BSC MATCH POINT NOVEMBER 2017 -- ONE--IBPS PO /CLERKS/SSCGL/LIC/ GIIC/RBI

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Match Point

- The company which recently received shareholders’ approval to convert its legal status to a private company – Tata Sons

- The train PM Narendera Modi flagged off recently to connect Varanasi with Surat and Vadodara – Mahamana Express

- The first hill state in the country to run electric buses – Himachal Pradesh

- India’s official entry to the Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars 2018 – Newton

- The venues of the sixth edition of the four-day international textile and apparel fair VASTRA – Jaipur

- The legendary boxer who passed away recently – Jake LaMotta

- The country with which India is collaborating to build Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh – Russia

- India’s new ambassador to China – Gautam Bambawale

- The Indian bowler who took a hattrick in the second ODI against Australia at the Eden Gardens recently – Kuldeep Yadav

- The first of the six Scorpene-class submarines handed over to the Indian Navy recently – INS Kalvari

- The steelmaker with which Tata Steel has formed Europe’s second biggest steel firm – Thyssenkrupp

- The venue of the 5^th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games – Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

- The NGO which has won 2017 UN Equator Prize – Swayam Shikshan Prayog

- India’s new ambassador to Pakistan – Ajay Bisaria

- The new brand ambassador of the Swachh Bharat Mission in Uttarakhand – Akshay Kumar

- The country whose sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, reached the value of $1 tn recently – Norway

- The new chief of the National Investigation Agency – YC Modi

- The Prime Minister of Iceland who resigned recently – Bjarni Benediktsson

- The cricketer who completed 100 international half-centuries across all three formats recently – MS Dhoni

- Winner of the 2017 Singapore Grand Prix F1 championship – Lewis Hamilton

- The military exercise held recently between the US and the UAE – Iron Union 5

- The automaker with which Mahindra & Mahindra has formed an alliance for making electric vehicles – Ford

- The first state in the country to set up family welfare district committees to deal with fake complaints by women – Tripura

- The first payments bank to integrate the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) on its digital platform – Airtel Payments Bank

- The capital account deficit in the first quarter of 2017-18 – 2.4 per cent of GDP

- The number of member states in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) – 57

- The new Prime Minister of Peru – Mercedes Araoz

- The person regarded as the father of nephrology who passed away recently – Dr KS Chugh

- The amount govt pays to the elite athletes preparing for international games –  50,000/month

- The record level to which India’s foreign-exchange reserves rose recently - $ 400 bn

- Winner of the Global Diversity Award 2017 in the British Parliament House – Salman Khan

- The operation launched by India to send relief to Bangladesh to help the Rohingyas – Operation Insaniyat

- The new chairman of the International Olympic Committee’s ethics commission – Ban Ki-moon

- The country with which India has signed a $76-mn loan deal to upgrade Alang-Sosiya ship recycling yards in Gujarat – Japan

- The new chairman and managing director of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) – Mahendra Pratap Mall

- The head of the Group of Ministers constituted monitor and resolve the IT challenges faced in the implementation of GST – Sushil Kumar Modi

- The loan extended by Japan at 0.1 per cent interest for the construction of bullet train in India -  88,000 cr

- The state govt which has announced to waive all farm loans up to  50,000 per farmer – Rajasthan

- NASA’s spacecraft which ended its 20-year-long journey by plunging into Saturn – Cassini

- The firm which has launched a payment service called ‘Tez’ in India – Google

- The banks which has secured up to $200-mn loan from ADB to serve women borrowers – IndusInd Bank

- The country which has topped the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Human Capital Index 2017 – Norway

- India’s ranking on the Human Capital Index 2017 – 103^rd

- The host city for the 2024 Summer Olympics – Paris