Ga Points to Remember(Dec April2014)

CSB, Ch-17, Ph: 044-24333346 CA/PTR/Page-1

CURRENT AFFAIRS: DEC-MAY2014 POINTS TO REMEMBER

The Hollywood film based on the life of Julian Assange The Fifth State Indias rank in terms of competitiveness in the Global Competitiveness Report 2013-14 released by

the World Economic Forum (WEF) recently 60th

The country hit by the powerful typhoon Usagi recently China The Indian city that ranked as the worlds second most honest city in a recent survey carried out in

16 cities across four continents - Mumbai

The Seventh Pay Commission approved by the Prime Minister recently is likely to be implemented from Jan 1, 2016

The team to whom Indian women hockey team lost in the semifinals of the eighth Asia Cup hockey tournament in Kuala Lumpur recently South Korea

The country in which China is in process to lease 3m hectare of arable farmland - Ukraine World Tourism Day is observed on 27 Sep General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) provisions will come into effect from 1 Apr, 2016 The anti-chemical weapons activists who have won the Swedish Right Livelihood Award Paul

Walker, Hans Herren and Denis Mukwege The person awarded with the fifth Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics 2013 Raghuram

Rajan The least developed state as per the report submitted by the Raghuram Rajan committee Odisha The Internet giant who celebrated its 15th birthday recently - Google The most developed states as per the Raghuram Rajan panel report Kerala and Goa The winner of the 2013 womens Table Tennis World Cup Liu Siwen World Rabies Day is observed on Sep 28 The country to which India started exporting electricity recently - Bangladesh The country which will host the 2014 NATO summit for the first time in more than 20 years -

England World Heart Day is observed on 29 Sep Miss World 2013 Megan Young The present president of the BCCI N Srinivasan The dedicated pin code issued by the postal department for the Supreme Court of India recently -

110201


The country that unveiled its most powerful super computer Raijin recently - Australia The country that won the 3rd Sultan of Johor Cup under-21 hockey tournament recently - India The satellite on which the US space agency NASAs Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene

Titan (Saturns moon) The country where the Supreme Court has barred murder convicts from contesting in the

upcoming polls - Nepal International Day of Older Persons is observed on 1 Oct The new Chairperson of the International Coffee Council Jawaid Akhtar The country that signed the CTBT accord recently Iraq The name of the campaign launched by the Ministry of Tourism to promote tourism in Himalayas

777 days of incredible Indian Himalayas The technology giant that has set up a new company called Calico to make improvements in

human health and well-being - Google The places at which India is building first-of-its-kind strategic oil storages Padur, Mangalore and

Visakhapatnam The country with which India is set to sign a historic Motor Vehicles Agreement - Bangladesh The university ranked on the top among the Indian institutions of higher education in the recent

Times Higher Education World University Rankings Panjab University The country that announced to leave the 54-member Commonwealth group recently - Gambia The current global infant mortality rate (IMR) as per the recent report of the UNICEF - 37 The challenge round in which Miss India Navneet Kaur won at the recent Miss World competition

held in Bali - Multimedia The indigenously developed nuclear-capable surface-to-surface missile successfully test-fired by

India Prithvi-II The cricket team that created history by becoming the first team to win the Champions League T20

cricket tournament twice Mumbai Indians The first Tamil Chief Minister of a Sri Lankan province sworn in recently CV Wigneswaran The Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

(UNESCO) elected for the second four-year term Irina Bokova Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) and Indian Railways will jointly set up a forged wheel plant

at Rae Bareli

The first-ever woman chairperson of Indias largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI) Arundhati Bhattacharya


The new Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) set by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently 9 per cent

The famed military commander of Vietnam who died recently and who had masterminded the

defeats of France and the United States in his country General Vo Ngugen Giap The country in which the two-day summit of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

(APEC) took place recently - Indonesia The winner of the Korean Grand Prix Formula One championship Sebastian Vettel The person nominated by the US President Barack Obama to head Federal Reserve Janet Yellen The retail chain run by Bharti group in India Easy Day The population of world which will be online by the end of 2013 according to a recent report

published by the United Nations 40 per cent The winner of the mens singles title of the China Open tennis tournament Novak Djokovic The country which is on the top among the recipients of foreign remittance in 2013, according to a

recent estimate released by the World Bank - India The country where M23 rebels are active Democratic Republic of Congo The new president of Ethiopia Mulatu Teshome The country to which the US govt suspended delivery of large-scale military systems and cash

assistance recently - Egypt The state that topped in terms of infant mortality rate (IMR) as per a recent report released by the

Registrar General of India - Kerala The winner of the womens doubles title of the China Open tennis tournament Sania Mirza and

Cara Black World Mental Health Day 10 Oct The present Prime Minister of Libya who was held hostage by the rebel militiamen recently Ali

Zeidan International Day of the Girl Child 11 Oct The campaign launched by the govt to remove the stigma attached to leprosy - HEAL The person who has been given the Indira Gandhi National Integration Award 2012 MS

Swaminathan The person who has been awarded the European Parliaments Sakharov human rights prize

Malala Yousafzai The Indian shuttler who approached the high court challenging the decision of BAI to recommend

a life ban on her for alleged indiscipline in the IBL Jwala Gutta


The country where the ASEAN-India Summit took place recently - Indonesia International Day for Disaster Reduction 13 Oct The Indian state whose archers were issued stapled visas by China for Youth World Archery

Championship in central Chinas Wuxi city Arunachal Pradesh The cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India recently and forced to evacuate lakhs of people and

devastated property worth crores of rupees - Phailin The winner of the Japanese Grand Prix Formula One championship Sebastian Vettel The winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize Eleanor Catton The organisation which won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Organization for the Prohibition of

Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Justice MB Shah Commission is associated with Illegal mining across the country The state-of-the-art Geo-scientific research vessel that has been dedicated to the nation at Kandla

Port of Gujarat recently RV Samudra Ratnakar The company that has become the first private company of the country to earn over Rs.1 lakh crore

in a quarter Reliance Industries (RIL) The country that overtook Saudi Arabia to become worlds biggest oil producer recently - US The country that was lashed by typhoon Wipha recently Japan Indias ranking in the Global Hunger Index 2013 released by the IFPRI - 63 The county in the P5+1 group along with the five permanent members of the United Nations

Security Council - Germany Indias GDP growth rate estimated by IMF for the current financial year 8.5 per cent The state which has registered maximum number of human rights violations till 30 Sep 2013 as per

the data released by the NHRC Uttar Pradesh The country which overtook US to become the worlds largest net oil importer - China The country where the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) took place Sri

Lanka The first country in the world to implement a new financial transaction tax called Tobin Tax -

Italy The first Indian to reach final stage of a world ranking Snooker event Aditya Mehta The debt ceiling approved by the US Congress after the govt remained shut down for many days -

$17 trillion Indias GDP expansion in 2013-14 as pegged by the World Bank 4.7 per cent


World Osteoporosis Day 20 Oct The place where the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) started digging the earth for the

prophesied 1,000 tonnes of gold - Unnao The newly elected non-permanent member of the UN Security Council that rejected the seat

recently Saudi Arabia The panel that has recommended prohibition on development activities in 60,000 sq km vast

ecologically sensitive area of Western Ghats K Kasturirangan Panel The winner of the 2013 Macau Open Squash womens single title Dipika Pallikal The country where India has launched its ambitious pension scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi

Suraksha Yojana, for the Indians working there - UAE Mexico has announced to award its 2013 International Prize for Equality and Non-Discrimination

to Malala Yousafzai The 22nd Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court appointed recently Justice Ajay Manikrao

Khanwilkar The country which has emerged as the most attractive investment destination in the world India The international bloc which has pledged to contribute substantially for the socio-economic growth

of Indias NE region at a two-day North East Business Summit - ASEAN The winner of the Formula One season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix Sebastian Vettel The country to which India donated 2,500 metric tonnes of wheat recently Yemen World Toilet Day 19 Nov The country where the 4th edition of the biennial BRICS International Competition Conference

would be held South Africa The Indian batsman who became the fastest batsman to reach the 5000-run mark in ODI cricket

recently Virat Kohli National Education Day 11 Nov The new penalty fixed by the DoT for companies whose mobile towers will be found violating

radiation emission levels Rs.10 lakh The cyclone which hit the coastline of Andhra Pradesh recently Helen The grandmaster who dethroned Viswanathan Anand as the World Champion recently Magnus

Carlsen The country where the two-day biennial BRICS International Competition Conference was

organised recently India The Tehelka editor who is facing rape charge Tarun Tejpal


The new chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India Ajit Prakash Shah The country that offered six oil and gas blocks to Indias ONGC Videsh Ltd without bidding in

South China Sea - Vietnam The country ranked on the top spot in the financial secrecy index (FSI) Switzerland The actress conferred with the Centenary Awards for Indian Film Personality of the Year at the

International Film Festival of India 2013 recently Waheeda Rehman The percentage of Indian population that defecates in open according to a recent report by the

World Bank 53 per cent The company that emerged as Indias top-notch brand in banking and financial services industry

(BFSI) category LIC of India The country with which India signed an accord for mutual recognition of educational qualifications

recently Mauritius The country that passed a bill called the HOPE Act that allows scientists to carry out research into

organ donations from one person with HIV to another US The 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will be held in 2015 in Malta The rate at which the Reserve Bank of India has directed PSBs to provide credit to women SHGs

7% pa The first CMD of the recently launched Bharatiya Mahila Bank Usha Ananthasubramanian The rate at which Paris-based OECD has pegged Indian economy to grow in the current financial

year on market prices 3.4 per cent The person who has been conferred with the European Unions (EU) prestigious Sakharov Prize

2013 Malala Yousafzai The Nobel laureate British scientist, known as the father of genomics, who died recently

Frederick Sanger The countries between whom the Ashes cricket tournament is played England and Australia The person slated to be the next President of the FICCI in 2014 Siddhartha Birla The article of the Indian Constitution belonging to Andhra Pradesh that needs to be amended to

make way for the bifurcation of the state Article 371(D) The country with which India is in process to develop fourth generation of anti-tank missile

Javelins US The awardee of the coveted Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for

2013 Angela Merkel The present president of Haiti Michel Martelly


Male World Athlete of the year 2013 Usain Bolt Female World Athlete of the year 2013 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce The completely refurbished 44,500-tonne carrier Admiral Gorshkov commissioned into the Indian

Navy recently INS Vikramaditya The National Integration Day is observed every year on the birth anniversary of the first woman

prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi, on 19 Nov The Indian-American nominated by the US President Barack Obama for the post of Surgeon

General Vivek Murthy The person conferred with the International Indian of the Decade award recently Lord Paul World Diabetes Day 14 Nov The new President of Maldives Yameen Abdul Gayoom The award announced for cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and acclaimed scientist CNR Rao by the

govt recently Bharat Ratna The Nobel Prizewinning author who died recently Doris Lessing The country that unveiled its latest drone plane Fotros Iran The country where two volcanoes, Mount Sinabung and Merapi, erupted recently Indonesia The operating system to which Microsoft Corporation has announced to discontinue its support

soon Windows XP The winner of the ATP World Tour Finals Novak Djokovic The disease from which India announced itself free as there has been no incidence of the disease in

the last three months Bird Flu International Day for Tolerance 16 Nov The fraction of those given employment under MGNREGA who should be women One-third The winner of the 50th edition of the Indian Open golf tournament Mohammad Siddikur The person whose autobiography Smarte Trekk was unveiled recently Magnus Carlsen The income exempt from income-tax as per the prevailing rules in India agricultural income The winner of the gold medal in air pistol category in the ISSF World Cup Final Henna Sidhu The investigation agency of India that completed fifty years in operation recently Central Bureau

of Investigation (CBI) The name of Indias first inter-planetary mission to Mars Mangalayaan The cricketer ranked numero uno in the Reliance ICC Player Ranking for Test all-rounders released

recently Ravichandran Ashwin


The assistance announced by the Prime Minister for the Phailin-affected states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha Rs.1,000 cr each

The high court which ruled that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is unconstitutional

Gauhati High Court The reverse mortgage scheme floated by banks is related to senior citizens The place where a year-long celebration to mark the 150th birth anniversary of the Assamese

literature pioneer Lakshminath Bezbruah kickstarted recently New Delhi The cricketer who became the first victim of the third umpire system adopted by the ICC in 1992

Sachin Tendulkar The team to which womens hockey team of India lost in the final of the Asian Championships in

New Delhi recently - Japan The country hit by the super typhoon Haiyan, which killed at least 10,000 people The

Philippines The country which topped the recently launched 2013 World Prosperity Index Norway The state with the lowest overall teledensity in the country (just 34.33) Uttar Pradesh The country that released dengue-blocking mosquito recently Vietnam The amount with which the govt has approved the launch of a new IPDS scheme for textile sector

in the 12th Plan Rs.500 cr Indias rank in the 2013 World Prosperity Index 106 World Standards Days 14 Oct The European country with which India suspended a two-decade-old tax benefits pact recently

Cyprus The winner of the 2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Sebastian Vettel International Day of Rural Women 15 Oct The naval exercise conducted between the navies of India and the US recently Malabar exercise The amount the UN owes to India for costs relating to peacekeeping operations USD 80 mn

The person known as the father of IBM personal computer who died recently William C Lowe The first country in South Asia to approve the cultivation of genetically modified food crops with

the approval of commercial cultivation of transgenic Bt brinjal Bangladesh The Indian mobile operator which has started offering Apples iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c phones at

monthly instalments with free unlimited calls and data usages Reliance Communications The first female managing director of the LIC of India appointed recently Usha Sangwan

The chairman of the four-member advisory committee set up by the RBI to vet the new bank licence applications Bimal Jalan


The US telecom major which is preparing to take over Europes largest mobile carrier Vodafone in 2014 AT&T

The organisation which has launched a nation wide campaign named Take the Poo to Loo in

India to raise awareness against open defecation UNICEF India-born legendary Pakistani singer who passed away recently Reshma The goods that are used in producing other goods, rather than being bought by consumers

Capital goods The country which scrapped the visa bond imposed on visitors from some Asian the African

countries, including India, recently - UK The country with which Indian soldiers participated in a 10-day anti-terror exercise code-named

Hand-in-Hand 2013 recently China The country where 152 soldiers have been sentenced to death for 2009 mutiny Bangladesh The veteran Indian diplomat who bid farewell to her diplomatic career recently Nirupama Rao The noted Kannada film director and screenplay writer who died recently D Rajendra Babu The present US ambassador to India Nancy Powell The public broadcasters which completed 10 successful years in service recently DD news The Indian batsmen, only the third in the world, to score a double century in the ODIs till date

Rohit Sharma The head of the Pakistani Taliban killed in the drone attack by the US recently Hakimullah

Mehsud The winner of the 2013 Singapore Grand Prix Formula One championship Sebastian Vettel The growth rate of core sector in India in the month of Sep, the highest in last 11 months 8 per

cent The countries where the Vice-President Hamid Ansari went on an eight-day official visit recently

Cuba, Peru and the UK The Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Tuki The country with which India has signed a treaty for transfer of sentenced prisoners Vietnam The regulator to which SC upheld the appointment of UK Sinha as the chairman recently SEBI The girl crowned Miss Asia Pacific World 2013 Srishti Rana Indias CAG elected to the UN Board of Auditors recently Shashi Kant Sharma The district of Kerala which has become the first zero-landless district in the country Kannur


The chairman of the panel which suggested that diesel prices should be hiked by Rs.5 per litre Kirit s Parikh

The city which has got the worlds first publicly accessible ATM machine which can exchange

digital currency, bitcoins, for any official currency - Vancouver The player who has been named the International Tennis Federations womens world champion

for 2013 Serena Williams

One of the most ambitious space missions launched by Europe in history which is going to map the precise positions and distances to more than a billion stars The Gaia satellite

The state-owned miner allowed to produce coal-bed methane (CBM) along with coal Coal India

Ltd (CIL)

The winner of the ET Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 Azim Premji

The winner of the ATS 69th National team badminton titles, for the 15th year in succession Petroleum Sports Promotion Board

Goa celebrated the 52nd liberation anniversary when the state was freed on 19 Dec 1961 from the

colonial power of - Portuguese

The shortest day of the year and the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere 21 December

The person appointed the Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development

(NABARD) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala

The player who has been named the International Tennis Federations mens world champion for 2013 Novak Djokovic

The player who has been conferred BCCIs Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement award for the

year 2013 Kapil Dev

The auto major which has announced to shift its entire export operations for the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia to India Suzuki Motor Corporation

The first Indian squash player to win the IMET Open Mahesh Mangaonkar

The airline with which Indias second largest low-cost carrier SpiceJet has signed an interline

agreement - Tigerair

The country that inked a deal enabling EU to send back illegal migrants who entered the 28-nation bloc via it - Turkey

The amount sought by the United Nations for humanitarian aid to Syrias conflict-affected

population USD 6.5bn

The country which has been granted Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP Plus) status by the European Parliament - Pakistan

The Qatar-based bank which has been granted license to commence banking operations in India

recently Doha Bank


The person who has been named Time Person of the Year 2013 Pope Francis

The person who has been named Guardians Person of the year 2013 Edward Snowden The amount to be provided by the Centre under its flagship programme MNREGA for constructing

toilets Rs.10,000

The team which has lifted Mens Junior Hockey World Cup for a record sixth time - Germany

The CCEA has approved the continuation of the ongoing Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) in the Twelfth Plan (2012-13 to 2016-17) with an outlay of Rs.63,246 cr

The team India defeated to emerge as champions of the fourth Kabaddi World Cup - Pakistan

The state to which Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced to lend $350 mn for improving

power transmission and distribution system Madhya Pradesh

The Indian firm which has topped the wealth creation table, according to the Motilal Oswal annual wealth creation study for the five-year period 2008-13 Tata Consultancy Services

The country which has become the first country to allow euthanasia for incurably ill children -

Belgium

The richest person of India at present as per US-based business magazine Forbes annual list Mukesh Ambani

The winner of the prestigious Mother Terasa Memorial International Award for Social Justice

Sushmita Sen

The act which the Supreme Court has held an offence punishable with up to life imprisonment recently gay sex

The top Indian diplomat who was held for visa fraud in the US recently Devyani Khobragade The new prime minister of Somalia Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed The winner of the Emerging Cricketer of the Year trophy at the 2013 ICC Annual Awards

Cheteshwar Pujara The team which won womens Kabaddi World Cup championship for the third time in a row

India The international airport which has been renamed after Nadaprabhu Kempe Gowda Bengaluru

International Airport The state whose legislative assembly has passed the Anti-Superstition Bill recently - Maharashtra The new Chairman and Managing Director of Andhra Bank CVR Rajendran The new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of India unit of Walmart Krish Iyer The winner of the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year Awards 2013 Michael

Clarke The team to which visiting India lost a three-match ODI series recently South Africa


The temperature, coldest ever recorded on Earth, hit by Antarctica recently - - 136 F (- 2.93 C) The WISH-2013 meet was organized recently in - Doha The person awarded with the highest civilian award of France, Chevalier de la Legion d Honneur

recently Anjali Gopalan The first state to introduce Centres National Vocational Qualitative Framework (NVQF) Scheme -

Haryana The country where the senior Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah was executed for war

crimes recently - Bangladesh The country which has been elected to 193-member UN General Assembly replacing Saudi Arabia -

Jordan The first mega food park of the country is to come up at Amethi, UP The bank fined by the US USD 100 mn for violating sanctions against Iran, Sudan, Burma and Cuba

Royal Bank of Scotland The state which launched a scheme name Manodhariya Yojana aimed at compensating victims of

various crimes, especially rape, child sex abuse and acid attacks - Maharashtra The year by which the leading nations of the world have committed to developing a cure or

treatment for dementia - 2025 The firm that has bagged three-year sponsorship rights for the Indian cricket team for all BCCI,

ACC and ICC events Star India The new director General of the OPCW Ahmet Uzumcu The country that hosted the 27th South East Asian Games, the biggest sporting event in South East

Asia - Myanmar The indigenously designed and developed fighter aircraft which is all set to its induction in the

Indian Air Force LCA Tejas The body accorded statutory status under the provisions of the recently enacted Companies Act,

2013 Serious Fraud Investigation Office The largest airborne survey of Earths polar ice to yield a three-dimensional view of Arctic and

Antarctic ice sheets Ice Bridge The first nation of the world which has granted non-human personhood status to dolphins to

recognize their unique intelligence India The fighter jet which was flown into history by the Indian Air Force recently Mig-21 FL The party that emerged as the single largest party in the newly elected Constituent Assembly in

Nepal Nepali Congress The World Trade Organization (WTO) held its crucial ministerial conference in - Bali


The first country of the world which legalized marijuana recently - Uruguay The person conferred 2013 Impact Person of the Year Award Vineet Jain The name of the new ball unveiled for the 2014 FIFA World Cup - Brazuca The new Chief Information Commissioner of India Sushma Singh The country that will host under-17 FIFA World Cup in 2017 India The farthest object sent by India into the space so far - Mangalyaan The winner of the 2013 LG Peoples Choice Award of ICC MS Dhoni India is all set to raise a 10-metre high embankment running along the 197-km strech of the

International Border along - Pakistan

The telecom firm on which DoT slapped Rs.600-cr penalty for its alleged violation of licence conditions in its merger deal with Spice Communications Idea Cellular

The process that has been made compulsory by the RBI for all debit card transactions from 1 December, 2013 Punching PIN

The firm which has agreed to pay USD 2.5 bn as compensation to around 8000 US citizens for its faulty hip implants Johnson & Johnson

The UNICEFs first brand ambassador for South Asia Sachin Tendulkar The three-member committee formed in the aftermath of the brutal gang rape in Delhi, to deal with

sexual assault cases, is headed by the former chief justice JS Verma

The CEO of Indias second largest private bank HDFC Bank Aditya Puri A global electronic payments firm which rolled out Saral money - Visa international As per Indian laws, a resident Indian can invest in a fiscal in foreign currency assets up to -

$200,000

The Bench of Justices that has given decision on Lokayukta appointment in Gujarat BS Chauhan and Ibhrahim Kalifulla

The state which is planning to make its capital Solar City by making the use of solar energy mandatory for the owners of the building - Tripura

The five-day centenary session of the Indian Science Congress was held in the month of January 2013 at - Kolkata

The worlds largest private security services company which was found guilty of not paying full provident fund dues to over 10,000 employees in Delhi alone G4S

The country whose central bank has come under considerable political pressure to adopt a higher inflation target - Japan

The state which celebrated 125 years of the historic journey of its legislature recently - UP The girl who was chosen for Irelands Prestigious Tripperary International Peace Prize for 2012

Malala Yousafzai

The statement We must create at least 2-3 world sized banks; even China has done it has been given by Finance Minister P Chidambaram

The UT which has prescribed separate buses for schoolboys and schoolgirls, overcoats for girls and restricted interaction of girls with boys - Puducherry

The country which has declared activities such as surfing social media or engaging in personal matters during office hours as an act of corruption - Malaysia


The town Dhule, where a quarrel between a Hindu vendor and two Muslim youths, escalated into riots is in - Maharashtra

The committee which in its reports has suggested raising diesel and kerosene rates Vijay Kelkar

Committee A two-day meeting of health secretaries and senior advisors of BRICS was held in the month of

January in New Delhi The Argentine star who won the FIFA Ballon d Or award for the fourth time Lionel Messi The Delhi-based teenaged actor who has been nominated for rising star in the BAFTA Award

Suraj Sharma The state which recently launched helicopter service for remote tribal areas Himachal Pradesh NSE signed an LoI for launching Nifty futures, a representative stock price index of India, with

Japan Exchange Group The Salma Dam Project, for which India has approved an additional Rs.600 crore recently, is in -

Afghanistan The fifth Annual Defence Dialogue between India and China was held in the month of January in -

Beijing The provisional of Chapter 10 A of income Tax Act dealing with the General Anti Avoidance Rules

(GAAR) will come into force from April 1, 2016 The National Security Adviser of India Shiv Shankar Menon Ho Chi Minh, a historical city which was recently visited by the Vice-President of India, is situated

in - Vietnam India will set up languages labs to fulfil a commitment made in 2011 for setting up of a three-tier

English Language Training System in Sri Lanka The country which has given to women a 20 per cent quota in its Consultative Assembly for the

first time Saudi Arabia The country which recently boosted its defence budget for the first time in ten years - Japan The Southern Weekend a newspaper that has a reputation for independent journalism, was

censored by its country - China A two-day congress Chintan Shivir was organized in - Jaipur The first-ever North East International Tourism Mart was held in the month of January in -

Guwahati Lance Armstrong, who recently confessed to using performance-enchancing drugs, is related with -

Cycling The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has slated its first launch of the year, the ocean

study spacecraft SARAL, with the help of - France The statement Multiple roles of RBI create conflict was given by - IMF


United Nations has estimated the Indian economy to grow in 2013 by 6.1% World economic situation and prospects 2013 (WESP) report was released in the month of

January 2013 by United Nations The world Future Energy Summit (WFES) was held in the month of January in Abu Dhabi The winner of the 2014 Malaysian Grand Prix formula one championships Lewis Hamilton The winner of the Candidates Chess tournament Viswanathan Anand The Indian state which is the top recipient of foreign remittances into the country Kerala The country which topped the Amnesty Internationals Global Death Penalty Report 2013 China The private sector lender which has introduced Kisan Card through which a farmer can withdraw

up to Rs.1 lakh per day from ATMs Axis Bank

The winner of the womens singles of the 2014 Miami Masters tennis championships Serena Williams

The new president of the 28-nation military alliance NATO who will take charge in October Jens Stoltenberg

The host country of the 18th SAARC Summit Nepal The newly acquired US-made multi-role special operations aircraft of the IAF that crashed near

Gwalior C-130J

The chairman of BCCI during IPL7 Sunil Gavaskar The first missile developed by DRDO under the countrys prestigious Integrated Guided Missile

Development Program which was again test-fired recently Prithvi II

The date by which the Reserve Bank of India has extended the timeline for full implementation of the Base III capital regulations 31 March 2019

The winner of the 2014 Deodhar Trophy - West Zone The country with which China has allowed direct domestic trading of its currency Yuan New

Zealand

Indias projected per capita income in 2013-14 based on current prices Rs.74,920 The winner of the mens title of the 64th National Basketball Championships - Tamil Nadu The Indian writer who won the Yale Universitys Windham Campbell Literature Prize in non-fiction

Pankaj Mishra

The winner of the 4th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship - Railways The first state in the country to declare all election booths in the Lok Sabha polls as not smoking

zones Jammu & Kashmir

The country from which a large number of people are feeling their homelands to seek asylum Syria

The automaker in the US which will pay a record $ 1.2 bn to resolve a criminal probe into safety issues Toyota Motors

World Tuberculosis Day 24 March The new Secretary of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Amitabh Kant The two-month long campaign against dengue launched in six major cities in the country U & Me

Against Dengue


The two sites nominated by India as candidates for UNESCOs World Heritage Site GHNP and Rani-ki-Vav

Martyrdom Day March 23 The US-made robotic mini-submarine deployed to locate debris of the missing Malaysian aircraft

Bluefin-21

The export subsidy that the govt will provide on raw-sugar shipments for the Apr-May period to help the cash-starved industry to pay arrears to sugarcane farmers Rs.3,300 per tonnes

The winner of the inaugural 10,000 US Dollar Richmond Open squash championship title Joshana Chinappa

The two-week-long joint military exercise held between China and Pakistan Peace Angel 2014 The amount pumped by the investors in various mutual fund schemes during 2013-14 Rs.54,000

crore

Cash turnover on the nations three full-fledged stock exchanges NSE, BSE and MCX-SX in 2013-14 Rs.33.41 lakh crore

Winner of the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix 2014 Lewis Hamilton The ten-day joint Air exercise scheduled to take place between India and France in June Garuda-5 The Nobel laureate novelist who died recently Gabriel Garcia Marquez World Heritage Day 18 April The two Election Commissioners who make full election commission along with Chief Election

Commissioner VS Sampath Nasim Zaidi and HS Brahma

The new President of Algeria who won for the fourth time in a row recently Abdelaziz Bouteflika NASAs robotic lunar explorer which was annihilated as planned recently LADEE Best Hindi Film at the 61st National Awards Jolly LLB The infrastructure budget unveiled by the Brazilian authorities for the Rio Olympics 2016 USD

10.76 bn (approx)

The tax rate at the which individuals earning more than Rs.10 crore a year will be taxed under the revised Direct Tax code 35 per cent

The software bug that is in news across the world Heartbleed The new chief of the Indian Navy Rabinder Kumar Dhowan The country which has announced to withhold funding to the Commonwealth Secretariat, pointing

to the Secretariats silence on alleged war crimes and rights abuse in Sri Lanka Canada

Best Feature Film at the 61st National Film Awards Ship of Theseus The new Finance Secretary of India Arvind Mayaram The state with the highest number of factories as per the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) 2010-11

Tamil Nadu

The number of products an insurer can file for approval as per new Irda product planner rule Five The field in which the highest number of factories has been observed in the Annual Survey of

Industries (ASI) 2010-11 Food products

The country which decided to shut infamous Abu Ghraib prison over security fears recently Iraq The India-born poet who won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category Vijay

Seshadri


The per cent of branches new banks need to open in unbanked rural areas as per the RBI norms 25 per cent

The new Prime Minister of France Manuel Valls The new Chief Justice of India Justice RM Lodha The author of the book titled Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths PC Parakh The PSB which has sold Rs.3,500 crore of its NPAs to ARCs recently State Bank of India The book for which Donna Tartt has won fiction Pulitzer 2014 Goldfinch The first woman Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court appointed recently Justice G Rohini The person who has been conferred Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2013 Gulzar The country which leads global remittances in the year 2013 with a whopping Rs.70 bn in its kitty

India

The most powerful nation in world market according to the world market power index China The author of the recently published book titled The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and

Unmaking of Manmohan Singh Sanjaya Baru

Dr BR Ambedkars birth anniversary declared a public holiday 14 April The new president of the industry body CII Ajay Shriram The state capital in the northeast region to be put on Rail Map recently Itanagar The Miss India 2014 Koyal Rana The country that launched a new observation satellite Ofek 10 into orbit recently Israel The economic growth rate of India in 2014-15 projected by the World Bank 5.7 per cent The worlds fastest growing vector-borne disease with a 30-fold increase in disease incidence over

the last 50 years Dengue

The tribals who cast their vote for the first time in the countrys history in the recent election Shompens

Winner of the womens singles title of the India Super Series 2014 badminton Shixian Wang The international insurer with which SBI runs SBI Life Insurance joint venture BNP Paribas

Cardif

The winner of the 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix formula one championships Lewis Hamilton The cinematographer awarded with Dada Saheb Phalke award, who passed away recently VK

Murthy

Winner of the mens singles title of the India Super Series Badminton Lee Chong Wei The Indian shooter who has clinched the World No. One spot in 10 metres air pistol event Heena

Sidhu

The drug maker which has announced to acquire Ranbaxy for $3.2 bn Sun Pharmaceuticals World Health Day 7 April The theme of the World Health Day for 2014 Vector-borne diseases: small bite, big threat The team which has won the mens 2014 ICC World T20 Sri Lanka The country where the multilateral, humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) exercise,

dubbed Komodo 2014, was held recently Indonesia


The new Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban The new President of Malta Marie Louise Coleiro Preca The threatened species for whose protection IRV 2020 programme has been launched by WHO-

India One-horned rhinoceros

The firm authorized by the RBI to set up, own and operate 9,000 white-label ATMs in the next three years in rural India Srei Infrastructure Finance

Indias second regional navigation satellite launched recently IRNSS 1-B The Chairman of Samsung who has been directed to appear before a Ghaziabad court Lee Kun-

hee

The Rajya Sabha MP who has been indicted by a US jury KVP Ramachandra Rao The state which emerged as the number one investment destination in the country Maharashtra The RBI has capped the Ways and Means Advances (WMA) limit for the central govt in the first half

of the new financial year 2015 at Rs.35,000 crore

The headquarters of the 64-member Asian Development Bank (ADB) Manila The India-born doctor who has worked out a 21-chemical solution named SOMAH that could

preserve a donated organ for up to a week before a transplant Hemant Thatte

The present Foreign Minister of Iran who was in New Delhi on a two day official visit recently Javad Zarif

The Indian Navy Chief who resigned recently, taking responsibility of a slew of mishaps in Navys submarines DK Joshi

The country which topped the list of 10 countries in their use of digital govt in a new study by Accenture Singapore Indias rank Eighth

The player who was given the Lifetime Achievement award at the National Sports Award presented by the FICCI recently Rahul Dravid

Indias most powerful rocket to date, scheduled for an experimental flight in April GSLV Mk-III The present Governor General of Canada who visited India recently David Johnston The cricketer who has been appointed the brand ambassador of Gujarat state Election Commission

recently Cheteshwar Pujara

The city in India where worlds longest (20 km) free Wi-Fi zone was inaugurated recently Patna The first Indian to be elected as the president of Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development

Bank (ADB) for three years recently Lakshmi Swaminathan

The oldest Member of Parliament (MP) till date who retired after seven decades in politics recently Rishang Keishing

The most expensive ($ 51-bn investment) Olympics event till date Sochi Olympics The winner of the 2014 ONGC-GAIL Delhi Open tennis tournament Somdev Devvarman The winner of the Rio Open 2014 tennis tournament Rafael Nadal The language classified by the govt as the sixth Indian classical language Odia Indias position in the ICC U-19 World Cup Fifth The crown prince of Saudi Arabia who was on a three-day official visit to India recently Salman

bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

International Womens Day 8 March


The current President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach The telecommunication company which became the first company to cross 200 million mobile

subscribers mark in India Bharti Airtel

The country which topped the medal chart at the recently concluded Sochi Winter Olympics Russia

The country where ICC T20 World Cup 2014 was organised Bangladesh The mobile handset maker whose bid to transfer its Indian assets to Microsoft was denied by the

Supreme Court recently Nokia

The chairman of the Committee constituted by the govt to assess implementation of the Sachar Committee recommendations Amitabh Kundu

The chairman of the MCX-SX who resigned recently GK Pillai The new chairman of the MCX-SX stock exchange Thomas Mathew T The Indian acid attack victim who has won the prestigious International Women of Courage Award

Laxmi

The Committee on whose recommendation the govt has decided to hike interest rates on fixed-deposit schemes offered by post offices by up to 0.2% - Shyamala Gopinath Committee

Worlds richest person in the Forbes 2014 billionaire list Bill Gates The cricketer who has been appointed by Canara Bank as its brand ambassador Shikhar Dhawan The new President of Chile Michelee Bachelet The present per capita steel consumption in India is around 60 kg The Goods and Services Tax will replace Excise duty, Service tax and Value added tax (VAT) The present length of the National Highways in the country 80, 000 km The size of SDR allocation to India from International Monetary Fund (IMF) 3.29 bn The country where the funeral ceremony of its First Vice President Marshal Mohammad Qasim

Fahim was held at the presidential place recently Afghanistan

The country where the initial phase of the IPL 7 will be staged United Arab Emirates The joint disaster relief operations carried out between the armies of India and Nepal in Pithoragarh

in Uttarakhand recently Surya Kiran

The team which won the Santosh Trophy 2014 football tournament Mizoram The country where Muslim Brotherhood, which Saudi Arabia has formally designated as a terrorist

organisation recently is active Egypt

The Indian envoy to Saudi Arabia who regularised, the status of 14 lakh Saudi Indians and has been conferred the SK Singh Award for excellence in Indian Foreign Service Siby George

The team which won the ICC Asia Cup cricket tournament recently Sri Lanka The duration of Presidents rule in a state in the first instance Six months The state which is Indias fastest growing state a per the data of CSO with its GSDP growing at 15.05

per cent during 2012-13 Bihar

The country where the permanent secretariat of the BIMSTEC group is proposed to be set up Bangladesh

The Indian city where the BIMSTEC Energy Centre is planned to be established Beengalore


Jupiters moon to which the US space agency NASA is planning to send a robotic mission by 2025 Europa

The Indian city which topped the list of words ten least expensive cities as per the Worldwide Cost of Living 2014 index Mumbai

The present Secretary General of SAARC Arjun Bahadur Thapa Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2013 has been awarded to Chandi Prasad Bhatt The first universal bank of India ICICI Bank The sports federation in India which has been accorded the status of National Sports Federation

Hockey India

Chief Election Commissioner of India VS Sampath The newly appointed governor of Kerala Sheila Dikshit In a ground-breaking discovery, researchers have found that nearly 4,200 years ago the Indus Valley

civilisation was doomed by A monster drought

The number of phases for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections Nine The movie which has won the best picture Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards 12 Years a Slave World Wildlife Day 3 March The International governing body for the game of boxing AIBA The first private bank of India which has commenced its operations in China recently Axis Bank The country where the BIMSTEC Summit was held on 4 March Myanmar The country which is planning to reduce its army to its lowest manning levels since 1940 US The pair which won the doubles title of the 2014 Dubai Duty Free tennis championships Rohan

Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi

The country where Matteo Renzi was sworn in as the youngest-ever Prime Minster recently Italy The country to which the World Bank has postponed a $ 90-mn loan for the health system after an

anti-gay bill was signed into law there Uganda

The winner of the mens singles title of the 2014 Dubai Duty Free tennis championships Roger Federer

The team which won the ICC U-19 World Cup South Africa The Indian-origin scientist in the UK who has discovered an ultra-thin layer hidden deep in the eye

that may help cure blindness, caused by glaucoma recently Harminder Dua

The bank which had the highest share of NPAs among the listed banks in 2013 State Bank of India

The country which has overtaken India as the worlds largest gold consumer China The amount the finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 (G20) have

vowed to add to world economy to lift growth USD 2 tn

World Water Day 22 March The bank from which the govt sold 9 per cent stake held through SUUTI to garner over Rs.5,500

crore Axis Bank

The state where the foundation of a 70-storey temple Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, billed to be the tallest shrine in the world, was laid down recently Uttar Pradesh


The public sector lenders which has announced, for the first time in its history, to offload around Rs.5,000 crore of its Rs.67,799 crore dud assets to ARCs State Bank of India

The winner of the womens singles title of the BNP Paribas Open 2014 Flavia Pennetta The country to which the Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has extended a Line of Credit of

$89.90 mn for developing transportation system Republic of Congo

The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of HPCL appointed recently Nishi Vasudeva The insurer which has come under the scanner of IRDA for alleged irregularities in implementation

of govt-sponsored insurance schemes meant for the poor ICICI Lombard

The Reserve Bank of India deputy governor who resigned recently Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty

The new ceiling on poll expenditure for Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly candidates respectively Rs.70 lakh, Rs.28 lakh

The present chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Swatanter Kumar The team which won the Vijay Hazare Trophy Karnataka The mobile operator which has announced to buy Spanish cable operator Ono for 7.2 bn euros

Vodafone

The Bru or Reang refugees living in relief camps in Tripura originally belong to Mizoram The bank which has launched its Namma Metro Transit cum Debit Card which is valid to travel in

Bangalore Metro as travel tokens Federal Bank

The regions declared independent from Ukraine in a recent referendum conducted there Crimea Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) was instituted in NABARD TRIPS agreement is associated with Intellectual property rights The investment envisaged in the annual plan in the Interim Rail Budget for 2014-15 Rs.64,305

crore

The place in Andhra Pradesh chosen for one of two new govt-controlled ports in the country Dugarajapatnam

The first rail system in the world to be awarded the Gold Standard foundation for energy efficiency Delhi Metro

The youngest athlete (15 years old) to win Gold at Sochi Winter Olympics Yulia Lipnitskaya The chairman of the Supreme Court-appointed committee which submitted its report on betting

and fixing in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Mukul Mudgal

Indias indigenous intermediate jet trainer (IJT) aircraft whose development is in advanced stages of certification Sitara

The South Korean city which will host the 2018 Winter Olympics Pyeongchang The first state in the country to achieve 100 per cent sanitation in rural and urban households,

schools, sanitary complexes and Aanganwadi centres Sikkim

The newly elected Prime Minister of Nepal Sushil Koirala The country which was in news, recently, regarding its alleged role in operation Blue Star UK The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth pegged by CSO in its estimates for 2013-14 4.9 per

cent


The denomination in which the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is gearing up to introduce about one billion plastic notes on a trial basis Rs.10

The aggregate foreign investment (FDI, FII and NRI) limit for public sector banks (PSBs) 20 per cent

The new president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) N Ramachandran The telecom major whose proposal to increase its stake in the Indian entity to 100% was cleared by

the CCEA recently Vodafone

The model recalled recently by Indias largest passenger carmaker Maruti Suzuki Maruti 800 The state where the highest number of poor people (5.98 crore) live below the poverty line in 2011-

12 as per the Planning Commission Uttar Pradesh

The increased fair and remunerative price (FRP) for sugarcane approved by the govt for 2014-15 Rs.220

The cloud computing project launched by the Union govt Meghraj The limit to which FDI is allowed in private sector banks in India under the govt route 74 per cent The number of people living below poverty line in 2011-12 as per the estimates of Planning

Commission 27 crore

The cricket cup played between the winner of the Ranji Trophy and a team representing Rest of India Irani Cup

The new CEO of the software giant Microsoft Satya Nadella The chairman of the 7th Central Pay Commission Ashok Kumar Mathur The social networking site which completed 10 years in operation on 4 February 2014 Facebook The president of Germany who visited India recently Joachim Guack MGNREGA Divas 2 Feb The position of India among crude oil importers in 2013 Third The winner of Ranji Trophy 2013-14 Karnataka The new chief minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat The state govt which has decided to revoke foreign direct investment (FDI) in multibrand retail

recently Rajasthan

The state which has been ranked on top in the RBIs report titled State Finances A study of Budgets of 2013 14 based on different fiscal parameters Chhattisgarh

The first woman to be inducted in the International Cricket Councils (ICCs) umpires panel Kathy Cross

Indias ranking in the 2014 Environment Performance Index (EPI) 155th The team which remained on the top with 92 medals at the end of the Lusofonia Games in Goa

Goa (India)

The city where countrys first monorail service commenced its operations recently Mumbai The country with which India entered into a double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) for the

first time recently Fiji

The bank which raised Rs.8,032 crore by selling shares through QIP, making it the biggest ever equity sale via this route recently State Bank of India (SBI)


The country whose central bank approved domestic trading in the Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, Australian dollar as well as Indian rupee to be legal tender recently Zimbabwe

The economic condition which causes a sustained increase in general price level over a particular period of time and reduces the purchasing power of money Inflation

The top ULFA leader who has been sentence to death by a court in Bangladesh for being involved in the countrys biggest weapons haul seized in 2004 Paresh Barua

The state where worlds largest 4,000-MW ultra mega solar power project will be set up Rajasthan The Sub-Inspector in the anti-naxal force Greyhounds of Andhra Pradesh who was posthumously

conferred the Ashok Chakra K Prasad Babu

The Social Justice and Empowerment minister who resigned from the Union Cabinet recently Kumari Selja

The country from which India is considering buying 15 ShinMaywa US-2 amphibious patrol aircrafts Japan

The winner of the womens singles title of the 2014 Australia Open Tennis tournament Li na The winner of the mens singles title of the 2014 Syed Modi International India Grand Prix Gold

badminton tournament Xue Song

The financial institution which has announced recently to instal 3000 ATMs and 1.35 lakh micro-ATMs by September 2015 India Post

The community notified by the govt as national minority recently Jain The team which won the Federation Cup football tournament recently Churchill Brothers The winner of the mens single title of the 2014 Australia Open Stanislas Wawrinka The country where Laimdota Straujuma became the first woman Prime Minister Latvia The India-born engineer-scientist who has been awarded the 2014 Marconi Prize AJ Paulraj The new chief of the Hyderabad-based National Police Academy Aruna Bahuguna The Managing Director of Tata Motors who died in Bangkok recently Karl Slym The National Girl Child Day 24 January The Indian-origin academician who has been appointed dean of the prestigious Harvard College

recently Rakesh Khurana

The RBI has decided to withdraw from circulation all currency notes issued prior to 2005 The new Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) T. Nanda Kumar The National Voters Day 25 January The state whose tourism department has been awarded Ulysses Award by UNWTO Kerala The country which has introduced new restrictions on online shopping as part of efforts to stop

foreign currency reserves from falling further Argentina

The city where annual meeting of World Economic Forum (WEF) was held recently Davos The biodiversity hotspots in India named destination flyways by UNWTO recently Chilika

lagoon

The state which has been given Krishi Karman award for overall foodgrain production (more than 10 million tonnes category) for 2012-13- Madhya Pradesh

The National Womens Day is celebrated in India on 13 February every year in the memory of Sarojini Naidu


The city where G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and central bank governors was held Sydney The growth rate of India country in 2014-15 (at factor cost) projected by IMF 5.4 per cent Indias surface-to-air missile successfully test-fired recently Akash The CMD of Union Bank of India who resigned recently in the wake of a surge in bad loans at the

bank Archana Bhargava

The state which became the first state in the country to launch the NUHM Uttar Pradesh The social media giant who acquired mobile messaging company WhatsApp Facebook The new chairman of prestigious Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) Kiran

Mazumdar Shaw

The two states to be brought within the railway network this fiscal Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh.

The amount of fund proposed for the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in the Interim Union Budget for 2014-15 Rs.1000 crore

The country which ordered the immediate recall of its Ambassador in India, Daniele Mancini Italy Bahrains crown king who visited India recently on a three-day official visit Hamad bin Isa Al

Khalifa

The shot putter who gave the lone gold to India in the 6th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships event held at Hangzhou (China) recently Om Prakash Singh Karhana

The cellular operator which has acquired Mumbai based Loop Mobile for about Rs.700 crore recently Bharti Airtel

The first country in the world to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children recently Belgium Indias first dedicated military satellite GSAT-7 The Prime Minister of Italy who resigned recently Enrico Letta The country which ranked at the bottom in the Global Gender Gap Report 2013 Yemen The total amount of bids received by the govt after auction of the spectrum recently Rs.61,000

crore

The chairman of the six-member committee set up by the Govt to suggest remedial measures to address concerns of people from the Northeast MP Bezbaruah

The author of the controversial book titled The Hindus: An Alternative History, which Penguin announced to withdraw recently Wendy Doniger

Indias ranking in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index 140th The term which won the Irani Trophy 2013-14 Karnataka The country where the military has imposed martial law amid a political crisis Thailand The state where the SC banned jallikattu (bull fighting) and bullock cart racing, recently Tamil

Nadu

The scientists who first theorised the technique to turn light into matter in 1934 Gregory Breit and John Wheeler

The present Secretary General of the ASEAN group Le Luong Minh The country where paleontologists have discovered fossils of the largest dinosaur ever to roam the

earth - Argentina

The country with which Russia signed a major gas deal recently - China


The institution which is co-terminus with the Union Govt Planning Commission Chief Minister of Bihar Jitan Ram Manjhi The city where the fourth meet of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures

in Asia (CICA) was held recently Shanghai

The three-time Formula One champion who passed away recently Sir Jack Brabham Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik The winner of the womens singles title at the Rome Masters tennis tournament Serena Williams Chief Minister of Sikkim Pawan Chamling The chairman of the RBIs committee constituted to review the governance of boards of banks in

India P J Nayak

The best-paid player in the world playing with Barcelona team Lionel Messi The persons who have topped the recent list of UK billionaires Srichand and Gopichand

Hinduja

The Steel Man of India and former chief of Tisco (now Tata Steel) who passed away recently Russi Mody

The country where citizens rejected adopting worlds highest minimum wage (25 dollars an hour) in a referendum recently Switzerland

Thomas Cup is associated with Mens badminton Uber Cup is associated with Womens badminton Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Tuki The candidates who won the election with a margin of 5.7 lakh votes recently Narendra Modi,

Vadodara

The automaker in the US which will pay a record $35 mn fine over faulty ignition switches General Motors

The project associated with submarine programme of the Indian Navy Project-75India The stock exchange which ceased to exist from May 30 Madras Stock Exchange The island which became the first island in the world fully energy self-sufficient through combined

water and wind power EI Hierro

The RBI has announced to launch much-awaited plastic currency notes of Rs.10 from 2015 The state whose co-operative bank became the first co-operative bank of the country to launch its

own Ru Pay ATM-cum-debit card recently Himachal Pradesh

The militant group on which the Union Home Ministry extended the ban for five years LTTE The game Shiv Chowrasia is associated with Golf The car model which has became only the second in India to cross 25 lakh unit sales mark in

domestic market Alto

The country where at least 300 people were killed in a coal mine explosion and fire recently Turkey

The country where the worlds highest tunnel for high-speed trains became operational at an altitude of 3,607.4 metres recently China


The group with which India is negotiating the Broadbased Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) EU

The country which announced to abolish its controversial sponsorship system for foreign workers Qatar

The first woman to command a UN peacekeeping force Kristin Lund International Nurses Day (IND) 12 May The economies of the world declared worlds most expensive economies in a recent ranking by the

World Bank Switzerland and Norway

The company which topped the Forbes list of the worlds 2000 largest and most powerful public companies Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

The next Army Chief appointed recently Dalbir Singh Suhag The team which clinched the 20th Senior National Womens Football Championships Manipur The winner of the Spanish Grand Prix 2014 Lewis Hamilton The country where the worlds biggest bio-bank imaging study is being conducted UK The state which was adjudged to have the best land acquisition model in the report prepared by

consultancy firm Accenture on behalf of DIPP Gujarat

Indias ranking in the State of Worlds Mothers Index 2014 137th The space agency from which Afghanistan has leased its first-ever satellite AFGHANSAT 1

Eutelsat, EU

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

Number of Parliamentary and Assembly seats respectively in the new state of Telangana 17 and 119

The country where Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 schoolgirls recently Nigeria The newly elected President of South Africa Jacob Zuma The province of Afghanistan where a devastating landslide buried a village recently Badakhshan The state where the High Court cancelled the appointment of 10,323 teachers recently - Tripura Indias own payment gateway launched recently RuPay The firm which leads the list of 54 Indian Firms in the recently released Forbes Global 2000 list

Reliance Industries

The embattled premier of Thailand dismissed form the office by a court recently Yingluck Shinawatra

The new airline granted the flying licence by aviation regulator DGCA recently Air Asia India The flying test bed (FTB) aircraft developed by HAL and handed over to DRDO recently

Nabhratna

The chairman of the RBI panel on credit information which submitted its report recently Aditya Puri

The newly elected President of Rajasthan Cricket Association Lalit Modi The new name of the ING Vysya Life Insurance Company Limited Exide Life Insurance The new President of Panama Juan Carlos Varela


The annual exercise conducted between the US and the Philippines Balikatan World Press Freedom Day 3 May The winners of the WTA Portugal Open 2014 womens doubles title Sania Mirza and Cara Black Indias first indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range missile Astra The state where a major field exercise by the Army, codenamed Sarvada Vijay, was conducted

recently Rajasthan

The film which won the Best Picture Award at the IIFA Award 2014 Bhaag Milkha Bhaag The surface-to-air missile successfully test-fired by India recently Akash The country where a recent massive landslide claimed hundreds of lives Afghanistan The country to which the former Chief of the Air Staff NAK Browne has been appointed Indias

Ambassador UK

The internet browser whose vulnerability is referred by Operation Clandestine Fox Internet Explorer (IE)

International Jazz Day 30 Apr The new CEO of Ford Motors Mark Fields The chairman of the SIT appointed by the SC to probe black money MB Shah The new Deputy Chief of the Air Staff SBP Sinha The winner of the prestigious Goldman Environment Prize called the Green Nobel for 2014

Ramesh Agrawal

The worlds third-largest economy by PPP as per a World Bank report India The Professional Footballers Association player of the year for 2013-14 Luis Suarez The International Commonwealth Championships 2014 was held recently in Perth The headquarters of the IMF Washington The person who replaced Anand Sinha as the new RBI deputy governor R Gandhi Worlds largest steel producer China A new purple mineral with a unique makeup discovered from a remote part of Australia recently

Putnisite

The winner of the 2014 Indonesian Masters golf tournament Anirban Lahiri The country which has set up a Special Police Force to handle religious disputes Sri Lanka The new President and CEO of Nokia - Rajeev Suri The country that successfully test-fired a short-range ballistic missile Hatf-III (Ghaznavi) recently

Pakistan

The Outstanding Asian Mens Player of the Year 2013 adjudged by the Asian Squash Federation Saurav Ghosal

Winner of the World Womens Senior Snooker Championship 2014 Chitra Magimairaj The country which signed a 10-year pact with the US to allow a bigger US military presence in its

territory Philippines

The Prime Minister of South Korea who tendered his resignation over ferry accident Chung Hong-won


The state which topped in creation of new jobs during the six years between 2004 and 2011 as per the latest NSSO data West Bengal

World Intellectual Property Day 26 April The country from which Indias first aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, was sourced in 1957 - UK The chairman of the RBI panel which released Draft Report on Pricing of Credit recently Anand

Sinha

The worlds biggest military spender US The issue of fresh securities by an unlisted company for the first time Initial Public Offering The Indian satellite that retired after remaining 10 years in orbit INSAT-3E The two states which together account for about half of the total mango production in India

Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh

The largest milkproducing state in India as of now Uttar Pradesh The 2014 World Car of the Year Audi A3 The top export destination for Indias mangoes UAE Insurance Day is celebrated in India on Apr 19 The Earth-sized discovered by the US space agency NASA which may sustain life Kepler-186f The winner of the inaugural I-League football championships Bengaluru FC Earth Day 22 Apr The country which has become Africas biggest economy Nigeria

- - - - - -

Documents

Ga Points to Remember(Dec April2014)