current affairs 2 Flashcards
What has been India’s projected economic growth in financial year 2022
7.8%
What was India’s fiscal deficit in the current year 2021?
6.9% of the GDP
what will be India’s projected fiscal deficit in 2020?
6.4% of the GDP
Which company has started India’s first project of mixing hydrogen in two CGD network
GAIL India Ltd
Who has been appointed as IBBI chairman?
Ravi Mittal
Which landmark was illuminated to celebrate and raise awareness on neglected. Tropical diseases?
Delhi railway station
Which state will conduct leopard census?
Assam Assam
How much money has been given to the space department?
13,700 crore
Who has developed the first AI-based job platform for persons with disabilities?
IIT Hyderabad
Which place will host the 2022 Commonwealth games?
Birmingham
Who won the Tata open trophy?
zBopanna and Ramkumar
Who became the first female to Umpire in the ICC under 19 World Cup final?
Jacqueline Williams
spituk gustor Which state?
Ladakh
Which place got the world’s largest Iglu Cafe?
Gulmarg
Who has been awarded as the ICC Spirit of cricket award?
Daryl Mitchell
Who has been awarded the prestigious Genesis prize 2022
Pfizer CEO Albert bourla
Which state became the first in India to use AI to monitor hygiene in schools?
Andhra Pradesh
Which is Asia’s largest tribal fair? Where will it be held this year?
Medaram Jatara, Telangana
Which is the first Indian city to pilot urban cooling action plan?
Rajkot
Where will India set up its first IIT abroad?
UAE
Who became the first player in the history of Ranji trophy to score a triple century?
sakibul gani
Who has been appointed new CEO and MD for air India?
mehmet ilker ayci
Which state was elected as the best state tableu
Uttar Prade
Who was selected as the best marching contingent on Republic Day parade?
Indian Navy
What were the themes of Uttar Pradesh Republic Day tableau?
one district one product, Kashi Vishwanath Dham Dham
Which tableaux or has been declared as joint winners in the category of central ministries and department? And what was their themes?
Ministry of education and Ministry of civil aviationMinistry of education: national education policy and Ministry of civil aviation:UDAN
Who has been appointed as chairman of University grants commission?
Jagdish Kumar
Who received the late Madhavrao Limayeaward??
Nitin Gadkari
When were Laureus world sports awards established?
1999
Who gave the speech in the first award ceremony of Laureus world sports award? When did the first ceremony take place?
Nelson Mandela, 2000
Who has received the highest number of Laureus world sports awards?
Roger Federer
Who was the first footballer to be awarded Laureus world sports awards?
Messi
Who is the first Indian to win the Laureus sporting moment award? When did he won that award?
Sachin Tendulkar, 2020
Who is the first woman chairperson of Indian tea Association
Nayantara Pal Chowdhury
Which country won the first Africa cup of Nations 2022?
Senegal
Where is India’s first biomass-based hydrogen plant?
Madhya Pradesh
Which was the first company in India to achieve GRI South Asia charter member status?
Adani Green energy Ltd
what is Asia’s first education meta verse crypto coins name?
koubek
What is the name of the exercises that took place in Belarus with Russia?
allied resolve 2022
Which became the first country to allow drone flights in civilian airspace
 Israel Israel Israel
Who has been declared as the President of Burkina Faso
damiba
What has been awarded as Sri Lanka’s first GI tag?
Ceylon cinnamon
By when will India replace diesel in agriculture by renewable energy?
2024
Who is the union power Minister
RK Singh
Who became the four security force in India to introduce smart card and license?
Delhi police
Where is Asia’s biggest bio CNG planned?
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
What is the name of the chief Justice of Nepal was recently facing impeachment?
cholendar Shamsher Rana
Which became India’s first plastic waste neutral FM CG company in India?
Dabur
Which is the worlds first bank in meta verse?
JP Morgan
What is the name of India’s first electric tractor? Which countries is it being exported to
celestial E mobility, Mexico
Which became the first country to introduce WHO training for dementia care givers?
Malta
Australia is listed which species as endangered species?
koala
What are the names of the three satellites launched by ISRO in the beginning of 2022
PSLV – C 52+ EO4, inspire SAT, I NST – 2TD
PSLV – C 51 carried which Brazilian satellite? And how many other smaller satellites?
Amazonia – one, 18
Who becomes the chief of Vikram Sarabhai space Centre?
Unnikrishnan Nair
Who will build the worlds first plant to convert bauxite waste into soil?
Emirates global aluminium
Which four countries were involved in the making of inspire SAT
India, Taiwan, US, Singapore
where is India’s first biosafety level three mobile lab? 
Nashik, Maharashtra
What is the name of the crown prince of Abu Dhabi
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
22 Winter Olympics world which number of Olympics?
24th
When was beating selected as the host city of Winter Olympics 2022?
2015, 128 IOC session in Kuala Lumpur
When did Beijing previously host summer Olympics?
2008
Which country finished at the top in the Winter Olympics 2022
Norway
What was the official Motto of Winter Olympics?
Together for a shared future
What is the official mascot of 2022 Winter Olympics
bing dwen dwen
Who is the official mascot of Winter Paralympics?
shuey rhon rhon
Who won the 2020 1FIFA club World Cup champions
Chelsea
Who is India’s first national maritime security coordinator
Vice Admiral G Ashok Kumar
Which will be the first Indian film in meta verse?
Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, Akshay Kumar
which airport has been awarded PEER platinum certification and had the all-time first airport power infrastructure score of –?
Bangalore, 92
Who has been conferred the Hilal-e-Pakistan on earth?
Bill Gates
Who has been named business standard banker of the year? For the year 2020-2021
Sandeep Bakshi
When is international mother language Day observed?
21 feb
When was poshan abhiyan launched?
2018
When is poshan maah observed?
September
what is the Asian development bank’s GDP growth for 2021 in Asia?
7.0%
When was Asian development bank established
1966
Where are the headquarters of Asian development bank?
Philippines
how many members are there in the Asian development bank?
68
Who topped the Forbes hundred most powerful women in the world list?
McKenzie Scott
What is Roshni Nadar Malhotra is the bank in the hundred most powerful women in the world Forbes list?
52
What is Falguni Nayar’s rank in the hundred most powerful woman in the world list
88
What is the Moto of Forbes magazine?
Change the world
Who is the CEO of Forbes
Mike Federle
Who has joined the board of advisors for the international Institute for democracy and electoral assistance
Former CEC Sunil Arora
Who will head UNICEF
Catherine Russell 
Who has been recently re-elected as Gambia’s President?
Adama Barrow
Who is FICCI president?
Sanjeev Mehta
Who is the new chairperson of national highways authority of India NHAI?
Alka Upadhya
Who has been appointed as NARCL chairman?
Pradeep Shah
Who is the CEO of India debt resolution company Limited?
Sanjay Jain
Who is the chairman of Indian debt resolution company Ltd?
Diwakar Gupta
What is the name of Sweden’s first female prime minister?
Magdalena Andersen
Who won the Davis cup 2021
Daniil Medvedev
Who is the prime minister of Russia?
mikhail mishustin
What is the name of the world‘s first plant-based COVID-19 vaccine? Which country made it? Which pharma made it?
covifenz, medigaco inc and glaxosmithkline
Who are signatories to the rejuvenating water search for agricultural resilience through innovative development project?
The government of India, the state government of Karnataka and Orissa, World Bank
The government of India, World Bank has signed a loan agreement of – – for implementing the rejuvenating watershed for agricultural resilience through innovative development? What is the maturity of the loan?
$115 million, 15 years along with a grace period of 4.5 years
Which company launched India’s first ever gold powered
rupeek
Who launched India’s first fully curated NFT market place?
Jupiter Meta
What is India’s rank on the international intellectual property index?
43/55
Where is India’s first smart managed EV charging station located? Which company commissioned it?
New Delhi, BSES Yamuna power Ltd
Who organised the OCEANS 2022 conference?
IIT Madras, national Institute of Ocean tech
where is India’s first dugong conservation Centre
Tamil Nadu
What is the stipulated time for the international space station to crash into the Pacific Ocean
2031
Where will the international space retire by crashing
South Pacific oceanic and uninhabited area
Which version of the international Olympic Committee will India hold?where?
139th IOC, Mumbai
When did India previously hold an IOC session?
1983
The first ever count of waterbirds is being conducted in which state?
Bihar
Who has been appointed as the MD and CEO of industrial development bank of India?
Rakesh Sharma
What is the name of Orissa’s first tribal chief minister who recently passed away?
Hema Nanda Biswal
Who has been conferred Ramanujan price for young mathematicians?
Neena Gupta
When is national science Day observed
28 February
where are the headquarters of nabard
Mumbai
When was NABARD established?
1982
Who is the current chairman of NABARD
Govinda Rajulu Chintala
Who heads the OPEC?
Saudi Arabia
How many members are there in the OPEC?
13
Where are the headquarters of OPEC
Kuwait
Which became the first Gulf nation to open an embassy in Israel
UAE
Which became the first railway stations to be redeveloped through the PPP mode?
Gandhinagar railway station
Which became the first you take to achieve hundred percent first dose coverage?
Ladakh
When did the Shreya Singhal case take place?
2015
Which body filed a plea before the Supreme Court for the abolition of section 66 a of information Tech act?
People’s union for civil liberty
Who will be the managing director of NARCL?
Padmakumar Madhubani
Who will be the largest sponsor of NARCL
Canara bank
Who became the first female Indian swimmer to qualify for Olympics
Maana Patel
Who won the Commonwealth point of lights award?
syed Usman azhar maqsusi
Who has been nominated as Joe Biden envoy to India?
Eric Garcetti
When and where was the first winter Olympics held?
1924,chamonix, France
Who became the first Indian athlete to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics
KT Irfan
What is the name of India’s first paint made from cow dung
Khadi prakritic
Has been named as the fourth tiger reserve in Rajasthan
Ramgarh vishdhari sanctuary
What is the name of India’s first indigenous drone defence Dome? Who developed it?
indrajaal, grene robotics
Which state will get Amazon’s first digital Kendra in India
Surat
When was the first gupkar declaration signed?
2019
Who is the President of gupkar alliance
Farooq Abdullah
Which party decided to pull out of the gupkar alliance?
Jammu and Kashmir People’s conference
Who has been appointed as the chairman of Indian Federation of United Nations Association
Sambhu Nath Srivastava
Who is the foreign minister of Russia
sergei lavrov
The Mumbai Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor will cover how many stations?
12
Which will become the first station for India’s upcoming bullet train project?
Surat
Who will fund the Mumbai Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor?
Japan international cooperation agency
What is the name of the technology being used in the bullet train project
Japanese Shinkansen technology
What is the name of the special purpose Weikel that has been formed for the implementation of the Mumbai Ahmedabad high-speed rail project?
National high speed rail Corporation Limited
Which budget introduced the Mumbai Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor?
20009–2010
Who has conceptualised the 216 feet statue of Ramanuja Acharya
Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamy of Sri Ramanujacharya Ashram
Which place got India’s first solar technology Park where swimming and walking generates electricity?
Ghaziabad
Who is the tourism minister
G Kishan Reddy
Which weekend the first duty to be integrated with national single window system
Jammu and Kashmir
What is the name of the universal immunisation programme launched by India
Indra Dhanush
What was the theme of the MILAN 2022
Camaraderie – cohesion– collaboration
What was the theme of the seminar organised during the MILAN 22?
Changing character and conflict at sea
When was MILAN exercise first held and where?
In 1995, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
What are the four years where MILAN was not held?
2001, 2005, 2016 and 2020
Where is Asia’s biggest bio – CNG plant?
Indore, Madhya Prades
Which weekend are in India’s first private university to bag NAAC a plus and NBA accreditations
Chandigarh University
What was the name of the multination an exercise that was supposed to be conducted in the UK but was called off due to the Russia Ukraine crisis?
Cobra warrior
How many countries were supposed to participate in the cobra warrior?
Berlin UK USA Sweden Saudi Arabia India Belgium
Which will be the first in India to have flyovers for animal Crossing?
Mumbai – Nagpur Expressway
Which IIT developed India’s first indigenous 5G technology
IIT Hyderabad
Who won the Dadasaheb Phalke international film Festival award
 Deepak Reddy
Who is the first union law secretary that has been elevated as a judge of the Delhi High Court?
Anoop Kumar Mendiratta
What is the name of the Indian and Japanese Army annual exercise?
Dharma guardian
Where is the exercise Dharma guardian being held?
Karnataka, foreign training node, Belagavi
Which place is among one of the word monument watchlist for 2022?
tiretta Bazar, Kolkata
Which place became India’s first sustainable tourism destination?
Skyview buy Empyrean Patnitop
When will India’s first multi model logistic park come up?
assam jogighopa
How many multimodal logistic parks are being planned under the PM Gati Shakti national master plan?
35
Where will the UN telecom body international telecommunication union open and area office for South Asia?
New Delhi
Which state is targeting to become India’s first hundred% green Street
Himachal Pradesh
How many ships submarines and aircraft participated in the MILAN 2022
26 ships, one submarine 21 aircraft
Who has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor of the Delhi teachers university
Dhananjay Joshi
What has been India’s rank on the 17 SDG goals adopted as 2030 agenda
120
When was the 2030 agenda adopted? How many countries adopted in?
2015, 192
What was India’s overall sustainable development goals score?
66/ hundred
Which state was the least prepared to meet the SDG goals by 2030
Jharkhand
Which state rank the 1st to meet the SDG goals by 2030
Kerala
Which union territory ranks 1st to meet the SDG’s by 2030?
Chandigarh
When was the brundtland commission, formerly known as the world commission on environment and development for me? Who was the chairperson of the commission
1983, Gro Harlem Brundtland
Which country launched the first virtual hospital in the middle east
Saudi Arabia
What is the full form of SWIFT?
Society for worldwide Interbank financial telecommunication
Which are the two banks that the EU left out from exclusion under the SWIFT
sberbank & gazprobank
Where are the headquarters of SWIFT?
Belgium
When was SWIFT established?
1973
Government of India has permitted how much FDI under automatic route in LIC?
20%
Which is the start of that is providing the worlds first on demand doorstep fast EV charging services?
hopcharge
Who has been appointed as the new chairperson of SEBI
Madhabi Puri
When was SEBI established?
1988
Where are the headquarters of SEBI?
Bandra Kurla complex, Mumbai
Who were the two women who were mentioned in the 40/40 – the worlds most inspiring women’s list?
Debjani Ghosh, Arundhati Bhattacharya
Who releases the 40/40 – the worlds most inspiring women list?
fe:maleonezero magazine
Who scripted history and became the first Indian to win a silver in an individual section of the para archery world championship 2022?
pooja jatyan
Which country is hosting the 12th edition of the ICC Women’s World Cup?
New Zealand
Who became the only Indian woman and the first from Jammu and Kashmir appointed as a judge for Asian games?
Bilkis Mir
Who became the first woman cricketer in India to appear at six cricket World Cup’s?
Mithali Raj
The first Indian artist to hit granny’s global Spin?
Armaan Malik
Who is the CEO of Jet Airways
Sanjeev Kapoor
Who became the first Indian to be conferred with prestigious prestigious Boltzman medal?
Deepak Dhar
Who became the first male nurse to bag the prestigious Nightingale award?
Daniel Vijay Raj
Who won the 2021 Bihari Puraskar
Madhu Kankariya
Where has India’s first open rock museum recently inaugurated?
Hyderabad
Who is building INS Vikrant?
Cochin shipyard Ltd
When did INS Vikram Aditya enter service?
2013
Where is India’s first green hydrogen microgrid projects?
Visakhapatnam
Which place will get India’s first Heli hub with all aviation facilities?
Gurugram
Which country became the 1st to give fourth dose of Covid vaccine
Israel
Which is the safest airline for 2022
Air New Zealand
When was CSTO formulated?
2002
Which country has the world’s first camel hotel
Saudi Arabia
Which countries participated in the sea dragon 22 exercise
India Japan Australia Canada South Korea
When was Sebi established
1988
Who launched India’s first silver exchange traded fund
ICICI Prudential asset management Company Limited
Who initiated the first physical green hydrogen plant of India?
Oil India Ltd
Who launched India’s first auto exchange traded fund
Nippon
When was RBI established
1935, due to troubles during the r first world war
What is the name of India’s deep ocean mission?
Samudrayaan
Who will undertake the Samudrayaan mission?
National Institute of Ocean technology
secretary gen of SCO
zhang ming
What is the theme of national science Day?
Integrated approach in science and technology for sustainable future
Who is the union Minister for science and tech?
Dr Jitendra Singh
Who has been appointed as the new managing director of Delhi Metro
Vikas Kumar
When was the foreign contribution regulation act first in enacted?
1976
When was special protection group first enacted?
1988
When was aung san suu kyi? Noble prize
1991
Where is the worlds largest carbon capturing plant?
Iceland
When was Asian infrastructure investment bank launched? Where are its headquarters
2015, Beijing
How many members are there in the Asian infrastructure investment bank?
104
Who has been appointed as the new chairman of ICHR?
Raghuvendra Tanwar
Who is the prime minister of Mauritius
Pravind Kumar Jagannath
Who is the President of EU Parliament?
Robert Metsola
How many start-ups had it valued at 1 billion in 2021
42
When will be celebrated as national start up day
January 16
What is India’s rank in the global innovation index
40
When was start up India launched?
2016
Who is the Chairman and managing director of air India?
Vikram Dev Dutt
Who first proposed the concept of ombudsman in India?
Ashok Kumar Singh
Who coined the term lokpal and lokayukta?
LM Singhvi
Which and when was the first state to introduce lokpal is in the state
Maharashtra, 1971
When was the institution of ombudsman inaugurated officially in Sweden?
1809
When was Central vigilance commission created?
1964 11 February
Who was the first Central vigilance Commissioner?
Nitturu Srinivasarao
Who is the current Central vigilance Commissioner
Suresh N Patel
What is the name of the ship that has been recently decommissioned and he’s going to be turned into a museum?
INS khukri
Which is the only horse cavalry Regiment in the world?
Indian Army 61 cavalry regiment
What is the name of the horse that was recently retired who was the President’s bodyguard?
Viraat
Which place is all set to become the first solar energy-based aviation hub?
Hisar, Haryana
Where will India’s first geo Park come up?
Madhya Pradesh
Which is the place and the name of the President who is being held by mutinous soldiers?
Burkina Faso, President Roch Marc Christian kabore
Where is world’s first NFT museum?
Seattle
What is the name of the first woman president of Honduras?
Xiomara Castro
Who released the corruption perception index? 2021
Transparency international
What is India’s rank on the 2021 corruption perception index?
85
How many total countries or judged in the corruption perception index?
180
Which are the three countries that got the same score and Topped the corruption perception index?
Denmark Finland New Zealand
Which country ran the last and the corruption perception index?
South Sudan
Which company launched the first dedicated Indian NFT collection.
binance
Which company bagged the global healthy workplace award as the first Indian PSU to do so?
Indian oil Corp Ltd
Who releases the world economic Outlook?
IMF
Agricultural growth in 2021-2022
3.9
Industrial growth in 2021–2022
11.8%
Industry growth in 2021–2022
8.2%
Who has authored the book the 10 trillion dream?
Subhash Chandra Garg
Where are the headquarters of IUCN?
gland, Switzerland
Who set up India’s first ESG research chair?
I I am Ahmedabad, NIIF
What is the full form of SKAO?
Square kilometre array observatory
Who is representing India at the signing of the cooperation agreement for the mega science project Square kilometre array observatory?
TIFR – national Centre for radio astrophysics
where are the headquarters of square kilometre area?
UK
This article requires the President of India to constitute a finance commission at an interval of five years
Article 280
Is finance commission a constitutional body?
Yes
Who was the chairman of the first finance commission of India
kc neogy
Who was the chairman of the current finance commission?
NK Singh
what is the capacity of the newest supercomputer Param Pravega?
3.3 Peta flops
Who designed the supercomputer Param Pravega
Centre for development of advanced computing C – DAC
cWhen was national supercomputing Mission launched?
2015
What was the name of the first supercomputer built under the national supercomputing plan and where is it set up
param Shivaya, IIT BHU
Who is going to be the first seshan chair Professor
Ashutosh Kumar
India is a signatory to which convention/treaty that makes it possible to implement the Antarctica bill?
Antarctica Treaty, 1983
How many parties were signatories to the Antarctica Treaty, 1983?
54
Which article stipulates the national emergency?
Article 352
Which article of the Indian constitution stipulates state emergency?
356
Which article of Indian constitution stipulates financial emergency?
360
Which article of Indian constitution stipulates financial emergency?
360
who became The 150 member country to sign on to the framework agreement of international solar alliance?
Nepal
The criminal procedure identification Bill 2022 6 to repeal which act?
The identification of prisoners act, 1920
Who is the new chief of staff of the army?
Manoj Pandey
Who received the rashtriya khel Protsahan Puraskar
Indian oil Corp Ltd and Manav Rachna educational institution
Who received the Maulana Abul Kalam Azaad trophy for 2021?
Panjab University, Chandigarh
What is the name of India’s first woman air Marshal awarded the Padma Shri?
Dr padma Bandyopadhyay
Where is India’s first grass conservatory?
Ranikhet
SITMEX is between which three countries? Which Indian ship participated in it?
Singapore India Thailand, INS Carmack
Where is India’s largest solar park supposed to come up?
Badla, Rajasthan
Where is the Rani gaidinliu tribal freedom fighters Museum?
Manipur
Where is India’s first museum on earth sciences
UP
Who authored the book shuttlers flick making every match count
P Gopichand
Who and when was civil society organisation Pratham set up
1995, Mumbai, Dr Madhav Chavan and Farida Lambay
Who was the first and second entity to receive the Indira Gandhi peace prize to mark
first: parliamentarians for global action and second: mikhel Gorbachev
Who got the first place in the Safai Mitras Raksha challenge?
Indore
Who topped the swatcha Sarvekshan?
Indore
Which state ranked first in the IPF smart policing survey 2021?
Andhra Pradesh
Where is the fifth edition of the East Asia Summit being held? Who is the partner country?
Kolkata, Australia
When was the first NFHS conducted?
19 92–19 93
Who will head the committee to ensure timely completion of the Central Vista project?
ratan p watal
Who adopted the first ever global agreement on artificial intelligence ethics
UNESCO UNESCO
Where was the World Trade Organisation ministerial conference supposed to be held?
Noor Sultan, Kazakhstan
On which rocket and from where was DART launched?
Falcon nine rocket, Vandenberg space force base California
Who has been appointed as the permanent CEO of international cricket Council? Who did he replace
geoff allardice, manu sawhney
Who became the first Indian player to be named as WBBL player of the tournament?
Harmanpreet Kaur
Which district was awarded as the best marine state?
Andhra Pradesh