Daily Current Affairs Date: 09 JANUARY 2021

1. Which country will chair the three-key subsidiary 6. Who has been become first female match official bodies of the United Nations Council, which include during the pink test between India and Australia? Counter-Terrorism Committee (for 2022), Taliban (A) Claire Polosak (B) Jacqueline Williams Sanctions Committee, and Libya Sanctions committee? (C) Phillip Gillespie (D) Shawn Craig (A) China (B) Saudi Arabia (E) Langton Rusere (C) America (D) Britain (E) India 7. Which edition of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention will be held in a virtual format with the theme 2. The Centre has merged the officers of IAS, IPS and "Contributing to Aatmanirbhar Bharat" which also IFOS cadres of which union territory into the cadre of provides a significant platform to engage and connect AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, and Union with overseas citizens? Territory)? (A) 13th (B) 19th (A) Andaman and Nicobar Islands (C) 15th (D) 16th (B) Dadra and Nagar Haveli (E) 14th (C) Jammu and Kashmir (D) Daman and Diu 8. The Reserve Bank of India informed that the legal (E) Lakshadweep entity identifiers will be mandatory for all the fund transfers worth Rs 50 crores and above. The Legal 3. Name the Indian-American who has taken over as the Entity Identifiers is a ___ number that will be used to first Chief Information Officer of the US Army, after the uniquely identify the parties involved in financial Pentagon created the position. transactions all over the world. (A) Har Gobind Khorana (B) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (A) 12 digit (B) 25 digit (C) Amartya Sen (D) Raj Iyer (C) 09 digit (D) 08 digit (E) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (E) 20 digit

4. The President of India, in exercise of the power 9. Which co-operative bank has become the first Co- conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the operative bank of India to transition to a Small Finance Constitution of India, appointed whom as Chief Justice Bank as the Reserve Bank of India approved the of the Gauhati High Court, previously who was the Commercial Banking License of the co-operative bank? Judge of the Uttarakhand High Court? (A) Shivalik Mercantile Co-operative Bank (A) Sudhanshu Dhulia (B) GP Parsik Co-operative Bank (B) (C) Jalgaon Janata Co-operative Bank (C) Kailas Nath Wanchoo (D) Janakalyan Co-operative Bank (D) Sarv Mittra Sikri (E) Janata Co-operative Bank (E) Navdeep Sinha 10. The Reserve Bank of India has recently announced 5. In whose place, Justice Arup Kumar Goswami that it has set up a PIFD worth Rs 500 Crore which will recently sworn in as Chief Justice of the Andhra improve and support the development of the digital Pradesh High Court, who was shifted to Sikkim High payments ecosystem in the northeast and rural Court? districts in India. What does "P" denotes in the (A) Raghunandan Swarup Pathak abbreviation of PIFD? (B) (A) Payoff (B) Pay (C) Kamal Narain Singh (C) Payment (D) Paid (D) JK Maheshwari (E) Plank (E)

ANSWERS: - 1(E) 2(C) 3(D) 4(A) 5(D) 6(A) 7(D) 8(E) 9(A) 10(C)