BPSC Current 2 Flashcards
RBI allows trad ein Indian rupee for first time with?
Russia and SL
India takes over the presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on?
1st Dec 2022
monthly rotating presidency
second time in its two-year tenure as an elected member of the Council in 2021-22. India had earlier assumed UNSC presidency in August 2021.
Under India’s December presidency of UNSC, there are two signature events at the ministerial level, scheduled for December 14 (Reformed Multilateralism) and 15 (Counter-Terrorism). External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will chair the events.
India’s eighth term as an elected member of the UNSC
Commission on Status of Women?
The UN passed the resolution to remove Iran from the Commission on the Status
of Women
EU: members?
group of 27 countries
EU members taht do not use Euro currency?
19 of these countries use EURO as their official currency. 8 EU members (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Sweden) do not use the euro.
Croatia recently became 20th EU member to accept Euro
A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002 and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency. These are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.
Maastricht Treaty?
The Maastricht Treaty-1992 (also called the Treaty on European Union) was signed on 7 February 1992 by the members of the European Community in Maastricht, Netherlands to further European integration.
European Communities (ECSC, EAEC, and EEC) incorporated as European Union.
European citizenship was created, allowing citizens to reside in and move freely between Member States.
A common foreign and security policy was established.
Closer cooperation between police and the judiciary in criminal matters was agreed.
It paved the way for the creation of a single European currency – the euro. It was the culmination of several decades of debate on increasing economic cooperation in Europe.
It established the European Central Bank (ECB).
It enabled people to run for local office and for European Parliament elections in the EU country they lived in.
Expansion of EU?
EU) has expanded a number of times throughout its history by way of the accession of new member states to the Union. To join the EU, a state needs to fulfil economic and political conditions called the Copenhagen criteria (after the Copenhagen summit in June 1993), which require a stable democratic government that respects the rule of law, and its corresponding freedoms and institutions. According to the Maastricht Treaty, each current member state and the European Parliament must agree to any enlargement. The process of enlargement is sometimes referred to as European integration.
latest member state being Croatia, which joined in July 2013. The most recent territorial enlargement of the EU was the incorporation of Mayotte in 2014.
Only ever reduction in EU has been that of UK
As of 2022, accession negotiations are under way with Albania (since 2020), Montenegro (since 2012), North Macedonia (since 2020), Serbia (since 2014) and Turkey (since 2005)
Bosnia and Herzegovina submitted an application for membership in 2016, as did Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova in the first few weeks of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine and Moldova were subsequently recognised as official candidates. Bosnia and Herzegovina then received official candidate status in December 2022.
first country to receive 100 billion dollar remittance?
India
acc to Wb
Space debate
The Abu Dhabi Space Debate, hosted by the UAE Space Agency, is a global industry and policy forum defining the future of space.
India represented by Dr. Jitendra Singh
Blind T20 World Cup: host? won by? defeated?
3rd edition; all 3 times won by India
hosted by India
final at Chinnaswamy stadium , BN
India defeated BN
Indian captain, Ajay Kumar Reddy
Sunil Ramesh won MoM and MoS (B3)
1st National Coastal Security Conference 2022?
in Chennai
book ‘The Chipko Movement: A People’s History’
By Shekhar Pathak
received Kamla Devi
Chattopadhyay book Prize 2022.
.Chairman of Natioal Statistics Commission?
Rajiv Lakshma
NY Critics choice award for best director?
SSR for RRR
Global Aviation Safety index: India’s rank?
48th (102)
Semeru volcano?
Indonesia
recently eruoted
First Indian to win silver in Asia Junior Badminton Championship?
Unnati Hudda
Bankers’ Bank of the Year Award 2022?
Canara bank
considered Oscars of Banking
Ireland PM?
भारतीय मूल के Leo Varadkar दूसर बार चुने गए आयरलड के धानमंी।
Mrs World 2022?
at Las Vegas
Sargam kausha of J&K
Indo-________ parnership on Kaziranga NP?
France
Sahitya Akademi Award 2022: Tamil?
Kala Pani by M. Rajendran
Which nation recently passed a new transgender law?
Spain
Wassennar arrangement?
ndia to take over the chairmanship of Wassenaar Arrangement
The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies is a multilateral export control regime (MECR) with 42 participating states
promotes transparency and greater responsibility in transfers of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies,
It is the successor to the Cold War-era Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM), and was established on 12 July 1996, in Wassenaar, the Netherlands, which is near The Hague.
The Wassenaar Arrangement is considerably less strict than COCOM, focusing primarily on the transparency of national export control regimes and not granting veto power to individual members over organizational decisions. A Secretariat for administering the agreement is located in Vienna, Austria. Like COCOM, however, it is not a treaty, and therefore is not legally binding.
India joined as the 42nd participating state on 7 December 2017
all women bench?
SC set up an al-women bench comprising Justices Hima Kohli and Bela M Trivedi.
Only the 3rd such instance
Agni Warrior exercise?
betn Navies of India and Singapore
MH
The Emissary of Peace Award?
Shri Ravishankar
by the National Civil Rights Museum in the US city of Memphis
‘Group of Freinds’?
India has launched a ‘Group of Friends’ to promote accountability for crimes against peacekeepers
India, Bangladesh, Egypt, France, Morocco and Nepal are co-chairs
to champion the implementation of the provisions of U.N. Security Council resolution 2589, which was adopted in August last year under India’s Presidency of the Council. Resolution 2589 had called upon member states, hosting or having hosted United Nations peacekeeping operations, to take all appropriate measures to bring to justice perpetrators of the killing of, and all acts of violence against United Nations personnel
World weight-lifting championship 2022?
Mirabai Chanu won silver
in Colombia
First International Beach festival?
Spice Coast, Kasargod in Kerala
Indian navy fleet toured _______for a friendly tour
Vietnam
Zombie virus?
French scientists have revived a 48,500-year-old “zombie virus” buried under a frozen lake in Russia.
The oldest, Pandoravirus yedoma, was 48,500-year-old, a record age for a frozen virus returning to a form where it may infect other creatures. This breaks the previous record of a 30,000-year-old virus identified in Siberia by the same scientists in 2013.
Pandoravirus was discovered at the bottom of a lake in Yukechi Alas, Yakutia, Russia
Uttarakhand Brand Ambassador
Prasoon Joshi
First Silhat-Silchar Festival?
Barak valley Assam
to celebrate the cultural ties between India and Bangladesh
ALH Mk3?`
The ALH Mk-III helicopters, indigenously manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), features state-of-the-art equipment including advanced RADAR as well as Electro optical sensors, Shakti engines, full glass cockpit
commissioned at Chennai
Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace &
Disarmament and Development 2022
IMA and Trained Nurses Org
accorded annually by Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust; estab in 1986
2021: awarded to Pratham
“Right to Repair” portal?
under Min of Consumer Affairs
launched by Piyush Goyal
On the ‘right to repair’ portal, manufacturers will share the manual of product details with customers so that they can either repair by self, by third parties, rather than depend on original manufacturers. Initially, mobile phones, electronic, consumer durables, automobile and farming equipments will be covered
First Ever World Table Tennis (WTT) Series Event in India?
to be hosted by Goa
from February 27 to March 5 2023
First state to constitute Differently abled depatt?
MH
Woman Para Badminton Player of The Year 2022?
Manisha Ramdas
who won Vijay hazare tournament 2022?
Saurashtra
Divya Kala fair organised where?
in Delhi
for Divyang artisans/artists and entrepreneurs
water to propel a spacecraft ?
Japan Space Agency first to do so
Cost of LIving Survey 2022?
by Economic Intelligence Unit
Singapore and NY costliest cities ti live in
First woman Sikh judge in USA?
Indian origin Manpreet Monika SIngh
First state to become 100% digital banking abled?
Kerala
National Boxing Championships 2022?
Nikhat Zareen (Telangana) in 50kg category
Manisha of Haryana won in 57kg categry
Railways received the overall champion title while the host Madhya Pradesh team was declared as runner-up.
Global Leadership award by Harvard Law school centre?
CJI DY Chandrachud
Aspirational Blocks Programme?
launched during the 2nd National Conference of Chief Secretaries (chaired by PM)
It is a development initiative aimed at improving the performance of areas that are lagging on various development parameters.
It was announced in the Union Budget 2022-23.
It will initially cover 500 districts across 31 states and Union Territories, with over half of these blocks located in six states – Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal.
The ABP is based on the Aspirational District Programme (ADP).
Aspirational Districts Programme?
launched in 2018 which aims to transform districts that have shown relatively lesser progress in key social areas.
Aspirational Districts are those districts in India, that are affected by poor socio-economic indicators.
It covers 112 districts across the country.
At Government of India level, programme is anchored by NITI Aayog. In addition, individual Ministries have assumed responsibility to drive progress of districts.
Pillars:
Convergence (of Central & State Schemes)
Collaboration (of Central, State level ‘Prabhari’ Officers & District Collectors),
Competition among districts through monthly delta ranking.
The ranking is based on the incremental progress made across 49 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) under 5 broad socio-economic themes -
Health & Nutrition (30%)
Education (30%)
Agriculture & Water Resources (20%)
Financial Inclusion & Skill Development (10%)
Infrastructure (10%)
Various programmes such as – Saksham Bitiyan Abhiyan, Anemia Mukt Bharat and Surakshit Hum Surakshit Tum, are some of the flagship initiatives that have been taken up by NITI Aayog in this regard.
Kesarinath Tripathi?
Ex Guv of WB
died recently
Amrit Bharat Station scheme?
by Idnian Rlys
Amrit Bharat Station scheme envisages development of stations on a continuous basis with a long term vision.
target to modernise 1000stations
Ex Maldive President to be sentenced?
Abdullah Yamin
imprisoned for 11 yrs
Ben Barres Spotlight Award?
awarded ti Kartik Rajiv, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
, given by scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences eLife
Fiji PM?
Sitiveni Rabuka
India’s auto market?
Acc to Nikkei, India becomes the world’s third largest auto market
Formula E World Championship?
Hyderabad to host the Formula E World Championship race for the first time
is a single-seater motorsport championship for electric cars. The series was conceived in 2011
Srisailam temple?
Recently, President of India has inaugurated the project development of Srisailam Temple in the State of Andhra Pradesh.
It is also known as Bhramaramba Mallikarjuna Temple.
It is situated in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh.
The temple is located on the top of the Nallamala hills and on the banks of River Krishna.
It is dedicated to Lord Shiva and his consort Goddess Parvati.
It is the only temple in India significant to both Saivism and Shaktism.
The presiding deity of the place is Goddess Brahmaramba devi and Lord Mallikarjuna Swamy in natural stone formations in the shape of Lingam.
The idol of deities is thought to be ‘Swayambhu’ or self-manifested.
It is considered as one of the 12 Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva and one of the 18 Maha Shakti Peethas of the Goddess, Parvati.
Mention of Srisailam Temple is present in Nasik inscription of the Satavahana King Vasisthiputra Pulumavi in the 1st century AD.
Reddy kings- Prolay Vemma and Anavema Reddy constructed pathways and Mandaps in the temple.
The modern additions to the temple were made during the reign of Harihara I of the Vijayanagara Empire.
Caste and economic census in Bihar?
Two-phased caste and economic census 2023 started in Bihar from January 7.
Bihar is the third State to conduct so.
Three state governments – Bihar, Maharashtra and Odisha – and a few organisations have requested to collect caste details in the forthcoming census
International kite festival?
GJ
First Asian country to start Hydrogen fueled Train?
China
Siyom Bridge
Defense Minister Rajnath Singh recently inaugurated the Siyom Bridge in Arunachal Pradesh.
The bridge is 100 meters long and is built over the Sayom River.
The Siom Bridge on the Alang-Ikiong road will facilitate movement of army vehicles and weapons to Upper Siang District, Tuting and Ikiong areas along the Line of Actual Control.
Losar festival?
Ladakh
Losar also known as Tibetan New Year, is a festival in Tibetan Buddhism.
player in Test cricket history to have scored 10,000 runs and taken 50 wickets?
Joe root became only 3rd such player
Kallis and SSteve Waugh
Gati Shakti university,
vadodara
Ashwini Vaishnav was appointed as the first Chancellor
First country to auction spectrum for satellite communication
India
UN Habitat award
Odisha won the UN-Habitat World Habitat Awards 2023 for the state’s 5T (Transparency, Technology, Teamwork, Time, Transformation) initiative Jaga Mission. Jaga Mission is a land ownership and slum upgradation program aimed at empowering the lives of slum dwellers
Odisha won it for the second time
Mopa airport
New Goa International Airport, also known as Mopa International Airport and officially renamed as Manohar International Airport,
Sunni Hydel project?
HP
‘Eat Right Station’ certification?
awarded by FSSAI to railway stations that set benchmarks in providing safe and wholesome food to passengers
recently awarded to Varanasi Cantt; also awarded five star rating
Sahitya Akademi Award 2022: Hindi?
Badri narayan for “Tumri ke shabd” poem collection
last year Daya Prakash Sinha for his drama- ‘Samrat Ashoka’
sahitya Akademi award: about?
sahitya Akademi estab in 1954
award frmo 1955
India’s first woman figter pilot?
Squadron Leader Avani Chaturvedi ( from MP
along with two of her cohorts, Mohana Singh Jitarwal, and Bhawana Kanth.
___________set to become India’s first female Muslim fighter pilot
Sani Mirza of UP
secured rank in NDA yet to clear all tests and courses
Akshardham Express?
Sampark Kranti Exp betn Ahmedabad and Delhi
Asian Pacific Postal Union?
India to chair
first woman to be stationed at Siachin post?
Capt. Shiva Chouhan
First Green Hydrogen Blending Project ?
NTPC Limited and Gujarat Gas Limited (GGL) have commissioned India’s first green hydrogen blending project in the piped natural gas (PNG) network of NTPC Kawas township, Surat
SMART Programme
‘SMART’ programme launched for Ayurveda professionals to boost R&D in Ayurveda
Water Vision @ 2047?
Union Jal Shakti Ministry is organising a national conference on the theme of ‘Water Vision@2047’ in Bhopal in Jan 2023
1st All India Annual Ministerial Conference on Water with theme Water Vision@2047
British INdiaan Army Memorial?
to be ebuilt in Glasgow, Scotland
Football Club World Cup 2023 to be hosted by?
Morocoo
Which Indian aactor included in Expire Magazine’s 50 greatest Actors?
SRk
Ayushman Bharat Health Account ID generation: 1st prize?
Jammu and Kashmir has been awarded 1st prize in the category for Ayushman Bharat health account ID generation and 2nd prize in the category for Teleconsultation conducted during the celebration of Universal Health Coverage Day 2022 (DEc 12th) which is being celebrated on 10th and 11th December in varanasi
Ayushman Utkrishtata Puraskaar 2022
Andhra Pradesh was awarded the Ayushman Utkrishtata Puraskaar 2022 as the top performing State/Union Territory at the two-day Arogya Manthan 2022 held in New Delhi on 26 September 2022.
he National Health Authority, the implementing agency of the AB PMJAY, presented the award
They were conferred on the occasion of the Arogya Manthan 2022, which marks 4-year completion of AB PMJAY and one-year implementation of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM).
Top Performing State/UT: Andhra Pradesh
Top Performing District: Andhra Pradesh’s Parvathipuram Manyam
Top Performing Government Facility: District Hospital Dharwad in Karnataka
Best private integrator with the highest number of health records linked to ABHA: Eka Care
AB PMJAY was launched on September 23, 2018. It is the largest government-funded health insurance scheme. This completely cashless and paperless scheme provides up to Rs.5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary healthcare hospitalizations. This scheme provides assistance for 10.74 crore vulnerable families across India. It is implemented by the National Health Authority (NHA).
Millets Smart Nutritive Food Conclave
conclave is a pre-launch event of the International Year of Millets - 2023 organised by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry through its export promotion body, APEDA
chief guest Piyush Goyal
RBI Currency swap agreement with?
Maldives
state icon of Bihar by ECI?
Maithili Thakur
First Female President of TT Federation of India
Meghna Ahlawat
PM Award Australia 2022?
awarded to Veena Nayar for Science
National Emergency announced in which South American Country?
Peru
Chahat Arora
Chandigarh swimmer Chahat Arora broke the women’s 100m breaststroke national record twice
nagar Van scheme?
MoEFCC’s scheme aims to develop 200 nagar van
highest no. in MP yet
recently Kullu in HP
Tech Company CEO awarded Padma award
Sundar Pichai, Goodle, awarded Padma Bhushan,by Indian ambassador in USA, taranjit SIngh
‘One district, One sport’ scheme i which state?
UP
UNESCo eport has suggested to add Great Barrier Reef in which list
WHS in danger
India granted _________fin assistance of 100mn$
Maldives
Study Report on carbon capture by?
NITI Aayog
merger of ________airlines into Air India?
Vistara
by March 2024
First state to abolish revenue police system
Uttarakhand
Indian Library Congress where?
Kerala
Indian Science Congress?
association started in the year 1914 in Kolkata and it meets annually in the first week of January. It has a membership of more than 30,000 scientists.
108th ed in 2023 to be held in Nagpur
India’s first underwater metro to be commissioned in?
Kolkata
India’s second largest cable bridge?
eight-lane Zuari Bridge opens in Goa
inaugurated by Gadkari
across Zuari river
1st position is held by Worli Sea link bridge, Mumbai
Nijaat campaign?
CHH police’s anti-drug abuse and trafficking has been awarded US based ICAP award
Nilgiri tahr project
Tamil Nadu is set to implement Project Nilgiri Tahr, aimed at developing a better understanding of the population, distribution and ecology of the endangered species which is the state animal
aims to restore the fragmented habitat especially Shola grasslands
Nilgiri Tahr?
“Endangered” by IUCN
Schedule 1 of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972
There has been almost 27% increase in the population of the tahr in the Nilgiris over the last three years.
The Adult males of Nilgiri Tahr species develop a light grey area or “saddle” on their backs and are hence called “Saddlebacks”
It is the state animal of Tamil Nadu.
First woman commissioner in UP?
Lakshmi SIngh
World blitz Chess championship?
K.Hampi won silver
new integrated food security scheme
from 1st Jan 2023
To maintain uniformity and for the welfare of the beneficiaries, free food grains will be provided under PMGKAY for the year 2023.
All the beneficiaries of the AAY and PHH will be provided with free foodgrains.
The integrated scheme will strengthen the provisions ofthe National Food Security Act or NFSA 2013 in terms of accessibility, affordability, and availability of food grains for the poor.
PMGKAY will include the two subsidy schemes of the Department of Food & Public Distribution.
The subsidies include the Food Subsidy to FCI and Food Subsidy for Decentralisation procurement state dealing with procurement, allocation, and delivery of free foodgrains to the states.
Notification has been issued for making the price of foodgrains zero for AAY and PHH beneficiaries, resolution of technical issues at Fair Price Shops (FPS), advisory related to margin to the Fair Price Shop Dealers, and Zero Prices in the print receipts.
The Central Government will spend more than ₹2 lakh crore in 2023 as food subsidies under NFSA and other welfare schemes to remove the financial burden of the poor people
Film screend at Nepal International Mountain Film Festival?
Hindi Film Ayena
Exercise Sangam?
betn India and US navy
First Drone skills Training Conference?
held in Chennai
ONGC chairman
Arun Kumar SIngh
New warship to be inducted into Indian navy
Mormugao warship
second ship of the Visakhapatnam-class stealth guided-missile destroyers
built at Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL)and lacunhed in 2016
India’s longest escape tunnel?
India’s longest escape tunnel, which is 12.89 km long constructed on the 111 km under-construction Banihal-Katra railway line in Jammu and Kashmir was completed by the Indian Railways. The longest tunnel is part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Line (USBRL) project
his is the fourth tunnel on the Banihal-Katra route following the 12.75 km tunnel T-49, the longest tunnel of the Indian Railways, which was completed in January 2022
constructed by the New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM), which is a modern technique of drill and blast processes.
The escape tunnel has been constructed to facilitate rescue work if an emergency situation arises. The escape tunnel ‘T-13’ has been constructed to facilitate rescue work in case of an emergency.
Longest tunnels in India?
Atal Road Tunnel, earlier called Rohtang tunnel, Himachal Pradesh – World’s Longest Highway Tunnel above 10,000 Feet’- built by BRO-9.02 km long; cuts through a mountain west of the Rohtang pass (in Pir Panjal Range, HP) and shortens the distance between Solang Valley and Sissu by around 46 km and takes around 15 minutes to cover. Earlier, it would take nearly 4 hours to travel between the two points.
Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel, Jammu and Kashmir (Length: 11,215 metres, or 11.22 km.)- Lonhgest rly tunnel
Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Road Tunnel, Jammu and Kashmir (Length: 9280 metres, or 9.34 km.)- longest roaad tunnel
Trivandrum Port Railway Tunnel, Kerala (Length: 9020 metres, or 9.02 km.)
Banihal Qazigund Road Tunnel, Jammu and Kashmir (Length: 8500 meters, or roughly 8.5 km)
Sangaldan Railway Tunnel, Jammu and Kashmir (Length: 8000 meters, or approximately 8 km.).
___________joins the European young investigator network
Dr. Mahima Swami
prahari App?
Recently the Union Home minister launched ‘Prahari’ app for Border Security Force (BSF) Jawans.
Through the ‘Prahari’ app, jawans can get personal and service-related information, housing, Ayushman- Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and leave related information on their mobile.
Oscars of Education?
The Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards, also known as “the Oscars of Education,” gave significant recognition to the IIT-M
Prajwala challenge
The challenge is launched under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – NRLM , by MoRD, to invite ideas, solutions, and actions that can transform rural development.
RTI Responsiveness
Recently, Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SNS) has released a report card of Responsiveness under RTI
Tn worst (furnished just14%)
SIC of Bihar, which had failed to provide any information under the RTI Act for the assessments published in 2020 and 2021, significantly improved its performance and furnished 67% of the information sought.
doda district?
J&K
______has become the President of the European Union council for 6 months.
Sweden
______has become the President of the European Union council for 6 months.
Sweden
new speaker of Himachal Pradesh LA
Kuldeep Singh Pathania
Only Indian sportswoman to be included in Forbes highest paid sportswomen
PV Sindhu
United Nations has recognized 10 ground-breaking efforts from around the globe for their role in restoring the natural world.
namami Gange
WHO Head scientist?
Jeremy Farar apoointed
Familiy ID?
introduced in J&K
to be issued by GoI
Several other states have proposed or created similar databases. Haryana was the first state to introduce the concept of the family pehchan patra, and Punjab introduced it last year for direct transfer of benefits to families who are eligible for various social service schemes of the government. Last month, the Uttar Pradesh government decided to launch a UP Parivar Kalyan Card for similar purposes.
Rajasthan’s Congress government has introduced something called a “Jan Aadhaar” which “aims to be the single identifier of a family and also an individual”, and “the sole vehicle on which delivery of all kinds of cash as well non-cash benefits and services are riding and reaching to the door-step of the residents”.
T/F: India is the second country to demonstrate the flight testing of a Scramjet Engine.
F; fourth country
recently ISRO as successfully conducted the hot test of Scramjet Engine
Air breathing engine
An air-breathing engine is an engine that takes in air from its surroundings in order to burn fuel.
Types:
- Ramjet: A ramjet is a form of air-breathing jet engine that uses the vehicle’s forward motion to compress incoming air for combustion without a rotating compressor.
Ramjets work most efficiently at supersonic speeds but they are not efficient at hypersonic speeds. - Scramjet: A scramjet engine is an improvement over the ramjet engine as it efficiently operates at hypersonic speeds and allows supersonic combustion.
- Dual Mode Ramjet (DMRJ): A dual mode ramjet (DMRJ) is a type of jet engine where a ramjet transforms into a scramjet over Mach 4-8 range, which means it can efficiently operate both in subsonic and supersonic combustion modes.
first transgender Councilor of Municipal Corporation of Delhi.
Bobby Kinner
India’s largest contemporary art exhibition
Kochi Muziris, started in Kerala
Global Food Security Index 2022?
by The Economist
India ranked 68th (71st last yr)
shows a deterioration in the global food environment for the third year, threatening food security.
South Africa overtook Tunisia to become the most food-secure country in Africa.
8 of the top 10 performing countries are in Europe, with Finland topping the list followed by ireland and Norway
India’s largest commercial jet terminal opens at?
Kochi airport
Chandrasekarendra Saraswati National Eminence Award 2022?
Former vice president Venkaiah Naidu has been conferred with the 25th Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence Award (SIES)
Other awardees in various categories included the Governor of Kerala Arif Mohammed Khan, eminent industrialist Ratan Tata, renowned cardiologist and Padma Vibhushan awardee Dr Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valianathan, Scientific Advisor to the Government of India Ajay Sood and famous Harikatha artiste Vishakha Hari.
The awards were instituted by the South Indian Education Society in 1998 in memory of the late Seer of Kanchi, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati.
Awards are given in the fields of public leadership, community leadership, science and technology and social thinkers to those who had made outstanding contributions in the above four fields.
International Year of Millets?
2023
inaguration at Rome
Sushmita Shukla
Indian origin Sushmita Shukla became the first VP of federal reserve Bank, NY
Rabindranath Tagore LIterary award?
The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22 has been jointly won by Sudeep Sen for his genre and formbender Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann Books & Media, 2021) and Shobhana Kumar for her haibun collection A Sky Full of Bucket Lists (Red River, 2021)
The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize is a literary honour in India conferred annually to published works of Indian authors (residing in India or abroad) in novel, short stories, poetry and drama, originally written in any of Indian official languages and dialects, but translated to English. It was founded in 2018 by US-based independent and non-profit publishing house Maitreya Publishing Foundation (MPF)
since 2018
CBD CoP15?
in Montreal, Canada
Presided over by China
The meeting in Montreal was the second part of COP15, the first part having been held in Kunming in China in 2021 and adopted the Kunming Declaration.
The Montreal Conference has delivered a new agreement called the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) that need to be achieved by 2030
Signatories aim to ensure USD200 billion per year is channelled to conservation initiatives, from public and private sources.
Wealthier countries should contribute at least USD20 billions of this every year by 2025, and at least USD30 billion a year by 2030.
The parties agreed to large companies and financial institutions being subject to “requirements” to make disclosures regarding their operations, supply chains and portfolios.
Countries committed to identify subsidies that deplete biodiversity by 2025, and then eliminate, phase out or reform them.
They agreed to slash those incentives by at least USD500 billion a year by 2030 and increase incentives that are positive for conservation
All the agreed aims will be supported by processes to monitor progress in the future, in a bid to prevent this agreement meeting the same fate as similar targets that were agreed in Aichi, Japan, in 2010, and never met.
National action plans will be set and reviewed, following a similar format used for greenhouse gas emissions under U.N.-led efforts to curb climate change. Some observers objected to the lack of a deadline for countries to submit these plans.
Kunming Declaration?
In 2021, the Kunming Declaration was signed by more than 100 countries to ensure the development, adoption, and implementation of an effective post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
The theme of the declaration was Ecological Civilization: Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth.
China invested about 230 million dollars to establish the Kunming Biodiversity Fund to support biodiversity protection in the developing countries.
The declaration referred to the ‘30 by 30’ target, that would afford 30% of the Earth’s land and oceans protected status by 2030.
“Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” (GBF)
adopted at CoP 15 of CBD in Montreal
GBF includes 4 goals and 23 targets for achievement by 2030
- 30x30 Deal:
Restore 30% degraded ecosystems globally (on land and sea) by 2030
Conserve and manage 30% areas (terrestrial, inland water, and coastal and marine) by 2030
- Stop the extinction of known species, and by 2050 reduce tenfold the extinction risk and rate of all species (including unknown)
- Reduce risk from pesticides by at least 50% by 2030
- Reduce nutrients lost to the environment by at least 50% by 2030
- Reduce pollution risks and negative impacts of pollution from all sources by 2030 to levels that are not harmful to biodiversity and ecosystem functions
- Reduce global footprint of consumption by 2030, including through significantly reducing overconsumption and waste generation and halving food waste
- Sustainably manage areas under agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry and substantially increase agroecology and other biodiversity-friendly practices
- Tackle climate change through nature-based solutions
- Reduce the rate of introduction and establishment of invasive alien species by at least 50% by 2030
- Secure the safe, legal and sustainable use and trade of wild species by 2030
- Green up urban spaces
Friends of Library scheme?
in TN
Head of New Delhi International Mediation Centre
Former Supreme Court judge Hemant Gupta has been appointed as the chairperson of New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC)
Gaganyaan 1?
Gaganyaan 1 will be the first uncrewed test flight of the Gaganyaan program, with launch planned for end-2023
H1 will be manned mission
Inner line permit portal started in which state?
Manipur
Iner line permit applicable to?
Arunachal pradesh
Mizoram
Nagaland
Manipur (since 2019)
Lakshadweep
An ILP was previously required for certain parts of the Leh district in Ladakh. This requirement was abolished by a circular issued by district magistrate which took effect from 1 May 2014, although foreign nationals are required to get Protected Area Permit for this region. The ILP was implemented again in 2017 only to be removed again in 2021
Start up 20 Engagement Group?
Inception Meeting of the Startup 20 Engagement Group of G20 was held in Hyderabad.
Veer Guardian
Maiden India Japan Air exercise
took place at Hyakuri Air Base, Japan
GRIHA Exemplary Performance Award 2022?
won by UIDAI HQ
GRIHA award?
(Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) is a national rating system for green buildings in India
GRIHA was adopted as the National Rating System for Green Buildings in India by MNRE in 2007.
International Balloon festival 2023?
TN
T/F: UNSC passed the first ever resolution to end violence in Myanmar.
T
The U.N. Security Council has adopted its first ever resolution on Myanmar in 74 years to demand an end to violence and urge the military junta to release all political prisoners, including ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi
India’s first infantry museum?
India’s first and World’s second infantry museum in Mhow, Indore, Madhya Pradesh
India’s first green steel brand
Kalyani Ferresta
launched in Delhi
T/F: India is the largest exporter of sugar
T
India becomes the largest producer and exporter of sugar
ASEAN-India Grassroot Innovation Forum
Shalini Kumari gets first rank in ASEAN-India Grassroot Innovation Forum
resident of Patna
for her innovation ‘Modified Walker with Adjustable Legs’
Atomic Energy Regulatory Board: about? new head?
The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board was constituted on 15 November 1983 by the President of India by exercising the powers conferred by Section 27 of the Atomic Energy Act, 1962 to carry out certain regulatory and safety functions under the Act.
Dinesh Kumar Shukla
First University to get A grade by NAAC
The Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar has got A grade by scoring 3.85 points in National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) grading, thereby becoming the only University in India to get this score. GNDU is the only State/Central/Private University in India to get this score. Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is the only other educational institution with a higher grade of 3.89 in the country.
NAAC?
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) was established in 1994 as an autonomous institution of the University Grants Commission (UGC) with its Headquarter in Bengaluru. The NAAC conducts assessment and accreditation of Higher Educational Institutions such as colleges, universities or other recognised institutions to derive an understanding of the ‘Quality Status’ of the institution.
Submarine Museum
The country’s second submarine museum is slated to come up at Digha in West Bengal
Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh has the only submarine museum in the country.
operation trident?
Operation Trident was an offensive operation launched by the Indian Navy on Pakistan’s port city of Karachi during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
PM Kaushal Kaam karyakram (PMKKK)?
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Ko Kaam Karyakram (PMKKK) has now been named as Pradhan Mantri Virasat Ka Samvardhan (PM VIKAS) Scheme. The integrated scheme converges five erstwhile schemes of the Ministry viz. Seekho aur Kamao, USTTAD, Hamari Dharohar, Nai Roshni and Nai Manzil.
Urban 20?
Under the G20 presidency of India from December 01, 2022 to November 30, 2023, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is organizing Urban 20 event in Ahmedabad
INS Vagir?
Indian navy commissioned the fifth diesel-electric Kalvari-class submarine Vagir.
It is among the six submarines being built by the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL), Mumbai, in collaboration with the French M/s Naval Group under Project 75. Four of these submarines have already been commissioned into the Navy and a sixth will be commissioned next year.
Vagir is a Kalvari-class submarine, which includes other vessels, such as the INS Kalvari, INS Khanderi, INS Karanj, INS Vela and INS Vagsheer. Of these, Kalvari and Khanderi were commissioned in 2017 and 2019, and Vela and Karanj were inducted in 2021. Vagir has now been commissioned and Vagsheer was launched in 2022 and is expected to be inducted next year.
Also known as Sand Shark, the submarine was delivered to the Indian Navy in December 2022.
The submarines in the current Kalvari-class take their names from erstwhile decommissioned classes of submarines named Kalvari, which included Kalvari, Khanderi, Karanj and Vela classes — comprising Vela, Vagir, Vagshir. The now-decommissioned Kalvari and Vela classes were one of the earliest submarines in the post-independence Indian Navy, which belonged to Soviet origin Foxtrot class of vessels.
Like Kalvari – which means Tiger Shark, Vagir has been named after a Sand Fish, a predatory marine species. Khanderi has been named after an Island Fort built by Chhatrapati Shivaji, which played a key role in his Navy. Karanj has also been named after an Island located South of Mumbai.
new omicron variant in CHina?
BF.7
India’s Smart Cities Mission wins _______________ awards 2022
Platinum Digital India
which sport added to Khelo India women tournament?
Treck cycling
PETA India Person of The Year 2022
Sonakshi Sinha
Speaker of GJ SLA?
Shankar Chaudhary
India’s rank in scientific publication?
3rd
__________became official partner of FIH for Hockey World Cup 2023
Tata SteelLtd
which country banned teenagers from buying cigarette
NZ
India’s rank in Hurun Global 500 index?
India now ranks at Number 5 as 20 Indian companies feature in 500 most valuable ones in the world, as per the 2022 Hurun Global list.
which country recently issued its first currency notes with two women’s signatures?
USA
The U.S. The Treasury (United States of America’s Finance Ministry) has printed the first US banknotes (currency notes) with two women’s signatures. The new currency notes of $1 and $5 value carry the signature of the Secretary of Treasury (American Finance Minister) Janet Yellen and Lynn Malerba.
INdia Global Forum 2022?
Dubai
First state to start Climate change mission?
TN
Good Governance Week?
19th to 25th Dec
T/F: Indian Women’s Hockey team won FIH Nations Cup 2022?
T
GI Tags 2022?
Gamosa/towel of Assam
Tandur Red Gram of Telangana
Apricot of Ladakh
White onion of MH
world’s first commercial moon lander
Japan’s ispace Inc’s HAKUTO-R mission took off from FLorida on a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket.
The M1 lander will deploy two robotic rovers, a two-wheeled, baseball-sized device from Japan’s JAXA space agency and the four-wheeled Rashid explorer made by the United Arab Emirates.
17th Asia-Pacific regional meeting of ILO
Singapore
India Water Impact Summit 2022?
Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat inaugurated 7th ed of India Water
Impact Summit 2022 in New Delhi
Tennis Premier League 2022 ?
Hyderabad Strikers became the Champions of Tennis Premier League 2022 in
Pune.
National Institute of One health
PM inaugurates National Institute of One health at Nagpur
chairman of National Biodiversity Authority
Achlendra Reddy
____________will give to _______, tech to increase milk production
NDDB and Amul
SL
International ‘Diwali-Power of ONe’ Award 2022
Hailed as the ‘Oscars of Diplomacy’, the award is presented to former Permanent Representatives or former High-Level members of the UN Secretariat or member state, or soon-to-be “former”, who have “toiled selflessly to help form a more perfect, peaceful and secure world for all.”
awarded by UN
instituted in 2017 by the Diwali Foundation, USA.
President of the 77th session of the General Assembly
Csaba Korosi
Earthshot Award 2022?
Earthshot Award 2022 to Indian startup KHEYTI.
The Earthshot Prize is awarded to five winners each year for their contributions to environmentalism. It was first awarded in 2021 and is planned to run annually until 2030. Each winner receives a grant of £1 million to continue their environmental work. The five categories were inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals; they are ‘the restoration and protection of nature’, ‘air cleanliness’, ‘ocean revival’, ‘waste-free living’, and ‘climate action’. launched in 2020 by Prince William and David Attenborough. The winners are selected by the Earthshot Prize Council, which includes Prince William and Attenborough.
Kheyti helps smallholder farmers in India gain a steady, dependable income through its “Greenhouse-in-a-Box”, a low-cost, modular greenhouse
First India-Central Asia National security advisors (NSA) meeting where?
New Delhi
Mandous?
Cyclone in BoB
International Lusophone Festival
organized in Goa
The Lusophone world are countries that speak Portuguese as their official language and were colonized by the Portuguese. The Lusophone countries are Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, East Timor, Goa, and Macau
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in partnership with Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) and the Government of Goa is organizing the International Lusophone Festival in Goa from 3-6 December 2022. The festival seeks to further India’s connect with the Lusophone world.
world’s most expensive drug
FDA) has approved a drug called Hemgenix, the first gene therapy for hemophilia B in the country
This drug is a one-time treatment for the blood clotting disorder.
Hemgenix stands to be the costliest drug in the world, priced at $3.5 million per dose. But, drugmaker CSL Behring states that this groundbreaking medicine will come to reducing healthcare-costs, and patients may require fewer treatments.
Manthan platform?
government of India unveiled the “Manthan” platform to drive collaboration between the industry and research institutes to implement technology-based social impact innovations and solutions in the country.
Sudarshan Prahar Exercise
by Indian Army in RJ
Gopal Ratna award 2022?
Jitendra Singh of Haryana
National Gopal Award is one of the highest National Awards in the livestock and dairy sector field. The National Gopal Ratna Award has an objective to recognize and encourage all individuals like farmers rearing indigenous animals
volcanoes in Russia?
The volcanoes of Kamchatka are a large group of volcanoes situated on the Kamchatka Peninsula, in eastern Russia.
Kamchatka is home to 29 active volcanoes
Kuvempu National Award 2022
Rashtrakavi Kuvempu Prathishtana Kuppali has selected Tamil poet V Annamalai aka Imayam for the Kuvempu National award for the year 2022
award is given annually to a writer in any of 8thscheduled languages
ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal
Iranian Film Nargesi
The IFFI ICFT UNSESCO Gandhi Medal is an international honor instituted since the 46th International Film Festival of India.The annual award is presented to an outstanding film which promotes peace and inter-cultural dialogue
_____________jail awarded 5 star rating
Bulandshahar jail. UP
Indian Army Engineer in Chief?
Arvind Walia becomes Indian Army Engineer-in-Chief
Book “Forks in the road: My days at RBI and beyond”
C. Rangarajan
national highway authority of india chairman 2022
Santosh Kumar Yadav
which country in India;s neighborhood recently unveiled its first metro project?
BN
Para Sports pErson of the Year
Avni Lekhara
Mongla port?
India to modernise BN Mongla port
BBC sports Personality of The Year Award 2022
Beth Mead, an English professional footballer
Artificial heart manufactured by?
IIT-Kanpur
Eklavya Award 2022
Indian cyclist Swasti Singh (Odisha) has been honoured with the prestigious 30th Ekalabya Puraskar for the year 2022. The award is instituted by IMFA’s charitable wing, IMPaCT.
Promising international footballer Pyari Xaxa and budding international hockey player Shilanand Lakra also received felicitation during the occasion
Ekalabya Puraskar, instituted by IMPaCT, the charitable wing of the IMFA, the leading Ferro Alloys producer in the country, in the year 1993, has come a long way to be recognised as the most prestigious sports award of Odisha
India’s first ever Surety Bond Insurance?
Nitin Gadkari launched one of India’s first-ever Surety Bond Insurance product from Bajaj Allianz.
Surety Bond Insurance will act as a security arrangement for infrastructure projects and will insulate the contractor as well as the principal.
Chairman and CEO of Railway Board?
Anil Kumar Lahoti
First indigenous vaccine for H9N2
First indigenous vaccine for H9N2 Avian influenza by Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (ICAR-NIHSAD)
Amrit Bharat Station Yojana
for the modernization of stations,
in which two stations of Begusarai in Bihar have been included in the list of 15 stations selected by Sonpur Division.
Under the ‘Amrit Bharat Station Scheme’, Lakhminiyan and Sahebpur Kamal stations located on the Barauni-Katihar railway section of Bihar will be developed under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, which will be upgraded along with the availability of various types of high capacity new facilities.
Brain Eating Amoeba: first case detected where?
South Korea
______________signs MoU with central TB Division for eradication of TB in ____________?
Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Central TB Division (CTD) under the Union health ministry and the states of Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to undertake intensified tuberculosis (TB) elimination project, as part of its CSR activities.
Dhanu Yatra
The ‘Dhanu Yatra’ festival, considered to be the world’s largest open-air theatre, began recently in Odisha’s Bargarh.
The ‘Dhanu Yatra’, which marks the victory of good over evil, came into existence in Bargarh in 1947-48 as part of the celebration of the country’s Independence and is held annually.
CEO of FSSAi?
Ganji Kamal Rao
rank of Indian cuisine in world’s greatest cuisines
5th
India’s first full library constituency
Kerala Dharmadham constituency
India Australia ECTA effective from?
29th Dec
BrahMos Missile?
BrahMos missile, an Indo-Russian joint venture, has a range of 290 km and is the fastest cruise missile in the world with a top speed of Mach 2.8 (nearly three times the speed of sound).
BrahMos is named for the rivers Brahmaputra and Moskva.
It is a two-stage (solid propellant engine in the first stage and liquid ramjet in second) missile.
It is a multiplatform missile i.e., it can be launched from land, air, and sea and multi capability missile with pinpoint accuracy that works in both day and night irrespective of the weather conditions.
It operates on the “Fire and Forgets” principle i.e it does not require further guidance after launch.
In April 2022, an anti-ship version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully test-fired jointly by the Indian Navy and the Andaman and Nicobar Command.
In January 2022, an extended range sea-to-sea variant of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was test fired from stealth guided missile destroyer INS Visakhapatnam.
Recently BrahMos missile with 400km range was test-fired from Sukhoi aircraft
Mangdechu HEP?
India-assisted 720 Megawatts Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Power Project has been recently handed to Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) in Bhutan. With this project, India and Bhutan have successfully completed four mega hydroelectric power projects. The commissioning of the project has increased Bhutan’s Electrical Power Generation Capacity by 44 per cent
CVC?
PK Shrivastav
___________-ranks first in monthly income for Agri HHs
Meghalaya
India will claim to host the Olympic games in___________
2036
“Online request transfer portal” launched by ?
Deptt of post
_____________nominated for the ICC emerging cricketer of the year 2022
Arshdeep SIngh
____________–becomes the first state to pass the Lokayukta bill
MH
Atal Bihari Memorial in?
Gwalior
Lion@47?
Recently, the Project Lion document titled “Lion @ 47: Vision for Amrutkal” has been launched by MoEFCC
for Asiatic LIon
Gujarat’s Barda Wildlife Sanctuary: It has been identified as a potential second home for Asiatic lions.
It is located near Porbandar which is 100 kilometres from the Gir National Park.
Agri Minister?
Narendra Singh Tomar
Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries minister
Purshottam Rupala
AYUSH minister
Sarbananda Sonowal
Min of chemical and Fertilisers
Mansukh Mandaviya
Min of Civil aviation
J. Scindia
Min of Coal
Prahlad Joshi
Min of Commerce and Industry
Piyush Goyal
Min of Co-operation
Amit SHah
Min of Corporate Affairs
N. Sitharaman
Min of Culture
GK Reddy
Min of DoNER
GK Reddy
Min of EarthSciences
Jitendra Singh
Min of Education
Dharmendra Pradhan
Min of MeiTY
Ashwini Vaishnav
Min of MoEFCC
Bhupendra Yadav
Min of FPI
Pashupati Kumar Paras
Min of MoHFW
Mansukh L Mandaviya
Min of Heavy Industries
Mahendra Nath Pandey
Min of MoHUA
Hardeep SIngh Puri
Min of INfo and Broadcasting
Anurag Singh Thakur
Min of Jal Shakti
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Min of Labor and Employment
Bhupendra yadav
Min of Law and Justice
Kiren Rijiju
Min of MSMEs
Narayan Rane
Min of Mines
Prahlad Joshi
Min of Minority Affairs
Smriti Irani
Min of MNRE
Raj Kumar SIngh
Min of Panchayati Raj
Giriraj SIngh
Min of Parliamentary Affairs
Prahlad Joshi
Min of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Narendra Modi
Min of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Hardeep Singh Puri
Min of Planning
Rao Inderjit SIngh
Min of Ports, shipping and waterways
Sarbananda Sonowal
Min of Power
Raj Kumar SIngh
Min of RD
Giriraj SIngh
Min of Rlys
Ashwini Vaishnav
Min of S&T
Jitendra SIngh
Min of MSDE
Dharmendra Pradhan
Min of Social Justice and Empowerment
Dr. Virendra Kumar
Min of MOSPI
Rao Inderjit SIngh
Min of Steel
Ram Chandra Prasad Singh
Min of Textiles
Piyush Goyal
Min of Tourism
GK Reddy
Min of Tribal Affairs
Arjun Munda
Min of WCD
Smriti Irani
Min of Youth Affairs and Sports
Anurag Thakur
Drishti No.2 Sept-OCt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l3yiq4wF_A&ab_channel=DrishtiPCS
CM rural solar street light yojana
15th Sept 2022
10 solar street light in each wardat imp places
Asia Pacific Deaf Badminton Championship 2022
In Sept 2022
in Thailand
6th ed
Hrithik Anand won 3 medals
Vaishali won Gold in Mixed Double, Bronze in singles and silver in doubles
India’s longest rubber dam?
on Phalgu river
in Gaya
name Gayajidam
411m long
Bihar’s first
National Teachers Award 2022: winners from Bihar
Bihar’s Saurabh Suman and Nishi Kumari
on 5th Sept 2022
total 46 teachers were felicitated
door step delivery of revenue maps?
Bihar
first state to start this initative
New Speaker of Bihar’s SLA?
Avadh Bihari CHaudhary
in Sept 2022
17th
RJD- Siwan (born and represents)
Bihar’s first 100% Digital banking enabled district
Jehanabad
Bihar’s first multi-modal Logistics Park?
Patna
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar anniversary?
on 23rd Sept
Begusarai
Rashtra Kavi
114th in 2022
Bismillah Khan International Award ceremony 2022?
organised in Buxar
Lifetime achievement Award given to RK SInha former Rajya Sabha MP, journalist, thinker and author
Aditya Nath Jha, a resident of Katihar district, has been honored with the Bismillah Khan International Award 2022 for his remarkable contribution in the social sector.
Bihar’s first Research institute related to Nilgai planned in?
Buxar
Royal Lotus Temple
Bodhgaya, Gaya
association with S. Korea
related to Buddhism
CAS Mark?
Conformity Assessment Scheme
awarded to dairies
Nalanda Dairy of Bihar becomes India’s first dairy to receive this in india
by Indian Standards Bureau and NDDB
Most Backward Classes Commission
On October 19, 2022, the state government constituted the Most Backward Classes Commission under the chairmanship of senior JD(U) leader Dr Navin Chandra Arya. This commission will recommend reservation for the most backward in the civic elections as per the guidelines of the Supreme Court.
70th San Sebastian International Film Festival 2022
in Paris
Bihar’s Parth Saurabh, film director
Darbhanga
film: Pokhar ke Dunu Paar
World Literature Teacher Award?
Proff. Arun Kumar Jha, Madhubani
Big cats?
Tiger
Lion
Leopard
Snow Loepard
Cheetah
Kuno NP?
Sheopur
made WLS in 1981
made NP in 2018
State Env Ministers National Conference 2022
in Sept 2022
in GJ
Subhash Chandra Bose’s statue in Central Vista?
28 ft high
Granite
Global Learning Cities: India’s entries?
by UNESCO
Nilambur and Thissur from Kerala
Warangal from Telangana
UNESCo Foundation Day
16th Nov 1945
India’s First 100% functionally literate district?
Mandla, MP
Op Vajra Prahar
India-USA
13th India - USA Joint Special Forces Exercise VAJRA PRAHAR
at Bakloh, HP
Book: Will power: the Inside Story of The INcredible Turnaround in Indian Women Hockey
Sojierd Marin
Dutch player
ex coach of Indian women hockey team
Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar 2022
by MHA
on 14th Sept 2022, Hindi Day
in Surat
awarded to the popular science magazine “Vigyan Pragati” of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research at Second All India Rajbhasha Sammelan in Surat.
It was introduced by the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2015.
Aim- To encourage the implementation of the Official Language Policy.
It is given on the day of Hindi Diwas.
A total of 39 awards are given under this award scheme.
It is given to any department, division, committee who achieves good progress by doing its work in Hindi language.
On 14th Sept 1949, Constituent Assembly decided Hindi to be te official language
Brij Basi Lal
Indian Archaeological Survey’s ex chairman
recently passed away
67th Filmfare award?
Fimfare awards since?
Best actor- Ranveer Singh (83)
Kriti Sanon (Mimi)
Best actor critics choice- Vicky Kaushal (Sardar Udham)
best Actress critics- Vidya Balan (Sherni)
Bst film- Shershah
Best Director- VishnuVardhan (Shershah)
Best film critics choice- Sardar Udham
sice 1954
Asia Cup 2022?
Sl (6th time)
Education 4.0 India report?
by WEF, UNICEF and YuWaah
tracks the progress and findings of the Education 4.0 India initiative, which convened over 40 partners from the education technology, government, academic and start-up communities to focus on how Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies can enhance learning and reduce inequalities in access to education among schoolchildren in India. Under four themes – foundational literacy and numeracy, teacher professional development, school-to-work transition, and connecting the unconnected – the report identifies gaps and outlines interventions
Swachh Survekshan 2022 index?
- cities with pop more than 1 Lakh: Indore (6th consecutive 1st)>Surat>Navi Mumbai
- Best Ganga Town with pop more than 1 Lakh: Haridwar
- cities with pop less than 1 Lakh: Panchgani (MH)> Patan (CHH> )Karad (MH)
- Fast Mover City Award: Shivamogga in Karnataka.
- states (with more than 100urban centres): MP>CHH (1st for last 3 yrs)>MH
- states with less than 100urban centres: Tripura>JH (1st fo last 2 yrs)>UK
- India’s first 7-star Garbage free city- Indore
- Surat, Bhopal, Mysuru, Navi Mumbai, Vishakhapatnam, and Tirupati earned 5-star Garbage Free certifications.
started in 2016 (6th ed in 2022)
This year’s Survekshan participated by 4,355 cities, also saw an unprecedented number of citizens’ feedback – over 9 crores, compared to 5 cores last year.
The vision of a Garbage Free India under SBM-U 2.0 was given further impetus by announcing the results of 7-star and 5-star rated cities under the Star Rating Protocol of Garbage Free Cities. The revised Star Rating Protocol of Garbage Free Cities was launched in 2021 to holistically evaluate cities across solid waste management parameters. 11 five-star cities, 182 three-star cities, and 218 one-star cities)
Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2022
by Oxfam India and Development Finance INternational
criterias: ranks countries based on their policies and actions in the areas of Public services (health, education and social protection), Taxation and Workers’ rights
India: 123rd (161) (129th in 2020) (rank worsened in health index)
top: Norway>Germany>Australia
ECI National icon?
Pankaj tripathi
KG Balakrishnan Commission?
Union Government has appointed a three-member commission, headed by former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan, to consider the possibility of granting SC status to “new persons who have historically belonged to the Scheduled Castes’’ but have converted to religions other than Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism.
He was SC’s first Dalit CJI
NHRc Head?
Arun Kumar Mishra, a former Judge of Supreme Court is current chairperson of the commission (11th chairperson of NHRC). The last chairman of the NHRC was Justice H. L. Dattu,
white shipping Information Exchange agreement?
India and NZ
also in plac with USA
commercial ships
DefExpo?
12th ed in GJ
theme: ‘Path to Pride’
Suvidha Param Kamrup?
supercompute
inaugurated by President at IIT-Guwahati
Living Planet Report 2022?
by WWF; report is released every two years.
1. 69% decline in the wildlife populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish, across the globe in the last 50 years
2. The highest decline in the wildlife populations (94%) was in the Latin America and the Caribbean region.
Africa recorded a 66% fall in its wildlife populations from 1970-2018 whereas the Asia-Pacific recorded a decline of 55%.
3. Freshwater Species populations globally reduced by 83%
4. Living Planet Index (LPI) showed that vertebrate wildlife populations are collapsing at a particularly staggering rate in tropical regions of the world.
5. Mangroves continue to be lost to aquaculture, agriculture and coastal development at a rate of 0.13% per year. Around 137 square kilometres of the Sundarbans mangrove forest in India and Bangladesh has been eroded since 1985, reducing land and ecosystem services for many of the 10 million people who live there.
WWF identified six key threats to biodiversity to highlight ‘threat hotspots’ for terrestrial vertebrates:
Agriculture
Hunting
Logging
Pollution
Invasive Species
Climate Change
Global Forest Sector Outlook Report 2050?
by UN-FAO
assessed future demand and sources of timber for a sustainable economy
Jhulan Goswami?
355wickets in 284 matches
highest wicket-taker in women’s world cup
ICC Women Player of The Year in 2007
aka ‘Ball-Girl’ and ‘Chakda Express’
PM-DevINE?
ecently, the Union Cabinet approved a new Scheme, Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North East Region (PM-DevINE).
PM-DevINE was announced in the Union Budget 2022-23 to address development gaps in the North Eastern Region (NER).
It is a Central Sector Scheme with 100% Central funding.
The new scheme, to be implemented during the remaining four years of the 15th Finance Commission from 2022-23 to 2025-26 have an outlay of Rs.6,600 crore.
The PM-DevINE is in addition to the quantum of resources available for the development of the NE region. It will not be a substitute for existing central and state schemes.
The scheme will be implemented by the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region through North Eastern Council or Central Ministries/ agencies.
13th FICCI Global Skills Summit? about FICCI?
in New Delhi
Theme: “Education to Employability-Making it Happen”
FICCI estab in 1927
India’s largest and oldest commerce union
