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Match Pointl The person who will head the task force set up by the Niti

Aayog on Swachh Bharat – Siddaramaiahl The activist who has been conferred the prestigious

Stockholm Water Prize this year – Rajendra Singhl The state which is considering naming its new capital city

as Amaravathi – Andhra Pradeshl The person who will head the task force set up by the NITI

Aayog on Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) – ShivrajSingh Chauhan

l The person who will head the task force set up by the NITIAayog on Skill Development – Manik Sarkar

l The statesman widely respected as the architect of modernSingapore who died recently – Lee Kuan Yew

l The current nuclear power capacity of India – 5,780 MWl The new Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court – Uma

Nath Singhl The veteran Hindi film actor named for the prestigious Dada

Saheb Phalke Award recently – Shashi Kapoorl The person to head a new innovative council of Indian

Railways called ‘Kaya Kalp’ – Ratan Tatal The person appointed as the brand ambassador for the

Northeast – Mary Koml The present tiger population in the country – 2,226l The winner of the Women’s Hockey World League Round 2

– Indial The first bank to offer contactless card in India using NFC

technology – ICICI Bankl The firm on which the Income Tax Department has slapped

`20,495 cr tax notice – Cairn Indial The world’s largest arms importer for the period 2010-14 –

Indial The winner of the Australian Grand Prix – Lewis Hamiltonl The country which is promoting Asian Infrastructure

Investment Bank (AIIB) – Chinal The number of health workers in India for every 1000 people

– 19l The staunch Gandhian who died recently – Narayan Desail The present Managing Director of IMF who visited India

recently – Christine Lagardel World Consumer Rights Day – 15 Marl The article of the Constitution which empowers the President

to promulgate ordinances – Article 123l The scheme with which the National Mission for a Green

India has been converged – MGNREGAl The number of PSBs in India at present – 27l The winner of the 2015 Santosh trophy – Servicesl The island India has leased from Mauritius – Agalegal The PSB which opened its British subsidiary recently –

Union Bank of India

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l The present CMD of the UBI – Arun Tiwaril Mudra Bank will be first set up as a subsidiary of – SIDBIl The winner of the men’s singles of the Swiss Open Grand

Prix Gold title – Srikanth Kidambil The number of Indian satellites which are currently

operational – 27l National Science Day – 28 Febl The winner of the 2015 Ranji Trophy – Karnatakal The capital infused by the govt in 2013-14 in 14 PSBs –

`14,000 crl The capital infusion targeted by the govt in 2014-15 in nine

PSBs – `6,990 crl The proposed capital infusion by the govt in 2015-16 in

PSBs – `7,940 crl The GDP growth of India in 2015-16 as projected by the

IMF – 7.5 per centl The year in which the US had imposed sanctions against

Iran – 1979l The plan outlay proposed in the Railway Budget for the

FY16 – ̀ 1,00,011 crl The percentage to which the govt has decided to reduce its

shareholding in PSBs – 52 per centl The present Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha – PJ

Kurienl The new Insurance Law raised foreign investment cap in

insurance sector to – 49 per centl The current insurance penetration in the country – 3 per

centl The amount LIC of India will invest in the Indian Railways

over the next five years – `1.5 lakh crl The country in which the PM launched India-supplied

offshore patrol vessel Barracuda – Mauritiusl The reduced number of mandatory documents required for

import and export of goods – Threel The bank which is to auction repossessed property worth

nearly $200 mn – State Bank of Indial The Financial Services Secretary in the Ministry of Finance

at present – Hasmukh Adhial The country to which the Shinkansen bullet train technology

belongs – Japanl The former chief minister of Bihar who passed away recently

– Ram Sundar Dasl The country with which India, on 5 Mar, signed pact on

Mutual Protection of Classified Information – Spainl The Indian-American re-nominated as the Alternative

Executive Director at IMF by the US – Sunil Sabharwall The consumer inflation target set by the RBI governor and

the govt to be met by the end of Mar 2017 – 4 per cent ( 2per cent)

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l Income tax deduction for contributions made to SwachhBharat Fund, other than CSR – 100 per cent

l The ‘top-up’ pledged in the Budget for 2015-16 to theNirbhaya Fund – `1,000 crore

l The range of the 3-digit CIBIL TransUnion Score – 300-900l The new Chief Secretary of Delhi – KK Sharmal The FDI cap in credit information companies in India at

present – 74l The Gulf country where India is to set up a 1.3-mn-tonne

urea plant for about `5k cr – Iranl India’s largest corporate with assets worth `3.68 lakh crore

as of now – RILl The Indian software firms named as the top employer in

Europe for the third year in a row – TCSl The loss to exchequer estimated by the CAG due to faulty

allotment of coal blocs earlier – `1.86 lakh crl The former first lady of Ivory Coast jailed for 20 years

recently – Simone Gbagbol Tibetan Uprising Day – 10 Marl The institution that manages the Domain Name System

(DNS) internationally – ICANNl The present chief executive of the ICANN – Fadi Chehadel The two drug-makers whose $4-bn merger crossed the final

hurdle with the Punjab & Haryana HC approval recently –Sun and Ranbaxy

l The industrialist known for Eveready Industries India whodied recently – Deepak Khaitan

l The penalty the RBI imposes per KYC violation – `5 lakhl The non-tax revenue estimated in the General Budget for

FY16 – `2,21,733 crl The Plan expenditure estimated in the General Budget of

FY16 – `4,65,277 crl World Tuberculosis Day – 24 Marl The country which on 9 Mar successfully test-fired its

surface-to-surface Shaheen-III ballistic missile – Pakistanl The Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public

Distribution who resigned recently – Raosaheb DadaraoDanve

l The senior journalist and founder-editor of Outlook magazinewho died recently – Vinod Mehta

l The no. of accounts linked with Aadhaar numbers by NPCIunder the Jan Dhan scheme so far – 15 crore

l The present PM of Mauritius – Anerood Jugnauth

l The controversial documentary on interview of accused ofNirbhaya rape case – India’s Daughter

l The capital with which MUDRA Bank will be set up – $3.2bn

l The firm which bought Pipavav Defence in all-cash dealrecently – Reliance Infra

l International Women’s Day – 8 Marl The richest person of India with a wealth of `1.3 lakh cr –

Dilip Shanghvil The three Indian Ocean countries PM visited from Mar 10

to 14 – Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Seychellesl The date for RBI’s first bi-monthly monetary policy

statement for the fiscal of 2015-16 – Apr 7l The country’s umbrella body for all retail payments system

– NPCIl The present President of Seychelles – James Alexis Michell The new repo rate – 7.5 per centl The new reverse repo rate – 6.5 per centl The date till the implementation of GAAR has been deferred

– Apr 1, 2017l Insurance Day – 19 Aprl The new chairman of the National Book Trust (NBT) –

Baldev Sharmal The initial allocation proposed in the Budget for FY16 for

the MGNREGA scheme – `34,699 crl The commodity market regulator at present – FMCl The Namibian President who has won Mo Ibrahim award

for African leadership – Hifikepunye Pohambal The cheapest cities to live in globally – Bangalore and

Karachil The costliest city to live in globally – Singaporel The country which is home to the largest number of

billionaires across the world – USl India’s next ambassador to the US – Arun K Singhl The Minister of State for Finance in the present Union

Cabinet – Jayant Sinhal The new Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir – Mufti

Mohammad Sayeedl The new president of the BCCI – Jagmohan Dalmiyal The present chairman of NASSCOM – R Chandrasekaranl The winner of the men’s singles title of the 2015 Dubai

Tennis Championships – Roger Federerl The winner of the Zurich Chess Classic – Hikaru Nakamura