Current Affairs, 23 January 2021

 Current Affairs, 23 January 2021

1. How many birthdays of Netaji were celebrated on 23rd January this year?

(a) 124th

(b) 125th

(c) 126th

(d) 127th

Answer: (b) 125th

*Central Government Celebrate this day as ‘Day of Might’

*The West Bengal government observed this day as 'Deshnayak Divas'

 

2. Which payment bank launched 'Safe Pay' mobile app?

(a) Paytm Payments Bank

(b) Airtel Payments Bank

(c) Jio Payments Bank

(d) HDFC Bank

Answer: (b)  Airtel Payments Bank

 

3. Tezpur University is located in which state?

(a)Sikkim

(b)Manipur

(c)Nagaland

(d)Assam

Answer: (d) Assam

 

4. Rajiv Banerjee, the Forest Minister of which state has recently resigned?

(a)Madhya Pradesh

(b)Assam

(c)Jharkhand

(d)West Bengal

Answer: (d) West Bengal

 

5. To which country did India gift 1 million COVID vaccines through 'Vaccine Friendship' initiative?

(a) Bangladesh

(b) Nepal

(c) Bhutan

(d) Pakistan

Answer: (b) Nepal

*Capital - Kathmandu

*Currency name - Nepali Rupee

* President - Vidya Devi Bhandari

 

6. Who has been appointed as the Managing Director of Sundaram Finance Ltd?

(a) G. Sundaram

(b) Rajiv Lochan

(c) Akhil Arra

(d) Sanjeev Ranjan

Answer: (b) Rajiv Lochan

*Headquarters - Chennai

*Year of establishment - 11th August 1954

 

7. Which Indian chess player won the Gazprom Brilliancy Prize?

(a) Vishwanathan Anand

(b) Nihal Sarin

(c)  Koneru Hampi

(d) Rucha Pujari

Answer: (b) Nihal Sarin

 

8. The Chief Minister of which state released a book titled 'Manohar Parrikar - Off the Record'?

(a) Goa

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(c) Himachal Pradesh

(d) Maharashtra

Answer: (a) Goa

*Goa Chief Minister Promod Sawant

*This book is written by Shri Baman Shubh Prabhu

 

9. The late Unnikrishnan Nambuthiri was an actor in which language?

(a) Hindi

(b) Tamil

(c) Malayalam

(d) Telugu

Answer: (c) Malayalam

*He was 98 years old when he passed away

 

10. Which IPS officer received the 'Bharat Gaurab Award 2020'?

(a) Souhard Goswami

(b) Kailash Mohanty

(c) Karuna Sagar

(d) Jeevan Kumar

Answer: (c) Karuna Sagar

 

11. When is National Girl Child Day celebrated every year?

(a) 22 January

(b) 23 January

(c) January 24

(d) 25 January

Answer: (c) 24 January

*National Girl Child Day is celebrated on 24th January every year.

 

12. In what year was the first National Girl Child Day celebrated?

(a) 1998

(b) 2002

(c) 2004

(d) 2008

Answer: (d) 2008

*The Ministry of Women and Child Development started the "National Girl Child Day" on January 24, 2008. The present Minister for Women and Child Development is Smriti Zubin Irani.

 

13. Which Indian mathematician recently won the ‘Michael and Sheila Held Prize - 2021’?

(a) Sanjeev Aurora

(b) Siva Athareya

(c) Nikhil Srivastava

(d) Mahindra Agarwal

Answer: (c) Nikhil Srivastava

 

14. Who recently won the 10th ‘National Ice Hockey Championship 2021’ held at Gulmarg?

(a) Indian Army

(b) ITBP

(c) CRPF

(d) Ladakh Scouts

Answer: (b) ITBP

*Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) recently won the 10th ‘National Ice Hockey Championship 2021’ held by Ice Hockey Association of India (IHAI).

 

15. When is the ‘International Day of Education’ celebrated every year?

(a) 22 January

(b) 23 January

(c)January 24

(d) 25 January

Answer: (c) 24 January

*International Education Day is celebrated by UNESCO on January 24 every year.

 

16. In which country did Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose launch 'Azad Hind Radio'?

(a)Japan

(b)Germany

(c)Austria

(d)Malaysia

Answer: (b) Germany

 

17. Which military exercise will be jointly conducted by Indian Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard recently?

(a) Exercise Kavach

(b) Exercise Maitri

(c)  Excercise Songkolpa

(d) Excercise Fx

Answer: (a) Exercise Kavach

 

18. Who inaugurated the first child friendly police station in Uttarakhand?

(a) Bebirani Maurya

(b) Rajnath Singh

(c) Tribendra Singh Rawat

(d) Ashish Bhatia

Answer: (c) Tribendra Singh Rawat

*He is the present Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

*Governor- Bebirani Maurya

*Capital- Dehradun and Gairsain

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