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K KUNDAN AUGUST 2014

Mat ch Poi nt
l The state with which Hindustan Zinc has inked a pact to
build 30,000 rural toilets for BPL families Rajasthan
l The new GDP growth forecast for India by the World Bank
for 201415 5.5 per cent
l The country which External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
visited in her first stand-alone visit Bangladesh
l The amount of India money in Swiss banks as per the latest
data released by Swiss National Bank (SNB) `14,000 cr
l The winner of the prestigious 49th J nanpith award for 2013
Kedarnath Singh
l The Indian pair which won the women's doubles title at the
tri-nation squash doubles tournament in Kuala Lumpur
Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa
l The mosquito-borne disease against which the govt
announced 100 per cent immunisation of children in affected
states Encephalitis
l To bring focus on this area, the NDA govt has decided to
bring broad changes in MGNREGA scheme Agriculture
l The industrial group in India that has announced to invest
`1.8 lakh cr ($30 bn) across businesses over the next three
years to break into the Fortune 50 club RIL
l India's ranking in the latest annual ranking of the Global
Peace Index 143rd
l The defending champion of the FIFA World Cup which
made a shock early exit from the 2014 World Cup Spain
l The Governor of Chhattisgarh who resigned recently
Shekhar Dutt
l The Governor of UP who resigned recently BL Joshi
l The vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management
Authority who resigned recently M Shashidhar Reddy
l The region which is projected to get hotter by 4C by 2080
as per a new research Indus basin
l The leading online retailer which has launched a new 3D
phone 'Fire' recently Amazon
l The winner of the FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship
title Magnus Carlsen
l The power plant that has become the single-largest-power
generating unit in the country Kudankulam
l The percentage of public shareholding made mandatory by
the Sebi for all listed PSUs within three years 25 per cent
l The new King of Spain Felipe VI
l The plant scientist who won the USD 250,000 World Food
Prize Sanjaya Rajaram
l The state which has passed a law to ban dance bars across
the state recently Maharashtra
l The state where NTPC's Lata Tapovan power project is to
come up Uttarakhand
l The new elected President of Colombia Juan Manuel
Santos
l The country that held the top position in the medal tally in
the Asian J unior Athletics Championships China
l The country against whom GMR Infrastructure has won
the arbitration proceedings recently Maldives
l The chairman of the Tax Administrative Reforms
Commission which submitted its recommendation recently
Parthasarathi Shome
l The Indian software exporter which has become the worlds
third-largest employer of people in the IT sector TCS
l The tool through which banks park excess liquidity with
the Reserve Bank of India Reverse term repo
l The new managing director and CEO of YES Bank Rana
Kapoor
l Theinfrastructure finance company which has bagged licence
from the RBI and plans to start bank operations by Oct
2015 IDFC
l The winner of the women's World Cup hockey title
Netherlands
l The deputy Prime Minister of Russia who visited India
recently Dmitry O Rogozin
l The winner of the men's World Cup hockey title Australia
l The river in which Andhra Pradesh's 24 engineering students
drowned in Mandi in Himachal Pradesh recently Beas
l The militant separatist group in news for its recent activities
in Iraq Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
l The country that lays thrust on Gross National Happiness
for measuring its economic development Bhutan
l The present Prime Minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay
l The endemic responsible for the deaths of about 3 mn
children under the age of five every year as revealed by the
UN agency FAO Malnutrition
l The Ugandan foreign minister who has been elected as the
president of the UN General Assembly Sam Kutesa
l The country with which India concluded the air exercise
Garuda-V recently France
l TheUgandan writer who has won the overall Commonwealth
Writers Short Story Prize for Let's Tell This Story Properly
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
l The richest cricketer in the world as per the recent list
published by Forbes Mahendra Singh Dhoni
l The present President of South Korea Park Geun-Hye
l India's largest aircraft carrier dedicated to the nation by the
PM recently INS Vikramaditya
l The winner of the men's doubles title of the French Open
tennis tournament Julien Benneteau and Edouard
Roger-Vasselin
l The country which handed over Hong Kong to China on 1
J ul 1997 UK
l The Gulf country which has introduced a new law requiring
compulsory military service for adult males United Arab
Emirates
l The Grand Slam with which the term Roland Garros is
associated French Open
l The newly appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of
Infosys Vishal Sikka
l The steel plant of SAIL where a gas leak killed six persons
and affected several others recently Bhilai
l The new revenue secretary Shaktikanta Das
l The winner of the women's doubles title of the French Open
tennis tournament Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai
l The theme of the World Environment Day 2014 Small
Islands and Climate Change
l The present president of South Sudan Salva Kiir
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l The person awarded the prestigious Bharat Ratna J RD Tata
award recently V Somasundaram
l The country where ELN is the second largest rebel group
Colombia
l The winner of the women's singles title of the French Open
tennis tournament Maria Sharapova
l The winner of the men's singles title of the French open
tennis tournament Rafael Nadal
l The international airport of Pakistan attacked by the
militants which left 40 people dead recently Karachi
l The foreign minister of China who visited India recently
Wang Yi
l The winner of the Canadian Grand Prix Formula One
championship Daniel Ricciardo
l The country with which the EU has signed the controversial
Horizon 2020 Project recently Israel
l The country where the sixth BRICS summit is scheduled to
be held in J ul Brazil
l The person who became the first Indian to be honoured
with Harvard Medal recently Anand Mahindra
l The person in whose name the UN General Assembly has
established a prize recently Nelson Mandela
l The J ordanian appointed as the new high commissioner for
human rights by the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon
recently Zeid al Hussein
l The period for which India has been elected to UNESCO
body for conserving cultural heritage 2014 to 2018
l The country which the Prime Minister Narendra Modi
visited on his first foreign visit recently Bhutan
l Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan
l The city where the XX Commonwealth Games will be held
from 23 J ul to 3 Aug 2014 Glasgow
l The person who won the recent presidential election held in
Syria Bashar al-Assad
l The first Chief Minister of the successor state of Andhra
Pradesh post-bifurcation Chandrababu Naidu
l World Environment Day 5 Jun
l Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) 22.5 per cent
l The country where the solar-powered plane Solar Impulse
2 has been successfully tested which is able to fly day and
night without fuel or polluting emissions Switzerland
l India's position in the textile export in the world Second
l The person who has been appointed on the Board of
Governors of Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently
Arun Jaitley
l The largest exporter of textiles in the world China
l The country which has announced to start a USD 5-bn anti-
terrorism partnership fund US
l The present president of the industry body FICCI
Sidharth Birla
l The first Chief Minister of the newly formed 29th state of
the country, Telangana K Chandrashekar Rao
l The new President of Malawi Peter Mutharika
l The number of Rajya Sabha members allotted to the newly
created state of Telangana 7
l The technology firm which unveiled a prototype driverless
car recently Google
l The winner of the seventh season of the Indian Premier
League (IPL) Kolkata Knight Riders
l The person who has been appointed as the National Security
Advisor (NSA) to the Prime Minister Ajit Doval
l The vice chairman of the Special Investigation Team (SIT)
set up to probe black money Arijit Pasayat
l World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) May 31
l The newly elected president of Egypt Abdel Fattah al
Sisi
l The rate at which the Indian economy expanded during the
period 201314 as per the official data released by the CSO
4.7 per cent
l The newly appointed Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar
l The media group which the RIL acquired for `4000 cr in the
biggest-ever deal in the Indian media sector Network 18
l The father figure of Malaysian hockey who died recently
Sultan Azlan Shah
l The global retailer whose purchase of 50 per cent stake in
Tata Group firm Trent Hypermarket has been cleared by
the CCI recently Tesco
l The newly appointed Attorney General (AG) Mukul
Rohatgi
l The newly appointed Chairman of the Cauvery Water
Disputes Tribunal Justice BS Chauhan
l The currency that has been the best performing currency in
AsiaPacific region against the US dollar so far in 2014
Indian Rupee
l The city awarded the rights to host the inaugural European
Games to be held in 2015 Baku, Azerbaijan
l The temporarily appointed US ambassador to India
Kathleen Stephens
l The new Chief Information Commissioner Rajiv Mathur
l The newly elected Chief Minister of Nagaland TR Zeliang