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1) (United Nations) 193 2 2015 (sustainable development) (agenda)

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MAST) 4 2015 ? ( )

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1) (Egypt) 6 2015 - (Suez Canal) 6 (6 billion) 36 (Asia) (Europe) ? (Red Sea) (Mediterranean Sea)

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6) 8 2015 (Taiwan)

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(Fujian) -

Aug , 2015

1) (Singapore) 9 2015 , ? 50

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6) (Deutsche Bank) 7 2015 ? (Pramerica)

: (Pramerica Asset Managers

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Private Limited) (Prudential Financial) : 30 2015 20,720 2,125 (Morgan Stanley), (ING), (Daiwa) (PineBridge)

7) (Sri Lanka) (Maldives) (U.S. Ambassador) ? (Atul Keshap)

: (Richard Rahul Verma) : 44-

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1) (Google) 10 2015 (new holding company) ? (Alphabet)

: - (Larry Page) (Sergey Brin) 10 2015

(Alphabet) (Search Engine), (Advertising), (Google Maps), (Youtube) (Android) (Google Ventures) (Google Capital), (Fiber) - , (Nest) : (Google X) : , GOOG GOOGL

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(Warren Buffet) (Berkshire Hathaway) ,

2) (Google) (CEO) ? (Sundar Pichai)

: 43- (Google) (Alphabet) (CEO) - (Larry Page)

(Alphabet) (CEO) - (Sergey Brin) (President) 2004 (Vice President) IIT . (Stanford University) .. (M.S.) (Wharton) (MBA)

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: (mobile app) (Digital Literacy) 2014 (Digital Saksharta Abhiyan) (Disha Handbook)

(Intel) (Common Service Centre CSC)

10

4) (Nepal) (New Constitution) (Provinces) ? (6)

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(mountain region), (hilly region) (southern plains)

5) 10 2015 ? (School Nursery Yojana)

: 10 2015 -

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6) (Right to Education Forum) ? 98,000

: (RTE Forum)

(District Information System for Education

(DISE) 2013-14 98,443 11.46%

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: (Xioami) (Samsung) (Apple) (Mi) (Sri City) (Foxconn)

2 (RedMi 2 Prime) ,

8) (Confederation of Indian Industry)

(Associations Council CII ASCON) ?

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Aug 13, 2015

1) (China)

11 2015 (Yuan) (Depreciation) 12 2015 : ?

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2) 12 2015 (India Rupee) 23 (RBI) ? RBI (intervention)

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3) (ISRO) 10 2015 (indigenous titanium sponge plant)

(Titanium Sponge) ? ()

: ()

(Kollam district) (Chavara) , ISRO 200 300 1,000

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4) (North Korea) ( Vice Premier) (firing squad) (Kim Jong Un) ? (Choe Yong Gon)

: 63 (Choe Yong Gon) (Unification Ministry) 2014 2000 - -

5) (SBI) 11 2015 2015-16 ? 3,692

: 2015 2015-16 SBI 3,692 10.2% SBI (Bad Loans) 4.25% 4.29% , 4.90%

6) 11 2015 (National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project-II

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: (NCRMP-II) (National Disaster Management Authority NDMA)

1) 2) 3) - 4)

Aug 14-15, 2015

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: RBI 1) (Repo operations) - 2) (Govt. Securities)

(coupon rates) ) (US Treasury bill) (sovereign bonds) RBI (dividend) 66,000 22% RBI 80- RBI

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2) 14 2015 (total deposits) 70% (PSU Banks) ? .. ( ) ( )

: 14 2015 (acquisitions) (mergers) 1969 (Bank Nationalization)

(Bank of Baroda) (Canara Bank) .. (P.S. Jayakumar) (Rakesh Sharma), 2014 (Syndicate Bank) (CMD) .. 22 -

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: (IRDA) 13 (Life Insurance), (General Insurance) (Standalone Health Insurance) (Bancassurance)

IRDA

4) 13 2015 .. (O.P. Munjal) ? (Hero Cycles)

: .. ( ) (Ludhiana)

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, (Amritsar) 1944 1947 1956 (Hero Cycles) 1986 19,000 .. 2015 (Pankaj Munjal)

5) (Sumitra Mahajan) (Arun Sathe) ? (SEBI)

: . (Arun P. Sathe) SEBI RSS 1989 -

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Aug 16-17, 2015

1) 69 , (Start-up India, Stand up India) ? (Start-ups)

-

: , 1.25 -

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2) 15 2015 ?

: (Agriculture Ministry) (Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Ministry) - 1871 ,

1881 - 1923 , : : 1945 , - : 1947

3) 14 2015 (PSU Banks) - (7-pronged strategy) ? (Indradhanush)

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50%

4) 5- - 2015 ?

: 5,380 (Kalapathar Peak) , 5 (Kandarp Sharma) Ritvika Sharma (8 )

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5) 16 2015 (Jakarta) (Badminton World Championships) . ?

: . 2 (Saina Nehwal) 15 2015 (Lindaweni Fanetri)

(Carolina Marin) 16-21, 19-21 . 1 (Chen Long) (Lee Chong Wei) 21-14, 21-17

6) (China) (port city) 2015 ? (Tianjin)

: (Tianjin) - - 12 2015

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Aug 18, 2015

1) (UAE) - 17 2015 - (zero-

carbon) - (car-free) ? (Madsar)

: (Madsar) (Abu Dhabi) 17 100% - 100% - 0% - (other

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renewable energy sources) (International Renewable Energy

Agency IRENA) (Private Rapid Transit PRT)

UAE 34

2) - 17 2015 20 100 ? (Bangkok)

: (Thailand) (Bangkok) 17 (Rajprasong intersection) - (Erawan Temple) - - -

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3) (Department of Agriculture and

Cooperation DAC) -, (National Agriculture Market NAM) ? (SFAC)

: (Small Farmers Agri Business Consortium SFAC) (National Agriculture Market NAM) -

SFAC - , SFAC - (NAM) - 585 (Agriculture Produce Market Committee APMC) -

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4) 2015 (Airbus) 250 26.55 - ? (IndiGo)

: (IndiGo) 2014 (Airbus) 250 A320 Neo 15 2015 A320 A320 Neo A320

737 (Boeing 737 Max)

5) 16 2015 ? (Anirban Lahiri)

: 28- (Anirban Lahiri) (PGA Championships) () (Jeev Milkha Singh) 2008

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(Jason Day) (Jordan Spieth) (Branden Grace) (Justin Rose) : (Brooks Koepka)

6) (ASSOCHAM) 2012-13 (manufacturing sector) ? (Tamil Nadu)

: (ASSOCHAM) 14 2015

2012-13 15.2% 13.8% 10.5% : (positive growth) 3.6% 2011-12 1.34 1.29

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1) (SBI) - (M-Wallet application) 18 2015 ? (SBI Buddy)

: (SBI) (SBI Buddy) 18 -

SBI Buddy SBI - , , , , 13 , SBI - (Accenture) (MasterCard) SBI Buddy SBI - (ICICI Banks Pocket),

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(HDFC Banks PayZapp) (Paytm) SBI - App

2) (High Court) 18 2015 (Primary Schools) , , , ? ( )

: 2013 2015 , (Justice Sudhir Agarwal)

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3) (ICICI Bank) 18 2015 (fully automated digital locker service) ? (Smart Vault)

: ICICI (Smart Vault) - (multi-layer security system) (biometric identification) (PIN authentication)

(robotic system)

4) (Google) (Android) (new update) , 17 2015 ? 6.0 (Android 6.0 Marshmallow)

: (Google) 6.0 (Marshmallow) 17 (Dave Burke) ,

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5) (President Pranab Mukherjee) (First Lady) 18 2015 : ? (Suvra Mukherjee)

: , (Rabindra Sangeet) , (Geetanjali Troupe) 75

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: (Honda Activa) 2015 1 Activa 59% 21 2001 (HMSI Pvt. Ltd.) 2015

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1) (RBI) 19 2015 11 (entities) (individuals) ( ) RBI (Payments Banks) 41 2015 RBI 11 - ? 1) (Aditya Birla Nuvo), 2) (Airtel M Commerce Services), 3)

(Cholamandalam Distribution

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), 5) (Fino PayTech), 6) (NSDL), 7) (Reliance Industries), 8) (Tech Mahindra), 9) Vodafone m-pesa ( ) 10) 11) . ( )

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2) 19 2015 (International Amateur Athletics Federation IAAF) (President) ? Sebastian Coe ()

: (Sebastian Coe) 1500 IAAF 50 (Sergey Bubka) 92 115 IAAF 214

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(World Athletics Championships) (Senegal) (Lamine Diack) 16 4 1980 () 1984 ( ) 1500

3) (IAAF) 50 (Council) (Member)

? (Adille Sumariwalla)

: 100 (Athletics Federation of India AFI)

(Adille Sumariwalla) IAAF 9 (IOA) (AFI) (Suresh Kalmadi) (Asian Athletics Association AAA) 2013 AAA - (Dahlan Al-Hamad)

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4) (SIDBI) 18 2015 , ? (IAF) (SMILE)

: (India Aspiration Fund IAF) 2,000 (SMILE) 10,000 (LIC) - (co-investor) IAF : ( ) (micro), (small) (medium)

- (quasi-equity) (term loans) , (debt-equity ratio)

5) (Mahinda Rajapaksa) 18 2015 (Ranil Wickremesinghe)

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: 225 (United National Party UNP) 106 2015 (United Peoples Freedom Alliance

UPFA) 95 (TNA)

6) (White House) (transgender) 18 2015 ? - (Raffi Freedman-Gurspan)

: - (Raffi Freedman-Gurspan) (Office of Presidential Personnel) (outreach and recruitment director)

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1) 2015 (Education Loans) ? (Vidya Lakshmi)

: 15 2015 69

(government scholarships) - (NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Limited NSDL e-

Gov) , (Indian Banks Association IBA) (SBI, IDBI , , ) 13 22

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: -IV 1 2010 ( ), , , , , , , , , , , , 2014 20 2015 30 2016 1 2017

18 2015 -IV -V -VI -

3) 20 2015 (Air India) (Chairman) ? (Ashwani Lohani)

: (Ashwani Lohani) 1980- (Indian Railway Service) (MPTDC) (MD) (Rohit Nandan)

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4) (NSA)- 20 2015 23 2015 ? ,

: (Syed Ali Shah Geelani) (Yasin Malik) (Mirwaiz Umar Farooq)

- 20 2015 ( )

5) (Enforcement Directorate) 20 2015 (Goa) (Digamber Kamat)

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: Louis Berger 1.2 (Churchill Alemao)

6) (Babasaheb Purandare) ?

: - (Maharashtra Bhushan) , NCP 20 2015

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: (Twinkle Khanna) 19 2015

( ) :

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1) - (Forum for India-Pacific Islands

Cooperation FIPIC) (Summit) 21 2015 14 ? (Jaipur)

: FIPIC

(Fiji), (Marshall Islands), (Nauru), (Niue), (Palau), (Papua New Guinea), (Samoa), (Yuvalu), (Vanuatu), (Cook Islands), (Kiribati), (Micronesia), (Solomon Islands) (Tonga)

2) 19 2015 (countries under restricted visa category) ? (Iran)

: (IS)

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(IB) (RAW)

3) (Alexis Tsipras) 20 2015 ?

: 20 (Prokopis Pavlopoulos) (Syriza Party)

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4) - , (Kishore Biyani) (Future Consumer Enterprise Limited)

(PDS) 5,000 ?

: (PDS) (FCEL) , , , , , (FCEL)

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: (Narendra Modi) (Barack Obama) . (Peter R. Lavoy) (Russia), (Britain)

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6) ... (IAS) ? IAS

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Aug 23-24, 2015

1) 23 2015 ? (Bandhan Bank)

: 23 2015 (IDFC)

(RBI) 2 RBI (Universal Banking Licence) 23 501 -

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2) 23 2015 (Bandhan Bank) ? (Yes Bank)

: (Yes Bank) 2004

(:) (ICICI Bank), (HDFC Bank), (Axis Bank) (Kotak Mahindra Bank) (ING Vysya Bank)

3) (Jamaica) (Usain Bolt) 100 23 2015 : (IAAF World Championships) (Justin Gatlin) ? 9.79

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4) 23 2015 (Pro-

Kabaddi League (PKL) ? U-Mumba ()

: (U-Mumba) 23 Bengaluru Bulls () 36-30 (Telugu Titans) (Patna Pirates) 34-26 2014 (Jaipur Pink Panthers)

5) (FIIs)

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: .. FIIs 1 2015 (MAT) 2012 (Advance Authority Ruling AAR) (Castleton) MAT 68 FIIs

602 MAT FIIs .. (Justice A.P. Shah) 2015 MAT MAT FIIs

6) - (Solar Power) ? Cochin International Airport ()

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: 12 - (Solar Power Plant) (Oommen Chandy) - 46,150 50 60 - (Vikram Solar Pvt. Ltd.)

7) (neuroscientist) (lab-grown human brain)

? (Rene Anand)

: (Columbus) (Ohio State University) (Rene Anand) (mini human brain) (human fetus) , (Susan McKay) (human skin cells)

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1) 24 2015 BSE (- Sensex) NSE 7 ?

: 24 , , , (demand) (consumption)

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2) 24 2015 (Rani Gaidinliu) (birth centenary celebration)

? (Nagaland)

: (1915-1993) (Nagaland) (Heraka) - 1932 17 1947 (Rani) (Christian) 17

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3) 24 2015 (PSU) 10% (Disinvest) ? (IOC)

: 24 (IOC) 10% 18% 387

9300 , 5% , (2015-16) (1,610 ), (1,600 ) (145 ) 3,300 2016 69,500

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5) - 23 2015 ?

: (Madhya Pradesh) 23 (Rewa) - 750 (Bandwar) 1500 2017 (Solar Energy Corporation of India)

(MP Urja Vikas Nigam) (50% ) (Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Project) (California) (Mojave Desert)

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6) 24 2015 (cyclonic storm) ? (Goni)

: 24 2015 250 .

(Philippines) 15 20 (Haiyan) 2013 7,300

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1) 27 2015 (Smart Cities Mission) 98 13 ? (Uttar Pradesh)

: . 98 12-12 13 13 10 7

(UTs) 100 48,000 100 - 25 2015 20 2 40 100

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2) (ISRO) 27 2015 -6 (GSLV D-6) ? -6 (GSAT-6)

: GSAT-6 - : GSAT-6 (unfurlable antenna) ISRO GSAT-6 (Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch

Vehicle GSLV)

25 GSLV

3) 25 2015 2011 (Religious Census Data) ?

:

2011 121.09

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(17.22 ) 14.2%

(2.78 ) 2.3%

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4) 24 2015 (IOC) 10% (Disinvestment) 86% ? (LIC)

: LIC 10% 24 LIC LIC 2.52% 11.11% LIC

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5) (NITI Aayog) 27 2015 (interactive energy scenario building tool) ? 2047 (India Energy Security Scenarios (IESS) 2047)

: 2047 : , , , , , , , , - , , , , India Energy Security Scenarios

27 (Arvind Panagariya)

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6) 26 2015 - (Home Loan) (mortgage guarantee) (amount of loan) (paying tenure) ? ICICI

: ICICI - (Extraa Home Loan) - 5 20% 67 60

ICICI , EMI , (India Mortgage Guarantee

Corporation) - (NPAs)

7) - (Flipkart) 25 2015

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Aug 29, 2015

1) 50 28 2015 50 ? (Haji Pir Pass)

: 28 1965 1 (1 Para) (Major Ranjit Dyal) (LoC) (Haji Pir Pass) . (Lt. General Harbaksh Singh)

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2) (Telemedicine) 2015 (Apollo Hospital) ? (SEHAT)

: (SEHAT) Social Endeavour for Health and

Telemedicine 25 2015 60,000 (CSCs) (Jan Aushadhi Stores) 80%

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3) 2015 (Insurance Institute of India III) ? 60

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26 2015 .. (J.C. Setalvad Memorial Federation of Insurance Institutes

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4) (Facebook) (Mark Zuckerberg) 27 2015 2015 ? (1 billion)

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5) (Delhi) (Aurangzeb Road) (New Delhi Municipal Corporation NDMC) 28 2015 ? . .. .

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1) 2015 (NITI Aayog) ?

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3) (Kumbh) 29 2015 ? ()

: (Trimbakeshwar) 2015 29 2015 7 , 10

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: (Enrika) (Dominican Republic) 15 (Roosevelt Skerrit) 20 20 31 (Puerto Rico) 2 20 2015 (Cuba) (Florida)

5) 29 2015 (Moon) , ? (Supermoon)

: (Richard Nolle) 224,834 14%

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