Current Affairs, 17 January 2021

 Current Affairs, 17 January 2021

1. Which Union Ministry launched the 'SAKSHAM' campaign to raise awareness about green and clean energy?

(a) Ministry of Environment

(b) Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

(c) Ministry of Social Justice and Women's Welfare

(d) Ministry of Agriculture

Answer: (b) Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Dharmendra Pradhan is in charge of this ministry

 

2. Who is voted as the new Chairman of Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (TEPC)?

(a) Sandeep Bokshi

(b) Sandeep Agarwal

(c) Tapas Samaddar

(d) Kaushik Majumdar

Answer: Sandeep Agarwal

 

3. Which country recently signed MoU on Information and Communication Technology with India?

(a) Russia

(b) Japan

(c) America

(d) Israel

Answer: (b) Japan

Capital - Tokyo

Currency name - Japanese Yen

P. M- Yoshihide Suga

 

4. Who inaugurated the first driver-less metro car made in India?

(a) Narendra Modi

(b) Rajnath Singh

(c) Amit Shah

(d) Nitin Gadkari

Answer: (b) Rajnath Singh

He is currently the Union Minister of Defense

 

5. Sophie Devine, the first fastest century in the history of women's T-20 cricket, is the captain of which country?

(a) Australia

(b) New Zealand

(c) England

(d) Pakistan

Answer: (b) New Zealand

He has scored 100 runs off just 36 balls

 

6. In which state was the ‘Kanuma’ festival recently celebrated?

(a) Uttar Pradesh

(b) Telangana

(c) West Bengal

(d) Jharkhand

Answer: (b) Telangana

Capital - Hyderabad

C.M- K. Chandrasekhar Rao

Governor-Tamilisai Soundararajan

 

7. Which country awarded ‘Ordre National Du Merite’ to Rohini Godbole, a physicist from Mumbai?

(a) Singapore

(b) France

(c) England

(d) Bahrain

Answer: (b) France

Capital - Paris

Currency name - Euro

President - Emmanuel Macron

 

8. Which space research company is going to launch a rocket named ‘Rocket H3’ this year?

(a) NASA

(b) JAXA

(c) ISRO

(d) ESA

Answer: (b) JAXA

Full form of JAXA - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Headquarters- Chafu, Tokyo

Establishment year - 1st October, 2003

Current Head- Hiroshi Yamakawa

 

9. Which country's army will take part in the Republic Day Parade of India this year?

(a) Sri Lanka

(b) Indonesia

(c) Bangladesh

(d) Maldives

Answer: (c) Bangladesh

Capital - Dhaka

The name of the currency - money

Prime Minister- Sheikh Hasina

 

10. Nazhat Shamim Khan is appointed as the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council. He is the Ambassador of which country?

(a) Mexico

(b) Russia

(c) Fiji

(d) Finland

Answer: (c) Fiji

Capital- Suva

Currency name - Dollar

President- Jioji Konrote

United Nations Human Rights Council Headquarters - Geneva

Year of Establishment - March 26, 2006

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