BSC MATCH POINT JULY 2016

BSC Match Point JULY 2016

The state where fisheries department has started an artificial propagation programme for rehabilitation and conservation of Golden Mahseer fish – Himachal Pradesh

The electronic grievance redressal system launched by the Income Tax department to fast track taxpayer grievances – e-nivaran

The Senegalese UN diplomat who has been named as the first female Secretary General of FIFA Council – Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura

The country where the US activated a land-based missile defence station recently – Romania

Indian author who has won the regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 2016 for the Asia region – Parashar Kulkarni

The agriculture project of Andhra Pradesh which has won the prestigious World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2016 prize in the e-Agriculture category – HaritaPriya

The Indian-American journalist felicitated with the prestigious Edgar A Poe award recently – Neela Banerjee

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 came into force – May 1, 2016

 The web-based application launched by the Maharashtra govt recently for state’s tribal population recently – Adi Praman

The country to which India extended a line of credit of $1 bn recently through EXIM Bank – Mongolia

Egyptian professional squash player who has become the youngest ever women’s squash World champion – Nour El Sherbini (20)

 The newly appointed envoys for El Nino and climate by the UN – Macharia Kamau and Mary Robinson

The new BCCI President – Anurag Thakur

The new Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry – Kiran Bedi

The oldest Olympic champion who died recently – Sandor Tarics Winner of the Federation Cup 2016 title – Mohun Bagan

The new Director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) situated in Hyderabad – Rakesh Kumar Mishra

The indigenously developed fecal incontinence (FI) management system – Qora

The venue of the first World Conference on Tourism for Development (WCTD) held recently – Beijing

The women who climbed Mount Everest for the seventh time recently – Lhakpa Sherpa

The foreign bank which announced to halve its branches in India to 26 – HSBC

The venue of the G7 summit 2016 – Ise-Shima, Japan

The cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India recently – Roanu

The first female president of Taiwan who sworn in recently – Tsai Ing-wen

The country with which India signed a protocol to amend the bilateral double taxation avoidance agreement recently – Slovenia

The industrialist conferred with the prestigious chemical industry award, the Othmer Gold Medal recently – Mukesh Ambani

The venue of the two-day international Buddhist conference held recently – Kathmandu, Nepal

India’s campaign against overuse of antibiotics which is being lauded – Red Line

 The renowned folk singer of Gujarat who passed away recently – Diwaliben Bhil

The newly appointed Principal  Adviser for social sector in NITI Aayog – Ratan P Watal

The CM of Sikkim who has been conferred with the Yug Kavi Siddhicharan Award by Nepal – Pawan Chamling

The indigenous Advanced Air Defence interceptor missile test-fired recently – Ashwin

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016 – Han Kang (The Vegetarian)

The PSB which posted a quarterly loss of `5,367 cr in JanMar – PNB The city where Apple officially announced the opening of its technology centre for maps – Hyderabad

The bank which launched SmartUp solution for startups recently – HDFC Bank

The head of the committee set up to review the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) roadmap – NK Singh

The state which has launched Green Passage scheme for orphan students – Odisha

The foreign bank which has announced to exit India retail operations in a phased manner – Royal Bank of Scotland

The state where the world’s largest single rooftop solar power plant of 11.5 mw capacity was inaugurated recently – Punjab

The renowned novelist who received the highest French civilian honour Legion of Honour recently – JK Rowling

The runner who set a national record recently in 3000m steeplechase – Sudha Singh

India’s oldest Test Cricketer who died recently – Deepak Shodhan

 The country which launched Yaogan-30 remote sensing satellite recently – China

The neighbouring country with which India concluded a nuclear agreement recently – Bangladesh

The present chairman of the Indian space agency ISRO – AS Kiran Kumar

Winner of the men’s singles title of the 2016 Italian Open tennis tournament – Andy Murray

The country with which India shares the longest international boundary line (4,096 km) – Bangladesh

Winner of the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix F1 championship – Max Verstappen

The country which passed legislation legalising same-sex civil unions recently – Italy

Winner of the women’s single title of the 2016 Italian Open tennis tournament – Serena Williams

The first Indian to be inducted into the ‘International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Hall of Fame’ – UR Rao

India’s economic growth rate in 2016-17 as per think-tank NCAER – 7.7 per cent

Winner of women’s doubles title of the 2016 Rome Masters – Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis

The new deputy chairman of the governance committee of FIFA – Mukul Mudgal

The commencement day for ‘Income Declaration Scheme’ to declare domestic black money – 1 Jun 2016

The four-week-long aerial combat exercises held between India and the US in Alaska recently – Red Flag

The venue of the Women Economic Forum 2016 – New Delhi

The place from where the 2nd phase of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana was launched recently – Dahod, Gujarat

India’s position in the ‘Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index’, according to an EY report – Third

The country which has developed DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missile with a strike range of about 5,500 km – China

The currency in which Iran recently demanded India to pay all oil bills raised from Apr 2016 – Euro

The tax information sharing pact signed by India and five other countries in Beijing recently – CbC MCAA

The Sri Lankan President who visited India recently – Maithripala Sirisena

The newly appointed chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee – Anil Kumble

The year in which the first Five-Year Plan was started – 1951

The Jamaat-e-Islami leader who was executed in Bangladesh recently – Motiur Rahman Nizami

The Brazilian President who was suspended from her office recently – Dilma Rousseff

The sole Indian (ranked 33rd) in Forbes’ list of ‘Money Masters: The Most Powerful People In The Financial World’ –Uday Kotak –

 The person who has topped the list – Stephen Schwarzman

The country which is to close Dadaab refugee camp, often referred to as the world’s largest camp – Kenya

The place where the central Asian state leaders inaugurated the Central Asia South Asia (CASA-1000) transmission line recently – Dushanbe, Tajikistan

The world’s most polluted city as per the recent WTO report – Zabol, Iran

The newly elected ICC’s first independent Chairman – Shashank Manohar

The new MD and CEO of MCX – Mrugank Paranjape

The country which hosted the 26th World Economic Forum on Africa recently – Rwanda

The new Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court – Deepak Kumar Gupta

The bank which launched the country’s first contactless business credit card recently – ICICI Bank

 India’s fourth Goodwill Ambassador for Rio Games – AR Rahman

The country with which India signed a pact to amend the double taxation avoidance agreement recently – Mauritius

The state where the military exercise Chakravyuh-II concluded recently – Rajasthan

The date by which India’s single emergency number ‘112’ will be operational – 1 Jan 2017

 India’s ranking in terms of crony capitalism according to a recent study by The Economist – Ninth –

The country which tops the index prepared by The Economist based on crony capitalism – Russia

India’s largest urban co-operative bank which donated `1 cr relief for drought in Maharashtra recently – Saraswat Bank

The initial capital requirement to set up a universal bank in India – `500 crore