18th Dec 2022 Daily Current Affairs

1. How many gold medals has India won in the International Junior Science Olympiad recently?
a. 04
b. 05
c. 06
d. 07

2. Which medal has been won by Divya TS in the 65th National Shooting Championship recently?
a.  Silver
b.  Gold
c. Bronze
d.   None of the above

3. Who has been elected as the President of ‘Cardiological Society of India’ recently?
a.  Dr. PC Rath 
b.   Arun Joshi
c.   Parul Parmar
d.   Preeti Sood

4. Who has been named as the Chief Scientist by WHO recently?
a.   A K Goyal
b.   Bjorn Gulden
c.  Preeti Sudan
d.   Sir Jeremy Abscond

5. Recently Shankar Chowdhary has become the speaker of which state assembly?
a.   Punjab
b.   Himachal Pradesh
c.   Gujarat
d.   Uttrakhand

6. Recently which bank has ‘right off’ a loan of Rs 1.65 lakh crore in four years?
a.   PNB
b.   SBI
c.   BOB
d.   ICICI

7. Recently the Chief Justice of India has inaugurated digitization centers in 10 districts of which state?
a.   Odisha
b.   Assam
c.   Uttrakhand
d.   Rajasthan

8. Where has the ‘National Motherhood Workshop’ been inaugurated recently?
a.   Goa
b.   Mumbai
c.   Himachal Pradesh
d.   New Delhi 

9. Who has recently become the third player to score 10,000 runs and take 50 wickets in Tests?
a.   Jos Butler
b.   Jacques Kallis
c.   Joe Root
d.   None of these

10. Recently joint military exercise Kajind-2022 has started between India and which country?
a.   Uzbekistan
b.  Kazakhstan
c.   Indonesia
d.   Pakistan

11. Which Indian film has recently won two Golden Globe Awards?
a.  RRR  
b.   KGF
c.  Kashmir Files
d.  Golmaal 2

12. Who has recently become India’s largest oil supplier?
a.   UAE
b.   Iran
c.   America
d.   Russia

13. Who has recently created a national record in women’s 100m breast stroke?
a.   Pratima Singh
b.   Richa Joshi
c.   Chahat Arora
d.   Preeti Sudan

14. Recently ADB has estimated India’s economic growth rate to be what percent?
a. 5.9%
b.  07%
c.  6.4%
d.  8.7%

15. Who has recently been awarded the ‘Safety Performer of the Year Award’ by GMR Delhi Airport?
a.  Spice Jet   
b.  IndiGo
c.  Vistara
d.  Jet Airways