Current Affairs Quiz - January, 2019

41. The new Naval Air Base ‘INS Kohassa’ has commissioned at which of the states /UTs?
[A] Gujarat
[B] West Bengal
[C] Lakshadweep
[D] Andaman and Nicobar Islands

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42. Which IIT has launched an app ‘Roshni’ to help blind identify notes?
[A] IIT Kanupur
[B] IIT Ropar
[C] IIT Indore
[D] IIT Bombay

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43. Which state government has decided to set up anti-poaching tiger protection force?
[A] Madhya Pradesh
[B] Gujarat
[C] Rajasthan
[D] Telangana

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44. Who has become the India’s first woman IPS officer to complete South Pole expedition?
[A] Aparna Kumar
[B] Vimla Mehra
[C] Archana Ramasundaram
[D] Meera Borwankar

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45. What is the theme of the National Voters Day (NVD-2019)?
[A] Proud to be a voter – Ready to vote
[B] Accessible elections
[C] No Voter to be Left Behind
[D] Proud to be a voter

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46. SANH, which is in news recently, is a research programme to tackle which pollution?
[A] To study nitrogen pollution
[B] To study noise pollution
[C] To study radioactive pollution
[D] To study light pollution

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47. Oxford dictionaries has declared which word as the Hindi word for the year 2018?
[A] Jugaad
[B] Nari Shakti
[C] Aadhaar
[D] Surya namaskar

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48. Who has become the first Indian transgender to be honoured with Padma Shri?
[A] Madurai Chinna Pillai
[B] Narthaki Nataraj
[C] Bangaru Adigalar
[D] R V Ramani

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49. Which state government has decided to introduce MSP for farmers based on MS Swaminathan report?
[A] Tamil Nadu
[B] Maharashtra
[C] Punjab
[D] Delhi

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50. Who has become the youngest batsman to smack a half-century in international cricket?
[A] Matt Renshaw
[B] Prithvi Shaw
[C] Rohit Paudel
[D] Kagiso Rabada

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