A. Dr. Svante Pääbo
B. David Julius
C. Adam Patapoutian
D. None of These

Submitted by: Asfand Yar Haider Tarar

Dr. Svante Pääbo won the 2022 Nobel Prize for his discoveries in human evolution. The Sweden-based geneticist produced a full Neanderthal genome by extracting genetic material from 40,000-year-old bones, marking a groundbreaking milestone in ancient DNA studies.

A. Sundar Pichai
B. Parag Agrawal
C. Susan Wojcicki
D. Neal Mohan

Submitted by: Malik Aqeel Ahmad

Neal Mohan is an Indian-American business executive, who is the fourth and current CEO of YouTube. He succeeded Susan Wojcicki on February 16, 2023.

A. Ales Bialiatski
B. Memorial & Center for Civil Liberties
C. Both A & B
D. None of These

Submitted by: Sadaqat Hussain

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties.

A. 8 November 2022
B. 9 November 2022
C. 10 November 2022
D. 18 November 2022

Submitted by: Vinod kumar

A. Narendra Modi
B. Mian Shahebaz Sharif
C. Vladimir Putin
D. António Guterres

Submitted by: Asim E. Mahar

The United Nations climate change Conference of the Parties (COP-27) on Monday appointed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as the vice-chair of the conference.

Pakistan has received this honour out of 195 UN member states for voicing climate change issues at global and regional forums.

PM Shehbaz was invited by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to co-chair the COP-27 meeting. The prime minister will jointly chair the conference with his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Støre and President El-Sisi. It is being held in Egypt’s Sharm-el-Sheikh from November 6-8.

Following the climate catastrophe in Pakistan, PM Shehbaz raised the issue at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of States meeting and the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

A. Producing Vaccine against Covid-19
C. For the discovery of Hepatitis C virus
C. Sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal
D. None of the above

Submitted by: Dr Yasir Saud

Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine for advancing the understanding of human evolution. Other frontrunners were Hungarian-born Katalin Kariko, whose research led to the first mRNA vaccines to fight COVID-19.

A. Stormi Webster
B. Hailey Bieber
C. Doreen Bogdan-Martin
D. Cassandra Marino

Submitted by: Dosteen Noor bakhsh

Doreen Bogdan-Martin was elected on Thursday as the first woman to lead the UN’s telecom agency in its 157-year history, with the US contender beating a Russian rival to the post.

Bogdan-Martin will become the next secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union, which plays an important global role in setting the technical standards underlying mobile phones, television and the internet.

A. Abu Dhabi, UAE
B. Sharjah, UAE
C. Fujairah,UAE
D. None of these

Submitted by: Dosteen Noor bakhsh

A new $3 billion railway is to link Oman’s Sohar port with Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, officials said on Wednesday.

The 303-kilometre (188 miles) railway, with passenger trains travelling up to 200 kilometres per hour, will join up with the UAE’s national network that is now under construction. The joint venture between Oman Rail and the UAE’s Etihad Rail was agreed during a visit by UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed to the Omani capital Muscat.

A. September 24, 2022
B. September 26, 2022
C. September 28, 2022
D. September 30, 2022

Submitted by: Dosteen Noor bakhsh

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on Sept. 30 to annex four regions of Ukraine. In a grand ceremony in the Kremlin, he said Russia would formally incorporate Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions — and that the people living there would “be our citizens forever.”