21. Which state did Nitin Gadkari inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of 12 National Highway projects worth Rs 4,000 crore?
a) Punjab
b) Haryana
c) Rajasthan
d) Gujarat
Answer: a) Punjab
22. Which Indian firm becomes the first BSI Certified ISO 27001:2022 Petrochemical firm?
a) Reliance Industries
b) Indian Oil Corporation
c) Haldia Petrochemicals
d) Bharat Petroleum
Answer: c) Haldia Petrochemicals
Current Affairs Quiz for January 2024
23. Who laid the foundation stone for the Regional Research Institute for Homoeopathy in Guwahati?
a) Sarbananda Sonowal
b) Himanta Biswa Sarma
c) Piyush Goyal
d) Nitin Gadkari
Answer: a) Sarbananda Sonowal
24. In which city did the International Camel Festival take place?
a) Jaipur
b) Bikaner
c) Jaisalmer
d) Udaipur
Answer: b) Bikaner
25. Who inaugurated the 12th General Assembly of the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace?
a) Narendra Modi
b) Jagdeep Dhankhar
c) Amit Shah
d) Jyotiraditya Scindia
Answer: b) Jagdeep Dhankhar
26. Which Indian stock market surpassed Hong Kong to become the 4th biggest equity market globally?
a) Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
b) National Stock Exchange (NSE)
c) Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE)
d) Delhi Stock Exchange (DSE)
Answer: b) National Stock Exchange (NSE)
27. What is the name of the green accreditation framework unveiled by the UAE?
a) EcoFriendlyMark
b) GreenCert
c) EcoMark
d) UAE Green+
Answer: c) EcoMark
28. Which language has been declared as India’s New Classical Language?
a) Persian
b) Sanskrit
c) Farsi
d) Urdu
Answer: c) Farsi
29. Where was Boeing’s India Engineering and Technology Center inaugurated by PM Modi?
a) Bengaluru
b) Hyderabad
c) Mumbai
d) Pune
Answer: a) Bengaluru
30. Which minister inaugurated the Young Scientist Conference at IISF 2023?
a) Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
b) Harsh Vardhan
c) Kiren Rijiju
d) Dr. Jitendra Singh
Answer: c) Kiren Rijiju