1. What is the current inflation rate in India as of April 2023?
Answer: 5.66%.
2. What is the extra corpus support provided to the CGTMSE scheme in the FY 2023-24 Union Budget?
Answer: 9,000 crores.
3. What is ‘Reflections’ launched by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman?
Answer: A collection of essays by the Finance Minister on India’s economy and policies.
4. When is World Veterinary Day observed?
Answer: 29th April.
5. Who revealed the book ‘Saurashtra-Tamil Sangamprashastih’?
Answer: Prime Minister Narendra Modi
6. Who has been awarded the Immigrant Achievement Award in 2023 for their contributions to higher education in the US?
Answer: Neeli Bendapudi.
7. What is the name of the device NASA used to detect carbon monoxide during the extraction of oxygen from lunar soil?
Answer: MSolo.
8. What is the name of the upcoming NASA mission that will investigate the Moon’s South Pole for resources?
Answer: Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1.
9. Indian economy would expand near by 6% this fiscal year, IMF forecasts. What is the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR)?
Answer: A reserve asset created by the IMF to supplement member countries’ official reserves.
10. How is the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) responding to the recent increase in inflation?
Answer: Increasing interest rates to curb inflation.