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MATCH POINT

- The host city for the fourth Summit of Heads of Bay of Bengal initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) – Kathmandu

- The first Indian female shooter to win a gold medal at the Asian Games – Rahi Sarnobat

- The first Indian company to cross 8 tn in terms of market capitalization - RIL

- The head of the panel set up by the Department of Telecom to prepare a roadmap for rollout of 5G telephony in India – AJ Paulraj

- The first public sector enterprise to make a transaction on the “TReDS platform” as announced by the Receivables Exchange of India (RXIL) recently - HAL

- The airport which has emerged as the second fastest growing airport in the world in the first half of 2018 – Kempegowda International Airport (Bengaluru)

- The country which recently unveiled its first domestic fighter jet named ‘KOWSAR’ - Iran

- The state which has decided to rename the new capital city Naya Rajpur as Atal Nagar - Chhattisgarh

- The first Indian woman wrestler to bag a gold medal at Asian Games – Vinesh Phogat

- The company which has been ranked on top globally on Fortune’s ‘Change The World’ – Reliance Jio

- Winner of the prestigious WHO World No Tobacco Day 2017 Award – SK Arora

- The Indian scientist-academician who has been elected Chair of the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) – N Raghuram

- The city where six states and the Union Territory of Chandigarh have decided to set up a centralized secretariat to fight drug menace – Panchkula (Haryana)

- The Bollywood actor who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of the Mumbai-based Sanjay Gandhi National Park – Raveena Tandon

- The venue of the sixth edition of International Buddhist Conclave 2018 – New Delhi

- The hypersonic aircraft which China tested recently – Xingkong-2

- The head of the group of ministers set up to advise PM Narendra Modi on whether to continue with or withdraw from the 16-member Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations – Suresh Prabhu

- The biosphere reserve situated in Sikkim which has been included in the UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserve – Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve

- The optical remote-sensing satellite launched by China recently as part of its high-resolution Earth observation project – Gaofen-11

- The state which has approved the “Mukhyamantri Yuva Nestam” scheme to provide unemployed youth in the state Rs 1000 per month – Andhra Pradesh

- The person who has been appointed as the new chairperson of the National Commission for Women – Rekha Sharma

- The new Chief Executive Officer of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana – Ashish Kumar Bhutani

- The actor roped in by the Road Transport ministry as brand ambassador for its road safety awareness campaign – Akshay Kumar

- The 22^nd Prime Minister of Pakistan sworn in recently – Imran Khan

- Winner of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Under-15 Women’s Championship in Thimphu, Bhutan - India

- The helicopter-launched anti-tank guided missile flight-tested recently - HELINA

- The country where the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj inaugurated “Panini Language Laboratory” at Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI) recently - Mauritius

- The wrestler who won the first gold medal for India at the 18^th Asian Games in Indonesia – Bajrang Punia

- The new Chairman of the Kochi-based Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) – KS Srinivas

- The Managing Director of the National Housing Bank who resigned recently – Sriram Kalyanaraman

- The govt has proposed to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to declare 2019 as – International Year of Millets

- The youngest Indian golfer to win Asian Tour title – Viraj Madappa

- India’s most patriotic brand as per a recent survey by data analytics firm YouGov - SBI

- The city where the wildlife genetic resource bank at the Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES) was inaugurated recently – Hyderabad                                                             

- The first state in the country to provide Right to Skills’ Development to the youth – Chhattisgarh

- The javelin thrower who led the Indian contingent as flagbearer at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games – Neeraj Chopra

- The first and only person since Jawaharlal Nehru to occupy the office of the Prime Minister of Indian through three successive Lok Sabhas who passed away recently – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

- The host country of the 11^th World Hindi Conference - Mauritius

- The Income Tax collection in the country during 2017-18 as per Central Board of Direct Taxes - 10.03 tn

- Winner of the annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research for cancer therapy – Steven Rosenberg, Carl June & James Allison

- The person who was re-elected as president of Mali recently – Ibrahim Boubacar Keita

- World’s most liveable city as per the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index, 2018 – Vienna

- India’s wealthiest woman as per the Kotak Wealth Hurun-Leading Wealthy Women 2018 list – Smitha V Crishna

- The community which celebrated Navroz, their New Year, recently - Parsi

- The new President of Paraguay – Mario Abdo Benitez

- The new repo rate after RBI’s third bi-monthly monetary policy review of 2018-19 – 6.5 per cent

- Reverse repo rate – 6.25 per cent

- Marginal standing facility and bank rate – 6.75 per cent

- The GDP forecast for 2018-19 – 7.4 per cent

- The telecom firm which has launched ‘WINGS’, a VOIP-based service - BSNL

- The initiative launched by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India for collection and conversion of used cooking oil to bio-diesel – RUCO

- The host city of the 24^th World Congress of Philosophy (WCP) held recently - Beijing

- The wholesale inflation, measured by the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), in Jul 2018 – 5.09 per cent

- The retail inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), in Jul – 4.17 per cent

- The factory output growth, measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), in Jun 2018 – 7 per cent

- The firm which has announced to formally launch its messaging app ‘Kimbho’ - Patanjali

- The country which has imposed up to 140 per cent tax on rice, alcohol and cars imported from the US - Turkey

- The Pune-based band in which a cyber fraud of more than Rs 900 mn took place recently – Cosmos Bank

- The present governor of Chhattisgarh Who passed away recently – Balram Das Tandon

- The first Indian tribal language to get a Wikipedia edition in its own script - Santhali

- Winner of the 2018 Rogers Cup tennis championships – Rafael Nadal

- The woman who has topped ‘Women Who Changed the World’ list prepared by BBC – Marie Curie

- The former captain of Indian Test cricket team who passed away recently – Ajit Wadekar

- The railway station in ‘A’ category which has topped the cleanliness survey conducted by Quality Council of India – Marwar (Rajasthan)

- The new Chairperson of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) – Manjula Chellur

- The 10-time Lok Sabha MP and the former Lok Sabha Speaker who passed away recently – Somnath Chaterjee

- The city which has been ranked first in the Ease of Living Index launched by Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry - Pune

- The person dismissed by the govt recently as MD and CEO of Allahabad Bank – Usha Ananthasubramanian

- The first man to take 100 Test wickets at Lord’s – James Anderson (England)

- The National Sports University Bill passed by the Parliament recently seeks to establish a first-of-its-kind National Sports University in - Manipur

- The Indonesian island which has been lifted by as much as 25 centimetres (10 inches) due to the recent powerful earthquake - Lombok

- The unmanned probe launched by NASA to unlock the mysteries of Sun - Parker

- Winner of the men’s singles of the 2018 Vietnam Open Badminton tournament – Shesar Hiren Rhustavito

- The Nobel prize-winning author who passed away recently – VS Naipaul

- The new Chief Justice of Patna High Court – Justice MR Shah

- The first bank in the country to introduce Iris Scan Authentication feature for Aadhaar-based transactions through its micro ATM tablets – Axis Bank

- The financial year the RBI follows – Jul-Jun

THANKS bsc magazine team for the excellent work.   best wishes