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Match Pointl The year by which the govt aims at raising the share of

manufacturing sector to 25 per cent of GDP – 2022l The software technology firm which has joined the

elite club of `1-tn market-cap firms recently – HCLTechnologies

l The country where Little India is situated (It was the sceneof the worst riot in 40 years in the country recently) –Singapore

l The country where a court has sentenced 30 people to deathover heroin smuggling in the largest trial ever – Vietnam

l The person unanimously re-elected as President of theBadminton Association of India (BAI) recently – AkhileshDas Gupta

l The range of India’s strategic nuclear-capable missile Agni-IV which was successfully test-fired recently – 4,000 km

l The country where an overwhelming 98.1 per cent of votersapproved the new Constitution in a nationwide referendumrecently – Egypt

l The chairman of the Expert Committee constituted by theReserve Bank of India (RBI) to review governance of boardsof banks – PJ Nayak

l The number of member nations of the World TradeOrganization (WTO) as of now – 160

l The rate, the slowest in 14 years, at which China’s economygrew in 2013 – 7.7 per cent

l The Indian-American who has been awarded with BaylorUniversity’s ‘2014 Robert Foster Cherry Award’ for GreatTeaching – Meera Chandrasekhar

l The country which has started digitising most bookspublished in the country before 2001 and making themavailable online for free – Norway

l The state where Junbeel Mela is celebrated – Assaml The scheme under which the Scheduled Tribe households

will now avail 150 days of wage employment –MGNREGAl The city in India which has the largest number of child

cancer cases according to the study by the Indian Councilfor Medical Research (ICMR) – Chennai

l The chief guest at the 12th edition of the Pravasi BharatiyaDiwas held in New Delhi – YB Datuk Seri Palanivel

l The person named as the most admired person on the planetin a poll conducted by YouGov for The Times recently –Bill Gates

l The winner of 2013 Fifa Player of the Year award Ballond’Or – Cristiano Ronaldo

l The chairman of the ten-member committee set up by theInsurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) tolook into having 100% FDI in insurance intermediaries andThird Party Administrators (TPAs) – Suresh Mathur

l India’s ranking globally in the 2014 Index of EconomicFreedom published by the Heritage Foundation and theWall Street Journal – 120th

l The country with which the Indian Coast Guards conducteda joint exercise named “Sahyog-Kaijin-XI” in Kochi recently– Japan

l The firm bought by Google Inc for $3.2 bn recently in thesecond largest deal in its history – Nest Labs

l The country which enacted a new law recently criminalisinghomosexual clubs, associations and organizations withpenalties of up to 14 years in jail – Nigeria

l The country in which Michelle Bachelet has been officiallydeclared as president-elect – Chile

l The RBI has allowed NBFCs to extend loans against goldjewellery as collateral up to – 75 per cent

l The amount the central govt will receive as royalty for its90 per cent stake in Coal India Limited – `16,485.71 cr

l The president of South Korea who came to New Delhi on afour-day official visit recently – Park Geun-hye

l The Indian sportswoman whose silver medal at the WorldAthletics Final in 2005 was recently elevated to gold by theIAAF – Anju Baby George

l The place in Rajasthan where the footprints of dinosaurshave been spotted recently – Jaisalmer

l The new rate of interest announced by the EPFO onProvident Fund deposits for 2013-14 – 8.75 per cent

l The disease from which India has been free for last threeyears – Polio

l The place in Haryana where the Prime Minister ManmohanSingh laid the foundation of 2,800-Megawatt nuclear powerplant recently – Fatehabad

l The amount announced by the World Bank for Uttarakhandto construct disaster-resilient houses and roads – USD 250mn

l The first woman judge of the national Shariah court ofPakistan – Ashraf Jehan

l The world’s largest tobacco consumer country – Chinal The team that lifted both the men’s and women’s team titles

of the 75th Senior National Table Tennis Championships –Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB)

l The railway station which entered Limca Book of Recordsfor being the world’s longest platform (1,355.40 metres)recently – Gorakhpur

l The country in which the UN and its humanitarian partnershave launched “No Lost Generation” initiative to savemillions of children – Syria

l The life insurance and pension benefits scheme MahatmaGandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana (MGPSY) was firstlaunched in – UAE

l The National Youth Festival is held on the occasion of thebirth anniversary of – Swami Vivekananda

l The launch vehicle armed with indigenous cryogenic rocketengine technology which was recently successfully tested –Germany

l The chairman of the committee set up by the RBI to overhaulthe Indian banking landscape – Nachiket Mor

l The person named by the animal rights body ‘People forthe Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)’ as the Person ofthe Year for 2013 – Shashi Tharoor

l The US bank which has agreed to pay USD 1.7bn to victimsof a fraudster for not maintaining an effective anti-moneylaundering programme – JP Morgan

l The chief guest at 65th Republic Day parade at Rajpath inDelhi – Shinzo Abe (PM of Japan)

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l The Commission which reported that Odisha’s good-qualityiron-ore reserves will last for only 30 years at present rateof extraction – Justice MB Shah Commission

l The panel tasked to review the framework on externalcommercial borrowings (ECBs) and foreign currencyconvertible bonds (FCCBs) – MS Sahoo Panel

l The shuttler who has become the first male junior badmintonplayer from India to be ranked No. 1 in the world – AdityaJoshi

l The country where the Supreme Court has given voters theright to cast negative votes during the parliamentary or localelections recently – Nepal

l The state which is running the national award-winning Sakalaprogramme that guarantees time-bound delivery of servicesto citizens by govt departments – Karnataka

l The city where the three-day 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas(PBD) was held recently – New Delhi

l The state where the 11-day-long world famous Dhanu Yatraof Bargarh was held recently – Odisha

l The country which successfully tested its advanced missiledefence system Arrow 3 recently – Israel

l The new president of NASSCOM – R Chandrashekharl The country which has developed its own satellite navigation

system named Beidou and is offering it free of cost to itsneighbouring countries – China

l The winner of Chennai Open tennis trophy – StanislasWawrinka

l The winner of the Qatar Open tennis championship – RafaelNadal

l The software firm which is setting up the world’s largestcorporate learning and development centre in India – TCS

l The state to which the World Bank has agreed to extend itssupport with an assistance programme of about `2,254 cr($490 mn) for road and other projects – Rajasthan

l The person appointed the new president of the South AsianFederation of Accountants (SAFA) recently – SubodhKumar Agrawal

l China’s first aircraft carrier which completed its sea trialsrecently – Liaoning

l The new Managing Director and CEO of India’s commodityexchange MCX-SX – Saurabh Sarkar

l The country which is all set to host first Wimbledon tennisevent outside UK – India

l The deadline set by the International Civil AviationOrganisation (ICAO) to phase out non-machine-readablepassports – 24 Nov, 2015

l The Gulf country with which India has signed a pact toprotect interests of domestic sector workers employed there– Saudi Arabia

l The firm with which the Govt of India has terminated thechopper deal signed in 2010 for the supply of 12 VVIPhelicopters – AgustaWestland

l India’s position in the production of crude steel in the world– Fourth

l The country where the Chaparrastique volcano erupted forthe first time in 37 years – El Salvador

l The country which formally joined the Euro Zone as the 18th member of the group – Latvia

l The cricketer who cracked the fastest century in one-dayinternational history – Corey Anderson

l The Indian-origin academician who has been appointed deanof the prestigious Harvard College – Rakesh Khurana

l The new Chairman of the National Dairy DevelopmentBoard (NDDB) – T Nanda Kumar

l The state whose tourism department has won UnitedNations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)’s ‘UlyssesAward’ – Kerala

l The country whose research ship Akademik Shokalskiy wastrapped in thick ice in Antarctica – Russia

l The country which has introduced new restrictions on onlineshopping as part of efforts to stop foreign currency reservesfrom falling any further – Argentina

l The bank in which the CCEA approved to increase foreigninvestment to 74 per cent recently – Federal Bank

l The chairman of the panel considering splitting overseasinflows into two categories FPI and FDI – Arvind Mayaram

l The biodiversity hotspot which has been named ‘destinationflyways’ by United Nations World Tourism Organization(UNWTO) – Chilika lagoon

l The UN-sponsored international conference on Syria toresolve the crisis and find a political solution to the conflictin the Arab country – Geneva-II

l The new chairman of the chiefs of staff committee (CoSC)– Bikram Singh

l The telco which FIPB allowed to acquire shares for over`10,000 cr recently – Vodafone