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The Italian author of best-selling novels, including The Name

of the Rose who died recently Umberto Eco
The worlds largest arm importer in the 2011-15 timeline as
per SIPRI India
The place in Madhya Pradesh where Indias longest railway
bridge (14 km in length) will come up Katni
The state where ONGC has approved an investment of
`5,050 cr recently Tripura
The PSU in which govt offloaded stake worth `5,000 cr
through offer for sale (OFS) recently NTPC
The country whose Parliament has become the first in world
to run on solar power Pakistan
The Kiwi batsman who scored the fastest Test century
coming in just 54 balls recently against Australia Brendon
McCullum
The Malayalam film named as best feature-length and best
short film in the childrens category at the 2016 Berlin
International Film Festival Ottal
The new Chief Justice of Orissa High Court Justice
Vineet Saran
The Nepalese PM who visited India in his first foreign trip
recently KP Sharma Oli
Sachin Tendulkars autobiography which entered the Limca
Book of Records recently Playing It My Way
Winner of the Hockey India League (HIL) 2016 Punjab
Warriors
Winner of the womens singles title of the WTA Dubai
Duty Free Tennis Championships 2016 Sara Errani
The renowned classical and playback singer who died
recently Bhubaneshwari Mishra
The percentage share of manufacturing in the gross domestic
product (GDP) 17 per cent
The new president of Central African Republic Faustin
Archange Touadera
The state from which the ambitious Shyama Prasad
Mukherji Rurban (rural-urban) Mission was launched
recently Chhattisgarh
The cumulative gross NPAs of 24 listed public sector banks
as on Dec 31, 2015 `4 lakh cr (approx)
The professor selected for prestigious Israel Prize David
Shulman
The percentage reduction by the Govt in interest rates on
short-term post office deposits, Kisan Vikas Patra and other
small saving schemes below five years 0.25 per cent
The new Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Kalikho
Pul
The lyricist who has made into the Guinness Book of World
Records for writing the most number of songs for Bollywood
films Sameer Anjaan

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The US novelist and author of the masterpiece To Kill a

Mockingbird, who passed away recently Harper Lee
The finance minister of West Bengal who is the new
chairman of the GST Panel Amit Mitra
The new vice-chancellor of Delhi University Yogesh
Kumar Tyagi
The person who has been conferred the Chevalier de la
Legion dHonneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour),
Frances highest civilian honour Manish Arora
Winner of the mens singles title of the Argentina Open
2016 Dominic Thiem
Indias lightest revolver ever which weighs as less as 250
grams Nidar
The first missile to be developed by the DRDO under
Indias Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme
Prithvi-II
The cleanest city of the country in Swachh Sarvekshan2016 Mysuru
The present MD and CEO of Bank of Baroda PS
Jayakumar
The country funding 80% of the `17,750-cr trans-harbour
project connecting Mumbai and Navi Mumbai Japan
The Jnanpith winner and most celebrated contemporary
poet of Malayalam who died recently ONV Kurup
The size of the electronic development fund (EDF) launched
by the govt `10,000-cr
The SEBI chairman who was given an extension till 2017
UK Sinha
The central university which turned 100 years on 13 Feb
2016 Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
The firm named manufacturing innovator of the year at the
inaugural TIME India awards Hero MotoCorp
Indias present ambassador to Tajikistan who died recently
Biraja Prasad
The newly appointed Prime Minister of Chad Albert
Pahimi Padacke
The joint military exercise held between India and Seychelles
recently Lamitye 2016
Winner of the Best Film award at the 69th BAFTA Awards
2016 The Revenant
The new President of Institute of Chartered Accountants
of India (ICAI) M Devaraja Reddy
The person awarded with the Pride of Kerala Award from
the World Malayalee Council recently Vidya Balan
The venue of the first Mega Food Park (MFP) in Madhya
Pradesh Panwa village (Khargone district)
The new Director of Indian Institute of Millets Research,
Hyderabad Vilas Tonapi
The venue of the Make in India week Mumbai

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The next secretary of Department of Industrial Policy and

Promotion (DIPP) Ramesh Abhishek
The PSB which posted highest-ever quarterly loss by an
Indian bank of `3, 342 cr in the quarter ended Dec 2015
Bank of Baroda
Winner of the ICC U-19 World Cup 2016 final West
Indies
The present Director General of IMF Christine Lagarde
Indias ranking among the top five most disaster-hit
countries in 2015 Third
The British daily newspaper which transformed it to online
only recently Independent
The state whose MobileOne application bagged the Gold
award at the World Governance Summit in Dubai recently
Karnataka
The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER)
Jitendra Singh
The Oracle CEO who visited India recently Safra Catz
The country that topped the US Chamber of CommerceInternational Intellectual Property Index 2016 US
Indias third largest trading partner globally after the US
and China UAE
The comet lander to which the European Space Agency
(ESA) announced to bid final good bye recently Philae
The Pakistani umpire whom the BCCI banned for five years
recently Asad Rauf
Indias ranking on US Chamber of Commerce-International
Intellectual Property Index 2016 37th
The headquarters of NATO Brussels, Belgium
The venue of the 47th Conference of Governors held
recently New Delhi
The amount sanctioned by India recently for a vital rail link
connecting it with Bangladesh `580 cr
The next ambassador of Australia to India Harinder
Sidhu
The Israeli who has been appointed as the Director of the
UN Information Centre (UNIC) Tamar Hahn
The city where the Translational Research Unit of
Excellence (TRUE) was inaugurated recently Kolkata
Countrys first-ever aviation park has been planned to be
set up in Gujarat
The venue of the 6th National Science Film Festival and
Competition (NSFF) Mumbai

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Winner of the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy cricket tournament

New Zealand
The new Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court
Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela
The new secretary to the Railway Board RK Verma
The host of the 2017 Womens World Cup England
The aircraft carrier which is set to retire in Jun 2016 INS
Viraat
The new name of the ambitious national optical fibre
network project of India BharatNet
The former Prime Minister of Nepal who passed away
recently Sushil Koirala
The artist officially named as the best-selling artist
worldwide in 2015 Taylor Swift
The new president of the South Asian Wrestling Federation
Brijbhushan Sharan Singh
The state which has topped the Index of Internet Readiness
of Indian States Maharashtra
The combined military exercise was held between the Indian
and the Nepalese army recently Nepal
The venue of the Indias International Fleet Review held
recently Visakhapatnam
The state where the border troops of India and China
recently held their first joint tactical exercise Jammu &
Kashmir
The head of the SEBIs newly set up commodity advisory
committee Ramesh Chand
The noted Urdu poet who passed away recently Nida
Fazli
The new incentive structure launched by Infosys for its
employees iCount
The crown prince of Abu Dhabi who visited India recently
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
The state where the Union Govt is setting up the National
Organic Farming Research Institute Sikkim
The project launched for prevention of AIDS in NorthEastern states Project Sunrise
The famous political cartoonist who died recently Sudhir
Tailang
PM Narendra Modi has stressed on cutting crude oil imports
by 2022 by 10 per cent
The present High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid
Raad Al Hussein
Indias GDP growth for 2014-15 as per CSO 7.2 per cent

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