General Awareness- One Liners

1-Kanha is the first Tiger Reserve in India to officially introduce a Mascot.

2-Deoghar airport in Jharkhand will be expanded into a World class airport.

3-Girish Chandra Saxena died on April 14, 2017. He was the former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.

4-Sachin Tendulkar created an App named ‘100 MB’.

5-Nour El Sherbini of Egypt successfully defended her World Squash title in April 2017.

6-The Footwear Design and Development Institute(FDDI) has its headquarter in Noida.

7-In Gujarat, the fifth Hub of the National Security Guard was operationalized recently.

8-Lin Dan won his first ever Malaysia Open Badminton title in April 2017.

9-England won the women’s cricket World Cup in July 2017.

10-Brenda Hale will become the first female President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on October 2, 2017.

11-In Mizoram, India-Mongolia military training exercise was held in April 2017. It is called Nomadic Elephant.

12-The Regeneron Science Talent Search competition is also known as Junior Nobel Prize.

13-Yerevan, which is in the news recently is the capital of Armenia.

14-Hikaru Nakamura won the Korchnoi Zurich chess challenge title in April 2017.

15-Rajiv Kumar Chander has been appointed as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Offices in Geneva.

16-The minimum capital required for the wholesale and Long Term Finance (WLTF) Banks is Rs 1000 Cr.

17-The biennial Thakurani Jatra festival of Berhampur was held recently in Odisha.

18-The Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific(CIRDAP) has its headquarter in Dhaka.

19-S.N Subrahmanyan took over as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Engineering and Construction giant Larsen and Toubro(L & T) on July 1, 2017.

20-Muttiah Muralitharan became the first Sri Lankan cricketer to be inducted into ICC’s Hall of Fame in June 2017.