Match Point

K KUNDAN JUNE 2014

Mat ch Poi nt
l The winner of the 2014 Malaysian Grand Prix formula one
championships Lewis Hamilton
l The winner of the Candidates Chess tournament
Viswanathan Anand
l The Indian state which is the top recipient of foreign
remittances into the country Kerala
l The country which topped the Amnesty Internationals
Global Death Penalty Report 2013 China
l The private sector lender which has introduced Kisan Card
through which a farmer can withdraw up to `1 lakh per day
from ATMs Axis Bank
l The winner of the womens singles of the 2014 Miami
Masters tennis championships Serena Williams
l The new president of the 28-nation military alliance NATO
who will take charge in Oct Jens Stoltenberg
l The host country of the 18th SAARC Summit Nepal
l The newly acquired US-made multi-role special operations
aircraft of the IAF that crashed near Gwalior C-130J
l The chairman of BCCI during IPL7 Sunil Gavaskar
l The first missile developed by DRDO under the countrys
prestigious Integrated Guided Missile Development Program
which was again test-fired recently Prithvi II
l The date by which the Reserve Bank of India has extended
the timeline for full implementation of the Basel III capital
regulations 31 Mar 2019
l The winner of the 2014 Deodhar Trophy West Zone
l The country with which China has allowed direct domestic
trading of its currency Yuan New Zealand
l Indias projected per capita income in 2013-14 based on
current prices `74,920
l The winner of the mens title of the 64th National Basketball
Championships Tamil Nadu
l The Indian writer who won the Yale Universitys Windham
Campbell Literature Prize in non-fiction Pankaj Mishra
l The winner of the 4th Hockey India Senior Women National
Championship Railways
l The first state in the country to declare all election booths in
the Lok Sabha polls as no smoking zones Jammu &
Kashmir
l The country from which a large number of people are fleeing
their homelands to seek asylum Syria
l The country suspended from the powerful G8 Russia
l The country with most drug-resistant TB patients at
present, according to the WHO India
l Indias ranking in the Women in Politics Map 2014 launched
by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women
recently 73rd
l The new chairman of the Financial Planning Standards Board
India (FPSB) BN Srikrishna
l The winner of the 4th Hockey India mens National
Championships Air India
l The winner of the womens world squash championships
2014 Laura Massaro
l The automaker in the US which will pay a record $1.2 bn to
resolve a criminal probe into safety issues Toyota Motors
l World Tuberculosis Day 24 Mar
l The new Secretary of the Department of Industrial Policy
and Promotion (DIPP) Amitabh Kant
l The two-month long campaign against dengue launched in
six major cities in the country U & Me Against Dengue
l The two sites nominated by India as candidates for
UNESCOs World Heritage Site GHNP and Rani-ki-Vav
l Martyrdom Day Mar 23
l The US-made robotic mini-submarine deployed to locate
debris of the missing Malaysian aircraft Bluefin-21
l The export subsidy that the govt will provide on raw sugar
shipments for the Apr-May period to help the cash-starved
industry to pay arrears to sugarcane farmers `3,300 per
tonne
l The winner of the inaugural 10,000 US Dollar Richmond
Open squash championship title Joshana Chinappa
l The two-week-long joint military exercise held between
China and Pakistan Peace Angel 2014
l The amount pumped by the investors in various mutual
fund schemes during 2013-14 `54,000 cr
l Cash turnover on the nations three full-fledged stock
exchanges NSE, BSE and MCX-SX in 2013-14 `33.41
lakh cr
l Winner of the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix 2014
Lewis Hamilton
l The ten-day joint Air exercise scheduled to take place
between India and France in J un Garuda-5
l The Nobel laureate novelist who died recently Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
l World Heritage Day 18 Apr
l The two Election Commissioners who make full election
commission along with Chief Election Commissioner VS
Sampath Nasim Zaidi andHS Brahma
l The new President of Algeria who won for the fourth time
in a row recently Abdelaziz Bouteflika
l NASAs robotic lunar explorer which was annihilated as
planned recently LADEE
l Best Hindi Film at the 61st National awards Jolly LLB
l The infrastructure budget unveiled by the Brazilian
authorities for the Rio Olympics 2016 USD 10.76 bn
(approx)
l The tax rate at the which individuals earning more than `10
cr a year will be taxed under the revised Direct Tax Code
35 per cent
l The software bug that is in news across the world
Heartbleed
l The new chief of the Indian Navy Rabinder Kumar
Dhowan
l The country which has announced to withhold funding to
the Commonwealth Secretariat, pointing to the Secretariats
silence on alleged war crimes and rights abuse in Sri Lanka
Canada
l Best Feature Film at the 61st National Film Awards Ship
of Theseus
l The new Finance Secretary of India Arvind Mayaram
l The state with the highest number of factories as per the
Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) 2010-11 Tamil Nadu
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l The tribals who cast their vote for the first time in the
countrys history in the recent election Shompens
l Winner of the womens singles title of the India Super Series
2014 badminton Shixian Wang
l The international insurer with which SBI runs SBI Life
Insurance joint venture BNP Paribas Cardif
l The winner of the 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix formula one
championships Lewis Hamilton
l The cinematographer awarded with Dada Saheb Phalke
award, who passed away recently VK Murthy
l Winner of the mens singles title of the India Super Series
Badminton Lee Chong Wei
l The Indian shooter who has clinched the World No. One
spot in 10 metres air pistol event Heena Sidhu
l The drug maker which has announced to acquire Ranbaxy
for $3.2 bn Sun Pharmaceuticals
l World Health Day 7 Apr
The theme of the World Health Day for 2014 Vector-
borne diseases: small bite, big threat
l The team which has won the mens 2014 ICC World T20
Sri Lanka
l The country where the multilateral, humanitarian assistance/
disaster relief (HA/DR) exercise, dubbed Komodo 2014,
was held recently Indonesia
l The new Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban
l The new President of Malta Marie Louise Coleiro Preca
l The threatened species for whose protection IRV 2020
programme has been launched by WHO-India One-
horned rhinoceros
l The firm authorised by the RBI to set up, own and operate
9,000 white-label ATMs in the next three years in rural
India Srei Infrastructure Finance
l Indias second regional navigation satellite launched recently
IRNSS 1-B
l The Chairman of Samsung who has been directed to appear
before a Ghaziabad court Lee Kun-hee
l The Rajya Sabha MP who has been indicted by a US jury
KVP Ramachandra Rao
l The state which emerged as the number one investment
destination in the country Maharashtra
l The RBI has capped the Ways and Means Advances (WMA)
limit for the central govt in the first half of the new financial
year 2015 at `35,000 cr
l The number of products an insurer can file for approval as
per new Irda product planner rule Five
l The field in which the highest number of factories has been
observed in the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) 2010-11
Food products
l The country which decided to shut infamous Abu Ghraib
prison over security fears recently Iraq
l The India-born poet who won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer
Prize in the poetry category Vijay Seshadri
l Theper cent of branches new banks need to open in unbanked
rural areas as per the RBI norms 25 per cent
l The new Prime Minister of France Manuel Valls
l The new Chief J ustice of India Justice RM Lodha
l The author of the book titled Crusader or Conspirator?
Coalgate and other Truths PC Parakh
l The PSB which has sold `3,500 cr of its NPAs to ARCs
recently State Bank of India
l The book for which Donna Tartt has won fiction Pulitzer
2014 Goldfinch
l The first woman Chief J ustice of the Delhi High Court
appointed recently Justice G Rohini
l The person who has been conferred Dadasaheb Phalke
Award for the year 2013 Gulzar
l The country which leads global remittances in the year 2013
with a whopping $70 bn in its kitty India
l The most powerful nation in world market according to
the world market power index China
l The author of the recently published book titled The
Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of
Manmohan Singh Sanjaya Baru
l Dr BR Ambedkars birth anniversary declared a public
holiday 14 Apr
l The new president of the industry body CII Ajay Shriram
l The state capital in the northeast region to be put on Rail
Map recently Itanagar
l The Miss India 2014 Koyal Rana
l The country that launched a new observation satellite Ofek
10 into orbit recently Israel
l The economic growth rate of India in 2014-15 projected by
the World Bank 5.7 per cent
l The worlds fastest growing vector-borne disease with a 30-
fold increase in disease incidence over the last 50 years
Dengue