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 Who has been re-elected as President of Germany for a second term? -- Frank-Walter Steinmeier
 Which Indian movie won the best film award in the Asian Film Competition category in the recently concluded 20th Dhaka International Film Festival in Dhaka? -- Koozhangal
 Which two films from India have found a place in the shortlist of 276 films which are in contention to get nominated at the 94th Academy Awards? -- ‘Jai Bhim’ and ‘Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham’
 ‘Nusantara’ will be new capital city of which country? -- Indonesia
 Who has won the Best FIFA Men's Player for 2021, beating Lionel Messi and Mohamed Salah- other nominees? -- Robert Lewandowski
 Which country has placed first order to purchase shore based anti-ship variant of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile system from India? -- Philippines
 Who will replace Gita Gopinath as IMF’s new Chief Economist?  -- Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
 Who has been appointed as the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan? -- Alihan Smaiylov
 On which day, UNESCO's World Heritage Centre has agreed to publish Hindi descriptions of India's UNESCO World Heritage Sites on WHC website? -- World Hindi Day (10 January, 2022)
 The government of which country has recently declared a new marine protected area (MPA) around Saint Martin's Island (also called 'Coconut Island')? -- Bangladesh
 Who has taken over as the new secretary-general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on 1st January 2022? -- Zhang Ming (China)
 Which Caribbean country recently became the 102nd country to join International Solar Alliance? -- Antigua and Barbuda
 Name the Indian-origin British Sikh Army officer and physiotherapist, also known as Polar Preet, who became the first woman of colour to complete a solo unsupported trek to the South Pole? -- Captain Harpreet Chandi
 Who is the first non-European president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) - the governing body for Formula One? -- Mohammed Ben Sulayem (United Arab Emirates)
 What is the rank of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Forbes’ annual list of powerful women – The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women - for the year (2021)? -- 37th
 Who replaced Angela Merkel to become the new Chancellor of Germany? -- Olaf Scholz
 Name the former head of world athletics' governing body who was convicted of corruption died recently? -- Lamine Diack
 Which Indian athlete won the ‘Woman of the Year Award’ given by World Athletics (WA) for grooming talent in the country and advocating gender equality? -- Anju Bobby George
 Recently Ajaz Patel (New Zealand) became the third player to take all 10 wickets in an innings; name the other two players to achieve this feat – -- Jim Laker (England) and Anil Kumble (India)
 Name the first women chief economist of IMF, who will be the first woman Deputy Managing Director of IMF? -- Gita Gopinath
 Who recently replaced Jack Dorsey to become chief executive officer (CEO) of Twitter? -- Parag Agrawal
 Who won the Men’s and Women’s Singles title respectively at the 2021 Indonesia Masters Super 750 badminton tournament? -- Kento Momota (Japan), An Se-young (South Korea)
 Who has been appointed as the permanent CEO of the International Cricket Council (ICC) on November 21, 2021? -- Geoff Allardice (Australia)
 International Day for Tolerance is observed on  -- 16 November
 Which country recently declared to join International Solar Alliance (ISA) becoming 101st member of the alliance? -- USA
 Who is the first Chinese woman astronaut to walk in space? -- Wang Yaping
 What is the rank of India in the global Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2022 released by Germanwatch on the side-lines of the COP26? -- 10th
 Which probe of NASA orbiting Jupiter has found the planet's Great Red Spot is deeper than scientists had previously thought -- Juno
 It is a campaign of UNDP to shine a spotlight on fossil fuel subsidies and how they are cancelling out significant progress towards ending climate change and are driving inequality by benefiting the rich -  -- ‘Don’t Choose Extinction’
 Which is the Turkey’s second-largest lake, a part of Konya basin (once known as Turkey’s breadbasket) has entirely receded this year due to climate change and un-sustainable farming? -- Lake Tuz (Salt Lake in Turkish)
 Which country was recently suspended by the African Union from all of its activities until the civilian-led transitional authority is restored? -- Sudan
 The World Bank Group has announced to discontinue which report after data irregularities found in its 2018 and 2020 report? -- Doing Business Report
  Name the former Davis Cup player and coach, father of India’s current Davis Cup coach Zeeshan Ali, who passed away recently? -- Akhtar Ali
  Name the Nigerian economist who has been chosen as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) andwould be the first woman as well as the first African national to lead the organization? -- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
 Name the mission of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aimed at an all-sky survey to measure the near-infrared spectra of approximately 450 million galaxies across the universe and 100 million stars inside our Milky Way galaxy that will be launched by SpaceX? -- SPHEREx Mission (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer)
  Who is the first batsman to score a double century in his 100th Test match? -- Joe Root, England
 With sea on its three sides and having geographical advantage of the peninsula which country will build a wind power complex off Sinan in the country's southwest, which would be seven times bigger than the world's current largest offshore wind farm? -- South Korea
 Which UN entity has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kerala Govt’s Gender Park to establish India’s first Gender Data Hub at the Gender Park at 24-acre Kozhikode campus, where International Institute for Gender and Development is also present?  -- UN Women
  Name the activist, who raised the issue of Balochistan in the United Nations sessions in Switzerland and hadbeen vocal about Pakistan Army and government atrocities in Balochistan,who passed away recently? -- KarimaBaloch
  Who has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2020? -- Lewis Hamilton
 Veteran industrialist ____________ was conferred the title of "Global Visionary of Sustainable Business and Peace" by the Federation of Indo-Israel Chambers of Commerce (FIICC) for epitomising "unity, peace and sustainability". -- Ratan Tata
 After successfully organising FIFA U-17 World Cup in 2017, India is going to organising FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2022 and also placed its candidature for which football event in 2027?  -- Asian Cup
  Which player has recently equalled Brazilian legend Pele's record of 643 goals for a single club?  -- Lionel Messi
 Which country has officially withdrawn from the Paris climate accord on 04 November 2020? -- United States of America
 A team of European researchers discovered a new high-pressure mineral in the lunar meteorite Oued Awlitis 001, named  -- Donwilhelmsite [CaAl4Si2O11]
 India’s largest power producer NTPC has tied up with which foreign bank for a loan that will be utilised for Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD- substantially reduces the SOx emission in the flue gases of thermal power plants and is a critical step towards environmental sustainability) and renewable energy projects?  -- Japan Bank for International Cooperation
 Which award was conferred to Japan for the Asia Pacific region and the Netherlands for Europe and other regions by the International Solar Alliance that recognises the countries with maximum floating solar capacity in each of the four regions of ISA? -- Visvesvaraya Award
 The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has held that environmental clearance (EC) to Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) in the state of _________ over River ____________was granted ex post facto, after completion of substantial work, by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) “in violation of law”. -- Telangana, Godavari
 ‘Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together. Our actions are our future’ is the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) global call for solidarity to mark the World Food Day 2020 - celebrated every year on  -- October 16
 India has been ranked _______ among 158 countries in the 2020 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index released by ‘Oxfam International’ in partnership with Development Finance International.  -- 129
 Who has been appointed by the US as 'special coordinator' for Tibetan issues? -- Robert Destro
 On 9th May and 10th October, World Migratory Bird Day was observed with the theme  -- “Birds Connect Our World”
 Which country has test fired a hypersonic cruise missile called Tsirkon? -- Russia
  “Global extreme poverty is expected to rise in 2020 for the first time in over 20 years as the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic compounds the forces of conflict and climate change, which were already slowing poverty reduction progress” according to the biennial ‘Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report’ recently released by the -- World Bank
 The second meeting of Foreign Ministers of Quad countries (United States, Japan, India and Australia) that discussed “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” (FOIP) initiative was held in  -- Tokyo, Japan
 Under the presidency of which country the third G20 Sherpa Meeting took place recently? -- Saudi Arabia
 How many member states are there in Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) - a multi-national forum for enhancing cooperation towards promoting peace, security and stability in Asia? -- 27
 Which is the first state to unveil ethical AI, Blockchain, Cybersecurity policies (Nicknamed as ABC Policies)in India? -- Tamil Nadu
 It is a forthcoming memoir by Barack Obama and is the first of a planned two volumes that Obama has written following his incumbency as President of the United States from 2009 to 2017 -- ‘A Promised Land’
 World Bamboo Day is observed every year on  -- 18 September
 Which is the first country in the world to pass legislation requiring financial entities to declare their climate-related risks? -- New Zealand
 Name the Padma Shri awardee Ayurveda physician from Tamil Nadu who passed away recently? -- PR Krishnakumar
 Which is the first country in the world to issue a sovereign bond linked to the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations? -- Mexico
 Forest Department of which state has framed guidelines for snake handling and by doing so, it has become first to institutionalise snake handling in the country? -- Kerala
 The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved the appointment of Rajesh Khullar as the Executive Director of __________ and Sameer Kumar Khare as Executive Director of_____________. -- World Bank , Asian Development Bank (ADB)
 The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has postponed Thomas Cup and Uber Cup to 2021 which were to be held at  -- Denmark
 Annual International Day of Democracy is observed globally on  -- 15th September
 Who won the Men’s Singles title beating Alexander Zverev from Germany in the US Open 2020? -- Dominic Thiem (Australia)
 With the theme “Protect Education, Save a Generation” the United Nations' 1st International Day to Protect Education from Attack was observed on __________ to raise awareness about the importance of safeguarding schools as places of protection and safety for educators and students. -- September 9, 2020
 Name the Wushu player who won a Silver Medal at the 15th World Wushu Championships (WWC) 2019 held at China has now been upgraded to Gold Medal after Iran’s Maryam Hashemi failed in her dope test? -- Poonam Khatri
 The Union Cabinet approved a new Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy in the defence sector which allows the FDI through automatic approval to be increased from 49% to  -- 74%
 The first ever cannabis medicine project will be set up with the collaboration of Canada at Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) in  -- Jammu
 Who won the first online Chess Olympiad organised by FIDE (The Fédération Internationale des Échecs)? -- India and Russia (joint winners)
 China has proposed the creation of ______________ in China to take forward 5G and Artificial Intelligence (AI) cooperation among the BRICS nations.  -- ‘BRICS Innovation Base’
 Which organisation will organise the First World Solar Technology Summit on a virtual platform on September 08, 2020? -- International Solar Alliance (ISA)
 To ensure high speed broadband connectivity, the first ever under sear Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) connecting Chennai and Port Blair was inaugurated. The project is funded by the Government (Ministry of Communications) through the -- Universal Service Obligation Fund
 It is one of three missions to the red planet this year after the United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter (launched) and the United States’ Perseverance (to be launched) -- Tianwen-1 by China
 A Central Asian country and the last of former Soviet republic that has established formal ties with the World Trade Organization General Council (Observer status) is -- Turkmenistan
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