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The winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize

Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The 78-year-old stock exchange which was allowed to exit
by SEBI recently Madras Stock Exchange
The new rate of service tax effective Jun 1 14 per cent
The Indian city where Google has announced to set up its
largest campus outside the US Hyderabad
The amount South Korea has offered to provide for
infrastructure projects in India USD 10 bn
The country where 12-day annual multi-nation military
exercise Eager Lion was held recently Jordan
The present PM of Mongolia Chimed Saikhanbileg
The bank whose first branch in China was inaugurated by
PM Modi in Shanghai recently ICICI Bank
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
(WTISD) 17 May
The new MD and CEO of Syndicate bank Arun
Shrivastava
Winner of the 2015 Sudirman Cup badminton tournament
China
The veteran singer and guitarist who died recently BB
King
Indias position on the 124-nation global Human Capital
Index 2015 100th
The new president of Japans SoftBank Corp Nikesh
Arora
The new chairman of the National Safety Council (NSC)
Satish Reddy
National Technology Day which commemorates Nuclear
Tests in Pokhran 11 May
International Nurses Day 12 May
Chief of the BRICS Bank or the New Development Bank
KV Kamath
RBI introduced the banking ombudsman scheme in 1995
The founding father of the European single currency euro
who died recently Alexandre Lamfalussy
The only Indian firm in the worlds top-10 list of consumer
finance firms compiled by Forbes HDFC (ranked 7th)
The firm that has topped the list American Express
The veteran actor who was presented with Dada Saheb
Phalke award for 2014 Shashi Kapoor
The Indian tech billionaire ranked as Asias wealthiest
entrepreneur under the age of 40 as per Wealth-X Arun
Pudur
The Indian-origin woman who got Cabinet rank in the new
David Cameron govt in the UK Priti Patel
The hockey team India defeated 3-0 in a 4-match series
recently Japan
The winner of the Spanish Grand Prix F1 championship on

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10 May Nico Rosberg

The skill training scheme for members under 35 yrs of age of
households that have completed 100 days work in 2014-15
under MGNREGA Livelihoods In Full Employment
(LIFE)
The typhoon that hit Philippines on 10 May Noul
The bilateral trade between EU and India at present
100 bn euros
The year by which the NOFN (National Optical Filere
Network) project aims to connect 2.5 lakh gram panchayats
2016
The country where a contingent of the Nine Grenadiers
regiment of the Indian Army marched in an international
military parade on 9 May Russia
The state where a strategically important new naval base
INS Sardar Patel was commissioned on 9 May Gujarat
The Naxal hotbeds where the PM initiated welfare projects
worth about `25,000 cr on 9 May Dantewada
The former Gujarat Chief Secretary appointed as the Election
Commissioner of India recently Achal Kumar Jyoti
The 119th Constitution (Amendment) Bill passed by the
Parliament LBA Bill
The French Defence Minister who visited India on 5 May
Jean-Yves le Drian
The date after which banks have to issue only EMV chipbased and PIN-enabled debit and credit cards 1 Sep 2015
The woman wrestler who won bronze in Asian
championship in Doha on 6 May Geeta Phogat
The winner of Sportsperson of the Year award at inaugural
TOISA awards presented on 7 May Jitu Rai
The deadline for new model cars to pass minimum frontal
and side crash tests Oct 2017
The new Prime Minister of UK whose Conservative Party
won 331 out of 650 seats recently David Cameron
The state where the Polavaram multipurpose project will
come up Andhra Pradesh
The head of the Committee looking after the issue of MAT
on FIIs AP Shah
Indias current position in the global list of countries in
terms of their travel and tourism competitiveness 52nd
Mothers Day Second Sunday of May
The country where President Pranab Mukherjee attended
the Victory Day parade recently Russia
The country which has topped the biennial Travel & Tourism
Competitiveness Index (TTCI) 2015 Spain
The bank which has launched a product that could process
personal loans in 10 seconds HDFC Bank
As per the RBI, gross non-performing asset (GNPA) ratio
as on Mar 15 4.45 per cent

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The port to be developed by India in Iran Chabahar

PM Narendra Modi has become the first Indian PM to visit
this country Mongolia
The capital city of Mongolia Ulan Bator
The book written by Vikas Swarup which was made into
Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire Q&A
The only category that showed a growth in excise duty
collections during FY14 as per CAG Petroleum products
Indias position in global market capitalisation (m-cap)
ranking as on May 2015 Tenth
The new threshold for FDI for which approval of CCEA is
compulsory `3,000 cr
The four states whose territories come under the ambit of
the LBA Bill Assam, West Bengal, Tripura and
Meghalaya
The surface-to-air short-range missile defence system
inducted into Armys arsenal recently Akash
The Chinese micro-blogging site equivalent to Twitter
Sina Weibo
The insurance firm that raised its stake in the insurance JV
with Bharti group to 49 per cent recently AXA Group
The moon of Jupiter whose lava lakes detailed observations
was captured recently lo
The state with the least number of married 19-year-old girls
as per data from the census 2011 Nagaland
Indias position in terms of number of reactors in operation
globally as per IAEA data 7th
The company that has come up with the free Internet access
site, Internet.org Facebook
The country which is buying 24 Dassault Rafale jets from
France in $7.02 bn Qatar
The two retail majors who have announced their merger in a
`750-cr all-stock transaction Future and Bharti Retail
The name of Royal baby of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
of the UK Charlotte Elizabeth Diana
The veteran investor who was killed in a recent accident in
the US Parag Parikh
The new cleanliness initiative of West Bengal on the lines of
Swachch Bharat Mission Mission Nirmal Bangla
The amount the Centre would invest to revamp road
infrastructure in the Northeast `20,000 cr
The new web browser unveiled by Microsoft Edge
The upper limit on withdrawals at micro-ATMs fixed by

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the banks `10,000

The 161st member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
which joined it on 27 Apr Seychelles
International Day of Yoga 21 Jun
Indias position in generating electricity from nuclear source
as per IAEA data 13th
World Dance Day 29 Apr
The new limit for FDI in the pension section 49 per cent
The prominent social and human rights activist of Pakistan
who was shot dead in Karachi recently Sabeen Mahmud
The first African-American woman to become the US
attorney general (83rd) recently Loretta Lynch
Winner of the womens singles title at the Badminton Asia
Championships in China on 26 Apr Ratchanok Intanon
The name of Indias rescue operation in quake-hit Nepal
Operation Maitri
The Indian 155mm, 45-calibre artillery gun which
successfully cleared Indian Armys tests recently
Dhanush
Winner of the Shamkir Chess tournament on 26 Apr
Magnus Carlsen
Winner of the Asian Banker Achievement Award 2015 for
Technology Implementation Bharatiya Mahila Bank
The state where the Indian Army on 26 Apr conducted a
major exercise, Akraman-II Rajasthan
The Indian honoured by France with the Officier de la Lgion
dHonneur (Officer of the Legion of Honour) Yashwant
Sinha
The sports body suspended by the govt recently
Paralympic Committee of India (PCI)
The Malaysian ace shuttler banned by the Badminton World
Federation for doping recently Lee Chong Wei
The bank which has made its global foray by opening its
first overseas representative office in Abu Dhabi YES
Bank
The city where the 4th International Wind Conference will
be held on Jun 22-23 Coimbatore
The re-elected president of Kazakhstan Nursultan
Nazarbayev
Winner of the mens singles title of the Badminton Asia
Championships in China on 26 Apr Lin Dan
The Indian-origin scientist at MIT who won the 2015 Heinz
Award Sangeeta Bhatia

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