Current Affairs 14th March 2023 : Daily GK Update in English

1. Which state’s Governor returned the Prohibition of Online Gambling Bill passed by the state cabinet?
A. Kerala                   
B. Tamil Nadu
C. West Bengal        
D. Punjab
Answer [B] Tamil Nadu
2. Which country hosted the third session of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR)?
A. Sri Lanka           
B. Nepal
C. India                  
D. USA
Answer [C] India
3. The Prevention of Money Laundering Act was recently expanded to include which products?
A. Virtual digital assets               
B. Real Estate
C. Jewellery                                  
D. Electronics
Answer [A] Virtual digital assets
4. Which Union Ministry implements the ‘Swadesh Darshan 2.0 programme’?
A. Ministry of Culture                 
B. Ministry of Railways
C. Ministry of Tourism                
D. Ministry of Home Affairs
Answer [C] Ministry of Tourism
5. NASA’s Curiosity Rover recently captured the crepuscular rays on which planet?
A. Earth                    
B. Mars
C. Jupiter                 
D. Venus
Answer [B] Mars
6. In which city PM Modi inaugurated world’s longest railway platform?
A. Gorakhpur                         
B. Kollam
C. Hubballi-Dharwad           
D. Kharagpur
Answer [C] Hubballi-Dharwad
7. Where will the first Supreme Audit Institution (SAI20) meeting be held?
A. Siliguri                       
B. Agartala
C. Bhubaneshwar         
D. Guwahati
Answer [D] Guwahati
8. Who has been appointed as the new Premier of China?
A. Li Qiang               
B. Xi Jinping
C. Li Keqiang          
D. Zhao Leji
Answer [A] Li Qiang
9. The Ayush Ministry will be organizing Yoga Mahotsav 2023 in which city?
A. Bengaluru                
B. Varanasi
C. Jaipur                       
D. New Delhi
Answer [D] New Delhi
10. 18th meeting of Chief Justices of the Supreme Courts of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member States was held in which city?
A. Kolkata               
B. Hyderabad
C. New Delhi        
D. Surat
Answer [C] New Delhi