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-                                                        BSC MATCH POINT FEBRUARY 2020

-          The amount approved by the Union Cabinet for updating the National Population Register (NPR) – ₹3,941.35cr

-          The amount approved for the Census 2021 exercise - ₹8,500c0072

-          The country where health officials documented the first relapse of the current Ebola epidemic recently – Democratic Republic of Congo

-          The person appointed as the first Prime Minister of Cuba in more than 40 years – Manuel Marrero Cruz

-          The new currency to replace CFA franc (currency) as agreed by the eight West African countries recently – Eco

-          The 40-day-long period of extreme cold in Kashmir which began on Dec 21 and will continue till Jan 31 – Chillai-Kalan

-          The Major awarded Army Design Bureau Excellence Award for indigenously developing Sarvatra bulletproof jacket – Anoop Mishra

-          India’s ambassador to the US who has been appointed as the next foreign secretary – Harsh Vardhan Shringla

-          The city where the state-of-the-art DNA Analysis Centre was inaugurated at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory recently – Chandigarh

-          The firm which became the third company of India to achieve $100bn market capitalization – HDFC Bank Ltd

-          The large-scale anti-hijacking exercise conducted off the port of Kochi by the Indian Navy with other stakeholders – Apharan

-          The new CEO of the aviation major Boeing who replaced Dennis Muilenburg – David Calhoun

-          The venue of the 50^th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) – Davos

-          The new satellite, jointly developed by China and Brazil, which was sent into space recently – CBERS-4A

-          The agency with which the Govt of India signed a $490mn loan pact to upgrade state highways and major district roads in Madhya Pradesh – Asian Development Bank (ADB)

-          The weightlifter who won the women’s 49kg category gold medal at the 6^th Qatar International Cup in Doha – Saikhom Mirabai Chanu

-          The new Chief Minister of Jharkhand – Hemant Soren

-          Winner of Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum – Deepika Padukone

-          The host city for the first Global Refugee Forum organized by the UN – Geneva

-          The country with which India has inked a pact for ₹1,958cr finance to develop energy-efficient housing programme – Germany

-          The author who won DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019 for his work Half the Night Is Gone – Amitabha Bagchi

-          The new chairman and managing director of NALCO – Sridhar Patra

-          The new army chief –Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane

-          Sahitya Akademi  Award 2019 for Hindi – Nand Kishore (Chheelate Hue Apne Ko)

     -English – Dr Shashi Tharoor (An Era of Darkness)

-Tamil – Cho Dharman (Sool)

     - Gujarati – Ratilal Borisagar (Mojama Revu Re)

     - Sanskrit – Penna Madhusudan -(Prajnachakshusham)

- Urdu – Shafey Kidwai (Sawaneh-e-Sir Syed:Ek Bazdeed)

-          The third President after Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton of the US to be impeached – Donald Trump

-          The uniform GST fixed by the GST Council for lottery – 28 per cent

-          The biosimilar medicine prequalified by the World Health Organization (WHO) recently for life-saving breast cancer treatment – Trastuzumab

-          The Portuguese Prime Minister who visited India recently – Antonio Costa

-          The auto firms which announced their merger to create world’s 4^th largest carmaker – Fiat Chrysler and PSA

-          The Indian woman cricketer who has been included in ICC’S ODI AND T20 team of the year – Smriti Mandhana

-          - ICC’S T20 woman cricketer of the year- Alyssa Healy (Australia)

-          - ICC’S ODI woman cricketer of the year -Ellyse Perry(Australia)

-          The former Army Chief and President of Pakistan whom a court handed death sentence in treason case recently – Parvez Musharraf

-     India’s position on the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report, topped by Norway

       - 112^th

-    Wholesale inflation in Nov 2019 – 0.58 per cent

-    The CBI officer who has won the “India Cyber Cop of the Year 2019” award by

NASSCOM-DSCI – BP Raju

-          The state which launched ‘Jalsathi’ programme to supply safe to supply safe drinking to        

all households in the state – Odisha

-          The state police bestowed recently with the honour of the President’s Colours – Gujarat

Police

-The city which hosted the COP25 climate talks – Madrid (Spain)

-  The country which finished on top of the medal table (with 312 medals) at the 13^th South

Asian Games, which concluded recently in Kathmandu, Nepal – India

-  The woman who has topped the Forbes 2019 list of ‘The World’s 100 Most Powerful       

Women’ – Angela Merkel

-          The host country for the 36^th International Geological Congress – India

-          The new law passed by the Andhra Pradesh govt for crime against women – Disha Bill

-          The small island belonging to Papua New Guinea which recently voted for independence – Bougainville

-          India’s economic growth forecast for FY 2019 as per the Asian Development Bank (ADB)- 5.1 per cent

-          The earth observation satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) recently – RISAT-2BRI

-          India’s position on the 2020 Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) – Ninth

-          The country which has topped the 2019 Human Development Index (HDI) – Norway

-          India’s position on the Index – 129^th

-          The new Chairman of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) – Girish Chandra Chaturvedi

-          Winner of the men’s Ballon d’Or 2019awrd for the world’s best player – Lionel Messi (Argentina)

-          Winner of the women’s Ballon d’Or for 2019 – Megan Rapinoe (US)

-          Miss World 2019- Toni-Ann Singh

-          The country with which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) signed a new USD 5.5bn agreement recently –Ukraine

-          Winner of women’s singles title of the 2019 Syed Modi International badminton tournament – Carolina Marin

-          Winner of men’s singles title – Wang Tzu Wei

-          The head of the panel which will look into the content and propriety of govt advertisements – OP Rawat

-          Miss Universe 2019 – Zozibini Tunzi

-          The youngest-ever (34-year-old) Prime Minister of Finland elected recently – Sanna Marin

-          India’s ranking as the most vulnerable country to climate change, according to the Climate Risk Index 2020 – Fifth

-          The police station which has been ranked first in the list of the best-performing police stations in the country – Aberdeen police station

-          The world’s most valuable publicly traded company - Aramco

-          The state govt which launched “Madhu” app for school students to understand their subjects in a better and efficient way – Odisha

-          The team which was bestowed with the Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket ward recently – New Zealand

-          The joint military exercise held between India and China at Umroi in Meghalaya – Hand-in-Hand 2019

-          The person named “2019 Person of the Year” by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Joaquin Phoenix

-          Time Magazine’s person of the year 2019 – Greta Thunberg

-          The new president of Mauritius – Pritivirajsing Roopun

-          The new president of the Manila-headquartered Asian Development Bank (ADB) – Masatsugu Asakawa

-          The chairman of the Fifteenth Finance Commission – NK Singh

-          The policy repo rate after the fifth bi-monthly Monetary Policy statement of the RBI – 5.15 per cent

-          The growth forecast of the Indian economy – 5 per cent

-          Winner (film) of the ICFT’s UNESCO Gandhi medal award at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) – Rwanda

-          The new CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google – Sundar Pichai

-          The typhon which hit the Philippines recently – Kammuri

-          The country with which India conducted the joint military exercise ‘SURYA KIRAN – XIV recently – Nepal

-          The state where the 20^th edition of the Hornbill Festival was celebrated recently - Nagaland

-          The new United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance – Mark Carney

-          The person who replaces Mark Carney as the governor of Bank of England – Andrew Bailey

-          The IHS Markit India Manufacturing PMI in Nov 2019 – 51.2

-          The Goods and services tax (GST) collection in Nov 2019 – ₹1.03tn

-          The slowest growth recorded by the Indian economy in six years during Jul-Sep quarter of FY20-4.5 per cent

-          The first chairman of the steering committee of the Code for Responsible Lending (CRL) in micro-credit – HR Khan

-          The new (19^th) Chief Minister of Maharashtra – Uddhav Thackeray

-          The head of the 13-member expert committee to review the Draft National Sports Code – Justice Mukundakam Sharma

-          The first Indian company to hit the ₹10 lakh cr market valuation level – RIL

-          The venue of the 47^th All India Police Science Congress (AIPSC) – Lucknow

-          The person given the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) London for the year 2019 – G Satheesh Reddy

-          India’s latest earth observation satellite launched by ISRO recently – Cartosat-3

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