NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS AND EVENTS - January 2024

Where was the foundation stone of North-East India’s first 100 bedded Yoga & Dibrugarh (Assam)
Naturopathy Hospital laid recently?

Who won the FIH Hockey 5S Women’s World Cup title by defeating India in the Netherlands
final by 7-2?

Name the Deputy CEO of BrahMos Aerospace who has written the book ‘Ek Sanjeev Joshi
Samandar, Mere Andar’ (a collection of 75 poems)?

With whom Tata Group has signed an agreement to set up India’s first helicopter Airbus Helicopters
Final Assembly Line in the private sector?

Name the centrally sponsored scheme under which rooftop solar panels will be Pradhan Mantri Suryodaya
installed on more than 1 crore houses? Yojana

Who won the men’s 10m air rifle shooting event at the ISSF World Cup 2024? Divyansh Singh Panwar

Name the Indian batsman who won the ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year Suryakumar Yadav
award for the second consecutive year?

Who has become the second Indian to win a gold medal in the Asian Marathon Man Singh
Championship?

Name the former Bihar chief minister who was posthumously awarded the Bharat Karpoori Thakur
Ratna, India’s highest civilian award?

Which film won the Best Popular Film Award at the Filmfare Awards 2024? 12th Fail

Who won the Best Actor in a Leading Role Award at the Filmfare Awards 2024? Ranbir Kapoor (Animal)

Who won the Best Actress in a Leading Role Award at the Filmfare Awards Alia Bhatt (Rocky Aur
2024? Rani Kii Prem Kahaani)

Who won the Best Director Award at the Filmfare Awards 2024? Vidhu Vinod Chopra (12th
Fail)

Which female cricketer has been appointed by the Uttar Pradesh government to Deepti Sharma
the post of DSP in UP Police?
For the year 2024, which organisation has been selected for the Subhash Chandra 60 Parachute Field Hospital
Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar-2024 in the Institutional category for its (Uttar Pradesh)
excellent work in Disaster Management?

Who won the ‘Polly Umargar’ award at the BCCI Awards 2024 for the season Shubhman Gill
2022-23?

Who is the chief guest of India’s Republic Day celebrations? Emmanuel Macron

On which day, National Voters’ Day is celebrated every year? 25 January

On which day, National Child Day is celebrated every year? 24 January

On which day, Parakram Diwas is celebrated every year? 23 January

Who has become the batsman to score the fastest triple century in first class Tanmay Agarwal
cricket?

On which day, the Pran Pratishtha ceremony of the Shri Ram temple in Ayodhya 22 January
Dham was held?

Who is the chief architect of the construction of Ayodhya Ram temple? Chandrakant Sompura

Which state government has recently launched ‘Road Safety Force’ to prevent Punjab
road accidents?

Which film has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature at Oscars 2024? To Kill a Tiger

Who has directed the documentary film ‘To Kill a Tiger’ nominated for Oscar Nisha Pahuja
2024?

Who won the ‘India Open Badminton 2024’ women’s singles title? Tai Tzu Ying

Pendyala Lakshmi Priya who was honored with the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Kuchipudi
Bal Puraskar 2024 by President Draupadi Murmu was related to which dance
form?

Name the former Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog who has been appointed as the Dr. Arvind Panagariya
Chairman of the 16th Finance Commission?

Who has developed SAMBHAV, an end-to-end secure mobile ecosystem, aiming Indian Army
to offer secure communication with instant connectivity?
Name the senior IPS officer who has been appointed as the Director General of Daljit Singh Chaudhary
the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)?

Wings India 2024, Asia’s largest civil aviation event was held at which place? Hyderabad

Who has become India’s number one chess player, leaving behind Vishwanathan Rameshbabu
Anand? Praggnanandhaa

Which batsman made the record of scoring most centuries (5) in T20 Rohit Sharma
International?

In which state, India International Science Festival was organized from January Haryana
17 to 20?

Who was appointed as the ‘Director General of Naval Operations’ in the Indian Vice Admiral AN Pramod
Navy?

On which day, Indian Army Day is celebrated every year? 15 January

Who has become the first male cricketer to play 150 matches in T20 Rohit Sharma
International?

Name the President of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Dennis Francis
who was on a five-day visit to India from January 22 to 26?

Which ship of the Indian Navy decommissioned recently? Cheetah

Name the renowned classical singer associated with ‘Kirana Gharana’ of Prabha Atre
Hindustani classical music and Padma Vibhushan awardee who passed away at
the age of 92?

Atal Setu, the 21.8-kilometre-long sea bridge, which is India’s longest sea bridge, Maharashtra
is built in which state?

Name the renowned classical singer, a recipient of Padma Vibhushan, who Dr. Prabha Atre
passed away at the age of 92 due to cardiac arrest?

In which country will the new campus of IIT Madras be opened? Sri Lanka

On which day, National Youth Day, also known as Vivekananda Jayanti, is 12 January
celebrated every year?

In which city, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 27th National Nashik
Youth Festival?
In which state was the 125 feet high bronze statue of Dr. BR Ambedkar Andhra Pradesh
inaugurated on his 132nd birth anniversary?

Which Indian company has started oil production from its flagship deep-sea Oil and Natural Gas
project in Krishna Godavari basin in Bay of Bengal? Corporation (ONGC)

Kadiyal Sarees of which state have been granted the Geographical Indication West Bengal
(GI) tag?

India’s first solar powered boat will be operated in which river? Saryu River

Name the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who was the chief guest Sheikh Mohamed bin
at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit? Zayed Al Nahyan

Tata Power recently announced an investment of ₹70,000 crore in which state? Tamil Nadu

Name the former Chief Justice of India (CJI) and Rajya Sabha MP who will be Ranjan Gogoi
honored with the ‘Assam Vaibhav’ award, the highest civilian honor of the state?

In which city of Rajasthan, the International Camel Festival was organized? Bikaner

How many crore rupees has the Central Government allocated for the Prithvi 4797 crores
Vigyan scheme?

Where is the 12th General Assembly of the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace New Delhi
being held?

Who won the gold medal in the 57 kg category in the Zagreb Open 2024 Aman Sehrawat
wrestling tournament?

Who will be awarded the ‘Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar’ 2023 for Odisha Mining Corporate
Corporate Social Responsibility? Limited

Who won the gold medal in the men’s 25m standard pistol event at the Asian Yogesh Singh
Shooting Championships 2024?

On which day, Pravasi Bharatiya Divas has been celebrated every year since 9 January
2003 to mark the contribution of the Overseas Indian community in the
development of India?

Who has been appointed as the Deputy Chief of the Indian Naval Staff? Dinesh K Tripathi
Which Tiger Reserve has got the title of India’s first and Asia’s fifth ‘Dark Sky Pench Tiger Reserve
Park’?

In which city of Uttar Pradesh did Defense Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurate the Mathura
first Sainik School for girls ‘Samvid Gurukulam’ Sainik School?

In which state the Chandubi Festival was celebrated along the Chandubi Lake? Assam

Which wildlife sanctuary located in Odisha was recently included in the Swadesh Debrigarh Wildlife
Darshan 2.0 scheme? Sanctuary

India’s first submarine tourism will be started in which state in collaboration with Gujarat
Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL)?

Which organisation has been awarded the CNN-News18 Indian of the Year 2023 ISRO
Award?

Name the renowned Urdu poet, winner of Sahitya Akademi award in 2014, who Munawwar Rana
passed away on 14 January 2024?

Who has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director of Power Ravindra Kumar Tyagi
Grid Corporation?

India has started its tenure as a member of the United Nations Statistical 4 years
Commission for how many years?

Name the IPS officer who has been appointed as the Director General of Fire Vivek Srivastava
Service, Civil Defence & Home Guards?