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Vijay Keshav Gokhale is an Indian diplomat and the current Foreign Secretary of India. Gokhale was previously the Indian ambassador to China. He recently visited Bangladesh to meet his Bangladeshi counterpart Mohammad Shahidul Haque in Dhaka and discuss ways to deepen bilateral ties.

• Axis Bank's Managing Director and CEO Shikha Sharma retired on 31 December 2018.
• Amitabh Chaudhry was appointed as the new Managing Director and CEO of the bank with effect from 1 January 2019.
• He will hold the post for three years.
• He is the former MD and CEO of HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company.

Corporation Bank is a public sector banking company headquartered in Mangalore, India. The bank has pan-India presence with approximately 8,000 functional units comprising 2200 branches. The bank was founded in 1906.

• The RBI has constituted a 6-member committee to review the entire gamut of ATM charges and fees.
• Chief Executive of Indian Banks’ Association VG Kannan will chair the committee.
• The committee will review existing patterns of costs, charges and interchange fees for ATM transactions.
• It is to submit its report within two months from the date of its first meeting.

• President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed new governours for the states of UP, West Bengal, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Nagaland.
• Anandiben Patel will serve as Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Jagdeep Dhankhar as Governor of West Bengal, Ramesh Bais as Governor of Tripura, Lal Ji Tandon as Governor of Madhya Pradesh, Phagu Chauhan as Governor of Bihar and R. N. Ravi as Governor of Nagaland.

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• Madhya Pradesh: 
• Number of Districts - 52.
• Lok Sabha seats - 29.
• Rajya Sabha seats - 11.

Dams - Bansagar Dam (Sone river), Bheemgarh dam (Wainganga river), Gandhi Sagar Dam (Chambal River), Indira Sagar Dam (Narmada River) and Omkareshwar Dam (Narmada River).

• Registered GI: Chanderi Fabric, Leather Toys of Indore, Bell Metal Ware of Datia and Tikamgarh, Ratlami Sev.
• Governor: Mangubhai C. Patel (2022)

• National Unity Day - Rashtriya Ekta Diwas - was observed across the country 31 October, on the occasion of the 144^th birth anniversary of the Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
• Since 2014, October 31^st is observed as the National Unity Day and people from all walks of life participate in the 'Run For Unity'.
• PM Narendra Modi paid floral tribute to Sardar Patel at the 'Statue of Unity'.

The central English city of Birmingham will host the Commonwealth Games in 2022. The 2022 Commonwealth Games were originally given to Durban in 2015, but the South African city was stripped of the event this year because of financial difficulties. The multisports event was last in Britain in 2014 when it was held in Glasgow.

• The Reserve Bank of India had set up an eight member expert committee to review the current framework for the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME sector) under the leadership of UK Sinha, former SEBI chairman.
• Its mandate was to suggest long-term solutions for the economic and financial sustainability of MSMEs.
• The committee has recommended doing away with collateral security for loans up to Rs 20 lakh extended to units in this sector.
• The current ceiling for a collateral free loan for MSMEs is Rs 10 lakh  and these are disbursed under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY).
• Nitin Gadkari-Minister of MSME
• Shaktikanta Das-Governor of RBI
• Sudha Balakrishnan-First Chief Financial Officer of RBI
• Mahesh Kumar Jain-Deputy Governor of RBI

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss nonprofit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva.

The correct answer is option 2, i.e. Flipkart.

US-based Walmart completed its $16-billion acquisition of India's largest e-commerce firm Flipkart on Aug 18, 2018, despite protests from traders across the country over fears that the deal would drive several small retailers out of business.