BSC MATCH POINT --OCTOBER 2017 PART TWO

The former Union Minister of State for Water Resources who passed away recently — Sanwar Lai Jat

•           The venue of the recently concluded 15th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting — Kathmandu, Nepal

•           The new Chief Justice of India — Dipak Misra

•           The US athlete who defeated Usain Bolt to win 100m World Championships recently — Justin Gatlin

•           The state whose entire area was declared as "disturbed" under the AFSPA by the Centre recently — Assam

•           The bureaucrat who has been appointed as an Executive Director in the World Bank — S Aparna

•           The state which will get help from 2030 Water Resources Group (2030WRG) to raise $270 mn from the Green Climate Fund —Maharashtra

•           The first state to implement coal utilisation between power units in the country — Gujarat

•           The new Vice-Chairman of the NITI Aayog — Rajiv Kumar

•           The head of the High-Level Committee set up to review the Institutionalisation of Arbitration Mechanism in India — BN Srikrishna

•           The newly elected 13th Vice President of India — Venkaiah Naidu

•           Indian boxer who defeated Zulpikar Maimaitiali to retain the WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight title — Vijender Singh

•           The new increased authorised capital of NABARD — Rs.30,000 cr

•           The new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Small. Industries Development Bank of India — Mohammad Mustafa

•           The telecom firm whose merger with Bharti Airtel was cleared by the NCLT recently — Telenor

•           The city where a regional centre of the global rice research institute IRRI is to come up — Varanasi

•           The agency with which India has signed a pact for financing USD 329 mn for the rural roads in Gujarat —Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

•           The person who won the recent Presidential elections in Rwanda —Paul Kagame

•           The country which has announced plans to protect demobilised members of the FARC rebel force — Colombia

•           The community in India which celebrated its New Year `Navroz' on 17 Aug — Parsi

•           The new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Karur Vysya Bank — PR Seshadri

•           The interest subvention to be provided to banks on short-term crop loans of up to Rs.3 lakh — 2 per cent

•           The city named world's most liveable city in the Global Liveability Report 2017 — Melbourne — The least leavable city as per the report — Damascus.

•           The bank which has bagged the best performance award for SHG-bank linkage programme for Karnataka for 2015-16 and 2016-17 from Nabard —Corporation Bank

•           Winner of the Rogers Cup 2017 —Alexander Zverev

•           The city where India's first museum on Partition of the Indian subcontinent has been set up — Amritsar

•           The country which has the fastest mobile Internet in the world as per Ookla—Norway

•           The state govt which has launched "Durgama Anchalare Malaria Nirakaran" (DAMON) programme to prevent the spread of malaria — Odisha

•           The bank which has been conferred `best performance award' for 2015-16 and 2016-17 by Nabard — Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank

•           The state which has launched 'Indira Canteen' scheme to provide food at low cost to the urban poor — Karnataka

•           The present Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Prasar Bharati — Shashi Shekhar Vempati

•           The country which was declared free from polio by the WHO recently —Somalia

•           The firm which has topped Forbes' list of the world's 100 most innovative companies — salesforce.com

•           Winner of the 65th edition of the prestigibus Nehru Trophy (Boat Race) — Gabriel Chundan

•           The venue of the recent five-day India-ASEAN Youth Summit —Bhopal

•           Winner of the first Kesari Media Award —TJS George

•           The host of the Summer Olympics in 2028 — Los Angeles

•           The population of elephants in India as per the Elephant Census 2017 —27,312

•           The world's oldest man certified by Guinness World Records who died recently aged 113 — Yisrael Kristal

•           The venues of the country's first aviation university — Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh

•           The Indian sportsperson who has been appointed as the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Physical Activity in South-East Asia Region — Milkha Singh

•           India's next ambassador to the Republic of San Marino -- Reenat Sandhu

•           The German nun also known as the Mother Teresa of Pakistan who passed away recently — Ruth Pfau

•           The new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jet Airways — Vinay Dube

•           The acting chief executive officer of the National Payment Corporation of India — Dilip Asbe

•           The state which has passed a bill which reclassifies coconut as a `tree' — Goa

•           The firm which has launched `Budding Star Programme' to help its employees achieve their dreams — Flipkart

•           The newly re-elected Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea — Peter O'Neill

thanks: BSC magazine.  best wishes