BSC MATCH POINT SEPTEMBER 2015 --PART ONE

·         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 Britain’s Pearson - Nikkei

·         The Nobel laureate who has won the Royal Society’s Copley Medal - Peter Higgs

·         World Book Capital for 2017 as announced by the UNESCO - Conakry (Guinea)

·         The National Broadcasting Day - 23 Jul

·         The President and CEO of Japan’s 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

·         The Indian city which has been included in the UNESCO’s ‘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 lndia (FTII) - Prashant Pathrabe

·         Winner of the 2015 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) award - Kerala Tourism

·         Nelson Mandela International Day - 18 July

·         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 Haryana’s ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign - Parineeti Chopra

·         The place where the country’s 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

·         India’s GDP growth rates in FYI6 and FYI7 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 RBI’s committee on financial inclusion – Deepak Mohanty

·         The noted artist conferred with the highest French civilian award Commandeur de la Legion d’honneur (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

·         World Youth Skills Day- 15 Jul

·         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 men’s 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 at 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 women’s doubles title of Wimbledon 2015 - Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis

·         Winner of the women’s 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

·         ISRO’s rocket which carried live 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

·         India’s 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

·         India’s contribution to the $100-bn foreign-exchange reserves pool of BRICS group - $18 billion

·         Asia’s 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