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MATCH POINT

- The new chairman of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) – Braj Raj Sharma

- The new CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) – Pankaj Kumar

- The new department of investment and public asset management (DIPAM) Secretary – Tuhin Kanta Pandey

- The new hiked Minimum Support Price (MSP) of wheat for marketing season 2020-21 – ₹1,925/quintal

- The country where President Ram Nath Kovind laid the foundation stone for Sri Sathya Sai Sanathana Samskruti Project recently - Japan

- India’s ranking in terms of ease-of-doing-business on the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business 2020’ report – 63^rd

- Top ranked country on the report – New Zealand

- The venue of the 18^th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit held recently – Baku, Azerbaijan

- The country to which Indian junior men’s hockey team lost the Sultan  Johor Cup final recently – Great Britain

- The host of the 7^th CISM World Military Games held recently – Wuhan, China

- The country where Emperor Naruhito completed his ascension recently - Japan

- The country where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party returned to power albeit as a minority govt recently - Canada

- The state which has topped in terms of grave crimes in the National Crime Bureau Statistics for the year 2017 – Tamil Nadu

- India’s highest-altitude all-weather permanent bridge located in Ladakh – Col Chewang Rinchen Setu

- The person who was sworn in for his second and final five-year term as the President of Indonesia recently – Joko Widodo

- The new Vice-Chairman of the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) – Sajjan Jindal

- The new National Highway in Punjab which has been named Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Marg – 703AA

- The state which has topped among major states on NITI Aayog’s first-ever India Innovation Index - Karnataka

- The bilateral military exercise held between India and Oman recently – Ex Eastern Bridge-V

- The new Director-General of the National Security Guard – Anup Kumar Singh

- The host of the 91^st Interpol General Assembly to be held in 2022 – India

- The country which has topped the 2019 Hurun Global Unicorn List - China

- India’s ranking on the Index - Third

- The host of the 2020 G7 Summit - US

- The judge recommended by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi as the next CJI – Justice SA Bobde

- The first company in India to hit the market capitalization of ₹9 lakh cr - RIL

- The state where Shirui Lily Festival, 2019 was celebrated recently - Manipur

- Winner of the European Golden Shoe award recently – Lionel Messi

- Winners of the 2019 Booker Prize – Margaret Atwood & Bernardine Evaristo

- India’s growth forecast for 2019-20 as projected by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – 6.1 per cent

- by the World Bank – 6 per cent

- by India Ratings and Research – 6.1 per cent

- by Moody’s – 5.8 per cent

- The venue of the recent annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank – Washington DC

- The year which PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have designated as the “Year of India-China Cultural and People to People Exchanges” - 2020

- The consumer price index (CPI)-based retail inflation in Sep 2019 – 3.99 per cent

- The wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation in Sep 2019 – 0.33 per cent

- The index of industrial production (HP) in Aug 2019 – 1.1 per cent

- The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for services in Sep 2019 – 48.7

- The growth rate of the eight core industries in Aug 2019 – (-) 0.5 per cent

- The total gross GST revenue collected in Sep 2019 – ₹91,916 cr

- The cricketer elected as the new president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) – Sourav Ganguly

- The fastest-growing economy in South Asia according to the World Bank’s report “South Asia Economic Focus, Making (De)Centralisation Work” - Bhutan

- The country which has hit by the deadly typhoon “Hagibis” recently - Japan

- The venue of the BRICS Culture Ministers’ meeting held recently – Curitiba, Brazil

- The new bank Kerala Govt is going to form by merging the district co-operative banks with Kerala State Co-operative Bank – Kerala Bank

- The district which won the first place award in the national Swachh Sarvekshan 2019 – Peddapalli, Telangana

- The king of the Netherlands who visited India recently – Willem - Alexander

- The country which conferred Vice President Venkaiah Naidu with its highest civilian honour “The Order of the Green Crescent” during his recent visit - Comoros

- Winner of the Asia Environmental Enforcement Award given by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – Ramesh Pandey

- Winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize – Abiy Ahmed Ali

- Literature – Peter Handke (2019) & Olga Tokarczuk (2018)

- Physics – James Peebles, Michel Mayor & Didier Queloz

- Physiology or Medicine – William G Kaelin, Sir Peter J Ratcliffe & Gregg L Semenza

- Chemistry – John B Goodenugh, M Stanley Whittingham & Akira Yoshino

- Economics – Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo & Michael Kremer

- The joint military exercise held recently between India and the US – Vajra Prahar

- The host of the 2019 First Global DXB Challenge - Dubai

- The country which has topped the Brand Finance Nation ranking for 2019 - US

- India’s position - Seventh

- The line of credit extended by India to Comoros for energy and maritime defence cooperation - $60mn

- The person who has topped the Forbes’ list of the richest Indians for the year 2019 – Mukesh Ambani

- The innovative learning programme launched by the Govt to mentor selected aspirants - DHRUV

- The bank whose proposed merger with Indiabulls Housing Finance was rejected by the RBI recently – Lakshmi Vilas Bank

- The first country in the world to ban advertisements for the most unhealthy sugary drinks - Singapore

- The city where PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their second informal summit recently – Mahabalipuram (Tamil Nadu)

- The head of the committee set up to prevent money-laundering activities – Ajay Bhushan Pandey

- The date on which the Indian Air Force (IAF) celebrated its 87^th anniversary recently – 8 Oct

- The country which has topped the annual Global Competitiveness Index 2019 - Singapore

- India’s ranking – 68th

- The new Managing Director & CEO of Punjab National Bank (PNB) – SS Mallikarjuna Rao

- Winner of the men’s singles title of 2019 Japan Open – Novak Djokovic

- Winner of the Hero Women’s Indian Open 2019 title – Christine Wolf

- Winner of the women’s singles title of the 2019 China Open tennis tournament – Naomi Osaka

- The joint military exercise held recently between India and Mongolia – Nomadic Elephant-XIV

- The actress appointed by the UNESCO as the goodwill ambassador for indigenous people – Yalitza Aparicio (Mexico)

- The new Lokpal of Punjab – Justice Vinod Kumar Sharma

- The city where India’s first e-waste clinic is to be set up - Bhopal

- The first Indian cricketer (male or female) to play 100 Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) – Harmanpreet Kaur

- The city where the first-ever SEZ of Tripura will come up - Sabroom

- The new repo rate after the fourth bi-monthly monetary policy review by the RBI – 5.15 per cent

- Reverse repo rate – 4.9 per cent

- Marginal Standing Facility and Bank Rate – 5.4 per cent

- Revised GDP outlook for 2019-20 – 6.1 per cent

- Revised GDP outlook for 2020-21 – 7.2 per cent

- The first corporate-run train which is running between Lucknow and Delhi – Tejas Express

- Winner of the most effective ‘Swachhta Ambassador’ award – Sachin Tendulkar

- Winner of the women’s singles title of the 2019 Korea Open badminton tournament – He Bingjiao

- The person appointed as the Executive Director for India on the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – Surjit S Bhalla

- The host of the 7^th annual World Hindu Economic Forum (WHEF) - Mumbai

- The best performer on the School Education Quality Index released by the NITI Aayog recently - Kerala

- The new Principal Director General of Press Information Bureau (PIB) – KS Dhatwalia

- Winner of the 2019 Russia Grand Prix F1 Championship – Lewis Hamilton

- The trilateral military exercise held between India, the US and Japan recently – Malabar 2019

- The Swedish teenager who won the 2019 Right Livelihood Award – Greta Thunberg

- Winner of the UN Global Climate Action Award in the ‘Climate Neutral Now’ category - Infosys

- The second Scorpene submarine commissioned into the Indian Navy recently – INS Khanderi

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