The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a NASA space mission aimed at testing planetary defense systems against near-Earth objects.
Recently, NASA deliberately crashed the spacecraft into an asteroid in the first action of humanity altering the motion of a celestial body. NASA announced that it succeeded in forcing the rocky asteroid out of its natural orbit.
B. The Transformation of Education Begins with Teachers
C. Teachers: Leading in Crisis, Reimaging the future
D. None of these
Correct Answer: B. The Transformation of Education Begins with Teachers
World Teachers’ Day or International Teachers’ Day is observed every year on October 5. This is a day to celebrate, thank and honor teachers for their contributions to their students. This year marks the 28th anniversary of World Teachers’ Day and the theme is “The Transformation of Education Begins with Teachers”.
2023 AFC Asian Cup will be the 18th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international men’s football championship of Asia organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It will be held in Qatar from 16 June to 16 July 2023. The tournament will involve 24 national teams after expansion in 2019. Hosts Qatar are the defending champions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 19, 2022, declared martial law in four regions of Ukraine
recently annexed by Moscow as his proxy officials in a southern-held city pulled out with Ukraine troops advancing. Putin`s decree to introduce military rule in the Moscow-controlled regions also gives additional power to authorities in Russian border areas and comes after a string of battlefield defeats
Iran’s atomic energy organization said that an e-mail server belonging to one of its subsidiaries had been hacked from a foreign country and information published online, state media reported on 23 October 2022. An Iranian hacking group, Black Reward, said in a statement published on Twitter that it had released hacked information relating to Iranian nuclear activities, declaring the action an act of support for protesters in Iran. The Islamic Republic has been gripped by demonstrations triggered by the death of the 22-year-old Amini on Sept 16 after her arrest for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code for women.
Xi Jinping secured a historic third term as China’s leader on Sunday and promoted some of his closest Communist Party allies, cementing his position as the nation’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.
Prime Minister Liz Truss and her government collapsed Thursday with her sudden resignation announcement after six turbulent weeks in office, making her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.
International Solar Alliance’s Fifth Assembly is to be hosted by India in New Delhi on October 17-20, 2022. India holds the office of the President of the ISA Assembly. The Fifth Assembly will deliberate on key initiatives of ISA on three critical issues: energy access, energy security, and energy transition.
Israel and Lebanon have officially approve a historic United States-brokered agreement laying out their maritime boundary for the first time, which opens up the possibility for both countries to conduct offshore energy exploration. Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun signed a letter at the presidential palace on October 27, 2022 morning that will be submitted to US officials at Lebanon’s southernmost border point of Naqoura later in the day.
The 2022 Singapore Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 2 October 2022 at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Marina Bay, Singapore. Despite a five-second time penalty, the race was won by Red Bull Racing driver Sergio Pérez.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal,
and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry
As of October 2022, Liz Truss is expect to be the shortest-serving prime minister after announcing
her plans to resign 45 days into her tenure amidst the October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis. The previous shortest time served was George Canning, who served for less than four months before his death.
Building on the success of past P20 meetings, the IPU and the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia will jointly host the Eighth G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit (P20) on 6 and 7 October 2022 (preceded by Parliamentary Forum on October 5th), prior to the G20 Leaders’ Summit.
