Current Affairs: 9th February 2022

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1) What is India's score in the "Global Digital Skills
Index 2022"?
• Salesforce, a leading player in Customer Relationship
• Management (CRM), published the 2022 Global Digital
Skills Index which highlights the growing global digital
A. 86 skills crisis and the need for action.
• India has scored 63 out of 100, leads the digital skills
B. 56 readiness, and has the highest readiness index among the
19 countries. The average global readiness score was 33
C. 79 out of 100.
• The 2022 Global Digital Skills Index, is based on a survey
D. 63 on around 23000 workers across 19 countries about
digital skills, including their impact on the future of work,
concerns about job readiness, and the significance of
continuous learning.
Ans-D
2) World’s largest Igloo Cafe has been inaugurated
in which country?

A. Gulmarg • An igloo cafe, claimed to be the world’s largest, has

been opened at Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir.
B. Srinagar • With a height of 37.5 feet and a diameter of 44.5
feet, this was the world’s largest cafe of its kind.
C. Jammu • According to the Guinness Book of World Records,
the Biggest Igloo Cafe is in Switzerland, and its height
D. Anantnag is 33.8 feet and diameter 42.4 feet.

Ans-A
3) Which country has won "Africa Cup of Nations
championship"?
• Senegal has defeated Egypt in the “Africa Cup of
Nations championship” winning the continental
championship for the first time on penalty kicks at
A. Libya Olembe Stadium in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
• Sadio Mane scored the winning spot-kick as Senegal
B. Guinea claimed a first-ever Africa Cup of Nations title with a
4-2 penalty shootout victory over seven-time winners
C. Senegal Egypt. The final had ended 0-0 after extra time.
• Senegal had lost two finals previously, including at
D. Egypt the last African Cup in Egypt in 2019, when Mané
was left inconsolable. This time he delivered the
winning moment.
Ans-C
4) Who has been appointed as the Brand
Ambassador of Uttarakhand?

• Bollywood star Akshay Kumar has been appointed as

A. Virat Kohli the brand ambassador of Uttarakhand, the chief
minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has announced on 7th
B. Akshay Kumar February 2022, ahead of Assembly Elections 2022.
• In 2021, cricketer Rishabh Pant, who hails from
C. Arjun Rampal Roorkee, was appointed as Uttarakhand's brand
ambassador. In 2017, Kumar was appointed as the
D. Farhan Akhtar state's brand ambassador for 'Swachhata Abhiyan'

Ans-B
5) In which state the Central Government has
announced to set up 4000 telecom towers?

• Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on February 6 said

around 4,000 mobile towers will be installed across
A. Odisha Odisha to ensure that villages get access to internet
connectivity.
B. Punjab • Vaishnaw said nearly about 6,000 villages in Odisha
remain out of mobile connectivity due to lack of
C. Haryana mobile towers.
• Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had
D. Chhatishgarh sanctioned a proposal for installation of mobile
towers at 3,933 sites in the state. In some places, one
site will cover more than one village.
Ans-A
6) Who has overtakes Mukesh Ambai to become
Asia’s richest person?
• Adani Group founder and billionaire Gautam Adani has
become Asia's richest person, ranks 10th among the
wealthiest people of the world, as per Bloomberg
A. Azim Premji Billionaires Index on February 8, 2022.
• Adani overtook Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani to
B. Gautam Adani be ranked among the top 10 wealthiest persons of the
world.
C. Shiv Nadar • He is ranked 10th with a net worth of $88.5B , while
Mukesh Ambani is ranked 11th with $87.9B , as per the
D. Uday Kotak Bloomberg index.
• Last year in November, Mukesh Ambani was the richest
person in India and Asia with Gautam Adani trailing him
by about $2.2 billion. Ans-B
7) Which force has launched nationwide “AAHT
operation” to curb human trafficking?

• Indian Railway Protection Force has launched a

nationwide operation to curb human trafficking.
A. CRPF • As part of “Operation AAHT”, special teams will be
deployed on all long-distance trains/routes with a
B. BSF focus on rescuing victims, particularly women and
children, from the clutches of traffickers.
C. RPF • The Railways, which operate about 21,000 trains
across the country daily, is the most reliable mode of
D. CISF transportation for the traffickers who often moved
their victims on longdistance trains.
Ans-C
8) Who took charge as the Director of Vikram
Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)?
• Scientist and launch vehicle specialist, Dr S
Unnikrishnan Nair took charge as the director of
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC).
A. Vinod Gupta • VSSC is a keyspace research centre of the Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and specialises in
B. Ratan Sinha rocket and space vehicles for satellite programs.
• Nair, who started his career in VSSC Trivandrum in
C. Amalendu Pai 1985, has made significant contributions in launch
vehicle mechanisms, acoustic protection systems and
D. Dr Unnikrishnan Nair payload fairing areas during his tenure.
• Nair has BTech in Mechanical Engineering from
Kerala
Ans-D
9) Who take additional charge as the CMD of Power
System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO)?

• S. R. Narasimhan, Director (System Operation) has

assumed the additional charge of the post of
A. Gireesh Pradhan Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Power
System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO)
B. S.R. Narasimhan w.e.f. 1st February 2022 at New Delhi.
• He has a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering
C. Rakesh Nath and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) in
Finance.
D. Satnam Singh • He has over three decades’ experience in Power
System Operation spread across CEA, POWERGRID
and POSOCO after an initial stint with BHEL.
Ans-B
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