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The bank which leads in mobile banking transactions as of
Jan 2015 – HDFC Bank
l The bank which acquired the diamond/jewellery financing
business of RBS recently – IndusInd Bank
l The German Nobel laureate who died recently – Gunter
Grass
l The country which topped the global remittances in 2014,
receiving USD 70 bn – India
l The North Korean foreign minister who visited New Delhi
recently – Ri Su Yong
l Winner of the Chinese Grand Prix Formula One – Lewis
Hamilton
l Winner of the Azlan Shah Cup hockey title – New Zealand
– India’s position in the 24th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey
tournament – Third
K
l The first female Indian tennis player to achieve the world
No. 1 rank in doubles – Sania Mirza
l The first female Indian shuttler to achieve the world No. 1
rank in singles – Saina Nehwal
l The former Air Chief Marshal who died recently –
Hrushikesh Moolgaonkar
l The country with which India has signed a Memorandum of
Cooperation in transport – US
l The total upfront payment received by the govt from telecom
players in the recent auction – `32,300 cr (approx)
l The US state which allowed nitrogen gas as an execution
KUNDAN
method recently – Oklahoma
l The first Indian bank whose mobile banking application
(app) will be available in Apple Watches – HDFC Bank
l The country which has put off its infamous Nitaqat III
scheme recently – Saudi Arabia
l The new Chief Executive Officer of Khadi and Village
Industries Commission (KVIC) – Arun Kumar Jha
l The chair of the ninth meeting of the IRENA to be held in
Abu Dhabi – India
l The city declared Global Earth Hour Capital 2015 – Seoul
l The city declared India’s Earth Hour Capital 2015 – Thane
l National Safe Motherhood Day – 11 Apr
l The former Australian captain known as ‘voice of cricket’,
who died recently – Richie Benaud
l Paris in situated on the river – Seine
l The headquarters of the UNESCO is situated in – Paris
l The amount to be invested by France in India – 2 bn euros
l The Indo-French satellite mission to study the water cycle
in the tropical atmosphere – Megha-Tropiques
l International Day of Human Space Flight – 12 Apr
l The host city of the UN Climate Change Conference – Paris
l The new Chief Election Commissioner of India – Nasim
Zaidi
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l The country from which India evacuated around 5,600
people recently – Yemen
l World Meteorological Day – 23 Mar
l The biologist chosen recently for the prestigious US
presidential award – Murty S Kambhampati
l The new chairperson of NGT – Swatanter Kumar
l The bank which is going to offer loan products named
‘Shishu’, ‘Kishor’ and ‘Tarun’ – MUDRA Bank
l The corpus of MUDRA Bank launched on 8 Apr – `20,000
cr
l The chairman of the 11-member committee set up to work
out single framework for govt clearances – Ajay Shankar
l Winner of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T-20 cricket tournament –
Gujarat
l The Pakistan Taliban chief banned by the UN Security
Council – Mullah Fazlullah
l The city where the 5th meeting of the Health Ministers of
SAARC countries was held on 8 Mar – New Delhi
l The single number proposed by TRAI for all emergency
phone calls across the country – 112
l The minimum interest rate at which a bank can lend – Base
rate
l NH-56 connects – Lucknow and Varanasi
l The capital of Turkmenistan – Ashgabat
l The number of Executive Directors at the World Bank – 25
l Winner of the men’s singles title of the Miami Masters
2015 – Novak Djokovic
l Winner of the women’s singles title of the Miami Masters
2015 – Serena Williams
l The place in Maharashtra where the French firm Areva will
set up nuclear-power plants – Jaitapur
l The new Director of the ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) in
Bengaluru – M Annadurai
l The first bank in the country to deploy voice-recognition
technology for biometric authentication – ICICI Bank
l The new Chairman of the IPL Governing Council – Rajeev
Shukla
l The central bank with which the RBI signed a USD 400-mn
currency swap agreement – Central Bank of Sri Lanka
l The first Scorpene-class stealth submarines undocked in
Mumbai on 6 Apr – Kalvari class
l The birth anniversary of Babu Jagjivan Ram on 5 Apr is
observed as – Samata Diwas
l The world’s oldest living person recognised by Guinness
World Records who died recently – Misao Okawa
l The Committee set up to review depository receipts scheme
– MS Sahoo Committee
l The bank which has topped the list with highest NPAs
among PSUs as of Dec 2014 – Central Bank of India

l The currency of Malaysia – Ringgit
l The state where India’s first International Finance Service
Centre (IFSC) is coming up – Gujarat
l The Budget allocation to provide interest subsidy for exports
for fiscal year 2015-16 – `1,625 cr
l The period for which the govt has issued its Foreign Trade
Policy (FTP) – 2015-20
l India’s present share in global trade – 2 per cent
l The person who won the presidential elections in Nigeria
recently – Muhammadu Buhari
l For all-round development of this Island the World Bank
has sanctioned `100 cr – Sagar Island
l The Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State
Finance Ministers on GST – KM Mani
l The Independence Day of Bangladesh – 26 Mar
l The navigation satellite the ISRO launched on 28 Mar –
IRNSS-1D
l The country where 147 students were massacred by Shebab
Islamist group in Garissa recently – Kenya
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l The winner of the first ICC Cricket World Cup – West
Indies
l The new Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court – Ashok
Bhooshan
l The estimated cost of the National Supercomputing Mission
launched recently – `4,500 cr
l The host of the ICC Cricket World Cup to be held in 2019
– England
l Winner of the women’s singles title of the India Open Super
Series title – Saina Nehwal
l India’s ranking on UNCTAD’s new index for assessing the
readiness of countries for e-commerce – 83rd
l Winner of the men’s singles title of the India Open Super
Series – Kidambi Srikanth
l The world’s largest B2C market measured in terms of revenue
and the number of online buyers – China
l The project aimed at port-led development of coastal states
– Sagarmala project
l The partner of the SBI in the general insurance joint venture

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l The regulator of health insurance business in India – IRDA – Insurance Australia Group
of India l The Yemeni President forced to flee the country recently –
l Japan’s largest warship that Defence Minister Manohar Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi
Parrikar visited recently – Izumo l The person who topped the 2015 roster of ‘World’s Greatest
l India’s ranking in the 2015 FM Global Resilience Index on Leaders’ by Fortune magazine – Tim Cook
business resilience – 119th l The next US ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives –
l The richest woman of China at present as per Forbes list – Atul Keshap
Zhou Qunfei l The partner country for Hannover Messe, 2015, the biggest
l RBI started its operations as a shareholders’ bank in 1935 industrial fair in the world – India
on – 1 Apr l The telecom firm that emerged as the highest bidder in the
l The first governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) – recent spectrum auction – Idea Cellular
Osborne Smith l The number of digits in the MICR code – Nine

KUNDAN
l The value of export targeted by the new Foreign Trade
Policy (FTP) – USD 900 bn
l Femina Miss India 2015 – Aditi Arya
l The only team to win the ICC Cricket World Cup five times
– Australia
l The first ICC Cricket World Cup was played in – 1975
l The ‘man of the match’ in the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup
final – James Faulkner
l The ‘man of the tournament’ in the 2015 ICC Cricket World
Cup – Mitchell Starc
l The captain of the winning Australian team who retired
from ODIs after the World Cup final – Michael Clarke
l The countries that primarily hold Malabar Naval Exercise –
India and the US
l India’s position in the Open Govt Index 2015 – 37th
l The country which topped the Open Govt Index 2015 –
Sweden
l The currency of Indonesia – Peso
l The present Union Food Processing Minister – Harsimrat
Kaur Badal
l The amount the govt raised through the recent telecom
spectrum auction – `109,874 cr
l The number of agreements signed between India and Qatar
recently – Six

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similar to BSC or is using a fake logo, is spoiling his/her career. Please note BSC is running
classroom coaching at the following centres only – Agartala, Bengaluru, Berhampur, Bhopal,
Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi, Faridabad, Gaya, Gurgaon,
Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur, Jammu, Kolkata, Mumbai, Panchkula, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi,
Rourkela, Siliguri, Vijayawada, and Visakhapatnam. If you take admission at any fake centre,
BSC is not responsible for this. So beware and take admission at original BSC centres only.
H Jaipur and Lucknow centres have been closed. There will be no admission now onwards. We
are not responsible for admissions of any institute in Lucknow claiming to have any association
with the name of BSC Academy.

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