Daily Current Affair MCQs 03-March-2023

Ans: C - March 3

• Every year March 3 is celebrated as Wildlife Day to spread awareness about wildlife.
• World Wildlife Day was celebrated for the first time on 3 March 2014.
• This day is celebrated to spread awareness about the species of flora and fauna that are disappearing from all over the world.

• Theme of 2023 - 'Partnership for Wildlife Conservation'

Ans: A - Rashmi Shukla

• Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Rashmi Shukla has been appointed as the Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
• She is a 1988 batch IPS officer of Maharashtra cadre.
• The SSB is a border-guarding force deployed along the Nepal and Bhutan borders.

• Rashmi Shukla has been the former head of the Maharashtra Intelligence Department. She came in limelight in a case related to phone tapping.

Ans: D - Rishikesh

• The International Yoga Festival 2023 is being organized by the Uttarakhand Tourism Development Council from March 1 to 7 on the banks of the Ganges in Rishikesh.

• Visitors to the festival will be able to attend sessions led by Yogacharyas from revered yoga schools such as Isha Foundation, Kaivalyadhama, Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram and Art of Living.

Ans: A - Vietnam

• The National Assembly (NA) of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has elected Vo Van Thuong (52-years), a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam, as the new President of Vietnam for a term running till 2026.

• Vo Van Thuong replaces Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who resigned as president in January 2023.

Ans: C - Tamil Nadu

• Jesvin Aldrin of Tamil Nadu broke the record of 8.36m held by Indian teammate M Sreeshankar by clearing 8.42m in the men's long jump at the 2nd AFI National Jumping Championship.

• Aldrin had won gold in Kozhikode last year with a jump of 8.37 metres.

Ans: B - Abhay Kumar

• Bihar Industries Minister Sameer Kumar Mahaseth has released a book titled 'The Book of Bihari Literature' edited by an Indian poet-diplomat Abhay Kumar during the Grand Trunk Road Initiatives 3.0 held in Bihar's Patna.

• Bihari literature is a vibrant collection of book writings—poems, essays, stories—that have flowed from the pen of great poets, thinkers and writers across the millennia who were born or lived in modern Bihar.