BSC MATCH POINT OCTOBER 2017 PART ONE

BSC OCTOBER 2017 MATCH POINT

•           The new chairman of the Railway Board — Ashwani Lohani

•           The former Chief Minister of Manipur who passed away recently — Rishang Keishing

•           The convener of the committee to select movies for the Irittmational Film Festival of India (IFFI) — Vivek Agnihotri

•           The state to which the NABARD has sanctioned a loan assistance of Rs.l,349.55 cr — Rajasthan

•           The official name of Google's Android 8.0 mobile operating system —Android Oreo

•           The firm whose board has approved the acquisition of (51.11% equity stake) HPCL — ONGC

•           The number of regional rural banks (RRBs) functioning in the country at present — 56

•           The city where the first regional centre of the New Development Bank (NDB) was officially opened recently —Johannesburg

•           The state which has taken the cloud-seeding project called Varshadhare' to harness rain-bearing clouds —Karnataka

•           The winner of the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA)'s Global Agriculture Leadership Award — K Chandrasekhar Rao

•           The new High Commissioner of Pakistan to India —Sohail Mahmood

•           The bank which accounts for over 27 per cent of the total amount owed to public sector banks by wilful defaulters — SBI

•           The number of medals won by the Indian contingent at the World Dwarf Games in Toronto, Canada — 37

•           The new Goodwill Ambassador for Handicap International — Neymar

•           The new Executive Director of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) — Mamta Suri

•           The host city of the 2017 Women's Asia Cup of International Basketball Federation (FIBA) — Bengaluru

•           The new Managing Director and CEO of Industrial Finance Corporation of India — E Sankara Rao

•           The present President of Sierra Leone — Ernest Bai Koroma

•           The financial year followed by the RBI — Jul I to Jun 30

•           The revised penalty set by TRAI on mobile operators for not meeting the benchmarks — Rs.5 lakhs

•           The joint venture life insurance firm between HDFC and Standard Life — HDFC Life

•           The sponsor bank of the Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank (APGVB) — State Bank of India

•           The banknote denomination which will soon be introduced in fluorescent blue colour bearing the motif of `Hampi with Chariot' – Rs.50

•           The chairman of the Committee on Doubling Farmers' Income which submitted its report recently — Ashok Dalwai

•           The new Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Copper Limited — Santosh Sharma

•           The country where more than 400 people died in its capital in the recent mudslides caused by heavy rain — Sierra 'Leone

•           The growth rate of India's exports in Jul 2017 — 3.9 per cent

•           The retail inflation as measured by the consumer price index (CPI) in Jul 2017 — 2.36 per cent

•           The portal started by Akshay Kumar supported by National Informatics Centre (NIC) and powered by SBI —Bharat Ke Veer

•           The President of Kenya who was re-elected in the recent elections — Uhuru Kenyatta

•           The new Chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) — Prasoon Joshi

•           The firm which has launched a rival to the Google-owned YouTube named `Watch' — Facebook

•           The estimated fiscal deficit as a per cent of GDP in 2017-18 as per the second volume of the Economic Survey for 2016-17 — 3.2 per cent

•           The amount to be paid by the RBI as dividend to the govt for the year ended Jun 30 — Rs.30,659 cr

•           The online marketplace which has received an investment of $2.5 bn from SoftBank Vision Fund — Flipkart

•           The state govt which has launched a new awareness drive called Namanzi Gange Jagriti Yatra— Uttar Pradesh

•           NASA's spacecraft which is set to begin its final ultra-close orbits around Saturn before it ends its journey — Cassini

•           India's ranking on 2017 Global Retirement Index (GRI) topped by Norway — 43rd

•           The first Indian to qualify for the final round of the World Championships in javelin throw — Davinder Singh Kang

THANKS:  BSC MAGAZINE.