January 2025 Current Affairs Quiz – 100 Important MCQs with Answers December 26, 2025December 9, 2025 by studyvaanii@gmail.com January 2025 Current Affairs Quiz – 100 Important MCQs with Answers Prepare for competitive exams with our January 2025 Current Affairs Quiz. Get 100 most important MCQs with answers for SSC, Banking, MPSC, UPSC and all exams. 1 / 97 Under the Union Budget 2025-26, the limit for tax deduction on interest for senior citizens has been increased from Rs 50,000 to: Rs 1.5 Lakh Rs 2 Lakh Rs 1 Lakh Rs 75,000 2 / 97 What is the estimated fiscal deficit for FY 2025-26 as per Union Budget 2025-26? 5.2% of GDP 3.5% of GDP 4.4% of GDP 6.1% of GDP 3 / 97 Which ministry ranked second in budget allocation? Defence Home Affairs Railways Rural Development 4 / 97 India’s vision year for ‘Viksit Bharat’ is: 2035 2047 2030 2040 5 / 97 Agriculture contributes what percent to GDP (FY24 PE)? 26% 10% 20% 16% 6 / 97 What was the total FDI equity inflow into India during April–September 2024? USD 15.30 billion USD 20.45 billion USD 12.52 billion USD 25.10 billion 7 / 97 WINDS initiative will install AWS at which level? Village District Block State 8 / 97 BSE Market Cap to GDP ratio in Dec 2024 was: 120% 140% 136% 100% 9 / 97 Who has been elected President of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI)? Adille Sumariwalla Aman Neeraj Chopra Bahadur Singh Sagoo 10 / 97 PM Modi cited speeches from which Constitution makers in Mann Ki Baat 2025? Gandhi, Nehru, Patel Ambedkar, Rajendra Prasad, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Bose, Gandhi, Ambedkar Patel, Nehru, Bose 11 / 97 Fisheries sector CAGR is: 7% 6% 8% 8.7% 12 / 97 Who has been appointed CEO of UIDAI in January 2025? Faiz Ahmed Kidwai Arunish Chawla Amit Agrawal Bhuvnesh Kumar 13 / 97 Unemployment rate in 2023–24 reduced to: 4.5% 3.2% 6.1% 5.0% 14 / 97 What is India’s projected GDP growth for FY25 (RBI)? 7.6% 6.0% 7.0% 6.6% 15 / 97 Which contingent won Popular Choice (Services)? Gujarat Maharashtra West Bengal Uttar Pradesh 16 / 97 What is the estimated real GDP growth for FY25 as per Economic Survey 2025? 6.4% 8.0% 7.2% 5.4% 17 / 97 Who was appointed Chief Justice of Delhi High Court? Justice Arun Mishra Justice V. Ramasubramanian Justice Alok Aradhe Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya 18 / 97 Which ministry received the highest allocation in Budget 2025-26? Home Affairs Education Finance Defence 19 / 97 Cabinet approved how much for Digital Agriculture Mission? ₹2,817 crore ₹3,000 crore ₹1,500 crore ₹5,000 crore 20 / 97 Ayushmann Khurrana was appointed brand ambassador of: FICCI Frames 2025 Vivo JioCinema UNICEF India 21 / 97 FIAT fund under PMFBY is allocated: ₹824.77 crore ₹500 crore ₹900 crore ₹650 crore 22 / 97 Special DAP Package subsidy amount per MT is: ₹3,500 ₹5,000 ₹4,500 ₹2,000 23 / 97 How many Atal Tinkering Labs will be set up in the next 5 years? 40,000 25,000 10,000 50,000 24 / 97 Which state will get a new Makhana Board as per the Budget? Punjab Assam Uttar Pradesh Bihar 25 / 97 Which company launched an AI model claiming to outperform ChatGPT and DeepSeek? Baidu Alibaba ByteDance Tencent 26 / 97 Sunita Williams’ total spacewalking time is now: 50 hours 30 hours 62 hours 6 minutes 60 hours 12 minutes 27 / 97 Who represented India at Donald Trump’s swearing-in (2025)? Piyush Goyal Vinod Chandran S. Jaishankar Narendra ModiPiyush Goyal 28 / 97 India’s FOREX reserves at the end of Dec 2024 stood at: $550 bn $600 bn $700 bn $640.3 bn 29 / 97 Who has been appointed CEO of Zoho Corporation? Shailesh Kumar Davey Sridhar Vembu Akhil Gupta Deshnee Naidoo 30 / 97 ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year 2024? Esha Oza Melie Kerr Shafali Verma Annerie Dercksen 31 / 97 Number of farmers benefiting under PM-KISAN (as of Oct 2024) 11 crore 8 crore 15 crore 5 crore 32 / 97 Which digital wallet is X (formerly Twitter) launching? X Money (powered by Visa) Visa-X Wallet X Finance X Pay 33 / 97 India holds what rank globally in services exports? 6th 4th 5th 7th 34 / 97 Who was appointed Chief Justice of Bombay High Court? Justice Devendra Upadhyaya Justice Raju Varadarajan V. Ramasubramanian Justice Alok Aradhe 35 / 97 What is the objective of the 6-year Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses? Promote maize Promote oilseeds Promote Tur, Urad, Masoor Promote wheat varieties 36 / 97 Which regiment won Best Marching Contingent (Services) – Judges’ Choice? Sikh Regiment Jammu & Kashmir Rifles Assam Rifles Para Regiment 37 / 97 Who shared the World Blitz Chess Title? Carlsen & Praggnanandhaa Carlsen & Nepomniachtchi Carlsen & Nakamura Carlsen & Gukesh 38 / 97 Who has been appointed as the new Secretary General of ASSOCHAM? Deepak Sood Manish Singhal Tuhin Kanta Pandey Ashish Naithani 39 / 97 Who became CEO of UIDAI in January 2025? Azimul Haque Bhuvnesh Kumar Amit Agrawal Faiz Ahmed Kidwai 40 / 97 Tableau on Etikoppaka toys was presented by: Andhra Pradesh Kerala Tamil Nadu Telangana 41 / 97 Who has been appointed Director-General of DGCA? Azimul Haque Bhuvnesh Kumar Vikram Dev Dutt Faiz Ahmed Kidwai 42 / 97 Domestic smartphone manufacturing now covers: 90% 70% 50% 99% 43 / 97 Which country ranks last (106th) in the Passport Index 2025? Afghanistan Bangladesh Nepal Pakistan 44 / 97 Who won the Women’s World Rapid Chess Championship 2025? Koneru Humpy Ju Wenjun Hou Yifan Harika Dronavalli 45 / 97 Number of railway Vande Bharat train pairs added (Apr–Oct 2024): 17 12 15 10 46 / 97 India ranks what position in the 2025 Henley Passport Index? 80 85 71 82 47 / 97 India added how much renewable energy capacity in 2024? 15 GW 25 GW 30 GW 10 GW 48 / 97 Who set the new record for the longest female spacewalk time? Sunita Williams Peggy Whitson Kalpana Chawla Christina Koch 49 / 97 Who became the world’s first AI Minister appointed by a national government? Japan Israel UAE Sweden 50 / 97 How much increase was recorded in startups from Nagaland? 200% 50% 150% 100% 51 / 97 Messi received which honour in the US? Ellis Island Medal Presidential Medal of Freedom Medal of Liberty Congressional Medal 52 / 97 What is the estimated fiscal deficit as a percentage of GDP for the financial year 2025-2026? 5.9% 3.5% 4.4% 4.1% 53 / 97 India added how many villages to ODF Plus in FY25 (Apr–Nov 2024)? 1 lakh 3 lakh 1.92 lakh 50,000 54 / 97 What percentage of India’s installed power capacity comes from non-fossil sources (Nov 2024)? 52% 40% 46.8% 30% 55 / 97 NHRC Chairperson appointed in December 2024: Justice V. Ramasubramanian Justice Alok Aradhe Justice Arun Mishra Justice S. Ravindra Bhat 56 / 97 Who will become the first Indian astronaut to pilot a mission to the ISS? Neeraj Parakh Sunita Williams Shubhanshu Shukla Rakesh Sharma 57 / 97 What edition of Republic Day was celebrated in 2025? 73rd 74th 75th 76th 58 / 97 Who succeeded S. Somanath as ISRO Chairman? Dr. R. Raghvan M. Mohan Dr. D. Sahani Dr. V. Narayanan 59 / 97 ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2024: Melie Kerr Smriti Mandhana Ellyse Perry Harmanpreet Kaur 60 / 97 Which state became the first in independent India to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC)? Uttarakhand Assam Gujarat Uttar Pradesh 61 / 97 Who won triple crown in Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship? Harith Noah Aishwarya Pissay CS Santosh Hemanth Muddappa 62 / 97 What is the total capital expenditure allocated in Union Budget 2025-26? ₹11.21 lakh crore ₹8.11 lakh crore ₹10.05 lakh crore ₹9.50 lakh crore 63 / 97 The GI tag for Virgin Coconut Oil was given to: Kerala Karnataka Tamil Nadu Andaman & Nicobar Islands 64 / 97 Who set a new record for the longest spacewalking time by a woman? Christina Koch Sunita Williams Jessica Meir Peggy Whitson 65 / 97 Number of active space assets India operates: 65 40 50 56 66 / 97 Who has been reappointed as MD & CEO of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd? Jitendra Pal Singh Hisashi Takeuchi Shridhar Vembu Hiroki Totoki 67 / 97 ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2024: Arshdeep Singh Glenn Maxwell Jasprit Bumrah Shaheen Afridi 68 / 97 ICC Emerging Men’s Cricketer of the Year 2024? Praveen Kumar G. Erasmus Kamindu Mendis Arshdeep Singh 69 / 97 Share of renewable energy in total installed capacity by Dec 2024: 55% 40% 30% 47% 70 / 97 Mo Farah was appointed as Ambassador of: FIFA U-17 World Cup Tata Mumbai Marathon Commonwealth Games Asian Games 71 / 97 Who won the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024 (one of the awardees)? Praveen Soorma Gukesh D Jyothi Yarraji Salima Tete 72 / 97 Under PM SVANidhi revamp, the new UPI-linked credit card limit is: ₹20,000 ₹30,000 ₹10,000 ₹25,000 73 / 97 Which tiger reserves were added recently? Dudhwa and Valmiki Guru Ghasidas–Tamor Pingla & Ratapani Pench and Kanha Bandipur and Nagarhole 74 / 97 Who won the PKL Title (2025)? Dabang Delhi Tamil Thalaivas Haryana Steelers UP Yoddhas 75 / 97 Livestock sector CAGR is: 7% 6% 5% 8% 76 / 97 Duration of India–Indonesia rice MoU is: 6 years 5 years 7 years 4 years 77 / 97 Who was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge on Jan 16, 2025? Justice Sanjiv Khanna Justice Krishnan Vinod Chandran Rajiv Kumar Justice D.Y. Chandrachud 78 / 97 Who became the Chief Scientist of Zoho after stepping down as CEO? Sridhar Vembu Pawan Chandak Akhil Gupta Shailesh Kumar Davey 79 / 97 Who has been named CEO of Vedanta Resources Ltd? Amrit Mohan Prasad Hiroki Totoki Deshnee Naidoo Akhil Gupta 80 / 97 India signed NBWR rice trade MoU with: Indonesia China Bangladesh Vietnam 81 / 97 Popular Choice Tableau was won by which state? Maharashtra Karnataka Gujarat Rajasthan 82 / 97 National Voters’ Day is celebrated on: 20 January 21 January 24 January 25 January 83 / 97 India became which country to achieve space docking? 7th 4th 5th 6th 84 / 97 Total cost approved for Third Launch Pad at Sriharikota: ₹2,500 crore ₹3,984.86 crore ₹5,250 crore ₹6,100 crore 85 / 97 Who won Australian Open 2025 (Men’s Singles)? Novak Djokovic Rafael Nadal Alexander Zverev Jannik Sinner 86 / 97 CAPEX growth post elections (Jul–Nov 2024) increased by: 15% 10.1% 8.2% 5% 87 / 97 Who won the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024? Praveen Kumar Harmanpreet Singh Gukesh D Manu Bhaker 88 / 97 Who was appointed Chairperson of NHRC (2024 end)? Justice Ram Mohan Ray Justice Ramasubramanian Justice Alok Aradhe Justice Banerjee 89 / 97 Where was India’s first private satellite constellation “Firefly” developed? IIT Bombay DRDO Pixxel, Bengaluru ISRO 90 / 97 Implementation time for Third Launch Pad: 48 months 60 months 24 months 36 months 91 / 97 Which lab will BMCRI establish as selected by ICMR? South India’s first IRDL India's first Virology Lab AI Health Lab Genomics Supercomputing Lab 92 / 97 Which state won its first National Handball Championship? Kerala Haryana Rajasthan Punjab 93 / 97 Which athlete received the Arjuna Award 2024 (Athletics category)? Vantika Agrawal Nitu Saweety Jyothi Yarraji 94 / 97 India’s ranking in patent filings (WIPO 2022) 6th 4th 2nd 10th 95 / 97 Which ministry won Best Ministry Tableau (Judges’ Choice)? Ministry of Railways Ministry of Defence Ministry of Tribal Affairs Ministry of Culture 96 / 97 Jitender Pal Singh was appointed Ambassador to: Japan France Iran Israel 97 / 97 India’s retail inflation in FY25 (Apr–Dec 2024) declined to: 6.4% 5.9% 4.9% 3.8% Your score isThe average score is 0% 0% Restart quiz