BSC MATCH POINT --MARCH 2016 PART ONE

Match Point

● The head of the Committee set up to simplify the provisions of the Income-Tax Act, 1961 – Justice RV Easwar

 ● Winner of the Favourite Actress in a new TV series award, the People’s Choice Awards 2016 – Priyanka Chopra

● The venue of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting – Davos, Switzerland

● The new Prime Minister of Moldova – Pavel Filip

● The new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) – Atulesh Jindal

● The Person of Indian Origin who has won the Technical Achievement Award (Design) at the 88th Academy Awards – Rahul  Thakkar

● The new Chairman and Managing Director of the GIC Re  – Alice Vaidyan

● The Indian shuttler who won the women’s singles title of the 2016 Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold – PV Sindhu

● The country that has topped the 2015 Human Development Index (HDI) in the South Asia Region – Sri Lanka

● The British writer who won the 2015 Costa novel award for her novel A God in Ruins – Kate Atkinson

● The anti-tank missile test-fired by the DRDO recently – Nag

● The joint exercise held between the Indian Coast Guard and their Japanese counterpart off the Chennai coast recently –Sahayog-Kaijin 2016

● The country declared free of Ebola virus, signalling an end to an epidemic in West Africa – Liberia

● The first fully organic state of the country – Sikkim

● Winner of the women’s doubles title of the WTA Apia International 2016 – Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic

● The hero of 1971 India-Pakistan war who died recently – Lt General JFR Jacob ● The venue of the recent conference of Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) on Afghan Peace and Reconciliation process – Islamabad

● The govt initiative which, according to the World Bank, is estimated to be saving the govt about $1 bn annually – Aadhaar

● The venue of the five-day long 20th National Youth Festival – Naya Raipur

● Director of the Juhi Chawla starrer movie Chalk N Duster – Jayant Gilatar

● The Syrian Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs who visited India recently – Walid al-Moallem

● The PSB which recently opened its first branch dedicated to serving startup companies in Bengaluru – SBI

● The city where the Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes (CIRB) is located – Hisar No work is perfect. The baseball legend who died recently – Monte Irvin

● The organisation which won the National Award on eGovernance 2015-16 – EPFO

● The Indian-American governor of Louisiana who demitted office recently after his term ended – Bobby Jindal

● Winner of the FIFA Women’s Player of the Year award – Carli Lloyd (US)

● The football club which gave Amitabh Bachchan honorary lifetime membership recently – Mohammedan Sporting

● The head of the committee set up by the PMO to hasten the bullet train project – Arvind Panagariya

● The estimated premium of the newly launched crop insurance scheme which the Centre and States will equally share – `8,000 cr

● The first state of the country to achieve 100 per cent primary education – Kerala ● The noted journalist and Hindi writer who passed away recently – Ravindra Kalia

● The state which is observing 2016 as Digital Year –Maharashtra

 ● Winner of the Ballon d’Or award for world’s best football player – Lionel Messi ● Winner of the Harikrishna Devsare Baalsahitya Award 2015 for his collection of poems titled ‘BaalGeet’ – Balkrishna Garg

● The British singer-songwriter who died recently – David Bowie

● The folk dance which entered the Guinness Book of world records recently – Kullu folk dance (Nati)

● The first state to introduce compulsory gender education at the graduate level – Telangana

● Winner of the men’s singles title of 2016 Chennai Open – Stan Wawrinka

● The film awarded as the best picture (drama) award at the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards – The Revenant

● The city which recently hosted the 28th edition of the International Kite Festival – Ahmedabad

● The country recently elected to the Unicef executive board, representing the group of Asia-Pacific countries for the term 2016-18 – Nepal

● New CEO of Flipkart – Binny Bansal

● The venue of the 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2016 held on 9 Jan – New Delhi ● The first female Formula One driver who died recently – Maria Teresa de Filippis

● The country code domain which has become the world’s most commonly used domain – .cn (China)

● The Guest of Honour country at the 43rd edition of the New Delhi World Book Fair – China

● The golfer voted as the Hilton Asian Tour Golfer of Month for Dec 2015 – Miguel Tabuena

● The recently released logo for the Make in India Week – Laman Diva