Current affairs including national and international events - Question Bank

1. Who was the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in the sport of wrestling (2022 Birmingham)?
A) Sakshi Malik
B) Bajrang Punia
C) Vinesh Phogat
D) Ravi Kumar Dahiya
2. The 'Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana' has achieved which significant milestone in terms of account ownership?
A) 100% rural banking penetration
B) Universal financial inclusion
C) All adult citizens have a bank account
D) Significant reduction in financial illiteracy
3. What is the name of the world's largest riverine island, located in Assam, India?
A) Brahmaputra Island
B) Majuli
C) Sivasagar
D) Kamakhya
4. The 'Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram' (RKSK) focuses on the health and well-being of which demographic group in India?
A) Children (0-5 years)
B) Adolescents (10-19 years)
C) Senior Citizens
D) Pregnant Women
5. Which Indian state launched the 'Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar' to recognize schools that maintain high standards of cleanliness?
A) Maharashtra
B) West Bengal
C) Odisha
D) Haryana
6. Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2022 for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry?
A) Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless
B) K. Barry Sharpless, Morten Meldal and Carolyn R. Bertozzi
C) Morten Meldal, K. Barry Sharpless and Carolyn R. Bertozzi
D) Carolyn R. Bertozzi, K. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal
7. The 'Gaganyaan' mission, India's first human spaceflight program, is being developed by which organization?
A) DRDO
B) ISRO
C) HAL
D) BEL
8. Which Indian initiative focuses on promoting financial inclusion and access to banking services for all citizens?
A) Jan Dhan Yojana
B) Atal Pension Yojana
C) Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
D) Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana
9. The 'Global Hunger Index' is a tool that measures and tracks hunger globally. India's rank in the 2022 index was:
A) 94th
B) 101st
C) 107th
D) 111th
10. Which Indian city is known as the 'Silicon Valley of India'?
A) Mumbai
B) Hyderabad
C) Bengaluru
D) Chennai
11. What is the name of the first indigenous aircraft developed by India for its armed forces?
A) Tejas
B) Dornier
C) Sukhoi
D) Mirage
12. The 'Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana' aims to improve which aspect of the food processing sector in India?
A) Farm mechanization
B) Cold chain infrastructure and food wastage
C) Crop insurance
D) Farmer education
13. Which Indian state launched the 'Ladli Behna Yojana' to provide financial assistance to women?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Rajasthan
D) Chhattisgarh
14. The 'Sovereign Gold Bonds' scheme launched by the Reserve Bank of India aims to provide an alternative to holding physical gold. What is its primary objective?
A) To reduce gold imports
B) To provide a safe haven asset
C) To increase gold reserves
D) To promote gold jewelry industry
15. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022 for her courageous and compassionate force, which gives voice to the unsayable?
A) Annie Ernaux
B) Abdulrazak Gurnah
C) Louise Glück
D) Peter Handke
16. The 'COP28' summit, a major climate conference, is scheduled to be held in 2023 in which country?
A) India
B) Brazil
C) United Arab Emirates
D) South Africa
17. Which Indian city is the first to get a 'water metro' system?
A) Mumbai
B) Kochi
C) Chennai
D) Visakhapatnam
18. Who became the first Indian-origin woman to be elected as Vice President of the United States in 2021?
A) Pramila Jayapal
B) Kamala Harris
C) Nikki Haley
D) Preet Bharara
19. The 'National Logistics Policy' released in India in 2022 aims to improve efficiency and reduce costs in which sector?
A) Telecommunications
B) Transportation and Logistics
C) Financial Services
D) Energy
20. Which country successfully launched its first independent space station, Tiangong, in 2022?
A) Japan
B) South Korea
C) China
D) India
21. The 'Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission' (ABDM) aims to create a seamless digital health ecosystem in India. What is a key component of this mission?
A) Building new hospitals
B) Providing free medicines
C) Creating Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts (ABHA)
D) Training healthcare professionals
22. Which Indian state launched the 'e-Nagar Palika' initiative for better urban governance?
A) Rajasthan
B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Gujarat
23. The 'Operation Meghdoot' was a significant military operation by India in which region?
A) Kargil
B) Siachen Glacier
C) Pangong Tso
D) Galwan Valley
24. Which Indian initiative focuses on providing digital access and literacy to rural areas?
A) Digital India
B) Smart Cities Mission
C) Make in India
D) Skill India
25. Who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2022 for their work on human rights in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine?
A) Ales Bialiatski, Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties
B) Narges Mohammadi
C) Oleksandra Matviichuk
D) Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
26. The 'National Green Hydrogen Mission' approved by the Indian government aims to make India a global hub for the production of which element?
A) Helium
B) Oxygen
C) Hydrogen
D) Nitrogen
27. Which country is the largest producer of renewable energy globally, as per recent reports?
A) China
B) United States
C) India
D) Germany
28. What is the name of the Indian Air Force's first woman fighter pilot to lead a fighter wing?
A) Gunjan Saxena
B) Avani Chaturvedi
C) Shubhangi Swaroop
D) Saloni Sharma
29. The 'Startup India' initiative, launched by the Indian government, aims to foster entrepreneurship and innovation in which sector?
A) Manufacturing
B) Technology and Innovation
C) Traditional Crafts
D) Rural Development
30. Which Indian state announced the 'Pudhumai Penn' scheme to support the education of college girls?
A) Kerala
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Karnataka
D) Andhra Pradesh
31. Who won the Booker Prize 2022 for his novel 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'?
A) Shehan Karunatilaka
B) Paul Lynch
C) Damon Galgut
D) Douglas Stuart
32. The 'One Sun, One World, One Grid' (OSOWOG) initiative, championed by India, aims to establish a global grid for what purpose?
A) Internet Connectivity
B) Renewable Energy
C) Water Management
D) Disaster Management
33. Which Indian mountaineer successfully scaled Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica, in January 2023?
A) Arunima Sinha
B) Bachendri Pal
C) Anand Kumar
D) Baljeet Kaur
34. The Indian government launched the 'PM GatiShakti' master plan to improve which sector?
A) Healthcare
B) Education
C) Infrastructure and Logistics
D) Agriculture
35. Who was appointed as the new Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2022?
A) Roberto Azevêdo
B) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
C) Pascal Lamy
D) Mike Moore
36. Which country launched the 'Artemis I' mission, an uncrewed test flight around the Moon, in November 2022?
A) China
B) Russia
C) United States
D) European Space Agency
37. What is the name of the new naval ensign of the Indian Navy, unveiled in September 2022?
A) The Ashoka Chakra Ensign
B) The Shivaji Maharaj Ensign
C) The Rajendra Chola Ensign
D) The Maratha Ensign
38. Which Indian state launched the 'Chief Minister's Dashboard' for real-time monitoring of government schemes?
A) Odisha
B) Jharkhand
C) Bihar
D) Chhattisgarh
39. Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022 for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science?
A) Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
B) Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi
C) Benjamin List and David MacMillan
D) Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov
40. The G20 Summit in 2023 was held in which Indian city?
A) Mumbai
B) New Delhi
C) Bengaluru
D) Kolkata
41. Which Indian city was recognized as the 'World's Fastest Growing Major Urban Economy' by a 2022 report?
A) Bengaluru
B) Hyderabad
C) Surat
D) Pune
42. What is the name of India's first private rocket that was successfully launched in November 2022?
A) Vikram-S
B) Rudra-1
C) Pratham
D) Shakti-X
43. In the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which country emerged as the winner?
A) France
B) Brazil
C) Argentina
D) Croatia
44. Which Indian state launched the 'Har Ghar Jal' scheme, aiming to provide tap water to every household?
A) Goa
B) Gujarat
C) Maharashtra
D) Uttar Pradesh
45. The 'Agni-V' missile, successfully tested by India, is capable of striking targets up to how many kilometers?
A) 3,500 km
B) 4,000 km
C) 5,000 km
D) 5,500 km
46. Who was appointed as the 50th Chief Justice of India in November 2022?
A) Justice Uday Umesh Lalit
B) Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud
C) Justice N.V. Ramana
D) Justice S.A. Bobde
47. Which country hosted the COP27 climate summit in November 2022?
A) United Arab Emirates
B) Egypt
C) Germany
D) Brazil
48. What is the name of the Indian Navy's indigenous aircraft carrier that was commissioned in 2022?
A) INS Vikramaditya
B) INS Viraat
C) INS Vikrant
D) INS Chakra
49. In 2023, India assumed the presidency of which international grouping?
A) BRICS
B) G20
C) ASEAN
D) SAARC
50. Which Indian state launched the 'Moksha Dham Yojana' for crematorium development in 2022?
A) Rajasthan
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Uttarakhand
D) Haryana