for RBI - SBI - IBPS EXAMS BSC MATCH POINT MARCH 2020

MATCH POINT

- The new Foreign Secretary of India – Harsh Vardhan Shringla

- The new President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) for 2019-20 – Sangita Reddy

- The tunnel situated in Himachal Pradesh which is named as Atal tunnel – Rohtang tunnel

- The new President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) – Niranjan Hiranandani

- The district of Telangana which won the Unicef-2019 Award for effective implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission in water sanitation and hygiene sectors - Kamareddy

- The scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently to improve groundwater management – Atal Bhujal Yojana

- The state which topped the ‘Good Governance Index’ launched by the Govt of India among big states – Tamil Nadu

- Top state among North-East and Hill States – Himachal Pradesh

- Top among the Union Territories - Puducherry

- The former India skipper who was named captain of Cricket Australia’s (CA) ODI team of the decade – MS Dhoni

- The renowned Hindi author who passed away in a road accident in Sri Lanka recently – Ganga Prasad Vimal

- The Indian ophthalmologist who was conferred with the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s (AAO) highest award Life Achievement honour recently – Dr Santosh G Honavar

- The railway station in Mumbai which was conferred with ‘East Right Station’ certification by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) for food safety and hygiene recently – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus

- The fresh capital infusion approved by the Govt in Allahabad Bank – ₹ 2,153 cr

- Infusion approved in UCO Bank – ₹ 2,142 cr

- Infusion approved in Indian Overseas Bank – ₹ 4,630 cr

- The aggregate exposure set by the RBI for a lender on a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending platform for all borrowers – ₹50 lakh

- The amount the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will lend to improve irrigation services and strengthen flood risk management in West Bengal - $145mn

- The amount AIIB will lend for a 250-megawatt solar project in Rajasthan - $65mn

- The only Indian cricketer named in Wisden cricketers of the decade list – Virat Kohli

- The only female cricketer in the list – Ellyse Perry (Australia)

- The year by which the Gov plans to revamp Akashvani by introducing digital radio - 2024

- The largest carrier rocket launched by China recently – Long March 5

- The hypersonic missile system which became operational in Russia recently - Avangard

- The state where the first edition of Mandu festival was celebrated recently – Madhya Pradesh

- The veteran political cartoonist who passed away recently – Vikas Sabnis

- The banks whom the RBI has directed to report all exposures of ₹5cr and more to the Central Repository of Information on Large Credits (CRILC) – Large Cooperative Banks

- Retail inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Dec 2019 – 7.35 per cent

- Wholesale inflation in Dec 2019 – 2.59 per cent

- Industrial Production (IIP) in Nov 2019 – 1.8 per cent

- HIS Markit Services Purchasing Managers’ Index in Dec 2019 – 53.3

- The gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue collection for Dec 2019 – ₹1.03 lakh cr

- The iconic Russian origin fighter jets which were decommissioned by the Indian Air Force recently – MiG-27

- The Army General who was appointed as India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) recently – Gen Bipin Rawat

- The NASA astronaut who created a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman recently – Christina Koch

- The e-auction platform launched by the Govt recently to enable online auction of attached assets by banks – eBkray

- The bank which launched OTP-based ATM cash withdrawals from Jan 1 2020 - SBI

- The head of Pejawar Mutt who passed away recently – Vishwesha Tirtha Swami

- The two Indian cricketers named in Wisden’s T20I Team of the decade – Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah

- The Indian grandmaster who won the World Women’s Rapid Chess Championship held in Moscow recently – Koneru Humpy

- The state where the annual drama based open-air theatrical performance Dhanu Jatra was celebrated recently - Odisha

- The state with the largest forest cover (area-wise) in India as per “India State of Forest Report 2019” – Madhya Pradesh

- Top state in terms of forest cover as percentage of total geographical area - Mizoram

- The new (28 ) Chief of Army Staff – General Mukund Naravane

- The city which hosted the 31^st International Kite Festival at Sabarmati riverfront recently - Ahmedabad

- The state where the fourth edition of ‘Buxa Bird Festival’ was celebrated in Buxa National Park recently – West Bengal

- The state which announced setting up Vikram Sarabhai Children Innovation Centre (VSCIC) recently - Gujarat

- The country where two Indian banks (Axis Bank and ICICI Bank) will close their operations soon – Sri Lanka

- India’s GDP growth rate for 2019-20 as projected by the National Statistical Office (NSO) in the first advance estimates of the national income – 5 per cent

- The country with which Indian conducted bilateral naval exercise ‘Naseem Al Bahr’ recently - Oman

- The amount authorized by the Union Gov for 1,656km long Indradhanush Natural Gas Pipeline Grid project – ₹5,559cr

- The country which designated the US Armed Forces and Pentagon as ‘Terrorist entities’ recently - Iran

- The former PM who won the recent President election in Croatia recently – Zoran Milanovic

- The country which accidentally shot down the Ukrainian aircraft “Boeing 737” boarding 176 people - Iran

- The new chairman of Apparel Export Promotion Council of India (AEPC) for the period 2020-21 – A Sakthivel

- The bank which has announced ‘residential builder finance with buyer guarantee’ (RBBG) scheme - SBI

- The author who won 2019 Costa Children’s Award recently for her novel Asha and the Spirit Bird – Jasbinder Bilan

- The city which hosted the 5^th Asia Pacific Drosophila Research Conference - Pune

- The woman weightlifter who was banned by the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) recently for four years – Sarbjeet Kaur

- The city which will host multi-nation naval military drill MILAN 2020 in Mar - Visakhapatnam

- The state where the famous chariot festival of Suchindram Thanumalayan Temple was celebrated recently – Tamil Nadu

- The new Chairman and Managing Director of Hudco – M Nagaraj

- India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier to be commissioned by 2021 – INS Vikrant

- India’s growth rate for FY20 as projected by the World Bank – 5 per cent

- Growth rate according to SBI’s report ‘Ecowrap’ – 4.6 per cent

- The ranking of Indian passport in Henley Passport Index 2020 – 84^th

- The country on top of the Index - Japan

- The veteran Odissi danseuse who passed away recently – Minati Mishra

- The states which have topped the Union Govt’s State Energy Efficiency Index 2019 – Haryana, Karnataka and Kerala

- The Sultan of Oman who passed away recently – Qaboos bin Said

- New Sultan of Oman – Haitham bin Tariq Al Said

- The naval exercise conducted by Pakistan and China in the Arabian Sea recently – Sea Guardians

- The new name of the Kolkata Port Trust – Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Port

- The state where India’s first Cyber Crime Prevention Unit was launched recently - Gujarat

- The country which hosted the Muslim congregation “Bishwa Ijtema” in its capital recently - Bangladesh

- The person re-elected as the president of Taiwan – Tsai Ing-wen

- The city which hosted World Future Energy Summit recently – Abu Dhabi

- Winner of BCCI’s Polly Umrigar award – Jasprit Bumrah

- The year to which market regulator SEBI deferred splitting Chairman and Managing Director posts for listed firms – Apr 2022

- The person appointed as the fourth deputy governor of the RBI recently – Michael Debaprata Patra

- The communication satellite launched by ISRO onboard Ariane-5 launch vehicle (VA251) from French Guiana recently – GSAT-30

- Winner of men’s singles of Malaysia Masters 2020 – Kento Momoto

- The first woman to lead the Republic Day contingent as parade adjutant – Captain Tania Shergill

- The new director general of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) – Anand Prakash Maheshwari

- The ecommerce firm which announced to invest USD 1bn in India in digitizing the small and medium business (SMB) - Amazon

- The famous agricultural scientist who was honoured with the ‘Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu National Award for Excellence’ recently – Dr MS Swaminathan

- The city which received Swachhata Darpan Awards 2019 for its initiatives for plastic waste management - Puri

- The city which hosted the 7^th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference 2020 recently - Lucknow

- The mega petroleum conservation conservation campaign launched by Govt recently - Saksham

- Malta’s new Prime minister – Robert Abela

- The Indian scientists who was elected to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recently – Bipul Behari Saha

- The state which signed and MoU with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for the red-listing of orchids recently – Arunachal Pradesh

- The new Director of the National Book Trust – Lt Col Yuvraj Malik

- The country which will host Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting 2020 - India

- The acclaimed Sindhi writer who was honoured with the 29^th Saraswati Samman recently – Vasdev Mohi

- The Indian scientist who received the Merck Young Scientist Award 2019 recently – Dr Sakya Singha Sen

- The city which hosted the first edition of Krishi Manthan, the largest Food, Agri-business and Rural Development Summit of Asia - Ahmedabad

- The firm which vowed to become carbon-negative by the year 2030 - Microsoft

- The pair which won the women’s doubles title of the WTA Hobart International trophy recently – Sania Mirza and Nadiia Kichenok