Legend Current Affairs MAGAZINE – JANUARY MONTH CURRENT AFFAIRS CAPSULE WITH QUIZ

Dear Aspirants,

The exam season is on and the preparations has to be in a different level to ace the exams and to be the best. Also if you see the PGDBF Exams are coming in the next forthcoming days and you have to fire up your preparations. We have been getting requests to provide the Legend Magazine to steer up the preparation for the upcoming Exams.

The Syndicate Bank PO & Canara Bank PO PGDBF Exams are coming in the forthcoming days and both the exams have Current Affairs and Banking Awareness in the First Phase of the Exams. So it is a section of utmost importance and this will escalate your marks to the next level.

This Legend Current Affairs MAGAZINE consists of the Current Affairs in the month of January and also with important Current Affairs Quiz and also with Banking Awareness and Aproximation Questions which will be useful for the Preparations. We have been providing this as PDF to enhance the aspirant’s preparations and also to prepare for the Legend Current Affairs exam.

This material is an “ONE STOP SOLUTION” for all the current affairs and also for the Banking Awareness section, So you can read this and get benefited. The exams happening now are labyrinthine and candidates should prepare extensively for this section for the upsurge of the marks in all the sections.


If you can attend these Questions , then your preparations are in a different level, if you cant answer most of the questions, don’t worry, check the Legend Magazine and boost your preparations.

Q.1) Which of the following Indian state has recently declared as an Open Defecation Free state in North East Region of India?

a) Nagaland

b)  Assam

c) Mizoram

d)  Arunachal Pradesh

e) Manipur

Q.2) Maharashtra sanctions, how much amount for farm loan waiver Scheme?

a) Rs.17,240 crore

b) Rs.14,340 crore

c) Rs.15,140 crore

d) Rs.14,240 crore

e) Rs.24,240 crore

Q.3) With easy access to information on government Schemes and initiatives for women, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi inaugurates online portal named _______.

a) MNAI

b) MARN

c) RNAI

d) MNRI

e) NARI

Q.4) What is the constituency of Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi?

a) Vidisha

b) Nagpur

c) Jhansi

d) Vizianagaram

e) Pilibhit

Q.5) Which state government has obtained approval to get electric vehicles under FAME-India Scheme?

a) Tamil Nadu

b) Karnataka

c) Kerala

d) Maharashtra

e) Rajasthan

Q.6)India’s second largest rooftop solar plant in Uttar Pradesh generated how much electricity?

a) 59 lakh KWh

b) 79 lakh KWh

c) 89 lakh KWh

d) 70 lakh KWh

e) 69 lakh KWh

Q.7) National Register of Citizens (NRC) was released in which of the following state?

a) Tamil Nadu

b) Jammu & Kashmir

c) Assam

d) Sikkim

e) Nagaland

Q.8) Who is the Registrar General of India?

a) Mithun Raj

b) Kiran

c) Sailesh

d) Praveen Raj

e) Kalyan Singh

Q.9) Recently Saudi Arabia and which country introduced the Value Added Tax (VAT) for the first time?

a) Yemen

b) United Arab Emirates

c) Italy

d) Israel

e) Oman

Q.10) Senior diplomat Vijay Keshav Gokhale has been appointed as the next________.

a) Finance Secretary

b) Commerce Secretary

c) Foreign Secretary

d) Home Secretary

e) Defence Secretary

Q.11) Vidarbha won the Ranji Trophy title for the first time by defeating which team?

a) Chattisgarh

b) Delhi

c) Baroda

d) Hyderabad

e) Tripura

Q.12) Anwar Jalalpuri passed away recently is best known for which language poetry?

a) Urdu

b) Malayalam

c) Tamil

d) Hindi

e) Kannada

Q.13) Who is the Minister of state for finance?

a) Manoj Sinha

b) Jayant Sinha

c) Balram Kumar

d) HasmukhAdhia

e) Ashok varma

Q.14) Who launched the Allied and Healthcare Professionals’ database portal?

a) Prime Minister

b) Health Secretary

c) Health and Family Welfare Minister

d) President

e) Ministry of Consumer Affairs

Q.15)Uttarayan festival is celebrated in which of the following state?

a) Kerala

b) Karnataka

c) Gujarat

d) Jammu and Kashmir

e) Andhra Pradesh

Q.16) Telangana launches 24-hours free power supply for which category of people?

a) Below poverty line people

b) Farmers

c) Self-help group

d) Small scale industry people

e) None of these

Q.17) Which of the following country has allowed the Chinese yuan or Renminbi to be used for bilateral trade and investment activities?

a) Iran

b) India

c) Pakistan

d) Turkmenistan

e) Tajikistan

Q.18) India and Pakistan exchanged the list of nuclear installations and facilities through diplomatic channels since_______.

a) 1989

b) 1993

c) 1992

d) 1990

e) 1991

Q.19) State Bank of India and NABARD have signed an agreement for the promotion of 2,500 joint liability groups (JLGs) in which Indian state?

a) Bihar

b) Odisha

c) Jharkhand

d) West Bengal

e) Assam

Q.20) What is the abbreviation of MDR?

a) Money Discount Rate

b) Mortgage Discount Rate

c) Merchant Discount Rate

d) Marginal Discount Rate

e) Market Discount Rate

Q.21) Who is the Chairman of NABARD?

a) Ajay Tyagi

b) Aravind Subramanian

c) Harish Kumar

d) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala

e) Ashok Raja

Q.22) HSBC expects India’s’ growth at around how much percentage in the fiscal 2017-18?

a) 6.5 percent

b) 7.5 percent

c) 7 percent

d) 6.8 percent

e) 7.3 percent

Q.23) Where is the Headquarters of HSBC located?

a) Singapore

b) Paris

c) Brussels

d) London

e) Tokyo

Q.24) What is the capital of Mali?

a) Dili

b) Beirut

c) Bamako

d) Bujumbura

e) Caracas

Q.25) Samudra Manthan – Caring Organization of the Year award is received by which port?

a) Paradip Port Trust, Odisha

b) Mormugao Port Trust, Goa

c) Mundra Port Trust, Gujarat

d) Jawaharlal Nehru PortTrust, Maharashtra

e) Haldia PortTrust, West Bengal


Check the Answers for these questions and more such questions from the link that is given below and you can download the JANUARY MONTH CURRENT AFFAIRS and to add more ease of experience, we have added this Legend Current Affairs MAGAZINE as a PDF too. 


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Aspirants can also download the PDF of Other Month Current Affairs which will be vital for their preparations from the links provided below. 


Click Here to Download the Current Affairs Capsule – October Month – Download PDF


Click Here to Download the Current Affairs Capsule – September Month – Download PDF


Click Here to Download the Current Affairs Capsule – August Month – Download PDF


Click Here to Download the Current Affairs Capsule – July Month – Download PDF


Alternately, Candidates can attend the quiz which pertains to the months of July, August , September and October from the links that are provided below. These Quiz questions will make your preparations still more intense. 


Attend the Current Affairs Quiz from the month of July, August, September & October