Current Affairs 19th December 2024 : Daily GK Update in English

1. Who has been appointed as the new Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
 
a) Shaktikanta Das
b) Urjit Patel
c) Sanjay Malhotra
d) Raghuram Rajan
Answer: c) Sanjay Malhotra

2. Who has been appointed as the new Chairperson of SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India)?

a) Ajay Tyagi
b) Madhabi Puri Buch
c) Ramesh Chand
d) Alok Misra
Answer: b) Madhabi Puri Buch
3. The discovered exoplanet "TOI-2275b" is located in which galaxy?

a) Milky Way
b) Andromeda
c) Triangulum
d) Large Magellanic Cloud
Answer: a) Milky Way

4. Which Indian cricketer retired from international cricket in?

a) Rohit Sharma
b) Virat Kohli
c) Ravichandran Ashwin
d) KL Rahul
Answer: c) Ravichandran Ashwin
5. Who has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of India in?

a) Justice N.V. Ramana
b) Justice D.Y. Chandrachud
c) Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul
d) Justice U.U. Lalit
Answer: c) Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul

6. Campo Ma’an National Park, in the news, is located in which country?

a) Nigeria
b) Cameroon
c) Kenya
d) Rwanda
Answer: b) Cameroon

7. The Kadar Tribe primarily resides in which states?

a) Odisha and Jharkhand
b) Maharashtra and Karnataka
c) Kerala and Tamil Nadu
d) Gujarat and Rajasthan
Answer: c) Kerala and Tamil Nadu

8. The 'INS Vindhyagiri' is a part of which class of Indian naval ships?

a) Shivalik-class
b) Nilgiri-class
c) Kamorta-class
d) Talwar-class
Answer: b) Nilgiri-class

9. The 'Digital India Act' was introduced to replace which existing legislation?

a) Information Technology Act, 2000
b) Cybersecurity Act, 2010
c) Telecommunications Act, 1995
d) Digital Transaction Act, 2015
Answer: a) Information Technology Act, 2000

10. 'Artemis III,' the NASA mission, is set to achieve which milestone in?

a) First manned Mars landing
b) First woman on the Moon
c) Longest spacewalk in history
d) Deployment of a Moon habitat
Answer: b) First woman on the Moon