Current Affairs, 06 January 2021

  Current Affairs, 06 January 2021

1. Who has been appointed as the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court?

(a) Aryan Deshmukh

(b) Pankaj Mithal

(c) Mujid Hossain

(d) Priyanshu Sharma

Answer: (b) Pankaj Mithal

 

2. Which city is in the first place in the list of CCTV Surveillance City in the world?

(a) Bangalore

(b) Chennai

(c) Hyderabad

(d) Delhi

Answer: (b) Chennai

 

3. India has been chosen as the co-chair of IUCN-supported Asia Protected Areas Partnership (APAP) for a period of how many years?

(a) 2 years

(b) 3 years

(c) 4 years

(d) 5 years

Answer: (b) 3 years

 

4. Who has been named as the deputy election commissioner in the Election Commission of India?

(a) Umesh Sinha

(b) Ajay Kumar

(c) Harsh Dikshit

(d) Rajat Nanda

Answer: (a) Umesh Sinha

 

5. Who was elected as the President of All India Chess Federation?

(a) Sunil Pathak

(b) Sanjay Kapoor

(c) Vijay Kumar

(d) PRV King

Answer: (b) Sanjay Kapoor

 

6. Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane has received a Guard of Honour recently from Army of which country?

(a) Australia

(b) South Korea

(c) Norway

(d) Japan

Answer: (b) South Korea

 

7. Which state has launched a mobile application DigNest, to give people digital access to the state government’s directory?

(a) Haryana

(b) Goa

(c) Assam

(d) Punjab

Answer: (d) Punjab

 

8. Which country has issued new guidelines that allow drones to operate at night and over people?

(a) United States

(b) Britain

(c) Norway

(d) Australia

Answer: (a) United States

 

9. Adopt a Heritage: Apni Dharohar, Apni Pehchaan Scheme is an intuitive of the Ministry of Tourism, in collaboration with which Ministry?

(a) Ministry of Home Affairs

(b) Ministry of Tribal Affairs

(c) Ministry of Culture

(d) Ministry of Urban Development

Answer: (c) Ministry of Culture

 

7. Which country has generated over 50% of its power from wind due to the Storm Bella?

(a) France

(b) Italy

(c) Russia

(d) Britan

Answer: (d) Britan

 

10. Kuttanad, where around 10,000 ducks died recently, is located in which state?

(a) Andhra Pradesh

(b) Kerala

(c) Odisha

(d) Tamil Nadu

Answer: (b) Kerala

 

11. The Odisha Government has decided to set up a memorial in which city to honour the COVID Warriors?

(a) Cuttack

(b) Rourkela

(c) Bhubaneswar

(d) Puri

Answer: (c) Bhubaneswar

 

12. Which state government launched ‘Launch Pad Scheme’ to make the youth of the state self-reliant?

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(c) Himachal Pradesh

(d) Gujarat

Answer: (b) Madhya Pradesh

 

13. Who is the author of the book,’Vahana Masterclass’?

(a) Alexis Schaitkin

(b) James Clear

(c) Eric Carle

(d) Alfredo Covelli

Answer: (d) Alfredo Covelli

 

14. Who has become Asia’s richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index?

(a) Jack Ma

(b) William Ding

(c) Zhong Shanshan

(d) Qin Yinglin

Answer: (c) Zhong Shanshan

 

15. Which state has signed a contract to set up Country’s first ethanol plant under PPP model?

(a) Chattisgarh

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(c) Bihar

(d) Jharkhand

Answer: (a) Chattisgarh

 

16. The inaugural issue National Policy K-9n Journal was launched by which of the following Union Minister?

(a) Nitin Gadkari

(b) Piyush Goyal

(c) Rajnath Singh

(d) Amit Shah

Answer: (d) Amit Shah

 

17. Which is the base period taken by RBI for Digital Payments Index (DPI)?

(a) March 2016

(b) March 2017

(c) March 2018

(d) March 2019

Answer: (c) March 2018

 

18. Which country has recently abolished the death penalty?

(a) Pakistan

(b) Bangladesh

(c) Kazakhstan

(d) South Korea

Answer: (c) Kazakhstan

 

19. Which payment gateway has been imposed a Rupees 96 Lakh penalty by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for violating anti-money laundering law?

(a) Razorpay

(b) PayPal

(c) CCAvenue

(d) InstaMojo

Answer: (b) PayPal

 

20. Which company has announced the launch of its new insight tools for the travel industry in India?

(a) Facebook

(b) Microsoft

(c) Google

(d) Amazon

Answer: (c) Google