Current Affairs 23th August 2022 : Daily GK Update in English
1. Under which act, the minutes of the Monetary Police Committee meeting are released?
A. Banking Regulation Act
B. Reserve Bank of India Act
C. Monetary Police Act
D. Payment and settlement Act
Answer [B] Reserve Bank of India Act
2. Which company has developed India’s first indigenously-developed RT-PCR kit for testing Monkeypox disease?
A. Biocon
B. Bharat Biotech
C. Transasia Bio-Medicals
D. Serum Institute of India
Answer [C] Transasia Bio-Medicals
3. Which Institution released an article titled ‘Privatisation of Public Sector Banks: An Alternate Perspective’?
A. NITI Aayog
B. Reserve Bank of India
C. State Bank of India
D. National Council of Applied Economic Research
Answer [B] Reserve Bank of India
4. Which country is the host of the ‘Pitch Black’ air combat exercise?
A. USA
B. Australia
C. France
D. Japan
Answer [B] Australia
5. Artemis III is the crewed Moon Landing mission of which country?
A. Japan
B. USA
C. UK
D. Australia
Answer [B] USA
6. Who has been reappointed as the Managing Director and chief Executive Officer of financial services platform Paytm in August 2022?
A. Shery Saifi
B. Syed Arslan Ali
C. Kritika Tyagi
D. Vijay Shekar Sharma
Answer [D] Vijay Shekar Sharma
7. The Maritime Partnership Exercise (MPX) between the navies of India and ……. Concluded on 20 August 2022.
A. Maldives
B. Thailand
C. Malaysia
D. Australia
Answer [D] Australia
8. In which city, Union Minister Jitendra Singh has launched “India’s first indigenously developed hydrogen fuel cell bus” on 21 August 2022?
A. Pune
B. Mumbai
C. Ahmedabad
D. Kolkata
Answer [A] Pune
9. Which company has launched a Blockchain Centre of Excellence (COE) for airports in August 2022?
A. Apeejay Surrendra Group
B. Binani Industries
C. Bannari Amman Group
D. GMR Group
Answer [D] GMR Group
10. Which European country has announced that it has exited the European Union’s enhanced surveillance’ framework in August 2022?
A. Belgium
B. Italy
C. Spain
D. Greece
Answer [D] Greece