Latest Current Affairs 2020 for Banking, SSC, UPSC - 17th August 2020

1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on 15th August 2020, announced the launch of an Aadhaar-like Health ID for every Indian which will store all your medical test reports, prescriptions and disease history. PM Modi, during his address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort, said that the mission will bring a "revolution" in the health sector in the country. What is the name of the mission?

National Rural Health Mission
Rashtriya Health Mission
National Digital Health Mission
National Citizen Health Mission

2. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday unveiled a 25-feet-tall bronze statue of "Bharat Mata" that was installed in the premises of Shaurya Smarak, a war memorial and museum, on the occasion of 74th Independence Day. In which city it was installed?

Indore
Bhopal
Gwalior
Jabalpur

3. Name the younger brother of USA President Donald Trump who has died on Sunday at a New York hospital at the age of 71?

Robert Trump
Kenneth Trump
David Trump
John Trump

4. Researchers from the Washington University in St. Louis, USA have successfully managed to hijack a locust's ________system to get the insect to detect as well as discriminate between different explosive scents—all within a few hundred milliseconds of exposure. The pre-proof of this research study was published last week in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

Arborizations
Polarized
Drosophila
Olfactory

5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address to the nation from Red Fort on the occasion of 74th Independence Day on 15th August 2020 announced a big push for his Digital India mission and said that every single village in India will be connected with optical fiber within three years. For this, all _____ villages in India will be connected with optical fiber within the next 1,000 days.

6 lakh
5 lakh
4.5 lakh
4 lakh

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