CURRENT AFFAIRS- 2018 January 07- 16 (Chapter-01)

1. Which Union minister has inaugurated the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) wellness centre in Goa?

Shripad Naik

2. Israeli Prime Minister who has arrived New Delhi on a six-day visit to India.

Benjamin Netanyahu

3. Which railway station has become India’s first railway station to have a sanitary napkin vending machine?

Bhopal railway station

4. Which Bollywood personality has been named advocacy ambassador for Swachh Aadat Swachh Bharat initiative?

Kajol

5. Which state government will distribute new Pattadar passbooks to all agriculture landowners in the state.

Telangana

6. Which country going to host first-ever Baby Olympics Games?

Bahrain

7. Which city is hosting the International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (IWDRI)?

New Delhi

8. The Indian International Exchange which listed the first green bond on its Global Securities Market is

Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)

9. Who has been appointed as MD and CEO of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)?

Dilip Asbe

10. The 70th edition of Army Day 2018 has celebrated on which date in India?

January 15

11. Which state government has conducted Vikas Samiksha Yatra.

Bihar

12. Who has been appointed as new Northern Ireland secretary?

Karen Bradley

13. Which Indian architect has been conferred France’s top cultural award “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres”?

Aishwarya Tipnis

14. How much amount did India has contributed to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s Office of Envoy on Youth to help with its mission of

involving young people in the world body’s goals.

USD 50,000

15. Rajesh Ranjan has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to

Botswana

16. K.K. Ramachandran Nair, who passed away recently, was the MLA from which constituency of Kerala?

Chengannur constituency

17. What is the name of the app that Delhi government aims to launch a dedicated app to check the presence of junk vehicles parked on city roads.

Khatara Gadi

18. Who has been handed a five-month back-dated suspension by the BCCI for testing positive for a banned substance during a domestic T20 competition in March 2017?

Yusuf Pathan

19. Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Kerala Maritime Board (KMB)?

V J Mathew

20. Who has been selected for the Ammannur Madhava Chakyar award instituted by the Kerala Sangeeta Nataka Akademi.

Girish Karnad

21. Which state Police has decided to add high-tech cameras as part of its uniform in a bid to improve security measures in the state?

Kerala

22. Which city hosted the 4th ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry (AIMMAF)?

New Delhi

23. Mysore’s first Indira Canteen was launched on the premises of Command Area Development Authority (CADA) office in

Mysore Palace

24. Which company is re-launching its ‘Auto’ service in India, almost two years after shutting down the offering in March 2016?

Uber

25. Which state is hosting the 7th edition of the Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav?

Karnataka 
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