Who becomes first Bangladeshi to scale K2?
- A. Saima Nazeer
- B. Sameena Baig
- C. Wasfia Nazreen
- D. Nazir Sabir
Correct Answer: C. Wasfia Nazreen
Mountaineer Wasifa Nazreen became the first person from Bangladesh to scale the second highest mountain peak K2 in Pakistan. She climbed the 8611 meters or 28,251 feet high K2 mountain peak and returned to the base camp on 22 July 2022. A summit is technically complete when the climber returns back to the base camp from the peak.
Correct Answer: A. Singapore
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has claimed that “almost half” of the parliamentarians in India’s Lok Sabha — the lower house of parliament — have criminal charges against them, prompting New Delhi to summon the country’s ambassador to explain the remarks, a British wire service reported. “Nehru’s India has become one where … almost half the MPs in the Lok Sabha have criminal charges pending against them, including charges of rape and murder,” Lee said. Lee made the comment in Singapore’s parliament on 16 February 2022 during a debate
Correct Answer: B. July 05, 2023
U.S. President Joe Biden met with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson as the White House works to persuade Turkey to approve Sweden’s NATO accession ahead of the alliance’s summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, next week. “Sweden is going to make our alliance stronger and has the same value set that we have in NATO,” Biden said to Kristersson ahead of their meeting at the White House on Wednesday. “I’m really looking, anxiously looking, forward for your membership.” Sweden and Finland abandoned their policy of military nonalignment and applied for NATO membership following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Correct Answer: A. Botswana
Botswana, the landlocked country in South Africa has the largest elephant population in the world, around an estimate of 1,30,000. The country more than 300 elephants have died mysteriously in the famous Okavango Delta of Botswana
Correct Answer: C. Public Engagement
The International Day of Parliamentarism is celebrate every year on 30 June, the date in 1889 on which the IPU was founded. The Day was established in 2018 through a United Nations General Assembly Resolution. In 2022, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and its Member Parliaments will mark the International Day of Parliamentarism under the theme of public engagement.
Correct Answer: C. USA
A new US-led partnership initiative of 11 nations that was recently formed, aims to bolster critical mineral supply chains. The Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) focuses on the supply chains of minerals such as Cobalt, Nickel, Lithium, and 17 ‘rare earth’ minerals. The alliance is seen as primarily focused on an alternative to China. Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Commission are part of the partnership.
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.