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AFFAIRS
03 JANUARY 2023
1. Recently which country's Pritzker-winning • Nepal PM – Pushpa kamal Dahal
architect Arata Isozaki passes away at 91? • Fiji PM – Sitiveni Rabuka
Pritzker Arata • Peru President – Pedro Castillo
Isozaki • Ireland PM – Leo Varadkar
(a) Russia/ • Israel PM – Benjamin Netanyahu
(b) South Korea/
(c) China/ 4. Which country has the highest death rate of
(d) Japan/ journalists killed in the last 20 years?
Ans.(d)
• Pritzker Prize – Hyatt Foundation
(Architecture) (a) Iran and Israel/
• Arata Isozaki, Japan (2019 Pritzker Prize) (b) Kuwait and Qatar/
• Pritzker Prize 2022 – Francis kere (c) Iraq and Syria/
(d) Oman and Yemen/
2. Which state's hockey men's team has won the Ans.(c)
Khelo India Youth Games 2022 U-18 title? 5. According to the report of Satark Nagrik
Khelo India Youth Sangathan, which s tate's Information
Games 2022 U-18 Commission is performing the least in RTI
(a) Punjab/ accountability in the year 2021-22?
(b) Madhya Pradesh/ Satark Nagrik Sangathan
(c) Odisha/ RTI
(d) Bihar/
Ans.(b) (a) Maharashtra/
• Khelo India Youth Games (b) Tamil Nadu/
2022 – Haryana (c) Chattisgarh/
2023 – M.P. (d) Karnataka/
• Khelo India University Games Ans.(b)
2022 – Karnataka • RTI – Right to Information
2023 – U.P. • RTI Act 2005
• Khelo India Youth Games Under – 18
– M.P. 6. India’s second longest cable-stayed eight-lane
– Haryana Zuari Bridge opens in which state/UT?
eight-lane Zuari
3. Inacio Lula da Silva has been sworn in as the Bridge
President of which country for the third time? (a) Jammu & Kashmir/
Inacio Lula da Silva (b) Gujarat/
(c) Karnataka/
(a) Brazil/ (b) Argentina/ (d) Goa/
(c) France/ (d) Britain/ Ans.(d)
Ans.(a) • Zuari Bridge – Zuari River, Goa

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 • Ayurveda Congress 2022, Goa (b) Delhi/
• National Institute of Custom & GST (c) Bengaluru/
– Panaji, Goa (d) Nagpur/
• National Games 2023 – Goa Ans.(a)
10. Which state has commenced India’s first
7. Who has been elevated as Managing Director Nilgiri Tahr project?
and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank? Nilgiri Tahr
Indian Overseas Bank CEO
(a) Kerala/
(a) Ajay Kumar Srivastava/ (b) Karnataka/
(b) Vivek Joshi/ (c) Tamil Nadu/
(c) Prashant Kumar/ (d) Andhra Pradesh/
(d) Atul Kumar Goel/ Ans.(c)
Ans.(a) 11. What is the name of the digital project funded
• Indian Overseas Bank ( ) by Google to map the language diversity of
– HQ – Chennai India?
– Ajay Kumar Shrivastav Google
• Indian Bank Association Chairman digital project
– Atul Kumar Goel (a) Project Dhwani/
• NABARD – K.V. Shaji (b) Project Shabd/
• FSSAI – Ganji Kamala Rao (c) Project Wani/
• Railway Board – Anil Kumar Lahoti (d) Project Vaani/
Ans.(d)
8. Election Commission of India has developed 12. Koneru Humpy won which medal at the World
a prototype of a remote electronic voting Chess Blitz Championship?
machine (RVM) for which category of people? Blitz Championship Koneru Humpy

(a) Silver/
(RVM)
(b) Gold/
(c) Bronze/
(a) Non Resident Indians /
(d) None of these/
(b) Domestic Migrant Workers/
Ans.(a)
(c) Elderly citizens above 80 years
• World Chess Blitz Championship 2022 –
– Almaty, Kazakhstan
(d) Persons with Disabilities/
(Koneru Hampy – Silver Medal)
Ans.(b)
• Kazakhstan (Central Asia)
• RVM – Remote Electronic Voting Machine
– Astana
• National Icon by Election Commission
– Tenge
– Pankaj Tripathi
• Awareness Campaign by Election common
14. 108th Indian Science Congress held in which
–
of the following states?
• 25th Chief Election Commissioner
– Rajeev Kumar
• 9th National Political Party – AAP
(a) Gujarat/
(b) Maharashtra/
9. The Indian Army has handed over first-ever
(c) Chhattisgarh/
3D printed houses for soldiers at which city?
(d) Madhya Pradesh/
3D printed
Ans.(b)
houses
• 108th Indian Science Congress 2023
(a) Ahmedabad/
– Nagpur

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 • World Hindi Conference 2023 – Fiji 17. In which state India's first underwater metro
• Pravasi Bhartiya Sammela 2023 – Indore service will be completed in the year 2023?
• Republic Day 2023 Chief Guest Underwater metro
– Abdel Fatah Al Sisi (Egypt President)
(a) Maharashtra/
15. Which state police has received the (b) West Bengal/
International Association of Chiefs of Police (c) Gujarat/
(IACP) 2022 Award for the ‘Nijaat’ campaign? (d) Karnataka/
‘Nijaat’ Ans.(b)
(IACP) • Metro – Kolkata
• Under Water Metro – Kolkata
(a) Madhya Pradesh/ • Metro Network – Delhi
(b) Jharkhand/ • West Bengal –7
(c) Uttar Pradesh/
(d) Chhattisgarh/ 18. Which Challenge has been launched to invite
Ans.(d) ideas, solutions, and actions that can
• Nijaat Abhiyan transform rural development by Ministry of
– Rural Development?
– Chhattisgarh State Police
• 1000
Amrit Bharat Mission
• 2022 –5 (a) Prajjwala/
(b) Ujjwala/
16. Which community protests against the (c) Ujala/
decision of Jharkhand govt to turn sacred 'Shri (d) Unnati/
Sammed Shikharji' into a tourist place and Ans.(a)
vandalisation of temple in Gujarat's Palitana? • Ministry of Rural Development & Ministry
'Shri Sammed of Panchayati Raj – Giriraj Singh
Shikharji'

(a) Sikh/ (b) Hindu/

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