IMF MD Christine Lagarde.

US Secretary General Ban Ki Moon

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim
Italy President Sergio Mattarella.
Egypt President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena
Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
Cyprus President Nikos Anastasiades.
European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi
French President Franois Hollande
Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari
Egypt Prime Minister Sherif Ismail
Syria President Bashar Al Assad
Tunisian Dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak

Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu
CEA is Arvind Subramanian.
Defense Minister Manohar Parikkar
SEBI Chairman U.K.Sinha

Indigo Airlines MD Rahul Bhatia

Deloitte CEO Punit Renjen
Indira Nooyi Pepsi Co
Satya Nadella Microsoft
Apple CEO Tim Coook
Anshu Jain Deutsche Bank
Snapdeal CEO Kunal Shah.
Akhila Srinivasan MD Shriram Life Insurance Company
Arundhati Bhattacharya CMD SBI
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw founder of Biocon
Shikha Sharma MD and CEO of Axis Bank
Usha Sangwan MD of LIC

Italy President Sergio Mattarella. He took over from Giorgio Napatilano who was the
longest serving President ever for Italy.

23rd RBI Governor is Raghuram Rajan. He took over from Dr. D Subbarao
4 Deputy Governors are H R Khan, Dr Urjit Patel, R Gandhi and S S MUNDRA. (3 year
tenure)
Miss Colombia Paulina Vega has been crowned Miss Universe.
Miss USA Nia Sanchez and Miss Ukraine Diana Harkusha were the runners-up.
Miss Jamaica Kaci Fennell and Miss Netherlands Yasmin Verheijen were also among the
top five.

Lydia Ko of New Zealand became the youngest golfer to hold top spot in the world rankings.

HSBC whistleblower Herve Falciani showed up names and details of people having illegal
money.

Apple becomes 1st company to hit the 700 billion $ mark, CEO Tim Cook.

Snapdeal acquires fashion portal Exclusively.com

Aero India 2015 at Air Force Station, Yelahanka on the outskirts of Bangalore. 2 women,
Squadron Leader Deepika Misra and Sandeep Singh join the joined the Sarang Team as part
of the Indian Air Force.

Netherlands based non-profit organization MARS ONE will send 4 people to mars in 2024
and then another 40 people. 3 Indians in the 100 people shortlist now.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister who is
responsible for all economic and financial matters, equivalent to the role of Minister of
Finance or Secretary of the Treasury in other nations. Often simply called the Chancellor,
the office-holder controls HM Treasury. The position is considered one of the four Great
Offices of State, and in recent times has come to be the most powerful office in British
politics after the Prime Minister. George Osborne is the Chancellor of the Exchequer and
Second Lord of the Treasury. UK chancellor George Osborne says debt talks are greatest
threat to world economy during meeting with Greek finance chief Yanis Varoufakis

Dilip Kumar -> Lifetime Achievement Award -> Jaipur International Film Festival

Bijneesh Bajrang -> Gold medal in the mens 61kg freestyle event at the Dave Schultz
Memorial International Wrestling Championship in USA

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has announced to create India's first
fenced elephant sanctuary within the Bannerghatta Biological Park in Bangalore.

Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) is an American environmental research satellite. Part
of the first tier of missions recommended for NASA by the Earth Science Decadal Survey,
launched on 31 January 2015.

Assam recently launched the Pentavalent Vaccine to prevent infant mortality rate:
DTP-HepB-Hib (Diphtheria, Tetanus, Whooping Cough or Pertusis, Hepatitis B,
Haemophilus influenza type B
Indian coins are being minted at Noida, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. Diamond for
Mumbai, star for Hyderabad, Dot for Noida and no mark for Kolkata.

RBI reduced SLR to 21.5%

Japan launched the Information Gathering Satellite, a spy satellite, H-2A (H-IIA) to survey
the globe night and day in all weather conditions from an orbit about 300 miles above Earth

Mithileshwar was awarded the 4th Shrilal Shukla Sahitya IFFCO Samman in 2015

Anil Kakodkar committee for food grains in Maharashtra

35th National Games were held in Kerela. Sachin Tendulkar was the Goodwill ambassador.
Mascot was Ammu, the hornbill, state bird of Kerela.

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan program, making free and compulsory education to children of ages
614 a fundamental right. Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat is a nationwide sub-programme of
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
Jharkhand government recently supplied tablets to all girl students studying in class 9, 10,
11 and 12 in government Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV).
The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya scheme was introduced by the Government of India
in August 2004, then integrated in the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan program, to provide
educational facilities for girls belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other
Backward Classes, minority communities and families below the poverty line in
Educationally Backward Blocks.

Britain becomes first country to donate to IMF Ebola debt relief fund.
The IMFs Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust was launched to help Guinea, Liberia,
and Sierra Leone.
After the earthquake disaster in Haiti of 2010, IMF created a mechanism for dealing with
natural catastrophes that hit its borrowers.

Adani and the government of Rajasthan sign a Memorandum on Understanding (MoU) to

jointly set up Indias largest solar park of 10,000 MW in Rajasthan

Seema Tiwari was honoured with the 'Maharani Ahilyabai Holkar' award for her
outstanding contribution in Bravery and Resham Fatma was honoured with the 'Rani
Laxmibai Bravery' award.

Australian cyclist Rohan Dennis broke the world hour record. The hour record is the record
for the longest distance cycled in one hour on a bicycle from a stationary start.

The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare launched 'National Deworming Day' - a massive
school-based deworming effort on February 10, 2015.

Amartya Sen won the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize.
ICICI Bank launches 'Pockets', India's first digital bank on a mobile phone. e-wallet valid
everywhere.

First World Ocean Science Congress (WOSC) was held in Kochi, Kerela.

Prithvi 2 surface-to-surface missile with range of 350 kms was successfully tested.

Academy Awards
Visual Effects: Interstellar
Animated FIlm: Big Hero 6
Best Documentary: Citizen Four
Best Foreign Language Film: Ida (Poland)
Supporting Actor: JK Simmons for Whiplash
Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette for Boyhood
Best Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Birdman
Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne for Theory of Everything
Best Actress: Julianne Moore for Still Alice
Best Picture: Birdman

"Taxi" won Golden Bear for Best Film in the 65th annual Berlin International Film Festival.

Ola cabs acquired Taxi for sure

The Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) is the economic advisor to the Government of India. The
CEA is the controlling authority of the Indian Economic Service. The CEA is under the direct
charge of the Finance Minister who heads the Ministry of Finance.

Sun Pharma owner Dilip Sanghvi is now India's richest man. Sun Pharma had bought
Ranbaxy in 2014

Women Scientists Tessy Thomas and Geeta Varadan were selected for Dr.Y. Nayudamma
Memorial Award 2014.

"Vanaj" was the first National Tribal Festival which was held in New Delhi.

BrahMos is the fastest cruise missile in operation. Developed by a joint venture between
DRDO and NPOM of Russia. Test fired from warship INS Kolkata which is the largest
warship built in India. INS Kochi and INS Chennai are being constructed at the Mazagon
Docks.

India has 2 Aircraft Carriers: INS Viraat and INS Vikramaditya. INS Vikrant is being built at
Cochin Shipyard. INS Vishal is yet to start.

Bharti Airtel partners with UNICEF to provide education content in 17 African countries.
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovi is Croatias first female President. Croatia had gained
independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.

Balasubramaniam Venkataramani was appointed as MD and CEO of (MCX) Multi

Commodity Exchange of India.

In an attempt to check deteriorating soil quality and spruce up farm productivity, Narendra
Modi launched the soil health card scheme in Suratgarh, Rajasthan. The soil health card
details existing nutrient status of the soil and crop-wise recommendations of nutrients and
fertilizers required, making it easier for farmers to improve productivity by using
appropriate inputs.

International Women's Day 8th march

India's Daughter, Nirbhaya Rape Case documentary by Leslie Udwin

Dawn Spacecraft orbiting around dwarf planet Ceres, which is the biggest in the Asteroid
belt between mars and Jupiter.

Indian citizens living abroad will now be able to file consular grievances online as the
government today launched an e-portal 'Madad' at the Ministry of External Affairs or MEA
headquarters in Delhi by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

Anirban Lahiri won Indian Open title of Golf.

Anil Kumble has been inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame 2015.

ReEBOV Antigen rapid test kit, developed by Corgenix, has been approved by WHO for
Ebola virus disease.

Ranchi Rays def Jaypee Punjab Warriors to win the Champions of Hero Hockey India
League 2015.

ISIS razed the ancient cities Nimrud and Hatra in Iraq.

The Varanasi to Kathmandu service is called the Bharat-Nepal Maitri Bus Seva
(India-Nepal Friendship Bus Service).

Janet Louise Yellen is the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of
USA

India-born Nobel laureate Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan to head Britain's Royal Society.

Shashi Kapoor gets Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

Steel Production -> China, Japan, India, USA.

Thailand is the largest Rubber producer of the world, followed by Indonesia, China and
India.

Def Importer -> Saudi Arabia, India, China, UAE

Def Exporter -> US, Russia, China, Germany, France, UK.

Bharat Ratna for Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Madan Mohan Malviya.

Indian ecologist Madhav Gadgil and American marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco share the
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. He is the second person after MS Swaminathan
to receive this award.

Coal Secretary Anil Swarup

John Nash and Louis Nirenberg will receive the 2015 Abel Prize for their work on partial
differential equations.

Femina Miss India 2015 Aditi Arya.

Mitchell Starc was named Man of the Series for World Cup 2015.

Akhil Sharmas Family Life won the 2015 Folio Prize.

Rajendra Singh also known as "Waterman of India" won the Stockholm Water Prize 2015,
an award known as "the Nobel Prize for water" in 2015.

Lee Kuan Yew the founder and 1st PM of Singapore died.

"Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy - Speaker's Perspective" by Meira Kumar.

Hydroelectric production -> China, Canada, Brazil.

Fifa Women's World Cup 2019 will be hosted by France.

Fifa World Cup 2018 will be hosted by Russia.

Fifa World Cup 2022 will be hosted by Qatar.

The union government has appointed Amitabh Bachchan as the brand ambassador for its
campaign against Hepatitis B.

The Grand Renaissance Dam is a gravity dam on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia currently
under construction. The dam will be the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa.

"Give it Up" campaign for voluntarily giving up LPG subsidy.

Chief of Naval staff Admiral R.K.Dhowan.

The first indigenously-built Scorpene submarine INS Kalvari was launched at the Mazagaon
Dockyard Ltd near Vishakhapatnam. This is in collaboration with the French firm DCNS.

Kotak Mahindra and ING Vyasa Bank merge.

Snapdeal bought Freecharge.

Andhra Pradesh capital name Amaravathi.

Farida Khambata is the 1st woman director of Tata Sons.

Super Tycoon Maysak hit Philippines.

Azlan Shah Hockey Cup: New Zealand, Australia, India.

Nokia takes over Alcatel-Lucent

Gopaldas Neeraj has been awarded the first National Kavi Pradeep Samman. Madhya
Pradesh instituted the award. Its after Kavi Pradeep.

Balbir Singh Sr. was honoured with Major Dhyan Chand life time achievement award at
inaugural Hockey India awards.

Election Commission currently consists of a Chief Election Commissioner and two Election
Commissioners. Nasim Zaidi is the Chief Election Commissioner of India. Election
Commissioners are Achal Kumar Jyoti and Om Prakash Rawat.

INS Vishakhapatnam: Indian Navy's new stealth destroyer ship launched.

Nupur Vashistha became New York's first Indian-American judge.

Haldia becomes India's first Green Port.

Vikas Swarup is the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs of India.

Mithali Raj first female cricketer to win Wisden India Cricketer of the Year.

T S Thakur succeeds H L Dattu as the Chief Justice of India.

Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru became the first solar powered sporting venue in India.

World Earth Day 22 April

Sangeeta Bhatia was awarded the 2015 Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy, and
Employment.

Guwahati and Srinagar are the two Indian cities at highest risk of an earthquake.
Yashwant Sinha was honoured with Officer of the Legion of Honour, the highest French
civilian distinction.

Order of the Chrysanthemum is the highest award in Japan.

Dr Prannoy Roy was honoured with the RedInk Award for lifetime achievement.
Sreenivasan Jain was presented Journalist of the Year award.

Dr Anand Kumar and Dr. Pramod Patil won the Whitley Award which is awarded for
Wildlife Conservation.

French company CapGemini bought USA based igate for 4 billion dollars.

Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) has won The Asian Banker Achievement Award 2015.

Usha Ananthasubramanian is the CMD. BMB is Indias first all-women public sector bank.
Headquarter of Bharatiya Mahila Bank is located in New Delhi.

Best Indian Bank award went to ICICI.

Operation Maitri is the rescuse and relief work in Nepal by the Indian armed forces and the
government.

Forbes Global 2000 list: (ICBC) Industrial and Commercial Bank of China rank 1.

Mazen Darwish from Syria has been honored with 2015 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World
Press Freedom Prize.

The BRICS bank setup in Shanghai will have 1st chief KV Kamath

Kailash Satyarthi was selected for the prestigious Harvard Humanitarian of the Year Award.

Environmentalist Kartik Chandran was named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow for working on
a novel solution to the world's need for food, clean water and energy.

Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the Man Booker International Prize.

Jamaican author Marlon James won the prestigious 2015 Man Booker Prize for his novel
A Brief History of Seven Killings.

Operation Sophia is a naval operation launched by the European Union against human
smugglers and traffickers in the Mediterranean Sea.

ICICI Bank launched a mobile-payment solution based on 'mVisa' that will allow its
customers pay for services using their smartphones. ICICI had earlier launched Pocket.
Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched the second phase of Mission
Indradhanush to achieve full immunisation of children below two years. It aims to cover all
those children who are either unvaccinated or are partially vaccinated against 7 vaccine
preventable diseases. These 7 diseases are Diphtheria, Whooping cough, Tetanus, Polio,
Tuberculosis, Measles and Hepatitis B. WHO, UNICEF, Rotary International and others are
donor partners for Mission Indradhanush.

The government's Sagarmala project, aims to develop port infrastructure along the country's
7,500 km coastline. Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari. The projects mainly include
increasing the capacity of existing major ports and adding new ports.

India is going to chair Group of Twenty (G20) nations forum in year 2018 and New Delhi
could be the host of the prestigious annual G20 summit.

Rugby World Cup: NZ, Australia, South Africa, Argentina.

Tanzania President John Magufuli

Raif Badawi the Saudi Arabian blogger and author of the website Free Saudi Liberals won
2015 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought which is awarded by the European Parliament.

World Banks Ease of Doing Business 2016 report, India ranked at 130th among the 189
countries. The list is topped by Singapore followed by New Zealand.

2015 Global Competitiveness Index, India ranked 55th position among 140 economies of the
world. The list is topped by Switzerland, followed by Singapore.

Abishek Verma got Silver Medal at the Archery World Cup in Mexico.

Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe won the Confucius Prize by China.

China was severely affected by Super typhoon Dujuan

Fortunes list of Most Powerful People -> Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, Barrack Obama,
Pope Francis, Xi Jinping

Fortunes list of 50 Most Powerful Women in Business -> Mary Barra, Indra Nooyi, Ginny
Rometti

Indians who have won the prize are Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Aravind Adiga.
Most FDI inflow -> India, China, USA.

G20 summit was held in Antalya, Turkey. Currently Turkey holds the G20 chair. India will
be the chair for 2018.

Rebooting Government by Nandan Nilekani.

After successful launching of ASTROSTAT India became the fourth country globally to have
space observatory after only US, Russia and Japan.

NITI Aayog vice-chairman Aravind Panagariya has been chosen as the next G-20 Sherpa of
prime minister Narendra Modi.

The Vyaas Samman 2014 award was conferred on writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goenka.

Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan (Accessible India Campaign) is for people with disabilities.

INS Kochi, indigenously built biggest warship was commissioned.

The Marathi film Court has been short listed for the Best Foreign Movie category as
Indias official entry for the Academy Awards in 2016. The movie.

Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY) for welfare of the people living in
areas which are affected directly or indirectly by mining.

ISIS occupied cities of Palmyra (Syria) and Nimrud (Iraq).

Sania Mirza was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2015.

Novak Djokovic was chosen as goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.

Sanjiv Chaturvedi and Anshu Gupta won the Ramon Magsaysay Award.

BRICS Summit was held in Ufa, Russia.

India is placed at 143 in Global Peace Index. It is topped by Iceland.

Maggi was banned because it had traces of Mono Sodium Glutamate.

Jin Liqun of China been appointed as President of $100 billion Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank (AIIB). Headquartered at Beijing. Share size is China, India, Russia.

The New Development Bank (NDB) is a multilateral development bank operated by the
BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) started its operations from its
headquarters in Shanghai, China. The eminent banker, K V Kamath from India appointed as
the first President of NDB for five years till 2020. The NDB will have an initial capital of $50
billion, which will be raised to $100 billion within the next couples of years. China will
contribute $41 bn while India, Brazil and Russia will each pump in $18 bn while South
Africas contribution would stand at $5 billion. The purpose of the bank is to mobilize
resources for infrastructure and sustainable development projects in BRICS and other
emerging economies and developing countries in the world. The first loan will be sanctioned
in the Chinese Yuan Renminbi.

According to the recent land swap deal between India and Bangladesh, India will transfer
111 enclaves to Bangladesh, while Bangladesh will transfer 51 enclaves to India.

RBIs committee on Financial Inclusion will be headed by Deepak Mohanty.

Bibek Debroy committee report is related to Restructuring the railways.

Vijay Kelkar Committee is for PPP model.

A P Shah committee on Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) on FIIs.

C K Mahajan committee for redrafting national sports development.

India ranked 135 in Human Development Index.

Max FDI inflow to India is from Mauritius, Singapore.

Total FDI inflow ranking is China, Hong Kong, US.

UK and the US have the maximum money with Swiss banks. UBS and Credit Suisse account
for nearly two-third of the total money kept by foreigners in Switzerland.

Mudra loan is being financed by a subsidiary of SIDBI. Shishu, Kishor, Tarun are the 3
forms of the Mudra loan.

One97 Communications Paytm holds sponsorship rights for BCCI matches.

SEBI Securities and Exchange Board of India merged with Forwards Markets Commission
(FMC)
The 2015 Ramanujan Prize has been awarded to Amalendu Krishna.

Amitabh Bachchan has been appointed as the tiger ambassador by the Maharashtra
government to promote ecotourism, especially tiger tourism in the state.

Barack Obama will host the next nuclear security summit in March-April, 2016 in
Washington DC.

Rajat Chauhan earned India its first ever individual silver medal in the World Archery
Championships in 2015.

What pet should I get by Dr. Seuss.

Niti Aayog. Chairperson is Narendra Modi. Vice Chairperson is Arvind Panagriya.

CEO is Sindhushree Khullar.

Indias entry to Cannes Masaan by Neeraj Ghaywan.

Books written by APJ Abdul Kalam:

Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji
Reignited: Scientific Pathways to a Brighter Future
Advantage India: From Challenge to Opportunity

Nek Chand built the Rock Gardens of Chandigarh.

GSLV D6 was launched from the Sriharikota spaceport.

WPI Wholesale Price Index is prepared by Central Statistical Organisation CSO.

World Water Day March 22

World Heritage Day April 18
Earth Day April 22
World Environment Day June 5
World Yoga Day June 21. Next Year Feb 21

Maha Kumbh Mela was held in Nashik.

World Heritage Committee of UNESCO session was held in Bonn, Germany. Next year in
Istanbul, Turkey.
World Book Capital City by UNESCO. Incheon, South Korea for 2015. Wroclaw, Poland for
2016. Conakry, Guinea for 2017.

African Development Bank HQ at Abidjan, Ivory Coast. President is Akinwumi Adesina.

Ajay Mathur was appointed as the Director-General (DG) of The Energy and Resources
Institute (TERI).

TRAI chairman R S Sharma.

FSSAI Chairman Ashish Bahuguna.

Switzerland declared 26th May as Science Day in honour of APJ Abdul Kalam.

Marie Curie and Linus Pauling have got Nobel Prizes for different fields.

Dheepan by Jaacques Audiard won the Palme d OR at the Cannes Awards.

Operation Rahat was for the safe evacuation of Indian nationals from Yemen.

Worlds most powerful women: Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, Melinda Gates, Janet
Yellen, Marry Barra, Christine Lagarde.

Indias most powerful women: Arundhati Bhattcharya, Chanda Kochar, Kiran Mazumdar
Shaw, Shobna Bhartia

Edward Snowden won the Bjornson Prize for his work on freedom of expression.

Kalvari, the first Scorpene class stealth submarine was launched. It was built at Mazagaon
Docks.

Irans Fordow nuclear reactor will stop enriching Uranium. Max enriching limit is 3.67%

Mens world hockey League: Australia, Belgium, India, Netherlands.

Double decker Shatabdi between Goa and Mumbai.

CEA Arvind Subramanian led panel submitted its report on possible tax rates for GST.

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed of Bangladesh won the 2015 winner of the World Food Prize.
J Manjula becomes DRDO's (Defence Research and Development Organisation) first
woman Director General.

BRICS Summit, 2015 Ufa, Russia

G7 Summit, 2015 Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, Germany

G20 Summit, 2015 Antalya, Turkey

SAARC Summit, 2016 Islamabad

APEC Summit, 2015 Manila

NAM Summit, 2015 Qatar

ASEAN Summit, 2015 Kuala Lampur

Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas, 2015 Gandhinagar

Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas, 2016 New Delhi

UN Climate Change Conference, 2015 (COP 21) Paris

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, 2015 Malta

Indian Science Congress, 2015 Mumbai

Global Earth Hour, 2015 Seoul

National Conference on e-Governance, 2015 Gandhinagar

Renewable Energy Global Investors Meet & Expo, 2015 New Delhi

World Hindi Conference Bhopal