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The Indian firm which has made it to the Top 50 league of
the world’s biggest companies in terms of R&D investments,
topped by Volkswagen – Tata Motors
The amount cleared by the SIDBI to support venture capital
funds – `930 cr
The country which received the largest remittance (estimated
$72 bn) in 2015 – India
The new chief executive officer (CEO) of food regulator
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
– Pawan Kumar Agarwal
The new Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences – M Nair
Rajeevan
The new Lokayukta of Delhi – Reva Khetarpal
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The new President of Argentina – Mauricio Macri
The Philippines beauty crowned as the Miss Universe 2015
– Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach
The sector for which a `3,000-cr umbrella scheme was
approved by the CCEA recently – Fisheries
The state which declared entire state as drought-hit recently
– Jharkhand
The first state in India to submit the Smart City plan to the
Urban Development Ministry – Rajasthan
The new deadline set by the RBI for exchanging pre-2005
currency notes with new ones – 30 Jun 2016
The country which was the 4th largest source of remittances
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($4.9 bn) to India in 2015 – Pakistan
The new Chief Information Commissioner of India – RK
Mathur
The World Bank official selected to lead the Open
Government Partnership (OGP) – Sanjay Pradhan
The date by which the RBI’s final guidelines for banks to
calculate their lending rates based on the marginal cost of
fund methodology will come into effect – 1 Apr 2016
The 163rd member of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
– Afghanistan
The state assembly whose MLAs passed a resolution to
remove Speaker Nabam Rebia recently – Arunachal
Pradesh
The Committee appointed to look into ONGC-RIL dispute
on KG gas fields – AP Shah Committee
The corporates for which the NSE launched separate indices
recently – Tata, Aditya Birla and Mahindra
The Winner of the Garwood Award for ‘Outstanding Global
Leader in Open Innovation’ – Pranab Mukherjee
The revised forecast by the govt for full-year economic
growth in FY16 – 7-7.5 per cent
The country which lifted the 40-year-old ban on oil export
recently – US
The total number of member countries of IMF as of now – 188
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Miss World 2015 – Mireia Lalaguna Royo
The new COO of Apple Inc – Jeff Williams
The winner of the Indian Football League 2015
– Chennaiyin FC
The new Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes
(CBDT) – AK Jain
India’s ranking on Forbes’ 2015 list of the best countries for
doing business – 97th
– The country which topped the list – Denmark
The country whose six satellites were launched by ISRO on
16 Dec – Singapore
The present Director-General of the WTO – Roberto
Azevedo
The winner of the 2015 European Tour Golfer of the Year
award – Rory McIlroy
The venue of the recent combined commanders’ conference
– INS Vikramaditya
The country which tested nuclear-capable Shaheen-1A
missile recently – Pakistan
The amount above which quoting PAN is mandatory for all
transactions effective Jan 1 – `2 lakh
The amount approved by the World Bank for the Clean
India campaign – $1.5bn
The post-retirement planning policy launched by the LIC
of India recently – Jeevan Akshay IV
The telecom firm which announced Project Leap, a `60,000-
cr revamp plan, recently – Bharti Airtel
The venue of the 46th annual meet of the World Economic
Forum (WEF) – Davos, Switzerland
India’s ranking on the Human Development Index (HDI)
2015 – 130th
– The country which topped HDI – Norway
– The entity which releases HDI – UNDP
The PIO appointed as finance minister in South Africa
recently – Pravin Gordhan
The athlete honoured as Sportsperson of the Year by Sports
Illustrated magazine – Serena Williams
The mascot of the 12th South Asian Games (OC-SAG)
– Tikhor (a one-horned rhino)
The country which launched its first Unesco Biosphere
Reserve (Inle Lake) recently – Myanmar
India’s new ambassador to Saudi Arabia – Ahmad Javed
The head of the Judicial Committee on One Rank One Pension
(OROP) scheme – L Narasimha Reddy
The winner of the prestigious South East Asia Write Award
– Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali
The place where the ministerial meet of WTO was held
recently – Nairobi, Kenya
The present Commerce Secretary – Rita Teaotia
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The head of the committee set up to calculate a revenue-
neutral GST rate – Arvind Subramanian
The renowned agro-economist who died recently – Sharad
Anantrao Joshi
The veteran actor who was presented the Padma Vibhushan
recently – Dilip Kumar
The cities where three new IIITs will come under PPP model
– Ranchi, Nagpur and Pune
The two Indian cities which have made it to the Unesco’s
Creative City Network – Varanasi and Jaipur
The capital city of Venezuela – Caracas
The year by which the RBI intends to lower bank’s
investment in govt securities (SLR) to 20.5% – 2017
The country with which India held Indra Navy exercise in
the Bay of Bengal recently – Russia
The country which is providing Kamov 226 choppers to
India – Russia
The govt’s mechanism to support start-up businesses
– SETU
The first state of India to join the Union Govt’s Ujwal
Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) – Andhra Pradesh
The country which sent the first uranium consignment of
250 tonnes to India recently – Canada
The IT firm with which IDFC Bank inked a pact to use the
latter’s BaNCS system – TCS
The Winner of 2015 Indonesian Masters Grand Prix Gold
badminton tournament – Tommy Sugiarto
India’s current nuclear generating capacity from its 21 power
reactors – 5,800 MWe
The winner of the title of 2015 Hockey World League
– Australia
The venue where the ‘Heart of Asia’ 5th Ministerial Meeting
on Afghanistan was held recently – Islamabad
The country which is top source of FDI ($6.69 bn) into

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The country which test-fired the medium-range ballistic
missile Ghadr-110 recently – Iran
The new chairman of SAIL – PK Singh
India’s current ranking in money outflows per annum from
the country – Fourth
– The country which topped the 2015 report on black money
outflow – China
– The Washington-headquartered institution which releases
black money outflow report – Global Financial Integrity
(GFI)
The host of 2016 SAARC summit – Pakistan
The Time magazine’s Person of the Year 2015 – Angela
India during Apr to Sep of FY16 – Singapore
The storm which hit the UK recently – Desmond
The joint Army exercise between India and Russia held in
Rajasthan recently – Indra
The percentage of RRBs’ outstanding advances which should
be for PSL as per new norms – 75 per cent
The former parliamentarian and veteran industrialist who
died recently – MAM Ramaswamy
The headquarters of Transparency International (TI)
– Berlin, Germany
The indigenously developed torpedo defence system
inducted recently – Maareech

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Merkel
The state which recorded the highest per capita income in
the country at `2,40,849 during FY15 – Delhi
The country which had started the “The Heart of Asia
Conference (or Istanbul Process)” in 2011 – Turkey
The country which bagged the `98,000-cr project to build
India’s first bullet train recently – Japan
The bank which will mobilise $5 bn towards climate finance
by 2020 to help India meet its target – Yes Bank
The two new teams which joined the IPL bandwagon for its
ninth session recently – Pune and Rajkot
The winner of the Uttar Pradesh Ratna Award
– Frank Islam
The winners of 2015 Badminton World Federation (BWF)
Male and Female Player of the Year Awards respectively
– Chen Long and Carolina Marin
The major army war exercise held in Rajasthan recently
– Drad Sankalp
The first state of India to launch Rotavirus vaccination
project – Himachal Pradesh
The bank which has become Tata group’s strategic banking
partner – ICBC
The state which is the biggest economy within India at
`16.87 lakh cr – Maharashtra
The amount infused by the RBI in the market on 7 Dec by
buying govt securities – `10,000 cr
The new (43rd) Chief Justice of India – Tirath Singh
Thakur
The bank which launched country’s first ‘display variant’
debit card – Axis Bank
The Padma Bhushan awardee Sarangi maestro who died
recently – Ustad Sabri Khan

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