BSC MATCH POINT -FEBRUARY 2017

- India’s present position among the world’s largest economies as per a report published in Forbes magazine – Fifth

- The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi who resigned recently – Najeeb Jung

- The venue of the International Civil Aviation Negotiations (ICAN) 2016 – Nassau, Bahamas

- The bank which has bagged the SKOCH silver award for attaining the position of No. 1 channel partner of LIC of India for the past three financial years – Corporation Bank

- The country which nationalized its largest private bank ‘PrivateBank’ recently - Ukraine

- The veteran Malayalam actor who died recently – Jagnnatha Varma

- The justice appointed as the 44^th Chief Justice of India – JS Khehar

- The team which won the 2016 Indian Super League (ISL) – Atletico de Kolkata

- The person voted as the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016 – Andy Murray

- The actor appointed as the brand ambassador of Assam’s tourism for two years – Priyanka Chopra

- The Indian batsman who scored triple ton in the 5^th Test match between India and England played in Chennai – Karun Nair

- The interest rate on EPF deposits for the current fiscal (FY17) as decided by the EPFO – 8.65 per cent

- Winner of the hockey junior World Cup 2016 - India

- Te app launched by the govt to ensure transparency in the implementation of rural electrification programme – GARV-II

- Miss World 2016 – Stephanie Del Valle

- The Managing Director of the IMF who was found guilty of negligence by a French court recently – Christine Lagarde

- The Russian ambassador to Turkey who was shot dead recently – Andrey Karlov

- The noted economist and former Planning Commission member who passed away recently – Saumitra Chaudhuri

- The state which has launched a subsidized meal scheme ‘Annapurna Rasoi’ - Rajasthan

- Winner of the 2016 Hockey Junior World Cup - India

- The city where the PM Narendra Modi lay the foundation stone of the country’s first ever Indian Institute of Skills - Kanpur

- The present President of Kyrgyzstan, who visited New Delhi recently – Almazbek Sharshenovich Atambayev

- The next Chief of Air Staff – Air Marshal BS Dhanoa

- Winner of the WBO-Asia Pacific Super Middleweight boxing title – Vijender Singh

- The mobile wallet launched by BSNL in association with SBI for smart as well as feature phones - MobiCash

- The next Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) – Rajiv Jain

- The new chief of the external intelligence agency RAW – Anil Dhasmana

- The present President of Tajikistan who visited India recently – Emomali Rahmon

- The next Indian Army chief – Lt Gen Bipin Rawat

- The person who topped the Forbes 2016 list of the World’s Most Powerful People – Vladimir Putin

- The NITI Aayog CEO – Amitabh Kant

- The new UN deputy Secretary-General – Amina Mohammed

- The person who has been awarded by the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA) with the “Global Agriculture Leadership Award 2016” – Ratan Tata

- The venue of the 5^th India-Arab partnership conference held recently – Muscat, Oman

- The seventh joint military exercise between India and the Maldives held recently – EKUVERIN Exercise 2016

- The cruise missile test-fired by Pakistan recently with a range of 700 km - Babur

- The new Chief Executive Officer of the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) – VG Kannan

- The Gulf country which formally announced the end of its controversial “kafala” system recently - Qatar

- India’s contribution to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for the year 2016-17 - $500,000

- The Russian city from which the 2017 Bobsleigh and Skeleton world championships were taken away recently - Sochi

- The Brazilian city which officially entered the UN’s list of world heritage sites recently – Rio de Janeiro

- The entity whom the UN General Assembly recently granted Observer Status – International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

- The chairman of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – Sunil Bharti Mittal

- The person appointed as the chairman of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India for five years – VK Sharma

- The 15^th king of Malaysia – Sultan Muhammad V

- India’s growth forecast for 2016 as per ADB – 7%

- ITF World Champions for 2016 – Andy Murray and Angelique Kerber

- The Indo-Russian Bilateral Naval Exercise held recently – Indra Navy-2016

- Winner of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) 2016 Most Improved Player of the Year award – PV Sindhu

- The person who was recently sworn in as the ninth UN Secretary General – Antonio Guterres

- The present President of Indonesia who visited India recently – Joko Widodo

- Winner of the 2016 World Billiards (150-Up format) Championships title – Pankaj Advani

- The new Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan – Naveed Mukhtar

- Winner of the prestigious Ballon d’Or award at FIFA award 2016 – Cristiano Ronaldo

- The country which recently launched a new-generation weather satellite ‘Fengyun-4’ - China

- The new Prime Minister of New Zealand – Bill English

- The present President of Philippines – Rodrigo Duterte

- The country with which India signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement recently - Vietnam

- The first Indian cricketer to score three double hundreds in a year – Virat Kohli

- The head of the committee formed by Finance Ministry to boost digital payments which submitted its report recently – Ratan P Watal

- The black civil rights leader of Canada who will soon become the first woman to appear on a banknote in the country – Viola Desmond

- The severe cyclonic storm which hit Chennai recently - Vardah

- The newly launched 24-hour TV channel for cashless transactions lessons - DigiShala

- The first US astronaut to orbit Earth who died recently – John Glenn

- The country which launched a spaceship Kounotori 6 to deliver supplies for International Space Station (ISS) - Japan

- Winner of the 2016 IBSF World Billiards Long Up title – Peter Gilchrist

- The president of South Korea who was impeached by the parliament recently – Park Geun-hye

- The country which passed a bill recently declaring India a ‘major defence partner’ - US

- The country where India has decided to set up a Centre of Excellence in IT at the Al-Azhar University - Egypt

- The person who won the recent presidential election in Ghana – Nana Akufo-Addo

- The venue of the Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) held recently - Goa

- The remote sensing satellite recently launched by the ISRO – RESOURCESAT-2A

- Winner of the ‘CII National Quality 2016 Award’ - BEML

- The bank adjudged ‘Best Bank for SME Lending’ in PSB category by Assocham at the 4^th SMEs Excellence Awards – Vijaya Bank

- The birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar (Apr 14) will be observed as – Water Day

- The Gross Value Added (GVA) growth for 2016-17 as announced by the RBI on 7 Dec – 7.1 percent

- The exchange authorised by the RBI to launch the country’s first trade receivables exchange platform – Receivables Exchange of India (RXIL)

- The person named the 2016 Time Magazine person of the year – Donald Trump

- The new Chief Justice of Pakistan – Mian Saqib Nissar

- The person who won the recent presidential elections in Uzbekistan – Shavkat Mirziyoyev

- The new chief of the Directorate General of Civil Avilation (DGCA) – BS Bhullar

- The new Prime Minister of France – Bernard Cazeneuve

- The person who won the presidential election in Austria – Alexander Van der Bellen

- The former Tamil Nadu CM who passed away recently – Jayalalithaa Jayaraman

- The new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu – O Panneerselvam

- The persons named “Asian of the Year 2016” by Singapore-based newspaper The Straits Times – Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal

- The new king of Thailand – Maha Vajiralongkorn

- The President of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) appointed as a Senior Vice-President of Asian Football Confederation – Praful Patel

- The new ceiling of Market Stabilisation Scheme (MSS) –  6 lakh cr

- Winner of the reader’s poll for Time ‘Person of the Year 2016’ – Narendra Modi

- The interim director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) – Rakesh Asthana

thanks BSC CHRONICLE FEB 2017