JANUARY CURRENT AFFAIRS SET 29

JANUARY CURRENT AFFAIRS SET 29

1.  Which firm has acquired DHFL (Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited) General Insurance from Wadhan Group Capital (WGC) for around Rs.100 crore ?
1) Tata Consultancy Services
2) Larsen & Toubro Infotech
3) Navi Technologies
4) Accel Frontline
Answer:-3) Navi Technologies
2.  Where was the two Indian Coast Guard Ships (ICGS), Annie Besant and Amrit Kaur commissioned recently ?
1) Kolkata, West Bengal
2) Mumbai, Maharashtra
3) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
4) Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Answer:-1) Kolkata, West Bengal
3.  Which organization has designed and manufactured the two Indian Coast Guard Ships (ICGS), Annie Besant and Amrit Kaur ?
1) Hindustan Shipyard Limited
2) Cochin Shipyard Limited
3) Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders
4) Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd., (GRSE)
Answer:-4) Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd., (GRSE)
4.  Name the malware application, that affects 14.23% Indian users, as per the researchers from cybersecurity and anti-virus solutions provider Kaspersky .
1) ‘Clean Droid’
2) ‘Shopper’
3) ‘Block Strike’
4) ‘Smart Antivirus’
Answer:-2) ‘Shopper’
5.  Name the deceased Kerala Cartoonist and Secretary of Kerala Cartoon Academy, who won United Nations Political Cartoon Award .
1) Pran Kumar Sharma
2) B. V. Ramamurthy
3) Thomas Antony
4) Shankar Pamarthy
Answer:-3) Thomas Antony
6.  Motorcycle rider Paulo Goncalves passed away recently, he belonged to which country ?
1) France
2) Portugal
3) Spain
4) Italy
Answer:-2) Portugal
7.  Whose selected writing was compiled as a book titled “New India:Selected Writings 2014-19” that describes about the policies and decisions made by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi government during his first period (2014-19) ?
1) Arun Jaitley
2) Nirmala Sitharaman
3) Narendra Modi
4) Amit Shah
Answer:-1) Arun Jaitley
8.  Who were the authors of the book titled ‘PAX SINICA:Implications for the Indian Dawn’ that was launched by Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, that describes about a comprehensive view of how President Xi Jinping’s, China will implicate the world order in the 21st century ?
1) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni & Akhil Deo
2) Samir Saran & Vikram Seth
3) Madhuri Vijay & Vikram Seth
4) Samir Saran & Akhil Deo
Answer:-4) Samir Saran & Akhil Deo
9.  Which country has translated, Swami Vivekananda’s book titled ‘Karma Yoga‘ in its language during Vishwa Hindi Diwas on January 10, 2020 ?
1) Pakistan
2) Bangladesh
3) Nepal
4) Sri Lanka
Answer:-3) Nepal
10. What is the theme of the National Youth Day 2020 that is observed on January 12 annually ?
1) Theme – “Indian Youth for Development, Skill and Harmony”
2) Theme – “Channelizing Youth Power for Nation Building”
3) Theme – “Sankalp Se Siddhi”
4) Theme – “Youth for Digital India”
Answer:-2) Theme – “Channelizing Youth Power for Nation Building”