Daily & Latest Current Affairs in 2025

Correct Answer :   Ajay Bhadoo

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The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved the appointment of Ajay Bhadoo as the Joint Secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind for a tenure co-terminus with the President. He is a 1999 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Gujarat. He is serving as the Vadodara Municipal Commissioner since July 2018. He was the recipient of the Best Collector Award twice for outstanding performance in 2008 and 2010.

Correct Answer :   Priti Patel

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Priti Patel has been appointed as Britain's Home Secretary in the newly-unveiled Boris Johnson Cabinet. She has become the Britain's first Indian-origin Home Secretary.

Correct Answer :   Health & Sanitation

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3rd Edition of the CSR Journal Excellence Awards honoured 6 firms for the best practices in Corporate Social Responsibility. YES Bank Ltd. won in the category "Health & Sanitation", where Tata Power won in the category "Education & Skill Training", Mahindra & Mahindra won in the category "Environment", Hindustan Zinc won in the category "Agriculture & Rural Development", Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. won in the category "Sports" and ReNew Power won in the category "Women Empowerment & Child Welfare".

Correct Answer :   Central Reserve Police Force

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India's largest Central Armed Police Force, CRPF( Central Reserve Police Force) unveiled the country's first prototype of a body protector for women personnel. It has been jointly developed after over two years of research by CRPF and Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), which functions under the DRDO(Defence Research and Development Organisation). The multi-design black coloured "gender-specific protective gear" weighs 6 kg cost around Rs 9000 would protect an individual from the neck to the toe with chest, hand, legs, shin and thigh guards. 8,000 women personnel in CRPF will be benefited by the protective gear & help them during riot-control duties and regulation of public protests.

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Lotus, the beautiful flower comes from the family of Nelumbo nucifera, has been selected by the government of Haryana, an Indian state as state flower.

Correct Answer :   Standard Chartered

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UK- based Standard Chartered will be the first foreign bank to launch operations at International Financial Service Centre (IFSC). The bank has received in-principle regulatory approvals to set up its IFSC Banking Unit (IBU) in Gujarat International Finance Tec-city (GIFT city).Tapan Ray, MD & CEO of GIFT City said that with the presence of Standard Chartered, the IFSC ecosystem will be formidable.

Correct Answer :   Shiva Thapa

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Four-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa has become the India's first gold-medallist at the President's Cup boxing tournament after getting a walkover in the finals in Astana, Kazakhstan on July 20, 2019. It was his international debut in the newly-introduced Olympic category of 63kg. Thapa was to fight Kazakhstan's Zakir Safiullin in the summit clash but his opponent had to pull out due to injury. Earlier, this year, Thapa had lost to Safiullin in the 2019 Asian Championship semifinal.

Correct Answer :   Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane

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Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane, the Commander of Eastern Army, was appointed as the Vice Chief of Indian Army. Naravane will succeed Lt Gen D Anbu, who will retire on August 31, 2019.

Correct Answer :   OpenAI

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San Francisco-based AI research lab OpenAI has raised USD 1 billion from Microsoft. Company's ambition is to democratise AI, while always keeping AI safety front and centre, so everyone can benefit. OpenAI was Co-founded by Elon Musk in 2015, who left its board and daily operations in 2018 to avoid a conflict of interest with Tesla.

Correct Answer :   India: the emerging defence manufacturing hub

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The defence ministry will hold its 11th biennial arms exhibition 'DefExpo 2020' in Lucknow, next year from February 5-8 in line with Modi government's big push to develop Uttar Pradesh as one of the two major defence manufacturing hubs. The theme of DefExpo will be "India: the emerging defence manufacturing hub'.