Current Affairs: 2nd December 2022

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1) World Health Organisation (WHO) has changed
the name of "Monkeypox" disease to -
• The World Health Organisation (WHO) on 28 November
2022 has announced that it will term “mpox” as a
synonym for Monkeypox.
A. mpx • Both names will be used simultaneously for one year
while “monkeypox” is phased out.
B. MoPox • WHO said that the disease's original name was considered
• “racist and stigmatizing’ in certain countries of the world.
C. mpox After complaints from some member countries WHO
decided to rename the disease.
D. kPox • WHO has declared monkeypox disease as a "public health
emergency of international concern (PHEIC)", on 23 July
2022. It is the highest level of health alert which is issued
by WHO.
Ans-C
2) India is the World’s largest milk producer, with
how much global production?
• India has registered a significant growth in milk
production in the last eight years as milk production
has increased by 83 million tonnes during this period.
A. 21% • India is the largest milk producer in the world
accounting for 23 per cent of the global production.
B. 22% Next come the United States, China, Pakistan and
Brazil.
C. 23% • The top 5 milk-producing states are: Uttar Pradesh
(14.9%), Rajasthan (14.6%), Madhya Pradesh (8.6%),
D. 24% Gujarat (7.6%) and Andhra Pradesh (7.0%).
• About 80 million people are directly or indirectly
employed in the dairy industry.
Ans-C
3) Merriam-Webster has declared which word as
the "Word of the Year 2022"?
• The Merriam-Webster (US dictionary publisher) has
announced "gaslighting", as 2022 word of the year.
• Merriam-Webster has defined Gaslighting, "The act or
A. Homer practice of grossly misleading someone especially for
one's own advantage".
B. Permacrisis • Interest in the term was up by 1,740% over the previous
years according to searches of the online dictionary.
C. Gaslighting • Other popular words 2022: Oligarch, Omicron, Codify,
Queen Consort, Raid
D. Cryptocurrency • “Permacrisis” has been chosen as the Collins Dictionary’s
word of the year 2022.
• Cambridge Dictionary has declared the word, “Homer” as
the Word of the Year 2022.
Ans-C
4) Who has been appointed as the Brand
Ambassador of Uttarakhand?
• CEO & CCO of McCann Worldgroup India, Prasoon
Joshi has been appointed by Uttarakhand
Government as the state’s brand ambassador.
A. Hemant Pandey • Padma Shri awardee Prasoon Joshi is a native of
Uttarakhand and is currently the Chairman of the
B. Deepak Dobriyal Central Board of Film Certification (Censor Board).
• He is a famous and highly awarded member of the
C. Nirmal Pandey Indian advertising and media fraternity.
• Joshi has also written the lyrics for songs in popular
D. Prasoon Joshi • Bollywood movies such as Rang De Basanti, Fanaa
and Taare Zameen Par. He has also written the script
for the award-winning 2013 film, Bhaag Milkha
Bhaag. Ans-D
5) Who has become the first Northeast state to pass
first-ever Mental Health and Social Care Policy?

• The Meghalaya has become the first state in the

Northeast to pass first-ever Mental Health and Social
A. Nagaland Care Policy.
• After Kerala and Karnataka, Meghalaya becomes the
B. Meghalaya third state in India to have such a policy.
• Aim: To promote overall mental health and well-
C. Tripura being and facilitate appropriate access and care
pathways.
D. Manipur • This policy will ensure that proper attention is given
to mental health, particularly for our youth and
adolescents.
Ans-B
6) Who has been elected as the President of the
Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI)?
• Prasanth Kumar (CEO, South Asia of GroupM Media
(India) Pvt Ltd) has been elected as the President of
the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI)
A. Prasanth Kumar for 202223.
• While, Rana Barua (Group CEO of Havas Group India)
B. Subhrakant Panda has been elected as the Vice-President of the
Association.
C. Kishor Reddy • Immediate Past President, Anupriya Acharya has
been appointed as the ex-officio member of the AAAI
D. Ramesh Kejriwal Board for 2022-23.
• AAAI is a national advertising agencies, which was
formed in 1945.
Ans-A
7) Who took charge as the Secretary in the
Department of Revenue?

• Senior bureaucrat Sanjay Malhotra on 1st December,

A. Rajesh Kotecha took charge as the secretary in Department of
Revenue, Ministry of Finance.
B. Anurag Jain • Sanjay Malhotra replaced Tarun Bajaj, who
superannuated on November 30.
C. Sanjay Malhotra • A 1990-batch Indian Administrative Services (IAS)
officer of the Rajasthan cadre, Sanjay Malhotra was
D. Rajesh Bhushan working as an officer on special duty (OSD) in the
revenue department since October 2022.

Ans-C
8) RBI has imposed a penalty of how much amount
on Zoroastrian Co-operative Bank, Mumbai?
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of
Rs 1.25 crore on Zoroastrian Co-operative Bank, Mumbai.
• Reason: For non-compliance with certain directions,
A. ₹1.10 crore including one related to discounting of bills.
• The RBI has imposed penalty of Rs 20 lakh on Indian
B. ₹1.25 crore Mercantile Co-operative Bank, Lucknow for non-
• compliance with the certain norms related classification of
C. ₹1.50 crore non-performing assets.
• RBI has imposed a monetary penalty of ₹50.00 lakh on
D. ₹1.75 crore Bharat Co-operative Bank (Mumbai) for non-compliance
with the directions issued by RBI on ‘Income Recognition,
Asset Classification, Provisioning and Other Related
Matters’ (IRAC norms).
Ans-B
9) India handed over $100 million financial
assistance to -
• India handed over USD 100 million to the Maldives
on November 30, 2022, to ease the financial
challenges faced by the archipelagic state in the
A. Bahrain Indian Ocean.
• India and Maldives have a close political relationship.
B. Maldives During the visit of the Maldivian President Ibrahim
Mohamed Solih in August this year the Prime
C. Comoros Minister had announced an additional $100 million
loan to Maldives for construction of 2000 new social
D. Fiji housing units there.
• India has also provided $500 million loan to Maldives
for the Greater Male Connectivity Project.
Ans-B
10) “World Computer Literacy Day” is observed
every year on -

• World Computer Literacy Day is observed on 2nd

December every year all over the world.
A. 1st December • Aim: to create awareness and drive digital literacy in
underserved communities worldwide
B. 2nd December • Theme 2022: “Literacy for human-centred recovery:
Narrowing the digital divide”
C. 3rd December • The day was originally founded by the Indian
computer company NIIT to mark its 20th anniversary
D. 4th December in 2001.
• World Computer Literacy Day was first observed and
held in the year 2001 on 2nd December.
Ans-B
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