat
The number of Executive Directors at the World Bank
25
Winner of the mens singles title of the Miami Masters
2015 Novak Djokovic
Winner of the womens singles title of the Miami Masters
2015 Serena Williams
The place in Maharashtra where the French firm Areva
will set up nuclear-power plants Jaitapur
The new Director of the ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) in
Bengaluru M Annadurai
The first bank in the country to deploy voice-recognition
technology for biometric authentication ICICI Bank
The new Chairman of the IPL Governing Council Rajeev
Shukla
The central bank with which the RBI signed a USD 400mn currency swap agreement Central Bank of Sri
Lanka
The first Scorpene-class stealth submarines undocked
in Mumbai on 6 Apr Kalvari class
The birth anniversary of Babu Jagjivan Ram on 5 Apr is
observed as Samata Diwas
The worlds oldest living person recognised by Guinness
World Records who died recently Misao Okawa
The Committee set up to review depository receipts
scheme MS Sahoo Committee
The bank which has topped the list with highest NPAs
among PSUs as of Dec 2014 Central Bank of India
The currency of Malaysia Ringgit
The state where Indias first International Finance
Service Centre (IFSC) is coming up Gujarat
The Budget allocation to provide interest subsidy for
exports for fiscal year 2015-16 `1,625 cr
The period for which the govt has issued its Foreign
Trade Policy (FTP) 2015-20
Indias present share in global trade 2 per cent
The person who won the presidential elections in Nigeria
recently Muhammadu Buhari

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Winner of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Australia


The size of the recent rights issue by the Tata Motors
`7,500 cr
Indias highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna
The bank with which the Indian Railways has launched
pre-paid RuPay debit card Union Bank of India
Winner of the Best Director award at the 62nd National
Film Awards Srijit Mukherji (Chotushkone)
The section of the IT Act ruled unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court on 24 Mar 66A
Winner of the best actress award at the 62nd National
Film Awards Kangana Ranaut
Winner of the best actor award at the 62nd National Film
Awards Vijay
The highest run scorer (237) in a match in the ICC World
Cup so far Martin Guptill
The CEO of Twitter who visited New Delhi recently
Dick Costolo
The actor named for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke
Award recently Shashi Kapoor
Indias economic growth rate for 2015-16 projected by
the ADB recently 7.8 per cent
The former Australian PM who died recently Malcolm
Fraser
The present chairman of Sebi UK Sinha
The state govt which named its new capital city as
Amaravathi Andhra Pradesh
Winner of the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize 2015
Rajendra Singh
The new Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court Uma
Nath Singh
Indias current nuclear power capacity 5,780 MW
The present President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff

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The project aimed at port-led development of coastal


states Sagarmala project
The partner of the SBI in the general insurance joint
venture Insurance Australia Group
The Yemeni President forced to flee the country recently
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi
The person who topped the 2015 roster of Worlds
Greatest Leaders by Fortune magazine Tim Cook
The next US ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives
Atul Keshap
The partner country for Hannover Messe, 2015, the
biggest industrial fair in the world India
The telecom firm that emerged as the highest bidder in
the recent spectrum auction Idea Cellular
The number of digits in the MICR code Nine
The countries that primarily hold Malabar Naval Exercise
India and the US
Indias position in the Open Govt Index 2015 37th
The country which topped the Open Govt Index 2015
Sweden
The currency of Indonesia Peso
The present Union Food Processing Minister
Harsimrat Kaur Badal
The amount the govt raised through the recent telecom
spectrum auction `109,874 cr
The number of agreements signed between India and
Qatar recently Six
The multi-purpose and multi-modal platform launched
by the PM on 25 Mar PRAGATI
The capital of Yemen Sanaa
The system launched by the govt to securely store
documents online DigiLocker

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The winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize


Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The 78-year-old stock exchange which was allowed to
exit by SEBI recently Madras Stock Exchange
The new rate of service tax effective Jun 1 14 per cent
The Indian city where Google has announced to set up
its largest campus outside the US Hyderabad
The amount South Korea has offered to provide for
infrastructure projects in India USD 10 bn
The country where 12-day annual multi-nation military
exercise Eager Lion was held recently Jordan
The present PM of Mongolia Chimed Saikhanbileg
The bank whose first branch in China was inaugurated
by PM Modi in Shanghai recently ICICI Bank
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
(WTISD) 17 May
The new MD and CEO of Syndicate bank Arun
Shrivastava
Winner of the 2015 Sudirman Cup badminton tournament
China
The veteran singer and guitarist who died recently BB
King
Indias position on the 124-nation global Human Capital
Index 2015 100th
The new president of Japans SoftBank Corp Nikesh
Arora
The new chairman of the National Safety Council (NSC)
Satish Reddy
National Technology Day which commemorates Nuclear
Tests in Pokhran 11 May
International Nurses Day 12 May

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Chief of the BRICS Bank or the New Development Bank


KV Kamath
RBI introduced the banking ombudsman scheme in
1995
The founding father of the European single currency
euro who died recently Alexandre Lamfalussy
The only Indian firm in the worlds top-10 list of consumer
finance firms compiled by Forbes HDFC (ranked 7th)
The firm that has topped the list American Express
The veteran actor who was presented with Dada Saheb
Phalke award for 2014 Shashi Kapoor
The Indian tech billionaire ranked as Asias wealthiest
entrepreneur under the age of 40 as per Wealth-X Arun
Pudur
The Indian-origin woman who got Cabinet rank in the
new David Cameron govt in the UK Priti Patel
The hockey team India defeated 3-0 in a 4-match series
recently Japan
The winner of the Spanish Grand Prix F1 championship
on 10 May Nico Rosberg
The skill training scheme for members under 35 yrs of
age of households that have completed 100 days work
in 2014-15 under MGNREGA Livelihoods In Full
Employment (LIFE)
The typhoon that hit Philippines on 10 May Noul
The bilateral trade between EU and India at present
100 bn euros
The year by which the NOFN (National Optical Filere
Network) project aims to connect 2.5 lakh gram
panchayats 2016

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The only category that showed a growth in excise duty


collections during FY14 as per CAG Petroleum
products
Indias position in global market capitalisation (m-cap)
ranking as on May 2015 Tenth
The new threshold for FDI for which approval of CCEA
is compulsory `3,000 cr
The four states whose territories come under the ambit
of the LBA Bill Assam, West Bengal, Tripura and
Meghalaya
The surface-to-air short-range missile defence system
inducted into Armys arsenal recently Akash
The Chinese micro-blogging site equivalent to Twitter
Sina Weibo
The insurance firm that raised its stake in the insurance
JV with Bharti group to 49 per cent recently AXA Group
The moon of Jupiter whose lava lakes detailed
observations was captured recently lo
The state with the least number of married 19-year-old
girls as per data from the census 2011 Nagaland
Indias position in terms of number of reactors in
operation globally as per IAEA data 7th
The company that has come up with the free Internet
access site, Internet.org Facebook
The country which is buying 24 Dassault Rafale jets
from France in $7.02 bn Qatar
The two retail majors who have announced their merger
in a `750-cr all-stock transaction Future and Bharti
Retail
The name of Royal baby of Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge of the UK Charlotte Elizabeth Diana
The veteran investor who was killed in a recent accident
in the US Parag Parikh
The new cleanliness initiative of West Bengal on the
lines of Swachch Bharat Mission Mission Nirmal
Bangla
The amount the Centre would invest to revamp road
infrastructure in the Northeast `20,000 cr
The new web browser unveiled by Microsoft Edge
The upper limit on withdrawals at micro-ATMs fixed by
the banks `10,000
The 161st member of the World Trade Organisation
(WTO) which joined it on 27 Apr Seychelles
International Day of Yoga 21 Jun
Indias position in generating electricity from nuclear
source as per IAEA data 13th
World Dance Day 29 Apr

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The country where a contingent of the Nine Grenadiers


regiment of the Indian Army marched in an international
military parade on 9 May Russia
The state where a strategically important new naval base
INS Sardar Patel was commissioned on 9 May Gujarat
The Naxal hotbeds where the PM initiated welfare
projects worth about `25,000 cr on 9 May Dantewada
The former Gujarat Chief Secretary appointed as the
Election Commissioner of India recently Achal Kumar
Jyoti
The 119th Constitution (Amendment) Bill passed by the
Parliament LBA Bill
The French Defence Minister who visited India on 5
May Jean-Yves le Drian
The date after which banks have to issue only EMV
chip-based and PIN-enabled debit and credit cards 1
Sep 2015
The woman wrestler who won bronze in Asian
championship in Doha on 6 May Geeta Phogat
The winner of Sportsperson of the Year award at inaugural
TOISA awards presented on 7 May Jitu Rai
The deadline for new model cars to pass minimum frontal
and side crash tests Oct 2017
The new Prime Minister of UK whose Conservative Party
won 331 out of 650 seats recently David Cameron
The state where the Polavaram multipurpose project will
come up Andhra Pradesh
The head of the Committee looking after the issue of
MAT on FIIs AP Shah
Indias current position in the global list of countries in
terms of their travel and tourism competitiveness 52nd
Mothers Day Second Sunday of May
The country where President Pranab Mukherjee attended
the Victory Day parade recently Russia
The country which has topped the biennial Travel &
Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) 2015 Spain
The bank which has launched a product that could
process personal loans in 10 seconds HDFC Bank
As per the RBI, gross non-performing asset (GNPA) ratio
as on Mar 15 4.45 per cent
The port to be developed by India in Iran Chabahar
PM Narendra Modi has become the first Indian PM to
visit this country Mongolia
The capital city of Mongolia Ulan Bator
The book written by Vikas Swarup which was made into
Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire Q&A

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Winner of the 2015 edition of the Pandit Deenanath


Mangeshkar Award Anil Kapoor
The President of the International Olympic Committee
(IOC) who visited India recently Thomas Bach
Indias ranking in the recently released World Happiness
Report 2015 117th
The Marathi writer who was presented the 50th Jnanpith
Award by the PM on 25 Apr Bhalchandra Nemade
The state awarded as the Best e-Panchayat state Assam
National Panchayati Raj Diwas 24 Apr
The 10-day naval exercise conducted between India and
France recently Varuna
The country which has topped the 2015 World Happiness
Report Switzerland
The country that marked the centenary of the Ottoman
massacre of up to 1.5 million people on 24 Apr Armenia
World Malaria Day 25 Apr
The country where the Calbuco volcano erupted for the
first time in more than 42 years recently Chile
The country to which India on 9 Apr delivered three
Cheetal helicopters Afghanistan
Earth Day 22 Apr
The batsman who scored most runs (547) in the ICC
Cricket World Cup 2015 Martin Guptill
The bowlers who took most wickets (22 each) in the ICC
Cricket World Cup 2015 Mitchell Starc and Trent Boult
The Indian-American sworn in as the Surgeon-General
of US on 22 Apr Vivek Murthy
The country which hosted the Bandung Conference
recently Indonesia
The firm which has bought the telecom equipment
business of Alcatel-Lucent Nokia
The country to which the Indian embassy in Yemen has
been shifted Djibouti
The country which has launched the construction of its
first nuclear power plant in Mersin province Turkey
The country where BHEL, with the Russian company
INTMA, will set up a gas-based power project
Kazakhstan
Indias new Ambassador to France Mohan Kumar
The Indian scientist (co-creator of element 117) who has
won Hevesy Medal Award 2015 Susanta Lahiri
The former PM of Nepal who died on 16 Apr Surya
Bahadur Thapa
The new name of the tourist visa on arrival scheme
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The new limit for FDI in the pension section 49 per


cent
The prominent social and human rights activist of
Pakistan who was shot dead in Karachi recently Sabeen
Mahmud
The first African-American woman to become the US
attorney general (83rd) recently Loretta Lynch
Winner of the womens singles title at the Badminton
Asia Championships in China on 26 Apr Ratchanok
Intanon
The name of Indias rescue operation in quake-hit Nepal
Operation Maitri
The Indian 155mm, 45-calibre artillery gun which
successfully cleared Indian Armys tests recently
Dhanush
Winner of the Shamkir Chess tournament on 26 Apr
Magnus Carlsen
Winner of the Asian Banker Achievement Award 2015
for Technology Implementation Bharatiya Mahila
Bank
The state where the Indian Army on 26 Apr conducted a
major exercise, Akraman-II Rajasthan
The Indian honoured by France with the Officier de la
Lgion dHonneur (Officer of the Legion of Honour)
Yashwant Sinha
The sports body suspended by the govt recently
Paralympic Committee of India (PCI)
The Malaysian ace shuttler banned by the Badminton
World Federation for doping recently Lee Chong Wei
The bank which has made its global foray by opening its
first overseas representative office in Abu Dhabi YES
Bank
The city where the 4th International Wind Conference
will be held on Jun 22-23 Coimbatore
The re-elected president of Kazakhstan Nursultan
Nazarbayev
Winner of the mens singles title of the Badminton Asia
Championships in China on 26 Apr Lin Dan
The Indian-origin scientist at MIT who won the 2015
Heinz Award Sangeeta Bhatia
The first woman officer (Indian Navy) to die in the line of
duty recently Kiran Shekhawat
The UNESCO recognised site in Kathmandu which
collapsed in 25 Apr earthquake Dharahara Tower
(Bhimsen Tower)
The Afghan president who visited India recently Ashraf
Ghani

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Indias para-athlete who won the inaugural Young


Leaders Award in the UK Devika Malik
The city where the fourth Migrant Resource Centre
(MRC) of the country has been launched Chennai
The bank which has launched PayZapp app with a
complete payment solution HDFC Bank
The country where the 41st G7 summit was held on Jun
7-8 Germany
The comet lander which woke up after a long hibernation
recently Philae
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 15 Jun
The value of Indias exports in 2014-15 $310.5 bn
The current position of Coal India (CIL) among top 40
global mining firms in terms of market capital Sixth
The capacity of the India Nuclear Insurance Pool
launched by GIC Re and 11 other non-life insurers
`1,500 cr
The country facing the outbreak of Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) at present South Korea
The PM of Moldova who announced his resignation
recently Chiril Gaburuci
The country which has announced to open the New
Suez Canal on Aug 6 Egypt
The winners of mixed doubles title of the 2015 French
Open Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Mike Bryan
The 80s cricketer to be inducted in the ICC Cricket Hall of
Fame Sir Wesley Winfield Hall
The CEO of Twitter who resigned recently Dick Costolo
The legendary British actor who died on 7 Jun
Christopher Lee
The present Defence Minister of Sweden who visited
New Delhi recently Peter Hultqvist

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The happiest Indian city declared by LG Electronics


Chandigarh
The Padma Shri awardee and the creator of world-famous
Rock Garden in Ghandigarh, who died on 12 Jun Nek
Chand
The only Indian sportsman (ranked 23rd) in Forbes
magazines 100 highest-paid athletes in the world list
MS Dhoni
The top-ranked sportsman in world list Floyd
Mayweather
The free trade pact signed by the African leaders of 26
countries on 10 Jun Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA)
The new Director of the Hyderabad-based CSIR-Indian
Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) Srivari
Chandrasekhar
Indias first indigenously-built aircraft carrier which was
undocked on 10 Jun in Cochin, Kerala INS Vikrant
The winner of the 14th Sant Namdev National Award2015 Parkash Singh Badal
The former Test cricketer who died on 10 Jun Hemant
Kanitkar
The winners of the mens doubles title of the 2015 French
Open Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo
World Milk Day Jun 1
The new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of India
Vijai Sharma
The new Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) of India
KV Chowdary
The three new districts included in the Delhi NCR
recently Karnal, Jind and Muzaffarnagar
The city where Indias first automated vehicle testing
centre was inaugurated recently Nashik
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The new president of Mauritius Ameenah Gurib-Fakim


The govts scheme for developing 500 cities AMRUT
The winner of the womens singles title of the French
Open Serena Williams
The new CEO of the Germanys biggest lender Deutsche
Bank John Cryan
The present PM of Netherlands who visited New Delhi
recently Mark Rutte
The PMs Special Envoy on Countering Terrorism and
Extremism Asif Ibrahim
The brand ambassador of the IAP HealthPhone
programme Aamir Khan
The Indian insurance firm granted permission to start
operations in Bangladesh recently LIC of India
The Union Minister who led the events at the UN on the
International Yoga Day (Jun 21) in New York Sushma
Swaraj
The sixth city in India to have a Metro rail service
Jaipur
Indias economic growth forecast for 2015-16 as
announced by the RBI on 2 Jun 7.6 per cent
The new Repo rate as announced by the RBI on 2 Jun
7.25 per cent
The website launched by the govt to help find missing
children khoyapaya.gov.in
The steel manufacturer which has become the largest
steel maker in the country JSW Steel
The state where BHEL will set up a 4,000-MW power
project in the largest order in its history (`17,950 cr)
Telangana
The new Reverse Repo rate after the RBIs Jun 2 policy
review 6.25 per cent
The new commerce secretary in the Union govt Rita A
Teaotia
The person awarded with the Freedom of Expression
Prize in Norway on 2 Jun Edward Snowden
The country which honoured AB Vajpayee with its
Friends of Liberation War Award recently Bangladesh
The Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 2004) who died recently
Irwin Rose
The new secretary-general of the National Human Rights
Commission (NHRC) Satyanarayan Mohanty
The telecom firms which is offering free roaming services
from Jun 15 BSNL
The newly elected FIFA chief who resigned on 2 Jun
Sepp Blatter
The winner of the Hero I-League football trophy on 31
May Mohun Bagan
World Environment Day (WED) 5 Jun

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The first tropical storm of the pre-monsoon season this
year in the Indian seas Ashobaa
The three nations of the SAARC group with which India
has signed motor vehicles pact Bhutan, Nepal and
Bangladesh
The amount of soft loan provided by the govt to sugar
mills to clear dues to farmers `6,000 cr
Indias growth rate in FY16 as per Global Economic
Prospects (GEP) report of the World Bank 7.5 per cent
The IT firm which has launched, BaNCS Digital,
specifically for American retail banks TCS
The 1500th high horse power (HHP) Diesel Locomotive
launched at DLW, Varanasi recently Gaurav
The international bank which has announced to cut up
to 50,000 jobs globally HSBC
The well-known Telugu poet and writer who died on 8
Jun Dasaradhi Rangacharya
The new non-executive Chairman of ICICI Bank MK
Sharma
World Oceans Day 8 Jun
Winner of the 2015 Canadian Grand Prix F1 championship
Lewis Hamilton
The new chief of the National Security Guards (NSG)
RC Tayal
The new chairman of Infosys R Seshasayee
The state with which Essel Group has formed a joint
venture (JV) to set up solar parks Rajasthan
The country with which the Adani and Reliance Power
have signed MoU to set up power utilities Bangladesh
The winner of the mens singles title of the 2015 French
Open tennis tournament Stanislas Wawrinka
The winner of the womens doubles title of the 2015
French Open tennis tournament Bethanie MattekSands and Lucie Safarova
The two SEZs offered by Bangladesh to Indian
companies Bheramara and Mongla
The stake the RBI has allowed banks to acquire in
companies defaulting after restructuring of their loans
51 per cent
The state which leads in solar power with close to 1.128
MW of installed capacity as of 2014-15 Rajasthan
The new India Under-19 cricket team coach Rahul
Dravid
The countries against which the fin min imposed antidumping duty for stainless steel products China,
Malaysia & South Korea
The winner of the 2015 UEFA Champions League football
tournament Barcelona FC

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The new scientific advisor to the defence minister GS


Reddy
The amount allocated in the Union budget for the DD
Kisan channel launched recently `100 cr
The brand ambassador of the DD Kisan channel
Amitabh Bachchan
The film for which Hou Hsiao-Hsien was adjudged Best
Director at the 68th Cannes Film Festival The Assassin
The chairman of the committee to revisit and revitalise
the PPP model of infrastructure development Vijay
Kelkar
The winner of the Ceat Indian Cricketer of the Year Award
Ajinkya Rahane
The new head of the Bureau of International Recycling
Ranjit Singh Baxi
The new defence secretary G Mohan Kumar
The new chairman and managing director of the National
Fertilizers Manoj Mishra
The woman on top of the Forbes 2015 list of the worlds
100 most powerful women Angela Merkel
The bank which has launched a voice recognition service
to identify and authenticate customers ICICI Bank
The film which won Palme dOr Award at 68th Cannes
Film Festival Dheepan
Winner of the Orange cap for most runs in IPL8 David
Warner
Winner of the Purple cap for most wickets in IPL8
Dwayne Bravo
Winner of the IPL8 Mumbai Indians
Winner of the Monaco Grand Prix F1 championship
Nico Rosberg
The Nobel laureate who died in a road accident in US
recently John Nash
The Indian film which won the critics prize in the Un
Certain Regard category at the 68th Cannes Film Festival
Masaan
The country which legalised gay marriage through a
referendum recently Ireland
The country with which the Indian Navy conducted
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The country where Shangri La dialogue was held recently


Singapore
The private sector lenders who will not issue slips after
cash withdrawals at ATMs HDFC Bank
The annual remuneration on non-executive director of
private banks fixed by the RBI recently `10 lakhs
Indias overall exports of textiles and clothing in 2014-15
$41 bn
The new chancellor of the Nalanda University George
Yeo
The new limit on funds individuals can take abroad under
liberalised remittance scheme $2.5 lakh
The Indian corporate which earned the highest net profit
for 2014-15 Reliance Industries
The two countries President Pranab Mukherjee visited
recently Belarus & Sweden
The country with which India has signed a 10-year
defence framework agreement US
The new director-general (news) in Doordarshan (DD)
Veena Jain
The govts target for installed solar power by 2022 100
GW
The Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha
The Union minister for Development of North Eastern
Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh
Indias gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the full
year 2014-15 7.3 per cent
The second-leading cause of death globally after
cardiovascular diseases Cancer
The new name of the national optical fibre network
(NOFN) BharatNet
Anti-Terrorism Day (India) 21 May
The horse gifted by the Mongolian PM to Narendra
Modi during the latters recent visit to Ulan Bator
Kanthaka
The state which on 27 May withdraw Armed Forces
Special Powers Act (Afspa) Tripura
The new name of the premium trains with new facilities
Suvidha
The new Director General of DRDO S Christopher

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The Archie Comics cartoonist who died recently Tom


Moore
The new Director General of The Energy and Resources
Institute (TERI) Ajay Mathur
The Japanese firm which has announced to buy the
Financial Times from Britains Pearson Nikkei
The Nobel laureate who has won the Royal Societys
Copley Medal Peter Higgs
The World Book Capital for 2017 as announced by the
UNESCO Conakry (Guinea)
The National Broadcasting Day 23 Jul
The President and CEO of the Japans Toshiba who
resigned recently Hisao Tanaka
The state where the 2015 Malabar River Festival was
held recently Kerala
The person appointed as the new Chief Economist of
the IMF Maurice Obstfeld
The new chairperson of the FSSAI Bhanu Pratap
Sharma
Indian city which has been included in the UNESCOs
Cities of Music Varanasi
The Indian actor who won the Ironman title at a triathlon
held in Zurich, Switzerland Milind Soman
The Interim Director of the Pune-based Film and
Television Institute of India (FTII) Prashant Pathrabe
Winner of the 2015 Pacific Asia Travel Association
(PATA) award Kerala Tourism
The South Korean steel giant who has put on hold its
$12-bn steel project in Odisha Posco
The Indian American honoured as Champions of Change
in the US Sunita Viswanath
The brand ambassador of Haryanas Beti Bachao, Beti
Padhao campaign Parineeti Chopra

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The place where the countrys first defence industrial


park has been approved Ottappalam (Kerala)
The Uruguayan soccer legend who passed away recently
Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia
The new Director of National Book Trust Rita
Chowdhury
The recently decommissioned torpedo launch and
recovery vessel INS Astravahini
World Day for International Justice 17 Jul
Indias GDP growth rates in FY16 and FY17 respectively
as per ADB 7.8 %, 8.2 %
The French F1 driver who died recently Jules Bianchi
The city from where the govt launched the HRIDAY
scheme on 15 Jul Amritsar
The head of the RBIs committee on financial inclusion
Deepak Mohanty
The noted artist conferred with the highest French
civilian award Commandeur de la Legion dhonneur (the
Legion of Honour) recently Syed Haider Raza
The indigenously helicopter-launched anti-tank missile
Nag (HeliNa)
The NASA spacecraft which flew by the dwarf planet
Pluto recently New Horizons
The SC committee which suspended two IPL franchisees
for two years recently RM Lodha Committee
The legendary music director who died recently MS
Viswanathan
The new Vice-Chief of the Indian Army Man Mohan
Singh Rai
The 17-year-old Indian who won junior boys doubles of
Wimbledon 2015 Sumit Nagal
The head of the committee formed by the Govt for SAI
training centres Ashwini Nachappa
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Indias contribution to the $100-bn foreign-exchange


reserves pool of BRICS group $18 billion
Asias oldest stock exchange which completed 140 years
of operations on Jul 9, 2015 BSE
The country with which India signed Foreign Account
Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) pact recently US
The Russian oil major which will take up to 49% of the
Essar Groups Vadinar oil refinery Rosneft
The Pune-based college which has been accorded special
heritage status by the UGC Fergusson College
The country whose 23 Meiji period (1868-1912) sites have
been granted World Heritage status by Unesco Japan
The Indian scheme ranked as the worlds largest public
works programme by the World Bank MGNREGA
The state declared disturbed area by the Union home
ministry recently Nagaland
The length of national highway (NH) in the country
92,851 km
The state which tops in practice of manual scavenging
as per SECC 2011 Madhya Pradesh
The total road network in the country which is 2nd
highest in the world after the US 33 lakh km
Winner of the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup US
The eminent Urdu novelist of Pakistan who died recently
Abdullah Hussain
Winner of the 4th South Asian Basketball Championship
(SABA) India
Indias 1st and worlds 2nd woman cricketer to score
5000 run in ODIs Mithali Raj
The person nominated by China to be the first president
of the AIIB Jin Liqun
The new Director of the Aeronautical Development
Agency (ADA) and Programme Director of the Light
Combat Aircraft (LCA) Commodore CD Balaji (retd)
The currency of Greece before joining the Eurozone in
2002 Greek drachma
The capital city of Yemen classified as endangered
heritage site by the UNESCO Sanaa
The cloud platform of TCS which has become the
preeminent platform for conducting exams iON
The state which entered the Guinness Book of World
Records for the number of simultaneous hand washes
Madhya Pradesh
Winner of the 2015 British Grand Prix F1 championship
Lewis Hamilton
Indias GDP in 2014 in terms of PPP $6.78 tn
Indias per capita income in 2014 $1,631
Indias rank in terms of per capita income in the world
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The new MD and CEO of Credit Information Bureau India
Ltd (CIBIL) Satish Pillai
The first British Asian to join the England and Wales
Cricket Board (ECB) Lord Kamlesh Patel
The new MD & CEO of the National Housing Bank (NHB)
Sriram Kalyanaraman
Winner of the mixed doubles title of Wimbledon 2015
Leander Paes and Martina Hingis
The indigenous supersonic surface-to-air missile
inducted into IAF recently Aakash
The chairman of the upcoming Kolkata-based Bandhan
Bank Ashok Kumar Lahiri
Winner of the mens singles title of the Wimbledon 2015
Novak Djokovic
The new Home Secretary of Delhi SN Sahai
The state where, for the first time in India, a system to
detect earthquakes has been installed Uttarakhand
The Russian cosmonaut who has created a record for
the longest time spent in space (803 days as on Jul 2015)
Gennady Padalka
The two countries which got full membership of
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at its Ufa
summit recently India and Pakistan
The country where the proposed USD 10-bn TAPI gas
pipeline originates Turkmenistan
The number of people the govt has targeted to skill by
2022 40.20 cr
The state which has started She-Bus service exclusively
for women Kerala
Winner of the womens doubles title of Wimbledon 2015
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
Winner of the womens singles title of the Wimbledon
2015 Serena Williams
World Population Day Jul 11
Captain of the visiting India cricket team on Zimbabwe
tour Ajinkya Rahane
The author of the book Farthest Field: An Indian Story
of the Second World War Raghu Karnad
ISROs rocket which carried five British satellites to the
space on 10 Jul PSLV-C28
The name of the Govt campaign to give up LPG subsidy
GiveItUp
The typhoon which hit China recently Chan-Hom
Indias scheme ranked as the 2nd-largest unconditional
cash transfer social security programme Indira Gandhi
National Old Age Pension Scheme
The chairman of the committee set up by the govt on
bankruptcy law reforms TK Viswanathan

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The JV partner of the State Bank of India in SBI General


Insurance Insurance Australia Group (IAG)
The committee on whose recommendations the ICC has
changed ODI rules Anil Kumble committee
The UP govt has renamed the Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary
in Unnao after the name of Chandrashekhar Azad
The UP govt has renamed the Lucknow Zoological
Garden after the name of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code is related to
Homosexuality
The city which started metro rail service on 29 Jun
Chennai
Winners of the womens doubles title of the 2015 Canada
Open badminton Jwala Gutta & Ashwini Ponnappa
The year in which IRDA was renamed as IRDAI on 30
Dec 2014
Indias ranking on the Global Peace Index for 2015
143rd
The country which has topped the Global Peace Index
for 2015 Iceland
The Indian conferred with Colombias highest civilian
award recently Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The public sector bank which leads the NPA list as of
now United Bank of India
The country which shut its oldest remaining nuclear
reactor, Grafenrheinfeld reactor recently Germany
Indias envoy to New Zealand recalled recently after his
wife was accused of assaulting help Ravi Thapar
The country whose supreme court has ruled the samesex marriage a legal right across, the country US
The country which has topped the Baseline Profitability
Index (BPI) 2015 India
The first Indian basketball player to be drafted in the
National Basketball Association (NBA) in the US
Satnam Singh Bhamara
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit
Trafficking Jun 26
The amount India announced as help to Nepal in the
international donors conference USD 1 bn
The new deadline for exchanging pre-2005 currency
notes Dec 31, 2015
The Pakistani cricketer who assumed the role of the ICC
President on 25 Jun Zaheer Abbas
The tennis legend who has been appointed as the
Ayurveda brand ambassador of Kerala Steffi Graf
Indias insurance penetration in financial year 2014-15
(FY15) 3.3 per cent

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The denomination of banknotes signed by the Secretary,


Ministry of Finance `1
The former Chief Justice of India who passed away
recently YK Sabharwal
The bank which has launched Project Tatkal to expedite
home loan applications SBI
Winner of the 2015 Copa America football tournament
Chile
The state which has launched Mhara Gaon - Jagmag
Gaon initiative related to electricity Haryana
The first country in the world to eliminate mother-tochild transmission of HIV and syphilis Cuba
Winner of the Commonwealth Chess Championship
Abhijeet Gupta
The country where BHEL has commissioned the 500MW Kosti Thermal Power Station Sudan
The bank allowed by the FIPB to raise its FII cap to 55
per cent recently Kotak Mahindra Bank
Winner of the Norway Chess 2015 Veselin Topalov
The date on which the national mobile number portability
(MNP) became a reality 3 Jul 2015
The outlay of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana
for the period 2015-16 to 2019-20 `50,000 cr
The date till which the compliance window for disclosure
of black money will be open Sep 30, 2015
The date on which the day was one second longer than
the usual days Jun 30
The person chosen for the GD Birla Award for Scientific
Research for 2014 Sanjeev Galande
The father of SMS who died recently Matti Makkonen
The teams which will play the first day-night test match
in Adelaide Australia and New Zealand
The Indian city which won the UN Public Service Award
2015 Nadia
National Doctors Day celebrated as tribute to Dr Bidhan
Chandra Roy 1 Jul
The Indian telco which has become the worlds third
largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel
The ranking of Indian Railways and Indian Army among
worlds biggest employers respectively 8th and 9th
The worlds biggest employer US Department of
Defense
The country with which India will establish the `50-cr
PACEsetter Fund US
The former PM of Russia who died recently Yevgeny
Primakov
The JV partner of the State Bank of India in SBI Life
BNP Paribas

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