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Match Pointl The state with which Hindustan Zinc has inked a pact to

build 30,000 rural toilets for BPL families Rajasthanl The new GDP growth forecast for India by the World Bank

for 201415 5.5 per centl The country which External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj

visited in her first stand-alone visit Bangladeshl The amount of India money in Swiss banks as per the latest

data released by Swiss National Bank (SNB) `14,000 crl The winner of the prestigious 49th Jnanpith award for 2013

Kedarnath Singhl The Indian pair which won the women's doubles title at the

tri-nation squash doubles tournament in Kuala Lumpur Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa

l The mosquito-borne disease against which the govtannounced 100 per cent immunisation of children in affectedstates Encephalitis

l To bring focus on this area, the NDA govt has decided tobring broad changes in MGNREGA scheme Agriculture

l The industrial group in India that has announced to invest`1.8 lakh cr ($30 bn) across businesses over the next threeyears to break into the Fortune 50 club RIL

l India's ranking in the latest annual ranking of the GlobalPeace Index 143rd

l The defending champion of the FIFA World Cup whichmade a shock early exit from the 2014 World Cup Spain

l The Governor of Chhattisgarh who resigned recently Shekhar Dutt

l The Governor of UP who resigned recently BL Joshil The vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management

Authority who resigned recently M Shashidhar Reddyl The region which is projected to get hotter by 4C by 2080

as per a new research Indus basinl The leading online retailer which has launched a new 3D

phone 'Fire' recently Amazonl The winner of the FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship

title Magnus Carlsenl The power plant that has become the single-largest-power

generating unit in the country Kudankulaml The percentage of public shareholding made mandatory by

the Sebi for all listed PSUs within three years 25 per centl The new King of Spain Felipe VIl The plant scientist who won the USD 250,000 World Food

Prize Sanjaya Rajaraml The state which has passed a law to ban dance bars across

the state recently Maharashtral The state where NTPC's Lata Tapovan power project is to

come up Uttarakhandl The new elected President of Colombia Juan Manuel

Santosl The country that held the top position in the medal tally in

the Asian Junior Athletics Championships Chinal The country against whom GMR Infrastructure has won

the arbitration proceedings recently Maldivesl The chairman of the Tax Administrative Reforms

Commission which submitted its recommendation recently Parthasarathi Shome

l The Indian software exporter which has become the worldsthird-largest employer of people in the IT sector TCS

l The tool through which banks park excess liquidity withthe Reserve Bank of India Reverse term repo

l The new managing director and CEO of YES Bank RanaKapoor

l The infrastructure finance company which has bagged licencefrom the RBI and plans to start bank operations by Oct2015 IDFC

l The winner of the women's World Cup hockey title Netherlands

l The deputy Prime Minister of Russia who visited Indiarecently Dmitry O Rogozin

l The winner of the men's World Cup hockey title Australial The river in which Andhra Pradesh's 24 engineering students

drowned in Mandi in Himachal Pradesh recently Beasl The militant separatist group in news for its recent activities

in Iraq Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)l The country that lays thrust on Gross National Happiness

for measuring its economic development Bhutanl The present Prime Minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgayl The endemic responsible for the deaths of about 3 mn

children under the age of five every year as revealed by theUN agency FAO Malnutrition

l The Ugandan foreign minister who has been elected as thepresident of the UN General Assembly Sam Kutesa

l The country with which India concluded the air exerciseGaruda-V recently France

l The Ugandan writer who has won the overall CommonwealthWriters Short Story Prize for Let's Tell This Story Properly Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

l The richest cricketer in the world as per the recent listpublished by Forbes Mahendra Singh Dhoni

l The present President of South Korea Park Geun-Hyel India's largest aircraft carrier dedicated to the nation by the

PM recently INS Vikramadityal The winner of the men's doubles title of the French Open

tennis tournament Julien Benneteau and EdouardRoger-Vasselin

l The country which handed over Hong Kong to China on 1Jul 1997 UK

l The Gulf country which has introduced a new law requiringcompulsory military service for adult males United ArabEmirates

l The Grand Slam with which the term Roland Garros isassociated French Open

l The newly appointed chief executive officer (CEO) ofInfosys Vishal Sikka

l The steel plant of SAIL where a gas leak killed six personsand affected several others recently Bhilai

l The new revenue secretary Shaktikanta Dasl The winner of the women's doubles title of the French Open

tennis tournament Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuail The theme of the World Environment Day 2014 Small

Islands and Climate Changel The present president of South Sudan Salva Kiir

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l The person awarded the prestigious Bharat Ratna JRD Tataaward recently V Somasundaram

l The country where ELN is the second largest rebel group Colombia

l The winner of the women's singles title of the French Opentennis tournament Maria Sharapova

l The winner of the men's singles title of the French opentennis tournament Rafael Nadal

l The international airport of Pakistan attacked by themilitants which left 40 people dead recently Karachi

l The foreign minister of China who visited India recently Wang Yi

l The winner of the Canadian Grand Prix Formula Onechampionship Daniel Ricciardo

l The country with which the EU has signed the controversialHorizon 2020 Project recently Israel

l The country where the sixth BRICS summit is scheduled tobe held in Jul Brazil

l The person who became the first Indian to be honouredwith Harvard Medal recently Anand Mahindra

l The person in whose name the UN General Assembly hasestablished a prize recently Nelson Mandela

l The Jordanian appointed as the new high commissioner forhuman rights by the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moonrecently Zeid al Hussein

l The period for which India has been elected to UNESCObody for conserving cultural heritage 2014 to 2018

l The country which the Prime Minister Narendra Modivisited on his first foreign visit recently Bhutan

l Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajanl The city where the XX Commonwealth Games will be held

from 23 Jul to 3 Aug 2014 Glasgowl The person who won the recent presidential election held in

Syria Bashar al-Assadl The first Chief Minister of the successor state of Andhra

Pradesh post-bifurcation Chandrababu Naidul World Environment Day 5 Junl Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) 22.5 per centl The country where the solar-powered plane Solar Impulse

2 has been successfully tested which is able to fly day andnight without fuel or polluting emissions Switzerland

l India's position in the textile export in the world Secondl The person who has been appointed on the Board of

Governors of Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently Arun Jaitley

l The largest exporter of textiles in the world Chinal The country which has announced to start a USD 5-bn anti-

terrorism partnership fund USl The present president of the industry body FICCI

Sidharth Birlal The first Chief Minister of the newly formed 29th state of

the country, Telangana K Chandrashekar Raol The new President of Malawi Peter Mutharikal The number of Rajya Sabha members allotted to the newly

created state of Telangana 7l The technology firm which unveiled a prototype driverless

car recently Googlel The winner of the seventh season of the Indian Premier

League (IPL) Kolkata Knight Ridersl The person who has been appointed as the National Security

Advisor (NSA) to the Prime Minister Ajit Dovall The vice chairman of the Special Investigation Team (SIT)

set up to probe black money Arijit Pasayatl World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) May 31l The newly elected president of Egypt Abdel Fattah al

S isil The rate at which the Indian economy expanded during the

period 201314 as per the official data released by the CSO 4.7 per cent

l The newly appointed Solicitor General Ranjit Kumarl The media group which the RIL acquired for ` 4000 cr in the

biggest-ever deal in the Indian media sector Network 18l The father figure of Malaysian hockey who died recently

Sultan Azlan Shahl The global retailer whose purchase of 50 per cent stake in

Tata Group firm Trent Hypermarket has been cleared bythe CCI recently Tesco

l The newly appointed Attorney General (AG) MukulRohatgi

l The newly appointed Chairman of the Cauvery WaterDisputes Tribunal Justice BS Chauhan

l The currency that has been the best performing currency inAsiaPacific region against the US dollar so far in 2014 Indian Rupee

l The city awarded the rights to host the inaugural EuropeanGames to be held in 2015 Baku, Azerbaijan

l The temporarily appointed US ambassador to India Kathleen Stephens

l The new Chief Information Commissioner Rajiv Mathurl The newly elected Chief Minister of Nagaland TR Zeliang