As per the estimates from the World Population Review, which country is the most populous country in the world, as of 2022?
- A. China
- B. India
- C. Indonesia
- D. Pakistan
Correct Answer: B. India
As per the estimates from the World Population Review, an independent organisation focused on census and demographics. India may have already surpassed China as the world’s most-populous nation. India’s population stood at 1.417 billion as of end 2022, 5 million more than the 1.412 billion reported by China. China announced the first decline in population numbers since the 1960s.
Correct Answer: A. Brazil
WhatsApp has launched its ‘WhatsApp Pay’ for the first time in Brazil. WhatsApp is owned by social media giant Facebook. WhatsApp has designed the payment system with a special six-digit PIN or fingerprint authorization to prevent unauthorized transactions
Correct Answer: B. March 23, 2022
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright was an American diplomat and political scientist who serve as the 64th United States secretary of state under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Albright was the first woman to hold the post
Correct Answer: C. 18 April 2023
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister meets with Syrian President since war of 2011 in Damascus on 18 April 2023. the first visit to Syria’s capital by a Saudi official since the start of the country’s civil war in 2011 marks a new era in ties between Iran-backed Damascus and Riyadh. Sound relations between Syria and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia should be the norm.
Correct Answer: C. Canada
A team of Canadian scientists may have discovered the first case of deer spreading the coronavirus to humans, according to a new preprint study that hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed. Typically, humans spread the virus to deer, and then deer spread it to other deer. But new evidence suggests that the virus could spill over from deer into humans. The researchers identified a COVID-19 case in someone from Ontario who had recently been in contact with deer.
Correct Answer: C. UK
A pair of gold-plated glasses worn by Mahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for 260,000 pounds ($340,000), the auction house said. We found them just four weeks ago in our letterbox, left there by a gentleman whose uncle had been given them by Gandhi himself,` East Bristol Auctions wrote on Instagram
Correct Answer: B. August 11, 2020
Noted Urdu poet Rahat Indori, died in a hospital in Indore on August 11, 2020, reports said. He was tested positive for Covid-19 and suffered two consecutive heart attacks that could not be saved