Which country is reported to build six to eight nuclear reactors per year from 2020 to 2025?
- A. The United States
- B. China
- C. Israel
- D. United Arab Emirates
Correct Answer: B. China
As per the news reported by the official China Daily, China will build six to eight nuclear reactors per year between 2020 and 2025. China is set to raise the total capacity to 70 gigawatts (GW), which is around 43.5 percent more than that of the capacity estimated at the end of May. The country also aims to increase its total nuclear capacity to about 200 GW by 2035
Correct Answer: B. $17bn
Pakistan`s total oil import during the first 10 months (July-April) of the current Fiscal year (FY22) has gone beyond $17bn, showing a massive 96pc growth compared to the same period last fiscal year. This includes import of petroleum products worth $8.5bn and petroleum crude of $4.2bn, showing 121pc and 75pc surge, respectively.
Correct Answer: B. China
For decades, China has experienced a low birth rate. Therefore, scientists in the country created a new breakthrough by creating a robot babysitter. The robot babysitter in question was created from artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor and care for human embryos growing in artificial wombs. Despite its status as the world’s most populous country, China is experiencing a population growth problem, with the birth rate recently dropping to its lowest level in six decades. Therefore, scientists at the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, developed robots to perform tasks, such as observing, documenting, and manually adjusting carbon dioxide, nutrients, and more in embryos.
Correct Answer: B. China
According to the data, the birth rate was 10.94 per thousand, which was lesser than the previous birth rate of 12.43 per thousand, in 2017. The country’s birth rate fell to the lowest, since 1949. As China has a rapidly growing aging population, it allowed urban couples to give birth to two children, against the one-child policy which was in effect.
Correct Answer: C. June 25, 2020
The Democratic Republic of the Congo or DR Congo, marked an official end on June 25, 2020, to the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which killed 2,280 people over nearly two years, as armed rebels and community mistrust undermined the promise of new vaccines.
Correct Answer: C. Bashar al-Assad
Syrian President Bashar Assad arrived in China on Thursday on his first visit to the country since the start of Syria’s 12-year conflict, one in which Beijing has been one of his main backers. China’s Foreign Ministry said Assad would join other foreign leaders attending the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, an international sports event beginning Saturday in the eastern city of Hangzhou.
Correct Answer: B. Iran
Iran has displayed a new cruise missile, that has a range of 1,000 kilometers, named martyr Abu Mahdi said Amir Hatami on Thursday 20 August 2020 ignoring the US demands that Tehran halts its missile program.