Bsc match point july 2015 part one

Bsc match point july 2015  part  one

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

 ● India’s position on the 124-nation global Human Capital Index 2015 – 100^th

 ● The new president of Japan’s 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

● 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 world’s 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 Asia’s 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

● 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 chipbased 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

● India’s current position in the global list of countries in terms of their travel and tourism competitiveness – 52nd

● Mother’s 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  10 May – Nico Rosberg