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BSC MATCH POINT -FEBRUARY 2017

- India’s present position among the world’s largest economies as per a report published in Forbes magazine – Fifth
- The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi who resigned recently – Najeeb Jung
- The venue of the International Civil Aviation Negotiations (ICAN) 2016 – Nassau, Bahamas
- The bank which has bagged the SKOCH silver award for attaining the position of No. 1 channel partner of LIC of India for the past three financial years – Corporation Bank
- The country which nationalized its largest private bank ‘PrivateBank’ recently - Ukraine
- The veteran Malayalam actor who died recently – Jagnnatha Varma
- The justice appointed as the 44th Chief Justice of India – JS Khehar
- The team which won the 2016 Indian Super League (ISL) – Atletico de Kolkata
- The person voted as the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016 – Andy Murray
- The actor appointed as the brand ambassador of Assam’s tourism for two years – Priyanka Chopra
- The Indian batsman who scored triple ton in the 5th Test match between India and England played in Chennai – Karun Nair
- The interest rate on EPF deposits for the current fiscal (FY17) as decided by the EPFO – 8.65 per cent
- Winner of the hockey junior World Cup 2016 - India
- Te app launched by the govt to ensure transparency in the implementation of rural electrification programme – GARV-II
- Miss World 2016 – Stephanie Del Valle
- The Managing Director of the IMF who was found guilty of negligence by a French court recently – Christine Lagarde
- The Russian ambassador to Turkey who was shot dead recently – Andrey Karlov
- The noted economist and former Planning Commission member who passed away recently – Saumitra Chaudhuri
- The state which has launched a subsidized meal scheme ‘Annapurna Rasoi’ - Rajasthan
- Winner of the 2016 Hockey Junior World Cup - India
- The city where the PM Narendra Modi lay the foundation stone of the country’s first ever Indian Institute of Skills - Kanpur
- The present President of Kyrgyzstan, who visited New Delhi recently – Almazbek Sharshenovich Atambayev
- The next Chief of Air Staff – Air Marshal BS Dhanoa
- Winner of the WBO-Asia Pacific Super Middleweight boxing title – Vijender Singh
- The mobile wallet launched by BSNL in association with SBI for smart as well as feature phones - MobiCash
- The next Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) – Rajiv Jain
- The new chief of the external intelligence agency RAW – Anil Dhasmana
- The present President of Tajikistan who visited India recently – Emomali Rahmon
- The next Indian Army chief – Lt Gen Bipin Rawat
- The person who topped the Forbes 2016 list of the World’s Most Powerful People – Vladimir Putin
- The NITI Aayog CEO – Amitabh Kant
- The new UN deputy Secretary-General – Amina Mohammed
- The person who has been awarded by the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA) with the “Global Agriculture Leadership Award 2016” – Ratan Tata
- The venue of the 5th India-Arab partnership conference held recently – Muscat, Oman
- The seventh joint military exercise between India and the Maldives held recently – EKUVERIN Exercise 2016
- The cruise missile test-fired by Pakistan recently with a range of 700 km - Babur
- The new Chief Executive Officer of the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) – VG Kannan
- The Gulf country which formally announced the end of its controversial “kafala” system recently - Qatar
- India’s contribution to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for the year 2016-17 - $500,000
- The Russian city from which the 2017 Bobsleigh and Skeleton world championships were taken away recently - Sochi
- The Brazilian city which officially entered the UN’s list of world heritage sites recently – Rio de Janeiro
- The entity whom the UN General Assembly recently granted Observer Status – International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
- The chairman of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – Sunil Bharti Mittal
- The person appointed as the chairman of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India for five years – VK Sharma
- The 15th king of Malaysia – Sultan Muhammad V
- India’s growth forecast for 2016 as per ADB – 7%
- ITF World Champions for 2016 – Andy Murray and Angelique Kerber
- The Indo-Russian Bilateral Naval Exercise held recently – Indra Navy-2016
- Winner of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) 2016 Most Improved Player of the Year award – PV Sindhu
- The person who was recently sworn in as the ninth UN Secretary General – Antonio Guterres
- The present President of Indonesia who visited India recently – Joko Widodo
- Winner of the 2016 World Billiards (150-Up format) Championships title – Pankaj Advani
- The new Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan – Naveed Mukhtar
- Winner of the prestigious Ballon d’Or award at FIFA award 2016 – Cristiano Ronaldo
- The country which recently launched a new-generation weather satellite ‘Fengyun-4’ - China
- The new Prime Minister of New Zealand – Bill English
- The present President of Philippines – Rodrigo Duterte
- The country with which India signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement recently - Vietnam
- The first Indian cricketer to score three double hundreds in a year – Virat Kohli
- The head of the committee formed by Finance Ministry to boost digital payments which submitted its report recently – Ratan P Watal
- The black civil rights leader of Canada who will soon become the first woman to appear on a banknote in the country – Viola Desmond
- The severe cyclonic storm which hit Chennai recently - Vardah
- The newly launched 24-hour TV channel for cashless transactions lessons - DigiShala
- The first US astronaut to orbit Earth who died recently – John Glenn
- The country which launched a spaceship Kounotori 6 to deliver supplies for International Space Station (ISS) - Japan
- Winner of the 2016 IBSF World Billiards Long Up title – Peter Gilchrist
- The president of South Korea who was impeached by the parliament recently – Park Geun-hye
- The country which passed a bill recently declaring India a ‘major defence partner’ - US
- The country where India has decided to set up a Centre of Excellence in IT at the Al-Azhar University - Egypt
- The person who won the recent presidential election in Ghana – Nana Akufo-Addo
- The venue of the Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) held recently - Goa
- The remote sensing satellite recently launched by the ISRO – RESOURCESAT-2A
- Winner of the ‘CII National Quality 2016 Award’ - BEML
- The bank adjudged ‘Best Bank for SME Lending’ in PSB category by Assocham at the 4th SMEs Excellence Awards – Vijaya Bank
- The birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar (Apr 14) will be observed as – Water Day
- The Gross Value Added (GVA) growth for 2016-17 as announced by the RBI on 7 Dec – 7.1 percent
- The exchange authorised by the RBI to launch the country’s first trade receivables exchange platform – Receivables Exchange of India (RXIL)
- The person named the 2016 Time Magazine person of the year – Donald Trump
- The new Chief Justice of Pakistan – Mian Saqib Nissar
- The person who won the recent presidential elections in Uzbekistan – Shavkat Mirziyoyev
- The new chief of the Directorate General of Civil Avilation (DGCA) – BS Bhullar
- The new Prime Minister of France – Bernard Cazeneuve
- The person who won the presidential election in Austria – Alexander Van der Bellen
- The former Tamil Nadu CM who passed away recently – Jayalalithaa Jayaraman
- The new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu – O Panneerselvam
- The persons named “Asian of the Year 2016” by Singapore-based newspaper The Straits Times – Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal
- The new king of Thailand – Maha Vajiralongkorn
- The President of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) appointed as a Senior Vice-President of Asian Football Confederation – Praful Patel
- The new ceiling of Market Stabilisation Scheme (MSS) –  6 lakh cr
- Winner of the reader’s poll for Time ‘Person of the Year 2016’ – Narendra Modi

- The interim director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) – Rakesh Asthana

thanks BSC CHRONICLE FEB 2017

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