May 22 2023

Question 1

__ of Kazakhstan won the Italian Open title on Saturday when her Ukrainian opponent Anhelina Kalinina was forced to retire through injury.

Answer 1

Elena Rybakina

Question 2

__ opened her international outdoor season with a bronze at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour-Gold event, in Yokohama, Japan.

Answer 2

Shaili Singh of Uttar Pradesh (long jump)

Question 3

The ‘__’ application developed by the Government of India and launched in December 2022 is widely used in major airports in India to authenticate passengers’ check-ins.

Answer 3

DigiYatra

Question 4

1. Expand ONDC.
2. Explain ONDC with an example.

Answer 4

1. Open Network for Digital Commerce
2. The government wants to ensure that buyers and sellers of goods in the e-commerce market can transact regardless of the platforms on which they are registered. So under ONDC, a buyer registered on Amazon, for example, may directly purchase goods from a seller who sells on Flipkart.

Question 5

1. __ is known as the father of anatomy.
2. What is anatomy?
3. This young Canadian received the Nobel Prize exactly 100 years ago for his work that delivered ‘the greatest benefit to human kind’, in the field of diabetes care.

Answer 5

1. Herophilus
2. the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts.
3. Frederick G. Banting, for the discovery of Insulin

Question 6

Significance of May 22

Answer 6

1. International Day for Biological Diversity
   Theme: From Agreement to Action: Build Back Biodiversity

Question 7

Public sector banks (PSBs) in India have achieved a significant milestone in the financial year ended March 2023, with their cumulative profit crossing the __ crore-mark.

Answer 7

Rs 1 lakh

Question 8

The Navy’s Kilo-class submarine __ which underwent a major upgrade in Russia reached Mumbai after sailing for 97 days and almost 10,000 miles with two port calls — Le Havre, France and Cadiz, Spain — in between.

Answer 8

INS Sindhuratna

Question 9

1. The Education Ministry organised a workshop in New Delhi on 22-05-23 with the aim of unifying a network of __ school examination Boards of various States and Union Territories under one umbrella.
2. The main component of this plan is PARAKH, the __ , which has been set up as an organisation under the (NCERT).
3. Expand NCERT
4. Expand PARAKH

Answer 9

1. 60
2. National Assessment Centre
3. National Council of Educational Research and Training
4. Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development