Current Affairs, 29 January 2021

 Current Affairs, 29 January 2021 

1. Which Lieutenant General is being appointed as the new Vice-Chief of Army Staff?

(a) Satinder Kumar Saini

(b) Chandi Prasad Mohanty

(c) Amarinder Singh

(d) Biswajit Sardar

Answer: (b) Chandi Prasad Mohanty

 

2. What is the position of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in India in the list of ‘Most Valued IT Services Brand’ in the world?

(a) First

(b) Third

(c) Fifth

(d) Seventh

Answer: Third

*Ac Accenture of Ireland tops the list

*TCS Headquarters - Mumbai

*Year of establishment - 1st April, 1986

*Current CEO- Rajesh Gopinathan

 

3. Which two countries signed MoU for design, manufacture and launch of satellites by students?

(a) India and Sri Lanka

(b) India and Bangladesh

(c) Pakistan and China

(d) India and China

Answer: (b) India and Bangladesh

 

4. Which country recently hosted Climate Adaptation Summit 2021?

(a) Japan

(b) Netherlands

(c) Maldives

(d) Indonesia

Answer: (b) Netherlands

* Capital - Amsterdam

* Currency name - Euro

*Prime Minister - Mark Rutte

 

5. Which company launched 'Krishi Sakha' app for farmers?

(a) HDFC Bank

(b) Ti Bharti AXA General Insurance

(c) Paytm Payments Bank

(d) Finotech Ltd.

Answer: (b) Bharti AXA General Insurance

*Headquarters- Mumbai

* Establishment year - 2006

*Current CEO- Sanjeev Srinivasan

 

6. Which mobile brand launched 'Shiksha Har Saath' initiative to help poor children take online classes?

(a) Realme India

(b) Microsoft

(c) Xiaomi India

(d) Apple

Answer: (c) Xiaomi India

 

7. Who has been appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of Hindustan Unilever Ltd?

(a) Vijay Kumar

(b) Ritesh Tiari

(c) Sumit Deshmukh

(d) Bikash Bhatt

Answer: (b) Ritesh Tiari

*Headquarters- Mumbai

* Establishment year - 1933

* Current CEO- Sanjeev Mehta

 

8. In which city of Kerala ‘Gender Park’ is being set up recently?

(a) Ijimala

(b) Kozhikode

(c) Thiruvananthapuram

(d) Kochi

Answer: (b) Kozhikode

* The capital of Kerala is Thiruvananthapuram

*CM- Pinarayi Vijayan

*Governor- Arif Mohammad Khan

 

9. Kaja Kallas was recently elected as the first woman Prime Minister of which country?

(a) Mongolia

(b) Estonia

(c) Kyrgyzstan

(d) Finland

Answer: (b) Estonia

* Capital - Tallinn

* Currency name - Euro

 

10. ‘e-EPIC’- Which department introduced the name Digital Voter ID Card?

(a) Judiciary

(b) Election Commission

(c) Governance Department

(d) None of these

Answer: Election Commission

*Chief Election Commissioner- Sunil Arora

*Headquarters- New Delhi

*Year of establishment - January 25, 1950