BSC MATCH POINT -- JULY 2018 -- USEFUL FOR MAIN EXAMS.

BSC  MATCH POINT—JULY 2018

- The first female chief of the New York stock Exchange (NYSE) in its history of 226 years = Stacey Cunningham

- The state govt which will provide pension ( 250/month) to 16 lakh senior citizens of the state who are 60 years and above – Assam

- The new Chief Minister of Karnataka – HD Kumaraswamy

- The Prime Minister of the Netherlands who visited India recently – Mark Rutte

- The country to which the US has withdrew its invitation to participate in the biennial maritime exercise Rim of the Pacific or RIMPAC – China

- The former captain of South African cricket team who has retired from all forms of international cricket – AB de Villiers

- Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018 – Olga Tokarczuk (for Flights)

- Winner of the 2018 Italian Open tennis tournament – Rafael Nadal

- The state where an outbreak of Nipah virus was reported recently – Kerala

- The person who was re-elected as the President of Venezuela recently – Nicolas Maduro

- The Japanese film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda which won Palme d’Or award at the Cannes Film Festival award - Shoplifters

- The public sector bank which has reported a whopping 77.18-bn loss in its fourth quarter of FY18 - SBI

- The country to which the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa, paid a four-day visit recently - Israel

- The new chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of Coal India – Anil Kumar Jha

- The footballer who won the European Golden Shoe award for the fifth time recently – Lionel Messi

- The city where the govt has approved the establishment of National Institute of Mental Health Rehabilitation (NIMHR) – Bhopal

- The first female director of the US intelligence agency CIA – Gina Haspel

- The women’s hockey team which defeated India to win the fifth Asian Champions Trophy final – South Korea

- The state where PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Zojila Tunnel recently – Jammu and Kashmir

- The justice who was sworn in as the new Chief Justice of Manipur High Court – Ramalingam Sudhakar

- The state which has announced to spend 25 cr on renovating the historic British Raj ‘Bantony Castle Estate’ – Himachal Pradesh

- The new Chairman of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) – Subhash Chandra Khuntia

- The bank which has launched ‘Agenda 25X25’ to create a synergetic start-up environment for women entrepreneurs – YES Bank

- Winner of the 2018 Spanish Grand Prix F1 championship – Lewis Hamilton

- The country where volcano Mount Kilauea erupted recently – US

- The city which has been ranked first in India’s cleanest cities survey ‘Swachh Survekshan-2018’ – Indore

- The initial corpus approved by the CCEA for Micro Irrigation Fund with NABARD - 5000 cr

- The IT firm which has set up India Trade Connect, a blockchain-based trade network in India, in partnership with seven banks – Infosys

- The telecom firm whose merger with Bharti Airtel has been approved by the department of telecommunications – Telenor India

- The person who has been elected to serve a second two-year term as the independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) – Shashank Manohar

- The country to which India released grant of 18.07 cr for river training and construction of embankments along Lalbakeya, Bagmati and Kamla rivers – Nepal

- The bank which posted its highest-ever quarterly net loss of 134 bn in the last quarter of 2017-18 – PNB

- India’s trade deficit for the fiscal year 2017-18 ending in Mar 2018 ending in Mar 2018-$156.8bn

- The bank whose board has divested its MD and CEO Usha Ananthasubramanian of all powers – Allahabad Bank

- The IIM which has launched a Bharat Inclusion Initiative to build knowledge and foster innovation and entrepreneurial activity – IIM-Ahmedabad

- The plan launched by the WHO to eliminate industrially – produced artificial trans fats from the global food supply by 2023 – REPLACE

The new Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting (Independent Charge) in the recent Cabinet reshuffle – Rajyavardhan Rathore

- Winner of the women’s singles title of the Madrid Open 2018 – Petra Kvitova

- The country where Shinmoedake volcano erupted recently – Japan

- The Chinese bank which has launched its first India-dedicated publicly offered investment fund – ICBC

- The country which opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem recently – US

- The country to which the Army Chief General Bipin Rawat paid a five-day visit recently – Sri Lanka

- The richest person of the UK in the Sunday Times Rich List for 2018 – Jim Ratcliffe

- The size of the mega project finalized by the India Army for a range of ammunition for its critical weapons and tanks to be produced indigenously - 150 bn

- The record production by the Indian tea industry during financial year 2017-18 – 1,325.05 mn kg

- The company which purchased leading Pakistani online retailer ‘Daraz’ recently – Alibaba

- The state where the month-long massive military exercise “Vijay Prahar” was conducted recently – Rajasthan

- The person honoured with the 11^th KISS Humanitarian Award 2018 in Bhubaneswar recently – Muhammad Yunus

- The country with which India held warfare training exercise called “Ekatha” recently – Maldives

- The state which paid farmers to meet input costs by giving them 4,000 each for every acre as part of its ‘Rythu Bandhu’ scheme recently – Telangana

- The bank which is rolling a project with farmers in Haryana and Rajasthan under its ‘Livelihood and Water Security’ CSR initiative – YES Bank

- The new increased investment limit under the Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVVY) - 15 lakh

- The new Prime Minister of Malaysia – Mahathir Mohamad

- The new political party launched by the football star Bhaichung Bhutia – Hamro Sikkim

- The three nations which Vice President Venkaiah Naidu visited recently – Guatemala, Panama and Peru

- India’s growth rate in 2018 as reaffirmed by the IMF recently – 7.4 per cent

- The state which has launched the country’s first Integrated Control and Command Centre (ICCC) for all seven smart cities of the state – Madhya Pradesh

- The country which successfully launched a hyperspectral imaging satellite ‘Gaofen-5’ for comprehensive observation of the atmosphere (including air pollution) – China

- India’s ranking on Global Optimism Index (for the first quarter of 2018) – Sixth

- The head of the advisory council set up by the 15^th Finance Commission – Arvind Virmani

- The position of PM Narendra Modi among the 10 most powerful people in the world in US magazine Forbes’ 2018 list – Ninth

- The index has been topped by – Xi Jinping

- The country with which the US President Donald Trump scrapped nuclear deal recently – Iran

- The firm which recently acquired 77 per cent stake in India’s largest ecommerce company Flipkart – Walmart

- The new President of Costa Rica – Carlos Alvarado

- The new Prime Minister of Armenia – Nikol Pashinyan

- The venue of the climate summit which will take place in Sep 2019 to review the Paris Agreement commitments – New York

- The country which has topped the inaugural Asia Power Index by The Lowy Institute – US

- India’s ranking on the index – Fourth

- The firm which has come together with the NITI Aayog to help build the AI ecosystem across the country – Google

- The venue of the third edition of the UN Peacekeeping Course for African Partners (UNPCAP) – New Delhi

- The country which topped the South Asian Junior Athletics Championships held in Colombo – India

- The agency with which India has signed a pact of 200-mn-dollar loan for the National Nutrition Mission (POSHAN Abhiyaan) – World Bank

- The person who was sworn in for a fourth term as Russian president recently – Vladimir Putin

- The present Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation who visited India recently - Rashid Kutbiddinovitch Alimov

- The US space agency Nasa’s mission sent to Mars recently – insight

- Winner of the 2018 Abu Dhabi Open squash title – Ramit Tandon

- The country where the quadrennial international football tournament 2018 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place from 14 Jun to 15 Jul 2018 – Russia

- The city where the twelfth informal meeting of SAARC Finance Ministers was held recently – Manila

- The state which launched ‘Go to Village’ mission recently – Manipur

- The Noble Prize which was cancelled for 2018 after sexual assault scandal recently – Literature

- The US state which has now become world’s fifth largest economy – California

- India’s position (with $55.9 bn spending) among the world’s biggest military spenders in 2017 as per SIPRI – Fifth

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