Current Affairs Quiz - January, 2021

41. Which Indian lender is the first to execute deals with pricing linked to SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate)?
[A] ICICI Bank
[B] SBI
[C] Axis Bank
[D] Yes Bank

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42. What is Abell 370, whose picture was recently shared by the NASA?
[A] Black Hole
[B] Exoplanet
[C] Galaxy Cluster
[D] Meteor

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43. Which company has partnered with French publishers, to make digital copyright payments for online news content?
[A] Facebook
[B] Google
[C] Amazon
[D] Walmart

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44. The train named ‘Vasuki’, that is seen in news recently, is associated with railway zone?
[A] Southern Railway
[B] Konkan Railway
[C] South East Central Railway
[D] Northern Railway

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45. Which organization has adopted a resolution titled “Promoting a culture of peace and tolerance to safeguard religious sites”?
[A] WHO
[B] WTO
[C] United Nations
[D] WIPO

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46. The World Health Organization (WHO) has collaborated with which company to distribute Covid vaccines under Covax alliance?
[A] Pfizer
[B] Roche
[C] Merck
[D] Johnson & Johnson

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47. The former Prime Minister of which country, has been awarded the Padma Vibushan award in 2021?
[A] Singapore
[B] Bangladesh
[C] Japan
[D] Nepal

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48. Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir, who was conferred the Padma Shri award, belongs to which country?
[A] India
[B] Pakistan
[C] Sri Lanka
[D] Bangladesh

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49. Which Indian state is to play host to the ‘International Conference on Gender Equality (ICGE-II)’?
[A] Karnataka
[B] Kerala
[C] Tamil Nadu
[D] Maharashtra

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50. Which county has requested for debt restructuring at the IMF, under the new common framework?
[A] India
[B] Chad
[C] China
[D] USA

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