Daily Current Affairs Quiz: January 20 2024

Ans (D)
Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia inaugurated Asia’s largest aviation expo, Wings India 2024, at Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad.
1,500 delegates from 106 countries and 5,000 business visitors who are associated with aerospace engineers, airlines, and airport agencies are participating in this event.

Ans (B)
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is going to set up its Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) focused on healthcare and life sciences in Hyderabad, Telangana.
C4IR Telangana will be an autonomous, non-profit organization and will be the only organization of the World Economic Forum in India.
A cooperation agreement was signed between the Telangana government and WEF at the Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Klaus Schwab, a German professor with a background in mechanical engineering and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard, founded WEF in 1971, originally known as the European Management Forum.
He introduced the concept of “stakeholder capitalism.”
WEF Funding: Primarily supported by partnering corporations, typically with annual turnovers exceeding USD 5 billion.

Ans (C)
For the first time in India, a boat running on solar energy will be operated in the Ghaghara River (Saryu River) in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.
The outline for the operation of this boat service has been prepared by the Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Agency (UPNEDA).
It has been prepared by the Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Agency.
The UPNEDA-developed boat is powered by 3.3 kilowatt rooftop solar panels and there are a total of six solar panels installed on the rooftop of the boat which produce 550 watts of power energy.
The Ghaghara River, called the Karnali River in Nepal, Mapcha Tsangpo in Tibet, and the lower Ghaghara in Awadh called the Sarayu River.

Ans (A)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a series of commemorative postage stamps dedicated to the Ram temple in Ayodhya and a book containing stamps from around the world.
With six different designs, these stamps depict the essence of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple.
Lord Dalhousie started the postage stamps in India in 1854 which gave Indians a new way to communicate through postcards in those years.
Although the Indian Post Office was established in 1837, Asia’s first adhesive stamp, the ScindeDawk, was introduced in 1852 by Sir Bartle Frere, the British East India Company’s administrator of the province of Sind, now Karachi.
The program of consecration of Ram temple in Ayodhya will be completed by PM Modi on January 22.
The traditional Ramayana was composed by Rishi Valmiki in Sanskrit.
The Valmiki Ramayan has 24,000 verses.
The first letter that comes after every 1000 verses of the Ramayana forms the Gayatri Mantra.
The Gayatri Mantra was first mentioned in the Rigveda.

Ans (A)
Rear Admiral Shantanu Jha has been appointed as the Chief Staff Officer (Operations) at Headquarters Eastern Naval Command.
The Rear Admiral is a graduate of the National Defense Academy and a navigation and guidance expert.
Eastern Naval Command is one of the three command-level centers of the Indian Navy.
Its headquarters is in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

Ans (D)
Indian captain Rohit Sharma has scored his fifth century in T20 International.
With this, he has also become the batsman who has scored most centuries in T20 International.
Rohit scored this century in the third and final T20 match against Afghanistan at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Rohit played a blazing century inning of 121 runs in 69 balls in which he hit 11 fours and 8 sixes.
In this matter, he left behind Suryakumar Yadav and Glenn Maxwell who have 4 centuries each.

Ans (B)
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has selected Sue Redfern as the first female neutral umpire for a bilateral series.
She has been named for the upcoming ICC Women’s Championship and T20I matches between Australia and South Africa.
Redfearn has played for England and has experience of officiating in several World Cups.

Ans (C)
Global Unemployment Set to Reach 5.2% in 2024, ILO Reports.
ILO’s 2024 ‘World Employment and Social Outlook’ report forecasts that the number of unemployed people will rise by 2 million, lifting the global unemployment rate to 5.2 percent from 5.1 percent in 2023.
The World Employment and Social Outlook Trends: 2024 report notes that working poverty will persist, and income inequality will widen, emphasizing the need for greater social justice for a sustainable recovery.

Ans (E)
‘MILAN 2024’ Naval Exercise to commence in Visakhapatnam.
The 12th edition of the largest multilateral naval exercise, ‘MILAN 2024,’ is scheduled to be held in Visakhapatnam.
The exercise includes both harbor and sea phases, with the goal of strengthening maritime cooperation and security.
Visakhapatnam is chosen as the preferred destination for future MILAN exercises due to its growing stature and the need for a larger staging and hosting base.
MILAN is a biennial multinational naval exercise that started in 1995 with the participation of four foreign countries (Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand) in consonance with India’s ‘Look East policy’.

Ans (A)
The Tamil Nadu International Balloon Festival, now in its ninth edition, kicked off in Pollachi.
The festival was inaugurated by G.D. Gopalakrishnan, President Chamber of Commerce, Pollachi.
The event, is hosted by Tamil Nadu Tourism in collaboration with Global Media Box.
Hot air balloons featured in the festival hailed from the UK, France, Netherlands, Spain, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam.