Current Affairs 1st December 2022 : Daily GK Update in English
1. Who is the current Chairperson of the Union Public Service Commission?
A. Arvind Saxena
B. Manoj Soni
C. Bhim Sain Bassi
D. Vinay Mittal
Answer [B] Manoj Soni
2. In which year was NITI Aayog formed?
A. 2014
B. 2015
C. 2016
D. 2017
Answer [B] 2015
3. When is International Jaguar Day observed?
A. 27 November
B. 28 November
C. 29 November
D. 30 November
Answer [C] 29 November
4. Who will inaugurate a bust of Mahatma Gandhi at the United Nations during India’s Presidency of the UN Security Council on 14 December 2022?
A. Narendra Modi
B. Piyush Goyal
C. S Jaishankar
D. S Vijay Kumar
Answer [C] S Jaishankar
5. iNCOVACC, the world’s first Intranasal Vaccine has received approval for Covid booster doses from Drugs Controller General of India. The vaccine was developed by Bharat Biotech in partnership with which of the following?
A. Washington University
B. Stanford University
C. University of Cambridge
D. University of Oxford
Answer [A] Washington University
6. Who took the Oath of Office and Secrecy as Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Member in New Delhi, in November 2022?
A. Kishor Kumar Basa
B. Sanjeev Chopra
C. Partha Satpathy
D. Preeti Sudan
Answer [D] Preeti Sudan
7. RBI has announced the launch of the first pilot for the retail digital Rupee on 1st December 2022. How many banks have been identified for phase-wise participation in this pilot?
A. 6
B. 7
C. 8
D. 9
Answer [C] 8
8. Which of the following airlines will be merged with Tata-owned Air India by March 2024?
A. Go First
B. IndiGo
C. SpiceJet
D. Vistara
Answer [D] Vistara
9. India has provided budgetary support of how many US dollars to the Maldives?
A. 50 million
B. 100 million
C. 150 million
D. 200 million
Answer [B] 100 million
10. Which of the following launched the carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) policy framework and its Deployment Mechanism in India on 29 November 2022?
A. NITI Aayog
B. RBI
C. FICCI
D. NASSCOM
Answer [A] NITI Aayog