January 2025 Current-Affairs – Top MCQs Review

A comprehensive set of 100 Q&A flashcards covering the key people, dates, awards, appointments, defence, sports and economic facts from the January 2025 Current-Affairs lecture notes.

When is DRDO’s Foundation Day celebrated each year?

1 January

What does DRDO stand for?

Defence Research and Development Organisation (est. 1958; Chairman – Dr Samir V Kamat)

World Braille Day is observed on .

4 January

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (NRI Day) is observed on .

9 January

World Hindi Day 2025 falls on which date?

10 January

National Youth Day (birthday of Swami Vivekananda) is celebrated on .

12 January

What was Swami Vivekananda’s birth name?

Narendranath Datta

Indian Army Day is observed on .

15 January

Indian Navy Day is marked each year on .

4 December

National Voters’ Day is celebrated every year on .

25 January

Republic Day of India is celebrated on .

26 January (76th in 2025; chief guest – Prabowo Subianto)

Martyrs’ Day to honour Mahatma Gandhi is observed on .

30 January

How many Padma Bhushan awards were approved for 2025?

20

Which institution won the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar 2024?

Lovely Professional University

Which private university won the 2024 MAKA Trophy?

Lovely Professional University

Who received the Padmapani Lifetime Achievement Award at Ajantha-Ellora IFF?

Sai Paranjpye

Who received WBFJA’s Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award?

Aparna Sen

Who won the 2025 Gates-Cambridge Impact Prize?

Prof. Urbasi Sinha

How many Padma Vibhushan awards were approved for 2025?

6

ICC Emerging Men’s Cricketer of the Year 2024 is .

Kamindu Mendis (Sri Lanka)

ICC Men’s Associate Cricketer of the Year 2024 is .

Gerhard Erasmus (Namibia)

ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2024 is .

Arshdeep Singh

Captain of ICC Women’s T20I Team of the Year 2024 is .

Laura Wolvaardt

Captain of ICC Men’s Test Team of the Year 2024 is .

Pat Cummins

ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2024 is .

Smriti Mandhana

ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year 2024 is .

Amelia (Melie) Kerr

Who is known as the “Apple Man of India” and a Padma Shri awardee?

Hariman Sharma

Which Indian fast bowler will receive the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy?

Jasprit Bumrah

ICC Women’s Test Cricketer of the Year 2024 is .

Annabel Sutherland

Karnataka won the 78th Santosh Trophy by defeating which state?

Kerala

Number of gallantry awards approved on the eve of Republic Day 2025?

78 personnel

Which bank won IBA Banking Technology Awards 2024?

Union Bank of India

Karnataka beat which team in the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 final?

Vidarbha

Who won the Kanhaiya Lal Sethia Award for Poetry 2024?

Badri Narayan

Who is the 11th Chairman of ISRO?

V. Narayanan

Who became Chief of the IAF Western Air Command in 2024?

Jeetendra Mishra

CEO of ITI Asset Management Ltd (ITI AML) is .

Rajesh Bhatia

CMD of Food Corporation of India appointed in 2024 is .

Faiz Ahmed Kidwai

Secretary of the Department of Revenue (Finance Ministry) appointed in 2024 is .

Tuhin Kanta Pandey

Who is the new Secretary of the BCCI?

Devajit Saikia

Who has been named captain of Punjab Kings for IPL 2025?

Shreyas Iyer

MD & CEO of Punjab National Bank appointed in 2024 is .

Atanu Kumar Das

Which judge was recently sworn in to the Supreme Court of India?

Justice Pankaj Mithal

Director of ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) is .

M. Mohan

Who became Chief Justice of Delhi High Court in 2024?

Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives elected in 2023 is .

Mike Johnson

Who is President of the Athletics Federation of India?

P. T. Usha

Nicolás Maduro is President of which country?

Venezuela

CEO of the Delhi Waqf Board appointed in 2024 is .

Azimul Haque

Director General of the BSF appointed in 2024 is .

Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal

Which bank appointed P. Suriaraj as Executive Director?

Dhanlaxmi Bank

MD & CEO of Zurich Kotak General Insurance is .

Alok Kumar Agarwal

Who heads RBI’s Monetary Policy & Economic Research Department?

M. Rajeshwar Rao

CMD of National Aluminium Company (NALCO) is .

Rajendra Prasad Singh

Who became the first woman to lead NASA as Acting Administrator?

Janet Petro

Who took charge as Additional Secretary, Dept. of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare?

Shubha Thakur

Pralay is a missile.

Quasi-ballistic missile

Which edition of Exercise Surya Kiran (India-Nepal) was held in 2024?

18th edition

Name of the battlefield surveillance system launched by Rajnath Singh.

SANJAY

Operation Sard Hawa is conducted by which force?

Border Security Force (BSF)

Which company built the second multi-purpose vessel ‘UTKARSH’?

Cochin Shipyard

Nag Mk-2 is a/an missile.

Anti-Tank Guided Missile

India partnered with which country to co-produce sonobuoys for UDA?

United States of America

Which city was declared Assam’s second capital in 2024?

Silchar

Where was the new U.S. Consulate inaugurated by EAM S. Jaishankar in 2024?

Bengaluru

Reliance Industries will build the world’s largest data centre in which state?

Gujarat (Jamnagar)

South India’s first Infectious Disease Research & Diagnostic Lab will be set up in .

Kochi, Kerala

International Saraswati Mahotsav 2025 was hosted by which state?

Haryana

The 3rd National Mining Ministers’ Conference concluded in which state?

Odisha

Which state became the 34th to implement Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY?

Odisha

Which state announced a $1 million prize for deciphering the Indus script?

Tamil Nadu

International Saraswati Mahotsav 2025 was organised at .

Kurukshetra

Upcoming Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Conference will be held in .

Chennai

The 7th Pay Commission was implemented from .

1 January 2016

IISc Bengaluru’s rank in THE World University Rankings by Subject 2025 is .

78th

Which company announced a USD 3 billion AI & cloud investment in India?

Microsoft

Which edition of Indusfood 2025 was held at Greater Noida?

8th edition

Top Indian on Forbes Billionaires List 2025 is .

Mukesh Ambani

Total UPI transaction value in December 2024 was approximately .

₹ 23.25 trillion

India’s rank in the Global Firepower Index 2025 is .

4

Who topped the inaugural HSBC Hurun Global Indians List 2024?

Satya Nadella

The “Fiscal Health Index 2025” was launched by .

NITI Aayog

David Lynch, who passed away recently, was famous in which field?

Filmmaking

Denis Law, who died recently, was a legendary .

Footballer

Former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea who died recently:

Sir Julius Chan

Former Greek Prime Minister who passed away recently:

Costas Simitis

Playback singer known as “Bhava Gayakan” is .

P. Jayachandran

Renowned sculptor Latika Katt passed away at the age of .

78

India recently joined which programme as an observer nation?

Eurodrone

Who became the youngest female to scale the highest peaks of all seven continents?

Kaamya Karthikeyan

Which country unveiled the world’s longest expressway tunnel?

China

Which country will build its largest nuclear power plant after regulatory approval?

Pakistan

UN projects India’s economy to grow by what percentage in 2025?

6.4 percent

Who won the men’s singles title at the 2025 Australian Open?

Jannik Sinner

Track & Field News named the world’s best male javelin thrower 2024.

Neeraj Chopra

How many Indian players feature in ICC Women’s T20I Team of the Year 2024?

Three

Who won the women’s singles title at the 2025 Australian Open?

Aryna Sabalenka

Tamim Iqbal, who retired recently, represents which country?

Bangladesh

Which team won its maiden Pro Kabaddi League title?

Haryana Steelers

Which institute partnered the Agriculture Ministry to launch Project VISTAAR?

IIT Madras