In 2021, India’s military spending of $76.6 billion ranked ______ highest in the world.
- A. First
- B. Second
- C. Third
- D. Fifth
Correct Answer: C. Third
India’s military spending of $76.6 billion ranked third highest in the world. This was up by 0.9 percent from 2020 and by 33 percent from 2012. In a push to strengthen the indigenous arms industry, 64 percent of capital outlays in the military budget of 2021 were earmarked for acquisitions of domestically produced arms.
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: B. May 24, 2022
On May 24, 2022, 18-year-old Salvador Rolando Ramos fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers, and wounded seventeen other people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States. It is the third-deadliest American school shooting, after the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, and the deadliest in Texas.
Correct Answer: C. Yemen
The Houthi movement, also known as Ansar Allah, is a Shia Islamist political and military organization that originated in Yemen in the 1990s. The Houthis are a sub-sect of the Zaydi Shia Muslim minority in Yemen. The movement’s founder, Hussein al Houthi, named the group after himself.
Correct Answer: B. keir Starmer
The Leader of the Labour Party is the head of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom. The incumbent is Keir Starmer who was elected in April 2020, succeeding Jeremy Corbyn.
Correct Answer: B. Vietnam
As per the recent data from Vietnam, the 36th ASEAN Summit will be held via video conference on June 26. The 36th ASEAN Summit will be held online on Friday due to the pandemic. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will preside over the opening, plenary, and special sessions on women’s empowerment in the digital age.
Correct Answer: C. India
India is set to host the Group of Twenty (G20) leaders’ summit in 2023 in Indian Occupied Kashmir. as India will assume the presidency of the group from Indonesia later this year