Current Affairs: 7th February 2023

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1) PM Narendra Modi has inaugurated the 'India
Energy Week 2023' in -

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 'India

A. Visakhapatnam Energy Week 2023' in Bengaluru, has been organised
from 6th to 8th February 2023.
B. Chennai • Aim: To showcase India's rising prowess as an energy
transition powerhouse
C. Hyderabad • It will bring together leaders from the energy
industry, governments, and academia to discuss the
D. Bengaluru challenges and opportunities that a responsible
energy transition presents.

Ans-D
2) Former Indian cricketer Monty Desai has been
appointed as the Head coach of -
• The Nepal Cricket Association has appointed former
Indian cricketer Monty Desai as the head coach of
the Nepal national cricket team.
A. Austria • Monty Desai will replace another former Indian
cricketer Manoj Prabhakar, who resigned from his
B. Srilanka post in December 2022.
• Nepal Cricket Association has signed a two-year deal
C. Bangladesh with Monty Desai.
• Monty has been the head coach of teams like West
D. Nepal Indies, Canada, UAE.
• Monty has also served as the head coach of the
Rajasthan Royals team in the Indian Premier League
(IPL). Ans-D
3) Union HM Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of
a ₹450-crore Nano Urea Plant in -

• Union HM, Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of a

₹450crore Nano Urea Plant and township of the
A. West Bengal Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO) in
Deoghar, Jharkhand.
B. Bihar • It will be the fifth nano urea plant in India.
• In 2022, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurated
C. Jharkhand the world's first nano urea plant in Gujarat.
• Nano urea improves crop productivity, soil health,
D. Odisha and the nutritional quality of produce.
• Aim: To address the imbalanced and excessive use of
conventional urea.
Ans-C
4) "NISAR", a joint satellite of NASA and ISRO, is
planned to be launched in -

A. 2024 • NISAR, a joint satellite of NASA and ISRO, is planned

to be launched in 2024.
B. 2025 • NISAR refers to NASA-ISRO SAR, is a Low Earth Orbit
(LEO) observatory.
C. 2027 • SAR creates two-dimensional and three-dimensional
reconstructions of landscapes.
D. 2030

Ans-A
5) Indian Army has launched 'Operation Sadbhavna'
for the development of -
• The Indian Army has launched 'Operation Sadbhavna' for
the development of Ladakh.
• The activities are aimed at helping children living in
A. Ladakh remote areas of Ladakh.
• As a part of ‘Operation Sadbhavna’, the Indian Army is
B. Jammu & Kashmir undertaking several welfare activities such as running
Army Sadbhavna School, infrastructure development
C. Uttarakhand projects and Shiksha Yatra etc. for children living in
remote areas of the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh.
D. Rajasthan • The Indian Army is currently running seven Army Goodwill
Schools (AGS) under ‘Operation Sadbhavna’ in Ladakh
region. More than 2,200 students are currently studying in
these schools.
Ans-A
6) Which Indian Golfer has won the “Kenya Ladies
Open title 2023”?

• Indian golf player, Aditi Ashok clinched her fourth

Ladies European Tour (LET) title at the Kenya Ladies
A. Aditi Ashok Open 2023 golf tournament held at Vipingo Ridge,
Kenya.
B. Diksha Dagar • She last won a Ladies European Tour golf tournament
in 2017.
C. Jyoti Randhawa • She carded a 12-under to win ahead of Alice Hewson
(England) and April Angurasaranee (Thailand), who
D. Pranavi Urs finished with identical final scores of 3-under.
• Meanwhile, India’s Avani Prashanth finished tied-
ninth and Amandeep Drall came tied-52nd.
Ans-A
7) Who has become the first Indian retailer to
introduce "Digital rupee" at stores?
• Reliance Retail has become the first Indian retailer to
introduce Central Bank Digital Currency, also known
as the digital rupee.
A. Reliance • The company has piloted the use of the Digital Rupee
in one store in Mumbai.
B. DMart • The launch of this facility was in collaboration with
Innoviti Technologies, ICICI Bank, and Kotak
C. Future Mahindra Bank.
• The Digital Rupees was first introduced by the RBI on
D. V-Mart December 1, 2022.
• Initially, It is limited to Mumbai, New Delhi,
Bengaluru, and Bhubaneswar.
Ans-A
8) Who has been appointed as the MD & CEO of
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services?

• Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd's Board

of Directors appointed Raul Rebello as managing
A. Graham Reid director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO)
designate.
B. Raul Rebello • He will replace Ramesh Iyer, who will be retiring on
April 29, 2023.
C. Manuela Roka • Currently, he is serving as the chief operating officer
(COO) of the company.
D. Madhvendra Singh • Before to joining Mahindra Financial, he worked as
the executive vice president and head of rural
lending and financial inclusion at Axis Bank Ltd.
Ans-B
9) As per Union Budget 2023, What is the per capita
income in India?

• Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in

A. ₹1.54 lakh per annum her Budget speech that the per capita income in
India has more than doubled to ₹1.97 lakh over the
B. ₹1.97 lakh per annum past nine years.
• The EPFO membership has more than doubled to 27
C. ₹2.39 lakh per annum crore.
• She also announced that the government made cash
D. ₹2.74 lakh per annum transfer of ₹2.2 lakh crore under the PM-KISAN
scheme.

Ans-B
10) Which Indian music composer has won his 3rd
Grammy award at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards
ceremony?
• Indian music composer, Ricky Kej won his third
Grammy Award in the best new age album category
for 'Divine Tides' at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards
A. Ricky Kej ceremony in Los Angeles.
• He has shared this award with Stewart Copeland,
B. A. R. Rahman who collaborated with Kej on the album.
• The 65th Grammy Awards were hosted by Trevor
C. M. M. Keeravani Noah.
• American pop star Beyoncé won 2 Grammys at the
D. Amit Trivedi 65th Grammy Awards. Beyoncé has become the only
celebrity in the world to win the most Grammy
Awards (32) in her career.
Ans-A
11) 6th SCO Supreme Audit Institutions (SAI)
Leaders’ Meeting has been organised in -

• The 6th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)

Supreme Audit Institutions (SAI) Leaders’ Meeting
A. New Delhi has been organised by the Comptroller and Auditor
General of India (CAG) in Lucknow on 6th February
B. Lucknow 2023.
• The meeting was inaugurated by the Governor of
C. Chandigarh Uttar Pradesh, Anandiben Patel.
• Theme: 'Integrating Emerging Technologies in Audit'
D. Raipur • Discussions topics: Artificial Intelligence and Cyber
Security, and concerns of digital technology.
Ans-B
12) PM Narendra Modi has inaugurated India's
largest helicopter manufacturing facility in -

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the

country’s largest helicopter manufacturing facility at
A. Kerala Tumakuru in Karnataka.
• The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) helicopter
B. Goa factory, spread across 615 acres, will initially produce
the light utility helicopters (LUH) followed by light
C. Maharashtra combat helicopters (LCH) and later the Indian
multirole helicopters (IMRH).
D. Karnataka • PM Modi laid the foundation stone for the facility in
2016.
Ans-D
13) 1st meeting of the Youth-20 group has been
organized in -

• The first meeting of the Youth -20 engagement group

under India's G20 presidency has been organized in
A. IIT Varanasi the IITGuwahati campus, Assam on 6th February
2023.
B. IIT Indore • Aim: Provide an opportunity for the students to voice
their opinions to the audience worldwide.
C. IIT Guwahati • More than 150 Youth delegates from G20 countries
has participated in the meetings.
D. IIT Jammu • Over 12000 college and university students also
participated in these events.
Ans-C
14) Which bank signed with ReailTel for 4G LTE
connectivity to 15,000 offisite ATMs?

A. ICICI Bank • RailTel Corporation has received Rs. 253.35 crore

project from the State Bank of India (SBI) for
B. HDFC Bank providing 4G LTE connectivity to 15,000 offsite ATMs
across the country.
C. SBI • It will also take care of the operation and
maintenance of the entire network for a period of
D. PNB five years.

Ans-C
15) Who has inaugurated the 96th Akhil Bharatiya
Marathi Sahitya Sammelan?

• The 96th Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan,

A. Droupadi Murmu the prestigious literary summit began in the Wardha
district of Maharashtra.
B. Narendra Modi • It was inaugurated by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde
and School Education, and Marathi language minister
C. Eknath Shinde Deepak Kesarkar.
• The first Marathi Sahitya Sammelan was held in Pune
D. Bhagat Singh Koshyari in 1878 under the chairmanship of Justice Mahadev
Govind Ranade.

Ans-C
16) Indian Railways has launched a WhatsApp food
delivery facility named -
• Passengers traveling in Indian Railways can now
order food online through WhatsApp while
undertaking a journey by using their PNR number.
A. IR-Food • This comes as a step further towards making e-
catering services more customer-centric in Indian
B. Zoop Railways.
• The Indian Railways has recently started WhatsApp
C. Gusto Communication for railway passengers to order food
through e-catering services.
D. Grubhub • Business WhatsApp number +91-8750001323 has
been started for the purpose.
• This WhatsApp food delivery facility named ‘Zoop’.
Ans-B
17) Bangladesh would receive electricity from the
Godda power plant in Which State?

• Bangladesh minister, Nasrul Hamid has informed that

Bangladesh would receive electricity from the Godda
A. Odisha power plant in Jharkhand from March 2023.
• 750MW of power will come from the first unit of the
B. Uttarakhand Adani power plant in Godda in March 2023.
• Another 750 MW of power will come from the
C. Chhattisgarh second unit of the Godda power plant in April 2023.
• The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB)
D. Jharkhand signed an agreement with the Adani group for
importing electricity from its plant at Godda.
Ans-D
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