List of top Current Affairs Questions

Omar al-Bashir was the first Head of State to be indicted by the International Criminal Court. He was indicted by the Court in relation to which of the following incidents?

India recently hosted the G20 Conference in New Delhi as it served as the President for the coalition. Which of the following is the only country to have permanent guest invitee status at the G20?

Which of the following countries have neither signed nor ratified the Rome Statute?
I. India 
II. United States of America 
III. Russian Federation 
IV. Azerbaijan 
Choose the most appropriate answer.

A big roadblock towards concluding Brexit was the failure of the UK and the EU to agree on transport of goods to Ireland (a member of the EU) through Northern Ireland (one of the constituent countries of the UK). This problem was resolved with the conclusion of the Windsor framework, effectively the final step in the Brexit process. Which of the following statements about the Windsor Framework are accurate?
I. It is a tripartite agreement between England, Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom. 
II. The agreement proposes to establish red and green lanes for goods moving into Northern Ireland to reduce checks and paperwork related hurdles on such goods. 
III. The agreement does not provide for separation of goods entering Northern Ireland from those entering Ireland.
IV. The agreement is concluded between the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Choose the most appropriate answer.

Which of the following statements about BRICS is not incorrect?
I. South Africa is not an original member of the BRICS coalition. 
II. The bloc was started as an attempt to strategically assist the United States of America as allies. 
III. The BRICS member countries represent at least 40% of the world’s population. 
IV. The acronym for the bloc was coined in 2001 by then Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill in a research paper that underlined the growth potential of Brazil, Russia, India and China. 
Choose the most appropriate answer.

Which of the following countries is NOT a member of SAARC?

Which of the following global companies is not led by a CEO of Indian origin?

A key Indian foreign policy initiative is the ‘Act East Policy’. Which statement correctly captures its objective ?

The Indian Premier League is a professional T20 cricket league. It was established in 2008, and has since become one of the most popular cricketing leagues in the world. Which of the following player has played for the same team (franchise) since the inaugural edition?

The ‘Five Eyes Alliance’ is a global intelligence network, pooling resources and sharing sensitive information to collectively secure peace and combat global threat. The following countries make up the alliance:

The NASA OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) recently brought back a capsule of rocks and dust collected from:

The G20 Summit in India brought together leaders from the World’s major economies to address pressing global issues. India used this platform to underscore its commitment to fostering global growth and stability. Which of the following areas was NOT a focus of the summit ?

Which international agreements remain central in efforts to enable a permanent solution to the geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine?

A key thrust area for the Supreme Court of India has been towards securing diversity and inclusion in its ranks. Who was the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India?

The ‘COP26’ conference has been a significant global event. What is its primary focus?

The agriculture sector has experienced buoyant growth in the past two years. The sector, which is the largest employer of workforce, accounted for a sizeable 18.8 per cent (2021- 22) in Gross Value Added (GVA) of the country registering a growth of 3.6 per cent in 2020-21 and 3.9 per cent in 2021-22. Growth in allied sectors including livestock, dairy and fisheries has been the major drivers of overall growth in the sector. When measured in total value of agricultural production, India is ranked fourth largest in the world. Post-independence, there was a need to import food grains due to low-productivity, stagnant food-crop sector and poor rural infrastructure making food self-sufficiency a major national goal. The introduction of the Green Revolution then yielded spectacular results and we became one of the largest producers of many agricultural commodities such as rice, wheat, pulses, fruits and vegetables. From being a net importer of foods in the 1960s, India is now a net exporter, thanks to Indian farmers and the Indian agriculture input industry.
[Extracted, with edits and revisions, from: “India’s changing agricultural landscape and its way to inclusive growth”, by NS Ramaswamy, The Economic Times]

YouTuber Nas Daily in one of his videos named him as the Most Generous Billionaire who wanted to donate all his wealth to charity. But ten months later, ‘[1]’ is no longer a billionaire. He is alleged to have caused massive losses worth $1 billion to investors. Known by his initials, he is the co-founder and former CEO of FTX, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchange which has recently filed for bankruptcy in the US.
Once a billionaire with an estimated wealth of $26 billion at peak, according to Bloomberg estimates, [1] has seen his wealth been entirely wiped out. [1] studied physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and traded currencies, futures and exchange-traded funds before moving to crypto trading, setting up [2] in 2017. 
[1] teamed up with Gary Wang, a former software engineer at Google and a fellow MIT graduate, to launch FTX in 2019. The company offered trading on crypto tokens and derivatives. At the start of 2022, investors valued FTX and its U.S. operations at $40 billion. [1] transferred $10 billion in customer funds to his hedge fund, [2] without publicly disclosing it, many say this become the reason for collapse of his empire. 
[Extracted, with edits and revisions, from “Who is [1], the co-founder of collapsed crypto firm FTX”, Hindustan Times]

'VAIBHAV Fellowship Scheme' which was launched recently, is associated with which field?

What is the name of the form of artificial intelligence that can take actions using past data?

Vaikom Muhammed Basheer was a famous writer in which language?

During the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny, who among the following was the Governor General of India?

Who has been appointed as the new Vice Chairperson of NITI Aayog in April 2022?

Which Indian institution along with NASA has studied the interactions between microbes in the International Space Station (ISS)?

Which institution announces the 'Class of Young Global Leaders' (YGLs)?