Current Affairs 8th January

 Current Affairs of 8th January

1) Who has won the title of 48th National Women's Chess Championship?

A. Divya Deshmukh 

B. Harika Dronavalli 

C. Koneru Humpy 

D. Prithu Gupta 

2) India's largest hockey stadium has been inaugurated in

A. Bhubaneswar 

B. Cuttack 

C. Rourkela 

D. Balasore

3) Who has become the 79th Grandmaster of India?

A. Sandipan Chanda 

B. Surya Sekhar 

C. Pranesh M 

D. Koustav Chatterjee

4) Northeastern cultural festival "Octave 2023" has been organised in

A. Tamil Nadu 

B. West Bengal 

C. Odisha 

D. Andhra Pradesh 

5) Which city police has won the ‘Best Police Unit’ award for 2021?

A. Nagpur Police 

B. Delhi Police 

C. Ahmedabad Police 

D. Mumbai Police 

6) India has overtaken which country to become the World's 3rd largest auto market?

A. U.S 

B. Japan 

C. China 

D. South Korea

7) India has deployed its "largest single contingent" of women peacekeepers in

A. Sudan 

B. Egypt 

C. Libya 

D. Eritrea

8) Which country has approved the use of the World's 1st Vaccine for Honey bees?

A. Japan 

B. India 

C. America 

D. Spain  

9) Ghaziabad-Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay section has become the longest fully automated block signalling section of Indian Railways. What is its length?

A. 735 km 

B. 746 km 

C. 762 km 

D. 781 km

10) First meeting of “G-20” will be held in

A. New Delhi 

B. Puducherry 

C. Guwahati 

D. Kolkata 

11) G20 foreign minister meet is scheduled to take place on March 2023 in

A. Mumbai 

B. Puducherry 

C. New Delhi 

D. Chennai 

12) Which Union Minister has launched the theme, logo and website of the Y20 summit?

A. Narendra Modi 

B. Anurag Singh Thakur 

C. Kiren Rijiju 

D. Amit Shah  

13) 3-day ‘North East Krishi Kumbha-2023’ has been inaugurated in

A. Tripura 

B. Nagaland 

C. Mizoram 

D. Meghalaya

14) Who has won the Best Director Award at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2022?

A. SS Rajamouli 

B. Mani Ratnam 

C. Anurag Kashyap 

D. Rajkumar Hirani 

15) "Purple Fest", India's first festival of inclusion, has been inaugurated in

A. Kerala 

B. Goa 

C. Karnataka 

D. Maharashtra

16) How many monuments have gone missing in India, as per the Ministry of Culture?

A. 20 

B. 50 

C. 80 

D. 100 

17) Union Minister Jitendra Singh has inaugurated the "National Genome Editing & Training Centre" in

A. Ludhiana 

B. Mohali 

C. Amritsar 

D. Jalandhar

18) Centre aims to eliminate Kala-azar from India by which year?

A. 2023 

B. 2024 

C. 2025 

D. 2026 

19) Which state government will open 122 new sports complexes in rural areas?

A. Odisha 

B. Telangana 

C. Karnataka 

D. Maharashtra 

20) Amit Shah has inaugurated the 120 feet high 'Polo Statue' in

A. Manipur 

B. Meghalaya 

C. Mizoram 

D. Nagaland

21) ISRO has tied up with whom to promote spacetech startups?

A. Google 

B. Microsoft 

C. Facebook 

D. Twitter

22) Who has been elected the Chairman of the 'Gems and Jewelery Council'?

A. Ajit Saxena 

B. Anjani Kumar 

C. Nalin Negi 

D. Sanyam Mehra  

23) Hydro tourism will be developed in which state/UT?

A. J&K 

B. Ladakh 

C. Uttarakhand 

D. Assam