Important questions for ibps - 7

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● The host of the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank held Oct 7-11 – Lima, Peru



● The countries which recently held 26th edition of the coordinated patrol (CORPAT) naval exercise – 
India and Indonesia

● The person honoured with the lifetime achievement award at the Forbes India Leadership Awards, 
2015 – RC Bhargava

● The winners of the Nobel Prize 2015 in medicine – William Campbell (Ireland), Satoshi Omura 
(Japan) and YouyouTu (China)

● The place where DRDO established the world’s highest terrestrial centre (at 17,600 feet above sea 
level) – Ladakh

● The newly elected President of the BCCI – Shashank Manohar

● The world’s largest producer of cotton as per the data for the marketing year of 2014-15 – India

● The Indian short film which won the Best Short Film award at the 2015 London Film Festival (LFF) 
recently – An OldDog’s Diary

● The country where the NATO allies and partner nations held joint military exercise recently – Italy

● The person named by the govt as head of the All India Council of Sports – VK Malhotra

● The cricketer roped in by MRF Ltd as the brand ambassador recently – AB de Villiers

● Winner of the women’s singles title of the Denmark Open 2015 – Li Xuerui

● Winner of the Sultan of Johor Cup 2015 junior men’s hockey tournament – Great Britain

● The state which approved ‘Swadhar Greh’ scheme to help women recently – Haryana

● Miss Diva 2015 – Urvashi Rautela

● The new Lokayukta of Delhi – Reva Khetrapal

● The powerful typhoon that hit the northern Philippines  recently – Koppu

● Winner of the men’s singles title of Shanghai Masters 2015– Novak Djokovic

● Winner of the men’s singles title of the Vietnam Open 2015– Saketh Myneni

● The renowned Egyptian novelist and journalist who diedrecently – Gamal al-Ghitani

● The new Prime Minister of Canada – Justin Trudeau

● The one-stop research funding mechanism launched by thegovt – IMPRINT

● The person awarded by the Bank of Baroda with Maharaja Sayajirao Bhasha Samman – Prasoon 
Joshi

● The new venue for the 61st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference – New York

● The ET Business Leader of the Year 2015 awardee – Uday Kotak

● The corpus of the new Financial Inclusion Fund (FIF) setup by the RBI – `2,000 cr

● International Day for the Eradication of Poverty – 17 Oct

● The first woman speaker of Nepalese Parliament elected recently – Onsari Gharti Magar

● The person selected for the annual Harvard Humanitarian of the Year Award – Kailash Satyarthi

● The global ICC sponsor through 2023 including ICC Cricket World Cup and World Twenty20 – Nissan

● The state which launched mobile app ‘mSehat’ recently –Uttar Pradesh

● The five nations elected as non-permanent members of theUN Security council recently – Uruguay, 
Ukraine, Japan,Egypt and Senegal

● World Food Day – 16 Oct

● The leading bowler of Team India who bid adieu to international cricket on 15 Oct – Zaheer Khan

● The date after which telcos will pay `1 for every call drop subject to a cap of three call drops a day – 
Jan 1, 2016

● The joint training exercise conducted between India and SriLanka recently – Mitra Shakti-2015

● The ‘Finance Minister of the Year, Asia’ chosen by London-based publication Emerging Markets – 
Arun Jaitley

● The first European country to sign an MoU on the establishment of Nalanda University recently – 
Portugal

● The first Indian female bodybuilder to win a silver medal inthe 49th Asian championship – Shweta 
Rathore

● The winner of 2015 Beighton Cup hockey title – PNB

● The state which recently launched Mission Abaas to provide affordable houses to the urban poor – 
Odisha

● The pair which won the women’s doubles title of 2015 China Open – Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis

● The winner of the women’s singles final of 2015 China Open – Garbine Muguruza

● The veteran Tamil actor who died recently – Manorama

● The cricketer who became the highest run-scorer in Tests for Pakistan recently – Younis Khan

● The present head of Palestine govt – Mahmoud Abbas

● The name of the direct benefit transfer scheme for LPG which saved `14,672 cr in 2014-15 – PAHAL

● The PC maker which bought enterprise storage maker EMC for $67 bn recently – Dell

● The chairman of the Empowered Committee for InnovativeCollaborations set up by the govt recently 
– ArvindPanagariya

● The firm that acquired additional stake in its joint venture with Reliance Capital Asset Management 
recently – NipponLife Insurance

● The most valuable nation brand as per the Nation Brands report 2015 – US

 India’s position in the Nation Brands report 2015 – Seventh

● The deadline set by the RBI for banks to meet the Basel IIInorms – 31 Mar 2019.