Monthly

Current Affairs
January 2022
1.Who has been appointed as the new Chairman and CEO of
the Railway Board?
Answer: Vinay Kumar Tripathi
2.Which country has started the world's longest metro line?
Answer: China
3.India's first ‘Rock’ museum has been inaugurated in which
city?
Answer: Hyderabad
4.How many aircraft took part in the Republic Day Flypast
2022?
Answer: 75
5.Which is the first city of India to have a water metro project?
Answer: Kochi
6.How many people have been conferred with the Padma Awards
in 2022?
Answer: 128
7.India's first Mobile Honey Processing Van was launched in which
state?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
8.Which state's High Court has become the country's first paperless
court?
Answer: Kerala
9.Who has been appointed as new Director-General for the
National Mission for Clean Ganga?
Answer: G Ashok Kumar
10.Who is the author of Ratan Tata's authorized biography titled
‘Ratan N. Tata: The Authorized Biography’ ?
Answer: Thomas Matthew
11.Which station has been renamed as Veerangana Laxmibai
Railway Station?
Answer: Jhansi Railway Station
12.Who has been appointed as the new MD and CEO of Punjab
National Bank by the Government of India?
Answer: Atul Kumar Goel
13.Who has been appointed as the Director General of
Forests of India?
Answer: Chandra Prakash Goyal
14.Who has become the first Indian-origin woman to trek solo
to the South Pole?
Answer: Harpreet Chandi
15.In which state the Central Government has approved to
host the Khelo India Youth Games 2022-23?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
16.Which country has introduced the world's first dual-mode
vehicle to run on both roads and on rail track?
Answer: Japan
17.PM Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Major
Dhyan Chand Sports University in which city?
Answer: Meerut
18.For which language Sahitya Akademi has selected Daya
Prakash Sinha for Sahitya Akademi Award 2021?
Answer: Hindi
19.Who has assumed as the Director-General of the Indian Coast
Guard (ICG)?
Answer: Virender Singh Pathania
20.Which institution was ranked 1st in the ARIIA (Atal Ranking of
Institutions on Innovation Achievements) 2021?
Answer: IIT Madras
21.Who received the Sahitya Academy Awards 2021 in the
English language?
Answer: Namita Gokhale
22.Which country will host the 46-nation mega naval battle
‘Exercise Milan 2022’?
Answer: India
23.Who has recently been given the World CEO Winner of the
Year 2021 Award?
Answer: Kishore Kumar Yedam
24.As of January 1, 2022, what is the estimated population of
the world, as per the US Census Bureau?
Answer: 7.8 billion
25.Which state has been named as the host for the National Youth
Festival 2022?
Answer: Puducherry
26.Who has authored the new book titled "Gandhi's Assassin: The
Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India"?
Answer: Dhirendra Jha
27.Where was recently launched India's first mobile honey
processing van?
Answer: Ghaziabad
28.PM Modi has declared which day as ‘Veer Baal Diwas’ annually
from 2022?
Answer: December 26
29.Which day is marked as World Hindi Day globally every year?
Answer: January 10
30.The Indian Railways has renamed Kevadiya railway station by
which name?
Answer: Ekta Nagar railway station
31.Who has been awarded the 12th Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar
Award 2022?
Answer: Harshaali Malhotra
32.How many total athletes are there currently in the list of
athletes selected for the Target Olympic Podium Scheme?
Answer: 301
33.Which player has won the Australian Open 2022 women's
singles title?
Answer: Ashleigh Barty
34.Who has been appointed by the International Monetary
Fund as its new Chief Economist?
Answer: Pierre Olivier Gourinchas
35.In Chess, who has achieved the feat of becoming the 73rd
Grandmaster of India?
Answer: Bharath Subramaniyam
36.Who has won the 'Global Environment and Climate Action
Citizen Award 2021’?
Answer: Viral Desai
37.Which state has topped in terms of increase in forest cover
as per 'India State of Forest Report' 2021?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
38.India's first heli-hub has recently been inaugurated in which
place, having all aviation facilities?
Answer: Gurugram
39.Who is the author of the book "Indomitable: A Working
Woman's Notes on Work, Life and Leadership"?
Answer: Arundhati Bhattacharya
40.Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of the ISRO, to
replace K. Sivan?
Answer: S. Somanath
41.Army Day is being observed every year in India on which date?
Answer: January 15
42.Which bank has been named as the best private bank in India
in the recent Global Private Banking Awards 2021?
Answer: HDFC bank
43.Who has been appointed as the President of the Indian
Council of Historical Research?
Answer: Raghuvendra Tanwar
44.Birju Maharaj, who passed away on 17th January 2022,
belongs to which profession?
Answer: Kathak Dancer
45.Who is the winner of the Mrs World 2022 beauty pageant?
Answer: Shaylyn Ford of USA
46.Who has been awarded the Best FIFA Men's Player Award
2021?
Answer: Robert Lewandowski
47.The Best FIFA Women's Player of the year 2021 has been
won by whom?
Answer: Alexia Putellas
48.Who has been appointed as the new chairman and
managing director (CMD) of Air India Ltd?
Answer: Vikram Dev Dutt
49.Indonesia has decided to change its capital from Jakarta to
which new capital city?
Answer: Nusantara
50.Who has been appointed as the Chairman & MD of ONGC
(Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) ?
Answer: Alka Mittal
51.In which city, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil a
216-foot statue of "Statue of Equality"?
Answer: Hyderabad
52.Who has been appointed as the Managing Director of National
Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd?
Answer: Chanchal Kumar
53.Who is the author of the biography ‘Bose: The Untold Story of
An Inconvenient Nationalist’?
Answer: Chandrachur Ghose
54.Who has become India's first UN Development Programme
(UNDP) Youth Climate Champion?
Answer: Prajakta Koli
55.India's first para-badminton academy has been set up in which
city?
Answer: Lucknow
56.Which city is the host of the 2024 Summer Paralympics?
Answer: Paris
57.Who is the author of the book 'Legend of Birsa Munda'?
Answer: Tuhin A. Sinha
58.Who has been conferred with the Netaji Award 2022 by
the Netaji Research Bureau?
Answer: Shinzo Abe
59.Which day is being celebrated as the International Day of
Education globally?
Answer: January 24
60.Who has been named ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year
2021?
Answer: Shaheen Afridi
61.The Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2022 has been
conferred upon how many students?
Answer: 29
62.The Government of India has declared which day to be
observed as the National Tourism Day in the country?
Answer: January 25
63.Which state in India has set up the country's first Animation,
Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics Center of Excellence?
Answer: Karnataka
64.Which state/UT launched India's first District Good Governance
Index?
Answer: Jammu & Kashmir
65.Which Indian film has won the Best Film Award at the Dhaka
International Film Festival 2022?
Answer: Tamil film ‘Koozhangal’
66.In 2022, India is observing which edition of Republic Day?
Answer: 73rd
67.Which Indian actor has been felicitated with the Best Actor
award at the Dhaka International Film Festival 2022?
Answer: Malayalam actor Jayasurya
68.Who has been conferred with the Assam's highest civilian
honour 'Assam Baibhav' for the year 2021?
Answer: Ratan Tata
69.Who became the first Indian to complete NASA's International
Air and Space Program?
Answer: Jahnavi Dangeti
70.What is the rank of India in the Corruption Perceptions Index
2021?
Answer: 85
71.Which state has got the first place in the list of open defecation
free villages?
Answer: Telangana
72.How many Gallantry awards have been conferred by the
President of India in 2022?
Answer: 384
73.India's first Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat will be
posthumously honoured with which award?
Answer: Padma Vibhushan
74.Which brand has emerged as the world's most valuable
brand in 2022 according to the Brand Finance 2022 Global
500 report?
Answer: Apple
75.Who is the author of the book titled “A Little Book of India:
Celebrating 75 years of Independence” ?
Answer: Ruskin Bond
76.What is the name of the official mobile app of the Parliament
of India, launched by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla?
Answer: Digital Sansad App
77.The world's largest canal lock has recently been unveiled in
which country?
Answer: Netherlands
78.Who has been appointed as the new chief economic advisor
(CEA) to the Government of India?
Answer: V Anantha Nageswaran
79.India's first innovation centre for graphene is set to be
established in which city of the country?
Answer: Thrissur in Kerala
80.Which country is the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics?
Answer: China
81.India's largest electric vehicle charging station has been
inaugurated at which place?
Answer: Gurugram
82.Who has been appointed as the new chairman and
managing director of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd?
Answer: Pushp Kumar Joshi
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