Current Affairs Quiz January 2022

Dr Mansoor Mohiuddin a Pakistani doctor have performed successful surgery.

India 140th most corrupt country in the world according to 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) of Berlin, Germany-based non-governmental organisation Transparency International

57 Years old David Bennett was the patient. He was well aware that there was no certainty that the experiment would be successful.

A British-Belgian teenager became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world on Thursday and the first person to do so in a microlight plane after a five-month, five-continent odyssey in her Shark ultralight. Nineteen-year-old Zara Rutherford landed back at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in Belgium after flying 51,000 km (32,000 miles) over 52 nations since her Aug 18 departure in the world`s fastest microlight aircraft. Cheers and applause went up as her plane came to a halt on the tarmac.

Indonesia will move its Capital to mineral-rich East Kalimantan, an Indonesian area on the island of Borneo. The name of the new capital will be Nusantara, and that signifies “archipelago” in Javanese.

Leading transgender activist Sarah Gill has become the country’s first transgender doctor. Dr Gill received her education from Jinnah Medical and Dental College Karachi. She cleared the MBBS (Final) exam from JMDC and became the first transgender doctor in Pakistan.

Facebook`s parent company Meta said on January 24, 2022 it was launching one of the world`s most powerful supercomputers to boost its capacity to process data, despite persistent disputes over privacy and disinformation. The US tech giant said the array of machines could process images and video up to 20 times faster than their current systems.

Study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances.