May 23 2023 Flashcards
BRICS
1. Who coined BRIC?
2. The next BRICS summit will be hosted by __ on August 23-24.
- British Economist Jim O’Neil
- South Africa
- __ is the largest Other Backward Class (OBC) group in Bihar after the Yadavs.
- CM of Bihar
- Kushwaha community
- Nitish Kumar
- Expand SPV
- Objective of SPV
- Special Purpose Vehicle
- to plan, appraise, approve, release funds, implement, manage, operate, monitor and evaluate the Smart City development projects.
__ , a scientist who became the first Saudi woman to go into space.
Rayyanah Barnawi
Olympic champion __ became the World No. 1 for the first time in his career in the latest men’s javelin throw rankings issued by the World Athletics with 1455 points.
Neeraj Chopra
CBAM
1. Expand CBAM
2. Objective
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
- to avert ‘carbon leakage’
- The world’s largest producer of mangoes, __.
- The scientific name of the mango tree,__.
- The national tree of this country is the mango tree.
- National tree of India?
- India
- Mangifera indica
- Bangladesh
- Banyan Tree
Significance of May 23
- International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
- World Turtle Day
(1) , a leading global IT services company, has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud and unveiled a new offering called (2).
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
- TCS Generative AI
In a significant development, (1) has awarded advance purchase orders worth ₹15,700 crore to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and ITI Ltd for the deployment of (2).
3. Expand ITI
- Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL)
- 1,00,000 4G sites
- Indian Telephone Industries
- The __ has entered into a partnership with Israel to establish the ‘India-Israel Center of Water Technology’ (CoWT).
- Israel President
- Prime Minister
- Capital
- Currency
- Official Language
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
- Isaac Herzog
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Jerusalem
- Israeli Shekel(ILS)
- Hebrew
__ ranked 72nd in Financial Times Rankings 2023
IIM-Kozhikode
- __ Sends First Saudi Arabian Astronauts to the International Space Station.
- Sponsored by the Saudi Arabian government, a female stem cell researcher named (2) and a Royal Saudi Air Force fighter pilot named (3) joined a crew led by a retired NASA astronaut from Kennedy Space Center.
- The mission was organized by __, a Houston-based company, and executed by SpaceX.
- SpaceX
- Rayyanah Barnawi
- Ali al-Qarni
- Axiom Space
(1) , a leading drone manufacturer, has joined hands with (2), a subsidiary of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Collaborate to Manufacture Make in India Drones.
- Garuda Aerospace
- Naini Aerospace
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced that __ will be the new kit sponsor of the Indian team.
Adidas