Angelina Jolie will quit her role as a special envoy for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on:
- A. December 13, 2022
- B. December 16, 2022
- C. December 18, 2022
- D. December 26, 2022
Correct Answer: B. December 16, 2022
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie will quit her role as a special envoy for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), but will remain a humanitarian activist, the United Nations said on December 16, 2022. Jolie, who has been on more than 60 field assignments during her 21 years with UNHCR, said she wanted to keep working with refugees outside of the global body.
Correct Answer: B. April 13, 2023
Qatar and Bahrain announced late on April 13, 2023, that they had agreed to end a long-running diplomatic feud and re-establish relation. Bahrain 2017 join Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt in imposing a diplomatic blockade on Qatar. However, the countries’ rivalry goes back even further, and Bahrain is the last to renew ties. Agreement on the reconciliation was reached in talks at the Gulf Cooperation Council headquarters in Saudi Arabia, Qatar’s foreign ministry said.
Correct Answer: A. 7 June 2022
The United States, Britain, France and Germany have submitted a motion to the UN atomic energy watchdog to censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the agency, diplomats said 7 June 2022. The resolution urging Iran to cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the first since June 2020 when a similar motion censuring Iran was adopted.
Correct Answer: A. Iran
Various Human Rights groups in Iran as well as abroad state that the Iranian Nation has executed a substantial number of people for petty crimes and has emerged as the second largest executioner state. On July 3, 2023, an organisation named Rights Group said that the West Asian nation of Iran had executed 354 people in the first six months of 2023, adding that the pace of executions was much higher as compared to a figure in 2022.
Correct Answer: A. Transforming Global Health
The theme of World Pharmacists Day 2020 was “Transforming global health“. The purpose of the day is to draw attention to pharmacies and the positive benefits they offer when it comes to health. World Pharmacists Day which is observed every year on September 25.
Correct Answer: A. Australia
The 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup was the twelfth edition of the Women’s Cricket World Cup, which was held in New Zealand in March and April 2022. It was originally scheduled for 6 February to 7 March 2021 but was postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 15 December 2021, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announce that the tournament would start on 4 March 2022, with the final scheduled for 3 April 2022. In the final of the tournament, Australia beat England by 71 runs to win their seventh World Cup. Australia’s Alyssa Healy scored 170 runs in the match, the highest individual score made by any cricketer, male or female, in the World Cup Final.
Correct Answer: B. 2009
NACTA was created, in 2009, as an Administrative Wing within the Ministry of Interior, under a National Coordinator, controlled administratively by the Secretary Interior Division, Ministry of Interior. All the postings/transfers within NACTA were made by the Interior Division. However, in 2013, the Authority was granted administrative and financial autonomy and was created legally as a body corporates, answerable to a Board of Governors (BOG) headed by the Prime Minister of Pakistan with the National Coordinator (NACTA) as Secretary to the BOG. The BOG was to provide strategic vision and policy oversight to NACTA.