MATCH POINT B S C APRIL 2017 -- TWO

MATCH POINT B S C APRIL  2017  -- TWO

·       Indian Navy's survey vessel which has became the first naval ship to go green by installing a solar power system on board — INS Sarvekshak

·       The country in which people recently voted to relax the country's strict citizenship rules — Switzerland

·       The newly elected President of Germany — Frank-Walter Steinmeier

·       The state where a 33-member committee has been constituted for the speedy implementation of the Sagarmala Project — Andhra Pradesh

·       Winner of the 2017 T20 Blind Cricket World Cup — India

·       The amount to be pumped into public sector banks in 2017-18 as proposed in the Union Budget — Rs. 10,000 cr

·       The week celebrated as National Productivity Week every year — 12-18 Feb

·       The first woman to be appointed director of an IIM (IIM Sirmaur) Neelu Rohmetra

·       The automaker which bought Hindustan Motors' iconic Ambassador brand — Peugeot

·       The city where the IT giant Oracle Corporation will set up its biggest development centre outside the US — Bengaluru

·       The sand artist who created a Guinness World Record by creating a 48.8-foot-tall sand castle at Puri — Sudarsan Pattnaik

·       The official mascot of FIFA Under-17 World Cup India 2017 — Kheleao

·       The person appointed as Managing Director of state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India — Hemant Bhargava

·       The first state to establish a cashless system in its public distribution system of food grains — Gujarat

·       The Indian-origin person shortlisted by NASA for its 2018 space mission — Shawna Pandya

·       The economic growth of India pegged by the RBI for 2017-18 in its Feb 8 monetary policy statement — 7.4 per cent

·       The economic growth of India pegged by the RBI for 2016-17 — 6.9 per cent

·       The first state in the northeast to implement e-cabinet solution for the state cabinet members — Arunachal Pradesh

·       The host of the fourth edition of BIMSTEC Summit-2017 — Nepal

·       The world's largest producer of solar energy in 2016 — China

·       The year in which ISRO is planning to launch Chandrayaan-2 — 2018

·       The opposition leader in Russia who was found guilty of embezzlement recently — Alexei Navalny

·       The present President of South Africa — Jacob Zuma

·       Winner of the men's singles title of the 81st Senior National Badminton Championships tournament --Sourabh Verma

·       The Indian-origin person who has won 2017 Genesis Prize from Israel — Anish Kapoor

·       The present Indian ambassador to UAE — Navdeep Suri

·       The first bank in India to connect with Earthport's global payments network Axis Bank

·       The city where India will host RBA Women's Asia Cup basketball tournament in Jul 2017 — Bengaluru

·       The state where the Chief Minister Samagra Gramya Unnayan Yojana (CMSGUY) was launched recently—Assam

·       The state which has announced to give two per cent reservation to sports persons in govt jobs - Jharkhand

·       The city with the country's first centre of excellence for differently-abled sportsmen — Gandhinagar

·       The renowned Urdu novelist and playwright from Pakistan who passed away recently — Bano Qudsia

·       The head of the six-member committee to give a report on ways to improve India's 1.1aj policy — Afzal Amanullah

·       The most valuable global brand in the annual Brand Finance Global 500 report — Google

·       Winner of the recent Indian National Snooker Championship — Pankaj Advani