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Mat ch Poi nt
l The headquarters of the 64-member Asian Development
Bank (ADB) Manila
l 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
l The present Foreign Minister of Iran who was in New Delhi
on a two day official visit recently Javad Zarif
l The Indian Navy Chief who resigned recently, taking
responsibility of a slew of mishaps in Navys submarines
DK Joshi
l 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
l The player who was given the Lifetime Achievement award
at the National Sports Award presented by the FICCI
recently Rahul Dravid
l Indias most powerful rocket to date, scheduled for an
experimental flight in Apr GSLV Mk-III
l The present Governor General of Canada who visited India
recently David Johnston
l The cricketer who has been appointed the brand ambassador
of Gujarat state Election Commission recently
Cheteshwar Pujara
l The city in India where worlds longest (20km) free Wi-Fi
zone was inaugurated recently Patna
l The first Indian to be elected as the president of
Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank
(ADB) for three years recently Lakshmi Swaminathan
l The oldest Member of Parliament (MP) till date who retired
after seven decades in politics recently Rishang Keishing
l The most expensive ($51-bn investment) Olympics event
till date Sochi Olympics
l The winner of the 2014 ONGCGAIL Delhi Open tennis
tournament Somdev Devvarman
l The winner of the Rio Open 2014 tennis tournament
Rafael Nadal
l The language classified by the govt as the sixth Indian
classical language Odia
l Indias position in the ICC U-19 World Cup Fifth
l The crown prince of Saudi Arabia who was on a threeday
official visit to India recently Salman bin Abdulaziz Al
Saud
l International Womens Day 8 Mar
l The current President of the International Olympic
Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach
l The telecommunication company which became the first
company to cross 200 million mobile subscribers mark in
India Bharti Airtel
l The country which topped the medal chart at the recently
concluded Sochi Winter Olympics Russia
l The country where ICC T20 World Cup 2014 was organised
Bangladesh
l The mobile handset maker whose bid to transfer its Indian
assets to Microsoft was denied by the Supreme Court
recently Nokia
l The chairman of the Committee constituted by the govt to
assess implementation of the Sachar Committee
recommendations Amitabh Kundu
l The chairman of the MCX-SX who resigned recently GK
Pillai
l The new chairman of the MCX-SX stock exchange
Thomas Mathew T
l The Indian acid attack victim who has won the prestigious
International Women of Courage Award Laxmi
l 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
l Worlds richest person in the Forbes 2014 billionaire list
Bill Gates
l The cricketer who has been appointed by Canara Bank as
its brand ambassador Shikhar Dhawan
l The new President of Chile Michelle Bachelet
l The present per capita steel consumption in India is around
60 kg
l The Goods and Services Tax will replace Excise duty,
Service tax and Value-added tax (VAT)
l The present length of the National Highways in the country
80,000 km
l The size of SDR allocation to India from International
Monetary Fund (IMF) 3.29 bn
l The country where the funeral ceremony of its First Vice
President Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim was held at
the presidential place recently Afghanistan
l The country where the initial phase of the IPL 7 will be
staged United Arab Emirates
l The joint disaster relief operations carried out between the
armies of India and Nepal in Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand
recently Surya Kiran
l The team which won the Santosh Trophy 2014 football
tournament Mizoram
l The country where Muslim Brotherhood, which Saudi
Arabia has formally designated as a terrorist organisation
recently is active Egypt
l 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
l The team which won the ICC Asia Cup cricket tournament
recently Sri Lanka
l The duration of Presidents rule in a state in the first instance
Six months
l The state which is Indias fastest growing state as per the
data of CSO with its GSDP growing at 15.05 per cent during
2012-13 Bihar
l The country where the permanent secretariat of the
BIMSTEC group is proposed to be set up Bangladesh
l The Indian city where the BIMSTEC Energy Centre is
planned to be established Bengaluru
l J upiters moon to which the US space agency NASA is
planning to send a robotic mission by 2025 Europa
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l The bank which had the highest share of NPAs among the
listed banks in 2013 State Bank of India
l The country which has overtaken India as the worlds largest
gold consumer China
l 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
l World Water Day 22 Mar
l The bank from which the govt sold 9 per cent stake held
through SUUTI to garner over `5,500 cr Axis Bank
l 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
l The public sector lenders which has announced, for the first
time in its history, to offload around `5,000 cr of its `67,799
cr dud assets to ARCs State Bank of India
l The winner of the womens singles title of the BNP Paribas
Open 2014 Flavia Pennetta
l 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
l The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of HPCL
appointed recently Nishi Vasudeva
l 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
l The Reserve Bank of India deputy governor who resigned
recently Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty
l The new ceiling on poll expenditure for Lok Sabha and
Legislative Assembly candidates respectively `70 lakh,
`28 lakh
l The present chairperson of the National Green Tribunal
(NGT) Swatanter Kumar
l The team which won the Vijay Hazare Trophy Karnataka
l The mobile operator which has announced to buy Spanish
cable operator Ono for 7.2 bn euros Vodafone
l The Bru or Reang refugees living in relief camps in Tripura
originally belong to Mizoram
l 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
l The regions declared independent from Ukraine in a recent
referendum conducted there Crimea
l The Indian city which topped the list of words ten least
expensive cities as per the Worldwide Cost of Living 2014
index Mumbai
l The present Secretary General of SAARC Arjun Bahadur
Thapa
l Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2013 has been awarded to
Chandi Prasad Bhatt
l The first universal bank of India ICICI Bank
l The sports federation in India which has been accorded the
status of National Sports Federation Hockey India
l Chief Election Commissioner of India VS Samapath
l The newly appointed governor of Kerala Sheila Dikshit
l In a ground-breaking discovery, researchers have found that
nearly 4,200 years ago the Indus Valley civilisation was
doomed by A monster drought
l The number of phases for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections
Nine
l The movie which has won the best picture Oscar at the 86th
Academy Awards 12 Years a Slave
l World Wildlife Day 3 Mar
l The international governing body for the game of boxing
AIBA
l The first private bank of India which has commenced its
operations in China recently Axis Bank
l The country where the BIMSTEC Summit was held on 4
Mar Myanmar
l The country which is planning to reduce its army to its
lowest manning levels since 1940 US
l The pair which won the doubles title of the 2014 Dubai
Duty Free tennis championships Rohan Bopanna and
Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi
l The country where Matteo Renzi was sworn in as the
youngest-ever Prime Minister recently Italy
l 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
l The winner of the mens singles title of the 2014 Dubai
Duty Free tennis championships Roger Federer
l The team which won the ICC U-19 World Cup South
Africa
l 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