Update your current affairs and gk knowledge with these short one liner questions and answers


  • Which team has won Italian Super Cup ?
-> Juventus 


  • Who has become the America's First Second Gentleman ?
-> Doug Emhoff


  • Which state has started Mukhyamantri Bagayat Vikas Mission ?
-> Gujarat


  • Where will be India's largest Multi Model Logistic Park established ?
-> Gujarat 


  • Which state's Police Academy was the best institution for training in the country for the year 2019-20 ?
-> Rajasthan


  • Which ministry is celebrating National Girl Child Week from 21 to 26 January 2021 ?
-> Ministry of Women and Child Development


  • Who has won the Gazprom Brilliancy Prize ?
-> Nihal Sarin


  • When was the International Day of Education observed ?
-> 24th January 


  • Who has been appointed as the new Chairperson of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council ( BCCC ) ?
-> Justice Gita Mittal


  • When was the National Girl Child Day celebrated ?
-> 24th January

  • Who wrote the book called ' SOUMITRA CHATTERJEE A Life in Cinema, Theater, Poetry, Painting ' ?
-> Arjun Sengupta and Partha Mukherjee

  • Who has become America's first female Treasury Chief ?
-> Janet Yellen

  • Who has been appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Textile ?
-> UP Kumar

  • What is the estimated GDP growth rate for India for the calendar year 2020 by United Nations ?
-> -9.6 %

  • Indian who was chosen as the part of UN High Level Advisory Board ?
-> Jayati Ghosh

  • In which state was the ' Ayushman CAPF ' scheme launched by Home Minister Amit Shah ?
-> Assam

  • Which Indian company has emerged as the 5th strongest brand in the world according to the ' Brand Finance Global 500 Ranking 2021' ?
-> Reliance Jio ( Brand Strength Index score of 91.7 out of 100 ) ( Most valuable brand - APPLE , Strongest brand - WECHAT )

  • Who is the Prime Minister of Italy who has recently resigned ?
-> Giuseppe Conte

  • India's famous player Prashant Dora , who recently passed away ,  was associated with which sports ?
-> Football

  • The Jayalalitha Memorial which is recently inaugurated in Tamil Nadu resembles to the shape of which bird ?
-> Phoenix Bird

  • Which is an initiative launched by India to gift COVID-19 vaccine to neighbouring countries ?
-> Vaccine Maitri

  • Who has launched ' Krishi Sakha ' app for farmers ?
-> Bharti AXA General Insurance ( through thif farmers will have access to Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana portal )

  • Who has presented Economic Survey 2020-21 in the Parliament on 29th January 2021 ?
-> Nirmala Sitharaman ( theme - Saving Lives and Livelihoods , V shaped Recovery )

  • What is India's rank in the new Coronavirus Performance Index released by Australia based Lowy Institute ?
-> 86th among 98 countries  ( 1st rank - New Zealand )

  • What is India's rank in the Corruption Perception Index ( CPI ) 2020 , released by Transparency International ?
-> 86th ( 80th rank in 2019 )  ( 1st rank - New Zealand and Denmark )

  • Who have been appointed as the new Managing Directors of State Bank of India ( SBI ) ?
-> Swaminathan Janakiraman and Ashwini Kumar Tewari

  • Who has chaired 35th PRAGATI meeting to review multiple projects , grievances and programme ? 
-> PM Narendra Modi

  • Which company has been ranked 3rd most valued IT services brand globally according to  a report by Brand Finance ?
-> Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS ) ( 1st - Accenture , 2nd - IBM ) 

  • Which tableau has bragged 1st prize among other tableau that were displayed during the Republic Day 2021 ?
-> Ram Temple Tableau of Uttar Pradesh  ( 2nd - Tripura Tableau , 3rd - Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand  )

  • Which state won National Award for Best Electoral Practices 2020 ?
-> Meghalaya 

  • Who will be the 1st Female Prime Minister of Estonia ?
-> Kaja Kallas ( President - Kersti Kaljulaid )  ( 1st country where both PM and President are woman )

  • Which prison department has launched its jail tourism initiative starting with more than 150 years old Yerawada Central Jail/Prison in Pune ?
-> The Prison Department of Maharashtra

  • Who has rolled out the electronic version of the voter's photo identity card " e-EPIC " ?
-> Election Commission 

  •  Who has virtually inaugurated the Chennai Bench of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal ( NCLAT ) ?
-> Nirmala Sitharaman ( 2nd NCLAT Bench )  ( 1st was held in New Delhi )

  • Who is appointed as MD and CEO of Kerala based Dhanlaxmi Bank ?
-> JK Shivan

  • How many personalities were conferred the Padma awards by President Ram Nath Kovind ?
-> 119 personalities

  • Which film won the ' Golden Peacock Award ' at the 51st IFFI ( The International Film Festival of India ) held at Goa ?
-> Into the Darkness

  • Which country remained the country with the world's largest current account deficit in 2020 ?
-> United States of America

  • Which space administration has created a new world record by launching 143 satellites in a single rocket named Falcon 9 Rocket ?
-> Space X ( founded by Elon Musk )

  • Which country became the country with the world's largest current account surplus in the year 2020 ?
-> China ( $ 310 Billion in 2020 )   ( surpassed Germany )

  • Which state CM has launched the ' Udyam Sarathi ' app on 71st Foundation Day of the state ( 24th Jan 2021 ) ?
-> Uttar Pradesh ( CM Yogi Adityanath )

  • Who has launched the ' Operation Sard Hawa ' at Rajasthan Border ? 
-> BSF ( Border Security Force )  ( 21st Jan to 27th Jan 2021 ) 

  • Who has won the 2021 Portuguese President election ?
-> Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa ( Social Democratic Party )  ( Tenure 5 year )

  • Which state government has recently launched  anti - land Mafia software called ' Dhara ' ?
-> Uttar Pradesh

  • Who conducted a large scale tri - service joint amphibious exercise ' AMPHEX - 21 ' in Andaman and Nicobar group of Islands ?
-> Indian Armed Forces ( 21 to 25 January ) 

  • Which state government has launched a scheme ' ABHYUDAYA' under which  free coaching will be provided for JEE , NEET , NDA , UPSC and other exams ?
-> Uttar Pradesh 

  • Which country became the largest recipient of Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ) in 2020 ?
-> China ( $ 163 Billion )

  • What is India's rank in Global Climate Risk Index 2021 ( 16th edition ) published by Germanwatch ?
-> 7th  ( 1st - Mozambique , 2nd - Zimbabwe )

  • Which Indian state became 1st state to have two Expressway Airstrips ?
-> Uttar Pradesh  ( 3300 metre long near Kurebhar on Purvanchal Expressway )

  • Which state CM has launched a new scheme " PANKH Abhiyan ( Protection, Awareness of their rights, Nutrition, Knowledge, Health )  " to mark the occasion of National Girl Child Day ?
-> Madhya Pradesh ( CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan )

  • When was International Customs Day observed ?
-> 26th January  ( 2021 theme - Customs bolstering Recovery , Renewal and Resilience )

  • Who has been conferred with the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabhandan Puraskar 2021 ?
-> Dr. Rajendra Kumar Bhandari ( Individual Category)
SEEDS ( Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society ) in Institutional category

  • Which state government made it mandatory to install GPS and Panic buttons in public passenger vehicles ?
-> Chhattisgarh  ( Transport Minister Mohammad Akbar )

  • When is birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai observed ?
-> 28th January ( Born in Punjab , 1865 ) 

  • Who will take over as the next Vice - Chief of Army staff ?

-> Lieutenant General Chandi Prasad Mohanty  ( will succeed Lt. General SK Saini )