BSC Match Point - October 2017*

*BSC Match Point - October 2017*

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•           The new chairman of the Railway Board — Ashwani Lohani
•           The former Chief Minister of Manipur who passed away recently — Rishang Keishing

•           The convener of the committee to select movies for the Irittmational Film Festival of India (IFFI) — Vivek Agnihotri

•           The state to which the NABARD has sanctioned a loan assistance of Rs.l,349.55 cr — Rajasthan

•           The official name of Google's Android 8.0 mobile operating system —Android Oreo

•           The firm whose board has approved the acquisition of (51.11% equity stake) HPCL — ONGC

•           The number of regional rural banks (RRBs) functioning in the country at present — 56

•           The city where the first regional centre of the New Development Bank (NDB) was officially opened recently —Johannesburg

•           The state which has taken the cloud-seeding project called Varshadhare' to harness rain-bearing clouds —Karnataka

•           The winner of the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA)'s Global Agriculture Leadership Award — K Chandrasekhar Rao

•           The new High Commissioner of Pakistan to India —Sohail Mahmood
•           The bank which accounts for over 27 per cent of the total amount owed to public sector banks by wilful defaulters — SBI

•           The number of medals won by the Indian contingent at the World Dwarf Games in Toronto, Canada — 37

•           The new Goodwill Ambassador for Handicap International — Neymar
•           The new Executive Director of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) — Mamta Suri

•           The host city of the 2017 Women's Asia Cup of International Basketball Federation (FIBA) — Bengaluru

•           The new Managing Director and CEO of Industrial Finance Corporation of India — E Sankara Rao

•           The present President of Sierra Leone — Ernest Bai Koroma
•           The financial year followed by the RBI — Jul I to Jun 30
•           The revised penalty set by TRAI on mobile operators for not meeting the benchmarks — Rs.5 lakhs

•           The joint venture life insurance firm between HDFC and Standard Life — HDFC Life

•           The sponsor bank of the Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank (APGVB) — State Bank of India

•           The banknote denomination which will soon be introduced in fluorescent blue colour bearing the motif of Hampi with Chariot' – Rs.50

•           The chairman of the Committee on Doubling Farmers' Income which submitted its report recently — Ashok Dalwai

•           The new Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Copper Limited — Santosh Sharma

•           The country where more than 400 people died in its capital in the recent mudslides caused by heavy rain — Sierra 'Leone

•           The growth rate of India's exports in Jul 2017 — 3.9 per cent
•           The retail inflation as measured by the consumer price index (CPI) in Jul 2017 — 2.36 per cent

•           The portal started by Akshay Kumar supported by National Informatics Centre (NIC) and powered by SBI —Bharat Ke Veer

•           The President of Kenya who was re-elected in the recent elections — Uhuru Kenyatta

•           The new Chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) — Prasoon Joshi

•           The firm which has launched a rival to the Google-owned YouTube named Watch' — Facebook

•           The estimated fiscal deficit as a per cent of GDP in 2017-18 as per the second volume of the Economic Survey for 2016-17 — 3.2 per cent

•           The amount to be paid by the RBI as dividend to the govt for the year ended Jun 30 — Rs.30,659 cr

•           The online marketplace which has received an investment of $2.5 bn from SoftBank Vision Fund — Flipkart

•           The state govt which has launched a new awareness drive called Namanzi Gange Jagriti Yatra— Uttar Pradesh

•           NASA's spacecraft which is set to begin its final ultra-close orbits around Saturn before it ends its journey — Cassini

•           India's ranking on 2017 Global Retirement Index (GRI) topped by Norw

ay — 43rd

•           The first Indian to qualify for the final round of the World Championships in javelin throw — Davinder Singh Kang

• The former Union Minister of State for Water Resources who passed away recently — Sanwar Lai Jat
•           The venue of the recently concluded 15th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting — Kathmandu, Nepal

•           The new Chief Justice of India — Dipak Misra
•           The US athlete who defeated Usain Bolt to win 100m World Championships recently — Justin Gatlin

•           The state whose entire area was declared as "disturbed" under the AFSPA by the Centre recently — Assam

•           The bureaucrat who has been appointed as an Executive Director in the World Bank — S Aparna

•           The state which will get help from 2030 Water Resources Group (2030WRG) to raise $270 mn from the Green Climate Fund —Maharashtra

•           The first state to implement coal utilisation between power units in the country — Gujarat

•           The new Vice-Chairman of the NITI Aayog — Rajiv Kumar
•           The head of the High-Level Committee set up to review the Institutionalisation of Arbitration Mechanism in India — BN Srikrishna

•           The newly elected 13th Vice President of India — Venkaiah Naidu
•           Indian boxer who defeated Zulpikar Maimaitiali to retain the WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight title — Vijender Singh

•           The new increased authorised capital of NABARD — Rs.30,000 cr
•           The new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the Small. Industries Development Bank of India — Mohammad Mustafa

•           The telecom firm whose merger with Bharti Airtel was cleared by the NCLT recently — Telenor

•           The city where a regional centre of the global rice research institute IRRI is to come up — Varanasi

•           The agency with which India has signed a pact for financing USD 329 mn for the rural roads in Gujarat —Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

•           The person who won the recent Presidential elections in Rwanda —Paul Kagame

•           The country which has announced plans to protect demobilised members of the FARC rebel force — Colombia

•           The community in India which celebrated its New Year Navroz' on 17 Aug — Parsi

•           The new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Karur Vysya Bank — PR Seshadri

•           The interest subvention to be provided to banks on short-term crop loans of up to Rs.3 lakh — 2 per cent

•           The city named world's most liveable city in the Global Liveability Report 2017 — Melbourne — The least leavable city as per the report — Damascus.

•           The bank which has bagged the best performance award for SHG-bank linkage programme for Karnataka for 2015-16 and 2016-17 from Nabard —Corporation Bank

•           Winner of the Rogers Cup 2017 —Alexander Zverev
•           The city where India's first museum on Partition of the Indian subcontinent has been set up — Amritsar

•           The country which has the fastest mobile Internet in the world as per Ookla—Norway

•           The state govt which has launched "Durgama Anchalare Malaria Nirakaran" (DAMON) programme to prevent the spread of malaria — Odisha

•           The bank which has been conferred best performance award' for 2015-16 and 2016-17 by Nabard — Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank

•           The state which has launched 'Indira Canteen' scheme to provide food at low cost to the urban poor — Karnataka

•           The present Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Prasar Bharati — Shashi Shekhar Vempati

•           The country which was declared free from polio by the WHO recently —Somalia

•           The firm which has topped Forbes' list of the world's 100 most innovative companies — salesforce.com

•           Winner of the 65th edition of the prestigibus Nehru Trophy (Boat Race) — Gabriel Chundan

•           The venue of the recent five-day India-ASEAN Youth Summit —Bhopal
•           Winner of the first Kesari Media Award —TJS George
•           The host of the Summer Olympics in 2028 — Los A

ngeles
•           The population of elephants in India as per the Elephant Census 2017 —27,312
•           The world's oldest man certified by Guinness World Records who died recently aged 113 — Yisrael Kristal

•           The venues of the country's first aviation university — Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh

•           The Indian sportsperson who has been appointed as the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Physical Activity in South-East Asia Region — Milkha Singh

•           India's next ambassador to the Republic of San Marino -- Reenat Sandhu
•           The German nun also known as the Mother Teresa of Pakistan who passed away recently — Ruth Pfau

•           The new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jet Airways — Vinay Dube
•           The acting chief executive officer of the National Payment Corporation of India — Dilip Asbe

•           The state which has passed a bill which reclassifies coconut as a tree' — Goa

•           The firm which has launched Budding Star Programme' to help its employees achieve their dreams — Flipkart

•           The newly re-elected Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea — Peter O'Neill