Important GA and GK of 2014 for all Exam

● The winner of Miss World 2014 crown – Rolene Strauss
● Chairman of the 14th Finance Commission – YV Reddy
● WPI-based inflation in the month of Nov – Zero per cent
● The country which has created the world record for longest graffiti wall – UAE
● The Pakistan city where Taliban militants killed 145 people, including 132 children, on 16 Dec – Peshawar
● Winner of the London Classic chess title – Viswanathan Anand

● The basin in New Zealand where ONGC Videsh has won offshore oil and gas block – Taranaki basin
● The first African country to use electronic ballots in its general elections – Namibia
● The youngest IBSF World Snooker Champion – Yan Bingtao
● National Milk Day – 26 Nov
● The first and only railway station in Meghalaya so far – Mendipathar
● The country where BHEL has commissioned a 28-MW hydro power project – Rwanda
● India’s first indigenously developed nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine – INS Arihant
● India’s largest company in terms of revenue at present – Indian Oil Corporation
● The new Prime Minister of Mauritius – Anerood Jugnauth
● Author of the book titled Born Again on the Mountain – Arunima Sinha
● The section of the IPC which dealt with attempt of suicide – Article 309
● Winner of the Deodhar trophy 2014-15 – East Zone
● The Railway Committee set up for improving financial health of the Indian Railways – DK Mittal Committee
● The most searched celebrity in India in 2014 as per Google – Sunny Leone
● The first nuclear submarine India leased from Russia – INS Chakra
● The winner of the 2014 Champions Trophy Hockey Title – Germany
● The hypersonic strike vehicle tested by China recently – Wu-14
● The article of the Indian Constitution associated with homosexuality – Article 377
● The Japanese PM who has won a re-election in a snap poll – Shinzo Abe
● The net FII investment in the Indian equity market in 2014 is set to exceed – `1 lakh cr
● The chairman of the SIT on black money – MB Shah
● The Transport Minister of West Bengal arrested by the CBI in connection with Sarada scam – Madan Mitra
● The Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha – PJ Kurien
● The states which have so far achieved the target of complete financial inclusion – MP, Kerala and Goa
● India’s share in the global carbon dioxide emission – 7.1 per cent
● The new chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) – Deepak Gupta
● The limit up to which the govt has allowed PSBs to offload govt’s holding recently – 52 per cent
● The minimum paid-up capital requirement for floating a health insurance company in India – `100 cr
● The share govt offloaded in SAIL through OFS route – 5%
● The first domestic bank to release an economic indicator named Composite Index – SBI
● The Finance Minister of Kerala booked in bar bribe scam –
KM Mani
● International Day of Yoga – 21 Jun
● The “Person of the Year 2014” named by the Time magazine – The medics treating the Ebola
● The country to which India exported its first warship, CGS Barracuda – Mauritius
● The date by which the Basel III norms will come into effect – Mar 31, 2019
● For the development of its new capital Andhra Pradesh has signed an MoU with – Singapore
● The President of Zimbabwe – Robert Mugabe
● The indigenously developed main battle tank inducted into Indian Army – Arjun Mark-I
● The newly appointed US ambassador to India – Richard Rahul Verma
● The state which has launched the mobile governance platform MobileOne – Karnataka
● The first country to recognise Bangladesh as an independent nation – Bhutan
● The indigenously developed advanced rocket system – Pinaka Mark-II
● The winner of the men’s World Cup 2014 for Blind – India
● The joint venture airline of Tata group and Singapore Airlines – Vistara
● The winner of 2014 readers’ poll for Time magazine’s Person of the Year’ – Narendra Modi
● Shares of the Centre, the concerned state govt and sponsor banks in RRBs respectively – 50 per cent, 15 per cent and 35 per cent
● The annual economic growth rate envisaged in the 12th Five Year Plan – 8 per cent
● The newly appointed Lok Sabha secretary general – Anoop Mishra
● International Civil Aviation Day – 7 Dec.
● The present Cabinet Secretary whose tenure was extended for 6 months recently – Ajit Seth
● The Indian-American scientist appointed as US Science envoy – Arun Majumdar
● The person nominated by the US President Barack Obama to be the next defence secretary – Ashton Carter
● The approx amount spent by India on diseases caused by tobacco in 2011 – `1 lakh cr
● The typhoon which hit the Philippines recently – Hagupit
● India’s communications satellite launched on 7 Dec – GSAT- 16
– The prematurely decommissioned satellite replaced by GSAT-16 – INSAT-3E
● The two countries which have launched Newton-Bhabha Fund – India and the UK
● The issuing entity of RuPay debit cards – NPCI
● The present secretary of DIPP – Amitabh Kant
● The fund planned by DEITY to be set up to fund innovation in electronics and IT – `10,000 cr
● The panel on whose report the govt plans to pass a new environment law – TSR Subramanian
● The current President of ECB – Mario Draghi
● The winner of the Beighton Cup Hockey tournament – Indian Oil
● The author of the book titled The Dramatic Decade: The Years of Indira Gandhi – Pranab Mukherjee
● The first Indian to become an elected member of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)’s Executive Committee – Raninder Singh
● The retired SC judge and a renowned social worker who died recently – VR Krishna Iyer
● The Navy Day (which commemorates the start of Operation Trident during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971) – 4 Dec
● The capital city of Cambodia – Phnom Penh
● The present President of the FIFA – Joseph S Blatter
● The place where the International Maritime Conference was held recently – Galle, Sri Lanka
● The winner of 2014 Turner Prize – Duncan Campbell
● India’s ranking on the global corruption index for 2014 – 85th
● The RBI has allowed prepaid instruments (PPIs) to be issued with balance of up to – `1 lakh
● The govt’s target for disinvestment programme for 2014-15 – `58,000-cr
● The International Day of Persons with Disabilities – 3 Dec
● The new director of the CBI – Anil Kumar Sinha
● India’s nuclear-capable strategic ballistic missile with strike range of 4000 km – Agni-IV
● The veteran comedian who died recently – Deven Verma
● The former chief minister of Maharashtra who died recently – AR Antulay
● Atal Bihari Bajpayee’s birthday on 25 Dec is now observed as – Good Governance Day
● The new president of Uruguay –Tabare Vazquez
● The country which has launched a new National Day song in Tamil recently – Singapore
● The Indian footballers conferred with AFC Hall of Fame Award in Manila, Philippines – Baichung Bhutia
● Deodhar Trophy is associated with – Cricket – The winner of the Deodhar trophy 2014-15 – East Zone
● The former chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh who passed away recently – Jarbom Gamlin
● World AIDS Day – 1 Dec
● The Bhopal gas tragedy took place on – 2 Dec 1984
● The name of the modified DBTL scheme – Pahal
● The Taiwanese PM who resigned recently – Jiang Yi-huah
● The CEO of Tata Consultancy Services – Natarajan Chandrasekaran
● The winner of the women’s singles title of the Macau OpenGrand Prix Gold Badminton trophy – PV Sindhu
● The Russian film which was adjudged the best film of the 45th IFFI – Leviathan
● The UN climate summit was held recently in – Lima, Peru
● The famous crime novelist who died recently – PD James
● The present governor of West Bengal – Keshari Nath Tripathi
● The headquarters of World Trade Organization (WTO) – Geneva
● The Australian cricketer who died of a head injury during a domestic match – Phillip Hughes
● The country with which India has inked an agreement for the Arun III Hydro project – Nepal
● The host of the next SAARC summit in 2016 – Islamabad, Pakistan
● The new target for new bank accounts under the PMJDY – 100 million
● The number of member countries of the WTO – 160
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