BSC MATCH POINT --- SEPTEMBER 2019

MATCH POINT

- The Indian athlete who won five gold medals in Europe over the month of Jul – Hima Das

- India’s ranking on 2019 Global Innovation Index (GII) – 52^nd

- The growth rate of Indian economy in 2019 as estimated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – 7 per cent

- The British swimmer who broke his own men’s 100-metre breaststroke world record recently – Adam Peaty

- The state where Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated Ujh and Basantar bridges recently – Jammu & Kashmir

- The former Japanese diplomat and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief who passed away recently – Yukiya Amano

- The state which has signed a pact with the WEF’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network to send medical supplies via drones - Telangana

- The firm which has developed indigenous lightweight bullet-proof jacket ‘Bhabha Kavach’ – Ordnance Factory Board

- The cost of India’s Chandrayaan – 2 mission which was launched on 22 Jul –  978 crore

- Inflation outlook for India for the current financial year (2019-20) as per the Asian Development Bank – 4.1 per cent

- Winner of the women’s singles title of the Indonesia Open 2019 – Akane Yamaguchi

- Winner of the 2019 Intercontinental Cup football tournament held in Ahmedabad – North Korea

- The city where UNESCO’s global hub for digital pedagogies, Intelligent Global Hub for Digital Pedagogies (IGHDP), will come up - Visakhapatnam

- The host city of International Police Expo 2019 – New Delhi

- The venue of the 11^th edition of the biennial DefExpo - Lucknow

- The state where India and China will hold military exercise ‘Hand-in-Hand’ - Meghalaya

- Winner of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament held in Egypt - Algeria

- The payments banks which has announced to voluntarily wind up its operation – Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank

- The chairman of the inter-ministerial committee set up by the govt on virtual currencies which has proposed banning of private cryptocurrencies in India – Subhash Chandra Garg

- Indian bodybuilder who won Mr South Asia 2019 title recently – Ravinder Malik

- The virtual museum software developed by the Centre for Development for Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune - JATAN

- The capital city of Venezuela where the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial Meeting was held recently - Caracas

- The vocalist who has been chosen for the Sangita Kalanidhi award of the Music Academy – S Sowmya

- The fifth Dornier aircraft squadron which was commissioned into the Indian Navy at Chennai recently – INAS 313

- The person whose name was cleared by the govt recently for appointment as the next vice-chief of the Army staff – Manoj Mukund Naravane

- Winners of the Mohun Bagan Ratna 2019 – Keshav Dutt and Prasun Banerjee

- The country with which India will sign the “Agreement on Reciprocal Logistics Support (ARLS)” soon - Russia

- The state where two new districts – Tenkasi and Chengalpet – were created recently, taking the total number of districts in the state to 35 – Tamil Nadu

- The cricket board which was suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) recently – Zimbabwe Cricket

- The Indian cricketer who was inducted into ICC Hall of Fame alongside South African Allan Donald recently – Sachin Tendulkar

- The date on which the first nationalization of 14 major Scheduled commercial banks with deposits of over 50 cr took place – 19 Jul, 1969

- The state which has emerged as the top performing State in extending credit to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as per the recently released MSME Pulse ranking - Gujarat

- The country where the recent Ebola crisis has been declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) a public health emergency of international concern – DR Congo

- India’s GDP growth forecast for the current year (2019) according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) – 7 per cent

- The retired Supreme Court judge who has been appointed as an international judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) – Justice AK Sikri

- The estimated cost at which the third phase of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana involves consolidation of 1.25 lakh km of rural roads -  80,250 cr

- New Governor of Gujarat – Acharya Devvrat

- Andhra Pradesh – Biswa Bushan Harichandan

- Himachal Pradesh – Kalraj Mishra

- Chhattisgarh – Anusuiya Uikey

- The head of the high-level panel set up to decide the appropriate capital reserves that the RBI should maintain – Bimal Jalan

- The firm which has received award from Nabard for outstanding performance in terms of self-help group (SHG) linkage in Tamil Nadu for 2018-19 – Repco Micro Finance

- The bank of which the RBI levied a penalty of  7 cr recently for lapses related to bad-loans classification among other issues - SBI

- The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) – based inflation in Jun 2019 – 2.02%

- Consumer Price Index (CPI) – based inflation – 3.18%

- Contraction of Indian exports in Jun – 9.71 per cent

- Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) in Jun – 52.1 per cent

- Factory output growth based on Index of Industrial Production (IIP) in May – 3.1 per cent

- Growth of the eight core sector industries in May – 5.1 per cent

- Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection in Jun -  99,939 cr

- China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the second quarter of 2019 – 6.2 per cent

- The state which has the highest number of married people in India, according to the 2017 sample registration survey (SRS) – Andhra Pradesh

- The state which has topped in terms of the highest number of new employees who joined the workforce as part of the Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY) between Aug 2016 and Mar 2019 - Maharashtra

- Winner of the ICC World Cup 2019 - England

- Winner of the men’s singles title of the 2019 Wimbledon – Novak Djokovic

- Winner of women’s singles – Simona Halep

- The city where India is setting up of a Centre for Geo-Informatics Applications in Rural Development (CGARD) – Niamey, Niger

- The country which marked its national day on 14 Jul, also known as Bastille Day - France

- The former army chief and the president of Bangladesh who passed away recently – Hussain Muhammad Ershad

- Winner of the 2019 British GP Formula One championship – Lewis Hamilton

- The first state in India to ensure the conservation of water and have own water policy - Meghalaya

- The country which revised its constitution recently to make Kim Jong Un head of state – North Korea

- India’s poorest district according to the 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) – Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

-  The new Secretary for Overseas Indian Affairs – Vikas Swarup

- The host city of the first Global Conference for Media Freedom held recently - London

- The host city for the 19^th Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers’ Meeting held recently - London

- Winner of the 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup football trophy - Mexico

- The firm which completed the $34bn acquisition of software company Red Hat Inc recently - IBM

- The managing director of SBI who has been appointed as managing director and chief financial officer of the World Bank – Anshula Kant

- The amount to be provided by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in loans to L & T for lending to wind and solar power projects – USD 100mn

- The firm on which the US regulators have approved a $5bn penalty to settle a probe into privacy and data protection lapses - Facebook

- The former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh who was booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) recently for alleged corruption – Nabam Tuki

- The number of people lifted out of poverty by India during 2006-16, according to the 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) – 271mn

- The city which hosted India’s first LGBTI job fair – Reimagining Inclusion for Social Equity (RISE) – recently - Bengaluru

- The city where the African Union (AU) Summit concluded recently with the historical Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) – Niamey, Niger

- The persons honoured with the global excellence award at the annual leadership summit of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum in Washington recently – Azim Premji and Ajay Banga

- Winner of the “Men’s footballer of the year” award at the All India Football Federation (AIFF) awards for the 2018-19 season – Sunil Chhetri

- Women’s footballer of the year – Ashalata Devi

- The new Director General of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) – Arun Kumar

- The fourth batsman and the second Indian to score over 600 runs in a single edition of the World Cup – Rohit Sharma

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