CURRENT AFFAIRS
19 JANUARY, 2021 TO 25 JANUARY, 2021
1. Which
state has topped the India Innovation Index 2.0 or 2nd edition released by NITI
Aayog in the Major States category?
(a) Maharashtra
(b) Kerala
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Karnataka
Answer:
(d)
2. Which
state has topped the India Innovation Index 2.0 or 2nd edition released by NITI
Aayog in the North East and Hill States category?
(a) Himachal Pradesh
(b) Uttarakhand
(c) Manipur
(d) Sikkim
Answer:
(a)
3. Which
state has topped the India Innovation Index 2.0 or 2nd edition released by NITI
Aayog in the Union Territories and small States category?
(a) Chandigarh
(b) Jammu & Kashmir
(c) Delhi
(d) Ladakh
Answer:
(c)
4. Who
has been appointed as the new chairman of the trust which manages the world-famous
Somnath Temple at Prabhas Patan town in Gujarat’s Gir-Somnath district?
(a) Amit Shah
(b) Narendra Modi
(c) Vijay Rupani
(d) Nitinbhai Patel
Answer:
(b)
5. Which
state government has launched its first online youth radio station “Radio
Hills-Youngistan Ka Dil”?
(a) Uttarakhand
(b) Himachal Pradesh
(c) Meghalaya
(d) Sikkim
Answer:
(b)
6. Which
state government has renamed dragon fruit as ‘Kamalam’?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Andhra Pradesh
(d) Gujarat
Answer:
(d)
7. Which
of the following has recently designated the Kingdom of Bahrain and the United
Arab Emirates (UAE) as the “major strategic partners” of the country?
(a) United States
(b) United Kingdom
(c) Russia
(d) India
Answer:
(a)
8. Who
is the author of the recently released book titled ‘‘Manohar Parrikar- Off the
Record’?
(a) Arnab Goswami
(b) Sagarika Ghosh
(c) Waman Subha Prabhu
(d) Shobhana Bhartia
Answer:
(c)
9. Which
bank has unveiled a credit ‘AURA’ exclusively loaded with several health and
wellness benefits for its users at an affordable price?
(a) ICICI Bank
(b) HDFC Bank
(c) IDFC First Bank
(d) Axis Bank
Answer:
(d)
10. Who
has been given the additional charge of Ayush Ministry?
(a) Kiren Rijiju
(b) Rajnath Singh
(c) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
(d) Smriti Irani
Answer:
(a)
11. Who
has been appointed as the Managing Director of India’s largest insurer Life
Insurance Corporation (LIC) from February 1 onwards?
(a) Mahesh Kumar Sharma
(b) Siddhartha Mohanty
(c) Vibha Padalkar
(d) N. S. Kannan
Answer:
(b)
12. Who
has been appointed as the new Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of Telecommunications
Consultants India Limited (TCIL)?
(a) Sanjeev Kumar
(b) Pravin Kumar Purwar
(c) George Kuruvilla
(d) Puneet Chawla
Answer:
(a)
13. Which
of the following has recently announced that it has been accredited with the
Google Cloud Partner Specialization in the data and analytics space?
(a) Wipro
(b) HCL Technologies
(c) Infosys
(d) IBM
Answer:
(c)
14. Who
has been announced as the recipient of the ‘Indian Personality of the Year’ award?
(a) Debashree Roy
(b) Waheeda Rahman
(c) Mala Sinha
(d) Biswajit Chatterjee
Answer:
(d)
15. Who
has won the Ice Hockey Association of India (IHAI) 10th National Ice Hockey
Championship trophy?
(a) Ladakh Scouts
(b) Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
(c) Indian Army
(d) Kargil Ice and Snow Sports Club
Answer:
(b)
16. Who
will become the 1st woman fighter pilot to take part in the Republic Day parade?
(a) Bhawana Kanth
(b) Mohana Singh
(c) Avani Chaturvedi
(d) Avani Chaturvedi
Answer:
(a)
17. When
is ‘Parakram Diwas’ observed on the occasion of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s
birth anniversary?
(a) 21 January
(b) 23 January
(c) 25 January
(d) 27 January
Answer:
(b)
18. Who
is the Chief Minister of Kerala?
(a) Pinarayi Vijayan
(b) Edappadi K. Palaniswami
(c) B. S. Yediyurappa
(d) YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
Answer:
(a)
19. Who
is the Governor of Kerala?
(a) Dharmana Krishna Das
(b) Govind Karjol
(c) O. Panneerselvam
(d) Arif Mohammad Khan
Answer:
(d)
20. What
is the capital of Bahrain?
(a) Manama
(b) Seef
(c) Al Hoora
(d) Tubli Bay
Answer:
(a)
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