Today’s Important Current Affairs 21st August 2018 for NTS PPSC CSS Govt Jobs

Today’s Current Affairs

• Muslims celebrate Eidul Azha as over 2 million pilgrims conduct Haj rites. Pilgrims walk to Mina for the symbolic stoning of the devil.
• Najam Sethi resigns as PCB chairman. Najam Sethi on Monday announced his resignation from the post of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman in a tweet.
• Buzdar sworn in as Punjab CM. Buzdar says the province will be run according to his leader’s vision.
• Sharifs to spend Eid in jail as ruling on pleas for release deferred. Accountability court decides to simultaneously conclude remaining two references against ex-PM.
• Rs185bn fresh currency notes issued on Eid. Rs12bn of lower denomination fresh notes have been provided to banks as compared to Rs8bn on last Eidul Azha.
• India lawyer wants Sidhu tried for treason over Pakistan visit. A Bihar lawyer on Monday moved court against cricketer-turned-host-turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu for ‘insulting the Indian Army’, Hindustan Times repots.
• Kerala floods: More than a million people in relief camps. Official death toll goes up to 410.
• Multiple rockets hit Afghan capital, clashes underway: officials. It is not immediately clear who is responsible for the assault.