The president of France’s Olympic Committee resigned unexpectedly on May 25 , the latest leadership shake up of French sports amid preparations for the Summer Olympics in Paris next year.

Brigitte Henriques, a former soccer player on the French national team, was the first woman to lead Olympic sports in France. Her abrupt departure follows a period of intense infighting in French Olympic circles and prompted calls from Paris 2024 organizers for sports leaders to set differences aside and focus on delivering the Games.

Q1. Population Explosion in a country means

1. High birth rate and high death rate
2. High birth rate and low death rate
3. Low birth rate and high death rate
4. Low birth rate and low death rate
5. None of These

Q2. The budget deficit means

1. The excess of total expenditure, including loans, net of lending over revenue receipts
2. Difference between revenue receipts and revenue expenditure
3. Difference between all receipts and all the expenditure
4. Fiscal deficit less interest payments
5. None of These

Q3. If the RBI adopts an expansionist open market operations policy, this means that it will

1. Buy securities from non-government holders
2. Sell securities in the open market
3. Offer commercial banks more credit in the open market
4. Openly announce to the market that it intends to expand credit
5. None of These

Q4. Ten-rupee note contains the signature of

1. Finance Secretary, Government of India
2. Chairman, Reserve Bank of India
3. Finance Minister, Government of India
4. Governor, Reserve Bank of India
5. None of These

Q5. Shares with a fixed rate of dividend that entitle their holders to priority payment over those who hold ordinary shares of a company are called

1. Preference shares
2. Bull
3. Bear
4. Shareholder
5. None of These

Answers

1-------------------------2  High birth rate and low death rate

2--------------------------3    Difference between all receipts and all the expenditure

3---------------------------3   Offer commercial banks more credit in the open market

4----------------------------4    Governor, Reserve Bank of India

5----------------------------1   Preference shares

Congress and 18 other opposition parties on  May 24 issued a joint statement to boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building on May 28.

The statement further said MPs from the Treasury benches have disrupted Parliament. Many controversial legislations, including the three farm laws, have been passed with almost no debate, and Parliamentary Committees have been practically made defunct. The new Parliament building has been built at great expense during a once-in-a-century pandemic with no consultation with the people of India or MPs, for whom it is apparently being built, the opposition parties said.

Amid the opposition's objection to Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurating the new Parliament building, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said that the party will boycott the ceremony slated to take place on May 28

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) announced that it would also boycott the inauguration ceremony.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MP K Keshava Rao said that though the party has not decided yet, it is unlikely to attend the ceremony.

A senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) said that the party will stand with other like-minded opposition parties regarding the inaugural function of the new parliament building.

Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) will also boycott the new Parliament building inauguration. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Tiruchi Siva confirmed that the party will boycott the inauguration.

Invitations for the inauguration of the new Parliament building slated on May 28 have been sent to various leaders across the country including the former Speakers and Chairmen of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha respectively.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) announced a boycott of the ceremony.

Earlier, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) announced to boycott the inauguration ceremony of the new Parliament building by PM Modi.

The present building of the Parliament was completed in 1927, and is now going to be almost 100 years old. The lack of space was being experienced in this building as per the present requirements. In both Houses, there was also a lack of convenient arrangements for the sitting of the MPs which was affecting the efficiency of the work of the Members.

Considering the above, both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha passed resolutions urging the government to construct a new building for the Parliament. Consequently, on 10 December 2020, the foundation stone of the new building of Parliament was laid by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The newly constructed Parliament building has been built in record time with quality construction.

Now the newly constructed building of Parliament, which will work to further enrich India's glorious democratic traditions and constitutional values, is also equipped with state-of-the-art facilities which will help the Members to perform their functions in a better way.

The new Parliament building will enable 888 members to sit in the Lok Sabha.

In the present building of the Parliament, there is a provision for the sitting of 543 Members in the Lok Sabha and 250 in the Rajya Sabha. Keeping in view the future requirements, arrangements have been made for a meeting of 888 members in the Lok Sabha and 384 members in the Rajya Sabha in the newly constructed building of the Parliament. The joint session of both Houses will be held in the Lok Sabha Chamber.

Moving forward on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘neighbourhood first’ policy and fulfilling a commitment, the Ministry of Railways will provide 20 broad gauge (BG) diesel locomotives to Bangladesh. This will be the second assistance in recent times to Bangladesh.

In 2020, 10 BG diesel locomotives were provided to Bangladesh as part of India’s commitment to support Bangladesh in strengthening its railway connectivity.

Earlier, 40 BG locomotives were provided to Bangladesh between 2001 and 2014. 

The Indian Railways had also exported 120 passenger coaches to Bangladesh in 2017-17.

In 2022, when the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina paid a state visit to India, leaders of both countries expressed their commitment for cooperation in railway. 

During the meeting, an MoU was signed between the Railway ministries of India and Bangladesh for the training of Bangladeshi railway personnel in India.

An announcement on 20 BG locomotives to Bangladesh railway was also made.

An FIR for rape and criminal intimidation has been registered against former SP MLA Rameshwar Yadav, following a complaint by a 25-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly raped by the three-term MLA, four years ago, on the pretext of giving her a job.

In her complaint filed at Jaithra police station in Etah district, the woman claimed that she had met Rameshwar at his residence on February 2, 2019, and requested a job.

Rameshwar and Jogendra have over 70 cases pending against them. A majority of these were registered in the last five years.

Veteran mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa scaled Mt Everest for a record 28th time, breaking his own record with the highest number of ascends on the world's highest peak, less than a week after setting it.

This was Kami Rita's double ascent of Mt Everest this spring, as he previously scaled Mt Everest for the 27th time on May 17.

Kami Rita regained the title for the most number of climbs, a day after another veteran Sherpa guide Pasang Dawa equalled his previous record.

A resident of Solukhumbu district in eastern Nepal, Kami Rita first reached Everest on May 13, 1994 He works as a senior climbing guide at the Kathmandu-based Seven Summit Treks and has also scaled other famous peaks above 8,000 metres, including Mt K2, Mt Lhotse, Mt Manaslu and Mt Cho Oyu.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is on a three-day visit to Australia, on May 24  raised the issue of attacks on temples in the country and said that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had assured to take "strict actions against such elements in the future."

Notably, several cases of Khalistani extremism and brawls between Khalistani activists and pro-India demonstrators have recently come to the fore in several parts of Australia. Indian flags were burnt and even a Hindu temple was vandalised recently in Australia.

Earlier, Albanese during his India visit in March had said that Australia won't tolerate any extreme actions and attacks that took place in religious buildings, and there is no place for such action against Hindu temples.

In March this year, Shree Laxmi Narayan Temple in Australia's Brisbane was vandalised by pro-Khalistan supporters. On January 16, Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple in Australia's Carrum Downs was vandalised with anti-Hindu graffiti.

On January 12, the BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in Australia's Mill Park was smeared with anti-India and anti-Hindu graffiti.  The temple was vandalised by anti-India elements with anti-India slogans written on the temple's walls, located in the suburb of Mill Park.

In the first major blow for Imran Khan, Shireen Mazari, a former minister and his close aide  has quit the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and condemned the actions of the former prime minister's supporters who attacked and torched sensitive defence installations across Pakistan on May 9.

Mazari, 72, announced her resignation and retirement from active politics after she was released following her arrest for the fourth time since May 12 when she was picked from her residence by police and sent to jail in connection with the violence on May 9.

She served as the minister for human rights from 2018 to 2022, under Khan's regime.