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1) Which edition of Data Protection Day has been celebrated on 28 January 2022?
(a) 17th
(b) 25th
(c) 22nd
(d) 16th
(e) 13th
2) Which among the following company has set to invest up to $1 billion in a partnership with Airtel?
(a) Amazon
(b) Flipkart
(c) Google
(d) Wipro
(e) Intel
3) India-ASEAN Digital Work Plan 2022 has been approved at 2nd ASEAN Digital Ministers (ADGMIN) meeting. Which country co-chaired the meeting?
(a) Japan
(b) China
(c) Malaysia
(d) Nepal
(e) Myanmar
4) With which among the following country did India has agreed to enhance cooperation in the agricultural sector?
(a) Israel
(b) Norway
(c) Iran
(d) Russia
(e) France
5) Which among the folllwing country has unveiled the world’s largest canal lock?
(a) Malaysia
(b) Poland
(c) The Netherlands
(d) Singapore
(e) Austria
6) The National Highway for Electric Vehicle has inaugurated the India’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging station in __________.
(a) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
(b) Gurgaon, Haryana
(c) Hyderabad, Telangana
(d) Hosur, Tamil Nadu
(e) Ahmadabad, Gujarat
7) Where would India’s first graphene innovation centre setto be established?
(a) Andhra Pradesh
(b) Karnataka
(c) Maharashtra
(d) Kerala
(e) Tamil Nadu
8) India has paid $29.9 million in UN regular budget assessments for 2022. When will India’s non-permanent member of the 15-nation Security Council end?
(a) 31 December 2023
(b) 01 April 2023
(c) 31 July 2022
(d) 31 December 2022
(e) 01 March 2023
9) Recently, State Bank of India has withdrawna controversial circular on the recruitment of pregnant women candidates. Who is the Chairman of SBI?
(a) Padmaja Chunduru
(b) Rama Mohan Rao Amara
(c) Sanjiv Chadha
(d) Dinesh Kumar Khara
(e) Shanti Lal Jain
10) Which organization has signed an MoU with Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency and for Rooftop Solar Power Projects?
(a) Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers
(b) Cochin Shipyard Limited
(c) Goa Shipyard Limited
(d) Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders
(e) Hindustan Shipyard Limited
11) Who among the following has been appointed asthe new Chief Economic Adviser by the Government of India?
(a) NK Singh
(b) Krishnamurthy Subramanian
(c) V Anantha Nageswaran
(d) Sanjay Gupta
(e) Manish Kapoor
12) IIFL Finance Limited has appointed Arun Kumar Purwar as its new Chairman of the Board. He is the former Chairman of which bank?
(a) State Bank of India
(b) Bank of Baroda
(c) Canara Bank
(d) Union Bank of India
(e) Indian Bank
13) Who among the following has become the youngest woman to fly solo around the world within 155 days?
(a) Shaesta Waiz
(b) Amelia Earhart
(c) Zara Rutherford
(d) Bessie Coleman
(e) Muriel Earhart
14) Wherethe Indian Navy has inducted two indigenously built Advanced Light Helicopters ALH-DHRUV MK III?
(a) Ambala, Haryana
(b) Port Blair, Andaman Nicobar
(c) Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
(d) Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh
(e) Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
15) Who has virtually launched the Research Portal of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research?
(a) Jitendra Singh
(b) Rajnath Singh
(c) Narendra Modi
(d) Mansukh Mandaviya
(e) Nirmala Sitharaman
16) Subhash Chandra Garg has authored a book titled, “The $10 Trillion Dream”. He is the former _____________.
(a) Finance Minister of India
(b) Chief Election Commissioner of India
(c) SEBI Chairman
(d) Finance Secretary of India
(e) RBI Executive Director
17) Who has launched the ‘Digital Sansad’ Mobile app, to watch the Parliamentary proceedings activities through the mobile phone?
(a) Narendra Modi
(b) Venkaiah Naidu
(c) Om Birla
(d) Ramnath Kovind
(e) Piyush Goyal
18) Who among the following is the author of the new book titled “Operation Khatma”?
(a) Ranjith Singh
(b) R. C. Ganjoo
(c) Ashwini Bhatnagar
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(e) Both (b) and (c)
19) Which among the following stadium would host the 2022 Odisha Open?
(a) Kalinga Indoor Stadium
(b) Barabati Indoor Stadium
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium
(d) Biju Pattnaik Stadium
(e) Sundargarh Stadium
20) Which state has topped after the preliminary round result of the Fit India Quiz, India’s biggest sports and fitness quiz?
(a) Karnataka
(b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Maharashtra
(e) Uttarakhand
21) In which among the following place, India’s first Para-Badminton Academy has been inaugurated?
(a) Mumbai, Maharashtra
(b) Ahmadabad, Gujarat
(c) Hyderabad, Telangana
(d) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
(e) Gurgaon, Haryana
Answers :
1) Answer: D
On 28 January 2022, the 16th edition of Data Protection Day will be celebrated globally.
It aims at raising awareness on the right to data protection.
Data Protection Day is now celebrated globally and is called the “Privacy Day” outside Europe.
In 2006, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided to launch a Data Protection Day, to be celebrated each year on 28 January.
2) Answer: C
Google to invest up to $1 billion in a partnership with Airtel as part of its Google for India Digitization Fund
Deal includes investment of $700M to acquire 1.28%* ownership in Airtel and up to $300M toward potential multi-year commercial agreements
The partnership will focus on enabling affordable access to smartphones across price ranges, and will continue to explore building on their existing partnerships to potentially co-create India-specific network domain use cases for 5G and other standards, and help accelerate the cloud ecosystem for businesses across India
3) Answer: E
The 2nd ASEAN Digital Ministers (ADGMIN) meeting with India held on a virtual platform. H.E. ShriDevusinhChauhan, Minister of State for Communications (MoSC) and H.E. Admiral Tin Aung San, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Myanmar co-chaired the meeting.
The ADGMIN is an annual meeting of Telecom Ministers of 10 ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) countries -Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam and dialogue partner countries – Australia, Canada, China, EU, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Russia, UK and US.
4) Answer: A
Israeli Ambassador to India ShriNaorGilon called on the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare ShriNarendra Singh Tomar at KrishiBhawan on 27th January 2022.
The Ambassador of Israel to India.ShriTomar, completion of 30 years of diplomatic relations between India and Israel.
5) Answer: C
The world’s largest canal lock was inaugurated by Dutch King Willen-Alexander on January 26, 2022 at Ijmuiden The Netherlands.
World’s-largest canal lock Ijmuiden is 500-meter (1,640-feet) long and 70-meter wide.
$338 million amount has been spent on the construction on this project.
The Ijmuiden lock was designed to allow large, modern cargo ships to reach the port of Amsterdam.
6) Answer: B
NHEV (National Highway for Electric Vehicle) has inaugurated India’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging station in Gurgaon, Haryana.
This charging station has been installed and operated byAlektrify.
This smart EV charging station gets 100 charging points for four-wheelers, out of which 72 units are AC slow chargers while 24 units consist of DC fast chargers.
It is situated in Sector 52 of Gurgaon.
Prior to this, the country’s largest EV charging station was located in Navi Mumbai that houses 16 AC and 4 DC chargers.
7) Answer: D
India’s first innovation centre for graphene will be set up in Kerala by the Digital University Kerala (DUK), along with Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET) in Thrissur, for Rs 86.41 crore.
This will be the first graphene Research and Development (R&D) incubation centre in the country. Tata Steel Limited is set to be the industrial partner of the centre.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, has given approval for the project.
8) Answer: D
India has paid USD 29.9 million in UN regular budget assessments for the year 2022.
India joins the 2022 Honour Roll of 24 Member States out of 193 that have paid their @UN Regular Budget Assessments in full, India’s Permanent Mission to the UN.
As of January 21, 2022, 24 Member States have paid their regular budget assessments in full.
India is currently a non-permanent member of the 15-nation Security Council and its two-year term will end on December 31, 2022.
9) Answer: D
State Bank of India, the country’s largest commercial bank, withdrew the controversial circular that barred women candidates who are over three months pregnant from taking up jobs in the bank.
In view of the public sentiments, SBI has decided to keep the revised instructions regarding recruitment of pregnant women candidates in abeyance and continue with the existing instruction in the matter. Dinesh Kumar Khara is the Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI).
10) Answer: C
Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) to provide its techno-financial expertise to set-up a rooftop solar power project.
The two companies are PSUs under the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy and the Ministry of Defence, respectively.
The MoU was signed by Pradip Kumar Das, Chairman & Managing Director (CMD), IREDA and Bharat Bhushan Nagpal, CMD, GSL in the presence of senior officials.
11) Answer: C
The Government of India appointed Dr V AnanthaNageswaran as the new Chief Economic Adviser.
He replaced Krishnamurthy Subramanian, who returned to academia in December after a three-year tenure as CEA.
The search panel for the selection of CEA is headed by 15th Finance Commission chief NK Singh.
12) Answer: A
Fairfax and Capital Group-backed non-banking finance company IIFL Finance appointed former State Bank of India boss ArunPurwaras chairman of its board effective from April 1.
Purwar is a veteran banker and was Chairman of the country’s largest bank – State Bank of India from November 2002 to May 2006.
He also chairs the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Diaspora Division.
13) Answer: C
The 19-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world.
Zara Rutherford, who has set a new Guinness World record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, touching down in western Belgium 155 days after beginning.
She visited 41 countries and stopped in five continents throughout her 52,000-kilometer 28,100 nautical mile) journey.
14) Answer: B
The two indigenously made Advance Light Helicopters ALH-DHRUV MK III inducted in the fleet of Andaman Nicobar Command in Port Blair.
The induction ceremony was held at INS Utkrosh, in presence of Commander-in-Chief, Andaman Nicobar Command, Lt. Gen. Ajai Singh as chief guest.
The MK III helicopter is manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and represents a tremendous leap towards self-reliance in the field of military aircraft, in line with the government’s push towards ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat.
15) Answer: D
Union Minister for Chemical and Fertilizers, MansukhMandaviya virtually launched the Research Portal of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER),in New Delhi.
16) Answer: D
Former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg authored a book titled The $10 Trillion Dream.The Book is published by Penguin Random House India (PRHI)& the book is scheduled to release towards the end of February 2022.
Subhash Chandra Garg born on 16 October 1960, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre. He served as Economic Affairs Secretary and Finance Secretary of India.
Garg was appointed as an Executive Director in the World Bank by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) for a tenure of three years.
17) Answer: C
The Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birlalaunched the official mobile application of the Parliament named Digital Sansad App.
Through the Digital Sansad App, citizens will be able to watch the Parliamentary proceedings activities in the Parliament as well as the initiatives taken by the temple of democracy at the click of a button on the phone.
This will also allow citizens to check what their members of Parliament are doing, what debates they are participating in and what they are saying.
18) Answer: E
A New Book Titled Operation Khatmaauthored by R. C. Ganjoo & Ashwini Bhatnagar.
The Book is Published by Locksley Hall Publishing LLP.
19) Answer: C
The 2022 Odisha Open, a Badminton World Federation (BWF) event, will kick off at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Cuttack from January 25.
The Super 100 tournament which is the third event of the 2022 BWF World Tour calendar will continue till January 30.
It is the first edition of the Odisha Open.
The tournament is organized by the Badminton Association of India with sanctions from the Badminton World Federation.
20) Answer: C
The results of the Preliminary Round of the first-ever Fit India Quiz, India’s biggest sports and fitness quiz for students, was announced.
Results of the nation-wide competition organized by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has revealed that two students from Uttar Pradesh have outperformed students from all other states to become the top scorers of the Preliminary Round.
21) Answer: D
Dronacharya Awardee and Head National Coach of the Indian Para-badminton team, Gaurav Khanna, formally announced his association with Ageas Federal Life Insurance to launch the country’s first Para-Badminton Academy in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
The state-of-the-art, high-performance centre with advanced equipment and facilities in Lucknow aims to improve India’s medal chances at the 2024 Paralympics to be held in Paris, France at Stade de France stadium.
