Current Affairs MCQs :23nd January 2021
Q.1 Who has been appointed as India’s next ambassador to ASEAN secretariat?
a) Jayant N. Khobragade
b) Manish Poll
c) Rajendra Singh
d) Hemant Sharma
Q.2 Which state has increased the number of working days under MANREGA from 100 to 150 days?
a) Himachal Pradesh
b) Assam
c) Uttarakhand
d) Bihar
Q.3 Which of the following banks has been retained by RBI as a Domestic Systemically important Bank (D-SIBs)?
a) SBI
b) ICICI Bank
c) HDFC Bank
d) All of the above
Q.4 Who has been appointed as MD of LIC?
a) Siddharth Malhotra
b) Rajiv Lohan
c) Tarun Kumar
d) Varsha Joshi
Q.5 Recently which country has again joined the ‘Paris Climate Agreement’?
a) Japan
b) America
c) China
d) All of the above
Q.6 ‘Ghar Ghar Rozgar to Karoobaar’ is the mission of which State govt.?
a) Haryana
b) Delhi
c) Punjab
d) Gujarat
Q.7 Where has the ‘Khelo India Zanskar winter sports and youth festival 2021 inaugurated?
a) Ladakh
b) Shimla
c) Chandigarh
d) Jammu
Q.8 Which of the following organizations has launched the ‘One trillion tree initiative’?
a) WEF
b) World Bank
c) UN
d) UNESCO
Q.9 Cabinet has approved the initiative of rs.5282 crore for 850MW project on which river?
a) Satluj
b) Chenab
c) Beas
d) Ganga
Q.10 Which Bank has launched an ‘AURA’ credit card equipped with health, welfare facilities?
a) PNB
b) HDFC
c) Axis Bank
d) ICICI Bank
Answers:-
Q.1 a)
Q.2 c)
Q.3 d) SBI, ICICI Bank, and HDFC Bank continue to be identified as Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs), under the same bucketing structure as in the 2018 list of D-SIBs. The additional Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) requirement for D-SIBs was phased-in from April 1, 2016 and became fully effective from April 1, 2019.
Q.4 a)
Q.5 b)
Q.6 c)
Q.7 a)
Q.8 a) The World Economic Forum has launched a global initiative to grow, restore and conserve 1 trillion trees around the world – in a bid to restore biodiversity and help fight climate change.
Q.9 b) The Union Cabinet has given its approval for 850 MegaWatt (MW) Ratle hydropower project on Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir.
Q.10 c) Axis Bank, India’s third-largest private sector bank, announced the launch of ‘AURA’, a credit exclusively loaded with several health and wellness benefits for its users at an affordable price.