Current Affairs: 25th January 2022

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1) Which country has launched its first maritime
domain awareness satellite constellation?
• South Africa has launched its first satellite
constellation developed entirely in the continent of
Africa.
A. Australia • Three locally produced nanosatellites, which made
up the country’s first Maritime Domain Awareness
B. South Africa Satellite (MDASat) constellation, were launched from
Cape Canaveral in the United States, as part of
C. Israel American aerospace company SpaceX’s Transporter-3
mission.
D. Zimbabwe • Transporter-3, SpaceX’s third dedicated rideshare
mission, carried a total of 105 spacecraft for various
organisations and governments, including CubeSats,
microsats, Ans-B
2) Union Government has approved to set up a
Plastic Park in which city?

• The Central Government recently approved to build a

A. Kochi plastic park at Ganjimutt, Mangaluru, Karnataka.
• The park will be created at ₹62.77 crores.
B. Mangaluru • It is to be built by the Karnataka Industrial Areas
Development Board (KIADB) land.
C. Indore • Of the total estimated cost of 62.77 crores of rupees,
the union government will share 50%, that is, 31.38
D. Ahmadabad crores of rupees. The rest of the 50% is to be borne
by the KIADB.

Ans-B
3) Who has been named ICC Women's Cricketer of
the Year 2021?

A. Smriti Mandhana • The International Cricket Council (ICC) has

announced the winners of 17th edition of ICC Awards
B. Tammy Beaumont for the year 2021 to recognise and honour the best
international cricket players of the previous 12
C. Lizelle Lee months, between January 01, 2021 and December
31, 2021.
D. Mitali Raj

Ans-A
4) Which nation's football team had to withdraw
from AFC Women's Asia Cup 2022?

• The Indian women's football team has withdrawn

A. China from the ongoing AFC Women's Asian Cup 2022 after
several players tested positive for COVID-19.
B. Vietnam • Hosts India were considered to be withdrawn from
the tournament after they were unable to field 13
C. Iran players in their match against Chinese Taipei.
• All of India's matches stand cancelled and will be
D. India considered as null and void.

Ans-D
5) Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2022 has
been given to how many children?

A. 29 Children • The Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP)

for the year 2022 has been conferred to 29 children.
B. 35 Children • These winners include 15 Boys and 14 Girls,
belonging to 21 States and UTs.
C. 22 Children • The PMRBP award is given by the Government of
India to the children with exceptional abilities and
D. 18 Children outstanding accomplishments in 6 categories.

Ans-A
6) Who is the Chairperson of Prevention of Money
Laundering Act (PMLA) Adjudicating Authority?

A. Vinay Mittal • Vinodanand Jha has been appointed as the

Chairperson of the Prevention of Money Laundering
B. Rajni Razdan Act (PMLA)
• Adjudicating Authority, for a period of 5 years.
C. Vinodanand Jha • Mr. Jha is a 1983-batch retired IRS officer, who was
serving as the Principal Chief Commissioner of
D. Deepak Gupta Income Tax in Pune before this.

Ans-C
7) Which state has launched a one-stop website to
promote electric vehicles?

• The Delhi Government recently launched the one-

stop website to promote electric vehicles.
A. Uttarakhand • The website is ev.delhi.gov.in. The website is open for
manufacturers, buyers, charging station explorers.
B. Delhi • The main features of the website are EV search, EV
calculator and EV dashboard.
C. Haryana • The website also provides information about the
public charging stations in the capital. So far, Delhi
D. Uttar Pradesh has installed 377 charging points. They are spread
across 170 locations
Ans-B
8) Which country has organised the ‘Asia Ministerial
Conference on Tiger Conservation’?

• Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change

A. India Bhupender Yadav addressed the 4th Asia Ministerial
Conference on Tiger Conservation.
B. Malaysia • The government of Malaysia and Global Tiger Forum
(GTF) has organized the 4th Asia Ministerial
C. UK Conference on Tiger Conservation.
• The draft declaration on tiger conservation for Global
D. Sri Lanka Tiger Summit was finalized at a “Pre-Tiger Summit” in
New Delhi in 2010.

Ans-B
9) Which state became India's first to Animation,
Visual Effects, Gaming, and Comics (AVGC) Center
of Excellence?
• Government of Karnataka has launched India’s first
AVGC Center of Excellence (CoE) (Animation, Visual
A. Bihar Effects, Gaming, and Comics) in Mahadevapura,
Bengaluru, Karnataka.
B. Maharashtra • AVGC CoE was launched with pioneering high
technology digital media hub under its Innovate
C. Karnataka Karnataka initiative. It is funded by Department of
Electronics Information Technology Biotechnology
D. Kerala and Science & Technology.
• Karnataka became India’s first state to set up such an
AVGC CoE, it is also the biggest center in Asia
Ans-C
10) Which state/UT's team has won 9th National
Women’s Ice Hockey Championship?
• The women’s team from Ladakh has lifted the 9th
National Women’s Ice Hockey Championship in
Himachal Pradesh on January 21, 2022.
A. Ladakh • The championship was organised by the Ice Hockey
Association of India at Kaza area in Lahaul-Spiti
B. Delhi district of Himachal Pradesh from January 15 to 21,
2022.
C. Telangana • A total of six teams participated in the championship
from Delhi, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh,
D. Chandigarh Telangana and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.
• The current President of the Association is Dr.
Surinder Mohan Bali.
Ans-A
11) Haryana state government has partnered with
which state to revive the Saraswati river?

• The state governments of Haryana and Himachal

Pradesh have signed a memorandum of
A. Rajasthan understanding (MoU) to revive the Saraswati river.
• The MoU was signed in the presence of Haryana CM
B. Punjab Manohar Lal Khattar and Himachal CM Jai Ram
Thakur in Panchkula on January 21, 2022.
C. Himachal Pradesh • Under the MoU, the Haryana Government will
construct a dam and a reservoir in Adi Badri area
D. Uttarakhand near Yamunanagar district, which is situated on the
border of Himachal Pradesh
Ans-C
12) Which nation has emerged as the largest
exporter of cucumber and gherkins in the world?

• India has emerged as the largest exporter of

A. China cucumber and gherkins in the world.
• India has exported cucumber and gherkins to the
B. Afghanistan tune of over one lakh 23 thousand Metric Tonnes
with a value of 114 million US dollar during April to
C. Bangladesh October 2020-21.
• In 2020-21, India had shipped over 2 lakh 23
D. India thousand Metric Tonnes of cucumber and gherkins
with a value of 223 million US dollar.

Ans-D
13) The Deep Space Food Challenge has been
launched by which space agency?

• The US Space agency, NASA, has launched Phase 2 of

the challenge called as ‘Deep Space Food Challenge’
A. ISRO in coordination with the Canadian Space Agency.
• The competition invites teams to design, build, and
B. NASA demonstrate innovative and sustainable prototypes
of food production technologies and produce food
C. SpaceX for judging.
• The technology will help future astronauts to
D. Roscosmos produce nutritious, tasty, and satisfying meals on
long-duration space missions, that require minimal
resources and produce minimal waste.
Ans-
14) Where will a museum be built in memory of the
recent 1930's Jungle Satyagraha?

• Union Ministry of Culture has started the process to

A. Maharashtra set up a museum at Pusad in Maharashtra to
commemorate a `jungle satyagraha’ led by RSS
B. Manipur founder Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in 1930.
• MP Rakesh Sinha, who had demanded that a
C. Rajasthan museum be built at `Satyagraha Sthal’ at Pusad in
Yavatmal district as part of the celebration of the
D. Meghalaya 75th anniversary of Independence

Ans-A
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