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Daily Current Affairs Daily Current Affairs Date: 05 JANUARY 2021 1. Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 6. Joan Micklin Silver, who died recently, was the famous National Metrology Conclave 2021 through video Hollywood___. conferencing, what was the theme of the conclave? (A) Singer (A) Metrology for the Inclusive Growth of the Nation (B) Script Writer (B) Metrology for the Incorporated Growth of the Nation (C) Director (C) Metrology for the Complete Development of the Nation (D) Actress (D) Metrology for the Total GDP of the Nation (E) Dancer (E) Metrology for the Total GNP of the Nation 7. Which state/union territory government has 2. Former Union Minister and senior Rajasthan Congress established an academy to promote Tamil language and leader Buta Singh passed away recently, in context to the culture? same, tell us from the period between 2007 to 2010, he (A) Uttar Pradesh had served as the Chairperson of which of the following (B) Delhi entity? (C) Maharashtra (A) National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (D) Tamil Nadu (B) National Commission for Scheduled Cast (E) Punjab (C) National Commission for Backward Classes (D) National Commission for Minorities 8. Who has been named as the Most Valuable Player of the (E) Both (A) and (B) Year by the Pakistan Cricket Board, where Fawad Alam has chosen as the Individual Performance of the Year? 3. A 14-year-old boy Leon Mendonca has become India’s (A) Babar Azam 67th chess Grandmaster by winning the third and final (B) Fakhar Zaman norm at a tournament in Italy, he became the second (C) Mohammad Amir Grand Master from which coastal state? (D) Wahab Riaz (A) Maharashtra (B) Kerala (E) Mohammad Hafeez (C) Andhra Pradesh (D) Goa (E) Gujarat 9. According to the recently released Bloomberg Billionaire Index 2021, India’s richest man Mukesh 4. Home Minister Amit Shah released the inaugural issue Ambani and the chairman and Managing Director of of the National Police K-9 Journal in New Delhi, which is Reliance Industries Limited, dropped down to 12th spot in the first such publication in the country on the subject of the index. Who is on the first position? Police Service K9s, Police Dogs. In context to the same (A) Jack Ma choose the correct one from following- (B) Jeff Bezos (A) National Police K-9 was established in November 2020× (C) Bill Gates (B) The journal comprises different sections in Hindi, English (D) Elon Musk and regional language. (E) Mark Zuckerberg (C) The journal is a biannual journal. (D) The journal will be released in April, August and December 10. Which edition of International Film Festival of India every year. (IFFI) is going to open on 16th January, with the Indian (E) Both (B) and (C) premiere of the movie "Another Round" by Thomas Vinterberg? 5. Name the veteran Democratic Congresswoman, who has (A) 51st been re-elected as Speaker of the US House of (B) 52nd Representatives for the fourth time by received 216 votes (C) 53rd as against Republican leader Kevin McCarthy's 209 votes. (D) 54th (A) Louise Linton (B) Nadine Crocker (E) 55th (C) Gage Golightly (D) Teresa Decher (E) Nancy Pelosi ANSWERS: - 1(A) 2(B) 3(D) 4(C) 5(E) 6(C) 7(B) 8(A) 9(B) 10(A).
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