july Flashcards by Alena Mathew

The G-20 Summit is to be held in _______________after India assumes the G20 presidency in Dec 2022.

Jammu and Kashmir

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___________currently holds the G20 presidency.

Indonesia

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The first G20 summit took place in ____________ from 14th to 15 November 2008

Washington DC

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_______________ was the former CEO of the NSE and was arrested by the CBI for her involvement in the co-location scam.

Chitra Ramakrishna

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who is the first ever Indian to ever win Silver at World Athletics championship and where was it held

daddy neeraj chopra uwu, Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, United States

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the current CEO and MD of the National Stock exchange is _____________.

Ashish Kumar Chauhan

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who took oath as Sri Lanka’s new prime minister?

Dinesh Gunawardena

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With the _________, NASA aims to land humans on the moon by 2024, and it also plans to land the first woman and first person of colour on the moon.

Artemis programme

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India’s largest floating solar plant is now fully operational at _____________________.

Ramagundam in Telangana’s Peddapalli district.

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what is the doctor population ratio in India

1:834

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Motu shah launched e-FIR in which city?

gandunagar

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India gets __________ world bank loan for health, private investment

$1.75 billion

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World Press Freedom index started in which year?

2002

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What is India ranked in World Press Freedom Index ranking?

150(balls)

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who is ranked the most free and least free
in world press freedom index

norway (1st), north korea (180th)

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when is world press freedom day

3rd may

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International day of cooperatives- _____
Theme: ___________________

2 July ; Cooperatives build a better world

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Theme for world press freedom day

Journalism under digital seige

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The current minister for environment and forestry

Bhupender Yadav (also minister for labour and employment).

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which national park could be the new homes of the cheetahs?

The Kuno-Palpur National park

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how many national parks are in india?

106

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what is India’s rank in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2022?

135 out of 146 countries

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when was the world economic forum established and where are its headquarters?

1971, Geneva, Switzerland

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who topped the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2022

🥶land

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Ranking of state exercise 2021 on startup ecosystems: ________________- top the list

Karnataka and Gujarat

GI tag for mayurbhanji’s kai or ant chutney- In Orissa Mayurbhanj district use ___________, scientifically called Oecophylla smaragdina to prepare ant chutney

weaver ants

when was WTO founded; how many member countries does it have; who is the current director general of WTO

The WTO was founded on 1st of January 1995 headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with 164 members and it's current director general is Okonjo Iweala

_____ and _________ sign accession Protocols at NATO headquarters

Sweden, Finland

Sweden and Finland sign accession Protocols at NATO headquarters in the presence of Finnish Foreign Minister __________ and Swedish Foreign minister __________.

Pekka Haavisto; Anne Linde

Finland and Russia share a ___km border

1,300 km

It is a military alliance established by the _______________ (also called the Washington Treaty) of April, 1949, by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.

North Atlantic Treaty

NATO currently has ____member states.

All ____ members of the United Nations unanimously adopted July 1, 2022 the Lisbon Declaration on ocean conservation

198

The Global Liveability Ranking is a yearly assessment published by the ____________, ranking 172 global cities

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

Austria's capital, ________, was ranked the most liveable city in 2022 while__________, the capital of Syria has been ranked the least liveable.

Vienna, Damascus

__________, also known as Indigenous Aircraft Carrier 1 (IAC-1),is an aircraft carrier constructed by the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) for the Indian Navy.

INS Vikrant

t is named 'Vikrant' as a tribute to __________________, Vikrant (R11).

India's first aircraft carrier

The current Chief of Naval Staff is _____________-

Admiral R. Hari Kumar

_____________, ex-CEO of Niti Aayog is to replace Piyush Goel (Minister for Industry and Commerce as the new Sherpa for G-20

Amitabh Kant

The chairman of Niti Aayog is Narendra Modi and Vice Chairman is _____________

Suman Bery.

On ____________, a Cabinet resolution was passed to replace the Planning Commission with the newly formed NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India).

1 January 2015

______________________________ was adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2003. India was recently elected to this panel.

The Convention of the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

India’s first floating terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) at ___________________.

Jaigarh in Maharashtra

India's first e-waste eco park to be developed in______________ in an area of about 21 acres

Holambi Kalan in Delhi

_______________ takes over as new CEO of NITI AYOG

Prameswaran Iyer

The Reserve Bank of India was established following the _____________ Act, Though privately owned initially, it was nationalised in 1949 and since then fully owned by the Ministry of ________ , Government of India (GoI).

Reserve Bank of India Act of 1934; ministry of Finance

The Reserve Bank of India was conceptualized in accordance with the guidelines presented by Dr Ambedkar to the __________ Commission

Hilton Young Commission

Space tech startup______open India’s first rocket engine factory in Chennai

Agnikul

the World Health Organization has declared ___________ a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)- july 2022

monkeypox

The disease is caused by monkeypox virus, a zoonotic virus in the genus ___________.

Orthopoxvirus

Africa’s top public health body, African centres for disease control and prevention (Africa CDC) receives _______from the world bank to help Africa.

$100 million

World youth skills day- ________ .It was declared by the UN General Assembly in 2014.

15 July

Assam Chief Minister ___________and his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart ___________ signed an agreement to end border issues between the two states and decided to “restrict” the number of disputed villages to 86 instead of 123.

Himanta Biswa Sarma ; Pema Khandu

________ to be the first city in SCO to be granted the rotating title of ‘Cultural and Tourism capital of SCO’ in September when India assumes SCO Presidency

Varanasi

Rajnath Singh launches indigenously built ______________ frigate to strengthen country's maritime security

Y- 3023 Dunagiri, Project 17A

World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2022ranked India at ________ countries in its Global Gender Gap (GGG) Index for 2022.

135 /146

_________ followed by Finland, Norway, New Zealand, and Sweden were the top five countries in the world in the Gender Gap index, while _________________ were from the bottom having the highest gender gap

Iceland; Afghanistan and Pakistan

___________ has retained its highest ranking eight times in a row in South Asia in terms of gender parity; its overall ranking has slipped 6 ranks from 65th in 2021 to 71 in 2022

Bangladesh

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. It was established in____ as a not-for-profit foundation and is headquartered in ____________.

1971; Geneva, Switzerland.

In India the last cheetah was spotted in the _________ region in 1948. Cheetahs were declared extinct in 1952.

Chhattisgarh

India's First National Park was established in 1936, it was the ____________ in Uttarakhand.

Jim Corbett National Park

India and ______sign MOU for establishing cheetah into the historical range in India.

Namibia

World Press Freedom Index has been published every year since 2002 by __________________.

Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) or Reporters Without Borders

India has fallen eight places from 142nd to ___th in the 2022 among the 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index

150

Freedom of press or media refers to the rights given by the Constitution of India under the freedom and expression of speech in Article___.

Art 19(1)(a)

_________was ranked the most free and _______with rank 180 was ranked the least free in the world press freedom index

Norway; North Korea

World Press Freedom Day: ______ the day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993, following the recommendation of UNESCO’s General Conference in 1991.

3rd may

World Press Freedom Day

3 may