Recent New Appointments & Honors in India January to June 2021-Present Heads in India

Latest Current Affairs India 2021

In this article we have provided you latest Current Affairs India 2021. So, read all these important Current Affairs India 2021 January to June, GK & news for the upcoming UPSC Prelims & Mains exam as well as other govt exams. These Current Affairs 2021 are extremely important and should be a part of your preparation. Infact the last 6 month current affairs 2021 is very important for any exams of 2021.

Recent New Appointments & Honours in India

In order to succeed in the prestigious competitive examination, it is important that the aspirant has access to the latest updated current affairs of recent new appointments & honours in India January to June 2021. Specially the toppers of UPSC recommend that aspirant start their preparation with the latest Current Affairs topics such as recent new appointments of India, award & honors, present heads in India for the upcoming exams.

India GK and Current Affairs for Competitive Exam

There are mainly two very important India GK Quiz and Current Affairs of 2021. They are :

1. Who is appointed as the new Election Commissioner of India? 

Ans : Retired IAS Anup Chandra Pandey

2. Who become the first woman finance minister of Assam? 

Ans : Ajanta Neog

Current Affairs of India 2021 January to June

Here are total 30 GK on Current Affairs of India 2021 January to June for your upcoming exams. Read all these important India GK Quiz of recent new appointments & honors 2021 in order to answer the questions  :

1. Who is appointed as Microsoft New Chairman? 

Ans : Satya Nadella

• Microsoft Founded Year : 4 April 1975, New Mexico, United States 

• Microsoft Founded by : Bill Gates and Paul Allen

• Satya Nadella Born Year : 19 August 1967, Hyderabad

2. Which bank named World's Best Bank in India by Forbes? 

Ans : DBS Bank (Development Bank of Singapore)

• Forbes : Media Company 

• Forbes Founded Year : November 18, 1919 

• DBS Founded Year : 16 July 1968, Singapore

3. Recently which Indian origin journalist won Pulitzer Prize? 

Ans : Megha Rajagopalan

• Pulitzer Prize started year : 1918

• First Pulitzer Prize Awardee : French Ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand

4. Who is appointed as the new Election Commissioner of India? 

Ans : Retired IAS Anup Chandra Pandey

• Election Commission Established Year : 25 January 1950 

• First Election Commissioner : Sukumar Sen

5. Who is appointed as the Vice Chief of Air Staff?
Ans : Air Marshal Vivek Ram Choudhari

• First Chief of Air Staff : Sir Thomas Elmhirst 

• First Vice Chief of Air Staff : Atma Ram Nanda

6. Who is appointed as the new Director of CBI?
Ans : IPS Subodh Kumar Jaiswal

• CBI Established Year : 1 April 1963 

• Headquarter : New Delhi 

• First Director : D. P. Kohli

7. Who is elected as President of the International Narcotics Control Board? 

Ans : Jagjit Pavadia

• INCB Founded Year : 1968 

• Headquarter : Shanghai

8. Who is the only Indian Referee to officiate in wrestling in Tokyo Olympics? 

Ans : Ashok Kumar

• Starting Date : Fri, 23 Jul, 2021 – Sun, 8 Aug, 2021 

• First Modern Olympic : Athens, Greece, in 1896

9. Who has been appointed as the new Chairman & CEO of Railway Board? 

Ans : Suneet Sharma

• Founded Year : March 1905 

• First Chairman & CEO : Vinod Kumar Yadav

10. Who is appointed as the Chairman of Airport Authority of India? 

Ans : Sanjeev Kumar

• AAI Established Year : 1 April 1995

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11. Who becomes India's 1st woman flight test engineer? 

Ans : Aashritha V Olety

12. Who has been awarded with Tansen Samman 2020 at the World Music Festival? 

Ans : Satish Vyas

13. How many Digital Governance initiative have been awarded with "Digital India Award 2020"?

Ans : 24

• Launched on : 1 July 2015

14. Who takes oath as Kerala's CM for 2nd term? 

Ans : Pinarayi Vijayan

• First CM : EMS Namboodiripad (Communist Party)

15. Who has become 1st Indian to win annual World Choreography Award 2020?

Ans : Suresh Mukund

16. Who is named as Photographer of the year 2021?

Ans : Thomas Vijayan

17. Who has become the first woman Chief Justice of Telangana High Court? 

Ans : Justice Hima Kohli

• Telangana High Court Established Year : 1954

18. Who become the first woman finance minister of Assam? 

Ans : Ajanta Neog

• First in India : Indira Gandhi

19. Who is the first Indian woman to be elected to Scottish Parliament? 

Ans : Pam Gosal

20. Who won World Food Prize 2021?

Ans : Shakuntala Thilsted

• WFF Founded Year : 1986 

• First Indian Winner : M.S. Swaminathan

21. First Indian to win Arab World Nobel Prize? 

Ans : Dr Tahera Qutbuddin

22. Who has won Sanctuary Lifetime Service Award 2020?

Ans : S Theodore Baskaran

23. PM Narendra Modi has launched the "Asom Mala" programme in which district of Assam? 

Ans : Sonitpur

24. Who takes oath as CM of Tamilnadu? 

Ans : MK Stalin

• First CM of Tamilnadu : A Subbarayalu Reddiar

25. Who won the Best Actor Filmfare Awards 2021?

Ans : Irrfan Khan

26. Who won the Best Actress Filmfare Awards 2021?

Ans : Tapsee Pannu

27. Which film won the Best Film in Filmfare Awards 2021?

Ans : Thappad

28. Who will become world's first mask free country? 

Ans : Israel

29. Who has been honoured Gandhi Peace Prize 2019?

Ans : Late Sultan Qaboos Bin Said of Oman

• Founded Year : 1995 

• First winner : Julius Nyerere

30. Who has been honoured Gandhi Peace Prize 2020?

Ans : Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh

• Popularly Known as : Bangabandhu

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