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Match Pointl The country where the military has imposed martial law

amid a political crisis Thailandl The state where the SC banned jallikattu (bull fighting)

and bullock cart racing, recently Tamil Nadul The scientists who first theorised the technique to turn light

into matter in 1934 Gregory Breit and John Wheelerl The present Secretary General of the ASEAN group Le

Luong Minhl The country where paleontologists have discovered fossils

of the largest dinosaur ever to roam the earth Argentinal The country with which Russia signed a major gas deal

recently Chinal The institution which is co-terminus with the Union Govt

Planning Commissionl Chief Minister of Bihar Jitan Ram Manjhil The city where the fourth meet of the Conference on

Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia(CICA) was held recently Shanghai

l The three-time Formula One champion who passed awayrecently Sir Jack Brabham

l Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaikl The winner of the womens singles title at the Rome Masters

tennis tournament Serena Williamsl Chief Minister of Sikkim Pawan Chamlingl The chairman of the RBIs committee constituted to review

the governance of boards of banks in India PJ Nayakl The best-paid player in the world playing with Barcelona

team Lionel Messil The persons who have topped the recent list of UK

billionaires Srichand and Gopichand Hindujal The Steel Man of India and former chief of Tisco (now Tata

Steel) who passed away recently Russi Modyl The country where citizens rejected adopting worlds highest

minimum wage (25 dollars an hour) in a referendum recently Switzerland

l Thomas Cup is associated with Mens badmintonl Uber Cup is associated with Womens badmintonl Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Tukil The candidate who won the election with a margin of 5.7

lakh votes recently Narendra Modi, Vadodaral The automaker in the US which will pay a record $35 mn

fine over faulty ignition switches General Motorsl The project associated with submarine programme of the

Indian Navy Project-75Indial The stock exchange which ceased to exist from May 30

Madras Stock Exchangel The island which became the first island in the world fully

energy self-sufficient through combined water and windpower El Hierro

l The RBI has announced to launch much-awaited plasticcurrency notes of `10 from 2015

l The state whose co-operative bank became the firstcooperative bank of the country to launch its own Ru PayATM-cum-debit card recently Himachal Pradesh

l The militant group on which the Union Home Ministryextended the ban for five years LTTE

l The game Shiv Chowrasia is associated with Golfl The car model which has became only the second in India to

cross 25 lakh unit sales mark in domestic market Altol The country where at least 300 people were killed in a coal

mine explosion and fire recently Turkeyl The country where the worlds highest tunnel for high-speed

trains became operational at an altitude of 3,607.4 metresrecently China

l The group with which India is negotiating the Broad-basedTrade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) EU

l The country which announced to abolish its controversialsponsorship system for foreign workers Qatar

l The first woman to command a UN peacekeeping force Kristin Lund

l International Nurses Day (IND) 12 Mayl The economies of the world declared worlds most expensive

economies in a recent ranking by the World Bank Switzerland and Norway

l The company which topped the Forbes list of the worlds2000 largest and most powerful public companies Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

l The next Army Chief appointed recently Dalbir SinghSuhag

l The team which clinched the 20th Senior National WomensFootball Championships Manipur

l The winner of the Spanish Grand Prix 2014 LewisHamilton

l The country where the worlds biggest bio-bank imagingstudy is being conducted UK

l The state which was adjudged to have the best landacquisition model in the report prepared by consultancyfirm Accenture on behalf of DIPP Gujarat

l Indias ranking in the State of Worlds Mothers Index 2014 137th

l The space agency from which Afghanistan has leased itsfirst-ever satellite AFGHANSAT 1 Eutelsat, EU

l The city declared the most polluted city in the 2014 versionof the Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) by the WHO Delhi

l Number of Parliamentary and Assembly seats respectivelyin the new state of Telangana 17 and 119

l The country where Boko Haram militants abducted morethan 200 schoolgirls recently Nigeria

l The newly elected President of South Africa Jacob Zumal The province of Afghanistan where a devastating landslide

buried a village recently Badakhshanl The state where the High Court cancelled the appointment

of 10,323 teachers recently Tripural Indias own payment gateway launched recently RuPayl The firm which leads the list of 54 Indian firms in the recently

released Forbes Global 2000 list Reliance Industriesl The embattled premier of Thailand dismissed from the office

by a court recently Yingluck Shinawatral The new airline granted the flying licence by aviation

regulator DGCA recently AirAsia Indial The flying test bed (FTB) aircraft developed by HAL and

handed over to DRDO recently Nabhratna

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l A new purple mineral with a unique makeup discoveredfrom a remote part of Australia recently Putnisite

l The winner of the 2014 Indonesian Masters golf tournament Anirban Lahiri

l The country which has set up a Special Police Force tohandle religious disputes Sri Lanka

l The new President and CEO of Nokia Rajeev Suril The country that successfully test-fired a short-range

ballistic missile Hatf-III (Ghaznavi) recently Pakistanl The Outstanding Asian Mens Player of the Year 2013

adjudged by the Asian Squash Federation Saurav Ghosall Winner of the World Womens Senior Snooker

Championship 2014 Chitra Magimairajl The country which signed a 10-year pact with the US to

allow a bigger US military presence in its territory Philippines

l The Prime Minister of South Korea who tendered hisresignation over ferry accident Chung Hong-won

l The state which topped in creation of new jobs during thesix years between 2004 and 2011 as per the latest NSSOdata West Bengal

l World Intellectual Property Day 26 Aprill The country from which Indias first aircraft carrier, INS

Vikrant, was sourced in 1957 UKl The chairman of the RBI panel which released Draft Report

on Pricing of Credit recently Anand Sinhal The worlds biggest military spender USl The issue of fresh securities by an unlisted company for the

first time Initial Public Offeringl The Indian satellite that retired after remaining 10 years in

orbit INSAT-3El The two states which together account for about half of the

total mango production in India Andhra Pradesh andUttar Pradesh

l The largest milk-producing state in India as of now UttarPradesh

l The 2014 World Car of the Year Audi A3l The top export destination for Indias mangoes UAEl Insurance Day is celebrated in India on Apr 19l The Earth-sized planet discovered by the US space agency

NASA which may sustain life Kepler-186fl The winner of the inaugural I-League football championships

Bengaluru FCl Earth Day 22 Aprl The country which has become Africas biggest economy

Nigeria

l The chairman of the RBI panel on credit information whichsubmitted its report recently Aditya Puri

l The newly elected President of Rajasthan CricketAssociation Lalit Modi

l The new name of the ING Vysya Life Insurance CompanyLimited Exide Life Insurance

l The new President of Panama Juan Carlos Varelal The annual exercise conducted between the US and the

Philippines Balikatanl World Press Freedom Day 3 Mayl The winners of the WTA Portugal Open 2014 womens

doubles title Sania Mirza and Cara Blackl Indias first indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range

missile Astral The state where a major field exercise by the Army,

codenamed Sarvada Vijay, was conducted recently Rajasthan

l The film which won the Best Picture Award at the IIFAAward 2014 Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

l The surface-to-air missile successfully test-fired by Indiarecently Akash

l The country where a recent massive landslide claimedhundreds of lives Afghanistan

l The country to which the former Chief of the Air StaffNAK Browne has been appointed Indias Ambassador UK

l The internet browser whose vulnerability is referred byOperation Clandestine Fox Internet Explorer (IE)

l International Jazz Day 30 Aprl The new CEO of Ford Motors Mark Fieldsl The chairman of the SIT appointed by the SC to probe

black money MB Shahl The new Deputy Chief of the Air Staff SBP Sinhal The winner of the prestigious Goldman Environment Prize

called the Green Nobel for 2014 Ramesh Agrawall The worlds third-largest economy by PPP as per a World

Bank report Indial The Professional Footballers Association player of the year

for 2013-14 Luis Suarezl The International Commonwealth Championships 2014 was

held recently in Perthl The headquarters of the IMF Washingtonl The person who replaced Anand Sinha as the new RBI

deputy governor R Gandhil Worlds largest steel producer China