JANUARY CURRENT AFFAIRS SET 25

JANUARY CURRENT AFFAIRS SET 25

1.  Under which Act, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has permitted processing of e-mandate for recurring payments through UPI (Unified Payments Interface) ?
1) Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2010 (Act 51 of 2010)
2) Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2009 (Act 51 of 2009)
3) Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2008 (Act 51 of 2008)
4) Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 (Act 51 of 2007)
Answer:-4) Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 (Act 51 of 2007)
2.  What is the maximum limit, permitted by Reserve Bank of India for recurring payments through UPI (Unified Payments Interface) ?
1) Rs 5000                  2) Rs 2000
3) Rs 10000         4) Rs 7000    
Answer:-2) Rs 2000
3.  What is the maximum amount penalized by Reserve Bank of India on any authorised payment system operators / banks for not complying with regulatory requirements under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 ?
1) Rs 5 lakh        2) Rs 10 lakh         3) Rs 15 lakh
4) Rs 7 lakh              
Answer:-1) Rs 5 lakh
4.  Name the bank that received the authorized capital of Rs 25,000 crores from central government of India recently .
1) Indian Bank
2) Bank of India
3) Indian Overseas Bank (IOB)
4) Canara Bank
Answer:-3) Indian Overseas Bank (IOB)
5.  Name the Indian Scientist, who won the Merck Young Scientist Awards 2019 for the specialization in main group of chemistry and synthesis of compounds with main group elements and their catalytic application.
1) Dr Debojyoti Chakraborty
2) Dr Sakya Singha Sen
3) Dr Basker Sundararaju
4) Dr Siddhesh S Kamat
Answer:-2) Dr Sakya Singha Sen 
6. Name the Indian Hockey Player, who was nominated for the “World Games Athlete of the Year”award, 2019 by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) .
1) Rani Rampal        2) Savita Punia
3) Sunita Lakra                 4) Gurjit Kaur
Answer:-1) Rani Rampal
7.  Who has been elected as a bureau member of the IUPAC(International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) for the period 2020-23 ?
1) Dr.Bipul Bihari Saha
2) Dr.M Pavan Kumar
3) Dr.Sudhakar Kudva
4) Dr.K Lakshmi Raju
Answer:-1) Dr.Bipul Bihari Saha
8.  Lt Col Yuvraj Malik appointed as director of National Book Trust (NBT), he succeeds _________.
1) Nandakumar E.N.
2) Brij Kishore Sharma
3) Govind Prasad Sharma
4) Rita Chowdhury
Answer:-4) Rita Chowdhury
9.  Which city will host the conference on civil aviation sector, ‘Wings India 2020’ with the theme “Flying for all” ?
1) Chennai International Airport in Chennai, Tamil Nadu
2) Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad, Telangana
3) Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, Delhi
4) Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, Maharashtra
Answer:-2) Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad, Telangana
10.  Which Indian city hosts the Global Investors Meet ASCEND 2020 recently ?
1) Kolkata, West Bengal
2) Mumbai, Maharashtra
3) New Delhi, Delhi
4) Kochi, Kerala
Answer:-4) Kochi, Kerala