Current Affairs -2017 January - 01 to 05 (Chapter-02)

Current Affairs -2017
January - 01 to 05
(Chapter-02)

16.Who was appointed as the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) of the Indian Army recently?

Bipin Rawat

17.Election Commission of India has launched a mobile based monitoring system for which upcoming elections?

Punjab

18. Who has been honored as the World’s Best Playmaker 2016 on December 29, 2016, by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS)?

Lionel Messi

19.Who has been appointed as Chairman of Tata Power Company?

S Padmanaban

20.Which state has banned the use of Purse Seine Nets for fishing across the state from January 1, 2017 to safeguard a Fingerlings fish species?

Maharashtra

21. An earthquake measuring 7.2 on richter scale struck which country on January 3?

Fiji

22.Who is the newly appointed Secretary in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs?

Anoop Srivastava

23.Who were chosen for the 2016 Navlekhan Award of Bharatiya Jnanpith?

Shraddha and Ghyansham Kumar Devansh

24.Gujarat Chief Minister V. Rupani dedicated India's first laser technology equipped AVMS RTO checkpost at

Shamlaji

25.Name the Indian American who is set to be named as president of the Rockefeller Foundation?

Rajiv J Shah

26.Name the Indian Tennis Player who has announced his retirement from the professional tennis on 01 January 2017.

Somdev Devvarman

27.Irish scientists have recently identified a new human organ that has existed in the digestive system for hundreds of years. It has been named as

Mesentery.

28.Which state’s Power Corporation has been awarded with “Best Performing Power Distribution Utility in Power Sector” by Central Board of Irrigation & Power (CBIP)?

Punjab State Power Corporation Limited

29. India on January 4 approved signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with which country on bilateral cooperation in the field of agriculture and allied sectors?

Kenya

30.Which committee has been constituted by the Union Government to suggest improvements in National Sports Development Code (NSDC)?

Injeti Srinivas committee
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