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Table of Contents
General/Financial Awareness Questions........................................................................................................ 3

General/Financial Awareness Answer Keys ............................................................................................... 56

Quick Learners (August to December 2022) .............................................................................................. 58

I - Banking.................................................................................................................................................................... 58

II - Appointments ..................................................................................................................................................... 58

III - Awards ................................................................................................................................................................. 63

IV - Important Days ................................................................................................................................................ 66

V - Obituary.................................................................................................................................................................. 72

General/Financial Awareness Solutions ...................................................................................................... 73

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General/Financial Awareness Questions

1. Tata Motors recently completed the acquisition (3) Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2

of its partner Marcopolo SA's stake in their joint (4) Stree
venture Tata Motors Marcopolo Ltd(TMML) leading (5) Bhoot Police
to TMML becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Tata Motors. Marcopolo SA is a manufacturer 7. At a wealth of _________,(at the time of
based out of ________ report),Gautam Adani became the first Asian to
(1) France reach the top 3 richest in world on Bloomberg
(2) Germany Billionaire's Index.
(3) Brazil (1) $150 billion
(4) Portugal (2) $143 billion
(5) Italy (3) $140 billion
(4) $137 billion
2. Each year, India celebrates National Nutrition (5) $115 billion
Week (NNW) from September 1 to September 7.
The theme for this year was _______ 8. Who among the following won the 2022 Ramon
(1) Celebrate a World of Flavors Magsaysay award in September 2022?
(2) Feeding Smart Right from the Start (1) Bernadette J. Madrid
(3) Eat Right, Bite by Bite (2) Bree Akesson
(4) Healthy Diets (3) Harini Amarasuriya
(5) Go Further with Food (4) Sylvie Bodineau
(5) Moussa Bougma
3. Which of the following airline recently joined the
WEF Sustainability Campaign 'Clear Skies for 9. Recently, the Smart Solutions Challenge &
Tomorrow'? Inclusive Cities Awards 2022 was presented, the
(1) SpiceJet awards is an initiative of ____________________
(2) Air India and _______________________.
(3) Akasa Air (1) NITI Aayog and the United Nations in India
(4) IndiGo (2) National Institute of Urban Affairs and the
(5) Go First United Nations in India
(3) National Institute of Urban Affairs and NITI
4. The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) conducted which Aayog
edition of the National Maritime Search and Rescue (4) NITI Aayog and UNESCO India
Exercise (SAREX -22) in Chennai? (5) Smart Cities Mission and the United Nations in
(1) Fifth India
(2) Tenth
(3) Sixth 10. The gross GST revenue collected in the month
(4) Third of August 2022 stood at ___________________.
(5) Fourth (1) Rs 1,13,258 crore
(2) Rs 1,23,413 crore
5. Recently, the Union Cabinet approved the (3) Rs 1,33,792 crore
proposal of the Environment, Forest, and Climate (4) Rs 1,43,612 crore
Change Ministry for signing an MoU with the (5) Rs 1,53,458 crore
Government of _______on biodiversity
conservation. 11. INS Vikrant, India's first home-built aircraft
(1) Nepal carrier, was formally commissioned at
(2) Sri Lanka __________________.
(3) Maldives (1) Cochin Shipyard Limited
(4) Indonesia (2) Bombay Dockyard
(5) Cambodia (3) Goa Shipyard Limited
(4) Naval Dockyard, Vishakapatnam
6. Kartik Aaryan's character called Rooh Baba from (5) Goa Shipyard Limited
the movie ______is getting a comic book
adaptation.
(1) Roohi
(2) Laxmi
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12. Which of the following companies has

announced that it is set to build India's first and 18. The book 'Divorce and Democracy: A History of
one of the world's largest Carbon Fibre plants at Personal Law in Post-Independence India' talks
Hazira, Gujarat in August 2022? about family law, religion, and gender politics in
(1) Tata Group India is written by:
(2) Reliance Industries (1) Saumya Saxena
(3) Vedanta Group (2) Mamang Dai
(4) Adani Group (3) Geetanjali Shree
(5) L & T Group (4) Khalid Jawed
(5) Manoranjan Byapari
13. India has surpassed the United Kingdom to
become the world's _______ biggest economy. 19. Which of the following following country,known
(1) Third as the "Land of the Eternal Blue Sky" and as the
(2) Fifth "Land of the Horse",hosted the first ever visit by
(3) Ninth an Indian Defence Minister from 05-07 September,
(4) Seventh 2022?
(5) Sixth (1) Kazakhstan
(2) Taiwan
Answer Keys (3) Mongolia
1. 3 2. 1 3. 4 4. 2 5. 1 6. 3 7. 4 8. 1 9. 2 10. (4) North Korea
4 11. 1 12. 2 13. 2 (5) Japan

14. Recently a MOU was signed between Wildlife 20. The book, "The India Way: Strategies for an
Institute of India and __________ for the Uncertain World" is written by
Conservation of the Great Indian Bustard and the (1) Amit Shah
Lesser Florican. (2) Nirmala Sitharaman
(1) China (3) S Jaishankar
(2) Japan (4) Rajnath Singh
(3) South Africa (5) L K Advani
(4) UAE
(5) Thailand 21. Which of the following state government has
launched the Global Startup Challenge "
15. NASA recently captured 1st direct image of "VentuRISE" to recognise, reward, and support
____________ outside our solar system using growth stage startups?
James Webb Space Telescope (1) Tamil Nadu
(1) Star (2) Karnataka
(2) Galaxy (3) Maharashtra
(3) Constellation (4) Uttar Pradesh
(4) Exoplanet (5) Jharkhand
(5) Satellite
22. In September 2022, SEBI has restructured its
16. Former footballer _________ has been elected high-level panel on cyber security, who among the
as the President of the All India Football Federation following is the chairperson of SEBI's Cyber
(AIFF) security committee?
(1) Bhaichung Bhutia (1) Sandeep Shukla
(2) Kalyan Chaubey (2) Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
(3) Manvendra Singh (3) Navin Kumar Singh
(4) Gopalakrishna Kosaraju (4) Sanjay Bahl
(5) N A Haris (5) Sugata Gangopadhyay

17. India's first-ever "Night Sky Sanctuary" to be 23. The National Green Tribunal has imposed a
set up in: penalty of Rs 3,500 crore on the West Bengal
(1) Sikkim government for the huge gap in solid and liquid
(2) Assam waste generation and treatment. The principal seat
(3) Himachal Pradesh of NGT is located at
(4) Ladakh (1) Mumbai
(5) Daman and Diu (2) Delhi
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(3) Chennai 29. Which of the following state government has

(4) Bengaluru recommended the Chaya Someshwaralayam site
(5) Kolkata for UNESCO World Heritage tag?
(1) Tamil Nadu
24. Who among the following has been announced (2) Karnataka
as the next prime minister of the United Kingdom (3) Odisha
in September 2022? (4) Telangana
(1) Rishi Sunak (5) Kerala
(2) Mary Elizabeth Truss
(3) Roman Baber 30. Who among the following has been appointed
(4) Patrick Brown as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of
(5) Pierre Poilievre Korea?
(1) Vikram Misri
25. The Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD) (2) Amit Kumar
is developed by which of the following (3) Sanjay Kumar Verma
organizations? (4) Sanjeeb Kumar Sringla
(1) Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) (5) Taranjit Singh Sandhu
(2) Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC)
(3) Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) 31. Who among the following has been appointed
(4) U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) as the CEO of IndiGo Airline in September 2022?
(5) ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) (1) Sanjiv Kapoor
(2) Pieter Elbers
26. Who among the following has been appointed (3) Rono Dutta
as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of (4) Dough Parker
Shipping Corporation of India in September 2022? (5) Campbell Wilson
(1) Binesh Kumar Tyagi
(2) Anil Kumar Misra 32. Union ministry recently approved a
(3) Pramod Kumar Panda __________ scheme for the development of over
(4) Dipankar Haldar 14,000 schools across the country as PM Schools
(5) J Murugadas for Rising India (PM-SHRI).
(1) Rs 27,360-crore
Answer Keys (2) Rs 54,780-crore
14. 4 15. 4 16. 2 17. 4 18. 1 19. 3 20. 3 21. (3) Rs 13,920-crore
2 22. 3 23. 2 24. 2 25. 1 26. 1 (4) Rs 45,170-crore
(5) Rs 10, 340-crore
27. The CCRAS 'SPARK' Program was launched in
September 2022 to Support Innovative Research 33. Who among the following has recently taken
in ___________________. additional charge as Chairman & Managing
(1) Yoga Director (CMD) of Navratna Defence PSU Bharat
(2) Naturopathy Electronics Limited (BEL)?
(3) Ayurveda (1) Pankaj Gupta
(4) Siddha (2) Ajit Kumar Saxena
(5) Homeopathy (3) R Subramaniakumar
(4) Dinesh Kumar Batra
28. According the NITI Aayog report titled (5) Santosh Iyer
'Preserving Progress on Nutrition in India: Poshan
Abhiyan in Pandemic Times', which state ranked 34. Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra threw a
first in larger states category in terms of the strong ____________________ to become the
overall implementation of the Centre's flagship first Indian to be the Diamond League Champion.
Poshan Abhiyaan? (1) 85.44m
(1) Jharkhand (2) 86.44m
(2) Karnataka (3) 87.44m
(3) Tamil Nadu (4) 88.44m
(4) Maharashtra (5) 89.44m
(5) Kerala

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35. India ranked 132nd among _____________ 41. Who among the following has been recently
countries and territories on the 2021 Human appointed as the new UN High Commissioner for
Development Index (HDI) Human Rights?
(1) 176 (1) Michelle Bachelet
(2) 189 (2) Antonio Guterres
(3) 191 (3) Volker Turk
(4) 200 (4) Ban Ki-moon
(5) 168 (5) Kofi Annan

36. In September 2022, PM Narendra Modi 42. Which of the following state has recently
inaugurated a ______________ statue of Netaji lauched 'Residents Safety & Security' portal?
Subhas Chandra Bose in India Gate. (1) Rajasthan
(1) 18 ft. (2) Nagaland
(2) 28 ft. (3) Odisha
(3) 38 ft. (4) Sikkim
(4) 48 ft. (5) Meghalaya
(5) 58 ft.
43. Aaron Finch to retire from one-day
37. Recently, Warangal in ______ and Nilambur international (ODI) cricket. Aaron Finch is a white-
and Thrissur in ______ have joined UNESCO ball captain of which country?
Global Network of Learning Cities. (1) New Zealand
(1) Tamil Nadu,Kerala (2) Australia
(2) Andhra Pradesh,Karnataka (3) England
(3) Karnataka,Kerala (4) South Africa
(4) Telangana,Kerala (5) Zimbabwe
(5) Odisha,Telangana
44. India's largest rubber dam has been
38. Ni-kshay Mitra portal is associated with which inaugurated in:
of the following? (1) Uttar Pradesh
(1) TB treatment (2) Uttarakhand
(2) School Education (3) Assam
(3) Child Health welfare (4) Kerala
(4) Women Safety and Empowerment (5) Bihar
(5) Double Farmers Income
45. President Droupadi Murmu recently nominated
39. Which of the following became India's first Gulam Ali from ________ to Rajya Sabha
Public Sector Bank to go live on new Direct Tax (1) Uttar Pradesh
Collection System Tin 2.0? (2) Hyderabad
(1) Indian Bank (3) Jammu and Kashmir
(2) Canara Bank (4) Punjab
(3) Bank of India (5) Rajasthan
(4) State Bank of India
(5) Punjab National Bank 46. On September 17, Prime Minister Narendra
Modi released cheetahs brought from Namibia in
Answer Keys Africa in ______.
27. 3 28. 4 29. 4 30. 2 31. 2 32. 1 33. 4 34. (1) Pench National Park
4 35. 3 36. 2 37. 4 38. 1 39. 3 (2) Bandhavgarh National Park
(3) Panna National Park
40. Government has set up a committee under (4) Kuno National Park
who among the following to moderate gas prices in (5) Kanha Tiger Reserve
India in September 2022?
(1) Kirit S Parikh 47. Who is the new prince of Wales?
(2) Janki Ballabh (1) Prince William
(3) M.B.N Rao (2) Charles III
(4) Y. M. Deosthalee (3) Prince Harry
(5) Pradeep Kumar (4) Mark Phillips
(5) Prince George
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54. Which of the following Space tech startup

48. The Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways received patent for single-piece 3D printed rocket
(MoPSW) is planning to build a National Maritime engine in September 2022?
Heritage Complex (NMHC) at the site of the Indus (1) Skyroot
Valley civilization in: (2) Agnikul
(1) Punjab (3) Dhruva Space
(2) Rajasthan (4) Astrogate Labs
(3) Uttar Pradesh (5) Bellatrix Aerospace
(4) Gujarat
(5) Madhya Pradesh 55. Who among the following has authored the
recently released book "Forging Mettle : Nrupender
49. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently Rao and the Pennar Story"?
inaugurated the 'Centre-State Science Conclave' (1) Ravish Kumar
in: (2) Amitav Gosh
(1) Indore (3) Prannoy Roy
(2) Patna (4) Pavan C. Lall
(3) Ahemdabad (5) Ashok Banker
(4) Bangalore
(5) Bhillai 56. INS Satpura & P8I Maritime Patrol Aircraft
participated in Multinational Naval Ex Kakadu, Ex
50. Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Kakadu was hosed by ________________.
Inaugurated the World Dairy Summit 2022 in (1) NATO
Greater Noida, what is the theme of the summit? (2) Russia
(1) Dairy for nutrition and livelihood (3) USA
(2) Dairy for the youth (4) Australia
(3) Importance of Dairy during Pandemic (5) China
(4) Dairy and Healthy Lifestyle
(5) Importance of Dairy on Children 57. In September 2022, which of the following
became the first academic institute in the country
51. Who among the following won the Women US to join an IBM programme promoting quantum
Open Tennis 2022? computing development and research?
(1) Helen Jacobs (1) IIT Delhi
(2) Kirsten Flipkens (2) JNU Delhi
(3) Naomi Osaka (3) IISc Bengaluru
(4) Iga Swiatek (4) IIT Madras
(5) Ons Jabeu (5) IIM Ahmadabad

52. Who among the following won the Italian 58. In December 2022, India will assume the
Grand Prix in September 2022? Presidency of the G20 for ___________ year(s).
(1) George Russell (1) 1
(2) Max Verstappen (2) 2
(3) Charles Leclerc (3) 3
(4) Lewis Hamilton (4) 4
(5) Sergio Pérez (5) 5

Answer Keys 59. Which of the following has become India's

40. 1 41. 3 42. 5 43. 2 44. 5 45. 3 46. 4 47. most-valuable brand according to Kantar BrandZ
1 48. 4 49. 3 50. 1 51. 4 52. 2 report?
(1) HDFC Bank
53. Raja Mircha or the 'king chili' of which state (2) TCS
was given the GI tag? (3) Infosys
(1) Assam (4) Tata
(2) Manipur (5) L&T
(3) Meghalaya
(4) Nagaland
(5) Tripura

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60. JIMEX 2022 is a joint naval drill conducted in Answer Keys

the Bay of Bengal between India and 53. 4 54. 2 55. 4 56. 4 57. 4 58. 1 59. 2 60.
_____________. 4 61. 1 62. 4 63. 3 64. 4 65. 4
(1) Australia
(2) USA 66. Recently, which country has signed an MoU to
(3) Russia join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation?
(4) Japan (1) France
(5) UK (2) Britain
(3) Iran
61. Roger Federer on September 15 announced his (4) Saudi Arabia
retirement from professional tennis, Federer has (5) Kuwait
won how many grand slams?
(1) 20 67. Who among the following has been appointed
(2) 25 as the new MD and CEO of Kerala based CSB Bank
(3) 30 in September 2022?
(4) 35 (1) Pralay Mondal
(5) 40 (2) Shyam Srinivasan
(3) Atanu Chakraborty
62. The Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (4) Girish Chandra Chaturvedi
has been adjudged the best zoo in the country by (5) Sandeep Bakhshi
Central Zoo Authority, the zoo is located in which
state? 68. The new digital publication 'BLO e-Patrika' is
(1) Uttarakhand associated with which of the following?
(2) Tamil Nadu (1) NITI Aayog
(3) Punjab (2) Election Commission
(4) West Bengal (3) National Human Rights Commission
(5) Andhra Pradesh (4) Competition Commission of India
(5) Law Commission
63. According to the draft guidelines issued by
finance ministry for Regional Rural Banks (RRBs), 69. Which of the following football teams won the
RRB's planning to make an initial public offering to Durand Cup 2022?
raise capital must have at least (1) Mumbai City FC
__________________ of net worth for the (2) Chennaiyin FC
previous three years. (3) Kerala Blasters FC
(1) Rs. 100 crore (4) Bengaluru FC
(2) Rs. 200 crore (5) FC Goa
(3) Rs. 300 crore
(4) Rs. 400 crore 70. Recently, who among the following became the
(5) Rs. 500 crore 1st Indian to win 4 medals at world wrestling
championships after winning a bronze medal in
64. Which country hosted the SCO summit of Wrestling Championship held at Serbia in
2022? September 2022?
(1) India (1) Bajrang Punia
(2) Tajikistan (2) Ravi Kumar Dahiya
(3) China (3) Deepak Punia
(4) Uzbekistan (4) Sushil Kumar
(5) Russia (5) Yogeshwar Dutt

65. Which of the following places has been 71. Which of the following international agencies
nominated as the first-ever SCO Tourism and has launched a Doordarshan and YouTube series
Cultural Capital for the year 2022-2023? titled "Door Se Namaste" to promotes healthy
(1) Kolkata behaviours in a post-pandemic world?
(2) Haridwar (1) WHO
(3) Mahabaleshwar (2) UNICEF
(4) Varanasi (3) UNESCO
(5) Kanchipuram (4) ILO
(5) WTO
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FutureSkills Prime, an IT Ministry and Nasscom

72. Who among the following has been conferred digital skilling initiative?
with highest civilian award of France, the Chevalier (1) Microsoft
de la Légion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of (2) Infosys
Honour) in September 2022? (3) Google
(1) Roshni Nadar Malhotra (4) Amazon
(2) Swati Piramal (5) TCS
(3) Falguni Nayar
(4) Kiran Mazumdar Answer Keys
(5) Savitri Devi Jindal 66. 3 67. 1 68. 2 69. 4 70. 1 71. 2 72. 2 73.
2 74. 3 75. 4 76. 3 77. 4 78. 3
73. Which of the following has become India's first
Swachh Sujal Pradesh in September 2022? 79. Who among the following has been appointed
(1) Jharkhand as one of the trustees of the PM CARES Fund?
(2) Andaman & Nicobar Islands (1) Mukesh Ambani
(3) Goa (2) Gautam Adani
(4) Maharashtra (3) Ratan Tata
(5) Gujarat (4) Cyrus S. Poonawalla
(5) Shiv Nadar
74. In September 2022, World Bank approved a
loan of _______________ for Punjab to improve 80. The Competition Commission of India (CCI)
state's finances and service delivery. has approved the merger of Jio Cinema OTT with
(1) $50 million which of the following companies?
(2) $100 million (1) Viacom 18
(3) $150 million (2) Disney Hotstar
(4) $200 million (3) Sony Entertainment
(5) $250 million (4) Zee Television
(5) Sony
75. The Film Federation of India has announced
which of the following movies as India's official 81. India is set to host the maiden MotoGP race in
entry to the Oscars 2023? which year?
(1) RRR (1) 2022
(2) The Kashmir Files (2) 2023
(3) Shyam Singha Roy (3) 2024
(4) Chhello Show (4) 2025
(5) Sardar Udham (5) 2026

76. Which state government is to rename the 82. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has
Daulatabad fort to its old name 'Devgiri'? recently revised India's gross domestic product
(1) Uttar Pradesh growth for the fiscal year 2022"2023 to
(2) Gujarat _______________.
(3) Maharashtra (1) 6.8%
(4) Rajasthan (2) 7%
(5) Bihar (3) 7.2%
(4) 7.4%
77. The Indian Navy conducted the ENC Yachting (5) 6.9%
Championship in which of the following cities?
(1) Chennai 83. Recently, the government of India launched
(2) Mumbai the SCALE app for skill development in which of
(3) Cochin the following industries?
(4) Vishakapatnam (1) Iron
(5) Puri (2) Steel
(3) Leather
78. Which of the following companies has launched (4) Textile
the first cohort of its computing foundations with (5) Petroleum
Kubernetes course in collaboration with

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84. Coast Guards from India and America 90. Which of the following countries has launched
conducted joint exercise Abhyas off the coast of the "Innovation Roadmap of the Mission Integrated
which state in India in September 2022? Biorefineries" in September?
(1) Kerala (1) UK
(2) Maharashtra (2) India
(3) Tamil Nadu (3) Brazil
(4) Karnataka (4) Germany
(5) Goa (5) USA

85. Who among the following has been appointed 91. In September 2022, Indian Railways has
as the Director General of Indian Council of installed the Real Time Train Information System
Medical Research (ICMR) in September 2022? (RTIS) for real-time train tracking. RTIS system
(1) A M Khan was developed by which of the following
(2) Rajiv Bahl organizations/bodies?
(3) Santasabuj Das (1) DRDO
(4) Prashant Mathur (2) Indian Army
(5) Balram Bhargava (3) Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineering
(4) ISRO
86. Who among the following has been appointed (5) Indian Railways Institute of Transport
as the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer Management
of Britannia Industries in September 2022?
(1) N Venkataraman Answer Keys
(2) Ness N Wadia 79. 3 80. 1 81. 2 82. 2 83. 3 84. 3 85. 2 86.
(3) Rajneet Kohli 3 87. 4 88. 1 89. 3 90. 2 91. 4
(4) Varun Berry
(5) Ritesh Rana 92. Which of the following has been accorded with
the status of a 'Maharatna' Central Public Sector
87. Who among the following has been elected as Enterprise in September 2022?
the Hockey India (HI) president in September (1) REC Limited
2022? (2) BHEL Limited
(1) Rajinder Singh (3) NMDC Limited
(2) Mohd Mushtaque Ahmad (4) NTPC Limited
(3) Gyanendro Ningombam (5) NALCO Limited
(4) Dilip Tirkey
(5) Rajani Etimarpu 93. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has
inaugurated the 3rd edition of Lok Manthan
88. The Agricultural and Processed Food Products programme in which city?
Export Authority facilitated the export of the first (1) Chennai
consignment of Plant based meat products to USA (2) Guwahati
from ______________. (3) Kolkata
(1) Gujarat (4) Mumbai
(2) Maharashtra (5) Delhi
(3) Tamil Nadu
(4) Karnataka 94. Who among the following has been appointed
(5) Goa as the Chairman & MD of Railtel in September
2022?
89. Under the Scheme for Special Assistance to (1) Aruna Singh
States for Capital Investment for 2022-23, an (2) Sanjai Kumar
amount of _______________ is earmarked and (3) Anand Kumar Singh
will be available to States for capital projects on (4) Harish Chandra Batra
Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) network. (5) Rakesh Ranjan
(1) Rs. 1000 crore
(2) Rs. 2000 crore 95. Who among the following released the book
(3) Rs. 3000 crore "Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay- Jeevan Darshan Aur
(4) Rs. 4000 crore Samsamyikta"?
(5) Rs. 5000 crore (1) Droupadi Murmu
(2) Jagdeep Dhankhar
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(3) Narendra Modi (3) Gokulananda Jena

(4) Rajnath Singh (4) V. Radhakrishnan
(5) Amit Shah (5) Sunil Sirsikar

96. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and 102. Who among the following has clocked the
Climate Change will launch the 'Swachh Vayu lowest time to complete a marathon for the world
Sarvekshan' programme to rank cities based on record in Berlin Marathon?
their actions to improve air quality. It will rank (1) Kenenisa Bekele
how many cities in the country. (2) Mo Farah
(1) 113 (3) Eliud Kipchoge
(2) 123 (4) Grace Sugutt
(3) 131 (5) Brigid Kosgei
(4) 141
(5) 151 103. The Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan
Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) completed
97. Who among the following India Author- Poet ______________ years of its implementation on
has won the Hermann Kesten Award 2022? Sept 23, 2022
(1) Vinita Agrawal (1) One
(2) Meena Kandaswamy (2) Two
(3) Varsha Adalja (3) Three
(4) Anita Desai (4) Four
(5) Jhumpa Lahiri (5) Five

98. India's first Avalanche Monitoring Radar has 104. Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has
been installed in which state of India in September launched Swachh Toycathon in September 2022,
2022? which of the following IIT's is the knowledge
(1) Assam partner for the initiative?
(2) Tripura (1) IIT Madras
(3) Arunachal Pradesh (2) IIT Bombay
(4) Sikkim (3) IIT Hyderabad
(5) Mizoram (4) IIT Gandhinagar
(5) IIT Delhi
99. Amazon announced the setting up of its first
solar farm in India with a capacity of 420 Answer Keys
megawatt (MW) in which state/UT? 92. 1 93. 2 94. 2 95. 2 96. 3 97. 2 98. 4 99.
(1) Jammu and Kashmir 2 100. 4 101. 2 102. 3 103. 4 104. 4
(2) Rajasthan
(3) Gujarat 105. Which of the following has become the first
(4) Maharashtra Indian life insurer to have 74% foreign
(5) Goa shareholding?
(1) Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd.
100. Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) under (2) ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd.
the Ministry of Finance has given in-principle (3) IFFCO-Tokio General Insurance Co. Ltd.
approval for an innovative urban transport (4) Ageas Federal Life Insurance Co. Ltd.
ropeway project worth Rs 1,546.4 crore for which (5) Max Life Insurance Co. Ltd
of the following city in September 2022?
(1) Mussorie 106. Who among the following has become the
(2) Chennai richest self-made Indian woman,as per the IIFL
(3) Ooty Wealth Hurun India Rich List, released in
(4) Shimla September 2022?
(5) Srinagar (1) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
(2) Falguni Nayar
101. Who among the following has been appointed (3) Neha Narkhede
as the Director General of the Employees' State (4) Kaivalya Vohra
Insurance Corporation in September 2022? (5) Savitri Jindal
(1) R.S.Ravi
(2) Rajendra Kumar
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107. India will get its first flex-fuel car imported September 2022 by Registrar General of India
from which country? (RGI), what is the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) of
(1) USA the country in 2020?
(2) UK (1) 25 per 1000 live births
(3) Brazil (2) 28 per 1000 live births
(4) Germany (3) 30 per 1000 live births
(5) Norway (4) 33 per 1000 live births
(5) 35 per 1000 live births
108. Which of the following statement is TRUE for
Operation 'Megha Chakra'? 114. President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the
(1) Bringing back students from war ridden new Integrated Cryogenic Engine Manufacturing
Ukraine Facility (ICMF) set up by Hindustan Aeronautics
(2) CBI search against child abuse material Limited in
(3) Availability of oxygen in government hospitals (1) Delhi
(4) Sending food and other necessary things to Sri (2) Indore
Lanka (3) Chennai
(5) NIA search against Terrorism (4) Bengaluru
(5) Hyderabad
109. Who among the following is the first chess
player to hit the historic 2900 Tour Rating mark? 115. Mohammed bin Salman has been appointed
(1) Magnus Carlsen as the Prime Minister of which country in
(2) Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa September 2022?
(3) Arjun Erigaisi (1) UAE
(4) V Pranav (2) Iran
(5) Nihal Sarin (3) Saudi Arabia
(4) Yemen
110. Who among the following has been elected as (5) Turkey
the first female PM of Italy in September 2022?
(1) Angela Merkel 116. Who among the following has been awarded
(2) Giorgia Meloni the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2020?
(3) Mary Elizabeth Truss (1) Asha Bhosle
(4) Penny Mordaunt (2) Hema Malini
(5) Jacinda Ardern (3) Asha Parekh
(4) Poonam Dhillon
111. Which of the following app has been (5) T. S. Nagabharana
developed by Ministry of Rural Development to
capture the water level of selected wells in a 117. The Defence Research and Development
village across the country? Organisation (DRDO) carried out two successful
(1) Know Your Water test flights of the Very-Short Range Air Defence
(2) Jalam System (VSHORADS) missile from
(3) Jaldoot (1) Rajasthan
(4) Jal Jeevan (2) Odisha
(5) Jal Sanchaya (3) Andhra Pradesh
(4) Gujarat
112. As of September 2022, which of the following (5) Tamil Nadu
state governments has emerged as the top buyer
on the Government e-Marketplace portal with a Answer Keys
gross merchandise value (GMV) of more than Rs 105. 4 106. 2 107. 3 108. 2 109. 1 110. 2 111.
24,000 crore? 3 112. 4 113. 2 114. 4 115. 3 116. 3 117. 2
(1) Gujarat
(2) Rajasthan 118. Which of the following countries hosted the
(3) Tamilnadu 10th BRICS meet of science and technology
(4) Uttar Pradesh ministers in September 2022?
(5) Kerala (1) Brazil
(2) China
113. As per the Sample Registration System (SRS) (3) Russia
Statistical Report 2020 released on 22nd (4) India
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(5) South Africa (2) Nakul Aggarwal

(3) Akash Ambani
119. The government of India and Small Industries (4) Binny Bansal
Development Bank of India (SIDBI) along with (5) Ritesh Agarwal
which of the following financial institutions are set
to launch a $1 billion fund to provide guarantees 125. The theme for World Heart Day 2022 is
against loan default to lenders financing the (1) Heart Health for All
purchase of electric two- and three-wheelers? (2) End Non- Communicable Disease starting from
(1) World Bank Heart
(2) IMF (3) Use Heart for Every Heart
(3) Asian Development Bank (4) Use Heart to Connect
(4) New Development Bank (5) Healthy Heart Healthy Life
(5) Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bankl
126. What is the rank of the India in the recently
120. The Indian Government has launched the released Global Innovation Index 2022 according
mobile app named _____________ to make to a report by the Geneva-based World Intellectual
Indian Sign Language dictionary more accessible Property Organization (WIPO)?
to masses. (1) 36
(1) Sign India (2) 40
(2) Sign Books (3) 44
(3) Sign Laboratory (4) 51
(4) Sign Learn (5) 56
(5) Sign For Language
127. Who among the following has been appointed
121. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the as the chairman of the board of governors of
foundation stone of the world's first CNG terminal Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) in
at __________________ September 2022?
(1) Tamil Nadu (1) N S Rajan
(2) Uttar Pradesh (2) Saugata Gupta
(3) Gujarat (3) Shashidhar Sinha
(4) Rajasthan (4) K Padmanabhaiah
(5) Bihar (5) K J Udeshi

122. The Centre has decided to appoint Lt General 128. Which of the following companies will develop
Anil Chauhan (retd) as the next Chief of Defence Tajpur port in India's West Bengal state at a
Staff (CDS). He is the ______________ CDS of planned investment of more than $3 billion?
India. (1) Adani Ports
(1) 2nd (2) Larsen & Toubro Ports
(2) 3rd (3) GVK Ports
(3) 4th (4) SKIL Infrastructure Ports
(4) 5th (5) Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. Ports
(5) 6th
129. Which of the following state/UT has notified
123. Senior advocate R Venkataramani has been the country's first 'Dugong Conservation Reserve'?
appointed as the 16th Attorney General of India in (1) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
September 2022, he replaced who among the (2) Tamil Nadu
following? (3) Lakshwadeep
(1) KK Venugopal (4) Kerala
(2) Ram Jethmalani (5) Odisha
(3) Fali Sam Nariman
(4) Harish Salve 130. On the occasion of World Tourism Day, which
(5) Gopal Subramaniam of the following states won the award for the best
adventure tourism destination in India from the
124. Who among the following was the only Indian Ministry of Tourism in September 2022?
named in the Time's 100 Emerging Leaders' List (1) Assam
released in September 2022? (2) Sikkim
(1) Divyank Turakhia (3) Arunachal Pradesh
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(5) Himachal Pradesh
137. Who among the following has launched the
Answer Keys 'Operation Garuda'?
118. 2 119. 1 120. 4 121. 3 122. 1 123. 1 124. (1) Indian Army
3 125. 3 126. 2 127. 1 128. 1 129. 2 130. 4 (2) NIA
(3) CBI
131. The Pegatron, which is set to manufacture (4) Indian Railways
Apple iPhones in India has set up its plant in which (5) CRPF
city?
(1) Mumbai 138. Which of the following payments company is
(2) Chennai in talks with Indian banks to roll out its Carbon
(3) Kolkata Calculator feature, which offers consumers an
(4) Bengaluru estimated carbon footprint for each of their
(5) Delhi purchases?
(1) Visa
132. Who was selected for the 32nd Bihari (2) Mastercard
Puraskaar 2022? (3) PayPal
(1) Dr Madhav Harda (4) Paytm
(2) Kunal Basu (5) CCAvenue
(3) Rambriksh Benipuri
(4) Mannu Bhandari 139. Recently, long jumper Jeswin Aldrin qualified
(5) Balakumaran for 2023 World Championship with a _____ leap in
his final attempt at the National Game.
133. Ministry of Jal Shakti commemorated the (1) 8.26m
birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi as______ (2) 8.28m
(1) Swachh Bharat Diwas (3) 8.29m
(2) Jal Shakti Day (4) 8.32m
(3) Day of water conservation (5) 8.34m
(4) Parakram Diwas
(5) Matyrs Day 140. Recently, who among the following was
honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by
134. As per the recent University Grants US President Joe Biden with citation of 'With
Commission (UGC) rules, the higher education Grateful Recognition'?
institutions can admit ______ percentage of (1) Devika Bulchandani
foreign students. (2) Satya Nadella
(1) 10 (3) Vivek Lall
(2) 15 (4) Shantanu Narayen
(3) 21 (5) Parag Agrawal
(4) 25
(5) 30 141. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inducted the
first indigenously developed light combat
135. In the Swachh Survekshan 2022, which state helicopters (LCH) named _____ in Jodhpur,
emerged as the 'Cleanest State' in the category of Rajasthan.
"more than 100 Urban Local Bodies"? (1) Prachand
(1) Maharashtra (2) Dhruv
(2) Jharkhand (3) Chetak
(3) Madhya Pradesh (4) Rudra
(4) Chhattisgarh (5) Cheetah
(5) Andhra Pradesh
142. Which of the following state is to get World's
136. Who has been appointed as the new director Largest Safari Park covering over 10,000 acres?
general of the CRPF? (1) Rajasthan
(1) Opak Gao (2) Haryana
(2) Sujoy Lal Thaosen (3) Madhya Pradesh
(3) Jigmi Choden (4) Chhattisgarh
(4) A.R. Talwade (5) West Bengal
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(4) physical cosmology

143. Pullampara in ______became the first grama (5) laser physics
panchayat in the country to attain full digital
literacy among its residents. 149. Recently, National Payments Corporation of
(1) Kerala India and Central Bank Of which of the following
(2) Karnataka country signed an MoU to launch the Rupay debit
(3) Goa card in their country?
(4) Tamil Nadu (1) UAE
(5) Maharashtra (2) Kuwait
(3) Qatar
Answer Keys (4) Oman
131. 2 132. 1 133. 1 134. 4 135. 3 136. 2 137. (5) Jordan
3 138. 2 139. 1 140. 3 141. 1 142. 2 143. 1
150. Who among the following recently won
144. Tulsi Tanti, popularly known as India's 'wind UNHCR's Nansen Refugee Award?
man, passed away recently. He was the founder of (1) Angela Merkel
_______ (2) Ameen Jubran
(1) Suzlon Energy (3) Saleema Rehman
(2) Orient Green Power (4) Rozma Ghafouri
(3) Inox Wind (5) Alberto Cairo
(4) Siemens
(5) RRB Energy Limited 151. With which of the following countries did
India sign an export order for missiles, rockets,
145. Who won the first prize under the large states and ammunition and is also exporting indigenous
category under the Swachh Survekshan Grameen Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launchers for the first
(SSG) 2022? time?
(1) Haryana (1) Armenia
(2) Tamil Nadu (2) Azerbaijan
(3) Telangana (3) Iran
(4) Andhra Pradesh (4) Turkey
(5) Maharashtra (5) Georgia

146. Swedish scientist Svante Paabo has been 152. Recently, the central government has
awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physiology for approved _______ crore for installation of ______
his research in which of the following fields? mobile towers in 500 days
(1) Cancer Research (1) Rs.27,000 and 26,000
(2) Bio Chemistry (2) Rs.28,000 and 25,000
(3) Immunity towards HIV (3) Rs.24,000 and 24,000
(4) Human Evolution (4) Rs.26,000 and 25,000
(5) Development in In Vitro Fertilization (5) Rs.25,000 and 25,000

147. UNESCO has launched a list documenting 50 153. The 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been
iconic Indian heritage textiles in October 2022, shared by Karl Barry Sharpless, Carolyn R.
Thigma or wool tie and dye is associated with Bertozzi and Morten Meldal, for their work on
(1) Ladakh (1) Quantum Chemistry
(2) Uttar Pradesh (2) Bio Chemistry
(3) Andhra Pradesh (3) Click Chemistry
(4) Assam (4) Analytical Chemistry
(5) Kerala (5) Agro Chemistry

148. The Nobel Prize for Physics 2022 is being 154. Who among the following Indian Origin
shared by three scientists, Alain Aspect, John F doctors has been nominated as the US
Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, for their work on representative on WHO executive board?
_______ (1) Vivek Murthy
(1) chaotic and apparently random phenomena (2) Manjit Singh Bains
(2) black hole formation (3) Sanjay Gupta
(3) quantum mechanics (4) Siddhartha Mukherjee
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155. Who among the following has been appointed 161. HDFC Life has launched the 'Insure India'
as the Chairman and Managing Director of Gas campaign that is aimed at educating Indians on
Authority of India Limited (GAIL) in October 2022? the benefits of life insurance as a product
(1) Rakesh Kumar Jain category. HDFC life is a joint venture between
(2) Deepak Gupta HDFC Bank and which of the following?
(3) Navneet Mohan Kothari (1) Morgan Stanley
(4) Sandeep Kumar Gupta (2) JPMorgan Chase
(5) Sanjay Kashyap (3) abrdn mauritius holdings 2006
(4) BlackRock
156. Which of the following companies has (5) State Street Global Advisors
commissioned the world's largest wind-solar power
plant of 600 MW capacity in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan? 162. Alphabet Inc's Google will set up its first
(1) Tata Power cloud region in which country?
(2) Adani Green Energy (1) Greece
(3) Websol Energy Systems (2) Italy
(4) Borosil Renewables (3) Finland
(5) Reliance Industries (4) Sweden
(5) France
Answer Keys
144. 1 145. 3 146. 4 147. 1 148. 3 149. 4 150. 163. In October 2022, the World Bank slashed its
1 151. 1 152. 4 153. 3 154. 1 155. 4 156. 2 growth estimate for India by one percentage point
to ____________ for FY23
157. Who among the following has received the (1) 6.5%
American Geophysical Union's (AGU) 2022 (2) 6.3%
Devendra Lal Memorial Medal in October 2022? (3) 7.2%
(1) D.M. Chate (4) 7.5%
(2) G. Pandithurai (5) 7%
(3) Roxy Mathew Koll
(4) G. Pandithurai 164. The Center for Civil Liberties (CLL) of which of
(5) Kaushar Ali the following country was awarded the 2022 Nobel
Peace Prize?
158. In October 2022, India has emerged as the (1) Russia
world's largest producer of Sugar. India is the (2) Belarus
____________ largest sugar exporter in the world. (3) Ukraine
(1) Sixth (4) Poland
(2) Second (5) Syria
(3) Third
(4) Fourth 165. LIC and Central Government decided to
(5) Fifth divest ____ stake in IDBI Bank of their total stake
of ______ (nearly) in the Bank.
159. The 2022 Nobel prize in literature has been (1) 60.72%, 94%
awarded to who among the following? (2) 62.72%, 94%
(1) Annie Ernaux (3) 60.72%, 92%
(2) Boubacar Boris Diop (4) 62.72%, 92%
(3) Mircea Cartarescu (5) 65.72%, 96%
(4) Cesar Aira
(5) Ismail Kadare 166. Who among the following is the chairperson
of the three-member panel constituted by the
160. Shri Shaktikanta Das, launched a new government to study on SC status for Dalit
SupTech initiative named DAKSH for which of the converts?
following purpose for RBI? (1) H. L. Dattu
(1) Check issuance of Bank notes and Coins (2) T. S. Thakur
(2) Supervisory Purpose (3) Dipak Misra
(3) Automation process for checking inflation (4) K G Balakrishnan
(4) Automation process for controlling credit flow (5) Ranjan Gogoi
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167. 'Vida V1' is a sub-brand of electric scooter (5) Unai
launched by ______.
(1) Honda 173. India has partnered with which of the
(2) TVS following country to launched a new task force
(3) Bajaj under the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership,
(4) Yamaha which focus on the accelerated deployment of
(5) Hero energy storage technologies?
(1) China
168. Which bank has announced the launch of (2) Russia
SmartHub Vyapar Merchant app, a payments and (3) Japan
banking solution for small and medium-sized (4) United States of America
businesses? (5) Australia
(1) HDFC Bank
(2) YES Bank 174. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has
(3) Kotak Mahindra Bank awarded the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in
(4) Punjab National Bank Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to
(5) Canara Bank Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip
H. Dybvig for
169. Which of the following is NOT one of the 'Top (1) Research on banks and financial crises
Achievers' category states/UTs in BRAP 2020 in (2) Improvements to auction theory and
Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP) 2020 inventions of new auction formats
assessment report released by DPIIT? (3) Research on how minimum wage, immigration
(1) Andhra Pradesh and education affect the labour market
(2) Gujarat (4) Experimental approach to alleviating global
(3) Haryana poverty
(4) Karnataka (5) Integrating climate change into long-run
(5) Maharashtra macroeconomic analysis

Answer Keys 175. In October 2022, Prime Minister Narendra

157. 3 158. 2 159. 1 160. 2 161. 3 162. 1 163. Modi laid the foundation stone for Deep Sea
1 164. 3 165. 1 166. 4 167. 5 168. 1 169. 5 Pipeline Project in which state of India?
(1) Andhra Pradesh
170. The first conference of the Agni campaign (2) Maharashtra
was organised in Leh, on the theme of (3) West Bengal
(1) Connecting People (4) Gujarat
(2) Time for Nature (5) Kerala
(3) Sustainability and Culture
(4) Nature and Sustainability 176. The Central government has extended the
(5) Ecosystem Restoration timeline for disbursement of loans up to March 31,
2023 under the ethanol blending programme
171. Who among the following is the head of the interest subsidy scheme, Government is extending
expert committee on sustainable finance financial assistance in the form of interest
constituted by the International Financial Services subvention at ____________ per annum.
Centres Authority at the GIFT City? (1) 4.5%
(1) C K Mishra (2) 6%
(2) Injeti Srinivas (3) 8%
(3) Sujit Prasad (4) 7.2%
(4) Ananta Gopal Das (5) 3.3%
(5) Saurav Sinha
177. The Central Government has appointed who
172. Recently, which village in India was declared among the following as the Chief Justice of the
by PM Narendra Modi as the country's first 24x7 Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court in
solar-powered village? October 2022?
(1) Modhera (1) Justice Rajnesh Oswal
(2) Punsari (2) Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey
(3) Hodka (3) Justice Sanjay Dhar
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(5) Justice Sindhu Sharma 170. 3 171. 1 172. 1 173. 4 174. 1 175. 4 176.
2 177. 2 178. 1 179. 4 180. 3 181. 3 182. 3
178. World Bank (WB) has extended an
unconditional loan of ________________ to the 183. Union Home Minister Amit Shah unveiled a
Supporting Andhra's Learning Transformation 15-feet high statue of who among the following in
(SALT) project in appreciation of the path-breaking Saran district of Bihar in October 2022?
reforms implemented by the State government. (1) Ram Manohar Lohia
(1) USD 250 Million (2) Prabhavati Devi
(2) USD 350 Million (3) Jayaprakash Narayan
(3) USD 450 Million (4) Morarji Desai
(4) USD 550 Million (5) Vinoba Bhave
(5) USD 650 Million
184. In October 2022, President of India, Smt
179. In October 2022, The International Monetary Droupadi Murmu, inaugurated
Fund (IMF), in its latest World Economic Outlook __________________ Supercomputer facility at
report, cut its forecast for India's gross domestic IIT Guwahati.
product (GDP) growth in financial year 2022-23 (1) PARAM Bhrama- AI
(FY23) by ___________to 6.8 per cent. (2) PARAM Seva
(1) 30 bps (3) PARAM Yukti
(2) 40 bps (4) PARAM Kamrupa
(3) 50 bps (5) PARAM Ganga
(4) 60 bps
(5) 70 bps 185. According to the LEADS 2022 report released
by the commerce and Industry Ministry, what is
180. India's first antidote and a cure against the highest ranking given to states?
SARS-CoV-2 virus named VINCOV-19 has (1) Fast Movers
completed its Phase 2 clinical trials, the vaccine is (2) Achievers
developed by which of the following companies? (3) Aspirers
(1) Serum Institute (4) Smart Movers
(2) Bharat Biotech (5) Fast Track
(3) VINS Bioproducts
(4) Dr Reddy's Laboratories 186. According the recently released Times Higher
(5) Zydus Cadila Education Rankings 2023, which of the following
has topped the world ranking list?
181. Which of the following airports in India has (1) University of Cambridge
switched to 100% green energy sources, fulfilling (2) Harvard University
95 per cent of its requirement from hydro and (3) Stanford University
wind, while the rest 5 per cent from solar power? (4) University of Oxford
(1) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International (5) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Airport, Kolkata.
(2) Chennai International Airport, Chennai. 187. Recently, Education and Skill Development
(3) Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated
Mumbai. IInvenTiv - the first-ever all-IITs Research and
(4) Thiruvananthapuram International Airport. Development, R&D Showcase at ______
(5) Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi. (1) IIT Madras
(2) IIT Bombay
182. In October 2022, the Tamil Nadu government (3) IIT Delhi
has notified the country's first sanctuary for which (4) IIT Kanpur
of the following animal covering 11,806 hectares in (5) IIT Hyderabad
Karur and Dindigul districts of the State?
(1) Owls. 188. Maa Bharati Ke Sapoot is a portal for Indian
(2) Moths. Citizens to financially contribute to the
(3) Slender Lorises. (1) underprivileged sportsmen
(4) Foxes. (2) orphan children
(5) Hedgehogs (3) martyrs' families
(4) local MLAs to aid in welfare schemes
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(5) none of the above second Indian to achieve the feat after Abhinav
Bindra?
189. Which is the only country in South Asia that (1) Kiran Ankush Jadhav
performed worse than India on the 2022 Global (2) Rudranksh Balasaheb Patil
Hunger Index? (3) Vibhuti Bhatia
(1) Nepal (4) Rituraj Bundela
(2) Bangladesh (5) Arjun Babuta
(3) Pakistan
(4) Afghanistan 195. The President of India, Droupadi Murmu has
(5) Sri Lanka appointed Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant
Chandrachud as the _________________ Chief
190. Recently, who was awarded the Sports Justice of India in October 2022
Journalists' Federation of India (SJFI) medal for (1) 50th
2019? (2) 51st
(1) Vijay Amritraj (3) 52nd
(2) Prakash Padukone (4) 53rd
(3) Mithali Raj (5) 54th
(4) Mary Kom
(5) Abhinav Bindra Answer Keys
183. 3 184. 4 185. 2 186. 4 187. 3 188. 3 189.
191. In October 2022, to ensure that benefits of 4 190. 2 191. 4 192. 3 193. 3 194. 2 195. 1
digital banking reach every nook and corner of the
country, PM inaugurated 75 Digital Banking 196. Who among the following has become the
Units(DBUs) to the nation. Which of the following first Indian woman to clock a legal sub-13 second
bank is permitted to open DBUs in tier 1 to tier 6 time in 100-meter hurdles at the National Open
centres? Athletics Championships in Bengaluru?
(1) Regional Rural Banks (1) Nayana James
(2) Payment Banks (2) Jyothi Yarraji
(3) Local Area Banks (3) Ancy Sojan
(4) Commercial Banks (4) Treesa Jolly
(5) NBFC's (5) Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

192. Union Minister for Railways, Communications 197. Which of the following institutes has become
and Electronics & Information Technology, Shri part of the world's largest and most diverse
Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated India's First genomic study named "A saturated map of
_________ Freight Rake - 61 BOBRNALHSM1 at common genetic variants associated with human
Bhubaneswar Railway Station. height" published in Nature Journal?
(1) Steel (1) National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS)
(2) Iron (2) Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB)
(3) Aluminium (3) Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
(4) Copper (CCMB)
(5) Bronze (4) Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
(5) Indian Institute of Science Education &
193. Which of the following city in India won the Research (IISER), Biology, Pune
'World Green City Award 2022' at the International
Association of Horticulture Producers 2022 held in 198. Global Handwashing Day is observed every
Jeju, South Korea? year on 15th October, the theme for 2022 was
(1) Indore (1) Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene
(2) Cochin (2) Our Future is at Hand " Let's Move Forward
(3) Hyderabad Together
(4) Coimbatore (3) SAVE LIVES: Clean your hands
(5) Mumbai (4) Clean Hands for All
(5) Our hands, our future!
194. Who among the following won gold in men's
10m air rifle event at the ISSF World
Championship at Cairo, Egypt , becoming only the

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the Booker Prize 2022 for which of the following (5) Himachal Pradesh
books?
(1) Treacle Walker 205. The World Bank has appointed who among
(2) Small Things Like These the following as the chairman of the Court of
(3) The Trees Arbitration regarding the disagreement between
(4) The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida India and Pakistan on Indus Water Treaty on
(5) Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric power plants?
(1) Michel Lino
200. In October 2022, which of the following banks (2) Axel van Trotsenburg
has announced Sourav Ganguly as its brand (3) Rajesh Khullar
ambassador? (4) Sean Murphy
(1) Axis Bank (5) Michael Hofmann
(2) Bank of Baroda
(3) Bandhan Bank 206. Adani Airport Holdings has appointed who
(4) HDFC Bank among the following as its CEO in October 2022?
(5) ICICI Bank (1) Arun Bansal
(2) Gargi Kaul
201. As per the latest Multidimensional Poverty (3) Karan Gautam Adani
Index (MPI) compiled jointly by the UN (4) Malay Ramesh Mahadevia
Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford (5) eet Gautam Adani
Poverty and Human Development Initiative
(OPHI), the incidence of poverty in India is 207. The Swedish parliament has elected who
____________ in 2019-21. among the following as its next Prime Minister in
(1) 10.3% October 2022?
(2) 23.5% (1) Magdalena Andersson
(3) 55.3% (2) Ulf Kristersson
(4) 16.4% (3) Stefan Lofven
(5) 48.6% (4) Andreas Norlen
(5) Ebba Busch
202. Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin
Gadkari announced that the National Highways 208. In October 2022, Google has signed a
Infra Trust (NHAI InvIT) bonds will offer an Memorandum of Understanding to support and
effective return of ___________ per annum. accelerate the mission to promote digital growth
(1) 8.05% and development with which of the following State
(2) 7.25% governments?
(3) 6.80% (1) Kerala
(4) 9.2% (2) Uttar Pradesh
(5) 7.50% (3) Assam
(4) Karnataka
203. The Government has approved the increase (5) Gujarat
in the Minimum Support Prices for all mandated
Rabi Crops for Marketing Season 2023-24 in Answer Keys
October 2022, the absolute highest increase in 196. 2 197. 3 198. 1 199. 4 200. 3 201. 4 202.
MSP has been approved for which of the following? 1 203. 2 204. 3 205. 4 206. 1 207. 2 208. 3
(1) Mustard
(2) Lentils 209. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
(3) Barley has approved the appointment of who among the
(4) Wheat following as Chairman & Managing Director of
(5) Rapeseed India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) in
October 2022?
204. Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas (1) Pradeep Singh Kharola
Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated Asia's largest (2) V.G. Aravindanayagi
Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) plant in _______ (3) Shashank Priya
(1) Rajasthan (4) Vibhu Nayar
(2) Haryana (5) Rahul Kumar Shrawat
(3) Punjab
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210. Who among the following won the Meltwater (5) YES Bank
Champions Chess Tour title in October 2022?
(1) Ian Nepomniachtchi 216. India ranks third in the world's first-ever
(2) Alireza Firouzja global study on the rise of centi-millionaires-
(3) Magnus Carlsen individuals with assets of more than Rs 830 crore
(4) Adhiban Baskaran ($100 million), a new report has revealed. Which
(5) Gukesh D country was ranked first as per the report?
(1) China
211. India and France have been re-elected as (2) USA
President and Co-President of the International (3) Russia
Solar Alliance, who among the following has been (4) Switzerland
elected as the President of ISA in October 2022? (5) UK
(1) Hardeep S Puri
(2) R K Singh 217. Interpol launched the first ever metaverse
(3) Ajay Mathur specifically designed for law enforcement agencies
(4) Bhupender Yadav worldwide during its 90th General Assembly in
(5) Pralhad Joshi Delhi. The 91st General Assembly of Interpol will
be held in
212. Former Infosys president Ravi Kumar who (1) Rome
resigned in October 2022, joined which of the (2) New York
following Information Technology companies? (3) Vienna
(1) Deloitte (4) Singapore
(2) Cognizant (5) Moscow
(3) TCS
(4) HCL Technologies 218. Who among the following has become the
(5) Wipro first-ever Indian wrestler to win a gold medal at
the U-23 World Wrestling Championships?
213. Prime minister Narendra Modi unveiled an (1) Aman Sehrawat
indigenously built aircraft ____________________ (2) Antim Panghal
at the 12th DefExpo in Gujarat's Gandhinagar (3) Mansi Ahlawat
designed and developed by Hindustan Aeronautics (4) Vikas Kumar
Limited (HAL). (5) Nitesh Malik
(1) HTT-40
(2) HPT-32 219. Ayurveda Day was celebrated worldwide on
(3) HAL Tejas 23rd October. The ____________ edition of
(4) MK 1A Ayurveda Day was observed in 2022.
(5) Dornier 3AA (1) 5th
(2) 7th
214. India's first 'Migration Monitoring System', (3) 9th
which provides updated information on migrant (4) 11th
pregnant women, lactating mothers and children (5) 10th
instantly on a single system was launched in which
city? 220. PM Narendra Modi launched the 'Rozgar Mela'
(1) Chennai in October 2022, through which various
(2) Hyderabad government departments and ministries will
(3) Bengaluru undertake the recruitment of _______ people on a
(4) Mumbai mission mode in the next year and a half.
(5) New Delhi (1) 2 Lakh
(2) 5 Lakh
215. Russia's Gazprombank opened a special (3) 10 Lakh
rupee account with which of the following banks (4) 15 Lakh
paving the way for bilateral trades between (5) 6 Lakh
Moscow and New Delhi?
(1) State Bank of India
(2) Indian Overseas Bank
(3) UCO Bank
(4) Bank of India
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221. Who among the following has become the (5) Kochi
first Asian and first Indian to be appointed as an
UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on 227. After Liz Truss resigned as England's Prime
contemporary forms of racism, racial Minister in October 2022, who among the following
discrimination, xenophobia and related was appointed as the PM of England?
intolerance? (1) Kristina Moore
(1) Ashwini K.P. (2) Rishi Sunak
(2) Chokila (3) Jeremy Hunt
(3) Sujata Singh (4) James Cleverly
(4) Vinay Kwatra (5) Grant Shapps
(5) Nirupama Rao
228. In October 2022, Uttar Pradesh government
Answer Keys bagged a _____________ deal for data centre
209. 1 210. 3 211. 2 212. 2 213. 1 214. 4 215. projects with a plan to set up smaller capacity data
3 216. 2 217. 3 218. 1 219. 2 220. 3 221. 1 centres in the hinterland across the state.
(1) Rs. 12, 000 crore
222. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (2) Rs. 14, 000 crore
granted aerodrome licence to the Jeypore airport, (3) Rs. 16, 000 crore
Jeypore Airport is located in (4) Rs. 18, 000 crore
(1) Bihar (5) Rs. 10, 000 crore
(2) West Bengal
(3) Jharkhand 229. Which of the following has announced the
(4) Odisha opening of the first-ever Women-Only Digital
(5) Assam Centre (DC) in India in Bengaluru in October
2022?
223. According to the 2022 Forbes list of India's (1) HDFC securities
100 Richest, Gautam Adani topped the chart with a (2) ICICI Direct
net worth of $150 billion. Who among the following (3) Paytm Money Limited
was NOT among the top 10 in the list? (4) Zerodha
(1) Radhakrishna Damani (5) SBICAP Securities
(2) Kiran Mazumdar- Shah
(3) Cyrus Poonawalla 230. Recently, the Pension Fund Regulatory and
(4) Shiv Nadar Development Authority (PFRDA) has modified the
(5) Savitri Jindal equity allocation standards for Tier 1 and Tier II
National Pension System (NPS) accounts. Users
224. Who was named the brand ambassador of can allocate up to 75% of their funds to equity (E)
T20 World Cup for the Blind, recently? under active choice in a Tier-I account without any
(1) Yuvraj Singh tapering requirements once they turn
(2) Virender Sehwag ____________ years of Age.
(3) MS Dhoni (1) 49
(4) Dinesh Karthik (2) 51
(5) Rohit Sharma (3) 55
(4) 60
225. The 5th edition of Khelo India Youth Games (5) 63
will be held in ______in 2023.
(1) Bihar 231. Who among the following is set to become
(2) Madhya Pradesh the first Asian American to appear on US currency?
(3) New Delhi (1) Sally Ride
(4) Uttar Pradesh (2) Wilma Mankiller
(5) Haryana (3) Maya Angelou
(4) Anna May Wong
226. 14th World Spice Congress is to be held in (5) Nina Otero-Warren
2023 in ______
(1) New Delhi
(2) Mumbai
(3) Hyderabad
(4) Chennai
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232. As per recent newspaper report, Netherlands 237. The Embassy of Japan in New Delhi is seeking
has emerged as India's third-largest export a Geographical Indication (GI) tag for which of the
destination, ahead of China and Bangladesh. following?
Which of the following is the second largest Export (1) Sushi
Destinations of India? (2) Ramen
(1) USA (3) Nihonshu
(2) Indonesia (4) Miso soup
(3) UAE (5) Okazu
(4) Japan
(5) Brazil 238. In October 2022, which of the following soft
drinks has become a $1-billion brand in the Indian
233. On October 25th, 2022, The Competition market?
Commission of India has imposed a penalty of (1) Fanta.
________________ on Google in yet another (2) Sprite.
antitrust probe for anti-competitive practices in (3) Limca.
relation to its Play Store policies. (4) Kinley.
(1) Rs. 210.44 Crore (5) Minute Maid.
(2) Rs. 451.94 Crore
(3) Rs. 647.20 Crore 239. 'Brassica juncea', which was seen in news
(4) Rs. 936.44 Crore recently is a Genetically Modified Variety of
(5) Rs. 103.04 Crore (1) Cotton
(2) Brinjal
234. Researchers from NASA Jet Propulsion (3) Rice
Laboratory and which of the following Institutes in (4) Mustard
India have studied the interactions between (5) Rubber
microbes in the International Space Station in
October 2022? 240. In October 2022, which of the following
(1) IIT Madras companies announced the acquisition of a 51
(2) ICMR- Centre for Ageing & Mental Health percent stake in Badshah Masala for a cash
(3) IISc Bengaluru consideration of Rs 587.5 crore?
(4) Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (1) Nestle India
(5) Institute of Life science, Pune (2) ITC Limited
(3) Marico Limited
Answer Keys (4) Dabur India Limited
222. 4 223. 2 224. 1 225. 2 226. 2 227. 2 228. (5) Britannia Industries
3 229. 1 230. 2 231. 4 232. 3 233. 4 234. 1
241. In October 2022, Gujarat was declared as a
235. The book, "From dependence to Self 'Har Ghar Jal' state, earlier, which of the following
Reliance: Mapping India's Rise as a Global Union Territories had become the first 'Har Ghar
Superpower" is written by who among the Jal' certified Union Territory (UT) in the country?
following? (1) Puducherry
(1) Raghuram Rajan (2) Delhi
(2) Bimal Jalan (3) Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu
(3) Y V Reddy (4) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
(4) C Rangarajan (5) Lakshwadeep
(5) Venkitaramanan
242. The Government of India has appointed who
236. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi among the following as the Chair of Civil 20 (C20),
inaugurated the Indian Urban Housing Conclave an official engagement group of the G20 in
(IUHC) 2022, the 3-day Expo-cum-Conference in October 2022?
which state in October 2022? (1) Mata Amritanandamayi
(1) Maharashtra (2) Balkrishna
(2) Tamil Nadu (3) Amit Shah
(3) Karnataka (4) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
(4) Gujarat (5) Yogi Adityanath
(5) Haryana

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243. The Minicoy Thundi Beach and Kadmat beach, Commerce platform in October 2022, who among
both in Lakshadweep, has been added to the list of the following is the CEO of Shiprocket?
the cleanest beaches in the world and received the (1) Kartik Mandaville
prestigious Blue Flag certification. As of October (2) Priyanka Gill
2022, how many beaches in India has been (3) Sanjeev Barnwal
awarded the Blue Flag Certification? (4) Saahil Goel
(1) 12 (5) Prukalpa
(2) 15
(3) 5 249. The Insurance Regulatory and Development
(4) 6 Authority of India has allowed foreign reinsurance
(5) 10 branches to repatriate up to 20% of the excess
assigned capital to attract more players and allow
244. In October 2022, which of the following free movement of capital. How many Foreign
movies won the best International Film award at Reinsurance Branches(FRBs) are operating in India
the 50th Saturn Awards in Los Angeles? as of October 2022?
(1) Vikram (1) 10
(2) RRR (2) 20
(3) The Kashmir Files (3) 15
(4) K.G.F- Chapter 2 (4) 25
(5) Gangubai Kathiawadi (5) 5

245. IRDAI announced to set up a _____________ 250. Indian scientists at the Indian Institute of
member Health Insurance Consultative Committee Geomagnetism (IIG) have developed an
with an aim to achieve the goal of universalization indigenous Overhauser Magnetometer, IIG is
of health insurance in the country under the located at
chairmanship of Rakesh Joshi. (1) Mysore
(1) 5 (2) Coimbatore
(2) 10 (3) Pune
(3) 12 (4) Navi Mumbai
(4) 15 (5) Bhopal
(5) 20
251. In October 2022, The Union ministry of
246. Which of the following States/UT's has forest, environment and climate change (MoFECC)
launched a one-time property tax amnesty scheme has given its approval to set which of the following
"SAMRIDDHI 2022-23" in October 2022? Elephant Reserve in Uttar Pradesh?
(1) Maharashtra (1) Kameng Elephant Reserve
(2) Delhi (2) Terai Elephant Reserve
(3) Tamil Nadu (3) Sonitpur Elephant Reserve
(4) Kerala (4) Dihing-Patkai Elephant Reserve
(5) Gujarat (5) Brahmagiri Elephant Reserve

247. Which of the following has launched the 252. The Emissions Gap Report 2022 has found
'Kunjapp', a mobile application to prevent cyber that in India and six other top emitters, emissions
crimes against children in the state in October have rebounded and increased after the pandemic.
2022? The report was released by which of the following
(1) Tamil Nadu organizations?
(2) Karnataka (1) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(3) Odisha (IPCC)
(4) Kerala (2) International Union for Conservation of Nature
(5) Telangana (IUCN)
(3) World Nature Organization (WNO)
Answer Keys (4) United Nations Environment Programme
235. 2 236. 4 237. 3 238. 2 239. 4 240. 4 241. (UNEP)
3 242. 1 243. 1 244. 2 245. 4 246. 2 247. 4 (5) Global Alliance on Health and Pollution

248. Shiprocket has become the first inter-city

logistics provider to join Open Network for Digital
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253. In October 2022, Aviation watchdog (2) Pather Panchali

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has (3) Elippathayam
given the aerodrome licence for the new Mopa (4) Sholay
airport at (5) Ankur
(1) Kerala
(2) Goa 259. In a first, which of the following country has
(3) Odisha started administering an inhalable COVID-19
(4) Gujarat vaccine?
(5) Assam (1) China
(2) India
254. The Indian Space Research Organisation (3) USA
(Isro) launched a constellation of 36 broadband (4) Australia
satellites developed by OneWeb to Low Earth Orbit (5) South Korea
in October 2022, the mission was completed using
which of the following launch vehicles? 260. Recently, Rajiv Mehrishi has been appointed
(1) Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM 3) as independent director of which of the following
(2) Reusable Launch Vehicle " Technology country?
Demonstrator (RLV-TD) (1) Tata Motors
(3) PSLV-XL (2) Adani Group
(4) SLV-3 (3) Reliance Power
(5) ASLV (4) Tata Power
(5) JSW Energy
255. Recently, who among the following has been
elected as the chairperson of United Nations' Answer Keys
specialized aviation agency's Air Transport 248. 4 249. 1 250. 4 251. 2 252. 4 253. 2 254.
Committee (ATC)? 1 255. 3 256. 4 257. 3 258. 2 259. 1 260. 4
(1) Brahim Kane
(2) Flora Chin Lee Sa 261. Where will the 12th World Hindi Conference
(3) Shefali Juneja be hosted in 2023?
(4) Nari Williams-Singh (1) Fiji
(5) Katherin S Martinez (2) Maldives
(3) New Zealand
256. Which edition of the Singapore-India Maritime (4) Mauritius
Bilateral Exercise (SIMBEX) is being held from 26 (5) Vanuatu
to 30 October, 2022 at Visakhapatnam?
(1) 11th 262. Mawmluh Cave in ___________has become
(2) 15th the first Indian Geoheritage Site to be recognised
(3) 35th by UNESCO.
(4) 29th (1) Manipur
(5) 20th (2) Meghalaya
(3) Mizoram
257. Recently, Malabar Gold and Diamonds has (4) Assam
become the first jeweller in India to import 25 kg (5) Arunachal Pradesh
gold under the Comprehensive Economic
Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and 263. Recently, Defence minister Rajnath Singh
the _______. dedicated 75 infrastructure projects
(1) Canada worth______to the nation.
(2) Saudi Arabia (1) Rs.1890 crore
(3) UAE (2) Rs.2060 crore
(4) South Korea (3) Rs.2180 crore
(5) Qatar (4) Rs.2690 crore
(5) Rs.1168 crore
258. Which of the following film has been named
the best Indian movie of all time in a poll
conducted by the International Federation of Film
Critics (FIPRESCI)?
(1) Meghe Dhaka Tara
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264. Indian Air Force (IAF) and French Air and (5) Turkey
Space Force(FASF) are participating in a bilateral
exercise, named Garuda VIl, from 26 October to 270. According to the WHO's Global TB Report
12 November 2022 at _______ 2022, how many TB cases notified in India in
(1) Kalaikunda 2021?
(2) Gwalior (1) 11.4 lakh
(3) Jodhpur (2) 21.4 lakh
(4) Agartala (3) 31.4 lakh
(5) Barapani (4) 41.4 lakh
(5) 51.4 lakh
265. Recently, India defeated Australia to win
its_______Sultan of Johor Cup. 271. Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath has
(1) 2nd inaugurated North India's first hyperscale data
(2) 3rd centre Yotta D1 in Greater Noida. In general, a
(3) 4th hyperscale data center should exceed ______
(4) 5th servers and 10,000 square feet.
(5) 6th (1) 1,000
(2) 2,000
266. Lula da Silva has defeated the incumbent (3) 4,000
president of which of the following countries to (4) 5,000
become a new president? (5) 10,000
(1) Brazil
(2) Chile 272. Recently Jamshed Irani passed away at the
(3) Peru age of 86 years. He is popularly known as _____.
(4) Argentina (1) Steel Man of India
(5) Colombia (2) Oil Man of India
(3) Iron Man of India
267. According to a report released by Statista, a (4) Father of Indian Industry
Germany-based private organization, India's (5) Father of Indian Automobiles
Ministry of Defence is the world's biggest employer
with employing around _____ people. 273. Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee
(1) 2.52 million (GEAC) has recently approved the commercial
(2) 2.72 million cultivation of GM Mustard. GEAC works under aegis
(3) 2.92 million of which ministry?
(4) 3.12 million (1) Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate
(5) 3.32 million Change
(2) Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
268. In October 2022, the Prime Minister of India (3) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
laid the foundation stone of C-295MW transport (4) Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
aircraft manufacturing project at Vadodara. C- (5) Department of Biotechnology
295MW transport aircrafts will be manufactured in
India by _____. Answer Keys
(1) Airbus Defence and TATA consortium 261. 1 262. 2 263. 3 264. 3 265. 2 266. 1 267.
(2) Reliance Defence and TATA consortium 3 268. 1 269. 1 270. 2 271. 4 272. 1 273. 1
(3) Airbus Defence and Reliance Defence
consortium 274. Ranipur Tiger Reserve which has become the
(4) L&T Defence and Kalyani Group consortium 53rd tiger reserve of India, is located in which
(5) Mahindra Defence and Kalyani Group state?
consortium (1) Uttar Pradesh
(2) Kerala
269. In October 2022, the first edition of a joint (3) Karnataka
maritime exercise named 'IMT TRILAT' was (4) Bihar
conducted in which of following countries? (5) Madhya Pradesh
(1) Tanzania
(2) India
(3) Mozambique
(4) Myanmar
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275. Falcon Heavy, the world's most-powerful (2) Tata's Jamshedpur Steel Plant
active rocket was launched by which among the (3) Bokaro Steel Plant
following space technology companies? (4) Rourkela Steel Plant
(1) Boeing (5) Bhilai Steel Plant
(2) Blue Origin
(3) Bigelow Aerospace 282. Adani New Industries has recently installed
(4) SpaceX India's largest wind turbine in which state?
(5) Skywatch (1) Tamil Nadu
(2) Andhra Pradesh
276. Which of the following insurance companies (3) Gujarat
has launched a first-of-its-kind satellite index- (4) Goa
based Farm Yield Insurance Policy? (5) Kerala
(1) ICICI Lombard
(2) HDFC ERGO 283. According to the 2022 WTW Global Gender
(3) TATA AIC Wealth Equity report, which of following countries
(4) United India Insurance has the largest gender wealth gap in the Asia-
(5) SBI General Insurance Pacific region?
(1) India
277. Who among the following was conferred (2) Bangladesh
'Karnataka Ratna' posthumously on 1 November (3) Cambodia
2022? (4) China
(1) Puneeth Rajkumar (5) Sri Lanka
(2) Sanchari Vijay
(3) Jayanthi 284. CRPF for the first time appointed two women
(4) Ramu cadre officers as IG of RAF, Bihar sector in
(5) Satyajith November 2022. Who among the following has
been appointed as IG of Rapid Action Force (RAF)?
278. The gross GST revenue collected in the (1) Padmavathy Bandopadhyay
month of October 2022 was at Rs. 1,51,718 crore, (2) Mitali Madhumita
the ____ highest monthly collection ever. (3) Nivedita Choudhary
(1) First (4) Punita Arora
(2) Second (5) Annie Abraham
(3) Third
(4) Fourth 285. Who among the following has been appointed
(5) Fifth as the new FICCI President?
(1) Sanjiv Bajaj
279. Which of the following words is declared as (2) Sumant Sinha
Collins Dictionary word of the year 2022? (3) Ramendra Kumar
(1) Permacrisis (4) Subhrakant Panda
(2) Climate strike (5) Amarjeet Kaur
(3) Single-us
(4) Fake news 286. AirAsia Group has exited AirAsia India by
(5) Brexit selling its remaining 16.67 per cent stake to ____.
(1) SpiceJet
280. Who among the following has been appointed (2) Air India
as the first woman director of ICAR-Sugarcane (3) Vistara
Breeding Institute in November 2022? (4) SpiceJet
(1) Garima Singh (5) Alliance Air
(2) Sneha Latha
(3) G Hemaprabha Answer Keys
(4) Surekha Lekhi 274. 1 275. 4 276. 2 277. 1 278. 2 279. 1 280.
(5) Anand Maheshwari 3 281. 2 282. 3 283. 1 284. 5 285. 4 286. 2

281. Which of the following has become India's

first steel plant to achieve ResponsibleSteel
Certification?
(1) Vizag Steel Plant
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287. According to a report of Ministry of Education (1) NH 44

on (UDISE ), total students enrolled in school (2) NH 2
education from primary to higher secondary stood (3) NH 10
at ________ in 2021-22. (4) NH 19
(1) 25.57 crore (5) NH 7
(2) 27.57 crore
(3) 28.57 crore 294. Indian men's team clinched their first-ever
(4) 22.57 crore gold at the Asian Squash Team
(5) 31.57 crore Championships,2022 by defeating which country?
(1) Kuwait
288. Which of the following countries has (2) Japan
announced to honour Indian carnatic vocalist (3) Singapore
Aruna Sairam with Chevalier award? (4) Hong Kong
(1) France (5) Iran
(2) Germany
(3) Britain 295. Who will be the chief guest for the 17th
(4) Spain Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention, which will
(5) Italy held in 2023?
(1) Prime Minister of UK
289. 'Aadhaar Mitra', an AI/ML based chatbot was (2) President of South Africa
launched by which organisation? (3) President of Guyana
(1) NITI Aayog (4) President of Namibia
(2) UIDAI (5) President of Indonesia
(3) DARPG
(4) MEITY 296. Which organisation conducted the India's
(5) CSO First Floating Financial Literacy Camp in Dal Lake
of Srinagar?
290. The 27th Session of Conference of Parties of (1) Airtel Payment Bank
the UNFCCC (COP 27) is scheduled to be held in (2) India Post Payments Bank
which country? (3) Paytm Payment Bank
(1) Egypt (4) NSDL Payment Bank
(2) South Africa (5) Fino
(3) France
(4) Indonesia 297. Who among the following has been elected as
(5) China the new president of the International Hockey
Federation (FIH), succeeding India's Narinder
291. The Indian Institute of Mass Communication Batra in November 2022?
(IIMC) for the North-East region is located in (1) Hiroya Anzai
_____ (2) Piotr Wilkonski
(1) Aizawl (3) Deon Morgan
(2) Gangtok (4) Tayyab Ikram
(3) Guwahati (5) Elizabeth Safoa King
(4) Shillong
(5) Imphal 298. Who among the following was awarded the
2022 Uttarakhand Gaurav Samman, one of the two
292. Which was the first cluster to get completed highest civilian awards of the state awarded to a
under the Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission person for their extraordinary contribution to any
in India? field of human endeavour?
(1) Chittoor (1) Dalai Lama
(2) Aibawk (2) Ajit Doval
(3) East Godavari (3) Ramnath Govind
(4) Guntur (4) Amitabh Bachan
(5) Pallur (5) Sundar Pichai

293. The Atal Setu viaduct connecting West Bengal

and Sikkim at Rangpo was built on which of the
following National Highways?
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299. In November 2022, who among the following (2) Russia

became the first Indian cricket player to score (3) Japan
1,000 T20 International runs in a calendar year? (4) Uzbekistan
(1) Virat Kohli (5) Argentina
(2) Rohit Sharma
(3) Surya Kumar Yadav 305. The world's first Vedic Clock will be installed
(4) K L Rahul in ______________.
(5) Dinesh Karthick (1) Varanasi
(2) Dwarka
Answer Keys (3) Ayodhya
287. 1 288. 1 289. 2 290. 1 291. 1 292. 2 293. (4) Ujjain
3 294. 1 295. 3 296. 2 297. 4 298. 2 299. 3 (5) Haridwar

300. Which of the following countries has recently 306. According to the Forbes 2022 Asia's Power
started the operation of world's longest passenger Businesswomen list, honoring 20 outstanding
train? women in business across the Asia-Pacific region.
(1) China Who among the following was named from India?
(2) USA (1) Soma Mondal
(3) Switzerland (2) Vani Kola
(4) Russia (3) Falguni Nayar
(5) France (4) Savitri Jindal
(5) Suchi Mukherjee
301. In November 2022, the Central Government
has constituted the 22nd Law Commission of India 307. Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the
under the chairmanship of who among the logo, theme and website of India's G20 presidency
following? in November 2022, what is the theme of India's
(1) Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi G20 presidency?
(2) Justice KT Sankaran (1) Shaping an interconnected world
(3) Justice K. Murali Shankar (2) Building consensus for fair and sustainable
(4) Justice S. Sathi Kumar development
(5) Justice Rajiv Shakdher (3) People, planet and prosperity.
(4) One Earth One Family One Future
302. Who among the following was named as the (5) Recover Together, Recover Stronger
ICC Men's Player of the Month for October,2022?
(1) Sikander Raza 308. India joined the Mangrove Alliance for
(2) Babur Azam Climate (MAC) at the COP 27, which of the
(3) Devon Conway following is the largest contiguous mangrove forest
(4) Virat Kohli in the world?
(5) Sam Curran (1) Sundarbans Reserve Forest
(2) Bhitarkanika Mangroves Forest
303. Defence Research and Development (3) Pichavaram Mangroves Forest
Organization (DRDO) launched the hull module of (4) Baratang Island Mangrove Forest
the Submersible Platform for Acoustic (5) Nanmangalam Reserve Forest
Characterization and Evaluation (SPACE) facility at
Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory 309. In November 2022, Justice DY Chandrachud
(NPOL) in ________________. took oath as the _________ Chief Justice of India.
(1) Chennai (1) 48th
(2) Mumbai (2) 49th
(3) Panaji (3) 50th
(4) Kochi (4) 51st
(5) Vishakapatnam (5) 52nd

304. According to the information provided by 310. In November 2022, which of the following
energy cargo tracker Vortexa, which of the was the first state in India which introduced a
following countries has emerged as the top oil standard gold price based on the bank rate?
supplier to India in October 2022? (1) Tamil Nadu
(1) Iraq (2) Gujarat
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(3) Karnataka (3) Infosys

(4) Kerala (4) Accenture
(5) Maharashtra (5) Capgemini

311. Which of the following teams has won the 317. In November 2022, PM Narendra Modi has
2022 edition of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy? unveiled 108-feet-long bronze statue of Sri
(1) Mumbai Nadaprabhu Kempegowda in _____.
(2) Himachal Pradesh (1) Bengaluru
(3) Tamil Nadu (2) Hyderabad
(4) Karnataka (3) Kochi
(5) West Bengal (4) Madhurai
(5) Puri
312. Which of the following countries will host the
Women's World Boxing Championships in 2023? 318. Which of the following is the first film in the
(1) China history of Indian cinema to star only people from
(2) India indigenous communities?
(3) Japan (1) Vaghri
(4) South Korea (2) Narappa
(5) Pakistan (3) Jai Bhim
(4) Yakari
Answer Keys (5) Dhabari Quruvi
300. 3 301. 1 302. 4 303. 4 304. 2 305. 4 306.
1 307. 4 308. 1 309. 3 310. 4 311. 1 312. 2 319. In November 2022, the government has
notified E-waste (management) rules 2022, which
313. Recently two people of which country have will come into force from ____.
first ever received transfusions of lab-grown red (1) 1 January 2023
blood cells? (2) 1 April 2023
(1) USA (3) 1 July 2023
(2) UK (4) 1 October 2023
(3) Germany (5) 1 December 2023
(4) Turkey
(5) Canada 320. Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi
flagged off south India's first Vande Bharat
314. Mother Tongue Survey of India is conducted Express train, connecting ____.
by (1) Hyderabad and Bengaluru
(1) Ministry of Education (2) Kochi and Chennai
(2) Ministry of Minority Affairs (3) Chennai and Hyderabad
(3) Ministry of Statistics and Programme (4) Mysuru and Chennai
Implementation (5) Benagluru and Kochi
(4) Ministry of Culture and Tourism
(5) Ministry of Home Affairs 321. Which state will host Khelo India National
University Games in 2023-24?
315. Recently which country has appointed (1) Karnataka
Olympic Gold medalist Neeraj Chopra as its (2) Haryana
'Friendship Ambassador' for tourism? (3) Madhya Pradesh
(1) Switzerland (4) Rajasthan
(2) Spain (5) Uttar Pradesh
(3) Finland
(4) Sweden 322. Greg Barclay has been re-elected unopposed
(5) Denmark as ICC chairman for another two-year term. Greg
Barclay hails from which country?
316. In November 2022, BSNL has received the (1) New Zealand
central government's approval for its Rs 26,281 (2) Zimbabwe
crore deal with which of the following companies to (3) Australia
launch 4G services in India? (4) South Africa
(1) WIPRO (5) England
(2) Tata Consultancy Services
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323. 17th East Asia Summit takes place in which

country in November 2022? 329. FIFA World Cup 2022 will be played in which
(1) Thailand of the following countries?
(2) Cambodia (1) Kuwait
(3) Indonesia (2) Qatar
(4) Philippines (3) Saudi Arabia
(5) Vietnam (4) Lebanon
(5) Egypt
324. RL Kashyap has died on November 11, 2022
at age of 84. RL Kashyap is a famous _____. 330. Which of the following is the India's first
(1) Musician privately built rocket?
(2) Mathematician (1) SROSS C
(3) Painter (2) OceanSat
(4) Poet (3) Vikram S
(5) Cricketer (4) EduSat
(5) Kalpana I
325. Recently, the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) has agreed in principle to admit 331. Which nation has recently announced a
which of the following countries as the group's contribution of '$ 5 million' to ASEAN-India S & T
11th member? Fund?
(1) India (1) Bangladesh
(2) China (2) China
(3) Timor Leste (3) India
(4) North Korea (4) United States
(5) South Korea (5) Japan

Answer Keys 332. Which telecom brand of India has topped the
313. 2 314. 5 315. 1 316. 2 317. 1 318. 5 319. 'India's Most Desired Brands 2022'?
2 320. 4 321. 5 322. 1 323. 2 324. 2 325. 3 (1) Vodafone IN
(2) Airtel
326. At COP 27 of UNFCCC, UN has announced a (3) BSNL
high-tech, satellite-based global methane (4) Reliance Jio
detection system named _____. (5) Idea
(1) MITS
(2) MAST 333. Who among the following has been awarded
(3) MARS the Order of Merit by Britain's King Charles III in
(4) MEDS recognition of his distinguished service to science?
(5) MOLS (1) Venki Ramakrishnan
(2) Meghnad Saga
327. The Maharashtra government has recently (3) Jagadish Shukla
approached the Centre to get back a sword of (4) Susan Eapen
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj which is in a museum (5) Gagan B Mohanty
in the United Kingdom. What is the name of the
sword? 334. Cummins and Tata Motors have signed a
(1) Jagdamba Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently for
(2) Shamsher development of _____
(3) Dhup (1) Hydrogen fuel
(4) Urumi (2) IC engines
(5) Devika (3) Zero-emission propulsion technology
(4) Electric Cars
328. Which team won the T-20 Cricket World Cup, (5) Catalyst Propulsion technology
2022?
(1) Pakistan 335. The Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2022
(2) India was announced for whom among the following?
(3) England (1) Achanta Sharath Kamal
(4) Australia (2) Neeraj Chopra
(5) New Zealand (3) P V Sindhu
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(5) Ravi Kumar Dahiya 342. Which state has emerged as the third state in
terms of number of active companies in India?
336. The 2025 Kabaddi World Cup is to be hosted (1) Maharashtra
by which of the following regions? (2) Uttar Pradesh
(1) Brisbane (3) Assam
(2) Berlin (4) Tamil Nadu
(3) West Midlands (5) Kerala
(4) Chamonix
(5) Grenoble 343. Who is set to become the first female head of
Slovenia?
337. Which of the following was the 'Spotlight' (1) Golda Meir
country in the IFFI 53 film festival held in Goa? (2) Elisabeth Domitien
(1) South Korea (3) Natasa Pirc Musar
(2) Lebanon (4) Agatha Barbara
(3) France (5) Milka Planinc
(4) Germany
(5) England 344. Recently, the Uttarakhand Government
decided to shift the Uttarakhand High Court from
338. Who among the following receives the Dhyan Nainital to which of the following places?
Chand Award for lifetime achievement in sports (1) Dehradun
and games for the year 2022? (2) Rishikesh
(1) Jiwanjot Singh Teja (3) Haldwani
(2) Mohammad Ali Qamar (4) Almora
(3) Sujeet Maan (5) Haridwar
(4) Ashwini Akkunji C
(5) Raj Singh 345. Who among the following was elected as the
Chairperson of the Athletes Commission of the
Answer Keys Indian Olympic Association (IOA)?
326. 3 327. 1 328. 3 329. 2 330. 3 331. 3 332. (1) Mary Kom
4 333. 1 334. 3 335. 1 336. 3 337. 3 338. 4 (2) PV Sindhu
(3) Gagan Narang
339. Exercise Yudh Abhyas is conducted annually (4) Pullela Gopichand
between India and which of the following (5) Vinesh Phogat
countries?
(1) UK 346. Which of the following is chosen as the
(2) US mascot for 2024 Paris Olympics?
(3) France (1) Bely Mishka
(4) Sri Lanka (2) Phrygian cap
(5) Japan (3) Zaika
(4) Snow Leopard
340. Which country is the second largest producer (5) Vinicius
of steel in the world?
(1) China 347. Who has become the first player from India
(2) India to get elected in the Athletes' Commission of the
(3) Russia International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)?
(4) United states (1) Achanta Sharath Kamal
(5) Saudi Arabia (2) Manika Batra
(3) Ankita Das
341. Which of the following cities have emerged as (4) Sathiyan Gunasekaran
the top three data centre markets in the Asia- (5) Kamalesh Mehta
Pacific region?
(1) Hyderabad 348. Which of the following is the first greenfield
(2) Chennai airport in Arunachal pradesh?
(3) New Delhi (1) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International
(4) All the above Airport
(5) None of the above (2) Donyi Polo Airport
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(4) Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport (4) Kerala
(5) Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (5) Rajasthan
Airport
355. India bagged ________ position out of 63 in
349. The International Paralympic Committee the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI)
voted to suspend the National Paralympic 2023.
Committees (NPCs) of which of the following (1) 24th
countries? (2) 8th
(1) India (3) 11th
(2) Pakistan (4) 19th
(3) Belarus (5) 38th
(4) Indonesia
(5) Iran 356. 2022 theme of 'World Toilet Day' is:
(1) Making the Invisible Visible
350. In November 2022, who among the following (2) Valuing toilets
has been re-elected as the FIFA president for third (3) Sustainable sanitation and climate change
term? (4) Sanitation for all
(1) Gianni Infantino (5) renew efforts to provide access to adequate
(2) Sepp Blatter sanitation for all.
(3) Robert Guerin
(4) Daniel Burley 357. Which of the following state has introduced
(5) Jules Rimet the initiative of Elephant Death Audit Framework
to document reasons for elephant deaths for better
351. Dr CV Ananda Bose has been appointed as accountability.
the Governor of which state? (1) Kerala
(1) Mizoram (2) Karnataka
(2) Rajasthan (3) Tamil Nadu
(3) Odisha (4) Andhra Pradesh
(4) West Bengal (5) Uttarakhand
(5) Andhra Pradesh
358. What is India's rank as per the Network
Answer Keys Readiness Index 2022 report released recently?
339. 2 340. 2 341. 4 342. 2 343. 3 344. 3 345. (1) 54th
1 346. 2 347. 1 348. 2 349. 3 350. 1 351. 4 (2) 49th
(3) 61st
352. PM Modi recently inaugurated the Kashi Tamil (4) 73rd
sangamam in: (5) 88th
(1) Chennai
(2) Madurai 359. Which of the following book has won 2022
(3) Varanasi JCB Prize for Literature?
(4) Lucknow (1) The Paradise of Food
(5) Delhi (2) Song of the Soil
(3) Valli
353. Who was the 52nd Dadasaheb Phalke Award (4) Imaan
winner? (5) Tomb of sand
(1) Shah Rukh Khan
(2) Kangana Ranaut 360. The Cambridge Dictionary announced its word
(3) Asha Parekh of 2022 as:
(4) Dharmendra (1) Vibe
(5) Hema Malini (2) Flex
(3) Quarantine
354. The historic Cuttack Baliyatra has found a (4) Homer
place in the Guinness World Records. Baliyatri is (5) Mock
associated with:
(1) Assam
(2) Nagaland
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361. The government has increased the maximum (5) Ravi Subramaniam
term for the MD and CEO of public sector banks
(PSBs) from 5 to __________ 367. Who among the following was honoured with
(1) 8 years Jaipur Foot USA's first Global Humanitarian Award
(2) 6 years in November 2022 at a ceremony held at the
(3) 10 years Consulate General of India in New York?
(4) 7 years (1) Anil Agarwal
(5) 9 years (2) Danish Manzoor Bhat
(3) Arati Kousalaya
362. Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the (4) Subarna Karkaria
_________ Kameng hydro power project in (5) Subroto Bagchi
Arunachal Pradesh.
(1) 600 MW 368. In November 2022, Novak Djokovic won the
(2) 6000 MW ATP Finals title in Turin, Italy, This is Djokovic's
(3) 600 kW _____________ ATP Title.
(4) 6000 kW (1) 4th
(5) None of the above (2) 6th
(3) 2nd
363. In November 2022, India took over the (4) 5th
chairmanship of Global Partnership on Artificial (5) 8th
Intelligence (GPAI) from which country?
(1) Canada 369. Recently, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was
(2) United Kingdom elected as the president of ________.
(3) Germany (1) Kyrgyzstan
(4) France (2) Kazakhstan
(5) Untied States of America (3) Uzbekistan
(4) Turkmenistan
364. In November 2022, the government has (5) Azerbaijan
notified which of the following medical devices has
been included as a essential medical device as a 370. In November 2022, who among the following
'drug' under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940? has been elected as a member of the prestigious
(1) Sterilizers International Committee for Weights and Measures
(2) Coronary Stent (CIPM)?
(3) Defibrillators (1) Subhamay Gangopadhyay
(4) Anesthesia Machines (2) Venu Gopal Achanta
(5) X-ray Machine (3) KJ Sreeram
(4) Madhu Dikshit
Answer Keys (5) N Kalaiselvi
352. 3 353. 3 354. 3 355. 2 356. 1 357. 3 358.
3 359. 1 360. 4 361. 3 362. 1 363. 4 364. 2 371. India launched the official website of SCO for
2023 and the theme "For a SECURE SCO" in
365. The first ever Street Circuit Car Racing of the November 2022, Explaining the SECURE concept in
country took place in which city in November 2018, Prime Minister said U stands for
2022? (1) Universal
(1) Chennai (2) Unity
(2) Mumbai (3) Utility
(3) Hyderabad (4) Useful
(4) Delhi (5) Union
(5) Kolkata
372. In November 2022, who among the following
366. The recently released book, 'Nalanada " Until was felicitated with the Gandhi Mandela Award for
we meet again' was authored by who among the lifelong efforts to promote peace by the Gandhi
following? Mandela Foundation?
(1) Ruskin Bond (1) Komi Selom Klassou
(2) Gautaaam Borah (2) Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli
(3) Vikram Seth (3) Lal Krishna Advani
(4) Devdutt Patnaik (4) Dalai Lama
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378. As per recent newspaper reports, which of
373. In November 2022, The Reserve Bank of the following country has become the biggest
India (RBI) allowed HDFC Bank Ltd and Canara fertilizer supplier to India in the first half of the
Bank Ltd to open a special "vostro account" for 2022/23 fiscal year by offering discounts over
trade in Rupees with which country? prevailing global prices?
(1) China (1) China
(2) Japan (2) Brazil
(3) Russia (3) Russia
(4) UK (4) Canada
(5) France (5) Vietnam

374. Who among the following was named as one 379. Recently, the parliament of which country has
of the five recipients of the U.N.'s highest approved the its Economic Cooperation and Trade
environmental award 'Champions of the Earth' in Agreement for free trade with India?
November 2022? (1) USA
(1) Ullas Karanth (2) Japan
(2) Latika Nath (3) South Korea
(3) Purnima Devi Barman (4) Australia
(4) C. Venkataraman (5) New Zealand
(5) Vinay Kumar Pandey
380. Which of the following has signed the world's
375. The fourth edition of the Indo-Pacific Regional 'longest' gas supply deal with China in November
Dialogue (IPRD) 2022 was held at Delhi in 2022?
November 2022, The theme of IPRD-2022 is (1) Russia
(1) Evolution in Maritime Strategy during the 21st (2) Sri Lanka
Century (3) Qatar
(2) Weaving the Fabric of Holistic Maritime (4) Azerbaijan
Security (5) Pakistan
(3) New technologies for greener shipping
(4) Operationalising the Indo-Pacific Oceans 381. In November 2022, who among the following
Initiative cricketers achieved the world record for the
(5) Maritime trade. Regional connectivity highest ever individual score in List A cricket by
scoring a 141-ball 277 against Arunachal Pradesh
376. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation in Vijay Hazare Trophy?
and Development (OECD) has cut its gross (1) Narayanan Jagadeesan
domestic growth forecast for India for the current (2) Ruturaj Gaikwad
financial year (FY23) to _______________. (3) Prithvi Shaw
(1) 6% (4) Yash Dull
(2) 6.6% (5) Yashavi Jaiswal
(3) 7%
(4) 7.2% 382. Which one of the following is NOT a
(5) 7.5% parameter for Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar award,
recently announced by Ministry of Education?
377. Which of the following has become the first (1) Enrollment Ratio
Indian city to be added to the A-list in the 5th (2) Water
Annual Cities Report published by CDP, a non- (3) Toilets
profit organisation (4) Behavioral Change
(1) Chennai (5) Operation and Maintenance
(2) Mumbai
(3) Kolkata 383. In November 2022, which of the following
(4) Bengaluru banks has launched FIRSTAP, the country's first
(5) Hyderabad sticker-based debit card, in association with
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)?
Answer Keys (1) Axis Bank
365. 3 366. 2 367. 2 368. 2 369. 2 370. 2 371. (2) HDFC Bank
2 372. 4 373. 3 374. 3 375. 4 376. 2 377. 2 (3) IDFC FIRST Bank
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(4) Federal Bank deficit is expected to be ______ of gross domestic

(5) ICICI Bank product (GDP) for FY23..
(1) 1-1.8%
384. IIT Delhi was only Indian educational (2) 3-3.2%
institution among top 50 in the Global University (3) 2.3-2.5%
Employability Rankings by Times Higher Education (4) 3.5-3.8%
(THE), which one of the following universities (5) 2.6-2.9%
ranked first according to the report?
(1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 390. In November 2022, who among the following
(2) Oxford University was sworn-in as the Prime Minister of Malaysia?
(3) California Institute of Technology (1) Muhyiddin Yassin
(4) Harvard University (2) Anwar Ibrahim
(5) University of Edinburgh (3) Mahathir Mohamad
(4) Tunku Abdul Rahman
385. Minister of State for External Affairs Dr. (5) Najib Razak
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh led the Indian Delegation
in the 22nd Council of Ministers's meeting of the Answer Keys
Indian Ocean Rim Association held at 378. 3 379. 4 380. 3 381. 1 382. 1 383. 3 384.
____________________. 1 385. 3 386. 2 387. 4 388. 4 389. 2 390. 2
(1) Indonesia
(2) Thailand 391. In November 2022, RH200, the versatile
(3) Bangladesh sounding rocket of ISRO, has registered its
(4) Vietnam ____________ consecutive successful launch from
(5) Singapore the shores of Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram.
(1) 50th
386. Unemployment rate in urban areas declined (2) 100th
to ______ during July-September 2022 according (3) 150th
to the National Statistical Office (NSO). (4) 200th
(1) 7% (5) 250th
(2) 7.2%
(3) 7.4% 392. India's proposal for enhancing protection
(4) 7.6% status to Leith's softshell turtle was adopted at the
(5) 7.8% 19th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to
the Convention on International Trade in
387. Which of the following is the first Payments Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Bank in the country to offer Face Authentication- (CITES CoP19) held in __________.
based savings bank account opening for customers (1) Geneva
in November 2022? (2) Colombo
(1) India Post Payments Bank (3) Adelaide
(2) FINO Payments Bank (4) Panama City
(3) Paytm Payments Bank (5) Paris
(4) Airtel Payments Bank
(5) Jio Payments Bank 393. Which of the following state is to host 'Indian
Travel Exhibition', India's leading Travel and
388. Who among the following made history as the Tourism Expo, in February 2023?
first male player to score in five World Cups in the (1) Goa
opening game in Qatar against Ghana in November (2) Gujarat
2022? (3) Karnataka
(1) Lionel Messi (4) Kerala
(2) Robert Lewandowski (5) West Bengal
(3) Kylian Mbappe
(4) Cristiano Ronaldo 394. India won the International Electrotechnical
(5) Neymar Jr Commission(IEC) Vice Presidency and Strategic
Management Board (SMB) Chair for the 2023-25
389. According to Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V term. Who will be the IEC Vice President
Anantha Nageswaran, India's current account representing India?
(1) Vimal Mahendru
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(2) Charu Mathur (4) Tamil Nadu

(3) Sudeep Sarkar (5) Andhra Pradesh
(4) Ajay Mahajan
(5) Murli Krishna 401. Who among the following won the contract to
construct the Executive Enclave, that is to be
395. Arittapatti village from which of the following constructed under the ambitious Central Vista
state became the state's first ever notified redevelopment project?
Biodiversity Heritage Site? (1) Tata Projects Ltd
(1) Kerala (2) Larsen and Toubro Ltd
(2) Karnataka (3) GMR Group
(3) Tamil Nadu (4) Shapoorji Pallonji & Co Ltd
(4) Andhra Pradesh (5) Gammon India Ltd
(5) Telangana
402. Sangeet Natak Akademi announced
396. Which of the following city is to host the first ________ winners of Akademi Puraskar for the
G20 Sherpa Meeting in India from December 4 to years 2019, 2020 and 2021.
7,2023? (1) 86
(1) New Delhi (2) 100
(2) Chennai (3) 128
(3) Udaipur (4) 102
(4) Kochi (5) 141
(5) Dehradun
403. Recently, the Health Ministry appointed, the
397. As per the Global Leader Approval Ratings first woman Paralympic medalist _______ as the
released by a US based consulting firm Morning Nikshay Mitra ambassador.
Consult, who was the world's most popular leader (1) Deepa Malik
with an approval rating of 77 percent? (2) Avani Lekhara
(1) Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (3) Bhavina Patel
(2) Anthony Albanese (4) Jyoti Baliyan
(3) Joe Biden (5) Simran Sharma
(4) Narendra Modi
(5) Rishi Sunak Answer Keys
391. 4 392. 4 393. 3 394. 1 395. 3 396. 3 397.
398. Which of the following state will have the first 4 398. 2 399. 3 400. 3 401. 2 402. 3 403. 1
Integrated Rocket Design, Manufacturing, and
Testing Facility of India? 404. 'Nai Chetana' gender campaign was launched
(1) Karnataka under which of the following schemes?
(2) Telangana (1) National Rural Livelihoods Mission
(3) Maharashtra (2) Mission Shakti
(4) Gujarat (3) UJJAWALA
(5) Kerala (4) One Stop Centre Scheme
(5) Beti Bachao Beti Padhao
399. Qutb Shahi Tomb Stepwells and Domakonda
Fort, which won the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards 405. Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) setting
for Cultural Heritage Conservation, are located in up a committee to find out reasons for gaps in
(1) New Delhi implementation and under-utilisation of funds
(2) Madhya Pradesh under MGNREGA scheme. The six-member
(3) Telangana committee is headed by ____.
(4) Maharashtra (1) Manoj Shukla
(5) Odisha (2) Amarjeet Sinha
(3) Gurpreet Singh
400. Where did Jio roll its True 5G network, (4) Vishwaswaran Iyer
making the state first in India get 100% coverage (5) Kishore Pandey
of 5G services ?
(1) Maharashtra
(2) Goa
(3) Gujarat
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406. Tata Consumer is set to acquire India's (3) Dharmendra Pradhan

largest packaged drinking water company, (4) Nirmala Sitaraman
_______. (5) Narendra Modi
(1) Evocus
(2) Kinley 413. Which city is planning to issue the nation's
(3) Aquafina first local government (municipal) green bond
(4) Bisleri targeting individual investors, with proceeds used
(5) Bailey to fund a solar power project?
(1) Mumbai
407. Who has become the first Women President (2) Indore
of Indian Olympic Association? (3) Bengaluru
(1) Ashwini Nachappa (4) Hyderabad
(2) P T Usha (5) Gurugram
(3) G V Dhanalakshmi
(4) Dutee Chand 414. Which of the following was conferred with the
(5) V Anusuya Bai 'Award of Excellence' at the UNESCO Asia-Pacific
Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation-2022?
408. Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, the President of _____, (1) Gateway of India
will be the Chief Guest at Republic Day (2) Victoria Memorial
celebrations on 26th January 2023. (3) Writer's Building
(1) Morocco (4) Rajabai Clock Tower
(2) South Africa (5) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu
(3) Kenya Sangrahalaya
(4) Egypt
(5) Oman 415. In November 2022, Artemis 1 Orion capsule
has set a new space flight record for spacecraft
409. In November 2022, SEBI has approved the designed to carry humans by travelling 401,798
appointment of whom among the following as the kilometers from Earth. Artemis I Mission has been
new MD & CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)? launched by _____.
(1) Sundararaman Ramamurthy (1) NASA
(2) Prakash Chauhan (2) ESA
(3) Vinod Badaria (3) JAXA
(4) Pramod Shukhla (4) ISRO
(5) Hemant Kumar Sinha (5) CNSA

410. "Harimau Shakti -2022" is joint military 416. In November 2022, Canada has won its first
exercise between India and which of the following Davis Cup title by defeating which of the following
countries? countries?
(1) Thailand (1) Australia
(2) Indonesia (2) Spain
(3) Vietnam (3) USA
(4) Malaysia (4) Germany
(5) Myanmar (5) Mexico

411. ______ film, Nargesi has won the ICFT- Answer Keys
UNESCO Gandhi Medal at the 53rd edition of 404. 1 405. 2 406. 4 407. 2 408. 4 409. 1 410.
International Film Festival of India. 4 411. 1 412. 3 413. 2 414. 5 415. 1 416. 1
(1) Iranian
(2) Sri Lankan 417. In November 2022, Agnikul Cosmos, a space-
(3) Pakistani tech start-up based in ______, has set up India's
(4) Philippine first-ever launchpad at a facility in Sriharikota.
(5) Chinese (1) Bengaluru
(2) Mumbai
412. Who among the following launched the book (3) Hyderabad
'India: The Mother of Democracy'? (4) Chennai
(1) Nitin Gadkari (5) Kolkata
(2) Amit Shah
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418. According to recent data released by RBI, the (3) Odisha

bank credit growth increased to ____in the quarter (4) Jharkhand
ended September 2022 from 7% in the same (5) Uttarakhand
period of the previous year.
(1) 12.3% 423. Mina Sue Choi was crowned Miss Earth 2022
(2) 14.6% during the pageant's coronation night at Cove
(3) 15.9% Manila, Okada Hotel, Paranaque City. She hails
(4) 16.3% from which country?
(5) 17.2% (1) Japan
(2) Philippines
419. RBI is going to launch first pilot for retail (3) Vietnam
digital rupee from December 1, 2022. Which of the (4) China
following statements is/are correct about the (5) South Korea
digital rupee (e₹-R)?
424. SEBI has constituted FPI Advisory Committee
I. The e₹-R would be in the form of a digital token (FAC) to advise on issues pertaining to
and is not a legal tender. investments and operations of FPIs in the Indian
financial markets. The 16-member committee is
headed by _____.
II. It would be issued in the same denominations (1) Shiavax Jal Vazifdar
that paper currency and coins are currently issued. (2) Hasmukh Adhia
(3) R Balasubramaniam
(4) C Pratap Kumar
III. The digital currency would be distributed (5) Dinesh Goyal
without need of any intermediaries such as banks
etc. 425. President Droupadi Murmu conferred the
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, 2022 to
Select the correct answer. Sharath Kamal Achanta on 30 November 2022.
(1) III only Sharath Kamal Achanta is associated with which of
(2) I and III only the following sports?
(3) II only (1) Badminton
(4) I and II only (2) Kabaddi
(5) I, II and III (3) Table Tennis
(4) Hockey
420. Which of the following has been approved as (5) Wrestling
a 'food animal' by the Food Safety and Standard
Authority of India (FSSAI) in November 2022? 426. Stephanie Frappart will become the first
(1) Bharal woman to referee a match at the men's FIFA World
(2) Himalayan Yak Cup after being selected to take charge of clash
(3) Himalayan Monal between Germany and Costa Rica. She hails from
(4) Takin which country?
(5) Argali (1) France
(2) Spain
421. Monkeypox has been renamed as ____ by the (3) Ukraine
World Health Organization in a bid to avoid (4) USA
stigmatisation stemming from the existing name. (5) Australia
(1) mkp
(2) mpox 427. In December 2022, who among the following
(3) monkeyp was appointed as the chairperson of National
(4) moox Statistical Commission?
(5) mokepx (1) Bimal Kumar Roy
(2) G. P. Samanta
422. Which state has hired McKinsey, a global (3) Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar
management consultancy, with the aim of doubling (4) Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
its GDSP in the next five years? (5) Rajiv Jain
(1) Madhya Pradesh
(2) Rajasthan
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428. Which of the following teams won the 2022 (4) Prataprao Jadhav
Vijay Hazare Trophy? (5) Heena Gavit
(1) Maharashtra
(2) Karnataka 434. Who among the following is first-ever Indian
(3) Saurashtra under-17 shuttler to clinch a medal at the Asian
(4) Assam Junior Badminton Championships?
(5) Tamil Nadu (1) Unnati Hooda
(2) Mohammad Ali Mir
429. The State Bank of India, has raised (3) Gnana Dattu
______________ through its maiden issue of (4) Abhinav Garg
infrastructure bonds, for funding projects in (5) Anish Thoppani
segments such as power and roads in December
2022? 435. Which of the following has emerged as the
(1) Rs. 10, 0000 crore second largest importer of tea from India after the
(2) Rs. 1000 crore Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as a
(3) Rs. 20, 000 crore block, according to the latest data released by Tea
(4) Rs. 5000 crore Board in December 2022?
(5) Rs. 500 crore (1) Association of South East Asian Countries
(2) Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
Answer Keys (3) United Arab Emirates
417. 4 418. 5 419. 3 420. 2 421. 2 422. 5 423. (4) Common Market for Eastern and Southern
5 424. 2 425. 3 426. 1 427. 3 428. 3 429. 1 Africa
(5) European Union
430. In December 2022, which of the following
mutual funds has been renamed as Bandhan 436. In December 2022, Cristiano Ronaldo has
Mutual Fund? signed a 200-million euro contract with Saudi club
(1) SBI Mutual Fund Al-Nassr, Ronaldo plays for which national team?
(2) Axis Mutual Fund (1) Argentina
(3) IDFC Mutual Fund (2) Brazil
(4) Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund (3) Poland
(5) Bank of India Mutual Fund (4) Portugal
(5) France
431. In December 2022, who among the following
won the International Shooting Sport Federation 437. Which of the following companies has
President's Cup held in Cairo, Egypt? launched India's first and the world's first real-time
(1) Anish Bhanwala Gold ATM at Hyderabad in December 2022?
(2) Vijayveer Sidhu (1) Tanishq
(3) Sameer Mohanty (2) Globecare International
(4) Rudrankksh Patil (3) BlueStone Dot Com
(5) Saurabh Chaudhary (4) Goldsikka
(5) Prasari Coin Sale
432. The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book
Prize 2022 has been awarded to "The Chipko 438. In December 2022, Adani Group became the
Movement: A People's Movement", the book was largest shareholder of New Delhi Television (NDTV)
authored by with a share of ______________.
(1) Medha Patkar (1) 37.44%
(2) Kiran Bedi (2) 41.21%
(3) Shaheen Mistri (3) 32.10%
(4) Shekhar Pathak (4) 49.19%
(5) Mahasweta Devi (5) 51.00%

433. Who among the following has been appointed 439. The Rajasthan government is extensively
as the Chairperson of the National Commission for exploring minerals in the state, under the
Backward Classes (NCBC) in December 2022? extensive exploration program with possibilities of
(1) Subhash Bhamare finding which of the following metals?
(2) Hansraj Gangaram Ahir (1) Silver
(3) Raksha Khadse (2) Platinum
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(3) Gold 445. In December 2022, who among the following

(4) Palladium has become India's 77th chess Grandmaster?
(5) Rhenium (1) Pranav V
(2) Gukesh D
440. Bharti Airtel will partner with which of the (3) Bharath Subramaniyam
following companies to jointly invest in global (4) Aditya Mittal
connectivity infrastructure that would extend a (5) Mitrabha Guha
subsea cable the '2Africa Pearls' to India?
(1) Google 446. Who among the following has been named
(2) Apple Time magazine's 2022 Person of the Year?
(3) Amazon (1) Elon Musk
(4) Meta (2) Volodymyr Zelensky
(5) Tesla (3) Joe Biden
(4) Lionel Messi
441. According to the International Civil Aviation (5) Rishi Sunak
Organization (ICAO), India ranks 48th in the
recently released global aviation safety ranking, 447. Oxford Dictionaries has selected which of the
which of the following countries ranks first? following as the 2022 word of the year?
(1) Japan (1) Goblin Mode
(2) South Korea (2) Pandemic
(3) Singapore (3) Vaccine
(4) Germany (4) I Stand with
(5) Finland (5) Metaverse

442. Who among the following Indian has been 448. Who among the following won silver medal at
named in 16th edition of Forbes Asia's Heroes of the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships in
Philanthropy list for donating Rs. 60, 000 crores Colombia in December 2022?
(USD 7.7 billion)? (1) Saikhom Mirabai Chanu
(1) Azim Premji (2) Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu
(2) Mukesh Ambani (3) Swati Singh
(3) Subroto Bagchi (4) Punam Yadav
(4) Gautam Adani (5) Sakina Khatun
(5) Kumar Mangalam Birla
449. Shaji Krishnan V has been named Chairman
Answer Keys of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
430. 3 431. 4 432. 4 433. 2 434. 1 435. 3 436. Development (NABARD) in December 2022, he will
4 437. 4 438. 1 439. 3 440. 4 441. 3 442. 4 replace who among the following?
(1) Urvish Shah
443. In December 2022, which of the following has (2) Govinda Rajulu Chintala
become India's First Payment Gateway to support (3) M. D. Patra
Credit Cards on UPI? (4) Suchindra Misra
(1) Razorpay (5) P.V. S. Suryakumar
(2) Bill Desk
(3) PayUBiz 450. According to the recent data by Government
(4) Citrus Pay of India, the annual FDI for the financial year
(5) Paytm 2021-2022 stood at ___________.
(1) US$ 44.34 billion
444. In December 2022, the Monetary Policy (2) US$ 54.98 billion
Committee increased the policy repo rate under (3) US$ 74.47 billion
the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by (4) US$ 84.84 billion
__________ (5) US$ 4. 06 billion
(1) 25 bps
(2) 35 bps 451. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
(3) 50 bps ranked _____________ in the Forbes 'World's 100
(4) 60 bps Most Powerful Women' of 2022 list.
(5) 40 bps (1) 36th
(2) 22nd
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(3) 45th 457. In December 2022, The Food and Agriculture

(4) 56th Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,
(5) 14th organized an opening ceremony for the
International Year of Millets " 2023 (IYM2023) in
452. National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) which city?
has signed an MoU with which of the following to (1) London
strengthen the latter's outreach program for the (2) New Delhi
benefit of MSMEs in December 2022? (3) Rome
(1) Google (4) New York
(2) Amazon (5) Tokyo
(3) Walmart
(4) Apple 458. National Pollution Control Day is observed
(5) Infosys every year on
(1) November 2
453. International Anti-Corruption Day is observed (2) December 2
every year on December 9, the theme for 2022 is (3) January 2
(1) Your right, your role: say no to corruption (4) February 2
(2) Uniting the world against corruption (5) March 2
(3) Recover With Integrity
(4) Fight Corruption to save world 459. In December 2022, who among the following
(5) Corruption and Pandemic was elected as the president of the Table Tennis
Federation of India?
454. In December 2022, who among the following (1) Chiranjib Choudhuri
has been appointed as the MD & CEO of Ashok (2) Meghna Ahlawat
Leyland? (3) Prakash Tulpule
(1) Vinod K. Dasari (4) Arun Kumar Banerjee
(2) Shenu Agarwal (5) Dushyant Chautala
(3) Rajive Saharia
(4) Anuj Kathuria 460. In December 2022, The Government of India
(5) Nitin Seth. has extended the PM Street Vendor's AtmaNirbhar
Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) Scheme till
455. In December 2022, the Asian Development (1) March 2023
Bank (ADB) approved financing of _____________ (2) December 2023
to build new lines for Chennai's metro rail and (3) March 2024
improve the network's connectivity with bus and (4) December 2024
feeder services. (5) January 2024
(1) USD 580 Million
(2) USD 680 Million 461. In December 2022, The Asian Development
(3) USD 780 Million Bank (ADB) has approved a ______________
(4) USD 880 Million policy-based loan to support India's wide-ranging
(5) USD 980 Million reforms that aim to strengthen and modernise the
country's logistics infrastructure, improve
Answer Keys efficiency, and lower costs.
443. 1 444. 2 445. 4 446. 2 447. 1 448. 1 449. (1) USD 50 Million
2 450. 4 451. 1 452. 3 453. 2 454. 2 455. 3 (2) USD 100 Million
(3) USD 200 Million
456. In December 2022, which of the following (4) USD 250 Million
state governments has announced that the state (5) USD 500 Million
will establish a separate Divyang department for
the welfare of differently-abled persons with a fund 462. The Passport Index 2022, published by Arton
allocation of 1,143 crore rupees? Capital ranked UAE at the first position with
(1) Uttar Pradesh strongest passport, what is the rank of India in the
(2) Gujarat passport index?
(3) Maharashtra (1) 87th
(4) Rajasthan (2) 77th
(5) Madhya Pradesh (3) 47th
(4) 57th
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(5) 67th (2) USA

(3) Russia
463. Which of the following state governments in (4) Japan
partnership with startup TechEagle has unveiled (5) South Korea
Asia's first drone delivery hub and network which
is aimed at providing universal access to Answer Keys
healthcare for the people in the state? 456. 3 457. 3 458. 2 459. 2 460. 4 461. 4 462.
(1) Assam 1 463. 3 464. 2 465. 3 466. 4 467. 1 468. 4
(2) Mizoram
(3) Meghalaya 469. In December 2022, India's first carbon-
(4) Manipur neutral farm was declared in ______________.
(5) Tripura (1) Madurai
(2) Mysore
464. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) (3) Ernakulam
has signed an MoU with which of the following (4) Kochi
organizations to launch SpaceTech Innovation (5) Chennai
Network (SpIN), India's first dedicated platform for
space entrepreneurship? 470. In December 2022, The Ministry of Ayush
(1) Innovation Foundation organised the 9th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC)
(2) Social Alpha in Panaji, Goa, during the event PM inaugurated
(3) Market Studio the National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM) in
(4) Maxinov (1) Ghaziabad
(5) Space Alpha (2) Patna
(3) Jaipur
465. Which of the following states/UT's has been (4) Amritsar
awarded 1st prize in the category for Ayushman (5) Pune
Bharat health account ID generation during the
celebration of Universal Health Coverage Day 471. In December 2022, which of the following
2022? became the first state in India to launch its own
(1) Ladakh Climate Change Mission?
(2) Tamil Nadu (1) Kerala
(3) Jammu and Kashmir (2) Uttar Pradesh
(4) Telangana (3) Tamil Nadu
(5) Goa (4) Bihar
(5) Maharashtra
466. Bhupendra Patel has been appointed as the
Chief Minister of which state of India? 472. Recently, Parliament has passed the Energy
(1) Himachal Pradesh Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022, The Energy
(2) Madhya Pradesh Conservation Code for buildings will apply to office
(3) Maharashtra and residential buildings with a connected load of
(4) Gujarat _____ or above.
(5) Uttarakhand (1) 100 kilowatt
(2) 200 kilowatt
467. In December 2022, Prime Minister Narendra (3) 300 kilowatt
Modi inaugurated Goa's second airport, Mopa (4) 400 kilowatt
International Airport. The airport is named after (5) 500 kilowatt
who among the following?
(1) Manohar Parrikar 473. In December 2022, For conservation and
(2) Michael Lobo development of art, culture and crafts across the
(3) Digambar Kamat country, the Ministry of Culture, Government of
(4) Vishwajit Pratapsingh Rane India has set up how many Zonal Cultural Centres?
(5) Sulakshana Sawant (1) 5
(2) 7
468. Which of the following country launched (3) 9
world's first commercial moon lander in December (4) 11
2022? (5) 13
(1) China
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474. In December 2022, who among the following (5) 7.5%

cricket players hit the fastest double century in
One Day International(ODI) history? 480. Which of the following was awarded first rank
(1) Ishan Kishan amongst all Ministries, Departments and
(2) Ruturaj Gaikwad Autonomous Bodies for resolution of public
(3) Rishab Pant grievances in the rankings report published by
(4) Virat Kohli Department of Administrative Reforms and Public
(5) K L Rahul Grievances (DARPG) for November 2022?
(1) UIDAI
475. The World Health Organization said that (2) CBI
Jeremy Farrar will become its new chief scientist as (3) DPIIT
the agency prepares to cope with post-pandemic (4) Reserve Bank of India
health challenges. Jeremy Farrar will replace who (5) MyGov
among the following?
(1) Roderico H Ofrin 481. In December 2022, Airbnb inked an
(2) Soumya Swaminathan agreement with which of the following state
(3) Raj Kumari governments to jointly promote the state as one of
(4) Anil Soni the most high potential tourist destinations around
(5) Vishwanathan Rajagopalan the world?
(1) Kerala
476. Parliament has passed the New Delhi (2) Assam
International Arbitration Centre (Amendment) Bill, (3) Uttarakhand
2022 in December, the Bill renames the New Delhi (4) Goa
International Arbitration Centre as (5) Himachal Pradesh
________________.
(1) Indian Arbitration Centre Answer Keys
(2) International Arbitration Centre 469. 3 470. 1 471. 3 472. 1 473. 2 474. 1 475.
(3) All India Arbitration Centre 2 476. 4 477. 1 478. 2 479. 3 480. 1 481. 4
(4) India International Arbitration Centre
(5) United Center for Arbitration 482. India has successfully carried out night trials
for the Agni-5 nuclear-capable ballistic missile. The
477. In December 2022, which of following has NCBM is capable of hitting targets at a range of
passed a law becoming the world's first country to over _______________.
ban smoking for future generations? (1) 1000 Kilometers
(1) New Zealand (2) 2000 Kilometers
(2) Australia (3) 5000 Kilometers
(3) Canada (4) 7000 Kilometers
(4) Finland (5) 10000 Kilometers
(5) Sweden
483. In December 2022, The United Nations (UN)
478. In December 2022, Tandur Redgram from has recognized Namami Gange initiative to
which of the following states/UT's was awarded the rejuvenate India's sacred River Ganga as one of
Geographical Indication (GI) Tag? the top 10 World Restoration Flagships to revive
(1) Tamil Nadu the natural world. The Namami Ganga program
(2) Telangana was launched in which year?
(3) Kerala (1) 2014
(4) Uttar Pradesh (2) 2015
(5) Assam (3) 2016
(4) 2017
479. In December 2022, Asian Development Bank (5) 2018
(ADB) kept its outlook for India's economic growth
for the ongoing fiscal year (2022-2023) at 484. In December 2022, The 5th edition of Youth
____________. Co:Lab, Asia Pacific's largest youth innovation
(1) 6.5% movement was jointly launched by Atal Innovation
(2) 6.9% Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog and ____________.
(3) 7% (1) UNESCO
(4) 7.2% (2) World Bank
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(3) UNICEF Odisha Hockey Men's World Cup 2023

(4) UNDP Bhubaneswar-Rourkela?
(5) Asian Development Bank (1) Adani Group
(2) Reliance Jio
485. The Ministry of Minority Affairs informed that (3) Bharti Airtel
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Ko Kaam Karyakram (4) Tata Steel Limited
(PMKKK) has now been named as (5) Bjyu's
________________.
(1) Pradhan Mantri Virasat Ka Samvardhan 491. Recently which of the following payment
(2) Kaushalbharat Yojana companies were asked by RBI to pause onboarding
(3) Pradhan Mantri Aadharsh Kaushal Yojana of new customers?
(4) Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana I.Razorpay
(5) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya II.Cashfree
Yojana III.Instamojo
IV.CCAvenue
486. In December 2022, The central government V.PayUmoney
has allocated a total financial outlay of (1) I and III
_____________________ for the New India (2) III,IV and V
Literacy Programme (NILP) for five years from (3) I and II
2022-23 to 2026-27. (4) II and IV
(1) Rs.1037.90 crore (5) I and V
(2) Rs.2037.90 crore
(3) Rs.3037.90 crore 492. Which of the following state chief minister
(4) Rs.4037.90 crore recently inaugurated the Sanitation Workers'
(5) Rs.5037.90 crore Development Scheme to protect the welfare of
conservancy workers in the State?
487. In December 2022, External Affairs S (1) Tamil Nadu
Jaishankar declared India's candidature as non- (2) Haryana
permanent member for the _______________ (3) Bihar
term (4) Karnataka
(1) 2028-2029 (5) Kerala
(2) 2026- 2027
(3) 2029-2030 493. Where did Chief Justice of India D Y
(4) 2031-2032 Chandrachud virtually inaugurate 10 district court
(5) 2023-2024 digitisation hubs (DCDH)?
(1) Odisha
488. Which of the following state government has (2) Gujarat
decided to opt for a 15-point strategy to reduce (3) Maharashtra
road accidents by 20% in a year ? (4) Madhya Pradesh
(1) Tamil Nadu (5) Andhra Pradesh
(2) Haryana
(3) Kerala 494. According to Bloomberg 50 Report, who has
(4) Goa topped the list of people whose wealth witnessed
(5) West Bengal the maximum rise globally during this year?
(1) Bill Gates
489. Recently, ___________ star Iga Swiatek was (2) Warren Buffet
crowned as ITF World Champion 2022 by (3) Gautam Adani
International Tennis Federation. (4) Mark Zuckerberg
(1) Polish (5) Elon Musk
(2) Spanish
(3) French Answer Keys
(4) Swedish 482. 3 483. 1 484. 4 485. 1 486. 1 487. 1 488.
(5) Danish 2 489. 1 490. 4 491. 3 492. 1 493. 1 494. 3

490. Which of the following has signed a

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hockey
India to become an official partner of the FIH
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495. Who has been appointed as first Chancellor of (5) Angel Di Maria
Gati Shakti University?
(1) Ashwini Vaishnaw 501. In December 2022, World Bank's data shows
(2) Manoj Chaudhary that between 1995 & 2021, India has been
(3) Nitin Gadkari receiving the highest remittances across the world
(4) Mansukh Mandaviya for 23 years. India received the highest remittance
(5) Raosaheb Patil Danve from which country in 2020"21?
(1) USA
496. The Indian Women's Hockey Team defeated (2) UAE
which country in the Final to win the FIH Women's (3) Singapore
Nations Cup 2022 in Valencia, Spain in December (4) England
2022? (5) Canada
(1) France
(2) Argentina 502. In December 2022, Rehan Ahmed became
(3) Australia the youngest debutant in the history of men's Test
(4) Spain cricket to claim a five-fer, Rehan Ahmed plays for
(5) Nepal which of the following national cricket teams?
(1) England
497. In December 2022, The Adani group said it (2) Pakistan
will invest ______________ into Lucknow airport's (3) India
expansion so that its annual passenger handling (4) Australia
capacity zooms from 4 million passengers per (5) Bangladesh
annum to 39 MPPA
(1) Rs 5,700 crore 503. In December 2022, which of the following
(2) Rs 8,700 crore airlines took the No. 1 spot in on-time
(3) Rs 10,700 crore performance (OTP) in November 2022?
(4) Rs 12,700 crore (1) SpiceJet
(5) Rs 1,700 crore (2) IndiGo
(3) Vistara
498. In December 2022, which of the following (4) Air India
state governments issued a notification making the (5) Emirates
Aadhaar number mandatory for availing various
welfare schemes of the government? 504. According to recent newspaper report, Who
(1) Kerala among the following was the most written-about
(2) Uttar Pradesh track and field athlete in 2022?
(3) Tamil Nadu (1) Usain Bolt
(4) Andhra Pradesh (2) Mo Farah
(5) Himachal Pradesh (3) Neeraj Chopra
(4) Elaine Thompson
499. In December 2022, Jindal Steel and Power (5) Jonathan Edward
Limited (JSPL) said the company will spend
___________________ under the PLI scheme for 505. The US National Aeronautics and Space
manufacturing of specialty steel. Administration (NASA) launched the newest SWOT
(1) Rs 3,930 crore Mission for which of the following purpose?
(2) Rs 5,930 crore (1) Mars Observation
(3) Rs 7,930 crore (2) Launar Observation
(4) Rs 9,930 crore (3) Track Water of Earth's Surface
(5) Rs 11,930 crore (4) Track Minerals in Earth Surface
(5) Track Defence capacities of World
500. In December 2022, Argentina bested France
4-2 on penalties to win their third FIFA World Cup, 506. The first ship of the ASW SWC Project, being
who among the following won the "Golden Boot" built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers,
award? GRSE for the Indian Navy was launched at
(1) Lionel Messi Kattupalli, Chennai. The Ship is named as
(2) Neymar Jr (1) INS Arnala
(3) Luka Modric (2) INS Vasai
(4) Kylian Mbappe (3) INS Vikrant
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(4) INS Tarini

(5) INS Vagir 512. The Indian Railways completed the
construction of a tunnel on a 111-kilometre, the
507. In December 2022, Union Minister longest 'escape tunnel' in which state/UT in India?
Jyotiraditya Scindia launched India's first Green (1) Himachal Pradesh
Steel Brand been manufactured by (2) Jammu and Kashmir
______________. (3) Ladakh
(1) Ganga Steel (4) West Bengal
(2) ISMT Ltd. (5) Odisha
(3) Bharat Forge
(4) Kalyani Steel 513. In December 2022, which of the following
(5) JSW Steel companies announced a partnership with
DigiLocker, a government authorized identification
Answer Keys storage system, to bring local storage of
495. 1 496. 4 497. 3 498. 3 499. 3 500. 4 501. government issued IDs on Android devices?
1 502. 1 503. 2 504. 3 505. 3 506. 1 507. 4 (1) Apple
(2) Amazon
508. According to the Social Progress Index (3) Google
released by Economic Advisory Council to Prime (4) Infosys
Minister (EAC-PM) along with Institute for (5) Meta
Competitiveness and Social Progress Imperative,
which of the following was the top performing 514. Which of the following ministry is
district in India? implementing the ground survey of Pey Jal
(1) Coimbatore Survekshan in 500 500 AMRUT cities in December
(2) Shimla 2022?
(3) Aizwal (1) Ministry of Jal Shakti
(4) Indore (2) Ministry of Panchayat Raj
(5) Hyderabad (3) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
(4) Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate
509. Which of the following teams emerged as the Change
champions of the Pro Kabaddi League Season 9 (5) Ministry of Statistics and Program
champions in December 2022? Implementation
(1) Puneri Paltan
(2) Tamil Thalaivas 515. In December 2022, Who among the following
(3) Jaipur Pink Panthers has been appointed as the new brand ambassador
(4) Bengal Warriors of Puma India?
(5) Gujarat Giants (1) M S Dhoni
(2) Deepika Padukone
510. Who among the following has been awarded (3) P V Sindhu
PETA India's 2022 Person of the Year title in (4) Anushka Sharma
December 2022? (5) Ranveer Singh
(1) Deepika Padukone
(2) Alia Bhatt 516. According to OYO Cultural Travel 2022
(3) Rishab Pant Roundup Report released in December 2022,
(4) Sonakshi Sinha which of the following emerged as the top religious
(5) Karthik Aryan destination for bookers across India?
(1) Agra
511. In December 2022, which of the following (2) Ujjain
state government has constituted a high-level task (3) Varanasi
force, which will make recommendations about (4) Puri
regulating online gambling &gaming in the state (5) Madurai
after examining the technical and legal aspects?
(1) Uttar Pradesh 517. In December 2022, The Centre has appointed
(2) Madhya Pradesh who among the following as the Chairperson of the
(3) Rajasthan New Delhi International Arbitration Centre?
(4) Punjab (1) Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan
(5) Bihar (2) Justice Hemant Gupta
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(3) Justice Bijan Kumar Mukherjea (3) The Folded Earth

(4) Justice Sudhi Ranjan Das (4) The Earthspinner
(5) Justice Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha. (5) Sleeping On Jupiter

518. In December 2022, the world's most popular 523. Recently, the National Stock Exchange of
and richest cricket league, Indian Premiere India (NSE) got the nod of SEBI to set up SSE.
League(IPL) which was started in 2008 has turned What does the first S in SSE stand for?
into a decacron, A decacorn refers to a business (1) Social
whose valuation is more than (2) Stock
_________________. (3) Securities
(1) USD 1 Billion (4) Sustainable
(2) USD 10 Billion (5) Standard
(3) USD 50 Billion
(4) USD 100 Billion 524. Recently, Maruti Suzuki signed a 5-year pact
(5) USD 5 Billion with which of the following port for export of its
passenger vehicles to international markets?
519. The Indian Gas Exchange (IGX) has launched (1) Deendayal Port Trust
an index that will reflect gas prices and will soon (2) Paradip Port Authority
come up with a product for trading in gas pipeline (3) Kamarajar Port Ltd
capacity named GIXI, IGX is promoted by (4) Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust
(1) Indian Energy Exchange (5) Kandla Port
(2) National Energy Exchange
(3) Bombay Stock Exchange 525. Who among the following was appointed as
(4) Global Energy Exchange next Ambassador of India to Saudi Arabia?
(5) Asian Energy Exchange (1) Ausaf Sayeed
(2) Suhel Ajaz Khan
520. According to consulting firm Oxford (3) Sunjay Sudhir
Economics, YouTube's creative ecosystem (4) Gaddam Dharmendra
contributed over Rs 10,000 crore in the Indian (5) Anwar Haleem
economy in 2021. Google defines creative
entrepreneurs as creators with at least 526. Who among the following Indian female
_____________ subscribers wrestler was nominated for United World Wrestling
(1) 1000 Rising Star of the Year honour?
(2) 10, 000 (1) Vinesh Phogat
(3) 50, 000 (2) Antim Panghal
(4) 1 Lakh (3) Sakshi Malik
(5) 5 Lakhs (4) Pooja Gelhlot
(5) Sonam Malik
Answer Keys
508. 2 509. 3 510. 4 511. 2 512. 2 513. 3 514. 527. Who won BBC Sports Personality of Year
3 515. 4 516. 3 517. 2 518. 2 519. 1 520. 2 2022 award?
(1) Jessica Gadirova
521. Which of the following cultural site in India, (2) Jake Wightman
that were recently added to tentative list of (3) Ben Stokes
UNESCO world heritage sites, is incorrectly (4) Beth Mead
matched with its location? (5) Emma Raducanu
(1) Sun Temple - Modhera
(2) Rock-cut relief sculptures of Unakoti - 528. `Veer Guardian' is a bilateral air exercise set
Rajasthan to held in January 2023 between India and
(3) Vadnagar town - Gujarat (1) USA
(4) Both A and B (2) Australia
(5) All are correct (3) Japan
(4) Singapore
522. Recently, Anuradha Roy was awarded the (5) Vietnam
Sahitya Akademi Award for 2022 for her novel
(1) All the Lives We Never Lived
(2) An Atlas of Impossible Longing
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529. ________ is the only Indian player in the top

25 in Forbes' annual list of the highest-paid female 535. In December 2022, Worldline ePayments
athletes in the world. India received in-principle approval from the
(1) Saikhom Mirabai Chanu Reserve Bank of India to act as a payment
(2) Mandeep Kaur aggregator (PA), Payment aggregators fall within
(3) PV Sindhu the definition of designated payment system under
(4) Sania Mirza which section of the Payment and Settlement
(5) None of the above Systems Act, 2007?
(1) 10A
530. The Good Governance Day is celebrated on (2) 15A
(1) October 10 (3) 23A
(2) November 15 (4) 36A
(3) November 26 (5) 48A
(4) December 25
(5) None of the above 536. Who among the following has been appointed
as the chairman of and CEO of the Railway Board
531. Which one of the following institutions has in December 2022?
recently developed artificial heart? (1) Sudhanshu Sharma
(1) IISc Bangalore (2) Sudheendra Kulkarni
(2) IIT Kanpur (3) Anil Kumar Lahoti
(3) IIT-BHU (4) S S Khurana
(4) AIIMS (5) Rakesh Chopra
(5) IIT Guwahati
537. In December 2022, Reserve Bank of India
532. Who among the following won the Top Arena said that, the fraud reporting module will be
Junior International Badminton Championship title migrated from Electronic Data Submission Portal
in the below 9 years category? (EDSP) to DAKSH portal from ______________.
(1) Geto Sora (1) January 1st 2023
(2) Unnati Hooda (2) March 1st 2023
(3) Sarunrak Vitidsarn (3) April 1st 2023
(4) Mirabai Chanu (4) May 1st 2023
(5) Mandeep Kaur (5) July 1st 2023

533. The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021- 538. In December 2022, which of the following
22 has been awarded to Sudeep Sen for which of vaccines manufactured by Bharat Biotech became
the following works? the world's first intranasal Covid vaccine to receive
(1) Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, approval for the primary 2-dose schedule as well
Consolation as a heterologous booster dose?
(2) A Sky Full of Bucket Lists (1) COVOVAX
(3) The City and The Sea (2) ZyCOV-D
(4) One Hundred Poems of Kabir (3) Corbevax
(5) Leaning Against the Lamp-Post (4) iNCOVACC
(5) Sputnik
Answer Keys
521. 2 522. 1 523. 1 524. 3 525. 2 526. 2 527. 539. In December 2022, Maharashtra assembly
4 528. 3 529. 3 530. 4 531. 2 532. 1 533. 1 passed the Lokayukta Bill 2022, which brings who
among the following under the ambit of the anti-
534. Which of the following country has agreed to corruption ombudsman?
use the Indian rupee for foreign trade in December (1) Governor
2022, by opening a special rupee trading accounts (2) Chief Justice of High Court
called " Special Vostro rupee accounts, or SVRA " (3) Chief Minister
for trading? (4) Vice Chancellors of all state universities
(1) UAE (5) Chief Secretary
(2) France
(3) Bhutan
(4) Sri Lanka
(5) Mauritius
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540. Dharmadam in which state has become the 546. In December 2022, which of the following
first constituency to have achieved the position of IIT's won key recognition in the Wharton-QS
complete library constituency in India? Reimagine Education Awards, often referred to as
(1) Tamil Nadu 'the Oscars of Education.'?
(2) Andhra Pradesh (1) IIT Kanpur
(3) Kerala (2) IIT Delhi
(4) Odisha (3) IIT Bombay
(5) Karnataka (4) IIT Madras
(5) IIT Hyderabad
541. In December 2022, the Central government
has officially recognized which of the following as Answer Keys
part of the 'Multi-sport' event? 534. 4 535. 3 536. 3 537. 1 538. 4 539. 3 540.
(1) Khelo India Games 3 541. 3 542. 1 543. 4 544. 3 545. 2 546. 4
(2) National Games
(3) E- Sports 547. The book, "Forks In The Road " My Days At
(4) Online Gambling RBI And Beyond" is authored by
(5) Beach Games (1) N C Sen Gupta
(2) K R Puri
542. In December 2022, which of the following (3) Dr. C Rangarajan
ministries/organizations has launched the City (4) Dr. Bimal Jalan
Beauty Competition with an aim to encourage and (5) Dr. Y V Reddy
recognize the transformational efforts made by
cities and wards in India to create beautiful, 548. In December 2022, which of the following
innovative and inclusive public spaces? companies has been awarded the tender for
(1) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Manufacturing and Maintenance of 1,200 electric
(2) Ministry of Finance locomotives (train engines) for the Indian
(3) NITI Aayog Railways?
(4) World Bank (1) Siemens India
(5) EAC- Prime Minister (2) L&T Limited
(3) General Electric
543. In December 2022, Election Commission has (4) Alstom
proposed introduction of 'remote voting' for who (5) Hitachi
among the following?
(1) Non Resident Indians 549. In December 2022, The central government
(2) Overseas Citizens of India hiked interest rates on various small savings
(3) International Migrants in India schemes including senior citizen savings scheme
(4) Domestic Migrants during the January to March quarter, accordingly
(5) Indian Diplomats in Foreign Countries Sukanya Samriddhi account scheme will earn a
interest of ____________.
544. Union Minister of Road Transport and (1) 7.2%
Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated Zuari bridge in (2) 7.6%
which state/UT of India? (3) 8%
(1) Jammu and Kashmir (4) 8.2%
(2) Maharashtra (5) 8.9%
(3) Goa
(4) Karnataka 550. In December 2022, The Indian Army's first
(5) Gujarat 3D Printed House Dwelling Unit, which is a
disaster-resilient structure that complies with
545. Which of the following ministries launched the Zone-3 earthquake specifications and green
mobile app 'Prahari' in December 2022? building norms was inaugurated in ____________.
(1) Ministry of Jal Shakti (1) Varanasi
(2) Ministry of Home Affair (2) Chennai
(3) Ministry of External Affairs (3) Bhopal
(4) Ministry of Defence (4) Ahmedabad
(5) Ministry of Finance (5) Nagpur

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551. The Reserve Bank of India's Medium-term (3) EAC- PM

Strategy Framework for the period 2023-2025, (4) Ministry of Finance
named _____________________ was launched by (5) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Shri Shaktikanta Das.
(1) DAKSH 2.0 557. In January 2023, The Reserve Bank of India
(2) UTKARSH 2.0 (RBI) lifted restrictions on which of the following
(3) RELIVE 2.0 NBFC's on regulations related on recovery
(4) AKASH 2.0 operations via third party collection agents?
(5) SAWYAM 2.0 (1) Muthoot Finance Ltd
(2) Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd
552. Which of the following banks has partnered (3) HDB Finance Services
with SBI Card to launch co-brand credit cards for (4) Bajaj Finance Ltd
its customers? (5) IDFC First Finance Ltd
(1) Indian Bank
(2) Bank of India 558. In January 2023, The Reserve Bank of India
(3) Punjab & Sind Bank (RBI) engaged the services of external auditors to
(4) Axis Bank audit majority of the 9,500-odd non-banking
(5) Canara Bank finance companies (NBFCs), the Base Layer
comprises of non-deposit taking NBFCs below the
553. Capital markets regulator, Securities and asset size of ____________________.
Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has barred which (1) '1,00 crore
of the following and its directors from the (2) '500 crore
securities markets for three years for violating (3) '1,000 crore
regulatory norms? (4) '5000 crore
(1) Accel Partners (5) '10,000 crore
(2) DS Capital Venture
(3) Sequoia Capital 559. In January 2023, which of the following banks
(4) Nexus Venture Partners announced its partnership with Microsoft to bring
(5) Kalaari Captial forth a next generation mobile application with a
view to provide customers with a personalised
554. In January 2023, which of the following banks banking experience?
was NOT classified as Domestic Systemically (1) Axis Bank
Important Banks (D-SIBs) by Reserve Bank of (2) YES Bank
India?I. HDFC bankII. Axis bank III. State Bank of (3) Indian Bank
IndiaIV. Canara Bank V. Indian Bank (4) Canara Bank
(1) I and IV only (5) HSBC Bank
(2) III, IV, V only
(3) II, IV, V only Answer Keys
(4) II and III only 547. 3 548. 1 549. 2 550. 4 551. 2 552. 3 553.
(5) I, II, III , IV and V 2 554. 3 555. 2 556. 1 557. 2 558. 3 559. 2

555. In January 2022, the board of which bank 560. In January 2023, Annapurna Finance Private
approved the proposal for raising capital upto Rs Limited (AFPL) has applied to the Reserve Bank of
250 crore by various modes, including equity and India for a universal bank licence, according to RBI
bonds issuance? rules the initial minimum paid-up voting equity
(1) State Bank of India capital for a universal bank should be
(2) Punjab and Sind Bank ______________.
(3) Union Bank of India (1) Rs. 100 crore
(4) Bank of Maharashtra (2) Rs. 200 crore
(5) Canara Bank (3) Rs. 300 crore
(4) Rs. 400 crore
556. Which of the following organizations/ministry (5) Rs. 500 crore
has launched the Inflation Expectations Survey of
Households (IESH) which will provide useful inputs
for monetary policy?
(1) Reserve Bank of India
(2) NITI Aayog
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561. In January 2023, The Reserve Bank of India (3) Axis Bank
has allowed how many entities to test fintech (4) IndusInd Bank
products to deal with financial frauds under the (5) HDFC Bank
fourth cohort of sandbox scheme for the theme
'Prevention and Mitigation of Financial Frauds'? 566. The percentage of Corporate tax collections
(1) Four to GDP ratio stood at ____________________ in
(2) Six FY 2021-2022.
(3) Ten (1) 2.04%
(4) Fifteen (2) 2.58%
(5) Three (3) 3.01%
(4) 4.21%
562. In January 2023, The Reserve Bank of India (5) 5.06%
(RBI) said it will auction Rs. 16,000 crore of
sovereign green bonds (SGrBs) in two tranches, 567. Which of the following bodies/organizations is
which of the following statements about SGrBs is set to undertake Technology Commercialization for
NOT TRUE? benefit of Start-Ups from 1st January 2023?
(1) SGrBs will be issued through Uniform Price (1) National Council of Educational Research and
Auction. Training
(2) SGrBs will not eligible investment for SLR (2) National Research Development Corporation
purpose (3) Agricultural Technology Application Research
(3) SGrBs will be eligible for trading in the Corporation
secondary market. (4) Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC)
(4) SGrBs will be designated as specified securities (5) National Skill Development Agency
under the 'Fully Accessible Route' for investment in
Government Securities by non-residents. 568. India's first underwater metro worth over Rs
(5) SGrBs will be eligible for Repurchase 8000 crores is set be operational by December
Transactions (Repo) 2023, the first underwater metro will come up in
which city?
563. RBI released its Annual Report of (1) Chennai
Ombudsman Schemes, 2021-22 in January 2023, (2) Cochin
The Reserve Bank ' Integrated Ombudsman (3) Mumbai
Scheme (RB-IOS), was launched in which year? (4) Kolkata
(1) 2017 (5) Hyderabad
(2) 2018
(3) 2019 569. Which of the following companies has
(4) 2020 commissioned India's first green hydrogen
(5) 2021 blending project in the piped natural gas (PNG)
network at Surat in January 2023?
564. In January 2023, the National Asset (1) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
Reconstruction Company (NARCL) has bid the (2) NTPC Limited
highest net present value (NPV) of (3) NHPC Limited
_____________ in the auction for Srei (4) Coal India
Infrastructure Finance and Srei Equipment (5) Indian Oil Corporation
Finance.
(1) Rs 5,555 crore 570. In January 2023, The first-of-its-kind
(2) Rs 4,444 crore inclusive festival in India, 'Purple Fest: Celebrating
(3) Rs 3,333 crore Diversity' took place in which state of India?
(4) Rs 2,222 crore (1) Goa
(5) Rs 1,111 crore (2) Maharashtra
(3) Uttar Pradesh
565. Which of the following banks has partnered (4) Kerala
with British Airways Executive Club and Qatar (5) Karnataka
Airways Privilege Club to introduce the unique
multi-branded credit card, with two leading 571. In January 2023, the World's first palm-leaf
international airlines, powered by Visa? manuscript museum was inaugurated in which
(1) Federal Bank city?
(2) ICICI Bank (1) Mysore
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(2) Ujjain 577. In January 2023, Who among the following

(3) Thiruvananthapuram won the MPL 48th National Women Chess
(4) Madurai Championship 2022?
(5) Srinagar (1) Bhakti Kulkarni
(2) Divya Deshmukh
572. India's first-ever coal gasification plant is set (3) Padmini Rout
to start urea production in 2024, the plant is (4) Vaishali Rameshbabu
located in which state/UT? (5) Eesha Karavade
(1) Gujarat
(2) Odisha 578. In January 2023, who among the following
(3) Andhra Pradesh became the 79th Chess Grandmaster of India?
(4) Jammu and Kashmir (1) V Pranav
(5) Delhi (2) Aditya Mittal
(3) Koustav Chatterjee
Answer Keys (4) M Pranesh
560. 5 561. 2 562. 2 563. 5 564. 1 565. 4 566. (5) Rahul Srivatshav
3 567. 2 568. 4 569. 2 570. 1 571. 3 572. 2
579. In December 2022, Google has announced a
573. In January 2023, which of the following fund of ________________ to Indian Institute of
country became the 20th member of the eurozone Technology (IIT) Madras to build India's first
to use Euro Currency? Responsible AI center.
(1) Sweden (1) USD 1 million
(2) Denmark (2) USD 2 million
(3) Finland (3) USD 3 million
(4) Croatia (4) USD 4 million
(5) Czech Republic (5) USD 5 million

574. In January 2023, Croatia became the 27th 580. In January 2023, HDFC Bank has partnered
nation of the Schengen zone, which of the with which of the following companies in the next
following statements about Schengen Zone is phase of its digital transformation?
TRUE? (1) Google
(1) Passport Free Zone in South America (2) Meta
(2) Free Trade Zone in Europe (3) Microsoft
(3) Uniform Currency Zone in Europe (4) Amazon
(4) Passport Free Zone in Europe (5) Tesla
(5) Common Market Zone in Europe
581. In January 2023, Indian Space Research
575. In January 2023, which country has launched Organisation (ISRO) signed a Memorandum of
Asia's first semi-high-speed hydrogen train with a Understanding (MoU) with which of the following
range of 600 km? companies to fuel the growth of space-tech
(1) Singapore startups in India?
(2) Japan (1) Google
(3) South Korea (2) Meta
(4) China (3) Microsoft
(5) Malaysia (4) Amazon
(5) Apple
576. In January 2023, Magnus Carlsen won both
the World Rapid and World Blitz chess titles in 582. As of December 2022, Over 16,554 tribal
Almaty, Kazakhstan. Magnus Carlsen belongs to villages have been covered so far under the
which country? Pradhan Mantri Adi Adarsh Gram Yojana for the
(1) Sweden integrated development of tribal dominated
(2) Norway villages. A sum of ____________ per village as
(3) Brazil 'gap-filling' has been provisioned for approved
(4) Australia activities including administrative expenses under
(5) Russia PMAAGY.
(1) '20.38 lakh per
(2) '30.38 lakh per
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(3) '40.38 lakh per (5) Krishnan Vishwanathan

(4) '50.38 lakh per
(5) '60.38 lakh per 588. Who among the following has been appointed
as the Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Postal
583. In January 2023, The Union Cabinet approved Union (APPU) in January 2023?
a _________________ National Green Hydrogen (1) P.K. Mishra
Mission with an objective to become a major (2) Rajiv Gauba
exporter in the field and make India a global hub (3) Praveen K. Srivastava
for the production. (4) Vinaya Prakash Singh
(1) '18,874 crore (5) Samant Goel
(2) '19,744 crore
(3) '20,963 crore 589. In January 2023, Paytm Payments Bank has
(4) '25,459 crore secured the Reserve Bank of India's approval for
(5) '30,756 crore the appointment of who among the following as its
new chief executive?
584. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (1) Bhavesh Gupta
approved Central Sector 'Broadcasting (2) Vaibhav Goel
Infrastructure and Network Development (BIND)' (3) Surinder Chawla
scheme worth Rs 2,539.61 cr in January 2023, the (4) Manju Agarwal
scheme is extended till which year? (5) Vijay Shekhar Sharma
(1) 2023-24
(2) 2030-31 590. Who among the following is the first KR Gouri
(3) 2035-36 Amma national award recipient?
(4) 2025-26 (1) Kailash Satyarthi
(5) 2039-40 (2) Nadia Murad
(3) Dr Aleida Guevara
585. In January 2023, The Centre has approved (4) Malala Yousafzai
the continuation of schemes of the Ministry of (5) Amal Clooney
Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER)
with an outlay of __________ for the balance 591. According to the report released by Nikkei
period of the 15th Finance Commission (2022-23 Asia in January 2023, India has emerged as the
to 2025-26). _________ largest Auto Market in the world.
(1) Rs 12,882 crore (1) First
(2) Rs 22,882 crore (2) Second
(3) Rs 33,882 crore (3) Third
(4) Rs 42,882 crore (4) Fourth
(5) Rs 52,882 crore (5) Fifth

Answer Keys 592. According to the Public Enterprises Survey

573. 4 574. 4 575. 4 576. 2 577. 2 578. 4 579.
1 580. 3 581. 3 582. 1 583. 2 584. 4 585. 1
586. Recently, Indian Overseas Bank elevated who
among the following as its MD & CEO?
(1) Partha Pratim Sengupta
(2) Sashidhar Jagdishan
(3) Ajay Kumar Srivastava
(4) Shri Soma Sankara Prasad
(5) Shri Shanti Lal Jain
2021-22 released in January 2023, which of the
following has been ranked 1st in the Services
Sector across categories Gross Block, Value
Addition, Net Profit amongst Top 10 Top 10 Profit
Making CPSEs?
(1) GAIL Ltd.
(2) ONGC Ltd.
(3) NTPC Ltd.
(4) Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.
(5) Coal India Ltd.

587. In January 2023, BharatPe has appointed 593. In January 2023, Prime Minister Narendra
who among the following as the CEO of the Modi inaugurated 108th Indian Science Congress
company after Suhail Sameer resigned? (ISC) through video conferencing, the theme of
(1) Amrish Rau the congress is
(2) Maju Kuruvilla (1) Science and Technology: Rural Development
(3) Nalin Negi (2) Future India: Science and Technology
(4) Ashok Kumar
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(3) Science and Technology for Sustainable 598. In January 2023, who among the following of
Development with Women Empowerment the Indian Army's Fire and Fury Corps became the
(4) Reaching the Unreached through Science and first woman officer to get operationally deployed at
Technology the world's highest battlefield, Siachen?
(5) Science and Technology for National (1) Arunima Sinha
Development (2) Shiva Chouhan
(3) Malavath Purna
594. Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports (4) Anshu Jamsenpa
Anurag Singh Thakur launched the themes of Y20 (5) Dia Susanna Bajaj
summit, logo, and website in January 2023, which
of the following is/are the themes of Y20? Answer Keys
(1) Future of Work: Industry 4.0, Innovation & 586. 3 587. 3 588. 4 589. 3 590. 3 591. 3 592.
21st Century skills 4 593. 3 594. 5 595. 1 596. 3 597. 1 598. 2
(2) Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction:
Making Sustainability a way of life 599. In January 2023, The Reserve Bank of India
(3) Peacebuilding and Reconciliation: Ushering in gave its approval to SBI Funds Management Ltd to
an era of No War acquire up to 9.99% stake in which of the
(4) Shared Future: Youth in Democracy and following small finance bank through the schemes
Governance and Health, Wellbeing &Sports: of SBI Mutual Fund?
Agenda for Youth (1) Au Small Finance Bank Limited
(5) All the above (2) Capital Small Finance Bank Limited
(3) Equitas Small Finance Bank Limited
595. 'Fit At Any Age: A Practitioner's Guide' is a (4) Jana Small Finance Bank
book written by (5) Suryoday Small Finance Bank Limited
(1) PV Iyer
(2) SK Mehra 600. In January 2023, the Election Commission
(3) SK Kaul launched its 'Mission-929' in which state of India to
(4) IH Latif take voter turnout to 92 per cent in the upcoming
(5) AY Tipnis assembly elections?
(1) Assam
596. The book, "Revolutionaries: The Other Story (2) Haryana
of How India Won Its Freedom," is authored by (3) Punjab
who among the following? (4) Tripura
(1) Kaushik Basu (5) Rajasthan
(2) Bibek Debroy
(3) Sanjeev Sanyal 601. In January 2023, The Centre has constituted
(4) Ajay Chibber a High Powered Committee to discuss measures to
(5) C Rangarajan protect the unique culture, language and
employment of Ladakh under the Chairmanship of
597. In January 2023, the book "Ambedkar: A who among the following?
Life" was released, the book was written by who (1) Vinai Kumar Saxena
among the following? (2) D K Joshi
(1) Shashi Tharoor (3) Amit Shah
(2) Shruti Kapila (4) Nityanand Rai
(3) D K Singh (5) K Mathur
(4) Ramnath Govind
(5) Smriti Irani 602. Recently, it was announced that the Centre
will provide foodgrains to states under the National
Food Security Act (NFSA) free for _____
(1) 1 year
(2) 2 year
(3) 6 months
(4) 3 months
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1. 3 2. 1 3. 4 4. 2 5. 1 6. 3 7. 4 8. 1 9. 2 10. 4
11. 1 12. 2 13. 2 14. 4 15. 4 16. 2 17. 4 18. 1 19. 3 20. 3
21. 2 22. 3 23. 2 24. 2 25. 1 26. 1 27. 3 28. 4 29. 4 30. 2
31. 2 32. 1 33. 4 34. 4 35. 3 36. 2 37. 4 38. 1 39. 3 40. 1
41. 3 42. 5 43. 2 44. 5 45. 3 46. 4 47. 1 48. 4 49. 3 50. 1
51. 4 52. 2 53. 4 54. 2 55. 4 56. 4 57. 4 58. 1 59. 2 60. 4
61. 1 62. 4 63. 3 64. 4 65. 4 66. 3 67. 1 68. 2 69. 4 70. 1
71. 2 72. 2 73. 2 74. 3 75. 4 76. 3 77. 4 78. 3 79. 3 80. 1
81. 2 82. 2 83. 3 84. 3 85. 2 86. 3 87. 4 88. 1 89. 3 90. 2
91. 4 92. 1 93. 2 94. 2 95. 2 96. 3 97. 2 98. 4 99. 2 100. 4
101. 2 102. 3 103. 4 104. 4 105. 4 106. 2 107. 3 108. 2 109. 1 110. 2
111. 3 112. 4 113. 2 114. 4 115. 3 116. 3 117. 2 118. 2 119. 1 120. 4
121. 3 122. 1 123. 1 124. 3 125. 3 126. 2 127. 1 128. 1 129. 2 130. 4
131. 2 132. 1 133. 1 134. 4 135. 3 136. 2 137. 3 138. 2 139. 1 140. 3
141. 1 142. 2 143. 1 144. 1 145. 3 146. 4 147. 1 148. 3 149. 4 150. 1
151. 1 152. 4 153. 3 154. 1 155. 4 156. 2 157. 3 158. 2 159. 1 160. 2
161. 3 162. 1 163. 1 164. 3 165. 1 166. 4 167. 5 168. 1 169. 5 170. 3
171. 1 172. 1 173. 4 174. 1 175. 4 176. 2 177. 2 178. 1 179. 4 180. 3
181. 3 182. 3 183. 3 184. 4 185. 2 186. 4 187. 3 188. 3 189. 4 190. 2
191. 4 192. 3 193. 3 194. 2 195. 1 196. 2 197. 3 198. 1 199. 4 200. 3
201. 4 202. 1 203. 2 204. 3 205. 4 206. 1 207. 2 208. 3 209. 1 210. 3
211. 2 212. 2 213. 1 214. 4 215. 3 216. 2 217. 3 218. 1 219. 2 220. 3
221. 1 222. 4 223. 2 224. 1 225. 2 226. 2 227. 2 228. 3 229. 1 230. 2
231. 4 232. 3 233. 4 234. 1 235. 2 236. 4 237. 3 238. 2 239. 4 240. 4
241. 3 242. 1 243. 1 244. 2 245. 4 246. 2 247. 4 248. 4 249. 1 250. 4
251. 2 252. 4 253. 2 254. 1 255. 3 256. 4 257. 3 258. 2 259. 1 260. 4
261. 1 262. 2 263. 3 264. 3 265. 2 266. 1 267. 3 268. 1 269. 1 270. 2
271. 4 272. 1 273. 1 274. 1 275. 4 276. 2 277. 1 278. 2 279. 1 280. 3
281. 2 282. 3 283. 1 284. 5 285. 4 286. 2 287. 1 288. 1 289. 2 290. 1
291. 1 292. 2 293. 3 294. 1 295. 3 296. 2 297. 4 298. 2 299. 3 300. 3
301. 1 302. 4 303. 4 304. 2 305. 4 306. 1 307. 4 308. 1 309. 3 310. 4
311. 1 312. 2 313. 2 314. 5 315. 1 316. 2 317. 1 318. 5 319. 2 320. 4
321. 5 322. 1 323. 2 324. 2 325. 3 326. 3 327. 1 328. 3 329. 2 330. 3
331. 3 332. 4 333. 1 334. 3 335. 1 336. 3 337. 3 338. 4 339. 2 340. 2
341. 4 342. 2 343. 3 344. 3 345. 1 346. 2 347. 1 348. 2 349. 3 350. 1
351. 4 352. 3 353. 3 354. 3 355. 2 356. 1 357. 3 358. 3 359. 1 360. 4
361. 3 362. 1 363. 4 364. 2 365. 3 366. 2 367. 2 368. 2 369. 2 370. 2
371. 2 372. 4 373. 3 374. 3 375. 4 376. 2 377. 2 378. 3 379. 4 380. 3
381. 1 382. 1 383. 3 384. 1 385. 3 386. 2 387. 4 388. 4 389. 2 390. 2
391. 4 392. 4 393. 3 394. 1 395. 3 396. 3 397. 4 398. 2 399. 3 400. 3
401. 2 402. 3 403. 1 404. 1 405. 2 406. 4 407. 2 408. 4 409. 1 410. 4
411. 1 412. 3 413. 2 414. 5 415. 1 416. 1 417. 4 418. 5 419. 3 420. 2
421. 2 422. 5 423. 5 424. 2 425. 3 426. 1 427. 3 428. 3 429. 1 430. 3
431. 4 432. 4 433. 2 434. 1 435. 3 436. 4 437. 4 438. 1 439. 3 440. 4
441. 3 442. 4 443. 1 444. 2 445. 4 446. 2 447. 1 448. 1 449. 2 450. 4
451. 1 452. 3 453. 2 454. 2 455. 3 456. 3 457. 3 458. 2 459. 2 460. 4
461. 4 462. 1 463. 3 464. 2 465. 3 466. 4 467. 1 468. 4 469. 3 470. 1
471. 3 472. 1 473. 2 474. 1 475. 2 476. 4 477. 1 478. 2 479. 3 480. 1
481. 4 482. 3 483. 1 484. 4 485. 1 486. 1 487. 1 488. 2 489. 1 490. 4
491. 3 492. 1 493. 1 494. 3 495. 1 496. 4 497. 3 498. 3 499. 3 500. 4
501. 1 502. 1 503. 2 504. 3 505. 3 506. 1 507. 4 508. 2 509. 3 510. 4
511. 2 512. 2 513. 3 514. 3 515. 4 516. 3 517. 2 518. 2 519. 1 520. 2

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531. 2 532. 1 533. 1 534. 4 535. 3 536. 3 537. 1 538. 4 539. 3 540. 3
541. 3 542. 1 543. 4 544. 3 545. 2 546. 4 547. 3 548. 1 549. 2 550. 4
551. 2 552. 3 553. 2 554. 3 555. 2 556. 1 557. 2 558. 3 559. 2 560. 5
561. 2 562. 2 563. 5 564. 1 565. 4 566. 3 567. 2 568. 4 569. 2 570. 1
571. 3 572. 2 573. 4 574. 4 575. 4 576. 2 577. 2 578. 4 579. 1 580. 3
581. 3 582. 1 583. 2 584. 4 585. 1 586. 3 587. 3 588. 4 589. 3 590. 3
591. 3 592. 4 593. 3 594. 5 595. 1 596. 3 597. 1 598. 2 599. 3 600. 4
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Quick Learners (August to December 2022)

I - Banking

Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) 4.50%

Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) 18.00%

POLICY/EXCHANGE RATE & RESERVE RATIO PERCENTAGE

Repo Rate 6.25%
Reverse Repo Rate 3.35%
Marginal Standing Facility Rate (MSF) 6.50%
Bank Rate 6.50%

II - Appointments

APPOINTMENT POST
Dr. Sujoy Lal Thaosen Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police
Suresh N. Patel Central Vigilance Commissioner
Ferdinand Marcos Jr President of Philippines
Piyush Goyal CEO of NATGRID
Gopal Vittal Managing Director of Airtel
Mohit Burman Chairman of Dabur India
Kushvinder Vohra President of Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS)
Rear Admiral Guillermo Head of Mission and Chief Military Observer for the United Nations
Pablo Ros Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)
Dr. Debasisa Mohanty Director of National Institute of Immunology
Sajith Sivanandan Executive Vice President and Head of Disney+ Hotstar
Mahendra N Shah MD & CEO of IDFC
Justice Uday Umesh Lalit Chief Justice of India
Nagesh Singh India's ambassador to Thailand.
Satyendra Prakash Principal Director General of the Press Information Bureau (PIB).
C. B. Ananthakrishnan Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Aeronautical Limited
(HAL)
Auguste'Tano'Kouam World Bank's Country Director for India
R S Sodhi President of Indian Dairy Association
Ranjit Rath Chairman & Managing Director of Oil India Limited
Jagdeep Dhankhar India's 14th Vice-President
Inderjit Camotra MD & CEO of Unity Small Finance Bank Ltd
Nallathamby Kalaiselvi Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR)
Viswanathan Anand Deputy President of FIDE
Gustavo Petro President of Columbia
Sanjay Agarwal Assistant Director General of the International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Nitish Kumar Chief Minister of Bihar
Tejashwi Prasad Yadav Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar
Simon Stiell Executive Secretary of UNFCCC
William Ruto President of Kenya
Rajkiran Rai G Managing Director (MD) of National Bank for Financing Infrastructure
and Development (NaBFID)
Vijay Shekhar Sharma MD & CEO of One 97 Communication (OCL)/ Paytm
Vikram Doraiswami India's High Commissioner to UK
Samir V Kamat Chairman of the Defence Research and Development Organisation
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G Satheesh Reddy Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister

Krishnamurthy Subramanian Executive Director (India) at the IMF
Anuj Poddar MD & CEO of Bajaj Electricals
Adille Sumariwalla President of Indian Olympic Association
Ana Brnabi Prime Minister of Serbia
Ananth Narayan Whole-time member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India
Gopalakrishnan (SEBI).
Santosh Iyer MD & CEO of Mercedes-Benz India
Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar Interim head of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
Yamuna Kumar Chaubey Chairman and Managing Director of NHPC
Laxman Narasimhan CEO of Starbucks
Dr. Justice DY Chandrachud Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority
Utpal Kumar Singh CEO of Sansad TV
Binesh Kumar Tyagi Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Shipping Corporation of
India
Mahesh Vishwanathan Iyer Chairman of Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL)
Amit Kumar Ambassador of India to the Republic of Korea
Sameer Khetarpal CEO and Managing Director Jubilant FoodWorks
Sanjay Kumar Verma India's high commissioner to Canada
Pankaj Gupta Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of HMT Limited
Sanjay Khanna CEO and Country Manager of American Express Banking Corp India
Prakash Chand Ambassador of India to the State of Eritrea
Sibi George Ambassador of India to Japan
B P Kanungo Independent Director of BharatPe
Kaushik Dutta Independent Director of BharatPe
Thomas M Devasia Member (non-life) in the Insurance Regulatory and Development
Authority of India (IRDAI)
Joao Lourenco President of Angola
Rama Subramaniam Gandhi Non-executive part time chairman of Yes Bank
Rajneet Kohli Executive Director & CEO of Britannia Industries
Varun Berry Executive Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of Britannia
Industries
Dilip Tirkey Hockey India (HI) president
Dilip Asbe Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of National Payments
Corporation of India (NPCI)
Sanjai Kumar Chairman & Managing Director of RailTel Corporation of India Limited
Giorgia Meloni Prime Minister of Italy
Data Security Council of CEO of Data Security Council of India
India (DSCI)
Mohammed bin Salman Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia
Nicandro Durante CEO of Reckitt Benckiser Group
Kalyan Chaubey President of All India Football Federation (AIFF)
Krishnan Managing Director and CEO of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank (TMB) Ltd
Sankarasubramaniam
Mary Elizabeth Truss Prime Minister of United Kingdom
Petrus Johannes Theodorus CEO of IndiGo
Elbers
Ajit Kumar Saxena Chairman & Managing Director of MOIL Limited
Dinesh Kumar Batra Chairman & Managing Director of Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)
Devika Bulchandani Global Chief Executive Officer of Ogilvy
Volker Turk United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Sanjay Kumar Rakesh Managing Director of Common Service Centre (CSC)
Charles III King of the United Kingdom
BVR Subrahmanyam Chairman & Managing Director of the India Trade Promotion
Organization (ITPO)
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Barnali Barua Tokhi Managing Director (MD) of Bharat Petro Resources Ltd
Prasanna Kumar Motupalli Chairman & Managing Director of NLC India Limited
Vinod Aggarwal Managing Director of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers
(SIAM)
Sumant Kathpalia Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of IndusInd Bank
Pralay Mondal Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of CSB Bank
Arun Kumar Mishra Member of the Governance Committee of the Asia Pacific Forum
(APF)
Dr M Srinivas Director of All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
Dr Rajiv Bahl Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
Rajendra Kumar Director General of Employees' State Insurance Corporation
Bharat Lal Director General of National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG)
Bandaru Wilsonbabu Ambassador of India to the Republic of Madagascar
Lt General Anil Chauhan Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)
R Venkataramani Attorney General of India
N S Rajan Chairman of the Board of Governors of Advertising Standards Council
of India (ASCI)
T Rajkumar Chairman of Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI)
Captain Ibrahim Traore President of Burkina Faso
Kishore Kumar Poludasu MD & CEO of SBI General Insurance
Sanjeev Kishore Director General ordnance (C&S)
Sandeep Kumar Gupta Chairman and Managing Director of GAIL
Justice Dinesh Kumar Presiding Officer of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal
Sharma
Prashant Kumar MD and CEO of YES Bank
Mohit Bhatia CEO of Bank of India Investment Managers Private Ltd
Dr Akhilesh Gupta Secretary of the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
Alexander Van der Bellen President of Austria
A Balasubramanian Chairman of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI)
Raj Vikash Verma Non-executive chairman of AU Small Finance Bank
Ananth Narayan Fourth Whole Time Member (WTM) in the Securities and Exchange
Gopalakrishnan Board of India (Sebi)
Aparajita Sarangi Member of the executive committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
from Asia Pacific Group (APG) countries.
Dr Adarsh Swaika India's Ambassador to Kuwait
Avtar Singh India's Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea
Partha Satpathy India's Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abdul Latif Rashid President of Iraq
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chief Justice of India
Chandrachud
Roger Binny President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
Ranbheer Singh Dhariwal CEO of Max Life Insurance Company Ltd.
Dr. Thamban Meloth Director of National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR),
Goa.
Bharati Das Controller General of Accounts (CGA)
Atanu Chakraborty Chairman of Yubi (formerly CredAvenue)
Arun Bansal CEO of Adani Airport Holdings
Ulf Kristersson Prime Minister of Sweden
Pradeep Singh Kharola Chairman & Managing Director of India Trade Promotion Organisation
(ITPO)
Aramane Giridhar Defence Secretary of India
Alka Upadhyaya Road and Transport Secretary of India
Sanjay Malhotra Revenue Secretary of India
Jaxay Shah Chairman of Quality Council of India
Girish Kousgi Managing Director of PNB Housing Finance
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Sandeep Bakshi MD and CEO of ICICI Bank

A K Goel Chairman of Indian Banks' Association
Sankarasubramanian K Principal Scientist of the Aditya-L1 mission of the Indian Space
Research Organisation(ISRO)
Rishi Sunak President of the United Kingdom
Sangeeta Verma Chairperson of Competition Commission of India (CCI)
Mata Amritanandamayi Chair of Civil 20 (C20), an official engagement group of the G20
Shefali Juneja Chairperson of Air Transport Committee (ATC).
Luiz In cio Lula da Silva President of Brazil
Rajesh Ranjan Indian Ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire
Sunil Barthwal Secretary, Department of Commerce
Sujoy Lal Thaosen Director General (DG) of Central Reserve Police Force
Lalit Bhasin President of Indo-American Chambers of Commerce
A K Anil Kumar Vice- President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF).
Ajay Bhadoo Deputy Election Commissioner
Akash Tripathi CEO of MyGov, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
Anish Dayal Singh Director General (DG) of Indo-Tibetan Border Police
Kaustubh Kulkarni Head of JP Morgan India
Prasanth Kumar President of the Advertising Agencies Association of India
Hansraj Gangaram Ahir Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes
(NCBC)
Sushmita Shukla Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York
Shenu Agarwal Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Ashok Leyland
Meghna Ahlawat President of the Table Tennis Federation of India
Meenesh C Shah Managing Director of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)
K V Suresh Kumar Chairman and Managing Director of the Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut
Nigam Limited (BHAVINI)
Manoj Govil Board Member of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
Sanjeev Panchal Managing Director of AstraZeneca Pharma India
Praveen Kumar Chairman and Managing Director of Artificial Limbs Manufacturing
Corporation of India (ALIMCO)
Justice Hemant Gupta Chairperson of the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre
Dr. Suhel Ajaz Khan Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
PN Vasudevan Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Equitas Small
Finance Bank
Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prime Minister of Nepal
'Prachanda'
Sitiveni Rabuka Prime Minister of Fiji
Santosh Kumar Yadav Chairman of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)
Ganji Kamala V Rao Chief Executive Officer of the Food Safety & Standards Authority of
India (FSSAI).
Shamsher Singh Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of SBI Funds
Management Ltd
Lieutenant General Arvind Engineer-in-Chief of the Indian Army
Walia
Baskar Babu Ramachandran Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Suryoday Small
Finance Bank
Aloke Singh Chief Executive Officer of CEO of Air India's LCC business
Ajit Kumar Saxena Chairman and Managing Director of MOIL
Praveen Kumar Srivastava Acting Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC)
Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel
Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar Chairperson of the National Statistical Commission (NSC)
Arun Kumar Singh Chairman of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)

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N Chandrasekaran Chair of B20 India

Dina Boluarte President of Peru
Ittira Davis Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Ujjivan Small
Finance Bank
Shaji Krishnan V Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development (NABARD)
Dinesh Kumar Shukla Chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)
Justice Dipankar Datta Supreme Court judge
Jeremy Farrar Chief Scientist of World Health Organization
Ashwini Vaishnaw Chancellor of Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya
Anil Kumar Lahoti Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Railway Board
Bhupendra Patel Chief Minister of Gujarat
Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
Mukesh Agnihotri Deputy Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
Vishal Kapoor CEO of Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL)
Bhushan Akshikar MD of GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited
KV Kamath Non-executive chairman of Reliance Strategic Investments
Jos Mara lvarez-Pallete Lpez CEO of Telefónica Group
Gopal Vittal Deputy Chairman of Telefónica Group
Natasa Pirc Musar President of Slovenia
Suraj Bhan Chairman of the National Pension System Trust (NPS Trust)
Pankaj R. Patel Chairperson of IIM Ahmadabad Board of Governors
Arun Goel Election Commissioner
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev President of Kazakhstan
Prof. Venu Gopal Achanta Member of International Committee for Weight and Measures (CIPM)
Stefano Sanchini Head of Bridgestone India operations
Rajiv Kumar Member of Policy and advisory board of property consultant India
Sotheby's International Realty
Romal Shetty CEO-designate of Deloitte India
Sundararaman Ramamurthy MD & CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
Preeti Sudan Member of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)
G Hemaprabha Director of ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute
Vetsa Ramakrishna Gupta Chairman & MD of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL)
Subhrakant Panda President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (FICCI)
Kishor K Basa Chairman of National Monuments Authority (NMA)
Mohammad Tayyab Ikram of President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH)
Macau
Justice DY Chandrachud Chief Justice of India
Neeraj Chopra Friendship Ambassador of Switzerland
Greg Barclay Chairman of International Cricket Council
Gaurav Dwivedi CEO of Prasar Bharati
Arvind Virmani Full-Time Member, NITI Aayog
Mary Kom Chairperson of the Athletes Commission of the Indian Olympic
Association (IOA)
Achanta Sharath Kamal Member of Athletes' Commission of the International Table Tennis
Federation (ITTF)
Sandhya Devanathan Vice President of Meta India
CV Ananda Bose Governor of West Bengal
Gianni Infantino President of FIFA
Arun Kumar Singh Chairman of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
T G Sitharam Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
Vinit Kumar CEO of Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVlC)
Anwar Ibrahim Prime Minister of Malaysia

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III - Awards

WINNER AWARD
Kannan Sundaram Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mrite
Dalai Lama dPal rNgam Duston
Prabath Jayasuriya ICC Men’s player of the month for July 2022
Emma Lamb ICC Women’s player of the month for July 2022
Shashi Tharoor Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur
Volodymyr Zelenskyy 2022 Liberty Medal
Angela Merkel 2022 Peace Prize 'in recognition of her efforts to welcome
refugees
Karim Benzema UEFA Men’s Player Of The Year 2021-22
Alexia Putella UEFA Women’s Player Of The Year 2021-22
Manisha Kalyan AIFF Women's Footballer of the Year 2021- 2022
Sunil Chhetri AIFF Men's Footballer of the Year 2021- 2022
General Manoj Pande Honorary rank of General of Nepal Army
Tanikella Bharani Sahitya Puraskar of the Loknayak Foundation
Admiral Sunil Lanba Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Tentera)
Vigyan Pragati National Rajbhasha Kirti Award
Swati Piramal Chevalier de la Lgion d'Honneur
Radhika Batra 2022 Goalkeepers Global Awards
Zahra Joya 2022 Goalkeepers Global Awards
Vanessa Nakate 2022 Goalkeepers Global Awards
Ursula von der Leyen 2022 Goalkeepers Global Awards
Meena Kandasamy Hermann Kesten Award 2022
RINL National Energy Leader Award
Suella Braverman Queen Elizabeth II Woman of the Year award
Srishti Bakshi 'Changemaker' award at UN SDG Action Awards
Bernadette J. Madrid 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award
Sotheara Chhim 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award
Gary Bencheghib 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award
Tadashi Hattori 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award
Sikandar Raza ICC Men’s Player of the Month awards for August 2022
Tahlia McGrath ICC Women’s Player of the Month awards for August 2022
Asha Parekh Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2020
Alain Aspect Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
John F. Clauser Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
Anton Zeilinger Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
Karl Barry Sharpless Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022
Carolyn R. Bertozzi Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022
Morten Meldal Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022
Svante Pbo Nobel Prize for Physiology 2022
Roxy Mathew Koll American Geophysical Union's (AGU) 2022 Devendra Lal
Memorial Medal
Annie Ernaux Nobel Prize in Literature 2022
Ales Bialiatski Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Russian human rights Nobel Peace Prize 2022
organisation Memorial,
Ukrainian NGO Center for Civil Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Liberties (CLL)
Ben S. Bernanke Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2022
Douglas W. Diamond Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2022
Philip H. Dybvig Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2022
Hyderabad World Green City Award 2022
Prakash Padukone Sports Journalists' Federation of India (SJFI) medal for 2019
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Shehan Karunatilaka
Karim Benzema
Alexia Putellas
Barbara D Metcalf
Indian Institute of Technology
Madras
Hyderabadi Haleem
People of Ukraine
RRR movie
Aruna Sairam
Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Franca Ma-ih Sulem Yong
Danish Manzoor Bhat
Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank
(KVGB)
14th Dalai Lama
Chiranjeevi
e-Panchayat Mission Mode
Project
Ravi Kumar Sagar
Bangladesh Film Agantuk
Iranian film Nargesi
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Vastu Sangrahalaya
Late Puneeth Rajkumar
Virat Kohli
Nida Dar
Venki Ramakrishnan
NMDC /National Mineral
Development Corporation
India
Purnima Devi Barman
Sharath Kamal Achanta
Seema Punia
Eldhose Paul
Avinash Mukund Sable
Lakshya Sen
Prannoy HS
Amit
Nikhat Zareen
Bhakti Pradip Kulkarni
R Praggnanandhaa
Deep Grace Ekka
Shushila Devi
Sakshi Kumari
Nayan Moni Saikia
Sagar Kailas Ovhalkar
ElavenilValarivan
Omprakash Mitharval
Sreeja Akula
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Booker Prize 2022
2022 Ballon d'Or
2022 Ballon d'Or Feminin
Sir Syed Excellence International Award for 2022
National Intellectual Property Awards 2021 and 2022
Most Popular GI award
Sakharov Prize 2022
Best International Film award at the 50th Saturn Awards
Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite
Kuldip Nayar Patrakarita Samman 2022
UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance
and Non-Violence 2022
Jaipur Foot USA's first Global Humanitarian Award 2022
National award from Pension Fund regulatory and Development
Authority (PFRDA)
Gandhi Mandela Award 2022
Indian Film Personality of the Year 2022
GOLD AWARD under the category "Excellence in Government
Process Re-engineering for Digital Transformation" of the
National Awards for e-Governance.
Dr. Abdul Kalam Seva Puraskar 2022
Prasad DI award 2022 at IFFI
ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal 2022 at IFFI
UNESCO’s Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage
Conservation-2022.
Karnataka Ratna 2022
International Cricket Council (ICC) Men's Player of October 2022
International Cricket Council (ICC) Women's Player of October
2022
UK’s Royal Order of Merit
Champion of Champions Award,
Excellence in Leadership in Family Planning (EXCELL) Awards -
2022
UNEP’s Champion of Earth 2022
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
Arjuna Award 2022
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Vikas Thakur Arjuna Award 2022

Anshu Arjuna Award 2022
Sarita Arjuna Award 2022
Parveen Arjuna Award 2022
Manasi Girishchandra Joshi Arjuna Award 2022
Tarun Dhillon Arjuna Award 2022
Swapnil Sanjay Patil Arjuna Award 2022
Jerlin Anika J Arjuna Award 2022
Jiwanjot Singh Teja Dronacharya Award 2022
Mohammad Ali Qamar Dronacharya Award 2022
Suma Siddharth Shirur Dronacharya Award 2022
Sujeet Maan Dronacharya Award 2022
Dinesh Jawahar Lad Dronacharya Lifetime Achievemnet Award 2022
Bimal Prafulla Ghosh Dronacharya Lifetime Achievemnet Award 2022
Raj Singh Dronacharya Lifetime Achievemnet Award 2022
Ashwini Akkunji C. Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award 2022
Dharamvir Singh Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award 2022
B.C Suresh Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award 2022
Nir Bahadur Gurung Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award 2022
The Chipko Movement: A Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022
People's Movement by Shekhar
Pathak
Manthan platform NSEIT the Best Tech Initiative of the Year at the Dun &
Bradstreet Business Excellence Awards 2022
Kheyti Earthshot Prize
Bank of Baroda EAG Laureate Award for the Best AML/CFT Financial Analysis
Venkaiah Naidu Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence Award
(SIES)
Canara Bank Banker's Bank of the Year Award 2022
SpiceJet 'Safety Performer of the Year' award by GMR Delhi Airport
Awards
NMDC IEI (Institution of Engineers, India) Industry Excellence Award
2022
Sargam Koushal Mrs World 2022
Beth Mead BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022
NHPC Limited 'Best Globally Competitive Power Company of India '
Hydropower and Renewable Energy Sector' at PRAKASHmay
Prof. Thalappil Pradeep VinFuture special prize
Unique Identification Authority GRIHA Exemplary Performance Award 2022
of India (UIDAI) Headquarter
Sudeep Sen Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22
Shobhana Kumar Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22
Prabhu Chandra Mishra Atal Samman Award (Atal Anveshi Shikhar Samman)
Indian Institute of Technology, Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards
Madras (IIT-M)
Mina Sue Choi Miss Earth 2022
Volodymyr Zelensky Time magazine's 2022 Person of the Year
Jos Buttler ICC men's Player of November 2022
Sidra Ameen ICC women's Player of November 2022
Gulam Mohammad Shaikh Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Gujarati
Anuradha Roy Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- English
K.B. Nepali Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Nepali
Madhuranthakam Narendra Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Telugu
Manoj Kumar Goswami Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Assamese
Janardan Prasad Pandey Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Sanskrit
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Maya Anil Kharangate Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Konkani

M. Rajendran Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Tamil
Kamal Ranga Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Rajasthani
Rashmi Choudhury Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Bodo
Kanhaiyalal Lekhwani Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Sindhi
Anis Ashfaq Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Urdu
Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Kannada
Koijam Shantibala Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Manipuri
Veena Gupta Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Dogri
Sukhjit Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Punjabi
Ajit Azad Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Maithili
Badri Narayan Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Hindi
Farooq Fayaz Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Kashmiri
M. Thomas Mathew Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Malayalam
Praveen Dashrath Bandekar Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Marathi
Gayatribala Panda Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Odia
Jagannath Soren Sahitya Akademi Award 2022- Santali

IV - Important Days

DATE DAY THEME

August 1st Muslim Women's Rights Day
August 7th National Handloom Day
August 9th International Day of the World's
Indigenous People
August 10th World Lion Day
August 10th World Biofuel Day
August 12th World Elephant Day
August 12th International Youth Day Intergenerational solidarity: creating a
world for all ages
August 12th World Sanskrit Day
August 14th Partition Horrors Remembrance Day
August 19th World Humanitarian Day To show the importance, effectiveness,
and positive impact of humanitarian work
August 19th World Photography Day Pandemic Lockdown through the lens
August 20th World Mosquito day
August 20th Akshay Urja Diwas/ Renewable Energy
Day
August 21st International Day of Remembrance of
and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism
August 21st World Senior Citizen's Day
August 22nd International Day Commemorating the
Victims of Acts of Violence Based on
Religion or Belief
August 23rd International Day for the
Remembrance of the Slave Trade and
its Abolition is an international day
August 23rd- World Water Week Seeing the Unseen: The Value of Water
September 1st
August 29th International Day against Nuclear
Tests
August 29th National Sports Day
August 30th International Day of the Victims of
Enforced Disappearances
August 30th National Small Industry Day
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September 1 National Nutrition Week (NNW)

to September
7
September 5th National Teachers' Day
September 5th International Day of Charity
September 7th International Day of Clean Air for blue The Air We Share
skies
September 8th International Literacy Day
September 8th World Physiotherapy Day
September 9th World Electric Vehicles Day
September 9th International Day to Protect Education
from Attack
September World Suicide Prevention Day Creating hope through action
10th
September United Nations Day for South-South
12th Cooperation
September Hindi Diwas
14th
September International Day of Democracy
15th
September Engineers Day
15th
September World Lymphoma Awareness Day
15th
September International Day for the Preservation Global Cooperation Protecting Life on Earth
16th of the Ozone Layer
September World Patient Safety Day Medication without Harm
17th
September World Bamboo Day
18th
September International NFT day
20th
September International Day of Peace End racism. Build peace
21st
September World Alzheimer's Day Know Dementia, know Alzheimer's
21st
September World Rhino Day
22nd
September International Day of Sign Languages
23rd
September World Pharmacists Day Pharmacy united in action for a healthier
25th world
September Antyodaya Diwas
25th
September World Lung Day Lung Health for All
25th
September International Day for the Total
26th Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
September World Environmental Health Day
26th
September World Tourism Day Rethinking Tourism
27th
September International Day for Universal Access
28th to Information
September World Rabies Day One Health, Zero Death

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28th
September International Day of Awareness of
29th Food Loss and Waste
September World Heart Day Use Heart For Every Heart
29th
September World Maritime Day New technologies for greener shipping
30th
September International Translation day A World without Barriers
30th
October 1st International Day of Older Persons Resilience of Older Persons in a Changing
World
October 1st National Pension System Diwas (NPS NA
Diwas)
October 1st National Voluntary Blood Donation NA
Day
October 2nd International Day of Non-violence NA
October 2nd Swachh Bharat Diwas NA
October 3rd World Habitat Day Mind the Gap. Leave No One and Place
Behind
October 4th- World Space Week Space and Sustainability
10th
October 4th World Animal Day Shared Planet
October 2nd - Wildlife Week NA
8th
October 5th World Teachers' Day The Transformation of Education Begins
with Teachers
October 7th World Cotton Day Weaving a better future for cotton
October 8th Indian Airforce Day NA
October 9th Indian Foreign Service (IFS) Day NA
October 9th World Post Day Post for Planet
October 9th 73rd Raising Day of Territorial Army NA
October 10th World Mental Health Day Making Mental Health & Well-Being for All
a Global Priority
October 10th National Post Day
October 11th International Day of Girl Child Our Time Is Now - Our Rights, Our Future
October 12th World Arthritis Day. It's in your hands, take action
October 13th International Day for Disaster Risk Substantially increase the availability and
Reduction access to multi-hazard early warning
systems and disaster risk information and
assessment for people by 2030
October 14th World Standards Day Shared Vision for a Better World
October 14th International E-Waste Day Recycle it all, no matter how small
October 15th World Students' Day The transformation of education begins
with teachers
October 15th International Day of Rural Women Rural Women, key for a world free from
hunger and poverty
October 15th Global Handwashing Day Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene
October 16th World Food Day Leave NO ONE behind
October 17th International Day for the Eradication Dignity For All in Practice
of Poverty
October 17th World Trauma Day NA
October 20th World Statistics Day Data for Sustainable Development
October 20th World Osteoporosis Day Step Up For Bone Health
October 21st Police Commemoration Day
October 23rd 7th Ayurveda Day Har Din Har Ghar Ayurveda

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October 24th United Nations Day NA NA

October 24th World Development Information Day NA
October 24th World Polio Day World Polio Day 2022 and Beyond: A
healthier future for mothers and children
October 24th- Global Media and Information Literacy Nurturing trust - A Media and Information
31st Week Literacy Imperative
October 24th- Disarmament Week Disarmament: Securing Humanity's Future
30th
October 27th 76th Infantry Day NA
October 27th World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Enlisting documentary heritage to promote
inclusive, just and peaceful societies
October 28th International Animation Day
October 29th World Stroke Day Raising Awareness of the Signs of Stroke
and the Need for Timely Access To Quality
Stroke Treatment.
October 30th World Savings Day Savings can make all the difference'
October 31st Rashtriya Ekta Diwas or National Unity NA
Day
October 31st World Cities Day Act Local to Go Global
November 1st 7th India Water Week Water Security for Sustainable
-5th Development with Equity
31st October – Vigilance Awareness Wee NA
6th November
November 5th World Tsunami Awareness Day NA
November 6th International Day for Preventing the NA
Exploitation of the Environment in War
and Armed Conflict
November 7th National Cancer Awareness Day NA
November 7th Infant Protection Day NA
November 8th World Radiography Day Radiographers at the Forefront of Patient
Safety
November 9th National Legal Services Day NA
November 9th International Week of Science and NA
-15th Peace
November World Science Day for peace and Basic Sciences for Sustainable
10th development Development
November National Education Day Changing Course, Transforming Education.
11th
November World Pneumonia Day Championing the fight to stop pneumonia.
12th
November World Kindness Day Be kind whenever possible
13th
November National Children's Day NA
14th
November World Diabetes Day Access to diabetes education
14th
November Day Of Eight Billion NA
15th
November International Day of Tolerance NA
16th
November National Press Day NA
16th
November World Philosophy Day The Human of the Future'
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18th Sexual Abuse

November National Naturopathy Day Naturopathy: an Integrative medicine
18th
November World Antimicrobial Awareness Week NA
18th- 24th (WAAW)
November World Toilet Day Making the Invisible Visible
19th
November Women's Entrepreneurship Day #choosewomen
19th
November World Heritage Week NA
19th- 25th
November World Children's Day NA
20th
November World Day of Remembrance for Road NA
20th Traffic Victims
November Africa Industrialization Day NA
20th
November World Fisheries Day NA
21st
November World Television Day NA
21st
November International Day for the Elimination UNITE! Activism to End Violence against
25th of Violence against Women Women & Girls
November Constitution Day NA
26th
November National Milk Day NA
26th
November Red Planet Day NA
28th
November International Jaguar Day NA
29th
November International Day Of Solidarity With NA
29th The Palestinian People 2022
November Day of Remembrance for all Victims of NA
30th Chemical Warfare
December 1st World AIDS Day Equalize
December 1st International Jaguar Day
December 1st Border Security Force- Rising Day
December 2nd National Pollution Control Day
December 2nd World Computer Literacy Day
December 2nd International day of Abolition of
Slavery
December 3rd International Day of Persons with Transformative solutions for inclusive
Disabilities (IDPD) development: the role of innovation in
fueling an accessible and equitable world
December 4th International Day of Banks
December 4th Indian Navy Day
December 4th World Wildlife Conservation Day
December 4th International Cheetah Day
December 5th International Volunteer Day for
Economic and Social Development
December 5th World Soil Day Soils: where food begins
December 7th Armed Forces Flag Day
December 7th International Civil Aviation Day Advancing Innovation for Global Aviation
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December 8th SAARC Charter Day

December 9th International Day of Commemoration
and Dignity of the Victims of the
Crime of Genocide and of the
Prevention of this Crime
December 9th International Anti-Corruption Day Uniting the world against corruption
December Nobel Prize Day
10th
December Human Rights Day Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All
10th
December International Mountain Day Women move mountains
11th
December UNICEF Day
11th
December International Day of Neutrality
12th
December International Universal Health Build the world we want: A healthy future
12th Coverage Day for all
December National Energy Conservation Day
14th
December Vijay Diwas
16th
December Minority Rights Day All in 4 Minority Rights
18th
December International Migrants Day
18th
December Goa Liberation Day
19th
December Good Governance Week
19th – 25th
December International Human Solidarity Day
20th
December National Mathematics Day
22nd
December National Farmers' Day
23rd
December National Consumer Rights Day
24th
December Good Governance Day
25th
December Veer Bal Diwas
26th
December International Day of Epidemic
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V - Obituary

OBITUARY RELATED FIELD

Fidel Valdez Ramos Former Philippine President
Rudi Koertzen Former Cricket umpire
K. Maya Thevar Former Member of Parliament
Amitabh Choudhary Former BCCI secretary
Nayyara Noor Pakistani playback singer
Abhijit Sen Agricultural Economist
Samar 'Badru' Banerjee Former Indian football team captain
Syed Sibtey Razi Former Governor of Jharkhand
Mikhail Gorbachev Former Soviet leader
Umesh Katti Karnataka Minister of Forests
Ram Chandra Manjhi Bhojpuri folk theatre Artist
Kamal Narain Singh Former Chief Justice of India
Raju Srivastava Indian Actor
Cyrus Mistry Former Tata Group chairman
Queen Elizabeth II UK's longest-serving monarch
Venkata Krishnam Raju Telugu actor & Politician
Tulsi Tanti Founder of Suzlon Energy
Mulayam Singh Yadav Founder of the Samajwadi Party and former Chief Minister of
Uttar Pradesh
Vishwanath Chandrashekar Deputy Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Mamani
Dietrich Mateschitz Red Bull Formula One owner
Dr Jamshed J Irani Former TATA Steel MD
Ela Bhatt Lawyer
Shyam Saran Negi First Voter of Independent India
RL Kashyap Mathematician
Areez Pirojshaw Khambatta Founder of Rasna
Babu Mani Football Player
Vikram Kirloskar Vice Chairman, Toyota Kirloskar Motor
Sulochana Chavan Lavani Singer
Yoginder K Alagh Economist
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General/Financial Awareness Solutions
1. 3
Tata Motors and Brazil's Marcopolo SA came
together in 2006 to form a JV to manufacture low-
floor air-conditioned and non air-conditioned buses
in India. This JV was well known as Tata Motors
Marcopolo Ltd. (TMML), in which Tata Motors had a
51 percent holding of the company and Marcopolo
SA had 49 percent holding in the JV.
From August 29th 2022 TMML has become a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Motors.
2. 1
Each year, India celebrates National Nutrition
Week (NNW) from September 1 to September 7.
Since 1982, the Indian government has been
conducting National Nutrition Week to educate
citizens about nutrition and urge them to lead
healthy and sustainable lifestyles.
NNW first observed in March 1975 by the American
Dietetic Association.
The theme for this year is 'Celebrate a World of
Flavors'.
3. 4
The country's largest carrier IndiGo has joined a
sustainable initiative spearheaded by the World
Economic Forum (WEF). The airline has become a
signatory to the Clear Skies for Tomorrow, India
Coalition campaign spearheaded by WEF.
It will help in achieving a significant scale for SAF
(Sustainable Aviation Fuel).
Clean Skies for Tomorrow was launched in January
2019.
4. 2
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) conducted the 10th
National Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise
(SAREX -22) in Chennai.
Exercise "SAREX-2022" was reviewed by Indian
Coast Guard chief VS Pathania along with other
agencies and foreign participants.
The theme of this edition of the biennial exercise is
"Capacity Building Towards Marine Passenger
Safety".
5. 1
The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of
the Environment, Forest, and Climate Change
Ministry for signing an MoU with the Government
of Nepal on biodiversity conservation.
It is aimed at strengthening and enhancing
coordination and cooperation in the field of forests,
wildlife, environment, biodiversity conservation,
and climate change.
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6. 3
Kartik Aaryan-starrer 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2' is getting
a comic book adaptation. Publisher Diamond
Comics has partnered with the production houses
T-Series and Cine1Studios to create this comic
book for all young audiences. India's iconic comic
book distributor is known for creating famous
characters such as Chacha Chaudhary, Motu Patlu,
Billoo, and Pinki, among others.
The epic comic book will be based on Aaryan's
character in the movie - Rooh Baba.
7. 4
8. 1
2022 Winners: Bernadette J. Madrid, a children's
rights advocate from the Philippines, Sotheara
Chhim, a mental health advocate from Cambodia;
Gary Bencheghib, an anti-plastic pollution warrior
from Indonesia; and Tadashi Hattori, a sight-
saving humanitarian from Japan.
Incepted in 1958, the Ramon Magsaysay Award is
named after the late Philippine president.
9. 2
Union Minister Shri Hardeep Singh Puri presented
Smart Solutions Challenge & Inclusive Cities
Awards 2022. These awards are an initiative of the
National Institute of Urban Affairs and the United
Nations in India to address city-level accessibility
and inclusion challenges faced by persons with
disability women and girls, and the elderly.
• Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Puri
awarded the winners of the Smart Solutions
Challenge and Inclusive Cities Awards 2022, which
included a literacy tool by Belagavi Smart City.
• The challenge, which was launched in April,
received over 100 entries, of which the top 10
were identified as winners, the statement said. In
the category of early-stage innovations, the winner
was a wearable technology product, Fifth Sense by
Glovatrix Pvt. Ltd., that translates sign language
gestures to speech and text using sensors and AI.
In the second category of market-ready solutions,
Mouseware by Dextroware Devices Pvt. Ltd. was
the winner. Mouseware is a head-wearable device
that enables hands-free control of computers and
smart gadgets.
10. 4
The gross GST revenue collected in the month of
August 2022 stood at Rs 1,43,612 crore, up 28%
on a year-on-year basis, the Finance Ministry said
in a statement With this, the monthly GST
revenues have exceeded Rs 1.4 lakh crore for six
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months in a row.In July, the GST collection was Rs
1.49 lakh crore, the second-highest level since its
introduction in July 2017.
11. 1
INS Vikrant, India's first home-built aircraft
carrier, was formally commissioned after
completing almost a year of sea trials in Cochin
Shipyard Limited. The 45,000-tonne warship has
been built at a cost of ₹ 20,000 crore. PM Modi
also unveiled the new Naval Ensign. The Navy had
earlier said the new insignia will be befitting the
rich Indian maritime heritage.
• 262 metres long and 62 metres wide, INS Vikrant
is the largest warship to be built in India. It can
have 30 aircraft on board, including MiG-29K
fighter jets and helicopters. The warship can
accommodate a crew of nearly 1,600.
• INS Vikrant, in the beginning, will have MiG
fighters and some choppers. The Navy is in the
process of procuring 26 deck-based aircraft,
having narrowed down to some Boeing and
Dassault aircraft.
• At present, India has only one aircraft carrier,
INS Vikramaditya, which is built on a Russian
platform. Defence forces have been seeking three
carriers in all - one in spare besides one each for
the two main naval fronts, in the Indian Ocean and
Bay of Bengal.
• India's existing fleet includes one aircraft carrier,
10 destroyers, 12 frigates and 20 corvettes.
12. 2
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, in
the 45th AGM , announced to build India's first and
one of the world's largest Carbon Fibre plants at
Hazira, Gujarat. The plants will have a capacity of
20,000 MTPA based on Acrylonitrile feedstock.
Overall, in the Oil to Chemical segment (O2C),
Ambani announced an investment of ₹75,000
crore
13. 2
India has surpassed the United Kingdom to
become the world's 5th biggest economy. the
International Monetary Fund's own forecasts show
India overtaking the UK in terms on an annual
basis this year. This has put India, the Asian
powerhouse, just behind the US, China, Japan and
Germany. Mrs Sitharaman said, a decade ago,
India ranked 11th among the largest economies,
while the UK was 5th.
14. 4
The 14th India-UAE Joint Commission Meeting
(JCM) was co-chaired by External Affairs Minister
Dr. S. Jaishankar and Foreign Minister of UAE H.H.
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Sheikh Abdulla bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi
on 01 September 2022. The two Ministers were
joined by H.E. Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi -
UAE MOS for Foreign Trade, Shri Vinay Kwatra -
Foreign Secretary of India and Ambassadors and
senior officials from both sides.
Two MOUs were signed between both sides in the
presence of the Ministers. These are: MOU
between Wildlife Institute of India and
International Fund for Houbara Conservation for
the Conservation of the Great Indian Bustard and
the Lesser Florican and MOU between Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of
UAE and Indian Council for Cultural Relations
(ICCR) on the Establishment of the India-UAE
Cultural Council Forum.
15. 4
For the first time, astronomers have used NASA's
James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct
image of a planet outside our solar system.
The exoplanet called 'HIP 65426 b' is a gas giant,
meaning it has no rocky surface and could not be
habitable.
The exoplanet is about six to 12 times the mass of
Jupiter, and these observations could help narrow
that down even further.
It is young, about 15 to 20 million years old,
compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old Earth.
16. 2
Former footballer Kalyan Chaubey has been
elected as the President of the All India Football
Federation (AIFF). Kalyan defeated the legendary
Bhaichung Bhutia in the election for the top post.
The 45-year-old Chaubey, a former goalkeeper
with Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, won 33-1.
Chaubey, a BJP politician who lost the last
parliamentary election for the Krishnanagar seat in
West Bengal, never played for the India senior
team though he was in the squad on a few
occasions.
Bhutia and Chaubey were one-time teammates at
East Bengal.
Karnataka Football Association president N A Haris,
a sitting Congress MLA, won the election for the
lone post of vice president, beating Manvendra
Singh of Rajasthan.
Arunachal Pradesh's Kipa Ajay beat Gopalakrishna
Kosaraju of Andhra Pradesh for the treasurer's
post. All the 14 candidates who had filed
nominations for as many executive committee
members' posts were elected unopposed.
17. 4
In a unique and first-of-its-kind initiative, the
Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt
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of India, has undertaken to set up India's first-ever
"Night Sky Sanctuary" in Ladakh which will be
completed within next three months.
The proposed Dark Sky Reserve will be located at
Hanle in Ladakh as a part of Changthang Wildlife
Sanctuary. It will boost Astro tourism in India and
will be one of the world's highest-located sites for
optical, infra-red, and gamma-ray telescopes.
18. 1
The book 'Divorce and Democracy: A History of
Personal Law in Post-Independence India' talks
about family law, religion, and gender politics in
India.
Written by Saumya Saxena, British Academy
Fellow at the faculty of History, University of
Cambridge, the book talks about the Indian state's
difficult dialogue with divorce, which reconciles
largely through religion.
19. 3
Mongolia is a landlocked country in eastern Asia
south of Russia and north of China, east of
Kazakhstan. The country is known as the "Land of
the Eternal Blue Sky" and as the "Land of the
Horse".
Giving push to strategic partnership with East
Asian countries, Raksha Shri Rajnath Singh paid an
official visit to Mongolia from 05-07 September,
2022. This visit by Raksha Mantri was the first
ever visit by an Indian Defence Minister to
Mongolia.
20. 3
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar launched the
Gujarati translation of his book, "The India Way:
Strategies for an Uncertain World" in Gujarat.
Prior to this, he visited the Bhaskaracharya
National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-
informatics (BISAG-N) in Gandhinagar.
21. 2
The Karnataka government launched the Global
Startup Challenge " "VentuRISE" to recognise,
reward, and support growth stage startups in
manufacturing and sustainability-related sectors.
"VentuRISE" " is a part of the flagship event Global
Investors Meet - "Invest Karnataka 2022" from
November 2 to 4 at the Bangalore Palace. CM of
Karnataka-S. R. Bommai
Governor of Karnataka- Thawar Chand Gehlot
22. 3
Sebi has restructured its high-level panel on cyber
security that suggests measures to safeguard the
capital markets from such attacks. The committee,
which has now six members, will be chaired by
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Information Infrastructure Protection Centre
(NCIIPC). Madhabi Puri Buch chairperson of Sebi
was first chair of this committee.
The other members of the panel include Sanjay
Bahl Director General at Indian Computer
Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and H
Krishnamurthy, who was a chief research scientist
at IISC Bangalore.
Sandeep Shukla and Debdeep Mukhopadhyay "
who are professors at the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering in IIT Kanpur and IIT
Kharagpur, respectively, and Sugata
Gangopadhyay " head of the department of
Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Roorkee,
are the other members of the committee.
23. 2
The National Green Tribunal has imposed a penalty
of Rs 3,500 crore on the West Bengal government
for the huge gap in solid and liquid waste
generation and treatment. NGT Chairperson
Justice AK Goel said it is the constitutional
responsibility of the state and the local bodies to
provide a pollution free environment.New Delhi is
the Principal seat of Sitting of the Tribunal
24. 2
Mary Elizabeth Truss, prominently referred to as
Liz Truss was announced as the next prime
minister of the United Kingdom, after she defeated
rival Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party
leadership race.
Truss, 47, had emerged as a contender for the
prime ministerial role after her predecessor Boris
Johnson agreed to step down.
25. 1
ISRO successfully demonstrates new technology
with Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD)
An IAD developed by VSSC, has been successfully
test flown in a Rohini sounding rocket from
TERLS,Thumba.
The IAD has systematically reduced the velocity of
the payload through aerodynamic drag and
followed the predicted trajectory.
The IAD has huge potential in variety of space
applications like recovery of spent stages of
rocket, for landing payloads on to Mars or Venus.
Dr. S. Unnikrishnan Nair: Director, Vikram
Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Trivandrum.
26. 1
Shipping Corporation of India said Binesh Kumar
Tyagi has taken over as its Chairman and
Managing Director (CMD). Tyagi was heading the
Liner and Passenger Services Division as Director
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(L&PS) since January 7, 2021 in the company, the
PSU said in a regulatory filing.Under Ministry of
Ports, Shipping and Waterways, SCI is the largest
shipping company in India.
On October 2 1961, The Shipping Corporation of
India Ltd. was incorporated by amalgamation of
Eastern Shipping Corporation and Western
Shipping Corporation as India's first public sector
company in shipping
27. 3
The Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic
Sciences (CCRAS), has taken a unique initiative to
support the research efforts of bright young minds
of the Country by developing the Studentship
Program for Ayurveda Research Ken (SPARK) for
Ayurveda (BAMS) students studying in recognised
Ayurveda colleges. Prof. Rabinarayan Acharya -
Director General, CCRAS
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Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat have
been ranked as the top three states among larger
states in terms of the overall implementation of
the Centre's flagship Poshan Abhiyaan, according
to a Niti Aayog report. Sikkim was the best
performer among the small states. The report was
titled 'Preserving Progress on Nutrition in India:
Poshan Abhiyan in Pandemic Times'
• While Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Daman and
Diu topped among Union Territories (UTs), Punjab
and Bihar were the lowest performers among
larger states in terms of the overall
implementation of Poshan Abhiyaan, as per the
government think tank report.
• It pointed out that only 17 states and UTs had
more than 75 per cent of children 12-23 months of
age who were fully immunised, while 11 states and
UTs had less than 25 per cent fully immunised
children.
• In terms of WCD programme coverage, many
states and UTs have distributed take-home rations
(THR) to all beneficiaries, according to the report.
• However, it said, coverage remained low in Bihar
(65 per cent pregnant women, 62 per cent
lactating women, and 52 per cent children), Punjab
(78 per cent pregnant women, 76 per cent
lactating women, and 65 per cent children), Sikkim
(84 per cent pregnant women, 84 per cent
lactating women, and 77 per cent children) and
Jammu and Kashmir (49 per cent pregnant
women, 51 per cent lactating women, and 54 per
cent children).
• According to the report, 16 states and UTs had
more than 75 per cent of children (0-59 months)
diarrhoea cases treated with ORS, while there
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were 5 states and UTs that treated less than 25
per cent of child diarrhoea cases with ORS.
• In 2018, the Centre launched its flagship
programme, the Poshan (Prime Minister's
Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment)
Abhiyaan to draw national attention to and take
action against malnutrition in a mission mode. It is
a scheme under the ICDS umbrella which converge
with other programs and service delivering
nutrition interventions during the first 1,000-day
period.
29. 4
After achieving the UNESCO World Heritage tag for
the Kakatiya Rudreshwara temple (Ramappa
temple), Telangana has proposed two monuments
with architectural and astronomical magnificence
for coveted recognition this year. Heritage
Telangana has listed Niluvurallu in Mudumal village
of Narayanpet district and Chaya
Someshwaralayam as the sites that deserve due
recognition.
30. 2
Amit Kumar has been appointed as the next
Ambassador of India to the Republic of Korea, the
Ministry of External Affairs informed.
He is presently the Consul General of India in
Chicago.
31. 2
Budget Indian carrier IndiGo has announced that
Petrus Johannes Theodorus Elbers (Pieter Elbers)
has joined as Chief Executive Officer of the
company with effect September 6.
He is replacing Ronojoy Dutta, who decided to
retire on September 30.
Prior to this, Elbers was associated with KLM Royal
Dutch Airlines as the CEO.
Bruce Ashby was the first CEO of IndiGo from 2005
to 2008.
32. 1
Union ministry approved a Rs 27,360-crore
scheme for the development of over 14,000
schools across the country as PM Schools for
Rising India (PM-SHRI)
33. 4
Mr Dinesh Kumar Batra, Director (Finance) & CFO,
has taken additional charge as Chairman &
Managing Director (CMD) of Navratna Defence PSU
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).
He is a member of the Board of BEL subsidiaries,
BEL-Thales Systems Limited (BTSL) and BEL
Optronic Devices Limited (BELOP).
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34. 4
Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra threw a strong
88.44m to become the first Indian to be the
Diamond League Champion.He achieved the feat
at the annual league's grand final in Zurich.
Chopra defeated Czech Republic's Jakub Vadljech
(86.94m) and Julian Weber (83.73m)
He was also the first Indian to qualify for the
Diamond Race when he topped the Lausanne
Diamond League 2022.
35. 3
India ranked 132nd among 191 countries and
territories on the 2021 Human Development Index
(HDI), showed a report by the United Nations
Development Program (UNDP). In the 2020 report,
India had ranked 131st among 189 countries and
territories. India's latest HDI value of 0.633 places
the country in the medium human development
category
• Among India's neighbours, Sri Lanka (73rd),
China (79th), Bangladesh (129th), and Bhutan
(127th) are ranked above India, while Pakistan
(161st), Nepal (143rd), and Myanmar (149th) are
worse off. The report said around 90 per cent of
countries registered a decline in their HDI value in
2020 or in 2021.
• The report attributes the drop in HDI from 0.645
in 2019 to 0.633 in 2021 to India's falling life
expectancy " from 69.7 years to 67.2 years
during the survey period.
• India's expected years of schooling stands at
11.9 years, down from 12.2 years in the 2020
report, although the mean years of schooling is up
at 6.7 years from 6.5 years in the 2020 report.
• Although India retained its 132nd position in the
Gender Development Index, the female life
expectancy dropped from 71 years in the 2020
report to 68.8 years in the 2021 report.
• The mean years of schooling for females declined
from 12.6 to 11.9 years in the corresponding
period.
• India scored 0.123 in the Multi-Dimensional
Poverty Index (MPI) with a headcount ratio of 27.9
per cent, with 8.8 per cent population reeling
under severe multidimensional poverty. Over the
last decade, India has lifted a staggering 271
million out of multidimensional poverty, the report
noted.
• Pakistani economist Mahbub -ul-Haq developed
Human DeveloÂpment Index (HDI) as a measure
to track progress on three key dimenÂsions of
human development " a long and healthy life,
access to education, and a decent standard of
living in 1990 with the objective " "people are the
real wealth of nations". It is calculated using the
following four indicators " life expectancy at birth,
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mean years of schooling, expected years of
schooling, and the per capita
Gross National Income.
36. 2
The jet-black granite statue of Netaji Subhas
Chandra Bose, measures a total of 28 ft. and is
placed under the Canopy near India Gate.
The grand statue of Netaji, has been carved from a
monolithic block of granite weighing 280 MT. After
26,000 man hours of intense artistic endeavor, the
granite monolith was chiseled to produce a statue
weighing 65 MT.
37. 4
Warangal in Telangana, Nilambur, and Thrissur in
Kerala have joined UNESCO Global Network of
Learning Cities.An international policy-oriented
network, the UNESCO Global Network of Learning
Cities is a network of inspiration, know-how and
best practices. It is coordinated by the UNESCO
Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).As per
UNESCO, 77 cities from 44 countries across the
globe have joined. Thrissur is also known as the
Cultural Capital of Kerala
38. 1
Hon'ble President Smt. Droupadi Murmu will
virtually launch the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat
Abhiyaan on September 9th to reinvigorate the
mission of TB elimination from the country by
2025. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi gave the
clarion call to end TB in the country five years
ahead of SDG target of 2030 at the Delhi End TB
Summit in March 2018.
• The Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan has
been envisioned to bring together all community
stakeholders to support those on TB treatment and
accelerate the country's progress towards TB
elimination. Hon'ble President will also launch the
Ni-kshay Mitra initiative which forms a vital
component of the Abhiyaan.
• The Ni-kshay Mitra portal provides a platform
for donors to provide various forms of support to
those undergoing TB treatment.
• The three pronged support includes nutritional,
additional diagnostic, and vocational support. The
donors, called Ni-kshay Mitras, could be a wide
range of stakeholders from elected
representatives, political parties, to corporates,
NGOs, and individuals.
39. 3
Bank of India has become the first public sector
bank to go live on Income Tax Department's new
Direct Tax Collection System Tin 2.0. With this
technological integration of BOI on TIN 2.0
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platform, taxpayers will now get a single platform
for their tax payment as well as e-filing of tax
returns. Tax Information Network, TIN 2.0 is the
official portal of Income tax.
40. 1
The government has set up a panel to review the
formula that dictates the pricing of gas produced
by companies like ONGC and Reliance as it looks to
moderate the steep increase that producers would
have otherwise got. The committee under former
planning commission member Kirit S Parikh will
suggest a "fair price to the end consumer"
41. 3
The United Nations General Assembly has
approved the appointment of Austrian diplomat
and veteran UN staffer Volker Turk as the new UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights to replace
former commissioner Michelle Bachelet.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had
proposed that Turk succeed Bachelet, whose term
ended on August 31, and the UN's 193-member
assembly quickly approved the appointment by
consensus.
42. 5
Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K Sangma
launched the online portal of the Meghalaya
Residents Safety and Security Act (MRSSA) in
presence of home minister Lahkmen Rymbui and
other officials in state capital Shillong.
The web-based system is first being rolled out in
seven localities of Shillong- Nongrim Hills,
Lapalang, Nongmynsong, Nongrah, Pohkseh, Riat
Laban and Wahdienglieng.
43. 2
Australia white-ball captain Aaron Finch will retire
from one-day international (ODI) cricket.
Finch has led Australia's ODI and Twenty20 teams
since 2018.
The 35-year-old opening batter has played 145
ODIs and scored 5,401 runs at an average of
39.13.
He led Australia to their first T20 World Cup title in
2021 and will still lead the side at the upcoming
T20 World Cup on home soil in October.
44. 5
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar inaugurated
India's longest rubber dam on Falgu river in Gaya,
where lakhs of pilgrims from across the country
and abroad arrive every year during the
Pitripaksha Mela to pay homage to their ancestors,
and a steel foot over bridge for the convenience of
the visitors.
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President Droupadi Murmu has nominated Gulam
Ali, a Gurjar Muslim from Jammu and Kashmir, to
Rajya Sabha. Mr Ali has been nominated to the
Upper House on the recommendation of the
Central government. This is perhaps for the first
time a Gurjar Muslim from the region has been
sent to the Rajya Sabha as a nominated member.
46. 4
Prime Minister Narendra Modi released cheetahs
brought from Namibia in Africa in Kuno National
Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh.
Eight cheetahs —five females and three males—
were brought from Namibia to Gwalior airport in a
customised Boeing 747-400 aircraft. From there,
cheetahs were shifted to KNP helipad in an Indian
Air Force (IAF) Chinook helicopter.
Cheetah was officially declared extinct in India in
1952. The last cheetah was killed in 1947.
The introduction of Cheetah in India is being done
under Project Cheetah, which is world’s first inter-
continental large wild carnivore translocation
project, according to the Prime Minister's Office.
47. 1
The throne had passed to the 73-year-old former
Prince of Wales following the death of his mother,
Queen Elizabeth II, ceremony marked his formal
declaration and oath taking at St. James's Palace
in London.
King Charles was joined by his wife, Queen
Consort Camilla, and his son and heir Prince
William, the new Prince of Wales.
48. 4
The Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways
(MoPSW) is planning to build a National Maritime
Heritage Complex (NMHC) at the site of the Indus
Valley civilization in Lothal, Gujarat. A first of its
kind complex in India, this centre will showcase
India's rich and diverse maritime heritage.Total
cost of the National Maritime Heritage Complex
project is ₹3,500 crore.
49. 3
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the
'Centre-State Science Conclave' in Ahmedabad via
video conferencing.
According to Prime Minister's Office (PMO), the
first of its kind Conclave will strengthen Centre-
State coordination and collaboration mechanisms "
in the spirit of cooperative federalism " to build a
robust science, technology and innovation (STI)
ecosystem.
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50. 1
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurates World
Dairy Summit 2022 in Greater Noida. According to
union minister for fisheries, animal husbandry and
dairying Parshottam Rupala, India is hosting the
International Dairy Federation (IDF) global dairy
summit after 48 years, where more than 1,500
experts, farmers and processors of dairy products
from 50 countries will be participating.
Last time, India hosted the International Dairy
Congress in 1974. Scheduled from September 12-
15 on the theme of 'dairy for nutrition and
livelihood'.
• India is the biggest milk producer in the world
and accounts for 23% of the global output.
• India ranks first among the world's milk
producing nations since 1998 after surpassing the
United States as biggest producer of milk. Milk is
the single largest agricultural commodity in the
country, valued at Rs 9.32 trillion at present.
• According to the Economic Survey (2021-22),
India's milk production has grown at a compound
annual growth rate of about 6.2% to reach 209.9
million tonne (MT) in 2020-21 from 146.3 MT in
2014-15. Milk production in 2021-22 is estimated
around 2020 MT.
• Key sponsors for the summit include Gujarat
Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation also
referred as Amul and Nandini (Karnataka Milk
Federation).
51. 4
The 19-year-old Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz defeated
fifth-seeded Norwegian Casper Ruud, 6-4, 2-6, 7-
6(1), 6-3, to earn his first major title and, with it,
a debut as world No. 1.
The Spaniard is the youngest Grand Slam
champion since a 19-year-old Rafael Nadal won
Roland Garros in 2005, and the youngest US Open
champ since a 19-year-old Sampras in 1990.
 Verstappen now has a 116-point lead over Charles
• World No. 1 Iga Swiatek (Poland) won the
women's title at the 2022 US Open tennis grand
slam defeating Ons Jabeur (Tunisia) 6-2, 7-6 [7-
5].
• Mixed doubles final: Storm Sanders and John
Peers (AUS) defeated Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) and
Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 4-6, 6-4, [10-7]
• Men's wheelchair doubles final: Martin De la
Puente (ESP) and Nicolas Peifer (FRA) defeated
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid (GBR) 4-6, 7-5 [10-
6]
• Women's wheelchair doubles final: Diede De
Groot and Annie Van Koot (NED) defeated Rui
Kamiji (JPN ) and Kgothatso Montjane (RSA) 6-2,
6-2
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• Quad wheelchair doubles final: Sam Schroder
and Niels Vink (NED) defeated Robert Shaw (CAN)
and David Wagner (USA) 6-1, 6-2
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• Boys' junior wheelchair singles final: Ben Bartram
(GBR) defeated Dahnon Ward (GBR) 6-4, 6-1
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• Girls' junior wheelchair singles final: Jade Moreira
Lanai (BRA) defeated Yuma Takamuro (JPN) 7-5,
2-6, 7-6 (10-5)
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• Boys' junior wheelchair doubles final: Ben
Bartram and Dahnon Ward (GBR) defeated Saalim
Naser (AUS) and Ivar van Rijt (NED) 6-4, 6-3
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• Girls' junior wheelchair doubles final: Jade
Moreira Lanai (BRA) and Maylee Phelps (USA)
defeated Ruby Bishop (GBR) and Lily
Lautenschlager (USA) 6-
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• Girls' junior singles final: Alexandra Eala (PHI)
defeated Lucie Havlickova (CZE) 6-2, 6-4
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• Boys' junior singles final: Martin Landaluce (ESP)
defeated Gilles Arnaud Bailly (BEL) 7-6 [7-3], 5-7,
6-2
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• Girls' junior doubles final: Lucie Havlickova (CZE)
and Diana Shnaider defeated Carolina Kuhl and
Ella Seidel (GER) 6-3, 6-2
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• Boys' junior doubles final: Nishesh Basavareddy
and Ozan Baris (USA) defeated Dylan Dietrich
(SUI) and Juan Carlos Prado Angelo (BOL) 6-1, 6-1
• Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova made
history at the 2022 US Open on Sunday, and they
pulled off a comeback in the women's doubles final
on Arthur Ashe Stadium to do it.
52. 2
Leclerc, who finished second after another
questionable strategy decision from Ferrari on its
home track. With just six races remaining, the
Dutch driver could mathematically clinch the title
in Singapore next month.
53. 4
In a first of its kind in Nagaland, Naga Mircha
(Naga King Chilli) Festival 2022 was organised at
Seiyhama Village under Kohima district. The
festival was sponsored by the Department of
Horticulture. Naga Mircha was the first product to
receive a GI tag from Nagaland. Naga Mircha is
popularly known as Raja Mircha or the 'king chili'.
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Chennai-based space tech startup Agnikul said it
has been awarded an Indian patent for the design
and manufacturing of its single-piece rocket engine
Agnilet. Agnilet is a single-piece 3D-printed rocket
engine designed and manufactured in India after
being test-fired in early 2021.Agnikul was the first
IIT-M incubated startup to sign a deal with ISRO to
utilise the space organisation's facilities as a test
bed.
55. 4
Pavan C. Lall has authored the book "Forging
Mettle : Nrupender Rao and the Pennar Story".
Forging Mettle: Nrupender Rao and the Pennar
Story by Pavan C. Lall is a unique story of how a
business built with ethics, social and
environmental concern at the core of its values can
indeed be profitable and sustainable. Pavan C. Lall
is a Mumbai-based author and journalist
56. 4
INS Satpura and P8I Maritime Patrol Aircraft
participated in Multinational Naval Ex Kakadu
hosted by the Royal Australian Navy. The two-
week-long Exercise,both in harbour and
sea,involved ships and maritime aircraft from 14
Navies.The ship's crew engaged in operational
planning interactions and sports activities with
participating Navies
57. 4
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras)
is the first academic institute in the country to join
an IBM programme promoting quantum computing
development and research.
As a member of the IBM Quantum Network, IIT
Madras will get cloud-based access to the
American company's advanced quantum
computing systems and expertise to explore
applications.
Sandip Patel - Managing Director, IBM India.
IIT Madras' Centre for Quantum Information,
Communication and Computing (CQuICC) will
focus on advancing core algorithms in research
areas like quantum machine learning, quantum
optimisation, and applications research in finance.
58. 1
India will host the G-20 leaders' summit in New
Delhi on September 9 and 10 in 2023 under its
Presidency.
India will assume the Presidency of the G20 for
one year from December 1, 2022, to November
30, 2023, and is expected to host over 200
meetings across the country, beginning in
December this year.
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Collectively, the G20 accounts for 85 per cent of
global GDP.
• The G20, or Group of Twenty, is an
intergovernmental forum of the world's major
developed and developing economies. It comprises
19 countries"Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada,
China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy,
Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi
Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, and the
US"and the European Union (EU).
• Collectively, the G20 accounts for 75 per cent of
international trade and two-thirds of the world
population, making it the premier forum for
international economic cooperation. India is
currently part of the G20 Troika (current, previous
and incoming G20 Presidencies) comprising
Indonesia, Italy and India.
• India, as G20 Presidency, will be inviting
Bangladesh, Egypt, Mauritius, Netherlands,
Nigeria, Oman, Singapore, Spain and UAE as Guest
countries, said the MEA.
• The G20 currently comprises:
• # Finance Track, with 8 work streams (Global
Macroeconomic Policies, Infrastructure Financing,
International Financial Architecture, Sustainable
Finance, Financial Inclusion, Health Finance,
International Taxation, Financial Sector Reforms).
# Sherpa Track, with 12 work streams (Anti-
corruption, Agriculture, Culture, Development,
Digital Economy, Employment, Environment and
Climate, Education, Energy Transition, Health,
Trade and Investment, Tourism)
# 10 Engagement Groups of private sector/civil
society/independent bodies (Business 20, Civil 20,
Labour 20, Parliament 20, Science 20, Supreme
Audit Institutions 20, Think 20, Urban 20, Women
20 and Youth 20).
59. 2
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is India's most-
valuable brand in 2022 replacing HDFC Bank,
which held the number one spot since 2014,
according to Kantar BrandZ report on India's most-
valuable brands.India's top-75 brands are worth
$393 billion, Kantar said in its report.Telecom
providers " led by Airtel at number 4 and Jio at
number 10
60. 4
The sixth edition of Japan-India Maritime Exercise
2022 (JIMEX 22), hosted by the Indian Navy,
began in the Bay of Bengal. The Indian Navy is
being represented by three indigenously designed
and built warships; Sahyadri, a multi-purpose
stealth frigate and Anti-Submarine Warfare
Corvettes Kadmatt and Kavaratti. This edition
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marks the 10th anniversary of JIMEX, which began
in Japan in 2012.
61. 1
Roger Federer on September 15 announced that
he is set to retire from professional tennis after
next week's Laver Cup.
The Swiss tennis legend (41) has won 20 Grand
Slam titles. Following knee injuries, Federer has
not competed since Wimbledon in July 2021.
He has won 103 ATP singles titles, the second
most of all time after Jimmy Connors.
62. 4
The Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in
West Bengal's Darjeeling has been adjudged the
best zoo in the country, while Kolkata's Alipore
Zoological Garden has secured the fourth position.
Central Zoo Authority released the ranking list.
rignar Anna Zoological Park in Chennai has
secured the second position, Sri Chamarajendra
Zoological Garden in Karnataka came third
The Red Panda is one of the top attractions of
PNHZP
63. 3
The Finance Ministry has issued draft guidelines for
Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) to raise resources
from capital market, paving the way for raising
funds via rights issue, private placement with
select investors such as large banks and insurance
companies, and initial public offerings (IPO).
Currently,there are 43 RRBs sponsored by 12
Scheduled Commercial Banks with 21,892 branch
• RRBs shall issue the Perpetual Debt
Instruments in Indian currency only.Â
• RRB's planning to make an initial public offering
to raise capital must have at least Rs 300 crore of
net worth for the previous three years, according
to the draft guidelines
• They should also have their capital adequacy
above the regulatory minimum level of 9%.
64. 4
The 2022 annual summit of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Heads of State
Council was held on September 15-16 in
Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan took over the
chairmanship of the organization from Tajikistan
on September 17, 2021.
65. 4
Varanasi has been nominated as the first-ever SCO
Tourism and Cultural Capital for the year 2022-
2023 at the 22nd Meeting of Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO) summit at Uzbekistan's
Samarkand.
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Notably, the regulations for the nomination of the
SCO Tourism and Cultural Capital were adopted at
the Dushanbe SCO Summit in 2021.
66. 3
Iran has signed a memorandum of commitments
to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
(SCO), giving boost to India's focus on an inclusive
connectivity agenda in the Eurasian region that
would function parallel to China's Belt and Road
Initiative. The value of Iran's exports to India
increased by 35% in the first seven months of
2022, compared with a year earlier.
67. 1
Kerala-based CSB Bank announced the
appointment of Pralay Mondal as new Managing
Director and CEO of the bank.
Mondal's appointment is for a period of three years
from September 15, 2022 up to September 14,
2025 in line with the approval of RBI.
Mondal held the position of interim Managing
Director & CEO of the Bank with effect from April
1, 2022 till date.
68. 2
The Election Commission of India released a new
digital publication 'BLO e-Patrika' at an interactive
session held with BLOs spread across the States in
India.
The magazine will be available in English, Hindi
and regional languages.
The themes of the bimonthly e-Patrika will include
subjects like EVM-VVPAT training, IT applications,
Special Summary Revision, etc.
69. 4
A goal each from young N. Sivasakthi and
seasoned Alan Costa in the first and second half
respectively set up the victory for Bengaluru FC,
which beat its Indian Super League (ISL) rival
Mumbai City FC 2-1 in the final of the 131st
Durand Cup to claim its maiden crown in the
historic competition.
The final match took place at the Salt Lake
Stadium in Kolkata.
70. 1
Ace grappler Bajrang Punia became the only
Indian to claim four medals at the World Wrestling
Championships by clinching a bronze in the current
edition, in Belgrade, Serbia.
It is Bajrang's third bronze at the worlds. The
celebrated Indian wrestler had earlier won a
bronze at in 2013, silver in 2018 and bronze in
2019.
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71. 2
The US Agency for International Development and
UNICEF launched the Doordarshan and YouTube
series titled Door Se Namaste at function held in
New Delhi. Door Se Namaste is a new television
series which promotes healthy behaviours in a
post-pandemic world.
Prasar Bharti CEO - Mayank Agrawal
72. 2
Swati Piramal, Vice Chairperson, Piramal Group
has been conferred the Chevalier de la Légion
d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour). The
highest French civilian award comes in recognition
of Piramal's outstanding achievements and
contribution in the fields of business and industry,
science, medicine, art and culture, both nationally
and internationally. She was earlier honoured with
Padma Shri by the government of India in 2012.
73. 2
Union Jal Shakti Minister declared Andaman and
Nicobar Islands as India's first Swachh Sujal
Pradesh. Speaking at a function in Port Blair, he
handed over the certificate to Lieutenant Governor
Admiral DK Joshi.
On World Water Day, 22 March 2021, Andaman
and Nicobar Islands was declared to have achieved
100% coverage of rural households with tap water
connection. Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra
Singh Shekhawat.
74. 3
World Bank approves $150 million loan for Punjab
to improve state's finances, service delivery
The new projects will support the state's
development goals by strengthening the planning,
budgeting and monitoring functions, and
leveraging digital technology, besides increasing
accountability in the public procurement systems
by supporting the state-wide implementation of
new legal and policy reforms.
The USD 150 million loans have a maturity of 15
years.
Auguste Tano Kouame, the World Bank's Country
Director in India.
75. 4
The Film Federation of India has announced India's
official entry to the Oscars 2023. The Gujarati film,
Chhello Show, which is titled Last Film Show in
English, has been selected as India's official entry
to the 95th Academy Awards. It has been selected
in the Best International Feature Film category.
The film is directed by Pan Nalin.
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The Maharashtra government will rename the
Daulatabad fort located near Aurangabad city to its
old name 'Devgiri', state Tourism Minister Mangal
Prabhat Lodha has said.
The fort was renamed Daulatabad by Mohammed
Tughlaq in the 14th Century who understood its
importance as a base for military operations in
southern India.
77. 4
ENC Yachting Championship was conducted at
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh by the Indian
Navy Watermanship Training Centre, INS Circars
under the aegis of Headquarters Eastern Naval
Command (HQENC). Cmde Sumantra Hazarika,
Director MWC (V), was the Chief Guest for the
Prize Distribution and Closing ceremony.
• A total of 38 races were conducted in Enterprise
Dinghy, ILCA 6, ILCA 7 classes and BicNova Wind
Surfer.
78. 3
Google Cloud announced it has launched the first
cohort of the its computing foundations with
Kubernetes course in collaboration with
FutureSkills Prime, an IT Ministry and Nasscom
digital skilling initiative.
The beginner-level course aims to provide
participants an opportunity to experience cloud
computing, cloud basics, big data and machine
learning (ML).
79. 3
Veteran industrialist Ratan Tata, former Supreme
Court judge KT Thomas, and former deputy Lok
Sabha speaker Kariya Munda have been nominated
as trustees of the PM CARES Fund.
Prime Minister is the ex-officio Chairman of the PM
CARES Fund and the Minister of Defence, Minister
of Home Affairs and Minister of Finance,
Government of India are ex-officio Trustees of the
Fund.
• As per the PMO, the Trust further decided to
nominate other eminent persons for the
constitution of Advisory Board to the PM CARES
Fund. These eminent personalities included: Rajiv
Mehrishi, Former Comptroller and Auditor General
of India; Sudha Murthy, Former Chairperson,
Infosys Foundation, and Anand Shah, Co-founder
of Teach for India and Former CEO of Indicorps
and Piramal Foundation.
80. 1
CCI Approves Jio Cinema OTT Merger With
Viacom18 Media
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The approval of the The Competition Commission
of India (CCI) is required for deals that entail
acquisition of shares, assets, control or voting
rights if the involved parties have assets in excess
of INR 2,000 Cr in India or a turnover in excess of
INR 6,000 Cr. This is strictly to ensure the
prevention of unfair trade practices in the
business.
81. 2
India to host maiden MotoGP race in 2023; to be
labelled as 'Grand Prix of Bharat'. MotoGP
commercial rights owner Dorna and Noida-based
race promoters Fairstreet Sports signed a MoU to
host the premier two-wheel racing event in India
for the next seven years.
The Buddh International Circuit, which will be
hosting the MotoGP race, was once home to the
Formula 1 Indian Grand Prix, held for three
consecutive years from 2011 till 2013.
82. 2
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) reduced its
forecast for India's gross domestic product growth
for the fiscal year 2022"2023 (FY23) to 7% from
7.2%, citing weak global demand and tightening
monetary policy to combat inflationary pressures
brought on by high prices for oil and other
commodities.
Takeo Konishi, the ADB's country director for
India.
83. 3
Union Minister for education and skill development
Dharmendra Pradhan has launched the Skill
Certification Assessment for Leather Employees
(SCALE) app which aims to provide a one-stop
solution for the skilling, learning, assessment, and
employment needs of the leather industry. The
app was launched at the Central Leather Research
Institute (CSIR), Chennai.
84. 3
Coast Guards from India and America conducted
joint exercise Abhyas off the coast of the southern
Indian city of Chennai.Joint exercise 'Abhyas-
01/22' marked the culmination of the four-day
goodwill visit of the US Coast Guard ship Midgett
to Chennai.The focus of the exercise was to
familiarise the personnel of Coast Guards of both
the nations with each other's capabilities
85. 2
The Central government appointed Dr Rajiv Bahl
currently posted in WHO as a Director General of
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Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) cum-
Secretary Department of Health Research (DHR)
for a period of 3 years.
ICMR, New Delhi, the apex body in India for the
formulation, coordination and promotion of
biomedical research.
ICMR has 27 institutes located in different parts of
India.
86. 3
Britannia Industries, maker of the popular Good
Day and Tiger biscuits, has appointed Rajneet
Kohli as its Executive Director & Chief Executive
Officer. The company also announced that it has
elevated Varun Berry to Executive Vice-Chairman
and Managing Director.
Kohli will takeover as the position w.e.f 26th
September, 2022 and will report to Varun Berry.
87. 4
Dilip Tirkey, a former India hockey captain and
member of the gold medal-winning team at the
1998 Asian Games, was unanimously elected as
Hockey India (HI) president. First time in history, a
former sportsperson and an Olympian has gone on
to head the national body.He represented India at
the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in
2000, and Athens in 2004.
88. 1
India has exported the first consignment of plant-
based meat products from Nadiad in the Kheda
district of Gujarat to California in the United
States. In a move to boost exports of unique
agricultural processed food products, the
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export
Authority facilitated the export of the first
consignment under the Vegan Food category.
89. 3
The Government of India has launched a Scheme
Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment
for 2022-23. Under this Scheme, financial
assistance is provided to the States Governments
in the form of 50-year interest free loan for capital
investment projects.
• Under Part V (Optical Fibre Cable) of the Scheme,
an amount of Rs 3000 Crore is earmarked and will
be available to States for capital projects on
Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) network.Â
• On the recommendation of Department of
Telecommunications, Department of Expenditure
has recently approved proposals of four States
namely Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Haryana and
Karnataka with allocation as 50 Cr, 84 Cr, 65 Cr
and 156 Cr respectively.Â
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90. 2
India has announced the launch of the "Innovation
Roadmap of the Mission Integrated Biorefineries"
developed by co-leads and active inputs from
Brazil, Canada, EC and the UK.The Mission aims at
greater international collaboration and the need for
increased financing for Energy Research,
Development, and Demonstration during the next
five years to kickstart this object
• Â "Innovation Roadmap of the Mission Integrated
Biorefineries" aims to fill the void by identifying
gaps and challenges in current biorefining value
chains, prioritising Eight key actions to support the
Mission, and guiding the Mission's overall path in
achieving its goal.Â
• India is continually working towards transforming
the energy landscape of country with significant
clean energy share and added that by 2030, India
agreed to reach 500-Gigawatt non-fossil energy
capacity, shift 50% of energy requirements to
renewable energy, lower overall anticipated carbon
emissions by one billion tons, reduce carbon
intensity of the economy by 45% over 2005 levels,
and achieve net zero emissions by 2070.
91. 4
Real Time Train Information System (RTIS),
developed in collaboration with ISRO, is being
installed on the locomotives for automatic
acquisition of train movement timing at the
stations, including that of arrival & departure or
run-through. They get automatically plotted on the
control chart of those trains in the Control Office
Application (COA) system.
92. 1
REC has been accorded with the status of a
'Maharatna' Central Public Sector Enterprise, thus
giving REC greater operational and financial
autonomy. An order to this effect was issued
yesterday by the Department of Public Enterprises,
under the Ministry of Finance. Incorporated in
1969, REC is an NBFC focusing on Power Sector
Financing and Development across India. Vivek
Kumar Dewangan- CMD, REC
• The Board of a 'Maharatna' CPSE can make
equity investments to undertake financial joint
ventures and wholly-owned subsidiaries and
undertake mergers and acquisitions in India and
abroad, subject to a ceiling of 15% of the Net
Worth of the concerned CPSE, limited to ₹5,000
crores in one project.
• The Board can also structure and implement
schemes relating to personnel and Human
Resource Management and Training. With this,
REC can also enter into technology Joint Ventures
or other strategic alliances among others.
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• In FY22, REC made its highest ever net profit of
₹10,046 crores and reached a net worth of
₹50,986 crores, owing to its cost-effective
resource management and strong financial
policies. REC has played a key role in the success
of the flagship schemes of the Government of
India such as DDUGJY and SAUBHAGYA and has
contributed towards achieving village and
household electrification in the country. REC is
currently playing the role of nodal agency for
Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS), for
revamping the distribution sector to alleviate the
financial & operational issues.Â
93. 2
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar inaugurated the
third edition of the Lok Manthan programme in
Guwahati. Lokmanthan is an august occasion
where artists, intellectuals, and academicians are
drawn from different parts of the country converge
and brainstorm on the questions that haunt the
society.The theme of this year's biennale is
Lokparampara (Lok traditions)
94. 2
Sanjai Kumar has taken charge as the Chairman &
Managing Director of RailTel Corporation of India
Limited, a PSU which provided broadband, VPN
and other communication services for Indian
Railways.
RailTel is a "Mini Ratna (Category-I)" Central
Public Sector Enterprise incorporated on
September 26, 2000.
95. 2
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar released a book
titled "Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay - Jeevan
Darshan Aur Samsamyikta" in a programme in
New Delhi. He also highlighted the relevance of
Pandit Deendayal's thoughts in contemporary
times.
96. 3
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate
Change will launch the 'Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan'
programme under National Clean Air Programme
2019 (NCAP) to rank cities based on their actions
to improve air quality. It will rank 131 cities in the
country for implementing City Action Plans
prepared as part of NCAP for reducing air pollution
up to 40 per cent by 2025-26.
• According to the World Air Quality Report of
2021, India ranked fifth among the 117 mostÂ
• In India, only the Delhi-National Capital Region
(NCR) has a dedicated agency to tackle the
menace of air pollution.Â
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• At least 131 cities are categorised into three
groups based on population. The first group has 47
cities with a population of over one million, and 44
cities in the second group have people between
300,000 to one million. The third group consists of
40 towns with less than 300,000 population.
• According to the NCAP, these 131 cities are non-
attainment cities as they did not meet the nation's
ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for 2011-
15 under the National Air Quality Monitoring
Programme (NAMP).
97. 2
Indian activist-author-poet Meena Kandasamy has
been announced as the recipient of the Hermann
Kesten Award 2022, which is given by the PEN
Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. The award is given
to Kandasamy in honour and recognition of her
support for the rights of victimized writers. Meena
Kandaswamy's work: "The Gypsy Goddess,"
(2014) and "When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the
Writer as a Young Wife" (2017). She has also
published anthologies of her poems, most notably
"Ms Militancy" (2010) and
"#ThisPoemWillProvokeYou and Other Poems"
(2015).
98. 4
The Indian Army and the Defence Geoinformatics
and Research Establishment (DGRE) have jointly
installed the Avalanche Monitoring Radar, first of
its kind in India, in north Sikkim. This radar has
the capability to detect avalanches within three
seconds of their triggering and will assist in saving
valuable life of troops and civilians as also vehicles
in super high altitude
99. 2
Amazon announced the setting up of its first solar
farm in India. The e-commerce major will be
setting up three solar power projects with a
capacity of 420 megawatt (MW) in Rajasthan.
These would include a 210 MW project to be
developed by ReNew Power, a 100 MW project to
be developed by Amp Energy India, and a 110 MW
project to be developed by Brookfield Renewable
Partners
100. 4
Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) under the
Ministry of Finance has given in-principle approval
for an innovative urban transport ropeway project
worth Rs 1,546.4 crore for Shimla city.
The ropeway network will have a length of 14.9
km, with several boarding and disembarking
points.
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Eco-friendly mode of transportation as the project
will be carbon neutral.
101. 2
Senior bureaucrat Rajendra Kumar has been
appointed the director general of the Employees'
State Insurance Corporation.
He is currently an additional secretary in the
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
ESIC, Chairman: Minister of State for Labour &
Employment (Independent Charge).
Shri Rameswar Teli : Minister of State for Labour &
Employment (Independent Charge).
102. 3
Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge shattered his own world
record on Sunday (25 September), with a time of
2:01:09 to win the Berlin marathon.
Kipchoge's previous best in an official 42.2km race
was 2:01:39 set on the same course in 2018.
Ethiopia's Tigist Assefa won the women's race in a
course record of 2:15:37, the third fastest time in
history.
103. 4
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya
inaugurated "Arogya Manthan 2022" to celebrate
four years of the implementation of Ayushman
Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-
JAY) and one year of the Ayushman Bharat Digital
Mission (ABDM) on September 25. AB-PMJAY
completed four years of its implementation on
Sept 23, 2022, and Ayushman Bharat Digital
Mission on 27 Sept. India has achieved another
milestone in its digital health journey as Ayushman
Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) crossed the
landmark of one crore digitally linked health
records with over 27 lakh records linked in a single
day. Union Health Minister
104. 4
Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry launched
Swachh Toycathon, a unique competition to make
toys from waste.The competition will be open to
individuals and groups to bring forth innovation in
toy designs using dry waste. It will focus on
efficient designs that can be replicated at a larger
scale, and toys that comply with minimum safety
standards.
The competition will be hosted on MyGov's
innovate India portal.
• Center for Creative Learning, IIT Gandhinagar is
the knowledge partner for the initiative.
• The demand for toys in the country is increasing
due to strong economic growth, rising disposable
incomes, and several innovations for the junior
population. National Action Plan for Toys 2020 was
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introduced to promote the Indian toy industry
including traditional handicrafts and handmade
toys with the objective of establishing India as a
global Toy hub.
• The Department for Promotion of Industry and
Internal Trade along with 14 Ministries of Central
Government is currently implementing various
aspects of the National Action Plan for Toys.
105. 4
Ageas Federal Life Insurance has become the first
Indian life insurer to have 74% foreign
shareholding following the exit of IDBI Bank which
sold its entire 25% stake to Ageas Insurance
International NV. Belgium-based Ageas Insurance
International's stake in the life insurance company
is now 74% from the earlier 49%.Federal Bank
continues to hold the remaining 26% stake.
As a part of the Union Budget for FY22, the
government had increased the permissible limit for
foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance
companies to 74% from 49%, thereby accepting a
long-standing demand of the industry.
106. 2
Gautam Adani and family, with an estimated
wealth of ₹10,94,400 crore, has topped the IIFL
Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2022, which was
released. With 116% growth as compared with the
2021 list, his daily wealth creation velocity is
estimated at ₹1,612 crore. Mukesh Ambani and
family has been named as the second richest in
India with wealth of ₹7,94,700 crore
• Founder of Nykaa - Falguni Nayar,  59, has
overtaken Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, 69, to become
the richest self-made Indian woman.  Co-
founder of Confluent, a streaming data technology
company, Neha Narkhede, 37, is the youngest
self-made woman entrepreneur in India.
• As per the list, there are 1,103 individuals with
₹1,000 crore wealth, up by 96 from last year.Â
Thirteen people born in 90s made to the list, all
self-made. Bengaluru -based Kaivalya Vohra, 19,
of grocery delivery app Zepto is the youngest self-
made and the youngest rich individual.Â
• With 283 individuals, Mumbai tops the India Rich
list followed by New Delhi (185) and Bengaluru
(89). Mumbai added 28. As many as 14
professional managers made it to the list.
107. 3
India will get its first flex-fuel vehicle, which can
run on ethanol blended petrol and battery next
month. The Flex Fuel Strong Hybrid Electric
Vehicles (FFV-SHEV) imported from Brazil will be
used as a pilot to assess its performance in terms
of reduced carbon emissions.
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The vehicle will be flagged off by Union road
transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari.
108. 2
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried
out searches in 21 states/Union Territory in
relation to the circulation and sharing of Child
Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).
CBI launched the operation - code-named 'Megha
Chakra' - following inputs from Interpol
headquarters, Crime against Children unit in
Singapore.Subodh Kumar Jaiswal current CBI
director.
109. 1
GM Magnus Carlsen (Norway) won the Julius Baer
Generation Cup, needing just two games vs. GM
Arjun Erigaisi (India)
Carlsen's performance makes him the first player
to hit the historic 2900 Tour Rating mark and he
has also reached $180,000 in earnings on the
Tour. Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa stands second
with $106,500.
110. 2
Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party
won the Italian election, defeating Mario Draghi by
a huge margin. By doing so, Giorgia has become
Italy's first female prime minister, and that too, of
a right-wing government.According to media
reports, the alliance claimed over 43% votes,
which would translate to 114 seats in the Senate.
111. 3
Rural Development Ministry has developed
JALDOOT App to capture the water level of
selected wells in a village across the country. The
Jaldoot app will enable Gram Rojgar Sahayak to
measure the water level of selected wells twice a
year (pre-monsoon and post-monsoon). In every
village, adequate number of measurement
locations (2-3) shall need to be selected.
112. 4
The Uttar Pradesh government has emerged as the
top buyer on the Government e-Marketplace portal
with a gross merchandise value (GMV) of more
than Rs 24,000 crore. The central government's
GeM portal, launched by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi in August 2016, is an end-to-end e-
marketplace, where commonly used goods and
services are procured by the government agencies.
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113. 2
As per the Sample Registration System (SRS)
Statistical Report 2020 released on 22nd
September 2022 by Registrar General of India
(RGI), the country has been witnessing a
progressive reduction in IMR, U5MR and NMR since
2014 towards achieving the SDG's.
• Under 5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) for the country
has shown significant decline of 3 points (Annual
Decline Rate: 8.6 per cent) from 2019 (32 per
1,000 live births in 2020 against 35 per 1,000 live
births in 2019). It varies from 36 in rural areas to
21 in urban areas.
• U5MR for Female is higher (33) than male (31).
There has been a decline of 4 points in male U5MR
and 3 points in female U5MR during the
corresponding period. The highest decline of U5MR
has been observed in the state of Uttar Pradesh (5
points) and Karnataka (5 points).
• The Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) has also
registered 2-point decline to 28 per 1,000 live
births in 2020 from 30 per 1,000 live births in
2019 (Annual Decline Rate: 6.7 per cent). The
Rural-Urban difference has narrowed to 12 points
(Urban 19, Rural 31).
• The Neonatal Mortality Rate has also declined by
2 points from 22 per 1,000 live births in 2019 to
20 per 1,000 live births in 2020 (Annual Decline
Rate: 9.1 per cent). It ranges from 12 in urban
areas to 23 in rural areas.
114. 4
An Integrated Cryogenic Engine Manufacturing
Facility (ICMF) set up by Hindustan Aeronautics
Limited that would cater to the entire rocket
engine production under one roof for Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) was inaugurated by
President Droupadi Murmu.
On that occasion, the President also laid the
foundation stone for the Zonal Institute of Virology
(South Zone).
• The state-of-the-art ICMF, set up over an area of
4,500 square metres houses over 70 hi-tech
equipment and testing facilities for manufacturing
cryogenic (CE20) and semi-cryogenic (SE2000)
engines of Indian rockets.
• In 2013, an MOU was signed with ISRO for
establishing the facility for manufacturing
cryogenic engine modules at HAL, Aerospace
Division, and it was subsequently amended in
2016 for setting up of ICMF with an investment of
Rs 208 crore.
• Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot,
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, ISRO
Chairman S Somanath, HAL Chairman and
Managing Director C B Ananthakrishnan, among
others were present at the event.
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• HAL Aerospace Division manufactures liquid
propellant tanks and launch vehicle structures of
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV),
Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV
MK-II), GSLV Mk-III and also stage integration for
GSLV MK-II.
• Cryogenic engines are the most widely used
engines world over in launch vehicles, the
statement said. Due to the complex nature of the
cryogenic engine, till date only a few countries "
the USA, France, Japan, China and Russia "
have mastered the cryogenic technology.
• On January 5, 2014, India successfully flew
GSLV-D5 with a cryogenic engine and became the
sixth country in developing cryogenic engines
(made by ISRO through private industries) and
became the sixth country in developing cryogenic
engines.
115. 3
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has
replaced his father King Salman as prime minister.
The decree promoted Prince Mohammed's brother
Prince Khalid from deputy defence minister to
defence minister.
Prince Mohammed has previously served as deputy
prime minister.
116. 3
The Information & Broadcasting Ministry
announced that Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2020
will be presented to Asha Parekh. The award will
be presented at the National Film Award ceremony
in New Delhi.
The Minister also announced that the 68 th
National Film Awards will be held on September
30, 2022 and will be presided over by the
President Droupadi Murmu.
• The jury for the selection of 52nd Dadasaheb
Phalke award included Asha Bhosle, Hema Malini,
Poonam Dhillon, T. S. Nagabharana and Udit
Narayan.
117. 2
The Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) carried out two successful
test flights of the Very-Short Range Air Defence
System (VSHORADS) missile.
The missiles were test-fired from a ground-based
portable launcher. The tests were carried out from
the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, located
off the coast of Odisha.
• VSHORADS is a Man Portable Air Defence System
(MANPAD) designed and developed indigenously
by DRDO's Research Centre Imarat (RCI),
Hyderabad in collaboration with other DRDO
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laboratories and Indian Industry Partners, the
ministry said.
• VSHORADS missile incorporates many novel
technologies including miniaturized Reaction
Control System (RCS) and integrated avionics,
which have been successfully proven during the
tests.
118. 2
Addressing the 10th BRICS meet of science and
technology ministers, Sh. Jitendra Singh said there
were several areas where the people in the BRICS
nations directly benefited from "our mutual
cooperation such as establishment of a vaccine
R&D centre, BRICS Network University,
establishment of shared satellite constellation ,
and mutual recognition of pharma products".
Sh. Jitenadra Singh: Union Science and
Technology Minister. Dr Jitendra Singh thanked
China for hosting 2022 BRICS Summit successfully
and organising a series of high-level sectoral
meetings including the 10th Meeting of BRICS S&T
Ministers and 12th Meeting of Senior officials.
119. 1
The government, World Bank and Small Industries
Development Bank of India (SIDBI) are set to
launch a $1 billion fund to provide guarantees
against loan default to lenders financing the
purchase of electric two- and three-wheelers.
The Niti Aayog is the facilitating agency for the
project, aimed at facilitating faster and easier
financing of electric vehicles.
120. 4
The government has launched a new mobile app
called 'Sign Learn' with an aim to make the Indian
Sign Language dictionary more accessible to the
masses. The app, which is available for both
Android and iPhone, was launched by Minister of
State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Pratima
Bhoumik.
• The Sign Learn app is based on the Indian Sign
Language Research and Training Centre's (ISLRTC)
Indian sign language dictionary and includes
10,000 words.
• The Indian Sign Language Research and
Training Centre (ISLRTC) recently signed an
MoU with the National Council of Educational
Research and Training (NCERT). This move was
to convert NCERT textbooks from classes 1 to 12
into the Indian Sign Language (digital format). The
digital copy will be available to students with
hearing disabilities.
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121. 3
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation
stone of the world's first CNG terminal at
Bhavnagar. The Foresight Group had signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the
Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) for the
development of the CNG Terminal in Gujarat
during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Business Summit
2019.
• The port will be developed at a cost of ₹4024
crores and will have state-of-the-art infrastructure
for the world's first CNG terminal along with a
state-of-the-art world's fourth largest lock gate
system.
• The construction of the port is expected to
commence in the first half of 2023 and the port
will be operational in 2026.
• The Prime Minister also inaugurated the Regional
Science Centre in Bhavnagar which is spread in 20
acres and built at a cost of ₹100 crore.
The Regional Science Centre (RSC) Bhavnagar is
situated near Das Nala, Nari Gam, Ahmedabad
highway, Bhavnagar.
• Sh. Prime Minister also inaugurated the APPL
Container (AAWADKRUPA PLASTOMECH PVT.
LTD). After the announcement of Prime Minister's
'Make In India', the Government of India had
established a container's manufacturing hub at
Bhavnagar.
• The first prototype container was manufactured
in 2019.
122. 1
The Centre has decided to appoint Lt General Anil
Chauhan (retd) as the next Chief of Defence Staff
(CDS). He is only the second person to hold the
post after General Bipin Rawat.
Lt General Anil Chauhan (retd) shall also function
as the Secretary to the Government of India,
Department of Military Affairs.
He was commissioned into the 11 Gorkha Rifles of
the Indian Army in 1981.
123. 1
Senior advocate R Venkataramani has been
appointed as the new Attorney General of India for
a period of three years, by Honarable President of
India. He will succeed KK Venugopal after the
latter's term ends on September 30.
The Attorney General is the Government of India's
first law officer, and has the right of audience in all
courts of the country.
R Venkataramani is the 16th Attorney General of
India (AG).
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124. 3
Reliance Jio Chairman Akash Ambani, son of
billionaire Mukesh Ambani, has been named in the
Time100 Next " the magazine's list of the world's
rising stars. Significantly, he is the only Indian on
the list. However, there is another Indian-born
American business leader, Amrapali Gan, also on
the list.
125. 3
Cardiovascular diseases are the biggest cause of
death in the world and India. It is for that reason
that September 29 is marked as World Heart Day.
The day hopes to promote awareness about the
risks of heart diseases and how to prevent them.
The theme for World Heart Day 2022 is 'Use Heart
For Every Heart'.
• In 1999, the World Heart Federation (WHF) in
association with the World Health Organization
(WHO) decided to mark World Heart Day on the
last Sunday of September. The first World Heart
Day was observed in 2000.
• In 2012, world leaders committed to reducing
the global burden of deaths from non-
communicable diseases, like heart conditions,
diabetes, asthma, cancer and stroke, by 25
percent. As part of this drive, global stakeholders
pushed for the greater importance of World Heart
Day as cardiovascular diseases account for nearly
half of all deaths from non-communicable diseases
in a year. Since then, World Heart Day has been
observed on September 29 with more than 90
countries participating in the event.
126. 2
India climbed six notches to 40th position in the
Global Innovation Index 2022 on account of
improvement in several parameters, according to a
report by the Geneva-based World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO).
Switzerland, the United States, Sweden, the
United Kingdom and the Netherlands are the
world's most-innovative economies.
India was at 46th position in 2021.
WIPO, Director General : Daren Tang.
127. 1
N S Rajan, Director of August One Partners LLP
was unanimously elected as Advertising Standards
Council of India (ASCI)'s Chairman of the Board of
Governors.
Saugata Gupta, Managing Director & CEO, Marico
Limited, was elected Vice-Chairman.
Established in 1985, ASCI is registered as a non-
profit company under section 25 of the Company
Act.
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128. 1
The Adani Group will develop a port in India's West
Bengal state at a planned investment of more than
$3 billion, as the port-to-power conglomerate
continues to bolster its grip over the local
infrastructure and logistics sectors.The greenfield
project will entail a total investment of ₹25,000
crore ($3.1 billion), of which ₹15,000 crore will
go toward port development.
129. 2
Tamil Nadu notified the country's first 'Dugong
Conservation Reserve' in Palk Bay covering the
coastal waters of Thanjavur and Pudukottai
districts with an area of 448 square kilometers.
Dugongs are the largest herbivorous marine
mammals in the world thriving primarily on
seagrass beds, a major carbon sink of the oceans.
Dugongs are protected under Schedule 1 of the
Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972.
130. 4
On the occasion of World Tourism Day,
Uttarakhand received the first prize in two
categories, for the best adventure tourism
destination and all-around development of tourism
from the Ministry of Tourism. The State's Tourism
and Culture minister Satpal Maharaj received the
awards from Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar
during the presentation of National Tourism
Awards 2018-19
131. 2
The Pegatron plant has been set up by the
Taiwanese electronics major under Centre's
popular Production Linked Incentive scheme (PLI),
in an industrial park (Mahindra city) in
Chengalpattu near Chennai. It is the third Apple
vendor to manufacture iPhones in India after
Foxconn and Wistron.
132. 1
Writer Dr. Madhav Hada will be awarded the 32nd
Bihari Puraskar for his 2015 literary criticism book
'Pachrang Chola Pahar Sakhi Ri', the KK Birla
Foundation announced.
Named after famous Hindi poet Bihari, the award
is given every year for an outstanding work
published in the last 10 years by a Rajasthani
author in Hindi or Rajasthani. It carries a cash
prize of ₹2.5 lakh.
133. 1
Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation
(DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti commemorated the
birth anniversary of Father of the Nation, Mahatma
Gandhi as Swachh Bharat Diwas (SBD) on 2nd Oct
89

2022. DDWS implements two flagship programs of
the central government viz; Swachh Bharat
Mission (Grameen) and Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).
134. 4
The University Grants Commission (UGC) said that
Higher Educational Institutions can now create up
to 25 percent supernumerary seats for foreign
students while adopting a transparent admission
process for them.
A seat remained unfilled in the supernumerary
category, shall not be allocated to anyone other
than an international student.
135. 3
President Murmu presents awards to cleanest
States and cities in Swachh Survekshan 2022.
Madhya Pradesh got the first position among
States, followed by Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.
Indore was adjudged the cleanest city for the sixth
time in a row followed by Surat and Navi Mumbai
with populations of above one lakh.
136. 2
Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officers Sujoy
Lal Thaosen and Anish Dayal Singh have been
appointed as the new directors general of the CRPF
and ITBP respectively. Sujoy Lal Thaosen is
currently working as the director general (DG) of
the border guarding force Sashastra Seema Bal
(SSB) and holding the additional charge of the
Indo-Tibetan Border Police. The Central Reserve
Police Force (CRPF) DG post fell vacant on Friday
after IPS officer Kuldiep Singh (1986-batch)
retired.
137. 3
The Central Bureau of Investigation has launched a
multi-phase 'Operation Garuda' against illicit drug
trafficking network, registering 127 new cases,
arresting 175 people and seizing huge quantities of
narcotic drugs.
The operation seeks to target drug networks with
international footprints for action against handlers,
operatives, production zones and support
elements.
138. 2
Global payments and technology company
Mastercard is in talks with Indian banks to roll out
its Carbon Calculator feature, which offers
consumers an estimated carbon footprint for each
of their purchases.
Mastercard Carbon Calculator, developed in
collaboration with Swedish fintech Doconomy, is
currently used in over 25 countries.
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Michael Miebach is the chief executive officer of
Mastercard.
139. 1
Long jumper Jeswin Aldrin qualified for 2023 World
Championship with a 8.26m (8.25m qualification
mark)leap in his final attempt at the National
Game.
Amlan Borgohain of Assam & Jyothi Yarraji of
Andhra Pradesh emerged as the fastest man and
woman in 100m dash events. Jyothi won with a
time of 11.51 seconds and Amlan clocked 10.38s
in the final.
140. 3
Vivek Lall, an Indian-origin General Atomics Global
Corporation chief executive, is honoured with the
Lifetime Achievement Award by US President Joe
Biden with the citation of 'With Grateful
Recognition'.
He is serving as a US Technical Team Member to
the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
Science and Technology (STO) with the Pentagon.
141. 1
The Indian Air Force formally inducted the first
indigenously developed multirole light combat
helicopters (LCH), named Prachand, into its fleet
at its Jodhpur base in Rajasthan in the presence of
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. These helicopters
are capable of destruction of enemy air defence,
performing counter-insurgency operations, combat
search and rescue tasks.
The Light Combat Helicopter has been developed
by state-run aerospace major Hindustan
Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).
According to the Ministry of Defence, 10
helicopters would be for the IAF and five will be for
the Indian Army.
142. 2
Haryana will develop the world's largest jungle
safari park in the Aravalli range.
The 10,000-acre safari park will cover Gurugram
and Nuh districts.
At present, Sharjah is home to the largest curated
safari park outside Africa. Opened in February
2022, the Sharjah Safari covers an area of about
2,000 acres.
143. 1
Pullampara in Kerala became the first grama
panchayat in the country to attain full digital
literacy among its residents.
The 'Digi Pullampara' project was launched on
August 15, 2021 to impart digital education to the
90

most underprivileged sections of society in the
panchayat.
144. 1
Suzlon Energy founder Tulsi Tanti, popularly
known as India's 'wind man', died of cardiac arrest
at 64.
One of the pioneers of the wind energy business in
India and a globally renowned expert on clean
energy, Tanti envisioned the opportunity in the
renewable energy industry back in 1995 when the
global wind energy market was dominated by
international players.
145. 3
Telangana won the first prize under the large
states category under the Swachh Survekshan
Grameen (SSG) 2022 which looks into the
sanitation status of rural areas.
Haryana secured the second position while Tamil
Nadu was third.
The awards were presented by President Droupadi
Murmu.
The Swachh Survekshan Gramin-2022 award is
given by the Jal Shakti ministry
146. 4
Swedish scientist Svante Paabo has been awarded
the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physiology "for his
discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct
hominins and human evolution."
The prizes carry a cash award of 10 mn. Swedish
kronor.
Last year's recipients were David Julius and Ardem
Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the
human body perceives temperature and touch.
Svante Paabo's father Karl Sune Detlof Bergstrom
won the same prize in 1982.
• 2022 NobelPrize laureate Svante Paabo found
that gene transfer had occurred from these now
extinct hominins to Homo sapiens. This ancient
flow of genes to present-day humans has
physiological relevance today, for example
affecting how our immune system reacts to
infections.
147. 1
UNESCO launches list documenting 50 iconic
Indian heritage textiles
Handmade for the 21st Century: Safeguarding
Traditional Indian Textile lists the histories and
legends behind the textiles, describes the
complicated and secret processes behind their
making, mentions the causes for their dwindling
popularity, and provides strategies for their
preservation.
Director-General, Audrey Azoulay | UNESCO.
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• Some of the iconic handcrafted textiles
documented from north India are Khes from
Panipat, Chamba rumals from Himachal
Pradesh, Thigma or wool tie and dye from
Ladakh and Awadh Jamdani from Varanasi.
• From the south, Ilkal and Lambadi or Banjara
embroidery from Karnataka, Sikalnayakanpet
Kalamkari from Thanjavur have been included.
• Kunbi weaves from Goa, Mashru weaves and
Patola from Gujarat, Himroo from
Maharashtra and Garad-Koirial from West
Bengal also find a place among the 50 iconic
textiles.
• Some of the textiles that made the cut include
Toda embroidery and Sungadi from Tamil Nadu,
Himroo weaves from Hyderabad and Bandha tie
and dye weaving from Sambalpur in Odisha.
148. 3
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded to
->Alain Aspect (France)
->John F. Clauser (USA)
->Anton Zeilinger (Australia)
"for experiments with entangled photons,
establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and
pioneering quantum information science".
Their results have cleared the way for new
technology based upon quantum information.
149. 4
National Payments Corporation of India and
Central Bank Of Oman signed a historic MoU to
launch the Rupay debit card in Oman, paving the
way for a new era of financial connectivity.
UAE was the first country in the gulf where RuPay
was launched during PM Modi's August 2019 visit.
RuPay was launched in Singapore in May 2018,
followed by Bhutan and the Maldives.
150. 1
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel won the
United Nations refugee agency's prestigious
Nansen award for her "leadership, courage and
compassion" in ensuring the protection of
hundreds of thousands of desperate people at the
height of the Syria crisis.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees : Filippo
Grandi.
151. 1
In a significant move to boost India's defence
export, the country has signed an export order for
missiles, rockets, and ammunition to Armenia
because of its conflict with Azerbaijan.
In a first, India will also export indigenous Pinaka
multi-barrel rocket launchers.
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Armenia is also set to get anti-tank rockets as well
as a range of ammunition from India under the
deal.
152. 4
The government has approved ₹26,000 crore for
installation of 25,000 mobile towers in 500 days.
The financial support for the project will be
provided by Universal Services Obligation Fund
and will be implemented by Bharat Broadband
Network.
It was announced at the recently concluded 'Digital
India Conference of State IT Ministers' in New
Delhi.
153. 3
American chemist Karl Barry Sharpless, who
shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 with
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, also from the US, and
Denmark's Morten Meldal, is a two-time winner.
They won this year's Nobel for laying the basis of
"click chemistry" - a functional form of chemistry
used in mapping DNA and developing
pharmaceuticals.
• Sharpless was first awarded the chemistry Nobel
in 2001 for working on "chirally catalysed oxidation
reactions". The word chiral refers to molecules
that appear in two mirroring forms.
• Karl Barry Sharpless joined the ranks of Polish-
French physicist Marie Curie, American chemist
Linus Carl Pauling and physicist John Bardeen and
English biochemist Frederick Sanger.
154. 1
President Joe Biden has nominated US Surgeon
General Dr. Vivek Murthy to serve as the country's
representative on the executive board of the World
Health Organization.
He was confirmed by the US Senate in March 2021
to serve as the 21st Surgeon General of the
country. He previously served as the 19th Surgeon
General under President Barack Obama.
155. 4
State-run GAIL said that Sandeep Kumar Gupta
has assumed the charge of Chairman and
Managing Director of the country's largest gas
utility. Before joining GAIL, he held the position of
Director (Finance), from August 2019, on the
Board of Indian Oil Corporation.Gail owns and
operates a diversified business portfolio including
over 14,500 km of natural gas pipeline network,
156. 2
Adani Green Energy Ltd said it has commissioned
the world's largest wind-solar power plant of 600
MW capacity in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.The plant has
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a power purchase agreement with Solar Energy
Corporation of India (SECI) at Rs 2.69/kwh for 25
years, a company statement said.The project
consists of 600 MW solar and 150 MW wind plants
157. 3
Roxy Mathew Koll, a scientist at the Pune-based
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
(IITM),received the American Geophysical Union's
(AGU) 2022 Devendra Lal Memorial Medal. Koll
was selected for his outstanding research in Earth
and space sciences. He will also be conferred as a
Fellow of the AGU. The medal is named in honour
of professor Devendra Lal, a distinguished
geophysicist
158. 2
India has emerged as the world's largest producer
and second largest exporter of sugar. In Sugar
Season 2021-22, a record of more than five
thousand lakh metric tons of sugarcane was
produced in the country. Out of this, 35 lakh
metric ton sugar was diverted to ethanol
production and 359 lakh metric ton of sugar was
produced by sugar mills. October to September is
generally considered as the sugar season in India.
159. 1
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to
French author Annie Ernaux, for the courage and
clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots,
estrangements and collective restraints of personal
memory.
Last year's Nobel literature prize went to the
Tanzanian-born, UK-based writer Abdulrazak
Gurnah.
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and
is worth 10 million Swedish crowns.
160. 2
Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, launched a new
SupTech initiative named DAKSH - Reserve Bank's
Advanced Supervisory Monitoring System", which
is expected to make the Supervisory processes
more robust. DAKSH means 'efficient' &
'competent', reflecting the underlying capabilities
of the application.
• Daksh is a web-based end-to-end workflow
application through which RBI shall monitor
compliance requirements in a more focused
manner with the objective of further improving the
compliance culture in Supervised Entities (SEs) like
Banks, NBFCs, etc. The application will also enable
seamles communication, inspection planning and
execution, cyber incident reporting and analysis,
provision of various MIS reports etc., through a
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Platform which enables anytime-anywhere secure
access.
161. 3
HDFC Life, one of India's leading life insurers has
launched the 'Insure India' campaign that is aimed
at educating Indians on the benefits of life
insurance as a product category.The objective of
this campaign is to educate Indians about life
insurance thereby motivating them to secure their
future with this unique financial product that offers
benefits.
• HDFC Life Insurance Company Limited ('HDFC
Life' / 'Company') is a joint venture between HDFC
Ltd., India's leading housing finance institution and
abrdn (Mauritius Holdings) 2006 Limited, a global
investment company.
• It was Established in 2000
162. 1
Alphabet Inc's Google will set up its first cloud
region in Greece, giving a boost to the country's
efforts to become a world cloud computing hub.A
cloud region usually is based around a cluster of
data centres. Google's investment comes two
years after Microsoft Corp. decided to build a data
centre hub in the country.
Prime Minister of Greece- Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Alphabet Inc's Google will set up its first cloud
region in Greece, giving a boost to the country's
efforts to become a world cloud computing hub.A
cloud region usually is based around a cluster of
data centres. Google's investment comes two
years after Microsoft Corp. decided to build a data
centre hub in the country.
Prime Minister of Greece- Kyriakos Mitsotakis
163. 1
The World Bank slashed its growth estimate for
India by one percentage point to 6.5 per cent for
FY23, citing the blowback of the Russia-Ukraine
war and ongoing global monetary policy
tightening.This is the lowest growth estimate by
any multilateral agency for FY23. Reserve Bank of
India pared its growth estimate for FY23 to 7 per
cent from 7.2 per cent estimated earlier.
164. 3
The Norwegian Nobel Committee declared
Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, Russian human
rights organisation Memorial, and the Ukrainian
NGO Center for Civil Liberties (CLL) as the winners
of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. The three of them
have been awarded for "outstanding effort to
document war crimes, human rights abuses, and
abuse of power".
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LIC and Central Central Government decided to
divest 60.72% stake in IDBI Bank.
LIC and Central Govt own close to 94% in IDBI
Bank, of which the Centre has 45.48% stake and
LIC has 49.24%, as of June 30. As per the plan,
the Centre will divest a 30.48% stake while LIC
will sell off 30.24%.
This would be the first attempt to privatise a public
sector bank in India.
CCEA agreed to its strategic disinvestment and
transfer management control in May 2021.
The IDBI Bank sale will contribute to the FY23
divestment target of the Centre of Rs 65,000
crore. It has already raised Rs 24,544 crore, most
of it by listing the country's biggest insurer LIC in
May.
The Centre has been targeting to divest several
companies, like BEML, Shipping Corp, Concor,
Vizag Steel, IDBI Bank, Nagarnar Steel Plant of
NMDC, and HLL Lifecare.
Expression of Interest is invited for Strategic
Disinvestment of specified GoI and LIC stakes in
IDBI Bank along with transfer of management
control.
IDBI was constituted as a Development Financial
Institute (DFI) in 1964 and later transformed as a
Bank in 2004.
166. 4
The Centre 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.
The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950,
stipulates that no person professing a religion
different from Hinduism, Sikhism or Buddhism can
be deemed to be a member of a Scheduled Caste.
The original order under which only Hindus were
classified was later amended to include Sikhs and
Buddhists.
167. 5
Hero MotoCorp has taken the wraps off their new
electric scooter under the sub-brand, Vida.
The automaker launched the V1 as the first electric
scooter of the brand, as it looks to catch up with
newer firms who have taken the lead in the
country's clean mobility push.
The Hero Vida V1 would be first launched in New
Delhi, Jaipur and Bangalore.
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168. 1
HDFC Bank announced the launch of SmartHub
Vyapar Merchant app, a payments and banking
solution for small and medium-sized businesses.
The app has been developed in partnership with a
merchant Saas platform, Mintoak Innovations
India.
It enables merchants to accept interoperable
payments across multiple payment modes which
include Cards, UPI and QR code.
The app also comes with a marketing tool helping
merchants to broadcast their offers via social
media to existing and potential customers and
improve sales.
Besides that, business expenses like payments to
distributors and vendors, payment of utility bills
and GST can also be made through the newly
launched app.
CMD of HDFC Bank: Sashidhar Jagdishan.
169. 5
• BRAP 2020 includes 301 reform points that
cover 15 business regulatory areas such as Access
to Information, Single Window System, Labour,
Environment, Sectoral Reforms and other reforms
spanning across the lifecycle of a typical business.
• Department for Promotion of Industry and
Internal Trade (DPIIT), since 2014, has been
releasing Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) for
steering business reforms to create an investor-
friendly ecosystem across the country. So far 4
editions of the assessment of States/UTs have
been released, and the latest edition is for 2020
assessment.
• The States/UTs under the Top Achievers
category in BRAP 2020 are: Andhra Pradesh,
Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Punjab, Tamil Nadu
and Telangana.
170. 3
• The first conference of the Agni campaign was
organised in Leh, on the theme of 'Sustainability
and Culture'. Power Foundation of India in
association with Vijnana Bharati (VIBHA) is
currently running a campaign to create awareness
on Agni Tattva under LiFE - Lifestyle for
environment.
• The campaign aims to create awareness of the
core concept of Agni Tattva, an element that is
synonymous with energy and is amongst the five
elements of Panchmahabhoot.
• The Agni Tattva campaign - Energy for LiFE,
an initiative under the umbrella campaign of
Sumangalam, was launched by Shri R K Singh,
Union Minister of Power and New & Renewable
Energy, in New Delhi on 21st September 2022. A
series of seminars spanning the length and
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breadth of the country have been planned as a
part of the campaign.
• Power Foundation of India is a Society formed
under the aegis of the Ministry of Power,
Government of India, and supported by leading
CPSEs. The Foundation is involved in areas of
advocacy and research, positively impacting the
evolving energy landscape.
171. 1
A committee of experts headed by CK Mishra on
sustainable finance,constituted by the
International Financial Services Centres Authority
at the GIFT City,has recommended developing a
voluntary carbon market, framework for transition
bonds,enabling de-risking mechanisms, promoting
regulatory sandbox for green fintech & facilitating
the creation of a global climate alliance.
Mr. Tapan Ray, MD & Group CEO of Gujarat
International Finance Tec-City (GIFT).
172. 1
PM Narendra Modi declared Modhera village in
Gujarat as the country's first 24x7 solar-powered
village. Modhera, which is famous for a centuries-
old Sun temple built during the Chalukya, will also
be known as a "solar-powered village", Modi said.
The Modhera village is located 25 km from the
Mehsana district of Gurajat, and about 100 km
from Gandhinagar.
173. 4
The US and India have launched a new task force
under the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership,
which focus on the accelerated deployment of
energy storage technologies. The US Department
of Energy and India's Ministry of Power launched
the Energy Storage Task Force to help scale up
and accelerate deployment of energy storage
technologies to facilitate clean energy transition
USA and India second and third largest energy
consumers respectively. China is First.
174. 1
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has
decided to award the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize
in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to
Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip
H. Dybvig (all 3 from US) "for research on banks
and financial crises."
Notably, Bernake has served as the 14th chairman
of the US Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014.
The prize in economic sciences is not a Nobel
Prize.
• The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic
Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 was
divided, one half awarded to David Card "for his
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other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido
W. Imbens "for their methodological contributions
to the analysis of causal relationships."
• In 2019, Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, his
wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer jointly won
the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize "for their
experimental approach to alleviating global
poverty.
 Reorganisation Act 2019
 1. High Court of Jammu and Kashmir to be
175. 4
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Phase 1
of Modi Shaikshanik Sankul, an educational
complex for needy students in Ahmedabad. The
project will help provide facilities to students for
holistic development. Addressing the occasion, the
Prime Minister underlined the importance of skill
development in order to ensure employment for
youths.
The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone for
Gujarat's first Bulk Drug Park at Jambusar which
will be built at the cost of 2500 crore rupees. Apart
from this, he laid the foundation stone for Deep
Sea Pipeline Project at Dahej, along with multiple
industrial parks. It include four Tribal Industrial
Parks to be set up at Valia in Bharuch, Amirgadh in
Banaskantha, Chakaliya in Dahod and Vanar in
Chhota Udaipur.
176. 2
The Centre has extended the timeline for
disbursement of loans up to March 31 under the
ethanol blending programme interest subsidy
scheme, notified first in 2018, to facilitate
entrepreneurs to complete their projects while
availing of government support. In April, the
deadline for submitting applications under the
scheme was extended six months. The deadline
was September
Central Government with a view to increase
production of ethanol and its supply under Ethanol
Blended with Petrol (EBP) Programme, especially
in the surplus season and thereby to improve the
liquidity position of the sugar mills enabling them
to clear cane price arrears of the farmers, notified
different interest subvention schemes for sugar
mills and distilleries during 2018-2021.
Government is extending financial assistance in
the form of interest subvention @ 6% per annum
or 50% of rate of interest charged by banks,
whichever is lower, on the loans to be extended by
banks for five years including one-year
moratorium.
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177. 2
The Central Government notified the elevation of
Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey as Chief Justice of
the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court.
Meanwhile, Justice Pankaj Mittal has been
transferred to Rajasthan as Chief Justice of
Rajasthan HC and Justice PB Varale is appointed as
Chief Justice of Karnataka HC.
Section 75 in The Jammu and Kashmir
common High Court
178. 1
World Bank (WB) has extended an unconditional
loan of $250 million to the Supporting Andhra's
Learning Transformation (SALT) project in
appreciation of the path-breaking reforms
implemented by the State government.
The SALT is the first project in the school
education sector to be funded by the World Bank
without any precondition.
• The number of children studying in government
schools in 2022-23 academic year was 40,31,239.
The total number of children in government,
private and aided schools was less by 86,119 when
compared to last year.Â
179. 4
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its
latest World Economic Outlook report, cut its
forecast for India's gross domestic product (GDP)
growth in financial year 2022-23 (FY23) by 60
basis points (bps) to 6.8 per cent, warning of a
long and tough economic winter.The outlook for
India is for growth of 6.8 per cent in 2022, a 0.6
percentage point downgrade since the July
The agency kept its global growth forecast for
2022 unchanged at 3.2 per cent, but cut it by 20
bps to 2.7 per cent in 2023, with a 25 per cent
chance that it may slip below 2 per cent.
IMF Economic Counsellor Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
The IMF maintained a forecast of 6.1 per cent for
FY24.
180. 3
VINS Bioproducts, based in Hyderabad, in
collaboration with the Centre for Cellular and
Molecular Biology (CCMB) and the University of
Hyderabad, has announced the successful
completion of Phase 2 clinical trials of VINCOV-19,
India's first antidote and a cure against SARS-CoV-
2 virus.The product basically contains equine
polyclonal antibodies (EpAbs) against the Covid
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181. 3
The Adani group-AAI operated Mumbai airport on
10 October said it has switched to green energy
sources, fulfilling 95 per cent of its requirement
from hydro and wind, while the rest 5 per cent
from solar power.The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
International Airport was the first in India to
launch hybrid technology which has been solely
running on green energy since April.
182. 3
Tamil Nadu government has notified the country's
first Kadavur slender loris sanctuary covering
11,806 hectares in Karur and Dindigul districts of
the State.
Slender lorises are small nocturnal mammals and
are arboreal in nature, as they spend most of their
life on trees.
The species has a wide range of ecological role and
importance to play in the terrestrial eco system.
183. 3
Union Home Minister Amit Shah unveiled a 15-feet
high statue of socialist icon Jayaprakash Narayan
at his ancestral village of Sitab Diara in Saran
district of Bihar. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
was also present at the programme to mark the
120th birth anniversary of the veteran leader.Shah
unveiled the statute on the premises of JP's
ancestral house in Lala Ka Tola.
184. 4
President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu,
inaugurated 'PARAM KAMRUPA' Supercomputer
facility and a high-power active and passive
component laboratory of SAMEER at Indian
Institute of Technology, Guwahati. The Param
Kamrupa, one of its kind supercomputers in the
North East region, installed under the National
Supercomputing Mission.
• Government of India launched National
Supercomputing Mission (NSM) in 2015. Under
NSM, the plan was to connect R&D institutions and
academic institutions in the country using a
supercomputing grid with more than 70 high
performance computing facilities. Spread over the
period of seven years the estimated cost of this
mission is Rs. 4,500 crores (US$ 593 million).
• Department of Science and Technology (DST)
and Department of Electronics and Information
Technology (DeitY) jointly guides the mission.
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
(C-DAC) is entrusted with overall design,
development, deployment, and commissioning of
computers build under this mission. Atos a French
based IT services firm won the contract to build
parts for the supercomputers for C-DAC.
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• PARAM Siddhi-AI is the fastest supercomputer in
India built under NSM with a capacity of 5.26 PF
and according to Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology, PARAM Siddhi-AI will play
a key role in the nation's plan to become an AI
powerhouse.
185. 2
Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Gujarat are among
the 15 states and UTs categorised as achievers in
the logistics index chart 2022, according to a
report released by the commerce and Industry
Ministry.The index is an indicator of the efficiency
of logistical services necessary for promoting
exports and economic growth.
• According to the LEADS report, the other states
and Union territories that are in the "achievers"
category are Assam, Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Punjab,
Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and
Uttarakhand.
• Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Puducherry,
Sikkim and Tripura are the
other states categorised as fast movers in the
ranking.
• The 15 states and UTs ranked in the aspirers
category include Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa and
Mizoram.
• The report ranks the states on the basis of
their logistics ecosystem, highlights the key
logistics-related challenges faced by the
stakeholders and includes suggestive
recommendations, according to the fourth LEADS
(Logistics Ease Across Different States) 2022
report unveiled by the Commerce and Industry
Minister Piyush Goyal.
• The index aims at enhancing the focus on
improving logistics performance across states
which is essential for improving the country's trade
and reducing transaction cost.
• The first logistics report was released in 2018. No
ranking was released last year due to the COVID-
19 pandemic. Gujarat was at the first position in
both 2018 and 2019 ranking lists.
186. 4
In Times Higher Education Rankings 2023, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore has secured the top
place among the Indian universities.Five Indian
universities made it into the world's top 500
varsities. IISc has been placed under 251-300
bracket.University of Oxford has once again topped
the world ranking list- for 7th time in a row.
• As per THE World University Rankings, the
University of Oxford (UK) is followed by the
University of Harvard (US) and the University of
Cambridge (UK).Â
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• Meanwhile, Asia is the most represented
continent with 669 universities participating,
jointly with Europe (639, up 50 from 589 last
year).Â
Top 10 Indian Universities
• IISc
• JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research
• Shoolini University of Biotechnology and
Management SciencesÂ
• Alagappa UniversityÂ
• Mahatma Gandhi UniversityÂ
• Â IIT RoparÂ
• Â International Institute of Information
Technology HyderabadÂ
• Jamia Millia IslamiaÂ
• Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical
SciencesÂ
• 0BHU
187. 3
Education and Skill Development Minister
Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated IInvenTiv - the
first-ever all-IITs Research and Development, R&D
Showcase at IIT Delhi.
The two day event which will conclude on October
15, brings academia and industry under one roof
to showcase India's global R&D strength.
188. 3
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched a website
that will enable citizens to contribute to the Armed
Forces Battle Casualties Welfare Fund
(AFBCWF),which is a tri-service fund.
The portal -- 'Maa Bharati Ke Sapoot' (MBKS) "
was launched during a function at the National War
Memorial complex in New Delhi.
189. 4
India ranked 107th out of 121 assessed countries
on the 2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI). With an
overall score of 29.1, the level of hunger in India
has been categorised as "serious".
India also ranks below Sri Lanka (64), Nepal (81),
Bangladesh (84), and Pakistan (99). Afghanistan
(109) is the only country in South Asia that
performs worse than India on the index.
India's child wasting rate of 19.3% is worst in the
world; shows improvement in child stunting, child
mortality indicators
GHI is jointly released by Concern Worldwide and
Welthungerhilfe every October.
190. 2
Badminton legend Prakash Padukone was awarded
the Sports Journalists' Federation of India (SJFI)
medal for 2019 at a warm ceremony at the
Karnataka State Cricket Association.
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The medal was instituted in 2018, with Vijay
Amritraj the first winner. The award function for
2019 was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He was ranked World No. 1 in 1980
191. 4
PM dedicated 75 Digital Banking Units to the
nation through video conferencing. The DBUs have
been set up with the objective to ensure that
benefits of digital banking reach every nook and
corner of the country. It will provide digital
banking facilities to people. The DBUs will enable
those who do not have ICT infrastructure to access
banking services digitally.
• It was proposed to set up 75 Digital Banking
Units (DBUs) in 75 districts of the country by
Scheduled Commercial Banks.
• In April 2022, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
announced the guidelines for DBUs, following the
report of a working group of the Indian Banks
Association (IBA). A digital banking unit is a
specialised fixed point business unit or hub,
housing a certain minimum digital infrastructure
for delivering digital banking products and services
as well as servicing existing financial products and
services digitally in self-service mode at any time.
• Commercial banks (other than regional rural
banks, payment banks and local area banks) with
past digital banking experience are permitted to
open DBUs in tier 1 to tier 6 centres, unless
otherwise specifically restricted, without having the
need to take permission from the RBI in each case.
• As per the RBI, each DBU must offer certain
minimum digital banking products and services.
Such products should be on both liabilities and
assets side of the balance sheet of the digital
banking segment.Â
• Services being offered through DBU include
banking facilities like opening of savings account,
balance-check, print passbook, transfer of funds,
investment in fixed deposits, loan applications,
stop-payment instructions for cheques issued,
application for credit / debit cards, view statement
of account, pay taxes, pay bills, make
nominations, etc. The DBUs will also facilitate
onboarding to Government credit link schemes
through the Jan Samarth portal and end-to-end
digital processing of a small ticket MSME/retail
loans.Â
192. 3
Union Minister for Railways, Communications and
Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini
Vaishnaw inaugurated India's First Aluminum
Freight Rake - 61 BOBRNALHSM1 at Bhubaneswar
Railway Station.This is a dedicated effort for Make
in India program as it has been fully designed and
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developed indigenously in collaboration with RDSO
HINDALCO and Besco Wagon.
• The reduced tare will reduce carbon footprint as
lower consumption of fuel in empty direction and
more transport of freight in loaded condition.
AÂ single rake can save over 14,500 tonnes of
CO2Â over its lifetime.
193. 3
The city of Hyderabad has bagged the prestigious
'World Green City Award 2022' beating Paris,
Bogota, Mexico City, Montreal, and Fortaleza in
Brazil.Additionally, the city has also won 'Living
Green for Economic Recovery and Inclusive
Growth' at the International Association of
Horticulture Producers 2022 held in Jeju, South
Korea. Hyderabad is the only Indian city selected
194. 2
Young Rudrankksh Patil won gold in men's 10m air
rifle event at the ISSF World Championship at
Cairo, Egypt , becoming only the second Indian to
achieve the feat after Abhinav Bindra. Patil is the
sixth Indian shooter to win gold in World
Championship.The Indian trio of Rudranksh
Balasaheb Patil, Kiran Ankush Jadhav, and Arjun
Babuta won the gold medal in 10m
195. 1
The President of India, Droupadi Murmu has
appointed Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant
Chandrachud as the Chief Justice of India with
effect from November 9, 2022. Justice
Chandrachud will take over as the 50th Chief
Justice of India after the retirement of the
incumbent CJI UU Lalit.
As the CJI, Justice Chandrachud will have a term
of over two years, till November 10, 2024.
• Justice Chandrachud is son of former Supreme
Court judge Y.V. Chandrachud who was the
longest serving CJI for being in office for about
seven years.
196. 2
Jyothi Yarraji has created history by becoming the
first Indian woman to clock a legal sub-13 second
time in 100-meter hurdles while smashing her own
record at the National Open Athletics
Championships in Bengaluru. She had won the
same event in the National Games in Gandhinagar
in a time of 12.79 seconds. The 23-year-old Yarraji
is representing Railways.
197. 3
The Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and
Molecular Biology has become part of the world's
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largest and most diverse genomic study covering
54 lakh individuals. It identified 12 thousand 222
places in the human genome that are associated
with human height.The study 'A saturated map of
common genetic variants associated with human
height' was published in Nature Journal.
• Â Researchers from across the world, including
chief scientist Dr G R Chandak from CCMB, came
together to form a consortium to study genetic
links to human height.
• They analysed existing genetic data of over 53
individuals drawn from various parts of the world.
In the course of the genomic study, the
researchers identified over 1,200 spots in the
human genome that literally dictate the height of
humans.
198. 1
The day was first established in Stockholm,
Sweden in the year 2008. Later, the United
Nations General Assembly marked it as Global
Handwashing Day.
The theme for this year's Global Handwashing Day
is 'Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene.'
199. 4
'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida', which came
ten years after Karunatilaka's prize-winning novel
'Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew', was
praised by judges for the "ambition of its scope
and the hilarious audacity of its narrative
techniques."
Damon Glut, last year's Booker Prize winner
presented the author with 50,000 pounds in prize
money.
• Karunatilaka, who is also a noted journalist and
advertising professional, is the second Booker
winner of Sri-Lankan descent, after Michael
Ondaatje, who took the trophy in 1992 for The
English Patient.
200. 3
Bandhan Bank has brought Sourav Ganguly as its
brand ambassador. Bandhan Bank is a pan India
bank that provides banking services through its
5,644 banking outlets spread across 34 of the 36
states and union territories in the country. As per
the company, Ganguly will help amplify the brand
message of the bank and endorse the products
and services of the bank.
Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, MD and CEO, Bandhan
Bank.
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201. 4
The UNDP report noted that the effects of the
Covid-19 pandemic on poverty in India cannot be
fully assessed because 71% of the data from the
2019-2021 'Demographic and Health Survey' for
the country were collected before the pandemic.
The incidence of poverty fell from 36.6% in 2015-
2016 to 21.2% in 2019-2021 in rural areas and
from 9.0% to 5.5% in urban areas.
• The incidence of poverty in the country dropped
from 55.1% in 2005-06 to 16.4% in 2019-21, as
per the latest Multidimensional Poverty Index
(MPI) compiled jointly by the UN Development
Programme (UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and
Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
202. 1
Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin
Gadkari announced that the National Highways
Infra Trust (NHAI InvIT) bonds, which he said will
offer an effective return of 8.05% per annum.
These InvIT bonds will be listed on BSE and NSE,
providing an opportunity for investors to invest
and trade, he added. These are of Non-Convertible
Debenture.
• NHAI InvIT is the infrastructure investment trust
sponsored by the National Highways Authority of
India (NHAI) to support the government's National
Monetisation Pipeline (NMP). NHAI's InvIT is a
Trust established by NHAI under the Indian Trusts
Act, 1882 and SEBI (Security and Exchange Board
of India) regulations.
• The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi had approved the
NHAI's Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT) in
December 2019, and the company had started to
meet investor groups the following year.
• Infrastructure investment trusts are institutions
similar to mutual funds, which pool investments
from various categories of investors and invest
them into completed and revenue-generating
infrastructure projects, thereby creating returns
for the investor.
• The capital market regulator notified the SEBI
(Infrastructure Investment Trusts) Regulations,
2014 on September 26, 2014, and these trusts are
likely to help facilitate investment in the
infrastructure sector.
• Structured like mutual funds, they have a
trustee, sponsor(s), investment manager and
project manager. While the trustee (certified by
Sebi) has the responsibility of inspecting the
performance of an InvIT, sponsor(s) are promoters
of the company that set up the InvIT.
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203. 2
The Government has approved the increase in the
Minimum Support Prices for all mandated Rabi
Crops for Marketing Season 2023-24.Government
has increased the MSP to ensure remunerative
prices to the growers for their produce. The
absolute highest increase in MSP has been
approved for lentil (Masur) at Rs.500 per quintal
followed by rapeseed and mustard at Rs.400 per
quintal
The MSP is fixed on the recommendations of
Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices
• Â For safflower, an increase of Rs.209/- per
quintal has been approved. For wheat, gram and
barley an increase of Rs.110/- per quintal, Rs.100
per quintal respectively has been approved.
• The increase in MSP for Rabi Crops for Marketing
Season 2023-24 is in line with the Union Budget
2018-19 announcement of fixing the MSP at a level
of at lease 1.5 times of the All-India weighted
average Cost of Production, aiming at reasonably
fair remuneration for the farmers. The maximum
rate of return is 104 percent for rapeseed &
mustard, followed by 100 percent for wheat, 85
per cent for lentil; 66 per cent for gram; 60 per
cent for barley; and 50 per cent for safflower.
• In Indian farming, The rabi crops include
wheat, barley, oats (cereals), chickpea/gram
(pulses), linseed, garlic, cumin, coriander, mustard
(oilseeds) etc
• Rabi cropping season runs from October to
MarchÂ
• The estimation of MSP is usually done based on
three types of calculation methods. These are A2
method, A2 FL method and C2 method.
• The method employed by the ministry to
calculate the MSP, i.e. the A2 FL system.
• As per the A2 method, MSP is set 50% higher
than the amount farmer spends on farming
including spending on seeds, fertilisers, pesticides,
and labour.
• C2 method, on the other hand, makes the
calculation by including a wider range of inputs.
This includes besides factors used to calculate A2,
the economic value of the efforts of family
members working on the farm and the value of
other spending including rent and other assets.
After calculating these, MSP is set at 50% above
the derived amount.
• While the National Commission on Farmers (NCF)
headed by MS Swaminathan opted for this method
to calculate MSP, it was not the one that was
finally chosen.
• The present MSP has been calculated based on
the A2 FL method. The method is a middle ground
between the other methods were the MSP is set
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50% higher than the amount that derives from
adding the amount farmer spend on farming
including spending on seeds, fertilisers, pesticides,
and labour and the value of labour provided by the
family members for agriculture.
204. 3
Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Hardeep
Singh Puri inaugurated Asia's largest Compressed
Bio Gas (CBG) plant in Lehragaga, Sangrur, Punjab
on 18th October.
The plant set up in 20 acres has been
commissioned with an Foreign Direct Investment
of 220 crore rupees by Verbio AG one of the
Germany's leading bioenergy company.
• The Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) plant
inaugurated by Shri Hardeep S. Puri in Sangrur is
a step in achieving objectives of the Sustainable
Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation
(SATAT) scheme, which was launched by
Government of India in October 2018 to establish
an ecosystem for production of Compressed Bio
Gas (CBG) from various waste/ biomass sources in
the country.
• The scheme aims to empower and unleash the
rural economy by supporting farmers, increase
India's domestic energy production and self-
sufficiency and also reduce the air pollution, and
help India lead the world toward a clean energy
transition. Apart from this plant, 38 CBG / Biogas
Plants have been commissioned under the SATAT
initiative.
205. 4
The World Bank has appointed a neutral expert
and a chairman of the Court of Arbitration
regarding the Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric
power plants, in view of disagreements between
India and Pakistan over the 1960 Indus Water
Treaty.Michel Lino has been appointed as the
Neutral Expert and Sean Murphy has been
appointed as Chairman of the Court of Arbitration.
• India and Pakistan signed the treaty in 1960 after
nine years of negotiations, with the Washington-
based World Bank being a signatory.Â
• Under the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), all the
waters of the eastern rivers Sutlej, Beas, and Ravi
amounting to around 33 million acre feet (MAF)
annually is allocated to India for unrestricted use.
The waters of western rivers Indus, Jhelum, and
Chenab amounting to around 135 MAF annually
have been assigned largely to Pakistan.
• India is permitted to construct the run of the
river plants on western rivers with limited storage
as per criteria specified in the treaty.
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Adani Airport Holdings has again rejigged its top
management, naming Ericsson veteran Arun
Bansal its chief executive, said several people
close to the matter. Bansal, who spent 25 years at
the Swedish telecom network company, was most
recently its president for Europe and Latin
America.
 Adani Airports won the mandate to modernize
and operate six airports " Ahmedabad,
Lucknow, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Guwahati and
Thiruvananthapuram " through the Airports
Authority of India's globally competitive tendering
process.Adani Airports will operate, manage &
develop all these six airports for a period of 50
years.
207. 2
The Swedish parliament elected Ulf Kristersson "
the conservative Moderate Party leader " as the
Prime Minister at the head of a coalition that is
being supported by a once radical far-right party.
Mr. Kristersson, 59, was elected by 176-173
votes.Mr. Kristersson will be replacing Magdalena
Andersson, who heads Sweden's largest party, the
Social Democrats.
Sweden Capital: Stockholm
208. 3
Google signed a Memorandum of Understanding to
support and accelerate the Government of Assam's
mission to promote digital growth and
development in the State. Under this new
initiative, Google will collaborate with the Assam
Government's Skill,Employment &
Entrepreneurship Department to strengthen their
school digitization efforts with digital learning
tools.
Google will also extend scholarships for Google
Career Certificates to Assam's youth in
collaboration with the Assam Skill Development
Mission (ASDM).
209. 1
Pradeep Singh Kharola appointed CMD, India Trade
Promotion Organisation (ITPO)
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has
approved the appointment of Kharola as Chairman
& Managing Director, ITPO in the rank and pay of
Secretary to the Government of India on a
contract basis for a period of two years.
Kharola will continue to hold the charge of the post
of Chairman, National Recruitment Agency till
appointment of a regular incumbent in his place.
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210. 3
World champion from Norway Magnus Carlsen
sealed the overall Meltwater Champions Chess
Tour title for the second year running " this time
with an event to spare " after storming into the
semifinals of the Aimchess Rapid.
Norway's world No. 1, going for a hat-trick of
tournament wins in the Tour's penultimate event,
took a USD50,000 prize.
211. 2
India and France have been re-elected as
President and Co-President of the ISA. ISA
Director General Ajay Mathur said, Union Power
and New and Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh
has been re-elected as the President of
International Solar Alliance. He said, France
Minister of State for Development Chrysoula
Zacharopoulou has been re-elected as Co-
President.
212. 2
Former Infosys president Ravi Kumar is joining
Cognizant as President Americas, said the
company in a regulatory filing. He will take on the
position from January 16, 2023. Kumar will be
reporting directly to Brian Humphries, CEO
Cognizant.Cognizant also announced the
appointment of Prasad Sankaran who will be
heading the software and platform engineering
(SPE) services.
213. 1
Prime minister Narendra Modi unveiled an
indigenously built aircraft - the Hindustan Turbo
Trainer (HTT-40) - at the 12th DefExpo in
Gujarat's Gandhinagar. The HTT-40 is a basic
trainer plane designed and developed for the
Indian Air Force - as another example of the
government's 'aatmanirbhar Bharat' scheme - by
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
-The HTT-40 was developed by HAL and will
replace the IAF's ageing fleet of HPT-32 Deepak
trainers. Its first flight was in 2016.
-In addition to basic flight training, aerobatics,
instrument flying, and close formation flights, the
tandem-seat, fully aerobatic turbo-
trainer aircraft will also be used for navigation
and night flying.
-The aircraft is outfitted with the latest avionics
and an air-conditioned cabin. It is powered by a
turbo-prop engine that has undergone extensive
testing and boasts distinctive attributes like
running pilot changes, hot refuelling, and quick
turnaround times.
-The Centre for Military Airworthiness and
Certification (CEMILAC) issued a provisional
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clearance for the aircraft's airworthiness after all
system tests, PSQR performances, hot weather,
sea level, cross-wind, and user-assisted technical
trials were completed.
-The HTT-40 has a steerable nose wheel, a
retractable tricycle landing gear system, a bubble
canopy, and a T-tail configuration. It is a fixed-
wing aircraft incorporating an all-metal airframe
design and has state-of-the-art systems designed
with pilot-friendly features.
214. 4
Country's first 'Migration Monitoring System',
which provides updated information on migrant
pregnant women, lactating mothers and children
instantly on a single system, was inaugurated in
Mumbai. The system developed by Department of
Women and Child Development.The information of
seasonal migrant women and children will be
available immediately.
215. 3
Russia's Gazprombank opened a special rupee
account with state-owned UCO Bank, paving the
way for bilateral trades between Moscow and New
Delhi. The move would help increase imports of
cheaper oil from Russia.
Earlier, the Reserve Bank of India came out with a
bespoke special rupee account for bilateral trades
between rupee and any other currencies besides
the US dollar.
• The RBI, on July 11, allowed invoicing and
payments for international trade in rupees,
potentially facilitating greater bilateral business
with Russia that is facing a wide range of Western
sanctions and is virtually cut off from standard
cross-border payment platforms.
• The move paved the way for settlement of
payments in rupees for trades between Indian and
Russia by giving greater flexibility in the operation
of vostro accounts that Russian banks open with
Indian banks for the purpose.
• A vostro account is one a foreign bank
opens with an Indian bank in domestic
currency i.e. rupees.
• A 'special' tag to the rupee vostro account
permits usage of surplus balance in Indian
government securities.Â
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216. 2
India ranks third in the world's first-ever global
study on the rise of centi-millionaires-individuals
with assets of more than Rs 830 crore ($100
million), a new report has revealed. Out of the
world's 25,490 centi-millionaires, India has 1,132,
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beating countries like the UK, Russia and
Switzerland, in a swift growing and powerful class
of super-rich tech titans,CEOs.
Report released by international investment
migration advisory firm Henley & Partners
• Of the world's 25,490 centi-millionaires, the US,
which ranks at number 1, is home to 38 per cent
(9,730) of global centi-millionaires, despite
constituting only 4 per cent of the world's total
population.
• It is closely followed by big emerging markets
of China and India in second and third place,
with 2,021 and 1,132 centi-millionaires,
respectively.
• The UK is in fourth place (with 968 centi-
millionaires) followed closely by Germany in fifth
place (with 966).
• Switzerland (808), Japan (765), Canada (541),
Australia (463), and finally Russia (435) make up
the rest of the top 10 countries for centi-
millionaires.
217. 3
Interpol launched the first ever metaverse
specifically designed for law enforcement agencies
worldwide during its 90th General Assembly in
Delhi. This "fully operational" Interpol Metaverse
allows registered users to tour a virtual facsimile of
the Interpol General Secretariat headquarters in
Lyon, France without any geographical or physical
boundaries
Interpol Secretary General - Jurgen Stock
• The 91st Interpol General Assembly to be held
in Austria's Vienna.
• In the metaverse, users traverse a virtual world
that mimics aspects of the physical world using
such technologies such as virtual reality (VR),
augmented reality (AR), AI, social media and
digital currency. The internet is something that
people "browse." But, to a degree, people can
"live" in the metaverse.
218. 1
18-year-old Aman Sehrawat created history as he
became the first-ever Indian wrestler to win a gold
medal at the U-23 World Wrestling Championships.
Aman defeated Ahmet Duman of Turkey by 12-4 in
the 57 Kg category final.
Earlier in the tournament, Indian Greco-Roman
wrestlers created history by bagging three medals
at the championships.
219. 2
The 7th Ayurveda Day is celebrated worldwide on
23rd October. Dhanawantari Jayanti is being
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celebrated as Ayurveda Day since 2016 to promote
the country's most ancient and well-documented
system of medicine. This year's Ayurveda Day is
being celebrated with the theme - 'Har Din Har
Ghar Ayurveda', to propagate benefits of Ayurveda
to larger and grass root community.
The National Ayurveda Day is celebrated every
year on the occasion of Dhanwantari Jayanti
(Dhanteras) since 2016.Â
220. 3
PM Modi launched the 'Rozgar Mela',a recruitment
drive for 10 lakh personnel.Earlier in June, the
prime minister had asked various government
departments and ministries to undertake the
recruitment of 10 lakh people on a"mission mode"
in the next year and a half. Recruiting either by
themselves or through recruiting agencies such as
UPSC, SSC, and Railway Recruitment Board.
The appointed individuals will join the government
at various levels viz Group - A, Group - B
(Gazetted), Group - B (Non-Gazetted) and Group -
C. The posts on which appointments are being
made include Central Armed Force Personnel, Sub
Inspector, Constable, LDC, Steno, PA, Income Tax
Inspectors, MTS, among others.
221. 1
UN Human Rights Council appointed the first Asian
and first Indian as an independent expert on
racism and related intolerance. The 47-member
UN human rights body, based in Geneva,endorsed
the appointment of activist and professor of
political science, Ashwini K.P as Special Rapporteur
on contemporary forms of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
• Special Rapporteurs are independent experts
appointed by the UNHRC who serve personally and
report on human rights from a thematic or
country-specific perspective.
• Ashwini's name was part of a three-member
shortlist recommended by the Consultative
Group for the selection of the mandate holders to
the President of the Council. Besides Ashwini, the
shortlist included Joshua Castellino, also from
India, and Botswana's Unity Dow.
• Created in 1994, the mandate of the SR on
contemporary forms of racism is to "address
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and
related intolerance against Africans and persons of
African descent, Arabs and Muslims, Asians and
persons of Asian descent, migrants and non-
nationals, persons belonging to indigenous peoples
and minorities, as well as all other victims
mentioned in the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action".Â
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• Ashwini will be the sixth SR to hold this mandate.
All her predecessors have been from Africa.
• Ashwini, who has worked as an assistant
professor of political science at Bengaluru's St
Joseph's College, is co-founder of a non-
governmental organisation, Zariya: Women's
Alliance for Dignity and Equality.
• She received her doctorate from Jawaharlal
Nehru University and has previously worked as a
senior campaigner in business and human rights
with Amnesty International India.
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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation granted
aerodrome licence to Odisha's Jeypore airport. The
airport will now be able to handle scheduled
commercial flights under the government's
regional connectivity scheme UDAN, or Ude Desh
ka Aam Naagrik.The airstrip at Jeypore had
became functional in 1962 at the time of inception
of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited at Sunabeda,
• RCS-UDAN was formulated based on the review
of The National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP), 2016,
and it was planned to remain in force for a period
of 10 years. It has a self-financing mechanism with
the development of Regional Connectivity Fund
(RCF).
• Under UDAN, 68 underserved/unserved
destinations which include 58 Airports, eight
heliports and two water aerodromes have been
connected.
223. 2
According to the 2022 Forbes list of India's 100
Richest, Gautam Adani topped the chart with a net
worth of $150 billion. Adani overtook Mukesh
Ambani, whose net worth is reportedly $88 billion.
Radhakrishna Damani, Cyrus Poonawalla, Shiv
Nadar, Savitri Jindal, Dilip Shangavi, the Hinduja
brothers, Kumar Mangalam Birla and the Bajaj
family fills the top 10.
As per reports, Adani and Ambani together account
for 30 per cent of the total wealth of India's 100
richest, and the top 10 put together had a net
worth of $800 billion.
224. 1
The Cricket Association for the Blind in India
(CABI) announced former India cricketer Yuvraj
Singh as their brand ambassador for the 3rd T20
World Cup for the Blind to be held in India in
December.
The participating countries for the 3rd T20 World
Cup for the Blind are India, Nepal, Bangladesh,
Australia, South Africa, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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225. 2
Union minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag
Thakur said that the 5th edition of Khelo India
Youth Games will be held in Madhya Pradesh from
31 January to 11 February, 2023.
The upcoming edition of the Khelo India Youth
Games will feature a total of 27 disciplines; with
water sports being included for the first time in the
history of the games.
226. 2
The 14th World Spice Congress will be held from
February 16 to 18, 2023 at CIDCO Exhibition and
Convention Centre, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra.
The World Spice Congress, which is organized by
Spices Board India along with various trade and
export forums, will be conducted on the sidelines
of India's G20 presidency.
227. 2
Conservative party leader Rishi Sunak will become
UK's 1st Indian-origin prime minister after meeting
King Charles at Buckingham Palace.
He defeated centrist politician Penny Mordaunt,
who failed to get enough backing from lawmakers
to enter the ballot, while his rival, the former PM
Boris Johnson, withdrew from the contest saying
he could no longer unite the party.
• The former Goldman Sachs analyst will be the
United Kingdom's first prime minister of Indian
origin.
• Sir Robert Walpole is generally considered to
have been Britain's first prime minister.
228. 3
Under this proposed policy, the state is planning to
set up smaller capacity data centres in the
hinterland across the state. The policy will aim to
attract private sector investment to attain Rs
30,000 crore in the next five years. Data centre
projects in UP include those of Hiranandani Group,
Adani Group, NTT Japan, and Web Werks, among
others.
• Uttar Pradesh, which is looking to become a
major data centre player in the South Asian
region, has bagged projects worth Rs 16,000 crore
in the new-age sector.
• A data centre is a facility that houses shared
information technology (IT) activities and
equipment to store, process, and disseminate
information and applications.
• The government is in the process of amending its
existing data centre policy to sweeten the deal
for private sector investors.
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• Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will inaugurate the
state's first data centre park in Greater Noida, on
October 31. The Rs 5,000 crore mega data centre
park has been developed by Yotta Infrastructure,
Hiranandani Group's data centre arm.
229. 1
HDFC Securities, has announced the opening of
India's first Women-Only Digital Center (DC). This
cutting-edge, all-female centre will assist both
male and female investors.The company plans to
hire more than 100 relationship managers for the
women only DC. With the DCs, customers will be
able to access support as and when they need it.
230. 2
For Tier 1 and Tier II National Pension System
(NPS) accounts, the Pension Fund Regulatory and
Development Authority (PFRDA) has modified the
equity allocation standards. According to the new
regulation, subscribers can allocate up to 75% of
their funds to equity (E) under active choice in a
Tier-I account without any tapering requirements
once they turn 51 years of age.
• The option to allocate 100% of the subscriber's
contribution to Asset Class E (Equity) in Tier-II
accounts under active choice is permitted by the
statutory regulatory body without any restrictions
beginning at age 51 years of age.
• NPS subscribers currently have the option, under
the NPS-All Citizen Model, to choose any one of
the registered Pension Funds and actively allocate
their contributions across four asset classes:
equity (E), corporate bonds (C), government
securities (G), and alternate assets (A) with
"Active Choice" option. The following are the
maximum allocations to different asset classes:
• However, when a subscriber reaches the age of
51, the 75% cap on asset class E is lowered by
2.5% annually and reallocated to government
securities.Â
• In partial modification to the above-mentioned
circular, it has been decided by the Authority to
allow option to allocate 75% of subscriber's
contribution in Asset Class E (Equity) in Tier-I
under active choice without any conditions of
tapering from the age of 51 years.
• Further, it has been decided to allow option to
allocate 100% of subscriber's contribution in Asset
Class E (Equity) in Tier-II (optional account) under
active choice without any conditions of tapering
231. 4
Anna May Wong is set to become the first Asian
American to appear on US currency. This year,
four other quarters were into production featuring
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poet and activist Maya Angelou; the first American
woman in space, Sally Ride; Cherokee Nation
leader Wilma Mankiller; and suffragist Nina Otero-
Warren. Anna May Wong died aged 56 in 1961.
232. 3
The Netherlands has emerged as India's third-
largest export destination, ahead of China and
Bangladesh. It has moved up two spots in the list
of India's top ten export destinations since FY22,
thanks to a 106% surge in despatches until August
this fiscal from a year before to $7.5 billion. Brazil,
which occupied the 21st spot in FY22 is now
India's 8th biggest export market
• Similarly, Indonesia has moved up seven notches
to grab the 7th position. However, amid a demand
slowdown, only two European nations"the
Netherlands and the UK"are among India's top ten
markets, against 4 in FY22. Germany and Belgium,
which featured in the list last fiscal, are out of it
now.
• Meanwhile, the US and the UAE continue to be
the largest and second-largest export destinations,
respectively, for India. The exports to the US
climbed 18.3% until August to $35.2 billion, while
those to the UAE shot up 27.3% to $13.8 billion.
• India's exports to the Netherlands were driven
mostly by a 238% jump in despatches of oil
products until August this fiscal to $3.67 billion.
Even supplies of chemicals ($513 million) and
pharmaceuticals ($219 million) remained
substantial.
233. 4
The Competition Commission of India has imposed
more than nine hundred 36 crore rupees penalty
on Google in yet another antitrust probe for anti-
competitive practices in relation to its Play Store
policies. The Commission also directed Google to
modify its conduct within a defined timeline.The
CCI had imposed a penalty of 1337 crore rupees
on Google on 20th October 2022.
The CCI has given 30 days to implement the
corrective measures and modify its conduct
• The CCI has found the US tech giant guilty of
abusing its market position to promote its
payments app and in-app payment system. It said,
Google forced app developers to use its in-app
payment system. It further said Google should not
restrict app developers from using any third-party
billing or payment processing services, either for
inapp purchases or for purchasing apps. The
Commission has directed Google to cease and
desist from indulging in anti-competitive practices.
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• The policy in question in latest order requires app
developers to exclusively use Google Play Billing
System (GPBS) for all customer billings.
• App developers that do not use GPBS are not
allowed to list their products on Google Play
Store.
• The CCI further highlighted that Google was
found to be following discriminatory practices by
not using GPBS for its own applications such as
YouTube.
234. 1
Indian Institute of Technology Madras and NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers have studied
the interactions between microbes in the
International Space Station. This will help devise
strategies for the disinfection of space stations to
minimise any potential impact of microbes on the
health of astronauts.
• A key finding is that a microbe that resides on
the ISS, was found to be beneficial to various
other microorganisms but hampered the growth of
a fungus.
• The present study was inspired by the earlier
observations of the dominance of Klebsiella
pneumoniae, a bacteria, on the surfaces of the
ISS.
• This pathogen has been known to cause
pneumonia and other nosocomial (hospital-
acquired) infections. The researchers were broadly
interested in understanding how this bacteria
affects the growth of other microbes in the vicinity
and the possible implications it could have.
• The researchers analysed the microbial sample
data taken across three space flights at seven
locations on the ISS. The study found that
Klebsiella pneumoniae, a major microbe that
resides on the ISS, is beneficial to various other
microbes also present on the ISS, especially the
bacteria from the Pantoea genus.
235. 2
From Dependence to Self-Reliance sheds light on
some of the priorities that the government can
implement at present, as well as in the future, in
light of past experience. Written by former
governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), this
book is based on extensive research and data, and
provides a way forward to developing India as an
economic stronghold.
From Dependence to Self-Reliance divided into
three sections:Economy,Governance &Politics
Dr Bimal Jalan is the former governor of the RBI.
He has previously held several positions in the
government, including those of finance secretary
and chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to
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the Prime Minister. A nominated Member of
Parliament from 2003 to 2009 and the chairman of
the Expenditure Management Commission from
2014 to 2016, he also represented India on the
boards of the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank. In 2019, he was the chairman of the
Economic Capital Framework, set up by the RBI in
association with the government.
236. 4
Indian Urban Housing Conclave (IUHC) 2022, the
3-day Expo-cum-Conference at Rajkot, Gujarat,
ended. The conclave was inaugurated by Hon'ble
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 19th October
2022 at a mega event, wherein he also
inaugurated Light House Project (LHP) Rajkot
under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-
U) and handed over the house keys to the
beneficiaries.
237. 3
The Embassy of Japan in New Delhi is seeking a
Geographical Indication (GI) tag for nihonshu. It is
also the first time a product from Japan has filed
for a GI tag at the Geographical Indication
Registry. Nihonshu is an alcoholic beverage also
known as Japanese sake. Nihonshu is an integral
part of the lifestyle and culture in Japan.
The Geographical Indications of Goods
(Registration and Protection) Act, 1999-Â This Act
seeks to provide for the registration and protection
of Geographical Indications relating to goods in
India.
Out of the GI tags registered in India, some are
foreign products like French Champagne and
cognac, wine from Napa Valley, Scotch whisky,
Italian Prosciutto di Parma, Portuguese Porto and
Douro wines, Peruvian Pisco and Mexican Tequila.
238. 2
Global soft drinks major Coca-Cola Company said
its lemon and lime-flavoured soft drink Sprite has
become a $1-billion brand in the Indian market.
The company attributed the success of the brand
to locally-adapted occasion-based global marketing
campaigns.In February, the company informed
investors that its brand Thums Up became a $1-
billion brand in India.
James Quincey, chairman and chief executive
officer of Coca-Cola
India is the fifth-largest market for Coca-Cola
globally.
239. 4
Even as India awaits clearance of genetically
modified mustard, the regulatory authority in
Australia approved the commercial cultivation of
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the genetically modified Indian mustard species
called 'Brassica juncea' for herbicide tolerance
Scientists said this is the first time genetically
modified variety of Indian mustard received
commercial approval anywhere in the world.
• So far, the canola (Brassica napus) is perhaps the
only genetically modified mustard variety that
has been cleared for commercial application.
• GM canola has been in cultivation since 1996 in
several countries across the world including
Canada, the USA, and even in Australia. Canola is
a temperate species of mustard.
• At present, Indian mustard varieties are
commercially cultivated in a very small part of
Australia, mainly in Central New South Wales and
western Victoria.
• The indigenous GM mustard variety has been
developed by Deepak Pental and a team of
scientists at University of Delhi and funded entirely
by National Dairy Development Board and
Department of Biotechnology, India
240. 4
Dabur announced the acquisition of a 51 percent
stake in Badshah Masala for a cash consideration
of Rs 587.5 crore. The acquisition is expected to
be completed before March 31, 2023.
This will mark Dabur's entry into the over Rs
25,000 crore branded spices and seasoning market
in India.
Hemant Jhaveri - Managing Director at Badshah
Masala.
241. 3
Gujarat was declared as a 'Har Ghar Jal' state,
meaning all households in rural areas have access
to safe drinking water through taps. As per the
government data, all 91,73,378 houses in the
state now have water connections.
Jal Jeevan Mission is a flagship programme of
Government of India which was announced from
the ramparts of Red Fort by PM Modi on August
15, 2019.
• Goa became the first 'Har Ghar Jal' certified state
in the country where all households now have
access to clean water through. Also, Dadra &
Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu has become the
first Union Territory (UT) in the country.
• Burhanpur district of Madhya Pradesh became
the first 'Har Ghar Jal' certified district in the
country.
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The Government of India has appointed Mata
Amritanandamayi as the Chair of Civil 20 (C20), an
official engagement group of the G20.
The G20 members consist of 19 countries plus the
European Union and C20 is its platform for civil-
society organisations (CSOs) to bring forth non-
government and non-business voices to the G20
leaders.
• India will assume the Presidency of the G20 for
one year from December 1, 2022 to November 30,
2023 and the G20 Leaders' Summit will take place
in New Delhi.
• The members of the G20 are Argentina,
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany,
India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea,
Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey,
the United Kingdom, the United States and the
European Union.
243. 1
Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said
that two more Indian beaches were added to the
list of the cleanest beaches in the world and
received the prestigious Blue Flag certification. The
Minicoy Thundi Beach and Kadmat beach, both in
Lakshadweep, have received the Blue Flag
certification. This has taken India's tally of Blue
Beaches to 12.
• The other beaches that have been awarded the
prestigious certification are -- Golden Beach
(Odisha), Shivrajpur Beach (Gujarat), Kappad
Beach (Kerala), Ghoghla Beach (Diu), Radhanagar
Beach (Andaman and Nicobar), Kasarkod Beach
(Karnataka), Padubidri Beach (Karnataka),
Rushikonda Beach (Andhra Pradesh), Kovalam
Beach (Tamil Nadu) and Eden Beach (Puducherry).
• Puri's Golden Beach is also Asia's first Blue Flag
certified beach. Last year, the certification was
given to Kovalam beach in Tamil Nadu and Eden
beach in Puducherry.
• The Blue Flag Certification is awarded by a non-
profit organisation called the Foundation for
Environmental Education (FEE). It is an eco-label
given to the cleanest beaches in the world.
• To qualify for the Blue Flag certificate, about 33
stringent requirements or criteria should be
satisfied. The criteria are environmental,
educational, access and safety-related. The FEE is
headquartered in Copenhagen,
Denmark. Currently, it has 77 member countries.
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244. 2
SS Rajamouli directed blockbuster RRR won the
Best International Film award at the 50th Saturn
Awards in Los Angeles.
This is the 2nd time Rajamouli won the Saturn
Award. He had won the award for 'Baahubali: The
Conclusion'.
RRR won the Best International Film against other
movies, including Downton Abbey: A New Era,
Eiffel, Riders of Justice, Silent Night, & I'm Your
Man.
245. 4
IRDAI announced to set up a 15-member Health
Insurance Consultative Committee with an aim to
achieve the goal of universalization of health
insurance in the country.
Committee, headed by IRDAI member Rakesh
Joshi, has been tasked to identify the challenges in
carrying out the health insurance business
smoothly & make recommendations to facilitate
ease of doing business.
Debasish Panda: IRDAI Chairperson.
246. 2
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena
launched a one-time property tax amnesty scheme
"SAMRIDDHI 2022-23", saying it will provide a
major relief to lakhs of residential and commercial
property owners in the city. SAMRIDDHI, is an
acronym for Strengthening and Augmentation of
Municipal Revenue for Infrastructure Development
in Delhi
Under the scheme, residential property owners can
pay just the principal property tax amount of the
current and of the past five years. For commercial
properties, owners can pay the principal amount
case of the last six years and get a waiver on past
pending dues, including penalty and interest,
according to an official statement.
The L-G said SAMRIDDHI 2022-23 is a people-
friendly initiative of the Municipal Corporation of
Delhi which will provide a big relief to the residents
and encourage property owners to get rid of long-
pending disputes and related harassment.
247. 4
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan launched the
'Kunjapp', a mobile application to prevent cyber
crimes against children in the state. Vijayan also
inaugurated the training for the newly appointed
Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and Juvenile
Justice Board (JJB) members at Kovalam. Child
exploitation can be reported through the
application.
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248. 4
Shiprocket, a shipping and logistics solutions
provider, has gone live on the government's Open
Network for Digital Commerce and made its first
successful transaction. Shiprocket said it is the
first inter-city logistics provider to plug into the
ONDC network, enabling sellers from all segments
to ship products to cities and towns across India.
Saahil Goel, CEO and co-founder, Shiprocket
• Shiprocket, a logistics technology platform
supported by Zomato
• Shiprocket is India's 106th Unicorn
• Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) is an
initiative aiming at promoting open networks for
all aspects of exchange of goods and services over
digital or electronic networks
• Open Network for Digital Commerce, abbreviated
ONDC, is a private non-profit Section 8 company
established by the Department for Promotion of
Industry and Internal Trade of Government of
India to develop open e-commerce.
• A company is referred a to as Section 8 Company
when registered as a Non-Profit Organization
(NPO) i.e. when it the has motive of promoting
arts, commerce, education, charity, protectithe on
of environment, sports, science, research, social
welfare, religion and intends to use its profits (if
any) or other income for promoting these
objectives.
249. 1
Insurance sector regulator Irdai has allowed
foreign reinsurance branches, including Lloyd's
India, to repatriate up to 20% of the excess
assigned capital to attract more players and allow
free movement of capital.As per Irdai norms, the
registration of branch offices of foreign reinsurers
other than Lloyd's have 'assigned capital' and net
owned funds (NOFs) as the capital.
• The applicant's NOF should not be less than the
prescribed amount of ₹500 crore at any time
and should infuse a minimum assigned capital
of ₹100 crore into the branch office.
• As part of the ease of doing business in India,
various committees deliberated on the repatriation
of excess assigned capital by Foreign Reinsurance
Branches (FRB) and Lloyd's India.
• However, the relaxation comes with certain riders
such as a minimum assigned capital of ₹100
crore or a higher sum specified by Irdai at the time
of grant of certificate of registration; submission of
a request justifying the reasons for repatriation
and a certificate stating foreign reinsurers' net
owned funds of ₹5,000 crore or as prescribed
under the Insurance Act.
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• Among others, they should have a solvency ratio
after the repatriation of at least 50 basis points
higher than the control level of solvency i.e. 200
per cent and a certificate from certifying actuary
about sufficient reserves to meet reinsurance
liabilities.
• "Such withdrawal shall not exceed 20 per cent of
assigned capital of such FRB/ Lloyd's India as at
the end of last financial year; and one request in a
financial year can be made by the foreign
reinsurer," Irdai said.
• There are 10 Foreign Reinsurance
Branches(FRBs) operating in India. This excludes
Lloyd's India Reinsurance Branch, which also has a
services company Markel Services India Pvt Ltd.
• GIC Re is the national reinsurer, providing
reinsurance to direct general and life insurance
companies in India.
250. 4
Indian scientists at the Indian Institute of
Geomagnetism (IIG) have developed an
indigenous Overhauser Magnetometer, one of the
most accurate magnetometers extensively used by
all magnetic observatories around the world,
making way for reducing the cost of sampling and
sensing experiments essential for geomagnetic
sampling,
Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG), location:
Navi Mumbai.
• OVH magnetometers are known for their higher
accuracy, higher sensitivity, and efficient power
consumption and hence find applications in all
magnetic observatories worldwide as well as in
international space programs. It has so far been
imported for such purposes in India.
251. 2
Uttar Pradesh is all set to get a new elephant
reserve soon, as the Union ministry of forest,
environment and climate change (MoFECC) has
given its nod to the Terai Elephant Reserve (TER),
which will be spread in a 3,049 sq km area,
including Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR) and Pilibhit
Tiger Reserve (PTR). It will be the second elephant
reserve in UP and India's 33rd.
252. 4
The UNEP report, titled 'Emissions Gap Report
2022: The Closing Window " Climate Crisis Calls
For Rapid Transformation of Societies', has found
that in India and six other top emitters, emissions
have rebounded and increased after the pandemic.
The top seven emitters are China, the EU27, India,
Indonesia, Brazil, the Russian Federation and USA
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• The top seven emitters (China, the EU27, India,
Indonesia, Brazil, the Russian Federation and the
United States of America) plus international
transport accounted for 55 per cent of global GHG
(greenhouse gas) emissions in 2020. Collectively,
G20 members are responsible for 75 per cent of
global GHG emissions
• The global average per capita GHG emissions was
6.3 tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) in 2020. The
US remains far above this level at 14 tCO2e,
followed by Russia at 13 tCO2e, China at 9.7
tCO2e, Brazil and Indonesia at about 7.5 tCO2e,
and the European Union at 7.2 tCO2e.
• For most major emitters, including China, India,
the Russian Federation, Brazil and Indonesia, GHG
emissions (excluding land use and forestry
sectors) rebounded in 2021, exceeding pre-
pandemic 2019 levels
• Ahead of the 2022 United Nations Climate
Change Conference, also known as COP27,
scheduled to take place in the Egyptian city of
Sharm El Sheikh next month, the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) said that the
world is falling short of the goals set forth in the
Paris Climate Agreement adopted in 2015, and
that no credible pathway is currently in place to
restrict global warming to under 1.5 degrees
Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
253. 2
Aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil
Aviation (DGCA) has given the aerodrome licence
for the new airport at Mopa in Goa, paving the way
for starting commercial flights operations from
there soon.The Mopa airport, will be operated by
GMR group. This will be the second airport in Goa,
where already there is an operational airport at
Dabolim in Mormugao city.
Currently, there are 131 operational airports in the
country.
254. 1
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro)
launched a constellation of 36 broadband satellites
developed by OneWeb to Low Earth Orbit. The
ISRO confirmed that LVM3-M2/OneWeb India-1
Mission successfully placed 36 satellites into
intended orbits. This is the first commercial launch
for LVM-3 and the mission is being conducted
under an agreement. Agreement was between
OneWeb and New Space India Limited (NSIL).
The satellites were launched onboard the Launch
Vehicle Mark-III, which is a redesignated version
of the Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV Mk-
III), from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in
Sriharikota. The launch took place at 12.07 am.
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Though GSLV LVM 3 has the payload capacity of
10 tonne, the rocket lifted off with 6 tonne.
255. 3
Shefali Juneja, India's representative to the
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO),
has been elected as the chairperson of United
Nations' specialized aviation agency's Air Transport
Committee (ATC).
India secured this position in ICAO after 28 years
when Juneja was unanimously elected to the
post.She is the first woman to represent India in
the ICAO.
256. 4
The Indian Navy is hosting the 29th edition of the
Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise
(SIMBEX) from 26 to 30 October, 2022 at
Visakhapatnam.
SIMBEX-2022 is being conducted in two phases "
Harbour Phase at Visakhapatnam from 26 to 27
October 2022 followed by the Sea Phase in Bay of
Bengal from 28 to 30 October 2022.
SIMBEX series of exercises began in 1994 and
were initially known as Exercise Lion King.
257. 3
Retail jewellery major Malabar Gold and Diamonds
has become the first jeweller in India to import 25
kg gold under the Comprehensive Economic
Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and
the UAE. The gold has been imported through
ICICI Bank with one percent duty rebate under the
agreement.
The CEPA between India and the UAE came into
effect on May 1, 2022.
258. 2
The feature film Pather Panchali(1955) by
renowned director Satyajit Ray has been named
the best Indian movie of all time in a poll
conducted by the International Federation of Film
Critics (FIPRESCI).
The list by FIPRESCI consists of top 10 films in
Indian cinematic history.
Others on the list include: Meghe Dhaka Tara,
Bhuvan Shome, Elippathayam, Ghatashraddha,
Garm Hava, Charulata, Ankur, Pyaasa and Sholay.
259. 1
The vaccine, a mist that is sucked in through the
mouth, is being offered for free as a booster dose
for previously vaccinated individuals.
The Chinese city of Shanghai has started
administering this inhalable COVID-19 vaccine in
what appears to be a world first.
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It was developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical
company Cansino Biologics Inc.
260. 4
Tata Power board has approved appointment of
ex-home secretary Rajiv Mehrishi as independent
director. The board "unanimously approved"
Mehrishi's appointment as an "additional director
(non-executive, independent), not liable to retire
by rotation, for a term of five years with effect
from October 28, 2022.
The ex-bureaucrat "fulfils the criteria of
independence" as required under the provisions of
the Companies Act, 2013.
261. 1
Fiji is the first country in the Pacific to hold the
12th World Hindi Conference. The conference
would be taking place under the aegis of the
Ministry of External Affairs and the Government of
Fiji from February 15-17, 2023 & external affairs
Minister Dr S Jaishankar will lead the Indian
delegation for the Conference.
The 11th World Hindi Conference was held in
Mauritius.
262. 2
Mawmluh Caves located in the East Khasi Hills
district in Meghalaya has made it to the first 100
geological heritage sites listed under International
Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) by UNESCO.
The first 100 sites were chosen from 56 countries.
With 7.2 km, it is the fourth longest cave in the
Indian subcontinent and is referred to locally as
Krem Mawmluh.Â
It is the fourth longest cave in the Indian
subcontinent and is referred to locally as Krem
Mawmluh. The word "krem" in the local Khasi
language means cave. Therria sandstone, thick
dolomite, Sylhet limestone are among the layers
that make up this intricate sub-horizontal network
of passages. The cave, which is 7.2 kilometres
long, has numerous entrances. It is known for
stunning stalactite and stalagmite formations.
According to the Bengal Gazette, the earliest
English-language newspaper published in India, Lt.
Yule, a Britishman, discovered the cave in 1844. It
is a part of the system of caves in Meghalaya,
which includes caves in the districts of Jaintia,
Khasi Hills, and Garo Hills.
263. 3
Mr.Rajnath Singh dedicated to the nation 75
infrastructure projects at a total cost of Rs.2180
crore built by the Border Roads Organisation at a
function organised at D-S-DBO road in Ladakh on
October 28.
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The 75 projects - 45 bridges, 27 roads, 2 Helipads
& one Carbon Neutral Habitat" are spread across 6
states & 2 UTs.
Two helipads are in Hanle and Thakung in Ladakh.
264. 3
Indian Air Force (IAF) and FASF are participating in
a bilateral exercise, named Garuda VIl, from 26
October to 12 November 2022 at Air Force Station
Jodhpur.
1st, 3rd and 5th editions were conducted in India
in 2003, 2006 and 2014 at Air Force Stations
Gwalior, Kalaikunda and Jodhpur. The second,
fourth and sixth editions were conducted in France
in 2005, 2010 and 2019.
265. 2
India defeated Australia to win Sultan of Johor Cup
2022 in shootout 5-4 after a 1-1 draw.
This is the third time India has won the Sultan of
Johor Cup.
The Indians have won the age group tournament
twice -- 2013 and 2014 -- and finished second best
four times in 2012, 2015, 2018 and the last edition
of the event in 2019.
266. 1
• Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian
presidency, the leftist Luiz In cio Lula da Silva
defeated incumbent president- Jair Bolsonaro to
become the new president of Brazil.
• Da Silva's inauguration is scheduled to take
place on January 1, 2023. He last served as
president from 2003-2010.
About Brazil:
• Capital city: Brasilia.
• The Brazilian real is the official currency of
Brazil.
• Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world,
exceeded in size only by Russia, Canada, China,
and the United States.
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• India's Ministry of Defence is the world's
biggest employer with 2.92 million people, which
includes combined active service personnel,
reservists and civilian staff, according to a report
in 'Statista'.
• A close second to the Indian Defence Ministry
is the US Department of Defense which employs
2.91 million people.
• In China, the People's Liberation Army, which
doesn't include civilian positions, employs around
2.5 million people.
Other information:
• According to Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute (SIPRI), the five largest
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spenders in 2021 were the United States, China,
India, the United Kingdom and Russia, together
accounting for 62 per cent of expenditure.
• US military spending amounted to USD 801
billion in 2021 while China, the world's second-
largest spender, allocated an estimated USD 293
billion to its military.
• The SIPRI report says India's military
spending of USD 76.6 billion ranked third highest
in the world.
268. 1
• The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of
C-295MW transport aircraft manufacturing project
at Vadodara, Gujarat.
• It will be India's first transport aircraft
manufacturing project worth around 22,000 crore
rupees.
• C-295MW transport aircrafts will be
manufactured in India by private companies,
Airbus Defence and TATA consortium.
• The C-295MW transport aircraft manufacturing
project will strengthen the India Air Force and
create an entire new ecosystem for the domestic
aviation sector.
• The project will strengthen the logistic
capabilities of the Indian Air Force. 40 aircrafts will
be manufactured in the country.
• This state-of-the-art transport aircraft, with
the capacity of 5 to 10 ton, will strengthen the
Indian Air Force.
• The aircraft can also be used for civilian
purposes. The new aircrafts will replace the ageing
Avro aircrafts.
269. 1
• The first edition of India-Mozambique-
Tanzania Trilateral Exercise (IMT TRILAT), a joint
maritime exercise among the Indian, Mozambique
and Tanzanian navies commenced at Dar Es
Salaam, Tanzania on 27 Oct 22.
• Indian Navy is represented by the guided
missile frigate, INS Tarkash, a Chetak helicopter
and MARCOS (Special Forces).
• The exercise has three broad objectives:
capability development to address common threats
through training and sharing of best practices,
enhancing interoperability, and strengthening
maritime cooperation. The exercise is scheduled
over a three-day period from 27 to 29 Oct 22 and
includes harbour and sea phases.
• This exercise came soon after the
Gandhinagar Declaration which was adopted in the
recently concluded India-Africa Defence Dialogue
in Gandhinagar.
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• According to the report, 21.4 Lakh TB cases
notified in India in 2021, 18% higher than 2020.
Over 22 crore people screened for TB in 2021
across the country for early detection and
treatment of TB.
• Under the new initiative Pradhan Mantri TB
Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, more than 40,000 Nikshay
Mitra supporting over 10.45 Lakh TB patients all
over the country.
• India's TB incidence for the year 2021 is 210
per 100,000 population " compared to the baseline
year of 2015 (incidence was 256 per lakh of
population in India); there has been an 18%
decline which is 7 percentage points better than
the global average of 11%.
• These figures also place India at the 36th
position in terms of incidence rates (from largest
to smallest incidence numbers).
• India aims to eliminate TB by 2025 - five
years ahead of the global target.
271. 4
• A data center, in short, is a dedicated space or
building that houses an organization's IT
equipment and servers. The company can draw on
its data center resources to operate its business or
serve those resources up to the public as a
service.
• Enterprise data centers and hyperscale data
centers can be compared using their scale and
performance.
• Hyperscale data centers are significantly larger
than enterprise data centers, and because of the
advantages of economies of scale and custom
engineering, they significantly outperform them,
too. Not by any means an official definition, a
hyperscale data center should exceed 5,000
servers and 10,000 square feet.
Recent news:
• UP CM Yogi Adityanath inaugurates North
India's first hyperscale data centre Yotta D1 in
Greater Noida
• The first of six data centre buildings in the
Greater Noida Data Center Park, Yotta D1, has
been set up with an investment of around Rs
1,500 crore.
272. 1
• Known as the 'Steel Man of India', former Tata
Steel MD Dr Jamshed J Irani passed away. He was
86.
• He was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 2007
for his contribution to industry.
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• The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee
(GEAC) functions under the Ministry of
Environment, Forest and Climate Change
(MoEF&CC).
• GEAC is responsible for the appraisal of
activities involving large-scale use of hazardous
microorganisms and recombinants in research and
industrial production from the environmental
angle.
• The committee is also responsible for the
appraisal of proposals relating to the release of
genetically engineered (GE) organisms and
products into the environment including
experimental field trials.
• GEAC is chaired by the Special
Secretary/Additional Secretary of MoEF&CC and
co-chaired by a representative from the
Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
Recent news:
• A genetically modified hybrid variety of
mustard, also known as GM mustard, has received
Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee's, a
state-run biotech regulator, recommendation for
commercial cultivation.
• It is the first genetically modified crop in the
country to get approval in two decades.
• This would be the first time since 2002 for
such approval to grow GM mustard, a genetically
modified hybrid variety of the mustard species, for
consumption by the masses.
274. 1
• Uttar Pradesh's Ranipur Tiger Reserve has
become the 53rd tiger reserve of India. The tiger
reserve is spread across over 529.36 sq km, of
which the core area is 230.32 sq km and buffer
area is 299.05 sq km.
• Besides this, it is also the fourth tiger reserve
in Uttar Pradesh. Apart from Ranipur, the state has
three tiger reserves" Dudhwa, Pilibhit and
Amangarh.
• Amangarh is a buffer zone of the Jim Corbett
National Park and is located in Uttar Pradesh's
Bijnor.
• While Dudhwa Tiger Reserve is located in
Lakhimpur, Pilibhit Tiger Reserve is in Pilibhit.
275. 4
• SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the world's most-
powerful active rocket, lifted off on 1 November
2022 for the first time in more than three years
through dense fog at Florida's Cape Canaveral,
with Elon Musk's company sending satellites into
orbit for the U.S. Space Force.
• The secretive USSF-44 mission, the first
operational national security mission for Falcon
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Heavy, is being launched by SpaceX's rocket for
the American Space Force.
• The Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission,
launched in June 2019, carried experimental
satellites on a test flight for the Pentagon.
• Falcon Heavy mission was the 1st in more
than three years by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
276. 2
• HDFC ERGO has announced the launch of a
technology backed farm yield insurance policy for
farmers.
• This is a first-of-its-kind insurance solution,
where a satellite-based index will be used to
provide localized farm level coverage.
• It will provide comprehensive cover across the
crop life cycle from sowing to harvesting, basis
satellite-based data.
• The product is targeted at farmers under
corporate/farm input company (FIC) contracts and
is valid for food, oilseed, commercial or
horticulture crops.
• Since the policy is entirely based on
technology, no manual survey is required during
the claim assessment of the crop.
• CMD of HDFC ERGO: Ritesh Kumar.
277. 1
• Karnataka's highest civilian award the
'Karnataka Ratna' was conferred posthumously on
late actor Puneeth Rajkumar , on the occasion of
the 67th Kannada Rajyotsava (the state formation
day). He is the 9th recipient of this prestigious
honour.
• The Karnataka Ratna award consists a full
silver plaque and a 50-gram gold medal.
• Karnataka Ratna was last awarded to Dr.
Virendra Heggade for social service in 2009.
278. 2
• The gross GST revenue collected in the month
of October 2022 was at Rs. 1,51,718 crore, the
second highest monthly collection ever, next only
to the collection in April 2022.
• Out of total collections, Central GST is Rs
26,039 crore, State GST is Rs 33,396 crore,
Integrated GST is Rs 81,778 crore (including Rs
37,297 crore collected on import of goods).
279. 1
• Permacrisis is declared as Collins Dictionary
word of the year 2022.
• Permacrisis - a word describing the feeling of
living through a period of war, inflation, and
political instability - has been chosen as Collins
Dictionary's word of the year.
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• Permacrisis is one of six words on the list that
are new to CollinsDictionary.com, and was first
noted as a word in academic contexts in the
1970s.
280. 3
• Dr G Hemaprabha was appointed Director of
the institute up to 2024 on the recommendations
of the Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board,
New Delhi, under the Union Minister of Agriculture
and Farmers' Welfare.
• Hemaprabha is the first woman director of the
111-year-old institution.
• ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, location,
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
281. 2
• Tata's Jamshedpur Steel Plant received
ResponsibleSteel Certification for three facilities in
Jamshedpur.
• The Company's Steel Works, Tubes Division
and Cold Rolling Mill (Bara) in Jamshedpur have
joined an exclusive group of steel producing sites
around the world to receive the ResponsibleSteel
Certification, which also includes some of the other
renowned steel manufacturers in the world.
• ResponsibleSteel is the steel industry's first
global multi-stakeholder standard and certification
initiative that works with steel producers,
consumers, and intermediaries towards building a
sustainable steel industry by addressing pressing
challenges including climate change, diversity,
human rights and more.
• Tata Steel has been a member of
ResponsibleSteel since October 2020.
282. 3
• A wind turbine taller than the world's tallest
Statue of Unity with blades spanning wider than
the wingspan of a jumbo jet has been installed at
Mundra in Gujarat by Adani New Industries Ltd as
part of its renewable energy expansion plans.
• The turbine has been installed by Mundra
Windtech Ltd (MWL), a wholly-owned subsidiary
incorporated by Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL).
• Standing 200 metres tall, the wind turbine has
the capacity to produce 5.2 MW of electricity and
can power approximately 4,000 homes.
• Wind turbines have had a growth spurt over
the last couple of years. Turbines of the capacity
above 4 MW are typically associated with offshore
installation -- where the machines have gone as
big as 14 MW.
• India has the fourth highest wind installed
capacity in the world.
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283. 1
• Women, on average, are expected to reach
retirement with just 74% of the wealth
accumulated by men, a new global study - The
2022 WTW Global Gender Wealth Equity report by
advisory, broking and solutions company WTW has
revealed.
• In APAC, the gender wealth gap is the largest
in India at 64%.
• Asia Pacific has one of the lower global wealth
gaps on average for gender wealth equity.
• In the APAC region, women are expected to
accumulate just over three-quarters (76%) of
men's wealth levels, two points above the global
average.
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• In a first, the CRPF has appointed two women
officers from its cadre as Inspectors General (IG)
of its specialised anti-riots unit RAF and the Bihar
Sector.
• Annie Abraham has been appointed as the IG
of the blue duangree donning Rapid Action Force
(RAF) while Seema Dhundia has been posted as
the IG of the Bihar Sector.
• The proverbial glass ceiling in the country's
largest paramilitary force with 3.25 lakh personnel
has broken after a long wait of 35 years as the
first women officers joined the Central Reserve
Police Force in 1987.
• Sujoy Lal Thaosen: 37th Director-General of
Central Reserve Police Force.
285. 4
• The Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (FICCI) announced
Subhrakant Panda as its President-Elect, who is
currently serving as FICCI's Senior Vice President.
• Panda is the Managing Director of Indian
Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd. (IMFA), the largest and
fully integrated manufacturer of ferro alloys in the
nation with in-house mining and power generation.
• Established in 1927, FICCI is the largest and
oldest apex business organisation in India.
286. 2
• Malaysia-based AirAsia Group has exited
AirAsia India by selling its remaining 16.67 per
cent stake to Tata Group-owned Air India for Rs
155.64 crore.
• AirAsia Group said AirAsia India can use the
"AirAsia" brand name for 12 months.
• AirAsia India has been making losses since its
first commercial flight on June 12, 2014.
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287. 1
• Ministry of Education released a detailed
report on Unified District Information System for
Education Plus (UDISE ) 2021-22 on school
education of India.
• In 2021-22 total students enrolled in school
education from primary to higher secondary stood
at 25.57 crore as compare to 25.38 crore
enrolment in 2020-21, registering an increase of
19.36 lakh enrolments.
• The UDISE system of online data collection
from the schools was developed by Department of
School Education & Literacy in the year 2018-19 to
overcome the issues related to erstwhile practice
of manual data filling in paper format.
• In UDISE system, improvements have been
made particularly in the areas related to data
capture, data mapping and data verification.
• In UDISE 2021-22, additional data on
important indicators viz., digital library, peer
learning, hard spot identification, number of books
available in school library, etc have been collected
for the first time to align with the NEP 2020
initiatives.
• Total number of schools in 2021-22 stood at
14.89 lakhs as compared to 15.09 lakhs in 2020-
21.
• The decline in total schools is mainly due to
closure of private and other management schools
and grouping/ clustering of schools by various
States.
288. 1
• Carnatic vocalist Aruna Sairam will be
conferred the Chevalier de l'Ordre National du
Merite, the Knight of the Order of the Merit, by the
French government.
• She has been selected for her singing talent
and contribution to the development of Indo-
France relations.
• Aruna Sairam has received many awards,
including the Padma Shri the Sangeetha Kalanidhi
Award.
289. 2
UIDAI has launched its new AI/ML based Chatbot,
Aadhaar Mitra. The new Chatbot comes with
enhanced features like - check Aadhaar
enrollment/update status, tracking of Aadhaar PVC
card status, information on enrollment centre
location etc. Residents can even register their
grievances and track them using Aadhaar Mitra.
290. 1
The Environment minister of India, Shri Bhupender
Yadav will attend the 27th Session of Conference
of Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 27) scheduled to be
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held at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from 6-18
November, 2022. India to invite all countries to
join LiFE movement " Lifestyle for Environment, a
pro-people and pro-planet effort. COP 27 is named
as the COP of "Implementation".
291. 1
The President of India inaugurated the permanent
North-East Campus of Indian Institute of Mass
Communication (IIMC) North East at Aizawl,
Mizoram. With the main Campus in New Delhi,
IIMC has five regional campuses at Dhenkanal in
Odisha, Aizawl in Mizoram, Jammu in J&K,
Kottayam in Kerala and Amravati in Maharashtra.
292. 2
Aibawk cluster in the Aizwal district of Mizoram has
become the first cluster to be completed under the
Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM).
SPMRM was launched by the Prime Minister in
February 2016 with a vision to provide amenities
to rural areas which are perceived to be urban and
have the potential to stimulate local economic
development.
293. 3
The President of India has recently inaugurated
the Atal Setu viaduct connecting West Bengal and
Sikkim at Rangpo on National Highway 10; the
two-lane Chisopani traffic tunnel including
approach roads in East Sikkim. The President also
laid the foundation stone for the National Institute
of Technology, Khamdong, East Sikkim.
294. 1
In Squash, Indian men's team clinched their first-
ever gold at the Asian Squash Team
Championships, 2022. They defeated Kuwait in the
final in straight sets in Cheongju, South Korea. It
was Saurav Ghoshal and Ramit Tandon who won
their games in the final to dole out a 2-0 defeat to
Kuwait.
295. 3
Guyana President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali to be
chief guest at 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
Convention. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is celebrated
once in every two years to strengthen the
engagement of the overseas Indian community
with the Government of India. It will be held from
8th to 10th January next year in Indore, Madhya
Pradesh. The theme of the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya
Divas is - Diaspora: Reliable Partners for India's
Progress in Amrit Kaal.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appreciated
India Post Payments Bank for conducting India's
First Floating Financial Literacy Camp in Dal Lake
of Srinagar, Jammu, and Kashmir. The camp was
organised under an initiative called Niveshak Didi,
was focused to raise financial awareness by
adopting the women, by the women approach.
297. 4
Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) CEO Mohammad
Tayyab Ikram of Macau was elected as the new
president of the International Hockey Federation
(FIH), succeeding India's Narinder Batra as its full-
time chief.
Ikram defeated Marc Coudron of Belgium 79-47 in
the 48th FIH Congress held virtually.
Seif Ahmed was the acting president of the FIH
following Batra's resignation.
298. 2
National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, late
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat
among five distinguished people have been
selected for the "Uttarakhand Gaurav Samman"
this year.
Others to be conferred the award are Chairperson
of the Central Board of Film Certification Prasoon
Joshi, late Girish Chandra Tiwari 'Girda' and late
Viren Dangwal.
• The Uttarakhand Gaurav Samman is one of the
two highest civilian awards of the state along with
the Uttarakhand Ratna.
• It is awarded to a person for their extraordinary
contribution to any field of human endeavour.
• It was constituted in the year 2021 by the
Uttarakhand Government. The award was
constituted in 2021 by Chief Minister Pushkar
Singh Dhami. It was constituted on November 9,
2021, on the occasion of the state's 21st
anniversary.Â
299. 3
Star Indian batter Suryakumar Yadav became the
first Indian player to score 1,000 T20 International
runs in a calendar year. The batter accomplished
this feat in his side's final Super 12 stage match
against Zimbabwe at Melbourne. In 28 innings this
year, Suryakumar has scored 1,026 runs at an
average of 44.60.
300. 3
Switzerland sets record with world's longest
passenger train
A Swiss railway operator has set a new record for
completing a journey with the world's longest
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passenger train. The 1.9km (1.2 mile) train, which
is composed of 100 coaches, completed a
spectacular 25km journey through the Alps. The
world record attempt took place to highlight
Switzerland's engineering achievements, as well as
to mark 175 years of Swiss railways.
301. 1
The Central Government has constituted the 22nd
Law Commission of India with former Karnataka
High Court Chief Justice Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi as
its Chairperson. The Centre has also appointed
former Kerala High Court judge Justice KT
Sankaran,Prof. Anand Paliwal, Prof. DP Verma,
Prof.(Dr) Raka Arya and Shri M. Karunanithi as
members of the Commission.
• The Law Commission of India had been remaining
vacant since August 31, 2018, after the retirement
of the Chairperson of the 21st Commission, former
Supreme Court judge Justice BS Chauhan.
302. 4
Virat Kohli claimed the International Cricket
Council (ICC) Men's Player of the Month following a
series of star performances as India charged their
way to the ICC Men's T20 World Cup semi finals,
while Pakistan's veteran all-rounder Nida Dar is the
ICC Women's Player of the Month thanks to her
sensational form in their Women's Asia Cup
campaign.
ICC launched the Player of the Month Awards for
men and women in January 2021.
303. 4
Defence Research and Development Organization
(DRDO) launched the hull module of the
Submersible Platform for Acoustic Characterization
and Evaluation (SPACE) facility at Naval Physical
and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) in Kochi.
SPACE facility is based on the concept design and
requirements projected by NPOL and has been
constructed by M/s L&T Shipbuilding, Chennai.
• It is a state-of-the-art testing and evaluation
facility for sonar systems developed for use by the
Indian Navy onboard various platforms, including
ships, submarines and helicopters.
304. 2
Surpassing traditional suppliers Saudi Arabia and
Iraq, Russia has emerged as the top oil supplier to
India in October. The information provided by
energy cargo tracker Vortexa shows that Russia,
which made up for just 0.2 per cent of all oil
imported by India in the year to March 31, 2022,
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supplied 935,556 barrels per day of crude oil to
India in October-the highest ever.
Russia now supplies almost 22% of India's total
crude imports, ahead of Iraq's 20.5 per cent and
Saudi Arabia's 16 per cent.
305. 4
The world's first Vedic Clock will be installed in
Ujjain " the city of Lord Malakal. The foundation
stone was laid at the 300-year-old Jiwaji
Observatory in Ujjain for this mega project, being
taken up by the state government at an estimated
cost of Rs 1.62 crore. The observatory was
constructed by Maharaja Sawai Raja Jaisingh of
Jaipur in 1719.
• A special thing about this Vedic clock is that it will
be based on Vedic calculation of the time, in which
the 24 hours of the day are divided into Muhurats.
The Vedic clock will be synced with the position of
the Sun and also with the sunrise and sunset
timings at different places across the world
• The application will also have information on
Vedic Hindu Panchang, planetary positions,
muhurat, astrological calculation, and predictions,
etc
306. 1
Forbes unveiled its 2022 Asia's Power
Businesswomen list, honoring 20 outstanding
women in business across the Asia-Pacific region.
Soma Mondal, the chairperson of Steel Authority of
India Ltd, Namita Thapar, executive director at
India business of Emcure Pharma, and Ghazal
Alagh, co-founder and chief innovation officer of
Honasa Consumer, are on the list.
307. 4
India will assume the presidency of the powerful
G20 grouping from the current chair, Indonesia, on
December 1, and hold the post for a year.
The G20 Leaders' Summit at the level of Heads of
State/Government is scheduled to be held on
September 9 and 10, 2023 in New Delhi.
The G20 was formed in 1999 in the backdrop of
the financial crisis of the late 1990s.
The G20 Logo draws inspiration from the vibrant
colours of India's national flag " saffron, white and
green, and blue. It juxtaposes planet Earth with
the lotus, India's national flower that reflects
growth amid challenges. The Earth reflects India's
pro-planet approach to life, one in perfect harmony
with nature. Below the G20 logo is "Bharat",
written in the Devanagari script.
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The logo draws upon elements contained in
various entries received during an open
competition for the logo design. The contest
organized on MyGov portal received an
enthusiastic response with over 2000 submissions.
This is in line with Prime Minister's vision of Jan
Bhagidari during India's G20 Presidency.
The theme of India's G20 Presidency - "Vasudhaiva
Kutumbakam" or "One Earth One Family One
Future" - is drawn from the ancient Sanskrit text of
the Maha Upanishad. Essentially, the theme
affirms the value of all life " human, animal, plant,
and microorganisms " and their
interconnectedness on the planet Earth and in the
wider universe.
308. 1
Calling for integration of mangroves conservation
with the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
and Forest Degradation (REDD ) programmes for
carbon sequestering, India joined the Mangrove
Alliance for Climate (MAC) at the COP 27 at Sharm
el-Sheikh, Egypt. India is among the first five
countries to join the MAC. The others are Australia,
Japan, Spain, and Sri Lanka.
• The move is in line with India's Nationally
Determined Contributions (NDCs) to create an
additional carbon sink of 2.5- 3 billion tonnes
of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent, through
additional forest and tree cover by 2030.
• Mangroves can also act as a buffer for ocean
acidification and act as a sink for microplastics.
• Mangroves are distributed in tropical and
subtropical regions and are found in 123 countries.
• According to the State of the World's Mangroves
report 2022, from 2010 to 2020, the human-
driven loss represents 62 per cent of total losses of
over 600 square kilometres or 60,000 hectares.
• Global mangrove extent in 2020 was 147,359
km2. South Asia comprises 6.4 per cent of the
global mangroves cover.
• India accounts for over 50 per cent of total
mangrove cover in South Asia.
• According to the Forest Survey report 2021
released in January, mangroves cover in the
country is 4,992 km2, which is 0.15 per cent of the
country's total geographical area. An increase of
17 km2 in mangroves cover has been observed as
compared to the previous assessment of 2019.
• The top three states showing an increase in
mangroves cover are Odisha (8 km2), Maharashtra
(4 km2), and Karnataka (3 km2).
• The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the
largest such forests in the world (140,000 ha), lies
on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and
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Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is adjacent
to the border of India's Sundarbans World Heritage
site inscribed in 1987.
309. 3
Justice DY Chandrachud took oath as the new
Chief Justice of India. President Droupadi Murmu
administered the oath of office to Justice DY
Chandrachud as the 50th Chief Justice of India at
Rashtrapati Bhawan. Justice Chandrachud
succeeded Justice UU Lalit. Born in 1959, Justice
Chandrachud was appointed Judge of the Supreme
Court of India on the 13th of May 2016.
Justice Chandrachud will have a tenure till
November 10, 2024.
310. 4
Kerala is the first state in India which introduced a
standard gold price based on the bank rate. The
decision to introduce uniform price on 916 purity
22 carat gold has been taken at a meeting
between officials of Malabar Gold and Diamonds,
one of the largest gold and diamond retail chains
in the country and key members of All Kerala Gold
and Silver Merchants Association
311. 1
Mumbai defeated Himachal Pradesh to win the
2022 edition of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. It
was the first time that Mumbai won the trophy.
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka were the dominant
teams when it comes to SMAT. However, both
teams were not able to do well in this edition.
Himachal Pradesh won Vijay Hazare Trophy last
time around and reached the finals of SMAT this
year.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is a Twenty20
competition played in India and organized by
BCCI.
312. 2
India will host the women's world boxing
championships in 2023 in New Delhi where a new
review system based on artificial intelligence will
be used for the first time, the game's global
governing body (IBA) said.
India will host the women's premier event, two
years after the country was stripped of the hosting
rights of the men's event for not paying the
requisite fee.
• India has never conducted the men's world
championship but it will be the third time that the
elite women's competition will be held in the
country having conducted the championships in
2006 and 2018 in New Delhi.
• India also hosted the women's youth world
championships in 2017.
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IBA President: Umar Nazarovich Kremlev.
313. 2
Two people in the U.K. are the first ever to receive
transfusions of lab-grown red blood cells.
The pair are healthy volunteers in the "Recovery
and survival of stem cell originated red cells"
(RESTORE) trial, a one-of-a-kind clinical trial
taking place at Addenbrooke's Hospital in
Cambridge.
• The trial will ultimately include at least 10
participants, each of whom will receive a tiny
transfusion of about one to two teaspoons-worth of
lab-grown red blood cells.
• The goal of the trial is to compare how well
these lab-grown cells survive in the body
compared with standard red blood cells from a
donor.
• So each trial participant will receive two mini-
transfusions " one with standard cells and one with
lab-grown " spaced four months apart. The order
of the transfusions will be randomized.
314. 5
The Ministry of Home Affairs has successfully
completed a mother tongue survey with field
videography of 576 languages and dialects across
the country.
The home ministry said the Linguistic Survey of
India (LSI) is a regular research activity in the
country since the 6th Five Year Plan.
• According to the report, the Mother Tongue
Survey of India is a project that "surveys the
mother tongues, which are returned consistently
across two and more Census decades".
• As per an analysis of 2011 linguistic census
data in 2018, more than 19,500 languages or
dialects are spoken in India as mother tongues.
• According to the 2011 linguistic census, Hindi
is the most widely spoken mother tongue, with
52.8 crore people or 43.6 per cent of the
population declaring it as the mother tongue.
315. 1
Switzerland Tourism has appointed Olympic Gold
medalist Neeraj Chopra as its Friendship
Ambassador.
In this development, the athlete will promote the
sporty, stunning and adventurous outdoors of
Switzerland to Indian travellers.
• As the 'Friendship Ambassador' of the country,
Chopra will propagate his experiences in
Switzerland to display the European nation as one
of the worthy destinations for biking, hiking, soft
and extreme adventures and of course snow sports
for enthusiasts at varied levels.
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316. 2
The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has
received the central government's nod to go ahead
with Rs 26,281 crore deal with Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS), paving its way to launch 4G
services in India. As reported by Economic Times
(ET), TCS will set up the 4G lines and maintain the
network for nine years.
BSNL will give Rs 10,000 crore worth of purchase
orders to TCS soon.
• With this, the state-run telco will aim to
launch its 4G services by December 2022 or
January 2023.
• Following the launch of 4G services, BSNL is
also reportedly aiming to launch 5G services by
August 2023. With both 4G and 5G services, the
telco aims to reduce customer attrition.
• With the launch of BSNL's 4G, India will join
the likes of the USA, Sweden, South Korea and
China in developing telecom network technology.
317. 1
PM Narendra Modi has unveiled 108-feet-long
bronze statue of Sri Nadaprabhu Kempegowda in
Bengaluru.
The statue is built to commemorate the
contribution of Nadaprabhu Kempegowda, the
founder of the city, towards the growth of
Bengaluru. Conceptualised and sculpted by Ram V
Sutar of the Statue of Unity fame, 98 tonnes of
bronze and 120 tonnes of steel have gone into
making this statue.
It is called 'Statue of Prosperity' in Bengaluru.
Chief Minister of Karnataka: Basavaraj Bommai.
Governor of Karnataka: Thawar Chand Gehlot.
318. 5
'Dhabari Quruvi' is the first film in the history of
Indian cinema to star only people from indigenous
communities. Directed by National Award-winning
filmmaker Priyanandan, the film also has the
distinction of having been shot completely in the
tribal language of Irula.
The film is being presented at the 53rd edition of
the IFFI, which is set to open in Goa on 20 Nov
2022.
• In Irula language, Dhabari Quruvi means 'a
sparrow with an unknown father'. The mythological
bird, which is part of the tribal folklore, captures
the untold tales of the unseen people who suffer
quietly, who yearn to break the shackles of
injustice, whose agonies and struggles the film
seeks to bring to light.
• Dhabari Quruvi has bagged URF world record
for being the only feature film starring only tribals.
The film has also been selected to the
International Film Festival of Kerala.
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319. 2
The government has notified E-waste
(management) rules 2022, which will come into
force from 1 April 2023 and apply to every
manufacturer, producer refurbisher, dismantler
and recycler of e-waste.
Producers of electronic goods have to ensure at
least 60% of their electronic waste is collected and
recycled by 2023 with targets to increase them to
70% and 80% in 2024 and 2025.
Other provisions:
• Extended Producer Responsibility Certificates
(similar to carbon credit mechanism) will allow the
offsetting of e-waste responsibility to a third party.
• 'Environmental compensation' to be provided
by the companies that don't meet their target.
• Increased the range of electronic goods
covered e.g., laptops, mobile, cameras etc.
• Central Pollution Control Board shall conduct
random sampling of electrical and electronic
equipment placed on the market to monitor and
verify the compliance of reduction of hazardous
substances provisions.
320. 4
Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off
south India's first Vande Bharat Express train,
connecting Mysuru and Chennai.
This is the fifth Vande Bharat Express started in
the country and the first such train of south India.
The Prime Minister also flagged off Bharat Gaurav
Kashi Darshan Train at KSR Railway Station,
Bengaluru.
• The Indian Railways had launched India's first
indigenous Semi-High Speed train- Vande Bharat
Express which was flagged off by Hon'ble Prime
Minister on February 15, 2019 on the New Delhi "
Kanpur- Allahabad "Varanasi route.
• Further, Vande Bharat Express trains have
been commenced on New Delhi- Mata Vaishno
Devi Katra, Gandhinagar Capital " Ahmedabad "
Mumbai Central, and Amb Andaura " New Delhi
routes.
• This new train will enhance connectivity
between the industrial hub of Chennai and the
technological-software-startup hub of Bengaluru
and the world-famous tourist city Mysuru.
321. 5
The Uttar Pradesh government will be hosting the
Khelo India National University Games in 2023-24
in four cities of the state. These cities are
Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Varanasi and Noida.
Around 4,500 athletes, representing 150
universities across the country will be vying for top
honours in 20 disciplines, including rowing,
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basketball, judo, kabaddi, wrestling, swimming
etc.
After Odisha and Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh has got
the opportunity to host the National University
Games for the first time.
The first edition of the Khelo India University
Games has been held in Odisha (2020).
322. 1
New Zealand's Greg Barclay has been re-elected
unopposed as ICC chairman for another two-year
term after Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) chief Tavengwa
Mukuhlani pulled out of the contest.
Jay Shah replaced former president Sourav
Ganguly as the BCCI representative on the ICC
board while Arun Dhumal will be sitting on the
chief executives' committee.
BCCI secretary Shah will take over as chief of the
ICC's finance & commercial affairs committee,
which looks after the distribution of money to
member-countries from the overall revenue pool.
323. 2
The 19th ASEAN-India summit is scheduled to be
held on November 12, and the 17th East Asia
summit on November 13, in the Cambodian capital
Phnom Penh.
News:
Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam
Jaishankar is accompanying Vice President
Jagdeep Dhankhar, who is leading the Indian
delegation to the ASEAN-India Commemorative
Summit and the 17th East Asia Summit, which are
both being held in Cambodia. He met his Ukrainian
counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba on the sidelines of the
programs in Cambodia.
324. 2
RL Kashyap dies on Nov 11 at age of 84. RL
Kashyap was honored with Padma Shri in 2021 by
the President of India. In 1982, he represented the
Kashyap Information Criterion (KIC) to select the
best model from a set of mathematical candidate
models with different numbers of unknown
parameters. These parameters are adjusted to
adapt the models to data.
325. 3
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) has agreed in principle to admit East
Timor as the group's 11th member.
The half-island nation, officially called Timor Leste,
will also be granted observer status at high-level
ASEAN meetings.
The East Timorese voted for independence from a
brutal occupation by neighbouring Indonesia in a
1999 U.N.-supervised referendum, and the country
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was officially recognised by the United Nations in
2002, making it Asia's youngest democracy.
The resource-rich country of 1.3 million people
immediately started the process of accession to
ASEAN, but only formally applied for membership
in 2011.
ASEAN was established on 8th August 1967 and is
HQs located in Jakarta, Indonesia.
326. 3
The Methane Alert and Response System (MARS)
was launched at the 27th Conference of Parties
(COP27) to the UNFCCC in Sharm El-Sheikh,
Egypt.
MARS is a part of global efforts to slow climate
change by tackling the global warming gas.
The new satellite-based system will now help
governments detect methane emissions and tackle
them.
The data-to-action platform was set up as part of
the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP)
International Methane Emissions Observatory
(IMEO) strategy to get policy-relevant data into
the right hands for emissions mitigation.
The system will be the first publicly available
global system to connect methane detection to
notification processes transparently.
It will use state-of-the-art satellite data to identify
significant emission events, notify relevant
stakeholders, and support and track mitigation
progress.
Methane is an 80 times more potent greenhouse
gas than carbon dioxide.
327. 1
The Maharashtra government has approached the
Centre to get back a sword of Chhatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj which is in a museum in the United
Kingdom.
Maharashtra government wants to bring back
Shivaji's 'Jagdamba sword' from the UK by 2024,
the 350th anniversary of the Maratha ruler's
coronation as Emperor of his empire.
328. 3
In T20 world cup cricket, England created history
by winning their second T-20 world cup title
defeating Pakistan by five wickets at the
Melbourne Cricket ground today. They are now the
only side who are the defending ODI and T20
World Cup champions.
329. 2
FIFA World Cup 2022 will be played from 20th
November to 18th December this year across five
cities in Qatar. It is the first football World Cup to
be held in winter, as well as the first to be hosted
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by an Arab country. The tournament will be played
across eight venues. 28 teams have been placed in
eight groups.
330. 3
Hyderabad-based space startup Skyroot Aerospace
said that India's first privately developed rocket -
Vikram-S is all set for a launch on a sub-orbital
mission with three payloads on November 15. The
maiden mission, named 'Prarambh' (the beginning)
by the space startup, will carry payloads of two
Indian and one foreign customer. It will be
launched from the ISRO's launchpad.
331. 3
India announced an additional contribution of USD
5 million to the ASEAN-India science and
technology fund to enhance cooperation in sectors
of public health, renewable energy and smart
agriculture. The announcement came during the
three-day visit of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar
to Cambodia for ASEAN-India and East Asia
summits.
332. 4
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio is India's
strongest telecom brand in India, ahead of Bharti
Airtel and Vodafone Idea Ltd, according to brand
intelligence and data insights company TRA. TRA,
formerly Trust Research Advisory, in its 'India's
Most Desired Brands 2022' ranked companies
according to their brand strength.
333. 1
India-born Nobel laureate Professor Venki
Ramakrishnan has been awarded the prestigious
Order of Merit by Britain's King Charles III in
recognition of his distinguished service to science.
The UK-based molecular biologist is among six
appointments made to the historic order by the
late Queen Elizabeth II before her death and the
first to be appointed by Charles.
334. 3
To collaborate on the design and development of
low and zero-emission propulsion technology
solutions for commercial vehicles in India,
including hydrogen-powered internal combustion
engines, fuel cells, and battery electric vehicle
systems, Cummins and Tata Motors have signed
an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
335. 1
Table Tennis star Achanta Sharath Kamal is set to
receive Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2022,
according to an announcement from the Ministry of
Youth Affairs & Sports.
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A total of 25 athletes including shuttlers Lakshya
Sen, HS Prannoy, woman boxer Nikhat Zareen,
athletes Eldhose Paul, Avinash Sable have been
nominated for the Arjuna Award this year.
336. 3
2025 Kabaddi World Cup To Be Hosted By UK's
West Midlands region. The UK region will become
the first destination outside of Asia to host this
event.
The tournament, organized by England Kabaddi,
Scottish Kabaddi, and the British Kabaddi League,
will feature at least 16 teams (men and women).
World Kabaddi Federation was founded in 2003. It
was incorporated under section 25 of the
companies Act, 1956 on September 30, 2005.
337. 3
IFFI 53 - the annual film festival will be hosted in
Goa from November 20 to 28, 2022. France is the
'Spotlight' country and 8 films will be screened
under 'Country Focus' package. The Austrian film
'Alma and Oskar', directed by Dieter Berner, will
open the annual festival while Krzysztof Zanussi's
'Perfect Number' is the closing film. France is the
'Spotlight' country and 8 films will be screened
under 'Country Focus' package.
338. 4
TransStadia Enterprises Private Limited will receive
the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar, 2022.
Jiwanjot Singh Teja (Archery), Mohammad Ali
Qamar (Boxing), Suma Siddharth Shirur (Para
shooting) and Sujeet Maan (Wrestling) have been
nominated for the ​Dronacharya Award in the
regular category, while Dinesh Jawahar Lad
(Cricket), Bimal Prafulla Ghosh (Football) and Raj
Singh will receive the recognition in the lifetime
category. Ashwini Akkunji C (Athletics), Dharamvir
Singh (Hockey), B C Suresh (Kabaddi) and Nir
Bahadur Gurung (Para Athletics) will get the Dhyan
Chand Award for lifetime achievement in sports
and games. The Khel ratna award consists of a
medallion, a certificate, and a cash prize of Rs. 25
lakh.
339. 2
18th edition of India-US joint military training
exercise Yudh Abhyas will begin today in Auli,
Uttrakhand. The 15-day-long exercise will focus on
high altitude and extremely cold climate warfare.
Exercise Yudh Abhyas is conducted annually
between India and US with the aim of exchanging
best practices, Tactics, Techniques and Procedures
between the Armies of the two nations.
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340. 2
Union Minister of Steel Jyotiraditya Scindia has
said that the country which was earlier a net
importer of the steel has now become a net
exporter. He informed that India has also moved
from 4th largest producer of steel to the second
largest producer of steel at global scale.
341. 4
Hyderabad, Chennai and New Delhi have emerged
as three of the top data centre markets in the
Asia-Pacific region, as per a Knight Frank report.
As a result, cities like Hyderabad, New Delhi and
Chennai are registering significant data centre
market growth, with circa 300MW to 400MW of IT
capacity either live, committed or under
construction in each location.
342. 2
Uttar Pradesh has added the most number of new
companies after Maharashtra since the outbreak of
Covid-19, beating industrial hubs such as Delhi,
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, data combined by the
corporate affairs ministry (MCA) show. Uttar
Pradesh added nearly 30,000 new companies in
the last three years, which helped it emerge the
third state in terms of number of active companies
behind only Maharashtra and Delhi.
343. 3
Lawyer Natasa Pirc Musar won the second round of
Slovenia's presidential election on Sunday and will
become the country's first female head of state.
She will succeed President Borut Pahor, a centrist
politician who had already served two terms in
office.
Pirc Musar had represented former US first lady
Melania Trump in copyright and other cases in her
native Slovenia.
344. 3
The Uttarakhand High Court will be shifted from
Nainital to Haldwani. This decision was taken in a
cabinet meeting held under the chairmanship of
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami in Dehradun.
345. 1
6-time World women's boxing champion Mary Kom
was elected as the Chairperson of the Athletes
Commission of the Indian Olympic Association
(IOA).
The vice Chairperson position went to Sharath
Kamal, the table tennis ace.
The athletes commission nominated Olympic
medallists PV Sindhu & Gagan Narang for inclusion
in the electoral college for the Executive Council of
the IOA.
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346. 2
Phrygian cap symbolising French republic chosen
as 2024 Paris Olympics mascot. The Phrygian cap,
the symbol of the French republic but wearing
sneakers as a nod to the present, was unveiled as
the mascot for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Olympic Phryge ((pronounced fri-jee-uhs) is a
bit smaller, the Paralympic Phryge is a bit slimmer
and has a blade on his right leg because it is a
Phyrge with an impairment.
347. 1
Star Indian paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal has
become the first player from India to get elected in
the Athletes' Commission of the International
Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). Eight athletes
including four male and four female, were elected
from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and
Oceania and will serve in the Athletes' Commission
for four years from 2022 to 2026.
348. 2
PM will inaugurate first greenfield airport in
Arunachal pradesh - 'Donyi Polo Airport, Itanagar'.
Airport's name reflects the age-old indigenous
reverence to Sun ('Donyi') and the Moon ('Polo') in
Arunachal Pradesh. PM to also dedicate 600 MW
Kameng Hydro Power Station to the Nation.
349. 3
The International Paralympic Committee voted to
suspend the National Paralympic Committees
(NPCs) of Russia and Belarus with immediate
effect, placing their para-athletes' hopes of
competing at the 2024 Paralympics in jeopardy.
Both NPCs were suspended for their "inability to
comply with their membership obligations under
the IPC Constitution".
350. 1
FIFA president Gianni Infantino is getting four
more years in charge of football's governing body
after no candidate stepped up to challenge him.
Infantino won a five-candidate race in 2016 to
replace Sepp Blatter, and was re-elected
unopposed in 2019. He's now set to stay in the job
beyond the 2026 World Cup in the United States,
Canada and Mexico.
351. 4
President Droupadi Murmu appointed Dr CV
Ananda Bose as the Governor of West Bengal.
Manipur Governor La Ganesan had been holding
the additional charge of West Bengal since July
after the former Governor, Jagdeep Dhankhar,
became India's Vice President.
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Dr. Bose is the first ever Fellow of the Lal Bahadur
Shastri National Academy of Administration in
Mussoorie.
352. 3
PM Modi inaugurated the Kashi Tamil sangamam in
Varanasi. The objective of sangamam is to
rediscover, reaffirm and celebrate the age-old links
between Tamil Nadu and Kashi - two of the
country's most important and ancient seats of
learning. The Kashi Tamil Sangamam aims to
provide an opportunity for students, scholars,
philosophers, traders, artisans, artists and people
from other walks of life from the two regions to
come together, share their knowledge, culture and
best practices and learn from each others'
experience. The endeavour is in sync with the
National Education Policy 2020's emphasis on
integrating the wealth of Indian Knowledge
Systems with modern systems of knowledge.
353. 3
The 53rd edition of IFFI, the International Film
Festival of India is all set to open to a colourful
opening ceremony at Dr Shyama Prasad
Mukherjee Indoor Stadium, Taleigão in Goa. The
Austrian film, Alma and Oskar, directed by Dieter
Berner, will open the festival. As many as 25
feature films and 19 non-feature films from India
will be showcased in the 'Indian Panorama' while
183 films will be a part of international
programming. The festival presents a special
section for Asha Parekh, the 52nd Dadasaheb
Phalke Award winner.
354. 3
Baliyatra, literally 'voyage to Bali', is one of the
country's largest open-air fairs, which is organised
every year to commemorate the 2,000-year-old
maritime and cultural links between ancient
Kalinga (today's Odisha) and Bali and other South
and Southeast Asian regions like Java, Sumatra,
Borneo, Burma (Myanmar) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
The historic Cuttack Baliyatra has found a place in
the Guinness World Records after achieving a feat
of making 22,000 paper boats in 35 minutes.More
than 2,100 students of 22 schools made the paper
boats and created the world record at an event
organised at Barabati Stadium by the district
administration and Cuttack Municipal Corporation
on Tuesday.
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The world record was attempted with an aim to
attain global recognition for Cuttack's Baliyatra,
the largest open-air trade fair of the state.The
headquarters of the Guinness World Records in
London was contacted for an attempt to make
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10,000 paper boats in just 15 minutes. The record
book authorities had issued the protocol for
organising the event and the administration roped
in around 3,000 students who were also imparted
training on making paper boats.
355. 2
India climbed 2 spots to bag 8th position out of 63
in the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI)
2023.
The rankings by Germanwatch, NewClimate
Institute and the Climate Action Network are based
on how well the countries are doing to halve their
emissions by 2030 -- an essential aspect to keep
the 1.5-degree Celsius goal within reach and
prevent dangerous climate change
India held the tenth position in 2022 and 2021. It
came in 9 place on the list in 2020.
356. 1
World Toilet Day is held annually since 2013 to
celebrate toilets and raises awareness for the
people living without access to sanitation. The
2022 theme of 'World Toilet Day' is 'Making the
Invisible Visible'.
The Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation,
Ministry of Jal Shakti, under the Swachh Bharat
Mission (Grameen) is organizing 'Swachhta Run'
across rural India.
357. 3
In a first of its kind initiative in India, Tamil Nadu
has brought out the 'Tamil Nadu Elephant Death
Audit Framework' to document reasons for
elephant deaths for better accountability.
The framework will improve transparency, assist
all stakeholders in assessing the results and
ultimately facilitate standardization and more
credible comparisons of cause of mortality.
358. 3
India has improved its position by six slots and is
now placed at 61st rank as per the Network
Readiness Index 2022 report released recently. In
its latest version of 2022, the report maps the
network-based readiness landscape of 131
economies based on their performances in four
different pillars technology, people, governance,
and impact.
India has not only improved its ranking but also
improved its score from 49.74 in 2021 to 51.19 in
2022. The report states that India secured 1st
rank in AI talent concentration, the second rank in
Mobile broadband internet traffic within the
country and International Internet bandwidth,
third rank in Annual investment in
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telecommunication services and Domestic market
size, fourth rank in ICT Services exports, fifth rank
in FTTH and Building Internet subscriptions and AI
scientific publications.
359. 1
Khalid Jawed's The Paradise of Food, translated
into English from Urdu by Baran Farooqi, wins the
2022 JCB Prize for Literature
The Paradise of Food (Juggernaut) by Khalid
Jawed, translated from Urdu by Baran Farooqi has
won the Rs 25 lakh JCB Prize for Literature. This
year's shortlist of five novels consisted entirely of
translated works. While translated works from
Bengali and Malayalam have featured on previous
JCB shortlists, this is the first time in the five-year-
old award's history that English translations of
Hindi, Urdu and Nepali novels made it to the
shortlist.
360. 4
The first half of 2022 had everyone scratching
their heads every day to come up with endless
permutations of five-letter words as the online
word game Wordle took over social media. The
craze was such that the puzzle game has even
determined the Cambridge Dictionary's 'Word of
the Year 2022'. This year, a highly searched word
on the Cambridge Dictionary website in 2022 "
Homer " was awarded the title of 'Word of the
Year'.
According to the official website, 'Homer' was
looked up on the website more than 79,000 times
this year, with 65,401 searches taking place in one
day " May 5.
361. 3
The government has increased the maximum term
for the MD and CEO of public sector banks (PSBs)
from 5 to 10 years, subject to a retirement age of
60, as per a government notification. This also
applies to all PSBs' full-time directors.
The amendment would be known as the
Nationalised Banks (Management and
Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Scheme,
2022.
362. 1
Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the 600
MW Kameng hydro power project in Arunachal
Pradesh's West Kameng district to the nation.
The Kameng hydro power project has been
developed at a cost of more than Rs 8,450 crore in
an area spread over more than 80 km in West
Kameng district.
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363. 4
India will take over the chair of the Global
Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI).
The minister of state for Electronics and IT, Rajeev
Chandrasekhar will represent India at the GPAI
meeting. It will be held on 21 November in Tokyo
for the symbolic takeover from France, which is
the outgoing Council Chair.
• For the 2022-2023 Steering Committee, the five
government seats will be held by Japan (as Lead
Council Chair and Co-Chair of the Steering
Committee), France (Outgoing Council Chair),
India (Incoming Council Chair), Canada and the
United States.
• GPAI is an international initiative to support
responsible and human-centric development and
use of AI. It is a congregation of 25 member
countries, including the US, the UK, EU, Australia,
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico,
New Zealand, Republic of Korea, and Singapore.
India joined the group in 2020 as a founding
member.
364. 2
After considering all aspects of coronary stents, it
has been recommended that coronary stent is an
essential medical device which has been notified as
a 'drug' under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940
& therefore, it should be included in National List
of Essential Medicines (NLEM), 2022,".
This move will help make these life-saving medical
devices more affordable.
365. 3
The first ever Street Circuit Car Racing of the
country began in Hyderabad. This is the first round
of Indian Racing League (IRL) 2022 organised
ahead of Formula E race to be held in the city on
February 11 next year. The IRL is also the trial run
for the track for E Formula.
366. 2
Gautaam Borah, a senior management
professional and the author of the widely
acclaimed book 'Monetising Innovation', launches
his new book 'Nalanada " Until we meet again'.
'Nalanda- until we meet again' is a gripping story
of romance, vengeance, and an age-old mystery.
It's a story of Neil and Aanchal.
367. 2
Danish Manzoor Bhat, originally hailing from
Kashmir Valley, was honoured with Jaipur Foot
USA's first Global Humanitarian Award this week at
a ceremony held at the Consulate General of India
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in New York. Jaipur Foot USA is a world's largest
non-profit for disabled. The award has been
constituted to honour and recognise "selfless work
of Indians" who helped during pandemic.
368. 2
Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic earned a
record-equaling sixth ATP Finals singles title win,
beating Norway's Casper Ruud in the summit
clash.
Djokovic defeated his opponent by 7-5, 6-3 to
walk away with a historic payday of $4.7m. He has
now equalled the record of Swiss legend Roger
Federer, who has six ATP title wins.
Djokovic lifted his 91st tour-level trophy.
369. 2
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
secured a second term in election, winning 81.31%
of the vote. Kazakhastan's Central Election
Commission said the 69-year-old Kassym-Jomart
Tokayev, who came to power in 2019, received
81.31 per cent of the vote. None of the five other
candidates scored double digits in the vote.
Capital: Astana
Currency: Kazakhstani tenge
370. 2
In a historic election, Prof. Venu Gopal Achanta,
Director, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-
NPL), New Delhi, has been elected as a member of
the prestigious International Committee for
Weights and Measures (CIPM). At present, CGPM is
represented by 64 member countries and meets
every 4th year at International Bureau of Weight
and Measure (BIPM), France.
• The CIPM is a supreme international committee
which functions under the authority of General
Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), a
highest intergovernmental international
organisation created as diplomatic treaty
called Meter Convention signed on 20th May
1875 in Paris.
• It is responsible for development and
implementation of International Systems of Unites,
universally abbreviated as SI, its wide
dissemination; make necessary modifications time
to time for the advancement of science and
technology. Advancement of Industry in the
country is directly dependent on the state of its
metrology capabilities.
• The CIPM advises and recommends the
amendments, changes, alterations to the SI to the
CGPM for formal adoption. It can also pass
resolutions and recommendations about the basic
units of measurements, if needed, at its own
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authority. The primary objective of the CIPM,
comprised of 18 members from 18 member states
(nations), is to promote international
harmonization of SI, meets annually, deliberate
reports sent by its 18 Consultative Committees
(CCs), among other matters brought to its notice
as per mandate. Each member of the CIPM takes
the responsibility of Chairmanship of one CC.Â
• The CSIR-NPL, the National Metrology Institute
(NMI) of India was established by Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New
Delhi on January 4, 1947. The Government of
India enacted the "Standards of Weights and
Measures Act" for the first time in 1956 to ensure
that every citizen has access to uniform standards
of weights and measures those are traceable to
the SI units. During the year 1957, India became
member of the CGPM.
371. 2
India has launched the official website of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) as it will
host the next SCO summit as a chairman of
organisation in 2023. India received the SCO
rotating presidency in Samarkand,
Uzbekistan.India will hold the presidency of the
grouping for a year until September 2023. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi had floated the concept of
SECURE at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
(SCO) summit in China in 2018. Explaining the
SECURE concept, the Prime Minister said 'S' for
security for citizens, 'E' for economic development,
'C' for connectivity in the region, 'U' for unity, 'R'
for respect of sovereignty and integrity, and 'E for
environment protection.
372. 4
The 14th Dalai Lama was conferred the Gandhi
Mandela Award 2022 at Thekchen Choeling in
Dharamshala's McleodGanj by Himachal Pradesh
governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar. The
Tibetan spiritual leader, receiving the peace prize
from the New Delhi-based Gandhi Mandela
Foundation. The Tibetan spiritual leader is the
recipient of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize.
• A government of India registered Trust, the
Gandhi Mandela Foundation is a non-profit
organisation, formed with the motive to promote
Mahatma Gandhi's and former President of South
Africa Nelson Mandela's values of non-violence. It
has constituted an international prize, the Gandhi
Mandela Award.
• The foundation instituted the award on the 150th
birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, MK
Gandhi.
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) allowed HDFC
Bank Ltd and Canara Bank Ltd to open a special
"vostro account" for trade in Rupees with Russia.
Vostro accounts are accounts a bank holds on
behalf of another, often foreign bank, and this
forms a key part of correspondent banking.
• Earlier, the government had opened nine special
vostro accounts with two Indian banks after
permission from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
to facilitate overseas trade in Indian
Rupee. Sberbank and VTB Bank-the largest
and second-largest banks of Russia respectively-
were the first foreign lenders to receive approval
after the RBI announced the guidelines for
overseas trade in the Rupee in July.
• Another Russian bank Gazprom, which does not
have its bank in India, has also opened this
account with Kolkata-based UCO Bank.
374. 3
India's Purnima Devi Barman, an Assam-based
wildlife biologist, is one of the five 'Champions of
the Earth' for this year, the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) announced.
Barman won the award this year in the
'Entrepreneurial Vision' category, for her trail-
blazing work in protecting the greater adjutant
stork, called 'hargila' in Assamese.
United Nations Environment Programme, (UNEP)
Headquarters location: Nairobi, Kenya.
• UNEP received a record 2,200 nominations from
around the world this year for its Champions of the
Earth award. Barman is one of just five to win it.
The others are Arcenciel, a non-profit in Lebanon
that works on waste management; Constantino
(Tino) Aucca Chutas, who has pioneered a
community reforestation model in
Peru; Cameroon's Cécile Bibiane Ndjebet, for
her work on women's rights and gender equality,
and the importance of securing land tenure for
women to restore ecosystems; and
economist Partha Dasgupta of the United
Kingdom, who has been honored in the 'Science
and Innovation' category for his work on the
economics of biodiversity.
• Â Hargilas are five-foot-tall birds that dwell in
wetlands in some parts of southeast Asia including
India and Cambodia. There are only 1,200-odd
hargilas remaining in the world, as per a 2016
IUCN Red List update which lists the bird as
'Endangered'. In India, hargilas are found in
Assam and Bihar. Assam is home to the largest
population " around 1,000 individuals " of these
birds.
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375. 4
The fourth edition of the Indo-Pacific Regional
Dialogue (IPRD) will start in Delhi from 23rd
November. IPRD is an apex level international
annual conference of the Indian Navy. The
National Maritime Foundation is Navy's knowledge
partner and chief organizer of each edition of the
event. The theme of IPRD-2022 is the
'Operationalising the Indo-Pacific Oceans
Initiative'.
It will have six professional sessions spread over
the three-day period. As part of the event, globally
renowned speakers and eminent panelists will
explore how the areas of maritime cooperation
could be optimally and inclusively operationalized.
In addition, there will be Margdarshan session
which would include addresses from Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh, and Environment Minister
Bhupendra Yadav.
376. 2
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) has cut its gross domestic
growth forecast for India for the current financial
year (FY23) to 6.6 per cent from 6.9 per cent,
citing higher medium-term global uncertainty and
slowing domestic economic activity.The agency
said that India is set to be the second-fastest
growing economy in the G-20 in FY23.
• The Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) The Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
is a unique forum where the governments of 37
democracies with market-based economies
collaborate to develop policy standards to promote
sustainable economic growth.
• The OECD's headquarters are at the Château
de la Muette in Paris, France
• The Convention transforming the OEEC into the
OECD was signed at the Chateau de la Muette in
Paris on 14 December 1960 and entered into force
on 30 September 1961.
377. 2
As Egypt hosted COP27, Mumbai has become the
first Indian city to be added to the A-list in the 5th
Annual Cities Report published by CDP, a non-
profit organisation that runs the world's
environmental disclosure system for companies,
cities, states, and regions " recognises the
important role that cities play in taking bold
actions to mitigate and adopt to climate change.
• Mumbai is the most populous city in India, and,
globally, the 7th largest in terms of population.
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Surrounded by the sea on three sides, Mumbai is
separated from the mainland by Thane Creek and
Harbour Bay.Â
• The city has recently released its first-ever
Climate Action Plan in 2022, 'Towards a Climate
Resilient Mumbai'. It outlines the aims to reach
net-zero carbon neutrality by 2050 " the most
significant step taken in its climate journey thus
far.
378. 3
Russia for the first time became the biggest
fertilizer supplier to India in the first half of the
2022/23 fiscal year by offering discounts over
prevailing global prices, cornering more than a fifth
of the market share. India's fertilizer imports from
Russia surged 371% to a record 2.15 million
tonnes in the first six months of the yeear started
on April 1.
• The surge in Russian supplies halved China's
exports to India to 1.78 million tonnes in the first
half of 2022/23.
• In the 2021/22 financial year Russia's share in
Indian imports was around 6%, while China
cornered 24%.
379. 4
India and Australia would now implement the free
trade agreement on a mutually agreed date as the
Australian Parliament approved the pact between
the two countries.The India-Australia Economic
Cooperation and Trade Agreement (AI-ECTA)
needed ratification by the Australian parliament
before its implementation. In India, such pacts are
approved by the Union Cabinet.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
• The Australia-India Economic Cooperation and
Trade Agreement (ECTA) is a great opportunity for
Australian businesses as it will open up new
markets to reach around 1.4 billion consumers in
the world's fastest growing major economy.Â
• Under the pact, Australia is offering zero-duty
access to India for about 96.4 per cent of exports
(by value) from day one. This covers many
products that currently attract 4-5 per cent
customs duty in Australia.
• Labour-intensive sectors which would gain
immensely include textiles and apparel, few
agricultural and fish products, leather, footwear,
furniture, sports goods, jewellery, machinery,
electrical goods and railway wagons.
• India's goods exports to Australia stood at USD
8.3 billion and imports from the country
aggregated to USD 16.75 billion in 2021-22.
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380. 3
QatarEnergy announced a 27-year natural gas
supply deal with China, calling it the "longest" ever
seen as it strengthened ties with Asia at a time
when Europe is scrambling for alternative
sources.The state energy company will send four
million tonnes of liquefied natural gas annually
from its new North Field East project to China
Petroleum and Chemical Corporation.
381. 1
Tamil Nadu batter Narayan Jagadeesan broke the
world record for the highest ever individual score
in List A cricket by hammering a 141-ball 277
against Arunachal Pradesh in Vijay Hazare Trophy
here. The 26-year old bettered the record of Ali
Brown's previous high of 268 for Surrey against
Glamorgan in 2002.
He also went past Prithvi Shaw for the highest
score ever in Vijay Hazare Trophy.
382. 1
39 schools from across the country have been
awarded the Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar for the
2021-22 academic session, the Ministry of
Education announced. The schools selected from
among the 8.23 lakh entries include 28
government and aided while 11 are private
schools.The awarded schools also include two
Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas, one Navodaya
Vidyalaya and three KV.
The Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar not only
honours the schools that have taken exemplary
work in the field of water, sanitation and hygiene
but also provides a benchmark and roadmap for
schools to make further improvements. For the
award, schools are rated on six broad parameters
of -- Water, toilets, handwashing with soap,
operation and maintenance, behavioural change,
capacity building and COVID-19 (Preparedness and
Response).
383. 3
IDFC FIRST Bank has launched FIRSTAP, the
country's first sticker-based debit card, in
association with National Payments Corporation of
India (NPCI), to facilitate transactions by simply
tapping the sticker on a Near Field Communication
(NFC) enabled point-of-sale terminal.
The sticker-based Debit Card is one third the size
of a regular debit card.
V Vaidyanathan, managing director and chief
executive officer at IDFC First Bank Ltd.
• This IDFC FIRST Bank Sticker debit card comes
with a complimentary personal accidental cover
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and 24/7 concierge services with a host of RuPay
offers.
• IDFC FIRST Bank was formed by the merger of
erstwhile IDFC Bank, promoted by renowned
infrastructure financing institution IDFC Ltd. and
leading technology NBFC, Capital First.Â
384. 1
The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is the
only Indian educational institution among top 50 in
the Global University Employability Rankings by
Times Higher Education (THE). Globally, the US
continues its dominance with four universities in
the top five, led byMassachusetts Institute of
Technology, California Institute of Technology and
Harvard University as top three
• The Global Employability University Ranking and
Survey (GEURS) reveals the world's top 250
universities for producing employable graduates
according to recruiters. It is produced and owned
by the higher education HR consultancy Emerging
and published exclusively by THE.
• Among Indian institutions, the Indian Institute of
Science (IISc), Bengaluru is at the second spot
(58), improving its ranking by three positions,
followed by IIT-Bombay at 72, up from 97 in 2021.
The latest THE Rankings have five Indian
institutions in top 200 and a total of seven in top
250.
• Except IIT-Delhi, the remaining institutes
improved their rankings with IIT-Bombay doing so
by 25 positions. IIM-Ahmedabad (154) and IIT-
Kharagpur (155), the other two Indian institutions
in top 175 too improved their rankings by eight
and 15 places respectively. The other two Indian
universities are Amity University (225), Noida and
Bangalore University (242).
• A total of 44 countries have featured in the list.
India with seven institutions in the top 250 is on
the 13th spot in terms of number of institutions,
ahead of countries such as Sweden, Hong Kong,
Italy and Singapore.
385. 3
India participated in 22nd Council of Ministers's
meeting of the Indian Ocean Rim Association held
at Dhaka in Bangladesh. The Indian delegation was
led by Minister of State for External Affairs Dr.
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh. India showed strong
commitment to strengthening IORA to promote
peace, security and prosperity in the Indian Ocean
Region as well as in the Indo-Pacific. IORA is the
largest and pre-eminent organization in the Indian
Ocean Region with 23 Members and 10 Dialogue
Partners. The Council of Ministers adopted the
IORA's Outlook on the Indo-Pacific' which would
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guide enhancement of IORA's engagement in the
Indo-Pacific region. Dhaka Communique was
adopted as the Outcome Document of the 22nd
Meeting.
386. 2
Unemployment rate for persons aged 15 years and
above in urban areas declined to 7.2 per cent
during July-September 2022 from 9.8 per cent a
year ago, the National Statistical Office (NSO).
Unemployment rate or joblessness is defined as
the percentage of unemployed persons among the
labor force.
• It showed that the unemployment rate among
females (aged 15 years and above) in urban areas
declined to 9.4 per cent in July-September, 2022
from 11.6 per cent a year ago. It was 9.5 per cent
in April-June, 2022.
• Among males, the unemployment rate in urban
areas declined to 6.6 per cent in July-September
2022 as against 9.3 per cent a year ago. It was
7.1 per cent in April-June 2022.
• Labor force refers to the part of the population
which supplies or offers to supply labor for
pursuing economic activities for the production of
goods and services and, therefore, includes both
employed and unemployed persons.
• NSO launched PLFS in April 2017. On the basis of
PLFS, a quarterly bulletin is brought out giving
estimates of labor force indicators namely
unemployment rate, Worker Population Ratio
(WPR), Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR),
distribution of workers by broad status in
employment and industry of work in CWS.
• The estimates of unemployed persons in CWS
give an average picture of unemployment in a
short period of seven days during the survey
period.
• In the CWS approach, a person is considered
unemployed if he/she did not work even for one
hour on any day during the week but sought or
was available for work at least for one hour on any
day during the period.
• Labor force, according to CWS, is the number of
persons either employed or unemployed on
average in a week preceding the date of the
survey. LFPR is defined as the percentage of the
population in the labour force.
387. 4
Airtel Payments Bank has taken yet another step
towards digital inclusion and announced the launch
of Face Authentication-based savings bank account
opening for customers. The facility will further
ease the account opening process making it
seamless & convenient for customers. Airtel
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Payments Bank is the first Payments Bank in the
country to offer this facility.
In July 2022, the Unique Identification Authority of
India (UIDAI) launched the Aadhaar Face RD app
that will enable Aadhaar cardholders to
authenticate their unique 12-digit identity number
using one's face.
388. 4
Cristiano Ronaldo made history as the first male
player to score in five World Cups in Portugal's
opening game in Qatar against Ghana.
The first player to score in five World Cups, men's
or women's, was Marta in 2019, and Christine
Sinclair matched the feat that same year.
Lionel Messi, Miroslav Klose, Pele and Uwe Seeler
are the players who have scored at four World
Cups.
389. 2
With rising domestic economic activity and an
uptick in oil import bills, India's current account
deficit is expected to be 3-3.2 percent of gross
domestic product (GDP) for FY23, according to
Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V Anantha
Nageswaran. But he stressed the country's
external sector remains robust.
• India's current account balance recorded a deficit
of 1.2 per cent of GDP in 2021-22, against a
surplus of 0.9 per cent in 2020-21.
390. 2
Malaysia's veteran opposition leader Anwar
Ibrahim will be the country's new prime minister,
after a turbulent 25-year pursuit for the job that
saw him jailed twice.
King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah
appointed Anwar after meeting candidates for
prime minister and newly elected members of
parliament.
391. 4
RH200, the versatile sounding rocket of ISRO, has
registered its 200th consecutive successful launch
from the shores of Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram.
The Rohini Sounding Rocket (RSR) series have
been the forerunners for ISRO's heavier and more
complex launch vehicles, with a continued usage
even today for atmospheric and meteorological
studies.
• On 2 February, 1968, the Thumba Equatorial
Rocket Launch Station (TERLS) was dedicated to
the United Nations by India's then prime minister
Indira Gandhi.
• The dedication of TERLS to the United Nations
(UN) was done even before the birth of Indian
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Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which
started as an institution only a year later on 15
August, 1969 (on India's 22nd Independence
Day). TERLS came into existence way back on 21
November 1963, when India's first sounding rocket
was launched from Thumba near
Thiruvananthapuram.
ISRO chairman S Somanath.
392. 4
India's proposal for enhancing protection status to
Leith's softshell turtle was adopted at 19th
meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the
Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES CoP19)
held in Panama City from November 14 to 25.
Leith's softshell turtle is a large freshwater soft-
shelled turtle which inhabits rivers and reservoirs.
It is endemic to peninsular India. Leith's softshell
turtle is now part of Appendix I of CITES from
Appendix II.
It is listed on Schedule IV of the Wild Life Act,
1972.
393. 3
'Indian Travel Exhibition' is to be held from 24 " 26
February 2023, at Manpho Convention Centre,
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
It will showcase a variety of destinations from
different sectors such as pilgrimages, adventures,
culture & heritage, beaches, hills and much more.
The event will have over 250 participants from
over 7 countries and over 20 Indian states.
394. 1
India won the International Electrotechnical
Commission, IEC Vice Presidency and Strategic
Management Board (SMB) Chair for the 2023-25
term. Mr. Vimal Mahendru will be the IEC Vice
President representing India.
IEC is an international standard-setting body that
publishes international Standards for all electrical,
electronic and related technologies.
395. 3
The Tamil Nadu government issued a notification
declaring the Arittapatti village near Melur in
Madurai district as a biodiversity heritage site
under Section 37 of the Biological Diversity Act,
2002.
The site is situated in an area of 193.21 hectare
and is the first Biodiversity Heritage Site (BHS) to
be notified in the state.
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The City of Lakes, Udaipur is gearing up to host
the first G20 Sherpa Meeting in India from 4 to 7
December.
The meeting is aimed at fostering growth and
building bonds amongst the twenty nations.
The G20 Sherpa meeting is expected to be held at
the Darbar Hall at the City Palace Udaipur
397. 4
Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains the world's
most popular leader among 22 world leaders with
an approval rating of 77 percent. This was
revealed in a Global Leader Approval Ratings
released by a US based consulting firm Morning
Consult.
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
stands at second position followed by Australian
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
398. 2
Telangana will have the first Integrated Rocket
Design, Manufacturing, and Testing Facility of the
country in Hyderabad by Skyroot Aerospace.
The Hyderabad-based startup, incubated at T-Hub,
launched the country's first private rocket, Vikram-
S, earlier this month.
399. 3
Telangana's efforts at restoring and conserving
heritage has won more global laurels with two
initiatives from the State winning UNESCO Asia-
Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation.
The list of the 2022 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards
for Cultural Heritage Conservation announced at
Bangkok included the Stepwells in the Qutb Shahi
Tomb complex at Golconda, which were selected
for the Award of Distinction, while the Domakonda
Fort in Kamareddy was selected for the Award of
Merit.
400. 3
Jio announced it has rolled out its True 5G network
in every headquarters of Gujarat's 33 districts,
thereby making the western state the first state in
India to get 100% coverage of 5G services in the
state.
As a model state, Jio said it would launch a series
of True 5G-powered initiatives in Gujarat and then
extend it across the country.
401. 2
Larsen and Toubro Ltd. will construct the Executive
Enclave housing the Prime Minister's Office,
cabinet secretariat, India House and the National
Security Council Secretariat at a cost of Rs 1,189
crore.
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Executive Enclave will be constructed under the
ambitious Central Vista redevelopment project.
L&T and the company will have to complete the
construction within 24 months.
402. 3
The Akademi announced 128 winners of the
Akademi Puraskar and 10 eminent personalities in
the field of performing arts as Akademi Fellows.
It announced the names of 86 artists who have
won the one-time Sangeet Natak Akademi Amrit
Award under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM).
It also announced the names of 102 artists for the
Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar.
403. 1
Union Health Ministry designated Padma Shri, Khel
Ratna Arjuna Awardee and the President of the
Paralympic Committee of India Deepa Malik as
Nikshay Mitra ambassador in New Delhi. It is an
initiative under Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat
Abhiyaan.
The 'Ni-Kshay Mitra' initiative was launched by
President Droupadi Murmu which strives to provide
aid to tuberculosis-afflicted patients on three levels
--nutritional, additional diagnostic, and vocational
support.
404. 1
The National Rural Livelihood Mission's Nai Chetna
gender campaign was launched in Tamail Nadu
under the leadership of Kudumbashree. The
nationwide campaign, organised by the Union
government, aims to enable women to
acknowledge gender-based violence, prepare them
to raise their voices against it, and provide them
with knowledge about their rights.
• 'Nai Chetna', the month-long campaign is
envisioned as a 'Jan Andolan' (people's
movement).
• The campaign is launched by the Ministry of
Rural Development and involves sensitizing
women, especially in rural areas.
• It seeks to enable women to acknowledge,
prepare and take support in situations of
compromise.
• The Union Minister described that the
campaign's focus is women in rural areas. Often,
women in rural areas are unaware of the various
mechanisms available to raise their concerns.
• The month-long campaign seeks to enable
women to acknowledge situations of violence and
guide them to take support from various
institutional mechanisms available to them.
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Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) setting up a
committee to find out reasons for gaps in
implementation and under-utilisation of funds
under the scheme in several states with low per
capita income.
The panel is also tasked with suggesting measures
to make the scheme more efficient in its
functioning across the country.
• The six-member committee is headed by
retired civil servant Amarjeet Sinha, former
advisor to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and
secretary, rural development.
• The committee will look into various factors
affecting employment generation in rural areas
under MGNREGA, which has completed 15 years in
2022.
• The panel will recommend institutional
mechanisms, including governance and
administrative structures, for more effective
utilisation of MGNREGA funds, particularly for
addressing poverty and augmenting livelihoods.
406. 4
Tata Consumer is set to acquire India's largest
packaged drinking water company, Bisleri, for an
estimated Rs 6,000-7,000 crore.
Chairman Ramesh Chauhan is aiming to disinvest
Bisleri International to Tata Consumer Products
three decades after selling soft drink brands
Thums Up, Gold Spot, and Limca to Coca-Cola.
• Several companies including Coca-Cola India
through its brand Kinley, PepsiCo's Aquafina,
Bailley from Parle Agro and Indian Railway
Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC)'s Rail
Neer compete in the segment but they all trail the
market leader Bisleri.
407. 2
PT Usha is set to get elected as the IOA chief
unopposed. A multiple Asian Games gold
medallists and a fourth-place finisher in the 1984
Olympics 400m hurdles final, filed her nomination
papers for the top job.
Usha is the first sportsperson to have represented
the country and also become IOA chief since
Maharaja Yadavindra Singh, who played a Test
match in 1934.
PT Usha is fondly known as the 'Payyoli Express'.
408. 4
President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi will be the
Chief Guest at Republic Day celebrations on 26th
January next year. This is the first time that
President of Egypt will be the Chief Guest at
India's Republic Day.
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Both countries are celebrating the 75th
anniversary of diplomatic relations this year. Egypt
has been invited as a 'Guest Country' during G-20
in 2022-23.
409. 1
Sundararaman Ramamurthy will replace Ashish
Chauhan as new managing director and chief
executive of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
Market regulator Securities & Exchange Board of
India (Sebi) approved the appointment.
Indian Clearing Corporation Limited, a wholly
owned subsidiary of BSE, acts as the central
counterparty to all trades executed on the BSE
trading platform.
410. 4
India - Malaysia joint military Exercise "Harimau
Shakti -2022" commenced at Pulai, Kluang,
Malaysia on 28th November and will culminate on
12th December 22. Exercise HARIMAU SHAKTI is
an annual training event between the Indian and
Malaysian Army which is being conducted since
2012.
• Combat-experienced troops of the GARHWAL
RIFLES Regiment of Indian Army and the Royal
Malay Regiment of the Malaysian Army are
participating in the exercise this year to share
experiences gained during operations in order to
enhance inter-operability in planning & execution
of various operations in jungle terrain.
• The scope of this exercise involves a
Command Planning Exercise (CPX) at the Battalion
level and Company level Field Training Exercise
(FTX) on sub-conventional operations in jungle
terrain.
411. 1
Iranian film Nargesi by Director Payam Eskandari
has won the ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal at the
53rd edition of International Film Festival of India,
given for a film that best reflects Mahatma
Gandhi's ideals of peace, tolerance and non-
violence.
The film is about a man with Down's syndrome and
the burden and consequences it creates in his life.
• Every year at IFFI, ICFT Paris and UNESCO
come together to present the Gandhi medal to one
film.
• The films competing for the ICFT UNESCO
Gandhi Award are screened at IFFI first and then,
the ICFT jury evaluates the films based on the
ideals of UNESCO.
• The UNESCO issued commemorative medal in
1994, marking the 125th anniversary of the birth
of Mahatma Gandhi.
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• Since then the ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Award is
being given to a film that best reflects Mahatma
Gandhi's ideals of peace, tolerance and non-
violence.
412. 3
Union Education & Skill Development Minister Shri
Dharmendra Pradhan released the book 'India: The
Mother of Democracy' prepared and published by
Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) in
New Delhi.
The book is an attempt to showcase the
democratic ethos ingrained in India since the dawn
of civilisation.
413. 2
Indore is planning to issue the nation's first local
government bond targeting individual investors,
with proceeds used to fund a solar power project.
Indore Municipal Corp. seeks to raise as much as
Rs 260 crore ($31.8 million) via a 10-year bond
sale. It is also set to be the country's maiden
municipal green bond designed for retail investors.
• The green debt sale is occurring at a time
when the World Bank has estimated that Asia's
third-largest economy will need to invest $840
billion over the next 15 years on urban
infrastructure to meet demand from a fast-growing
urban population.
414. 5
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
(CSMVS) was conferred with the 'Award of
Excellence' at the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage
Conservation-2022.
The jury applauded the "heroic" CSMVS project
which is "part of the Victorian Gothic and Art Deco
Ensembles of Mumbai.
• Of the 13 projects from six countries "
Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Nepal and
Thailand " four from India were awarded:
Award of Excellence - Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Vastu Sangrahalaya
Award of Distinction - Stepwells of Golconda,
Hyderabad
Award of Merit - Domakonda Fort, Telangana, and
Byculla Station, Mumbai.
415. 1
NASA's Artemis 1 Orion capsule has set a new
space flight record for spacecraft designed to carry
humans by travelling 401,798 kilometers from
Earth.
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The record was previously held by Apollo 13 which
logged the record on April 14, 1970 by travelling
400,171 kilometers.
The Artemis 1 Orion capsule was launched without
any plan to break the record.
• Since the Orion is not staffed, the Apollo 13
crew still holds the record for the farthest distance
from Earth reached by humans.
• The Orion is also carrying a manikin named
"Commander Moonikin Campos" after the late
Arturo Campos, the man responsible for the
emergency procedures that ensured Apollo 13 had
enough power to safely splash down on Earth.
• "Moonikin" is outfitted with sensors to
measure radiation levels and physical stress a
crew would feel on a similar flight to the moon and
back.
416. 1
The final match of 2022 Davis Cup was held
between Australia and Canada on November 27.
Canada has won first Davis Cup title with win over
Australia in final. The Australians have won the
tournament 28 times before.
Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov
helped Canada to win its maiden Davis Cup title.
The Davis Cup is billed as the "World
Championship of Tennis".
417. 4
Agnikul Cosmos, a space-tech start-up based in
Chennai, has set up India's first-ever launchpad at
a facility in Sriharikota. The launchpad, which will
be operated by a private player, was designed by
Agnikul and later executed with the help of the
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and
the Indian National Space Promotion and
Authorisation Center (IN-SPACe).
• Agnikul is an IIT Madras-incubated space-tech
startup that was founded in 2017 by alumni
Srinath Ravichandran, Moin SPM and Professor SR
Chakravarthy. In 2020, the startup became the
first company in the country to sign an agreement
with ISRO. As per the agreement that was signed
under the IN-SPACe initiative, Agnikul could access
ISRO's expertise and facilities to build Agnibaan
and its launch pads.
• The launchpad was built by Agnikul after
consulting ISRO and considering the necessity to
support liquid stage-controlled launches. The ALP
also facilitates ISRO's range operations unit to
oversee and monitor vital flight safety parameters
during launches. Moreover, it can also transmit
important information to ISRO's Mission Control
Center.
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418. 5
Bank credit growth accelerated to 17.2 percent in
the quarter ended September 2022 from 7 percent
in the same period of the previous year, data from
the Reserve Bank of India's "Quarterly Statistics on
Deposits and Credit of SCBs: September 2022"
showed.
RBI collects this data from all scheduled
commercial banks (SCBs), which include RRBs,
SFBs, and payments banks.
In the quarter ended June 2022, bank credit was
at 14.2 percent.
419. 3
RBI is going to launch first pilot for retail digital
rupee from December 1, 2022. The pilot would
cover select locations in closed user group (CUG)
comprising participating customers and merchants.
The e₹-R would be in the form of a digital token
that represents legal tender. It would be issued in
the same denominations that paper currency and
coins are currently issued. It would be distributed
through intermediaries, i.e., banks".
• Users will be able to transact with e₹-R
through a digital wallet offered by the participating
banks and stored on mobile phones. Transactions
can be both Person to Person (P2P) and Person to
Merchant (P2M).
• RBI has also selected eight banks for phase-
wise participation in this pilot. The first phase will
begin with four banks - State Bank of India, ICICI
Bank, Yes Bank and IDFC First Bank in four cities.
Later, Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, HDFC
Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank will join this pilot.
• The pilot will initially be rolled out in Mumbai,
New Delhi, Bengaluru and Bhubaneswar. It will be
extended to Ahmedabad, Gangtok, Guwahati,
Hyderabad, Indore, Kochi, Lucknow, Patna and
Shimla.
420. 2
The Himalayan Yak has been approved as a 'food
animal' by the Food Safety and Standard Authority
of India (FSSAI). The move is expected to help
slow the decline of the high-altitude bovine animal
population by incorporating it into the conventional
milk and meat industries, according to an official at
the National Research Centre (NRC) on Yak in
Dirang, West Kameng district.
• The animal serves a multifaceted socio-
cultural-economic role for pastoral nomads who
raise yaks primarily for nutritional and livelihood
security due to the virtual absence of other
agricultural activity in the Himalayan region's high
reaches.
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• Traditionally, yaks are reared through a
primitive, unorganized, complex transhumance
system.
421. 2
Monkeypox is to be renamed mpox, the World
Health Organization announced, in a bid to avoid
stigmatisation stemming from the existing name.
Monkeypox received its name because the virus
was originally identified in monkeys kept for
research in Denmark in 1958, but the disease is
found in a number of animals, and most frequently
in rodents.
• A surge in monkeypox infections has been
reported since early May among men who have
sex with men, outside the African countries where
it has long been endemic.
• When the outbreak of monkeypox expanded
earlier this year, racist and stigmatising language
online, in other settings and in some communities
was observed and reported to WHO.
• WHO will begin using a new preferred term
'mpox' as a synonym for monkeypox. Both names
will be used simultaneously for one year while
'monkeypox' is phased out.
• The disease was first discovered in humans in
1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with
the spread among humans since then mainly
limited to certain West and Central African nations.
• The WHO triggered its highest level of alarm
on July 24, classifying it as a public health
emergency of international concern, alongside
Covid-19.
422. 5
Uttarakhand has hired McKinsey, a global
management consultancy, with the aim of doubling
its GDSP in the next five years. It has set the
target of boosting the economy from ₹2.73 lakh
crore to ₹5.5 lakh crore, which will be done by
reporting a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR)
of 15% by 2027.
Under the Shashakt Uttarakhand mission,
government has signed 2 yr agreement.
• Founded by accountant James McKinsey and
business theorist Marvin Bower in 1926, the
company has worked with over 750 clients so far,
most notable being Google, Amazon and Microsoft
among others.
• The primary focus of the company's work
towards Uttarakhand government will be in areas
like agriculture, infra projects, service sector,
horticulture, Urban (Brownfield and greenfield
cities), and social sectors). This will aid the state in
fast-tracking the income of the state as well as its
people.
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South Korea's Mina Sue Choi was crowned Miss
Earth 2022 during the pageant's coronation night
at Cove Manila, Okada Hotel, Parañaque City.
Miss Fire 2022 is Andrea Aguilera of Colombia,
Miss Water 2022 is Nadeen Ayoub of Palestine, and
Miss Air 2022 is Sheridan Mortlock of Australia.
Jenny Ramp from Phillipines won the the Best in
Fauna Costume award.
424. 2
SEBI has set up three separate committees to
reform the capital markets and improve ease of
doing business. All three committees will be widely
represented by various stakeholders and cover the
key areas such as foreign portfolio investors
(FPIs), takeover code and the newly-introduced
concept of social stock exchanges (SSEs).
• The 20-member committee on review
takeover regulations will be chaired by former
Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court,
Shiavax Jal Vazifdar, as per reports. The
committee will advise on issues related to
substantial acquisition of shares and takeovers.
• The 16-member FPI Advisory Committee
(FAC) will be chaired by Hasmukh Adhia, (former
finance secretary). The FAC will advise on issues
pertaining to investments and operations of FPIs in
the Indian financial markets.
• The social stock exchange (SSEs) advisory
committee will be headed by R Balasubramaniam,
(chairman, Grassroots Research and Advocacy
Movement).
• It will advise on the matters to be taken up for
changes in the legal framework for simplification
and transparency in systems governing social
enterprises, and on the regulation of
intermediaries for ensuring investor protection
with respect to SSEs.
425. 3
President Droupadi Murmu felicitated over 25 star
Indian athletes at the National Sports Awards 2022
ceremony on November 30.
Over 25 athletes were presented with the Arjuna
award while veteran table tennis player Achanta
Sharath Kamal was presented with the all-
important Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award,
which is the highest honour in India for a
sportsperson.
Arjuna Awards:
1. Seema Punia (Athletics)
2. Eldhose Paul (Athletics)
3. Avinash Mukund Sable (Athletics)
4. Lakshya Sen (Badminton)
5. HS Prannoy (Badminton)
6. Amit (Boxing)
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7. Nikhat Zareen (Boxing)
8. Bhakti Pradip Kulkarni (Chess)
9. R Praggnanandhaa (Chess)
10. Deep Grace Ekka (Hockey)
11. Shushila Devi (Judo)
12. Sakshi Kumari (Kabaddi)
13. Nayan Moni Saikia (Lawn Bowl)
14. Sagar Kailas Ovhalkar (Mallakhamb)
15. Elavenil Valarivan (Shooting)
16. Omprakash Mitharval (Shooting)
17. Sreeja Akula (Table Tennis)
18. Vikas Thakur (Weightlifting)
19. Anshu (Wrestling)
20. Sarita (Wrestling)
21. Parveen (Wushu)
22. Manasi Girishchandra Joshi (Para Badminton)
23. Tarun Dhillon (Para Badminton)
24. Swapnil Sanjay Patil (Para Swimming)
25. Jerlin Anika J (Deaf Badminton)
All players felicitated with the Arjuna award will
also receive Rs 15 lakh each.
Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in
Sports and Games 2022 Regular Category:
1. Jiwanjot Singh Teja (Archery)
2. Mohammad Ali Qamar (Boxing)
3. Suma Siddharth Shirur (Para Shooting)
4. Sujeet Maan (Wrestling)
Lifetime Category:
1. Dinesh Jawahar Lad (Cricket)
2. Bimal Prafulla Ghosh (Football)
3. Raj Singh (Wrestling)
Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime achievement in
Sports and Games 2022:
1. Ashwini Akkunji C (Athletics)
2. Dharamvir Singh (Hockey)
3. B C Suresh (Kabaddi)
4. Nir Bahadur Gurung (Para Athletics)
Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2022:
1. TransStadia Enterprises Private Limited, Kalinga
Institute of Industrial Technology, Ladakh Ski &
Snowboard Association
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2022:
1. Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
426. 1
France's Stephanie Frappart will become the first
woman to referee a match at the men's World Cup
after being selected to take charge of clash
between Germany and Costa Rica.
Alongside assistants Neuza Back from Brazil and
Karen Diaz from Mexico, the Frenchwoman
Frappart will form part of an all-female refereeing
trio officiating Costa Rica vs. Germany in their
Group E match.
In 2019, she became the first female referee to
take charge of a Ligue 1 match, in August 2019
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the first to take charge of a major men's European
match.
In 2020, she became the first female to officiate a
men's UEFA Champions League match.
427. 3
The Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) said that
the Government of India had appointed Rajeeva
Laxman Karandikar, Professor Emeritus at CMI, as
the part-time chairperson of the National
Statistical Commission (NSC) of India for a period
of three years.
NSC is an autonomous body formed in June 2005
under the recommendation of the Dr. C
Rangarajan commission.
The chairperson of the Commission enjoys the
status of a Minister of State, GoI.
428. 3
Saurashtra beat Maharashtra by 5 wickets in the
final to win the Vijay Hazare Trophy at the
Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
Maharashtra captain Ruturaj Gaikwad slammed yet
another century. Chirag Jani was the stand-out
bowler for Saurashtra as he picked up 3 wickets.
This is Saurashtra's second Vijay Hazare Trophy
triumph.
429. 1
The country's largest lender, State Bank of India,
has raised Rs 10,000 crore through its maiden
issue of infrastructure bonds, for funding projects
in segments such as power and roads. The coupon
on the 10-year paper was fixed at 7.51 per cent,
or about 17 basis points above the yield on
government benchmark bonds.The base issue size
was Rs 5,000 crore, with a green shoe option of Rs
5,000 crore.
• Infrastructure bonds are long-term, fully paid,
redeemable and unsecured financial instruments.
The minimum maturity period for these bonds is
seven years.
• The bonds are exempted from computation of net
demand and time liabilities (NDTL). Therefore,
they are not subject to Cash Reserve Ratio and
Statutory Liquidity (SLR) requirements.
• Aoart from infrastructure projects, the money can
also be used for loans to affordable housing
ventures.
430. 3
IDFC Mutual Fund to be renamed Bandhan Mutual
Fund Markets regulator Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI) cleared Bandhan-led
consortium's proposed acquisition of IDFC Asset
Management Company.
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Earlier this year, a consortium of Bandhan
Financial Holdings (BFHL), GIC, and ChrysCapital
signed an agreement to buy IDFC AMC and IDFC
AMC Trustee Company from parent IDFC, for Rs
4,500 crore.
BFHL will own about 60% and GIC and
ChrysCapital will hold 20% each in IDFC AMC.
431. 4
Indian shooter Rudrankksh Patil has clinched the
International Shooting Sport Federation President's
Cup held in Cairo, Egypt. He defeated Italy's
Danilo Sollazzo in the 10-metre rifle play-off by
16-8. Rudrankksh Patil bagged India's first quota
for the 2024 Paris Olympics, when he clinched a
gold in the men's 10-metre air rifle in the ISSF
Rifle-Pistol World Championship.
432. 4
The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize
2022 has been awarded to The Chipko Movement:
A People's Movement by Shekhar Pathak,
translated from Hindi by Manisha Chaudhry. This is
the fifth iteration of the prize launched by the New
India Foundation in 2018. The prize recognises and
celebrates excellence in non-fiction writings on
modern/contemporary India by writers.
• Pathak is a historian who has spent a substantial
amount of time living in areas where the Chipko
movement took place.Â
• He established the People's Association for
Himalaya Area Research (PAHAR) in 1983 and is
the author, with Uma Bhatt, of Asia ki Peeth
Per (On Asia's Back), a biography of the
Himalayan explorer Pandit Nain Singh Rawat.
• He has also been a professor of history at
Kumaun University, Nainital, and Fellow at the
Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial
Museum and Library, New Delhi.
• He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2007.
433. 2
Former Union Minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir
assumed charge as Chairperson of the National
Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC). Hansraj
Gangaram Ahir had been elected four times
Member of Parliament from Parliamentary
Constituency Chandrapur, Maharashtra and also he
was Member of the Maharashtra Legislative
Council. He had been Union Minister of State for
Home Affairs.
434. 1
Indian shuttler Unnati Hooda became the first-ever
Indian under-17 shuttler to clinch a medal at the
Asian Junior Badminton Championships.
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She lost to Sarunrak Vitidsarn of Thailand in the
gold medal match in the women's singles category.
In the men's doubles category, the in-form duo of
Arsh and Sanskar also got a silver medal. Unnati
Hooda is world No. 4 in the junior badminton world
rankings.
• Indian shuttler Anish clinched a silver medal in
the under-15 category in the ongoing Badminton
Asia U-17 & U-15 Junior Championships 2022 in
Nonthaburi, Thailand.
• The shuttler went down to Chinese Taipei's
Chung-Hsiang Yih in final of men's singles final. Yih
won by margin of 8-21, 24-22, 19-21.
435. 3
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) emerged as the
second largest importer of tea from India after the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as a
block, according to the latest data released by Tea
Board. During the period from January to
September 2022, UAE imported 28.58 million
kilograms of tea from India, a rise of 159 per cent
from the similar nine-month period of 2021.
Assam is the largest producer of tea in India.
China produces over 2 million tons of tea, making
it the world's largest producer of tea.
436. 4
Cristiano Ronaldo is set to move to Saudi Arabia
from the start of 2023 after agreeing a contract
with Al-Nassr.
The initial deal will be around €100m (£86m)
with advertisement and sponsorship bringing his
wages to a record figure that will see him become
the highest paid athlete in sport.
He recently became the first man to score at five
different World Cups.
437. 4
Goldsikka Pvt Ltd launched its first Gold ATM with
Technology support from M/s OpenCube
Technologies Pvt Ltd, a Hyderabad-based startup
company. This is India's first and the world's first
real-time Gold ATM.
The ATM has a capacity of storing 5kgs of gold.
There are 8 available options for the quantity of
gold starting from 0.5 grams to 100 grams.
• Unlike usual ATMs that dispense money, the
Goldsikka ATM dispenses Gold coins. In what is
India's first gold ATM, people can insert their debit
or credit cards into the Goldsikka and buy gold
coins.
438. 1
The 13-day open offer for an additional 26 per cent
stake in New Delhi Television (NDTV) by the Adani
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group closed this week, investors tendered 5.32
million shares or a third of the open offer size of
16.7 million shares, according to BSE data. As a
result, the Adani group, which has a 29.18 per
cent in NDTV, has picked up an additional 8.26%
stake through open offer route
• It is the largest shareholder in
the news broadcaster with a 37.44 per cent
stake, ahead of the founder-promoters Radhika
and Prannoy Roy, who together hold 32.26 per
cent in the company.
• Prior to Adani group's acquisition plans, the
Roys held 61.45 per cent stake in NDTV. This
included the 29.18 per cent held by RRPR Holding,
the promoter entity, which was at the centre of
the acquisition plans unveiled by the Adani
group on August 23.
439. 3
The Rajasthan government is extensively exploring
minerals in the state, with possibilities of finding
gold and emerald.n extensive exploration
programme to find minerals, with financial help
from the Rajasthan State Mineral Exploration Trust
(RSMET), is being carried out in the Banswara-
Nathdwara, Rajsamand, Barmer and Udaipur
regions.
Initial surveys showed there was a possibility of
gold reserves in the Banswara-Nathdwara belt,
while in the Rajsamand belt there were chances of
finding emerald. Similarly, phosphate reserves had
been identified in the Udaipur region.
440. 4
Bharti Airtel said it would partner Facebook parent
Meta to jointly invest in global connectivity
infrastructure that would extend a subsea cable
the '2Africa Pearls' to India. When it was launched
in 2020, the 37,000-km subsea cable connected
23 countries.It has become one of the world's
longest subsea cable systems and aims to provide
faster internet connectivity.
• Â It would connect Africa, Europe, and Asia.
• The extended 2Africa Pearls branch will include
landing locations in Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain,
Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, India, and Saudi Arabia.
• The landing of 2Africa will improve the
connectivity of fixed-line broadband internet in
India.
• Bharti Airtel owns three cable landing stations
" two in Chennai and one in Mumbai.
• In February, Bharti Airtel boarded the SEA-ME-
WE-6 undersea cable consortium to scale up its
high-speed network capacity.
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• During the same month, its competitor Reliance
Jio entered into an alliance with India-Asia-Xpress
(IAX) undersea cable system. It was in
collaboration with Ocean Connect Maldives.
441. 3
India has jumped to the 48th position in the global
aviation safety ranking by the International Civil
Aviation Organization (ICAO), according to DGCA
officials. Four years ago, the country was ranked
at the 102nd position. In the ranking, Singapore is
at the top, followed by the UAE and South Korea at
the second and third positions. China is at the 49th
place.
442. 4
Billionaires Gautam Adani, HCL Technologies' Shiv
Nadar, and Happiest Minds Technologies' Ashok
Soota are the three Indians who have been named
in the 16th edition of Forbes Asia's Heroes of
Philanthropy list.
Gautam Adani was listed for having pledged
₹60,000 crores ($7.7 billion).
Shiv Nadar donated ₹11,600 cr. ($142 million).
Ashok Soota has pledged ₹600 cr. ($75 mn.)
443. 1
Razorpay, India's full-stack payments and banking
platform for businesses announced the platform's
readiness to support credit card transactions on
Unified Payments Interface (UPI). With this launch,
Razorpay becomes India's first PG to support credit
cards on UPI.
Customers of HDFC Bank, Punjab National Bank,
Union Bank & Indian Bank will be the 1st to enjoy
the benefits.
444. 2
Increase the policy repo rate under the liquidity
adjustment facility (LAF) by 35 basis points to 6.25
per cent with immediate effect.
Consequently, the standing deposit facility (SDF)
rate stands adjusted to 6.00 per cent and the
marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank
Rate to 6.50 per cent.
CPI inflation moderated to 6.8 per cent (y-o-y) in
October 2022.
The next meeting of the MPC is scheduled during
February 6-8, 2023.
• Dr. Shashanka Bhide, Dr. Ashima Goyal, Dr.
Rajiv Ranjan, Dr. Michael Debabrata Patra and Shri
Shaktikanta Das voted to increase the policy repo
rate by 35 basis points. Prof. Jayanth R. Varma
voted against the repo rate hike.
• The minutes of the MPC's meeting will be
published on December 21, 2022.
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• âž¡Policy Repo Rate: 6.25%
• âž¡Standing Deposit Facility Rate: 6.00%
• âž¡Marginal Standing Facility Rate: 6.50%
• âž¡Bank Rate: 6.50%
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445. 4
Sixteen-year-old Aditya Mittal has become India's
77th chess Grandmaster.
The Mumbai player, who had secured three GM
norms, crossed 2,500 ELO points mark during the
sixth round of the ongoing Ellobregat Open
tournament in Spain.
To become a GM, a player has to secure three GM
norms and cross the live rating of 2,500 ELO
points.
• Mittal is also the fifth Indian to achieve the GM
title in 2022 after Bharath Subramaniyam, Rahul
Srivatshav, V Pranav V and Pranav Anand.
446. 2
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the
spirit of Ukraine have been named Time
magazine's 2022 Person of the Year.
The magazine did name the women of Iran, the
movement of young women protesting the Heroes
of the Year.
Blackpink South Korea's most successful girl band
was named Entertainer of the Year.
Time is an American news magazine based in New
York City.
Last year, Time gave the title to the CEO of
SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk.
• Gregory Robinso the director of the James Webb
Space Telescope Program at NASA and the
telescope itself was named Innovator of the Year.
• The magazine also named New York Yankees
outfielder Aaron Judge its athlete of the year and
actress Michelle Yeoh the Icon of the Year.
• Time named a person or group "Man of the Year"
from 1927 to 1999, when it was renamed "Person
of the Year." Only 11 women have been
individually chosen for the title.
447. 1
Oxford Dictionaries said that "goblin mode" has
been selected by an online vote as its word of the
year. It defines the term as "a type of behavior
which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy,
slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects
social norms or expectations."In 2021, the Oxford
word of the year was "vax".
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• Merriam-Webster announced that its word of the
2022 year is "gaslighting"
• Merriam-Webster's world for 2021 was "vaccine"
448. 1
Olympic silver medallist Mirabai Chanu won silver
at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships in
Colombia. She beat the Tokyo 2020 champion Hou
Zhihua of China. Mirabai lifted a combined weight
of 200 kg compared to Zhihua's total of 198 kg.
This was Mirabai's second medal at the World
Championships, having previously won gold in
2017 with a lift of 194 kg.
449. 2
Shaji Krishnan V has been named Chairman of the
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development (NABARD). He formerly served as
NABARD's Deputy Managing Director (DMD) till
May 21, 2020.
From 2013 until 2017, he served as the Chairman
of Kerala Grameen Bank.
He replaced Govinda Rajulu Chintala.
450. 4
The reforms taken by Government have resulted in
increased Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows
in the country. FDI inflows in India stood at US $
45.15 billion in 2014-2015 and have continuously
increased since then, and India registered its
highest ever annual FDI inflow of US$ 84.84 billion
(provisional figures) in the financial year 2021-22.
• Keeping in view India's vision of becoming
'Atmanirbhar' and to enhance India's
Manufacturing capabilities and Exports, an outlay
of INR 1.97 lakh crore (over US$ 26 billion) has
been announced in Union Budget 2021-22 for PLI
schemes for 14 key sectors of manufacturing,
starting from fiscal year (FY) 2021-22.
• As per Economic Survey 2021-22, inspite of
Covid related disruptions there is trend of positive
overall growth of Gross Value Addition (GVA) in
manufacturing sector. The total employment in
this sector has increased from 57 million in the
year 2017-18 to 62.4 million in the year 2019-20.
• The activities under the Make in India initiative
are also being undertaken by several Central
Government Ministries/ Departments and various
State and UTs Governments. Ministries formulate
action plans, programmes, schemes and policies
for the sectors being dealt by them, while States
also have their own Schemes for attracting
investments.
• 'Make in India' is an initiative which was launched
on 25th September, 2014 to facilitate
investment, foster innovation, build best in class
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infrastructure, and make India a hub for
manufacturing, design, and innovation. It is one of
the unique 'Vocal for Local' initiatives that
promoted India's manufacturing domain to the
world. The 'Make in India' initiative is not a
state/district/city/area specific initiative, rather it
is being implemented all over the country.
451. 1
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and US
Vice President Kamala Harris are among Forbes'
19th annual list of 'World's 100 Most Powerful
Women' of 2022. While Harris is ranked third,
Sitharaman is at number 36 on the list that was
released on Tuesday highlighting "innovators and
instigators who are leading on the world stage to
redefine traditional power structures".
• This is the fourth year in a row that Sitharaman
made it to the list. Last year, she was in the 37th
spot, 41st in 2020 and 34th in 2019.
• In 2021, Harris became the first woman, the first
Black person, and the first South Asian-American
to become the American Vice President.
• Apart from Harris, Bela Bajaria, head of Global TV
at Netflix, is another Indian-American on the list
who is ranked at number 71.
• This year's list was topped by European
Commission president Ursula von der Leyen "for
her leadership during the Ukraine war, as well as
her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic".
• Besides Sitharaman, other Indians on the list
include, HCL Corporation CEO Roshni Nadar
Malhotra -- the youngest Indian woman on the list;
Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw; Madhabi
Puri Buch, the first female chair of the Securities
and Exchange Board of India; Soma Mondal, the
first woman to chair the state-run Steel Authority
of India; and Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar.
452. 3
National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) and
retail giant Walmart signed an MoU to strengthen
the latter's outreach program for the benefit of
MSMEs.
The signing of the pact was held at Walmart
Vriddhi MSME Summit 2022 in New Delhi where
20,000 MSMEs were honoured from all over India
who have expanded their businesses with the
support of the Vriddhi program.
453. 2
International Anti-Corruption Day is observed
annually on December 9 with an aim to raise
awareness against corruption and the measures
that can be implemented to fight it. The UN
General Assembly adopted the United Nations
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Convention against Corruption on October 31,
2003, and designated December 9 as International
Anti-Corruption Day.
The theme for International Anti-Corruption Day
2022 is 'Uniting the world against corruption'.
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Ashok Leyland, a subsidiary of Hinduja group,
announced on December 8, 2022, that they had
appointed Shenu Agarwal as the new Managing
Director and Chief Executive Officer for a period of
five years from December 8, 2022, to December 7,
2027.
Agarwal joins Ashok Leyland from Escorts Kubota
Ltd, where he was its President.
455. 3
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved
financing of $780 million to build new lines for
Chennai's metro rail and improve the network's
connectivity with bus and feeder services. ADB and
the India government last year signed a deal for a
$500 million loan to expand Bengaluru's metro rail
network by constructing two new lines of 56 km
length.
ADB Eetablished in 1966, it is owned by 68
members"49 from the region.
• The project will construct 10.1 km of an elevated
section between Sholinganallur to State Industries
Promotion Corporation, including nine metro
stations and system components; 10 km of the
underground section between Lighthouse and
Meenakshi College including 9 stations; and 31 km
of system components, such as electrical,
mechanical, power, and telecommunication
infrastructure, between Chennai Mofussil Bus
Terminus to Okkiyam Thoraipakkam. The stations
will be disaster- and climate-resilient and
responsive to the needs of the elderly, women,
children, and the differently able.
• ADB will provide an additional $1 million technical
assistance (TA) grant to help the Chennai Metro
Rail with the planning and management of the
metro system's multimodal integration.
456. 3
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has
announced that the state will establish a separate
Divyang department for the welfare of differently-
abled persons with a fund allocation of 1,143 crore
rupees.The government has created 2,063 posts
for the new department. He added that
Maharashtra is the first state to have such a
department.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of
the United Nations, organized an opening
ceremony for the International Year of Millets "
2023 (IYM2023) in Rome, Italy. An Indian
delegation led by Sushri Shobha Karandlaje,
Minister of State, Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
along with Smt. Shubha Thakur, Joint Secretary
(Crops), DA&FW and other senior officials were
present.
'Millets' were among the first crops to be
domesticated in India with several evidence of its'
consumption during the Indus valley civilization.
Being grown in more than 130 countries at
present, Millets are considered traditional food for
more than half a billion people across Asia and
Africa. In India, millets are primarily a kharif crop,
requiring less water and agricultural inputs than
other similar staples. Millets are important by
the virtue of its mammoth potential to generate
livelihood, increase farmers' income and ensure
food & nutritional security all over the world.
458. 2
National Pollution Control Day is honoured every
year on December 2. It honours those who died in
the Bhopal Gas catastrophe on December 2nd and
3rd in 1984. Thousand of people died in Bhopal on
that day due to leakage of deadly gas MIC, Methyl
Isocyanate. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy is one of the
deadliest industrial pollution catastrophes in the
history.
459. 2
Meghna Ahlawat was elected president of the Table
Tennis Federation of India on Monday with former
stalwart Kamlesh Mehta elected secretary general.
Patel Nagender Reddy was elected treasurer. The
Delhi High Court had suspended TTFI in February
and appointed a Committee of Administrators
(CoA) to take over its functioning.Dushyant
Chautala was the previous TTFI president.
460. 4
The Government of India has extended the PM
Street Vendor's AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi)
Scheme beyond March, 2022 till December 2024.
Introduction of 3rd loan of upto ₹50,000 in
addition to 1st & 2nd loans of ₹10,000 and
₹20,000 respectively. To extend 'SVANidhi Se
Samriddhi' component for all beneficiaries of PM
SVANidhi scheme across the country.
• The scheme is a Central Sector Scheme i.e. fully
funded by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
with the following objectives: (i) To facilitate
working capital loan up to `10,000; (ii) To
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incentivize regular repayment; and (iii) To reward
digital transactions
• The Scheme is available for beneficiaries
belonging to only those States/UTs which have
notified Rules and Scheme under Street Vendors
(Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street
Vending) Act, 2014. Beneficiaries from Meghalaya,
which has its own State Street Vendors Act may,
however, participate.
• As on November 30, 2022, 31.73 lakh Street
Vendors have availed benefit of 1st loan of ₹
10,000 loan ; Out of these 5.81 lakh have availed
benefit of second loan of ₹ 20,000 loan; Out of
those who availed 2nd loan, 6,926 street vendors
have availed benefit of third loan of ₹50,000.
• The subject matter relating to creation of vending
zone falls under the ambit of Street Vendors
(Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street
Vending) Act, 2014, which is being implemented
through respective State/UT. As reported by the
States/UTs, a total of 13,403 vending zones have
been identified so far.
• 42 lakh street vendors are to be provided
benefits under PM SVANidhi Scheme by December,
2024.
461. 4
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Friday said
it has approved a USD 250 million policy-based
loan to support India's wide-ranging reforms that
aim to strengthen and modernise the country's
logistics infrastructure, improve efficiency, and
lower costs. This will rationalise India's high cost of
logistics and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• The loan will finance the first sub-program of the
strengthening multimodal and integrated logistics
ecosystem program, which supports the
government's efforts to create a comprehensive
policy, planning, and institutional framework at the
federal, state, and city level.Â
• The program would help to strengthen supply
chains by simplifying external trade logistics and
domestic cargo movements, modernising
warehouses, improving business processes with
integrated digital platforms, and stimulating
private investments in the sector.
• The recently approved National Logistics Policy
and Prime Minister Gati Shakti " National Master
Plan provide transformative institutional and
regulatory frameworks for holistic development of
the logistics ecosystem in the country and lays the
foundation for building a modern and efficient
logistics sector.
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The Passport Index 2022, published by Arton
Capital, ranks the world's strongest and weakest
passports. The passport rankings indicate how
many countries you can visit without a visa. The
UAE has got the first position in the rating of
passports for 2022, while India was ranked 87 in
the list of the strongest passports in the world.
• While UAE topped the list, Germany, Sweden,
Finland, Luxembourg, Spain, and France were
next. Pakistan was 94th, while Afghanistan was
last.
• Japan is easily accessible from 171 countries and
is ranked 24 on Arton's index. This year's list by
Henley & Partners ranked the nation's travel
document as the best in the world.
• India, along with Mauritius and Tajikistan, has
been ranked 87th according to the latest Henley
Passport Index released in June 2022.Â
463. 3
The Meghalaya government in partnership with
startup TechEagle has unveiled Asia's first drone
delivery hub and network which is aimed at
providing universal access to healthcare for the
people in the state. The project is aimed at
delivering vital supplies like drugs, diagnostic
samples, vaccines, blood&blood components
quickly and safely to different regions of the state.
464. 2
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and
Social Alpha today signed an MoU to launch
SpaceTech Innovation Network (SpIN), India's first
dedicated platform for innovation curation and
venture development for the burgeoning space
entrepreneurial ecosystem.In line with the
partnership announcement, SpIN has launched its
first innovation challenge.
• A one-of-its-kind public-private collaboration for
start-ups and SMEs in the space industry, this
novel partnership is a significant step forward in
providing further stimulus to India's recent space
reform policies and will work towards identifying
and unleashing the market potential of the most
promising space tech innovators and
entrepreneurs in India.Â
• SpIN will primarily focus on facilitating space tech
entrepreneurs in three distinct innovation
categories: Geospatial Technologies and
Downstream Applications; Enabling Technologies
for Space & Mobility; and Aerospace Materials,
Sensors, and Avionics.
Shri. S Somanath,Chairman, ISRO
Manoj Kumar, Founder, Social Alpha
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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 which is
being celebrated on 10th and 11th December at
International Cooperation and Convention Centre,
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
Universal Health Coverage Day is celebrated every
year to commemorate the significance of Universal
health coverage which aims to ensure quality
healthcare closer to the people without any
financial hardships.
466. 4
Bhupendra Patel took oath as chief minister of
Gujarat for the second time.
BJP swept the Gujarat Assembly election with a
whopping 156 out of the 182 Assembly seats,
which is the highest number of seats any party has
won after the formation of the state in 1960.
Governor of Gujarat: Acharya Devvrat.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Goa's
second airport, MOPA International Airport. The
airport is named after former Chief Minister
Manohar Parikar. The operations will begin from
January 5, 2023. GMR Goa International Airport
Limited (GGIAL) will manage the airport.
Manohar International Airport is built on 2,132
acres and is located at Pernem Taluka in North
Goa. Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.
468. 4
A Japanese space startup launched a spacecraft to
the moon after several delays, a step toward what
would be a first for the nation and for a private
company.
ispace Inc's HAKUTO-R mission took off without
incident from Cape Canaveral, Florida, after two
postponements caused by inspections of its
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
• The name HAKUTO refers to the white rabbit that
lives on the moon in Japanese folklore, in contrast
to the Western idea of a man in the moon. The
project was a finalist in the Google Lunar XPRIZE
before being revived as a commercial venture.
• 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. It will
also be carrying an experimental solid-state
battery made by NGK Spark Plug Co.
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• Privately funded ispace has a contract with NASA
to ferry payloads to the moon from 2025 and is
aiming to build a permanently staffed lunar colony
by 2040.
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan declared the
State Seed Farm at Aluva in Ernakulam district as
the first carbon-neutral farm in the country. The
declaration was the culmination of decade-long
efforts which included totally organic agricultural
activities and scientific interventions to maintain
soil health in the farm.
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The institutes inaugurated by PM Modi include the
All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), Goa,
National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM),
Ghaziabad and National Institute of Homoeopathy
(NIH), Delhi.
National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM),
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh will be a satellite Centre
of the existing National Institute of Unani Medicine,
Bangalore. NIUM will be first such institute in
Northern India.
• The Ministry of Ayush organised the 9th World
Ayurveda Congress (WAC) on December 11
which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi. The event showcased the scientificity,
efficacy, and strength of the Ayush system of
medicines at the global level in Panjim, Goa.
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin launched the
Tamil Nadu Climate Change Mission to protect the
natural resources in the state besides restore them
on a long-term basis. The state is first to launch its
own Climate Change Mission to make Tamil Nadu a
climate smart state. The state will achieve carbon
neutrality much ahead of 2070 target.
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Parliament has passed the Energy Conservation
(Amendment) Bill, 2022 with Rajya Sabha
approving it. Lok Sabha has already passed the
Bill. The Bill seeks to amend the Energy
Conservation Act, 2001. It promotes energy
efficiency and conservation. The Bill empowers the
Centre to specify a carbon credit trading scheme.
• The legislation also stipulates that designated
consumers may be required to meet a proportion
of their energy needs from non-fossil sources. The
Energy Conservation Code for buildings will apply
to office and residential buildings with a connected
load of 100 kilowatt or above.
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• However, he added, the state government has
been given the liberty to reduce the building load
up to 50KW.
• The bill provides for penalties for violations by
industrial units or vessels, and on manufacturers if
a vehicle fails to comply with fuel consumption
norms.
• The amendments also seek to promote renewable
energy and the development of a domestic carbon
market to battle climate change.
• The bill is aimed at helping the country achieve
its international commitments on climate change.
473. 2
For conservation and development of art, culture
and crafts across the country, the Ministry of
Culture, Government of India has set up seven
Zonal Cultural Centres with headquarters at
Patiala, Nagpur, Udaipur, Prayagraj, Kolkata,
Dimapur and Thanjavur. These ZCCs organize
various cultural activities & programmes on regular
basis in their member States throughout the years
ZCCs are provided regular annual grant-in-aid by
the Government.
474. 1
Young India batter Ishan Kishan raced away to a
record-smashing knock in the third and final ODI
match of the series against Bangladesh in
Chattogram as he notched up a double century off
just 126 balls. He became the seventh batter in
the world to achieve the feat and fourth from India
after Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma and Virender
Sehwag.
475. 2
The World Health Organization said that Jeremy
Farrar will become its new chief scientist as the
agency prepares to cope with post-pandemic
health challenges.
He will join the WHO in the second quarter of
2023, replacing Soumya Swaminathan.
Dr Amelia Latu Afuhaamango Tuipulotu has been
named WHO's Chief Nursing Officer. WHO
Director-General : Dr Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus.
476. 4
Parliament has passed the New Delhi International
Arbitration Centre (Amendment) Bill, 2022 with
Rajya Sabha approving it unanimously. Lok Sabha
has already passed the Bill. The Bill amends the
New Delhi International Arbitration Centre Act,
2019. The Bill renames the New Delhi International
Arbitration Centre as the India International
Arbitration Centre.
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• The Act requires the Arbitration Centre to strive
to facilitate the conduct of international and
domestic arbitration and conciliation and the new
legislation expands this to include the conduct of
other forms of alternative dispute resolution.Â
• The manner of conduct of arbitration and other
forms of alternative dispute resolution will be
specified by the Central government through
regulations. The Bill also allows the government to
provide for removing any difficulties in
implementing the Act up to five years from the
date of commencement of the Act. Â
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New Zealand passed a law banning cigarettes for
future generations in the country. It is considering
an attempt to bring in a near-total tobacco ban
from next year. According to media reports, the
law passed by Parliament means that anyone born
after 2008 will never be able to buy cigarettes or
tobacco products in the country.Smoking rate in
New Zealand is one of the lowest
478. 2
The government has granted Geographical
Indications tag to various products, including
Gamosa of Assam, Tandur Redgram of Telangana,
and an apricot variety of Ladakh. The commerce
and Industry ministry said on Wednesday that the
total number of GI has reached to 432. The top
five states holding maximum number of GIs are
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh,
Karnataka&Kerala
• A GI is primarily an agricultural, natural or a
manufactured product (handicraft and industrial
goods) originating from a definite geographical
territory.
• The famous goods which carry GI tag include
Basmati rice, Darjeeling Tea, Chanderi Fabric,
Mysore Silk, Kullu Shawl, Kangra Tea, Thanjavur
Paintings, Allahabad Surkha, Farrukhabad Prints,
Lucknow Zardozi and Kashmir Walnut Wood
Carving.
• The Geographical Indications of Goods
(Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 (GI Act)
is a Act of the Parliament of India for protection
of geographical indications in India.
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The Indian economy is set to grow at 7 per cent,
said the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as it kept
its outlook for India's economic growth unchanged
for the ongoing fiscal year. For 2023-24, the GDP
growth has been kept unchanged at 7.2 per cent.
ADB sees Asia expanding at 4.2 per cent this year
before accelerating to 4.6 per cent in 2023. These
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projections compare to the previously estimated
expansion of 4.3 per cent and 4.9%
• The Reserve Bank recently marginally lowered
the country's GDP growth projection for the
current fiscal at 6.8 per cent from its earlier
estimate of 7 per cent.
• The World Bank in its India Development Update
revised upwards its GDP growth forecast for India
to 6.9 per cent for 2022-23 from its earlier
estimate of 6.5 per cent, saying the economy was
showing higher resilience to global shocks.
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Unique Identification Authority of India has once
again awarded first rank amongst all Group A
Ministries, Departments and Autonomous Bodies
for resolution of public grievances in the rankings
report published by Department of Administrative
Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) for
November 2022. This is the fourth month in a row
when UIDAI has topped the said ranking.
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Airbnb inked an agreement with the government of
Goa to jointly promote the state as one of the
most high potential tourist destinations around the
world. This will be done through targeted domestic
and international destination promotion
campaigns. Under the MoU they will work together
to promote the state as a destination for high-
quality tourism.
482. 3
India has successfully carried out night trials for
the Agni-5 nuclear-capable ballistic missile. The
NCBM is capable of hitting targets at a range of
over 5,000 kilometers.
In June, India successfully carried out a night
launch of the nuclear-capable Agni-4 ballistic
missile, in a boost to India's military capabilities.
483. 1
The United Nations (UN) has recognized Namami
Gange initiative to rejuvenate India's sacred River
Ganga as one of the top 10 World Restoration
Flagships to revive the natural world. The Award
was received by Mr. G. Asok Kumar, Director
General, Namami Gange at a function in the 15th
Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention
on Biodiversity (CBD) in Montreal, Canada.
• The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)
has previously won the "Public Water Agency of
the Year" in the Global Water Awards, 2019 by
Global Water Intelligence
• Namami Gange programme was started in 2014
after Narendra Modi took over as the Prime
Minister.
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• According to the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Namami
Gange was selected from over 150 such initiatives
from 70 countries across the globe. They were
selected under the banner of the United Nations
Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a global
movement coordinated by the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
484. 4
The 5th edition of Youth Co:Lab, Asia Pacific's
largest youth innovation movement was jointly
launched by Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI
Aayog and UNDP India in December 2022. Youth
Co:Lab is an initiative launched in 2019 by UNDP
India in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission,
NITI Aayog.
• It aims to establish a common agenda for Asia-
Pacific countries to invest in and empower youth to
accelerate implementation of the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) through leadership,
social innovation, and entrepreneurship.
• The Youth Co:Lab initiative, till date, has been
implemented in 28 countries and territories,
reaching over 200,000 participants, benefitting
more than 11,000 young social entrepreneurs and
supporting over 1,240 social enterprises.
• The 5 focus thematic areas for Youth Colab 2022-
23 are:
Digital and Financial Literacy for Youth
Gender Equality and Women Economic
Empowerment
Developing FinTech Solutions focused on
Biodiversity Conservation
Promoting Biodiversity-friendly Lifestyles through
Technological Solutions in Finance
Accelerating Circular Economy through Upcycling
Innovations
Behavioural Nudges for LiFE ( Lifestyle For
Environment
• Co-created in 2017 by UNDP and the Citi
Foundation, Youth Co:Lab is a multi-dimensional
and multi-level response to tackle the challenges
young people face by positioning youth at the
forefront in finding solutions to global challenges
tackling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• AIM is the Government of India's endeavor to
promote a culture of innovation and
entrepreneurship. Its objective is to serve as a
platform for the promotion of world-class
innovation hubs, grand challenges, start-up
businesses, and other self-employment activities,
particularly in technology-driven areas.
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The Ministry of Minority Affairs informed that
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Ko Kaam Karyakram
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(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. The scheme has been approved by the
Cabinet for the period of 15th Finance
Commission. PM VIKAS aims to improve livelihoods
of the minorities, particularly the artisan
communities, using the components of skill
development, education, women leadership &
entrepreneurship. These components compliment
each other in the ultimate objective of the scheme
to increase the incomes of the beneficiaries and
provide support by facilitating credit and market
linkages.
486. 1
The central government has allocated a total
financial outlay of the New India Literacy
Programme (NILP) for five years to be Rs.1037.90
crore. The minister said that the government has
announced a Centrally Sponsored Scheme NILP for
implementation during five years from 2022-23 to
2026-27. The ministry has also opted to use the
phrase "Education for All" in place of "Adult
Education" because the latter did not accurately
describe all non-literates in the age bracket of 15
and older.
487. 1
India looks forward to being back in the UN
Security Council, External Affairs S Jaishankar
declared the country's candidature as non-
permanent member for the 2028-29 term.
India's current Presidency of the UN Security
Council, before the curtains come down this month
on the country's 2-year tenure as elected member
of the 15-nation top organ of the world body.
488. 2
The Haryana government has decided to opt for a
15-point strategy to reduce road accidents by 20%
in a year which includes fixing of illegal road cuts
on highways made by dhaba and petrol pump
owners and keeping a watch on illegal liquor vends
on roads.
This year till November, as many as 9,951 road
accidents occurred in Haryana.
489. 1
Polish star Iga Swiatek and Spanish legend Rafael
Nadal were crowned as ITF World Champions 2022
by International Tennis Federation for clinching
two Grand Slam titles during this season.
ITF determines its awards based on criteria that
include all events and give special weightage to 4
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major championships and 2 team events, which
are Billie Jean King Cup and Davis Cup.
490. 4
Tata Steel Limited signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with Hockey India to become
an official partner of the FIH Odisha Hockey Men's
World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela.
The FIH Men's World Cup is the 15th edition of the
prestigious event and will take place in
Bhubaneswar and Rourkela from January 13 to
January 29, 2023.
491. 3
Payment companies Razorpay and
Cashfree Payments have received notices
from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to withhold
onboarding any new online merchants to their
platforms, pending their audit for the payment
aggregator/payment gateway licenses (PA/PG).
These restrictions are not likely to have any
material effect on the companies, and are part of
the audit process.
492. 1
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin inaugurated the
Sanitation Workers' Development Scheme to
protect the welfare of conservancy workers in the
State.
He launched a mobile application to help identify
and collect census data of sanitation workers as
part of the scheme.
The scheme was launched in Madurai and will
benefit over 53,000 permanent and contract-based
conservancy workers.
493. 1
Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud virtually
inaugurated 10 district court digitisation hubs
(DCDH) in Odisha, and said that modernisation of
judiciary is the need of the hour.
With Monday's inauguration, a total of 15 DCDHs
have now become functional in the state, with
each catering to a neighbouring district, thus
covering all 30 district courts.
494. 3
In the 'Sixth Bloomberg 50' report,Businessman
and philanthropist Gautam Adani has topped the
list of people whose wealth witnessed the
maximum rise globally during this year.
The Bloomberg report has taken into account the
USD 49 billion surge in Adani's wealth, which had
helped put him ahead of billionaires like Bill Gates
and Warren Buffet.
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495. 1
Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon'ble Minister of
Railways, Communications, Electronics &
Information Technology, Govt. of India has been
appointed as the Chancellor of Gati Shakti
Vishwavidyalaya, Vadodara by Hon'ble President
Smt. Draupadi Murmu. It is noteworthy to mention
that Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw will be the first
Chancellor of Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya.
Hon'ble President has also appointed Dr. Manoj
Chaudhary, as the first Vice Chancellor.
496. 4
In Hockey, the Indian Women's Hockey Team
defeated Spain 1-0 in the Final to win the FIH
Women's Nations Cup 2022 in Valencia, Spain.
Indian remained undefeated during the
tournament and also got promoted to the 2023-24
FIH Hockey Women's Pro League.This was the
inaugural season of the Women's FIH Nations Cup,
with a promotion to next year's Women's Pro
League hockey.
497. 3
The Adani group will invest Rs 10,700 crore into
Lucknow airport's expansion so that its annual
passenger handling capacity zooms from 4 million
passengers per annum to 39 MPPA. According to
earlier reports, the Adani group would invest about
Rs 10,000 crore in the Ahmedabad airport between
2023 and 2027 to triple its passenger handling
capacity, making it a regional hub.
498. 3
The Tamil Nadu government issued a notification
making the Aadhaar number mandatory for
availing various welfare schemes of the
government.
Recently, it was announced that electricity
connection holders should link electricity consumer
number with their Aadhaar card for e-bill payment
in Tamil Nadu and the process of linking is active
all over Tamil Nadu.
499. 3
Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) Managing
Director Bimlendra Jha said the company will
spend Rs 7,930 crore under the PLI scheme for
specialty steel. The amount will be used to
manufacture eight types of high-end alloy in India.
On December 9, the government announced the
selection of 67 entries with an investment potential
of Rs 42,500 crore under the scheme.
500. 4
After a 3-3 thriller across 120 minutes, Argentina
bested France 4-2 on penalties to win their third
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World Cup, after 36 years. Earlier, while Argentina
took a 2-0 lead via Lionel Messi and Angel Di
Maria, it was Kylian Mbappe, who got France back
with a brace inside 97 seconds in the second half.
• Kylian Mbappe became the first player to score a
hat-trick in the World Cup final since 1996.
• Kylian Mbappe has won the golden boot award
with 8 goals in the 2022 FIFA World Cup,
while Lionel Messi won the Golden Ball for being
the best player in the tournament.
• He becomes the first man to win multiple adidas
Golden Ballls.Messi won the Golden Ball at Brazil
2014, where he helped Argentina finish runners-
up.
• Kylian Mbappe and Luka Modric seized the Silver
and Bronze Balls respectively.
• Argentine midfielder Enzo Fernandez won the
best young player award while Emi Martinez took
the golden glove award for being the best
goalkeeper.
• Messi is the first player in FIFA WC history to win
both the Golden Ball award twice having also won
the prize in 2014 when Argentina lost the World
cup final to Germany.Â
• Messi scored in each of the four knockout games
and is the first player to achieve the same.
• Medalists
• Champions: Argentina
• Runners-up: France
• Third place: Croatia
Award winners
• adidas Golden Ball: Lionel Messi (ARG)
• adidas Golden Boot: Kylian Mbappe (FRA)
• adidas Golden Glove: Emiliano Martinez (ARG)
• Best Young Player: Enzo Fernandez (ARG)
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FIFA Fair Play Award: England
• Individual achievers
• Yassine Bounou: The Morocco hero became the
first African goalkeeper to record three clean
sheets in a single World Cup edition.
• Hugo Lloris: The France skipper surpassed Lilian
Thuram (142) as his country's all-time record caps
holder and also became the first goalkeeper to
reach the milestone of 20 World Cup appearances.
• Goncalo Ramos: The rising Portugal star
became the first player to score a hat-trick on his
maiden World Cup start since Miroslav Klose in
2002. He was also responsible for the first treble in
the knockout stage since Tomas Skuhravy at Italia
'90.
• Ivan Perisic: The Croatia wide man scored one
and set up two for the Vatreni, meaning that he
now has six goals and five assists across the last
three World Cups. Only the great Messi (21) can
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claim more direct goal involvements during the
same period.
• Lionel Scaloni: At 44 years old, the Argentinian
became the youngest coach since fellow
countryman Cesar Luis Menotti " who was 39 in
1978 " to win the World Cup.
Golden Boot winners
1930: Guillermo Stabile (8 goals)
1934: Oldrich Nejedly (5)
1938: Leonidas da Silva (7)
1950: Ademir de Menezes (9)
1954: Sandor Kocsis (11)
1958: Just Fontaine, France (13)
1962: Florian Albert, Garrincha, Valentin Ivanov,
Drazan Jerkovic, Leonel Sanchez and Vava (4)
1966: Eusebio (9)
1970: Gerd Muller (10)
1974: Grzegorz Lato (7)
1978: Mario Kempes (6)
1982: Paolo Rossi (6)
1986: Gary Lineker (6)
1990: Toto Schillaci (6)
1994: Oleg Salenko and Hristo Stoichkov (6)
1998: Davor Suker (6)
2002: Ronaldo (8)
2006: Miroslav Klose (5)
2010: Thomas Muller (5)
2014: James Rodriguez (6)
2018: Harry Kane (6)
501. 1
With a share of 23 percent of total remittances,
the United States surpassed the United Arab
Emirates as the top source country in 2020"21
World Bank's data shows that between 1995 &
2021, India has been receiving the highest
remittances across the world for 23 years. The
only years where it did not clinch the first position
were 1998, 2004, 2005 and 2007.
In 2020, when remittance flows to India were 0.22
per cent lesser than what it received in 2019, it
still topped the list for maximum remittance
worldwide.
502. 1
England teenager Rehan Ahmed (18y and 128d)
became the youngest debutant in the history of
men's Test cricket to claim a five-fer, going past
current Australian Test captain Pat Cummins, who
had achieved the feat while he was 18 years and
196 days old.
503. 2
IndiGo took the No. 1 spot in on-time performance
(OTP) in November, after seven months. It
dislodged Air India, which was second. IndiGo
carried more passengers on a sequential basis,
while its market share fell to 55.7 per cent (from
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56.7 per cent in October). Overall air traffic grew
2.3 per cent sequentially to over 11.6 million in
November.
504. 3
Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra was the most
written-about track and field athlete in 2022,
displacing Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt from
the top of the list after years.Neeraj Chopra, the
Tokyo Olympics men's javelin champion, led the
way with 812 articles ahead of the Jamaican
women's sprint trio of Olympic champion Elaine
Thompson-Herah (751 articles). Neeraj Chopra
also became the first athlete from India to win
Diamond League final 2022.
505. 3
The US National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) launched the newest Earth
science satellite to track nearly all the water on
Earth's surface. The Surface Water and Ocean
Topography (SWOT) spacecraft was launched atop
a SpaceX rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at
Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with a
prime mission of three years.
• A satellite built for NASA and the French space
agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
to observe nearly all the water on our planet's
surface lifted off on its way to low-Earth orbit.
• According to NASA's statement, the satellite will
measure the height of water in freshwater bodies
and the ocean on more than 90 per cent of Earth's
surface. This information will provide insights into
how the ocean influences climate change; how a
warming world affects lakes, rivers, and
reservoirs; and how communities can better
prepare for disasters, such as floods.
• According to NASA, SWOT will cover the entire
Earth's surface between 78 degrees south and 78
degrees north latitude at least once every 21 days,
sending back about one terabyte of unprocessed
data per day.
506. 1
Arnala, the first ship of the ASW SWC Project,
being built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders &
Engineers, GRSE for the Indian Navy was launched
on December 20 at Kattupalli, Chennai. She made
her first contact with the water of the Bay of
Bengal at 1040 hrs at the launch ceremony graced
by Rasika Chaube, Financial Adviser, Ministry of
Defence.
• The contract for building eight ASW SWC ships
was signed between Defence Ministry and GRSE,
Kolkata in April 2019. Arnala class of ships will
replace the Abhay class ASW Ships of the Indian
Navy and are designed to undertake anti-
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Intensity Maritime Operations including subsurface
surveillance in littoral waters.Â
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• The ASW SWC ships will have over 80 per cent
indigenous content, ensuring that large-scale
defence production is executed by Indian
manufacturing units. It will generate employment
and capability build up within the country.Â
507. 4
Steel Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia launched India's
first Green Steel Brand - KALYANI FeRRESTA in
New Delhi. This first-of-its-kind steel has been
manufactured by a Pune-based Steel company,
Kalyani group by using renewable energy
resources, leaving zero carbon footprints in the
environment. Green steel is the manufacturing of
steel without the use of fossil fuels.
508. 2
The Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister
(EAC-PM) along with Institute for Competitiveness
and Social Progress Imperative today released the
Social Progress Index (SPI) for States and Districts
of India as mandated by the EAC-PM. Puducherry,
Lakshadweep, and Goa stand out as the best-
performing States in the index.
• The top three performing districts are Shimla in
Himachal Pradesh, Solan in Himachal Pradesh, and
Aizawl in Mizoram.
• Puducherry has the highest SPI score of 65.99 in
the country, attributable to its remarkable
performance across components like Personal
Freedom and Choice, Shelter, and Water and
Sanitation. Lakshadweep scored 65.89 and Goa
closely follow with 65.53. Jharkhand and Bihar
scored the lowest.
• For the dimension of Basic Human Needs, Goa,
Puducherry, Lakshadweep, and Chandigarh are the
top four States with the best performance in Water
and Sanitation and Shelter as compared to the
other States and Union Territories. Mizoram,
Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, and Goa have emerged
as the best-performing States for the Foundations
of Wellbeing.
• Among major states, Tamil Nadu and Kerala
feature in the top-10 pecking order. On the other
hand, Assam, Bihar and Jharkhand feature at
the bottom of the rankings. Among districts,
Aizawl " with a score of 72.9 " tops the chart.
• The index assesses States and districts based on
12 components across three critical dimensions of
social progress - Basic Human Needs, Foundations
of well-being, and Opportunity.
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• For the dimension of 'basic human needs', Goa,
Puducherry, Lakshadweep, and Chandigarh are
in the top four.
• Under the 'foundations of wellbeing', Mizoram,
Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, and Goa have
emerged the best-performers.
• Lastly, Tamil Nadu has scored the highest in the
'opportunity' dimension.
• The index uses an extensive framework
comprising 89 indicators at the State level and 49
at the district level. The EAC-PM said, SPI is a
comprehensive tool that can serve as a holistic
measure of a country's social progress at the
national and sub-national levels.
 Udhampur-Katra railway line in Kashmir. The
509. 3
Jaipur Pink Panthers defeated Puneri Paltan 33-29
in the summit clash to emerge champions of the
Pro Kabaddi League Season 9 champions. V Ajith,
Sunil Kumar and Arjun Deshwal emerged as the
best players for Jaipur side. This is their their
second Pro Kabaddi League title.
Teams in Pro Kabadi League:Â
• Bengal Warriors
• Bengaluru Bulls
• Dabang Delhi K.C
• Gujarat Giants
• Haryana Steelers
• Jaipur Pink Panthers
• Patna Pirates
• Puneri Paltan
• Tamil Thalaivas
• Telugu Titans
• U Mumba
• U.P. Yodhas
Vivo was the sponsor of Pro Kabaddi League
Season 9
510. 4
Sonakshi Sinha has been awarded PETA India's
2022 Person of the Year title. PETA stands for
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals in India.
The international animal rights non-profit group
endorsed the title and celebrated the actions of the
"Dabang" actress for saving animal lives in India.
Last year, Alia Butt was awarded the same title.
Previously PETA India Person of the Year winners
include former Supreme Court Justice KS Panicker
Radhakrishnan, cricketer Virat Kohli, comedian
Kapil Sharma; and actors John Abraham, Anushka
Sharma, Sunny Leone, R Madhavan, Jacqueline
Fernandez, Hema Malini, and Sonam Kapoor
Ahuja, among others.
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511. 2
The Madhya Pradesh government has constituted a
high-level task force, which will make
recommendations about regulating online
gambling &gaming in the state after examining the
technical and legal aspects. This task force will be
headed by the state chief secretary. It will
examine various judicial precedents, legal
situations&technical aspects related to online
gambling.
512. 2
The Indian Railways completed the construction of
a tunnel on a 111-kilometre section of the
'escape tunnel', which is the longest of its kind in
the country, is located at an elevation of 12.89
meters. The tunnel was constructed to allow
emergency response teams to carry out rescue
operations in case of an accident. Meanwhile,
the world's highest railway bridge over the
Chenab river in the Reasi district was recently
finished with a golden joint.Â
513. 3
Google announced a partnership with DigiLocker, a
government authorized identification storage
system, to bring local storage of government
issued IDs on Android devices. Announced at the
company's Google for India conference, the
partnership is part of Google's artificial intelligence
(AI) offerings that include on-device processing of
text and images to identify documents
514. 3
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has
kickstarted the ground survey of Pey Jal
Survekshan. The Survey is to assess the service
level compliance of the city with respect to quality,
quantity, and coverage of water supply, sewerage
and septage management, the extent of reuse and
recycling of used water, and conservation of water
bodies in 500 AMRUT cities. Â Survey will serve as
a monitoring tool and an accelerator for the
AMRUT Mission while also fostering healthy
competition among cities. The Pey Jal Survekshan
under AMRUT 2.0 was launched by Minister of
Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri in
September this year. Atal Mission for Rejuvenation
and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)
515. 4
Puma India said it has roped in actor and
entreprenuer Anushka Sharma as its new brand
ambassador. It added that this latest association is
part of the company's ongoing commitment
towards the women consumer segment in
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India.Other brand ambassadors of the sports
brand include Virat Kohli, MC Mary Kom, Kareena
Kapoor Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Sunil Chhetri, and
Harrdy Sandhu.
516. 3
Northern India has emerged as the most favoured
spiritual travel destination followed by Southern,
Western and Eastern regions in the country,
reveals OYO Cultural Travel 2022 Roundup Report
by global hospitality chain OYO. Varanasi, which is
also one of the oldest cities in the world, emerged
as the top religious destination for bookers across
India. This was followed by Tirupati, Puri, Amritsar
and Haridwar. The cultural cities of Vijayawada,
Mysore, Tirupati, Madurai and Vellore were most
favored in South India. In the West zone, Shirdi
received the maximum traction from travellers
followed by Mahabaleshwar, Nashik, Ujjain, and
Pushkar. Goa, which has always been a popular
tourist spot, was the most favoured destinations in
East India, along with Puri.
517. 2
The Centre has appointed Justice Hemant Gupta,
who retired recently as a judge of the Supreme
Court, as the Chairperson of the New Delhi
International Arbitration Centre.Along with Justice
Gupta, Ganesh Chandru and Anant Vijay Palli have
been appointed as part-time members of the
NDIAC. The aim of the NDIAC is to conduct
arbitration, mediation, and conciliation
proceedings.
518. 2
The world's most popular and richest cricket
league, Indian Premiere League(IPL) which was
started in 2008 has turned into a decacron with a
valuation at $10.9 billion as per the estimates by D
and P Advisory. The report by by D and P Advisory
stated that the renewed media rights deal was the
major contributor towards this substantial jump in
value of Indian Premier League.
519. 1
The Indian Gas Exchange (IGX), promoted by the
Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), has launched an
index that will reflect gas prices and will soon
come up with a product for trading in gas pipeline
capacity.The index, which IGX has named 'GIXI',
will reflect the volume-weighted average price for
all gas traded and would represent the gas prices
at the Western and Southern hubs.
• Participants can offer to sell and buy gas
(including LNG), for which IGX charges
₹4/mmBtu each from the seller and the buyer.
The gas must necessarily be physically delivered
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and taken. The NSE is working on bringing out a
product for cash-settled gas trade, for which GIXI
will serve as the base " NSE will pay a fee for the
use of the index, Mediratta said.
• In the last two years, IGX has seen about 1,980
trades. Mediratta said the prices discovered
through the exchange have been generally lower
than the international prices.
• Asked about IGX's plans for the coming years,
Mediratta said the exchange had applied to the
Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board
(PNGRB) for an approval to launch trading in gas
pipeline capacity. While only three companies "
GAIL, GSPL and PIL " own gas pipelines, many
companies often contract for pipeline capacity.
Often this capacity is not fully used. In such cases,
such surplus pipeline capacity can be traded on
IGX.
520. 2
YouTube's creative ecosystem contributed over Rs
10,000 crore & supported more than 7,50,000 full-
time equivalent jobs in the Indian economy in
2021, citing a report by the consulting firm Oxford
Economics unveiled. In 2020,the YouTube creator
ecosystem contributed Rs 6,800 crore to India's
GDP equivalent to 6,83,900 full-time jobs. Google
defines creative entrepreneurs as creators with at
least 10,000 subscribers on their largest channel
and those with fewer subscribers who receive
funds directly from YouTube, generate funds from
other sources with their YouTube videos, and/or
permanently employ other people to support their
YouTube activities.
521. 2
Three new cultural sites in India, including iconic
Sun Temple at Modhera, historic Vadnagar town in
Gujarat and rock-cut relief sculptures of Unakoti in
Tripura, have been added to the tentative list of
UNESCO world heritage sites. The UNESCO website
describes a tentative list as an "inventory of those
properties which each State Party intends to
consider for nomination".
522. 1
The prestigious 'Sahitya Akademi Award' for 2022
will be conferred on authors Badri Narayan and
Anuradha Roy. Narayan would be conferred the
award for his collection of poems in Hindi titled
'Tumadi Ke Shabd'. Roy will be awarded the award
for her novel 'All the Lives We Never Lived' in
English and Anis Ashfaq for his novel 'Khwab
Sarab' in Urdu.
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523. 1
The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE)
received in-principle approval from market
regulator Securities Exchange Board of India
(SEBI) on December 19, 2022, to set up a Social
Stock Exchange (SSE) as a separate segment of
the NSE.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in
her Union Budget speech of 2019-20, had
proposed creation of a Social Stock Exchange,
under SEBI.
524. 3
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd said it has signed a five-
year pact with Kamarajar Port Ltd for export of its
passenger vehicles to international markets. Under
the agreement starting December 2022 Kamarajar
Port will be used for exports to Africa, Middle East,
Latin America, ASEAN, Oceania and SAARC regions
by the company The port will be used to export
around 20,000 cars annually.
MSIL Managing Director & CEO -Hisashi Takeuchi;
Kamarajar Port Ltd, CMD- Sunil Paliwal
525. 2
The Indian Foreign Service official of 1997 batch,
Dr. Suhel Ajaz Khan who is presently the
Ambassador of India to the Republic of Lebanon
has been appointed as the next Ambassador of
India to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He will
replace Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, a 1989 batch IFS
officer. Dr. Khan is expected to take up the
assignment shortly.
526. 2
Indian female wrestler Antim Panghal has been
nominated for the honour of United World
Wrestling Rising Star of the Year. In addition to
Panghal, the five women nominated for the award
include Nonoka Ozaki of Japan, Amit Elor of the
US, Emma Malmgren of Sweden, and Andreea Ana
of Romania.
527. 4
Beth Mead has become the BBC Sports Personality
of the Year 2022 after guiding the Lionesses to
victory in the Women's Euros. Beth won the
Golden Boot after scoring six goals and was also
the Player of the Tournament in the Women's
Euros. Ben Stokes, the captain of the English
cricket team, gymnast Jessica Gadirova, and
runner Jake Wightman were among the
nominations.
Emma Raducanu won the award in 2021, meaning
that two women have won the award back-to-back
for the first time after 50 afters.
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528. 3
India and Japan who are members of the QUAD
are getting set to hold their maiden bilateral air
exercise `Veer Guardian' next month (January
2023).
The first air exercise between Indian Air Force
(IAF) and Japanese Air Self Defence Force (JASDF)
is scheduled to take place in Japan from January
16 to 26. The drills will be at two different bases in
that country " Hyakuri air base and Iruma air base.
The focus of the first ever air exercise is going to
be on interoperability between the forces of both
India and Japan.
529. 3
India's badminton star PV Sindhu is the only
Indian player in the top 25 in Forbes' annual list of
the highest-paid female athletes in the world.
Sindhu, the 2016 Rio Olympics silver medalist,
occupies the 12th spot in the list.
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka tops the list for
the third straight year.
530. 4
The Good Governance Day is celebrated on
December 25 every year, on the birth anniversary
of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to
create awareness of accountability in government
among the people.
He was the first-ever leader from the Bharatiya
Janata Party to become the nation's Prime
Minister. Vajpayee served three terms as the
prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days
in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998
to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to
2004.
531. 2
IIT Kanpur has developed an artificial heart that
would be of great help to people with acute cardiac
problems.
Trial on animals will start from February or March.
After success in the trial, transplantation can be
done in humans in the next two years.
532. 1
Geto Sora once again made Arunachal proud by
winning the Top Arena Junior International
Badminton Championship title in the below 9 years
category, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This is Sora's
second international badminton title in two
months.
533. 1
The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22
has been jointly won by Sudeep Sen for his genre
and formbender Anthropocene: Climate Change,
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Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann Books &
Media, 2021) and Shobhana Kumar for her haibun
collection A Sky Full of Bucket Lists (Red River,
2021). The winners, awarded $10,000 and a
Rabindranath Tagore statuette.
• Tagore Prize for social achievement was given to
Sanjoy K Roy, producer of the Jaipur Literature
Festival.
• The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize was
started in 2018 to annually recognise literary and
social accomplishments.
• In 2020, the award was won by Raj Kamal Jha,
Chief Editor, The Indian Express, for The City and
The Sea (2019, Penguin Books), and in 2019, it
was awarded posthumously to Kabir for One
Hundred Poems of Kabir, translated by
Rabindranath Tagore.
534. 4
Sri Lanka has agreed to use the Indian rupee for
foreign trade after the Indian government said that
it is looking for ways to bring countries into the
ambit of the Indian rupee trade settlement
mechanism that has a shortage of dollars.
Reportedly, Sri Lankan banks have opened special
rupee trading accounts called " Special Vostro
rupee accounts, or SVRA " for trading.
• The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has stated
that it is waiting for the approval of RBI (Reserve
Bank of India) to appoint the Indian Rupee as the
foreign currency of Sri Lanka.Â
• Sri Lanka had requested the RBI to facilitate and
promote trade and tourism in the SAARC region.Â
• It means that Sri Lankan citizens can now hold
$10,000 (INR 8,26,823) in physical form. This also
means that Sri Lankans and Indians can use
Indian rupees instead of US dollars for
international transactions with each other.Â
• Special rupee accounts for international
transactions between designated countries are
called Vostro accounts.
• So far, India's central bank has given approval to
banks to open 12 Vostro accounts for trade in
rupees with Russia. Six other accounts, including
five for trade with Sri Lanka and one for trade with
Mauritius, have also been authorised.
535. 3
Digital payments services platform Worldline
ePayments India said it has received in-principle
approval from the Reserve Bank of India to act as
a payment aggregator (PA). The authorisation by
the RBI was under the provisions of the Guidelines
on Regulation of Payment dated March 17, 2020.
Payment aggregators fall within the definition of
designated payment system under Section 23A of
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the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007
and that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has the
power to issue guidelines for efficient management
for such payment systems.
536. 3
Anil Kumar Lahoti has been appointed as the
Chairman and CEO of the Railway Board. He has
been working as a member of the Infrastructure
Committee of the Indian Railway Board. He will
start his work as a chairman on January 1, 2023.
This is the first appointment of the Railway Board
chief after the government notified the integrated
railway service, IRMS. He ​will be taking over
the chairmanship from Vinay Kr Tripathi.
537. 1
In order to streamline reporting, enhance
efficiency and automate the payments fraud
management process, the RBI said the fraud
reporting module will be migrated to DAKSH ---
the Reserve Bank's advanced supervisory
monitoring system -- from January 1.
This reporting was earlier facilitated through
Electronic Data Submission Portal (EDSP) and is
being migrated to DAKSH.
• The RBI operationalized the Central Payments
Fraud Information Registry (CPFIR) in March 2020
with reporting of payment frauds by scheduled
commercial banks and non-bank Prepaid Payment
Instrument (PPI) issuers.
• In addition to the existing bulk upload facility to
report payment frauds, DAKSH provides additional
functionalities, like a maker-checker facility, online
screen-based reporting, an option for requesting
additional information, the facility to issue alerts/
advisories, generation of dashboards and reports.
538. 4
Bharat Biotech has said that its nasal vaccine
against Covid-19, iNCOVACC, would be available to
the public from the fourth week of January. The
Hyderabad-based biotechnology company said that
the vaccine will cost 800 rupees for private
markets and 325 rupees for governments.
iNCOVACC has been developed by Bharat Biotech
in partnership with America's Washington
University
Bharat Biotech's INCOVACC is the world's first
intranasal Covid vaccine to receive approval for the
primary 2-dose schedule as well as a heterologous
booster dose. The nasal vaccine will be rolled out
as a booster dose for those above 18 years of age.
539. 3
Maharashtra assembly passed the Lokayukta Bill
2022, which brings the chief minister and council
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of ministers under the ambit of the anti-corruption
ombudsman. As per the bill, prior approval of the
Assembly has to be obtained and the motion has
to be placed before the immediate session of the
House before initiating any inquiry against the CM.
It should be passed by not less than two-thirds of
the total members of the assembly,
540. 3
Dharmadam, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi
Vijayan's constituency has achieved the position of
complete library constituency in India, the first in
India. Vijayan said that out of the total 138 wards
in the constituency, there were no libraries in 63
wards. Dharmadam reached the achievement with
the opening of libraries in these wards too.
541. 3
Centre has officially recognized e-sports as part of
the 'Multi-sport' event. It would fall under the
purview of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
Droupadi Murmu, the President of India, changed
the rules governing e-sports and asked the Sports
Ministry & the Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology (MeitY) to include e-sports
in multi-sport competition.
• Electronic Sports Federation of India (ESFI) is a
Non Profit organization established Pursuant to
sub-section (2) of section 7 of the Companies Act,
2013 and rule 8 the Companies (Incorporation)
Rules, 2014.
• Lokesh Suji, Director, Esports Federation of India
& Vice President of the Asian Esports Federation
(AESF).
542. 1
City Finance Rankings aim to motivate city and
state officials and decision makers, to implement
municipal finance reforms. The participating urban
local bodies will be evaluated on 15 indicators
across three key municipal finance assessment
parameters like resource mobilization, expenditure
performance, and fiscal governance.
• The Central government launched two major
initiatives aimed at incentivizing urban local bodies
for improving cities' public infrastructure and
strengthening them on basis of key financial
parameters.
• The City Finance Rankings 2022 and City Beauty
Competition are the two initiatives which were
launched by Housing and Urban Affairs Minister
Hardeep Puri.
While the City Finance Rankings has been
launched to evaluate, recognize, and reward urban
local bodies on the basis of their strength across
key financial parameters, the City Beauty
Competition aims to encourage and recognize the
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transformational efforts made by cities and wards
in India to create beautiful, innovative and
inclusive public spaces.
• The cities will be ranked at the national level on
the basis of their scores under any one of the
following four population categories: above 40
lakh, between 10-40 lakh, 1 lakh to 10 lakh and
less than one lakh.
• The top three cities in each population category
will be recognized and rewarded at the national
level as well as within each state and state cluster.
• Under the City Beauty Competition, wards and
public places of cities would be judged against the
five broad pillars of accessibility, amenities,
activities, aesthetics and ecology.Â
543. 4
Election Commission has proposed introduction of
'remote voting' for domestic migrants, using a
multi-constituency electronic voting machine
(EVM) that will retain all security features of the
EVMs currently in use. This modified form of EVM
can handle up to 72 multiple constituencies from a
single remote polling booth.
• The initiative, if implemented, can lead to a social
transformation for the migrants and connect with
their roots as many times they are reluctant to get
themselves enrolled at their place of work for
various reasons such as frequently changing
residences.
• In this regard, the Commission has invited all
Recognised  National and  State Political Parties
on 16th of January next year to demonstrate the
functioning of the multi-constituency prototype
Remote Electronic Voting Machine. The Technical
Expert Committee members will also be present in
the meeting. Â
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544. 3
Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways
Nitin Gadkari inaugurated Goa's new Zuari bridge.
The bridge is an important link between North and
South Goa. This 13.20-kilometer eight-lane bridge
costing 2530 Crores across Zuari river from
Bambolim to Verna. It is country's second longest
cable-stayed bridge. Goa Chief Minister Pramod
Sawant
545. 2
Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the
Border Security Force (BSF) mobile app 'Prahari'.
This app is a great example of proactive
governance. BSF soldiers can get personal and
service related information, housing, Ayushman-
CAPF and leave related information on their
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mobiles. Soldiers can also get information on
various welfare schemes through this app.
546. 4
The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M)
won key recognition in the Wharton-QS Reimagine
Education Awards, often referred to as 'the Oscars
of Education.' IIT madras' BS in Data Science and
Applications has won a silver prize in the 'Best
Online Program' category. Additionally,
NPTELÂ (National Programme on Technology
Enhanced Learning), a joint initiative of IITs and
IISc, won the Gold in the 'Lifelong Learning
category.'
NPTEL is India's largest technical dissemination
program. It is a consortium of seven IITs and IISc,
and IIT Madras leads this effort. The project is
funded by the Ministry of Education, Government
of India, and aims to enhance the quality of
engineering education in India by providing free
online courses and video lectures
547. 3
This book is a memoir of Dr C. Rangarajan, an
Indian economist, a former Member of Parliament,
and the 19th Governor of the Reserve Bank of
India. The book includes his journey as an
economist and RBI Governor and brings to light
some of the hidden truths surrounding India's
economic history. It was released by Penguin
Publications.
548. 1
Siemens India has been awarded the tender for
Manufacturing and Maintenance of 1,200 electric
locomotives (train engines) for the Indian
Railways. An official statement said these 9,000
horsepower (HP) Electric Freight Locomotives will
be supplied over an 11 year period and maintained
for 35 years.
549. 2
The central government hiked interest rates on
various small savings schemes including senior
citizen savings scheme during the January to
March quarter but kept the rate for Public
Provident Fund and Sukanya Samriddhi scheme
unchanged for this period. The rates on the
various instruments have been raised between 20
to 110 basis points and now range from 4.0 % to
7.6%.
• The small savings interest rates, while set by the
government, are linked to market yields on G-secs
with a lag and are reviewed, fixed on a quarterly
basis at a spread ranging from 0-100 basis points
over (100 basis points = 1 per cent) and above G-
Sec yields of comparable maturities, according to
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the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). However, interest
rates on small savings have not always tracked the
movement in market rates.
• Small savings schemes, including post office 1-3-
year time deposits and 5-year recurring deposits,
are savings instruments managed by the
government to encourage citizens to save
regularly. These also include saving certificates
such as National Saving Certificates and Kisan
Vikas Patra, Sukanya Samriddhi Account, and
Senior Citizens Savings Scheme.
• The rates for the post office 1 year, 2 year, 3
year, and 5 year time deposits have been hiked to
6.6%, 6.8%, 6.9%, and 7%, from 5.5%, 5.7%,
5.8%, and 6.7% respectively. The rates for 5 year
recurring deposits and savings deposits have
remained unchanged at 5.8% and 4%
respectively.
• The rate for senior citizens savings scheme
(SCSS) will earn 8% from 1 January, compared
with 7.6% now.
• Kisan Vikas Patrika with a 120 month maturity
will earn 7.2% interest, compared to 7% with
maturity in 123 months.
• With no change in rates, the PPF will continue to
earn 7.10%, while Sukanya Samriddhi account
scheme will continue to earn 7.6% interest rate,
the Finance Ministry said.
• The RBI led monetary policy committee on 7
December hiked the repo rate by 35 basis points
(bps) to 6.25%, the fifth raise in the current fiscal
year, taking the policy rate to the highest level
since August 2018.
550. 4
The Indian Army now has a 3D Printed House
Dwelling Unit, which is a disaster-resilient
structure that complies with Zone-3 earthquake
specifications and green building norms. The Army
inaugurated such a unit in Ahmedabad. It is the
first 3D Printed House for Indian soldiers and
located at Ahmedabad Cantt. The dwelling unit has
been constructed by the Military Engineering
Services (MES) in collaboration with MiCoB Pvt Ltd
incorporating the latest 3D Rapid Construction
Technology, the Indian Army officials said.
551. 2
The Reserve Bank of India's Medium-term Strategy
Framework for the period 2023-2025 ' Utkarsh 2.0'
was launched by Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor,
RBI. The 1st strategy framework (Utkarsh 2022)
covering the period 2019-2022 was launched in
July 2019. It became a medium-term strategy
document guiding the Bank's progress towards
realisation of the identified milestones,
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· Utkarsh 2.0 harnesses the strengths of Utkarsh
2022 by retaining the six Vision statements as well
as Core Purpose, Values, and Mission statement.
Collectively, they create a strategic guiding path.
The Vision in Utkarsh 2.0 that will guide the
Reserve Bank of India over the period 2023-25
are:
· Excellence in performance of its functions;
· Strengthened trust of citizens and Institutions in
the RBI;
· Enhanced relevance and significance in national
and global roles;
· Transparent, accountable and ethics-driven
internal governance;
· Best-in-class and environment-friendly digital
and physical infrastructure; and
· Innovative, dynamic and skilled human
resources.
552. 3
Punjab & Sind Bank has partnered with SBI Card
to launch co-brand credit cards for its customers.
The partnership will introduce 'credit cards' as a
new product segment under the bank's portfolio
and for this both the partners have rolled out three
card variants - PSB SBI Card ELITE, PSB SBI Card
PRIME, and PSB SimplySAVE SBI Card.
553. 2
Capital markets regulator Sebi has barred DS
Capital Venture and its directors from the
securities markets for three years for violating
regulatory norms. DS Capital Venture (DS Capital)
is registered as an Sebi-investment adviser and its
directors are Sanjay Dwivedi, Piyush Kumar
Sharma, Deepali Sharma and Abhishek Tiwari.
554. 3
State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, and HDFC Bank
continue to be identified as Domestic Systemically
Important Banks (D-SIBs), under the same
bucketing structure as in the 2021 list of D-SIBs.
The additional Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1)
requirement for D-SIBs was phased-in from April
1, 2016 and became fully effective from April 1,
2019. The additional CET1 requirement will be in
addition to the capital conservation buffer.
· The Reserve Bank issued the'Framework for
dealing with Domestic Systemically Important
Banks (D-SIBs) on July 22, 2014. The D-SIB
framework requires the Reserve Bank to disclose
the names of banks designated as D-SIBs starting
from 2015 and place these banks in appropriate
buckets depending upon their Systemic
Importance Scores (SISs). Based on the bucket in
which a D-SIB is placed, an additional common
equity requirement has to be applied to it. In case
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a foreign bank having branch presence in India is
a'Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB), it
has to maintain additional CET1 capital surcharge
in India as applicable to it as a G-SIB,
proportionate to its Risk Weighted Assets (RWAs)
in India, i.e., additional CET1 buffer prescribed by
the home regulator (amount) multiplied by India
RWA as per consolidated global Group books
divided by total consolidated global Group RWA.
· The Reserve Bank announced SBI and ICICI Bank
as D-SIBs in'2015'and'2016. Based on data
collected from banks as on March 31, 2017, HDFC
Bank was also classified as a D-SIB, along with SBI
and ICICI Bank. The current update is based on
the data collected from banks as on March 31,
2022.
555. 2
Punjab & Sind Bank board approves capital raising
of upto '250 crore. The public sector lender
announced that its board approved proposal for
raising capital upto Rs 250 crore by various
modes, including equity and bonds issuance. The
funds will be raised in one or more tranches within
a period of 12 months from the date of approval
by way of issuance of these instruments, said the
PSU bank. GoI's ownership stood at 98.25% as on
30 Sept 2022. Punjab & Sind Bank is a relatively
small PSB, founded in 1908 in New Delhi.
556. 1
The Reserve Bank of India has launched the
Inflation Expectations Survey of Households
(IESH) which will provide useful inputs for
monetary policy. In the January 2023 round, the
survey will be conducted across 19 cities. It aims
to capture subjective assessments of price
movements and inflation, based on individual
consumption baskets. The RBI statement said the
survey seeks qualitative responses from
households on price changes (general prices as
well as prices of specific product groups) in the
three months ahead as well as in the one-year
ahead period and quantitative responses on
current, three months ahead and one year ahead
inflation rates.
557. 2
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lifted restrictions
related to Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services
on recovery operations via third party collection
agents. The lifting of restrictions followed
submissions made by M&M Finance and its pledge
to strengthen recovery practices and outsourcing
arrangements, while tightening the process of
onboarding third-party agents.
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558. 3
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to engage
the services of external auditors to audit majority
of the 9,500-odd non-banking finance companies
(NBFCs) to delve into their operations and check
whether their registered office is at the place
mentioned in their application for registration,
among others.
· The RBI cancelled the certificate of registration
(CoR) of 3,110 NBFCs between FY15 and FY22,
with the largest number of cancellations (1,851)
being in FY19. As on October 1, 2022, the CoRs of
5,451 NBFCs were cancelled by the central bank.
· The proposed audit exercise could lead to
cancellation of CoRs of more NBFCs in FY24.
· There are 9,500-odd NBFCs but the RBI's
supervisory staff strength is only about 1,500.
· The focus of the proposed audit could be on
NBFCs in the Base Layer (under the scale based
regulation) comprising non-deposit taking NBFCs
below the asset size of '1,000 crore and'NBFCs
undertaking activities such as Peer-to-Peer
Lending (Platform), Account Aggregator and Non-
Operative Financial Holding Company.
· The Reserve Bank has prescribed progressively
stringent regulatory regimes for NBFCs in the
Upper and Middle layers..
· There are 11 types of NBFCs including
Investment and Credit Company, Infrastructure
Finance Company,Core Investment Company,
Micro Finance Institution, Account Aggregator,
Peer to Peer Lending Platform and Housing Finance
Company.
559. 2
Yes Bank announced its partnership with Microsoft
to bring forth a next generation mobile application
with a view to provide customers with a
personalised banking experience. Yes bank will
leverage Microsoft's Azure platform to create the
app which will offer customers a host of services
such as online payments, shopping, rewards,
offers, as well as customized dashboards.
560. 5
Bhubaneswar-based Annapurna Finance Private
Limited (AFPL) has applied to the Reserve Bank of
India for a universal bank licence. Established in
2009, the micro-finance institution has been
promoted by People's Forum (PF), a society
registered in Odisha, which comes under the RBI's
NBFC-MFI category.
· As per the RBI's 'on tap' licensing guidelines,'the
initial minimum paid-up voting equity capital
for a universal bank should be Rs 500 crore.
Thereafter, the bank should have a minimum net
worth of Rs 500 crore at all time.
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· In April 2014, the RBI had given in-principle
approval to Bandhan Bank and IDFC Bank to start
universal banking operations. IDFC Bank has since
merged with Capital First Ltd to form IDFC First
Bank. The RBI in 2021 had announced a five-
member Standing External Advisory Committee,
headed by former RBI deputy governor Shyamala
Gopinath, for evaluating applications for universal
banks and small finance banks.
· Revathy Iyer, director, central board, RBI; B
Mahapatra, former executive director, RBI; T N
Manoharan, former president, ICAI; and Hemant G
Contractor, former MD, SBI and former chairman,
PFRDA, are members of the committee.
561. 2
The Reserve Bank had announced opening of the
Fourth Cohort under Regulatory Sandbox vide
Press release dated June 06, 2022 for theme
'Prevention and Mitigation of Financial Frauds'. The
six entities are -- Bahwan Cybertek, Crediwatch
Information Analytics, enStage Software (Wibmo),
HSBC in collaboration with Wibmo, napID Cybersec
and Trusting Social. The regulatory sandbox allows
the regulator, innovators, financial service
providers and customers to conduct field tests to
collect evidence on the benefits and risks of new
financial products. The selected entities would
commence testing their products in February.
· The RBI invited applications for the first cohort
with the theme 'Retail Payments' in November
2019 and for the second cohort with the theme of
'Cross Border Payments' in December 2020.
562. 2
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will auction
'16,000 crore of sovereign green bonds (SGrBs) in
two tranches, the central bank announced. The
RBI will auction 5-year and 10-year green bonds
worth '4,000 crore each on 25 January and on 9
February, and this would be a uniform price
auction.
· In line with the ambition to significantly reduce
the carbon intensity of the economy, the Union
Budget for 2022-23 had mentioned about SGrBs.
· Green bonds are financial instruments that
generate proceeds for investment in
environmentally sustainable and climate-suitable
projects.
· The features of the SGrB issuance will be as
below:
· i) Issuance Method: SGrBs will be issued through
Uniform Price Auction.
· ii) Non-competitive bidding facility: Five per cent
of the notified amount of sale will be reserved for
retail investors as specified under the 'Scheme for
Noncompetitive Bidding Facility in the auction of
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Government of India Dated Securities and
Treasury Bills'.
· iii) Eligibility for Repurchase Transactions (Repo):
SGrBs will be eligible for Repurchase Transactions
(Repo) as per the terms and conditions mentioned
in Repurchase Transactions (Repo) (Reserve Bank)
Directions, 2018 as amended from time to time.
· iv) Eligibility for Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR):
SGrBs will be reckoned as eligible investment for
SLR purpose.
· v) Underwriting: The underwriting in the auction
of SGrBs by the Primary Dealers will be as per the
'Revised Scheme of Underwriting Commitment and
Liquidity Support" issued by the Reserve Bank vide
circular No.RBI/2007-08/186 dated November 14,
2007, as amended from time to time.
· vi) When-issued Trading: SGrBs will be eligible
for 'When Issued" trading in accordance with the
guidelines on 'Transactions in the When Issued
market in Central Government Securities' issued
by the Reserve Bank of India vide circular dated
July 24, 2018, as amended from time to time.
· vii) Tradability: SGrBs will be eligible for trading
in the secondary market.
· viii) Investment by Non-residents: SGrBs will be
designated as specified securities under the 'Fully
Accessible Route' for investment in Government
Securities by non-residents.
563. 5
The Reserve Bank ' Integrated Ombudsman
Scheme (RB-IOS), was launched on November 12,
2021, by Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra
Modi. The ambit of RB-IOS, 2021 was extended to
include non-scheduled Urban Cooperative Banks
with deposits of '50 Crore & above. The rate of
disposal of complaints by RBIOs improved to 97.97
per cent in 2021-22 from 96.59 per cent in 2020-
21.
· Under the RB-IOS, 2021, a Centralised Receipt
and Processing Center (CRPC) was established at
RBI, Chandigarh to receive complaints through
email/physical mode from across the country and
handle the initial scrutiny and processing of these
complaints before assigning the maintainable ones
to ORBIOs for further redressal.
564. 1
National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARCL),
or the government-backed bad bank to take over
stressed assets of lenders, has emerged as the
leading bidder in the auction for Srei Infrastructure
Finance and Srei Equipment Finance. NARCL's bid
was the highest with a net present value (NPV) of
Rs 5,555 crore.
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565. 4
IndusInd Bank, British Airways Executive Club and
Qatar Airways Privilege Club announced their
partnership to introduce the unique multi-branded
credit card, with two leading international airlines,
powered by Visa. The multi-branded credit card is
slated to be launched and made available to
consumers in the first quarter of the financial year
2023 - 2024.
566. 3
Corporate tax collections exceeded 3 per cent of
the GDP after a gap of two years in 2021-22,
reflecting overall improvement in profitability of
India Inc propelled by increase in demand for
goods and services. However, the corporate tax
collection is yet to surpass its five-year high of
3.51 per cent of GDP recorded in 2018-19.
· In actual terms, the net corporate'tax
collection'in 2021-22 stood at Rs 7.12 lakh crore.
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at current
market price was Rs 236.64 lakh crore. The
percentage of net corporate tax to'GDP'worked out
to be 3.01 per cent.
· While reducing the tax rate in September 2019,
the government had said that any new domestic
company incorporated on or after October 1, 2019,
making fresh investment in manufacturing, will
have an option to pay income-tax at the rate of 15
per cent if they commenced production on or
before March 31, 2023. The period was later
extended by another year till March 2024.
· Also, domestic companies were given an option
to pay taxes at a lower 22 per cent rate if they
gave up exemptions and incentives. Besides, the
rate of Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) too had been
reduced to 15 per cent from 18.5 per cent.
· The tax cut reflected in the realisation of
corporate taxes in 2019-20, when collections fell to
over Rs 5.56 lakh crore (2.77 per cent of GDP).
· Next year in 2020-21, the corporate tax to GDP
ratio declined further to 2.31 per cent on account
of the combined impact of Covid-19 and tax rate
cuts of the previous year. The net corporate tax
collection was over Rs 4.57 lakh crore.
· In the current fiscal, the Budget has pegged
gross corporate tax collection (before adjusting for
refunds) at Rs 7.20 lakh crore.
· In the April-mid December period of the current
fiscal, net corporate tax collection stood at Rs 6.06
lakh crore.
567. 2
Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said that National
Research Development Corporation will undertake
Technology Commercialization for benefit of Start-
Ups from 1st January. NRDC assists the Inter-
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Ministerial Board of DPIIT in technically evaluating
Startups for their recognition to avail benefits
extended by the government and 7500
applications has been assessed. NRDC has entered
into an MoU with The Agricultural and Processed
Food Products Export Development Authority for
mentoring and monitoring export-oriented Agri-
based Start-ups. NRDC is also associated with
Indian Oil Corporation Limited for the
implementation of their Start-up Scheme.
568. 4
In a first, Kolkata will soon have India's first
underwater metro service. The Kolkata Metro Rail
Corporation (KMRC) said that the East-West Metro
Corridor project is expected to be completed by
December 2023. The underwater metro which will
run through the Hoogly river will be connecting
Howrah and Kolkata and reduce the travel time
from 90 minutes to 40 minutes.
569. 2
NTPC Ltd commissions India's first green hydrogen
blending project. The green hydrogen blending has
been started in the piped natural gas (PNG)
network of NTPC Kawas township, Surat. The
project is a joint effort of NTPC and Gujarat Gas
Limited (GGL). Green hydrogen in Kawas is made
by electrolysis of water using power from already
installed 1 MW floating solar project. Petroleum
and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), the
regulatory body has given approval for 5%
vol./vol. blending of green hydrogen with PNG to
start with and the blending level would be scaled
phase wise to reach 20%.' Green hydrogen when
blended with natural gas reduces CO2 emissions
keeping net heating content same.
570. 1
The first-of-its-kind inclusive festival in India,
'Purple Fest: Celebrating Diversity' is set to begin
in Goa on 5th January. The festival aims to
showcase how we can come together to create a
welcoming and inclusive world for everyone. It will
feature a variety of exciting live performances,
sporting events etc.
571. 3
World's first palm-leaf manuscript museum comes
up in T'puram. Billed as the world's first palm leaf
manuscript museum, the facility is essentially a
repository of curious nuggets of administrative,
socio-cultural and economic facets of Travancore
spanning a period of 650 years till the end of
the19th century, besides documents relating to
territories of Kochi in the state's middle and
Malabar further north.
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The proposed fertilizer plant in Odisha's Talcher
will start urea production in 2024. It will be India's
first and largest coal gasification-based urea plant.
It is a Rs 13,200 crore worth project which will
revive the shut-down fertilizer plant formerly
owned by Fertilizer Corporation of India Ltd (FCIL).
FCIL Talcher unit is being established by Talcher
Fertilizers Ltd (TFL), a company promoted by GAIL
(India) Ltd. (GAIL), Rashtriya Chemicals &
Fertilizers Ltd. (RCF), Coal India Ltd. (CIL) and
Fertilizers Corporation of India Ltd. (FCIL).
573. 4
Croatia adopted the euro currency and entered
Europe's passport-free Schengen zone after a
decade since joining the European Union. It
became the 20th member of the eurozone. It will
also be the 27th nation in the passport-free
Schengen zone, the world's largest, which enables
more than 400 million people to move freely
around its member nations. Kuna was the old
currency.
574. 4
Croatia adopted the euro currency and entered
Europe's passport-free Schengen zone after a
decade since joining the European Union. It
became the 20th member of the eurozone. It will
also be the 27th nation in the passport-free
Schengen zone, the world's largest, which enables
more than 400 million people to move freely
around its member nations. Kuna was the old
currency.
575. 4
CRRC Corporation Limited recently unveiled its first
hydrogen urban train, which is Asia's first
hydrogen train. The hydrogen train has a
maximum speed of 160 km/h, and an operational
range of 600 km without refueling. India is likely
to get its first hydrogen train by 2023.Germany
became the first country to operate the world's
first hydrogen-powered passenger train fleet.
576. 2
Norwegian Magnus Carlsen won both the World
Rapid and World Blitz chess titles in Almaty,
Kazakhstan. He is now the holder of all three world
chess championship titles ' in Classical, Rapid and
Blitz ' for the third time in his career, while no
other player has ever won both the Rapid and Blitz
titles in the same year. World Blitz 2022
Women'Top 3'
· Silver - GM Koneru Humpy
· Gold - IM Bibisara Assaubayeva (KAZ)
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· Bronze - IM Polina Shuvalova
World Blitz Open Top 3
· Silver - Hikaru Nakamura (USA)
· Gold - Magnus Carlsen (NOR)
· Bronze - Haik Martirosyan (Bronze)'
World Rapid Women Top'3
· Gold - GM Tan Zhongyi (CHN)
· Bronze - WIM Savitha Shri B
· Silver - IM Dinara Saduakassova
World Blitz Open Top 3
· Silver - Hikaru Nakamura (USA)
· Gold - Magnus Carlsen (NOR)
· Bronze - Haik Martirosyan (Bronze)'
577. 2
Divya Deshmukh defeated IM Bhakti Kulkarni in
the final round to become a clear champion at MPL
48th National Women Chess Championship 2022.
This is her second consecutive National Women
title where she remained undefeated. Since 2011,
every single National Women's champion won the
event at least twice in-a-row and Divya maintained
that record.
· MPL 48th National Women's Chess'Championship
2022 held at Sanjay Ghodawat University,
Kolhapur.
578. 4
16-year-old Tamil Nadu chess player M Pranesh
crossed the 2500-rating threshold and became a
GM, having completed his three norms before he
clinched the title in the Rilton Cup, the first
tournament on the FIDE 2023 calendar, in
Stockholm. Koustav Chatterjee recently become
the country's 78th Grandmaster during the
National Senior Chess Championship.
579. 1
Google plans to collaborate with the Indian
Institute of Science (IISC) for project Vaani.
Project Vaani aims to ensure the collected and
produced data will be open-source. This
collaboration is aimed to build an artificial
intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) model to
collect and transcribe open-source speech data
from across all of India's 733 districts. The tech
giant also announced a fund of $1 million to Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras to build
India's first Responsible AI center. The center aims
to research on various aspects of bias in artificial
intelligence (AI) in Indian perspective.
580. 3
HDFC Bank said it is partnering with Microsoft in
the next phase of its digital transformation. will
leverage Microsoft Azure to consolidate and
modernise its enterprise data landscape through a
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Federated Data Lake to scale its information
management capabilities across enterprise
reporting and advanced analytics, using artificial
intelligence.
581. 3
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and
Microsoft signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) to fuel the growth of space-tech startups in
India. The MoU seeks to empower space tech
startups across the country with technology tools
and platforms, go-to-market support and
mentoring to help them scale and become
enterprise ready. Shri S Somanath, Chairman,
ISRO. Anant Maheshwari, President, Microsoft
India.
582. 1
Over 16,554 tribal villages have been covered so
far under the Pradhan Mantri Adi Adarsh Gram
Yojana for the integrated development of tribal
dominated villages. Tribal Affairs Ministry said, an
amount of over 1,900 crore rupees has already
been released to the States. The objective of
scheme is to achieve socio-economic development
of selected villages through convergence.
· The Ministry has revamped the existing Scheme
of Special Central Assistance to Tribal Sub-Scheme
with Pradhan Mantri Adi Adarsh Gram Yojna, for
implementation during 2021-22 to 2025-26.
Central government is now working to develop
36,428 villages with at least 50 percent tribal
population and 500 Scheduled Tribes across the
country into model tribal villages.
· The main objective of this scheme is to achieve
integrated socio-economic development of selected
villages through convergence approach. It includes
the following components.
1) Preparing Village Development Plan based on
the needs, potential, and aspirations;
2) Maximizing the coverage of individual / family
benefit schemes of the Central / State
Governments;
3) Improving the infrastructure in vital sectors like
health, education, connectivity and livelihood;
· scheme envisions to mitigate gaps in prominent 8
sectors of development viz. Road connectivity
(Internal and Inter village /block), Telecom
connectivity (Mobile /internet), School, Anganwadi
Centres, Health Sub-Centre, Drinking water
facility, Drainage and solid waste management.
· A sum of '20.38 lakh per village as 'gap-filling'
has been provisioned for approved activities
including administrative expenses under PMAAGY.
An amount of Rs. 7,276 cr has been approved by
the Cabinet for the scheme in next 5 years.
Besides, States / UTs are encouraged for
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convergence of resources as Central / State
Scheduled Tribe Component (STC) funds and other
financial resources available with them for
saturation of infrastructure and services in the
villages identified under PMAAGY.
583. 2
The Union Cabinet approved the '19,744-crore
National Green Hydrogen Mission with an objective
to become a major exporter in the field and make
India a global hub for the production, utilisation,
and export of Green Hydrogen and its derivatives.
The development will help India, achieve net-zero
carbon emissions by 2070. Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy will formulate the scheme
guidelines.
584. 4
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
approved scheme worth Rs 2,539.61 cr for
Doordarshan and All India Radio, in a boost to
public sector broadcasting. The investment,
announced under the Central Sector 'Broadcasting
Infrastructure and Network Development (BIND)'
scheme, will be up to 2025-26 and will aim to
modernise the two entities run by Prasar Bharati.
585. 1
The Centre has approved the continuation of
schemes of the Ministry of Development of North
Eastern Region (DoNER) with an outlay of Rs
12,882 crore for the balance period of the 15th
Finance Commission (2022-23 to 2025-26).
According to an official statement, the actual
expenditure in the last four years under the DoNER
schemes was Rs 7,534.46 crore. Union Minister of
DoNER, Tourism & Culture, Shri G. Kishan Reddy.
· The NESIDS, a central sector scheme with 100
per cent central funding, has been restructured
having two components -- NESIDS (Roads) and
NESIDS (other than road infrastructure).
· the Expenditure Finance Committee's (EFC)
recommendations, the outlay for the North East
Special Infrastructure Scheme (NESIDS) will
be Rs 8,139.5 crore, including the committed
liabilities of the ongoing projects.
· The outlay for the "Schemes of NEC" will be Rs
3,202.7 crore, including the committed liabilities of
the ongoing projects, the outlay for special
packages for the Bodoland Territorial Council, the
Dima Hasao Autonomous Territorial Council
(DHATC) and the Karbi Anglong Autonomous
Territorial Council (KAATC) in Assam is Rs 1,540
crore, including the committed liabilities of the
ongoing projects.
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586. 3
Public sector Indian Overseas Bank has elevated
Ajay Kumar Srivastava as its managing director
and chief executive officer with effect from January
1, 2023. Prior to taking up the new role, Mr.
Srivastava was serving the Chennai-headquartered
bank as its executive director.
587. 3
Fintech unicorn BharatPe has appointed current
chief financial officer Nalin Negi as the firm's
interim chief executive officer (CEO) until its board
finds a replacement for Suhail Sameer, who
stepped down from the position. Sameer took over
as the CEO of BharatPe in August 2021, a year
after he was appointed as the president of the
company.
588. 4
India has taken over the leadership of the Asia
Pacific Postal Union (APPU) in January 2023. Dr.
Vinaya Prakash Singh will take over the charge of
Secretary General of the Union for a tenure of 4
years. This is the result of the elections during the
13th APPU Congress held in August-September
2022.
· What is Asian Pacific Postal Union? Asian
Pacific Postal Union (APPU) is an
intergovernmental organisation of 32 member
countries of the Asia-Pacific region. APPU is the
only restricted union of the Universal Postal Union
(UPU) in the region, which is a specialised agency
of the United Nations.
· The Asia Pacific Postal Union's headquarters are
in Bangkok, Thailand.
· The Asia Pacific region accounts for around one-
third of the world's postal workforce and about half
of the world's mail volume.
589. 3
Paytm Payments Bank has secured the Reserve
Bank of India's approval for the appointment of
Surinder Chawla as its new chief executive. Paytm
Payments Bank CEO Satish Kumar Gupta retired in
October 2022. Since then, Deependra Singh
Rathore has been serving as interim CEO of the
payments bank.
590. 3
The first KR Gouri Amma national award will be
given to Cuban social activist Dr Aleida Guevara.
She has been an advocate of human rights,
running two homes for disabled children in Cuba
and two more for refugee children with domestic
problems. The pediatric specialist is the daughter
of Che Guevara and is an active member of the
Cuban Medical Mission. The award by KR Gouri
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Amma foundation consists of $3,000, a statute and
a citation
591. 3
India is now the world's third-largest auto market,
reports Nikkei Asia. Based on preliminary results,
the country's l, topping the 4.2 million sold in
Japan. According to the Society of Indian
Automobile Manufacturers, new vehicles delivered
in India totalled 4.13 million between January and
November 2022, the report says.
· The report adds that the country's sales volume
is expected to rise further with the inclusion of
pending fourth-quarter sales figures
for'commercial vehicles. Tata Motors and other
automakers are yet to reveal their year-end
results.
· In 2021, China continued to lead the global auto
market, with 26.27 million vehicles sold. The US
remained second at 15.4 million vehicles, followed
by Japan at 4.44 million units.
· According to Nikkei Asia, the easing of the
automotive chip crunch in 2022 provided a
springboard for a recovery. Along with Maruti
Suzuki, Tata Motors and other Indian automakers
saw sales grow during last year.
· According to Nikkei Asia, China surged past Japan
to become the second-largest auto market in
2006. In 2009, China overtook the US to become
the world's largest market.'
592. 4
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited has been
ranked 1st in the Services Sector across categories
Gross Block, Value Addition, Net Profit, Net Worth,
Dividend Declaration and Contribution to Central
Exchequer and has also been ranked 3rd amongst
Top 10 Top 10 Profit Making CPSEs in the recently
published Public Enterprises Survey 2021-22 by
DPE. Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), is
under Ministry of Finance,Government of India.
593. 3
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 108th
Indian Science Congress (ISC) through video
conferencing. This year's ISC is being held at
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University,
Maharashtra. The focal focal theme of this year's
ISC is Science and Technology for Sustainable
Development with Women Empowerment.
· The Science Congress will witness discussions on
issues of sustainable development, women
empowerment and the role of science and
technology.
· Addressing the inaugural session of the five-day
event, Prime Minister said, India's scientific
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community will play an important role in achieving
the heights India will reach in the next 25 years.
· He said, in the field of Science, India has found
its place in the top 10 countries of the world. Till
2015, in 130 countries, India was at 81st place in
the Global Innovation Index. In 2022, we leapt to
40th place, Mr Modi said.
· He said, India is among the top three countries in
PHDs and Startup ecosystem.
594. 5
Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag
Singh Thakur launched the themes of Y20 summit,
logo, and website in the Curtain raiser event of
Y20 Summit India in New Delhi. The Youth 20
Summit is a unique opportunity to allow the youth
to provide constructive policy inputs and to utilize
the platform to voice their opinions for the world
audience. Themes of Y20 i.e. i) Future of Work:
Industry 4.0, Innovation & 21st Century skills, ii)
Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction:
Making Sustainability a way of life, iii)
Peacebuilding and Reconciliation: Ushering in an
era of No War, iv) Shared Future: Youth in
Democracy and Governance and Health, Wellbeing
&Sports: Agenda for Youth.
595. 1
Retired Air Marshal PV Iyer met Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and on the occasion, Iyer presented
a book titled 'Fit At Any Age'. In this book, Air
Marshal P.V. Iyer, a 92-year-old runner, tells us
how we can make fitness part of our everyday
activities at any age, leaving sufficient time for
leisure.
596. 3
Noted economist and popular historian Sanjeev
Sanyal is set to release his latest
book, "Revolutionaries: The Other Story of
How India Won Its Freedom," Sanyal, has
authored best-selling books including "Land of the
Seven Rivers," "The Ocean of Churn," "India in the
Age of Ideas," and "The Indian Renaissance."
Sanjeev Sanyal is currently part of the Prime
Minister's Economic Advisory Council.
597. 1
Parliamentarian and author, Shashi Tharoor's
latest book Ambedkar: A Life was launched at the
Kitaab Kolkata event organized by Prabha Khaitan
Foundation. Tharoor lucidly provides a panoramic
view of Ambedkar's illustrious life while sharing
deep insights and anecdotal references. Tharoor
touched upon Ambedkar's strong political stances
and decisions that shaped his career.
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598. 2
Captain Shiva Chouhan of the Indian Army's Fire
and Fury Corps became the first woman officer to
get operationally deployed at the world's highest
battlefield, Siachen, after a month's arduous
training at Siachen Battle School along with other
personnel. Capt Shiva Chouhan from Rajasthan is
a Bengal Sapper.
599. 3
The Reserve Bank of India gave its approval to SBI
Funds Management Ltd to acquire up to 9.99%
stake in Equitas Small Finance Bank through the
schemes of SBI Mutual Fund. Franklin Templeton
Mutual Fund and DSP Mutual Fund have also
received RBI's approval to buy 9.99% stake each
in the bank. As on September 30, 2022, SBI Large
& Midcap Fund held 3.09 per cent stake in Equitas
SFB PN Vasudevan- CEO of Equitas Small Finnace
Bank
600. 4
Election Commission's 'Mission-929' to take voter
turnout in Tripura to over 90% The Election
Commission (EC) is focusing on 929 polling booths
across Tripura, setting a target of 92 per cent
voter turnout in the assembly elections due early
this year. These booths recorded a voter turnout of
less than 89 per cent, which was the average
across 3,328 booths in the 2018 assembly polls.
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The Centre has constituted a High Powered
Committee to discuss measures to protect
Ladakh's unique culture, language and
employment. It has been constituted under the
Chairmanship of Minister of State for Home Affairs
Nityanand Rai. The Committee will discuss the
protections to Culture and Language considering
the geographical location and strategic importance
of Ladakh.
· Ladakh Lieutenant Governor RK Mathur, MP
Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, Chairmans of Leh and
Kargil Hill councils, representatives of Apex Body
Leh, Kargil Democratic Alliance and nominee
officials of Home ministry are among the members
in High powered committee.
· It will also discuss the protections to land and
employment for the people, inclusive development,
employment generation, and measures related to
empowerment of Ladakh Autonomous Hill
Development Councils of Leh and Kargil.
602. 1
The Centre will provide foodgrains to states under
the National Food Security Act (NFSA) free for one
year from Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2023. Last week, the
cabinet had decided to provide grains under NFSA
free of cost to the 81 crore beneficiaries during
2023. The central government will bear the food
subsidy of more than Rs 2 lakh crore for the year
2023.
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