Current Affairs Today for 20 July 2020

1. The government has notified two Ordinances which seek to provide barrier-free trade for farmers' produce outside the notified farm mandis, and empowers farmers to enter into farming agreements with private players prior to production for sale of agri-produce. The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance were promulgated on June 5, 2020. When did the Union Agriculture Ministry notified the two Ordinances?

18th July 20
20th July 20
21st July 20
22nd July 20

2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the keynote address at the India Ideas Summit on Wednesday, 21st July 2020, news agency ANI reported quoting a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). The summit is being hosted by US-India Business Council. This year marks the 45th anniversary of the formation of the council. “US-India economic partnership has been one that has been growing in importance for both countries. We have seen that the pandemic has created enormous disruption on global supply chains including in the pharmaceutical sector and the US-India partnership is one of the trusted partners,” USIBC president ____________ had said last week, ahead of the two-day summit.

Nisha Biswal
Raveesh Kumar
Syed Akbaruddin
Deepak Punj

3. The National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) has revised a chapter in its Class 12 political science textbook to remove a portion on separatist politics in Jammu and Kashmir and add abrogation of Article 370, which gave special status to the erstwhile state of J-K. The NCERT has revised the chapter in the textbook "Politics in India Since Independence" for the academic session 2020-21. While the topic "Separatism and Beyond" has been deleted from the chapter, the abrogation of Article 370 has been included under the topic "Regional Aspirations". When did the central government abrogated Article 370?

22nd July 2019
30th July 2019
1st August 2019
5th August, 2019

4. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, 21st July, congratulated nuclear scientists as the Kakrapar atomic power plant-3 achieved criticality, saying the indigenous reactor is a shining example of the 'Make in India' campaign. The 700 MW power plant achieved criticality, meaning it reached the normal operating condition of a reactor. It indicates that the plant is now set to generate power. In which state this plant is located?

Odisha
Tamilnadu
Rajasthan
Gujarat

5. Drug firm Mylan on Wednesday said it has received approval from the Indian drug regulator for anti-tuberculosis drug _________, developed specifically for drug-resistant forms of the disease. The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved the drug for conditional access under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Program (NTEP) as per the statement by Mylan.

Inlyta
Votrient
Pretomanid
Remedesiver

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