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Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 22 January 2021 DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ : 22 JANUARY 2021 1. Which country got approval.12.2018 from the Union b) HDFC Bank cabinet for signing an.2018 MoU with India for c) ICICI Bank Cooperation in Solar Energy Sector? d) Yes Bank a) Uzbekistan .11.2018 e) Dena Bank b) Azerbaijan 8. Which state/UT has emerged on top in the NITI c) Kenya Aayog’s India Innovation Index 2021? d) Yugoslavia a) Delhi e) Mongolia b) Chandigarh 2. Which state recently signed an agreement with c) Goa Power Grid Corporation of India for telecom d) Jammu & Kashmir connectivity in remote & hilly areas? e) Puducherry a) Kerala 9. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has recently b) Manipur signed ‘Implementing Agreement on c) Himachal Pradesh Submarine Rescue Support and Cooperation’ d) Assam with which country during the Defence e) Manipur Ministers’ Dialogue (DMD) between the two 3. Indian Railways has renamed the one of India’s nations? oldest train Howrah-Kalka Mail Express as a) Russia ____. b) Singapore a) Garib Rath Express c) France b) Howrah Rajdhani Express d) Nepal c) Kavi Guru Express e) Japan d) Nizamuddin Duronto Express 10. Name the state which has topped the India e) Netaji Express Innovation Index 2021, under the North 4. Which state introduced India’s 1st Solar Electric Eastern/Hill States category? Roll-on/roll-off (RORO) service? a) Himachal Pradesh a) Kerala b) Meghalaya b) Punjab c) Sikkim c) Karnataka d) Uttarakhand d) Gujarat e) Arunachal Pradesh e) West Bengal 11. Indo-French Exercise Desert Knight-21 is the 5. Which organization signed an MoU with bilateral exercise of which of the following? Jammu & Kashmir’s Department of Skill a) Paramilitary forces Development that will promote institutional b) Naval forces exchange between the them? c) Armed forces a) Institute of Company Secretaries of India d) Air forces b) Department of Higher Education, J&K e) Disaster relief forces c) IIT Jammu 12. Joe Biden became the ________ president of d) NITI Aayog the United States. e) IIT Madras a) 42nd 6. Which state has topped the India Innovation b) 44th Index 2021 released by NITI Aayog recently in c) 45th Major States category? d) 43rd a) Kerala e) 46th b) Rajasthan 13. Which of the following state recently launched c) Gujarat first online youth radio station ”Radio Hills- d) Tamil Nadu Youngistan Ka Dil”? e) Karnataka a) Uttarakhand 7. Which bank has launched the mobile app b) Himachal Pradesh ‘InstaFX’ for authorised money changers, to c) Assam help customers of any bank get the banks d) Tripura ‘Forex Prepaid Card’ swiftly? e) Sikkim a) Axis Bank 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-750015 1 Ph. : 8093556677, 9040556677. Web :www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ : 22 JANUARY 2021 14. Who among the following.12.2018 has been appointed as managing director of Sundaram.2018 Finance Ltd? a) Poonam Yadav b) Vineet Banerjee .11.2018 c) Rajiv Lochan d) Girish Tripathi e) Preeti Paul 15. Name the Indian cricketer who was signed by JSW Sports to manage commercial interests. a) Rohit Sharma b) Rishabh Pant c) KL Rahul d) Virat Kohli e) Hardik Pandya ANSWER KEYS 1 a 9 b 2 c 10 a 3 e 11 d 4 a 12 e 5 c 13 b 6 e 14 c 7 c 15 b 8 a 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-750015 2 Ph. : 8093556677, 9040556677. Web :www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] .
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