Questions

Ethiopia is the new name of a country which is historically called as Abyssinia.

New name     -      Old name

Namibia        -      South West Africa

Zimbabwe     -      Southern Rhodesia

Thailand        -      Siam.

Surekha Marandi has been appointed as the new Executive Director (ED) of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). She succeeded U S Paliwal, who retired on December 31, 2016.

The other answers could be accurate in specific situations, but their role alone does not meet the keyb criterion of being "external" to the project team. Answers A, B, and D are incorrect because these individuals are not external to the project.

TRIM "Trade-related Investment Measures", an agreement within the Uruguay round trade negotiations.

TRIPS "TRADE-RELATED ASPECTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, is an international legal agreement between all the member nations of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

"Pure Banking, Nothing Else" - is a slogan raised by SBI -  State Bank of India.

Ganeshan Neelakanta Iyer has become the first Indian to be nominated as a member of the ITTF Umpires and Referees Committee (URC). His term will be for two years and is extendable. Iyer is the only assigned competition manager of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) in India. Beside this, Ganeshan has also been recommended as the Technical Commissioner from the Asian Continent to ITTF and his term will be for a period of four years. He is also the chairman of the South Asian Federation technical committee and a member of the Technical Committee of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Federation (CTTF).