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 The EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 – Sanjiv Bajaj
 The ‘Startup of the Year’ 2017 – Milkbasket
 The state for which Nabard has launched plans worth
`1,918 cr for supplementing farmers’ income – Punjab
 The joint military exercise netweem the armies of India
and Indonesia held recently – Garuda Shakti
 The railway station in Jaipur which has become the
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country’s first major railway station to be fully-managed
by women – Gandhi Nagar
 The state which has made vaccination compulsory for
school admissions from next academic year onwards –
Kerala
 India’s ranking on the basis of newborn mortality rate
among low-middle income countries – 12th
 The committee constituted by the govt to study
Brahmaputra and flood control measures in Assam –
Rajiv Kumar committee
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 The state which has announced the launch of ‘Mission
Buniyaad’ for improving learning skills of children
studying in state and municipal-run schools – Delhi
 The new scheme announced by Maharashtra to
distribute sanitary napkin among girls in Zilla Parishad
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schools – Asmita Yojana
 The new political party launched by actor Kamal Haasan
recently – Makkal Needhi Maiam
 India’s ranking on the Corruption Perception Index for
2017 – 81st
 The interest rate announced for 2017-18 by the
Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation, (EPFO) – 8.55
per cent
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 The first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft (MiG-21
bison) solo – Avani Chaturvedi
 The country where President Nicolas Maduro has called
for snap legislative elections coinciding with a
Presidential poll set for Apr 22 – Venezuela
 The Norwegian who has become the most successful
athlete in Winter Olympics history as she took bronze in
Pyeongchang – Marit Bjoergen
 A head of the panel set up by the UGC to shortlist India’s
best higher educational institutions which will then be
primed to have a shot at international glory – N
Gopalaswami
 The state where the first of its kind regional centre for
agriculture for the Northeast with Israeli collaboration
will be inaugurated on Mar 7 – Mizoram
 The amount of money with which the creation of National
Urban Housing Fund (NUHF) has been approved by the
govt – `60,000 cr
 The state where the construction of 4.531 km long
Silkyara Bend - Barkot Tunnel has been approved by the
govt – Uttarakhand
 The country with which agreement to develop long-term
cooperation and partnership in different areas of railway
sector has been approved by the govt – Morocco
 The host of the World Environment Day, 2018 (Jun 5)
with the theme ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’ – India
 The `6,000-cr scheme to tackle the country’s depleting
groundwater level – Atal Bhujal Yojana
 The venue of the 6th India region conference of the
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) – Patna
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 The country where India has got access to the strategic
port Duqm for military use – Oman
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 The state which has the largest forest cover (77,414 sq
km) in the country as per the India State of Forest Report
(ISFR) 2017 – Madhya Pradesh
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 The volcano in Indonesia which erupted recently – Mount
Sinabung
 The city where the SBI launched its Global NRI Centre
(GNC) recently – Kochi
 Winner of the men’s singles title of the Chennai Open
ATP Challenger – Jordan Thompson
 The bank which recently suffered a cyber hack via
SWIFT system – City Union Bank
 The chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the
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Prime Minister (EAC-PM) – Bibek Debroy
 The venue of the World Government Summit 2018 –
Dubai
 The venue of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
(SCO) Summit 2018 – Qingdao, China
 The country which has announced to pull out of the
UN’s comprehensive refugee response framework –
Tanzania
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 The bank which has listed $600-mn bonds on Global
Securities Market (GSM) of India INX – Yes Bank
 The state to which the Supreme Court recently awarded
an additional 14.75 thousand million cubic (TMC) feet of
Cauvery water – Karnataka
 The present MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank (PNB)
– Sunil Mehta
 The Afghani cricketer who scripted history recently
becoming the youngest ever player to take a five-wicket
haul in ODIs – Mujeeb Zadran
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 The tri-service maritime exercise off India’s western coast
held recently – Paschim Lehar
 The Prime Minister of Canada who visited New Delhi on
a seven-day State visit recently – Justin Trudeau
 The ‘Assistance to States and UTs for Narcotics Control’
scheme has been extended to – 2019-20
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 The wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation in Jan
2018 – 2.84 per cent
 The year which the govt is considering to make the base
year for Consumer Price Index (CPI) – 2018
 The Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation
in the present Union Cabinet – DV Sadananda Gowda
 The new Prime Minister of Nepal – KP Sharma Oli
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 The person reappointed as the chairman of Bank of Japan
recently – Haruhiko Kuroda
 The new President of South Africa – Cyril Ramaphosa
 The venue of the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Gold
Coast
 The embattled President of South Africa who resigned
recently – Jacob Zuma
 The bank in which a fraud of over `113 bn was reported
recently – PNB
 The team against which the Indian cricket team won the
first-ever series on that country’s soil – South Africa
 The year which the govt is considering as the base year
for the calculation of GDP and IIP numbers – 2017-18
 The host country of the eighth Theatre Olympics – India
 The country which recently signed the National Peace
Agreement with two ethnic armed groups in the presence
of international representatives – Myanmar
 The person elected as the new president of the Sahitya
Akademi – Chandrashekar Kambar
 The first state to opt out of the National Health
Protection Scheme unveiled in the Union Budget for 2018-
19 – West Bengal
 The country with which India recently signed six MoUs
worth USD 40 mn – Palestine
 The city where the world’s tallest hotel, Gevora, opened
recently – Dubai
 The retail inflation, measured by Consumer Price Index
(CPI), in Jan 2018 – 5.07 per cent
 The venue of the 12th International Conference on
corporate social responsibility – Bengaluru
 The Iranian President who visited India recently – Hassan
Rouhani
 The headquarters of the Financial Action Task Force
(FATF) which sets standards for banks globally – Paris
 The city which has topped the New World Wealth’s list
of top 15 wealthiest cities globally – New York
 The country with which India has inked five agreements
after PM Narendra Modi and Crown Prince Sheikh
Mohammad bin Zayed al Nahyan held bilateral talks –
UAE
 The state govt which has announced a farm loan waiver
up to `50,000 for small and marginal farmers – Rajasthan
 The country from which the Bank of Baroda has
announced its exit – South Africa

 The Pakistani activist who passed away recently – Asma
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 The bank which posted a quarterly loss for the first time
in nearly 19 years of `24.16 bn in the Dec quarter of 2017-
18 – SBI
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 The liquidity management tool which the RBI will get
soon – Standing Deposit Facility
 The only Indian city named among the top 15 wealthiest
cities globally – Mumbai
 The city where PM Narendra Modi officially launched a
project for the construction of the first Hindu temple –
Abu Dhabi
 The govt’s direct tax collection during the Apr-Jan period
of FY 2017-18 – `6.95 lakh cr ad
 The country with which India will hold the ‘2+2
Ministerial’ meeting in Apr 2018 – US
 The state which has topped the list of larger states in
‘performance in health outcome index’ – Kerala
– The state which has topped the list of smaller states in
the index – Mizoram
 The country which conferred the ‘Grand Collar of the
State’ on PM Narendra Modi recently – Palestine
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 The top source (tourists) market for Dubai in 2017 –
India
 The person appointed by the National Payments
Corporation of India as non-executive chairman –
Biswamohan Mahapatra
 The eminent litterateur who passed away recently –
Chandrasekhar Rath
 The state which topped the medal, table in the first Khelo
India School Games concluded recently in New Delhi –
Haryana
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 The first independent female director appointed to the
International Cricket Council (ICC) Board – Indra Nooyi
 The private sector bank which has launched MOGO, a
musical logo, as its new sonic identity – IndusInd Bank
 India’s ranking on the recent International Intellectual
Property (IP) Index – 44th
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 The venues of the 23rd Olympic Winter Games which
officially kicked off recently – Pyeongchang, South Korea
 The new Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court –
Justice Abhilasha Kumari
 The first country to legalise and then repeal same-sex
marriage – Bermuda
 The world’s busiest airport for international travel with
88.2 mn passengers in 2017 – Dubai International Airport
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 The first-ever-of-its-kind chat-based job search mobile
app launched recently – Empzilla
 The former PM of Bangladesh who was sentenced to
five years in jail in a corruption case recently – Khaleda
Zia
 The state where CM Pema Khandu laid the foundation
stone of a Rhododendron Park in Tawang district recently
– Arunachal Pradesh
 The venue of the fifth South Asia Region Public
Procurement Conference – New Delhi
 The firm on which the Competition Commission of India
(CCI) has imposed a fine of around `136 cr for unfair
business practices – Google
 The first female cricketer to take 200 ODI wickets –
Jhulan Goswami
 The Kathakali maestro who passed away recently –
Madavoor Vasudevan Nair
 The economic growth for 2017-18 as estimated by the
RBI in its sixth bi-monthly monetary policy of FY18 –
7.4%
 The city where the 32nd Al Jana-driyah festival was held
recently – Riyadh
 The state where the Supreme Court has quashed the
second renewal of iron-ore mining leases given to 88
companies in 2015 – Goa
 The state where the first-of-its-kind Pelican Festival was
held at the Atapaka Bird Sanctuary – Andhra Pradesh
 The state which in collaboration with UNICEF has
launched Dastak Campaign against Japanese
Encephalitis – Uttar Pradesh
 The country which has committed record $370m aid to
the UN World Food Programme – Sweden
 The new chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central
bank of the US – Jerome Powell
 The top-ranked Indian golfer with a rank of 72 in the
recent world rankings – Shubhankar Sharma
 The country where President Abdullah Yameen declared
state of emergency recently – Maldives
 The state which has approved Ghodazari in Chandrapur
district as a new wildlife sanctuary – Maharashtra
 The present CEO of Niti Aayog who has been given an
extension till Jun 30, 2019 – Amitabh Kant
 The country which celebrated its 71st Independence Day
on 4 Feb – Sri Lanka
 The new Chief Justice of Bangladesh – Syed Mahmud
Hossain
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 The President of Cyprus who won re-election to a
second five-year term recently – Nicos Anastasiades
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 Winner of the women’s singles title of the India Open
Badminton tournament – Beiwen Zhang
 Winner of the 2018 U-19 World Cup cricket trophy –
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 The person who has become the highest-ranked Indian
squash player – Saurav Ghosal
 The person conferred with V Shantaram Lifetime
achievement award at the 15th Mumbai International Film
Festival – Shyam Benegal
 Winner of the Times Power Woman 2017 award –
Shabnam Asthana
 The new board chairman of Alphabet, the parentad
company of Google – John Hennessy
 India’s first sentiment index for micro and small
enterprises (MSEs) launched recently by CRISIL and
SIDBI – CriSidEx
 The wealthiest country in the world in 2017, according
to a report by New World Wealth – US
– India’s ranking as the wealthiest country – Sixth
 The bank which recently launched the fourth edition of
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‘Evolve’, an annual multi-city knowledge series – Axis
Bank
 The third Scorpene-class submarine launched recently
– INS Karanj
 The High Performance Computer (HPC) system
commissioned recently at the National Centre for Medium
Range Weather Forecasting at Noida – Mihir
 The amount the govt has announced to infuse in public
sector banks – `88,139 cr
 The fifth winner of the ‘Yash Chopra Memorial Award’ –
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 The state where the international bird festival was held
at the Dudhwa National Park recently – Uttar Pradesh
 World’s cheapest country to live or retire, according to a
recent survey by GoBankingRates – South Africa
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 The Hindi word of 2017 chosen by the Oxford
Dictionaries – Aadhaar
 Winner of the 2018 Blind Cricket World Cup – India
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 The country with which India held a six-day-long military
exercise in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh recently –
Vietnam
 The gross domestic product growth for 2018-19 as
forecast in the Economic Survey 2017-18 – 7-7.5 per
cent
 The present CM of Himachal Pradesh who launched the
‘Shakti’ app for women’s safety recently – Jai Ram
Thakur
 Winner of the Indonesia Masters badminton tournament
held in Jakarta recently – Tai Tzu Ying
 Winner of the men’s singles title of the 2018 Australian
Open – Roger Federer
– Winner of the women’s singles title – Caroline
Wozniacki
 The founder of the furniture firm Ikea who passed away
recently – Ingvar Kamprad
 The country which recently allowed India to build military
infrastructure on one of its islands – Seychelles
 The headquarters of the new Global Centre for
Cybersecurity launched by the World Economic Forum
(WEF) – Geneva
 The person elected as the deputy chairman of the Indian
Banks’ Association (IBA) – Rajnish Kumar
 The person posthumously awarded India’s highest
peacetime gallantry award, Ashok Chakra, this year –
Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala
 The person elected as the first woman chairman of the
Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) – Usha
Ananthasubramanian
 The former Russian ambassador to India who was
posthumously awarded Padma Bhushan this year –
Alexander Kadakin
 Winner of the best film award at the 63rd Jio Filmfare
Awards 2018 – Hindi Medium
 The new director general of National Security Guard –
Sudeep Lakhtakia
 The first Indian company to cross the `6-lakh-cr mark in
market capitalisation – RIL
 The grouping of which India has become the 43rd member
– Australia Group