BSC MARCH 2017 MATCH POINT TWO

- The Portuguese footballer named Best FIFA Men’s Player of 2016 – Cristiano Ronaldo

- India’s growth for 2016-17 fiscal as per the World Bank – 7 per cent

- Pakistan’s first submarine-launched nuclear-capable missile which has a range of 450 km – Babur-3

- The new chief executive officer of the online market place Flipkart – Kalyan Krishnamurthy

- The actor who has been awarded by the US Embassy for his contributions to the US – India partnership on tuberculosis – Amitabh Bachchan

- The 2^nd Kalvari class submarine – INS Khanderi

- The former President of Iran who died recently – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

- The state govt which has come up with India’s first student startup fund of  200 cr - Gujarat

- The online payments app launched by the govt - BHIM

- The former President of Portugal who passed away recently – Mario Soares

- Winner of the men’s singles title of the 2017 Chennai Open – Roberto Bautista Agut

- The date by which the General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR) will kick in – Apr 1, 2017

- The present Chief Statistician of India (CSI) – TCA Anant

- The country which has decided to be associated with the development of Chennai, Ahmedabad and Varnasi as smart cities - Japan

- The first major PSU in the country to be sold through strategic disinvestment - BEML

- NASA’s spacecraft to study early solar system – Lucy and Psyche

- The first country in the world to switch off its FM radio network - Norway

- The Portuguese PM who was the chief guest at the 14^th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas celebrations held in Bengaluru – Antonio Costa

- The Indian island where the Island Tourism Festival 2017 was held recently – Port Blair

- The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth estimated for 2016-17 as per the CSO – 7.1 per cent

- The new Executive Director appointed by the Reserve Bank of India – Sureka Marandi

- The United Nations 70^th General Assembly has recognized the year 2017 as the International Year of – Sustainable Tourism for Development

- The first country in the world to pay a basic income to randomly picked citizens on a national level - Finland

- The venue of the 13^th edition of five day Chitwan Elephant Festival – Kathmandu, Nepal

- The person who won the recent presidential election in Haiti – Jovenel Moise

- Winner of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) women’s football championship title - India

- The 44^th Chief Justice of India (CJI) – Jagdish Singh Khehar

- The state which has launched Arogya Raksha scheme for the people of the Above Poverty Line (APL) – Andhra Pradesh

- The venue of the 104^th Indian Science Congress – Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh

- The new Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) – David R Syiemlieh

- The persons chosen for Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhan Award for the year 2016 – GK Devansh & Shraddha

- Winner of the ‘Power & Energy Persona’s Award for Individual Excellence’ – KM Singh (NHPC)

- The state where the world-famous 11-day festival Bargarh Dhanua Jatra was observed recently - Odisha

- India’s first fully organic state in 2016 - Sikkim

- Winner of the 2016 Bihari Puraskar, 2016 – Satya Narayan

- The new Lt Governor of Delhi – Anil Baijal

- The deputy governor of the RBI appointed by the govt recently – Viral Acharya

- The Jnanpith Awardee and acclaimed Bengali poet who passed away recently – Shankha Ghosh

- The state which has launched ‘Atal Amrit Abhiyan’, a helath assurance scheme - Assam

THANKS: BSC

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