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 The state where the 10-day-festival ‘Sangai Festival 2016’  The short name of Geneva-based European Organization
was held recently – Manipur for Nuclear Research whose India has become an
 The person awarded the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for associate member – CERN
his book Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India –  The Thai Princess who was conferred the first “World
Akshaya Mukul Sanskrit Award” for her contribution towards promotion
 The range of the recently test-fired nuclear-capable of the language – Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
Agni-I ballistic missile – 700 km  The largest-ever ‘Made-in-India’ warship which was
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 The person bestowed with the 2016 International commissioned into the Indian Navy recently – INS
Maritime Organization (IMO) Award for Exceptional Chennai
Bravery at Sea recently at IMO headquarters in London  The state where India’s longest expressway so far, six-
– Radhika Menon lane 302-km-long Agra-Lucknow expressway was opened
 The golfer who won the BANK BRI-JCB Indonesia Open recently – Uttar Pradesh
recently – Gaganjeet Bhullar  Winner of the ATP World Tour Finals title in London
 The person honoured with “Dr Nagendra Singh recently – Andy Murray
International Peace Award” for his efforts in ensuring  The Kenyan who won the men’s Delhi Half Marathon
world peace – Sri Sri Ravishankar 2016 – Eliud Kipchoge
 The playback singer honoured with ‘Centenary Award  The place where the world’s first Bollywood-themed park
for Indian Film Personality of the year’ at the 47th opened recently – Dubai
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International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in Goa –  Winner of this year’s Sumitra Charat Ram Award for
SP Bala Subrahmanyam lifetime achievement in the field of Indian classical music
 The person appointed CEO for its India operations by – Hari Prasad Chourasia
the State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) – Siby Sebastian  Winner of the Super Series Premier title of the China
 The person awarded with the prestigious Mother Teresa Open badminton tournament in Fuzhou, China – PV
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International Award – Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Sindhu

Nahyan  The person appointed as the Managing Director and the
 The person appointed as the new Executive Chairman of CEO of the Catholic Syrian Bank – CVR Rajendran
the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) –  The Chinese supercomputer which won the fastest
Jagdish Singh Khehar supercomputer title in the recently released 48th edition
 The advanced geostationary weather satellite launched of Top 500 list of supercomputers – Sunway TaihuLight
by NASA recently – GOES-R  The sprinter from Haryana who has been slapped an
 The range of the Prithvi-II missile which India test-fired eight-year ban by the National Anti-Doping Agency –
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 The country with which India signed a new double tax  The country which has announced two financial projects
avoidance pact recently – Cyprus worth USD 95 mn for India – US

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 The telecom operator which merged its Bangladesh  The city which has been termed as the country’s breast
subsidiary with Robi Axiata recently – Bharti Airtel cancer capital with 40 cases per lakh of population –
 The firm which has been awarded “Digital Innovator of Thiruvananthapuram

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the Year” in the Ecosystem Excellence category at GE’s  The first state to start India’s first Cherry Blossom
Minds + Machines event – TCS Festival, which is widely celebrated in Japan –
 The venues of the recently held 6th Indo-China joint Meghalaya
training exercise “Hand-in-Hand 2016” – Pune  The Prime Minister of Bulgaria who resigned recently –
 The HDFC Bank MD who has been ranked 36th in the Boyko Borisov
US magazine Fortune’s top 50 businesspersons list for  The present Prime Minister of Mauritius – Anerood
2016 – Aditya Puri Jugnauth
 The date on which the Union Budget 2017-18 will be  The first Indian woman golfer who recently scripted
presented – 01 Feb, 2017 history after winning a Ladies European Tour title – Aditi
 The tenth edition of the joint military training exercise Ashok

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between India and Nepal held recently – Surya Kiran

The state which has launched a programme named “Har

Ghar Bijli Lagataar” to provide free electricity
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The person chosen to be honoured with 2016 Tata
Literature Live! Poet Laureate Award – Gulzar
The present President of Israel who visited New Delhi
recently – Reuven Rivlin
connection to about 50 lakh households above the  The Indian-origin man from South Africa and the founder
poverty line – Bihar of the ‘Gift of the Givers Foundation’ who was recently
 The combat drone recently tested by the Defence awarded the Global Citizen Award – Imtiaz Sooliman
Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) –  The person named by the Fortune magazine as Business
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Rustom-2 Person of the Year, 2016 – Mark Zuckerberg
 The first woman to be elected as president of the national  The commercial bank which has received RBI’s
cricket board of New Zealand recently – Debbie permission to open its first international branch at the
Hockley Dubai International Financial Centre – Federal Bank
 The deadline set by the RBI for banks to clean up their  The only greenfield bank license awarded by the RBI in
balance sheets – Mar 2017 the last two decades, associated with the finest pedigree
 The former governor of Jammu and Kashmir who passed investors – YES Bank
away recently – Srinivas Kumar Sinha  The country which will preside over the 8th edition of
 The firms which has launched Internet of Things (IoT) the Conference of Parties (COP) to WHO Framework
services venture named “UNLIMIT” in association with Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) to be held in
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Cisco Jasper – Reliance Group Switzerland’s Geneva in 2018 – India

 The country which recently inaugurated Gwadar port  The person elected as the President of the International
recently – Pakistan Hockey Federation – Narinder Batra
 The international word of the year named by Oxford  The host of the 2018 Invictus Games for wounded military
Dictionaries – Post-truth personnel – Australia
 The country which withdrew from International Criminal  The India-China Joint Training Exercise held recently in
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Court (ICC) recently – Russia Pune – Hand in Hand 2016

 The first state in the country to pass a motion in the  The country to which the IMF recently approved a three-
assembly supporting the demonetisation move of the year $12-bn loan, the largest such package to a Middle
Central Govt – Chhattisgarh East nation – Egypt
 The new Group President and Head of Global Indian  The private bank which has launched India’s first
Banking of YES Bank – Amresh Acharya banking robot named “Lakshmi” – City Union Bank
 The head of the RBI’s task force set up to oversee  Winner of the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award at
recalibration of ATM machines – SS Mundra the ATP awards recently – Roger Federer

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 The venue of the recent high-level meeting of interior  The Philippine pugilist who won the World Boxing
ministers of Indian Ocean Region (IOR) to Counter Drug Organisation (WBO) welterweight title for the third time

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Trafficking – Colombo, Sri Lanka recently – Manny Pacquiao
 The state which has signed an agreement with Canada  The amount of penalty slapped by the govt on Reliance,
to implement a joint action plan on urban infrastructure BP and Niko for migrating natural gas from ONGC block

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development in the state – Maharashtra – $1.55 bn
 The Executive Director in the RBI who took charge as  China’s official entry for the 89th Academy Awards
full-time member of SEBI recently – Gurumoorthy (Oscars) which features Sonu Sood as a co-star –
Mahalingam Xuanzang
 The motif which appears on the reverse side of the new  The first Indian ambassador for Switzerland Tourism to
`2000 banknote – Mangalyaan promote Swiss campaign for 2017 – “Nature wants you
 The women’s team which won the 33rd Indian Oil Servo back!” – Ranveer Singh
Surjit Hockey Tournament – Western Railways  The Indian researcher who was awarded the Green Talent
 The party which Donald Trump, who was elected as the Award recently in Germany – Shamik Chowdhury
45th president in the recent US presidential elections,  The veteran Bollywood actress honoured by the Dubai

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Achievement Award – Amitav Ghosh

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The person chosen for 2016 Tata Literature Live! Lifetime

The state to which the ADB issued the second tranche

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International Film Festival (DIFF) with a Lifetime
Achievement Award – Rekha
The bank which has launched a credit facility against
home loans for salaried customers who can seek loans
of USD 300 mn for the Power Sector Investment up to `1 cr for personal needs – ICICI Bank
Programme – Assam  The new Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes
 The first Indian-American to win the US Senate seat – (CBDT) – Sushil Chandra
Kamala Harris (Califonia)  The most valued Indian athlete in 2016 as per the Forbes
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 The Syrian journalist who won the Reporters without Fab 40 list – Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Borders (RSF)’s RSF-TV5 Monde prize – Hadi Abdullah – The most valued global athlete – Roger Federer
 The year in which Masala bonds were launched – 2015  The state where PM Narendra Modi recently launched
 The NASA mission which now holds the Guinness the “Saur Sujala Yojana” for solar-powered irrigation
World Record for highest altitude (70,006.4 km) fix of a pumps – Chhattisgarh
GPS signal – Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS)  The all-time World Cup top-scorer footballer from
 The country where the world’s first hydrogen-powered, Germany who announced retirement recently – Miroslav
zero-emission passenger train named Coradia iLint was Klose
unveiled recently – Germany  The country which has been elected as chairman of the
 The state where the Army recently completed laying an Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries
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irrigation pipeline for residents of villages in the Demchok (ANRPC) – India

region despite a face-off with Chinese troops – Jammu  The state which observed its formation day on 1 Nov –
and Kashmir Haryana
 The first indigenous aircraft carrier which is scheduled  The venue of the 47th International Film Festival of India
to be commissioned in 2021 – INS Vikrant – Goa
 The venue of the 12-day Global Climate conference –  The person appointed as the CEO of the World Bank –
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Marrakech, Morocco Kristalina Georgieva

 The country which topped the optimism index during  The state which observed Nov 1 as ‘No Tobacco Day’ in
the third quarter (Jul-Sep 2016) as per the Grant Thornton an effort to discourage tobacco use – Punjab
International Business Report – Indonesia  The person who was recently re-elected as the Prime
– India’s position in the above index Minister of Spain – Mariano Rajoy
– Second  Winner of the Men’s Asian Champions Trophy 2016
 Winner of the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2016 hockey tournament – India
hockey tournament – India  The Prime Minister of Canada – Justin Trudeau

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 Winner of the 2016 Mexican Grand PrixF1 championship  The limit up to which the RBI has permitted startups to
– Lewis Hamilton raise external commercial borrowings (ECBs) in a financial

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 India’s ranking on ‘2016 Global Youth Development Index’ year – USD 3 mn
compiled by the Commonwealth Secretariat – 133rd  The country where the opposition leaders staged a
 The states which have topped the Ease of Doing general strike to push for a referendum on removing

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Business list released recently by the Commerce and President Nicolas Maduro from power recently –
Industry Ministry – Telengana and Andhra Pradesh Venezuela
 The amount above which all matters have to be  The date on which the Prohibition of Benami Property
mandatorily reported to Central Vigilance Commission Transactions, Act, 1988, came into effect – 1 Nov 2016
(CVC) by public sector banks– `1 cr  Winner of the 2016 National Cadet Corp (NCC) National
 The stealth fighter from China which made its first public Games – Punjab Directorate
flight recently – J-20  Winners of the Europe’s top human rights award, the
 The country which introduced a temporary ban on Sakharov prize – Lamiya Aji Bashar and Nadia Murad
catching Hilsa fish recently – Bangladesh Basee
 The person who won India’s first medal in skating  The country against which India’s GMR won $270 mn in

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recently in Lishui, China – Nikhilesh Tabhane
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The country with which the European Union (EU) signed
a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
recently – Canada
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compensation from an international arbitral tribunal –
Maldives
The person named as the “Stroke Ambassador for India”
– Sunil Gavaskar
 The state which has topped in the implementation of  The one-man judicial panel which submitted its report
agricultural reforms and offers the best environment for on OROP to the govt recently – L Narasimha Reddy
doing agri-business, according to an assessment by the  The new GSMA Chairman elected for a two-year period
NITI Aayog – Maharashtra from Jan 2017 through Dec 2018 – Sunil Bharti Mittal
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 The state which has come up with a new scheme to  India’s new High Commissioner to Australia – Ajay M
provide legal assistance to the deprived sections of the Gondane
society at the grassroots level – Odisha  The person appointed as the chief of the Enforcement
 The person who got a second extension of one year as Directorate (ED) – Karnal Singh
the Director General of NIA – Sharad Kumar  The legendary singer from Jammu and Kashmir who died
 The sports body to which the Sports Ministry recently recently – Raj Begum
granted recognition as national sports federation –  The staff of Pakistani High Commission in India who
Boxing Federation of India (BFI) was recently caught by Delhi Police with sensitive
 The state to which the CCEA has approved a `500-cr defence documents – Mehmood Akhtar
special horticulture package – Jammu and Kashmir  The new Chief Executive Officer of the International
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 The highest-denomination currency note in circulation Hockey Federation (FIH) – Jason McCracken
at present – `2000  The winner of the Man Booker Prize 2016 for his book
 The person who won the Mr Asia 2016 and “Arnold The Sellout – Paul Beatty
Schwarzenegger of Whitefield” titles recently – G  India’s ranking on the World Economic Forum’s Global
Balakrishna Gender Gap Report 2016 – 87th
 The international institution which recently refused to  The Brazilian footballer who died recently – Carlos
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fund Pakistan’s Diamer-Bhasha dam – ADB Alberto

 The country that topped the World Economic Forum’s  The bank which has unveiled a virtual assistant called
Global Gender Gap Report 2016 – Iceland ‘Erica’ which uses artificial intelligence – Bank of America
 India’s ranking on the World Bank’s Ease of Doing  The experimental space lab of China – Tiangong-2
Business Index 2017 – 130th

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