2024 Bangladeshi general election took place in Bangladesh on:
- A. 4 January 2024
- B. 6 January 2024
- C. 7 January 2024
- D. 8 January 2024
Correct Answer: C. 7 January 2024
General elections took placed in Bangladesh on 7 January 2024, which was controversial and by the current constitutional requirement, stating that elections must take place within 90 days before the expiration of the current term of the Jatiya Sangsad on 29 January 2024. The Awami League, led by incumbent Sheikh Hasina, won the election for the fourth consecutive time with less than 40% of the eligible voters voting according to an Election Commission, which is run by the ruling political party. The party won 223 seats while independent candidates, most of whom were Awami League members propped up as dummy candidates to give a semblance of competition, won 62 seats
Correct Answer: B. July 05, 2023
U.S. President Joe Biden met with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson as the White House works to persuade Turkey to approve Sweden’s NATO accession ahead of the alliance’s summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, next week. “Sweden is going to make our alliance stronger and has the same value set that we have in NATO,” Biden said to Kristersson ahead of their meeting at the White House on Wednesday. “I’m really looking, anxiously looking, forward for your membership.” Sweden and Finland abandoned their policy of military nonalignment and applied for NATO membership following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Correct Answer: B. 16 September 2022
Iran officially join the SCO, and all the participants signed the Samarkand Declaration in the end. Iran’s full membership in the SCO was announced by the President of Uzbekistan, which was applauded by the participants. China, Russia, India, Iran, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan attended the 22nd SCO summit
Correct Answer: C. Iran
Iran`s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard launched underground ballistic missiles on July 29, 2020, as part of an exercise involving a mock-up American aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz, highlighting its network of subterranean bases.
Correct Answer: A. India
As many as 118 countries DUBAI, signe a pledge to triple install renewable energy capacity by 2030 during the ongoing COP-28 climate summit The pledge committed to tripling worldwide installed renewable energy generation capacity to at least 11,000 gigawatts (GW) and to double the global average annual rate of energy efficiency improvements to more than 4% by 2030. Excluding India, China and Russia.
Correct Answer: A. April 2, 2023
Saudi Arabia and other Opec+ oil producers announced further oil output cuts of around 1.16 million barrels per day (bpd) on April 2, 2023, in a surprise move that analysts said would cause an immediate rise in price and the United States called inadvisable. The pledges bring the total volume of cuts by Opec+, which groups the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries with Russia and other allies, to 3.66 million bpd, equal to 3.7 percent of global demand.
Correct Answer: C. 05 December 2023
The United States and Sweden on 5 December 2023, signed a first-ever defense cooperation agreement that will strengthen military ties and permit bilateral exercises. The defense pact paves the way for “US forces to operate in Sweden, including the legal status of US military personnel, access to deployment areas (and) prepositioning of military materiel,” a Pentagon statement said. The two “agreed on the importance of continued robust support to Ukraine in the face of Russia’s illegal and full-scale invasion,” it added.