UNESCO is dedicating 2023 International Day of Education to girls and women in:
- A. Lebanon
- B. Palestine
- C. Pakistan
- D. Afghanistan
Correct Answer: D. Afghanistan
UNESCO is dedicating this year’s International Day to girls and women in Afghanistan who have been deprived of their right to education. It is calling for the immediate lifting of the ban restricting their access to education.
Correct Answer: C. Both A and B (14 Bronze Medals)
Correct Answer: A. Gabon
Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda has been appointed as the first woman Prime Minister of the Central African country, Gabon. She is 56-year-old. She had served as the Budget Minister in 2012 and then in Defence Ministry.
Correct Answer: A. Bill Gates
A book titled ‘How to Prevent the Next Pandemic’ has authored by Bill Gates will be published this year in May 2022. In the book Bill Gates has written about specific steps that can only stop future pandemics but, in the process, provide better health care for everyone around the world. His last book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need”, was released in February 2021.
Correct Answer: A. 4 – 5 May. 2023
The regular meeting of the SCO Foreign Minister Council took place on 4 and 5 May 2023, in Panaji, Republic of India, chair by the Minister of External Affair of the Republic of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Murat Nurtleu, Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China Qin Gang, Foreign Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic Jeenbek Kulubaev, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan Sirojiddin Muhriddin, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov, SCO Secretary-General Zhang Ming, and Director of the SCO RATS Executive Committee Ruslan Mirzayev took part in the meeting and delivered their remarks.
Correct Answer: A. Babar Azam
405 runs in six matches at an average of 67.50 with two centuries. Babar Azam might have played only six ODIs in 2021, but he made vital contributions in the two series that Pakistan played this year. He was the second-highest run-scorer with 228 runs and was the Player of the Match in both of Pakistan’s wins in the 2-1 series victory against South Africa. The architect of Pakistan’s chase of 274 in the first ODI, Babar made a century and laid the foundation with an 82-ball 94 in the final ODI where the visitors posted 320 batting first.
Correct Answer: B. Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka, has been awarded the 2022 Booker Prize for Fiction for the novel ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’. The novel is a metaphysical thriller that tells the story of the photographer of its title. Karunatilaka has become the second Sri Lankan-born author to win, following Michael Ondaatje, who won in 1992