{"id":80,"date":"2018-08-24T10:26:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T10:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2018-09-20T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T08:35:26","slug":"todays-important-current-affairs-23rd-august-2018-for-nts-ppsc-css-govt-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/todays-important-current-affairs-23rd-august-2018-for-nts-ppsc-css-govt-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Important Current Affairs 23rd August 2018 for NTS PPSC CSS Govt Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>One Liner<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>PM Imran Khan offers humanitarian assistance for people in <strong>India&#8217;s flood-hit Kerala state<\/strong>. Prime minister extends &#8220;prayers and best wishes to those who have been devastated by the floods in Kerala, India\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Information minister grieves death of Indian journalist <strong>Kuldip Nayar<\/strong>. &#8220;Nayar used the power of his pen for ending hatred and promotion of peace in the region,&#8221; says Fawad Chaudhry.<\/li>\n<li>One FC personnel martyred, 3 injured in North Waziristan landmine blast. Area cordoned off, investigations into the incident underway.<\/li>\n<li>Return of Pakistani pilgrims to start on August 27. A total of <strong>107,000 Pakistanis performed Hajj<\/strong> under the government Hajj scheme and <strong>77,210 under private schemes<\/strong> this year.<\/li>\n<li>Trump says US market would &#8216;crash&#8217; if he were impeached. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job,&#8221; says US president in interview.<\/li>\n<li>Railways ministry faces a <strong>Rs37-40 billion deficit<\/strong>: Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. &#8220;We are willing to even rent out the railway tracks,&#8221; says minister, highlighting the gravity of the situation.<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty for female rights activist: campaigners. At least 12 other leading human rights activists, including eight women, have been arrested in the kingdom since May.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Liner PM Imran Khan offers humanitarian assistance for people in India&#8217;s flood-hit Kerala state. Prime minister extends &#8220;prayers and best wishes to those who have been devastated by the floods in Kerala, India\u201d. Information minister grieves death of Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar. &#8220;Nayar used the power of his pen for ending hatred and promotion [&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":[33,31,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-80","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-current-affairs","7":"tag-august-current-affair","8":"tag-pakistan-affairs","9":"tag-pakistan-current-affairs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}