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K KUNDAN JULY 2014

Mat ch Poi nt
l The country where the military has imposed martial law
amid a political crisis Thailand
l The state where the SC banned jallikattu (bull fighting)
and bullock cart racing, recently Tamil Nadu
l The scientists who first theorised the technique to turn light
into matter in 1934 Gregory Breit and John Wheeler
l The present Secretary General of the ASEAN group Le
Luong Minh
l The country where paleontologists have discovered fossils
of the largest dinosaur ever to roam the earth Argentina
l The country with which Russia signed a major gas deal
recently China
l The institution which is co-terminus with the Union Govt
Planning Commission
l Chief Minister of Bihar Jitan Ram Manjhi
l The city where the fourth meet of the Conference on
Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia
(CICA) was held recently Shanghai
l The three-time Formula One champion who passed away
recently Sir Jack Brabham
l Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik
l The winner of the womens singles title at the Rome Masters
tennis tournament Serena Williams
l Chief Minister of Sikkim Pawan Chamling
l The chairman of the RBIs committee constituted to review
the governance of boards of banks in India PJ Nayak
l The best-paid player in the world playing with Barcelona
team Lionel Messi
l The persons who have topped the recent list of UK
billionaires Srichand andGopichand Hinduja
l The Steel Man of India and former chief of Tisco (now Tata
Steel) who passed away recently Russi Mody
l The country where citizens rejected adopting worlds highest
minimum wage (25 dollars an hour) in a referendum recently
Switzerland
l Thomas Cup is associated with Mens badminton
l Uber Cup is associated with Womens badminton
l Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Nabam Tuki
l The candidate who won the election with a margin of 5.7
lakh votes recently Narendra Modi, Vadodara
l The automaker in the US which will pay a record $35 mn
fine over faulty ignition switches General Motors
l The project associated with submarine programme of the
Indian Navy Project-75India
l The stock exchange which ceased to exist from May 30
Madras Stock Exchange
l The island which became the first island in the world fully
energy self-sufficient through combined water and wind
power El Hierro
l The RBI has announced to launch much-awaited plastic
currency notes of `10 from 2015
l 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
l The militant group on which the Union Home Ministry
extended the ban for five years LTTE
l The game Shiv Chowrasia is associated with Golf
l The car model which has became only the second in India to
cross 25 lakh unit sales mark in domestic market Alto
l The country where at least 300 people were killed in a coal
mine explosion and fire recently Turkey
l The country where the worlds highest tunnel for high-speed
trains became operational at an altitude of 3,607.4 metres
recently China
l The group with which India is negotiating the Broad-based
Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) EU
l The country which announced to abolish its controversial
sponsorship system for foreign workers Qatar
l The first woman to command a UN peacekeeping force
Kristin Lund
l International Nurses Day (IND) 12 May
l The economies of the world declared worlds most expensive
economies in a recent ranking by the World Bank
Switzerland and Norway
l The company which topped the Forbes list of the worlds
2000 largest and most powerful public companies
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
l The next Army Chief appointed recently Dalbir Singh
Suhag
l The team which clinched the 20th Senior National Womens
Football Championships Manipur
l The winner of the Spanish Grand Prix 2014 Lewis
Hamilton
l The country where the worlds biggest bio-bank imaging
study is being conducted UK
l 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
l Indias ranking in the State of Worlds Mothers Index 2014
137th
l The space agency from which Afghanistan has leased its
first-ever satellite AFGHANSAT 1 Eutelsat, EU
l The city declared the most polluted city in the 2014 version
of the Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) by the WHO Delhi
l Number of Parliamentary and Assembly seats respectively
in the new state of Telangana 17 and 119
l The country where Boko Haram militants abducted more
than 200 schoolgirls recently Nigeria
l The newly elected President of South Africa Jacob Zuma
l The province of Afghanistan where a devastating landslide
buried a village recently Badakhshan
l The state where the High Court cancelled the appointment
of 10,323 teachers recently Tripura
l Indias own payment gateway launched recently RuPay
l The firm which leads the list of 54 Indian firms in the recently
released Forbes Global 2000 list Reliance Industries
l The embattled premier of Thailand dismissed from the office
by a court recently Yingluck Shinawatra
l The new airline granted the flying licence by aviation
regulator DGCA recently AirAsia India
l The flying test bed (FTB) aircraft developed by HAL and
handed over to DRDO recently Nabhratna
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l A new purple mineral with a unique makeup discovered
from a remote part of Australia recently Putnisite
l The winner of the 2014 Indonesian Masters golf tournament
Anirban Lahiri
l The country which has set up a Special Police Force to
handle religious disputes Sri Lanka
l The new President and CEO of Nokia Rajeev Suri
l The country that successfully test-fired a short-range
ballistic missile Hatf-III (Ghaznavi) recently Pakistan
l The Outstanding Asian Mens Player of the Year 2013
adjudged by the Asian Squash Federation Saurav Ghosal
l Winner of the World Womens Senior Snooker
Championship 2014 Chitra Magimairaj
l The country which signed a 10-year pact with the US to
allow a bigger US military presence in its territory
Philippines
l The Prime Minister of South Korea who tendered his
resignation over ferry accident Chung Hong-won
l 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
l World Intellectual Property Day 26 April
l The country from which Indias first aircraft carrier, INS
Vikrant, was sourced in 1957 UK
l The chairman of the RBI panel which released Draft Report
on Pricing of Credit recently Anand Sinha
l The worlds biggest military spender US
l The issue of fresh securities by an unlisted company for the
first time Initial Public Offering
l The Indian satellite that retired after remaining 10 years in
orbit INSAT-3E
l The two states which together account for about half of the
total mango production in India Andhra Pradesh and
Uttar Pradesh
l The largest milk-producing state in India as of now Uttar
Pradesh
l The 2014 World Car of the Year Audi A3
l The top export destination for Indias mangoes UAE
l Insurance Day is celebrated in India on Apr 19
l The Earth-sized planet discovered by the US space agency
NASA which may sustain life Kepler-186f
l The winner of the inaugural I-League football championships
Bengaluru FC
l Earth Day 22 Apr
l The country which has become Africas biggest economy
Nigeria
l The chairman of the RBI panel on credit information which
submitted its report recently Aditya Puri
l The newly elected President of Rajasthan Cricket
Association Lalit Modi
l The new name of the ING Vysya Life Insurance Company
Limited Exide Life Insurance
l The new President of Panama Juan Carlos Varela
l The annual exercise conducted between the US and the
Philippines Balikatan
l World Press Freedom Day 3 May
l The winners of the WTA Portugal Open 2014 womens
doubles title Sania Mirza and Cara Black
l Indias first indigenously developed Beyond Visual Range
missile Astra
l The state where a major field exercise by the Army,
codenamed Sarvada Vijay, was conducted recently
Rajasthan
l The film which won the Best Picture Award at the IIFA
Award 2014 Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
l The surface-to-air missile successfully test-fired by India
recently Akash
l The country where a recent massive landslide claimed
hundreds of lives Afghanistan
l The country to which the former Chief of the Air Staff
NAK Browne has been appointed Indias Ambassador
UK
l The internet browser whose vulnerability is referred by
Operation Clandestine Fox Internet Explorer (IE)
l International J azz Day 30 Apr
l The new CEO of Ford Motors Mark Fields
l The chairman of the SIT appointed by the SC to probe
black money MB Shah
l The new Deputy Chief of the Air Staff SBP Sinha
l The winner of the prestigious Goldman Environment Prize
called the Green Nobel for 2014 Ramesh Agrawal
l The worlds third-largest economy by PPP as per a World
Bank report India
l The Professional Footballers Association player of the year
for 2013-14 Luis Suarez
l The International Commonwealth Championships 2014 was
held recently in Perth
l The headquarters of the IMF Washington
l The person who replaced Anand Sinha as the new RBI
deputy governor R Gandhi
l Worlds largest steel producer China