| Monthly Current Affairs | 200 MCQ | January 2022 |

| Monthly Current Affairs | 200 MCQ | January 2022 |

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Important Days:
● International Day of Epidemic Preparedness – 27 December
● DRDO Foundation Day (64 th ) – 1 January
● World Braille Day – 4 January
● National Bird Day – 5 January
Obituaries:
● Betty Whites – Emmy Winner Actress
● Sindhutai Sapkal – Social Worker
● S H Sarma – Veteran Vice Admiral Indian Navy
● E O Wilson – Father of Biodiversity
● Ray Illingworth – Former captain English test team
● Karolos Popoulias – Former President Greece
● Mahendra Prasad – 7-term Member of Parliament

1.Green Fixed Deposits has been launched by which of the following banks?

    1. ‘ SBI Bank’
    2. ‘ ICICI Bank’
    3. ‘ Kotak Mahindra Bank’
    4. ‘ IndusInd Bank’

Solution:

D. IndusInd Bank

IndusInd Bank
 
IndusInd Bank has announced the launch of ‘green fixed deposits’, whereby the deposit proceeds will be used to finance projects and firms supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

2.Who among the following has been appointed as MD & CEO of Punjab National Bank ?

    1. ‘ Atul Mishra’
    2. ‘ Vikram Batra’
    3. ‘Atul Kumar Goel’
    4. ‘ Anil Kumar’

Solution:

. C. Atul Kumar Goel

MD & CEO of Punjab National Bank- Shri Atul Kumar Goel. Born on December 26, 1964, Atul Kumar Goel assumed the charge as MD & CEO of Punjab National Bank w.e.f. 01.02. 2022. Prior to this, he was holding the position of Managing Director & CEO of UCO Bank.

3.Which of the following state has launched the ‘Meendum Manjappai’ Scheme to promote the usage of cloth bags and discourage plastic bags?

    1. ‘ Odisha’
    2. ‘ Karnataka’
    3. ‘ Tamil Nadu’
    4. ‘ Himachal Pradesh’

Solution:

. C. Tamil Nadu

S.NOStateCapitalCMGovernor
1Andhra PradeshAmaravatiYS Jagan Mohan ReddyBiswa Bhusan Harichandan
2Arunachal PradeshItanagarPema KhanduB. D. Mishra
3AssamDispurHimanta Biswa SarmaJagdish Mukhi
4BiharPatnaNitish KumarPhagu Chauhan
5ChhattisgarhRaipurBhupesh BaghelSushri Anusuiya Uikey
6GoaPanajiPramod SawantP.S. Sreedharan Pillai
7GujaratGandhinagarBhupendra PatelAcharya Dev Vrat
8HaryanaChandigarhManohar LalBandaru Dattatraya
9Himachal PradeshShimlaJairam ThakurRajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
10JharkhandRanchiHemant SorenRamesh Bais
11KarnatakaBengaluruBasavaraj BommaiThaawarchand Gehlot
12KeralaThiruvananthapuramPinarayi VijayanArif Mohammed Khan
13Madhya PradeshBhopalShivraj Singh ChouhanMangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel
14MaharashtraMumbaiUddhav ThackerayBhagat Singh Koshyari
15ManipurImphalN. Biren SinghLa. Ganesan
16MeghalayaShillongConrad Kongkal SangmaSatya Pal Malik
17MizoramAizawlPu ZoramthangaKambhampati Haribabu
18NagalandKohimaNeiphiu RioJagdish Mukhi
19OdishaBhubaneswarNaveen PatnaikGaneshi Lal
20PunjabChandigarhCharanjit Singh ChanniBanwarilal Purohit
21RajasthanJaipurAshok GehlotKalraj Mishra
22SikkimGangtokPS GolayGanga Prasad
23Tamil NaduChennaiM. K. StalinR. N. Ravi
24TelanganaHyderabadK Chandrasekhar RaoTamilisai Soundararajan
25TripuraAgartalaBiplab Kumar DebSatyadeo Narain Arya
26Uttar PradeshLucknowYogi Aditya NathAnandiben Patel
27UttarakhandDehradunPushkar Singh DhamiLt. Gen. Gurmit Singh
28West BengalKolkataMamata BanerjeeJagdeep Dhankhar

Complete list of 8 Union Territories:

S.NOUnion TerritoriesCapitalCMLt. Governor
1Andaman and Nicobar IslandPort BlairNAD K Joshi
2ChandigarhChandigarhNABanwarilal Purohit
3Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and DiuDamanNAPraful Patel
4DelhiDelhiArvind KejriwalAnil Baijal
5LadakhNANARadha Krishna Mathur
6LakshadweepKavarattiNAPraful Patel
7Jammu and KashmirNANAManoj Sinha
8PuducherryPondicherryN. RangaswamyDr. Tamilisai Soundararajan

4.In Assam Police which of the following Indian Police Services officer has become the first-ever woman to get promoted to the rank of Inspector General in Assam Police?

    1. ‘ Seema Deka’
    2. ‘ Leena Doley’
    3. ‘Joyshree Khersa’
    4. ‘ Violet Baruah’

Solution:

.D. Violet Baruah

Indian Police Services (IPS) officer Violet Baruah on Monday became the first-ever woman to get promoted to the rank of Inspector General in Assam Police

5.Which of the following has been appointed as the Deputy National Security Adviser (NSA)?

    1. ‘ Harjinder Singh’
    2. ‘ Vikram Misri ‘
    3. ‘Pradeep Kumar’
    4. ‘ Pankaj Saran ‘

Solution:

. B. Vikram Misri

6.Pankaj Sharma has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to which of the following countries?

    1. ‘ Mexico’
    2. ‘ Columbia’
    3. ‘Poland’
    4. ‘ Geneva’

Solution:

. A. Mexico

7.Plant-based meat company GoodDot has roped in which of the following as its brand ambassador?

    1. ‘ Jasprit Bumrah’
    2. ‘ Virat Kohli ‘
    3. ‘Mahendra Singh Dhoni’
    4. ‘ Neeraj Chopra’

Solution:

. D. Neeraj Chopra

8.Which of the following countries has become the fourth new member of the New Development Bank (NDB) that was
established by the BRICS countries six years ago?

    1. ‘ United Arab Emirates ‘
    2. ‘ Bangladesh ‘
    3. ‘Egypt ‘
    4. ‘ Uruguay ‘

Solution:

. C. Egypt

9.In which of the following states a road named after PM Modi ‘Narendra Modi Marg’ was inaugurated?

    1. ‘ Haryana’
    2. ‘ Bihar’
    3. ‘Tripura’
    4. ‘ Sikkim’

Solution:

. D. Sikkim

10.Who won Sahitya Akedami Awards 2021 for English language category??

    1. ‘ Daya Prakash Sinha’
    2. ‘ D.S. Nagabhushana’
    3. ‘Namita Gokhale’
    4. ‘ Khalid Hussain’

Solution:

 C. Namita Gokhale

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11.Which player became the first Indian to qualify for 2 Winter Olympics events??

    1. ‘Jagdish Singh’
    2. ‘ Shiva Keshavan’
    3. ‘Arif Khan’
    4. ‘ Nadeem Iqbal’

Solution:

 C. Arif Khan

12.Which cricket team became first Asian team to win a Test match at Centurion (South Africa)???

    1. ‘Bangladesh’
    2. ‘ India’
    3. ‘Pakistan’
    4. ‘ Afghanistan’

Solution:

 .B. India

13.Which of the following institutes has topped the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievement 2021??

    1. ‘IIT Madras’
    2. ‘ IIT Bombay’
    3. ‘IIT Delhi ‘
    4. ‘ IISc ‘

Solution:

 . A. IIT Madras

14.Which of the following countries launched Simorgh Space Launch Vehicle (SLV)?

    1. ‘Iran’
    2. ‘ Israel’
    3. ‘China’
    4. ‘ Russia’

Solution:

 . A. Iran

15.“The Turnover Wizard – Saviour of Thousands” is autobiography of whom? 

    1. ‘M Venkaiah Naidu’
    2. ‘ Arup Roy Choudhury’
    3. ‘Shubhangi Swarup’
    4. ‘ Namita Gokhale ‘

Solution:

 . B. Arup Roy Choudhury

16.Which state has topped the composite ranking in the Good Governance Index (GGI) 2021??

    1. ‘Gujarat’
    2. ‘ Uttar Pradesh’
    3. ‘Bihar’
    4. ‘ Rajasthan’

Solution:

 . A. Gujarat

17.Recently which of the following has been declared as an essential commodity by the central government??

    1. ‘Lithium Battery ‘
    2. ‘ Soya Meal ‘
    3. ‘Psyllium Husk’
    4. ‘ Chocolate’

Solution:

 . B. Soya Meal

18.Which is the first state to launch digital life certificate system for pensioners in India???

    1. ‘Odisha’
    2. ‘ Karnataka’
    3. ‘Gujarat’
    4. ‘ Rajasthan’

Solution:

 . A. Odisha

19. Digital books ‘Innovations for You’ & ‘The Ingenious Tinkerers’ are released by which organisation? ??

    1. ‘UNEP’
    2. ‘ NITI Aayog’
    3. ‘World Bank’
    4. ‘ Gallup World Poll’

Solution:

 . B. NITI Aayog

20.Who is the new chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Railway Board? 

    1. ‘Vinay Kumar Yadav ‘
    2. ‘ Suneet Sharma’
    3. ‘V K Tripathi ‘
    4. ‘ Rajeev Ahuja ‘

Solution:

 . C. V K Tripathi

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