JANUARY 2020 CURRENT AFFAIRS SET 18

JANUARY 2020 CURRENT AFFAIRS SET 18

1. Who was appointed as the Chairman of Apparel Export Promotion Council of India (AEPC) on January 6, 2020 ?
1) Harish Ahuja
2) Lalit Gulati
3) A Sakthivel
4) Ashok G Rajani
Answer:-3) A Sakthivel
2.  Name the satellite, that is set to be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for communication with India’s first manned space mission ‘Gaganyaan’ .
1) Indian Data Relay Satellite System (IDRSS)
2) Indian Data Relay Communication Satellite (IDRCS)
3) Indian Data Relay Communication Satellite System (IDRCSS)
4) Indian Data Relay Satellite System for Communication (IDRSSC)
Answer:-1) Indian Data Relay Satellite System (IDRSS)
3) Which telescope has been used by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to discover Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized World “TOI 700 d” in Star’s ‘Goldilocks’ Zone, that is 100 light years away from Earth?
1) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
2) Kepler Space Telescope (KST)
3) Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST)
4) Spitzer Space Telescope (SST)
Answer:-4) Spitzer Space Telescope (SST)
4.  Sarbjeet Kaur has been banned for four years, he is associated with which sport ?
1) Cricket
2) Weightlifting
3) Wrestling
4) Football
Answer:-2) Weightlifting
5.  Name the Padma Shri Awardee, Odisha Dancer, who passed away recently .
1) Ratikant Mohapatra
2) Kumkum Mohanty
3) Minati Mishra
4) Pankaj Charan Das
Answer:-3) Minati Mishra
6.  R.P.Ulaganambi, who served as an Member of Parliament (MP) in the 5th Lok Sabha from 1971-76 passed away recently, he belonged to which state ?
1) Tamil Nadu
2) West Bengal
3) Odisha
4) Gujarat
Answer:-1) Tamil Nadu
7.  Amit Shah releases a book ‘Karmayoddha Granth’, it describes the life history of which political leader ?
1) Rajiv Gandhi
2) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
3) Manmohan Singh
4) Narendra Modi
Answer:-4) Narendra Modi
8.  Which state has celebrated the Journalists’ Day on 6th of January every year in the memory of late the journalist Balshastri Jambhekar ?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Maharashtra
3) West Bengal
4) Assam
Answer:-2) Maharashtra
9. Name the city that will host the International naval exercise ‘MILAN’ in March 2020 with the theme ‘Synergy Across the Seas’ .
1) Hyderabad, Telangana
2) Kolkata, West Bengal
3) Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
4) New Delhi, Delhi
Answer:-3) Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
10.  Annual festival of Madhavpur Mela will be held in which Indian city in April 2020 ?
1) Gujarat
2) West Bengal
3) Uttar Pradesh
4) Mizoram
Answer:-1) Gujarat