17th January 2025 Current Affairs

1. Which operation was launched by India during the Israel-Hamas was to bring back its citizens?

   a) Operation Ganga
   b) Operation Vande Bharat
   c) Operation Ajay
   d) Operation Rahat

2. Who has been recently appointed as the Special Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)?

   a) Kuldeep Singh
   b) Sunil Kumar Jha
   c) Rakesh Asthana
   d) Anand Prakash Maheshwari

3. Who launched the ‘Samvidhan Gaurav Abhiyan’ in Jharkhand?

   a) Hemant Soren
   b) Arjun Munda
   c) Babulal Marandi
   d) Raghubar Das

4. Which startup has launched India’s first private satellite constellation?

   a) Skyroot Aerospace
   b) Agnikul Cosmos
   c) Pixxel
   d) Bellatrix Aerospace

5. Which tennis player recently set the record for playing the most Grand Slam matches?

   a) Roger Federer
   b) Rafael Nadal
   c) Novak Djokovic
   d) Andy Murray

6. When is National Startup Day celebrated every year?

   a) 1st January
   b) 16th January
   c) 26th January
   d) 31st December

7. Zoran Milanovic has been re0elected as the President of which country?

   a) Serbia
   b) Hungary
   c) Croatia
   d) Slovenia

8. Who is the author of the book “Parliament: Power, Function & Privileges”?

   a) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
   b) Dr. K.S. Chauhan
   c) Subhash Kashyap
   d) M. Venkaiah Naidu

9. Which indigenously developed micro missile system was recently successfully tested?

   a) Nag Missile
   b) BrahMos
   c) Bhargavastra
   d) Prithvi Missile

10. Which Indian badminton player has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Puma India?

    a) Chirag Shetty
    b) Lakshya Sen
    c) HS Prannoy
    d) PV Sindhu

11. Who’s awarded the Honorary Citizen Award by Singapore?

    a) Tarun Das
    b) Bahadur Singh Sagoo
    c) V Narayanan
    d) Manish Singhal

12. Where’s the Gaan Ngai festival celebrated?

    a) Sikkim
    b) Assam
    c) Mizoram
    d) Manipur 

13. India and which country has declared 2026 as a double year?

    a) France
    b) UK
    c) Spain
    d) Japan

14. Who is appointed as the Chairperson of the Athletes Commission of Athletics Federation of India?

    a) Hema Das
    b) PT Usha
    c) Anju Bobby George
    d) Duty Chand

15. In which state Kanuma festival celebrated?

    a) Telangana 
    b) Karnataka
    c) Tamil Nadu
    d) Kerala

16. Where has Parshuram Kind Mela 2025 started?

    a) Sikkim
    b) Arunachal Pradesh
    c) Manipur
    d) Nagaland

17. INS Nilgiri stealth frigate included in the Indian Navy is being developed under which project of the Indian Navy?

    a) Project 15 A
    b) Project 16 A
    c) Project 17 A
    d) Project 18 A

17th January 2025 Current Affairs