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Month- JANUARY 2021
Type- MCQs / FAQs
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100 Current Affairs of January 2021
1. World's largest derivatives exchange by FIA?
Ans. National Stock
Exchange of India
2. Theme of 15th India Digital Summit 2021 (IDS 2021)?
Ans. Aatmanirbhar
Bharat-Start of New Decade
3. When was the 1st Parakram Diwas celebrated
Ans. 23rd January
2021
4. World Day of War Orphans observed annually?
Ans. January 6
5. RBI announced introduction of LEI for all transactions
worth?
Ans. Rs. 50 Crore
& above undertaken through RTGS & NEFT
6. RBF announced introduction of LEI effective from?
Ans. April 1, 2021
(LEI-Legal Entity Identifier)
7. India's 1st Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness
Innovations (CEPI) laboratory was inaugurated in?
Ans. Faridabad
8. Which org. partnered with J&K Government for AB-PMJAY
Ans. Bajaj Allianz
General Insurance
9. Which bank received Rs. 5,500 crores in Zero-Coupon
bonds?
Ans. Punjab and Sind
Bank (P&SB)
10. India flagged off the 40th Indian Scientific Expedition
to?
Ans. Antarctica from
the Mormugao Port, Goa
11. World Braille Day annually observed by United Nation on?
Ans. 4th January
12. World's longest railway platform being constructed in?
Ans. Hubballi Railway
station, Karnataka
13. Best Performing State award in "PMAY(U)"
Awards, 2019?
Ans. Uttar Pradesh
14. New Chairman & CEO of the Railway Board in January?
Ans. Suneet Sharma
15. Which bank partnered with RuPay to launch "RuPay
Pos"?
Ans. RBL Bank
16. Only authorised bank in India to issue the Electoral
bonds?
Ans. State Bank of
India
17. Which organisation released the "Report on Trend
and Progress of Banking in India 2019-20"?
Ans. RBI
18. Which branch of the Indian armed force received the
pistol?
Ans. Indian Navy
(1" Indigenous Pistal-ASMI)
19. Who chaired 6-member Working Group (WG) by RBI?
Ans. Jayant Kumar
Dash
20. Indian passport's rank in "Henley Passport Index:
Q21 2021
Ans. 85th (1* -Japan)
21. Which Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) got approval from CCS
Ans. Tejas
22. President of the United Nations COP26 climate
conference?
Ans. Alok Sharma
23. Theme of 4th edition of One Planet Summit (OPS) 2021?
Ans. Let's act
together for nature!
24. 1st Prize in the State Designated Agencies Category?
Ans. Kerala
25. India's rank in the 3rd edition of Digital Evolution?
26. Theme of 16th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in January 9,
2021?
Ans. Contributing to
Aatmanirbhar Bharat
27. Which country's 1st Indigenously developed satellite
Amazonia-1" will be launched by ISRO?
Ans. Brazil
28. Who will chair UNSC-Counter Terrorism Committee (2022)
Ans. India
29. India's rank in the '2021 Military Strength Ranking'?
Ans. 4th (1st - USA)
30. '2021 Military Strength Ranking' listed by which org?
Ans. Global Firepower
31. Which state topped in the Indian Innovation Index 2020?
Ans. Karnataka
32. The "Nelson Mandela" World Humanitarian Award
2020?
Ans. Ravi Gaikwad
33. Who was the 1st Recipient of Mullagh Medal?
Ans. Ajinkya Rahane
34. Gorewada International Zoo is renamed as?
Ans. "Balasaheb
Thackeray Gorewada Intl. Zoological Park"
35. Padma awardee Dr V Shanta passed away. She was?
Ans. India's renowned
Oncologist
36. Which state received the Best Overall Performance Award
for State Govt. under Big State category in the Saksham 2021 Awards for Oil
& Gas Conservation?
Ans. Tamil Nadu
37. India's 1st Labour Movement Museum located in?
Ans. Alappuzha,
Kerala
38. 1st National Road Safety Month observed by?
Ans. Ministry of Road
Transport and Highway (MORTH)
39. 1st National Road Safety Month observed in?
Ans. 18th January
2021 to 17th February 2021
40. Which state recently got its 1st Doppler Weather Radars?
Ans. Uttarakhand
41. Which city will be the 1st for Driverless Metro Car?
Ans. Mumbai
42. India's rank in 'Asia-Pacific Personalised Health Index
2020'
Ans. 10th (1st-Singapore)
43. Theme of 51st Edition of 2021 World Economic Forum (WEF)
Ans. A Crucial Year
to Rebuild Trust
44. India's rank in the 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index
(CPI)?
Ans. 86th (1st-New
Zealand)
45. Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released by?
Ans. Transparency
International
46. India's rank in the worst-hit countries due to weather
events?
Ans. 7th of
"Global Climate Risk Index (CRI) 2021
47. only foreigner to receive Padma Vibhushan Award in 2021?
Ans. Shinzo Abe
(Former PM of Japan
48. UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution to?
Ans. Safeguard
Religious Sites
49. Which country's Triservice force Contingent participated
in India's 72nd Republic Day Parade?
Ans. Bangladesh
50. 1" Female Fighter Jet pilot to be part of Indian
Air Force's (IAF) Tableaux in a Republic Day Parade?
51. Which country participated with Indian Air Force (IAF)
in the 1st Bilateral Air Exercise, 'Exercise Desert Knight-21 (Ex DK-21)' held
at Jodhpur?
Ans. France
52. Golden Peacock Award in the 51st IFFI awards?
Ans. Into the
Darkness - Film
53. 51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held
in?
Ans. Panaji, Goa
54. scheme launched providing full benefits of the AB
PM-JAY?
Ans. Ayushman CAPF
Scheme
55. Who was elected as BCCI's Official Representative by
ICC?
Ans. Jay Shah
56. Who was elected as the chairman of SAIL in January 2021?
Ans. Soma Mondal
57. Who was extended as the chairman of ISRO?
Ans. K Sivan
58. Kamala Harris became which Vice-President of USA?
Ans. 49th Vice
President of USA
59. Who got the Tansen Samman Award in Jan 2021?
Ans. Pt. Sathish Vyas
60. How many children were awarded in Bal Puraskar 2021?
Ans. 32 Children
61. Indian Personality of the year Award 2020?
Ans. Biswajit Chatterjee
62. Colonel Narender 'Bull' Kumar passed away. He was a?
Ans. Mountaineer
63. Name of the application launched by Manoj Sinha for JK?
Ans. Satark Nagrik
64. Rank of India in Global Hunger Index 2020?
Ans. 94th Out of 107 countries
65. Who is appointed as the PM of Ivory Coast?
Ans. Hamed Bakayoko
66. Palle Pragathi Program was launched in which state?
Ans. Telangana
67. Who is the 1st female PM of Estonia?
Ans. Kaja Kallas
68. Who has authored the book "The Law of Emergency'?
Ans. Professor
Khagesh Gautam & Dr. Abhishek Singhvi
69. Which country will host the AFC Women's Asian Cup 2022?
Ans. India
70. Who inaugurated the 'Bharat-Parv 2021' in January 2021?
Ans. Om Birla
71. Who launched the mobile game FAUG on 26th January 2021?
Ans. Akshay Kumar
72. Who is the new secretary of state of USA?
Ans. Anthony Blinken
73. Who is author of 'India 2030: The rise of Rajastic
Nation'?
Ans. Gautam
Chikkarmane
74. Which is re-elected as the president of Portugal in Jan
2021?
Ans. Marcelo Rebelo
de Sousa
75. Narender Luther passed away. He was a famous?
76. Where will be Khelo India Ice Hockey 2021 Cup held?
Ans. Chitkan, Kargil,
Ladakh
77. Who is the new deputy chief of Army Staff (DCOAS)?
Ans. Shantanu Dayal
78. Which state govt. launched the Kisan Kalyan Scheme?
Ans. UP (To Double
the Farmer's income)
79. Which state launched the 'Launch Pad Scheme'?
Ans. Madhya Pradesh
(to make youth self-reliant)
80. Who won the Airthings Master Chess Championship?
Ans. Teimur Radjabov
81. Who headed the Jury of 51st IFFI in India in January
2021?
Ans. Pablo Cesar
82. World's most valuable two-wheeler company?
Ans. Bajaj Auto
83. Host of 4th Global Ayurveda Festival from March 12,
2021?
Ans. Kerala
84. India's 67th chess Grandmaster?
Ans. Leon Mendonca
(India's Youngest Grandmaster)
85. Who released the National Police K-9 Journal'?
Ans. Amit Shah
86. New Deputy Election Commissioner of EC of India?
Ans. Umesh Sinha
87. Indian submarine INS Sindhuvir is finally commissioned
in?
Ans. Myanmar Navy
88. Who is the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)?
Ans. VG Somani
89. Who is the new chief justice of Odisha High Court?
Ans. S Muralidhar
90. Revenue collected from GST in December 2020?
Ans. Rs. 1.15 Lakh
Crores (highest ever in any month)
91. Which country successfully test-fired Fatah-I rocket
system?
Ans. Pakistan
92. Who is elected as the president of Kyrgystan?
Ans. Japarov Sadrv
Nurgojoevich
93. Who authored 'Unscripted Conversations on Life &
Cinema'
Ans. Vidhu Vinod
Chopra
94. Which govt launched Kisan Fasal Rahat Yojana?
Ans. Jharkhand
95. Which State launched a mobile application 'DigiNest'?
Ans. Punjab
96. John Fulton Reid was a cricketer who passed away played
for
Ans. New Zealand
97. Which country
will host the AFC Women's Asian Cup 2022?
Ans. India
98. Who is the new
deputy chief of Army Staff (DCOAS)?
Ans. Shantanu Dayal
99. How many children
were awarded in Bal Puraskar 2021?
Ans. 32 Children
100. Corruption
Perceptions Index (CPI), released by?
Ans. Transparency International
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