0~ GK & Current Affairs Pointers ~
Davis Cup – Tennis
Vijay Hazare Trophy – Cricket
Paralympics – Olympics for disabled
Laureus Awards – International Sports award
Jaxa – Space agency of Japan
Roscosmos - Space agency of Russia
Space X – Company making Rockets for International Space Station
Nag – Anti Tank guided missile
Chilka Lake – Orrisa
Surya Kiran – Indo – Nepal Military Exercise
TAPI Pipeline – Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan India Gas Pipeline
International Earth Day – 22nd April
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – Beijing, China
Navjyok Kaur - Wrestling
UPI – Unified Payments Interface
Imprint India Scheme – for scientific innovation and research
Loktak Lake - Manipur
Pritzker Prize – for Architecture
Founder Amazon – Jeff Bezoz
Payments Bank – Can’t issue loans and credit cards, can accept upto Rs 1 Lacks
Pangyong Lake - Laddakh
Azlan Shah Cup - Hockey
Asian Development Bank – HQs – Manila, Philippines
WEF – Davos, Switzerland
Winter Paralympics held in – Pyeong Chang, South Korea
Brahmos- Supersonic Cruise missile, Can be launched from all platforms
Pankaj Advani - Billiards
GSAT Satellite – for Communication & Broadcasting ; not for Remote Sensing
Sebastian Vettel – Formula one
Lewis Hamilton - Formula one
Fastest Batsman to score 9000 runs in ODIs – Virat Kohli
Mithali raj – Cricket (Captain)
Chabahar Port – Persian Gulf, Iran : Will connect India to Afghanistan
Tawang Monastery – Arunachal Pradesh
Ease of doing business rankings – By World Bank
Olive Ridley turtles – Odisha Coast
Jnanpith Award - literature
Periyar Tiger reserve - Kerela
H S Prannoy - Badminton
Miss World 2017 – Manushi Chillar
Cryptocurrency – based upon encryption technology, not recognized by RBI
Hornbill festival - Nagaland
Persian Gulf – in Mediterranian Sea
SLR – Cash reserves banks have to maintain with themselves
CRR - Cash reserves banks have to maintain with RBI
Ballon D’or Award – for Football
First Newspaper –Bengal Gazette by JA Hickey
Google’s parent company – Alphabet Inc.
Sunil Chhetri - Football
Saurav Ghoshal - Squash
Winner of U 19 Cricket World Cup - India
HQs SCO – Beijing, China
HQs of New Development Bank (BRICS Bank) – Shanghai, China
First Indian woman fighter pilot to fly solo – Avani Chaturvedi
Miss Universe 2017 – S. Africa
Golden Boot Award - Football
Rangnathswamy Termple - Tamilnadu
Krishna Sobti – Hindi Literature
Royal Opra House - Mumbai
Deepa Malik – Athletics, Paralympian
Devendra Jhajaria – Javelin Throw, Paralympian
Kazuo Ishiguro – Literature (Nobel winner)
George Saunders – Literature (Man Booker Prize winner)
Sardar Singh - Hockey
Saumitra Chatterjee – Actor (Legion de honor)
Justin Gatlin – Athlete, Running
Usain Bolt - Athlete, Running
Grand Slams – Tennis (Australian open, French Open, US Open, Wimbeldon)
Federation Cup - Football
BNP Paribas Open - Tennis
Irani Cup - Cricket
FSSAI – Food Safety & Standards Authority of India
World Aids Day – 1st December
Full form of PAN – Permanent Account Number
UIDAI – Unique Identification Authority Of India
INS Kalveri – Scopene class stealth Submarine
Kepler – space Telescope
HQs of NASA - Washington
HQs of WTO – Geneva, Switzerland
Sahitya Academy Awards for - Literature
HQs of ASEAN – Jakarta, Indonesia
HQs of SAARC – Kathmandu, Nepal
SAARC Countries – Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives, S
Lanka, India
