Current Affairs MCQ & Quiz 21st January, 2021

Bombay Stock Exchange has signed an MoU with Maharashtra government for encouraging listing of Small and Medium Enterprises in the BSE. Under the MoU the members of SME will also be given training on capacity building by BSE.

5-day Indo-French exercise ‘Desert Knight-21’has begun on 20^th January, 2021 at the Jodhpur Air Force Station. The newly inducted Rafale fighter jets of Indian Air Force (IAF) will participate in an air exercise for the 1^st time.

Siddhartha Mohanty has been appointed as the Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and will succeed Suseel Kumar. He was previously serving as the CEO of the LIC Housing Finance Limited.

Sanjeev Kumar has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd (TCIL) for the next 5 years. Sanjeev Kumar was previously serving as the Director (Technical) of MTNL now.

India has supplied 2 Mobile Harbour Cranes (MHC) to Chabahar Port of Iran under the bilateral contract for mechanization of port signed on 23^rd May, 2016. The MHCs have an estimated value of around $ 25 million.

Multinational financial services company, American Express has announced a grant of Rs. 1 crore to Dastkar society (craftspeople) for supporting over 12,000 women artisans. The sum of Rs. 1 crore will be granted in the Dastkar’s Artisan Support Fund.

SBI, ICICI and HDFC Bank remain as Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIB) in the ‘2020-Too Big to Fail’ list. Too-Big to Fail list contains the companies that play an important role in the economy and their failure might prove catastrophic to the economy.

Telangana’s WE-Hub has collaborated with Gujarat I-Hub for the 1^st time for supporting the women entrepreneurs. A total of 240 women entrepreneurs will be selected for the pre-incubation programme out of which 20 will be shortlisted for incubation.

Kerala is all set to inaugurate India’s 1^st Labour Movement museum in house boat tourism hub Alappuzha. The museum will have a repository and exhibits of documents related to the labour movements in the world and Kerala.   

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will set up Quantum Computing Applications Lab in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Under the partnership, AWS will provide quantum computing services to different ministries and departments of the Government of India.