Current Affairs for Competitive Exams MCQ Quiz - 19th August 2020

1. The Union Home Ministry has approved the renaming of which railway station in Uttar Pradesh as Banaras on Monday, 17th Augut 2020?

Mughalsarai
Allahabad
Manduadih
Faizabad

2. Mother Dairy is set to soon launch a heritage cookie that was invented by Mahatma Gandhi, Jamnalal Bajaj and Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1931 to give a boost to the dairy industry at the Gandhi ashram at Wardha in Maharashtra. National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is keen on commercial launch of the cookie, which is made of cow ghee, honey and wheat flour in a wood fired oven. What is this cookie called?

Goras Pak
Karachi Halwa
Nankhatai
Shankarpalli Cookie

3. Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, who was next in the line to head the poll panel, has been appointed as vice president for Private Sector Operations and Public-Private Partnerships at the Asian Development Bank. Lavasa would be only the second election commissioner to step down from the poll panel before completion of his term. The last time an election commissioner put in his papers was in 1973 when chief election commissioner ___________ was appointed a judge in the International Court of Justice at The Hague.

T N Sheshan
Diwakar Gupta
T. Swaminathan
Nagendra Singh

4. Which state government has announced Electronic Manufacturing Policy 2020 in order to invite investment of Rs. 40,000 crores in the next five years as well as to generate four lakh direct employment in the state?

Gujrat
Uttar Pradesh
Haryana
Tamilnadu

5. President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation and dissolved the Parliament on August 19, 2020 after he was reportedly detained at gunpoint by mutinying soldiers. He was President of which country?

Myanmar
Mali
Indonesia
Lebanon

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