MATCH POINT BSC JUNE 2017
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thanks: BSC JUNE 2017
The South Korean firm with which
L&T has signed a contract to manufacture the K9 Vajra-T artillery guns — Hanwa Techwin, S Korea
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The first unmanned cargo
spacecraft launched by China recently — Tianzhou-1
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The Kenyan who won the London
Marathon recently— Daniel Wanjiru
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The app launched by Haryana govt
to create awareness about ante and post natal care, institutional delivery and
immunisation — Kilkari
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Winner of the men's singles
title of 2017 Monte Carlo Masters — Rafael
Nadal
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The govt bank in which LIC of
India is to infuse 2406.9 cr — IDBI Bank
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The game to be a full sport at
the 2022 Asian Games — Video Gaming
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The country which launched its
first satellite named Mongol Sat-I recently — Mongolia
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Winner of the UNESCO Peace Prize
- Giuseppina Nicolini
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The host of the 14th edition of
the United Nations International Day of Vesak 2017 — Sri Lanka
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The amount sanctioned by the
govt to the Election Commission to procure EVMs with VVPAT for 2019 general
elections - Rs.3,200 cr
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India's growth rate for FY18 as
projected by the IMF — 7.2%
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The growth rate for the world
economy in 2017 as projected by the IMF recently — 3.5%
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The book authored by Perumal
Murugan which has won Sahitya Akademi's award for translatiOn in English 2016 —Mathorubhagan
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The firm which became the most
valued public sector undertaking (PSU) stock in terms of market capitalisation
recently — SBI
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Winner of the Hindustan PSU
award in 'Fastest Growing Organisation — Miniratna' category — BEML
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India's economic growth rate in
FY18 as per IMF — 7.2 per cent
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The cities where new banking
ombudsman offices have been opened recently by the RBI — Jammu and Raipur
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India's ranking in the 2017 AT
Kearney Foreign Direct Investment (F DI) Confidence Index -- Eighth
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The hank whose data centre in
Hyderabad has become country's first CII-IGBC Platinum-rated project — ICICI Bank
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The state where PM Narendra Modi
recently inaugurated phase-I of the Link-II pipeline canal of SAUNI project — Gujarat
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India's economic growth rate in
2017 as per recent World Bank report —7.2%
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The firm whose Aamby Valley
township is being sold as per orders from the Supreme Court — Sahara Group
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The cyclone which made landfall
on Myanmar's coast recently — Maarutha
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The firm which has introduced a
12-week paid leave for 'commissioning' mothers who use surrogates to bear a
child — RIL
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The winner of Time magazine's
readers' poll of the 100 most influential people in the world — Rodrigo Duterte
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Winner of the Bahrain Grand Prix
2017 — Sebastian Vettel
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The President of Nepal who
visited India recently — Bidya Devi
Bhandari
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Winner of the men's singles of
the Super Series at the Singapore Open -- B
Sai Praneeth
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Winner of the sixth prestigious
MS Swaminathan Award— RR Hanchinal
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The country where a referendum
was held recently that granted sweeping powers to the President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan — Turkey
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The Internet giant, which has
launched Areo app aggregating food delivery and home services in India — Google
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The present President of BRICS
New Development Bank (NDB) — KV Kamath
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The state where about 55 latch
farmers will get free fertilisers from the next financial year — Telangana
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The first-ever joint military
exercise held recently between Nepal and China — Sagarmatha Friendship-2017
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The target for loans under
Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana in the Union Budget for FY18 — Rs.2.44 lakh cr
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The interest approved on
provident fund deposits for 2016-17 — 8.65
per cent
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The country where the US dropped
the largest ever non-nuclear bomb - GBU-43/B — Afghanistan
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Winner of the 2017 Asian
Billiards Championship title — Pankaj
Advani
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The new pin code to the Central
Processing Centre (CPC) of the Income Tax in Bengaluru — 560500
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India's ranking on the KPMG
International's global "Through the looking glass" report — 31st
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The state upon whom the Krishi
Karman Award 2015-16 for commendable increase in food grains production has
been conferred — Himachal Pradesh
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The present chairman of
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) — Madhusudan Sahoo
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The state govt which has
announced the launch of "Durga Vahini" police squads to stop
harassment of women on public spaces — Haryana
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The state whose police
department has initiated 'Tare Zameen Par' programme to encourage children in
Naxal-affected areas to lead happy lives — Jharkhand
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The new MO and CEO of Karnataka
Bank — MS Mahabaleshwara
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The new head of UN agency - UN
Development Programme (UNDP) — Achim
Steiner
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The agency which has approved a
$375-mn loan to India's first waterway project — World Bank
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The most followed world leader
on Instagram — Narendra Modi
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The firm which has launched a
Made-in-India robot - Brabo - for SMEs — TAL
Manufacturing Solutions
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Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer
Prize for fiction — Colson Whitehead
(The underground Railroad)
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The year in which famous
"Champaran. Satyagraha" was launched — 1917
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The newly appointed Executive
Director of the Reserve Bank of India — Malvika
Sinha
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India's next Ambassador to
Germany — Mukta Dutta Tomar
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The new chairman of the Telecom
Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) — Shiva Kirti Singh
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The Govt has reduced the number
of centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) from 66 to — 28
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The state which has launched the
ambitious `Deendayal Rasoi Yojana' for subsidised meals — Madhya Pradesh
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The former Indian Naval officer
who has been awarded death sentence in Pakistan — Kulbhushan Jadhav
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The new Marginal Standing
Facility rate — 6.50 per cent
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The 12th edition of the joint
military exercise between India and Mongolia held recently in Vairengte in
Mizoram — Nomadic Elephant
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The online marketplgce which
raised $1.4 bn in the biggest-ever start-up funding round and acquired eBay
India recently — Flipkart
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The United Nations'
youngest-ever "Messenger of Peace" appointed recently — Malala Yousafzai
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The Bollywood star who launched
the app and website `BharatKeVeer' recently — Akshay Kumar
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Winner of best Hindi film award
at the 64th National Film Awards — Neerja
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The train that runs between
Dhaka and Kolkata— Maitree Express
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The new Managing Director of
Saraswat Bank — Smita Sandhane
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Winner of Chinese Grand Prix Fl
championship — Lewis Hamilton
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The country which has declared
an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea recently — Ethiopia
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The new Director of IIM Trichy —
Bhimaraya Metri
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India's ranking in the current
travel and tourism competitive index (TIVI) of the World Economic Forum — 40th
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The king of Thailand who signed
the draft of the constitution recently —Maim
Vajiralongkorn
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The bank which has partnered
with BSNL to upgrade bandwidth at all its branches — Canara Bank
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The minimum capital required for
wholesale and long-term finance (WLTF) banks — Rs.1,000 cr
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The new CEO and MD of L&T to
take over with effect from Jul 1 — SN
Subrahmanyan
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The cricketer named Wisden's Leading
Cricketer in the World for 2016 Virat
Kohli
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The country with which India has
inked mega defence deals worth over $2 bn for advanced surface-to-air missile
(SAM) systems — Israel
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The firm which has launched its
digital assistant named "M" for the users in the US — Facebook
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The state which has announced to
provide one-time grant of Rs.21,000 to all those families whose third girl
child was born after Aug 24, 2015 —Haryana
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The country which recently
officially recognised Bitcoin as currency Japan
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The agency which has extended a
$175-xnn loan to the Power Grid Corporation of India — ADB
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The first in in India to offer
medicine courses from the 2019 session — IIT-Kharagpur
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The state where the famous
Berhampur Thakurani Yatra was held recently — Odisha
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The state govt which recently
announced a crop loan waiver worth over Rs.36,000 cr — Uttar Pradesh
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The person who won the recent
Presidential elections in Ecuador — Lenin
Moreno
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The new chairman of NASSCOM for
2017-18 — Raman Roy
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The first woman Director General
of Police (DGP) of Gujarat — Geetha
Johri
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The legendary Hindustani
classical singer who passed away recently — Kishori Amonkar
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The official mascot of Kanha
tiger reserve — Bhoorsingh the
Barasingha
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