BSC MATCH POINT --OCTOBER 2015 --PART II - USEFUL FOR BANK EXAMS AND INTERViEWS.

The team defeated by the Indian hockey team 2-1 in the European Tour recently – Spain

● The founder of Hero Cycles who died recently – Om Prakash Munjal

● The dividend paid by the RBI to the govt recently, the highest ever in its 80-year history – `66,000 cr

● The newly appointed Election Commissioner – Om Prakash Rawat

● The winner of the World 6-Red Snooker Championship – Pankaj Advani

● The present PM of Libya – Abdullah al-Thani

● The bank accredited by the Green Climate Fund as an implementing entity for climate change-related projects in India – NABARD

● The ambassador for the ‘Save the Tiger’ campaign – Amitabh Bachchan

● The chairman of the Rajya Sabha committee on the Land Acquisition Bill – SS Ahluwalia

● The city where the All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) will come up – New Delhi

● The country which has topped the Asian Youth Chess Championship with 17 medals – India

● The second player till date to be recommended for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award recently – Sania Mirza

● The country with which India’s social security pact came into force on 1 Aug – Canada

● The first Indian city to become a member of Beijingheadquartered World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF) Council – Kochi

● The compensation sought by the govt from Nestle for damages caused by Maggi noodles – `640 cr

● The govt scheme aimed at educational and skill training of minorities launched recently – Nai Manzil

● The recipient of the 24th ‘Saraswati Sammaan’ for the year 2014 – M Veerappa Moily

● The state where the indigenous Titanium Sponge Plant was commissioned recently – Kerala

● International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples – 9 Aug

● The new CEO of the technology giant Google – Sundar Pichai

● The umbrella company announced by Larry Page of which Google will be a part – Alphabet

● The state capital which leads the Swachh Bharat rankings – Bengaluru The state capital which came at last in the Swachh Bharat rankings – Patna

● The three East Asian nations included in ASEANplusthree group – China, Japan & South Korea

● The winner of the Pacific Area Travel Writers Association (PATWA)-Safari India South Asia Travel Award 2015 – Dilip Parulekar

● The socio-biologist who has recently been awarded Germany’s highest civilian honour – the Cross of Order of the Merit – Raghavendra Gadagkar

● The person to whom the global satellite GlobalSat for DRR is to be dedicated – APJ Abdul Kalam

● The freedom fighter and the Kannada poet who died recently – Kayyara Kinhanna Rai

● The bank which recently launched its ‘Saral-Rural Housing Loan’ at base rate of 9.7 per cent for borrowers from rural areas – ICICI Bank

● The new governor of Bihar – Ram Nath Kovind

● The committee set up by the govt and the RBI which will decide the interest rates in the country – Monetary Policy Committee

● The city which tops the chart of cleanest cities in the country among 476 cities surveyed during 2014-15 – Mysuru

● The state with which Foxconn has signed a USD 5-bn deal to set up manufacturing base – Maharashtra ● The typhoon which entered China on 8 Aug after pounding Taiwan – Soudelor

● The country which won the Ashes series, defeating Australia – England

● The Australian Test captain who retired recently – Michael Clarke

● The chairman of the 31-member Parliamentary committee examining the Lokpal Bill – EM Sudarsana Natchiappan

● The first Indian private firm to license tech of a full-scale system from DRDO for Lakshya system – L&T ● The new governor of Himachal Pradesh – Acharya Dev Vrat

● National Handloom Day – 7 Aug

● The archer who won the first-ever individual medal in the World Archery Championships for India recently – Rajat Chauhan

● The additional interest rate paid by the banks against armed forces’ insurance deposits which the RBI has directed to withdraw – 1.28 per cent

● The city where “Bharat Parv,” a celebration of culture and cuisine from different states of India, was organised recently – New Delhi

● The FDI received from 12 countries visited by PM Narendra Modi in financial year 2014-15 – USD 19.78 bn

● The country with which India inked a pact to set up Centre of Excellence in Software Development and Training (CESDT) there – Myanmar

 ● The Indian-American appointed recently as the US ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives – Atul Keshap

 ● The retail inflation in Jun 2015 as per RBI’s monetary policy review on 4 Aug – 5.4 per cent

● The 70th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing (by the nuclear bomb Little Boy) – 6 Aug

● The date on which the World Wide Web (WWW) was born in 1991 conceived by Tim Berners-Lee – 6 Aug

● The first telecom operator in India to commercially launch its 4G high-speed data services – Airtel

● The organisation with which FICCI has signed an MoU for the second phase of SCORE Global Programme – ILO

 ● The present MP of Mozambique who visited New Delhi recently – Filipe Nyusi

● The winner of the Lech Walesa Solidarity Prize 2015 of Poland – Zhanna Nemtsova

 ● The former PWD minister of Goa who has been arrested in connection with the Louis Berger bribery case – Churchill Alemao

● The actor who tops the list of 2015 World’s Highest-Paid Actors released by the Forbes magazine – Robert Downey Jr

 ● The winner of the Esri Special Achievement in GIS Award 2015 – NDDB

● The country which inaugurated the new Suez Canal on 6 Aug – Egypt

● The state which has made it mandatory for candidates contesting all level of panchayat raj elections to have toilets at their individual homes by Jan 31, 2016 – Bihar

 ● The length of National Highways in the country – 96,000 km

● Asia’s largest telescope, the Multi Application Solar Telescope (MAST), was recently inaugurated in – Udaipur, Rajasthan

● The winner of the Ramanujan Prize for 2015 – Amalendu Krishna

● International Tiger Day – 29 Jul

● World Bio Fuel Day – 10 Aug