{"id":74,"date":"2018-08-21T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2018-09-20T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T08:35:26","slug":"todays-important-current-affairs-21st-august-2018-for-nts-ppsc-css-govt-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/todays-important-current-affairs-21st-august-2018-for-nts-ppsc-css-govt-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Important Current Affairs 21st August 2018 for NTS PPSC CSS Govt Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Current Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Muslims celebrate Eidul Azha as over 2 million pilgrims conduct Haj rites. Pilgrims walk to Mina for the symbolic stoning of the devil.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Buzdar sworn in as Punjab CM. Buzdar says the province will be run according to his leader\u2019s vision.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>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 &#8216;insulting the Indian Army&#8217;, Hindustan Times repots.<\/li>\n<li>Kerala floods: More than a million people in relief camps. Official death toll goes up to 410.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple rockets hit Afghan capital, clashes underway: officials. It is not immediately clear who is responsible for the assault.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v7qIEefy758\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-74","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-current-affairs","7":"tag-pakistan-affairs","8":"tag-pakistan-current-affairs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}