Current Affairs: 29th January 2022

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1) The Global Gold demand in 2021 was increased
by what percentage?

• The World Gold Council (WGC) in its ‘Gold Demand

A. 10% Trends 2021’ Report has informed that the global
gold demand rose 10% in 2021 to 4,021.3 tonnes.
B. 13% • The overall gold demand during 2020 stood at
3,658.8 tonnes.
C. 15% • Meanwhile, India’s total gold demand surged by 78.6
percent to 797.3 tonnes in 2021 from 446.4 tonnes
D. 21% during 2020.

Ans-A
2) Who has been appointed as MD of Wipro for
Southeast Asia?

• Wipro Limited has appointed Badrinath Srinivasan as

A. Amish Mehta the Managing Director for Southeast Asia.
• He will focus on Wipro’s vision for business growth,
B. Sabyasachi Das revenue expansion, client and influencer
relationships, talent development, and brand
C. Badrinath Srinivasan building.
• He will also strengthen the key markets of Southeast
D. Santrupt Misra Asia, focusing on large deals and strategic
transformational engagements.

Ans-C
4) Ramgarh Wildlife Sanctuary has been notified as
the 4th Tiger Reserve of which state?

• Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary has recently

A. Rajasthan been announced to be notified as the 4th tiger
reserve of Rajasthan.
B. Odisha • This Ramgarh Vishdhari Sanctuary will be spread over
an area of 1,071 square kilometres.
C. Andhra Pradesh • This Ramgarh Vishdhari Sanctuary was established in
the year 1982. There are 8 villages in the main areas
D. Karnataka of the sanctuary.

Ans-A
4) Which state's Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve
have won the 2022 TX2 award?

• The Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Erode district

of Tamil Nadu and Bardia National Park in Nepal have
A. Andhra Pradesh jointly won the prestigious TX2 Award for 2022, for
doubling their tiger populations since 2010.
B. Kerala • Sathyamangalam was designated a Tiger Reserve in
2013. The population of tigers increased from only 25
C. Tamil Nadu tigers in 2011 to an estimated 80 individuals
currently.
D. Telangana • Similarly, the tiger population in Bardia National Park
increased by almost five-fold from less than 20 tigers
in 2009 to 87 in 2018.
Ans-C
5) Xiomara Castro has become the first-ever female
President of which nation?
• Xiomara Castro was on January 27, 2021 sworn in as
the first-ever female President of Honduras.
• Castro is also a former first lady, as she is the wife of
A. Cuba former Honduras President Manuel Zelaya who was
ousted in a coup in 2009.
B. Honduras • She is also the first President of the country who is
not a member of either the Liberal Party or the
C. Mexico National Party since democracy was restored in the
Central American country in 1982.
D. Colombia • In 2013, 2017, and 2021 Honduran general elections,
Xiomara Castro represented the left-wing Libre Party,
running as the party’s candidate for Honduras
President in 2013 and 2021. Ans-B
6) Who has launched ‘Digital Sansad App’ to make
live proceedings accessible to citizens?
• The Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla launched the official
mobile application of the Parliament named ‘Digital
Sansad App’ on January 27, 2022, to allow citizens to
A. Om Birla access live proceedings of the House, including the
Union Budget 2022 live.
B. Venkaiah Naidu • The app will make the Parliament and Parliamentary
proceedings accessible not only to the members but
C. Kiren Rijiju also to the public of the country.
• Through the Digital Sansad App, citizens can check
D. Narendra Modi what their members of Parliament are doing, what
debates they are participating in and what they are
saying.
Ans-A
7) Where has Reliance Jio BP set up India’s largest
EV charging hub?

• Jio-bp, the Indian joint venture formed by Reliance

Industries Limited (RIL) and BP, has opened one of
A. Gurgaon India’s largest EV charging hubs in Delhi.
• The new charging hub fits into Jio-bp’s strategy to
B. Delhi develop a national network of mobility stations and
support the fueling transition. The JV aims to be a
C. Chandigarh leader in the Indian charging space.
• BluSmart has the largest fleet of EV cabs and the
D. Hyderabad largest network of EV fast charging stations across
Delhi.
Ans-B
8) Who is the author is the book titled “The $10
Trillion Dream”?

• The former finance secretary of India, Subhash

Chandra Garg has announced his debut book named
A. Ravikant Singh “The $10 Trillion Dream”.
• The book is scheduled to hit stands towards the end
B. Amit Meena of February 2022.
• The new book explores the critical policy issues that
C. Subhash Garg India faces today and suggests reforms for it to
become a $10 trillion economy by the mid-2030s.
D. Vipul Bansal • It is published by Penguin Random House India
(PRHI).
Ans-C
9) India’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging
station has been inaugurated in which city?

• India’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging station

has been inaugurated in Sector 52 of Gurugram at
A. Kolkata Delhi-Jaipur National Highway, on January 28, 2022.
• The charging station has been installed and operated
B. Hyderabad by tech-piloting company Alektrify.
• The new station has a capacity of 100 charging points
C. Delhi for four-wheelers. This includes 72 units as AC slow
chargers and 24 units as DC fast chargers.
D. Gurgaon • Before this, the largest EV charging station in India
was located in Navi Mumbai, comprising 16 AC and 4
DC chargers.
Ans-D
10) Which company has announced $1 billion
investment in Bharti Airtel?
• Indian telecom company Bharti Airtel and Google have
announced a long-term partnership agreement on
January 28, 2022 to accelerate the growth of India’s
A. Amazon digital ecosystem.
• Under the deal, Google will invest $1 billion in Airtel.
B. Microsoft • From the total investment, Google will invest $700
million to acquire 1.28 percent stake in Bharti Airtel Ltd.
C. Apple • Remaining $300million will go towardmulti-year
commercial agreements with Airtel, including devices
D. Google built together by the two tech giants.
• The $1 billion funding is part of Google’s $10 billion
‘Google for India Digitization Fund’, launched in 2020
Ans-D
11) Which institute has developed a COVID-19
diagnosis technique using chest X-ray images?
• A group of researchers from IIT Jodhpur have
developed an automated Artificial Intelligence (AI)
solution for COVID-19 diagnosis using chest X-ray
A. IIT Madras images.
• The research is part of the RAKSHAK project under
B. IIT Kanpur NM-CPS DST and iHuB Drishti at IIT Jodhpur.
• They have proposed ‘COMiT-Net’, a deep-learning
C. IIT Bombay algorithm that can learn abnormalities present in the
chest x-ray images and differentiate between a
D. IIT Jodhpur Covid-affected lung and a normal one.
• The AI algorithm is also capable of identifying the
infected regions of lungs
Ans-D
12) World’s Largest Canal Lock has been
inaugurated in which country?

• The World’s Largest Canal Lock has been inaugurated

A. Portugal at Ijmuiden, a small port city, in the Port of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
B. Netherlands • The sea lock was inaugurated by Dutch King
WillenAlexander on January 26, 2022.
C. Germany • The Ijmuiden sea lock is 500-meter (1,640-feet) long
and 70-meter wide.
D. Belgium • The overall cost of constructing the project is $338
million.

Ans-B
13) Where has the first edition of Odisha Open
Badminton started?

• The Odisha Open 2022, a Badminton World

Federation (BWF) event will begin from 25th January
A. Puri 2022, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in
Cuttack.
B. Cuttack • Reportedly, the 2022 Odisha Open is a Badminton
World Federation (BWF) Super 100 tournament. It is
C. Bhuvaneshwar the third tournament of the 2022 BWF World Tour
and is the first edition of the Odisha Open.
D. Rourkela • This tournament is organized by the Badminton
Association of India with sanctions from the
Badminton World Federation.
Ans-B
14) Who has written the book ‘A Little Boy of
India’?

• Author Ruskin Bond has come up with his book, "A

Little Book of India: Celebrating 75 years of
A. Pallavi Aiyar Independence".
• It pays homage to the country that has been his
B. Ruskin Bond home for 84 years.
• It has been published by Penguin Random House
C. Mridula Ramesh India.
• Ruskin is the recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award,
D. Jhumpa Lahiri Sahitya Akademi's Bal Sahitya Puraskar, Padma Shri
and Padma Bhushan.
Ans-B
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