Current Affairs, 16 January 2021

 Current Affairs, 16 January 2021

1. Which company made the first domestic ‘9mm Machine Pistol’ in India?

(a) Indian Navy

(b) DRDO

(c) Indian Army

(d) Indian Air Force

Answer:  DRDO

* Full form of DRDO- Defense Research and Development Organization

*Establishment year - 1956

*Headquarters- New Delhi

 

2. Pat Gelsinger has recently been appointed as the new CEO of which company?

(a) IBM

(b) Intel

(c) AMD

(d) Asus

Answer:  (b) Intel

Headquarters - California

Year of establishment - 17th July, 1986

 

3. Which Bengali film director will be honored at the 4.51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI)?

(a) Mrinal Sen.

(b) Ray

(c) Rituparno Ghosh

(d) Ritvik Ghatak

Answer:  (b) Ray

 

4. Where is the first electric car factory of Tesla Company set up in India?

(a) Gandhinagar

(b) Bangalore

(c) Hyderabad

(d) Mumbai

Answer: (b) Bangalore

*Tesla Company Headquarters - California

*Establishment year - 1st July 2003

*Current CEO- Elon Musk

 

5. In how many districts of India has the third phase of 'Prime Minister's Strategy Development Scheme' been launched?

(a) 450

(b) 600

(c) 500

(d) 230

Answer:  (b) 600

This scheme was first launched in 2015

 

6. The Chief Minister of which state recently launched ‘Air Taxi’ service?

(a) Haryana

(b) Punjab

(c) Kerala

(d) Gujarat

Answer: (a) Haryana

It will be a journey between Chandigarh and Hisar

*The capital of Haryana - Chandigarh

*Chief Minister- Manoharlal Khattar

*Governor- Satyadeva Narayan Arya

 

7. Which is the eighth state to implement ‘Ease of Doing Business Reforms’?

(a) Tamil Nadu

(b) Kerala

(c) Manipur

(d) Arunachal Pradesh

Answer:  (b) Kerala

Capital - Thiruvananthapuram

CM- Pinarayi Vijayan

Governor- Arif Mohammad Khan

 

8. Who resigned as the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA)?

(a) Binoy Kumar

(b) Dushyant Dave

(c) Akshay Patel

(d) As an expression

Answer:  (b) Dushyant Dave

Headquarters- New Delhi

 

9. The farming community of which state is benefiting from the 'Debt Solution Scheme' in collaboration with the State Bank of India?

(a) West Bengal

(b) Maharashtra

(c) Punjab

(d) Haryana

Answer:  (b) Maharashtra

*Capital- Mumbai

*Chief Minister- Uddhav Thackeray

*Governor- Bhagat Singh Kasyari

 

10. Which Union Minister is being honored with ‘SKOCH Challenger Award’?

(a) Rajnath Singh

(b) Arjun Munda

(c) Narendra Singh Tamar

(d) Dharmendra Pradhan

Answer:  (b) Arjun Munda

*He is the Union Minister for Tribal Affairs