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A new purple mineral with a unique makeup discovered from a remote part of Australia
recently Putnisite
Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Tuki
Chief Minister of Bihar Jitan Ram Manjhi
Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik
Chief Minister of Sikkim Pawan Chamling
Earth Day 22 April
Indias first indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range missile Astra
Indias own payment gateway launched recently Ru Pay
Indias ranking in the State of Worlds Mothers Index 2014 137th
Insurance Day is celebrated in India on April 19
International Jazz Day 30 April
International Nurses Day (IND) 12 May
Number of Parliamentary and Assembly seats respectively in the new state of Telangana 17
and 119
The 2014 World Car of the Year Audi A3
The annual exercise conducted between the US and the Philippines Balikatan
The automaker in the US which will pay a record $35 mn fine over faulty ignition switches
General Motors
The best paid player in the world playing with Barcelona team Lionel Messi
The candidate who won the election with a margin of 5.7 lakh votes recently Narendra
Modi, Vadodara
The car model which has became only the second in India to cross 25 lakh unit sales mark inn
domestic market Alto
The chairman of the RBI panel on credit information which submitted its report recently
Aditya Puri
The chairman of the RBI panel which released Draft Report on Pricing of Credit recently
Anand Sinha
The chairman of the RBIs committee constituted to review the governance of boards of
banks in India P J Nayak
The chairman of the SIT appointed by the SC to probe black money MB Shah
The city declared the most polluted city in the 2014 version of the Ambient Air Pollution
(AAP) by the WHO Delhi
The city where the fourth meet of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building
Measures in Asia (CICA) was held recently Shanghai
The company which topped the Forbes list of the worlds 2000 largest and most powerful
public companies Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
The country from which Indias first aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, was sourced in 1957 UK

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The country that successfully test-fired a short-range ballistic missile Hatf-III (Ghaznavi)
recently Pakistan
The country to which the former Chief of the Air Staff NAK Browne has been appointed
Indias Ambassador UK
The country where a recent massive landslide claimed hundreds of lives Afghanistan
The country where at least 300 people were killed in a coal mine explosion and fire recently
Turkey
The country where Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 school girls recently
Nigeria
The country where citizens rejected adopting worlds highest minimum wage (25 dollars an
hour) in a referendum recently Switzerland
The country where paleontologists have discovered fossils of the largest dinosaur ever to
roam the earth Argentina
The country where the military has imposed martial law amid a political crisis Thailand
The country where the worlds biggest bio-bank imaging study is being conducted UK
The country where the worlds highest tunnel for high-speed trains became operational at an
altitude of 3,607.4 metres recently China
The country which announced to abolish its controversial sponsorship system for foreign
workers Qatar
The country which has become Africas biggest economy Nigeria
The country which has set up a Special Police Force to handle religious disputes Sri Lanka
The country which signed a 10 year pact with the US to allow a bigger US military presence
in its territory Philippines
The country with which Russia signed a major gas deal recently China
The Earth-sized planet discovered by the US space agency NASA which may sustain life
Kepler-186f
The economies of the world declared worlds most expensive economies in a recent ranking
by the World Bank Switzerland and Norway
The embattled premier of Thailand dismissed from the office by a court recently Yingluck
Shinawatra
The film which won the Best Picture Award at the IIFA Award 2014 Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
The firm which leads the list of 54 Indian firms in the recently released Forbes Global 2000
list Reliance Industries
The first woman to command a UN peacekeeping force Kristin Lund
The flying test bed (FTB) aircraft developed by HAL and handed over to DRDO recently
Nabhratna
The game Shiv Chowrasia is associated with Golf
The group with which India is negotiating the Broad-based Trade and Investment Agreement
(BTIA) EU
The headquarters of the IMF Washington
The Indian satellite that retired after remaining 10 years in orbit INSAT-3E
The institution which is co-terminus with the Union Govt. Planning Commission
The International Commonwealth Championships 2014 was held recently in Perth
The internet browser whose vulnerability is referred by Operation Clandestine Fox
Internet Explorer (IE)

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The island which became the first island in the world fully energy self-sufficient through
combined water and wind power El Hierro
The issue of fresh securities by an unlisted company for the first time Initial Public
Offering
The largest milk-producing state in India as of now Uttar Pradesh
The militant group on which the Union Home Ministry extended the ban for five year
LTTE
The new airline granted the flying licence by aviation regulator DGCA recently Air Asia
India
The new CEO of Ford Motors Mark Fields
The new Deputy Chief of the Air Staff SBP Sinha
The new name of the ING Vysya Life Insurance Company Limited Exide Life Insurance
The new President and CEO of Nokia Rajeev Suri
The new President of Panama Juan Carlos Varela
The newly elected President of Rajasthan Cricket Association Lalit Modi
The newly elected President of South Africa Jacob Zuma
The next Army Chief appointed recently Dalbir Singh Suhag
The outstanding Asian Mens Player of the Year 2013 adjudged by the Asian Squash
Federation Saurav Ghosal
The person who replaced Anand Sinha as the new RBI deputy governor R Gandhi
The persons who have topped the recent list of UK billionaires Srichand and Gopichand
Hinduja
The present secretary General of the ASEAN group Le Luong Minh
The Prime Minister of South Korea who tendered his resignation over ferry accident Chung
Hong-won
The professional Footballers Association player of the year for 2013-14 Luis Suarez
The project associated with submarine programme of the Indian Navy Project- 75 India
The province of Aghanistan where a devastating landslide buried a village recently
Badakhshan
The RBI has announced to launch much-awaited plastic currency notes of Rs.10 from 2015
The scientists who first theorized the technique to turn light into matter in 1934 Gregory
Breit and John Wheeler
The space agency from which AFGHANSAT 1 Eutelsat, EU
The state where a major field exercise by the Army, codenamed Sarvada Vijay was
conducted recently Rajasthan
The state where the High Court cancelled the appointment of 10,323 teachers recently
Tripura
The state where the SC banned jallikattu (bull fighting) and bullock cart racing, recently
Tamil Nadu
The state which topped in creation of new jobs during the six years between 2004 and 2011 as
per the latest NSSO data West Bengal
The state which was adjudged to have the best land acquisition model in the report prepared
by consultancy firm Accenture on behalf of DIPP Gujarat
The state whose co-operative bank became the first cooperative bank of the country to launch
its own Ru Pay ATM-cum-debit card recently Himachal Pradesh

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The Steel Man of India and former chief of Tisco (now Tata Steel) who passed away recently
Russi Mody
The stock exchange which ceased to exist from May 30 Madras Stock Exchange
The surface-to-air missile successfully test-fired by India recently Akash
The team which clinched the 20th Senior National Womens Football Championships
Manipur
The three time Formula One champion who passed away recently Sir Jack Brabham
The top export destination for Indias mangoes UAE
The two states which together account for about half of the total mango production in India
Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh
The winner of the 2014 Indonesian Masters gold tournament Anirban Lahiri
The winner of the inaugural I-League football championships Bengaluru FC
The winner of the prestigious Goldman Environment Prize called the Green Nobel for 2014
Ramesh Agrawal
The winner of the Spanish Grand Prix 2014 Lewis Hamilton
The winner of the womens singles title at the Rome Masters tennis tournament Serena
Williams
The winners of the WTA Portugal Open 2014 womens doubles title Sania Mirza and
Cara Black
The worlds biggest military spender US
The worlds third-largest economy by PPP as per a World Bank report India
Thomas cup is associated with Mens Badminton
Uber cup is associated with Womens Badminton
Winner of the World Womens Senior Snooker Championship 2014 Chitra Magimairaj
World Intellectual Property Day 26 April
World Press Freedom Day 3 May
Worlds largest steel producer China

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