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Mat ch Poi nt
l Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) was
instituted in NABARD
l TRIPS agreement is associated with Intellectual property
rights
l The investment envisaged in the annual plan in the Interim
Rail Budget for 2014-15 `64,305 cr
l The place in Andhra Pradesh chosen for one of two new
govt-controlled ports in the country Dugarajapatnam
l The first rail system in the world to be awarded the Gold
Standard foundation for energy efficiency Delhi Metro
l The youngest athlete (15 years old) to win Gold at Sochi
Winter Olympics Yulia Lipnitskaya
l The chairman of the Supreme Court-appointed committee
which submitted its report on betting and fixing in the sixth
edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Mukul Mudgal
l Indias indigenous intermediate jet trainer (IJ T) aircraft
whose development is in advanced stages of certification
Sitara
l The South Korean city which will host the 2018 Winter
Olympics Pyeongchang
l The first state in the country to achieve 100 per cent
sanitation in rural and urban households, schools, sanitary
complexes and Aanganwadi centres Sikkim
l The newly elected Prime Minister of Nepal Sushil
Koirala
l The country which was in news, recently, regarding its alleged
role in operation Blue Star UK
l The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth pegged by
CSO in its estimates for 2013-14 4.9 per cent
l The denomination in which the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
is gearing up to introduce about one billion plastic notes on
a trial basis `10
l The aggregate foreign investment (FDI, FII and NRI) limit
for public sector banks (PSBs) 20 per cent
l The new president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA)
N Ramachandran
l The telecom major whose proposal to increase its stake in
the Indian entity to 100% was cleared by the CCEA recently
Vodafone
l The model recalled recently by Indias largest passenger
carmaker Maruti Suzuki Maruti 800
l The state where the highest number of poor people (5.98
crore) live below the poverty line in 2011-12 as per the
Planning Commission Uttar Pradesh
l The increased fair and remunerative price (FRP) for
sugarcane approved by the govt for 2014-15 `220
l The cloud computing project launched by the Union govt
Meghraj
l The limit to which FDI is allowed in private sector banks in
India under the govt route 74 per cent
l The number of people living below poverty line in 2011-12
as per the estimates of Planning Commission 27 crore
l The cricket cup played between the winner of the Ranji
Trophy and a team representing Rest of India Irani Cup
l The new CEO of the software giant Microsoft Satya
Nadella
l The chairman of the 7th Central Pay Commission Ashok
Kumar Mathur
l The social networking site which completed 10 years in
operation on 4 Feb 2014 Facebook
l The president of Germany who visited India recently
Joachim Guack
l MGNREGA Divas 2 Feb
l The position of India among crude oil importers in 2013
Third
l The winner of Ranji Trophy 2013-14 Karnataka
l The new chief minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat
l The state govt which has decided to revoke foreign direct
investment (FDI) in multibrand retail recently Rajasthan
l The state which has been ranked on top in the RBIs report
titled State Finances A study of Budgets of 2013-14
based on different fiscal parameters Chhattisgarh
l The first woman to be inducted in the International Cricket
Councils (ICCs) umpires panel Kathy Cross
l Indias ranking in the 2014 Environmental PerformanceIndex
(EPI) 155th
l The team which remained on the top with 92 medals at the
end of the Lusofonia Games in Goa Goa (India)
l The city where countrys first monorail service commenced
its operations recently Mumbai
l The country with which India entered into a double taxation
avoidance agreement (DTAA) for the first time recently
Fiji
l The bank which raised `8,032 cr by selling shares through
QIP, making it the biggest ever equity sale via this route
recently State Bank of India (SBI)
l The country whose central bank approved domestic trading
in the Chinese yuan, J apanese yen, Australian dollar as well
as Indian rupee to be legal tender recently Zimbabwe
l The economic condition which causes a sustained increase
in general price level over a particular period of time and
reduces the purchasing power of money Inflation
l The top ULFA leader who has been sentenced to death by a
court in Bangladesh for being involved in the countrys
biggest weapons haul seized in 2004 Paresh Barua
l The state where worlds largest 4,000-MW ultra mega solar
power project will be set up Rajasthan
l The Sub-Inspector in the anti-naxal force Greyhounds of
Andhra Pradesh who was posthumously conferred the
Ashok Chakra K Prasad Babu
l The Social J ustice and Empowerment minister who resigned
from the Union Cabinet recently Kumari Selja
l The country from which India is considering buying 15
ShinMaywa US-2 amphibious patrol aircrafts Japan
l The winner of the womens singles title of the 2014 Australia
Open tennis tournament Li Na
l The winner of the mens singles title of the 2014 Syed Modi
International India Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament
Xue Song
l The financial institution which has announced recently to
instal 3000 ATMs and 1.35 lakh micro-ATMs by Sep 2015
India Post
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l The CMD of Union Bank of India who resigned recently in
the wake of a surge in bad loans at the bank Archana
Bhargava
l The state which became the first state in the country to
launch the NUHM Uttar Pradesh
l The social media giant who acquired mobile messaging
company WhatsApp Facebook
l The new chairman of prestigious Indian Institute of
Management Bangalore (IIMB) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
l The two states to be brought within the railway network
this fiscal Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh
l The amount of fund proposed for the National Skill
Development Corporation (NSDC) in the Interim Union
Budget for 2014-15 `1000 cr
l The country which ordered the immediate recall of its
Ambassador in India, Daniele Mancini Italy
l Bahrains crown king who visited India recently on a three-
day official visit Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
l The shot putter who gave the lone gold to India in the 6th
Asian Indoor Athletics Championships event held at
Hangzhou (China) recently Om Prakash Singh Karhana
l The cellular operator which has acquired Mumbai based
Loop Mobile for about `700 cr recently Bharti Airtel
l The first country in the world to allow euthanasia for
terminally ill children recently Belgium
l Indias first dedicated military satellite GSAT-7
l The Prime Minister of Italy who resigned recently Enrico
Letta
l The country which ranked at the bottom in the Global Gender
Gap Report 2013 Yemen
l The total amount of bids received by the govt after auction
of the spectrum recently `61,000 cr
l The chairman of the six-member committee set up by the
Govt to suggest remedial measures to address concerns of
people from the Northeast MP Bezbaruah
l The author of the controversial book titled The Hindus: An
Alternative History, which Penguin announced to withdraw
recently Wendy Doniger
l Indias ranking in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index
140th
l World Radio Day 13 Feb
l The team which won the Irani Trophy 2013-14
Karnataka
l The community notified by the govt as national minority
recently Jain
l The team which won the Federation Cup football tournament
recently Churchill Brothers
l The winner of the mens single title of the 2014 Australia
Open Stanislas Wawrinka
l The country where Laimdota Straujuma became the first
woman Prime Minister Latvia
l The India-born engineer-scientist who has been awarded
the 2014 Marconi Prize AJ Paulraj
l The new chief of the Hyderabad-based National Police
Academy Aruna Bahuguna
l The Managing Director of Tata Motors who died in Bangkok
recently Karl Slym
l The National Girl Child Day 24 Jan
l The Indian-origin academician who has been appointed dean
of the prestigious Harvard College recently Rakesh
Khurana
l The RBI has decided to withdraw from circulation all
currency notes issued prior to 2005
l The new Chairman of the National Dairy Development
Board (NDDB) T Nanda Kumar
l The National Voters Day 25 Jan
l The state whose tourism department has been awarded
Ulysses Award by UNWTO Kerala
l The country which has introduced new restrictions on online
shopping as part of efforts to stop foreign currency reserves
from falling further Argentina
l The city where annual meeting of World Economic Forum
(WEF) was held recently Davos
l The biodiversity hotspots in India named destination
flyways by UNWTO recently Chilika lagoon
l The state which has been given Krishi Karman award for
overall foodgrain production (more than 10 million tonnes
category) for 2012-13 Madhya Pradesh
l The National Womens Day is celebrated in India on 13 Feb
every year in the memory of Sarojini Naidu
l The city where G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and central
bank governors was held Sydney
l The growth rate of India economy in 2014-15 (at factor
cost) projected by IMF 5.4 per cent
l Indias surface-to-air missile successfully test-fired recently
Akash