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The first player to win ATP World Tour Finals for 4th
consecutive time – Novak Djokovic
The new President-elect of Argentina – Mauricio Macri
The PIO appointed by the US President Barack Obama as
the executive director of ADB – Swati Dandekar
The bank which opened a representative office in Dhaka,
Bangladesh recently – Axis Bank
The country which recently agreed to waive $1-bn penalty
on India for breaking a long-term LNG contract – Qatar
The team which won the 8th Junior Men’s Asia Cup hockey
title recently – India
The country which conducted a referendum to select a
potential new flag, dropping Union Jack – New Zealand
The new president of the industry body FICCI –
Harshavardhan Neotia
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The chair of APEC throughout 2016 and host of the 24th
APEC Economic Leaders’ Meet – Peru
The Chief Guest at Republic Day celebrations in 2016 –
Francois Hollande
The country that will build Egypt’s first nuclear power
plant at Dabaa – Russia
The agency which has pledged $120-mn loan to finance
Indo-Bangla electricity link – ADB
The UK-based Syrian journalist who has won Reporters
Without Borders award – Zaina Erhaim
The Malian capital where extremists killed 19 people in an
attack on Radisson Blu hotel recently – Bamako
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The country which hosted the 26th ASEAN Summit recently
– Malaysia
The state which recently entered the Guinness Book of
World Records for planting the most number of saplings (10
lakh) in one day – Uttar Pradesh
The country which recently launched the first satellite
(Kosmos 2510) for its new early warning system – Russia
The chairman of the 7th Central Pay Commission – AK
Mathur
The Chinese supercomputer which was recently declared
world’s most powerful system for the sixth time
– Tianhe-2
The person conferred with Disaster Risk Reduction Asia
Champion honour by the UN recently – Kiren Rijiju
India’s overall ranking on the Global Gender Cap Index 2015
topped by Iceland – 108
The new Indian ambassador to China – Vijay Keshav
Gokhale
World Toilet Day (WTD) – 19 Nov
The Union Ministry which launched PRASAD and
SWADESH DARSHAN schemes recently – Ministry of
Tourism
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Winner of the men’s singles title of 2015 China Open Super
Series – Lee Chong Wei
Winner of 2015 Fed Cup (women’s) tennis tournament final
– Czech Republic
The city which hosted the APEC Summit 2015 recently –
Manila, Philippines
The new CEO of Standard Chartered bank – Zarin
Daruwala
The children’s books writer who died recently – Kamala
Laxman
The state which marked its statehood day on 15 Nov –
Jharkhand
The chairman of the committee set up to look into the ways
to revive PPP model – Vijay Kelkar
The Bollywood veteran actor who died recently – Saeed
Jafri
The year announced by the British PM David Cameron as
the UK-India Year of Culture – 2017
International Day for Tolerance – 16 Nov
Winner of 2015 Brazilian Grand Prix F1 – Nico Roseburg
India’s former Ambassador to Nepal and a close associate of
Jayaprakash Narayan who died recently – Bimal Prasad
The state where Tata Steel commissioned the first phase of
the Kalinganagar Steel Project recently – Odisha
The city where the 2nd World Congress for Disaster
Management was held recently – Visakhapatnam
The pay production subsidy to be paid to cane farmers
directly in the 2015-16 season – `4.50/quintal
Winner of the IBSF World Snooker Championship – Pankaj
Advani
The state where the Silchar-Lumding broad-gauge rail line
was inaugurated recently – Assam
The year declared by the FAO as the International Year of
Pulses – 2016
The PSU in which 10% stake sale was approved by the
CCEA recently – Coal India
The World Antibiotic Awareness Week observed by the
WHO recently – Nov 16-22
World Diabetes Day – 14 Nov
The secretariat of the International Energy Agency (IEA) –
Paris
The largest and latest offshore patrol vessel of the Indian
Coast Guards commissioned recently – Samarth
The winner of the women’s singles of the China Open Super
Series Premier 2015 – Li Xuerui
The cricketer with which Ceat signed a three-year bat
endorsement deal recently – Rohit Sharma
The committee associated with corporate social
responsibility – Anil Baijal Committee

The venue of the 2015 G20 Summit – Antalya, Turkey
The headquarters of the Bank for International Settlements
(BIS) – Basel, Switzerland
The ombudsman appointed by the BCCI recently – AP
Shah
The UN Commission to which India was re-elected recently
– UNICTRAL
The new CMD of the Power Grid Corporation – IS Jha
The cloud system developed by the NIC – Meghraj
The new executive director at the IMF who will represent
India, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – Subir Gokarn
World Pneumonia Day – 12 Nov
The winner of the 2015 International Children’s Peace Prize
– Abraham M Keita
The state where the annual Hundred Drums Wangala Festival
was held recently – Meghalaya
The new CMD of the Kolkata-based UCO Bank – RK
Takkar
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The place where the joint military exercise of India and
Russia named ‘INDRA-2015’ was held recently – Bikaner,
Rajasthan
The country which was officially declared free of Ebola by
the WHO recently – Sierra Leone
The winner of the prestigious 2015 Vishnudas Bhave Award
for his contribution to Marathi theatre – Vikram Gokhale
The first female Vice President of Tanzania – Samia Hassan
Suluhu
The `1000-cr project launched by the govt to kickstart
original research in India – Imprint India
The scheme for the financial restructuring of debt of power
distribution companies – UDAY
The present president of the Frankfurt-headquartered
European Central Bank – Mario Draghi
The new minimum support price that the govt will pay to
buy new-season wheat – `1,525/100 kg
The newly elected Prime Minister of Canada – Justin

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The US-based firm which will set up a loco factory at
Marhowra, Bihar – General Electric
The new CMD of Corporation Bank – JK Garg
The wanted ULFA leader handed over to India by Bangladesh
recently – Anup Chetia
The Kerala Finance Minister who resigned after bribery
charges recently – KM Mani
The winner of the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup title – Nigeria
World Science Day – 10 Nov
The newly elected vice-chairman of the Bank for
International Settlements (BIS) – Raghuram Rajan
India’s present ambassador to China – Ashok K Kantha
Trudeau
The Indian-origin Defence Minister of Canada – Harjit
Sajjan
India’s new High Commissioner to the UK – Navtej Singh
Sarna
The leader who topped the list of most powerful persons
2015 released by Forbes magazine – Vladimir Putin
– PM Narendra Modi’s position on the Forbes’ list of most
powerful persons 2015 – Ninth
The Vice President of Maldives who was impeached recently
– Ahmed Adeeb
The country which recently deported the wanted underworld

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The new chairman of ICC – Shashank Manohar
The country where Xi Jinping (China) and Ma Ying-jeou
(Taiwan) met for the first time recently – Singapore
The new MD and CEO of Indian Bank – Mahesh Kumar
Jain
The city where the 21st International Conference on
‘Frontiers in Yoga Research and its Applications’
(INCOFYRA) will be held in Jan 2016 – Bengaluru
The new MD and CEO of Andhra Bank – Suresh N Patel
The country where the ‘Heart of Asia’ conference on
Afghanistan is scheduled to be held – Pakistan
The Swachh Bharat cess imposed by the govt on all taxable
services with effect from Nov 15 – 0.5 per cent
The country which holds the world’s largest foreign exchange
reserves at present – China
The Indian shooter who recently won gold medal at Asian
Shooting championship – Heena Sidhu
don Chhota Rajan to India – Indonesia
The revised scheme to provide nutrition to pregnant and
lactating women in the tribal areas approved by the
Maharashtra govt recently – APJ Abdul Kalam Amrut
Yojna
The city where the International Terra Madre or Slow Food
festival was held recently – Shillong, Meghalaya
The chairman of the committee on Bankruptcy Law
Reforms – TK Viswanathan
The country which was recently hit by a rare tropical cyclone
Chapala – Yemen
The new Chief Justice of India – TS Thakur
The first railway station in the country to become blind-
friendly – Mysuru, Karnataka
The winner of the men’s singles title of 2015 Swiss Indoors
Basel title – Roger Federer
The new President of Tanzania – John Magufuli

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