Current Affairs: 3rd February 2022

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1) Rank of LIC in the list of insurance brands globally
as per Brand Finance Report?

• As per a brand valuation report released by Brand

Finance, Life Insurance Corporation has been ranked
A. 5th at 10th in the list of insurance brands globally.
• Ping An Insurance of China is at the top.
B. 8th • LIC is the only Indian insurance company in the top
10 list.
C. 10th • LIC has a valuation of $8.656 billion (around ₹64,722
crore).
D. 13th • As per Brand Finance, the market value of LIC will
become ₹43.40 lakh crore ($59.21 billion) by 2022,
and ₹58.9-lakh crore ($78.63 billion) by 2027.
Ans-C
2) Which Indian athlete has been nominated for the
Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year 2022
Award?

• India's Olympic Champion Neeraj Chopra has been

A. Neeraj Chopra nominated for the Laureus World Breakthrough of
the Year Award 2022.
B. Rani Rampal • He is one of the six nominees for the award.
• The other nominees include Russian tennis star Daniil
C. PR Sreejesh Medvedev, British tennis player Emma Raducanu,
Spanish footballer Pedri, Australian Olympic
D. PV Sindhu champion Ariarne Titmus and Venezuelan athlete
Yulimar Rojas.

Ans-A
3) Who has overtaken Bengaluru as the Startup
Capital of India?
• Delhi has replaced Bengaluru as the Startup Capital
of India, according to the Economic Survey 2021-22
tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the
A. Mumbai Parliament on 31st January 2022.
• The survey says that over 5,000 recognised start-ups
B. Gurugram were added in Delhi while 4,514 start-ups were
added in Bengaluru between April 2019 to December
C. Delhi 2021.
• With a total of 11,308 start-ups, Maharashtra has the
D. Hyderabad highest number of recognised startups.
• India had a record number of start-ups (44) reach
unicorn status in 2021.
Ans-C
4) The Lunar New Year 2022 marks the start of Year
of which animal?

• The Lunar New Year was observed on February 1,

A. Year of Ox 2022. It also known as the Chinese New Year or the
Spring Festival in China.
B. Year of Tiger • The celebration marks the end of the Year of the Ox
and the start of the Year of the Tiger.
C. Year of Pig • The New Year is celebrated by nearly 2 billion people
in Korea, Singapore, Mongolia, Tibet, Vietnam and in
D. Year of Lion Asian communities, for more than two weeks.

Ans-B
5) Who has been appointed as the new chief of the
Defense Intelligence Agency?

• Lieutenant General GAV Reddy has been appointed

as the new head of the Defence Intelligence Agency.
A. GAV Reddy • General Reddy would be succeeding Lt Gen KJS
Dhillon.
B. Urjit Patel • Lieutenant General KJS Dhillon retired after serving in
various strategic positions during his 39-year career
C. Sadisha Das in the Indian Army.
• The Director-General of the Defence Intelligence
D. Kamal Davar Agency is the head of the organisation and is among
the principal advisors on intelligence to the Minister
of Defence and the Chief of Defence Staff.
Ans-A
6) Which is the official Mascot of Punjab election?

• Chief Electoral Officer’s office of Punjab unveiled its

election mascot, “Shera” (Lion).
• It aims to increase voter awareness, participation and
A. Gajraj promote ethical voting in the Punjab Assembly polls
that is scheduled on 20 February 2022.
B. Ananya • The mascot “Shera”, depicting a lion. It represents
the rich cultural heritage of Punjab.
C. Rubigula • It is promoted under the Systematic Voters Education
and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) project of the
D. Shera Election Commission of India (ECI). SVEEP project was
started in 2009, as the flagship program of the ECI for
voter education
Ans-D
7) Which Ministry has launched "Federated Digital
Identities"?

A. Ministry of Finance • The Ministry of Electronics and IT has introduced the

“Federated Digital Identities”.
B. IT Ministry • It aims to inter link the multiple identities of Indian
citizens.
C. Ministry of Health • For instance, the digital IDs like Aadhaar, Passport
and PAN are inter linked and stored under a new
D. None of these unique ID

Ans-B
8) Currently, How many Indian sites are listed in
UNESCO’s Tentative List of Heritage Sites?

• The Ministry of Culture has nominated the ‘Sacred

A. 41 Ensembles of Hoysala’ located in Karnataka for
UNESCO’s World Heritage List for 2022-2023.
B. 46 • The ‘Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala’ are on
UNESCO’s Tentative list since April 15, 2014.
C. 52 • The Hoysala Temples was formally submitted for the
nomination by the Permanent Representative of
D. 61 India to UNESCO Vishal V Sharma on January 31,
2022.

Ans-B
9) What is the amount of GST collected in January
2022?

• The monthly GST collections in January 2022 crossed

A. ₹1.31 lakh crore ₹1.30 lakh crore for the fourth time in the history of
GST.
B. ₹1.19 lakh crore • The collections in January 2022 till 3 pm on 31
January 2022 was at ₹1,38,394 crore. January 2022
C. ₹1.38 lakh crore collections were 15 percent higher than collections in
the same month last year and 25 percent higher than
D. ₹1.39 lakh crore the GST revenues in January 2020.

Ans-C
10) Recently, Which state has got Freight train
connectivity for the first time?
• The first freight train reached the Rani Gaidinliu
station of Manipur on 27 January.
• Manipur gets freight train connectivity for the first
A. Manipur time in the last 75 years.
• Recently, a passenger train from Silchar in Assam
B. Nagaland reached the Bongaichungpao railway station in
Manipur for the first time.
C. Mizoram • Freight train connectivity will boost transportation of
goods and promote economic activities in the
D. Assam northeast region.
• The government has allocated ₹7,000 crore for the
ongoing railway projects in the northeast.
Ans-A
11) How many players are included in the final IPL
2022 Player Auction List?
• The Indian Premier League (IPL) announced the final
player auction list comprising 590 players on
February 1, 2022.
A. 1090 players • Among the 590 players included in the IPL 2022
Players Auction List, 228 are capped players, 355 are
B. 590 players uncapped players and 7 belong to Associate Nations.
• The players includes a total of 370 Indian players and
C. 630 players 220 overseas players, with 20 players with a res erve
price of ₹1.5 crore and 34 players with a reserve
D. 750 players price of ₹1 crore.
• The IPL 2022 Mega Auction is scheduled to be held in
Bengaluru on February 12 and 13.
Ans-B
12) Which State/UT has approved Ex-gratia relief of
₹20,000 per acre to farmers?

• The Delhi cabinet approved ex-gratia relief of

₹20,000 per acre to farmers whose lands were
A. West Bengal damaged by rains last year.
• In September-October 2021, several acres of
B. Delhi farmland were damaged due to heavy rain and
water-logging in fields.
C. Punjab • If the damage is found to be 70% or less, the
compensation will be 70% of the amount.
D. Uttar Pradesh • If the assessed loss is more than 70%, ₹20,000 per
acre will be paid.
Ans-B
13) Sergio Mattarella has been elected as the
President of which country for the second term?

• Italian President Sergio Mattarella has been elected

to a second term in the recent round of elections.
A. Brazil • Mattarella was reconfirmed with a broad majority, in
the voting done by lawmakers and regional
B. Italy representatives.
• The 80-year-old Jurist-Academic has been serving as
C. France the country’s President since 2015.
• Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told that the re-
D. Ukraine election was "a victory for the country." Luigi Di Maio
is also a leading figure of Five Star Movement, which
is a political party in Italy.
Ans-B
14) ‘Bloody Sunday’ is a commemorative event
marked by which country?

• Northern Ireland is marking 50 years of "Bloody

A. USA Sunday", on which British soldiers fired upon a crowd
of protesters, killing 14 people.
B. Ireland • Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin also tweeted
that the country is paying tribute to the families of
C. Germany the victims.
• The violence took place during a march organized by
D. Italy the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.

Ans-B
15) “Vayam Rakshamah” or “We Protect” is the
theme of which armed force of India?
• The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is celebrating its 46th
Raising Day on 01 February 2022.
A. Indian Coast Guard • The ICG was formally established on February 1,
1977, under the Coast Guard Act, 1978 of the
B. Indo-Tibetan Border Parliament of India.
• ICG operates under the Ministry of Defence.
Police • India has the fourth-largest Coast Guard in the
World.
C. Assam Sentinels • Beginning with just 7 surface platforms in 1978, ICG
currently comprise of 158 ships and 70 aircraft in its
D. BSF inventory and is likely to achieve targeted force levels
of 200 surface platforms and 80 aircraft by 2025.
Ans-A
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