Daily Current Affairs

Date: 04 JANUARY 2021

1. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a 6. Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, Pune has $231 million loan with the Government of India to recently signed an MoU with which international augment electricity generation capacity in which state, organisation to co-create India’s first Social Impact under which 120 megawatts (MW) hydroelectric power Bond (SIB), which is the first time that, a government plant would be constructed in that state? body will act as the "outcome funder" in a bond? (A) Assam (B) Arunachal Pradesh (A) United Nations Development Programme (C) Nagaland (D) Meghalaya (B) United Nations Environment Programme (E) Bihar (C) United Nations Capital Development Fund (D) United Nations Industrial Development Organization 2. Legendary regional musician, Shantanu Mohapatra (E) United Nations Fund for Development passed away recently, he was belonging to which regional music? 7. Which country has changed a word “for We Are (A) Tamil (B) Telugu Young and free” has been changed to “for We Are One (C) Odia (D) Kannada And free” in its national anthem to honour the (E) Malayali indigenous population of the country? (A) Australia (B) New Zealand 3. With which bank, Government of India has signed a (C) Canada (D) Austria $10 million project readiness financing (PRF) to help (E) Germany finance piloting activities and design and capacity building for an ensuing project that aims to expand 8. The appointments committee of the Cabinet has horticulture production and farm household income in approved Suneet Sharma appointment as Chairman & the hill state of Himachal Pradesh? CEO of Railway Board, Ministry of Railways who was an (A) New Development Bank ex-officio Principal Secretary to Government of India, in (B) World Bank context to the same tell us, whom will he replace? (C) European Bank for Reconstruction (A) Ashwani Lohani (B) Vinod Kumar Yadav (D) Asian Development Bank (C) Sudhir Bhargava (D) Rishi Kumar Shukla (E) African Development Bank (E) Sunil Arora

4. Who has been named as the deputy election 9. Director (Commercial) of Central public sector commissioner in the Election Commission of India by enterprise, National Aluminium Company Limited the appointment committee of the cabinet, who also a (NALCO), Soma Mondal has taken over as Chairman of 1986-batch IAS officer (retired) and at present he is Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), in context to the serving as secretary-general in the commission? same tell us, whom will she replace? (A) Ashok Lavasa (B) Sunil Arora (A) Sanjeev Taneja (B) Anil Kumar Chaudhary (C) Sukumar Sen (D) Achal Kumar Jyoti (C) Saraswati Prasad (D) Parmod Bindal (E) Umesh Sinha (E) Krishan Kumar

5. Recently, The Defence Research and Development 10. Michael Kondo, who died recently, was a famous- Organisation (DRDO) observed its _____ Foundation Day, (A) Hockey player it was established with just 10 laboratories in 19th (B) Cricket player century to enhance the research work in the Defence (C) Football player sector? (D) Tennis player (A) 64th (B) 63rd (E) Badminton player (C) 61st (D) 66th (E) 69th ANSWERS: - 1(A) 2(C) 3(D) 4(E) 5(B) 6(A) 7(A) 8(B) 9(B) 10(A)