Daily Current Affairs Quiz - 26th & 27th January 2018

Current Affairs Quiz - 26th And 27th January 2018

You must solve the Daily Current Affairs Quiz - 26th & 27th January 2018 for upcoming IBPS, SSC exams. The question set covers all important news and affairs those may appear as  questions in various competitive exams. Read the Current Affairs Updates thoroughly.

Q1. Name the metropolitan city that has got the first floating market of India .

A]New Delhi
B]Kolkata
C]Mumbai
D]Chennai
E]Bengaluru




Q2. India has celebrated its ___ Republic Day on 26th January, 2018 .
A]67th
B]68th
C]69th
D]70th
E]71st


Q3.Name the personality who has been elected as the first woman chairman of Indian Banks' Association (IBA).
A]Shreeradha Krishnan
B]Yamuna Devi
C]Suhani Sahai
D]Usha Ananthasubramanian
E]None of them


Q4.The World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched a new Global Centre for Cybersecurity to safeguard the world from hackers and growing data breaches from nation-states. The headquarter of WEF is situated in ____.
A]New York
B]London
C]Rome
D]Berlin
E]Geneva


Q5.Name the state that has launched the release of benefits under 'Mahatma Gandhi Sarbat Vikas Yojana' (MGSVY) for the inclusive growth of the distressed sections of the society .
A]Tamilnadu
B]Punjab
C]Uttar Pradesh
D]Madhya Pradesh
E]Jharkhand


Q6.India has released its first ever set of commemorative postage stamps to mark the long- term friendly bilateral relationships with which country ?
A]Cambodia
B]Myanmar
C]Thailand
D]Vietnam
E]Israel


Q7.Padmashree awardee Supriya Devi has passed away. She was a/an ____ .
A]Singer
B]Actress
C]Journalist
D]Social Activist
E]None of these


Q8.Name the vaccine that has become the first Indigenously developed vaccine from India to be pre-qualified by World Health Organisation (WHO) .
A]DTaP
B]Hib (PRP-T)
C]MMR
D]Rotovac
E]None of these


Q9.President of India Ramnath Kovind has awarded India's highest peacetime military decoration Ashok Chakra posthumously to ______ on 26th January, 2018.
A]Sukhbinder Singh
B]Sekhar Ghosh
C]Jyoti Prakash Nirala
D]Rahul Kumar
E]None of them


Q10.Who among the following personalities has/ have won Padma Vibhushan in the field of Art (Music) this year ?
A]Ilayaraja
B]Ghulam Mustafa Khan
C]Parameswaran Parameswaran
D]A and B
E]All of these


Q11.Name the cricketer who has recently won Padma Bhushan award .
A]Virat Kohli
B]Mahendra Singh Dhoni
C]Rohit Sharma
D]Shikhar Dhawan
E]None of them


Q12.Which of the following countries has successfully cloned monkeys ?
A]Russia
B]Japan
C]China
D]US
E]UK


Q13.Name the political personality who has released the pictorial book "Dilli Meri Dilli: Before and After 1998″ .
A]Sheila Dixit
B]Arvind Kejriwal
C]Sonia Gandhi
D]Rahul Gandhi
E]None of them


Q14.Name the state that has launched the "Shakti App" for women .
A]Haryana
B]Himachal Pradesh
C]Punjab
D]Bihar
E]Orissa


Q15.Who is the next Ambassador of India to Republic of Niger ?
A]Siddharth Sahai
B]Bhushan Trivedi
C]Yadugopal Mishra
D]Rajesh Agarwal
E]None of them


Answer with Explanation

Explanation 1. Over 110 boats will host shops that shoppers can access via wooden walkways. Kolkata is now witness to a floating market, the first of its kind across any metro. It aims to rehabilitate over 200 shopkeepers whose outlets were demolished for a road widening project.

Explanation 2. India celebrates its 69th Republic Day this year and it is a national holiday across the country. Indian republic day is celebrated each year on 26th January commemorating the day when India officially became a republic and the Indian Constitution was officially enforced.

Explanation 3. Usha Ananthasubramanian, MD and CEO, Allahabad Bank, has been elected the first woman chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA). Usha was elected IBA Chairman for the year 2017-18 by its Managing Committee.

Explanation 4. In a bid to safeguard the world from hackers and growing data breaches especially from nation-states, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced a new Global Centre for Cybersecurity. Headquartered in Geneva, the centre will become operational from March.

Explanation 5. Punjab chief minister has launched the release of benefits under 'Mahatma Gandhi Sarbat Vikas Yojana' aimed at the inclusive growth of the distressed sections of the society. He appealed to the state's debt- ridden farmers not to commit suicide since his government was committed to the total implementation of its farm debt waiver scheme by November 2018.

Explanation 6. India and Vietnam have released first ever set of commemorative postage stamps to mark the long term friendly bilateral relationships between the two countries. The first ever joint issue of commemorative postage stamps between India and Vietnam on the theme of ancient architecture is a symbol of strong friendship between the two countries.

Explanation 7. Veteran Bengali actress and Padma Shri awardee Supriya Devi has died at her residence in Kolkata. She was 83.

Explanation 8. In a major boost for India's national immunisation programme, an indigenously developed vaccine against rotavirus gastroenteritis (Rotovac) has been 'pre-qualified' for the first time by the World Health Organisation.

Explanation 9. IAF Commando Jyoti Prakash Nirala To Be Awarded Ashok Chakra Posthumously on Republic Day of 2018. IAF Garud commando Jyoti Prakash Nirala was killed in the operation in Chandergeer, a village in the Hajin area of Kashmir's Bandipora district on November 18, 2017.

Explanation 10. Ghulam Mustafa Khan and Ilayaraja and have won Padma Vibhushan in the field of Art (Music) this year.

Explanation 11. President of India Ramnath Kovind has honoured sports icons M.S. Dhoni and Pankaj Advani with Padma Bhushan this year .

Explanation 12. For the past decade, Mu-Ming Poo, the director of the Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai, has been on a quest to make monkeys that can be used to study human disease. The researchers in his institute has recently announced a major milestone: the births of Zhongzhong and Huahua, the first two monkey clones created using the same technique behind Dolly the sheep.

Explanation 13. Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit has termed her conscious decision to function in harmony with Union governments of the time as the reason for being able to govern the city successfully for three terms since 1998. Ex-CM Sheila Dikshit makes debut as author, in her first book Dilli Meri Dilli: Before and After 1998, looks at the Capital’s changing face.

Explanation 14. To ensure safety and protection of women, Himachal Pradesh chief minister Jai Ram Thakur has launched 'Shakti App'. Any women at the time of any trouble can press the red button of the app to seek help and even if the mobile phone is shaken hard or dropped, then too an emergency SMS will go immediately to the nearest police control room within 20 seconds.

Explanation 15. Shri Rajesh Agarwal, presently Counsellor, High Commission of India, Port Moresby has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Niger.