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BSC MATCH POINT SEPTEMBER 2015 --PART ONE



·         The Archie Comics cartoonist who died recently – Tom Moore
·         The new Director General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) - Ajay Mathur
·         The Japanese firm which has announced to buy the Financial Times from Britain’s Pearson - Nikkei
·         The Nobel laureate who has won the Royal Society’s Copley Medal - Peter Higgs
·         World Book Capital for 2017 as announced by the UNESCO - Conakry (Guinea)
·         The National Broadcasting Day - 23 Jul
·         The President and CEO of Japan’s Toshiba who resigned recently - Hisao Tanaka
·         The state where the 2015 Malabar River Festival was held recently - Kerala
·         The person appointed as the new Chief Economist of the IMF - Maurice Obstfeld
·         The new chairperson of the FSSAI - Bhanu Pratap Sharma
·         The Indian city which has been included in the UNESCO’s ‘Cities of Music’ - Varanasi
·         The Indian actor who won the Ironman title at a triathlon held in Zurich, Switzerland - Milind Soman
·         The Interim Director of the Pune-based Film and Television Institute of lndia (FTII) - Prashant Pathrabe
·         Winner of the 2015 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) award - Kerala Tourism
·         Nelson Mandela International Day - 18 July
·         The South Korean steel giant who has put on hold its $12-bn steel project in Odisha - Posco
·         The Indian American honoured as Champions of Change in the US - Sunita Viswanath
·         The brand ambassador of Haryana’s ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign - Parineeti Chopra
·         The place where the country’s first defence industrial park has been approved -Ottappalam (Kerala)
·         The Uruguayan soccer legend who passed away recently - Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia
·         The new Director of National Book Trust – Rita Chowdhury
·         The recently decommissioned torpedo launch and recovery vessel - INS Astravahini
·         World Day for International Justice - 17 Jul
·         India’s GDP growth rates in FYI6 and FYI7 respectively as per ADB - 7.8 %, 8.2 %
·         The French F1 driver who died recently - Jules Bianchi
·         The city from where the govt launched the HRIDAY scheme on 15 Jul- Amritsar
·         The head of the RBI’s committee on financial inclusion – Deepak Mohanty
·         The noted artist conferred with the highest French civilian award Commandeur de la Legion d’honneur (the Legion of Honour) recently- Syed Haider Raza
·         The indigenously helicopter-launched anti-tank missile - Nag (HeliNa)
·         The NASA spacecraft which flew by the dwarf planet Pluto recently - New Horizons
·         The SC committee which suspended two IPL franchisees for two years recently – RM Lodha Committee
·         The legendary music director who died recently – MS Viswanathan
·         The new Vice-Chief of the Indian Army - Man Mohan Singh Rai
·         The 17-year-old Indian who won junior boys’ doubles of Wimbledon 2015 - Sumit Nagal
·         The head of the committee formed by the Govt for SAI training centres - Ashwini Nachappa
·         World Youth Skills Day- 15 Jul
·         The new MD and CEO of Credit Information Bureau India Ltd (CIBIL) - Satish Pillai
·         The first British Asian to join the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) - Lord Kamlesh Patel
·         The new MD & CEO of the National Housing Bank (NHB) - Sriram Kalyanaraman
·         Winner of the mixed doubles title of Wimbledon 2015 - Leander Paes and Martina Hingis
·         The indigenous supersonic surface-to-air missile inducted into IAF recently- Aakash
·         The chairman of the upcoming Kolkata-based Bandhan Bank - Ashok Kumar Lahiri
·         Winner of the men’s singles title of the Wimbledon 2015 - Novak Djokovic
·         The new Home Secretary of Delhi - SN Sahai
·         The state where, for the first time in India, a system to detect earthquakes has been installed - Uttarakhand
·         The Russian cosmonaut who has created at record for the longest time spent in space (803 days as on Jul 2015) - Gennady Padalka
·         The two countries which got full membership of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at its Ufa summit recently - India and Pakistan
·         The country where the proposed USD 10-bn TAPI gas pipeline originates - Turkmenistan
·         The number of people the govt has targeted to skill by 2022 - 40.20 cr
·         The state which has started She-Bus service exclusively for women - Kerala
·         Winner of the women’s doubles title of Wimbledon 2015 - Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
·         Winner of the women’s singles title of the Wimbledon 2015 - Serena Williams
·         World Population Day - Jul 11
·         Captain of the visiting India cricket team on Zimbabwe tour - Ajinkya Rahane
·         The author of the book Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War - Raghu Karnad
·         ISRO’s rocket which carried live British satellites to the space on 10 Jul - PSLV-C28
·         The name of the Govt campaign to give up LPG subsidy – GiveItUp
·         The typhoon which hit China recently - Chan-Hom
·         India’s scheme ranked as the 2nd-largest unconditional cash transfer social security programme - Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme
·         The chairman of the committee set up by the govt on bankruptcy law reforms - TK Viswanathan
·         India’s contribution to the $100-bn foreign-exchange reserves pool of BRICS group - $18 billion
·         Asia’s oldest stock exchange which completed 140 years of operations on Jul 9, 2015 - BSE

·         The country with which india signed Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) pact recently - US

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