Q.1 Name the 100 day reading campaign launched by the Ministry of Education on January 01, 2022?
a. Padhe Bharat
b. Bharat Adhyayan
c. Seekhe Bharat
d. Bharat Pathan
Q.2 Which country has taken over the chairmanship of the United Nations Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee in 2022?
a. France
b. India
c. Vietnam
d. South Korea
Q.3 Which day is commemorated as the World Braille Day annually around the world?
a. January 03
b. January 04
c. January 02
d. January 01
Q.4 Kalpana Chawla Centre for Research in Space Science & Technology has been inaugurated in which university?
a. Madras University
b. Chandigarh University
c. Allahabad University
d. Delhi University
Q.5 Which nation won the U-19 Asia Cup on December 31, 2021?
a. India
b. Sri Lanka
c. South Africa
d. Australia
Q.6 Abdalla Hamdok resigned as Prime Minister of which nation on January 2, 2022?
a. Egypt
b. Tanzania
c. Sudan
d. Yemen
Q.7 Which state has topped the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Rurban Mission?
a. Tamil Nadu
b. Telangana
c. Haryana
d. Karnataka
Q.8 Khalid Hussain has won the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 in which language category?
a. Hindi
b. Kannada
c. Punjabi
d. Bengali
Q.9 Who has been sworn in as the Director-General of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG)?
a. Virender Singh Pathania
b. Krishnaswamy Natarajan
c. Ranjan Gupta
d. Harish Bisht
Q.10 How many countries have been inducted as the new member of New Development Bank(NDB) apart from the five BRICS countries?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 2
Answers –
Q.1 a) The Union Education Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan has launched ‘Padhe Bharat’, a 100 days (14 weeks) reading campaign. The campaign has been organised from January 01, 2022 to April 10, 2022.
Q.2 b) India has assumed the chairmanship of the United Nations Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee for one year, beginning from January 01, 2022.
Q.3 b)
Q.4 b) Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated Kalpana Chawla Centre for Research in Space Science & Technology at Chandigarh University on January 3, 2021. The research centre has been established with the objective of training students in space science, satellite development and to meet future challenges in space research.The state-of-the-art centre will be the Ground Control Station for Chandigarh University’s Student Satellite (CUSat).
Q.5 a)
Q.6 c)
Q.7 b) Telangana has topped among 34 states and union territories that have implemented the Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Rurban Mission.
Q.8 c) Bratya Basu and Khalid Hussain have won Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 for a play and collection of stories ‘Sullan Da Salan’, in Hindi and Punjabi language category respectively.
Q.9 a)
Q.10 b) Egypt has been inducted as the fourth new member of the BRICS New Development Bank(NDB) on December 29, 2021. Earlier in September 2021 Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Uruguay were admitted as the new member of the Shanghai-based NDB.