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- The upfront capital infusion into public sector banks announced recently by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman –  70,000 cr

- The constable from Maharashtra who won three medals at the recently concluded World Police and Fire Games International Championship held in Chengdu, China – Monali Jadhav

- The Country where lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament recently, paving the way for a parliamentary election after Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj’s resignation - Kosovo

- The country which displayed a domestically-built long-range, mobile surface-to-air missile system Bavar-373 recently - Iran

- The official name of Google’s mobile operating system Android Q – Android 10

- The actor who has topped the Forbes’ World’s Highest-Paid Actors of 2019 list with Akshay Kumar on fourth place – Dwayne Johnson

- The country with which India signed six MoUs during the recent visit of its President Edgar Chagwa Lungu - Zambia

- The new Cabinet Secretary – Rajiv Gauba

- The three nations which Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited recently – France, UAE and Bahrain

- The state which has rolled out “Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojana” to cover 76 per cent population of the state - Punjab

- The veteran music director-composer who passed away recently - Khayyam

- The three nations Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu visited recently – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

- The new Defence Secretary – Ajay Kumar

- The new Home Secretary – Ajay Kumar Bhalla

- The portal the Union Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is planning to launch - Bharatcraft

- The firm whose association was extended by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as title sponsor for Indian cricket team for all cricket matches - Paytm

- The country which is the largest emitter of sulphur dioxide (SO₂) in the world, according to recently released report by Greenpeace India - India

- The cities between which the Indian Railways’ 2^nd double-decker UDAY Express will run – Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada

- The programme launched by the Ministry of Human Resource Development to train over 42 lakh teachers - NISHTHA

- The veteran music director-composer who passed away recently - Khayyam

- The state where the Hollongi Airport is being constructed to be completed by Mar 31, 2022 – Arunachal Pradesh

- The chief executive officer of Vodafone Idea who resigned recently – Balesh Sharma

- The head of the panel tasked with overhauling the nearly six-decade-old Income-Tax Act – Akhilesh Ranjan

- Winner of the inaugural T20 Physical Disability World Cricket Series - India

- India’s exports in July 2019 which grew by 2.25 per cent - $ 26.33bn

- The person who has been retained as the head coach of the Indian men’s cricket team till the end of the World T20 in 2021 – Ravi Shastri

- The place where the nine-day Aadi Mahotsav (National Tribal Festival) was organized recently – Leh-Ladakh

- The chief executive officer of the Cathay Pacific Airways who resigned recently – Rupert Hogg

- The sole international airport of Bhutan where PM Narendra Modi landed recently – Paro Airport

- Winner of men’s singles title at the 2019 Rogers Cup – Rafael Nadal

- Winner of the women’s singles – Bianca Andreescu

- The country which surpassed China in Jun 2019 as the top holder of the US treasuries - Japan

- The state where the Indian Army launched “Mission Reach Out” recently – Jammu & Kashmir

- Winner of Best Film for National Integration award at the 66^th National Film Awards 2019 – Ondalla Eradalla (Kannada)

- Best Feature Film - Hellaro

- Best Educational Film – Sarlabh Virala

- Best Hindi Film - Andhadhun

- Best Actor – Ayushmann Khuranna and Vicky Kaushl

- Best Actress – Keerthy Suresh

- The new President of Guatemala – Alejandro Giammattei

- The company to which Reliance Industries has announced to sell 20 per cent stake in its oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business – Saudi Aramco

- India’s next Ambassador to the Republic of Congo – Ghotu Ram Meena

- The country whose MERVAL Index plunged 48 per cent recently - Argentina

- The retail inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Jul 2019 – 3.15 per cent

- The inflation based on Wholesale Price Index (CPI) – 1.08 per cent

- The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growth in Jun 2019 – 2 per cent

- The Nikkei India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index in Jul 2019 – 52.5

- The amount contributed by India to the United Nations Special Purpose Trust Fund recently - $1mn

- The present (Aug 2019) president of the UN Security Council - Poland

- The world’s most profitable company with a profit of $46.9bn in the first six months of 2019 – Saudi Aramco

- Winner of the women’s doubles title of the Hyderabad Open 2019 – Back Ha Na and Jung Kyung Eun

- Men’s singles – Sourabh Verma

- Women’s singles – Kim Ga-eun

- The first Indian woman to claim a world title in motorsports recently in Hungary – Aishwarya Pissay

- The pension scheme launched by the govt for farmers recently – Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan – Dhan Yojana

- The host city for the 3^rd International Electric Vehicle (EV) Conclave concluded recently - Gurugram

- The date on which two new Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh – will come into existence – 31 Oct

- The company which unveiled a new operating system “HarmonyOS” recently - Huawei

- The venue of the two-day-long 22^nd National Conference on E-Governance - Shillong

- The world’s largest scrap importer - Turkey

- The state which has topped the list on Breastfeeding and Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in the country - Manipur

- The typhoon which hit China recently - Lekima

- The South African cricketer who retired from all forms of international cricket recently – Hashim Amla

- The head of the RBI’s Task Force on Offshore Rupee Markets which submitted its recommendation recently – Usha Thorat

- The person who stepped down as the chief executive officer of HSBC group recently – John Flint

- The country which will host the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s military exercise called

‘Tsentr (Centre) 2019’ - Russia

- The new repo rate after the third bimonthly monetary policy review of the RBI – 5.40 per cent

- The new reverse repo rate – 5.15 per cent

- The gross domestic product (GDP) growth for 2019-20 – 6.9 per cent

- The country which was designated by the United States as a “currency manipulator” recently - China

- India’s ranking on Aqueduct’s list of “extremely highly” water-stressed countries – 13th

- The new Controller General of Accounts (CGA) – Giriraj Prasad Gupta

- Winner of the men’s singles title at the 2019 Thailand Open badminton tournament – Chou Tien-chen

- The Article of the Indian constitution providing special status to Jammu and Kashmir whose primary features were revoked recently – Article 370

- The former and the first full-fledged woman foreign minister of India who passed away recently – Sushma Swaraj

- The city where ISRO has laid the foundation stone for Space Situational Awareness Control Centre - Bengaluru

- The first Indian badminton duo to win BWF Super 500 title in Bangkok – S Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty

- The foreign bank whom the RBI recently allowed to offer regular banking services in India – Bank of China

- The country which conferred President Ram Nath Kovind the “National Order of Merit” during his recent official visit to the country - Guinea

- The first Indian bank to link up with China’s National Advance Payment System (CNAPS) - SBI

- The state where “Aadi Perukku” festival was celebrated recently – Tamil Nadu

- The public sector bank on which the RBI has imposed a penalty of  50 lakh for delay in reporting of fraud in the account of Kingfisher Airlines – Punjab National Bank

- The Indian journalist who has won the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award – Ravish Kumar

- The position of the Indian economy according to data compiled by the World Bank - Seventh

- The host city of the 52^nd ASEAN summit held recently - Bangkok

- The total gross revenue collected under Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Jul 2019 - 1,02,083 cr

- The new secretary in the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) – Anshu Prakash

- The former RBI deputy governor who passed away recently – Dr Subir Vithal Gokarn

- The new Chief Minister of Karnataka – BS Yediyurappa

- The new Finance Secretary in the present Govt – Rajiv Kumar

- The present Prime Minister of the UK – Boris Johnson

- The state from which India’s seventh Economic Census began recently - Tripura