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Current Affairs for UPSC: Jagran Josh presents Daily Current Affairs Quiz for all dedicated students and readers preparing for various competitive exams. In today’s session, get briefings about the important topics given in Q&A formats such as Golden Globes 2024 etc.
1. Who won the Best Director-Motion Picture award at the Golden Globes 2024?
(a) Cillian Murphy
(b) Christopher Nolan
(c) Matthew Macfadyen
(d) Ludwig Goransson
2. The Krishna Godavari Basin Deep Sea Project in the Bay of Bengal is being operated by?
(a) Indian Petroleum
(b) Indian Oil
(c) ONGC
(d) Reliance Refinery
3. Which team won the gold medal in the men’s 10 meter air pistol team event in the Asian Olympic Qualifiers?
(a) India
(b) Iran
(c) USA
(d) South Korea
4. Who inaugurated the ‘Indus Food 2024’ exhibition?
(a) Rajnath Singh
(b) Piyush Goyal
(c) Nitin Gadkari
(d) Anurag Thakur
5. Who has been appointed as the new CEO of ‘Adani Ports’?
(a) Ravichandran Reddy
(b) Ajay Kumar
(c) Ashwini Gupta
(d) Bharat Saxena
6. On which lake was the training program organized under the ‘Amrit Heritage Capacity Building’ scheme?
(a) Mansarovar Lake
(b) Pulicat Lake
(c) Chilka Lake
(d) Sardar Sarovar Lake
7. Tata Power recently announced an investment of ₹70,000 crore in which state?
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Bihar
Answer:-
1. (b) Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan, director of the superhit film ‘Oppenheimer’, was honored with the Best Director-Motion Picture Award at the Golden Globes 2024. The 81st edition of the Golden Globes was held in Beverly Hills, California. The Best Actor Award for Best Performance in a Motion Picture, Drama category was given to ‘Cillian Murphy’.
2. (c) ONGC
ONGC has started oil production from its flagship deepwater project in the Krishna Godavari basin in the Bay of Bengal. Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that 45 thousand barrels of oil per day and more than 10 million standard cubic meters of gas per day are expected to be produced. This project is expected to increase the current national oil production by 7 percent and national natural gas production by 7 percent.
3. (a) India
Indian shooters made a promising start to their campaign at the Asian Olympic Qualifiers in Jakarta, Indonesia by winning the gold medal in the men’s 10m air pistol team event. The Indian team of Varun Tomar, Arjun Singh Cheema and Ujjwal Malik secured the top position by scoring a total of 1740. Iran won the silver medal, while Korea won the bronze medal. In the individual event, Varun and Arjun have secured a place in the finals.
4. (b) Piyush Goyal
Union Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated the exhibition ‘Indus Food 2024’ showcasing the diverse food ecosystem. It is being organized at India Exposition Mart, Greater Noida. Speaking on India’s food processing sector, he said that processed food exports have increased by 150% in the last nine years and agricultural exports worth US$ 53 billion were made.
5. (c) Ashwini Gupta
Ashwini Gupta has been appointed as the CEO of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone. He was the former global chief operating officer of Nissan Motors. The company has promoted CEO Karan Adani to the role of Managing Director.
6. (c) Chilka Lake
The Ministry of Tourism organized a training program on Ramsar site Chilka Lake in Odisha under the Amrit Heritage Capacity Building Scheme. Under this initiative, two training programs of 15 days each, Alternative Livelihood Program (ALP) and Tourism Seafarer Certificate (PNC) will be organized. In the first phase of this programme, five priority Ramsar sites – Sultanpur National Park, Sirpur Wetland, Yashwant Sagar, Bhitarkanika National Park and Chilka Lake have been included.
7. (c) Tamil Nadu
Tata Power has announced an investment of ₹70,000 crore to develop 10 gigawatt (GW) of solar and wind power capacity in Tamil Nadu over the next five to seven years. Tata Power CEO and MD Praveer Sinha announced this at the Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet (GIM) in Chennai on January 8.
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