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Questions of the day: 

Q.1 What is the deadline for KYC updation for bank accounts, as per the recent notification of RBI? 

Q.2 India recently granted $ 900 mn loan to which country to tackle forex crisis? 

Q.3 Who's the ICC women Cricketer of the Year for 2021?

Q.4 When was the ‘Amar Jawan Jyoti’ established in India? 

Q.5 China launched the first cross-border train with which country, as a part of the Belt and Road Initiative? 

Answers: 

1) March 31, 2022 - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has extended the last date for KYC updation for bank accounts by three months to March 31 next year. 

2) Sri Lanka - India has announced a USD 900 million loan to Sri Lanka to build up its depleted foreign reserves and for food imports.

3) Smriti Mandhana - India opener Smriti Mandhana on Monday was named ICC women's Cricketer of the Year for 2021. After being named in the ICC's women's T20I team of the year, Smriti has now won the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Trophy awarded to the ICC women's cricketer of the year for the second time after 2018.

4) January 1972 - The Amar Jawan Jyoti was established in 1972, to mark India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 War, which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh.

5) Laos - The Belt and Road Initiative, also known as the One Belt One Road initiative is an infrastructure development strategy of China, adopted in the year 2013.

Recently, China has launched the first cross-border train as a part of the Belt and Road Initiative, connecting China and the land-locked South East Nation Laos.