ASEAN summit 2023 to be held in which country?
- A. Indonesia
- B. New York
- C. Thailand
- D. Vietnam
Correct Answer: A. Indonesia
Correct Answer: C. Iran
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard successfully launch a new rocket named ‘Ghaem 100’, which has been designed to send satellites. The rocket is a three-stage solid-fueled vehicle, which was launched on a suborbital test flight. It is designed to carry satellites of up to 176 pounds (80 kilograms) into orbits of about 310 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth.
Correct Answer: C. June 14 to 17, 2022
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) delegates representing 206 members of the Global Network and observer organizations, including the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, will take part in the last Plenary under the two-year German Presidency of Dr. Marcus Pleyer from 14-17 June 2022. The German government will host this hybrid event in Berlin, with a significant number of participants taking part in person.
Correct Answer: B. Germany
Germany has recently hosted the 10-day meeting of parties to the Antarctic Treaty in Berlin. A majority of parties held the opinion that there is scientific evidence for the emperor penguins species to be put under the special protection. It is said that China has blocked efforts to step up protection of emperor penguins in Antarctica. The species are threatened by the effects of global warming on their natural habitat in Antarctica.
Correct Answer: A. Japan
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to resign, as per reports, due to his worsening health condition. The long-serving wants to avoid causing problems for the government due to his poor health. The 65-year-old’s current poor health condition has raised questions on whether he will be able to stay on as Prime Minister and continue his duties till the end of his term in September 2021.
Correct Answer: D. United States
The Sea Dragon 22 exercise, the first multilateral anti-submarine exercise organized by the US this year, represented a fairly high level of air-based anti-submarine performance both in terms of the quantity and quality of participating equipment, as well as the setting of exercise scenarios.
Correct Answer: C. Bangladesh
World Bank (WB) Managing Director Axel van Trotsenburg lauded Bangladesh as one of the world’s greatest development stories. The country has moved from being one of the poorest at its inception to one of the fastest growing countries of the world. The country’s 6 percent average economic growth per annum since 2000 has lifted millions of people out of poverty. It started with a status of poverty in 1972, became a lower-middle income country in 2015 and is now on the way to becoming an upper-middle income country.