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January 16 | Daily Current Affairs 2021

SPORTS

1. Wayne Rooney has announced retirement. He is related to which sports?
A) Football
B) Volleyball
C) Cricket
D) Athlete
E) Badminton
Answer: A) Football

• England’s record goal-scorer Wayne Rooney has retired to become full-time manager at English second-tier team Derby County.

Careers:

• Rooney earned 120 caps for England and scored 53 goals.
• He surpassed Bobby Charlton as the highest goal scorer for the country when he scored his 50th international goal from a penalty in a Euro 2016 qualifying match against Switzerland in September 2015.
• Rooney retired from international football in August 2017 but returned on November 4, 2018 to play one final game for England.

Wayne Rooney – England’s record goal-scorer announces retirement + Becomes full-time manager at Derby County

OBITUARY

2. Kamal Morarka passed away. He was related to which field?
A) Actor
B) Politician
C) Writer
D) Journalist
E) Sports
Answer: B) Politician

• Former Union minister and noted businessman Kamal Morarka died.
• Morarka was a Union minister in the Chandra Shekhar government in 1990-91 and a Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan from Janata Dal (Secular) during 1988-94.
• Morarka was also a noted industrialist and was the chairman of Morarka Organic.
• He was also a philanthropist and social worker and contributed to organic farming in his native Shekhawati in Rajasthan.

Kamal Morarka – Former Union minister and noted businessman.

3. Hanumanth Hugar passed away. He won the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award in which year?
A) 2011
B) 2012
C) 2015
D) 2013
E) 2014
Answer: C) 2015

• Rajyotsava awardee and Journalist Hanumanth Hugar passed away in Hubballi at his residence.
• Mr. Hugar had served as the president of the Dharwad District Union of Working Journalists (DDUWJ) and was elected to the Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Council.
• The State government honored him with the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award in 2015 and the DDUWJ had recently honored him with its lifetime achievement award.

Hanumanth Hugar – Rajyotsava awardee and journalist.

BANKING AND FINANCE

4. Which Insurance company has tied up with Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh Finance Corporation to provide customized general insurance solutions and innovative products for the MSME sector?
A) Raheja QBE General Insurance
B) Oriental General Insurance
C) Shriram General Insurance
D) SBI General Insurance
E) Universal Sompo General Insurance
Answer: E) Universal Sompo General Insurance

• Universal Sompo General Insurance Company has tied up with Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh Finance Corporation.
• The finance corporation operates in the territory of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, and provides financial assistance to small and medium enterprises, among others

Universal Sompo General Insurance Company:
Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra
MD & CEO: Sharad Mathur

Universal Sompo General Insurance + J&K finance corporation – Financial assistance and provide Insurance to small and medium enterprises, among others

 

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

5. According to which organisation, Global temperatures in 2020 were among the highest on record?
A) WHO
B) UNICEF
C) UNDP
D) WMO
E) UNESCO
Answer: D) WMO

• Global temperatures in 2020 were among the highest on record and rivalled 2016 as the hottest year ever, according to international data compiled by the World Meteorological Organization.
• The WMO report included data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the UK Met Office, both of which ranked 2020 as the second-warmest year on record, as a cooling trend called La Ninaa failed to tame global temperatures. NASA, whose data was also included, said 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record.

WMO:
Abbreviation: The World Meteorological Organization
Founded: 1950
Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
President: Gerhard Adrian
WMO – Global temperatures in 2020 among highest on record

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

6. The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Muslim Pasts is authored by whom?
A) Alice Walker
B) Audrey Truschke
C) Bret Easton Ellis
D) Stephen King
E) Rachel Kushner
Answer: B) Audrey Truschke

• Published by Penguin India.

The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Muslim Pasts – Audrey Truschke (Author) – Published by Penguin India

AWARDS

7. Who won the Indian Personality of the Year Award at the 51st edition of the International Film Festival of India?
A) Shri Bhuvan Chatterjee
B) Shri Biren Chatterjee
C) Shri Biswajit Chatterjee
D) Shri Biman Chatterjee
E) Shri Binoj Chatterjee
Answer: C) Shri Biswajit Chatterjee

• The 51st edition of the International Film Festival of India, Goa has conferred Shri Biswajit Chatterjee, veteran actor, producer, director and singer of Hindi and Bengali cinema, with the Indian Personality of the Year Award.
• The Award has been announced at the opening ceremony of the festival, by Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Shri Prakash Javadekar.

Chief Guest:

• The Chief Guest at the Opening Ceremony of the IFFI will be Indian film actor Shri Sudeep Sanjeev, better known as Sudeep.
• Other than being an actor, Sudeep is also a director, producer, screenwriter, television presenter and singer.
• He primarily works in Kannada language films, in addition to his appearances in Telugu, Hindi and Tamil films.

Biswajit Chatterjee – Veteran Actor and Director – Indian Personality of the Year Award, at 51st IFFI.

8. Tyler Perry won Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 93rd Oscars Awards. He is related to which field?
A) Actress
B) Film Maker
C) Comedian
D) Singer
E) Dancer
Answer: B) Film Maker

• Filmmaker Tyler Perry and the Motion Picture and Television Fund are being honoured with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• The group that puts on the Oscars decided to give the award to two recipients this year in recognition of the “widespread generosity” that they’ve witnessed amid the pandemic.
• It’s also the first time an organization has received the award.
• Both Perry and the MPTF have strived to help people in the entertainment industry impacted by the health crisis. Perry helped create a safe way for many to return to work at his Tyler Perry Studios while the MPTF has provided social services to nearly 9,000 members.
• There have been 39 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Awards given since 1957, with recipients including Bob Hope, Oprah Winfrey and, most recently, Geena Davis.

Tyler Perry + MPTF = Humanitarian award at Oscars.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

9. Which University develops rapid blood test to identify patients at highest risk of severe COVID-19?
A) Harvard University
B) Imperial College London
C) University of Oxford
D) University of Cambridge
E) Washington University School of Medicine
Answer: E) Washington University School of Medicine

• Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that a relatively simple and rapid blood test can predict — within a day of a hospital admission — which patients with Covid-19 are at the highest risk of severe complications or death.
  The study, published in the journal JCI Insight, involved nearly 100 patients newly admitted to the hospital with Covid-19.
• The researchers vouched for the blood test that measures levels of mitochondrial DNA, a unique type of DNA molecule that normally resides inside the energy factories of cells.

Washington University School of Medicine – Rapid blood test detects Covid-19 patients at highest risk of complications.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

10. Which country has unveiled a new submarine-launched ballistic missile described by state media as the world’s most powerful weapon?
A) Iran
B) Iraq
C) North Korea
D) South Korea
E) South Africa
Answer: C) North Korea

• North Korea has unveiled a new submarine-launched ballistic missile described by state media as the world’s most powerful weapon.
• Pyongyang unveiled the missile during a military parade.
• The event did not showcase North Korea’s largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was unveiled at a much larger military parade in October.

North Korea:
Capital: Pyongyang
Currency: North Korean won
President: Kim Jong-un

North Korea – New submarine-launched ballistic missile.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

11. Which organization has inked a pact with PCRA for implementation of Energy Efficient PNG Cook Stove EEPS programme across India?
A) NHAI
B) NTPC
C) EESL
D) IOCL
E) BHEL
Answer: C) EESL

The EEPS programme:

• State-run Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) has inked a pact with Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA) for implementation of Energy Efficient PNG Cook Stove (EEPS) programme, across India.
• The MoU was exchanged in the presence of Tarun Kapoor, Secretary (Petroleum and Natural Gas) and Chairman, PCRA, during the inauguration of SAKSHAM (Sanrakshan Kshmata Mahotsav) Campaign 2021, a month-long annual event by PCRA.
• Under this MoU, the EESL will execute and implement the EEPS programme across India and will collaborate with the PCRA to promote the programme and distribute energy efficient PNG (piped natural gas) based cook stoves to prospective consumers.
• The EEPS programme, in its first phase, will witness the distribution of 10 lakh energy efficient PNG based cooking stoves in select cities of the country.
• The programme will be available to all PNG consumers in the relevant areas.

Online web portal and mobile app:

• The EESL will also develop an online web portal and mobile app to receive the orders from consumers, along with creating a real time dashboard to monitor the orders received and delivered.

EESL:
Abbreviation: Energy Efficiency Services Limited
Headquarters: New Delhi, Delhi
Chairman: Rajeev Sharma

EESL + PCRA = Implementation of EEPS programme across India.

12. Who launched India’s vaccination drive against the novel coronavirus via video conferencing?
A) Narendra Modi
B) Ramnath Kovind
C) Nirmala Sitharaman
D) Harsh Vardhan
E) Amit Shah
Answer: A) Narendra Modi

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched India’s vaccination drive against the novel coronavirus via video conferencing.
• Billed as the world’s largest vaccination program, covering the entire length and breadth of the country, the drive aims to first inoculate millions of its healthcare and frontline workers and reach an estimated 3 crore people by the end of its first phase.
• In the first phase government and private sector health care workers, including Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) workers, will receive the vaccine.
• In the next phases of the vaccination drive, people aged over 50, and those who are below 50 years but have serious health conditions or co-morbidities will be vaccinated.

Vaccines:

• The drugs regulatory body of India has currently approved two vaccines.
• Pune-based Serum Institute of India has developed the Covishield vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
• The Covaxin has been developed by Hyderabad’s Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Medical Council of research (ICMR) and National Institute of Virology.

Prime Minister, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space and All-important policy issues and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister:
Minister: Narendra Modi
Constituency: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Narendra Modi – Launch world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination drive in India.

13. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry launched month-long mass awareness campaign named _____ to spread awareness about green and clean energy?
A) ‘SAKTHI’
B) ‘SARAM’
C) ‘SAKSHAM’
D) ‘SAVAM’
E) ‘SASTRAM’
Answer: C) ‘SAKSHAM’

• The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry launched month-long mass awareness campaign ‘SAKSHAM’ to spread awareness about green and clean energy.
• The pan-India campaign will focus on adoption of cleaner fuels. The Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Tarun Kapoor launched the campaign in New Delhi.
• The campaign will spread awareness about seven key drivers that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently mentioned.
• They include moving towards a gas-based economy, cleaner use of fossil fuels, greater reliance on domestic sources to drive bio-fuels and increased use of electric vehicles.

Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel:
Minister: Dharmendra Pradhan
Constituency: Rajya Sabha MP, Madhya Pradesh

Petroleum & Natural Gas Ministry – SAKSHAM campaign to spread awareness about green energy

14. Which Minister laid the foundation stone of New Ultra-Modern Building of Command Hospital of Central Command in Lucknow?
A) Home Minister
B) Finance Minister
C) Women & Child Development Minister
D) Agriculture Minister
E) Defence Minister
Answer: E) Defence Minister

• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh laid the foundation stone of New Ultra-Modern Building of Command Hospital of Central Command in Lucknow.
• The New building of the Command Hospital in Lucknow will be constructed with estimated cost of 425 Crore rupees and is spread over 40 acres of land. It will have 6 blocks of 4 wings varying from 3 to 9 storeys.
• Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Army Chief Gen MM Naravane were also present during the ceremony.

Ministry of Defense:
Minister: Rajnath Singh
Constituency: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh:
Capital: Lucknow
CM: Yogi Adityanath
Governor: Anandiben Patel

Defence Minister – Foundation stone of New Ultra-Modern Building of Command Hospital of Central Command in Lucknow.

15. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched how much amount start-up seed fund to support new entrepreneurs?
A) ₹2,000 crore
B) ₹1,000 crore
C) ₹3,000 crore
D) ₹4,000 crore
E) ₹5,000 crore
Answer: B) ₹1,000 crore

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a ₹1,000 crore start-up seed fund at the Start-up India International Summit: Prarambh.

Prime Minister, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space and All-important policy issues and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister:
Minister: Narendra Modi
Constituency: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Narendra Modi – ₹1,000 crore seed fund to support start-ups.

16. Which state launched Free IAS coaching scheme for poor students?
A) Tamil Nadu
B) Kerala
C) Karnataka
D) Andhra Pradesh
E) Maharashtra
Answer: B) Kerala

• A scheme to provide free coaching to civil services and other competitive examinations to 10,000 meritorious but financially weak students across Kerala was launched by state Governor Arif Mohammad Khan.
• Declaring open the ‘One School, One IAS’ programme being implemented by Vedhik Erudite Foundation with the support of sponsors.

Kerala:
Capital: Thiruvananthapuram
CM: Pinarayi Vijayan
Governor: Arif Mohammed Khan

Kerala – Free IAS coaching scheme for poor students.

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