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Q. Who won crowned Miss Earth 2022?
A) Destiny Wagner B) Marisa Butler
C) Romina Denecken D) Mina Sue Choi
Answer : D .
✓ South Korea’s "Mina Sue Choi" was crowned Miss Earth 2022 during the pageant’s coronation night on
Tuesday(29th Nov 2022) at Cove Manila, Okada Hotel, Parañaque City.
✓ Among the 86 Eco-Warriors, three other queens were awarded the pageant’s three elemental titles.
✓ 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..
MISS WORLD / UNIVERSE IN NEWS 2022.

➢ South Korea’s Mina Sue Choi Crowned Miss Earth 2022.
➢ Divita Rai from Karnataka won the prestigious title of Miss Diva Universe 2022.
➢ Indian-American Aarya Walvekar crowned Miss India USA 2022.
➢ Pallavi Singh wins the Mrs Universe Divine Crown in South Korea.
➢ Sini Shetty from Karnataka has won the title of Femina Miss India 2022.
➢ Khushi Patel from UK is crowned Miss India Worldwide 2022.
➢ Karolina Bielawska from Poland has won the title of Miss World 2021.
➢ Shaylyn Ford from USA was crowned as the winner of Mrs World 2022 beauty pageant.
➢ India's Harnaaz Sandhu, hailing from Chandigarh, has been crowned 70th Miss Universe 2021.
➢ List of Miss World winners from India
1. Reita Faria : 1966
2. Aishwarya Rai : 1994
3. Diana Hayden : 1997
4. Yukta Mookhey : 1999
5. Priyanka Chopra : 2000
6. Manushi Chhillar : 2017.

➢ List of Miss Universe winners from India

1. Sushmita Sen : 1994
2. Lara Dutta : 2000
3. Harnaaz Sandhu : 2021.
➢ Reita Faria is the first Indian to win the Miss World in 1966.
➢ Sushmita Sen first Indian to win the Miss Universe title in 1994.
➢ Nicole Faria became the first Indian to win the ‘Miss Earth’ in 2010
Q. What is the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MTR) in India during 2018-20, as per the latest data?
A) 97 lakh live births B) 99 lakh live births
C) 115 lakh live births D) 127 lakh live births
Answer : A .
✓ In a new milestone, there has been a significant decline in the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) in the
country. Congratulating the country on this achievement, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of
Health & Family Welfare praised the remarkable progress in effectively lowering the Maternal Mortality
Ratio (MMR).
✓ As per the Special Bulletin on MMR released by the Registrar General of India (RGI), the Maternal
Mortality Ratio (MMR) of India has improved further by a spectacular 6 points and now stands at 97/
lakh live births. The Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) is defined as the number of maternal deaths during
a given time period per 100,000 live births
✓ As per the statistics derived from Sample Registration System (SRS), the country has witnessed a
progressive reduction in MMR from 130 in 2014-2016, 122 in 2015-17, 113 in 2016-18, 103 in 2017-19
and to 97 in 2018-20.
✓ Upon achieving this, India has accomplished the National Health Policy (NHP) target for MMR of less
than 100/lakh live births and is on the right track to achieve the SDG target of MMR less than 70/ lakh
live births by 2030.
✓ The outstanding progress made in terms of the number of states which have achieved Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) target, the number has now risen from six to eight leading with Kerala (19),

followed by Maharashtra (33), then Telangana (43) and Andhra Pradesh (45), subsequently Tamil Nadu
(54), Jharkhand (56), Gujarat (57) and lastly Karnataka (69).
Q. Who is set to become the first female referee at the men’s World Cup Game?
A) Yoshmini Yamashita B) Stephanie Frappart
C) Salima Mukansanga D) Kateryna Monzul
Answer : B .
✓ France’s Stephanie Frappart will become the first woman in the history of the FIFA World Cup to referee
a finals match in the men’s tournament.
✓ History will be made when Costa Rica faces Germany on December 1 at the Al Bayt Stadium, Qatar.
✓ Frappart was also the first woman to referee a Ligue 1 and UEFA Champions League Game.
FIRST'S FEMALE IN NEWS 2022

➢ FIFA has announced that Stephanie Frappart of France will be the first woman to referee a men’s’
World Cup match.
➢ PT Usha Become First Women President of Indian Olympic Association.
➢ Lance Naik Manju became the Indian Army’s first woman skydive.
➢ Natasa Pirc Musar has been elected as the first female President of Slovenia.
➢ Giorgia Meloni looks set to become Italy’s first woman prime minister.
➢ Nallathamby Kalaiselvi has become the first woman director general of the Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research (CSIR).
➢ Draupadi Murmu may become India’s First Tribal and Second Female President.
➢ Priyanka Mohite becomes first Indian woman to climb five peaks above 8,000 metres.
➢ Gita Gopinath becomes 1st woman to feature on IMF’s ‘wall of former chief economists’.
➢ Lisa Sthalekar becomes first female president of Federation of International Cricketers’
Association (FICA).
➢ Abhilasha Barak becomes the Indian Army’s first woman combat aviator.
➢ Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit named as first woman Vice Chancellor of JNU.
➢ Mithali Raj becomes first woman cricketer to appear at six Cricket World Cups.
➢ Justice Ayesha Malik to be Pakistan’s first woman Supreme Court judge.
➢ Xiomara Castro sworn in as first female President of Honduras

➢ Dhriti Banerjee appointed first woman director of Zoological Survey of India.

➢ Mawya Sudan becomes IAF’s 1st woman fighter pilot from J&K.
➢ Costa Rica’s Rebeca Grynspan first female secretary-general of UNCTAD.
➢ Claire Polosak set to become first female match official in men’s Test match.
➢ Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala set to become first female Chief of World Trade Organization (WTO).
➢ Bhawana Kanth from Bihar to become the first Woman Fighter Pilot to take part in Republic Day
Parade
Q. The Border Security Force (BSF) is observing which anniversary of its Raising Day in 2022?
A) 75th B) 58th
C) 66th D) 51st
Answer : B .
✓ The Border Security Force (BSF) is observing its 58th Raising Day on 01 December 2022.
✓ BSF was formed on December 1, 1965 as a unified central agency after the Indo-Pak and India-China
wars for ensuring the security of the borders of India and for matters connected there with.
✓ It is one of the five Central Armed Police Forces of the Union of India and stands as the world’s largest
border guarding force.
✓ BSF has been termed as the First Line of Defence of Indian Territories.
✓ Border Security Force (BSF)
✓ Founded : 1965
✓ Headquarteres : New Delhi
✓ Motto : Duty Unto Death
✓ Director General : Pankaj Kumar Singh
Q. Hornbill Festival will be celebrated in which state?

A) Manipur B) Nagaland
C) Assam D) Meghalaya
Answer : B .

✓ The much-awaited 23rd edition of the Hornbill Festival of Nagaland will start from December 1, 2022,
at Naga Heritage Village, Kisama.
✓ The Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar will grace the event.
✓ The festival showcases Nagaland’s deep-rooted traditions and its rich cultural heritage
Q. Who has received ‘The Emissary of Peace’ Award in the US?

A) Dalai Lama B) Sadhguru
C) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar D) Ramdev
Answer : C .
✓ Indian Spiritual Leader and Global Humanitarian Sri Sri Ravi Shankar were bestowed with the
prestigious ‘The Emissary Peace’ award by the National Civil Rights Museum in the US City of
Memphis.
✓ The Indian Spiritual leader has presented the award during his global ‘I Stand for Peace’ campaign.
Q. India extends financial assistance of how many million US dollars to Maldives?

A) $100 Million B) $130 Million
C) $150 Million D) $200 Million
Answer : A .
✓ India has provided financial assistance of 100 million US dollars to the Maldives. The assistance is in
the form of budgetary support to tide over the difficult economic situation in the archipelago nation.
Q. How many national monuments were lit to mark India's assumption of the G-20 presidency
From 1st Dec 2022 to 7th Dec 2022?
A) 25 Monuments B) 50 Monuments
C) 75 Monuments D) 100 Monuments
Answer : D .
✓ India is all set to assume the presidency of the G-20 grouping starting from 1st Dec 2022. G-20 is the
premier forum for international economic cooperation.
✓ To mark the occasion, 100 monuments including UNESCO world heritage sites carrying the G-20 logo
will be lit up for seven days from 1st December 2022 to 7th December 2022.

✓ From Srinagars Shankaracharya temple to Delhis Red Fort to Thanjavurs Great living Chola temple,
various monuments will be illuminated on the occasion.
✓ The list of 100 sites which will be illuminated also include Humayuns Tomb and Purana Quila in Delhi,
Modhera Sun Temple in Gujarat, Konark Sun Temple in Odisha and Sher Shah Suri`s Tomb in Bihar.
✓ India will be hosting 200 meetings across the nations in 32 different sectors during its G-20 presidency.
✓ There are 19 countries which are a part of the Group of Twenty (G-20). It comprises (Argentina,
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea,
Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkiye, the United Kingdom and the United States) and
the European Union.
Q. Which company announced that they have successfully tested a hydrogen-powered aircraft
engine?
A) Bentley B) Ferrari
C) Rolls-Royce D) Lamborghini
Answer : C .
✓ Airline EasyJet and aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce has successfully tested a hydrogen-powered
aircraft engine, in what the British companies described as a world first for aviation.
✓ Green hydrogen is widely seen as better for the environment than jet fuel
Q. As per the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief, what is the expected Remittance
flows to India in 2022-23?
A) USD 250 billion B) USD 100 billion
C) USD 150 billion D) USD 200 billion
Answer : B .
✓ The World Bank recently released its flagship report titled ‘Migration and Development Brief’.
✓ As per the report, Remittance flows to India will rise 12% to reach USD 100 billion this year. Remittances
to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) grew by an estimated 5% to USD 626 billion in 2022.
Q. Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) between India and which country is
set to enter into force from December 2022?
A) Maldives B) Saudi Arabia
C) Australia D) United Arab Emirates

Answer : C .
✓ The India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) will enter into force on 29th
December, 2022.
✓ The India-Australia ECTA will enhance bilateral trade in goods and services and create new
employment opportunities. Under the agreement, duties on 100 percent tariff lines are to be eliminated
by Australia.
Q. Which insurance company has launched Star Out Patient Care Insurance Policy, which aims
at providing complete health and wellness benefits to customers at an affordable cost?
A) Edelweiss Insurance B) Bajaj Allianz Insurance
C) Bharti AXA Insurance D) Star Health and Allied Insurance
Answer : D .
✓ Star Health and Allied Insurance has launched Star Out Patient Care Insurance Policy, which aims at
providing complete health and wellness benefits to customers at an affordable cost.
✓ The claims processing procedure will be entirely digital.
Q. SEBI has set up a high-level panel to review the takeover norms in a move to simplify and
strengthen the current rules by adopting appropriate global practices. Who will head this
panel?
A) Shiavax Jal Vazifdar B) Sanjay Karol
C) Sarjoo Prasad D) Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
Answer : A .
✓ Capital markets regulator SEBI has set up a high-level panel to review the takeover norms in a move
to simplify and strengthen the current rules by adopting appropriate global practices.
✓ The 20-member committee will be chaired by former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court,
Shiavax Jal Vazifdar.
✓ The panel, which has representatives of Sebi, stock exchanges BSE and NSE as well as law firms, will
advise the regulator on matters related to substantial acquisition of shares and takeovers including
measures to facilitate ease of doing business.

Q. Who has been elected as the President of the Advertising Agencies Association of India
(AAAI) for 2022-23?
A) Abhishek Singh B) Dileep karmaker
C) Anuj Mehra D) Prasanth Kumar
Answer : D .
✓ CEO of South Asia of GroupM Media Pvt Ltd Prasanth Kumar has been elected as the President of the
Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) for 2022-23.
✓ While Rana Barua (Group CEO of Havas Group India) has been elected as the Vice-President of the
Association.
✓ Immediate Past President, Anupriya Acharya has been appointed as the ex-officio member of the AAAI
Board for 2022-23.
✓ AAAI is a national advertising agency, which was formed in 1945.
Q. Who took the Oath of Office and Secrecy as Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)
Member?
A) Preeti Sudan B) Tarun Bajaj
C) Vivek Kumar D) Arvind Kumar Sharma
Answer : A .
✓ Former Health Secretary Preeti Sudan took the Oath of Office and Secrecy as Union Public Service
Commission (UPSC) Member in New Delhi.
Q. Vikram S Kirloskar passed away recently. He was the Vice Chairman of which company?
A) Škoda Auto B) Suzuki Motor
C) Hyundai Motor D) Toyota Motor
Answer : D .
✓ The vice chairman of Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd Vikram S Kirloskar has passed away at the age of
64.
✓ Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) is a joint venture between the Japanese auto major Toyota Motor
Company and the Kirloskar Group.
✓ He became the vice chairman of Toyota Kirloskar 1998.
✓ He has also served as president of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers from 2013-15.

✓ He also served as the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2019-20.
✓ He has also been awarded the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) JRD Tata Award 2020
Q. Digi Yatra Facility has been inaugurated for which mode of transport?
A) Bus B) Air
C) Train D) Taxis
Answer : B .
✓ Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia on December 1, 2022, inaugurated the Digi Yatra Facility
at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi.
✓ The facility has been started at three airports in the country including Bangalore, Varanasi, and Delhi.
✓ Digi Yatra provides the facility of contactless processing of air passengers on the basis of face
recognition technology at various checkpoints of airports.
Q. When is the World AIDS Day observed?
A) First Wednesday of December B) December 01
C) Last Tuesday of November D) November 30
Answer : B .
✓ World AIDS Day is observed across the globe on 1 December every year since 1988.
✓ Purpose: to raise awareness of the AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) pandemic caused
by the spread of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection
✓ The theme of World AIDS Day 2022 is “Equalize”.
Q. What was the theme of the World AIDS Day 2022?
A) Communities Make the Difference
B) Global Solidarity Shared Responsibility
C) Know your Status
D) Equalize
Answer : D .
Q. Which state has observed its 60th Statehood day on 1st Dec 2022?
A) Mizoram B) Nagaland
C) Tripura D) Meghalaya

Answer : B .
✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi December 1, extended his wishes to the people of Nagaland on their
Statehood day.
✓ Nagaland is celebrating its 60th statehood on1st December 2022. It became the 16th State of the Union
of India on 1st December 1963.
Q. Which bank has partnered with TurtleFin to develop ‘EasyNsure’, a complete technological
platform?
A) Yes Bank B) Axis Bank
C) HDFC Bank D) ICICI Bank
Answer : A .
✓ YES Bank has partnered with TurtleFin (India’s insurtech platform) to develop ‘EasyNsure’, a complete
technological platform.
✓ Turtlefin’s innovative API will enable the platform to provide a slew of holistic insurance solutions at the
push of a button.
✓ EasyNsure – It is a first-of-its-kind proposition for YES Bank, that will bring multiple insurance partners
onto a single platform.
✓ The EasyNsure platform is now operational, with over 40 Life and General Insurance plans (as of
November 2022) readily available for review..
YES BANK IN NEWS 2022

➢ YES Bank has partnered with TurtleFin (India’s insurtech platform) to develop ‘EasyNsure’, a
complete technological platform.
➢ Yes Bank has signed a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) with JC Flowers Asset Reconstruction
Company (ARC), acquiring a 9.9 percent stake in the ARC at Rs 11.43 per share
➢ Prashant Kumar reappointed as MD, CEO of Yes Bank for a period of three years.
➢ Yes Bank receives RBI approval for appointment of R Gandhi as part-time chairman.
➢ Castler tie-up with Yes Bank for digital escrow services
➢ Yes Bank has announced its partnership with SellerApp which is a seller-centric intelligence
platform to Promote Open Network Digital Commerce (ONDC).
➢ YES BANK and RuPay entered into a strategic cooperation with CARD91.

➢ Private sector lender, Yes Bank has launched an ‘Agri Infinity’ programme for digital financing
solutions in the food and agriculture sector.
➢ Paisabazaar ties-up with YES BANK to offer pre-qualified retail financial.
➢ YES BANK
Founded : 2004
HQ : Mumbai, Maharashtra
MD & CEO : Prashant Kumar
Tagline : Experience our Expertise
Q. Which country will assume chairmanship of the plenary of the Wassenaar Arrangement for
a year on January 1, 2023?
A) India B) Brazil
C) Indonesia D) Malaysia
Answer : A .
✓ India will assume chairmanship of the plenary of the Wassenaar Arrangement for a year on January 1,
2023.
✓ At the 26th annual plenary of the Wassenaar Arrangement held in Vienna from November 30-
December 1, Ireland’s ambassador Eoin O’Leary handed over the chairmanship to India’s ambassador
Jaideep Mazumdar.
✓ India joined the Wassenaar Arrangement on December 08, 2017, as its 42nd participating state.
✓ WA is a multilateral export control regime, which, through regular information exchange among
members on transfers of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies, seeks to promote
transparency and greater responsibility in such transfers and prevent destabilizing accumulations.
Q. Which bank has signed a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) with JC Flowers Asset
Reconstruction Company (ARC), acquiring a 9.9 percent stake in the ARC at Rs 11.43 per
share?
A) HDFC Bank B) ICICI Bank
C) Yes Bank D) Axis Bank
Answer : C .

✓ Yes Bank has signed a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) with JC Flowers Asset Reconstruction
Company (ARC), acquiring a 9.9 percent stake in the ARC at Rs 11.43 per share.
✓ The 9.9% stake represented 12,370,050 equity shares in JC Flowers ARC at ₹11.43 per share.
✓ Yes Bank’s board has approved the sale of stressed loans worth Rs 48,000 crore to JC Flowers.
✓ JC Flowers ARC is an asset reconstruction company incorporated on May 06, 2015. As of March 31,
2022, the ARC has a turnover of ₹19.91 crore.
Q. Indian naval fleets, Shivalik and Kamorta are going to visit which city?
A) Ho Chi Minh B) Qingdao
C) San Diego Bay D) Historic Port City of Mongla
Answer : A .
✓ Indian Naval Ships, Shivalik and Kamorta which are forward deployed in the South China Sea are in
Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh city.
✓ The visit is part of the bilateral defence cooperation activities to further enhance the robust ties between
the two navies and to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between India and Vietnam.
✓ Earlier this year, two Indian Naval Ships - Sahyadri and Kadmatt - had also visited Ho Chi Minh City
Q. Which union territory of India has the largest international yoga center in the country?
A) Ladakh B) Puducherry
C) Daman and Diu D) Jammu and Kashmir
Answer : D .
✓ India’s biggest Yoga Centre has been constructed in village Mantalai in the Chenani Tehsil of Jammu
and Kashmir’s Udhampur.
✓ The village, which is located on the Himalayas in the sal forests’ lap, the village, which has a peripheral
view of both the plains as well as hills, which will serve the International Yoga Centre at the banks of
the Tawi river.
✓ This river, also known as Suryaputri, originates from the Kailash Kund glacier.
✓ As many as Rs 52 crore have also been nominated for the infrastructural and other development of the
Katra-Vaishno Devi under the scheme of the Pilgrimage Rejuvenation And Spiritual, Heritage
Augmentation Drive (PRASHAD).

Q. Which country has assumed UNSC Presidency for December 2022?

A) UAE B) India
C) Mexico D) Russia
Answer : B .
✓ India has assumed the Presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of December.
✓ It is the second time in its two-year tenure as an elected member of the UN Security Council that India
has assumed the Presidency of the Council.
✓ India had earlier assumed the Presidency of the UNSC in August 2021
Q. Which company has partnered with Adani Digital Labs (subsidiary of Adani Group) for
product sampling and develop deep consumer insights?
A) Dabur B) Coca-Cola India
C) PepsiCo D) Frito-Lay
Answer : B .
✓ Beverage major "Coca-Cola India" on Thursday(1st Dec 2022) said it is partnering with Adani Group
subsidiary -- Adani Digital Labs -- to optimise the reach of its brands to consumers across the country.
✓ * As part of this, Coca-Cola India is working with Adani Digital Labs to use the consumer-centric platform
for product sampling and develop deep consumer insights.
✓ Under this, select new products under Coca-Cola India's portfolio, namely 'Fanta Apple Delite' and
'Charged by Thums Up' will be made available for sampling at some of India's top airports.
Q. Which government launched 'One District One Sport (ODOS)' scheme?
A) Bihar B) Telangana
C) Uttar Pradesh D) Madhya Pradesh
Answer : C .
✓ Uttar Pradesh CM, Yogi Adityanath has launched One District One Sport (ODOS) on the lines of One
District One Product (ODOP) scheme of the government.
✓ Objectives :
✓ Promoting sports culture and keeping the younger generation healthy.
✓ Providing a platform for sportspersons to nurture talents and skills.
✓ Under this scheme, one sport will be identified in each of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh.

Q. Which Government has signed an MoU with BSE and NSE to enable local MSMEs to access
the capital markets?
A) Gujarat B) Punjab
C) Kerala D) Odisha
Answer : D .
✓ Odisha Government signed an MoU with BSE -NSE to promote local MSMEs. In order to enable
MSMEs to access capital markets.
✓ The State signed MOUs with BSE Ltd and NSE Ltd for facilitating the listing of MSMEs from Odisha
under the aegis of the MOU, BSE and NSE shall provide handholding to MSME to impart training and
education required for listing and improving financial credibility
Q. G Kishan Reddy and Dr AK Abdul Momen has inaugurated the "Sylhet Festival 2022" at
which state?
A) Assam B) Gujarat
C) Karnataka D) Maharashtra
Answer : A .
✓ Union Minister of Tourism, Culture and Development of North Eastern Region G Kishan Reddy and
Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen will inaugurate the Sylhet Festival 2022 at
Silchar in the Barak Valley of Assam
Q. International Lusophone Festival (ILF) to be held from 3rd December 2022 to 6th December
2022 in Which state?
A) Karnataka B) Delhi
C) Gujarat D) Goa
Answer : D .
✓ International Lusophone Festival is being held from 3rd to 6th December 2022 in Goa.
✓ Ministry of External Affairs is organising the festival in partnership with the Indian Council of Cultural
Relations and the Goa government.
✓ The Lusophone Food and Spirits Festival will also showcase the culinary links between India and the
Lusophone world

Q. Which state cabinet has approved a policy aimed at addressing the issues of mental health
and social care through collaborative engagement with communities?
A) Sikkim B) Meghalaya
C) Mizoram D) Uttarakhand
Answer : B .
✓ Meghalaya cabinet has approved a policy aimed at addressing issues of mental health and social care
through collaborative engagement with communities, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said.
✓ Meghalaya is the third state in the country to have introduced such a policy, paying attention to issues
of mental health, especially among children, adolescents and youth
✓ Kerala and Karnataka are the other two states in the country to have such policies.
✓ * In 2014, the Centre launched the first-ever National Mental Health Policy in an attempt to provide
universal psychiatry care..
Q. How many Indian-origin women have been selected as Australia’s Superstars of STEM 2022
recently?
A) Five B) Four
C) Three D) Six
Answer : C .
✓ 3 Indian-origin women Neelima Kadiyala, Dr. Ana Baburamani, and Dr. Indrani Mukherjee have been
selected as Australia’s Superstars of STEM 2022.
✓ Kadiyala is an IT Program Manager at Challenger Limited and has over 15 years of experience
delivering extensive transformation programmes across multiple industries, including Financial
Services, Government, Telco, and FMCG.
✓ Baburamani is a scientific advisor in the Department of Defence – Science and Technology Group and
has always been fascinated by how the brain grows and works.
✓ Mukherjee is a deep-time geologist at the University of Tasmania and focuses on what drove that
biological transition.
✓ What is Australia’s ‘Superstars of STEM’?
✓ Every year Science and Technology Australia (STA), which is the country’s peak body in the sector and
represents more than 1,05,000 scientists and technologists, supports 60 Australian experts employed

in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) to become highly visible media and
public role models
Q. The Annual Joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise ‘Samanvay
2022’ has been conducted at which Air Force Station?
A) Hasimara Air Force Station B) Kalaikunda Air Force Station
C) Ambala Air Force Station D) Agra Air Force Station
Answer : D .
✓ The Annual Joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise ‘Samanvay 2022’ has
been conducted at Air Force Station, Agra.
✓ It is an annual joint multi-agency exercise involving various stakeholders from India and representatives
from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
✓ Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was the chief guest of the ceremony
Q. Which country used steam to propel the moon spacecraft successfully?
A) China B) Japan
C) Russia D) India
Answer : B .
✓ Japan has successfully used steam to propel its Equuleus spacecraft.

✓ The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) claimed that this is the world’s first successful orbit
control beyond low-Earth orbit using a water propulsion system. Meanwhile, after flying past the Moon,
the spacecraft used an engine name Aquarius which uses water as fuel to get to the second Earth-
Moon Lagrange point
Q. The National Pollution Control Day is marked every year on which day in India?
A) 30th November B) 1st December
C) 2nd December D) 29th November
Answer : C .
✓ In India, the National Pollution Control Day is observed every year on December 2 to commemorate
the life of people lost in the unfortunate incident of Bhopal Gas Tragedy that occurred in the year 1984
on the night of 2–3 December.

✓ The year 2022 marks the 38th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy.
✓ Through this day, awareness is created about the rising pollution of air, water, and soil, as well as shifts
the attention of people with regards to the pollution control acts.
✓ The Bhopal disaster, also known as the Bhopal gas tragedy, occurred on the night of December 2,
1984, at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India,
when a gas leak occurred.
✓ It is regarded as one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
✓ Methyl isocyanate (MIC) ,(CH3NCO) gas was inhaled by over 500,000 people, and being toxic in nature
proved to be hazardous for innocent lives.
Q. World Computer Literacy Day is observed on which day?
A) 1st December B) 2nd December
C) 4th December D) 3rd December
Answer : B .
✓ World Computer Literacy Day is observed annually on 2nd December to create awareness and drive
digital literacy in underserved communities worldwide.
✓ Basic objective:
✓ Encourage the development of technological skills, particularly among children and women in India.
✓ Improve the teaching of Information Technology
✓ “Celebration of computers”
Q. Which French food product has been recently awarded the UNESCO heritage status?
A) Croissant
B) Baguette
C) Ratatouille
D) Escargots de Bourgogne
Answer : B .
✓ The French baguette has been recently awarded the UNESCO “intangible cultural heritage status”.
✓ As per the National Federation of French Bakeries, more than six billion baguettes are baked every
year in France.
✓ It is a bread with crusty exterior and soft middle and is an essential part of French life...

UNESCO IN NEWS 2022

➢ Franca Ma-ih Sulem Yong gets UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize for 2022.
➢ Glaciers at many UNESCO World Heritage sites including Yellowstone and Kilimanjaro National
Park will likely vanish by 2050.
➢ Kilimanjaro National Park and Mount Kenya & Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks in the
United States.
➢ Warangal in Telangana, Thrissur and Nilambur from Kerala 3 Indian cities join UNESCO network
of learning cities.
➢ Former German chancellor Angela Merkel wins Unesco Peace Prize 2022 for “her efforts to
welcome refugees”.
➢ Royal Enfield tie-up with UNESCO to promote cultural heritage of India.
➢ India nominates Garba ( Dance Form Gujarat) to be inscribed on UNESCO's intangible cultural
heritage list.
➢ UNESCO recognized the use of information and communication technology (ICT), under a
comprehensive initiative called PM eVIDYA by the department of school education, Ministry of
Education.
➢ Khuvsul Lake National Park of Mangolia has been added to the World Network of Biosphere
Reserve of UNESCO.
➢ Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET) wins UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-
Khalifa Prize for the year 2021.
➢ Brazil landscape garden Sitio Burle Marx receives UNESCO World Heritage status.
➢ India chosen to join 2003 Convention on UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee.
➢ Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, has contributed an amount of USD
72,124 towards UNESCO Fund for Elimination of Doping in Sport in 2022.
➢ Guadalajara, Mexico was named World Book Capital for the year 2022.
➢ Meghalaya’s living root bridges included on tentative list of UNESCO’s World’s Heritage Sites.
➢ UNESCO recognises Kolkata’s Durga Puja as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
➢ Centre nominates Hoysala Temples in Karnataka for World Heritage List in 2022-2023.
➢ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

➢ Formation : 16 November 1945

➢ Headquarters : Paris, France
➢ Director-General : Audrey Azoulay (France)
➢ Member countries : 193
➢ Total UNESCO sites in india : 40.
Q. RBI has announced a four-tiered regulatory framework for which type of banks?
A) Small Finance Banks B) Urban Co-operative Banks
C) Payments Banks D) Local Area Banks
Answer : B .
✓ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 1 December announced a four-tiered regulatory framework for
categorisation of Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs).
✓ The norms are based on the net worth and capital adequacy of these banks.
✓ All unit UCBs and salary earners’ UCBs and all other UCBs having deposits up to ₹100 crore are placed
in Tier 1.
✓ UCBs with deposits more than ₹100 crore and up to ₹1,000 crore are in Tier 2.
✓ Tier 3 will cover banks with deposits more than ₹1,000 crore and up to ₹10,000 crore.
✓ UCBs with deposits more than ₹10,000 crore have been categorised in Tier 4.
Q. Which is the fund manager of the Bharat Bond ETF, India’s first corporate bond exchange
traded fund?
A) SBI Cap B) Edelweiss Mutual Fund
C) Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund D) Nippon India Mutual Fund
Answer : B .
✓ The government has launched the fourth tranche of Bharat Bond ETF, India’s first corporate bond
exchange traded fund.
✓ Edelweiss Mutual Fund manages the Bharat Bond ETF.
✓ The funds will be utilised for undertaking capital expenditures by central public sector enterprises
(CPSEs).

Q. Which organisation has released the ‘Global Wage Report 2022-2023’?

A) UNESCO B) ILO
C) FAO D) UNEP
Answer : B .
✓ According to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report titled ‘the Global Wage Report 2022-
2023’, the severe inflationary crisis combined with a global slowdown in economic growth are causing
a striking fall in real monthly wages in many countries.
✓ The slowdown is driven in part by the war in Ukraine and the global energy crisis.
✓ According to the report, the crisis is reducing the purchasing power of the middle classes and hitting
low-income households
✓ International Labour Organization (ILO)
Formation : 11 April 1919
Headquarters
Geneva, Switzerland
Head
Director-General : Guy Ryder (United Kingdom)
Total members : 187
Q. As per the recent National Statistical Office (NSO) data, what is India’s gross domestic
product (GDP) growth for the July-September quarter of 2022-23?
A) 8.1% B) 6.3%
C) 7.5% D) 6.8%
Answer : B .
✓ As per provisional estimates released by National Statistical Office (NSO), India’s gross domestic
product (GDP) for the July-September quarter (Q2) of the financial year 2022-23 slowed to 6.3 per cent.
✓ The GDP saw a growth of 13.5 per cent in the preceding April-June quarter of 2022-23. It was cut down
mainly by the poor performance of manufacturing and mining sectors.
Q. India-US joint military exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas-2022’ is held in which Indian state?
A) Uttarakhand B) West Bengal
C) Rajasthan D) Mizoram

Answer : A .
✓ The 18th edition of the India-US joint military exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas’ is being held in Uttarakhand.
✓ The military exercise is conducted annually between India and the US. As the exercise is held about
100 km from the Line of Actual Control (LAC), China said it was opposed to the military exercise.
Q. Rht13, which was seen in the news, is a semi-dwarf gene of which crop?
A) Rice B) Wheat
C) Cotton D) Jute
Answer : A .
✓ An international team of scientists has discovered a new drought-resilient semi-dwarf wheat gene
named ‘Rht13.’
✓ It can be grown in drier soil conditions.
✓ The Reduced height gene seeds can be planted deeper in the soil, giving access to moisture
Q. Which of the following organization has released a report titled ‘Carbon Capture, Utilisation,
and Storage Policy Framework’?
A) FICCI B) FSSAI
C) CII D) NITI Aayog
Answer : D .
✓ NITI Aayog released a study report, titled ‘Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage Policy Framework
and its Deployment Mechanism in India’.
✓ The report explores the importance of Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage as an emission
reduction strategy to achieve deep decarbonisation.
✓ The report outlines broad level policy interventions needed across various sectors for its application
✓ NITI Aayog ( National Institution for Transforming India)
✓ Founded : 1st January 2015
✓ Preceding : Planning Commission ( 15th March 1950)
✓ Headquarters : New Delhi
✓ Chairperson : Narendra Modi
✓ Vice Chairperson : Suman K Bery
✓ CEO : Amitabh Kant

✓ NITI Aayog comes under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Q. Paubrasilia echinata is the national tree species of which country?

A) Ukraine B) Russia
C) Brazil D) Japan
Answer : C .
✓ Brazilwood or Paubrasilia echinata, the national tree of Brazil has been maintained in the Appendix II
by the 19th COP19 to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The
items under Appendix II may not necessarily be threatened with extinction.
✓ The national wood of Brazil is a medium-sized tree that belongs to the Fababceae family.
✓ It is an endemic species of the Atlantic Forest of the country. Its wood is mainly used to make bows for
musical instruments.
Q. Which state government has launched a ‘Graded Response Action Plan’ (GRAP) to combat
pollution?
A) Madhya Pradesh B) West Bengal
C) Uttar Pradesh D) Bihar
Answer : B .
✓ West Bengal environment department announced a ‘Graded Response Action Plan’ (GRAP) to combat
rising pollution.
✓ The action plan includes Periodic mechanised sweeping and water sprinkling to roads, Ensuring
disposal of dust and garbage in designated sites and Stringent enforcement to stop open burning of
garbage among others.
Q. Which company won the bid for the renovation of Dharavi, the second-largest slum colony
in Asia?
A) Adani Properties B) DLF
C) Tata Construction D) Shree Naman Developers
Answer : A .
✓ Gautam Adani-led Adani Properties won the bid for the renovation of Dharavi, the second-largest slum
colony in Asia.

✓ The Maharashtra government authorities opened the financial bids for the Dharavi redevelopment
project, one of the largest redevelopment projects in India.
✓ DLF and Shree Naman Developers were the other two bidders who competed
Q. ‘Mukhyamantri Digital Seva Yojana’ is an initiative of which scheme?

A) Bihar B) Jharkhand
C) Rajasthan D) Uttar Pradesh
Answer : C .
✓ The Rajasthan government launched the ‘Mukhyamantri Digital Seva Yojana’, under which women
heads of families enrolled in the Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme will receive smart-phones with
internet connectivity for three years.
✓ The state has picked Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel in a more than Rs 12,000-crore tender to provide
internet access and free smart-phones under the scheme.
Q. IIT-Madras has partnered with which country to launch “Centre for Energy” to work on UN-
SDGs?
A) Australia B) Japan
C) United States D) Russia
Answer : A .
✓ The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras is partnering with Australian Universities to launch
‘Australia-India Centre for Energy (AICE).
✓ IIT Madras and Deakin University in Australia are leading the Centre, which aims to work on UN
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
✓ It also aims to promote collaboration among universities, research institutes and industry from both
countries in energy domain.
IIT MADRAS IN NEWS 2022

➢ IIT Madras is partnering with Australian Universities to launch ‘Australia-India Centre for Energy
(AICE).
➢ Cochin Shipyard, IIT-Madras sign pact to support maritime startups.
➢ IIT-Madras and NASA researchers study microbes on space station.

➢ National Intellectual Property Award won by IIT Madras for 2021 and 2022.
➢ Ashok Leyland, IIT Madras tie up to develop hybrid EVS Using Turbine Tech.
➢ IBM and IIT Madras collaborate to promote quantum computing in India.
➢ IIT Madras joins Inspire Institute of Sports for innovative boxing analytics software.
➢ Vedanta collaborates with company started from IIT Madras.
➢ Indian Railways and IIT Madras Partner To Develop India’s First Indigenous Hyperloop .
➢ IIT Madras creates robots to clean septic tanks without human under the name “HomoSEP,” .
➢ Nilekani Center established by IIT-M to promote Indian language technology .
➢ Indian Air Force (IAF) Ties Up with IIT Madras to Develop Solutions to Maintain Weapon Systems.
➢ IIT-Madras technology to play ‘Pivot’al role in providing patients with cancer with individualised
care.
➢ IIT Madras bagged the first position in ARIIA Rankings 2021.
Q. Which is the first state in the country to implement an open-loop ticketing system using
National Common Mobility Card?
A) Gujarat B) Karnataka
C) Kerala D) Haryana
Answer : D .
✓ Haryana has also become the first state in the country to implement an open-loop ticketing system,
using the National Common Mobility Card.
✓ The Indian President launched the scheme, which will help the roadways in route rationalisation
according to the number of passengers and buses. It also aims to promote the use of open-loop
ticketing.
✓ The President also launched Nirogi Haryana scheme, under which 24.75 lakh families would be given
free intensive health check-up.
Q. ‘Plastic waste management programme’ is an initiative of which organisation?
A) UNEP B) FAO
C) UNDP D) WEF
Answer : C .

✓ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced to help the people working in waste
segregation industry in India to move into formal economy.
✓ The United Nations Under-Secretary-General Usha Rao-Monari would distribute the `Jan Dhan’
account kits to waste segregation workers.
✓ The programme has been organised through the UNDP’s ‘plastic waste management programme’.
✓ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Formation : 22 November 1965
Headquarters : New York City
Head : Achim Steiner
Total Countries : 170
Q. After the recent changes in ‘Pre-matric scholarship for minority students’, the scholarship
is available for which classes?
A) Class 9 and 10 B) Class 6 to 10
C) Class 4 to 10 D) Class 1 to 10
Answer : A .
✓ The government’s pre-matric scholarship to students of minority communities studying in classes 1 to

8 is being discontinued.
✓ Students in Classes 9 and 10 will be eligible for this scholarship by the Ministry of Minority Affairs from
2022-2023.
✓ Under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009, the Government provides free and compulsory
elementary education (classes I to VIII) to each and every child.
Q. Which country is the first to score over 500 runs on Day 1 of a Test Cricket Match?
A) Australia B) England
C) India D) South Africa
Answer : B .
✓ England becomes the first team to score 500 runs on Day 1 of a Test Cricket Match.
✓ The team scored 506/4 runs against Pakistan at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Pakistan.

✓ England surpassed Australia to create the world record during the first Test of the series against
Pakistan, at the end of the first day of the game. Australia’s previous-highest total was 494/6, which
they registered against South Africa in 1910
Q. Which bank has received the Banker’s Bank of the Year Award 2022 for the India segment
at the Global Banking Summit held in London, UK?
A) Yes Bank B) ICICI Bank
C) Canara Bank D) HDFC Bank
Answer : C .
✓ Canara Bank has received the Banker’s Bank of the Year Award 2022 for the India segment at the
Global Banking Summit held in London, UK.
✓ The MD and CEO of Canara Bank, L V Prabhakar attended the award ceremony held in London,
United Kingdom.
✓ The public sector lender has been adjudged as the Best Bank in India for 2022.
✓ The Bankers’ Bank of the year awards are considered to be like Oscar awards for the banking sector.
✓ CANARA BANK
Founded : 1906
HQ : Bengaluru, Karnataka
MD & CEO : Lingam Venkata Prabhakar
Tagline : Together with Can
Q. Which city plans to offer the first municipal green bond targeted at private investors, with
revenues used to finance a solar power project?
A) Mumbai
B) Indore
C) Hyderabad
D) Bengaluru
Answer : B .
✓ Indore is planning to issue the nation’s first local government bond targeting individual investors, with
proceeds used to fund a solar power project.

Q. Who has been appointed as the new MD & CEO of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) by
SEBI?
A) Pramod Shukhla B) Sundararaman Ramamurthy
C) Prakash Chauhan D) Vinod Badaria
Answer : B .
✓ 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.
✓ Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
✓ Founded : 1875
✓ HQ : Mumbai Maharashtra
✓ Chairman : Subhash Sheoratan Mundra
✓ MD & CEO : Sundararaman Ramamurthy
✓ Premchand Roychand founded the Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE)
✓ BSE became the first stock exchange to be recognized by the Government of India in 1956.
✓ The BSE is established in 1875, it is the oldest stock exchange of Asia, and also the tenth oldest in the
world.
✓ Bombay Stock Exchange became the first stock exchange in India to launch commodity derivatives
contracts in gold and silver.
✓ SENSEX(SENSitve indEX) is a free-float market-weighted stock market index of 30 well-established
and financially sound companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Q. SEBI recently increased the mutual fund investment limit in debt securities issued by a
single user to?
A) 10% B) 12%
C) 15% D) 17 %
Answer : B .
✓ Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) increased the investment limit of mutual funds in debt
instruments issued by a single user. The investment limit was increased from 10% to 12% of the net
asset value (NAV) and became effective on November 29, 2022.

✓ The new regulation was issued by SEBI in the exercise of its powers conferred under Section 11 (1) of
the SEBI Act 1992 along with the provisions of Regulation 77 of the SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations
1996.
✓ For the enhanced limit, mutual funds will require prior approval from the Board of Trustees and Directors
of the Asset Management Company (AMC).
Q. Which of the following organizations recently unveiled Asia’s first end-to-end embedded
financial platform, Zwitch?
A) HSBC India B) Woori Bank
C) DBS Bank India D) SBM Bank India
Answer : D .
✓ SBM Bank India has announced a strategic partnership with Asia's first end-to-end Embedded Finance
platform, “Zwitch”.
Q. Which of the following organization has issued the “Review of Maritime Transport-2022”
report?
A) UNCTAD B) UNEP
C) WTO D) UNDP
Answer : A .
✓ United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published a report titled “Review of
Maritime Transport 2022.”
✓ According to the Review of Maritime Transport 2022 report, the pace of global shipping activity will
decrease in 2023.
✓ According to the report, global maritime trade will grow by 1.4% in 2022 and remain stable in 2023
✓ United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Founded: 1964
Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
Secretary-General : Rebeca Grynspan (Costa Rica)
Total members : 190

Q. Who has been appointed by smartwatch leader Noise as its new brand ambassador?
A) Rohit Sharma B) Virat Kohli
C) Suryakumar Yadav D) Yuvraj Singh
Answer : B .
✓ Nexxbase Marketing Pvt Ltd-owned Noise, a wearables technology company, has roped in cricketer
Virat Kohli as its new brand ambassador for its smartwatch range.
✓ Kohli was earlier the brand ambassador of Boltt Games Pvt. Ltd owned Fire-Boltt.
✓ The former Indian cricket captain saw his brand value drop by 21% to $185.7 million in 2021.
✓ However, he still topped the rankings in a survey of most valuable Indian celebrities by consultant Kroll
Inc.
VIRAT KOHLI IN NEWS 2022

➢ Smartwatch leader Noise signs Virat Kohli as new brand ambassador.
➢ Virat Kohli has scripted history as he became the first batter in history to reach 4000 runs in T20
Internationals.
➢ Virat Kohli has been named as the ICC men’s Player of the Month for October 2022.
➢ Virat Kohli becomes first cricketer to have 50 million followers on Twitter.
➢ Virat Kohli becomes 1st Indian to play 100 Matches in each format.
➢ Virat Kohli Becomes the 1st Indian To Reach 200 Million Followers On Instagram.
➢ Virat Kohli tops in Duff & Phelps Celebrity Brand Valuation Report 2021.
➢ Virat Kohli Becomes Fastest Player To Score 22,000 International Runs ( 462nd innings)
➢ Virat Kohli fastest to 12000 runs in ODI cricket ( 242nd inning )
➢ Kohli made his ODI debut against Sri Lanka in August 2008
Q. Which Indian startup has won the Earthshot Prize 2022?

A) KHEYTI B) MAARG
C) DAKSH D) SAMARTH
Answer : A .
✓ India’s Greenhouse-in-a-Box startup Kheyti won Earthshot Prize 2022.

✓ A Greenhouse-in-a-Box sustainable solution for small farmers has won the Earthshot Prize 2022.

✓ The solution has been devised by Telangana startup Kheyti.

✓ It is founded by Britain’s Prince William and dubbed the Eco Oscars’.
✓ Kheyti, one of the five winners at a gala green carpet awards ceremony in Boston, won the prize in the
Protect and Restore Nature category.
✓ Kheyti offers shelter from unpredictable elements and destructive pests
Q. The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 has been awarded to The Chipko
Movement: A People’s Movement. The book is authored by ___
A) Kanishk Tharoor B) Shekhar Pathak
C) Judy Balan D) Amrita Mahale
Answer : B .
✓ Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 has been awarded to The Chipko Movement: A
People’s Movement.
✓ The book is authored by historian and activist Shekhar Pathak translated from Hindi by Manisha
Chaudhry.
✓ The award is given for non-fiction on contemporary India by writers of any nationality and carries a cash
award of 15 lakhs.
✓ This is the fifth iteration of the prize launched by the New India Foundation in 2018.
Q. Who has won the Best Director Award at the New York Film Critics Circle?
A) SS Rajamouli B) Anurag Kashyap
C) Mani Ratnam D) Rajkumar Hirani
Answer : A .
✓ Filmmaker SS Rajamouli won the Best Director Award for RRR at the New York Film Critics Circle.
✓ The group is one of the first critics’ groups to weigh in on the awards season.
✓ At the New York Film Critics Circle, Todd Field’s Tar has won the Best Picture of the year, also nabbing
Best Actress for Cate Blanchett’s leading performance.
✓ Colin Farrell won Best Actor for two of his performances this year – After Yang and The Banshees of
Inisherin.
✓ Film RRR won the best international film award at the 50th Anniversary Saturn Awards held in Los
Angeles, in October 2022.

✓ RRR is the fourth highest-grossing Indian movie ever, just behind Dangal, Baahubali 2, and KGF 2.
Q. Which of the following cricket team has won Vijay Hazare Trophy 2022?
A) Madhya Pradesh B) Baroda
C) Maharashtra D) Saurashtra
Answer : D .
✓ Saurashtra beat Maharashtra by 5 wickets in the final to win the Vijay Hazare Trophy at the Narendra
Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
✓ The team won its first Ranji Trophy title in 2019-2020.
✓ Sheldon Jackson was named the Player of the Match thanks to his unbeaten 133 off 136 deliveries,
while opposition batter Ruturaj Gaikwad was awarded the Player of the Tournament title for his
exceptional performances throughout the event.
✓ The Vijay Hazare Trophy is also known as the Ranji One-Day Trophy.
✓ Tamil Nadu is the most successful team having won the trophy 5 times.
Q. Amara Raja Batteries will be setting up lithium-ion battery unit in which state?
A) Haryana B) Gujarat
C) Telangana D) Madhya Pradesh
Answer : C .
✓ Amara Raja Batteries Limited (ARBL) will be setting up a state-of-the-art research and manufacturing
facility for lithium-ion batteries in Mahbubnagar district, Telangana.
✓ The company intends to invest over ₹9,500 crore over the next 10 years in the lithium cell gigafactory
with an ultimate capacity up to 16 GWh and a battery pack assembly unit up to 5 GWh.
✓ The upcoming facilities are expected to provide employment opportunities to about 4,000 people.
✓ Telangana has been a front-runner in adopting sustainability, and it is a proud moment for the State to
welcome the country’s largest-ever investment in the lithium-ion cell manufacturing sector
Q. Which ministry has inaugurated a three-day “Swar Dharohar Festival” in New Delhi?
A) Ministry of Culture B) Ministry of Finance
C) Ministry of Home affairs D) Ministry of Education

Answer : A .
✓ Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the Swar Dharohar Foundation has inaugurated a three-day
“Swar Dharohar Festival” in New Delhi.
✓ Swar Dharohar Festival is a Music, Art & Literature Festival to showcase the iconic art and culture of
India.
✓ Swar Dharohar festival was inaugurated today by Chief Guest Mehtab Ali (Sitar Player) and Pt. Lalit
Prasad (Classical Vocal).
Q. Who has been appointed as the new president of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India
(ICAI) for the year 2022-23?
A) Vijender Sharma B) Rajesh Kumar Duggal
C) Dileep Kumar Singh D) Sumit Sharma
Answer : A .
✓ Vijender Sharma has been appointed as the new president of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India
(ICAI) for the year 2022-23.
✓ Rakesh Bhalla was elected as the vice president for 2022-23.
✓ Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI)
✓ Founded : 1959
✓ Headquarters : Kolkata, West Bengal
✓ President : Vijender Sharma
Q. Who has been appointed as Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes
(NCBC)?
A) Arvind Kumar Sharma B) Hansraj Gangaram Ahir
C) Hardik Satishchandra Shah D) Binod Bihari Singh
Answer : B .
✓ Hansraj Gangaram Ahir has been appointed as Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward
Classes (NCBC).
✓ He belongs to Maharashtra and is an Agriculturist by profession.
✓ He belongs to District Chandrapur, State of Maharashtra.

Q. When is the Navy Day observed in India?

A) 1 December B) 2 December
C) 3 December D) 4 December
Answer : D .
✓ In India, December 4 is observed as the National Navy Day every year, to celebrate the achievements
and role of the naval force to the country.
✓ The Theme of 2022 Navy Day is “Going out to the Neighbors of the Maritime”.
✓ Why is Indian Navy Day observed?
✓ The day is marked in recognition of the launch of Operation Trident during the Indo-Pakistan war in
1971.
✓ During Operation Trident, on December 4 in 1971, the Indian Navy sank four Pakistani vessels and
also killed over 500 Pakistani Navy personnel, meanwhile, the Indian side suffered no losses
✓ The Maratha Emperor, Chhatarpati Shivaji Bhosle of the 17th century is considered as “Father of the
Indian Navy”.
✓ The Indian Navy is the marine branch of the Indian Armed Forces and is led by the President of India
as Commander-in-Chief
✓ INDIAN NAVY
✓ Father of Indian Navy : Shivaji
✓ Motto(s) : Shaṁ No Varunaḥ (May the Lord of Water be auspicious unto us)
✓ First Chief : Admiral Sir William Edward Parry
✓ Headquarteres : New Delhi
✓ First Indian Chief of the Naval Staff : Katari
✓ 25th Chief of the Naval Staff : R Hari Kumar
Q. When is the World Soil Day observed?
A) December 4 B) December 3
C) December 5 D) December 2
Answer : C .
✓ World Soil Day is celebrated every year on December 5 to raise awareness of the importance of soil
quality for human well-being, food security and ecosystems

✓ The theme of World Soil Day 2022 is “Soils: Where food begins.”
✓ The day was first considered by the International Union of Soil Sciences in 2002.
✓ The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) officially endorsed the day in June 2013 while the UN
General Assembly declared 5 December as the World Soil Day in December 2013.
Q. What is the theme of the World Soil Day 2022?
A) Keep soil alive, Protect soil biodiversity
B) Stop Soil Erosion, Save our Future
C) Be the Solution to Soil Pollution
D) Soils: Where food begins
Answer : D .
Q. Which of the following became the first bank to launch STACK for real estate companies?
A) Yes Bank B) HDFC Bank
C) ICICI Bank D) Axis Bank
Answer : C .
✓ ICICI Bank Ltd. launched STACK for companies in the real estate sector to offer solutions to their
banking requirements on a single platform.
✓ With this, ICICI Bank became the first bank to launch real estate-specific STACK in order to make life
easier for real-estate companies.
✓ STACK is a combination of digital and physical solutions that enables various stakeholders in the real
estate sector, viz., real estate investment trusts (REITs), builders, etc., to undertake banking
transactions efficiently....
ICICI BANK IN NEWS 2022

➢ ICICI Bank launches STACK for companies in real estate sector.
➢ ICICI Bank has launched two new products – loan against deposits(LAD) and dollar bonds – for
non-resident Indians at its GIFT City branch in Gujarat.
➢ ICICI Bank’s board of directors has reappointed Sandeep Bakshi as the MD and CEO for a period
of 3 years.
➢ ICICI Bank launches ‘Smart Wire’, an easy online solution for inward remittances..

➢ ICICI Bank launches 'ICICI Bank Mine' comprehensive banking program.

➢ ICICI Bank and NMDFC ink an Agreement for development of banking software.
➢ Defence ministry gives approval to HDFC, ICICI, and Axis to offer finances for international
purchases.
➢ ICICI Bank launched a digital platform ’Campus Power’ for the student ecosystem.
➢ ICICI Bank Partners with ZestMoney to Expand ‘Cardless EMI’ Facility.
➢ ICICI Bank and Santander UK Partner for business ease between India and UK.
➢ ICICI Bank launched India’s ‘open-for-all’ digital ecosystem for MSMEs.
➢ ICICI Bank, GIFT SEZ join hands to attract global investors.
➢ Chennai Super Kings and ICICI Bank partners for co-branded credit card.
➢ ICICI Bank’s Sandeep Bakhshi named Business Standard Banker of the Year 2020-21.
➢ ICICI Bank launches online platform ‘Trade Emerge’ for exporters and importers.
➢ ICICI Bank surpasses HUL to occupy 5th spot in m-cap.
➢ RBI approves re-appointment of Sandeep Bakhshi as ICICI Bank MD & CEO.
➢ ICICI Bank, HSBC and Standard Chartered enters India’s 1st swaption deal.
➢ ICICI Bank has partnered with HPCL to launch ‘ICICI Bank HPCL Super Saver’ co-branded credit
card.
➢ ICICI Bank launches ‘Salute Doctors’, comprehensive banking solution for medical personnel.
➢ ICICI Bank launches a digital banking solution for corporate companies named ‘ICICI STACK for
Corporates’.
➢ Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) BANK
Founded : 1994
HQ : Mumbai, Maharashtra
MD & CEO : Sandeep Bakhshi
Tagline : Hum Hai Na Khayal Apka
Q. Which of the following organizations recently introduced India’s first passive tax saving
fund?
A) SBI Mutual Fund B) IIFL Mutual Fund
C) L&T Mutual Fund D) Kotak Mutual Fund

Answer : B .
✓ IIFL Mutual Fund has launched the new fund offering of IIFL ELSS Nifty 50 Tax Saver Index Fund
(IN50).
✓ It is the first passively managed tax-saving scheme (also known as Equity-Linked Savings Scheme, or
ELSS) to be launched after the capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI),
allowed fund houses to launch such passive funds.
✓ IN50 is an equity fund. It will invest in all stocks in- and in the same proportion as they lie in- the Nifty50
index
Q. Who has launched new Index under the Nifty Bharat Bond Index series?
A) BSE Limited
B) London Stock Exchange (LSE)
C) India International Exchange (IIE)
D) NSE Indices
Answer : D .
✓ Nifty Bharat Bond Index, April 2033, has been launched within the Nifty Bharat Bond Index series,
according to a statement by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) released earlier this week.
✓ The Bharat Bond Index series follows a target maturity date structure wherein each index in the series
measures the performance of a portfolio of 'AAA' rated bonds issued by government owned entities
maturing in a specific year.
✓ In December 2019, NSE Indices launched the first two indices in the Bharat Bond Index with maturities
in April 2023 and April 2030, and in July 2020, further two indices with maturities in April 2025 and April
2031 were launched.
✓ "The upcoming Bharat Bond ETF which is sixth in the Bharat Bond ETF series will track the newly
launched Nifty BHARAT Bond Index maturing in 2033.
✓ The first Bharat Bond ETFs tracking the Nifty Bharat Bond indices were launched in December 2019
with initial assets under management of around ₹12,000 crore,.
✓ The Nifty Bharat Bond Index – April 2033 has a base date of November 30, 2022 and a base value of
1,000. The index will be rebalanced/reconstituted at the end of every calendar quarter.

Q. ''Millets-Smart Nutritive Food' Conclave' recently in news was launched by which

organisation?
A) Niti Aayog
B) Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare
C) Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR)
D) Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA)
Answer : D .
✓ Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal will be the Chief Guest at the ‘Millets-
Smart Nutritive Food’ Conclave to be held in New Delhi on 05 December 2022.
✓ The Conclave is being organized by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry through its apex agricultural
export promotion body, Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority
(APEDA).
✓ The Conclave is to be a pre-launch event of the ‘International Year of Millets – 2023’ (IYoM-2023).
✓ India is one of the leading producers of millets in the world with an estimated share of around 41 percent
in the global production.
✓ As per FAO, world production of millets in the year 2020 was 30.464 million metric tonnes (MMT) and
India’s share was 12.49 MMT, which accounts to 41 percent of the total millet production.
✓ India recorded 27 percent growth in millet production in 2021-22 as compared to millet production in
the previous year was 15.92 MMT.
✓ India’s top five millet producing states are Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya
Pradesh.
Q. Which of the company recently introduced India’s first truly zero-margin travel card?
A) Trade Nation B) Libertex
C) AVATRADE D) BookMyForex
Answer : D .
✓ BookMyForex.com launched the Interbank Rate Multi-Currency Forex Card.

✓ The Interbank Rate Multi-Currency Forex Card is India’s first true zero-markup travel card.
✓ It has been developed by BookMyForex in association with YES Bank and M2P FinTech and is powered
by Visa.

✓ International travellers will be able to buy forex cards at interbank rates with zero added markup during
regular bank hours.
✓ The exchange rate on the Forex Card will remain fixed and can be loaded with 14 different currencies.
Q. Which High Court has banned use of mobile phones inside temples?
A) Madras High Court B) Delhi High Court
C) Bombay High Court D) Calcutta High Court
Answer : A .
✓ Madras High Court has banned mobile phones in temples across Tamil Nadu.
✓ As per the Court, the move to ban use of mobile phone is to maintain purity and sanctity of the places
of worship.
✓ The High Court also said that phone deposit lockers should be set up at temples, to avoid inconvenience
to people and Security personnel will be appointed to ensure compliance of this order.
Q. Which is the first state to issue ‘Soulbound (NFT) Tokens’ to its outstanding department
members?
A) Telangana B) Tamil Nadu
C) Karnataka D) Kerala
Answer : B .
✓ The Idol Wing of Tamil Nadu Police Department issued ‘Soulbound Tokens’ to its outstanding team
members.
✓ This is the first-of-its-kind initiative by a government department in India.
✓ The Tamil Nadu Police partnered with GuardianLink, a non-fungible token (NFT) start-up for this move.
Soulbound Token, a variant of Non-fungible tokens, is a unique blockchain asset that cannot be bought,
sold, or moved to another blockchain wallet.
Q. Which organisation has revealed that over 100 million people were forcibly displaced in
2022?
A) UNHCR B) UNDP
C) UNICEF D) UNEP
Answer : B .

✓ According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), more than 100 million people were
forcibly displaced in 2022, most of them within their own countries, for the first time ever.
✓ The report is titled ‘Turning the tide on internal displacement: A development approach to solutions’.
✓ This was the highest global figure and more than twice the number recorded 10 years ago, as per the
analysis by UNDP and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
✓ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Formation : 22 November 1965
Headquarters : New York City
Head : Achim Steiner
Total Countries : 170
Q. Which organisation has released the ‘Global report on health equity for persons with
disabilities’?
A) UNICEF B) WHO
C) FAO D) WTO
Answer : B .
✓ World Health Organization (WHO) released the ‘Global report on health equity for persons with
disabilities’.
✓ As per the report, many people with disabilities have the risk of premature death, even up to 20 years
earlier than others, due to systemic and pervasive health disparities.
✓ The report recommends 40 steps for governments to implement in the health sector.
✓ World Health Organization (WHO)
Headquarters : Geneva, Switzerland
First President : Andrija Štampar
Director General : Tedros Adhanom (Ethiopia)
Deputy Director General : Soumya Swaminathan (Indian)
Member Countries : 194

Q. Prakaram Diwas will be celebrated in which of the following state on December 5, 2022?
A) Punjab B) Gujarat
C) Maharashtra D) Rajasthan
Answer : D .
✓ Parakram Diwas will be celebrated in Rajasthan at Jaisalmer Military Station and Longewala War
memorial on December 5, 2022.
✓ The day is celebrated to mark the 51st anniversary of India’s victory in the Longewala battle during the
1971 war.
Q. What's its position of India in the international aviation ranking?

A) 48th B) 56th
C) 61st D) 83rd
Answer : A .
✓ 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, respectively, the officials said.
✓ China is at the 49th place, they added.
✓ Under its Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP) Continuous Monitoring Approach, an
ICAO Coordinated Validation Mission (ICVM) was undertaken from November 9 to 16, 2022.
✓ The country's score in terms of effective implementation of key safety elements has improved to 85.49
per cent
Q. Which of the following has agreed to a sustainability-linked and blue-debt facility with the
Asian Development Bank (ADB)?
A) Rajesh Exports B) ABIS Exports India Pvt. Ltd
C) International Lace Trade Center D) Kiran Gems Pvt. Ltd
Answer : B .

✓ ABIS Exports India Pvt. Ltd. entered into an agreement on a sustainability-linked and blue-debt facility
with the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
✓ It is a non-convertible debenture worth USD 16 million (INR 130 crore) to enhance food security in India.
✓ It will assist in the construction of specialised microfish feed plants to increase feed efficiency and
reduce water pollution.
✓ It will also support the training of 6,000 farmers in climate-resilient fish farming practises by providing
technical assistance worth USD 500,000.
✓ ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
Founded : 19 December 1966
HQ : Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines
President : Masatsugu Asakawa
Vice President : Ashok Lavasa
Director of ADB for India : Takeo Konishi
Executive Director : Sameer Kumar
Member Counrtries : 68 (Nuie)
Q. What is the corpus allotted for the implementation Production Linked Incentive (PLI)
scheme during 2022-23 to 2024-25 in drone industry?
A) Rs 150 crore B) Rs 120 crore
C) Rs 180 crore D) Rs 200 crore
Answer : B .
✓ Ministry of Civil Aviation has issued guidelines for the implementation of the Production Linked Incentive
(PLI) scheme to support the indigenous drone industry.
✓ The government approved Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for Drones and Drone
Components in India.
✓ For the implementation of this scheme during 2022-23 to 2024-25, a corpus of Rs 120 crore was also
allocated.
Q. Goldsikka Pvt Ltd launched its India's first Gold ATM with technology assistance from M/s
OpenCube Technologies Pvt Ltd, Which City based startup?
A) Hyderabad B) Bengaluru
C) Ahmedabad D) Mumbai

Answer : A .
✓ Goldsikka Pvt Ltd launched (3rd Dec 2022) its first Gold ATM with technology assistance from M/s
OpenCube Technologies Pvt Ltd, a Hyderabad-based startup firm.
✓ Goldsikka with technology support from Hyderabad-based startup, Opencube Technologies has
launched its first Gold ATM at Begumpet and described it India’s first Gold ATM and world’s first Real
Time Gold ATM. This ATM can dispense gold coins in different denominations ranging from 0.5 gm to
100 grams.
✓ Gold ATMs are a reflection of the demand from consumers. This Gold ATM supplies in denominations
ranging from 0.5 gms to 100 gms. Dismissing concerns of compromised quality, it has said that all of
the gold currency is 24-carat gold.
✓ Each ATM has a capacity of holding up to 5 kg of gold, worth around Rs. 2-3 crores. The ATM machine
dispenses coins ranging from 0.5 grams to 100 grams. There are eight available options, including 0.5
grams, 1 gram, 2 grams, 5 grams, 10 grams, 20 grams, 50 grams and 100 grams.”
Q. Which Metro has successfully created a Guinness World Record by constructing the longest
double-decker viaduct (metro) is 3,140 meters?
A) Delhi Metro
B) Mumbai Metro
C) Hyderabad Metro
D) Nagpur Metro
Answer : D .
✓ Nagpur Metro has successfully created a Guinness World Record by constructing the longest double-
decker viaduct (metro) is 3,140 meters and was achieved by the Wardha Road in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
✓ The double-decker viaduct of 3.14 km on Wardha Road has three metro stations – Chhatrapati Nagar,
Jai Prakash Nagar and Ujjwal Nagar.
✓ The double-decker viaduct of 3.14 km on the Wardha Road in Nagpur, Maharashtra was commissioned
by Metro Rail traffic on 5 March 2019 and for Highway traffic, on 13 November 2020, is the Longest
Double Decker Viaduct on any Metro Rail system," according to a statement by the Guinness World
Records, London

Q. According to the World Bank, India will become the first country in the world to receive how
many billion dollars in remittances in 2022?
A) $100 billion B) $150 billion
C) $200 billion D) $250 billion
Answer : A .
✓ World Bank Report has stated that India, the third largest economy of Asia, is set to become the first
country to receive $100 billion in remittances from migrant workers abroad. Notably, India had received
$89.4 billion in remittances in 2021, according to the World Bank report, which then made India the top
recipient globally.
✓ Remittance flows to India were enhanced by the wage hikes and a strong labor market in the United
States," and other rich countries.
✓ This means India is set to retain the highest receiver of remittances spot this year as well. According to
the World Bank Report, “Remittance flows to India will rise 12% to reach $100 billion this year. That
puts its inflows far ahead of countries including Mexico, China and the Philippines."
Q. Which bank was the first to provide a Foreign Currency Loan against INR Deposits of Indian
Companies in GIFT City for their Overseas Subsidiaries/Joint Ventures?
A) HDFC Bank B) ICICI Bank
C) Kotak Mahindra Bank D) Bank of Baroda
Answer : D .
✓ Bank of Baroda (BoB) has launched a foreign currency loan against Indian companies’ INR deposits
for their overseas subsidiaries and joint ventures. It was launched by the bank’s Gujarat International
Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) branch in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
✓ It will provide an alternate facility for Indian banks to raise funds for their international businesses.
✓ Under the program, BoB’s International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) Banking Unit (IBU) in GIFT
City, Gandhinagar, will provide financial support to overseas subsidiaries and joint ventures by
leveraging their INR deposits.
✓ Bank of Baroda (BOB)
✓ Founded : 1908
HQ : Varodara, Gujarat

MD & CEO : Sanjiv Chadha

Tagline : India's International Bank
BOB Becomes 3rd Largest Bank As Dena, Vijaya Merger Take Effect
Q. Which of the following entity has recently acquired IDFC Asset Management Company
(AMC)?
A) Saptagiri Grameena Bank B) Bandhan Financial Holdings
C) Tamilnad Mercantile Bank D) Dhanlaxmi Bank Ltd
Answer : B .
✓ Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) approved the acquisition of IDFC Asset Management
Company (AMC) by the Bandhan-led consortium. Bandhan Financial Holdings Ltd. (BFHL), General
Insurance Company of India (GIC), and ChrysCapital formed a consortium to acquire IDFC AMC and
IDFC AMC Trustee Company from IDFC for INR 4,500 crore.
✓ After the acquisition, BFHL will own 60% of IDFC AMC, while GIC and ChrysCapital will own 20% each.
Q. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has extended the deadline for restricting
the volume limitation of 30% on digital payment transactions?
A) January 2023 B) January 2024
Answer : C .
✓ National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) extended the deadline for limiting the volume cap of
30% on digital payment transactions.
✓ The volume cap of 30% for Third Party Application Providers (TPAP) in the Unified Payments Interface
(UPI) was extended by the NPCI until December 31, 2024.
✓ The NPCI gave a deadline of December 31, 2022, after which all UPI players, viz., PhonePe, Google
Pay, Paytm, etc., would have to have a share of 30% or less in monthly UPI volumes.
Q. Who has assumed charge as Chairman and Managing Director of Bharatiya Nabhikiya
Vidyut Nigam Ltd. (BHAVINI) at Kalpakkam for three years?
A) K. Dinesh B) K.V. Suresh Kumar
C) D. M. Jagadeesh D) B. Venkatraman
Answer : B .

✓ K.V. Suresh Kumar, scientist of Department of Atomic Energy, assumed charge as chairman and
managing director of Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Ltd. (BHAVINI)
✓ During his tenure, the Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) power was raised to its design power level of
40 MW feeding electricity to the grid. His tenure at BHAVINI will be three years.
✓ He joined in the operations of Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) in 1986
Q. Which IIT researchers develop Ocean Wave Energy converter?

A) IIT Delhi B) IIT Bombay
C) IIT Madras D) IIT Kanpur
Answer : B .
✓ Researchers at IIT Madras have developed and deployed a system that could generate electricity using
energy from seawaves.
✓ The system, dubbed Sindhuja-I, was deployed by the researchers about six kilometres from the coast
of Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, where the sea has a depth of about 20 metres.
✓ Sindhuja-I can currently produce 100 watts of energy. It will be scaled up to produce one megawatt of
energy in the next three years.
Q. Which countries are signed a comprehensive migration and mobility partnership?

A) India and Germany B) India and France
C) India and Spain D) India and Switzerland
Answer : A .
✓ An agreement was signed on the comprehensive migration and mobility partnership, between the
External Affairs Minister, Mr. S. Jaishankar, and the German Foreign Minister, Ms. Annalena Baercock
in New Delhi on 5th Dec 2022.
✓ Mr. Jaishankar welcomed the German Foreign Minister and will be discussing the cooperation
strategies on the transition to renewable energy and, India’s relationship with Russia and China.
✓ The German Foreign Minister also credited New Delhi for a clearer position of the G20 on the ongoing
war in Ukraine.

Q. Who inaugurates the two-day long 65th Foundation Day celebrations of the Directorate of
Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in New Delhi?
A) Rajnath Singh B) Nirmala Sitharaman
C) Amit Shah D) S. Jaishankar
Answer : B .
✓ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurates the two-day long 65th Foundation Day celebrations
of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in New Delhi on 5th Dec 2022.
✓ She also launches the current edition of "Smuggling in India Report 2021-22" on the occasion. As many
as 22 Customs administrations covering the Asia-Pacific region along with international organisations
are invited to the event this year.
✓ The 8th Regional Customs Enforcement Meeting (RCEM) will also be held at the event.
✓ DRI is the principal intelligence and enforcement agency on anti-smuggling matters under the aegis of
the Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) of the Government of India.
✓ It was established on 4 December 1957.
Q. National Zoological Park, Delhi Zoo has celebrated International Cheetah Day and Wildlife
Conservation Day in New Delhi on ____.
A) 3rd December B) 4th December
C) 5th December D) 6th December
Answer : B .
✓ National Zoological Park, Delhi Zoo, celebrated International Cheetah Day and Wildlife Conservation
Day in New Delhi on 4th December 2022.
✓ The purpose of the celebration is to spread awareness among the present generation about Wildlife
Conservation.
✓ A team from Delhi Zoo and Central Zoo Authority interacted with 175 Divyang students and all
students took part in the Wildlife Conservation Pledge
Q. Semeru Volcano, which was seen in the news, is located in which country?
A) Philippines B) Indonesia
C) Japan D) Australia
Answer : B .

✓ Semeru Volcano has started erupting in Java Island, Indonesia. The eruption ahs caused huge volcanic
ash and over 2,000 residents in East Java province were evacuated.
✓ As per the Indonesia’s disaster management agency (BNPB), no injuries or deaths have so far been
reported.
✓ Mount Semeru lies around 640 kilometers southeast of the capital Jakarta.

Q. Who has become the 77th chess Grandmaster of India?
A) Vidit Gujrathi B) Abhijit Kunte
C) Sagar Shah D) Aditya Mittal
Answer : D .
✓ 16-year-old Mumbai Player Aditya Mittal has become the 77th chess Grandmaster of India during an
ongoing Ellobregat Open tournament in Spain.
✓ He had secured three GM norms, crossed live rating of 2,500 ELO points mark during the sixth round
of the ongoing tournament.
✓ He drew the game against Francisco Vallejo Pons to achieve the feat.
CHESS GRANDMASTER IN NEWS 2022.

➢ Aditya Mittal Becomes India’s 77th Chess Grandmaster.
➢ Magnus Carlsen (From Norway) wins Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 2022.
➢ R Praggnanandhaa and P V Nandhidhaa won the titles in the Open and women’s sections
respectively in the Asian Continental Chess championship held in New Delhi.
➢ D Gukesh becomes youngest to beat World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen.
➢ Pranav Anand from Bengaluru, Karnataka became India’s 76th Chess GrandMaster.
➢ Alireza Firouzja wins Sinquefield Cup & The Grand Chess Tour.
➢ Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi wins 28th Abu Dhabi Masters.
➢ 4th edition of the Tata Steel Chess India tournament will be held in Kolkata.
➢ Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa has defeated world champion, Magnus Carlsen, in the FTX
Crypto Cup in Miami, an international chess Championship.
➢ 2026 Chess Olympiad to be hosted by Uzbekistan.
➢ Chess prodigy V Pranav (from Tamil Nadu) becomes India’s 75th Grandmaster.
➢ Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand becomes FIDE deputy president.
➢ Aravindh Chithambaram has emerged winner in the 41st Villa De Benasque International Chess
Open in Spain.

➢ India’s GrandMaster D. Gukesh (From Chennai) wins Gijon Chess Masters.

➢ 44th Chess Olympiad: All India Chess Federation (AICF) and Tamil Nadu government sign MoU.
➢ R. Praggnanandhaa triumphs at the Paracin Open.
➢ Rahul Srivatshav P of Telangana has become India’s 74th Grandmaster.
➢ Young Indian Grandmaster, R Praggnanandhaa won Norway Chess Group A open chess
tournament.
➢ World No.2 Grandmaster Ding Liren of China won the tournament against India’s teenaged
Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa in the final of Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Chessable
Masters 2022 online tournament.
➢ Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh wins Sunway Formentera Open chess tournament.
➢ Indian GM D Gukesh won 48th La Roda International Open chess tournament title.
➢ World’s oldest chess grandmaster Yuri Averbakh (Russia) passes away.
➢ R Praggnanandhaa wins prestigious Reykjavik Open chess tournament.
➢ India’s S L Narayanan wins Grandiscacchi Cattolica International Open Chess Tournament.
➢ India’s R Praggnanandhaa becomes youngest player to beat World No 1 Magnus Carlsen.
➢ Priyanka Nutakki becomes the 23rd Woman Grandmaster of India.
➢ Tata Steel Chess 2022: Magnus Carlsen beats Fabiano Caruana.
➢ Tamil Nadu’s Bharath Subramaniyam became India’s 73rd chess Grandmaster.
➢ Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan), won the World Rapid Chess Championship 2021.
➢ Norway’s Magnus Carlsen wins FIDE World Chess Championship in Dubai.
➢ Indian-origin chess player from New Jersey, USA, Abhimanyu Mishra became the youngest
grandmaster in chess history. At 12 years-4 months and 25 days.
➢ Viswanathan Anand (Tamil Nadu) became India's first grandmaster in 1988.
➢ S Vijaylakshmi is India's first woman grandmaster in chess.
➢ Abhimanyu Mishra has become the youngest-ever chess Grandmaster in the world
Q. India has invested about ____ crore in the SWAMIH Investment Fund I and marking its final
close at Rs 15,530 crore.
A) Rs 10,000 crore B) Rs 8,000 crore
C) Rs 5,000 crore D) Rs 3,000 crore
Answer : C .

✓ The government of India has invested an additional Rs 5,000 crore into the SWAMIH Invest Fund-I to
help the stressed realty investment platform achieve its final close at Rs 15,530 crore.
✓ Special Window for Affordable and Mid-Income (SWAMIH)
✓ In November 2019, the Union Finance Ministry announced creation of a Special Window for Affordable
and Mid-Income Housing (SWAMIH) to provide debt financing for the completion of stressed, brownfield
and residential projects registered with regulatory bodies that fall in the affordable, mid-income housing
category.
✓ The corpus of the Fund is Rs 12,500 crore with a green shoe option of Rs 12,500 crore. Green Shoe
options means that if required an additional Rs 12,500 crore fund will be raised for the SWAMIH
scheme.
✓ The Sponsor of the Fund is the Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and
Government of India on behalf of the Government of India.
✓ The Investment Manager of the Fund is SBICAP Ventures Ltd which is owned by State Bank of India.
Q. Who has been named Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(NABARD)?
A) Manoj Ahuja B) K V Shaji
C) Bhushan Kumar Sinha D) P. V. S. Suryakumar
Answer : B .
✓ K V Shaji has been named Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(NABARD) on 7 December. He formerly served as NABARD’s Deputy Managing Director (DMD) till
May 21, 2020.
✓ Before joining NABARD, he worked in Canara Bank in various capacities for 26 years.
✓ As his last assignment, he was in charge of Strategy, Planning and Business Development at the
Corporate Office of Canara Bank.
✓ He successfully handled the project of amalgamation of Syndicate Bank into Canara Bank.
✓ About the NABARD
✓ It is a development bank focussing primarily on the rural sector of the country.
✓ It is a statutory body established in 1982 under National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
Act, 1981.
✓ Established on the recommendations of Shivaraman Committee.

✓ Headquarters - Mumbai
Q. PM Modi recently flagged off India's sixth Vande Bharat Express between which of the
following routes?
A) Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh) -Nagpur (Maharashtra)
B) Vasco da Gama (Goa) - Londa (Karnataka)
C) New Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) - Tinsukia , Ledo (Assam)
D) Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu) to Trivandrum (Kerala)
Answer : A .
✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is on a two day (11-12 December 2022) visit to Maharashtra , Goa
and Gujarat inaugurated a number of projects in Maharashtra including the 6th Vande Bharat Express
train on 11 December 2022.
✓ He inaugurated the 6th Vande Bharat Express which will run on Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh)-Nagpur
(Maharashtra) route. This is the second Vande Bharat express in the state after the Mumbai-
Ahmedabad Vande Bharat express.
✓ Vande Bharat is an indigenous semi-high speed train developed by Indian Railways. Government
proposes to run 75 Vande Bharat express trains in the country by 15 August 2023.
✓ He inaugurated the Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg
connecting Nagpur and Shirdi. Built at a cost of ₹55,000 crore, it is one of the longest expressways in
the country that passes through 10 Maharashtra districts, including Amravati, Aurangabad and Nashik.
Q. First G20 Finance and Central Bank Deputies Meeting are scheduled to be held in which of
the city on 13-15 December 2022?
A) New Delhi B) Mumbai
C) Bengaluru D) Hyderabad
Answer : C .
✓ Bengaluru will host the first meeting of the G20 Finance Track under India’s G20 Presidency.
✓ According to the Union Ministry of Finance, First G20 Finance and Central Bank Deputies Meeting is
scheduled to be held in Bengaluru on 13-15 December 2022.
✓ It will be hosted jointly by the Union Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India.
✓ All the 20 members of the G-20 Finance and Central Bank Deputies will participate in the meeting.

✓ India is currently the President of the G-20 and it will hold the G-20 summit meeting in September 2023
in New Delhi
Q. India’s First Carbon Neutral Farm has been inaugurated in which state?
A) Tamil Nadu B) Kerala
C) Karnataka D) Telangana
Answer : B .
✓ Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has declared a seed farm, located in Aluva, as the first carbon-
neutral farm in the country.
✓ A significant reduction in carbon emission has helped the seed farm, under the Agricultural Department,
achieve carbon-neutral status.
✓ The total amount of carbon emission from the farm, located at Thuruthu in Aluva, in the last one year
was 43 tons but its overall procurement was 213 ton.
✓ The Kerala government also announced to start of Carbon-neutral farms in all its assembly
constituencies
Q. Who has been elected as the new Deputy Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh recently?
A) Mukesh Agnihotri B) Govind Singh Thakur
C) Navneet Kapoor D) Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu
Answer : A .
✓ Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu has been unanimously elected as the new Chief Minister of Himachal
Pradesh. He succeeds Jai Ram Thakur.
✓ Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri also took oath with him.
✓ Sukhu was sworn in as the 17th Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh.
✓ He served as the president of the Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee from 2013 to 2019.
✓ HIMACHAL PRADESH
✓ Capital : Shimla (Summer), Dharamshala (Winter)
✓ Chief Minister : Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu
✓ Deputy Chief Minister : Mukesh Agnihotri
✓ Governor : Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
✓ Legislative Assembly : 68 Seats

✓ Lower House : 4 Seats

✓ Upper House : 3 Seats
✓ Number of Districts : 12
Q. Who has been elected as the new President of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI)?
A) Manika Batra B) Neha Aggarwal
C) Ankita Das D) Meghna Ahlawat
Answer : D .
✓ Meghna Ahlawat has been elected as the first female President of the Table Tennis Federation of India
(TTFI).
✓ While Eight-time national champion Kamlesh Mehta takes over as the new secretary general of the
TTFI and Patel Nagender Reddy has been elected as the Treasurer.
✓ Ahlawat, who is the wife of Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala, contested against Gujarat
home minister Harsh Sanghvi.
✓ Ahlawat succeeded Dushyant Chautala.
✓ Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI)
✓ Founded : 1962
✓ President : Meghna Ahlawat
✓ International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)
✓ Headquarters : Lausanne, Switzerland
✓ Table Tennis sport is also known as "ping-pong".
✓ Table tennis is the national sport of China.
Q. Who has been honoured with the Presidential Lifetime Achievement (PLA) Award for his
contributions to his community and the country?
A) Aasif Mandvi B) Sakina Jaffrey
C) Padma Lakshmi D) Krishna Vavilala
Answer : D .
✓ Indian-American Krishna Vavilala has been honoured with the Presidential Lifetime Achievement (PLA)
Award for his contributions to his community and the country.

✓ It is the nation’s highest honour for his contributions to his community and the country at large.
✓ Vavilala is from Andhra Pradesh & the founder and Chairman of the Foundation for India Studies (FIS).
✓ The Presidential Lifetime Achievement (PLA) Awards, led by AmeriCorps
Q. What is the India rank in World's Strongest Passport List 2022?

A) 93rd B) 87th
C) 71st D) 65th
Answer : B .
✓ India ranked 87 in the world's strongest passport list, while UAE ranked first in the rating of passports
for 2022.
✓ UAE was followed by Germany, Sweden, Finland, Luxembourg, Spain and France.
✓ Afghanistan remained at the last position while Pakistan was ranked 94th
✓ Japan ranked 24th because it had easy access to 171 countries.
✓ Earlier this year, Japan's passport was ranked as the best passport in the world in a list released by
Henley & Partners.
✓ Passport Index 2022 published by Arton Capital ranked the world's strongest and weakest passports.
✓ Travellers with UAE passports can enter 180 countries without any hassle.
✓ Except European countries like Germany and Sweden, there are more than 7 such countries which are
in this index.
✓ The Passport Index is based on the 139 members of the United Nations. 6 different aspects have been
considered to make this list.
✓ The data for this list has been given by the governments of different countries.
✓ To make this list, work is done on 3 steps, which rates on the basis of Mobility Score (MS).
✓ This also includes the VF portion of Visa-free (VF), Visa on Arrival (VOA), eTA and eVisa (if issued
within 3 days).
Q. Central Government announced that it has extended the Rooftop Solar Programme till ___.
A) 31 March 2024 B) 31 March 2025
C) 31 March 2026 D) 31 March 2027
Answer : C .

✓ The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has advised that all residential consumers should not pay
extra amount to any company for applying on the National Portal, nor should they pay more than the
amount fixed by the concerned distribution company for metre and testing.
✓ Under this program, the central government gives a subsidy of Rs 14,588 per kilowatt to a person who
installs solar panels on the roof of his house.
✓ About Rooftop Solar Scheme
✓ The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is implementing the Grid Connected Rooftop Solar Scheme
(Phase II) to generate solar power by installing solar panels on the roof of houses.
✓ Phase II aims to achieve a cumulative capacity of 40,000 MW from Rooftop Solar Projects by the year
2022.
✓ The objective of the programme is to promote the grid-connected SPV rooftop and small SPV power
generating plants among the residential, community, institutional, industrial and commercial
establishments.
✓ To ease the implementation of the scheme, a National Portal was developed, which was launched by
PM Modi on 30 July 2022.
✓ The central government has set a target of 450 GW of renewable energy generation by 2030.
✓ Under this, many schemes are also going on, in which a target has been set to provide more than 17
lakh solar pumps to farmers in the country through Pradhan Mantri-Kusum Yojana.
✓ The government on 8 December said the rooftop solar programme has been extended till March 31,
2026, and therefore, subsidy under the programme will be available until the target for the scheme is
achieved.
Q. Who has been appointed as the chair of B20 India which represents the entire G20 business
community?
A) Shapoor Mistry B) T. V. Narendran
C) N Chandrasekaran D) Rajesh Gopinathan
Answer : C .
✓ The Government of India has appointed Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran as the chairman of
the B20 to lead the business agenda during India’s G20 presidency. India took over the presidency of

G-20 from Indonesia on 1 December 2022 and will hold the G-20 Summit meeting on 9-10 September
2023.
✓ The government has also appointed the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) as the B20 India
Secretariat. B20 is the voice of the G20 business community and helps in shaping economic policy
statements by the G20 grouping over the years.
✓ B20 India work will be conducted through Task Forces and Action Councils, which will develop
consensus-based policy recommendations to the G20. It will commence work on various task forces
and action councils after the inception meeting, scheduled on 22-24 January 2023, culminating into the
B20 India Summit in August 2023.
✓ B20 India has identified priorities for deliberations under the theme “R.A.I.S.E – Responsible,
Accelerated, Innovative, Sustainable, and Equitable Businesses. About 100 business policy initiatives
will be organised by CII under the B20 calendar across the country during the presidency year.
Q. The "Climate Investment Opportunities in India's Cooling Sector" report was launched by
which organization?
A) UNESCO B) World Bank
C) NITI Aayog D) World Economic Forum
Answer : B .
✓ Recently. a report titled "Climate Investment Opportunities in India's Cooling Sector" was released by
the World Bank. The report states that an investment opportunity of $1.6 trillion could open up in India
by 2040.
✓ India also has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly and create nearly 3.7
million jobs.
✓ The report states that India is experiencing higher temperatures every year. India is likely to see a
drastic reduction in the expected carbon-dioxide (CO2) levels over the next two decades.
✓ The report states that by 2030, more than 160-200 million people across the country could be exposed
to deadly heat waves annually if alternative and innovative energy-efficient technologies are not
adopted.
✓ The report states that around 34 million people in India will face job losses due to loss of productivity
related to heat stress.

✓ The World Bank has said that by 2037 the demand for cooling is expected to exceed the current level
by eight times.
✓ The current food loss due to heat during transportation of food items is close to $13 billion annually.
Q. Who becomes the world's richest person Forbes on 9th Dec 2022?
A) Elon Musk B) Jeff Bezos
C) Bernard Arnault D) Gautam Adani
Answer : C .
✓ According to the Forbes, Chief executive of Louis Vuitton's parent company (LVMH), Bernard Arnault
and Family replaced Tesla CEO, Elon Musk to become the world richest person
✓ As of December 9, 2022, the personal wealth of Bernard Arnault is $186.1 billion and net worth of Elon
Musk is $185.0 billion.
✓ But as per the Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, the Tesla CEO is still estimated to be the world's
wealthiest person with a net worth of $171 billion (As of 9th Dec 2022).
Q. Which organization organized an event to launch the "Toolkit on Enabling Gender
Responsive Urban Mobility and Public Spaces in India"?
A) World Bank B) NITI Aayog
C) World Economic Forum D) International Monetary Fund Show
Answer : A .
✓ World Bank launched the 'Toolkit on Enabling Gender-Responsive Urban Mobility and Public Spaces
in India' on 8 December.
✓ The toolkit was launched at a session organised by the World Bank and the Chennai Urban Metropolitan
Transport Authority in Chennai..
✓ About Gender Toolkit
✓ The toolkit from World Bank contains practical tools that can inform a wide set of policymakers as well
as private or community-based organisations to help ensure safe and inclusive public transport for
women in India.
✓ It aims to guide Indian cities on how to design public transport that is more inclusive of women's travel
needs.
✓ It aims to spotlight gender issues surrounding mobility and city design.

✓ Background of the toolkit

✓ The toolkit has been designed in response to a 2019 World Bank-supported survey of 6,048
respondents in Mumbai.
✓ This survey found that between 2004 and 2019, men shifted to two-wheelers to commute to work, while
women used auto-rickshaws or taxies, which tend to be more costly (per trip) than two wheelers.
✓ India has amongst the lowest female labour force participation rates globally, at 22.8 per cent in 2019-
20.
Q. Who becomes first Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Federal Reserve Bank of
New York, effective March 2023?
A) Sushmita Shukla B) Indra Nooyi
C) Neerja Sethi D) Jayshree Ullal
Answer : A .
✓ Sushmita Shukla, an Indian-origin veteran of the insurance industry, has been appointed as First Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, making her the
second-ranking officer at the prominent institution.
✓ The appointment was approved by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the New
York Fed
Q. Which is India's first payment gateway to support credit cards on UPI?
A) Paytm B) Phone pay
C) Razorpay D) Google pay
Answer : C .
✓ Razorpay, India’s Leading Full-Stack Payments and Banking Platform for Businesses today. With the
aim to further strengthen digital payments and boost India’s credit penetration, the platform announced
its 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. Today, customers
of HDFC Bank, Punjab National Bank, Union Bank and Indian Bank will be the first to enjoy the benefits
of this innovation.
✓ Approximately 250 million Indians use UPI for their day-to-day transactions, and nearly 50 million users
have one or more credit cards

✓ Razorpay wins 'Startup of the Year' at the ET Startup Awards 2022

Q. The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, also called as Conference of Parties
(COP-15) commenced in which country ?
A) France B) Germany
C) Poland D) Canada
Answer : D .
✓ United Nations COP15 World Conference on Nature begins on Wednesday, 7 December 2022, in
Montreal, Canada.
✓ Coming on the heels of the recently held 27th Conference of Parties, environmental experts have begun
publishing proposals on important agendas that they suggest should be taken into consideration during
the conference.
✓ What is COP15? It is a UN Biodiversity Conference that will bring together 196 countries that ratified
the UN Convention on Biological Diversity which was originally signed in 1996.
✓ What is the goal? The goal of this conference is to create a framework to aid countries in environmental
conservation and the protection of biodiversity.
Q. FAO of the United Nations, organized an opening ceremony for the International Year of
Millets – 2023 (IYM2023) in which city?
A) Rome B) Paris
C) London D) Berlin
Answer : A .
✓ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, organized an opening ceremony for
the International Year of Millets – 2023 (IYM2023) in Rome, Italy.
✓ Sushri Shobha Karandlaje conveyed PM Modi’s compliments to the United Nations for declaring the
Year 2023 as the International Year of Millets.
✓ Millets are considered 'Smart Food' as they are easy to cultivate, mostly organic and contains high
nutritional value
✓ With PM Modi’s vision of “Vasudaiva Kutumbakam” (The World is One Family), the IYM2023 celebration
is an opportunity for India to promote Nutri-cereal Millets globally and place them in the world's 'food
map'.

✓ According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) , India is the largest producer of millet in the
world followed by Niger and China .
✓ Rajasthan was the largest millet producing state in India.
✓ Millet is one of the oldest known foods to humans. However its consumption in the world has declined
due to the emphasis given to wheat and rice by the governments.
✓ It is also called coarse cereals or nutri cereals due to its high nutritive value.
Q. The Third Global Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance concluded in which
country?
A) Bahrain B) Oman
C) Qatar D) United Arab Emirates
Answer : B .
✓ Third Global Ministerial Conference on Anti-microbial Resistance concluded in Oman 25th Nov 2022,
with the issue of The Muscat Manifesto, which aims to accelerate One Health actions on antimicrobial
resistance to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
✓ The participants, who included more than 30 ministers and representatives of more than 40 countries
from around the world in the fields of human, animal and environmental health, adopted the Muscat
Manifesto to commit to working towards achieving three goals.
✓ The first of these is to reduce the total amount of antimicrobials used in the agri-food system by at least
30-50 percent from the current level by 2030
✓ The third goal is to ensure that antibiotics included in the Access group make up at least 60 percent of
total antibiotic consumption in humans by 2030.
Q. Which day is celebrated as the International Mountain Day?
A) 12 December
B) 11 December
C) 10 December
D) 9 December
Answer : B .
✓ The International Mountain Day is observed on December 11 every year.

✓ 2022 Theme: Women Move Mountains

✓ Purpose: to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities
and constraints in mountain development and to build alliances that will bring positive change to
mountain peoples and environments around the world.
✓ It was established by the UN General Assembly in 2003 to encourage sustainable development of
mountains.
✓ United Nations had declared 2002 as the UN International Year of Mountains.
Q. UNICEF Day is observed on which day annually across the globe?
Answer : C .
✓ Every year the UNICEF Day is observed on December 11.

✓ The United Nations General Assembly created UNICEF on December 11, 1946, as the United Nations
International Children’s Emergency Fund to improve the health, nutrition, education, and general
welfare of children devastated due to World War II.
✓ UNICEF’s name was subsequently changed from United Nations International Children’s Emergency
Fund to United Nations Children’s Fund though, it continued to be known by the popular acronym based
on the previous title.
✓ United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
✓ Founded : 11 December 1946
✓ Headquarters: New York, United States
✓ Head : Catherine M. Russell (USA)
✓ Total members : 191
✓ UNICEF Representative in India : Dr Yasmin Ali Haque
Q. What is the theme of the International Mountain Day ?
A) #MountainsMatter
B) Mountains matter for Youth
C) Women Move Mountains
D) Mountain biodiversity
Answer : C .

Q. The International Universal Health Coverage Day is observed every year on__
Answer : C .
✓ International Universal Health Coverage Day is a United Nations’ recognized international day
celebrated every year on December 12.
✓ Objective: to provide access to quality and affordable health care to every person across the globe.
✓ The day was proclaimed by UN on December 12, 2017.
✓ 2022 theme is Build the world we want: A healthy future for all
Q. Who won the title of Time magazine’s “Person of the year 2022?”
A) Greta Thunberg
B) Joe Biden
C) Volodymyr Zelensky
D) Elon Musk
Answer : C .
✓ Time Magazine has named Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and "the spirit of Ukraine" as its
2022 Person of the Year.
✓ The award goes to an event or person who has had the most influence on global events over the past
12 months.
✓ The magazine also recognized “the spirit of Ukraine,” pointing to the country's resilience in a rebuke to
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
✓ Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was 2007's Person of the Year.
✓ Women in Iran were Time's 2022 Heroes of the year and the K-pop band Blackpink were recognised
as Time's Entertainer of the year.
✓ American baseballer Aaron Judge has been recognised as the Athlete of the Year and Malaysian
actress Michelle Yeoh is the Icon of the Year.
✓ Time magazine named President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as “the spirit of Ukraine” as its 2022
person of the year.
✓ The Liberty Medal 2022 will be awarded this fall to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

TIME MAGAZINE'S IN NEWS 2022

➢ Time magazine named President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as “the spirit of Ukraine” as its 2022
person of the year.
➢ Reliance Jio Chairman Akash Ambani listed on Time’s 100 Emerging Leaders’.
➢ Ahmedabad and Kerala, have been featured in TIME magazine’s list of world’s greatest places of
2022.
➢ Gautam Adani, Karuna Nundy, Khurram Parvez among Time's 100 most influential people 2022.
➢ Deepika Padukone gets inaugural TIME100 Impact Award 2022.
Q. What is Oxford's Word of the Year for 2022?
A) Goblin Mode B) VAX
C) Covid D) Climate Emergency
Answer : A .
✓ Oxford University Press (OUP), publishers of Oxford English Dictionary has selected “goblin mode” as
the 2022 Oxford word of the year.
✓ It refers to a type of behavior which is an unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy,
typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.
✓ For the first time, a group of lexicographers at OUP gave people a choice of: “Goblin mode,”
“metaverse,” and “#IStandWith”..
Word Of The Year 2022 IN NEWS

➢ 'Goblin mode' chosen as Oxford word of the year for 2022
➢ Merriam-Webster announced ‘Gaslighting’ as its Word of the Year 2022.
➢ Cambridge Dictionary announced ‘Homer’ as Word of the Year 2022.
➢ “Permacrisis” Is Collins Dictionary’s Word Of The Year 2022
Q. Which country is the largest trading partner of India after China and US, as of 2022?
A) Australia B) UAE
C) United Kingdom D) Russia
Answer : B .

✓ The India-UAE trade is valued at USD 72.8 billion in 2021-22, making the UAE India’s third largest
trading partner after China and US.
✓ Abu Dhabi, UAE’s capital city is seeking more investments from India.
✓ Abu Dhabi has identified priority sectors including agri-tech, tourism, healthcare, pharma and financial
services, where Indian enterprises can invest
✓ United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Capital : Abu Dhabi
Currency : Dirham
President : Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Prime Minister : Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Q. Who won silver at the weightlifting World Championship in Colombia?

A) Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu B) Sukhen Dey
C) Ganesh Mali D) Mirabai Chanu
Answer : D .
✓ Olympic silver medallist Mirabai Chanu won silver at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships in
Colombia on December 7, 2022.
✓ This was Mirabai's second medal at the World Championships, having previously won gold in 2017 with
a lift of 194 kg.
✓ She beat the Tokyo 2020 champion Hou Zhihua of China.
Q. Which movie won the Spotlight Award at the Hollywood Critics Association?
A) RRR B) Bahubali
C) Sita Ramam D) KGF
Answer : A .
✓ RRR won the Spotlight Award at the Hollywood Critics Association after director SS Rajamouli won the
best director award at the New York Film Critics Circle.
✓ The cast and crew of 'RRR,' together with Angela Bassett and Rian Johnson, will accept the award at
the 6th HCA Film Awards in Los Angeles.
✓ Filmmaker SS Rajamouli won the Best Director Award for RRR at the New York Film Critics Circle.

Q. Which telecom company has collaborated with Meta to provide the world’s largest subsea
cable to India?
A) Bharti Airtel B) Reliance Jio
C) BSNL D) Vodafone Idea
Answer : A .
✓ The telecom company Bharti Airtel Ltd. entered into a partnership with Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly
Facebook) to support the growth of India’s digital ecosystem.
✓ Bharti Airtel and Meta agreed to jointly invest in communications platform as a service (CPaaS)-based
new-age digital solutions and global connectivity infrastructure to support the requirements of
customers and enterprises in India.
✓ Bharti Airtel will also partner with Meta and Saudi Telecom Company (STC) to bring the world’s largest
submarine cable, 2Africa Pearls, to India.
✓ Bharti Airtel
Founded : 1995
Founder : Sunil Bharti Mittal
Headquarters : New Delhi
Chairman : Sunil Bharti Mittal
MD & CEO : Gopal Vittal
Q. World Bank has been approved USD 250 million financing to which country to strengthen
environment management?
A) Sri Lanka B) Maldives
C) India D) Bangladesh
Answer : D .
✓ World Bank approved USD 250 million financing to help Bangladesh strengthen environment
management and promote private sector participation in green investment.
✓ The Bangladesh Environmental Sustainability and Transformation (BEST) Project will help the country
tackle key pollution issues.
✓ An E-waste management facility will be set up to process 3,500 metric tons of e-waste annually.

Q. Which country abolished morality police known as the Gasht-e-Ershad or ‘Guidance

Patrol’?
A) Iran B) Kuwait
C) Saudi Arabia D) United Arab Emirates
Answer : A .
✓ Iran has abolished ‘morality police’ known as the Gasht-e Ershad or ‘Guidance Patrol’. The unit was
established in 2006 and their patrols were feared among women.
✓ The custodial death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was picked up by the vice squads in Tehran and
declared dead created public outcry and led to protestors.
Q. Which country is the host of the Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting (APRM) of the
International Labour Organisation (ILO)?
A) Vietnam B) Cambodia
C) Singapore D) Malaysia
Answer : C .
✓ The 17th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting (APRM) of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
began in Singapore.
✓ “Integrated policy agenda for a human–centred recovery that is inclusive, sustainable and resilient” is
the theme of the meeting.
✓ International Labour Organization (ILO)
Headquarters
Geneva, Switzerland
Head
Director-General : Guy Ryder (United Kingdom)
Total members : 187
Q. Who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of ONGC?
A) Arun Kumar Singh B) Rajesh Kumar Srivastava
C) Pankaj Jain D) Ashok Kumar Pandey
Answer : A .

✓ For the first time, a retired official has been brought back to head a public sector utility in the oil and
gas sector, ex-Chairman of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), Arun Kumar Singh, has
been appointed Chairman and Managing Director of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for
three years.
✓ Singh retired from BPCL on October 2022.
✓ He will succeed Alka Mittal.
✓ ONGC is the India’s top oil and gas producer company.
✓ Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
Founded : 1956
Headquarters : New Delhi
Chairman : Arun Kumar Singh
Q. Where does India stands in the world’s strongest passport list in 2022 published by Arton
Capital?
A) 83 B) 87
C) 89 D) 77
Answer : B .
✓ India has been ranked 87 in the world's strongest passport list for 2022, published by Arton Capital,
while UAE ranked first in the rating of passports that have been made public recently.
✓ It is the ranking of the world's strongest and weakest passports.
✓ The passport rankings show the number of countries one can enter without acquiring a visa.
Q. Where did the 9th World Ayurveda Congress and Arogya Expo 2022 inaugurated?
A) Hyderabad B) Bhopal
C) Goa D) Pune
Answer : C .
✓ The 9th World Ayurveda Congress and Arogya Expo 2022 was inaugurated at Panaji, Goa on
December 8, 2022, in the presence of the Union Minister of State for Tourism and Shipping and other
ministers.

✓ The 9th WAC aims to showcase the efficacy and strength of the AYUSH systems of medicine at the
Global level
Q. Who has been officiated as the new chairman of the Rajya Sabha?
A) Jagdeep Dhankhar B) Piyush Goyal
C) Virendra Kumar D) Giriraj Singh
Answer : A .
✓ Jagdeep Dhankhar has been officiated as the chairman of the Rajya Sabha on December 7, 2022, as
the winter session of the Parliament commences.
✓ PM Narendra Modi has expressed confidence that the Rajya Sabha will attain a new height under the
leadership of new Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar
Q. India's total coal production went up by __ % to 75.87 million tonnes in November 2022.
A) 9.34% B) 10.51%
C) 11.66% D) 12.96%
Answer : C .
✓ India’s total coal production has increased by 11.66 per cent to 75.87 Million Ton (MT) in November
2022. Last year November 2021 coal production 67.94 MT.
✓ Coal Ministry says, 24 mines out of the top 37 mines in coal production have produced more than 100
per cent and production of five mines stood between 80 and 100 percent.
✓ During the period, Coal based power generation has also registered a growth of 16.28 per cent
Q. India to Become __ Largest Advertising Market in 2023.
A) 10th B) 9th
C) 8th D) 7th
Answer : C .
✓ According to GroupM's global end-of-year forecast, India is expected to surpass Brazil to become the
eighth(8th)-largest advertising market in 2023.
✓ According to the report, India's total advertising revenue in 2022 has grown by 15.8 per cent to touch
$14.9 billion, led by growth in pure-play digital advertising. In 2023, it is expected to increase by 16.8
per cent.

✓ In comparison, Brazil's advertising market is projected to have grown by 9 per cent in 2022 to $15.4
billion. In 2023, it is expected to increase by 3.8 per cent.
✓ As per the report, retail media which is a subset of digital advertising, is expected to reach $551 million
in 2022 and is also expected to nearly double by 2027.
Q. Which company is launching a new anti-misinformation project in India?
A) Meta B) Twitter
C) Google D) Microsoft
Answer : C .
✓ Google's (GOOGL.O) Jigsaw subsidiary is launching a new anti-misinformation project in India, aimed
at preventing misleading information that has been blamed for inciting violence.
✓ * The initiative will use "prebunking" videos – designed to counter false claims before they become
widespread – circulated on the company's YouTube platform and other social media sites.
✓ GOOGLE
Founded :1998
Founders : Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Headquarters : Mountain View, California, US
CEO : Sundar Pichai
Q. Which country Host Conclave of National Security Adviser (NSAs) of Central Asian
Countries on December 2022?
A) Kyrgyzstan B) Tajikistan
C) Kazakhstan D) India
Answer : D .
✓ National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval connectivity with "Central Asian countries" remains India's
key priority.
✓ Speaking at the first India-Central Asia meeting of the National Security Advisers, in New Delhi, Mr
Doval said, peaceful, secure and prosperous Central Asia is in our common interest.
✓ This is the first time India is hosting a conclave of top security officials from Central Asian countries
including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan focussing on the evolving security
situation in Afghanistan and ways to deal with the threat of terrorism emanating from that country

Q. 51st Maitri Diwas' Marking Recognition of Bangladesh by India Celebrated in which location
on 6th Dec 2022?
A) Chattogram
B) Dhaka
C) Khulna
D) Sylhet
Answer : B .
✓ 51st anniversary of 'Maitri Diwas' marking the recognition granted to Bangladesh by India in 1971 was
celebrated in Dhaka on 6th December 2022.
✓ Speaking on the occasion, Minister Mozammel Haque thanked India for its support extended to the
people of Bangladesh during the Liberation War in 1971.
✓ He said that the day gives an opportunity to reflect on the achievements of the past 51 years of India-
Bangladesh partnership and the promise for the future
✓ Maitree Express or Dhaka-Kolkata Express is an International passenger train serving the railway
connecting the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka and India’s West Bengal (Paschim Banga) states capital
Kolkata
Q. Who has topped the Forbes 2022 list of ‘The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’?
A) Kamala Harris B) Christine Lagarde
C) Angela Merkel D) Ursula von der Leyen
Answer : D .
✓ Top 3 women in the world in Forbes list

1. The list was topped by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who played a key
role in handling COVID -19 crisis, the Russia-Ukraine war, etc.
2. European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde stood at second position on the list.
3. US Vice President Kamala Harris ranked third on the list.
✓ Iran's Zina "Mahsa" Amini was posthumously ranked 100th on the influential list. His death in September
sparked one of Iran's worst public protests.

Q. India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has made into the Forbes 2022 list of ‘The
World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’, for four year in a row. What is her rank in the list?
A) 36 B) 29
C) 41 D) 50
Answer : A .
✓ Forbes on December 7 released its annual list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World, 2022, in
which six women from India feature.
✓ Name of six Indians
1. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman - ranked 36, is on the list for the fourth time in a row.
2. Roshini Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson of HCLTech - ranked 53rd.
3. Madhabi Puri Buch, Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) -ranked
54th.
4. Soma Mondal, Chairperson of the Steel Authority of India - ranked 67.
5. Mazumdar-Shaw, executive chairperson and founder of Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics
Limited - ranked 72.
6. Falguni Sanjay Nayar, the founder and CEO of the beauty and lifestyle retail company Nykaa -
ranked 89th.
Q. To what basis points did RBI increase the repo rate on 7 December 2022?
A) 33 points B) 38 points
C) 32 points D) 35 points
Answer : D .
✓ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 7 December raised its key repo rate, or the key lending rate, by 35
basis points (bps) to 6.25%, to curb lingering inflation pressures.
✓ This is the fifth time in a row that the RBI has increased the repo rate this year
✓ The decision was announced by the six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das.
✓ Earlier, the RBI had increased the repo rate by 40 bps in May and 50 bps each in June, August and
September.
✓ The RBI policy rate is now at its highest level since August 2018.
✓ The RBI also cut the growth forecast for the current financial year to 6.8 per cent.

✓ The FY23 inflation forecast is kept unchanged at 6.7%.

✓ The standing deposit facility (SDF) rate stands adjusted to 6.00 per cent.
✓ The marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the bank rate have been kept at 6.50 per cent.
✓ In FY23 Consumer Price Index (CPI) estimated at 6.7 per cent. It remains unchanged.
Q. What is the current Marginal Standing Facility Rate (MSF Rate) and Bank Rate?
A) 6.25% B) 6.50%
C) 6.35% D) 6.75%
Answer : B .
✓ Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) – 6.00%

✓ Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) – 6.50%
✓ Bank Rate – 6.50%
✓ Repo Rate – 6.25%
✓ Reverse Repo Rate – 3.35%
✓ Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) – 4.50%
✓ Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) – 18%
Q. What is the present Reverse Repo Rate?

A) 4.00% B) 4.25%
C) 3.35% D) 3.25%
Answer : C .
Q. What is the cash reserve ratio (CRR) of all banks set by RBI w.e.f December 7, 2022?
A) 4.00% B) 3.50%
C) 4.50% D) 3.75%
Answer : C .
Q. Three Indians feature in Forbes Asia's 'Heroes of Philanthropy List' 2022; Which is not one
of the following?
A) Mukesh Ambani B) Gautam Adani
C) Shiv Nadar D) Ashok Soota
Answer : A .

✓ Three Indian billionairesGautam Adani,Shiv Nadar, andAshok Sootawere named in the 16th edition of
Forbes Asia's Heroes of Philanthropy list released on 6 December 2022.
✓ It also included Malaysian-Indian businessmanBrahmal Vasudevanand his lawyer wifeShanthi Kandiah
✓ Asia’s richest manGautam Adanihas pledged Rs 60,000 crore to charity. The money will be used in
healthcare, education, and skill development. The money will be channelled through the family's Adani
Foundation, which was founded in 1996.
✓ Co-founder of HCLTechnologies,Shiv Nadarhas donated Rs 11,600 crore this year to the Shiv Nadar
Foundation. The foundation has helped set up educational institutions such as schools and universities
and it also promotes art and culture
✓ Ashok Soota, founder of Happiest Mind software company has pledged Rs 600 crore (USD 75 million)
to the medical research trust he founded in April 2021 for the study of ageing and neurological illnesses
Q. According to Google's annual report released in December 2022, which of the following is
the most searched trending topic in India?
A) CoWIN B) FIFA World Cup
C) Indian Premier League (IPL) D) Cricket Asia Cup
Answer : C .
✓ According to Google’s annual year end report titled “Year in Search 2022," on 7 December 2022,
theIndian Premier League (IPL)cricket tournament remained the top trending query for thethird
consecutive year.
✓ It was followed byCoWIN, a government web portal that facilitates registrations and appointments for
COVID-19 vaccines and issues digital vaccine certificates.
✓ The third most searched trending topic in India was theFIFA World Cup, which kicked off on November
20 in Qatar.
✓ Most searched personalities in India in 2022
✓ The most searched personalities in India in 2022 included suspended BJP spokespersonNupur
Sharma, who bagged the first spot.
✓ She was followed by President of IndiaDroupadi Murmu,new United Kingdom Prime MinisterRishi
Sunak, and at the 4thspot was Lalit Modi.
✓ Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 ended with Gujarat Titans (GT) lifting the trophy by defeating
inaugural champions Rajasthan Royals (RR).

✓ Aramco Purple Cap Winner Of The Season : Yuzvendra Chahal (27 Wickets)
✓ Aramco Orange Cap Winner Of The Season : Jos Buttler (863 Runs).
✓ Indian Premier League (IPL)
✓ Administrator : BCCI
✓ First edition : 2008
✓ Founder : Lalit Modi
✓ Number of teams : 10 (2022 Season)
✓ Current champion : CSK (4th title)
✓ Most successful : Mumbai Indians (5 titles)
Q. Which states has launched Asia's first drone delivery hub for easy access to healthcare?
A) Assam B) Manipur
Answer : D .
✓ Meghalaya government in partnership with StartupTechEaglehas unveiled Asia's first drone delivery
hub and networkMeghalaya Drone Delivery Network (MDDN),which is aimed at providing universal
access to healthcare for the people in the state.
Q. Which bank has received the EAG Award at the International Olympiad of Financial
Security?
A) Bank of India
B) Bank of Baroda
C) State Bank Of India
D) Canara Bank
Answer : B .
✓ Bank of Baroda has bagged anEAG Laureate awardin the International Olympiad of Financial Security
held at Sochi, Russia on 10 October 2022.
✓ It is the second largest public sector bank in India after State Bank of India (SBI).
✓ The banks in which the government of India holds 51% or more equity shares are called public sector
banks in India

Q. Four Indians feature in BBC's list of 100 Most Influential Women of 2022; Which is not one of
the following?
A) Priyanka Chopra B) Sirisha Bandla
C) Gitanjali Shree D) PV Sindhu
Answer : D .
✓ In the annual BBC (British Broadcasting Services) ‘100 influential Women of the year 2022 list’ four
India’s women,Priyanka Chopra Jonas,aeronautical engineer Sirisha Bandla, Booker-winning
authorGeetanjali Shreeand social worker Sneha Jawalehave been included.
✓ Priyanka Choprais a former Miss World (2000) and a leading Bollywood actress.
✓ Geetanjali Shreeis the first Indian to win theInternational Booker Prize award 2022for her Hindi novel
“Ret Samadhi,"or ‘Tomb of the Sand’.
✓ Sirisha Bandla was part of Virgin Galactic’s first fullycrewed sub-orbital spaceflight in 2021. The mission
was known as Unity 22 mission. She is the second Indian born woman afterKalpana Chawlato go into
space
✓ Sneha Jawale,the fourth Indian on the list, is a domestic abuse victim turned social worker
Q. Which metropolitan police will use the 'Open Standard Digital Trunking Radio System' (OS-
DTRS)?
A) Kolkata Police
B) Mumbai police
C) Chennai Police
D) Delhi Police
Answer : D .
✓ Delhi Police is set to design, install and supply the ‘Open Standard Digital Trunking Radio System’ (OS-
DTRS) and will phase out the current tetranet wireless network services. About Rs. 100 crores will be
spent on this project, for which tenders were issued on 2 December.
✓ About OS-DTRS System:
✓ It will be a more efficient internal communication system, aimed at a faster exchange of information and
bigger networks.

Q. Which Indian actresses will unveil the FIFA World Cup trophy in Qatar ahead of the World
Cup final?
A) Priyanka Chopra B) Alia Bhatt
C) Deepika Padukone D) Kiara Advani
Answer : A .
✓ Deepika Padukone will unveil the FIFA World Cup trophy in Qatar before the World Cup final on
December 18.
✓ The 36-year-old Deepika will be the first actor to receive such an honour at the world's most-watched
sporting event.
✓ The FIFA World Cup final will be held on 18 December at the Lusail Iconic Stadium in Qatar.
Q. National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) Limited has signed MoU with which of the
following to empower MSMEs in the country?
A) Reliance Industries Limited
B) Flipkart Global Sourcing India Private Limited
C) Walmart Global Sourcing India Private Limited
D) Amazon Global Sourcing India Private Limited
Answer : C .
✓ An MoU was signed between Walmart Global Sourcing India Private Limited and The National Small
Industries Corporation (NSIC) Limited .
✓ The MoU was signed at the Walmart Vriddhi Seller Summit in New Delhi.
✓ The Walmart Vriddhi Seller Summit is an event to achieve a record 20,000 MSMEs who have completed
their training under the Walmart Vriddhi Supplier Development Program (Walmart Vriddhi) of which
Swasti is a program partner
Q. Bobby Kinnar of Sultanpur has been elected as the first transgender member of Delhi MCD;
He belongs to which of the following party?
A) Bharatiya Janata Party B) Aam Aadmi Party
C) Congress D) Bahujan Samajwadi Party
Answer : B .

✓ Bobby Kinnar, popularly known as Bobby Darling, from Sultanpur became the first transgender member
of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) after winning from Sultanpuri
✓ It will also be the first time that the MCD will have a transgender member.
✓ She won the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seat from Sultanpuri. Bobi defeated Congress candidate Varuna
Dhaka by a margin of 6,714 votes.
Q. Which of the following has decided to set up a $3 billion green steel plant in Oman in
December 2022?
A) Tata Steel B) Reliance Industries
C) Jindal Shadeed Group D) Adani Group
Answer : C .
✓ The Jindal Shadeed Group has announced that it will invest more than $3 billion to set up a green steel
plant in a special economic zone in the southern port city of Duqm, Oman
✓ The hydrogen-ready steel project will have the capacity to produce 5 million tonnes of steel a year.
✓ The proposed new green steel plant will use natural gas for the production of steel
Q. City of Joy' author Dominique Lapierre passed away recently, belongs to which one of the
following countries?
A) Germany B) Belgium
C) France D) Australia
Answer : C .
✓ Dominique Lapierre , co-author of famous books based on India like " Freedom at Midnight" and "City
of Joy " passed away
✓ French author Dominique Lapierre, in partnership with American author Larry Collins , wrote six books
that have sold over 50 million copies worldwide.
✓ Books by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
✓ Is Paris Burning?
✓ O Jerusalem
✓ the fifth horseman
✓ Is New York Burning?
✓ city of joy
✓ freedom at midnight

✓ Or I'll Dress You in the Morning , was written solely by Dominique Lapierre.
✓ City of Joy was about the hardships of a rickshaw puller in Kolkata.
✓ The book Freedom at Midnight was on the freedom movement in India
Q. Which of the following is the first bank in the country to cross Rs 5 lakh crore personal
banking credit mark on 30 November 2022?
A) State Bank of India B) Bank of India
C) Punjab National Bank D) Canara Bank
Answer : A .
✓ State Bank of India (SBI) on 5 December 2022 announced that its personal banking advances excluding
high-value home loans have crossed the Rs 5 lakh-crore mark as on 30 November 2022. SBI is the
only bank in India that has crossed this milestone
✓ SBI is the largest home loan provider in India.
✓ Personal Banking advances mainly comprise personal loans, pension loans, auto loans, education
loans, gold loans, and other Personal loan products.
✓ The Bank reached the 1 lakh crore personal loan mark in January 2015, Rs 2 lakh crore in January
2018, Rs 3 lakh crore in August 2020, and Rs 4 lakh crore in November 2021.
✓ SBI has 22,309 branches, over 65,000 automated teller machines, and also 66,757 business
correspondent outlets, which drive the entire retail banking franchise.
Q. Who among the following launched the integrated 'Agriculture Investment Portal' on 6th
December 2022?
A) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat B) Om Birla
C) Narendra Singh Tomar D) Jagdeep Dhankar
Answer : C .
✓ Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated the integrated
‘Agriculture Investment Portal’ on 6 December.
✓ The agriculture Investment Portal will prove to be a milestone in terms of investment in the agriculture
sector.
✓ With the aim to further increase investment in agriculture, the government has allocated a special
package of over ₹1.5 lakh crore for agriculture and allied sectors under the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat
Abhiyan’.

✓ Work on these provisions has started, including the Rs 1 lakh crore Agriculture Infrastructure Fund.
Q. Where does India rank in the 2022 Hurun Global 500 Ranking of valuable firms?
A) 4th B) 5th
C) 6th D) 7th
Answer : B .
✓ According to the recently released Hurun Global 500 list 2022, India, with 20 most valuable companies
in the world, has moved into the fifth position among countries that are home to the world’s top 500
firms. Last year India was ranked 9th with 8 companies.
✓ The list, released by the Hurun Research Institute, is a compilation of the 500 most valuable non-state-
controlled companies in the world. Companies were ranked according to their market capitalization (for
listed companies) and valuations for non-listed companies.
✓ Top ranked Indian companies
✓ The top ranked Indian companies in the Hurun 500 list are as follows;
✓ Reliance Industries Limited was the top ranked Indian company. It was ranked 34th in the world.
✓ Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was ranked second , and
✓ HDFC bank was ranked third.
✓ For the first time, 4 Adani group companies also made to the list. These companies are; Adani
Transmission, Adani Green Energy, Adani Enterprises and Adani Total Gas.
Q. Which company has emerged as the world’s most valuable company in Hurun’s 2022 Global
500 Most Valuable Companies?
A) Amazon B) Facebook
C) Apple D) Microsoft
Answer : C .
✓ Top ranked company in the world

✓ US based Apple was the top ranked company followed by Microsoft, Alphabet (owner of Google),
Amazon and Tesla.
✓ Country wise ranking
✓ The United States of America with 260 companies came at the top. It was followed by
✓ China with 35 companies,

✓ Japan with 28 companies,

✓ The United Kingdom with 21 companies ,
✓ India and Canada were at the 5th position with 20 companies each.
✓ Of the 20 Indian companies featured on the list this year, 11 are based in Mumbai, four in Ahmedabad
and one each in Noida, New Delhi, Bengaluru and Kolkata.
✓ Hurun
✓ It was set up in the United Kingdom by Rupert Hoogewerf in 1999. Hurun is a research, media and
investments group, which publishes a series of research reports.
✓ The Company is headquartered in Shanghai, China.
Q. Reliance Industries is the top Indian company in Hurun Global 500 Most Valuable
Companies list 2022, ranked at 34 spot. How many Indian companies are there in the list?
A) 15 B) 18
C) 13 D) 20
Answer : D .
Q. Central Government has permitted Work From Home up to the ___ to 100% of employees of
the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) units.
A) 31st March 2023 B) 31st July 2023
C) 31st December 2023 D) 31st March 2024
Answer : C .
✓ The Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry in a notification issued on 8 December 2022 has allowed
information technology (IT) companies operating in special economic zones (SEZs) to permit 100 per
cent work from home (WFH) or any place outside such zones till December 31, 2023.
✓ The government has amended the rule 43A under the SEZ law to allow WFH for employees of IT and
information technology enabled services,
✓ In July 2022, the Central government had allowed 50 per cent of the employees in SEZs, including
contractual workers, to work from home. Till now, WFH was permitted for a maximum per-iod of one
year in an SEZ unit.
✓ Special Economic Zone (SEZ)

✓ Special Economic Zone in India has been set up under the Special Economic Zone act 2005 which was
implemented on 10 February 2006. There are 270 operational SEZ in India as on 22 November
2022.The concept of SEZ was taken from China.
✓ The Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry is the nodal body of SEZ in India.
✓ The objective of the SEZ as per the SEZ act 2005 are as follows:
✓ (a) Generation of additional economic activity; (b) Promotion of exports of goods and services; (c)
Promotion of investment from domestic and foreign sources; (d) Creation of employment opportunities;
(e) Development of infrastructure facilities
Q. Who has been unanimously elected as the new Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh and will
take the oath on 11th December 2022?
A) Jairam Thakur B) Virbhadra Singh
C) Manohar Lal Khattar D) Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu
Answer : D .
✓ Former Congress state chief Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu was sworn in as the 17th Chief Minister of
Himachal Pradesh on 11 December by Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar in Shimla.
✓ Mukesh Agnihotri was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister. He is a resident of Nadaun in Hamirpur
district of Himachal Pradesh.
✓ Two days after the Congress wrested power from BJP winning 40 seats in the 68-member Assembly,
the Congress leadership on 10 December named Sukhu as the next CM.
✓ Law graduate Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, a four-time MLA from Nadaun constituency in Himachal
Pradesh
✓ For the first time he won the assembly elections in 2003 from Nadaun in Hamirpur district. He then
retained the seat in 2007 but lost it again in 2012 and won it again in 2017 and 2022.
✓ About Himachal Pradesh
✓ It was made the eighteenth state of India on 25 January 1971 under the Himachal Pradesh State Act,
1971.
✓ Himachal Pradesh is also called the Land of Gods.
✓ Himachal Pradesh is part of the Shivalik range of the Himalaya Mountains
✓ Capital- Shimla

✓ Governor- Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar

✓ Legislative Assembly seats- 68
✓ Rajya Sabha seats- 3
✓ Lok Sabha seats - 4
Q. The 9th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) and Arogya Expo 2022 was inaugurated in which
state?
A) Goa B) Punjab
C) Gujarat D) West Bengal
Answer : A .
✓ 9th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) was inaugurated 8th Dec 2022 at Panaji, Goa in the presence of
Union Minister of State for Tourism and Shipping, Ports and Waterways Shripad Naik, Chief Minister
Dr Pramod Sawant and Secretary, Ministry of Ayush, Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha. The 9th WAC aims to
showcase the efficacy and strength of the AYUSH systems of medicine at the Global level.
✓ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressed the valedictory function of the 9th World Ayurveda
Congress. He also inaugurated 11th Dec 2022 three National Ayush Institutes.
✓ The three institutes - All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), Goa, National Institute of Unani Medicine
(NIUM), Ghaziabad and National Institute of Homoeopathy (NIH), Delhi - will further strengthen
research and international collaborations and will also facilitate affordable Ayush services for people.
Developed at a total cost of about Rs 970 crores, these institutes will increase the intake of students by
around 400 along with the addition of about 500 hospital beds
Q. Which state becomes the First State To Launch Its Own Climate Change Mission in India?
A) Karnataka B) Tamil Nadu
C) Uttar Pradesh D) Andhra Pradesh
Answer : B .
✓ Tamil Nadu has become the first state in India to launch its own Climate Change Mission.
✓ Launching the state climate change mission at the Tamil Nadu climate change summit on 9 December
2022, Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin said that the state will achieve carbon neutrality much ahead
of the national target of 2070.
✓ The Tamil Nadu Climate Summit was held in Chennai from 8 and 9 December 2022.

✓ Carbon neutral refers to the removal of the same amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by
various means as the amount of carbon dioxide which is released in the atmosphere leaving a Zero
balance or zero carbon
Q. Which country prints first banknotes with women's signatures of the Secretary of Treasury
'Janet Yellen' and 'Lynn Malerba'?
A) France B) Netherlands
C) United States D) United Kingdom
Answer : C .
✓ United States prints first banknotes with women's signatures.

✓ U.S. The Treasury (United States of America's Finance Ministry) has printed the first US banknotes
(currency notes) with two women's signatures. The new currency notes of $1 and $5 value carry the
signature of the Secretary of Treasury (American Finance Minister) Janet Yellen and Lynn Malerba.
✓ The United States currency notes are popularly called as Greenback.
✓ Lynn Malerba is Native American and is the chief of the Mohegan Tribe, who holds the position of
Treasurer of the United States within the Department of Treasury, United States government.
✓ Janet Yellen is a former chairman of the United States Central Bank, Federal Reserve of New York.
She was the first female head of the Federal Reserve..
✓ INDIA
✓ In India the government of India issues currency notes of one Rupees and the Coins under the Coinage
act 1906(as amended in 2011).
✓ Notes in the denomination of Rs 2 to Rs 10,000 are issued by the Reserve Bank of India under the
Reserve Bank of India act 1934.
✓ In India Currency notes issued by the RBI are called bank notes. The Bank notes are signed by the
governor of RBI. Till date there has been no women governor in RBI.
✓ The One rupee note is signed by the Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India
✓ Printing of notes in India
✓ Bank notes are printed at four currency presses, two of which are owned by the Government of India
through its Corporation, Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd. (SPMCIL) and two are
owned by the Reserve Bank, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note
Mudran Private Ltd. (BRBNMPL).

✓ The currency presses of SPMCIL are at Nasik (Maharashtra) and Dewas (Madhya Pradesh).
✓ The two presses of BRBNMPL are at Mysuru (Karnataka) and Salboni (West Bengal).
Q. Who has been elected as the new Chief Minister of Gujarat and will take the oath on 12th
December 2022?
A) Acharya Devvrat B) Vijay Rupani
C) Nitinbhai Patel D) Bhupendra Patel
Answer : D .
✓ BJP leader Bhupendra Patel took oath as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a second straight term in
Gandhinagar on 12 December in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home
Minister Amit Shah.
✓ Governor Acharya Devvrat administered the oath as the 18th Chief Minister of the state.
✓ Patel was sworn in as the 17th Chief Minister of Gujarat on September 13, 2021.
✓ The BJP created history in Gujarat with a landslide and 7th consecutive victory in the 2022 elections.
✓ The BJP won 156 seats in the 182-member assembly, its best ever performance in the state..
Q. 4-day meeting of G20 Development Working Group (DWG) to be held in which city?
A) Mumbai B) Chennai
C) Hyderabad D) New Delhi
Answer : A .
✓ The 4-day meeting of G20 Development Working Group (DWG) will begin 13th Dec 2022 in Mumbai
under the India's Presidency.
✓ The Development Working Group meetings aims to discuss developmental issues in Developing
Countries, Least Developed Countries and Island Countries.
✓ The G-20 possesses the knowledge, expertise, financial resources required to reverse trajectories that
have gone off track.
✓ The Development Working Group meeting held in the 3rd G-20 at Bali between August 10-12 concluded
with the discussion and finalization of key G-20 agreements. The first Development Working Group
Meeting during India’s Presidency will be held in Mumbai from December 13 -16.

✓ In these meetings, sessions on Data For Development, Role of G-20 in Advancing the 2030 Agenda,
Infusing New LiFE into Green Development and Accelerating Progress on the Sustainable
Development Goals are organised.
✓ The first G20 Finance and Central Bank Deputies (FCBD) meeting will begin tomorrow in Bengaluru.
Q. Where will the 1st meeting of G20 Finance Track agenda to be held under G20 Presidency
take place?
A) New Delhi B) Mumbai
C) Ahmedabad D) Bengaluru
Answer : D .
✓ The first G20 Finance and Central Bank Deputies (FCBD) meeting is scheduled to be held from 13th to
15th December 2022 in Bengaluru.
✓ According to Ministry of Finance, this meeting, which will mark the start of discussions on the Finance
Track agenda under the Indian G20 Presidency, will be hosted jointly by the Ministry of Finance and
the Reserve Bank of India.
✓ The Minister informed that the first Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting will be held
during 23-25 February 2023 in Bengaluru.
✓ The Indian G20 Presidency’s theme of ‘One Earth One Family, One Future’ will guide the G0 Finance
Track discussions.
Q. Who has been newly appointed as the judge of the Supreme court?
A) K.M Joseph B) Sanjiv Sharma
C) Dipankar Datta D) Abdul Nazeer
Answer : C .
✓ Bombay High Court Chief Justice Dipankar Datta was on 12 December administered the oath of office
as a Supreme Court judge by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud..
✓ The number of judges in the apex court has now increased to 28. The sanctioned strength of the
Supreme Court is 34, including the Chief Justice of India.
✓ Justice Datta, born on February 9, 1965, turned 57 this year and will have a tenure till February 8, 2030,
in the Supreme Court where the retirement age is 65..
✓ He was made the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court on April 28, 2020

Q. PM Modi has inaugurated the Mopa International Airport in Goa has been named after which
minister?
A) Arun Jaitle B) Pramod Sawant
C) Nandan Nilekani D) Manohar Parrikar
Answer : D .
✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first phase of the international airport at Mopa in north
Goa on 11 December 2022.
✓ He named the airport after late Goa Chief Minister and former Union Defence Minister Manohar
Parrikar.
✓ Manohar Parrikar was a towering leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Goa .He was the Chief Minister
of Goa 2000 to 2005, 2012 to 2014 and from 14 March 2017 until his death in March 2019.
✓ Manohar Parrikar was also the Union Defence Minister from October 2014-March 2017. He was
awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously in January 2020.
✓ Mopa Airport
✓ In November 2016, the PM laid Mopa airport's foundation stone. It will be the second airport in the state,
the first airport in Goa is at Dabolim
Q. A "Dream Crew" has been announced for the first civilian mission to the Moon, and it
includes an Indian actor who?
A) Rudra Soni B) Dev Joshi
C) Abhishek Nigam D) Shridhar Watsar
Answer : B .
✓ The first civilian mission to the moon features a "dream crew" that includes Indian actor "Dev Joshi".
✓ The eight guests who will travel with Japanese businessman Yusaku Maezawa on a SpaceX spaceship
to fly past the moon next year include K-Pop sensation T.O.P. and Indian actor Dev Joshi,
✓ The rocket created by Elon Musk's SpaceX will travel to the moon and return over the course of a week
in 2023
✓ T.O.P., who made his debut as the lead rapper for the K-Pop group Big Bang, American DJ Steve Aoki,
American filmmaker Brendan Hall, and American YouTuber Tim Dodd are among the eight people
Maezawa chose for his "dearMoon project."

Q. Which state has launched Sanitation Workers' Development Programme?

A) Tamil Nadu B) Karnataka
C) Telangana D) Andhra Pradesh
Answer : A .
✓ The Sanitation Workers’ Development Scheme was launched by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin
to ensure the welfare of conservancy workers in the southern state
Q. India’s First Carbon Neutral Farm Inaugurated In Which state?
A) Karnataka B) Gujarat
C) Assam D) Kerala
Answer : D .
✓ Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan declared a seed farm, located in Aluva here, as the first carbon
neutral farm in the country.
✓ A significant reduction in carbon emission has helped the seed farm, under the Agricultural Department,
achieve carbon neutral status.
✓ The total amount of carbon emission from the farm, located at Thuruthu in Aluva, in the last one year
was 43 tons but its overall procurement was 213 ton, he said.
Q. How many Himalayan medicinal plants enter IUCN Red List of Threatened Species?
A) Two B) Three
C) Four D) Five
Answer : B .
✓ Three medicinal plant species (Meizotropis pellita, Fritilloria cirrhosa, Dactylorhiza hatagirea) have been
listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, after a recent assessment.
✓ Reason : The biodiversity hotspot shows deforestation, habitat loss, forest fires, illegal trade and climate
change.
✓ Meizotropis pellita has been assessed as ‘critically endangered’, Fritilloria cirrhosa as ‘vulnerable’, and
Dactylorhiza hatagirea as ‘endangered’..
✓ Meizotropis pellita
✓ Commonly known as Patwa, it is a perennial shrub that is endemic to Uttarakhand.

✓ Fritillaria cirrhosa
✓ It is a perennial bulbous herb
✓ Dactylorhiza hatagirea
✓ This species, also called the salampanza, is threatened by habitat loss, livestock grazing, deforestation,
and climate change .
✓ “Red Data Book” is published by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).
✓ The Red Data Book contains the complete list of threatened species.
✓ The objectives of maintaining the Red Data Book, as provided by the IUCN (1996).
✓ IUCN Headquarters:- Gland, Switzerland .
Q. Who has been awarded with 1 position in the category for Ayushman Bharat health account
ID generation?
A) Kerala B) Jharkhand
C) Uttarakhand D) Jammu and Kashmir
Answer : D .
✓ 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.
Q. Who has been officially elected as the first woman president of Indian Olympic Association
(IOA) ?
A) PT Usha B) PV Sindhu
C) Koneru Humpy D) Karnam Malleswari
Answer : A .
✓ High-flying PT Usha is all set to become the first woman president of the Indian Olympic Association
(IOA) .
✓ Ajay H Patel has been elected as senior Vice President, Rajlaxmi Singh Deo and Gagan Narang as
Vice Presidents of the Indian Olympic Association.

✓ PT Usha has won the Asian Games gold medal. At the same time, in the 1984 Olympics, she finished
fourth in the final of the 400 meters hurdles.
✓ PT Usha, the first woman President of the Indian Olympic Association, is 58 years old.
✓ PT Usha has won 11 medals in Asian Games and 23 medals in Asian Championships in her career.
These include 18 gold medals.
✓ PT Usha has won 4 gold medals in Asian Games and 14 gold medals in Asian Championships.
✓ She is currently the committee head of the Pratibha Sangh of India. This committee conducts national
level Indian Talent Olympiad exams in schools all over India.
✓ PT Usha, who hails from Kerala, has studied at Providence Women's College, Kozhikode
✓ PT. Usha called by many names — 'Payyoli express'', Udanpari'.
✓ Golden girl: The autobiography of PT Usha
Q. Who has dedicate to the nation the charter gateway for private chartered flights at Cochin
International Airport Limited (CIAL)?
A) Pinarayi Vijayan B) Narendra Modi
C) Kodiyeri Balakrishnan D) Ramesh Chennithala
Answer : A .
✓ Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the country's first and biggest charter gateway – the
Business Jet Terminal -- at the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) on 10 December 2022.
Cochin airport has become the 4th airport in India after Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad with dedicated
private Jet terminals.
✓ According to the CIAL Managing Director, S Suhas “The Business Jet Terminal is going to be India's
first Charter Gateway, which will serve as a platform to integrate business jet service, tourism and
business conferences.
✓ Cochin International Airport was the first airport in the world to run on solar power. It is the largest airport
in Kerala and the seventh largest in India.
✓ Kerala has the highest number of operational international airports in India. It has 4 international
airports. They are:
✓ Trivandrum International Airport ,
✓ Cochin International airport ,
✓ Calicut International Airport and

✓ Kannur International Airport

Q. Spice Money has partnered with which bank to facilitate the opening of instant, zero-
balance savings or current accounts for rural citizens through its Adhikari network?
A) Axis Bank B) HDFC Bank
C) Yes Bank D) ICICI Bank
Answer : A .
✓ Spice Money has partnered with Axis Bank to facilitate the opening of instant, zero-balance savings or
current accounts for rural citizens through its Adhikari network.
✓ To bridge the rural-urban divide and bring financial inclusivity by providing access to banking products
to the last mile at their doorstep.
✓ The Spice Money network, comprising more than 10 lakh Adhikaris, covers more than 18,000 pin codes,
700 districts and 5,000 blocks, serving over 10 crore households.
AXIS BANK IN NEWS 2022

➢ Spice Money Partnered with Axis Bank for Financial Inclusion in Rural India.
➢ Axis Bank launches 7th edition of knowledge summit ‘Evolve’ for MSMEs.
➢ Axis Bank and Square Yards launched ‘Open Doors’, a co-branded Home Buyer Ecosystem.
➢ Axis Bank signed an MoU with FCI to provide “Ultima Salary Package”.
➢ Axis Bank launches “House Work is Work” Initiative.
➢ IRDA fines Axis Bank Rs 2 crore and Max Life Insurance company Rs 3 crore.
➢ Axis Bank-PayNearby collaborate for their priority sector lending goals.
➢ Axis Bank and Airtel Payments Bank collaborate to digitise last-mile cash collection.
➢ Axis Bank and Airtel tie-up to boost India’s digital ecosystem 2022.
➢ Axis Bank takes Citibank’s India consumer business in a Rs 12,325 crores.
➢ One of India’s largest financial deals, Axis Bank-Citi merger, gets approved by CCI.
➢ Defence ministry gives approval to HDFC, ICICI, and Axis to offer finances for international
purchases.
➢ Axis Bank and EazyDiner collaborate to introduce Dining Delights.
➢ Axis Bank won ‘Asian Bank of the Year’ at IFR Asia Awards 2021.
➢ Axis Bank and IDBI Bank have each been fined Rs 93 lakh by the RBI.

➢ Axis Bank & CRMNEXT won IBSi Innovation Awards 2021.

➢ Axis Bank has launched the ‘HouseWorkIsWork’ project.
➢ Axis Bank tie-up with MinkasuPay for biometric-based banking payments.
➢ Axis Bank is 2nd largest in PoS machines.
➢ AXIS BANK
➢ Founded : 1993
➢ HQ : Mumbai, Maharashtra
➢ Chairman : Rakesh Makhija
➢ MD & CEO : Amitabh Chaudhary
➢ Tagline : Badhti Ka naam Zindagi
Q. What is the name of Peru’s first female president?

A) Liz Truss B) Dina Boluarte
C) Eda Rivas D) Ana Jara
Answer : B .
✓ Dina Boluarte became the first female President of Peru after her predecessor was detained by police
and impeached by lawmakers.
✓ Boluarte has been sworn into the top job to become Peru’s sixth president in under five years.
✓ Former Vice President Dina Boluarte has assumed the charge as the first female and sixth president of
Peru.
✓ Peru
✓ Capital : Lima
✓ Currency : Sol
✓ President : Dina Boluarte
FIRST FEMALE PM & PRESIDENT IN NEWS 2022

➢ Dina Boluarte became Peru’s first female president.
➢ Natasa Pirc Musar Elected Slovenia’s First Female President.
➢ Xiomara Castro sworn in as first female President of Honduras.

➢ Samia Suluhu Hassan sworn in as Tanzania’s first woman President.

➢ Giorgia Meloni looks set to become Italy’s first woman prime minister.
➢ Najla Bouden Romdhane appointed as first woman PM of Tunisia.
Q. Who has won the World Athlete of the Year 2022 award?
A) McLaughlin-Levrone & Mondo Duplantis
B) Ellyse Perry & Michael Jordan
C) Ronda Rousey & Conor McGregor
D) Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce & Phil Mickelson
Answer : A .
✓ World champion American hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Swedish pole vaulter Armand
“Mondo” Duplantis has won the World Athlete of the Year awards 2022
✓ McLaughlin-Levrone- She had broken the world women’s 400m hurdles record twice.
✓ She became the first American to win Athlete of the Year since fellow 400m hurdler Dalilah Muhammad
in 2019.
✓ McLaughlin-Levrone & Mondo Duplantis won World Athlete of the Year 2022 awards
Q. ISRO has signed an MoU with which space company for its human and cargo transportation
capsule program?
A) Skyroot Aerospace B) AgniKul Cosmos
C) Vyom Space D) Dhruva Space
Answer : C .
✓ Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has signed an MoU with Gurugram-based private space
firm Vyom Space Exploration and Services Private Limited for its human and cargo transportation
capsule program.
✓ A ‘capsule’ in a space mission is the module inside which any cargo is placed for being carried to space.
In manned missions, the capsule is what hosts the astronauts.
✓ The capsules have typically been single-use in nature, with the exception of US-based private space
firm, Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s reusable human and cargo module, Crew Dragon.
✓ Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

✓ Founded : 15 August 1969

✓ HQ : Bengalore, Karnataka
✓ Founder / 1st Chairman : Vikram Sarabhai
✓ 10th Chairman : S Somanath
✓ Aryabhata India's first satellites Launched on 19 April 1975
✓ GSAT-1 India's first commercial satellite
✓ SLV-3 was India's first experimental satellite launch vehicle,
✓ Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment, (APPLE) first communication satellite in India 19 June 1981
✓ Udupi Ramachandra Rao : satellite Man of India
Q. Who has released her book ‘Miracles of Face Yoga’?

A) Aravind Adiga B) Shashi Tharoor
C) Amitav Ghosh D) Mansi Gulati
Answer : D .
✓ Founder of Manasvani Mansi Gulati has released her book ‘Miracles of Face Yoga’.
✓ The book ‘Face Yoga’ is a comprehensive work on face yoga written in lucid and simple language which
can be easily understood by beginners.
✓ Face yoga utilizes a series of facial exercises to tone the muscles on the face
Q. Who has inaugurated India’s first Drone Skilling and Training Virtual E-Learning Platform in
Chennai?
A) Narendra Modi B) Piyush Goyal
C) Nitin Gadkari D) Anurag Singh Thakur
Answer : D .
✓ Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, and Information and Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur
has inaugurated India’s first Drone Skilling and Training Virtual E-Learning Platform in Chennai.
✓ He also launched 1000 planned Drone Centre of Excellence at Garuda Aerospace’s Manufacturing unit
in Chennai, and also flagged off Garuda Aerospace’s Drone Yatra, ‘Operation 777.
✓ Operation 777′ is meant to demonstrate the efficacy of drones across 777 districts in India.

Q. India will be hosting the 17th Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas in which of the following city from 8-10
January 2023?
A) Varanasi B) Lucknow
C) Indore D) Visakhapatnam
Answer : C .
✓ India will be hosting the 17th Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas in Indore from 8-10 January 2023.
✓ President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali will be the Chief Guest at the
17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD).
✓ Australian Member of Parliament (MP) Zaneta Mascarenhas will be the guest of honour at the Youth
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas which will be held on 8 January 2023.
✓ The Convention was held in a virtual format.
✓ The theme of the 16th PBD Convention 2021 was “Contributing to Aatmanirbhar Bharat”.
✓ Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is celebrated once in every two years to strengthen the engagement of the
overseas Indian community with the Government of India and reconnect them with their roots.
✓ The 9th of January was chosen as the day to celebrate this occasion because it was on this day in
1915, Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa.
✓ The first Pravasi Bharatiya Divas was organized in 2003 to mark the contribution of the Overseas Indian
community in the development of India.
Q. The Karthigai Deepam Chariot festival has been organized in which state?
A) Odisha
B) Kerala
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Karnataka
Answer : C .
✓ The Karthigai Deepam Chariot festival has been organized at Tiruparangunram in Madurai, Tamil Nadu
after a gap of two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
✓ This festival is mentioned in the literature of Tamils known as Ahananuru, a collection of poems.
✓ Avaiyyar, renowned woman of Sangam age also mentions about karthigai Deepam in her poems.

Q. Who has honoured with the 2022 Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching
in secondary schools in Australia?
A) Swati Mohan B) Vivek Murthy
C) Shanthi Kalathil D) Veena Nair
Answer : D .
✓ Indian-origin teacher Veena Nair has honoured with the 2022 Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in
Science Teaching in secondary schools in Australia.
✓ She is ViewBank College’s Head of Technology and STEAM project leader.
✓ She was awarded for demonstrating practical application of STEAM to students, and how they can use
their skills to make a real impact in the world.
Q. Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has organized a two days conclave
commemorating Universal Coverage Day 2022 at which city?
A) Lucknow B) Chennai
C) Kochi D) Varanasi
Answer : D .
✓ Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has organized a two days conclave commemorating
Universal Coverage Day 2022 at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
✓ The conclave has inaugurated by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Anandiben Patel in the presence of
Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya.
✓ Universal Health Coverage aims to provide promotive, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative access
of health services.
Q. Which state government has approved a bill to create a Safai Karamchari Commission
recently?
A) Odisha B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Uttar Pradesh D) Assam
Answer : D .
✓ The Assam Cabinet has approved a bill to create a Safai Karamchari Commission
✓ The cabinet has also renamed the Dergaon Police Academy as Lachit Barphukan Police Academy.

✓ In addition to this, the cabinet has also approved decisions related to providing maternity benefits,
monitoring drug prices, and protecting Safai.
Q. Which company has commissioned its third wind-solar hybrid power plant of combined
operational generation capacity worth 450 MW at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan?
A) NTPC Limited B) ReNew Power
C) JSW Energy D) Adani Green Energy
Answer : D .
✓ The renewables arm of the Adani Group, Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) has commissioned its third
wind-solar hybrid power plant of combined operational generation capacity worth 450 MW at Jaisalmer
in Rajasthan.
✓ AGEL has the largest operational hybrid power generation capacity of 1,440 MW.
✓ AGEL has a total operational generation capacity of 7.17 GW, making it the largest wind-solar hybrid
power farm developer.
✓ The plant has Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with SECI (Solar Energy Corporation of India) at Rs
2.67/kWh for 25 years
Q. Which financial institutions has 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?
A) World Bank B) International Monetary Fund
C) Asian Development Bank D) New Development Bank
Answer : C .
✓ Asian Development Bank (ADB) has 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.
✓ 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.
Q. Who has made a world record of making the fastest double century in a One Day
International (ODI) against Bangladesh recently?
A) Virat Kohli B) Suryakumar Yadav
C) Ishan Kishan D) KL Rahul
Answer : C .

✓ Ishan Kishan has made a world record of making the fastest double century in a One Day International
(ODI).
✓ He scored his double century in just 126 balls against Bangladesh in the match played at Chattogram,
Bangladesh on 10 December 2022.
✓ He became the seventh batter in the world to achieve the feat and fourth from India after Sachin
Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma, and Virender Sehwag.
✓ He also became the first player to score a double century against Bangladesh in an ODI.
✓ The record was earlier held by Chris Gayle of West Indies who scored a 138 balls double century
against Zimbabwe in the 2015 World Cup .
✓ The quickest double in all ODIs [across men and women] was held by Amelia Kerr of New Zealand .
✓ She scored her double century in 134 balls against Ireland in 2018.
✓ Ishan Kishan also became the youngest player to score a double hundred in men’s ODI. He was 24
years 145 days old when he scored his double century. The previous youngest was of Rohit Sharma,
who was 26 years and 186 days old at the time of his first double in 2013 against Australia.
Q. Who has been appointed as the new MD & CEO of Ashok Leyland?
A) Vikram Pawah B) N Chandrasekaran
C) Salil Parekh D) Shenu Agarwal
Answer : D .
✓ India’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland has appointed Shenu Agarwal as its
new Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
✓ Agarwal is the former president of Farm equipment manufacturer Escorts Kubota Ltd (EKL).
✓ The board of Ashok Leyland was looking for a suitable person for the post of MD and CEO after Vipin
Sondhi stepped down due to personal reasons in 2021.
✓ Ashok Leyland
✓ Founded : 1948
✓ Headquarters : Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
✓ MD & CEO : Shenu Agarwal
✓ It is owned by the Hinduja Group.

Q. American furniture retailer Pottery Barn has appointed which Indian actress as its brand
ambassador to promote the international expansion of the company?
A) Alia Bhatt B) Katrina Kaif
C) Deepika Padukone D) Anushka Sharma
Answer : C .
✓ American furniture retailer Pottery Barn has signed Deepika Padukone as a brand ambassador to
promote the company’s international expansion.
✓ She will also work with the company’s in-house design team in San Francisco to co-create a capsule
collection, that will be launched in ‘Fall 2023’
✓ Pottery Barn, a member of the Williams-Sonoma, Inc. portfolio of brands, is a specialty retailer of home
furnishings
Q. Who has been appointed as the First Vice President (VP) and Chief Operating Officer (COO)
at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York?
A) Sushmita Shukla B) Vivek Murthy
C) Neera Tanden D) Vanita Gupta
Answer : A .
✓ An Indian-origin veteran of the insurance industry Sushmita Shukla has been appointed as the First
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
✓ The 54-year-old, with a career spanning two decades, takes charge on March 2023.
✓ Previously, Shukla led an enterprise‐wide transformation program at Healthfirst, where she started as
Vice President of Enterprise Business Solutions in 2016 and then served as interim Senior Vice
President of Enterprise Transformation in 2017.
Q. Who has been appointed as Managing Director (MD) of the National Dairy Development
Board (NDDB)?
A) Tribhuvandas Patel B) R S Sodhi
C) Meenesh C Shah D) Rajendrasinh Parmar
Answer : C .
✓ Meenesh C Shah has been appointed as Managing Director (MD) of the National Dairy Development
Board (NDDB).

✓ There has been no regular chairman at NDDB since December 2020.

✓ Presently Meenesh Shah was also holding the additional charge of the Chairman NDDB.
✓ The National Dairy Development Board is a statutory body set up in 1965.
✓ It is under the ownership of the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying of the Government
of India
✓ National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)
✓ Founded : 1965
✓ Founder : Dr Verghese Kurien
✓ Headquarters : Anand, Gujarat
✓ Chairman : Meenesh Shah
✓ NDDB's landmark project in 1970, Operation Flood (milk production).
✓ Father of India’s White Revolution, Dr. Verghese Kurien.
✓ Dr. Verghese Kurien is also nicknamed as Milkman of India.
✓ India is the world's largest milk producer.
✓ Uttar Pradesh is the highest milk producing state in India.
Q. The 7th edition of the Naval Special Forces exercise ‘Sangam’ has been held in Goa. Indian
Navy has done this exercise with which country’s Navy?
A) United States B) Australia
C) Singapore D) Russia
Answer : A .
✓ The 7th edition of exercise Sangam, a joint Naval Special Forces exercise between Indian Navy
MARCOs and US Navy SEARs was held in Goa.
✓ Exercise Sangam was first conducted in 1994 and is an important military and diplomatic initiative
between the two nations.
✓ The present edition will see personnel from SEAL Team Five based at San Diego, USA and Indian
Navy MARCOs from INS Abhimanyu.
✓ A joint exercise among US SEALs, MARCOs and other participating nations’ Naval Special Forces is
held annually as part of Exercise Malabar.

Q. ICICI Lombard General Insurance has signed an agreement with which Small Finance Bank
for bancassurance recently?
A) Equitas Small Finance Bank B) ESAF Small Finance Bank
C) Capital Small Finance Bank D) AU Small Finance Bank
Answer : D .
✓ ICICI Lombard General Insurance has signed an agreement with the AU Small Finance Bank for
bancassurance.
✓ To diverse the bank’s customers access to the Non-life insurer’s portfolio and enhance penetration
across India.
✓ Bancassurance
✓ It is the selling of insurance products through banking channels. In Bancassurance a bank enters into
an agreement with an Insurance company. The Bank makes its customer database available to the
Insurance companies. If the bank customer buys the insurance products then the bank will receive a
commission from the Insurance companies.
✓ Regulator of Bancassurance in India
✓ Bancassurance sector is regulated by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India
(IRDAI).
✓ AU Small Finance Bank Limited
✓ Founded : 1996
✓ Founder : Sanjay Agarwal
✓ Headquarters : Jaipur, Rajasthan
✓ MD & CEO : Sanjay Agarwal
✓ Tagline : Chalo Aage Badhein
Q. When is the Human Rights Day observed?
Answer : D .
✓ Human Rights Day is celebrated on 10 December annually across the world.

✓ The 2022 Theme of Human Rights Day is Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All

✓ It was on this day in 1948 that United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
✓ UDHR is a milestone document proclaiming the first ever global enunciation of human rights which
everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language,
political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status
Q. The UN International Anti-Corruption Day is observed on which day?
Answer : D .
✓ International Anti-Corruption Day is observed annually on 9 December to raise public awareness for
anti-corruption.
✓ The day is observed since the passage of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption on 31
October 2003.
✓ Theme 2022 “UNCAC at 20: Uniting the World Against Corruption”.
✓ The theme focuses on recovery through corruption mitigation and emphasizes that inclusive COVID-
19 recovery can only be achieved with integrity
Q. RBI signs Currency Swap Agreement with which country?

A) Japan B) Sri Lanka
C) Maldives D) Bangladesh
Answer : C .
Q. RBI has signed a Currency Swap Agreement with the Maldives Monetary Authority under
the SAARC Currency Swap Framework, under which Maldives may make several tranches
up to a maximum of how much amount from the RBI?
A) USD 200 Million B) USD 150 Million
C) USD 100 Million D) USD 250 Million
Answer : A .

✓ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has signed a Currency Swap Agreement with the Maldives Monetary
Authority under the SAARC Currency Swap Framework on 8 December 2022. Maldives Monetary
Authority is the central bank of Maldives.
✓ This agreement will enable the Maldives authority to make drawals in multiple tranches up to a
maximum of 200 million dollars from the RBI.
✓ The agreement will provide swap support as a backstop line of funding for short-term foreign exchange
liquidity requirements.
✓ SAARC (South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation) Currency Swap Framework
✓ The SAARC Currency Swap Facility of the Reserve Bank of India came into operation on November
15, 2012. The aim of the facility is to provide a short term funding arrangement to deal with their short
term foreign exchange liquidity requirements or balance of payment crises till longer term arrangements
are made.
✓ The corpus of the SAARC Currency Swap Facility of the RBI is USD 2 Billion.
✓ At present the swap facility is available in US dollar, Euro and Indian Rupees.
✓ However this facility is available to only those SAARC countries which have signed a bilateral
agreement with RBI. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal and
Afghanistan are the members of SAARC
Q. The Government of India has extended the PM Street Vendor’s Atma Nirbhar Nidhi (PM
SVANidhi) Scheme till _.
Answer : A .
✓ The Government of India has extended the PM Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi)
Scheme beyond March 2022.
✓ Provisions for the Extended Scheme –
✓ The extension of the lending period will be 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

✓ 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.
✓ About PM SVANidhi Yojana
✓ PM SVANidhi was launched on 1 June 2020.
✓ This scheme was started with the aim of providing financial support to small shopkeepers and hawkers.
✓ Under the PM SVANidhi Yojana, people who sell goods on the street tracks or do other small jobs can
take a loan of up to ₹ 10,000 from the bank.
✓ After repaying the loan taken in the first instance, the beneficiary can get a loan of up to ₹ 20,000 in the
second time and up to ₹ 50,000 in the third time.
✓ The tenure of the Svanidhi scheme was earlier till March 2022, but the government has extended the
deadline of the Svanidhi scheme till December 2024.
Q. Which country has successfully launched first-ever Arab-Built lunar spacecraft Rashid
Rover recently?
A) UAE B) Iran
C) Saudi Arabia D) Qatar
Answer : A .
✓ UAE successfully launches first ever Arab-Built lunar spacecraft

✓ A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has carried into space the first ever Arab-built lunar spacecraft.
✓ It has launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
✓ The Rashid Rover was built by Dubai’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), in the United
Arab Emirates (UAE), and is being delivered by the HAKUTO-R lander, engineered by Japanese lunar
exploration company ispace.
✓ The mission is due to arrive at Moon around April 2023. Its rover weighs just 22 pounds (10 kg) and will
work on the surface for about 10 days.
✓ United Arab Emirates (UAE)
✓ Capital : Abu Dhabi
✓ Currency : Dirham
✓ President : Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
✓ Prime Minister : Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Q. Who signed the MoU for setting up a Center of Excellence for Defense Studies and Applied
Research under the Army Training Command (ARTRAC) of the Indian Army?
A) IIT Jammu B) IIT Varanasi
C) IIT Ropar D) IIT Hyderabad
Answer : C .
✓ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar and the Army Training Command (ARTRAC) of the Indian
Army has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for setting up a centre of excellence for
studies and applied research in defence and security at the premier institute.
✓ Himachal Pradesh is also called the Land of Gods.
✓ Himachal Pradesh is part of the Shivalik range of the Himalaya Mountains
✓ Capital- Shimla
✓ Governor- Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
✓ Legislative Assembly seats- 68
✓ Rajya Sabha seats- 3
✓ Lok Sabha seats - 4
Q. Which company has announced the acquisition of the cement assets of Jaypee Group’s
flagship company Jaiprakash Associates Ltd and its associate firms at an enterprise value
of Rs 5,666 crore?
A) UltraTech Cement B) Dalmia Bharat
C) Ambuja Cements D) Orient Cement
Answer : B .
✓ Dalmia Bharat Ltd has announced the acquisition of the cement assets of Jaypee Group’s flagship
company Jaiprakash Associates Ltd and its associate firms at an enterprise value of Rs 5,666 crore.
✓ The deal includes a total cement capacity of 9.4 Million tones (MnT) per annum, along with clinker
capacity of 6.7 MnT and thermal power plants of 280MW at an enterprise value of Rs 5,666 crore.
✓ These assets are situated in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh.
✓ Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) presently has an aggregate capacity of around 6 million tonnes per
annum (MTPA) and Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd has around 4 MTPA

Q. Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud has virtually inaugurated District Court
Digitization Hubs (DCDH) in 10 districts of which state?
A) Assam B) Odisha
C) Andhra Pradesh D) Madhya Pradesh
Answer : B .
✓ Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud has virtually inaugurated District Court Digitization Hubs
(DCDH) in 10 districts of Odisha.
✓ The hubs at Angul, Bhadrak, Jharsuguda, Kalahandi, Keonjhar, Koraput, Malkangiri, Mayurbhanj,
Nayagarh, and Sonepur, will take care of digitization work of all 30 districts of the state.
✓ Each DCDH will be assigned the task of digitizing the surrounding districts.
✓ The objective of the Hub would be to digitize the disposed case records of the nearby assigned districts.
Q. Who has inaugurated the statue of Mahakavi Subramanian Bharathiyar at the renovated
house of Bharathiyar at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh?
A) M.K.Stalin B) Narendra Modi
C) Piyush Goyal D) Rajnath Singh
Answer : A .
✓ Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K.Stalin has inaugurated the statue of Mahakavi Subramanian Bharathiyar
at the renovated house of Bharathiyar at Varanasi, UP via video conference.
✓ Stalin also released a souvenir on his centenary. Bharathiyar’s 141st birth anniversary on behalf of the
State Government in various places in the State.
✓ Bharathiyar was a Tamil writer, poet, journalist, Indian independence activist, social reformer, and
polyglot.
Q. Which country will host an International Conference “Standing with the Ukrainian People”?
A) Australia B) United States
C) Canada D) France
Answer : D .
✓ France will host an International conference “Standing with the Ukrainian People” in Paris.
✓ Objective – To coordinate international support for civilian resilience in Ukraine and address the
people’s urgent humanitarian needs.

✓ The Ukrainian people are facing dire difficulties in all sectors essential to life: electricity supply, food
security, water supply, and access to medical care.
✓ This situation is aggravated by the onset of winter and by the increased Russian bombardments against
civilian infrastructures in Ukraine, particularly energy infrastructure, resulting in severe blackouts.
✓ The goal of the conference is therefore to muster international humanitarian aid to bolster the Ukrainian
people’s resilience through the harsh winter, and establish a coordination mechanism to ensure
effective and needs-based delivery of aid.
✓ Russian forces attacked Ukraine on 24 Feb 22.
✓ This event will gather representatives from 47 countries as well as 22 International organizations.
Q. Who has been conferred with the 25th Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National
Eminence Award (SIES) recently?
A) Narendra Modi B) Venkaiah Naidu
C) Amit Shah D) Nitin Gadkari
Answer : B .
✓ Former vice president Venkaiah Naidu has been conferred with the 25th Sri Chandrasekarendra
Saraswathi National Eminence Award (SIES).
✓ Other awardees in various categories included the Governor of Kerala Arif Mohammed Khan, eminent
industrialist Ratan Tata, renowned cardiologist and Padma Vibhushan awardee Dr. Marthanda Varma
Sankaran Valianathan, Scientific Advisor to the Government of India Ajay Sood and famous Harikatha
artiste Vishakha Hari.
✓ The awards are given in the fields of public leadership, community leadership, science and technology,
and social thinkers who have made outstanding contributions in their respective fields.
✓ The awards were instituted by the South Indian Education Society in 1998 in memory of the late Seer
of Kanchi, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati.
Q. Who has become the third cricketer in history to score 10000 Test runs recently?
A) Joe Root B) Ben Stokes
C) Alex Hales D) Mark Wood
Answer : A .

✓ Former England captain Joe Root has become the third cricketer in history to score 10000 runs and
pick up 50 wickets in Test cricket.
✓ He achieved the feat during the ongoing second Test against Pakistan in Multan.
✓ Root reached the milestone when he dismissed Faheem Ashraf in the 70th over of Pakistan’s second
innings at the Multan Cricket Stadium.
✓ He has joined Jacques Kallis (South African) and Steve Waugh (former Australian skipper) in scoring
10000 runs and claiming 50 wickets in the longest format.
✓ Root currently has 10629 Test runs and 50 wickets under his belt. Waugh has 10927 runs and 92
wickets, while Kallis tops the chart with 13289 runs and 292 wickets
Q. Which team has been crowned as champions of 4th Tennis Premier League (TPL) 2022?
A) Siecham Madurai Panthers B) Hyderabad Strikers
C) Ruby Trichy Warriors D) Mumbai Leon Army
Answer : B .
✓ Hyderabad Strikers crowned as champions of 4th Tennis Premier League (TPL) 2022.
✓ The final of the 4th TPL was held in Pune, Maharashtra.
✓ The final score of the Hyderabad Strikers was 41-32 and was crowned champions of the event for the
2nd year in a row.
✓ Hyderabad’s pair S. Balaji and Nikki Poonacha defeated Mumbai’s R. Ramanathan and J.
Nedunnchezhiyan 14-6 to win the title.
✓ The TPL Plus, the grassroots league of the Tennis Premier League that allows young tennis athletes a
platform to learn from international and Indian stars was won by Mumbai Leon Army
Q. Who won the gold medal in the 10-metre pistol junior women’s event at the 65th National
Shooting Championship in Bhopal?
A) Manu Bhaker B) Saurabh Chaudhary
C) Rahi Sarnobat D) Abhinav Bindra
Answer : A .
✓ Manu Bhaker won the gold medal in the 10-metre pistol junior women’s event at the National Shooting
Championship in Bhopal.

✓ Representing Haryana at the 65th edition of the National Shooting Championship Manu Bhaker beat
Telangana’s Esha Singh 17-13 in the final after topping the qualification with 583 points.
✓ Olympic silver medallist Vijay Kumar from Himachal Pradesh bagged the national title in the men’s 25m
centre fire pistol
Q. General Mirosław Hermaszewski, who passed away recentl, was the only astronaut of
which country?
A) Finland B) United States
C) Poland D) Russia
Answer : C .
✓ Poland’s only cosmonaut Gen Mirosław Hermaszewski passed away recently at the age of 81.
✓ Hermaszewski circled the Earth in a Soviet spacecraft in 1978.
✓ For nine days in June and July 1978, he and Soviet cosmonaut Pyotr Klimuk circled the Earth in the
Soyuz 30 spaceship that docked at the Salyut 6 orbital space station.
✓ They went around the globe 126 times. He was the 89th human to reach outer space.
✓ He was a part of manned space flight for the USSR on June 27, 1978
Q. Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has announced a new train – Kashi Tamil
Sangamam as part of which of the following initiative?
A) Shrestha Bharat B) Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav
C) Digital India D) Make in India
Answer : B .
✓ Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has announced a new train – Kashi Tamil Sangamam between
Kashi in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu to commemorate the incredible cultural bond between Kashi
and Tamil Nadu.
✓ The Kashi Tamil Sangamam is a unique celebration of the union of two cultures.
✓ Sangamam is a remarkable event of an exchange of knowledge and art.
✓ He also informed that Rs 7000 crore would be spent in revamping the Varanasi station to make it one
of the best in the world.
✓ Kashi Tamil Sangamam is a month-long programme organized by the Ministry of Education, as part of
Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.

Q. Which state forest department has launched ‘Vanikaran’ project to restore natural
vegetation?
A) Kerala B) Maharashtra
Answer : A .
✓ Kerala forest department has launched ‘Vanikaran’ project to restore natural vegetation.
✓ It is an afforestation project to root out invasive plants, especially Senna spectabilis.
✓ It is being executed in Sulthan Bathery forest range of Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS).
✓ Its pillars include planting saplings of Bamboo, fruit plants etc. and rainwater harvesting.
Q. Who has inaugurated Phase – I of Samruddhi Mahamarg connecting Nagpur and Shirdi
covering a distance of 520 Kms?
A) Nitin Gadkari B) Amit Shah
C) Narendra Modi D) Piyush Goyal
Answer : C .
✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Phase – I of Samruddhi Mahamarg connecting Nagpur
and Shirdi covering a distance of 520 Kms.
✓ The 701 Km expressway is one of India’s longest expressways and will pass through Maharashtra’s 10
districts. It is being built at a cost of about 55,000 crore rupees.
✓ .The Prime Minister also dedicated AIIMS Nagpur to the nation to strengthen health infrastructure in
the country. The foundation stone of the hospital was laid by the Prime Minister in July 2017. AIIMS
Nagpur has been developed at a cost of more than 1,575 crore rupees.
✓ Earlier, the Prime Minister dedicated ‘Nagpur Metro Phase I’ to the nation, and laid the foundation stone
of ‘Nagpur Metro phase- II’ at Khapri Metro Station.
✓ The Prime Minister also flagged off two inaugural metro trains from Khapri to Automotive Square and
Prajapati Nagar to Lokmanya Nagar. Phase I of the Nagpur Metro is developed at a cost of more than
Rs 8650 crore while Phase- II will be developed at a cost of more than Rs 6700 crore.
✓ Nagpur-Bilaspur Vande Bharat Train connecting Nagpur and Bilaspur will be operated six days a week
except for Saturdays from both sides. The travel time from Nagpur to Bilaspur will be reduced to 5 hours
30 mins from 7-8 hours.

Q. Justice Dipankar Datta was administered the oath of office as a Supreme Court judge by
Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud. Now present judicial strength of the Supreme
Court of India has been reached to ___.
A) 30 B) 28
C) 32 D) 33
Answer : B .
✓ Bombay High Court Chief Justice Dipankar Datta was administered the oath of office as a Supreme
Court judge by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud.
✓ With the swearing-in of Justice Datta, the total number of judges in the top court has reached 28 against
the sanctioned strength of 34, including the CJI.
✓ Justice Dutta will have a term till February 8, 2030.
✓ His name was recommended by the Supreme Court Collegium then headed by Justice UU Lalit (now
retired) in September last year.
✓ Justice Datta was elevated to the bench of the Calcutta High Court as a permanent judge on June 22,
2006
Q. National Energy Conservation Day is observed every year on which day?
Answer : A .
✓ National Energy Conservation Day is celebrated every year on 14 December by Bureau of Energy
Efficiency (BEE), under Ministry of Power.
✓ Purpose: to raise awareness among the general public about the importance of energy conversation
and energy efficiency, as well as holistic development for overall effort towards climate change
mitigation.
✓ The Energy Conservation Act in India was executed by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) in the
year 2001.
✓ BEE is a constitutional body that comes under Government of India and helps in the development of
policies and strategies in order to reduce the energy use.

Q. India's first mass-segment flex-fuel car is launched by which company?

A) Tata Motors B) Hyundai
C) Maruti Suzuki D) Kia Motors
Answer : C .
✓ Maruti Suzuki India Limited (Maruti Suzuki) informed the exchanges on 12 December 2022 that it has
unveiled the Wagon R Flex Fuel prototype model in Delhi.
✓ The first-of-its-kind mass segment Flex Fuel prototype car was launched in the presence of Union
Minister of Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari.
✓ Aligned with the government’s clean and green initiatives, the Wagon R Flex Fuel prototype has been
designed to run on any ethanol-petrol blend between 20 percent (E20) and 85 percent (E85) fuel.
✓ The car is designed and developed locally by engineers of Maruti Suzuki, with necessary support from
Suzuki Motor Corporation, Japan.
Q. How many crores has the Central government allocated for the "New India Literacy
Programme (NILP)" for the next 5 years?
A) Rs 1004.32 Crore B) Rs 1037.90 Crore
C) Rs 1158.25 Crore D) Rs 1250.50 Crore
Answer : B .
✓ 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, MoS for Education "Annpurna Devi" .
✓ 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 of Education (MoE) approved the NILP this year to include all aspects of adult education
in line with the new National Education Policy, for the following five years. 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.
✓ Objectives of New India Literacy Programme :
✓ The program’s Foundational Literacy and Numeracy component intend to reach 5.00 crore learners
during a five-year period.
✓ The programme has five objectives :

(i) Foundational Literacy and Numeracy,

(ii) Critical Life Skills,
(iii) Vocational Skills Development,
(iv) Basic Education,
(v) Continuing Education.
✓ The total financial outlay of NILP for five years (FYs 2022-23 to 2026-27) is Rs.1037.90 crore, out of
which Rs.700 crore is Central share and Rs.337.90 crore is State share..
✓ The Central and State shares are in the ratio of 60:40 for all States other than North Eastern Region
(NER) and the Himalayan States where the sharing pattern between the Centre and the State is in the
ratio of 90:10.
✓ For UTs with legislature the ratio is 60:40, except in the UT of Jammu & Kashmir where the ratio is
90:10, and for all other UTs without legislature the Central share is 100%.
Q. 8th India International Science Festival (IISF) 2022 to be held in which city in January 2023?
A) Bhopal B) Mumbai
C) Bengaluru D) Bhubaneswar
Answer : A .
✓ The India International Science Festival (IISF)-2022 will be held in Bhopal in January 2023 and
incidentally, it is one of the major events to be organized after India assumes the G-20 Presidency.
✓ India International Science Festival (IISF)-2022 will be held at the capital city of India’s Heart-Bhopal
from 21st to 24th January 2023.
✓ IISF 2022 is the eighth(8th) edition since its inception in 2015.
✓ IISF is an initiative of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences,
Government of India in collaboration with Vigyan Bharati which is a science movement with indigenous
spirit led by eminent scientists of the country..
Q. Who won 'Safety Performer of the Year' 2022 award by Delhi Airport?
A) Air India B) SpiceJet
C) Go First D) IndiGo
Answer : B .

✓ SpiceJet has been awarded the 'Safety Performer of the Year' award by GMR Delhi Airport Awards
2022 for being the top performer among the self-handling airlines and as it has been able to reduce
ground safety violations significantly.
✓ SpiceJet said its ground handling team at Delhi Airport achieved this performance through constant
focus on quality improvements, innovation and hard work. Moreover, their role in minimising incidences
of ground safety violations ensured compliance with safety guidelines and regulatory requirements.
✓ "To be awarded the 'Safety Performer of the Year' by the country's biggest airport is indeed a proud
moment for us.
✓ SpiceJet meeting the highest safety standards of our country's aviation regulators and airports is a great
honor and a true reflection of what we truly stand for," GP Gupta, Chief Strategy Officer of SpiceJet.
✓ "Safety of our passengers and employees is the top priority for us at SpiceJet
Q. Which state health department awarded for Best Practice in Tuberculosis Advocacy,
Communication and Social Mobilisation (ACSM)?
A) Meghalaya B) Mizoram
C) Tripura D) Nagaland
Answer : A .
✓ Meghalaya government, which has adopted a ‘jan andolan’ (people’s movement) against Tuberculosis,
received an award for best practices in controlling the disease that affects 2.6 million people in India
every year..
✓ * The award for Best Practice in Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilisation(ACSM) in
Tuberculosis control was presented to representatives of the health department at a national workshop,
aimed at ending TB infections, in the national capital.
✓ The state registered 4,189 TB cases in 2021 while in the first quarter of 2022, around 1,075 patients
have been enrolled for treatment.
✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi had put a national target to eliminate the disease that affects over 26
lakh Indians each year by 2025, five years ahead of WHO’s Sustainable Development Goals.
✓ A National Strategic Plan for TB Elimination (2017-25) has also been launched reorienting the
programme’s focus to ensure greater community engagement.

Q. India signed the joint declaration of Intent on migration and mobility with which country?
A) Finland B) Sweden
C) Denmark D) Ireland
Answer : A .
✓ India and Finland signed a joint declaration of intent to work towards developing a common framework
to make it easier for people to study, do research and work in each other's country.
✓ The declaration was signed by Minister of State for External Affairs "V Muraleedharan" and Finland's
Minster of Employment "Tuula Haatainen" primarily to arrive at a mutually beneficial arrangement on
migration and mobility.
✓ FINLAND
✓ Capital : Helsinki
✓ Currency : Euro
✓ PM : Sanna Marin
Q. Who has been appointed as a new chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO)
and will join WHO in the second quarter of 2023?
A) Cheryll Tickle B) Jeremy Farrar
C) Mark Walport D) Christiane Dolecek
Answer : B .
✓ WHO announced that Dr Jeremy Farrar will become its new Chief Scientist. Currently, Director of the
Wellcome Trust, Dr Farrar will join WHO in the second quarter of 2023.
✓ Dr Amelia Latu Afuhaamango Tuipulotu will become WHO's Chief Nursing Officer. Previously Minister
for Health of the Kingdom of Tonga, and before that Tonga’s Chief Nursing Officer, Dr Tuipulotu will
join WHO in the first quarter of 2023.
✓ World Health Organization (WHO)
✓ Formation : 7 April 1948
✓ Headquarters : Geneva, Switzerland
✓ First President : Andrija Štampar
✓ Director General : Tedros Adhanom (Ethiopia)
✓ Deputy Director General : Soumya Swaminathan (Indian)

✓ Member Countries : 194

Q. Which Edition of the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival kicked off in
Kathmandu, Nepal from December 8 to 12, 2022?
A) 19th B) 20th
C) 21st D) 22nd
Answer : B .
✓ 20th Edition of the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival kicked off on 8 December 2022 in
Kathmandu, Nepal
✓ Hindi film Ayena, directed and produced by Siddhant Sirin, showcased at the 20th edition of Kathmandu
International Mountain Film Festival.
✓ 55 films in Nepali, Korean, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, French, Dioula, Italian and lLbanese language
have been presented.
✓ This year the theme of the film fest is 'Sustainable Summits' and it showcased documentaries, fiction,
shorts as well as experimental and animated films.
Q. Which country passed the tobacco law to ban smoking for the next generation?
A) Japan B) France
C) South Korea D) New Zealand
Answer : D .
✓ New Zealand government passed a law to completely end tobacco smoking by banning youth from
buying cigarettes for life.
✓ The Smoke Free Environments and Regulated Products (Smoking Tobacco) Amendment Bill has been
passed in New Zealand which aims to make New Zealand smoke free by 2025.
✓ The bill aims to ban the sale of tobacco to anyone born after January 1, 2009, and reduce the number
of cigarette retailers in the country.
✓ The bill has received bipartisan support in New Zealand's parliament and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
also plans to reduce the amount of nicotine allowed in smokeless tobacco products.
✓ The legislation aims to prevent the high number of deaths caused by tobacco consumption in New
Zealand which disproportionately affects the native Māori population.

✓ New Zealand’s voting age has been ruled discriminatory by the country’s highest court. The case was
brought by advocacy group make it 16 in 2020, in a bid to lower the voting age from 18 to 16.
✓ New Zealand
✓ Capital : Wellington
✓ Currency : dollar
✓ Prime Minister : Jacinda Ardern
Q. Which state Forest department launched 'Vanikaran' project to restore natural vegetation?
A) Karnataka B) Kerala
C) Tamil Nadu D) Assam
Answer : B .
✓ Kerala Forest department in association with Noolpuzha grama panchayat has launched the ‘Vanikaran’
(afforestation) project to root out invasive plants, especially Senna spectabilis, and restore natural
forests.
✓ The project was being executed on 30 hectares of forestland under the Sulthan Bathery forest range of
the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, where exotic invasive plants, including Senna spectabilis, Eupatorium,
Mikania micrantha, and Lantana camara, were posing a serious threat to the local species of trees, S.
Ranjith Kumar, Assistant Wildlife Warden of the sanctuary.
✓ About the Vanikaran project :
✓ * As many as 87 workers of Kadambakkad, Golur and Kalichira tribal hamlets had planted 3,000
bamboo seedlings and 1,000 fruit plant saplings on 3.5 hectares of forestland so far,
Q. On 13 December 2022 Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi participated in the program to
celebrate whose 150th birth anniversary?
A) Mrinalini Devi B) Dayananda Saraswati
C) Swami Vivekananda D) Sri Aurobindo
Answer : D .
✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually participate in a programme commemorating Sri Aurobindo’s
150th birth anniversary on 13 December 2022.

✓ The programme, being held in Kamban Kalai Sangam, Puducherry, under the aegis of Azadi ka Amrit
Mahotsav, will witness the Prime Minister releasing a commemorative coin and postal stamp in honour
of Sri Aurobindo.
✓ Sri Aurobindo, born on 15th August 1872, was a visionary who made lasting contributions to India’s
freedom struggle
Q. Who was formally elected as the president of the Cardiological Society of India (CSI) for one
year (2023-24)?
A) Dr Pratap Chandra Rath
B) Dr. Ranga Reddy
C) Dr. Tripti Deb
D) Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale
Answer : A .
✓ Senior cardiologist from Hyderabad, Dr P C Rath (Dr Pratap Chandra Rath) has been elected as
president of the Cardiological Society of India (CSI) for the year 2023-24, in the annual meeting held at
Chennai.
✓ Dr. P C Rath, who is currently heading Cardiology wing at Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills, is credited for
pioneering several heart procedures including complex coronary angioplasty and stenting, robotic
angioplasty and TAVI.
✓ The CSI will be celebrating its 75th year in December, 2023 at Kolkata and president elect Dr P C Rath
is expected to play a vital role in framing the scientific program for the platinum jubilee celebrations
Q. Which company inks MoU with Goa Tourism department to promote inclusive tourism?
A) Vrbo B) Agoda
C) Airbnb D) Skyscanner
Answer : C .
✓ Department of Tourism, Goa has signed an MoU with tha Airbnb to promote Goa Tourism.
✓ This partnership aimed at encouraging travel to unique destinations that are lesser-known and enabling
economically regenerative community-led tourism in the state.

✓ Both joined hVrboands to scale homestay capacity across the state and provide support to Goan
homestay Hosts in delivering quality tourism experiences to guests, both domestic and international..
Q. How many Zonal Cultural Centres(ZCCs) have been set up by the Ministry of Culture to
conserve art?
A) 4 ZCCs B) 5 ZCCs
C) 6 ZCCs D) 7 ZCCs
Answer : D .
✓ Ministry of Culture has set up seven Zonal Cultural Centres (ZCCs) with headquarters at Patiala,
Nagpur, Udaipur, Prayagraj, Kolkata, Dimapur and Thanjavur.
✓ These centers aim to conserve and develop art, culture and crafts across the country.
✓ This information was given by the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Development of North Eastern
Region G. Kishan Reddy while replying to a question in the Lok Sabha
✓ ZCCs organize a minimum 42 Regional Festivals for promotion of art and culture every year as per their
programme calendar
Q. Which Government Plans Genetic Enhancement of Its Indigenous 'Badri breed' Cow?
A) Gujarat B) Punjab
C) Uttarakhand D) Uttar Pradesh
Answer : C .
✓ Badri breed derived its name from the holy shrine of Char Dham at Badrinath.
✓ It is found only in the hill districts of Uttarakhand and was earlier known as the ‘pahadi’ cow.
✓ * The cattle breed is small in size with long legs and varied body colours— black, brown, red, white or
grey.
Q. Who signed the MoU for setting up a Center of Excellence for Defense Studies and Applied
Research under the Army Training Command (ARTRAC) of the Indian Army?
A) IIT Jammu
B) IIT Varanasi
C) IIT Ropar
D) IIT Hyderabad
Answer : C .

✓ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar and the Army Training Command (ARTRAC) of the Indian
Army has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for setting up a centre of excellence for
studies and applied research in defence and security at the premier institute.
Q. Which day is observed as the International Tea Day by the tea producing countries like
India?
Answer : A .
✓ The International Tea Dayis observed annually on December 15 since 2005 in tea producing countries
like India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Tanzania and
Uganda.
✓ Purpose: draw global attention of governments and citizens to the impact of the global tea trade on
workers and growers, and has been linked to requests for price supports and fair trade.
✓ India is the second largest producer of tea in the World after China.
✓ It must be noted that the United Nations recognised International Tea Day is observed on 21 May.

Q. Which movie has been nominated in two categories at the Golden Globe Awards to be held
in January 2023?
A) RRR B) Bahubali
C) Sita Ramam D) KGF
Answer : A .
✓ SS Rajamouli-directed period movie 'RRR' has been nominated in two categories at the Golden Globe
Awards to be held in January 2023.
✓ The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has nominated 'RRR'.
✓ The film has been nominated in two categories for Best Non-English Language Film and the film's song
'Naatu-Naatu' for Best Original Song.
✓ Recently, director SS Rajamouli has also received the New York Film Critics Circle Best Director Award
for the film.
✓ 'RRR' is the only Indian film to make it to the International Award category.
✓ RRR has been released in many languages, this South film is being appreciated globally.
✓ 'RRR' is based on a pre-independence story woven around two real-life Indian revolutionaries - Alluri
Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem - in the 1920s.
✓ The film, starring Ram Charan and Jr NTR in the lead, was released worldwide in five languages in
March.
✓ The Golden Globe Award is held to honor the vast industry - The American TV Series and Films as per
the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s (HFPA) choice.
RRR IN NEWS 2022

➢ SS Rajamouli-directed period movie 'RRR' has been nominated in two categories at the Golden
Globe Awards to be held in January 2023
➢ RRR bags another honour, SS Rajamouli's team is elated as film wins Spotlight Award at
Hollywood Critics Association.
➢ Filmmaker SS Rajamouli won the Best Director Award for RRR at the New York Film Critics Circle.

➢ Film RRR won the best international film award at the 50th Anniversary Saturn Awards held in
Los Angeles, in October 2022..
Q. Who was crowned Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Player of the Year for 2022?
A) Katerina Siniakova B) Iga Swiatek
C) Barbora Krejcikova D) Beatriz Haddad Maia
Answer : B .
✓ World number one Iga Swiatek (Poland) was crowned 2022 Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Player
of the Year for the first time in her career.
✓ While Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic) and Katerina Siniakova (Czech Republic) were named
Doubles Team of the Year
✓ Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil was named the Most Improved Player of the Year after breaking into the
top 20.
✓ Germany’s Tatjana Maria was named the Comeback Player of the Year.
✓ While China’s Zheng Qinwen was named Newcomer of the Year.
Q. The India – Kazakhstan Joint Training Exercise, “KAZIND-22”, is which edition of the annual
bilateral military exercise conducted at Umroi, Meghalaya?
A) 4th B) 3rd
C) 6th D) 7th
Answer : C .
✓ 6th Edition of Indo - Kazakhstan joint training exercise “KAZIND-22” is scheduled to be conducted at
Umroi, Meghalaya from 15 to 28 December 2022.
✓ Joint annual training exercise with the Kazakhstan Army was instituted in 2016 as Exercise Prabal
Dostyk, which was later upgraded to a company level exercise and renamed as Ex Kazind in 2018
Q. Which bank approved the divestment of its majority shareholding i.e. 98.57% of the total
equity share capital in Nainital Bank Limited (NBL)?
A) Canara Bank B) Indian Overseas Bank
C) Bank of Baroda D) Bank of India
Answer : C .

✓ State-owned Bank of Baroda (BoB) plans to sell its majority stake in Nainital Bank.
✓ The board of directors of the bank has approved the divestment of its majority shareholding in Nainital
Bank Limited (NBL), and authorized the issuance of an advertisement inviting Expressions of Interest
(EOI) through a Preliminary Information Memorandum (PIM) from interested parties (IPs).
✓ Presently, the bank holds 98.57% of the total equity share capital of Nainital Bank Limited.
✓ The Mumbai-based Bank of Baroda had taken over Nainital Bank in 1973 on the directions of the
Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
✓ Bank of Baroda (BOB)
✓ Founded : 1908
✓ Headquarters : Vadodara, Gujarat
✓ MD & CEO : Sanjiv Chadha
✓ Tagline : India’s International Bank
Q. Which insurance company has launched a new ‘Guaranteed Fortune Plan’, a non-linked,
non-participating individual savings scheme?
A) Canara HSBC Life Insurance B) Cholamandalam MS Insurance
C) Bajaj Allianz Insurance D) Bharti AXA Insurance
Answer : A .
✓ Canara HSBC Life Insurance has launched a new ‘Guaranteed Fortune Plan’, a non-linked, non-
participating individual savings scheme.
✓ The product launched offers two plan options: Guaranteed Savings Option and Guaranteed Cash Back
Option.
✓ The first option provides a lump sum on outliving the policy term.
✓ The plan also includes a unique feature called CARE Pay Benefit. This in-built benefit pays 100 per
cent of total premiums paid (excluding underwriting extra premiums and taxes) on intimation of death.
Q. Indian Navy organised the 39th edition of Coordinated Patrol with the Navy of which one of
the following countries?
A) Indonesia B) Thailand
C) Malaysia D) Japan
Answer : A .

✓ 39th edition of India-Indonesia Coordinated Patrol(IND-INDO CORPAT) between the Indian Navyand
the Indonesian Navy is being conducted from 08 – 19 December 2022
✓ The CORPAT will be executed along the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) from 15 to 16
December 2022 and will conclude with a debrief at Port Blair.
✓ Along with INS Karmuk, L-58 (indigenously built Landing Craft Utility vessel) and Dornier Maritime
Patrol Aircraft will be participating in the CORPAT. KRI Cut Nyak Dien, a Kapitan Pattimura Class
Corvette, would represent the Indonesian side.
✓ India conducts Coordinated Patrol with the navies ofBangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand ,
IndonesiaandFrance
✓ The main aim of conducting the Coordinated petrol between two navies is to strengthen mutual
understanding and enhanced interoperability between both the navies in countering transnational
maritime threats at sea.
Q. Who inaugurated the 7th India Water Impact Summit (IWIS 2022) at Dr. Ambedkar
International Centre in New Delhi?
A) Narendra Modi B) Nitin Gadkari
C) Piyush Goyal D) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
Answer : D .
✓ Jal Shakti Minister "Gajendra Singh Shekhawat" will inaugurate the 7th India Water Impact Summit
(IWIS 2022) at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi on 15th Dec 2022.
✓ Theme 2022 : The theme of the summit this year (2022) is Restoration and Conservation of Small
Rivers in a Large Basin.
✓ It will also focus on the select aspects of ‘Mapping and Convergence of 5Ps’ - People, Policy, Plan,
Programme and Project.
Q. Nitin Gadkari has inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of 12 National Highway
development projects worth 40,453 crore rupees in Which State?
A) Kerala B) Karnataka
Answer : A .

✓ Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, "Nitin Gadkari" will inaugurate and lay the foundation
stone of 12 National Highway development projects worth 40,453 crore rupees in Kerala 15th Dec 2022.
✓ The event will be held at the Travancore International Convention Centre at Karyavattom Sports Hub,
Thiruvananthapuram 15th Dec 2022 at 3:45 PM. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will preside the
function.
✓ The projects will have 403 km inside Kerala and are implemented by the National Highways Authority
of India
Q. Who has been appointed as the inaugural CEO of the organising committee for the 2032
Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brisbane?
A) Claudia Bach B) Jacques Count Rogge
C) Cindy Hook D) Juan Antonio Samaranch
Answer : C .
✓ American executive "Cindy Hook" has been appointed as the inaugural CEO of the organising
committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brisbane.
Q. Which state/UT in India has proposed to introduce a unique alpha-numeric identification

number for all families?
A) Uttar Pradesh B) Uttarakhand
C) Jammu and Kashmir D) Himachal Pradesh
Answer : C .
✓ Jammu and Kashmir administration is planning to create an authentic database of all families in the
Union territory with each of them having a unique alpha-numeric code -- the objective being easy
selection of eligible beneficiaries of various social welfare schemes.
Q. 'International Climate Club' has been launched by which institution?

A) G-7 B) G-20
C) SAARC D) World Bank
Answer : A .

✓ Group of Seven leading economies have created an open, international climate club for countries that
want to cooperate in the fight against global warming, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said
Monday(12th Dec 2022) after a video conference with other G-7 leaders.
✓ Germany holds the presidency of the G-7 until the end of the year and then passes it on to Japan.
✓ The climate club aims to support the rapid and ambitious implementation of the Paris Agreement, which
seeks to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the German
government.
✓ SURPRISE FACTS G7 SUMMIT
✓ 1st - 1975 : France
✓ 46th - 2020 : United States
✓ 47th - 2021 : United Kingdom
✓ 48th - 2022 : Germany
✓ 49th - 2023 : Japan
✓ 50th - 2024 : Italy
✓ Trick to remember G7 Countries
✓ Trick - Drink JUICE with GF (girlfriend)
✓ JUICE case :-
✓ J for Japan
✓ U for USA
✓ I for Italy
✓ C for Canada
✓ E for England
✓ GF case :-
✓ G for Germany
✓ F for France
Q. Which country has announced the historic Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough?

A) India B) Russia
C) China D) United States
Answer : D .

✓ United States has announced a nuclear fusion breakthrough, a historic step towards the promise of
'near-limitless' clean energy and may help the fight to curb climate change.
✓ US Department of Energy said, researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in
California for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it,
something called net energy gain.
Q. Which country has been ousted from U.N. women's group after the U.S. campaign?
A) Japan B) Iran
C) Russia D) Ukraine
Answer : B .
✓ Iran was ousted from a United Nations women's group for policies contrary to the rights of women and
girls, a move proposed by the United States after Tehran's crackdown on protests over the death of a
young woman in custody.
✓ JapanThe 54-member U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution
to "remove with immediate effect the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Commission on the Status of
Women (CSW) for the remainder of its 2022-2026 term."
✓ There were 29 votes in favor, eight against - including Russia and China - and there were 16 abstentions
Q. Which state government has awarded the 'TB Control Programme' in December 2022?
A) Arunachal Pradesh B) Tripura
C) Assam D) Meghalaya
Answer : D .
✓ The Meghalaya government, which has adopted a'people's movement'againsttuberculosis, has recently
been awarded for best practices in controlling the disease that affects 2.6 million people in India every
year.
✓ The state registered 4,189 TB cases in 2021 while in the first quarter of 2022, around 1,075 patients
have been enrolled for treatment.
✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi had set a national target to eliminate the disease, which affects more
than 26 lakh Indians each year, by 2025, five years ahead of the WHO's Sustainable Development
Goals.

✓ A National Strategic Plan for TB Elimination (2017-25) has also been launched which ensures greater
community engagement.
Q. What is the percentage decrease in deaths due to Left Wing Extremism in India in recent
years?
A) 55% B) 65%
C) 75% D) 85%
Answer : D .
✓ In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Home,Nityanand Raisaid on 14 December,
2022 that deaths in the country due toLeft Wing Extremism (LWE) have reduced by 85 percent in
recentyears
✓ Incidents of LWE violence have reduced by 77 percent from a high of 2213 in 2010 to 509 in 2021.
✓ Similarly, resultant deaths of both Civilians and Security Forces also have reduced by 85 percent from
a high of 1005 in 2010 to 147 in 2021.
✓ With the decline in the geographical spread of Left Wing Extremism, the number of districts with security
related expenditure has come down from 126 in April 2018 to 90 and to 70 in July 2021.
✓ Left-wing extremists, popularly known as Maoists worldwide and as Naxalites in India, have been a
major threat to India since the 1960s.
✓ A multi-pronged strategy has been implemented under the National Policy and Action Plan since 2015
to address Left Wing Extremism.
Q. Who among the following has not pledged support for India's bid for permanent membership
of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)?
A) United States B) France
C) Saudi Arabia D) United Arab Emirates
Answer : C .
✓ The UK, France and UAEon 14 December extended support forIndia's permanent membership at the
United Nations Security Council (UNSC)
✓ India is holding the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of December 2022
✓ The United Arab Emirates has also supported India's bid for permanent membership of a reformed
Security Council
✓ Veto power is also misused in UNSC.

✓ Veto power is used by the P-5 countries to serve their own and their allies' strategic interests.
✓ India being the largest democracy and second most populous country in the world, is the primary reason
for granting it permanent membership in the UNSC
✓ United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
✓ It was established in 1945 by the United Nations Charter.
✓ It is one of the six major organs of the United Nations.
✓ The other 5 organs of the United Nations are - the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the
Trusteeship Council, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice and the
Secretariat.
✓ It has five permanent members - China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States,
collectively known as the P5.
✓ India is currently a non-permanent member of the UNSC for a two-year term, which expires in
December.
Q. Under whose chairmanship was the 32nd meeting of the Board of Directors of the National
Horticulture Board (NHB) held in New Delhi?
A) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat B) Dharmendra Pradhan
C) Dr. Jitendra Singh D) Narendra Singh Tomar
Answer : D .
✓ 32nd meeting of theBoard of Directors of the National Horticulture Board (NHB)was held inNew Delhion
14th December under the chairmanship of the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and
Chairman of the Board,Narendra Singh Tomar.
✓ The new simple design will come into effect from January 1, 2023
✓ Swachh Plant Programme
✓ The meeting also discussed in detail the new initiative of NHB- Swachh Plant Programme.
✓ Under the programme the problem of availability of planting material to the farmers will be solved by
spending Rs 2100 crore with the assistance of Asian Development Bank (ADB).
✓ National Horticulture Board (NHB)
✓ It was set up by the Government of India in 1984 as an Autonomous organisation under the
administrative control of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

Q. Which country the G-7 has agreed a $15.5B energy deal to cut emissions?
A) Cambodia B) Sri Lanka
C) Vietnam D) Bangladesh
Answer : C .
✓ TheGroup of Seven (G-7)rich industrialised nations has approved an agreement to provide$15.5

billiontoVietnam
✓ The Group of Seven major economies, along with Norway and Denmark, said that the aim is to help
Vietnam reduce its emissions to“net zero” by 2050,a goal which experts say needs to be met globally
to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
✓ The Just Energy Transition Partnership withVietnamis among a series of agreements that developing
and rich nations are negotiating.
Q. Which country's OTT app was blocked by the Union Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting for showing anti-India content?
A) Nepal B) China
C) Sri Lanka D) Pakistan
Answer : D .
✓ The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has blocked Pakistan-based OTT Platform Vidly TV and four
social media accounts for displaying anti-India content on 12 December 2022.
✓ Utilising emergency powers under IT Rules 2021, the Information & Broadcasting Ministry issued
directions to block the website, two mobile applications, four social media accounts, and one smart TV
app of Pakistan-based OTT platform Vidly TV.
✓ Vidly TV recently released a web series - 'Sevak: The Confessions'.
✓ The web series was found to be"prejudicial to national security, sovereignty and integrity of India, India's
friendly relations with foreign states and public order"
✓ The web series portrayed anti-India narrative on sensitive topics like Operation Bluestar, demolition of
Babri Masjid, murder of Christian missionary Graham Staines, Malegaon blast, Samjhauta Express
blast, and inter-state river water dispute

Q. Which of the following has topped the Grievance Redressal Index in November for the fourth
consecutive month in December 2022?
A) UIDAI B) FICCI
C) SEBI D) SIDBI
Answer : A .
✓ The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)has once again secured the first rank among all
Group A Ministries, Departments and Autonomous Bodies for resolution of public grievances in the
ranking report published by theDepartment of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG)
for November2022
✓ This isthe fourth month in a row when UIDAI has toppedthe said rankings.
✓ UIDAI's new open-source CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system is enhancing user
experience and improving service delivery to residents.
✓ UIDAI’s ‘Aadhaar Mitra’
✓ UIDAI's newly launchedArtificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI-ML)based chatbot,'Aadhaar
Mitra'is gaining popularity among the residents
✓ The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is a statutory authority established under the
provisions of the Aadhaar Act, 2016.
✓ The UIDAI is mandated to assign a 12-digit unique identification (UID) number (Aadhaar) to all the
residents of India
Q. How many gold medals has won by India at the 19th International Junior Science Olympiad
held in Bogota, Colombia?
A) 5 B) 6
C) 7 D) 9
Answer : B .
✓ India secured the top rank at the 19th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) 2022 held in
Bogota, Colombia by winning 6 gold medals.
✓ India won the best team award, being the only country to win six gold medals. Three members of the
Indian contingent also jointly won bronze medals in the experimental category.

Q. Who broke the national record in the men’s 200m individual medley heats at the Short
Course World Championships in Melbourne recently?
A) Maana Patel B) Srihari Nataraj
C) Sajan Prakash D) Siva Sridhar
Answer : D .
✓ Indian swimmer Siva Sridhar broke the national record in the men’s 200m individual medley heats at
the Short Course World Championships in Melbourne.
✓ Siva clocked 1:59.80s to finish first in heat 1 at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre.
✓ South Africa’s Matthew Sates won the championship in 1:50.15s with USA’s Carson Foster (1:50.96)
and Canada’s Finlay Knox (1:51.04) winning silver and bronze, respectively.
Q. When is the Vijay Diwas or Victory Day observed in India?
Answer : A .
✓ In India, Vijay Diwas (also called Victory Day) is celebrated every year on December 16.
✓ The country is celebrating the 51st Vijay Diwas in 2022.
✓ Vijay Diwas is observed to commemorate the service, valour, and sacrifices of the gallant men of the
Indian Armed Forces’ victory over Pakistan in 1971 war.
✓ On 16 December 1971, the Indian Armed Forces won the 13-day long decisive war against the Pakistan
Army and state for the liberation of Bangladesh from Pakistan.
Q. National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research (ICMR-NARFBR) has been
inaugurated in which city?
A) Mumbai B) Hyderabad
C) Bangalore D) Chennai
Answer : B .
✓ Union Health Minister, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated ICMR-NARFBR (Indian Council of Medical
Research- National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research) at Genome Valley, Hyderabad
in presence of C. Malla Reddy, Minister of Labour and Employment, Telangana.

✓ The significance of NARFBR can be adjudged from the fact that study of animals in biomedical research
becomes crucial in discovering causes, diagnosis and treatment of zoonotic agents and diseases.
HYDERABAD IN NEWS 2022

➢ Hyderabad won the ‘World Green City Award” 2022 at the International Association of Horticulture
Producers(AIPH) 2022, organized in Jeju, South Korea .
➢ Second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC 2022) began in
Hyderabad .
➢ Government of India approved annual commemoration of “Hyderabad Liberation Day ” for the
years 2022 to 2023.
➢ Union Home and Co-operation Minister Amit Shah has formally inaugurated the National Cyber
Forensic Laboratory (NCFL) in Hyderabad.
➢ Hyderabad hosts India’s first-ever unique kind of Flow Chemistry Technology Hub.
➢ India’s 1st Flow Chemistry Technology Hub Set up at Hyderabad.
➢ United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Arbor Day Foundation have jointly
recognised Mumbai and Hyderabad as the ‘2021 Tree City of the World.
➢ SBI to set up Innovation, Incubation and Acceleration Centre in Hyderabad, Telangana.
➢ India’s First fully owned by women industrial park in Hyderabad.
➢ Microsoft to set up India’s largest Data Center region in Hyderabad
➢ PM Modi inaugurates 50th Anniversary Celebrations of Hyderabad-based ICRISAT.
➢ PM Modi has dedicated to the nation 216-feet tall ‘Statue of Equality in Hyderabad to
commemorate Ramanujacharya.
➢ India’s first Open Rock Museum in Hyderabad, Telangana.
Q. Which company has granted a fund of $1 million to IIT Madras to build India’s first
Responsible AI center?
A) Meta B) Amazon
C) Google D) Microsoft
Answer : C .

✓ Google plans to collaborate with Indian Institute of Science (IISC) for project Vaani, Google for India
announced on December 19, 2022.
✓ Under the partnership, Google aims to build an artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) model to
collect language samples from 773 districts across India.
✓ Google has granted 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..
Q. Who has launched the "Grih Pravesh" programme in Agartala, under the Pradhan Mantri
Awas Yojana Urban and Rural schemes?
A) Amit Shah B) Droupadi Murmu
C) S. Jaishankar D) Narendra Modi
Answer : D .
✓ Prime Minister "Narendra Modi" will visit Meghalaya and Tripura 18th Dec 2022 and unveil projects
worth over Rs 6,800 crore.
✓ The projects encompass a wide array of sectors including housing, road, agriculture, telecom, IT,
tourism and hospitality.
✓ In Shillong, Prime Minister will participate in the golden jubilee celebration of the North Eastern Council.
The Council was formally inaugurated on November 7, 1972.
✓ Prime Minister will inaugurate the project for widening of Agartala bypass (Khayerpur - Amtali) NH-08,
which will help ease traffic congestion in Agartala city. He will also lay the foundation stones for 32
roads of more than 230 km length under PMGSY III (Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana) and for the
improvement of 112 roads covering a distance of over 540 km..
Q. Which Ministry has organised Delhi International Arts Festival in collaboration with
Prasiddha Foundation at Kartavya Path, New Delhi?
A) Ministry of Culture
B) Ministry of Education
C) Ministry of Rural Development
D) Ministry of Women and Child Development
Answer : A .

✓ Ministry of Culture in collaboration with Prasiddha Foundation inaugurated Delhi International Arts
Festival at Kartavya Path with the tagline - ‘Where Bharat Meets India’
✓ The festival is being organised from 16th December to 30th December 2022
Q. Which state government has launched alternative farming system for poppy planters?
A) Nagaland B) Assam
C) Manipur D) Meghalaya
Answer : C .
✓ Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh has launched the alternative farming system for poppy planters
in nine hill districts of Manipur
Q. Indian-origin Leo Varadkar re-elected as Prime Minister of which country?

A) Ireland B) Germany
C) Norway D) Finland
Answer : A .
✓ Indian-origin Leo Varadkar, former Irish Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Fine Gael party, has
been elected as the new prime minister of Ireland
Q. Which payment gateway has been asked by RBI to pause onboarding of new online payment
merchants.
A) Paytm B) PayU
C) Razorpay D) PayPal
Answer : C .
✓ Fintech firm, Razorpay has been asked by RBI to pause onboarding of new online payment merchants.
✓ Reason : As the central bank requires to make certain changes and provide more information before it
is granted the final payment aggregator (PA) licence.
✓ Another fintech firm, Cashfree has also been asked to to temporarily stop onboarding new customers.
Q. Renew Power has signed a 150 MW renewable energy deal with whom?
A) Meta India B) Microsoft India
C) Amazon India D) Google India

Answer : B .
✓ ReNew Power, subsidiary of renewable energy company ReNew Energy Global Plc, announced that it
has signed a renewable energy agreement of 150 MW with Microsoft India, in one of the largest such
deals in the country.
✓ As part of the arrangement, ReNew will produce 150 MW of clean energy from a recently commissioned
solar site near Bikaner, Rajasthan.
✓ This venture will help contribute towards Microsoft’s ambition of shifting to 100 percent supply of
renewable energy by 2025
✓ Microsoft is striving to run 100% on renewable energy by 2025 and turn carbon negative by 2030
Q. PM Modi and several Union Ministers paid tribute to _ on his 71st death anniversary on 14th
Dec 2022.
A) Bhagat Singh B) Subhas Chandra Bose
C) Lal Bahadur Shastri D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer : D .
✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several Union Ministers paid tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on
his 71st death anniversary on 14th Dec 2022
✓ Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, known as the “Iron Man of India,” was born in Nadiad village in present-day
Gujarat on October 31, 1875.
✓ Vallabhbhai Patel was given the title of ‘Sardar’ by Mahatma Gandhi.
✓ In 1991, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna. Since 2014, his birthday has been celebrated
as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day).
✓ Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel joined the princely kingdoms in British Indian territory, preventing India from
becoming divided.
✓ He is known as the ‘Bismarck of India.’
✓ Modern All India Services was founded by him.
✓ He served as India’s first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.
✓ Sardar Patel, India’s first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.

Q. Which of the following city makes solar panels mandatory for new homes built after 2025.
A) London B) Washington D.C
C) Moscow D) Tokyo
Answer : D .
✓ All new houses in Tokyo built by large-scale homebuilders after April 2025 must install solar power
panels to cut household carbon emissions, according to a new regulation passed by the Japanese
capital's local assembly
Q. Which 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?
A) 5th B) 6th
C) 7th D) 8th
Answer : A .
✓ 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.
✓ Youth Co:Lab is an initiative launched in 2019 by UNDP India in partnership with Atal Innovation
Mission, NITI Aayog and 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.
Q. Which of the following has becomes India's first carbon-neutral power exchange.
A) GMM Pfaudler Ltd. B) Indian Energy Exchange (IEX)
C) Central Depository Services D) Computer Age Management Services
Answer : B .
✓ Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) has become first carbon-neutral power exchange of India, using market
based tradable instruments to offset its carbon emissions.
✓ To reduce carbon footprint, IEX has voluntarily cancelled CERs (certified emissions reductions) from
clean projects registered under the Clean Development Mechanism, UNFCCC
✓ As per the UNEP 2022 report, global greenhouse gas emissions must be cut 45% by 2030 to get on
track to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees

Q. Which government has signed an MoU with Hinduja group for an investment worth Rs
35,000 crore in 11 sectors?
A) Maharashtra B) Gujarat
C) Tamil Nadu D) Uttar Pradesh
Answer : A .
✓ Maharashtra Government on Thursday(15th Dec 2022) said the Hinduja group will be investing Rs
35,000 crore in the state in 11 sectors
Q. Harvard University has named ____ as the first black president to run an Ivy League
university.
A) Steven H. Kaplan
B) Neal Smatresk
C) Renu Khator
D) Dr Claudine Gay
Answer : D .
✓ Harvard University has chosen its first black president. Dr Claudine Gay, the daughter of an immigrant,
has been named the first president to run an Ivy League university. Dr Gay, who is a dean at Harvard
and a democracy scholar, has been appointed as the university's 30th president.
✓ Dr Claudine Gay will replace Lawrence Bacow as president in July 2023, the university
Q. Which Company has partnered with Viasat to deliver satellite internet access to 10 million
people across the world by 2025?
A) Meta B) Google
C) Amazon D) Microsoft
Answer : D .
✓ Microsoft announced that it has partnered with global communications company Viasat to deliver
satellite internet access to 10 million people across the world by 2025
✓ Viasat is the first satellite partner to work with Microsoft's Airband Initiative, and together they will
deepen Airband's work, Microsoft
✓ According to the International Telecommunication Union at the UN, around one-third of the world's
population, that is, 2.7 billion people, have still never used the internet

Q. Who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of NHPC Ltd, with
effect from December 13, 2022?
A) Sanjiv Puri B) Rajeev Kumar Vishnoi
C) Prashant Jain D) Arun Kumar Singh
Answer : B .
✓ Sate owned NHPC Ltd has announced that the company has appointed Rajeev Kumar Vishnoi as the
Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) with effect from 13th Dec 2022
Q. Which company has acquired the Poonawalla Housing Finance (PHFL) at ₹3,900 crore
valuation?
A) TPG B) CVC
C) LGP D) KKR & Co. Inc
Answer : A .
✓ US-based private equity major "TPG" has agreed to acquire the housing finance arm of Adar
Poonawalla-led Poonawalla Fincorp at ₹3,900 crore valuation.
✓ TPG also said it will infuse an additional equity of up to ₹1,000 crore in Poonawalla Housing Finance in
the near term.
Q. Which country be the first country to auction spectrum for satellite communication?
A) Japan B) India
C) China D) Russia
Answer : B .
✓ India will be the first country to auction spectrum for satellite communication, and it should be designed
to attract investments in the sector, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman "PD Vaghela"
✓ About satellite communication :
✓ Satellite communication refers to any communication link that involves the use of an artificial satellite
in its propagation path.
✓ Satellite communications play a vital role in modern life.
✓ There are over 2000 artificial satellites in use.
✓ They can be found in geostationary, Molniya, elliptical, and low Earth orbits and are used for traditional
point-to-point communications, mobile applications, and the distribution of TV and radio programs.

✓ Satellite communications tend to use high-frequency signals.

Q. Who has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of Medical
Sciences, Cuba?
A) National Institute Of Ayurveda
B) Gujarat Ayurved University
C) Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda
D) All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA)
Answer : D .
✓ All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the
University of Medical Sciences, Cuba, and extended the agreement with Rosenberg European
Academy of Ayurveda (REAA), Germany, for five more years to take forward collaborative programmes.
✓ The agreements were signed on the sidelines of the 9th World Ayurveda Congress and Arogya Expo.
✓ The AIIA and REAA had entered into a MoU in September, 2017 with a validity of five years, which has
been extended to 2027,
Q. Argentina won the FIFA World Cup 2022 title third time after defeating which country?
A) Croatia B) France
C) Qatar D) Brazil
Answer : B .
✓ Argentina won the FIFA World Cup 2022 title third time after defeating defending champions France 4-
2 on penalties.
✓ The final match was played at Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar.
🏆FIFA WORLD CUP 2022
♦️ Edition : 22nd
♦️ Host Country : Qatar
♦️Teams : 32
♦️ Champions : Argentina (3rd title)
♦️ Runners-up : France
♦️Argentina captain : Lionel Messi

♦️France captain : Hugo Lloris

💠 Opening match : Qatar and Ecuador [Al Bayt Stadium]
💠 Final match : Lusail Iconic Stadium
💠 Prize Money Winner : $42 million
💠 Runner-up : $30 million
💠 Most successful team : Brazil (5 times)
💠 FIFA World Cup 2026 : Canada/Mexico/USA ( 48 team)
🏆Golden Boot award (Top goalscorer)
🔷 Kylian Mbappé (France) [8 goals]
🏆 Golden Ball award (Best player)
🔷 Lionel Messi (Argentina)
🏆 FIFA Young Player Award
🔷 Enzo Fernánde (Argentina)
🏆 Golden Glove award (Best goalkeeper)
🔷 Emiliano Martínez (Argentina)
🏆 FIFA Fair Play Trophy
🔷 England
🔶 French player Kylian Mbappé became the first player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final since
Geoff Hurst in the 1966 final.
❇️ Argentina football team
🔷 Captain : Lionel Messi
🔷 Nickname : La albiceleste ('The White and Sky Blue')
🔷 Argentina won three FIFA World Cups: in 1978, 1986 and 2022
🔷 Argentina lifts FIFA World Cup after 36 years.
❇️ France Football team
🔶 Captain : Hugo Lloris

🔶 Nickname : Les Bleus (The Blues)

🔶 France national football team has won the FIFA World Cup twice - in 1998 and 2018 .
Ⓜ️ First FIFA World Cup was hosted in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930.
Ⓜ️ The winner of this first FIFA World cup was Uruguay and the runner-up was Argentina.
Q. Which payment gateway has been asked by RBI to pause onboarding of new online payment
merchants.
A) Paytm B) PayU
C) Razorpay D) PayPal
Answer : C .
✓ Fintech firm, Razorpay has been asked by RBI to pause onboarding of new online payment merchants.
✓ Reason : As the central bank requires to make certain changes and provide more information before it
is granted the final payment aggregator (PA) licence.
✓ Another fintech firm, Cashfree has also been asked to to temporarily stop onboarding new customers.
Q. What is the name of the fifth Scorpene submarine of Project 75?
A) INS Kalavari, B) INS Khanderi
C) INS Vagir D) INS Kharanj
Answer : C .
✓ The fifth submarine, INS Vagir of Project 75, Kalvari Class submarines, Yard 11879, was handed to the
Indian Navy on December 20, 2022. Project 75 envisions the indigenous manufacture of six Scorpene-
style submarines.
✓ Vagir, which was launched on November 12, 2020, began sea testing on February 1, 2022, and it is a
source of great pleasure because she has completed all key trials, including weapon and sensor trials,
in the lowest amount of time in comparison to previous submarines.
Q. Which country is the host of the ‘UN Biodiversity Conference- COP15’?

A) India B) Australia
C) China D) Canada
Answer : D .

✓ The United Nations Biodiversity Conference, often known as COP15, was held in Montreal, Canada.
Governments from across the world have gathered to agree on a new set of environmental targets for
the next decade.
✓ Negotiators at a UN biodiversity conference struck an agreement to invest USD 200 billion in
biodiversity assistance by 2030
Q. What is the name of the P15B stealth-guided missile destroyer commissioned into the Indian
Navy?
A) INS Mormugao B) INS Kolkata
C) INS Kochi D) INS Chennai
Answer : A .
✓ On December 18, 2022, INS Mormugao (Pennant 67), a P15B stealth-guided missile destroyer, was
commissioned into the Indian Navy. This was the second of the four 'Visakhapatnam' class destroyers
to be inducted. The ship was developed in-house by the Navy's Warship Design Bureau and built by
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) in the country's financial center, Mumbai.
Q. Which of the following organizations has recently established the Emerging Opportunities
Fund?
A) Tata AIA B) ICICI Lombard
C) HDFC Life D) Bajaj Allianz
Answer : A .
✓ Tata AIA Life Insurance Company Ltd. launched the Emerging Opportunities Fund. The Emerging
Opportunities Fund is an equity fund that will benefit customers through long-term equity growth along
with providing life insurance coverage.
✓ The New Fund Offering (NFO) began on December 15 and will run until December 30, 2022.
✓ It will be available at INR 10 per unit, which will be applicable only during the NFO period
Q. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari launches one of India’s first-ever Surety Bond Insurance
products with which organization?
A) Bajaj Allianz B) Reliance
C) Sahara D) HDFC Life Insurance

Answer : A .
✓ Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, has inaugurated one of India's first
Surety Bond Insurance products from Bajaj Allianz.
✓ In response to the product introduction, Gadkari stated that India is well on its way to becoming a $5
trillion economy
Q. Who took over as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Counter Insurgency Force
Kilo?
A) Sanjiv Singh B) Mohit Seth
C) Gaurav Jaiswal D) Sanjay Kumar
Answer : B .
✓ Major General Mohit Seth assumed command of Counter-Insurgency Force Kilo as the General Officer
Commanding (GOC).
✓ Major General Sanjiv Singh Slaria on surrendering the command transferred to Headquarters Northern
Command, Udhampur. During the reign of Major General Sanjiv Singh Slaria, the Kilo Force took
notable advances toward peace and security in North Kashmir
Q. ‘Rythu Bandhu’ is a flagship scheme of which Indian state/UT?

A) Telangana B) Goa
C) Madhya Pradesh D) Karnataka
Answer : A .
✓ The 'Rythu Bandhu' initiative is being implemented by the state of Telangana. Through this scheme,
the government provides agricultural investments to farmers at a rate of $10,000 per acre for both the
Kharif and Rabi seasons. The state government plans to deposit Rs. 7,600 crores in farmers' bank
accounts by January, just in time for the Sankranti celebration.
Q. Which of the following team has won 9th Season of the Pro Kabaddi League title 2022?
A) Haryana Steelers B) Dabang Delhi
C) Jaipur Pink Panthers D) Bengaluru Bulls
Answer : C .

✓ Jaipur Pink Panthers has 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 with six points
each.
✓ The tournament was played across Bengaluru, Pune, and Hyderabad while the playoffs were played in
Mumbai.
✓ Jaipur Pink Panthers team is currently led by Sunil Kumar Malik and coached by Sanjeev Baliyan.
✓ The team is owned by Abhishek Bachchan
Q. Indian women’s hockey team won FIH Nations Cup by defeating which country in Spain?
A) Netherlands B) Brazil
C) Spain D) Finland
Answer : C .
✓ The Indian women’s Hockey team beat Spain 1-0 in the final to win the inaugural FIH Nations Cup
played at Valencia, Spain.
✓ Captain Savita Punia led the Indian team.
✓ With this win, the Indian team has been promoted to the 2023-24 FIH Hockey Women’s Pro League.
✓ The winning goal was scored by Gurjit Kaur of India. India finished third in the 2021-22 FIH Pro League.
✓ India and Spain had played in the FIH women’s Hockey Pro League 2021-22 season as replacement
teams after pull-outs by Australia and New Zealand due to COVID-19-related issues.
Q. Who has unveiled the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023 trophy in New Delhi?
A) Amit Shah B) Piyush Goyal
C) Narendra Modi D) Anurag Thakur
Answer : D .
✓ Union Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports Anurag Thakur has unveiled the Hockey World Cup trophy in
New Delhi.
✓ The event was also attended by 1975 Hockey World Cup winners.
✓ The FIH Men’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar – Rourkela will begin on 13th January 2023.

✓ The nationwide Trophy Tour was launched in Bhubaneswar on 5th December by Odisha CM Naveen
Patnaik.
Q. Who has been crowned the International Tennis Federation (ITF) world champion for 2022
in the men’s category?
A) Alexander Zverev B) Roger Federer
C) Novak Djokovic D) Rafael Nadal
Answer : D .
✓ Rafael Nadal and Iga Swiatek were crowned the International Tennis Federation (ITF) world champion
2022 in their respective categories.
✓ Rafael Nadal was crowned the ITF world champion for the fifth time in his career.
✓ Nadal swept to the Australian Open and then backed it up with a 14th French Open, taking his majors
total to a men’s record of 22.
✓ Swiatek, who inherited the world number one spot in March following the shock retirement of Ashleigh
Barty, claimed a second French Open and then captured the US Open.
✓ In the men’s doubles category, Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury won the award.
✓ While Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova took the women’s doubles honour for the third time.
Q. Which of the following has opened 'Roshni' branches to push its affordable housing
financing scheme?
A) ICICI Housing Finance B) SBI Housing Finance
C) PNB Housing Finance D) HDFC Housing Finance
Answer : C .
✓ PNB Housing Finance on 16 December 2022 announced that it has opened 'Roshni'branches in various
locations, including tier II and III cities, for deepening its customer base in the affordable housing
segment.
✓ Under the Roshini initiative, PNB Housing Finance will offer retail home loans to individuals in the range
ofRs 5 lakh to Rs 30 lakh.
✓ The company's Roshni branches have been inaugurated in Chennai, Coimbatore, Ghaziabad,
Hyderabad, Indore/Ujjain, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Rajkot and Varanasi.

✓ Under the Roshini scheme the borrowers can get loans for purchase of house property, self-
construction, home extension/renovation, plot purchase plus construction, loan against property,
among others.
✓ PNB Housing Finance Limited is a subsidiary company of Punjab National Bank.
✓ It is aNon-Banking Financial Company (NBFC)which provides housing loans to individuals and
corporations.
✓ Headquarters:New Delhi
✓ Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer:Girish Kousgi
✓ Tagline:Ghar Ki Baat
Q. Which of the following states has constituted a task force to recommend regulation of online
gambling and games ?
A) Uttar Pradesh B) Chhattisgarh
C) Rajasthan D) Madhya Pradesh
Answer : D .
✓ In an order issued on 16 December 2022 theMadhya Pradesh governmenthas constituted ahigh-level

task force, which will make recommendations about regulating online gambling and gamingin the state
after examining the technical and legal aspects.
✓ This task force will be headed by the state chief secretaryIqbal Singh Bains.
Q. UP Industrial Consultants Limited (UPCON) and Jadooj have tied up to create 1,000 rural
entrepreneurs in which of the following states in December 2022?
A) Madhya Pradesh B) Uttarakhand
C) Uttar Pradesh D) Haryana
Answer : C .
✓ U.P. Industrial Consultants Limited (UPICON)andJadooz Companyhave joined hands to create1,000

ruralentrepreneurs in Uttar Pradesh through rural edutainment centres called‘Magic Rooms’.
✓ The Magic room is based on the concept of common infrastructure usage for Education and Cinema’.
It will perform the dual function of big-screen-based live interactive education in the day and will double
up as a ‘First Day First Show’ cinema in the evening.

✓ Both UPICON and Jadooz will train 1000 entrepreneurs in rural Uttar Pradesh. UPICON expects every
Magic Room to create direct and indirect employment to more than 25,000 people and create a new
direct and indirect economy of Rs 1,000 Crores annually.
✓ The first two ‘Magic Rooms’ are expected to be inaugurated in rural clusters
surroundingLucknowandBasti.
✓ Jadooz is an entertainment start-up based in NOIDA, is in the business of setting up mini theaters in
rural areas with an average seating capacity of 30-50.
Q. Who among the following won the title of Blind T20 Cricket World Cup 2022 which concluded
on 17th December 2022?
A) India B) Sri Lanka
C) Australia D) Bangladesh
Answer : A .
✓ IndiadefeatedBangladeshby 120 runs in the final to win the3rd T20 World Cup for Blindplayed at
theM.Chinnaswamy Stadiumin Bengaluru, Karnataka on 17 December 2022
✓ It was the third title for India having won it in 2012 and 2017. All the three T20 World Cup for Blind has
been hosted by India
✓ The 3rd T20 World Cup for Blind was held in India from 6-17 December 2022.India, Nepal, Sri Lanka,
Australia, Bangladesh, andSouth Africacompeted in the tournament. The Pakistan team was denied a
visa by the Indian government.
✓ It was organised by the Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI).
✓ CABI is the apex body for organising, developing cricket for blind in India. It is a member of the World
Blind Cricket Council.
✓ The 4th T20 World Cup for Blind will be held in Pakistan in 2023.
Q. 7th Petrochemical Conclave led by Indian Oil Corporation Limited was organised At which
of the following places?
A) Mumbai B) Bangalore
C) Hyderabad D) New Delhi
Answer : D .
✓ The Government of Indian Maharatna companyIndian Oil Corporation limitedorganised the7th

Petrochemical ConclaveinNew Delhion 17 December 2022

✓ The conclave was attended by the Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural GasHardeep Singh Puri,
Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural GasRameshwar Teliand various experts from the
petrochemical fields
✓ Theme of the conclave: India’s Petchem Future -Sustainable and Atmanirbhar
Q. India has received all 36 Indian Air Force (IAF) Rafale aircraft from France recently. It is a
French twin-engine multi-role fighter aircraft. It was designed by which company?
A) Dassault Aviation
B) Lockheed Martin
C) Northrop Grumman
D) Hawker Beechcraft
Answer : A .
✓ Rafale, the last of the 36 IAF Rafale aircraft, has landed in New Delhi after refuelling by a UAE Air Force
tanker aircraft after taking off from France.
✓ With the landing of the last Rafale aircraft, the delivery of 36 Rafale fighter jets to the country has been
completed.
✓ The first batch of five state-of-the-art Rafale fighter jets arrived in India on July 29, 2021, nearly four
years after India signed an inter-governmental agreement with France to procure 36 aircraft at a cost
of around Rs 60,000 crore..
✓ Earlier, according to the deal, France had handed over 35 Rafale fighter jets to India.
✓ These jets are stationed at Ambala, Haryana and Hashimara in West Bengal.
✓ The 36th aircraft with RB tail number has been handed over to India by France and all its parts and
other components have been replaced as it was being used for upgrading
✓ About Rafale aircraft
✓ It is a French twin-engine multirole fighter aircraft designed by Dassault Aviation Company of France.
✓ It was introduced in the year 2001.
✓ State-of-the-art technology has been used in it and it is a 4.5 generation fighter aircraft.
✓ The Meteor missile, SCALP cruise missile and MICA missile system present in it make it very important
from the point of view of security.
✓ It can fly at a speed of 2,222 kilometres per hour and a height of 50,000 feet.
✓ Its length is about 15.27 meters and it can carry 9,500 kg of bombs and ammunition at a time.

Q. The government has granted Geographical Indications (GI) Tag to Gamocha recently.
Gamocha is the product of which state?
A) Kerala B) Tamil Nadu
C) Assam D) Odisha
Answer : C .
✓ The government has granted Geographical Indications (GI) Tag to various products, including Gamosa
of Assam, Tandur Redgram of Telangana, and an apricot variety of Ladakh.
✓ ‘Gamocha’ literally means towel and is commonly used on a day-to-day basis in Assamese households.
✓ The commerce and Industry ministry said that the total number of GI has reached to 432.
✓ The top five states holding the maximum number of GIs are Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh,
Karnataka, and Kerala.
✓ Recently, the government has supported the promotion of GIs by approving an expenditure of ₹ 75
crore for three years for promotion at awareness programmes.
✓ A GI is primarily an agricultural, natural or manufactured product (handicraft and industrial goods)
originating from a definite geographical territory.
✓ Typically, such a name conveys an assurance of quality and distinctiveness, which is essentially
attributable to the place of its origin..
Q. Which state has applied for a Geographical Indication (GI) tag for the famous Beypore Uru
(boat) recently?
A) Karnataka B) Telangana
C) Kerala D) Maharashtra
Answer : C .
✓ The District Tourism Promotion Council, Kozhikode, Kerala has applied for a Geographical Indication
(GI) tag for the famous Beypore Uru (boat).
✓ About Beypore Uru
✓ It is a wooden ship/sailing boat handcrafted by skilled artisans and carpenters in Beypore, Kerala.
✓ These boats are made purely from premium wood without using any modern technology.
✓ Each Uru takes 1-4 years to make and the entire process is done manually.
✓ It is a symbol of Kerala's trade relations and friendship with the Gulf countries.
✓ Name of some items recently given Geographical Indication (GI) tag

✓ Gamosa from Assam, Tandoor Redgram from Telangana, Raktse Carpo Apricot from Ladakh, Alibaug
White Onion from Maharashtra etc. have been given GI tag
✓ Top 5 states with maximum GI tags – Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and Kerala.
✓ With this, the total number of GI tags in India has gone up to 432..
Q. Which country has for the first time emerged as a top oil supplier to India replacing Iraq in
November 2022?
A) UAE B) Saudi Arabia
C) Russia D) Iran
Answer : C .
✓ Russia has for the first time emerged as a top oil supplier to India replacing Iraq in November 2022.
✓ India’s oil imports from Russia rose for the fifth straight month, totaling 908,000 barrels per day (bpd)
in November, up 4% from October.
✓ The Group of Seven nations, Australia, and the 27 European Union countries have imposed a price cap
of $60 a barrel on Russian seaborne oil from December as the West tries to limit Moscow’s ability to
finance its war in Ukraine.
✓ Russian oil accounted for about 23 percent of India’s overall import of about 4 million bpd oil in
November.
✓ During April-November, the first eight months of this fiscal year, Iraq continued to be the largest oil
supplier to India followed by Saudi Arabia and Russia, which has knocked down UAE to the fourth
position
Q. United Nations member states have removed which of the following country from UN
women’s rights group recently?
A) Iran B) Kuwait
C) Qatar D) Saudi Arabia
Answer : A .
✓ United Nations member states have removed Iran from UN women’s rights group.
✓ The resolution was proposed by the US to “remove with immediate effect the Islamic Republic of Iran
from the Commission on the Status of Women for the remainder of its 2022-2026 term.

✓ A UN report released in March 2021 described Iranian women and girls as treated like “second class
citizens.”
✓ The Commission is made up of 45 countries which are elected by the Council to four-year terms.
✓ Iran’s term, which began this year, was to have run through 2026.
Q. Who has won the men’s singles title after defeating Indonesia’s Anthony Ginting at the
season-ending World Tour Finals in Bangkok?
A) Viktor Axelsen B) Kento Momota
C) Anders Antonsen D) Lee Zii Jia
Answer : A .
✓ Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen has won the men’s singles title after defeating Indonesia’s Anthony Ginting
at the season-ending World Tour Finals in Bangkok.
✓ While Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi defeated Taiwan’s Tai Tzu Ying to win the women’s singles title.
✓ Yamaguchi is the current world champion.
✓ Chinese Duo Liu Yuchen and Ou Xuanyi defeated Indonesia’s Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra
Setiawan in The Men’s Doubles.
Q. The government has approved a package of Rs 1,64,000 crore for revival of which
institution?
A) Reliance Industries B) VI
C) BSNL D) Airtel
Answer : C .
✓ The government has approved a revival package of Rs 1,64,000 crore for revival of BSNL. Union
Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that this project will transform BSNL.
✓ The revival measures focus on infusing fresh capital for upgrading BSNL services, allocating spectrum,
de-stressing its balance sheet and merging Bharat Broadband Nigam Limited (BBNL) with BSNL.
Q. Which entity has issues Sovereign Gold Bonds for public subscription?
A) Reserve Bank of India B) State Bank of India
C) NITI Aayog D) SEBI
Answer : A .

✓ The Reserve Bank issues Sovereign Gold Bonds open for public subscription, on behalf of the
government.
✓ As per the Finance Ministry, Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGBs) 2022-23-Series III will open for subscription
during December 2022 and 2022-23-Series IV during March 2023
✓ The issue price of the Bond during the subscription period shall be Rs 5,409 (Rupees Five Thousand
Four Hundred Nine only) per gram, as also published by RBI in their Press Release dated December
16, 2022.
✓ The Government of India in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India has decided to allow discount
of Rs 50 (Rupees Fifty only) per gram from the issue price to those investors who apply online and the
payment is made through digital mode. For such investors the issue price of Gold Bond will be Rs 5,359
(Rupees Five Thousand Three Hundred Fifty Nine only) per gram of gold.
Q. ‘Panini code’ is a 2500-year-old grammatical algorithm in which of the following language?

A) Tamil B) Sanskrit
C) Marathi D) Bengali
Answer : B .
✓ Panini code is the 2500-year-old grammatical algorithm in Sanskrit, which has been cracked by an
Indian PhD student at the University of Cambridge.
✓ Rishi Rajpopat solved the algorithm in his thesis, titled ‘In Panini, We Trust: Discovering the Algorithm
for Rule Conflict Resolution in the Astadhyayi’.
✓ Panini was a Sanskrit scholar, philologist and grammarian who lived around the 5th Century BCE in
India
Q. Emission trading system (ETS) is associated with which organisation?

A) OPEC B) OECD
C) EU D) G-20
Answer : C .
✓ European Union (EU) member states and parliamentarians agreed on a major reform to the bloc’s
carbon market or Emission trading system (ETS)
✓ The deal means emissions in the ETS sectors are to be cut by 62 percent by 2030, based on 2005
levels.

✓ Then previous goal was 43 per cent. The agreement aims to reduce emissions and encourage
investments in climate-friendly technologies
Q. An empowered committee headed by NITI Aayog CEO has approved Rs 357 crore for which
company under PLI scheme?
A) Samsung India B) Nokia India
C) Qualcomm D) Foxconn India
Answer : D .
✓ An empowered committee headed by the Chief executive officer (CEO), NITI Aayog, has approved a
production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme of over Rs 400 crore for Foxconn India and Padget Electronics
for mobile phone manufacturing.
✓ Foxconn India would receive an incentive of Rs 357.17 crore for the period between August 1, 2021,
and March 31, 2022.
✓ It is based on its incremental investments and sales figures.
Q. Sela Pass tunnel is located in which state/UT?

A) Jammu and Kashmir B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Arunachal Pradesh D) Ladakh
Answer : C .
✓ The Sela Pass tunnel is being built by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), to provide all-weather
connectivity to China border in Arunachal Pradesh.
✓ The tunnel being built at a height of 13,000 feet, will give the Indian Army access to the Line of Actual
Control (LAC) near Tawang
Q. As per the UN Nature Deal, what percent of the planet is sought to be protected by 2030?
A) 25 % B) 30 %
C) 50 % D) 40 %
Answer : B .
✓ A UN nature deal has recently proposed calls to protect at least 30 percent of the planet by 2030.
✓ At present, just 17% of terrestrial and 10% of marine areas are protected.

✓ The proposal called on rich countries to increase financial aid to the developing world to USD 20 billion
annually by 2025, rising to USD 30 billion per year by 2030, to save their ecosystems.
Q. Which country launched the ‘Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft’?
A) Russia B) Israel
C) China D) United States
Answer : D .
✓ The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the French space agency Centre
National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) have jointly launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography
(SWOT) mission to track nearly all the water on Earth’s surface.
✓ The SWOT mission was launched through a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Space Launch Complex
at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States of America on 16 December 2022. The
mission has a lifespan of three years.
✓ Feature of the Mission
✓ 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.
✓ It will provide data on more than 95 per cent of the world’s lakes larger than 15 acres (62,500 square
meters) and rivers wider than 330 feet (100 meters) across.
✓ Currently, freshwater researchers have reliable measurements for only a few thousand lakes around
the world.
✓ The satellite will measure the height of water in freshwater bodies and the ocean on more than 90 per
cent of Earth’s surface.
Q. Which Indian initiative has been recognised by the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the
Convention on Biodiversity (CBD)?
A) Swachh Bharat Mission B) Namami Gange
C) National Mission for Green India D) Global Water Project
Answer : B .
✓ India's 'Namami Gange'- river Ganga rejuvenation project- has been recognised as one among world's
10 most "ground-breaking" initiatives for restoration of natural ecosystems, according to a report
released during the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15).

✓ National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has won the "Public Water Agency of the Year" award at
the Global Water Awards, 2019 by Global Water Intelligence.
✓ The award was received by G Ashok Kumar, Director General, Namami Gange, at the 15th Conference
of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) in Montreal, Canada on 14 December 2022.
✓ 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).
✓ Recognized initiatives, including Namami Gange, will now be eligible to receive UN support, funding or
technical expertise.
✓ About Namami Gange
✓ It was approved as a 'Flagship Programme' by the Central Government in June 2014.
✓ It was launched to serve the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution and conservation and
rejuvenation of the national river Ganga.
✓ It is being operated under the Ministry of Water Resources, Department of River Development and
Ganga Rejuvenation and Ministry of Jal Shakti.
✓ The program is being implemented by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and its State
Program Management Groups (SPMGs).
Q. What is the new name of ‘Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Ko Kaam Karyakram (PMKKK)’?
A) Pradhan Mantri Virasat Ka Samvardhan (PM VIKAS)
B) Mission Karmayogi
C) Samarth Scheme
D) Pradhan Mantri SVANidhi Scheme
Answer : A .
✓ The Minister of Minority Affairs, Smriti Zubin Irani in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on
15 December informed that the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Ko Kaam Karyakram (PMKKK) has now been
named as Pradhan Mantri Virasat Ka Samvardhan (PM VIKAS) Scheme.
✓ This integrated scheme amalgamates the five earlier schemes of the Ministry – Seekho aur Kamao,
Ustad, 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 the livelihood of minorities, especially artisan communities, by using
components of skill development, education, women leadership and entrepreneurship.
✓ These components complement each other in the ultimate objective of the scheme to enhance the
income of the beneficiaries and provide assistance by facilitating credit and market linkages.
Q. Which company became the official partner of FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023?
A) Byju’s B) Tata Steel
C) Reliance Industries D) Adani Enterprises
Answer : B .
✓ 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.
✓ The FIH Men’s World Cup is the 15th edition of the top tournament for men, and will take place in
Bhubaneswar and Rourkela during 2023.
✓ The FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup will be the fourth time that India will be hosting the prestigious
tournament after organizing it in 1982 in Bombay, 2010 in New Delhi, and 2018 in Bhubaneswar
Q. SURYA KIRAN’ is a joint training Exercise conducted between India and which country?
A) Nepal B) Sri Lanka
C) France D) Australia
Answer : A .
✓ The 16th Edition of Indo-Nepal joint training Exercise ‘SURYA KIRAN-XVI’ between India and Nepal
commenced at Nepal Army Battle School, Saljhandi.
✓ Exercise SURYA KIRAN is conducted annually between India and Nepal.
Q. Who has the most written-about track and field athlete in 2022, displacing the Jamaican
legend Usain Bolt from the top lists?
A) Ashton Eaton B) Neeraj Chopra
C) Kenenisa Bekele D) Michael Johnson
Answer : B .
✓ Tokyo Olympics gold medalist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra (India) has the most written-about track
and field athlete in 2022, displacing the Jamaican legend Usain Bolt from the top lists.

✓ World Athletics said that in 2022, Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra displaced the charismatic Bolt, who
is still the world record holder in the 100m and 200m despite retiring in 2017.
✓ Chopra leads the way with 812 articles ahead of a troika of Jamaican women sprint stars, Elaine
Thompson-Herah, with 751 articles, world 100m champion Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce (698) and world
200m champion Shericka Jackson (679), with Bolt still featuring in 574 articles.
✓ Neeraj Chopra also became the first athlete from India to win the Diamond League final this year.
Q. ISRO had earned approximately Rs 1,100 crore in the last five years from the launch of
foreign satellites. Since January 2018, ISRO successfully launched how many foreign
satellites belonging to 19 countries?
A) 210 B) 177
C) 198 D) 165
Answer : B .
✓ According to the Ministry for Space, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) had earned
approximately Rs 1,100 crore in the last five years from the launch of foreign satellites.
✓ Since January 2018, ISRO successfully launched 177 foreign satellites belonging to 19 countries.
✓ These countries include Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Finland, France, Israel, Italy, Japan,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland,
United Kingdom, and USA.
✓ Under a commercial agreement, ISRO launched these satellites on board PSLV and GSLV-MkIII.
✓ Foreign exchange generated through the launching of these 177 foreign satellites from January 2018
to November 2022 is approximately 94 million USD and 46 million Euro..
Q. India has successfully carried out the night trials of the nuclear-capable ballistic missile,
Agni-V from Abdul Kalam Island, off the coast of Odisha. This missile can hit the target
beyond __.
A) 3,000 km B) 5,000 km
C) 4,000 km D) 2,000 km
Answer : B .
✓ India on 15 December successfully carried out the night trials of the Agni-5 nuclear-capable ballistic
missile. The test comes days after a clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Arunachal Pradesh's
Tawang district.

✓ Agni 5 missile capable of striking targets at ranges up to 5,000 kilometres with a very high degree of
accuracy.
✓ The test was conducted to validate new technologies and equipment on the missile, which is now lighter
than before.
✓ Defense sources said the test proved the capability of extending the range of the Agni 5 missile if
required.
✓ The trial was aimed at enhancing the range of the Agni-5 missile if required
✓ About Agni 5 Missile
✓ Agni-5 is an ingeniously built advanced surface-to-surface ballistic missile developed under the
Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP).
✓ It is a fire-and-forget missile, which cannot be stopped without an interceptor missile.
✓ The Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) is the brain-child of Dr A P J Abdul
Kalam, who aimed at making the country self-sufficient in the field of missile technology.
✓ The program had five missiles P-A-T-N-A, Prithvi, Agni, Trishul, Nag, and Akash.
✓ It was aimed at boosting India's nuclear deterrence against China, which has missiles such as the
Dongfeng-41, which have a range between 12,000-15,000 km.
✓ The Agni 1 to 4 missiles have ranges from 700 km to 3,500 km and they have already been deployed.
✓ Agni Class of Missiles
✓ Agni 1 : Range of 700-800 km.
✓ Agni 2: Range more than 2000 km.
✓ Agni 3: Range of more than 2,500 Km
✓ Agni 4: Range is more than 3,500 km.
✓ Agni-5: The longest of the Agni series, an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) with a range of over
5,000 km.
✓ Agni-P (Prime): It is a canisterised missile with a range capability between 1,000 and 2,000 km. It will
replace the Agni I missile.
Q. India defeated which country by 120 runs in the final to win the 3rd T20 World Cup for Blind
played at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Karnataka?
A) Pakistan B) Sri Lanka
C) Bangladesh D) South Africa

Answer : C .
✓ India defeated Bangladesh by 120 runs in the final to win the 3rd T20 World Cup for Blind played at the
M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
✓ It was the third title for India having won it in 2012 and 2017. All three T20 World Cup for Blind has been
hosted by India.
✓ India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Australia, Bangladesh, and South Africa competed in the tournament. The
Pakistan team was denied a visa by the Indian government.
✓ It was organized by the Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI).
✓ The 4th T20 World Cup for Blind will be held in Pakistan in 2023.
Q. External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar announced the candidature of India for non-
permanent membership at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the ____ term.
A) 2028-29 B) 2024-25
C) 2025-26 D) 2023-24
Answer : A .
✓ External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar announced the candidature of India for non-permanent
membership at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2028-29 term.
✓ India assumed the monthly rotating Presidency of the UNSC in December.
✓ This is the second time India got the Presidency after holding the top spot in August 2021.
✓ India has presided over the Security Council during its two-year tenure as an elected member.
✓ UNSC rules of procedure say that the Council presidency rotates between each of the 15 members of
the UNSC in alphabetical order
Q. The 48th GST Council meeting was held in which of the following city?
A) Mumbai B) New Delhi
C) Hyderabad D) Bengaluru
Answer : B .
✓ The 48th GST Council meeting was held in New Delhi.

✓ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the meeting.
✓ Tax rates, rules, and regulations under GST are governed by the Council, which consists of the Finance
minister, and her counterparts.

✓ The GST Council agreed to decriminalize certain offences and doubled the threshold for launching
prosecution to ₹2 crore.
✓ The Council has recommended to raise the minimum threshold of tax amount for launching prosecution
under GST from Rs. One Crore to Rs. Two Crores, except for the offence of issuance of invoices without
supply of goods or services or both.
✓ Monetary threshold will be increased, from the current Rs 5 crore to Rs 20 crore, for launching legal
proceedings against offenders.
Q. Which of the following premises have been declared as a “Tobacco Free Zone” recently?
A) AIIMS Delhi B) Apollo Hospitals
C) Fortis Hospitals Group D) Max Super speciality Hospital
Answer : A .
✓ The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi premises have been declared as a “Tobacco
Free Zone”.
✓ Smoking and spitting of tobacco on the premises of AIIMS Delhi are prohibited and are a punishable
offence with a fine of Rs 200.
✓ The Director AIIMS has issued guidelines in this regard and mentioned the risk factor for leading causes
of death and a number of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) including cancers, and lung disorders.
✓ Tobacco is a prominent risk factor for leading causes of death and a number of non-communicable
diseases (NCD), including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and lung disorders.
✓ AIIMS New Delhi was established in 1956 and is under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Q. Who has been appointed as the chairperson of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)
for a period of three years?
A) Sekhar Basu B) Ratan Kumar Sinha
C) Dinesh Kumar Shukla D) C. G. Karhadkar
Answer : C .
✓ Senior nuclear scientist, Dinesh Kumar Shukla has been appointed as the chairperson of the Atomic
Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) for a period of three years.
✓ He has succeeded G. Nageswara Rao to the top post.

Q. Which country has partnered with PTC India for the supply of power from the Indian power
market?
A) Japan B) Bhutan
C) France D) Bangladesh
Answer : B .
✓ Bhutan, through Druk Green Power Corporation Limited, has entered into an agreement with PTC India
Ltd, for purchase of power from Indian power market in order to meet its power requirement during the
dry winter season, the power trading company said in a statement.
✓ Further, Bhutan has also executed the agreement with Settlement Nodal Agency for settlement of grid
operation related charges
✓ With all requisite approvals, Bhutan will now start procuring upto 600 MW of power, through PTC, from
the Indian power market
Q. Which is the only university in India to get an A grade by NAAC?

A) Delhi University
B) Guru Nanak Dev University
C) Chandigarh University
D) Maharshi Dayanand University
Answer : B .
✓ Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar has got A grade by scoring 3.85 points in National Assessment
and Accreditation Council (NAAC) grading, thereby becoming the only University in India to get this
score.
✓ Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has congratulated the university on the accomplishment, saying it is the
result of persistent efforts made by everyone
Q. Who has launched a programme to create Impact Leaders in the areas of Environmental-
Social-Governance (ESG)?
A) Centre for Civil Society B) Centre for Policy Research
C) Ministry of Corporate Affairs D) Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA)
Answer : D .

✓ Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs(IICA) has launched a programme to create Impact Leaders in the
areas of Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG).
✓ IICA is an autonomous institution under the aegis of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
✓ Environment Secretary Leena Nandan was the Chief Guest at the launch of the programme yesterday.
Addressing the gathering, Ms Nandan emphasised the need for creating a cadre of ESG Professionals
in India
Q. Which organisation has released the report titled 'Coal 2022: Analysis and Forecast to
2025'?
A) FAO B) UNEP
C) World Bank D) International Energy Agency (IEA)
Answer : D .
✓ In a report titled ‘Coal 2022 : Analysis and Forecast to 2025,’ International Energy Agency (IEA) said
the global coal use is set to rise by 1.2% in 2022, surpassing 8 billion tonnes in a single year for the
first time and eclipsing the previous record set in 2013.
✓ Based on current market trends, the report forecasts that coal consumption will then remain at nearly
the same level through 2025 as declines in mature markets (US, EU etc) are offset by continued
demand for coal in emerging Asian economies.
✓ “This means coal will continue to be the global energy system’s largest single source of carbon dioxide
emissions by far”.
✓ The largest increases in coal burn are forecast for China (+5%), India (+7%) and Southeast Asia
(+14%). Meanwhile, coal-fired power generation will continue to contract in the United States (-18%)
while a return to a declining trajectory is expected for the European Union (-29%).
✓ Europe, which has been severely impacted by the Russia-Ukraine crisis as its supply of natural gas
from Russia has stopped, is on course to increase its coal consumption for the second year in a row.
By 2025, however, European coal demand is expected to decline below 2020 levels,
Q. What is the name of country's first green steel brand launched by Jyotiraditya Scindia?
A) Zeremis B) Iberdrola
C) Kalyani Ferresta D) HBIS group
Answer : C .

✓ Steel Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia launched India's first Green Steel Brand - KALYANI FeRRESTA in
New Delhi 20th Dec 2022.
✓ * 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.
Q. Which countries are talks to use the rupee in foreign trade?
A) China and France B) Sri Lanka and Russia
C) United States and Germany D) United Kingdom & Australia
Answer : B .
✓ Use of rupee in foreign trade : In order to facilitate international trade, Sri Lanka has agreed to utilize
the Indian Rupee (INR). It occurs shortly after the Indian government announced it was looking into
ways to include nations who are particularly short on dollars in the Indian rupee trade settlement
process.
✓ Use of rupee in foreign trade: Sri Lanka and Russia
✓ Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) clearance is required before the Indian rupee can be designated as Sri
Lanka’s official foreign currency, according to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL).
✓ According to reports, banks in Sri Lanka have set up special accounts for trading in INR dubbed Special
Vostro rupee accounts, or SVRA.
✓ People in Sri Lanka can now hold USD 10,000 (Rs 8,26,823) in real form thanks to the establishment
of Vostro accounts.
Q. Who has been honoured with the first 'Rohini Nayyar prize' for outstanding contribution to
rural development?
A) Kaushal Kumar B) Sethrichem Sangtam
C) Prathap Singh D) KS Rajendra Sinhji
Answer : B .
✓ Sethrichem Sangtam (40) has been honoured with the first Rohini Nayyar prize for outstanding
contribution to rural development.
✓ Reason : To triple the incomes of 1,200 marginalised farmers in Eastern Nagaland.
✓ He introduced them fruit growing, prompting the farmers to change from shifting farming to permanent
farming.

✓ He was awarded the prize by NITI Aayog Vice Chairman, Suman Bery.
✓ The award was instituted by the family of late Dr. Rohini Nayyar.
Q. Which country has launched a 'Group of Friends' to promote accountability for crimes
against peacekeepers?
A) India B) China
C) Russia D) Bangladesh
Answer : A .
✓ India has launched a ‘Group of Friends’ to promote accountability for crimes against peacekeepers,
with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar announcing that New Delhi will soon have a database that
will record all crimes against the Blue Helmets.
✓ India, Bangladesh, Egypt, France, Morocco and Nepal are co-chairs of the ‘Group of Friends to Promote
Accountability for Crimes Against Peacekeepers’ launched during India’s current presidency of the UN
Security Council.
Q. How much of a global minimum tax plan has the European Union adopted for large
corporations?
A) 25% B) 15%
C) 10% D) 12%
Answer : B .
✓ The European Union has adopted a plan for a global minimum 15% tax on big business.
✓ The landmark deal between nearly 140 countries aims to stop governments racing to cut taxes in a bid
to attract companies
Q. Wipro collaborated with which of the following to pursue digital transformation business
from corporate banks in the Middle East?
A) FinancialForce B) FiscalNote
C) Flux D) Finastra
Answer : D .
✓ Wipro Limited announced a partnership with Finastra, a global provider of financial software
applications and marketplaces, to drive digital transformation for corporate banks in the Middle East.

Q. Which bank has introduced its sixth annual awards programme for social startups in
cooperation with ‘Startup India’-Parivartan SmartUp Grants?
A) HDFC Bank B) Federal Bank
C) ICICI Bank D) Axis Bank
Answer : D .
✓ HDFC Bank announced the launch of its sixth annual grants program for social startups in partnership
with the Government of India’s flagship initiative ‘Startup India’.
✓ HDFC Bank announced the launch of its sixth annual grants program for social startups in partnership
with the Government of India’s flagship initiative ‘Startup India’. Known as Parivartan SmartUp Grants,
the program aims to identify startups working in the social impact space and support them through
monetary grants to their incubators
Q. How many products have received the GI label from the government?
A) 432 B) 433
C) 343 D) 456
Answer : A .
✓ The Assam Gamosa, the Telangana Tandur Redgram, and a Ladakh apricot variety are just a few of
the items that have received the Geographical Indications (GI) label from the government. The overall
number of GI has reached 432.
✓ The government approved spending of Rs 75 crore for three years for GI promotion at awareness
programmes, supporting the promotion of GIs. A GI is primarily a produced product (handicrafts and
industrial goods), an agricultural product, or a natural product that comes from a specific geographic
region. Such a name typically carries a
Q. Government has accorded in-principle approval for the setting up of how many Greenfield
Airports across the country recently?
A) 21 B) 32
C) 44 D) 29
Answer : A .
✓ The Government has accorded in-principle approval for the setting up of 21 Greenfield Airports across
the country.

✓ So far nine Greenfield airports have already been operationalized and the tenth Greenfield airport at
Mopa, Goa has been inaugurated last week
✓ This information was given by Minister of State for Civil Aviation General V. K. Singh in a written reply
to a question in Rajya Sabha.
✓ During the pre-covid period, in the year 2018-19 the number of passengers footfall at airports across
the country had increased by 11.6 per as compared to 2017-18.
✓ Passenger footfall had decreased during the pandemic era. However, post-covid, in the year 2021-22,
the trend shows an increase of 63.7 percent over the year 2020-21.
✓ Development of a Greenfield airport is governed under the Greenfield Airports (GFA) Policy, 2008.
Q. Which state government has launched Orunodoi 2.0, a special scheme to provide financial
security to economically disadvantaged families?
A) Odisha B) Assam
C) Madhya Pradesh D) Uttar Pradesh
Answer : B .
✓ Assam government has launched a special scheme Orunodoi 2.0.

✓ The flagship scheme of the state government aimed at providing financial security to financially
disadvantaged families.
✓ Around 17 lakh women have been receiving an amount of Rs 1,250 each on the 10th of every month
through the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) method under the first phase of this social sector scheme
✓ April 2023 onwards, all the existing beneficiaries of the Deen Dayal Divyangan Pension Yojana and
Indira Miri Widow Pension Scheme would be subsumed under Orunodoi 2.0. Divyangans and
transgenders would also be included under the ‘Orunodoi’ scheme.
Q. Which country will host the 13th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meeting in
February 2024?
A) Kazakhstan B) Egypt
C) UAE D) Saudi Arabia
Answer : C .
✓ The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will host the 13th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meeting
in February 2024.

✓ Representatives of the 164 countries of the World Trade Organization would meet in the country’s
capital.
✓ The WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 12 to June 17. It
was originally meant to be held in Kazakhstan in 2020 but was postponed due to the pandemic.
✓ The last time the conference was held in the Gulf was in 2001 in Doha, which resulted in China being
approved as the 143rd member.
✓ The Ministerial Conference is the topmost decision-making body of the WTO and usually meets every
two years
✓ African country Cameroon has also expressed its desire to host the 13th WTO Ministerial Meeting
Q. Which bank approved the divestment of its majority shareholding i.e. 98.57% of the total
equity share capital in Nainital Bank Limited (NBL)?
A) Canara Bank B) Indian Overseas Bank
C) Bank of Baroda D) Bank
Answer : A .
✓ The Global Food Security Index (GFSI) 2022 report has been released by the British weekly The
Economist.
✓ The 11th Global Food Security Index shows a deterioration in the global food environment for the third
year, threatening food security.
✓ In this report, South Africa overtook Tunisia to become the most food-secure country in Africa.
✓ It measures the underlying drivers of food security based on the following factors- Affordability,
Availability, Quality and Safety, Natural Resources and Resilience
✓ India is ranked at 68th position along with Algeria with the overall score of 58.9. China’s position is at
25th with the score of 74.2. While Finland topped.
✓ India was ranked at 71st position in the Global Food Security (GFS) Index 2021 of 113 countries with
an overall score of 57.2 points on the GFS Index 2021.
Q. The Gross collection of Direct Taxes has registered a growth of what percent which stood
at Rs 13,63,649 cr in the financial year 2022-23?
A) 24 .60% B) 20 .10%
C) 25 .90% D) 22 .80%

Answer : C .
✓ The Gross collection of Direct Taxes has registered a growth of 25 .90% which stood at Rs 13,63,649
cr in the financial year 2022-23.
✓ The Gross collection in the corresponding period stood at Rs 10,83,150 cr.
✓ The Net Direct tax collection for FY 2022-23 stood at 11,35,754 crore rupees, registering a growth of
19.81%.
✓ The Net Direct tax collection for the corresponding period was recorded at 9,47,959 crore rupees.
✓ Meanwhile, Advance Tax collections for FY 2022-23 recorded at 5,21,302 crore rupees, which showed
a growth of 12.83 percent
Q. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has informed that note in circulation (NiC) has
witnessed an annual growth of how much percent to Rs 31.92 lakh crore as of 2 December
2022?
A) 7.98% B) 8.95%
C) 6.65% D) 5.78%
Answer : A .
✓ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has informed that note in circulation (NiC) has witnessed an
annual growth of 7.98% to Rs 31.92 lakh crore as of December 2, 2022.
✓ The demand for currency depends upon several macroeconomic factors, including economic growth
and the level of interest rates.
✓ The quantum of cash or banknotes in the economy depends on the requirement for meeting the demand
for banknotes due to GDP growth, inflation, and the replacement of soiled banknotes
Q. Who has been appointed as CEO of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games in
December 2022?
A) Cindy Hook B) Larisa Latynina
C) Carl Lewis D) Michael Phelps
Answer : A .
✓ American executive Cindy Hook has been appointed as CEO of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and
Paralympic Games in December 2022.

✓ She is currently a member of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and the Singapore Economic
Development Board.
✓ She became CEO of the Australian operation in 2015.
✓ The International Olympic Committee in July 2021 decided to host the 2032 Games in Brisbane,
Australia
Q. Which of the following vessel of the Indian Navy will participate in the 50th edition of Cape
to Rio Race 2023?
A) INS Tarangini B) INSV Tarini
C) INS Sudarshini D) INS Darshak
Answer : B .
✓ INSV Tarini has set sail for an expedition to Cape Town, South Africa for participating in the 50th edition
of Cape to Rio Race 2023.
✓ This ocean sailing race will be flagged off on 2nd January 2023 from Cape Town and will culminate at
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
✓ INSV Tarini is known for circumnavigating the globe with an all-women officer crew in the historic
expedition titled ‘Navika Sagar Parikrama’ in 2017.
Q. The fifth submarine of the Project – 75, Kalvari Class submarines, Yard 11879 was delivered
to the Indian Navy. These submarines are being constructed by which company?
A) Kattupalli Shipyard, Ennore
B) Mazagon Dock Limited, Mumbai
C) Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam
D) Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata
Answer : B .
✓ The fifth submarine of the Project – 75, Kalvari Class submarines, Yard 11879 was delivered to the
Indian Navy.
✓ These submarines are being constructed at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) Mumbai, under
collaboration with M/s Naval Group, France.
✓ Project – 75 includes the indigenous construction of six submarines of Scorpene design.

✓ Launched on November 12, 2020, ‘Vagir’ commenced the sea trials on February 1, 2022, and has
completed all major trials including the weapon and sensor trials in the shortest time in comparison to
the earlier submarines.
✓ The construction of these submarines in an Indian yard is another step towards ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’
and instills confidence in the region.
✓ What is also a remarkable achievement is that this is the third submarine delivered to the Indian Navy
in a span of 24 months
Q. Karim Benzema announced his retirement from International football after the FIFA World
Cup 2022 came to an end. He is from which country?
A) Argentina B) France
C) Canada D) Croatia
Answer : B .
✓ France forward Karim Benzema announced his retirement from International football after the FIFA
World Cup 2022 came to an end.
✓ Benzema ends his time with France with 37 goals in 97 appearances.
✓ When Benzema made his debut for France against Austria in March 2007, he scored while playing as
a substitute.
✓ He was included in the France team for Euro 2020, and he ended up being the third-highest scorer with
four goals.
Q. Rehan Ahmed has become the youngest men’s Test cricketer to take a five-wicket haul on
debut. Rehn Ahmed is from which country?
A) Pakistan B) Bangladesh
C) South Africa D) England
Answer : D .
✓ England’s leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed has become the youngest men’s Test cricketer to take a five-
wicket haul on debut during the ongoing third match against Pakistan.
✓ He made his Test debut at 18 years and 126 days during Pakistan and England match.
✓ He claimed three wickets in six overs on his way to 5-48 in the second innings against Pakistan.

✓ Rehan broke the record of now-Australian captain, right-arm fast-bowler Pat Cummins, who was 18
years and 193 days when he took 6-79 on his Test debut against South Africa in 2011.
Q. Who is the author of the book Fit At Any Age?

A) PV lyer B) Rajnish Manga
C) Subhash Chandra D) Abhishek Singh
Answer : A .
✓ Air Marshal PV lyer has launched his book ‘Fit At Any Age’ at India International Centre, New Delhi.
✓ He penned his journey to fitness in the book and shared anecdotes from his life to explain how he
became motivated to work out daily.
✓ He also writes about why it’s important to work out and why one’s journey toward fitness should start
early.
✓ The book is published by Bloomsbury India
Q. Which government has made mandatory of Aadhaar number for all eligible for benefits
under various government schemes?
A) Kerala B) Tamil Nadu
Answer : B .
✓ Tamil Nadu government has announced that all those who are eligible for benefits (other than minor
children) under various government schemes are required to submit proof of possession of an Aadhaar
number or undergo Aadhaar identification.
✓ According to the order, Aadhaar is mandatory for government employees, government pensioners and
beneficiaries of various schemes implemented by the State government through various Departments
by their implementing agencies.
Q. Who has informed in Lok Sabha, that Gaya and Nalanda in Bihar have been selected for
development under Swadesh Darshan 2.0?
A) Meenakshi Lekhi B) Anurag Thakur
C) Nirmala Sitharaman D) G Kishan Reddy
Answer : D .

✓ Gaya and Nalanda in Bihar has been included by the Government of India under the Swadesh Darshan
2.0 scheme. Punaura Dham in Sitamarhi District of Bihar has been selected for development under
the PRASHAD Scheme of the Government of India.
✓ This information was given by the Union Tourism Minister G. KIshan Reddy in the Lok Sabha on 19
December 2022.
✓ Swadesh Darshan 2.0
✓ Government of India launched Swadesh Darshan scheme in 2014-15 for integrated development of
theme based tourist circuits for eg Buddhist circuit, Ramayana circuit, desert circuit etc. It was later
revamped and re-launched as Swadesh Darshan 2.0 with the focus on developing sustainable and
responsible tourism destinations.
✓ The Central government provides assistance to the State /Union Territories government to develop the
tourism Infrastructure.
✓ Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Heritage Augmentation Drive (PRASHAD)
✓ The Government of India launched the PRASAD scheme in the year 2014-2015 under the Ministry of
Tourism. This scheme focuses on developing and identifying pilgrimage sites across India for enriching
the religious tourism experience. Under this scheme the Central government provides assistance to the
state government.
Q. A BSF veteran Bhairon Singh Rathore passed away recently. He was the hero of which war?
A) Kargil War 1999
B) World War I 1914
C) India-Pakistan War 1971
D) India-China War 1962
Answer : C .
✓ Bhairon Singh Rathore, a BSF veteran, and hero of the 1971 India-Pakistan War died in Jodhpur at the
age of 81.
✓ He served in the 14th BSF unit during the war and retired from service in 1987.
✓ The BSF veteran’s bravery at Rajasthan’s Longewala post during the war was portrayed by actor Suniel
Shetty in the Bollywood movie ‘Border’.
✓ He was awarded the Sena Medal in 1972 for his bravery.

Q. Who set a new national record in the women’s 50m breaststroke at the FINA World
Swimming Championships 2022 in Melbourne, Australia recently?
A) Maana Patel B) Srihari Nataraj
C) Chahat Arora D) Shikha Tandon
Answer : C .
✓ Indian swimmer Chahat Arora set a new national record in the women’s 50m breaststroke at the FINA
World Swimming Championships 2022 in Melbourne, Australia.
✓ Arora clocked 32.91s to top heat 2 at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre’s 25m short course
pool and bettered her own previous record of 32.94s set at the National Aquatic Championships 2022
in September.
✓ Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte, topped the overall heats with a timing of 29.10s.
✓ This is the 16th edition of the FINA World Swimming Championships 2022.
Q. Who has won the title of Mrs World 2022 after defeating Las Vegas?
A) Shaylyn Ford B) Sargam Koushal
C) Kate Schneider D) Caroline Jurie
Answer : B .
✓ India's Sargam Kaushal wins Mrs World 2022 title, Title returned to India after 21 years.
✓ America's Mrs. World 2021 Shaylin Ford crowned Mumbai's Sargam Kaushal at an event held at
Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino on the evening of 18 December.
✓ Mrs. Polynesia was named the first runner-up, followed by Mrs. Canada as the second runner-up.
✓ The newly crowned Mrs. World Sargam Kaushal hails from Jammu and Kashmir.
✓ Actress-model Aditi Govitrikar, who brought the Mrs India crown to India in 2001, also shared a
congratulatory message on the Mrs World pageant's page.
✓ About Mrs World title
✓ Mrs World is the first beauty pageant for married women.
✓ The pageant was conceived in 1984 and traces its roots to the Mrs. America pageant.
✓ Initially this pageant was named Mrs. Woman of the World.
✓ It became known as Mrs. World in 1988. Most of the winners are from America.

✓ India has won the title of Mrs. World only once, in 2001 when Dr. Aditi Govitrikar bagged the coveted
crown.
✓ Dr. Govitrikar has served as a judge for Mrs. India Inc. 2022-23.
✓ Sargam Kaushal has won the title of Mrs. World 2022, becoming the winner among contestants from
63 countries. This title has returned to India after 21 years.
Q. Which of the following bank has signed an MoU with the Ministry of Defence for extending
banking services to the Defence Pensioners and their families?
A) Bandhan Bank B) Bank of Baroda
C) Yes Bank D) Axis Bank
Answer : A .
✓ Bandhan Bank has signed an MoU with the Controller General of Defence Accounts, Ministry of
Defence for extending banking services to the Defence Pensioners and their families.
✓ The Bank will provide services to Defence Pensioners and their families through 557 branches.
✓ The bank is aligned with the vision of the government in being a one-stop solution to all pension-related
activities of defence pensioners under the Outreach Programme for Defence Pensioners on System for
Pension Administration Raksha (SPARSH).
Q. Which of the following Small Finance Bank has partnered with HDFC Life for the
bancassurance business model recently?
A) Equitas Small Finance Bank B) ESAF Small Finance Bank
C) Capital Small Finance Bank D) AU Small Finance Bank
Answer : D .
✓ AU Small Finance Bank has partnered with HDFC Life for the bancassurance business model.
✓ This partnership would enable diverse customers of AU Small Finance Bank to access the entire range
of life insurance products offered by HDFC Life.
✓ According to the Swiss Re report (2019), India has the highest protection gap of 83% in comparison to
other insurance markets.
✓ Bancassurance – Bancassurance is the selling of insurance products through banking channels. In
Bancassurance, a bank enters into an agreement with an Insurance company.
✓ The Bank makes its customer database available to Insurance companies. If the bank customer buys
the insurance products then the bank will receive a commission from the Insurance companies.

Q. Which financial company has launched Roots, a dedicated platform providing

comprehensive investor education and market analysis?
A) HDFC Securities B) ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
C) SBI General Insurance D) Bajaj Allianz General Insurance
Answer : A .
✓ Stock brokerage firm HDFC Securities has launched Roots, a dedicated platform providing
comprehensive investor education and market analysis.
✓ The site offers multiple forms of valuable information, including articles, bite-sized tips, podcasts by
experts, video tutorials and explainers, and live social media feed on the Indian financial markets.
✓ The Blog section of Roots is updated with articles addressing all aspects of investing in the Indian
financial markets, from intraday trading to ETFs, and more.
✓ This platform produces content which are being searched on Google by current or prospective investors
and traders
Q. India’s global position in scientific publications has improved from 7th in 2010 to _ in 2020.
A) 4th B) 5th
C) 2nd D) 3rd
Answer : D .
✓ India has jumped from 7th to 3rd global ranking in scientific publications.
✓ This was informed by the Union Minister for Science & Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh after a review
meeting with the senior official of the Department of Science & Technology in New Delhi.
✓ According to the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Science & Engineering Indicators 2022 report,
India’s global position in scientific publications has improved from 7th in 2010 to 3rd in 2020.
✓ China leads the world in the publication of the maximum number of scientific papers followed by the
USA.
Q. Who has inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of several development projects worth
over 6,800 crore rupees in Tripura and Meghalaya?
A) Nitin Gadkari B) Piyush Goyal
C) Amit Shah D) Narendra Modi
Answer : D .

✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of several development
projects worth over 6,800 crore rupees in Tripura and Meghalaya.
✓ In Tripura, the Prime Minister launched projects worth 4,350 crore rupees.
✓ The projects include ‘Grih Pravesh’ programme for beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana –
Urban and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Rural
✓ These houses, which have been developed at a cost of more than 3400 crore rupees, will cover over
two lakh beneficiaries.
✓ In Meghalaya, the Prime Minister unveiled projects worth over 2,450 crore rupees.
Q. India will start a passenger ferry service between Kankesanthurai port in Jaffna district and
Karaikal ports in Pondicherry in January 2023. Kankesanthurai port is located in which
country?
A) Maldives B) Egypt
C) Afghanistan D) Sri Lanka
Answer : D .
✓ Sri Lanka and India will start a passenger ferry service between Kankesanthurai port in Jaffna district
and Karaikal ports in Pondicherry in January 2023.
✓ A large number of Indian citizens are engaged in business activities in the Jaffna Peninsula.
✓ With such engagement, the new service is expected to generate a large portion of foreign revenue. It
will also be of immense convenience for Buddhist pilgrims to India.
✓ The ferry service between Tamil Nadu and the Northern part of Sri Lanka which is dominated by Sri
Lanka Tamils was disrupted in 1980’s due to the civil war in Sri Lanka.
Q. Who has announced the launching of “One Week, One Lab” countrywide campaign from
January 6, 2023?
A) Narendra Modi B) Nirmala Sitharaman
C) Dr. Jitendra Singh D) Nitin Gadkari
Answer : C .
✓ Union Minister for Science & Technology Jitendra Singh has announced the launching of “One Week,
One Lab” countrywide campaign from January 6, 2023.
✓ Singh is also the vice president of CSIR (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research).

✓ Jitendra Singh announced this while addressing the 200th Governing Body Meeting of CSIR at the
Science Centre in New Delhi.
✓ The Prime Minister had urged CSIR in the Society meeting to develop a vision for 2042 when CSIR
turns 100 years old and also highlighted the significance of documenting the journey of the past 80
years, which can help take a review of progress achieved and identify areas of lacunae which can be
addressed.
✓ CSIR was established on 26 September 1942 and was registered as a CSIR Society under the Societies
Registration Act, of 1860. The first meeting of the Governing Body was held on 09 March 1942 that
framed the Bye-Laws for the Council amongst other agenda items.
Q. Which of the following company has won the Institution of Engineers, India (IEI) Industry
Excellence Award 2022 in Chennai?
A) Glaceau Smartwater B) Aquafina
C) Tata Water Plus D) National Mineral Development Corporation
Answer : D .
✓ National Miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) won the Institution of Engineers,
India (IEI) Industry Excellence Award 2022 in Chennai.
✓ The largest producer of iron ore in the country was felicitated at the 37th Indian Engineering Congress
for its outstanding performance and high level of business excellence.
✓ The Institution of Engineers (India) has given the Industry Excellence Award to NMDC, after reviewing
the business operations, financial performance, environmental performance, research and
development, CSR, and corporate governance policies of a company.
✓ NMDC
✓ Founded : 1958
✓ Headquarters : Hyderabad
✓ It is India’s largest producer of iron ore.
Q. Which Indian movie has been shortlisted for the “International Feature Film” category in
Oscar 2023?
A) KGF B) RRR
C) Bahubali D) Chhello Show
Answer : D .

✓ Chhello Show, directed by Pan Nalin, is a Gujarati-language coming-of-age story about a young boy's
love affair with a film in a Saurashtra hamlet.
✓ The film, produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur and Dheer Momaya, is on the international feature film
shortlist.
✓ The "Chhello Show" crew expressed their gratitude and excitement at the Academy's recognition of
their sincere dedication to the cinematic medium.
Q. Which Indian documentary movie has been shortlisted for the "Documentary short film
category" in Oscar 2023?
A) The Elephant Whisperers B) Nothing Is Los
C) The Last Film Show D) All That Breathes
Answer : C .
✓ The Last Film Show (Chhello Show) and RRR’s ‘Naatu Naatu’ song have made it to the shortlist for the
Oscars 2023.
✓ Shortlists for 10 categories have been announced, including the Netflix documentary ‘The Elephant
Whisperers’ and Shaunak Sen’s ‘All That Breathes’.
✓ The 10 announced categories include Best Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film,
International Feature Film, and Music (Original Song) among others
✓ ‘The Elephant Whisperers’, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves, has also been shortlisted in the "Best
Documentary Short Film category".
✓ All That Breathes’ by Shaunak Sen has been shortlisted under the Best Documentary Feature Film
category
Q. The India's first Infantry Museum has been opened for the general public at which state?
A) Gujarat B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Karnataka D) Uttar Pradesh
Answer : B .
✓ The country’s first Infantry Museum has been opened for the general public at Mhow, Indore, Madhya
Pradesh.

✓ On the eve of 75 years of raising of the Infantry School and to commemorate the Vijay Diwas, the
country's first Infantry Museum opened to the general public on December 16, 2022
✓ World’s first National Infantry Museum :
✓ The world’s first National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center is located outside the Maneuver Center
of Excellence at Fort Benning in Columbus Georgia. The 190,000-square-foot museum opened in June
2009.
✓ The museum describes the history of the United States Army Infantry from the American Revolution to
present operations. It displays artifacts from all eras of American history
Q. Which company has roped in Bollywood actor and entrepreneur Anushka Sharma as its
brand ambassador?
A) Puma B) Adidas
C) Nike D) Reebok
Answer : A .
✓ Puma India has appointed Bollywood actor Anushka Sharma as its new brand ambassador in a move
that forms part of its ongoing commitment to support women’s business in India
✓ Puma India has a total of 30-35 brand ambassadors in India which include Sharma’s husband and
cricketer Virat Kohli. Other brand ambassadors associated with Puma India include Kareena Kapoor
Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Mary Kom, Sunil Chhetri and Harrdy Sandhu.
✓ PUMA
✓ Founded : 1948
✓ Founder : Rudolf Dassler
✓ Headquarters : Herzogenaurach, Germany
✓ CEO : Bjørn Gulden
Q. Which Indian movie song has been shortlisted in the best song category at Oscar 2023?
A) Manike B) Naatu Naatu
C) Kesariya D) Varaha Roopam
Answer : B .
✓ RRR's filmmakers are overjoyed as they move closer to the Oscars.

✓ The infectiously popular song 'Naatu Naatu' from the hit Telugu film has been nominated for an Oscar
in 2023. As a result, Naatu Naatu has become the first Indian song to be nominated for an Academy
Award.
Q. Who has the Air India management appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Air
India's Low Cost Carrier (LCC) business from January 1, 2023?
A) Rono Dutta B) Rahul Bhatia
C) Aloke Singh D) Ajay Singh
Answer : C .
✓ Aloke Singh is going to take charge of the Air India Express as new CEO from 1 January, 2023. He is
all set to pilot pilot the integrated low cost airline of the Tata group reported on 22 December 2022.
✓ Aloke has previously worked in senior positions of Air India and Oman Air. The Air India Express is
being created by merging AirAsia India and Air India Express.
Q. Who has become the only Indian to be named in an international list of 50 greatest actors of
all time by a prominent British magazine?
A) Shah Rukh Khan B) Salman Khan
C) Aamir Khan D) Hrithik Roshan
Answer : A .
✓ Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has become the only Indian to be named in an international list
of 50 greatest actors of all time by a prominent British magazine.
✓ The 57-year-old actor is included in Empire magazine's list which also recognises Hollywood giants like
Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Anthony Marlon Brando, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson and many
others
✓ In the accompanying short profile, the magazine said Shah Rukh Khan has a career that has now
spanned four decades of "near unbroken hits, and a fanbase of pretty much billions".
✓ From his extensive filmography, the publication highlighted Shah Rukh Khan's notable characters from
four movies -- Sanjay Leela Bhansali-directed "Devdas", Karan Johar's "My Name Is Khan" and "Kuch
Kuch Hota Hai", and "Swades", directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar.

✓ His dialogue from the 2012 movie "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" -- "Zindagi toh har roz jaan leti hai... Bomb toh
sirf ek baar lega" (Everyday life kills us a little. A bomb will kill you only once) -- has been recognised
as the "iconic line" of his career.
✓ Jab Tak Hai Jaan" was filmmaker Yash Chopra's swansong and featured Khan as an Indian Army Major
named Samar Anand. The film also starred Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma.
✓ The actor will be next seen in the actioner "Pathaan", set to be released worldwide on January 25,
2023. Directed by Siddharth Anand, the movie also stars John Abraham and Deepika Padukone
Q. YouTube creators Ecosystem contributes over Rs ___Cr to India's GDP in 2021
A) Rs 5,000 Cr B) Rs 8,560 Cr
C) Rs 10,000 Cr D) Rs 13,400 Cr
Answer : C .
✓ "YouTube's creative ecosystem contributed over Rs 10,000 crore and supported more than 7,50,000
full-time equivalent jobs in the Indian economy in 2021.
✓ That economic impact shows up in four ways, through direct, indirect, induced, and catalytic impacts".
Q. Which athlete has been nominated to the Vice-chairman panel in Rajya Sabha?
A) Annu Rani B) Hima Das
C) Neeraj Chopra D) PT Usha
Answer : D .
✓ Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar has nominated legendary former athlete and MP PT Usha
to the panel of Vice chairpersons in the Upper House.
✓ This is the first time a nominated member has been appointed to the Vice Chairman panel. YSRC MP
Vijai Sai Reddy has also been nominated along with her.
✓ She was also elected as the president of the Indian Olympic Association in Dec 2022.
✓ PT Usha has won 4 Asian gold medals and 7 silver medals.
Q. Who has been appointed as the new chief Of the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre
(NDIAC)?
A) Justice UU Lalit B) Justice R Shubhash Reddy
C) Justice Hemant Gupta D) Justice Jitendra Veer Gupta

Answer : C .
✓ According to a personnel ministry notification, former Supreme Court judge "Hemant Gupta" has been
named head of the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC).
✓ The NDIAC was formed to develop an independent and autonomous framework for institutionalized
arbitration.
Q. Who has been appointed as the MD & CEO of SBI Funds Management Limited (SBIFML)?
A) Sandeep Bakhshi B) Shamsher Singh
C) Rishi Gupta D) Venugopal Dhoot
Answer : B .
✓ SBI Funds Management Ltd has appointed Shamsher Singh as managing director and chief executive
officer of the company.
✓ Singh, who was deputy managing director at State Bank of India (SBI), has taken over the charge from
Vinay M Tonse following his repatriation to the public sector lender.
Q. Which state has approved the warehousing and logistic policy 2022 recently?
A) Karnataka
B) Bihar
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Uttar Pradesh
Answer : D .
✓ The Uttar Pradesh government’s Cabinet approved the ‘UP Warehousing and Logistics Policy-2022’,
state’s industrial development minister Nand Gopal Gupta said, stressing that the move will help it
become a “USD 1-trillion economy”.
✓ The policy’s approval comes ahead of the Global Investors’ Summit scheduled to be held in Lucknow
in February 2023.
Q. Which state/UT has recently granted Industry status to its tourism sector?
A) Assam B) Goa
C) Gujarat D) Karnataka

Answer : A .
✓ Assam cabinet has approved the proposal for grant of industry status to the tourism sector in the state,
to boost investments and generate employment.
✓ With this grant, restaurants, cafeterias, health clubs, spas and wellness centers, among others, in the
state are eligible for incentives under the industrial policy
Q. Which Union Ministry organizes the AI Pe Charcha (AI Dialogue) event?
A) Ministry of Finance
B) Ministry of Electronics and IT
C) Ministry of Corporate Affairs
D) Ministry of Science and Technology
Answer : B .
✓ National eGovernance Division (NeGD) under the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) recently
organized an AI Pe Charcha (AI Dialogue) wherein the panelists discussed the importance of and
approaches for enabling access to quality datasets for AI.
✓ * The session was chaired by Shri Abhishek Singh, President & CEO, NeGD and had speakers from
diverse backgrounds leading to an engaging session for Government officials, AI enthusiasts, AI
practitioners, youth, and those who want to understand the role of data in catalyzing the AI innovation
ecosystem.
✓ The AI Pe Charcha series has been initiated as a part of Responsible AI for Social Empowerment
(RAISE), India's first global AI summit, which was organized by MeitY in 2020
Q. Who has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom to Saudi Arabia?
A) Nagesh Singh B) Parvathaneni Harish
C) Monika Kapil Mohta D) Suhel Ajaz Khan
Answer : D .
✓ Suhel Ajaz Khan, India’s ambassador to Lebanon, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India
to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
Q. National Farmer’s Day is observed in India on which day?

Answer : A .
✓ National Farmer’s Day (Kisan Diwas) is observed every year on December 23 in India to remember the
role of Indian farmers in the economy.
✓ The day was first celebrated in 2001.
✓ The day is observed to mark the birth anniversary of former Prime Minster Chaudhary Charan Singh.
✓ He brought farmer-friendly policies and worked towards the welfare of the farmers.
✓ Chaudhary Charan Singh was the fifth Prime Minister of India and served the country as Prime Minister
from 28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980
✓ *As the second Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri, gave the farmers the famous slogan, "JAI
JAWAN JAI KISAN", Chaudhary Charan Singh followed it.
Q. When was National Mathematics Day observed?
A) 19 December C) 18 December
Answer : D .
✓ National Mathematics Day is observed on 22 December to commemorate the 144th birth anniversary
of ace mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, who was born on 22 December 1887
✓ Every year, the International Day of Mathematics is observed on March 14.
Q. National Mathematics Day is observed to commemorate the birth anniversary of _____.
A) C. R. Rao B) Srinivasa Ramanujan
C) P. C. Mahalanobis D) D. R. Kaprekar
Answer : B .
✓ India observes the National Mathematics Day every year on 22 December since 2012 to commemorate
the birth anniversary of Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
✓ 2022 marks the 145th birth anniversary of Ramanujan.
✓ The day was announced on 26 February 2012 by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to mark
the 125th anniversary of the birth of the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan (22 Dec
1887- 26 Apr 1920).
✓ 2012 was also observed as National Mathematics Year.

Q. National Farmer’s Day is observed to commemorate the birth anniversary of which leader?
A) Atal Bihari Vajpayee B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Chaudhary Charan Singh D) P V Narasimha Rao
Answer : C .
✓ National Farmer’s Day is being observed on December 23 to commemorate the birth anniversary of the
fifth Prime Minister of India, Chaudhary Charan Singh, and his contributions towards the upliftment of
farmers in the country.
✓ Various awareness campaigns and drives are organised across the country to educate people about
the role of farmers and their contribution to the economy

Q. Who has won the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22?
A) Anuja Chauhan & Anita Desai
B) Sudeep Sen & Shobhana Kumar
C) Shashi Deshpande & Anees Saim
D) Vikram Seth & Sekhar Bandopadhyay
Answer : B .
✓ Sudeep Sen and Shobhana Kumar has won the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2021-22.
✓ Sudeep Sen has been recognised for Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa
Rann Books & Media, 2021).
✓ While, 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, were picked from a shortlist of
11 at India International Centre with the Tagore Prize for social achievement going 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 for The City and The Sea (Penguin Books).
Q. India’s maiden human space flight ‘H1’ mission is targeted to be launched in which year?
A) 2023 B) 2024
C) 2025 D) 2030
Answer : B .
✓ Union minister of state for Space and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh has announced that India’s maiden
human space flight ‘H1’ mission is targeted to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2024.
✓ The uncrewed ‘G1’ mission is targeted to be launched in the last quarter of 2023 followed by the second
uncrewed ‘G2’ mission in the second quarter of 2024, before the final human space flight ‘H1’ mission
in the fourth quarter of 2024.

✓ The Rs 10,000 crore project aims to take a three-person Indian crew into orbit for five to seven days
before returning them safely to Earth.
✓ The Gaganyaan project was conceived in 2007 and it was formally started in 2018.
✓ Four Indian Air Force pilots have been identified as crew for the mission who are undergoing training
in Russia
Q. Which state will host India’s maiden World Table Tennis (WTT) series event from 27 Feb to
5 Mar 2023?
A) Kerala B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Goa D) Karnataka
Answer : C .
✓ Goa will host India’s maiden World Table Tennis (WTT) series event from February 27 to March 5.
✓ The top tier WTT Star Contender Goa 2023 will be staged at the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor
stadium, located at the Goa University Campus.
✓ World Table Tennis (WTT) was created by the International Table Tennis Federation in 2019 to create
and manage professional men’s and women’s Table Tennis events around the world.
Q. Which company has secured exclusive media rights to broadcast the Paris Olympic Games
2024 recently?
A) Disney Star B) Star Sports
C) Network 18 D) Viacom18
Answer : D .
✓ The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that Viacom18 Media Private Limited
(Viacom18) has secured exclusive media rights to broadcast the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
✓ It has also secured the non-exclusive rights to the Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024, in
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
✓ In 2024, the Olympics will be hosted by France in Paris, beginning from July 26 to August 11.
✓ While IOC did not specify the deal size, media experts peg the deal at Rs 200-250 crore. Viacom 18
had won the broadcast rights of the recently-concluded Fifa World Cup for Rs 450 crore

Q. Who is the author of a book titled ‘The Indian Navy@75 Reminiscing the Voyage’?
A) Rohinton Mistry B) Aritra Banerjee
C) Salman Rushdie D) Amrita Pritam
Answer : B .
✓ A book titled, ‘The Indian Navy@75 Reminiscing the Voyage’ by Commodore Ranjit B Rai (Retd) and
defence journalist Aritra Banerjee.
✓ The book tells you how the exploits and sacrifices of the British-era Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during
World War 2 were omitted by British historians who could not digest the RIN’s mutiny in 1946
Q. Which country will host the next football Club World Cup in February 2023?
A) Morocco B) China
C) Argentina D) Spain
Answer : A .
✓ FIFA has announced that Morocco will host the next football Club World Cup.
✓ The tournament will take place from 1-11 Feb 2023.
✓ The most recent edition of the tournament was held in the UAE in February 2022 and was won by the
English football club, Chelsea.
✓ Morocco also hosted Club World Cups in 2013 and 2014, which were won by Bayern Munich and Real
Madrid, respectively.
✓ Only European and South American teams have won the Club World Cup since it was revived in the
current format in 2005.
Q. Which city will host the 36th Asian Wrestling Championships 2023?
A) Hyderabad B) Mumbai
C) New Delhi D) Chennai
Answer : C .
✓ The United World Wrestling (UWW) announced that the 36th Asian Wrestling Championships 2023 will
be held in New Delhi from 28 March to 2 April 2023.
✓ The Asian Championships will be held in New Delhi for the 36th time. The annual gathering will take
place for the seventh time in the Indian capital.

✓ It will offer ranking points to the wrestlers which will determine their seedings for the World
Championships to be held in Belgrade, Serbia from 16 to 24 Sept 2023.
✓ The World Wrestling Championships is scheduled to take place in Belgrade, Serbia from 16 to 24
September 2023.
✓ The first edition of the Asian Wrestling Championships in 1979 was also held in India with Jalandhar as
the host city. Mumbai hosted it once in 1987
Q. Veer Guardian 2023 Exercise is a maiden bilateral air exercise set to be held between India
and which country?
A) Australia B) United States
C) Singapore D) Japan
Answer : D .
✓ Indian Air Force (IAF) and Japanese Air Self Defence Force (JASDF) are set to hold their maiden
bilateral air exercise, Veer Guardian 23.
✓ The exercise will be held at Hyakuri air base and Iruma air base in Japan in January 2023. It aims to
promote mutual understanding and strengthen defence cooperation between the Air Forces.
✓ India- Japan : JIMEX (naval exercise), SHINYUU Maitri (air force exercise), and Dharma Guardian
(military exercise).
Q. Which type of cancer is caused by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)?

A) Breast Cancer B) Oral Cancer
C) Prostate Cancer D) Cervical Cancer
Answer : D .
✓ Most cervical cancers are associated with the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and the HPV vaccine can
prevent most cases of if the vaccine is given before girls or women are exposed to the virus.
✓ National Technical Advisory Group for Immunization (NTAGI) has recommended introduction of HPV
Vaccine in the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) with for 9-14 year-old adolescent girls.
✓ The Centre has written to all States and UTs to create awareness on prevention of cervical cancer and
the importance of HPV vaccine.

Q. Which of the following entity has received approval from SEBI to set up Social Stock
Exchange (SSE)?
A) Reserve Bank Innovation Hub
B) National Stock Exchange
C) Reserve Bank Information Technology Private Limited
D) Indian Financial Technology and Allied Services
Answer : B .
✓ National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) has received in-principle approval from the Securities
Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to set up a Social Stock Exchange (SSE) as a separate segment of
the NSE.
✓ Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Union Budget speech of 2019-20, proposed the
creation of a Social Stock Exchange, under the regulatory ambit of SEBI, for listing social enterprises
and voluntary organisations.
✓ National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE)
✓ Founded : 1992
✓ Chairman : Girish Chandra Chaturvedi
✓ MD & CEO : Ashish Kumar Chauhan
✓ Indices : NIFTY 50
Q. Which country is the host of special negotiation round on three of the four pillars of Indo-
Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) in February 2023?
A) Australia B) Kazakhstan
C) India D) Japan
Answer : C .
✓ India will host the next special negotiation round on three of the four pillars of the United States-led
Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) on February 2023.
✓ IPEF has four pillars in all namely trade, supply chain, tax and anti-corruption and clean energy. During
the first-ever in-person ministerial in September 2022, India decided to join only three pillars, and opted
out of the trade pillar.

Q. What is the total amount raised by the Government through disinvestment and strategic sale
of PSEs since 2014?
A) Rs 2.06 lakh crores B) Rs 4.04 lakh crores
C) Rs 8.07 lakh crores D) Rs 5.02 lakh crores
Answer : B .
✓ The government has raised over Rs 4.04 lakh crore through disinvestment and strategic sale of public
sector enterprises since 2014, the Finance Ministry said.
✓ The largest amount of over Rs 1.07 lakh crore was raised through offer for sale in 59 cases.
✓ This was followed by a stake sale through Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) in 10 tranches, amounting to
Rs 98,949 crore. Strategic sales in 10 companies, including Air India, yielded Rs 69,412 crores.
✓ 17 CPSEs were listed since 2014-15, which yielded Rs 50,386 crore.
Q. Which state/UT generated most number of jobs under the PMEGP scheme in the current
fiscal year?
A) Kerala B) Haryana
C) Madhya Pradesh D) Jammu and Kashmir
Answer : D .
✓ Jammu & Kashmir has generated the most number of jobs among all the states and UTs under the
Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) in the current fiscal year.
✓ The scheme by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) is implemented by Khadi
and Village Industries Commission (KVIC). Since 2008, 62,808 jobs were created by 7,851 assisted
projects in Jammu & Kashmir.
✓ Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) is a credit-linked subsidy program.
✓ It was launched in 2008 for the generation of employment opportunities through the establishment of
microenterprises in rural and urban areas.
✓ It is a central sector scheme being administered by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
(MSME).
✓ Implementing Agency at the National Level is Khadi and Village Industries Commission(KVIC).
✓ It is a statutory organization under the administrative control of the Ministry of MSME.
✓ Features of the scheme are as follow-

✓ It allows entrepreneurs to set up factories or units.

✓ Any individual above 18 years of age is eligible for this scheme.
✓ Only new projects/units are considered for sanction of loans.
✓ Maximum Cost of Project/Unit Admissible for Manufacturing Sector is Rs. 25 lakh.
✓ Maximum Cost of Project/Unit Admissible for Service Sector is Rs. 10 lakh.
Q. Which organisation has released the ‘2022 in Nine Charts’ report?
A) UNDP B) UNEP
C) WEF D) World Bank
Answer : D .
✓ The World Bank released a report titled ‘2022 in Nine Charts’, in which it said that the world is in its
steepest slowdown since 1970 and 685 million people could be living in extreme poverty by the end of
2022.
✓ This would make 2022 the second-worst year for poverty reduction in the past two decades, after 2020.
Q. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) has 23 targets that the world
needs to achieve by which year?
A) 2025 B) 2030
C) 2035 D) 2040
Answer : B .
✓ The 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted
the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
✓ The framework has 23 targets that the world needs to achieve by 2030. In 2020, the world had failed to
meet the last set of targets, the Aichi Targets. COP15 had representatives of 188 governments on site
and agreed on the framework.
Q. Which of the following company has signed an MoU with GE Power India Limited to reduce
carbon intensity at NTPC’s coal-fired units?
A) NTPC Limited B) GAIL Limited
C) SAIL limited D) TATA Steel
Answer : A .

✓ NTPC has signed an MoU with GE Power India Limited to reduce carbon intensity at NTPC’s coal-fired
units.
✓ Carbon reduction from coal power plants is a key challenge and Co-firing of low-carbon fuel will facilitate
the transition towards a low-carbon energy economy and subsequent it to “Net Zero” emission.
Q. Which state government will host the Bekal International Beach Festival from 24 December?
A) Karnataka B) Tamil Nadu
C) Kerala D) Gujarat
Answer : C .
✓ Kerala government will host the Bekal International Beach Festival from 24 Dec at the Spice Coast, in
the far north of Kerala.
✓ Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the 10-day first international beach festival.
✓ The festival also aims at revitalizing the district’s development by showcasing its potential.
✓ Around five lakh people from across the globe are set to revel at the festival that will be staged at the
three venues of Chandragiri, Thejaswini, and Payaswini.
✓ The festival will be staged at the three venues of Chandragiri, Thejaswini, and Payaswini.
Q. Which among the following has signed an MoU with the Council on Energy, Environment and
Water (CEEW) for mutual assistance and cooperation in the area of sustainable finance?
A) Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)
B) International Financial Services Centres Authority ( IFSCA)
C) Food Safety and Standard Association of India (FSSAI)
D) Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Answer : B .
✓ International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) has signed an MoU with the Council on
Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) for mutual assistance and cooperation in the area of
sustainable finance.
✓ India recently launched Mission LIFE (Lifestyle for the Environment) as an India-led global movement
to protect and preserve the environment.
✓ CEEW research has estimated that India’s net zero by 2070 target would require USD 10 trillion in
investments.

✓ About IFSCA
✓ The IFSCA is a statutory authority established under the International Financial Services Centres
Authority Act, 2019 (“IFSCA Act”) with a mandate to develop and regulate the financial products,
financial services, and financial institutions in the International Financial Services Centres (‘IFSC’).
✓ The IFSCA aims to develop a strong global connect and focus on the needs of the Indian economy as
well as to serve as an international financial platform for the entire region.
✓ About CEEW
✓ The Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) is one of Asia’s leading not-for-profit policy
research institutions.
✓ The Council uses data, integrated analysis, and strategic outreach to explain – and change – the use,
reuse, and misuse of resources. It prides itself on the independence of its high-quality research,
develops partnerships with public and private institutions, and engages with the wider public.
Q. Which state has launched a 24×7 piped drinking water project ‘Drink from Tap’ in 19 cities?
A) Odisha B) Assam
C) Haryana D) Rajasthan
Answer : A .
✓ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has launched a 24×7 piped drinking water project — ‘Drink from
Tap’ — in 19 cities.
✓ Earlier, the facility was unveiled in Puri and Gopalpur.
✓ Under the project, drinking water will be supplied round the clock through taps installed in households.
✓ Places, where the project was launched, included Cuttack, Berhampur, Rourkela, Sundargarh,
Biramitrapur, Rajgangpur, Keonjhar, and some parts of Bhubaneswar
Q. Priya Mohan Sinha passed away recently. He was the former Chief of which company?
A) Coca-Cola India B) Nestlé India
C) Parle Products D) PepsiCo’s India
Answer : D .
✓ Former chief executive of PepsiCo India Priya Mohan Sinha passed away.
✓ He was the second chairman of PepsiCo India who helmed the company for a decade— from 1993 to
2003.

✓ He headed PepsiCo’s India business for a decade, between 1993-2003.

✓ He worked with Hindustan Unilever for more than a decade before joining PepsiCo India in 1993.
✓ Sinha joined Bata as chairman in 2004 and is credited with restructuring the company
Q. FuelBuddy has partnered with which company for the supply of its automotive and industrial
lubricant, ‘SERVO’, to customers across the country?
A) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
B) Indian Oil Corporation Limited
C) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
D) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
Answer : B .
✓ Doorstep fuel delivery service provider, FuelBuddy has announced a partnership with Indian Oil Corp.
Ltd. (IOCL) for the supply of its automotive and industrial lubricant, ‘SERVO’, to customers across the
country.
✓ All customers (new and existing) of FuelBuddy will soon be able to easily place orders of lubricants as
per their requirements on the FuelBuddy app.
✓ The physical delivery of the lubricants will be done at their doorstep at the time of their convenience
✓ Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL)
✓ Founded : 1959
✓ Chairman : Shrikant Madhav Vaidya
✓ Owner : Government of India (52.1%)
Q. Which company has partnered with Japanese transport firm Mitsui OSK Lines for a new-
build liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier and for joint ownership of an existing LNG carrier?
A) GAIL Limited B) NTPC Limited
C) SAIL Limited D) Adani Enterprises
Answer : A .
✓ State-owned Gail India has partnered with Japanese transport firm Mitsui OSK Lines for a new-build
liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier and for joint ownership of an existing LNG carrier.

✓ The vessel will be built by South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering with a
charter period from 2023.
✓ The parties signed a contract for the first vessel in 2019 and it has been chartered to Gail through a
wholly-owned MOL subsidiary from 2021
✓ GAIL India is one of the largest natural gas processing & distribution company. The Government of
India held 51.90% stake in Gail (India) as on 30 September 2022.
✓ About Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL)
✓ Founded : 1984
✓ Chairman : Sandeep Kumar Gupta
Q. Which state / UTs government has decided to introduce ‘mini snack’ breaks and parents
counseling sessions in all schools?
A) Delhi B) Kerala
C) Bihar D) Uttar Pradesh
Answer : A .
✓ Delhi government schools to introduce pre-lunch ‘mini snack’ break

✓ To battle malnutrition in children, the Delhi government has decided to introduce mini snack breaks and
parents counseling sessions in all city schools.
✓ According to a circular by the Directorate of Education (DoE), schools have been directed to include a
10-minute mini snack break in the school timetable.
✓ The mini-break should be 2.5 hours before the lunch break.
Q. Paytm has partnered with which General Insurance company to launch a group insurance
plan called ‘Paytm Payment Protect’?
A) HDFC ERGO General Insurance
B) ICICI Lombard
C) Reliance General Insurance
D) United India Insurance
Answer : A .

✓ Paytm has partnered with HDFC ERGO General Insurance to launch a group insurance plan called
‘Paytm Payment Protect’.
✓ The insurance plan is in association with HDFC ERGO General Insurance and it is aimed to insure
transactions made through UPI across all apps and wallets
✓ This product is expected to further enhance the trusted digital payments experience and increase the
adoption of the same in India.
✓ With the new insurance offering, which will come at a cost of Rs 30 per annum, users would be able to
secure themselves against mobile fraudulent transactions up to Rs 10,000.
Q. Which ministry has won the Platinum Icon at the Digital India Awards 2022?
A) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
B) Ministry of Finance
C) Ministry of Home affairs
D) Ministry of Education
Answer : A .
✓ The Smart Cities Mission of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has won the Platinum Icon at the
Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “Data Smart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data”.
✓ The award was announced under the ‘Data Sharing and Use for Socio-Economic Development’
category
✓ About Data smart Cities Initiative
✓ The Data Smart Cities Initiative is a key step in creating a robust data ecosystem that enables evidence-
based decision-making in cities.
✓ It aims to harness the power of data for better governance in India’s 100 Smart Cities.
✓ The Data Smart Cities Initiative is a key step in creating a robust data ecosystem that enables evidence-
based decision-making in cities. It aims to harness the power of data for better governance in India’s
100 Smart Cities.
Q. Which of the following banks has introduced ZERO FEE BANKING on savings accounts?
A) IDFC First Bank B) Yes Bank
C) Federal Bank D) HDFC Bank
Answer : A .

✓ IDFC FIRST Bank on 17 December announced ZERO Fee Banking on savings accounts and waived
fees on 25 commonly used banking services.
✓ The banking services include savings accounts such as cash deposits and withdrawals at branches,
third-party cash transactions, demand drafts, IMPS, NEFT, RTGS, cheque book, SMS alerts, interest
certificates, insufficient balance for ATM transactions, international ATM usage, and so on.
✓ The customers maintaining as low as Rs 10,000 Average Monthly Balance, and the Rs 25,000 AMB
savings account variant will get these benefits.
✓ This is a customer-friendly initiative from IDFC FIRST Bank.Which of the following bank has launched
ZERO Fee Banking on savings accounts?
Q. RBI penalized which of the following foreign banks operating in India Rs. 2.66 crore for not
following directions on cyber security framework?
A) Bank of Bahrain & Kuwait B) Central Bank of Argentina
C) Central Bank of Brazil D) Bank of Ghana
Answer : A .
✓ Banking sector regulator Reserve Bank of India (RBI) imposed a penalty of Rs 2.66 crore on Bank of
Bahrain & Kuwait BSC, India operations for non-compliance with directions on “Cyber Security
Framework” in Banks on 19 December 2022. In a statement, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said the
bank failed to implement systems to detect unusual and unauthorized, internal or external activities in
its database.
✓ The fines were imposed on the bank by RBI under the Banking Regulation Act 1949
✓ Bank of Bahrain & Kuwait BSC
✓ Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait (BBK) was incorporated in Bahrain in March 1971.
✓ It is a foreign bank which started its India operation in 1986 as a scheduled commercial bank.
✓ It has four branches in India in Mumbai, New Delhi, and Hyderabad and at Aluva (Kerala).
✓ Country head and Chief Executive Officer: Mallikarjun Kota
Q. National Consumer Day is observed every year on which day?
Answer : D .

✓ National Consumer Day: December 24

✓ It was on this day that the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 was enacted.
✓ The Act aims to provide consumers with effective safeguards against different types of exploitation,
such as defective goods, deficiency in services and unfair trade practices.
Q. Name the only Indian female player to feature in Forbes List of Highest-Paid Female Athletes
2022?
A) Sania Mirza B) Saina Nehwal
C) Mary Kom D) P.V. Sindhu
Answer : D .
✓ India's badminton star PV Sindhu is the only Indian sportsperson to feature in the top 25 of Forbes'
annual list of the world's highest-paid female athletes.
✓ Sindhu, the 2016 Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, is ranked 12th in the list, which is topped by Japanese
tennis star Naomi Osaka.
✓ The 27-year-old Sindhu, who won the singles gold and doubles silver at the Commonwealth Games in
Birmingham earlier this year, earned $7 million out of her total earnings of $7.1 million.
✓ For the third year in a row, Osaka topped Forbes' annual list of the world's highest-paid female athletes.
The list is once again dominated by tennis players.
✓ Naomi Osaka, the world number 42, topped the list with a total annual earning of $51.1 million, while
Serena Williams is a distant second with $41.3 million and Eileen Gu, the freestyle skier, third with a
total coffer of $20.1 million.
Q. Who has topped the Forbes Highest-Paid Female Athletes 2022 list?
A) Serena Williams B) Simona Halep
C) Naomi Osaka D) Ashleigh Barty
Answer : C .
✓ List of 15 highest paid female athletes of the year

1. Naomi Osaka (Japan) – Tennis – $51.1 million
2. Serena Williams (USA) – Tennis – $41.3 million
3. Elieen Gu (China) – Skiing – $20.1 million
4. Emma Raducanu (UK) – Tennis – $18.7 million

5. Iga Swiatek (Poland) – Tennis – $14.9 million

6. Venus Williams (USA) – Tennis – $12.1 million
7. Coco Gauff (USA) – Tennis – $11.1 million
8. Simone Biles (USA) – Gymnastics – $10 million
9. Jessica Pegula (USA) – Tennis – $7.6 million
10. Minjee Lee (Australia) – Golf – $7.3 million
11. Candace Parker (USA) - Basketball - $7.2 million
12. P.V. Sindhu (India) - Badminton - $7.1 million
13. Leylah Fernandez (Canada) - Tennis -$7 million
14. Lydia Ko (New Zealand) - Golf - $6.9 million
15. Ons Jabeur (Tunisia) - Tennis - $6.5 million
Q. Who has received the Sahitya Akademi Award 2022 for the novel ‘All The Lives We Never
Lived’?
A) Anuradha Roy B) Mwdai Gahai
C) Namita Gokhale D) Daya Prakash Sinha
Answer : A .
✓ Sahitya Akademi has announced its annual Sahitya Akademi Awards in 23 languages.
✓ 7 books of poetry, 6 novels, 2 short stories, 3 Play/Dramas, 2 Literary Criticisms, one each of
Autobiographical Essays, Collection of Articles, and Literary History have won the Sahitya Akademi
Awards 2022.
✓ The awardee will receive an engraved copper plaque, a shawl, and Rs. 1,00,000 in Cash.
✓ It also announced the ‘Sahitya Akademi Translation’ awards for 2022.
✓ Sahitya Akademi has announced awards in different languages, which include poetry, story, short story,
drama, literary criticism, autobiography, literary past.
✓ These awards will be presented on 11 March 2023 in New Delhi. This year, the famous Hindi poet Badri
Narayan will be given the Sahitya Akademi Award.
✓ Apart from this, Anuradha Roy for English and Anees Ashfaq for Urdu will be given this year's Sahitya
Akademi Award.
✓ Sahitya Akademi Awards –
✓ Hindi – Tumadi Ke Shabd (Poetry) – Badri Narayan

✓ English – All The Lives We Never Lived (Novel) – Anuradha Roy

✓ Sanskrit – Deepmanikyam (Poetry) – Janardan Prasad Pandey ‘Mani’
✓ Urdu – Khwab Saraab (Novel) – Anis Ashfaq
✓ Punjabi – Main Aynghosh Nahi (Short Stories) – Sukhjit
✓ Rajasthani – Alekhun Amba (Play) – Kamal Ranga
✓ Gujarati – Gher Jatan (Autobiographical Essays) – Gulam Mohammad Shaikh
✓ Assamese – Bhool Satya (Short Stories) – Manoj Kumar Goswami
✓ Kannada – Bahutvada Bhaarata mattu Bouddha Taatvikate (Collection of Articles) – Mudnakudu
Chinnaswamy
✓ Kashmiri – Zael Dab (Literary Criticism) – Farooq Fayaz
✓ Dogri – Chhe Roopak (Drama) – Veena Gupta
✓ Nepali – Saino (Drama) – K.B. Nepali
✓ Manipuri – Leironnung (Poetry) – Koijam Shantibala
✓ Konkani – Amrutvel (Novel) – Maya Anil Kharangate
✓ Maithili – Pen-Drive Me Prithvi (Poetry) – Ajit Azad
✓ Malayalam – Ashaante Seethayanam (Literary Criticism) – M. Thomas Mathew
✓ Marathi – Ujavya Sondechya Bahulya (Novel) – Praveen Dashrath Bandekar
✓ Odia – Dayanadi (Poetry) – Gayatribala Panda
✓ Santali – Sabarnaka Balire Sanan’ Panjay (Poetry) – Kajli Soren (Jagannath Soren)
✓ Sindhi – Sindhi Sahit Jo Mukhtasar Itihas (Literary History) – Kanhaiyalal Lekhwani
✓ Tamil – Kaala Paani (Novel) – M. Rajendran
✓ Telugu – Manodharmaparagam (Novel) – Madhuranthakam Narendra
✓ Bodo – Sansrini Modira (Poetry) – Rashmi Choudhury
Q. Who among the following received the of the Sahitya Academy Awards 2022 in Hindi for her
Poetry ‘Tumadi Ke Shabd'?
A) Anita Nair B) Amitav Ghosh
C) Abha Dawesar D) Badri Narayan
Answer : D .
✓ Sahitya Akademi Award with Surprise Facts

✓ Sahitya Akademi Award is given in the field of Literature.

✓ The awards were instituted in 1954.

✓ The first Awards were given in 1955.
✓ This award is given annually by Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters), New Delhi.
✓ It is given in 24 languages including Hindi and English.
✓ 24 languages - 22 languages in the 8th schedule and 2 are English and Rajasthani.
✓ Makhanlal Chaturvedi was the first recipient in the Hindi category in the year 1955 for his work "Him
Tarangini" (Poetry).
✓ RK Narayan was the first recipient in the English category in the year1960 for his novel The Guide.
✓ The award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of ₹ 1,00,000.
✓ The plaque awarded by the Sahitya Akademi was designed by the Indian film-maker Satyajit Ray
✓ Other Literary Awards
✓ Vyas Samman.
✓ Saraswati Samman.
✓ Jnanpith Award : Highest literary award in India.
Q. Which organization has recently received the Type Certification and RTPO Approvals from
DGCA?
A) Air Pics B) Garuda Aerospace
C) Amarillo India D) Skylark drone
Answer : B .
✓ Drone maker Garuda Aerospace has become the first drone startup in India to receive 'Type
Certification' and 'Remote Pilot Training Organisation' (RTPO) approval by the DGCA for its
indigenously designed Kisan drone
✓ DGCA Type Certification is provided on the basis of quality checks of the drones and is issued after a
rigorous testing process.
✓ Kisan Drone has been designed keeping in mind the works related to agriculture. Type certification has
been received for its GA-AG model.
✓ DGCA gives this certificate on the basis of quality check. It is issued only after strict investigation of the
drone (unmanned aircraft).

✓ Remote Pilot Training Organization is a DGCA recognized organization which gives Remote Pilot
Certificate under Rule-34 of Drone Rules-2021.
✓ In India, the government introduced type certification in August 2021 under the Drone Rules.
✓ Priced at Rs 4.50 lakh, the 'Kisan' drone is India's most affordable advanced automated agriculture
drone that falls under the sub 25 kg category.
✓ Garuda Aerospace recently raised its $30 million Series A at a valuation of $250 million.
✓ Former Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has invested in it and is also the brand
ambassador of the company.
✓ MS Dhoni has recently launched a drone named Droni. Garuda Aerospace has a fleet of 400 drones
across 26 different cities and a well-trained team of over 500 pilots
Q. Who has been elected as the Prime Minister of Nepal?

A) Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachand”
B) Rabi Lamichhane
C) Sher Bahadur Deuba
D) Rajendra Prasad Lingden
Answer : A .
✓ Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' appointed as the Prime Minister of Nepal for the third time.
✓ President Bidya Devi Bhandari of Nepal has appointed Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' as the new
prime minister of Nepal on 25 December 2022. Prachand will become the prime minister for the third
time.
✓ In the recently held parliamentary election no party got any clear majority. Prachand’s Maoist Center
Party won 32 seats in Nepal's 275-member House of Representatives.
✓ He has formed a coalition government with the support of the Communist Unified Marxist-Leninist
(UML) party, Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), Rastriya Prajatantra Party and other smaller parties.
Prachanda has the support of 165 lawmakers in the 275-member House of Representatives.
✓ According to the deal with the UML party he will remain prime minister for the first half of the five-year
term and later will be replaced by a candidate from the UML party.
✓ Pushpa Kamal Dahal will replace Sher Bahadur Deuba of the Nepali Congress party as the Prime
Minister.
✓ The Federal Parliament of Nepal is called Sanghiya Sansad. It is a bicameral house

✓ The Upper house is called the National Assembly or Rastriya Sabha. It consists of 59 members. It is a
permanent body and the term of a member of the house is six years.
✓ The lower house is called the House of Representative or Pratinidhi Sabha. It consists of 275 members
with a term of five years.
✓ Currency of Nepal: Nepalese Rupees
✓ Capital: Kathmandu
✓ President: Vidya Devi Bhandari
Q. Which country supplies the S-400 air defence missile system to India?
A) USA B) Israel
C) Russia D) France
Answer : C .
✓ In 2023 Russia will begin supplying India with the third squadron of the S-400 air defence missile
system.
✓ India has already deployed its first two missile system squadrons to monitor the Ladakh sector, the
Chicken's Neck Corridor in West Bengal, and the whole northeastern area.
✓ India and Russia have agreed on a three-year contract of around 35,000 crores to purchase five
squadrons of S-400 air defence missiles.
Q. Who has been elected as the new Prime Minister of Fiji?
A) Sitiveni Rabuka B) Voreqe Frank Bainimarama
C) Naiqama Lalabalavu D) Joko Widodo
Answer : A .
✓ Sitiveni Rabuka has been elected as the new prime minister of Fiji. Rabuka will be the 12th prime
minister of the country.
✓ He also served as the prime minister earlier from 1992 to 1999. Rabuka is the head of the People’s
Alliance Party.
✓ At a meeting of the Fijian Parliament in Suva, the 74-year-old secured the nomination by one vote over
incumbent Frank Bainimarama
✓ Fiji
✓ Capital : Suva

✓ Currency : dollar
✓ President : Wiliame Katonivere
Q. Which institution won the DSCI AISS Award for ‘Best Security Practices in Government
Sector’?
A) IRCTC B) ISRO
C) NASSCOM D) UIDAI
Answer : D .
✓ The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has won a top data security award for government
sector best practices.
✓ The Data Security Council of India (DSCI) is a non-profit industry organization in India that was
established by NASSCOM.
✓ The DSCI recognized UIDAI for its critical contribution to protecting the 'Aadhaar' infrastructure, which
offers inhabitants with digital identity-based welfare services.
Q. The International Space Registry has named one star after whose name?
A) Mahatma Gandhi B) Atal Bihari Vajpayi
C) Sushma Swaraj D) Manohar Parrikar
Answer : B .
✓ Aurangabad chapter of the BJP named a star after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his
birth anniversary, which was observed as 'Good Governance Day' across the country, revealed
Aurangabad BJP president Shirish Boralkar.
✓ The distance of the star from Earth is 392.01 light years. It is the closest star to the Sun.
Q. Who among the following has been awarded the VinFuture Prize 2022 in Hanoi?
A) Kamakoti Veezhinathan B) Pradeep Thalappil
C) Niranjan K. Naik D) Rashmi S Patil
Answer : B .
✓ Renowned researcher and Madras IIT Professor Pradeep Thalappil has bagged the VinFuture Prize
2022 instituted by the VinFuture Prize Council to honour breakthrough research projects on 22
December.

✓ Thalappil has been awarded the ‘Special Prize dedicated to Innovators from Developing Countries’ for
his development of a low-cost filtration system to remove arsenic and other heavy metals from
groundwater.
✓ The award was presented by Prize Council Chairman Richard Friend at a ceremony in Vietnam’s capital
Hanoi.
✓ He has received the Padma Shri award in 2020 for his distinguished contribution to the field of science
and technology.
✓ He also received Nikkei Asia Prize in 2020
✓ About VinFuture Prize
✓ The Winfuture Prize is awarded every year by the Winfuture Fund to recognize breakthrough scientific
and technological inventions that have the potential to make a meaningful difference to people's lives.
✓ The fund was launched on 20 December 2020 as an independent and non-profit organization, founded
by billionaire Pham Nhat.
✓ Its objective is to creating positive changes in the everyday lives of millions of people around the world.
✓ After 2 seasons, 16 scientists have been honored by the Prize
Q. Who has been appointed by Hockey India as the captain of the Indian men’s hockey team
for the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023?
A) Nilakanta Sharma
B) Manpreet Singh
C) Amit Rohidas
D) Harmanpreet Singh
Answer : D .
✓ Hockey India has announced Dragflicker Harmanpreet Singh as the captain of the Indian men’s Hockey
team for the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023.
✓ Amit Rohidas has been named as the vice-captain of the squad. The team coach is Graham Reid.
✓ The FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup is held every four years and the 2022 event was postponed to 2023
due to the corona pandemic.
✓ The last 14th FIH Men’s World Cup Hockey was also played in Odisha in 2018.

Q. Who has become the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) 2023 most expensive ever buy in the
players’ auction?
A) Cameron Green B) Ben Stokes
C) Will Jacks D) Sam Curran
Answer : D .
✓ England all-rounder Sam Curran League's became the Indian Premier (IPL) most expensive ever buy
in the players' auction held on 23 December 2022.
✓ The Punjab Kings bought Sam Curran for Rs 18. 5 crore ($2.23 million) following a bidding war involving
the Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians.
✓ Curran, who was player-of-the-series in England's T20 World Cup triumph in Australia this year,
previously featured for the Punjab Kings in 2019.
✓ The earliest highest bid for a player in the IPL was that of South African all-rounder Chris Morris. He
was bought by Rajasthan Royals last year for Rs 16.25 crore.
✓ The previous record fee paid for Morris was broken once more with Mumbai Indians paying Rs
17.5crore for Australian all-rounder Cameron Green.
✓ The highest paid Indian player at the IPL has been Yuvraj Singh. He was bought for Rs 16 crore by the
Delhi Daredevil in 2015.
✓ Other than Sam Curran, Cameron Green was bought by Mumbai Indians for ₹17.50 crore and Ben
Stokes was bought by Chennai Super Kings for ₹16.25 crore.
✓ Gujarat Titans are the current IPL champion team. The first IPL was held in 2008 which was won by
the Rajasthan Royals team.

Q. Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur has inaugurated the
National level Kabaddi championship in which state?
A) Tamil Nadu B) Haryana
C) Karnataka D) Uttar Pradesh
Answer : C .
✓ Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Anurag Singh Thakur inaugurated the National level
Kabaddi championship in Udupi in Karnataka on December 24
✓ National level Kabaddi tournament will be held at MGM ground in flood light, in which 12 teams from
different states will participate.
✓ The winner will get the Atal Trophy and prize money of Rs one lakh.
✓ The runner-up will be awarded Rs 75,000, the third prize winner Rs 50,000 and the fourth prize winner
Rs 25,000.
✓ The winners will be presented with the Atal trophy.
✓ The Atal Utsav and Booth Sangam will be inaugurated on December 25 by former chief minister B S
Yediyurappa along with selected presiding officers of six vote booths.
✓ Atal Trophy was started in 1999 by Zilla Yuva Morcha through volleyball tournament and this time
kabaddi tournament is also being organized
Q. Which among the following has provided to make a $400 million loan to HDFC Ltd, with an
aim to drive India’s green housing growth?
A) International Finance Corporation (IFC)
B) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
C) International Development Agency (IDA)
D) Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
Answer : A .
✓ World Bank Group member International Financial Corporation (IFC) will provide a $400 million loan to
India’s largest housing finance company, Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC).
✓ HDFC will use around 75% of the loan amount ($300 million) to provide loans to the affordable green
housing sectors in India.

✓ Green Houses are built with sustainable, environmentally-friendly, energy-efficient, and recyclable
resources. These houses are constructed in such a way that water, air, solar, and geothermal energy
are optimally utilized, thus reducing energy waste. Affordable houses means that it will target Middle
income groups.
✓ According to the IFC “around 275 million people in India, which is 22 percent of the population, do not
have access to adequate housing and rural housing shortage is twice that of urban areas.” The loan
will support the government effort to provide Housing for All.
✓ It is a part of the World Bank Group and was set up in 1956.
✓ It does not provide loans to the government but invests in the private sector companies of the member
countries. It invests in the shares and the debt instruments of private companies.
✓ Headquarters: Washington DC, United States of America.
✓ Director General: Makhtar Diop
✓ Member Countries: 186
Q. 'KAVACH' System recently seen in the news is related to _
A) Missile defence B) Asteroid Redirection
C) Train collision avoidance D) Early cancer detection
Answer : C .
✓ Safety is accorded the highest priority by Indian Railways and all possible steps, including development
of indigenous equipments, are being undertaken on a continuous basis to prevent train accidents.
✓ Indian Railways has indigenously developed an automatic train protection system rechristened as
‘Kavach’ (Train Collision Avoidance System), to prevent accidents due to human error resulting in
Signal Passing at danger and over-speeding.
✓ Keeping in view the complexities involved in implementation, which require all Rolling Stock, way side
stations and track to be equipped with ‘Kavach’, it has been decided to implement ‘Kavach’ in a phased
manner.
✓ So far, ‘Kavach’ has been deployed for 1,455 Route Kms on South Central Railway with 77 nos. of
locomotives. Currently, ‘Kavach’ work is in progress on Delhi-Mumbai & Delhi –Howrah corridors (3000
route Kms).
✓ At present ‘Kavach’ is being implemented on Indian Railways in a phased manner. Further, ‘Kavach’
does have export potential in future

Q. Which country passes new transgender law on 22nd Dec 2022, anyone above 16 can
change their gender?
A) Spain B) France
C) Germany D) Argentina
Answer : A .
✓ Spain’s lower house of Parliament passed a law that allows people over 16 years of age to change their
legally registered gender without any medical supervision.
✓ Under the law, drawn up by the centre-left coalition government, minors aged 12 or 13 will need a
judge’s authorisation to make the change, while those between 14 and 16 will have to be accompanied
by their parents or legal guardians.
Q. NIRMAN Accelerator Program, recently seen in the news was launched by
A) NITI Aayog.
B) Ministry of Corporate Affairs
C) Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
D) Start-ups Incubation and Innovation Centre (SIIC) IIT Kanpur
Answer : D .
✓ The Ministry of Science and Technology has said that 15 Startups are selected for the NIRMAN
accelerator program.
✓ This is the first cohort of the NIRMAN Accelerator Program launched by Start-ups Incubation and
Innovation Centre (SIIC) IIT Kanpur.
✓ The accelerator program is supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the
Ministry of Science & Technology through its NIDHI scheme.
Q. Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud has constituted a committee to audit the
“physical and functional accessibility” of the apex court complex to make them disabled-
friendly. Who will chair this committee?
A) S Ravindra Bhat B) Sanjay Kumar Medhi
C) Ujjal Bhuyan D) Lanusungkum Jamir
Answer : A .

✓ The Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud has constituted a committee to conduct an audit of
“physical and functional access” of the top court premises to make them disabled-friendly.
✓ The committee will be headed by Supreme Court Judge S Ravindra Bhat.
✓ The ‘Supreme Court Committee on Accessibility’ has been given a broad mandate to prepare and
release a questionnaire for persons with disabilities, including the apex court employees, advocates,
litigants and interns, who visit the top court premises to assess the nature and extent of problems they
face
Q. Which edition of the North East Festival began at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New
Delhi?
A) 10th B) 15th
C) 18th D) 14th
Answer : A .
✓ The 10th Edition of the North East Festival began at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on
December 23
✓ Union Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Narayan Rane inaugurated the four-
day Festival at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in Delhi.
✓ The objective of the festival is to promote the diverse life, culture, traditions and tourism of the North
East region.
✓ The 2022 edition will host colorful dance dramas, musical performances, fashion shows, open-mic
sessions, interactive sessions, art and photography exhibitions.
✓ An exhibition showcasing 'Made in North East' products will have an MSME zone, wherein over 100
MSME entrepreneurs from North East India will display agro-horticulture products, handlooms,
handicrafts, processed food products etc.
Q. Who has addressed the 75th “Amrut Mahotsav” of Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul Rajkot
recently?
A) Draupadi Murmu B) Nirmala Sitharaman
C) Amit Shah D) Narendra Modi
Answer : D .
✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed the 75th “Amrut Mahotsav” of Shree Swaminarayan
Gurukul Rajkot Sansthan via video-conferencing.

✓ The five-day Amrit Mahotsav celebrations were inaugurated by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel at
Sahajanand nagar in Rajkot.
✓ As part of the Amrit Mahotsav celebrations, mega blood donation camps, and free medical check-up
camps are being organized at Sahajanand nagar where renowned multi-specialty doctors are providing
free medical services and free-of-cost medicine to the people.
✓ Established in 1948 by Shri Dharmajivandasji Swami. Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul Rajkot Sansthan
has more than 40 branches all over the world.
Q. Veer Bal Diwas is celebrated on which day?
Answer : B .
✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in a historic programme marking the first ‘Veer Bal Diwas’
at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, Delhi on 26th December 2022.
✓ On the Prakash Purab()birth anniversary) of the 10th Sikh Guru Sri Guru Gobind Singh on 9th January
2022 the Prime Minister had announced that 26th December will be observed as ‘Veer Bal Diwas to
mark the martyrdom of Sri Guru Gobind Singh’s sons Sahibzadas Baba Zorawar Singh and Baba Fateh
Singh
✓ They were brutally murdered by Wazir Khan the Mughal Governor of Sirhind on this day in 1705. .
✓ During the programme, the Prime Minister will attend a ‘Shabad Kirtan’ performed by Baal Kirtanis. On
this occasion, Mr Modi will also flag off a march-past by about three thousand children in Delhi
Q. When is the Good Governance Day observed in India?
Answer : A .
✓ Every year 25 December is observed as Good Governance Day to mark the birth anniversary of the
10th Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The day is celebrated so as to ensure that the citizens
of the country are treated fairly by the government and the various government services shall be made
available to them fairly.

✓ The purpose of Good Governance Day is to increase public access to various government programmes
and services via good governance. It was established with the slogan "Good Governance through e-
Governance."
✓ In 2014 the Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that from now on 25 December will be observed
as ‘Good Governance Day’ in the memory of the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Vajpayee
was born on 25 December 1924 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
✓ He has been the prime Minister of India three times.
✓ He became the Prime Minister for the first time on 16 May 1996 and had to resign on 1 June 1996. He
was the Prime Minister for the second time from 19 March 1998 – 13 October 1999.
✓ He became the Prime Minister for the third time from 13 October 1999 – 22 May 2004.
✓ He was the first person to address the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in Hindi. As an
External Affairs Minister he spoke in Hindi at the 32nd Session of the UNGA in 1977.
✓ He also holds the distinction of being the prime minister of India for the shortest time, 16 days in 1996.
✓ He was the first Prime Minister against whom a no- confidence motion was passed in the Lok Sabha.
He lost the no confidence vote by 1 vote in 1999.
✓ He was awarded India’s highest civilian award Bharat Ratna on 27 March 2015.
Q. The Good Governance Day is observed to marks the birth anniversary of which leader?
A) APJ Abdul Kalam B) Rajiv Gandhi
C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel D) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Answer : D .
Q. Reserve Bank of India has announced the implementation of its revised bank locker rules
from which one of the following dates?
A) 30 April 2023 B) 01 April 2023
C) 01 January 2023 D) 31 March 2023
Answer : C .
✓ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has amended the bank locker rules, which include providing customers
with updated locker agreements. The rules will take effect from January 1, 2023
✓ What are the new guidelines?

✓ As per the Reserve Bank of India notification, the agreements should follow the model prepared by the
Indian Banks' Association (IBA).
✓ All existing locker depositors are required to submit proof of eligibility for new locker arrangement.
✓ They need to sign a renewal agreement before the specified date.
✓ RBI has advised banks to install CCTV cameras at entry and exit points of strong rooms and common
areas of operations.
✓ It will be mandatory for all banks to keep the recording of cameras safe for at least one hundred and
eighty days.
✓ RBI has directed banks to ensure that there are no unfair provisions or conditions in bank agreements.
✓ As per the guidelines, if a customer makes a complaint to the bank about his locker being opened
without his knowledge or any theft or security lapse, the bank will be required to preserve the CCTV
recording till the completion of the police investigation and disposal of the case.
Q. Which of the following country's cuisine has topped the list of world's best cuisines released
by Taste Atlas?
A) Spain B) Italy
C) Japan D) India
Answer : B .
✓ According to Taste Atlas, India ranks fifth in the global list of best cuisines for 2022.
✓ The ranking is based on audience votes for ingredients, dishes and beverages.
✓ Italy's cuisine topped the ranking, followed by Greece and Spain.
✓ India received 4.54 points and the best rated foods of the country include "garam masala, malai, ghee,
butter garlic naan, keema".
✓ There are a total of 460 items in this list. Also, the list has the best restaurants for Indian cuisine like
Shree Thakar Bhojnalaya (Mumbai), Karavalli (Bengaluru), Bukhara (New Delhi), Dum Pukht (New
Delhi), Comorin (Gurugram) and 450 others.
✓ Chinese cuisine, which is the world's most popular, however, ranked 11th on the list
✓ Top 5 countries in the world in the list:
1. Italy
2. Greece
3. Spain

4 Japan
5. India
✓ Top 5 "Best Traditional Dishes" in the world
1. Kare (Japan),
2. Picanha (Brazil),
3. Ameijoas à Bulhao Pato (Portugal),
4. Tangbao (China)
5. Guotie (China),
Q. The government decided to provide free food grains for one year to 81.35 crore people
under the National Food Security Act (NFSA). What will be the total amount spent on this?
A) Rs 1 lakh crore B) Rs 3 lakh crore
C) Rs 2 lakh crore D) Rs 5 lakh crore
Answer : C .
✓ The government on 23 December decided to provide free foodgrains to 81.35 crore peoplefor one year
under the National Food Security Act (NFSA)at an estimated cost of Rs 2 lakh crore.
✓ As per the cabinet decision, beneficiaries under NFSA will get free food grains for one year till December
2023.
✓ The decision comes a few days before the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)
expires on December 31, 2022.
✓ The beneficiaries will not have to pay a single rupee to get foodgrains.
✓ About PMGKAY:
✓ It is a food security welfare scheme announced by the Central Government in March 2020, during the
Covid-19 pandemic.
✓ It is a part of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP) to help the poor in the fight against
COVID-19.
✓ The program is run by the Department of Food and Public Distribution under the Ministry of Consumer
Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
✓ Under the programme more than 80 crore beneficiaries are provided 5 kg free wheat/rice per person
per month.
✓ It is the largest food security program in the world.

✓ National Food Security (NFS) Act, 2013

✓ It aims to provide subsidised food grains to approximately two-thirds of India’s 1.2 billion people.
✓ This includes Re 3 per kg of rice, Re 2 per kg of wheat and Re 1 per kg of coarse grains under the
Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS).
✓ The existing food security programs include the mid-day meal scheme, the Integrated Child
Development Services (ICDS) scheme and the Public Distribution System (PDS).
Q. Which organization has published a report on the Indian economy reaching 10 trillion
dollars by 2035?
A) World Bank B) World Economic Forum
C) International Monetary Fund D) Centre for Economics and Business Research
Answer : D .
✓ According to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), a major London-based
consultancy, India would become the third economic superpower by 2037 and a $10 trillion economy
by 2035.
✓ According to the research, which was released on December 26, 2022, the globe is heading toward
recession.
✓ However, the annual rate of GDP growth in India is predicted to average 6.4% during the following five
years, followed by an average of 6.5% over the next nine years.
✓ The reported growth trajectory will see India rise from fifth place on the World Economic League Table’
in 2022 to third in the global rankings by 2037 after China and the United States of America.
✓ According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), India is expected to become the 3rd largest
economy in the world by 2027-28. According to the SBI EcoWrap report India is likely to become the
3rd largest economy in 2029.
✓ According to the IMF India is likely to overtake Great Britain and become the 5th largest economy in
2022-23 after the United States, China, Japan and Germany
Q. Who has been appointed as the new chairman and CEO of the railway board?
A) V.K. Tripathi B) Ashwani Sharan
C) Anil Kumar Lahoti D) Pankaj Singh
Answer : C .

✓ Anil Kumar Lahoti has been named as the Railway Board's Chief Executive Officer and Chairman.
✓ The former General Manager of Central Railway was appointed as a Member (Infrastructure) of the
board a week ago and will succeed Vinay Kumar Tripathi as Chairman on January 1, 2023.
✓ Lahoti was named general manager of Central Railway in July 2021, having previously held various
critical posts in both zonal railways and the Delhi Railway Board.
Q. Who has earned the PRAKASHmay 15th Enertia Awards 2022 for ‘Best Globally Competitive
Power Company of India-Hydropower and Renewable Energy Sector’?
A) NTPC Limited B) ONGC Ltd
C) HPCL D) NHPC Limited
Answer : D .
✓ The government of India owned company NHPC Limited has been awarded as Winner of ‘Best Globally
Competitive Power Company of India – Hydropower and Renewable Energy Sector’ at PRAKASHmay
‘15th Enertia Awards 2022.
✓ U.S. Sahi, Executive Director, NHPC received the award on behalf of NHPC at a glittering function held
at New Delhi Institute of Management, New Delhi on 22nd December 2022.
✓ This award is organized by ENERTIA Foundation and supported by the Renewable Energy Promotion
Association and the New Delhi Institute of Management
✓ About NHPC
✓ It was earlier called the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation.
✓ It was set up by the Government of India in 1975.
✓ It is the largest organisation for hydropower development in India.
✓ The company is now also engaged in the business of solar and wind power
✓ Headquarters: Faridabad, Haryana.
✓ Chairman and Managing Director: Rajiv Kumar Vishnoi
Q. Reliance Jio purchased a 100 percent share in Reliance Infratel for around how many crore
rupees?
A) Rs 2,588 B) Rs 3,720
C) Rs 5,660 D) Rs 3,840
Answer : B .

✓ Reliance Projects and Property Management Services, a subsidiary of Jio, has deposited Rs 3,720
crore in an SBI escrow account to acquire mobile tower and fiber assets of Reliance Infratel
Q. The railways is planning to modernize 1,000 small yet important stations under which
initiative?
A) Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav B) Amrit Bharat Station Scheme
C) Amrit Bharat D) Bharat Gaurav Scheme
Answer : B .
✓ The Indian Railway will launch the “Amrit Bharat Station Scheme” under which 1000 small but important
stations will be modernized. This scheme is different from the ongoing plan to revamp 200 railway
stations.
✓ According to the Indian Railways the stations will be selected not only on the passenger traffic but also
on the cites they cater to. These stations will be redeveloped under what is called the ''Khurda model
of redevelopment''.
✓ Khurda station in Odisha was modernized for Rs 4 crore with all contemporary amenities for
passengers. The main structure was renovated, the facade was redone and the number of railway
tracks was also increased.
✓ Under the “Amrit Bharat Station Scheme” the Divisional Railway Managers will be responsible for the
redevelopment of the railway station
Q. Which institution has set up the ‘Central Excise and Service Tax Settlement Commission’?
A) SEBI B) CBIC
C) CBDT D) NITI Aayog
Answer : B .
✓ The Customs, Central Excise, and Service Tax Settlement Commission has been established by the
Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC).
✓ It intends to resolve and settle show-cause notifications issued under the Customs Act, the Central
Excise Act, and the Service Tax regime.
✓ This action will ensure the prompt resolution of issues under the former indirect tax framework.

Q. India has agreed to start negotiations for a free trade agreement with which neighbouring
country?
A) China B) Sri Lanka
C) Nepal D) Bangladesh
Answer : D .
✓ India and Bangladesh have decided to begin discussions for a free trade agreement (FTA) as soon as
possible.
✓ Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and his Bangladeshi colleague Tipu Munshi reached
the agreement at a meeting.
Q. Who has been appointed as the next Engineer-in-Chief of the Indian Army?
A) Lt. General Arvind Walia B) Lt. General Harpal Singh
C) Lt. General Anil Chauhan D) Lt. General Gurmeet Singh
Answer : A .
✓ Lieutenant General Arvind Walia has been named the Indian Army's new Engineer-in-Chief.
✓ Officials with the Indian Army announced that he will succeed Lt Gen Harpal Singh, who is retiring on
December 31, 2022.
✓ Lt Gen Arvind Walia was appointed Chief of Staff at Headquarters Southern Command in Pune in
August 2021.
Q. In which state “Khelo India Youth Games 2022” will be held?

A) Gujarat B) Goa
C) Madhya Pradesh D) Haryana
Answer : C .
✓ Madhya Pradesh will host the Fifth Khelo India Youth Games in 2022. The games will be placed from
January 31st to February 11th, 2023.
✓ Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur made the announcement at an event
in New Delhi in the presence of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Q. Who has launched, a host of new initiatives including the Right to Repair portal in New Delhi
recently?
A) Amit Shah B) Nitin Gadkari
C) Nirmala Sitharaman D) Piyush Goyal
Answer : D .
✓ Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal has launched a host of new initiatives including
the Right to Repair portal in New Delhi.
✓ On the ‘right to repair’ portal, manufacturers will share the manual of product details with customers so
that they can either repair by self, by third parties, rather than depend on original manufacturers.
✓ Initially, mobile phones, electronic, consumer durables, automobile, and farming equipment will be
covered.
✓ In July 2022, the Department of Consumer Affairs had set up a committee headed by the Additional
Secretary Nidhi Khare to develop a comprehensive framework on the ‘Right to Repair’
Q. Which of the following ministry has organized a one of its kind musical event ‘Dance to
Decarbonise’ National Stadium in New Delhi?
A) Ministry of Petroleum B) Ministry of Finance
C) Ministry of Home affairs D) Ministry of Defence
Answer : A .
✓ The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has organized a one of its kind musical event ‘Dance to
Decarbonise’ National Stadium in New Delhi.
✓ As per the ministry, the renewable energy generated through dance will be used to charge electric
vehicles.
✓ The event aims at showcasing India’s target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2070.
Q. Who has launched the revamped Probity Portal, e-HRMS 2.0 Portal and e-Books on major
initiatives and achievements of his Ministry in New Delhi?
A) Piyush Goyal B) Nirmala Sitharaman
C) Jitendra Singh D) Amit Shah
Answer : C .

✓ Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Dr. Jitendra Singh has launched the
revamped Probity Portal, e-HRMS 2.0 Portal and e-Books on major initiatives and achievements of his
Ministry in New Delhi.
✓ The revamped e-HRMS 2.0 Portal will provide services in a digital mode to the employees including
Transfers, Deputation, APAR, Vigilance Status, Deputation Opportunities, Service Book and other
basic HR Services like Leave, Tour, and Reimbursements.
✓ The Minister has also launched the Mobile Application of iGoTKarmayogi Portal by Karmayogi Bharat
to create professional, well-trained, and future-ready civil service for India.
✓ The iGOTKarmayogi platform is envisaged as a democratized, competency-driven solution space that
all of the government can access to enhance their execution capabilities.
✓ Revamped Probity Portal for Government Employees will demand the right attitude towards public
service with ‘integrity’ and ‘probity’.
✓ The Revamped Probity Portal was launched for central government employees in 2017.
✓ It provided limited HR-related services to the employees.
Q. Which institution has developed an artificial heart that would be of great help to people with
acute cardiac problems?
A) IIT Kanpur
B) IIT Madras
C) IIT Bombay
D) IIT Hyderabad
Answer : A .
✓ IIT Kanpur is ready with 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.
✓ An artificial heart is being developed to reduce the suffering of the patients. A team of 10 scientists and
doctors has prepared this artificial heart. After the success of the trial on animals, heart transplantation
in humans will begin within two years.”

Q. Former President Abdulla Yameen has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after being
found guilty of money laundering and bribery. Abdulla Yameen was the president of which
country?
A) Maldives B) Bangladesh
C) Saudi Arabia D) UAE
Answer : A .
✓ Former Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after being found
guilty of money laundering and bribery.
✓ Yameen was accused of abusing his position and taking one million US Dollar from a private company
to facilitate the sale of Aarah for resort development.
✓ Yameen, who lost power in 2018, was sentenced to five years in jail and fined 5 million dollars in 2019
for embezzlement in state funds.
✓ Maldives
✓ Capital : Male
✓ Currency : Rufiya
✓ President : Ibrahim Mohamed Solih
Q. Who has won the Top Arena Junior International Badminton Championship title in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia?
A) Dhruv Negi B) Pranay ettigar
C) Satvik Shankar D) Geto Sora
Answer : D .
✓ Arunachal Pradesh’s 7-year-old Geto Sora has won the Top Arena Junior International Badminton
Championship title in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
✓ He won the championship title after beating Malaysia’s second seed Jaryl Teh in straight sets 21-5, 21-
16.
✓ This is Sora’s second international badminton title in two months.
✓ In November, the 7-year-old Sora won the multinational BTY-Yonex-Singha Championship, which was
held at the Banthongyord Badminton School in Bangkok, Thailand

Q. The Indian Navy launched the indigenously-built ship INS Arnala at the shipbuilding facility
of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in Chennai’s Kattupalli. This ship has built by which company?
A) Hindustan Shipyard B) Cochin Shipyard
C) Mazagon Dock D) Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
Answer : D .
✓ The Indian Navy launched the indigenously-built ship INS Arnala at the shipbuilding facility of Larsen &
Toubro (L&T) in Chennai’s Kattupalli.
✓ The ship was built by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE).
✓ Arnala is the first of the 8 anti-submarine warfare shallow watercraft (ASW-SWC).
✓ The vessel made its first contact with the water of the Bay of Bengal during a recently-held launch
ceremony in Chennai
Q. Which company is the title sponsor of Maharashtra Open tennis tournament?
A) Byjus B) Unacademy
C) Tata Motors D) Paytm
Answer : C .
✓ Automobile major Tata Motors has announced that Tata Safari will be the official partner for the
Maharashtra Open tennis tournament.
✓ This is South Asia’s only ATP 250 tournament, which is scheduled to be held in Pune.
✓ Tata Motors committed itself as the title sponsor for the fifth consecutive year
Q. What is the name of the memorial of former Indian Prime Minsiter Atal Bihari Vajpayee?
A) Shakti Atal B) Sadaiv Atal
C) Vikas Atal D) Bharat Atal
Answer : B .
✓ Good Governance Day is celebrated on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee on December 25.
✓ Several Leaders paid floral tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his memorial ‘Sadaiv
Atal’ on his 98th birth anniversary.
✓ ‘Sadaiv Atal’ memorial is located in Raj Ghat, New Delhi.

✓ On Good governance Day, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions launched revamped
Probity Portal, e-HRMS 2.0 Portal.
Q. Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) detected anomalies in updation of National Register
of Citizens (NRC) in which of the following state?
A) West Bengal B) Assam
C) Odisha D) Punjab
Answer : C .
✓ The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has detected large-scale anomalies in the updation
of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam.
✓ It also flagged the risk of data tampering due to improper software development for the exercise.
✓ The updation process of the 1951 NRC for Assam was done under the supervision of the Supreme
Court.
✓ The updated final NRC was released on August 31, 2019 and it left out 1.9 million of the 33 million
applicants on suspicion of their claims as Indian citizens
Q. What is the brand name of FMCG products introduced by Reliance?
A) Freedom B) Independence
C) Trust D) Faith
Answer : B .
✓ Reliance Consumer Products fully owned subsidiary of Reliance Retail Ventures launched FMCG brand
‘Independence’.
✓ Reliance Consumer Products announced the launch of home-grown consumer packaged goods brand
in Gujarat.
✓ The company’s new brand will compete with the likes of Tata Consumer Products, Adani Wilmar and
ITC Ltd.
Q. NTPC commissioned 150 MW & 90 MW Devikot Solar PV Projects in which state?
A) Gujarat B) Rajasthan
C) Maharashtra D) Karnataka
Answer : B .

✓ NTPC has commissioned capacities of 150 MW & 90 MW Devikot Solar PV Projects at Jaisalmer in
Rajasthan.
✓ They are declared on Commercial Operation.
✓ With this, standalone installed and commercial capacity of NTPC has become 58041 MW, while group
installed and commercial capacity of NTPC has reached 70656 MW.
Q. Who among the following was awarded the Eklavya Award for the year 2022?
A) Pyari Xaxa B) Shilanda Lakra
C) Swasti Singh D) Hima Das
Answer : C .
✓ Ekalabya Puraskar’ for the year 2022 was presented to cyclist Swasti Singh. This award is given every
year to encourage young sporting talents.
✓ Singh was on 23rd December presented with a citation, trophy and Rs 5 lakh cash in a programme
organised by Indian Metals Public Charitable Trust (IMPaCT), the charitable wing of IMFA.
✓ Football player Pyari Xaxa and Hockey player Shilanda Lakra also were honoured with a citation and
Rs 50,000 cash each.
✓ Trustee Baijayant Panda, Chairman Eklabya Puraskar Committee – 2022 was present along with the
jury members.
✓ About Ekalabya Puraskar
✓ Eklavya Puraskar has come a long way since 1993 to be recognized as the most prestigious sports
award of Odisha and is at par with many national awards.
✓ This award is given every year to the young sportspersons of Odisha for their outstanding performance
in the last two years
Q. Which states has announced to build a giant statue of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee and a research centre as part of his grand memorial?
A) Uttar Pradesh B) Uttarakhand
C) Madhya Pradesh D) Chhattisgarh
Answer : C .

✓ The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhanhas announced that the state government
will build a huge statue of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and a research centre as part of
his grand memorial in Gwalior.
✓ He was speaking on 25 December 2022 at the 'Gwalior Gaurav Diwas'function to mark the 98th birth
anniversary of Atal Bihari Vajpayee .
✓ The event was also attended by Union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia and Narendra Singh Tomar.
✓ Vajpayee was born in Gwalior on December 25, 1924.
✓ The Madhya Pradesh government has allotted nearly 4,050 hectares of land in Sirol area of Gwalior to
build a memorial of Vajpayee
Q. Which of the following Indian American has been nominated by the US President to the top
diplomatic post in the State Department ?
A) Neera Tandon B) Vivek Murthy
C) Uzra Zeya D) Richard Verma
Answer : D .
✓ US President Joe Biden on 23 December nominated Indian AmericanRichard R Vermato a top

diplomatic position in the US Department of State.
✓ Biden announced his intention to nominate Verma as Deputy Secretary of State for Management and
Resources
Q. Who among the following has been nominated for the United World Wrestling 2022 Rising
Star of the Year honour 2022?
A) Nonoka Ozaki B) Antim Panghal
C) Emma Malmgren D) Andreea Ana
Answer : B .
✓ India's female wrestler, Antim Panghal, has been nominated for the honour of United World Wrestling
2022 Rising Star of the Year
✓ India's female wrestler, Antim Panghal, has been nominated for the honour of United World Wrestling
2022 Rising Star of the Year.
✓ Antim Panghal created history in August this year by earning India's first gold medal at the World U20
Wrestling Championships 2022.

✓ She beat Germany's Amory Olivia Andrich 11–0 on her way to the top of the podium, and beat
Kazakhstan's U20 Asian medalist Altyn Shagayeva in the 53kg final.
✓ Other women nominated for the United World Wrestling 2022 Rising Star of the Year award:
✓ Nonoka Ozaki of Japan,
✓ Amit Elor of the United States,
✓ Emma Malmgren of Sweden,
✓ Andreea Ana of Romania
Q. Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) has given Bulandshahr Jail a five-star
rating and an 'Eat Right Campus' tag in which state?
A) Gujarat B) Bihar
C) Madhya Pradesh D) Uttar Pradesh
Answer : D .
✓ Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) has awarded the food provided by the
Bulandshahr prison of Uttar Pradesh a five-star rating and the tag 'Eat Right Campus'. Bulandshahr Jail
is the second prison after Farrukhabad jail to get this tag from Uttar Pradesh.
✓ FSSAI team inspected the kitchen's food quality, storage and hygiene on stringent measures, based
on which the Bulandshahr prison was given a five-star rating, the 'Eat Right Campus' tag in addition to
the remark of 'Excellent' by the FSSAI.
✓ Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has been set up under the Food Safety and
Standards Act, 2006.
FSSAI IN NEWS 2022

➢ Bulandshahr prison foods becomes the 2nd jail in UP to be rated five star by FSSAI.
➢ Himalayan Yak has been approved as a ‘food animal’ by the Food Safety and Standard Authority
of India (FSSAI).
➢ FSSAI awarded Bhopal Railway Station a 4-star ‘Eat Right Station’ certification for providing
‘“high-quality, nutritious food to passengers”.
➢ Fatehgarh Central jail in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district has earned a five-star rating from
the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) for the quality of food it serves to inmates.
➢ 4th State Food Safety Index 2022

➢ Released by : FSSAI
➢ Major states Top : Tamil Nadu
➢ 2nd : Gujarat
➢ 3rd : Maharashtra
➢ Smallest states Top : Goa
➢ UTs Top : Jammu and Kashmir.
➢ National Food laboratory of FSSAI Inaugurated in Raxaul, Bihar.
➢ FSSAI launched ‘Project Dhoop’, an initiative aimed at shifting the school assembly time to noon
to ensure maximum absorption of Vitamin D in students through natural sunlight.
➢ FSSAI is a statutory body established under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government
of India.
➢ FSSAI has been established under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, which is a
consolidating statue related to food safety and regulation in India.
➢ Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
➢ Founded : 2008
➢ Headquarters : New Delhi
➢ Chairperson : Rajesh Bhusan
➢ CEO : S Gopalakrishnan
Q. The leading credit card issuers in India State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI Bank, and Axis Bank
will soon issue RuPay credit cards on the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) feature by which
date?
A) September 2023 B) March 2023
C) April 2023 D) June 2023
Answer : B .
✓ Leading credit card issuers in India State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI Bank and Axis Bank will soon issue
RuPay credit cards on Unified Payment Interface (UPI) by March 2023.
✓ At present three Public sector banks Union Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Indian Bank and
private sector Bank HDFC bank have gone live on the RuPay credit card segment on the UPI platform.

✓ RuPay and UPI has been developed by the National Payment Corporation of India. At the present
moment transactions done on UPI are free and there are no charges levied on it.
Q. The UK-based economics consultancy firm Centre for Economics and Business Research
(CEBR) has predicted that India will become the third-largest economy by which year?
A) 2035 B) 2027
C) 2037 D) 2030
Answer : C .
✓ United Kingdom-based economics consultancy firm Centre for Economics and Business Research
(CEBR) has predicted that India will become the third-largest economy by 2037. India’s annual rate of
GDP growth is expected to average 6.4 percent after which growth is expected to average 6.5 percent
in the subsequent nine years.
✓ CEBR also adds that by 2037, the world gross domestic product will be doubled as developing
economies will catch up with the richer ones.
✓ The shifting balance of power will see the East Asia and Pacific region account for over a third of global
output by 2037, while Europe’s share shrinks to less than a fifth.
✓ Its annual report titled ‘World Economic League Table’ tracks macroeconomic developments globally
and country-wise. It presents forecasts for 191 countries of the world.
Q. Who has been selected for the first KR Gouri Amma national award 2022?
A) Mariko Yamada B) Celia Williamson
C) Aleida Guevara D) David Crampton
Answer : C .
✓ Cuban social worker and human rights activist Dr. Aleida Guevara has been selected for the first KR
Gouri Amma national award 2022.
✓ She is an active member of the Cuban Medical Mission which works to improve the health profile of
children in Latin America.
✓ The award has been instituted by the K R Gouri Amma Foundation.
✓ The award will be presented by Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan at Olympia Hall at Chandrasekharan Nair
Stadium.
✓ The award consists of $3,000, a statute, and a citation

Q. Which startup has launched a carbon footprint sensitizing app?

A) MyPlan8 B) Digital Green
C) device earth D) Zunroof
Answer : A .
✓ Startup firm 'MyPlan8' recently launched an app to sensitize people about their carbon footprint and
help them reduce carbon emissions.
✓ This app will help people track the carbon footprint generated due to their daily activities.
✓ The startup aims to register 100 million people in Myplan8. "Carbon footprint" refers to the total amount
of CO2 emissions produced by an individual or organization.
Q. Union Cabinet decided to provide free food-grains to all beneficiaries covered under
National Food Security Act (NFSA), till which date?
A) March 2023 B) August 2023
C) December 2023 D) March 2024
Answer : C .
✓ Union Cabinet decided to provide free food-grains to all 81 crore beneficiaries covered under the
National Food Security Act (NFSA) till December 2023.
✓ The beneficiary families which used to pay ₹1 for coarse cereals, ₹2 for wheat and ₹3 for rice per kg
will now get 35kg of food-grains free for the next one year and others will get 5kg for free in a month till
December 2023.
✓ The Centre has estimated an additional amount of ₹2 lakh crore for the scheme.
Q. Which company announced its full ownership separation from PhonePe digital payments
platform?
A) Amazon B) Flipkart
Cl Google D) Jio Infocomm
Answer : B .
✓ Flipkart and PhonePe announced the full ownership separation of PhonePe, India’s largest digital
payments platform.

✓ The PhonePe Group was acquired by the Flipkart Group in 2016 and is one among India’s largest digital
payments platform.
✓ PhonePe has over 400 million registered users, as it builds products and offerings tailored to the Indian
market
✓ FLIPKART
✓ Founded : 2007
✓ Founder : Sachin Bansal and
✓ Binny Bansal
✓ Headquarters : Bengaluru
✓ CEO : Kalyan Krishnamurthy
✓ PhonePe
✓ Founded : 2015
✓ Headquarters : Bangalore, Karnataka
✓ Founder & CEO : Sameer Nigam
✓ Co-Founder & CTO : Rahul Chari
✓ It is owned by Flipkart, a subsidiary of Walmart.
✓ PhonePe app, based on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), went live in August 2016.
✓ Walmart completed the acquisition of a 77% stake in Flipkart in August 2018.
Q. As per the Arton Capital Passport Index, which state topped the country in terms of citizens
with passports?
A) Tamil Nadu B) Kerala
C) Maharashtra D) Punjab
Answer : B .
✓ According to Arton Capital Passport Index, Kerala tops the country in terms of citizens with passports.
✓ As per the interactive and real-time ranking tool maintained by Arton Capital, Indians can enjoy visa-
free travel to 22 countries.
✓ It includes neighbouring countries like Nepal, Bhutan and Mauritius, few Caribbean countries, two Latin
American countries, two African countries and one European country namely Serbia.

Q. Which state/UT was ranked at the top in the Social Progress Index (SPI)?
A) Kerala B) Puducherry
C) Goa D) Odisha
Answer : B .
✓ 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.
✓ Puducherry has the highest SPI score of 65.99 in the country. It was followed by Lakshadweep, and
Goa.
✓ The top three performing districts are Shimla in Himachal Pradesh, Solan in Himachal Pradesh, and
Aizawl in Mizoram.
Q. Who among the following topped the '6th Elite National Women's Boxing Championship'
2022 held at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh?
A) Madhya Pradesh B) Haryana
C) Railway Team D) Services
Answer : C .
✓ World Champion Nikhat Zarin of Telangana and the Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain
of Assam won gold medals in their respective weight categories at the 6th Elite National Women’s
Boxing Championships 2022 in Bhopal on 26 December 2022.
✓ The 6th Elite National Women’s Boxing Championship was held at the Tatya Tope Stadium, Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh from 20-26 December 2022.
✓ 302 women boxers from all over the country participated in the event.
✓ The Railways team topped the medals tally with 10 medals - five golds, three silvers and two bronze.
✓ Madhya Pradesh team came second with one gold, two silver and five bronze and Haryana with two
gold and two bronze claimed the third spot
Q. Reliance Jio to launch 5G services in December 2022 with an investment of Rs 6,500 crore
in which states?
A) Tamil Nadu B) Karnataka
C) Andhra Pradesh D) Telangana

Answer : C .
✓ Reliance Jio has launched its 5G services in Andhra Pradesh with an investment of Rs 6,500 crore,
starting with the cities of Tirumala, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Guntur.
✓ Andhra Pradesh Information and Technology Minister Gudivada Amarnath and Chief Secretary KS
Jawahar Reddy launched the Jio True 5G and Jio True 5G Powered wi-fi services on 26th December.
✓ Jio 5G services will be available throughout the state by the end of next year.
✓ On December 26, Jio users in these cities were invited for the Jio Welcome Offer.
✓ In addition to its existing investment of Rs 26,000 crore, Jio has invested over Rs 6,500 crore for the
deployment of 5G network in Andhra Pradesh, showing its commitment towards the development of
the state
✓ What is 5G technology?
✓ The fifth generation mobile network is called 5G.
✓ The 5G network will operate in the millimeter-wave spectrum (30-300 GHz) which can send huge
amounts of data at very high speeds.
✓ It is the newest upgrade in Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband networks.
✓ Internet speeds in the high-band spectrum of 5G have been tested to exceed 20 Gbps (gigabit per
second).
Q. NTPC has tied up with a company named ‘Technimont Pvt Ltd’ from which of the following
countries, for green methanol production?
A) France B) Germany
C) Sweden D) Italy
Answer : D .
✓ India's largest power generation company 'National Thermal Power Corporation Limited' (NTPC) has
signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Technimont Pvt Ltd, the Indian
subsidiary of Italy-based Maire Tecnimont Group, on 26 December
✓ The objective of this MoU is to jointly evaluate and explore the possibility of developing a commercial
scale green methanol production facility at NTPC's project in India.
✓ This green methanol project involves capturing carbon from NTPC's power plants and converting it into
green fuel.

✓ This agreement will make a significant contribution to the energy transformation in India.
✓ Green Methanol :
✓ Green methanol has a wide range of applications. It also includes use as a base material for chemical
industries, storage of renewable electricity and as a transportation fuel.
✓ The NTPC which was earlier known as National Thermal Power Corporation of India is owned by the
Government of India. It was set up in 1975
Q. Ministry of Power has tied up with which of the following to set up an early warning system
for power stations ?
A) NTPC B) DRDO
C) HAL D) SAIL
Answer : B .
✓ Ministry of Power has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Defense Research and
Development Organization (DRDO) for the implementation of an early warning system for vulnerable
hydroelectric projects/power stations.
✓ It aims to jointly work towards developing appropriate mitigation measures against avalanches,
landslides, glaciers, glacial lakes and other land hazards.
✓ DRDO's expertise will also be utilized in developing a comprehensive early warning system for
vulnerable hydroelectric projects/power stations in hilly areas.
✓ Early Warning System (EWS) :
✓ It is an adaptive measure to climate change, which uses integrated communication systems to help
communities prepare for dangerous climate-related events.
Q. In which one of the following states Indian Bank has launched its flagship program 'MSME
Prerna' ?
A) Uttar Pradesh B) Haryana
C) Rajasthan D) Uttarakhand
Answer : C .
✓ Government of India owned Public Sector Bank, Indian Bank has launched its flagship business
mentoring program for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) entrepreneurs – ‘MSME Prerana’
– in the state of Rajasthan.

✓ “MSME Prerana”, is a first-of-its-kind initiative for the MSME sector in the country by any bank.
✓ It aims at empowering MSME Entrepreneurs through skill development and capacity building training
in their local languages, assisting them in acquiring necessary financial and managerial skills, capacity
to handle crisis in business, understanding of dynamics of credit rating and risk management.
✓ Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) :
✓ MSMEs are regulated under the 'Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006'. The
law had defined MSME in India.
✓ The enterprises or businesses which are engaged in either manufacturing or service sector are defined
as Micro Small or Medium enterprises on the basis of their turnover(sales) and investment in plant and
machineries.
✓ Micro enterprises:
✓ Enterprises with an annual turnover of less than Rs 5 crore and the maximum investment in plant and
machinery or equipment shall not be more than one crore rupees.
✓ Small Enterprise:
✓ The enterprises where the the investment in plant and machinery or equipment does not exceed ten
crore rupees and turnover does not exceed fifty crore rupees.
✓ Medium Enterprise:
✓ The enterprises where the investment in plant and machinery or equipment does exceed fifty crore
rupees and turnover does not exceed two hundred and fifty crore rupees.
Q. Who was appointed as the Chairman of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI)?
A) Ashok Nair B) Chandu Kumar
C) Santosh Kumar Yadav D) Harshdeep Singh
Answer : C .
✓ Government of India has appointed senior IAS officer Santosh Kumar Yadav as the chairman of the
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on 26 December 2022.
✓ A 1995-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, Santosh Yadav is
currently additional secretary in the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of
Education.
✓ Government has also appointed Ganji Kamala V Rao as the Chief Executive Officer, Food Safety and
Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

✓ Subhasish Panda, a 1997-batch IAS officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as
Delhi Development Authority (DDA) vice chairman.
✓ NHAI
✓ Founded : 1995
✓ Chairman : Santosh Kumar Yadav
Q. How many startups selected in the first-of-its-kind product accelerator program for
innovators developing sustainable solutions, will soon start working towards solutions in
the healthcare and agriculture domains?
A) 15 B) 10
C) 20 D) 25
Answer : A .
✓ The Ministry of Science and Technology has said that fifteen Startups, selected in the first-of-its-kind
product accelerator program for innovators developing sustainable solutions, will soon start working
towards solutions in the healthcare and agriculture domains.
✓ The accelerator program supported by the Department of Science and Technology through its NIDHI
scheme portfolio will help solve challenges in the product development journey of indigenous
innovations.
✓ This is the first cohort of the NIRMAN Accelerator Program launched by Start-ups Incubation and
Innovation Centre (SIIC) IIT, Kanpur.
✓ This Start-up Incubation and Innovation Center (SIIC) is the first cohort of the manufacturing accelerator
program launched by IIT Kanpur.
✓ A total of 15 startups will be selected under the programme. The best-performing startups in a cluster
of 15 startups will receive a cash award of up to Rs 10 lakh.
Q. Losar Festival has celebrated in which of the following states / UTs?
A) Ladakh B) Jammu and Kashmir
C) Himachal Pradesh D) Uttarakhand
Answer : A .
✓ Losar Festival was celebrated in Ladakh on 24 December 2022 to mark the Ladakhi New Year.
✓ Ladakhi New Year is the major socio-religious festival of Ladakh celebrated in winter.

✓ The Losar festivities continue for nine more days from the New Year with the offering of prayers in the
name of God and Goddess, dances and songs in honour of Ibex, and the pilgrimage of Mount Kailash.
✓ The lighting of prayer lamps, illumination of buildings, houses, religious places like monasteries, stupas,
and other business establishments making appear that the entire Ladakh is lit in lights are part of
celebrations of the Losar Festival.
✓ Prayer lamps are lit and buildings, homes, places of worship, stupas and business places are decorated
during this festival which is held for 15 days from 24 December every year.
✓ Other Famous Festivals in Ladakh
✓ Sindhu Darshan Festival
✓ Hemis Tsechu
✓ Spituk Gustor Festival
✓ Diskit Gustor Festival
✓ Chemrey Wangchok Festival
✓ Galdan Namchot Festival
✓ Saka Dawa Festival
Q. Dharmadam becomes the first complete library constituency in India. Dharmadam is the
town of which state?
A) Madhya Pradesh B) Kerala
C) Karnataka D) Uttarakhand
Answer : B .
✓ Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s constituency Dharmadam has become the first complete library
constituency in India
✓ Kerala which was the first state to achieve 100% literacy status in India is also perhaps the only state
in India that has a library in every village.
✓ Puthuvayil Narayana Panicker of Kerala is also known as the Father of the Library Movement in India.
Q. Who has been awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022?
A) Leah Williamson B) Harry Kane
C) Bukayo Saka D) Jude Bellingham
Answer : A .

✓ English football player Beth Mead has been awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022 as
she was the player of the tournament and top scorer at Euro 2022.
✓ Beth Mead has defeated Germany in the finals at Wembley to win England’s first major women’s football
trophy.
✓ The 27-year-old competed against Ben Stokes and Ronnie O’Sullivan for the BBC Sports Personality
of the Year for 2022 award.
✓ While Sarina Wiegman (England’s manager) has won the Coach of the Year.
Q. Who among the following has become the second batsman in the world to score a double
century in his 100th Test?
A) Joe Root B) Ben Stroh
C) Kane Williamson D) David Warner
Answer : D .
✓ Australia's star opener David Warner has become the second batsman in the world to score a double
century in his 100th Test, along with England batsman Joe Root, he has joined an exclusive club.
✓ David Warner has also become the 10th player in the world to score a century in his 100th Test.
✓ He has become the second Australian batsman after Ricky Ponting to achieve this feat.
✓ Along with this, he has also become the eighth Australian player to complete 8,000 Test runs.
Q. Who has been elected the President of the Indian Oil Officers Association (IOOA)?
A) Anil Saxena
B) Kuldeep Singh Rana
C) Sanjay Singh
D) Rituraj Baruah
Answer : C .
✓ Indian Oil Officers Association (IOOA) today announced that Sanjay Singh has been elected All India
President of Indian Oil Officers Association in the recently concluded office bearers election.
✓ He holds a degree in chemical engineering from IIT-Roorkee. He joined IOC in December 1981 as
Trainee Engineer. Apart from these, Rituraj Baruah has been elected as the Vice President and Anoop
Singh as the General Secretary.

Q. Which country has recently released a special stamp in honor of the 75th anniversary of
India's independence?
A) Russia B) Serbia
C) Spain D) Argentina
Answer : B .
✓ Postal Department of Serbia has recently issued a special postage stamp in honor of the 75th
anniversary of India's independence (AzadiKaAmritMahotsav). It was issued in the presence of the First
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Serbia.
✓ Serbia is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe whose capital is Belgrade
Q. Who among the following topped the '6th Elite National Women's Boxing Championship'
2022 held at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh?
A) Madhya Pradesh B) Haryana
C) Railway Team D) Services
Answer : C .
✓ World Champion Nikhat Zarin of Telangana and the Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain
of Assam won gold medals in their respective weight categories at the 6th Elite National Women’s
Boxing Championships 2022 in Bhopal on 26 December 2022.
✓ The 6th Elite National Women’s Boxing Championship was held at the Tatya Tope Stadium, Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh from 20-26 December 2022.
✓ 302 women boxers from all over the country participated in the event.
✓ The Railways team topped the medals tally with 10 medals - five golds, three silvers and two bronze.
✓ Madhya Pradesh team came second with one gold, two silver and five bronze and Haryana with two
gold and two bronze claimed the third spot
Q. Union Home Ministry has approved the renaming of two places in which of the following
states?
A) Uttarakhand B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Uttar Pradesh D) Haryana
Answer : C .

✓ Union Home Ministry on 27 December 2022 gave its consent to change the names of two places in
Uttar Pradesh following recommendations from the state government.
✓ The 'no-objection' certificates were issued by the ministry for changing the name of the municipal council
'Mundera Baazar' in Gorakhpur district to 'Chauri-Chaura' and that of 'Telia Afghan' village in Deoria
district to 'Telia Shukla'.
✓ Under Article 3 of the constitution, Parliament has the power to change the name of a state
Q. International Day of Epidemic Preparedness is observed every year on which day?
Answer : C .
✓ The purpose of this day is to create awareness about the pandemic.

✓ The day aims to facilitate exchange of information, dissemination of scientific knowledge and ensure
exchange of best practices at the international level.
✓ This will help prevent pandemics like COVID-19 in future as it has had a devastating impact on human
lives
✓ A resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly on December 7, 2020 declared December
27 as the International Day for Pandemic Preparedness.
✓ The coronavirus outbreak in China began in late 2019. As the infection rate started rising and the
number of infected people increased, many parts of the city were sealed.
✓ In light of this, the first International Day of Pandemic Preparedness was observed on December 27,
2020.
Q. Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a $150 million loan
to provide access to resilient and sustainable housing for the urban poor in which of the
following state?
A) Karnataka B) Maharashtra
Answer : C .
✓ Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide USD 125 million loan to India to develop climate-resilient
sewage collection and treatment, and drainage and water supply systems in three cities in the state of
Tamil Nadu.

✓ In 2018 ADB agreed to provide USD 500 million loan to build priority water supply, sewerage, and
drainage infrastructure in strategic industrial corridors across 10 cities in Tamilnadu. The loan amount
was to be provided in three tranches. Under the third tranche $125 million will be provided and the
amount will be used to build priority water supply, sewerage, and drainage infrastructure in Coimbatore,
Madurai and Thoothukudi.
ADB IN NEWS 2021-22

➢ ADB to provide $125 million loan to improve Urban Services in Tamil Nadu.
➢ Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a USD 350 million (about Rs 2,900 crore) loan to
improve the road connectivity in Maharashtra.
➢ Asian Development Bank announces $14 billion support for food security in Asia Pacific.
➢ IndusInd Bank and ADB collaborate to improve financing for supplier chains
➢ ADB, India sign $96.3 mn loan to improve water supply, sanitation services in Himachal Pradesh.
➢ Maharashtra to take ₹4,000 crore loan from ADB to set up medical colleges in 12 districts.
➢ ADB cuts India GDP growth forecast for FY23 to 7.2%.
➢ ADB approves USD 96.3 million loan for safe drinking water project in Himachal Pradesh.
➢ ADB approves $2 million loan to support urban development in Nagaland.
➢ ADB and HSBC India partners to establish $100 million Partial Guarantee Program for
Microfinance in India.
➢ IIFL Home Finance signs $68-million loan agreement with ADB for affordable Green Housing.
➢ ADB lends record USD 4.6 bn loans to India in 2021.
➢ ADB approves $112 million loan to establish Assam Skill University.
➢ ADB approves $500-million loan to improve quality of school education.
➢ ADB has approved a Rs 2653.05 crore (USD 350 million) policy-based loan to improve urban
services in India
➢ India and ADB sign USD 300 million loan agreement to improve primary health care in India.
➢ ADB approves USD1.5 bn loan to India for COVID-19 vaccine procurement.
➢ ADB approved $61 Million loan under ‘Agartala City Urban Development Project.
➢ ADB approves $250 million loan for India’s National Industrial Corridor Development Program
(NICDP).

➢ ADB, India Sign $100 Million Loan for Agribusiness Development in Maharashtra.
➢ ADB and India sign $251 million loan for Integrated Urban Flood Management in Chennai.
➢ ADB, AIIB processing $2 billion loan for India to buy COVID-19 vaccines (ABD USD 1.5 billion,
AIIB, USD 500 million).
➢ India and ADB inks $4.5 million project readiness financing loan to support urban mobility in Mizoram.
➢ ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
➢ Founded : 19 December 1966
➢ HQ : Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines
➢ President : Masatsugu Asakawa (Japan)
➢ Vice President : Ashok Lavasa (Indian?
➢ Director of ADB for India : Takeo Konishi
➢ Executive Director : Sameer Kumar
➢ Member Counrtries : 68 (Nuie).
➢ ADB has grown to encompass 68 members; of which 49 are from within Asia and the Pacific and
19 outside.
➢ Japan is the largest contributor in the subscribed capital of the country.
➢ Asian Development Outlook, reports published by ADB.
Q. Which IIT has won the Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards at the Wharton Campus,
Philadelphia, USA?
A) IIT Madras B) IIT Bombay
C) IIT Hyderabad D) IIT Kanpur
Answer : A .
✓ Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT) Madras has won the Wharton-QS Reimagine Education
Awards at the Wharton Campus, Philadelphia, USA.
✓ The institute has been awarded and its BS in Data Science and Applications is awarded the silver in
the best online programme category.
✓ While, the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a joint initiative of IITs
and IISc, run by IIT Madras, won the gold in the lifelong learning category.
✓ The NPTEL-National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning has won the Gold in the ‘Lifelong
Learning’ category.

✓ The Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards are considered to be the Oscars of Education.
IIT MADRAS IN NEWS 2022

➢ IIT Madras has won the Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards at the Wharton Campus,
Philadelphia, USA.
➢ IIT Madras is partnering with Australian Universities to launch ‘Australia-India Centre for Energy
(AICE).
➢ Cochin Shipyard, IIT-Madras sign pact to support maritime startups.
➢ IIT-Madras and NASA researchers study microbes on space station.
➢ National Intellectual Property Award won by IIT Madras for 2021 and 2022.
➢ Ashok Leyland, IIT Madras tie up to develop hybrid EVS Using Turbine Tech.
➢ IBM and IIT Madras collaborate to promote quantum computing in India.
➢ IIT Madras joins Inspire Institute of Sports for innovative boxing analytics software.
➢ Vedanta collaborates with company started from IIT Madras.
➢ Indian Railways and IIT Madras Partner To Develop India’s First Indigenous Hyperloop .
➢ IIT Madras creates robots to clean septic tanks without human under the name “HomoSEP,” .
➢ Nilekani Center established by IIT-M to promote Indian language technology .
➢ Indian Air Force (IAF) Ties Up with IIT Madras to Develop Solutions to Maintain Weapon Systems.
➢ IIT-Madras technology to play ‘Pivot’al role in providing patients with cancer with individualised
care.
➢ IIT Madras bagged the first position in ARIIA Rankings 2021.
Q. Which entity has released its web publication entitled ‘Statistical Tables relating to Banks
in India: 2021-22’ covering the activities of the Indian banking sector?
A) SEBI B) RBI
C) NPCI D) NITI Aayog
Answer : B .
✓ RBI releases web publication entitled ‘Statistical Tables relating to Banks in India: 2021-22
✓ The publication presents entity-wise information on major items of liabilities and assets along with their
maturity profile, income and expenses, select financial ratios, number of employees, and details of
priority sector advances for scheduled commercial banks excluding regional rural banks.

✓ In addition, capital-to-risk-weighted asset ratios, non-performing assets, exposure to sensitive sectors,

contingent liabilities, and unclaimed deposits are included.
✓ State-wise distribution of consolidated balance sheet of rural cooperative banks are also presented.
✓ The publication can be accessed on the RBI website through the link ‘Time Series Publications’ under
the Database on Indian Economy.
Q. Who became the first state in the country to pass the Lokayukta Bill?
A) Kerala B) Maharashtra
C) Andhra Pradesh D) Tamil Nadu
Answer : B .
✓ Maharashtra became the first state in the country to pass the Lokayukta Bill
✓ The Maharashtra Assembly passed the Lokayukta Bill 2022 on December 28, which brings the chief
minister and council of ministers under the ambit of the anti-corruption ombudsman. It is the first state
in the country to do so.
✓ The Lokayukta shall have a Chairperson, who shall be a present or former Chief Justice of a High Court.
✓ The Lokayukta shall have a maximum of four members, of whom two shall be from the judiciary.
Q. Reserve Bank of India has approved the re-appointment of Baskar Babu Ramachandran as
MD & CEO of which small Finance Bank?
A) Au Small Finance Bank B) Capital Small Finance Bank
C) Suryoday Small Finance Bank D) Equitas Small Finance Bank
Answer : C .
✓ Reserve Bank of India has approved the re-appointment of Baskar Babu Ramachandran as MD & CEO
of Suryoday Small Finance Bank for three years with effect from January 23, 2023
✓ Prior to co-founding Suryoday Micro Finance Pvt Ltd, he held various positions with various companies
including GE Capital Transportation Financial Services Ltd, HDFC Bank Ltd.
✓ Suryoday Small Finance Bank (Suryoday SFB) is a scheduled commercial bank.
✓ The Bank was originally incorporated as Suryoday Micro Finance Pvt Ltd at Chennai in 2008 and
subsequently got converted into a public limited company as Suryoday Micro Finance Ltd in 2015

Q. Who is the Author of the book titled "Forks In The Road My Days At Rbi And Beyond "?
A) Bimal Jalan B) Y Venugopal Reddy
C) Raghuram Rajan D) C Rangaranjan
Answer : D .
✓ Dr C Rangarajan in his book, 'Forks In The Road- My Days at RBI and Beyond.
✓ 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.
✓ published by Penguin Random House
Q. Which Union Ministry has launched the ‘City Finance Rankings 2022’?
A) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
B) Ministry of Finance
C) Ministry of Corporate Affairs
D) Ministry of MSME
Answer : A .
✓ The draft rules for a new city ranking system based on financial performance and beauty were recently
announced by the Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs.
✓ The goal of the 'City Finance Rankings 2022' is to evaluate and reward urban local governments based
on their resource mobilization, spending performance, and fiscal governance systems.
Q. The ‘National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS)’ is an initiative of which Union Ministry?
A) Ministry of Housing and Urban Development
B) Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
C) Ministry of Defence
D) Ministry of Rural Development
Answer : D .
✓ Minister of Rural Development launched the National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) App in 2021.
✓ From January 1, 2023, employees employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (MGREGS) will be required to digitally capture their attendance.

✓ The National Smartphone Monitoring System (NMMS) mobile application is used to track attendance
Q. The G20 digital innovation alliance campaign will be organized in which city?
A) Bangalore B) New Delhi
C) Ahmedabad D) Mumbai
Answer : B .
✓ As part of India's G20 presidency, the Minister for Electronics & Information Technology,
Communications and Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw has launched the "Stay Safe Online" campaign and
the “G20 Digital Innovation Alliance” (G20-DIA), at Delhi
✓ MeitY, the nodal ministry for the G20 Digital Economy Working Group (DEWG), has represented India
in several working groups and ministerial sessions..
✓ About Stay Safe Online Campaign
✓ It aims to raise awareness among citizens to stay safe in the online world due to the widespread use of
social media platforms and rapid adoption of digital payments.
✓ Rapid growth in the number of Internet users in India and rapidly evolving technology have presented
unique challenges.
✓ About G20 Digital Innovation Alliance (G20-DIA)
✓ It aims to identify and enable adoption of innovative and impactful digital technologies developed by
startups from G20 countries.
✓ It can address the needs of humanity in the critically important sectors of agri-tech, health-tech, ed-
tech, fin-tech, secured digital infrastructure, and circular economy.
✓ Startup products in the aforementioned six themes enabled through Digital Public Goods Infrastructure
can create a global population-scale impact and reduce the digital divide and enable sustainable, and
inclusive techno-socio-economic development.
Q. Which state and Home Affairs Ministry has signed cessations of operations agreement with
the ZUF armed group?
A) Manipur B) Assam
Answer : A .

✓ The government of India and the Manipur government have signed a Cessation of Operation
Agreement with an insurgent group of Manipur, Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF), in New Delhi
✓ Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF)
✓ The Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) was established in 2011. It is a Naga group which is active in
Manipur. The group claims its objective is to safeguard the interest of 'Zeliangrong Naga tribes in
Manipur, Assam and Nagaland. It aimed to create a 'Zeliangrong’ state within the Indian Union
comprising the Zeliangrong Naga tribe’s area in Manipur, Assam and Nagaland
Q. The Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Power Project is how many megawatts?

A) 500 MW B) 720 MW
C) 940 MW D) 800 MW
Answer : B .
✓ India-assisted 720 Megawatt Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Power Project in Bhutan was recently turned
over to Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC).
✓ India and Bhutan have completed four major hydroelectric power plants with this project.
✓ The project's completion boosted Bhutan's electrical power generation capacity by 44%
Q. Who has inaugurated the project “Development of Srisailam Temple” at Srisailam Temple
Complex Andhra Pradesh?
A) Narendra Modi B) Draupadi Murmu
C) Jagdeep Dhankhar D) Amit Shah
Answer : B .
✓ President Draupadi Murmu on December 27 inaugurated Srisailam temple development project and a
tourism facilitation center under the scheme 'Pilgrimage Rejuvenation And Spiritual Augmentation Drive
(PRASAD)' at Srisailam Temple in Andhra Pradesh
✓ The project has been sanctioned and executed under the PRASAD scheme.
✓ The project "Development of Srisailam Temple in the State of Andhra Pradesh" has been completed at
a cost of Rs.43.08 crore. The project is 100 percent funded by the Ministry of Tourism.
✓ About PRASAD scheme
✓ The scheme was launched in the year 2014-2015, It comes under the Ministry of Tourism.

✓ The scheme focuses on the development and identification of pilgrimage sites across India to enrich
the religious tourism scene.
✓ Under this scheme, several religious places like Amaravati and Srisailam (Andhra Pradesh), Kamakhya
(Assam), Parashuram Kund (Lohit district, Arunachal Pradesh), Patna and Gaya (Bihar), etc. have been
identified for development.
✓ The scheme aims to harness pilgrimage tourism to its multiplier effect and have a direct impact on
employment generation and economic growth.
✓ About Srisailam Temple
✓ Mallikarjuna Temple or Srisailam Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the deity Shiva. It is located at
Srisailam in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
✓ It is considered as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva. Here Parvati is worshipped as "Mallika"
and Shiva is worshipped as "Arjuna", represented by a lingam.
✓ According to the epigraphical evidence of the Satavahana dynasty, this temple has been in existence
since the 2nd century
Q. Which state government has inaugurated the ‘E-Sushrut’ hospital management information
system in the state medical colleges?
A) Uttar Pradesh B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Karnataka D) Tamil Nadu
Answer : A .
✓ Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak and Minister of State for Medical Education
Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh have inaugurated the ‘E-Sushrut’ Hospital Management Information
System.
✓ The first phase, the E-Sushrut system has been started in 22 medical colleges of the state. With this
software patient registration, admission, discharge, ambulance, food, medicines, and details of doctors
will be done online
Q. Union Cabinet has approved the opening of new Consulates in which of the following
countries?
A) Egypt and Kuwait B) Qatar and Ecuador
C) Mauritius and Maldives D) Maldives and Lithuania

Answer : D .
✓ The Union Cabinet has approved the opening of new Consulates in Maldives and Lithuania.
✓ India has opened missions in 14 African countries out of the 18 announced in March 2018.
✓ Three new Missions in Estonia, Paraguay, and the Dominican Republic, approved by Cabinet in
December 2020, were made operational in January-February, 2022.
✓ The decision to open a new Indian Mission in Lithuania is a forward-looking step in pursuit of our
national priority of growth and development or ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’.
✓ Maldives
✓ Capital : Male
✓ Currency : Rufiya
✓ President : Ibrahim Mohamed Solih
✓ Lithuania
✓ Capital : Vilnius
✓ Currency : Euro
✓ President : Gitanas Nausėda
Q. Who has been appointed as the chief advisor to Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel?
A) Hasmukh Adhia
B) Dinesh Bhatia
C) Raju Ahmed
D) Rahul Srivatshav
Answer : A .
✓ Former Union finance secretary Hasmukh Adhia has been appointed as the chief advisor to Gujarat
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel.
✓ The government has also appointed SS Rathod, the managing director of Gujarat Metro Rail
Corporation Limited and former CMD of Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited, as the chief minister’s
advisor.
✓ Hasmukh Adia is a former Gujarat cadre IAS officer. Adhia retired from service in November 2018.
✓ He was made the secretary in the Department of Financial Services, Union Ministry of Finance when
Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India in 2014.

Q. Who among the following has been awarded Atal Samman Award?
A) Anar Mehta B) Shikha Verma
C) Vaishali Shah D) Prabhu Chandra Mishra
Answer : D .
✓ Prabhu Chandra Mishra has been awarded Atal Samman Award for his excellence in field of science &
research.
✓ His area of work is StemCell & Regenerative Medicine in infertility especially when IVF also fails.
✓ The diseases like premature ovarian failure, thin endometrium, Asherman syndrome Etc have shown
satisfactory results with body’s own cells.
✓ PRP & bone marrow-derived StemCells Research have shown promising hope for these patients/
couples who are struggling for their own child’s.
✓ He is the President of the International Association of StemCell & Regenerative Medicine.
Q. The government has extended the free import of Urad and Tur pulses by one more year to
___.
A) 31 March 2024 B) 31 March 2023
C) 31 March 2026 D) 31 March 2025
Answer : A .
✓ Government extends free import of Urad and Tur pulses till March 2024.
✓ Earlier in March 2022 the government had allowed free import of tur and urad till 31 march 2023. Now
importers can import any quantity of urad and tur dal without any quantitative restrictions. The
government has taken this step to ensure adequate domestic supply in the country and to control the
prices of these pulses.
✓ Pulses and India
✓ India is the largest producer, importer and consumer of pulses in the world accounting for nearly 25%
of global production, 15% of International trade and 27% of world consumption.
✓ In 2020-21 the total pulse production in India was 26.96 million tonnes.
✓ India meets around 10-12 % of its demand for pulses through import.
✓ Source of pulse import
✓ India buys maximum pulses from Canada followed by Myanmar

✓ Largest Producer of pulses in India (2020-21) (in descending order)

1.Madhya Pradesh
2.Rajasthan
3. Maharashtra
✓ Largest Producer of Tur in India (2020-21) (in descending order)
1.Maharashtra
2.Karnataka
3.Telangana
Q. India recently signed an Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) with which
country?
A) Russia B) France
C) Singapore D) Australia
Answer : D .
✓ India, Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement comes into force from 29 December,
2022.
✓ Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA)
✓ India and Australia signed the Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) on the 2nd of April
2022.
✓ ECTA is the first trade agreement of India with a developed country after more than a decade.
✓ India-Australia Trade Relations
✓ Australia is the 17th largest trading partner of India and India is Australia’s 9th largest trading partner.
✓ India-Australia bilateral trade in goods and services is pegged at US$ 27.5 billion in 2021.
✓ India's merchandise exports to Australia grew by 135% between 2019 and 2021.
✓ India’s exports to Australia - Manufactured goods such as petroleum, medicaments, diamonds,
jewellery, railway coaches and vehicles, milled rice and herbicides.
✓ India’s imports to Australia - 82% of its imports from Australia are coal, gold, copper ore, aluminium
oxide, liquified natural gas, manganese ore, aluminium waste, pigments, lentils, etc.

Q. Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Israel for the ____ time.
A) 5th B) 6th
C) 4th D) 7th
Answer : B .
✓ Benjamin Netanyahu sworn in as the Prime minister of Israel for a record 6th time.
✓ He replaced Yair Lapid whose party failed to win a majority in the Israeli Parliamentary election held on
1 November 2022. This was the 5th general election in Israel in the past four years.
✓ The longest serving Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu heads a coalition government which is considered
to be one of the most right wing governments in the history of the country.
✓ The Israeli Parliament is called the Knesset. It is a unicameral house which has a term of four years. It
has 120 members.
✓ In the 120 member Israeli Parliament called as Knesset, Netanyahu has the support of 64 members. It
included his Likud party supported by the ultra-orthodox Shas, United Torah Judaism, the far-right
Otzma Yehudit, Religious Zionist Party, and Noam.
✓ The Israeli Parliament is called the Knesset. It is a unicameral house which has a term of four years. It
has 120 members
✓ ISRAEL
✓ Capital : Jerusalem
✓ Currency : New Shekel
✓ President : Isaac Herzog
✓ 15th Prime Minister : Benjamin Netanyahu
Q. Which company has organized ‘Bijli Utsav’ in the Baksa district of Assam?
A) REC Limited B) SJVN
C) NHPC Limited D) Vedanta Limited
Answer : A .
✓ As a part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, REC Limited, a Maharatna Company under the Ministry of
Power, Govt of India organised ‘Bijli Utsav’ in Anandapur Gaon of Baksa district and adjoining villages
in Assam

✓ The event highlighted the consumer rights of electricity, benefits of electricity and challenges faced
during electrification in remote areas and improving the quality of life with access to electricity by utility
officials.
✓ About REC Limited
✓ It is an NBFC focusing on Power Sector Financing and Development across India.
✓ Established in 1969, REC Limited has completed fifty years in its field of operations
✓ REC Limited, formerly Rural Electrification Corporation Limited
✓ Founded : 1969
✓ CMD : Vivek Kumar Dewangan.
✓ REC Ltd has become the 12th company to attain the Maharatna status.
Q. The 'Dhanu Yatra' festival, an 11-day long festival, started in which city in western Odisha?
A) Cuttack B) Bargarh
C) Balasore D) Sambalpur
Answer : D .
✓ The ‘Dhanu Yatra’ festival, considered to be the world’s largest open-air theatre, began on 27th
December in the Western Odisha town of Bargarh.
✓ President Draupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the people of the eastern state
as the 11-day festival began. The festival began after a gap of two years.
✓ In this festival, events related to Lord Shri Krishna will be presented through folk arts that touch the
hearts of millions of people.
✓ About ‘Dhanu Yatra’
✓ The 'Dhanu Yatra', which symbolises the victory of good over evil, came into being in Bargarh as part
of the country's independence celebrations in 1947–48 and is held annually.
✓ 'Dhanu Yatra' is associated with the culture of Odisha.
✓ As per tradition, for the whole eleven days, the people of Bargarh obey the orders of Raja Kansa and
not the district administration
✓ Background of the festival

✓ Dhanu Yatra was started after the harvest season of theyear 1947-48, just after the independence of
India as a reflection of the atmosphere of joy in the society for the end of British misrule.
✓ Since then it is performed every year at the end of the harvesting of paddy, the main crop of the area.
✓ It starts from the 5th day of ‘Pousasukla’ to end on ‘Pousapurnima’.
✓ During 11 days the entire area of Bargarh city and sub-urban areas around Bargarh block turns into
'Mathura Nagari', the kingdom of Kansa.
✓ The festival begins with a drama depicting the downfall of Ugrasena, the emperor of Mathura, by Kansa,
enraged at the marriage of his sister Devaki with Vasudeva.
✓ The festival ends with the death of the demon king Kansa and the restoration of the throne toUgrasena.
Q. According to the report, released by the Road Transport and Highways Ministry, the road
accidents in India have been decreased by ____ in 2021 as compared to 2019.
A) 5.1% B) 6.1%
C) 7.1% D) 8.1%
Answer : D .
✓ Road accidents in the country have decreased by 8.1 percent in the year 2021 as compared to 2019.
✓ According to a report released by the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on 28 December
2022 a total of 4,12,432 road accidents occurred in the 2021 calendar year which claimed 1,53,972
lives while 3,84,448 people were injured.
✓ The report titled 'Road accidents in India — 2021', said major indicators related to accidents have
performed better in 2021 when compared to 2019.
✓ The report titled 'Road accidents in India — 2021', said major indicators related to accidents have
performed better in 2021 when compared to 2019.
✓ According to the report, "Road accidents decreased by 8.1 percent and injuries decreased by 14.8
percent in 2021 compared to 2019. Fatalities, however, on account of road accidents increased by 1.9
percent in 2021 corresponding to the same period in 2019,”
✓ The report is based on the data/information received from police departments of states/Union Territories
collected on a calendar year basis in standardized formats as provided by the United Nations Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) under the Asia Pacific Road Accident Data
(APRAD) base project.

Q. Which state government has launched an initiative for the conservation of the Nilgiri Tahr
(State animal) at a cost of ₹25.1 crore?
Answer : C .
✓ Tamil Nadu is set to implement Project Nilgiri Tahr, aimed at developing a better understanding of the
population, distribution and ecology of the endangered species which is the state animal.
✓ The project, to be set up at a cost of ₹25. 1 crore, will be implemented during the 2022-27 period
✓ Nilgiris Tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius), endemic to the Western ghats and locally known as ‘Varaiaadu’,
has been classified a critically endangered species in the IUCN (International Union for Conservation
of Nature) red list and protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife (protection) Act of India, 1972.
✓ A World Wide Fund for Nature Report in 2015 estimated that there were 3,122 Nilgiri Tahr in the wild.
Q. Who inaugurated the National Championship "Tehri Water Sports Cup" at Tehri Lake,
Uttarakhand?
A) RK Singh B) Pralhad Joshi
C) Nitin Gadkari D) Hardeep Singh Puri
Answer : A .
✓ Union Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy RK Singh, a world-class Kayaking-Canoeing
Academy is to be set up at Tehri in Uttarakhand.
✓ Speaking at the inauguration of the National Championship "Tehri Water Sports Cup" at Tehri Lake
28th Dec 2022, he exclaimed, the promotion of sports is the priority of the Union Government
✓ About Tehri Lake
✓ Tehri was a small town situated at the confluence of Bhagirathi and Bhilangana rivers in Uttarakhand.
✓ The city was submerged in water to create a large catchment area and thus the old Tehri city became
the Tehri Lake, the largest man-made lake in Asia.
✓ To make room for the Tehri Dam, Tehri town was evacuated and the population shifted to New Tehri
town.
✓ The State Government (Uttarakhand) has decided to convert Tehri Lake into adventure tourism in the
Tehri Dam Construction Scheme.

Q. Who has flagged off the first metro rail in Dhaka for its first journey between Diabari and
Agargaon station?
A) Khaleda Zia B) Sheikh Hasina
C) Sajeeb Wazed D) Mohammad Abdul Hamid
Answer : B .
✓ First metro rail in Bangladesh was inaugurated in Dhaka by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
✓ The train was flagged off in Dhaka for its first journey between Diabari and Agargaon station
✓ This is part of the ambitious Bangladesh project of Mass Rapid Transit to be completed by 2030.
✓ Bangladesh entered another glorious era in its developmental journey today with the inauguration of
the metro rail in Dhaka.
✓ The approximately 12-kilometre-long metro route which was opened 28th Dec 2022 will connect Diabari
to Agargaon station in Dhaka.
✓ Ten pairs of trains with 6 six coaches each will run on this route initially for 4 hours carrying about 5
lakh passengers daily.
✓ Built with financial and technical support from Japan, the metro rail network after completion in 2030
will cover a total length of 129 kilometres out of which 61 kilometres will be underground
Q. Which Company has signed an MoU with the Central TB Division (Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare), Uttar Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh to undertake intensified TB elimination
project?
A) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
B) Indian Oil Corporation Limited
C) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
D) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
Answer : B .
✓ The government of India owned Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with the Central TB Division under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and
the states of Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to undertake an intensified TB elimination project. This
effort of the IOCL is part of its Corporate Social Responsibility. .

✓ According to the World Health Organisation 26% of Tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world in 2020 was
reported from India. Within India Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh share the highest burden of TB cases
among large states in India.
✓ The Indian Government has set a target to eliminate TB in India by 2025.
✓ Indian Oil has emerged as the first corporate to supplement state efforts in Active Case Finding
campaign (ACF) by investing close to Rs. 64 crore in all 75 districts of UP, covering approximately 10%
of its population once a year for three years.
✓ Under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) certain public or private sector companies have to spend
a minimum 2% of the average net profits made during the 3 immediately preceding financial years on
certain sectors identified by the government...
✓ Every year March 24 is observed as World Tuberculosis Day in the world
✓ National Strategic Plan 2017-2025 for TB Elimination in India.
Q. Who has been appointed as the acting Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC)?
A) Praveen Kumar Srivastava B) S.D. Sharma
C) Rani Shalini D) Sudhir Kumar Sharma
Answer : A .
✓ The government of India has appointed the vigilance commissioner Praveen Kumar Srivastava as the
acting Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) on 28 December 2022.
✓ The incumbent CVC chief Suresh N Patel completed his term on 24 December 2022.
✓ The Vigilance Commission is headed by a CVC and can have a maximum of two other Vigilance
Commissioners.
✓ Besides Srivastava, former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Arvind Kumar is the other Vigilance
Commissioner.
✓ The tenure of a CVC and vigilance commissioner is of four years or till the incumbent attains the age of
65 years.
✓ Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC)
✓ The Central Vigilance Commission was set up by the Government in February, 1964 on the
recommendations of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption, headed by Shri K. Santhanam, to
advise and guide Central Government agencies in the field of vigilance.

✓ It was made a statutory body by an ordinance issued by the President in 1998 and later the ordinance
was replaced by the Central Vigilance Commission Act 2003.
✓ Government of India has authorized the Central Vigilance Commission as the "Designated Agency" to
receive written complaints for disclosure on any allegation of corruption or misuse of office and
recommend appropriate action.
Q. Which among the following will serve as the secretariat for Science 20 (S20), one of the
G20’s multiple groupings?
A) IISc Bengaluru B) IIT Madras
C) IIT Bombay D) IIT Hyderabad
Answer : A .
✓ The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will serve as the secretariat for Science 20 (S20), one of the G20’s
multiple groupings.
✓ The G20 is being presided over by India and the theme of the S20 in 2023 is ‘Disruptive Science for
Innovative and Sustainable Development’.
✓ Three issues will be discussed at the discussions in Agartala, Lakshadweep, and Bhopal: universal
holistic health, clean energy for a greener future, and bridging science and society.
Q. Which of the following state has organized Bekal International Beach Festival?
A) Kerala B) Tripura
Answer : A .
✓ First International Beach Festival in Kerala

✓ The 'Spice Coast' in the far north of Kerala, popularly known as North Malabar, is celebrating myriad
colours and the 'Bekal International Beach Festival'
✓ The festival reflects the entirety and essence of the cultural and artistic uniqueness of the state.
✓ It showcases the country's rich cultural diversity and magnificence in the majestic Bekal Beach Park.
✓ Around five lakh people from all over the world enjoy this festival at three places of Chandragiri,
Tejaswini and Payaswini.
✓ The festival reflects a cross-section of culture and the unique identity of the land.

✓ More than 1,000 international, national and local artists performed at the Beach Festival
✓ Bekal International Beach festival
✓ It is organised by Bekal Resorts Development Corporation (BRDC) in association with the District
Tourism Promotion Council, Kudumbashree, Asmi Holidays, and the local self-government bodies in
the district
Q. National Education Society for Tribal Students (NESTS) has partnered with which of the
following to organize a two-day capacity-building program for EMRS teachers to implement
the Future Engineer Program?
A) Meta B) Tesla
C) Google D) Amazon
Answer : D .
✓ National Education Society for Tribal Students (NESTS) has partnered with Amazon to organize a two-
day capacity-building program for EMRS teachers to implement the Amazon Future Engineer Program.
✓ The partnership between NESTS and amazon will empower teachers and students in the field of digital
education.
✓ The initiative will help in initiating a digital communication with the people living in far-flung areas.
✓ The students of EMRS will benefit a lot from the Future Engineer Programme. It will serve as a stepping
stone in creating Computer awareness for the tribal students of EMRSs.
✓ AMAZON
✓ Founded : 1994 (Online bookstore)
✓ Founder : Jeff Bezos
✓ Headquarters : Seattle, Washington DC
✓ CEO : Andy Jessy
Q. Which General Insurance company has launched a unique health insurance rider ‘Respect
Senior Care Rider’ recently?
A) HDFC Securities B) ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
C) SBI General Insurance D) Bajaj Allianz General Insurance
Answer : D .
✓ Leading private general insurer of India Bajaj Allianz General Insurance has launched a unique health
insurance rider ‘Respect Senior Care Rider’.

✓ It might become difficult to fulfil all the responsibilities associated with caring for aging parent; this rider
helps one fulfill their parental responsibility smoothly.
✓ The company offers a comprehensive network of services and professionals who collaborate with one
another to ensure that senior citizen will always receive the highest possible level of care
Q. Which entity will soon introduce “Bima Vahaks” in each gram panchayat?
A) RBI B) NPCI
C) SIDBI D) IRDAI
Answer : D .
✓ IRDAI to Introduce ‘Bima Vahaks’ to Expand Insurance Force

✓ To enhance the insurance force in India the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India
(IRDAI) will soon introduce “Bima Vahaks” in each gram panchayat.
✓ Each Gram Panchayat will have a ‘Bima Vahak’ who would be tasked to sell and service simple
parametric bundled insurance products, Bima Vistar, covering health, property, life, and personal
accident.
✓ The insurance companies have adopted a state each and with the help of state governments are looking
to develop state-level insurance plans. Much like what has been done in the banks.
✓ Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI)
✓ Founded : 1999
✓ Headquarteres : Hyderabad
✓ Chairman : Debasish Panda
Q. Who has been named the nominee for the ICC Emerging Men’s Player Cricketer of the Year
2022 Awards?
A) Arshdeep Singh B) Virat Kohli
C) Suryakumar Yadav D) Rohit Sharma
Answer : A .
✓ Arshdeep Singh, Yastika Bhatia and Renuka Singh nominated for ICC emerging cricketer of the year
2022
✓ The International Cricket Council (ICC) named the nominees for the Emerging Cricketer of the Year for
2022

✓ Indian Arshdeep Singh has been included in the men’s and Yastika Bhatia and Renuka Singh in the
women’s section of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) emerging player of the year 2022 award
nominee list.
✓ ICC emerging Men’s player of the year award 2022 nominee
✓ Arshdeep Singh (India)
✓ Marco Jansen (South Africa)
✓ Ibrahim Zardan (Afghanistan)
✓ Finn Allen (New Zealand’)
✓ ICC women’s player of the year award 2022 nominee
✓ Renuka Singh (India)
✓ Yastika Bhatia (India)
✓ Alice Capsy (England)
✓ Darcie Brown (Australian)
Q. How many crores has been invested so far under the Production Based Incentive (PLI)
scheme by the food processing industry?
A) Rs 4,900 crore
B) Rs 5,400 crore
C) Rs 6,100 crore
D) Rs 7,600 crore
Answer : A .
✓ The government food processing industry has invested Rs 4,900 crore so far under the production-
linked incentive (PLI) scheme.
✓ The PLI scheme for the food processing industry was approved in March 2021, with a budget outlay of
Rs 10,900 crore. It will be implemented for seven years, until 2026-27.
✓ "A total of 182 applications have been approved under the PLI scheme for the food processing industry,"
an official statement read.
✓ As per the ministry, the 'One District One Product (ODOPY) scheme (under the Prime Minister-
Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PM-FME) scheme) has been approved for 713
districts across 35 states and union territories, with 137 distinct products

Q. The Indian Army has inaugurated its first 3-D Printed House Dwelling Unit (with Ground plus
One configuration) for soldiers at which city?
A) New Delhi B) Bengaluru
C) Mumbai D) Ahmedabad
Answer : D .
✓ The Indian Army inaugurated its first 3-D Printed House Dwelling Unit (with Ground plus One
configuration) for soldiers 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.
✓ Construction work of the dwelling unit measuring 71 sqm with garage space was completed in just 12
weeks by utilizing the 3D printed foundation, walls, and slabs.
✓ The disaster-resilient structures comply with Zone-3 earthquake specifications and green building
norms. The 3-D printed houses are symbolic of the modern-day rapid construction efforts to cater for
growing accommodation requirements of the Armed Forces personnel.
✓ This structure also stands testament to the commitment of Indian Army in fostering the Atmanirbhar
Bharat Abhiyan.
Q. India has given permission to which of the following country’s electricity authority to export
additional 40 megawatts of electricity from two more hydroelectric projects?
A) Bhutan B) Nepal
C) Bangladesh D) Sri Lanka
Answer : B .
✓ India has given permission to the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) to export additional 40 megawatts
of electricity from two more hydroelectric projects.
✓ According to NEA, the Central Electricity Authority of India has approved the sale of surplus power from
two more hydropower projects – 25 MW Kabeli B-1 and 20 MW Lower Modi – at competitive rates in
the Indian energy market.
✓ With this, 452.6 MW surplus power can be exported to India from 10 hydropower projects.
✓ NEA has generated a net income of Rs 11.16 billion by trading 1.36 billion units of surplus power at a
competitive rate in the Indian energy market till 18 December.

✓ The current electricity demand of Nepal stands at around 1,680 MW, while the domestic production is
1,000 MW.
Q. Which department has launched an ‘Online request Transfer Portal’ for Gramin Dak Sevaks
(GDS)?
A) Department of Posts
B) Department of Telecommunications
C) Department of Public Grivances
D) Department of Public Enterprises
Answer : A .
✓ The Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications has launched an ‘Online request
Transfer Portal’ for Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS).
✓ The entire transfer process, from the stage of seeking applications, approval, and issuing transfer
orders, has now been made paperless and simple through this portal.
✓ The Department of Posts has the largest network of Post Offices in the world consisting of more than
1,56,000 Post Offices across India, out of which more than 1,31,000 Branch Post Offices (BOs) are in
rural areas, where the Postal facilities are rendered through Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS).
✓ The online process will also result in saving time and resources. The transfer of more than five thousand
Gramin Dak Sevaks has been approved today through the online portal.
Q. Who has launched the Mobile App ‘Prahari’ of the Border Security Force (BSF) in New Delhi?
A) Amit Shah B) Narendra Modi
C) Nitin Gadkari D) Piyush Goyal
Answer : A .
✓ Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah has launched the Mobile App ‘Prahari’ of the Border
Security Force (BSF) in New Delhi.
✓ Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, and Director General of BSF Pankaj Kumar
Singh were amongst those dignitaries present on the occasion.
✓ The BSF ‘Prahari’ app is a great example of Proactive Governance. “Now jawans can get personal
information and information related to accommodation, Ayushmann-CAPF and leaves on their mobiles

✓ Be it GPF, Bio Data or grievance redressal on Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring
System” (CP-GRAMS) or information on various welfare schemes, now Jawans can get all this
information through the app and this app will also connect them with the portal of the Ministry of Home
Affairs.
✓ The BSF was raised on 1 December 1965 after the India-Pakistan war of 1965. It is a border force
which is deployed along the International border with Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Q. Which state government has launched the 10th phase of Rythu Bandhu, the investment
support scheme for farmers?
C) Tamil Nadu D) Telangana
Answer : D .
✓ Telangana government has launched the 10th phase of Rythu Bandhu, the investment support scheme
for farmers.
✓ Under this phase, 7,676 crores will be deposited in the bank accounts of over 70 lakh 54 thousand
farmers towards investment support for the Rabi crop season.
✓ On the first day, over 607 crore rupees was deposited in the accounts of over 21 farmers holding up to
one acre of land. The investment support is being disbursed at a rate of 5000 rupees per acre.
Q. Which state police has received the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
2022 Award for the ‘Nijaat’ campaign?
A) Andhra Pradesh B) Gujarat
C) Chhattisgarh D) Madhya Pradesh
Answer : C .
✓ International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the US-based international organization has
selected the anti-drug & illicit liquor campaign ‘Nijaat’ of Chhattisgarh police for ‘Leadership in Crime
Prevention’ in the institutional category.
✓ The campaign was launched by the Chhattisgarh police under the leadership of the IPS officer Santosh
Kumar Singh.
✓ The drive took the onus to wipe out the abuse of illicit drugs, narcotics, and bootlegging while
simultaneously preventing its smuggling or trading

Q. Brazilian legend Pele passed away recentl. He was associated with which sport?
A) Football B) Hockey
C) Badminton D) Tennis
Answer : A .
✓ Brazilian football legend Pele, who won a record three World Cups has passed away at the age of 82.
✓ Widely regarded as one of soccer’s greatest players, Pele is credited with scoring a world record 1,281
goals in 1,363 appearances during a 21-year career, including 77 goals in 92 matches for his country.
✓ The only player to win the World Cup three times, lifting the trophy in 1958, 1962 and 1970, Pele was
named Fifa’s Player of the Century in 2000.
✓ Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, became a global star when, at the age of 17, he
helped Brazil win the 1958 World Cup in Sweden.
Q. Who has been appointed as the UN Coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative?
A) Ganji Kamala B) Hasmukh Adhia
C) Pushpa Kamal Dahal D) Abdullah Abdul Samad Dashti
Answer : D .
✓ United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced 29th Dec 2022 the appointment of
Abdullah Abdul Samad Dashti of Kuwait as United Nations Coordinator for the Black Sea Grain
Initiative, Trend reports citing the press service of UN.
✓ The Initiative was launched by Ukraine, Türkiye, Russian Federation and the United Nations on 22 July
2022 to enable the resumption of exports from Ukraine of grain, foodstuffs and fertilizer, including
ammonia, through a safe maritime humanitarian corridor
Q. PM Narendra Modi has inaugurated railway projects worth over Rs 5,800 crore in which
state?
A) Karnataka B) Rajasthan
C) West Bengal D) Uttar Pradesh
Answer : C .
✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and dedicated to the nation railway projects worth over ₹
5,800 crore in West Bengal through video-conferencing.

✓ PM Modi, who lost his mother this morning, was scheduled to be part of the event to launch the
connectivity and infrastructure projects in the state.
✓ The projects include the inauguration of the Joka-Taratala stretch of the Joka-Esplanade Metro Project
(Purple Line) and the flagging off of the Howrah-New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat Express.
✓ The Joka-Taratala 6.5-km stretch having six stations has been constructed at a cost of more than ₹
2,475 crore.
✓ Passengers of southern parts of Kolkata such as Sarsuna, Dakghar, Muchipara and South 24 Parganas
will be immensely benefited by inauguration of this project.
Q. Which countries have signed agreements in various areas including on Defence and Military
Cooperation?
A) India and Turkey B) India and Cyprus
C) India and Albania D) India and Lithuania
Answer : B .
✓ India and Cyprus have signed agreements in various areas including on Defence and Military
Cooperation.
✓ Both countries have also signed a Letter of Intent on Migration and Mobility Partnership to provide a
common framework of arrangement and cooperation to facilitate the mobility of students, business
people and professionals.
✓ It will also help in combating irregular migration.
✓ The agreements were signed between EAM Dr. S Jaishankar and Foreign Minister of Cyprus.
Q. Who has been inaugurated the phase 1 of Zuari bridge in Goa, that connects North and
South Goa?
A) Rajnath Singh B) Nitin Gadkari
C) Nirmala Sitharaman D) Ashwini Vaishnaw
Answer : B .
✓ Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated phase 1 of the New Zuari
Bridge in Goa 29th Dec 2022.
✓ Located on the Zuari river at Cortalim village on Margao-Panaji National Highway, the bridge aims to
ease the traffic woes of the state.

✓ Under the 1st Phase, the 4 Lane Right Hand Side Corridor of the 8 Lane Stayed Cable bridge has been
inaugurated.
✓ The Rs.2530 Crore project consists of the new bridge and the approaches from Bambolim to Verna and
has a total project length of 13.20 KM.
Q. Which Cabinet has approved the provision of Rs 367.19 crores for five years (2022-23 to
2026-27) for empowerment of women in agriculture?
A) Odisha B) Bihar
C) Gujarat D) Madhya Pradesh
Answer : A .
✓ Odisha Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approved the provision of Rs 367.19 crores
for five years from 2022-23 to 2026-27 for implementation of the State Sector Scheme “empowerment
of women in agriculture-promotion of entrepreneurship for women SHG”.
✓ “The scheme is introduced with an objective to double the mushroom production across the State
through area expansion involving women beneficiaries/WSHGs and to make the state self-sufficient in
the production of button mushroom and loose flowers”.
Q. New British Indian Army Memorial to be made in which location?
A) Wales B) Ireland
C) Norway D) Scotland
Answer : D .
✓ A new British Indian Army Memorial, commemorating the sacrifice of millions of Indian soldiers who
fought for the British during the two World Wars, is set to be built in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
✓ The memorial is visualised as Scotland’s first permanent memorial wall to recognise the service and
sacrifice of the British Indian Army during the world wars.
✓ World War I was the largest human conflict in history (till that point) spanning from mid 1914 to late
1918.
Q. Which anniversary of indigenously developed payment application BHIM is celebrated on
30 December 2022?
A) 9th B) 8th
C) 7th D) 6th

Answer : D .
✓ 30th Dec 2022 is the sixth anniversary of indigenously developed payment application BHIM (Bharat
Interface for Money)
✓ BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) was launched on 30th Dec 2016 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
✓ BHIM is a biometric payment system app using the Aadhar platform and is based on Unified Payment
Interface (UPI) to facilitate e-payments directly through bank.
✓ The payments through the BHIM App can be made by just a thumb impression after the bank account
is linked with Aadhaar gateway.
✓ UPI transaction has gained traction over the year. UPI transaction value for the month of November
this year was 11.90 lakh crore rupees while the transaction volume was 7.30 billion

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