BSC MATCH POINT --JANUARY 2018 PART TWO

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The venue of the recent 10^th South Asia Economic Summit (SAES) – Kathmandu

·       The four nations that have formed a quad to counter China – India, US, Japan, Australia

·       The year by which India is expected to pip Japan to become world’s third largest economy – 2028

·       The host of the 2018 FIFA World Cup – Russia

·       The Chief Justice of Bangladesh who resigned recently – Surendra Kumar Sinha

·       The state which has topped in opening new PMJDY accounts after demonetisation – Uttar Pradesh

·       The Padma Shri awardee author who died recently – Manu Sharma

·       Winner of the IBSF World Billiards Championship in Doha – PankajAdvani

·       The two countries whose border area witnessed a 7.3 – magnitude earthquake recently, killing at least 400 people – Iraq and Iran

·       The President of Slovenia who was reelected recently – BorutPahor

·       The recipient of the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice, 2017 – UNHCR

·       The former French Culture Minister who is the new Director General of the UNESCO – Audrey Azoulay

·       The venues of the 2017 APEC Summit – Danang, Vietnam

·       The first state in the country to treat Hepatitis – C patients of all categories through oral medicine – Haryana

·       The date by which the United Kingdom will exit the European Union (EU) – 29 Mar 2019 (at 11 pm)

·       The state which has appointed PhanindraSama as Chief Innovation Officer – Telengana

·       The city where the Nordic-Baltic embassies hosted the first-ever youth film festival of the European nations – New Delhi

·       The city with which the Delhi govt recently signed a twin city agreement – Seoul

·       The Indian-origin minister in the UK who resigned recently – Priti Patel

·       The bank which recently received RBI’s nod to open offices in Kuwait and Singapore – Federal Bank

·       The state which has declared Urdu as its second official language – Telengana

·       Winner of Israel’s 2018 Genesis Prize, also known as the “Jewish Nobel Prize” – Natalie Portman

·       The host of the 2018 Women’s Hockey World Cup – London

·       The short film which won the Best Short Film Award at the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal – The School Bag

·       The train inaugurated by the PM of India recently to improve connectivity with Bangladesh – Bandhan Express

·       The world’s most visited city by international travellers in 2017 – Hong kong

·       Winner of the women’s singles title in the Senior National Badminton Champinship 2017 – SainaNehwal

·       The city which was recently included in the UNESCO Creative Cities list – Chennai

·       The insurer which has won the ‘General Insurance company of the Year” award – Apollo Munich

·       Winner of the men’s singles title in the Senior National Badminton Championship 2017 – HS Prannoy

·       The new word-limit for tweets on Twitter – 280-character

·       The one-horn rhino which is the official mascot of the 2017 AIBA Youth Women’s World Boxing Championship – Guppy

·       The first man to take two hat-tricks in the same first-class cricket match – Mitchell Stare

·       The amount is to be infused from the Union Budget in the proposed Rs. 2.11 – lakh – cr recapitalisation package for PSBs – Rs.18139 cr

·       The venue of the 23^rd annual “conference of the parties” (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – Bonn, Germany

·       The long-range sub-sonic cruise missile whose flight test was conducted recently – Nirbhay

·       The joint military exercise held between India and Bangladesh recently – Sampriti – 7

·       The new Finance Secretary in the present govt – HasmukhAdhia

·       The venue of the 2017 Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championships in which India won 20 medals – Brisbane, Australia

·       The winner of the UNESCO Asia Pacific Award of Merit 2017 – Sri Ranganathaswamy temple

·       The price of the new series of Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGBs) – Rs.2934 per gram

·       The firm which has established India’s largest Coke Dry Quenching (CDQ) facility in Odisha–Tata Steel

·       The state where the annual ‘Balihatra’ festival was held recently – Odisha

·       The bank which has launched India’s first voice-based international remittance service with Apple – ICICI Bank

·       The bank which has made online transactions through RTGS and NEFT free from Nov 1 – HDFC Bank

·       Winner of the 2017 Panasonic Open India gold tournament – Shiv Kapur

·       Winner of the Women’s Asia Cup 2017 hockey title – India

·       The Belgian king who visited New Delhi recently – King Philippe

·       The ambassador of the AIBA Women’s Youth World Champions – MC Mary Kom

·       The Lebanese Prime Minister who resigned recently – Saad-al-Hariri

·       The host for the ‘Nobel Prize Series - India 2018’ – Goa

·       The present President of Armenia who visited New Delhi recently – SerzhSargsyan

·       The venue of the International Energy Forum’s 7^th Asian Ministerial Energy Roundtable (AMER7) – Bangkok

·       The ‘word of the year’ chosen by Collins dictionary – fake news

·       The small finance bank which received RBI’s approval recently to operate as Scheduled Commercial Bank -  AU Small Finance Bank